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8A PES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER February 21, 1988 BOB NANDELLThB Register Is Minnesota ripe for Robertson? "WW Robertson's effectiveness in the Iowa caucuses. "The same thing could happen in Minnesota," she said. "They are working through the churches and are doing a lot of phoning." The phones at the state party headquarters are busy with people asking for their caucus sites, and party people say most of them are Robertson supporters. "It looks good," said Kathy Worre, the director of Robertson's Minnesota campaign. "Unlike other states, we have had a base within the party.

"Our best efforts are covering people one-on-one, touching people one-on-one. We get people who are politically interested who happen to be churched. That's a good people group to be able to choose from." The group follows a plan of asking eight people to each get eight people to come out for Robertson. Thirty-second radio spots are running on small FM stations in rural areas of the state. Hitting the Airwaves Religious radio stations have proven an effective way for Robertson to circumvent traditional media outlets to get his message through to his followers.

Announcers on those stations are urging listeners to turn out for the caucuses and pray for guidance in deciding which candidate to support. 3 Continued from Page One of the Robertson campaign, says Robertson finds the same fertile ground here that he found in Iowa's cities and depressed rural areas. People are looking for something more in their lives, she says, and they are finding it in the message of the former Christian broadcaster. "There is a pain out there the other candidates aren't reaching," says Elwell, "The American family is in trouble today. So many people are troubled by some type of pain the pain of separation, drugs, pornography and the like that's touching so many families.

They are looking to educate their kids properly. They are looking for a sense of security. Everyone feels that, and he has the solutions." Followers Involved In many ways, Robertson's insurgent "army" is already in the party bunkers here, having seized them during the internal party fights in the early 1980s. Republican politics here were re-shaped when anti-abortion activists, many of them evangelicals, were mobilized into the party by anti-abortion candidates for governor. Barb Sykora, the chairwoman of the Minnesota GOP, marveled at The water was too high this day tor Bill Kuel, 69, to get Honda all-terrain vehicle.

lowans in trucks, Jeeps and into the stream, but when the weather is nice, he likes to motorcycles, as well as ATVs like Kuel's, have been tak-go "river running" in Squaw Creek north of Osceola on his ing to the state's stream beds for recreational driving. 'River runners' riled by new bill South Dakota primary: Anyone paying attention? Continued from Page One exceptions for such events as moto-cross racing. How does Keul feel about Black's bill? "I think he's nuts," says Keul. "I own the land that runs under that creek, and as long as I own that land, I should be able to do as I please. "And," he adds, "I don't want anybody telling me I can't." Black says he's not sure how extensive river running is in Iowa, but he wants his bill to head off any growth of its popularity.

"It may not be widespread, but that's the point. We don't want it to become that way. I want us to act rather than react for a change." Keul says river running is popular, in his area. He drives the creek, whose depth throughout the year ranges from nearly dry to about 12 feet, with some neighbors who also own all-terrain vehicles. One of them, Randy Brown, is president of the Iowa ATV Association.

He and his wife, Judy, both of whom regularly ride their vehicles in Squaw Creek, also oppose Black's bill. "Iowa doesn't have enough places to ride as it is," says Judy. Lawmaker's Continued from Page One result was that the California outcome was big news while word of what happened in little South Dakota rarely spread beyond the state's borders. But the new February primary ballot contains the names of presidential candidates only; there are none of the local races that normally bring out droves of voters. Says Cunningham: "We keep asking, 'What if we gave a primary election and nobody which may turn out to be the case." Campaign Trail Stopover Jumping the presidential primary date by three months, so that the South Dakota vote comes next after New Hampshire, has given South Da-kotans more of a campaign than they are accustomed to, but less than they expected.

Some campaigns packed up in New Hampshire last Tuesday night and headed straight south for the March 8 presidential sweepstakes, treating South Dakota as a detour if anything at all. William Janklow, South Dakota's colorful former governor, says the state attracted little interest among Republican candidates because it was written off long ago as being firmly in Dole's camp. Janklow favors Bush. But despite the vice president's substantial victory over Dole in New Hampshire, Janklow says of the South Dakota race: "I think Dole's going to win." Pat Robertson has put more emphasis on the Minnesota caucuses and the southern states, which will be the focus of attention in the March 8 primaries, than on his South Dakota campaign. Value of Organization Among the Democrats, the well-financed Dukakis campaign has set up a formidable organization that reaches down even to counties with only a few hundred party members.

"Organization is worth a fair amount in a close race," says Fritz Wiecking, director of Dukakis' South Dakota campaign. "Now that we're going tussle with public phobia Like evangelical pastors who urge their congregations to attend, the an nouncers avoid endorsements, but the effect Is to help Robertson. Elwell said Robertson is using many of the same tactics he employed in Iowa. She said he has five full-time staff members. They have mailed his effective "What I will do as President" audio cassettes to 40,000 supporters who signed his "Go For It Pat" petitions urging him to run.

While many politicians here give an edge to Robertson, they say both Dole and Jack Kemp will be competitive. Kemp, favored by 5 percent in the Minnesota Poll, could capture some of those evangelicals here, they say, especially those who arrived in the party earlier and now have become more pragmatic in their politics. Kemp's argument to evangelicals in Minnesota, as elsewhere, is that he can win in November and Robertson can't. Backstrom says "economic conservatives" are supporting Kemp while the "religious right" will be for Robertson. Dole's forces are counting on that split, their own good organizing and rural message to help their man win.

"We'd like to get George Bush 0-for-3 in the Midwest," Brown says, with victories here and in South Dakota to add to Dole's Iowa victory. Kemp Fights Back Kemp's back-of-the-pack finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire may be hurting his earlier organizing efforts and helping Dole. In recent days, Kemp campaign workers have accused the Robertson camp of misrepresenting Kemp's record on the sale of pornography. It's a charge Robertson denies, but the charges "prove it's do or die for Kemp here," says Worre. "It's his last ditch.

He's scared and he's got to do it here. He's attacking any way he can," she said. The biggest gap in the Minnesota campaign is the absence of any serious effort for Bush. On Tuesday night, for example, Bush backers gathered to celebrate his New Hampshire triumph. The party faded when the wine ran out.

When a local TV reporter showed up to do a live report for the 10 p.m. news, she had to ask the people there to squeeze together behind her to make it look as if there was a crowd. Dukakis Given the Edge On the Democratic side, the handi-cappers give an edge to Michael Dukakis because of his esrly organizing. He has more than 50 paid staff members working in the state. "Dukakis' economic message has sold very well" In rural and Iron Range regions of the state and appeals to Twin Cities liberals, said Ruth Esala, head of the Minnesota Democratic Party.

Today's Minnesota Poll found Dukakis favored by 29 percent, followed by Richard Gephardt at 18 percent, Jesse Jackson at 14, Gary Hart at 11 and Paul Simon at 9. In aiming for the first Dukakis victory outside his native New England, his supporters hope they can deliver another blow to Simon and perhaps pick up some demoralized backers of the Illinois senator. According to the Federal Election Commission, Dukakis and Dole are the big spenders here. Dukakis had spent $159,000 as of Jan. 1.

His closest Democratic competitor was Simon, who had spent $41,000. Dole spent $230,000, while Robertson spent $50,000. At the Minnesota caucuses, Democrats convene to elect delegates to county conventions. Republicans take a straw vote. Diskette Sale! 33 Off! All 514" and 8" Diskettes Stock Up Now! No Limit pets, Inc.

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In temperate weather in the Red Rock area, for example, people on all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles and Jeeps race through the Des Moines River and have parties on sand bars. River running is very much in vogue in neighboring states such as Missouri, says Black, and that worries him. A similar bill is pending in the Missouri Legislature. Over last Labor Day weekend, an estimated 10,000 persons clogged the scenic Black River between Lester-ville and Centerville in south-central Missouri for revelry and roaring up and down the shallow stream in a variety of recreational vehicles. Bob Warner, 38, a self-employed mechanic from Centerville, modified a 1973 topless Jeep with a waterproof engine, oversized tires and a snorkellike air intake for river running.

Warner, who has been river running for about seven years, says his specialized vehicle can drive even with water up to his neck. Not surprisingly, he opposes the Missouri bill. Black, who has a master's degree in natural resource management, gut-churning symptoms until the second half of the six years he has spent in the senate. First, he sought medical help. "I think they've probably run me through every expensive piece of.

equipment in this hospital," he said. "Then, just to make sure, we went up to Mayo and did it all over again." He was diagnosed as having lots of stress and two ulcers. The ulcers provided excuse enough to let him beg off most lunch and dinner invitations from colleagues and lobbyists seeking his ear on special issues. He tended his legislative duties "white-knuckled" Keen's term for those who try to wrestle with their phobias. Anxious Anticipation Medicine eventually brought Mann's ulcers under control, but the pattern of stomach disorders, if anything, grew worse.

Dreadful anticipation regularly produced humiliating results. "In my case, I'm constantly in the settings that I fear," he said. "I'm constantly in meetings." Keen counsels Mann and others to accept their symptoms as normal body reactions to their anxiety disorders. She tells them to be patient. It took her eight years to get free of her own incapacitating phobia for public speaking.

Attention to diet and nutrition, physical exercise and relaxation all are part of the remedy. Rather than gripping the arms of his chair and down the home stretch, I'm glad we've got it." Wiecking said that on the basis of Dukakis' telephone surveys, it appeared that the Massachusetts governor had a substantial lead at the beginning of last week. However, Wiecking said, that lead may have evaporated Wednesday when Gephardt was endorsed by Senator Daschle, a popular figure among South Dakota Democrats. South Dakota and Minnesota are important to Dukakis, the Democratic winner in New Hampshire, to show that his popularity transcends New England. For Gephardt, South Dakota may represent a chance to kill off Simon's campaign if Simon should fail both in South Dakota and Minnesota.

Late-Starting Race Both Simon and Gephardt made last-minute purchases of television time in South Dakota and planned full schedules of appearances. Stavrianos, Daschle's aide, said Gephardt's campaign is "almost like a laboratory test he doesn't have much going for him except a six-day campaign." Simon's campaign here also bloomed late after his third-place finish behind Dukakis and Gephardt in New Hampshire made a victory in South Dakota or Minnesota crucial. "If they beat him again I think he's probably through," says Cunningham, Simon's chairman who in January resigned for a time after a public fight with Simon's national campaign. Cunningham was upset because, he said, the Simon campaign had not come up with the money and effort it had promised in South Dakota. Rick Hauffe, executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party, said that Gore had spent lavishly on television advertising in hopes of winning a big enough slice of votes to demonstrate some midwestern strength, and that Jesse Jackson did little to attract what might have been a substantial pool of support among downtrodden farmers, environmentalists and Indian rights advocates.

Gary Hart won the South Dakota Democratic primary four years ago. This time around, Hauffe said, "I don't sense a groundswell of support for Gary Hart." Low As $45 Per Month Separate Items 1153.75 tX I BH 7S-1771 says he became concerned about river running after fishing last year on Clear Creek in Jasper County. People on all-terrain vehicles came while he was fishing and repeatedly drove up and down the creek. "It made it absolutely impossible to fish," he says. Keul, who says he's a fisherman, too, disputes the contention that river running harms fish habitat, and in any case, believes fishermen have to be tolerant of others who want to use the rivers.

"Fishermen can't take over the whole country," he says. "There are a lot of boat problems on lakes on Sundays that's not good for fishing, but what are you going to do? Other people have to have fun, too." Warner even claims river running improves fishing. "Fishermen here say fishing is better after we run the river," he says. "It stirs up the food." Black is unconvinced, and believes his legislative colleagues will agree with him and pass the bill. River running, in his view, has no place in Iowa.

"It's an opportunistic use of the natural resources that's out of sync with conservation," he says. A mas Mann vate struggle in public setting fighting the wrenching in his abdomen, Mann now tries a series of calming mental exercises. He also prepares at home, envisioning himself performing his Senate duties without distress "I close my eyes and run my movie projector out of my head and, lo and behold, here comes Tom, a perfectly normal person no problems dealing with those situations he fears." Mann has overcome the once-strong temptation to leave the Legislature. "If you can believe it with my condition, I actually enjoy the kind of work I do," he said. Then he grinned.

"I have decided that a better strategy would be to get my skeletons out of the closet, so when I run for governor next time, I can cope with it." SILK FICUS TREE 5 ft. tall Reg. $149.99 4347 MERLE HAYRD. DES MOINES, IOWA 515-276-1011 iwnhuimaj I QQ99 m-n riiniMMimilillilwiiffirirMlliliii Wll With Color Monitor and a Library of Family Software! Save Reg. Continued from Page One Mann has dug into his past for clues.

The roots of his anxieties may be deep in the rural and racist Tennessee of the 1950s and early 1960s, he believes. There, a grandmother sent him off to the grocer's with a warning. If you meet a white man on the way, she said, it's best to avoid his eyes and move to the other side of the road. The warning went double for meeting a white woman. Glancing into her eyes might be interpreted as sexual.

Now he must stride confidently to the floor of a nearly all-white debating society, meet the eyes of those with opposing views, extend a hand in greeting. Given his past, it may not matter that he never has been treated with anything short of dignity by his colleagues. Public Arena Mann's disorder is "in the arena of agoraphobia" an overwhelming fear of public settings, according to Keen. And Mann is in the public's arena. "You're just bombarded with requests for audiences all of the time," he said.

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