PRESIDENTIAL election challenger John Kerry is shaking up his campaign team after a disastrous month which severely dented his White House dreams.

Presidential election challenger John Kerry is shaking up his campaign team after a disastrous month which severely dented his White House dreams.

President George Bush, undertaking a heavy campaign schedule in key states in the run-up to the Republican National Convention, acknowledges a “miscalculation” of the difficulties the United States would encounter in the post-Saddam era occupation of Iraq.

DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate John Kerry has urged President Bush to “stand up and stop” what he called personal attacks on him over his combat record in Vietnam.

Attacks on John Kerry’s war record may be beginning to have an impact, polls suggest, amid raised voices and new TV ads on a subject at least temporarily dominating debate in the close US presidential race.

JOHN KERRY’s campaign team yesterday called for a book which contains “proven falsehoods” about the presidential candidate’s Vietnam war record to be taken off the shelves.

US Senator John Kerry’s campaign team today called for a book which contains “proven falsehoods” about the presidential candidate’s Vietnam war record to be taken off the shelves.

LAWYERS for presidential hopeful John Kerry yesterday attacked "false and libellous" political adverts by former Vietnam veterans who claim the senator shot a fleeing teenager during the war and lied to win medals.

Lawyers for presidential hopeful John Kerry today attacked “false and libellous” political adverts by former Vietnam veterans who claim the senator shot a fleeing teenager during the war and lied to win medals.