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The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 1

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41 Justice for all pagelE What it's like tobelOO Parade magazine Georgia Tech shocks south Carolina 34 0 page IB ISSSS 4t4 Yv a 1 Ml Vfti jr 40 ty rfj' Macon Selegraplj OUR 162nd NO 290 Macon Telegraph Publishing Co 1988 MACON GEORGIA SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 1 6 1 388 HOME EDITION 8 SECTIONS 148 PAGES $100 Candidates ready shifts in campaigns By EJ Dionne Jr The New York Times WASHINGTON Vice President George campaign sensing new opportunities after presidential debate may now take the fight to the Democratic stronghold of New York and is exploring ways to help flagging Republican Senate candidates Meanwhile Michael Dukakis is pressing his effort to make Bush's campaign style a campaign issue itself and aides are preparing to challenge the depth of sincerity of Bush's beliefs by stressing his shifts on issues like abortion and the environment Dukakis will lay heavy stress on the questions does George Bush stand and does George Bush stand for?" according to his top campaign adviser John Sasso If the last three weeks of the campaign see such Analysis KBQDaaaBaaaaHBaBaaMaaMaKuaBsnsaB distinct shifts in campaign strategy the changes will come from very different motivations or Bush departures from his campaign strategy of recent weeks are a luxury he may now be able to afford or Dukakis some change appears to be basic necessity The Bush campaign sees the final weeks first of all as a mopping up operation While keeping an eye on his largely secured base in the South and the Rocky Mountain states Bush will concentrate on battling Dukakis in the large states California Michigan Ohio Illinois and Michigan where the contest at least before last Thursday's debate was close And the Bush forces say lhey are considering an assault on what had been thought of as base by starting to pour resources into New York a move Richard Bond Bush's political director calls "the Normandy Bond said that campaign polls before debate showed Bush within 5 percentage points of Dukakis in New York Bond said that forcing Dukakis to invest resources in New York and requiring him to shuttle back and forth from coast to coast is worth the effort even if New York finally fell the Democrats' way Whether or not the campaign makes good on this threat the fact that it is being made is a demonstration (See CANDIDATES page 14A) 1L V' yWT' Jr ASSOCIATED PRESS Dukakises aide plan their next move Baseball fans catch a view of illicit film By Greg Jones and Randy Waters Macon Telegraph and News When Channel 41's broadcast of the World Series Saturday night was interrupted by a flash of a graphic steamy sex scene shocked and angry viewers called the station When lhey get through nearly two dozen people called theMacon Telegraph and News Most of the protesters said they didn't want anyone to know they watched about 20 to 30 seconds of a naked man and woman having sex lasted long enough" one view er said about what she called a disruption of the second inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers Oakland Ath letics game As the scene flashed baseball voices could be heard in the background Some viewers may have turned away but those who stayed tune saw the Dodgers win the game 5 4 in nine innings The scene was believed to be a clip from black and white porno graphic movie After a preliminary investigation a technician was sus pended from station WMGT pending further inquiry into the programming diversion Station Manager LA Sturdivant said The ederal Communications Commission which regulates sta tions prohibits obscene materials from being broadcast over open airwaves A spokesman at NBC headquarters in New York said the CC would have to look into the matter before determining penalties such as hefty fines for violation or refusal to its license Sturdivant said late Saturday night that the production manager and the chief engineer are working to test the equipment to determine how it happened While many of the callers' ex pressed outrage few wanted their names used in connection with a story They just wanted something done about it they said But Wallace Lumpkin who said he is the current foreman of the Bibb (See BASEBALL page 6A) If' ft ft 3 wOM Sftft 'ir fth 3 t1 Ms DANNY GILLELANDlMacon Telegraph and News Leland Hill still shows scars from Sept 2 attack that left his wife dead lie's now being cared for by his relatives red and Doris Hill (background) Victim of vicious attack improving but the mental scars go away By Colleen McMillar Macon Telegraph and News ALBANY Leland face is weathered by more than 50 years of farming and a brutal assault that left him in a wheelchair and without his wife six weeks ago The 86 year old's green eyes stare straight ahead but they see little A strike in the eye from a bottle cap took most of the vision from one eye eight years ago And shortly afterward an accident with farm spray eroded what was left The top of his bald head once covered with gray locks bear random scars from the beating he suffered al the hands of an attacker in September along with the evenly spaced marks from a subsequent operation to remove a blood clot Hill and his wife Carrie were attacked Sept 2 on their 350 acre farm about four miles from their white wooden house in Lilly They were discovered lying in the yard by a county tax appraiser Carrie ilill died several days after the attack A Lilly man Wilbert Davis 20 was arrested' and charged with killing1 her He also was charged with the assault on her husband Police suspect robbery was the motive (See ATTACK page 6A) Dukakis picks up pace Bush vows no gaffes By Doreen Carvajal and Owen (Jllmann Knight Ridder Newspapers Shifting from a marathon pace to a homestretch sprint Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis raced to campaign stops in front of Democratic party loyalists while a clearly upbeat George Bush assured California supporters that not going to mess up" With even his own running mate acknowledging that the ticket is behind Dukakis courted two of his party's most faithful constituencies black and Mexican American voters in California and in San Antonio Texas Speaking before an enthusiastic gathering of Hispanic law enforce ment officers in Los Angeles Dukak is spoke out sharply against attacks on his anti crime record declaring "This is an issue that is very close to me It comes right out of my Dukakis has been hurt by Bush commercials accusing him of run ning a prison sys tem in Massachusetts where a convicted murderer who escaped while on furlough later attacked a Maryland couple Saturday he called Bush and for seeking political gain from what Dukakis calls a tragic incident The Massachusetts governor cited his 14 percent decline in major crimes and said it has the lowest homicide rate among indust ri slates vs action TV commercials vs results what dealing with here" Dukakis said comparing Bush and himself Earlier in the day the Democratic nominee went to a birthday parly for the Rev Jesse Jackson one day after he met with a gathering of black ministers in Los Angeles Later he flew to San Antonio for an appear ance before a largely Hispanic crowd or his part a shirtsleeved Bush George Bush not going to inc' up' it Mi 3 'W III i 3 clearly buoyed by polls showing he won Thursday debate with Dukakis by a wide margin took a 140 mile Gold Rush" bus tour through the Central Valley a region that could determine the winner of the state's 47 electoral voles He was accompanied by martial arts actor Chuck Norris and Beach Boys singers Mike Love and Bruce Johnston who warmed up the crowds at each stop with a version of (See CAMPAIGN page 6 A) 400000 350 DOO 41 40 23 300000 250000 17 200000 27 50 150000 100000 50000 0 TOT A EAR ST CTU 'ft 383 National Guard Theater orces Combat Divisions Regular Army Tactical Support Other orces Combat Mon Divisional Army Reserve Personnel 450000 17 I 29 4 Tj KtmiS The new Guard Once derided as "weekend warriors and beset wit It image problems the National Guard today is at record strength better equipped and better trained abroad as wi ll as at home and he pentagon's Total orce bat tle plan puts the Guard and the Reserves into with other combat forces This is the first bf two part series on the "new" National Guard Next Sunday: The State Defense orces of the nation's best kept militarysecrets" The Associated Press CAMP BLANDING la Beyond the canopy of live oak trees you can hear the sporadic thumping of 105mm howitzers Down near the titanium mine a gaggle of clattering tanks is kicking up a cloud of white dust A column of patrol" jeeps with machine gunners standing al their mounted 60s bounces through the palmetto and scrub brush The Gator Brigade trained in the jungles of Central America to defend the Panama Canal is back in camp one of the refurbished National Guard combat units prepared to go to battle within days part of a strike force of state militias learning to fight in foreign lands 58 different countries in the past year in fact from Panama to Saudi Arabia from Korea Io West Germany Not since Bunker Hill has America's oldest military force been counted on so heavily to provide a first line of defense Never in its 352 year history most military authorities agree has the National Guard been stronger better equipped better trained in peacetime Spec 4 Jeff Cleveland is flat on his belly at the firing range polishing his marksmanship with the fitl the machine gun he calls primary killing weapon" "I'd go into battle with these guys in a heartbeat" says Cleveland 22 who recently joined the Guard arier he finished a three year hitch in the Armv and (See GUARD page 14A) Good morning! Bill Boyd ID Books 7E Business 8 9D Civil Service 7D Crossword 9E Deaths 6D Editorials 4D Georgia Living 1 19E Harley Bowers IB Insight 5D Letters 5D MetroState ID Movies 9E People 2A Real Estate Plus 1 18C Sports 1 10B Also inside: TV Teietime and Parade magazine word Antebellum (an te BELL umf Before the American Civil War Look for this word in the story "North by South offers insight into Old pageTE ASSOCIATED PRESS kl il ia 383 ft Sr i ft.

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