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Vice President George Bush accused New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of trying to play down the achievements and hardships of ethnic Americans and with representing a party that advocates “the same old destructive politics of divisiveness and resentment.” Bush, a likely Republican candidate for President in 1988, singled out Cuomo, a potential Democratic rival, in a speech delivered to a Conservative Party dinner in New York. Without specifically naming Cuomo, Bush criticized “liberal politicians who seem very confused about who are the real victims of crime.”
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