Ninety- nine years of editorialfreedom Vol. IC, No.4A Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, November 8, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily El ctio r'88 Pollster calls presidential race a tie DAVID LUlE Do ll, State Sen. Lana Pollack, Democratic candidate for Congress, speaks to a crowd of campaign volunteers yesterday at Dominick's. A group of about 80 volunteers canvassed the campus area after the rally. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS George Bush and Michael Dukakis voiced confidence today as they crossed paths in battleground states on the final day of cam- paigning before Americans choose the next president. Dukakis urged voters "to send a message that can be heard from California to Kenne- bunkport" while Bush declared he was fin- ishing "not in a power walk but in a sprint." The latest polls bolstered the vice pres- ident's optimism as he followed his De- mocratic rival into Ohio and roared towards St. Louis. At a sunrise rally in a steel- workers union hall outside Cleveland, Du- kakis was in high spirits after snatching a two-hour nap on an overnight flight from the West Coast. But anger over negative ads and polls calling George Bush a sure winner cut Bush's lead among voters and boosted Michael Du- kakis into a neck-and-neck race for the pres- idency, pollster Louis Harris said yesterday. Harris said in his latest polling, on Sunday, 49 percent of those surveyed favored the Republican vice president and.46 percent backed his Democratic rival, a difference less than the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent. Harris, who held a news conference and spoke at an Economic Club of Detroit lunch- eon, said he would continue polling yesterday and make a final prediction today as voters went to the polls. "But I think there's every likelihood it will probably be too close to call," he said. "There is no question that the furlough ad has blown up in George Bush's face," Harris said, referring to the "revolving door" television advertisement that accused Dukakis of being soft on crime. He said his surveys showed that when voters discovered 45 states and the federal government had prisoner-furlough programs, they "felt they had been had." In his third visit to the state in a week, the Republican presidential nominee said winning Michigan means winning today's neck-and- neck presidential race. "In a sense, Michigan is where we got our start earlier this year, and it's important that we finish here not with a power walk but with a sprint right down to the end," Bush said at a Southfield office complex. "I came here to tell you I need your help and your support. Michigan could be the key in this election for the entire country." Bush's spirited sendoff by the Michigan Republican Committee was one of a flurry of last-minute rallies and stump speeches around the state. Dukakis is scheduled to touch down at 6:30 a.m. today at Detroit Metropolitan Air- port, where he will greet Gov. James Blanch- ard and make a brief speech before returning See Poll, Page 3 Both sides on Prop A predict win BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LANSING - A hard-fought compaign over the right of poor women to a tax-paid abortion ends today when voters decide the fate of Proposal A, an emotionally charged issue that dominated the state political scene all fall. Both sides are predicting victory in a con- test that a poll shows as close despite a bar- rage of television advertising by both sides. "I think we're going to win if our people get out and do the kind of grass roots work they're capable of doing," said Barbara Lis- ting, chairperson of the Committee to End Tax-funded Abortions. See Prop A, Page 3 ongres ! BY MICHAEL LUSTIG In the final hours of the 1988 cam-+ paign, congressional candidate Lana Pol- lack is feeling "nervous, but good" about her prospects of victory. Pollack, a Democratic state senator who is running for Michigan's Second Con- gressional District seat, held a rally for her student volunteers last night at Domi- nick's restaurant, where she thanked about 100 of them - only a small percentage of the 1,000 student volunteers she has - for their dedication. They also planned for today's "get out the vote" effort. Her race against Republican Rep. Carl Pursell, a six-term incumbent from Plymouth, is now too close to call, race is a tossup Pollack said. As evidence of this, WXYZ Channel 7 in Detroit could not decide whether to send a camera crew to Pollack's or Pursell's campaign party. The station is sending crews to both, she said. Another "barometer" of support, she said, has been her campaign stops at, fac- tory gates. When the crowds become more positive toward Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, she said she becomes more confident of her success. Yesterday, at a plant gate in Adrian, Pol- lack said she heard "good words" for Du- kakis. Pursell did little campaigning this weekend, in part because he was slightly ill, said Gary Cates, his press secretary. Pursell also likes to set his own schedule of appearances in the final days of a cam- paign, he added. Last night, about 80 campaign volun- teers blanketed an area "from North Cam- pus to Main Street to the Hill" with door hangers identifying campus-area polling sites, said campaign coordinator John Pol- lack, the candidate's son. Pollack will be watching election re- turns with other Democratic candidates to- night at the Howard Johnson's at U.S. 23 and Carpenter Rd. Pursell will join other Republican candidates at the Holiday Inn- West at Interstate 94 and Jackson Rd. at about 10 p.m. Composites provide seven rape suspects BY NATHAN SMITH Ann Arbor police investigators said they now have seven possible suspects in three recent campus-area rapes that they believe were committed by the same man. Police said none of the suspects are in cus- tody. Sgt. Thomas Caldwell said the leads came from people who saw the two composite sketches printed in the The Michigan Daily Oct. 28. "Had it not been for (the composite sketches), the investigation would have hit the inactive state," Caldwell said. Caldwell said police received calls naming seven men that both fit the description and were engaged in "suspicious situations." "I would rather investigate 100 suspicious circumstances than let one real one go by," he said.,Cald- well declined to discuss the investi- gation, but said no arrests have been made. 600 feared dead in earthquake BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing - A powerful earthquake struck just inside China's mountain- ous southern border, and two official radio stations reported Monday that a n.nna m~rP Numerous campus groups have protested the use of the composite sketches in the Oct. 28 story, including the United Coalition Against Racism and the University's Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. Barbara Ransby, a UCAR steer- ing committee member, said the composites helped foster the myth that most rapists are Black men, and that all Black men are potential rapists. According to SAPAC fig- ures, Black men are no more likely to rape than white men, and in over 90 percent of rape cases, the victim and rapist are of the same race and socio-economic class. Because the most distinguishing feature of both men in the compos- ites was that they were young and Black, Ransby said, the composites served only to alarm the public and made suspects of the thousands of Black men who fit that description. See Suspect, Page 2 INSIDE DAVID LUBLINER/Daily Solidarity Day Pedra Chaffers (middle) speaks at the Blue Carpet Lounge. See Story, Page Black Solidarity Day forum last night 2. in Stockwell's LSA class remains uncertain Vote against Proposals A, B, and Carl Pursell, but vote for Pro- posal C. See Opinion, Page 4 BY LISA POLLAK The LSA curriculum committee agenda - as it has for the last three weeks - includes a proposal for a required LSA course on racism. But committee members said they don't expect the proposal to be approved, although it is uncertain whether they will vote on it at today's meeting. the course have been less successful in convincing the committee to ap- prove their entire proposal, which would require all LSA students to elect the class during their first two years. In interviews and minutes of their closed meetings, committee mem- bers have repeatedly said they will situation regarding racism in society and at the 'U', considering President Duderstadt's Michigan Mandate - we think the University is ready to make a commitment," Alexander said. But some committee members have indicated they would nrefer a The Wash airs dirty through clean acting. See Arts, laundry Page 5 .. _ !'