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News
Comment
The President's Daily News Summary
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
Leading The News
FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1976
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Page
Strategy
Dole Dubs Mondale "Hatchet Man"
AP, UPI, Nets
2
Reagan Won't Campaign in Three
AP
3
Key States
Watergate Probe
Justice Defends Action on Watergate Probe NBC
3
Watergate Lawyer Blames Jaworski for Nixon
Pardon
UPI
3
The President Is Not A Factor
Washington Post
4
Ford Ignored Later Data In Statement
On Watergate Inquiry, 2 Chairmen Say
L.A. Times
5
Issues
HAK: Carter Got "Carried Away"
AP
6
U.S. Politics, World Economics
Baltimore Sun
7
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Strategy
New Yorkers Hail Carter
UPI CBS ABC
8,9
Mondale Defends Defense Record
AP UPI ABC
10
Carter's Once-Solid South Closely
Contested
Baltimore Sun
11
Image
Former Aide Denounces Carter
AP
12
Ties in, Jeans Out In Carter Ads
Baltimore Sun
13
Issues
Jimmy Vs. Jimmy
Richmond News Leader 14
Polls
Harris, Gallup: Election's Too Close
15,16
To Call
CBS
Strategy
The Television Blitz
N.Y. Times
17
No-Shows Will Decide the Election
Chicago Tribune
18
Issues
The Defense Issue
W.S. Journal
19
Endorsements
Ford Endorsements
C.S. Monitor
20-22
Carter Endorsements
C.S. Monitor
23,24
Endorsements
Page
Wednesday's Endorsements
Defense
Pentagon to Increase US Jet Power
UPI AP Nets
26
In Europe
Economy
Government Underspent Budget by
UPI, AP, CBS, ABC
26
$7.6 Billion
GM Turns Record 3rd Quarter Profits
UPI, AP, CBS, NBC
27
UAW Sets Chrysler Strike Deadline
UPI, AP, ABC, NBC
27
Stock Market Closes Solidly Higher
AP UPI Nets
27
Foreign Policy
China Accuses USSR of Undermining US/
African Diplomacy
UPI
27,28
ELECTION
Pennsylvania: Political Tossup
Philadelphia
Even. Bulletin
29
Outlook
Carter Ahead in 13 States of South
The Evening
Bulletin
30,31
1
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Strategy
President Ford said Wednesday he has built up momentum--much
like Harry Truman's 1948 campaign--and expects to win the
presidential election next Tuesday.
Ford arrived in Atlantic City, N.J., from Chicago, and told
reporters: "I think we've got lots of momentum. This is the
same kind of momentum as one of my idols, Harry S. Truman, a
Democrat, had in his campaign. We are going to surprise some
people." (ABC)
Ford contrasted his administration with Richard Nixon's
saying his is not an "imperial presidency. We don't have the
cermony and the pomp and the dictatorial attitude," he
said. (NBC)
Ford said the "imperial presidency" does not conform with
his personal ideas, nor with what "our founding fathers
believe". (NBC)
Asked about John Dean's charge that he tried to block the
first congressional Watergate investigation, Ford confirmed
his faith in Attorney General Levi. "His decision fully and
completely ends the matter," he said. (NBC)
Before a big crowd on Atlantic City's boardwalk, Ford hit
Carter saying, "I think you, in the great state of New Jersey,
know how risky it is when a candidate says one thing on the
campaign trail and then does something else when he gets in
public office in reference to taxes." (ABC)
Later, Ford flew to Villanova University in Pennsylvania,
stressing his theme of trust.
Because Ford strategists believe voters are drawing
comparisons between their boss and Nixon, they are making an
effort to draw distinctive differences between the two,
Marilyn Berger reported. (NBC)
The President got one unfriendly reminder of Nixon outside
Villanova where a bystander flaunted a Nixon mask, Bob
Schieffer reported. But for the most part, his advisors believe
his Eastern swing is off to a good start. All the crowds have
been large and overwhelmingly friendly, Schieffer added. (CBS)
Tom Jarriel said Ford's crowds of late have been large,
and have shown contagious enthusiasm. But, he added, they are
crowds in friendly Republican areas "which in themselves do not
elect." (ABC)
2
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Strategy
"This leg of the trip is crucial to the President,
because his pollsters say, unless he wins five of the big eight
electoral states, he can not win the election," Schieffer
reported. "He believes it's so close that today he introduced
a new tactic, backing the efforts of Independent candidate
Eugene McCarthy to get on the big state ballots." (CBS)
"He ought to be on the ballot under state law where it's
permitted, "Ford said, "and I think people in New York or
elsewhere ought to have a chance to vote for him if they feel that
it's the right decision.' (CBS)
"Although Mr. Ford did not say as much, his advisors say
that having McCarthy on the ballot will enhance his changes in
all the big states, since they feel McCarthy is likely to
siphon votes away from Carter," Schieffer reported. (CBS)
The President may be well on his way to setting a modern-day
record for numbers of cities visited by a presidential candidate.
Since his marathon blitz began Saturday, he has visited 72
cities, and expects to step up the pace tomorrow, Schieffer
reported. (CBS)
Film of Ford's airport, Atlantic City and Villanova
remarks were featured in ABC's #2 story, which ran 2:05.
NBC included Ford talking to reporters at the N.J.
airport, the large Pennsylvania crowd and a stand-up
conclusion by Berger at Villanova. Her report ran 2:00
third in the show
CBS' #3 story, which ran 1:45 included film of Air
Force 1 at a snowy Chicago airport; Ford with Miss
American in Atlantic City; speaking to reporters, and
before crowds at Villanova. Bob Schieffer ended the
spot with a standup comment.
AP, UPI, Nets (10/27/76)
Dole Dubs Mondale "Hatchet Man"
Robert Dole carried his vice presidential quest across
Indiana Wednesday, attacking Walter Mondale as the true
"hatchet man" of the campaign.
"I think Fritz is getting a little tired," said Dole.
"I wish this campaign would end so he could get some rest. But
I think he'll survive."
From Indiana Dole was heading west for the remainder of the
week with a stop in Nebraska on the way. He concentrated his
attacks on Carter's foreign and economic policies.
3
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Strategy
Newsmen continued to ask him at each stop about his
statements Democrats were to blame for past wars and his
reversal on Tuesday when he specifically absolved Democrats
of blame for World War II and Vietnam.
Reagan Won't Campaign in Three Key States
Ronald Reagan refused a request by President Ford's top
election strategist to campaign on the President's behalf in
three key states in the final days of the presidential race,
Ford aides said Wednesday.
But a spokesman for the PFC said that James Baker had
agreed it would be better for Reagan to devote most of his
time between now and November 2 boosting the Republican cause in
California.
Reagan, the committee spokesman said, already was
committed to campaign appearances in several western states
including Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Idaho in the next several
days before returning to California for the campaign windup.
AP (10/27/76)
Watergate Probe
Justice Defends Action on Watergate Probe
Justice Department officials Wednesday defended their
claim of finding no justification to warrent further
investigation of John Dean's charge that Gerald Ford tried to
block an early congressional Watergate investigation.
Tuesday, NBC's Carl Stern reported that Justice did not
sufficiently interview Dean, William Timmens or Richard
Cook. Stern's report that the investigation was a cursory one
angered Justice, NBC reported. (NBC) 10/27/76)
Watergate Lawyer Blames Jaworski for Nixon Pardon
President Ford would never have pardoned Richard Nixon if a
stronger man than Leon Jaworski had been special prosecutor,
former Senate Watergate Committee Counsel Sam Dash said.
In an interview with Women's Wear Daily published Wednesday,
Dash also said Ford's pardon of Nixon proved he had "no
understanding" of the Watergate affair and Democrat Jimmy Carter
had made a mistake by not exploiting the issue. (UPI 10/27/76)
4
Strategy
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
"The President Is Not a Factor'
RICHMOND, Va.-When President
THIS strategy was very nearly undone
Nevertheless, private telephone sur-
Ford's political managers arrived here
prematurely by Ford himself. Acting on
veys in the weekend after the debate
both his own instincts and advice from
late Friday night after the third debate
showed Carter slipping slightly in key
in Williamsburg, their obvious- relief
some White House aides, the President
states, even while being narrowly
that Ford for once had taken their ad-
followed his dismal performance in the
judged the winner of the third debate.
vice pointed clearly to Republican strat-
second debate by launching personal at-
That terrifies Democratic politicians.
Washington Post, 10/27/76
5
Watergate Probe
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Ford 'Ignored' Later Data In Statement
on Watergate Inquiry, 2 Chairmen Say
BY JACK NELSON
1973, when he appeared before both
Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and
Times Washington Bureau Chief
the House Judiciary Committee and
Elizabeth Holtzman (D-N.Y.) that
WASHINGTON-The chairmen of
the Senate Rules Committee. The
they conduct investigations to deter-
the House Judiciary Committee and
committees questioned him before
mine whether Ford had perjured
the Senate Rules Committee said
confirming him as Nixon's vice pres-
himself when he explained his role in
Tuesday that when President Ford
idential choice to succeed Spiro T.
the banking committee matter dur-
stated that both committees had giv-
Agnew.
ing his confirmation hearings for
of
L.A. Times, 10/27/76
6
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
HAK: Carter Got "Carried Away"
Wednesday--Secretary Kissinger suggested that Jimmy Carter
got "carried away" in the intensity of the presidential
campaign's final days when he accused the Ford Administration
of "blustering and bluffing" in international affairs.
Kissinger told a news conference that in foreign policy
"the United States attempts to make no promises it does not
keep and no threats it does not intend to execute."
He defended his own heavy speaking schedule as nonpartisan
in nature, and issued an appeal that "at least major tactical
questions not become the subject of campaign combat."
Kissinger said the United States has an interest in
Yugoslavia's nonalignment, and it was not fruitful to discuss
the policy in the heat of a political campaign. AP (10/27/76)
Issues
7
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
U.S. Politics, World Economics
President Ford cannot be accused of having
flashing in many parts of the globe.
manipulated the economy for personal political
One is the prospect of another increase in
advantage. In contrast to Richard Nixon's per-
world oil prices, perhaps of 10 per cent, in mid-
formance in 1972, Mr. Ford has resisted the
December. The United States probably could
temptation to create a glow of properity with
absorb this blow with only a wobble. But for
easy money and budget policies that cause prob-
Western European countries, which are much
lems only after election day. Over the long run
more dependent on imported oil, another price
Baltimore Sun, 10/27/76
8
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Strategy
New Yorkers Hail Carter
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers lined Fifth Avenue and
jammed the city's garment district Wednesday to give Jimmy
Carter the biggest reception of his presidential campaign.
In return, Carter gave New Yorkers a pledge "to do
everything I can for you when I get elected," and to help the
city get itself out of fiscal trouble.
"This is an absolutely unbelievable outpouring of
confidence," Carter said of the big crowd, which he seemed to
look at with genuine wonderment.
Police said 10,000 to 15,000 people line Fifth Avenue
as Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, stood in an open-roof
limousine and waved at the crowd along a 20-block motorcade
route. The parade ended in Manhattan's garment district, where
60,000 to 70,000 jammed into a three-block area for the
rally.
Ed Bradley reported that crowd estimates ranged as high as
200,000, and the people were turned out by big labor. Bradley
said the rally was a traditional election year event,
sponsored by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union,
an organization that has turned out a crowd that size for
every Democratic presidential candidate. (CBS)
But New York reporters said it was the biggest presidential
campaign rally in the city since John Kennedy's appearance in
the closing weeks of the 1960 campaign. (UPI)
The reception was the biggest Carter has had in his
campaign--topping the estimated 50,000 people that lined
Chicago's State street on Columbus Day. (UPI)
Secret Service men, concerned about Carter's safety in the
garment district, made the camera truck dive too far ahead of
Carter for good pictures. When Jody Powell protested, a
Secret Service man told him if he did it again he would be
arrested. (ABC)
In the garment center, Carter pledged his support to New
York City and added: "Despite what the President said, New
York City is not about to 'drop dead.'
9
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Strategy
He said the Ford Administration had a "record of
indiference to the fate of our cities, and cited the
President's veto of the Public Works Bill in 1975, the
"continued absence" of a nationwide energy program, a
national housing policy "that's in shambles" and administration
unwillingness to take serious steps toward welfare reform"
Carter proposed the federal government begin a phased
reduction of local and state welfare costs "to the extent
that federal revenues allow.
"New York city must help itself--and has--but progress will
be impossible without a close and productive partnership
between the city, the state and federal government," he said.
After the rally, the AFL-CIO pledged Carter 100,000 workers
to campaign nation-wide next Monday to make sure every union
member on the job votes for Carter. (NBC)
Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss said if the election
were held today, Carter would win, but warned that President
Ford's heavy advertising campaign could cause a problem for the
Democratic nominee. (NBC)
Strauss denounced the new Ford commercials as "deceptive,"
"misleading? and "vicious." He said, "I resent them deeply,
personally, and I think the fair-minded people in this country
are going to." (NBC)
For the second time in a week, Carter also met with
New York's Cardinal Cooke and posed for pictures. "Although
Cooke remains neutral, it is hoped by Carter aides that
Catholics will interpret the meetings and warm smiles as an
indication that Jimmy's Ok," Bradley said. (CBS)
An aid to the Cardinal said as long as a candidate comes
to discuss the issues, Cooke will meet with any of them. (CBS)
Sources said Carter requested the meeting to discuss his
position on abortion, Don Oliver reported. He said Carter's
stand on the anti-abortion amendment has caused him problems
with Catholic leaders across the country. (NBC)
"Carter has run as the outsider," Bradley said. "He has no
true national staff, no big power bases across the country, and
he has been hurt every week by poor planned events and the
failure of his staff to consult and coordinate with local leaders.
Now he has had to turn to the traditional Democratic insiders
to get out the vote. He met in New York with local labor
leaders and Democratic politicians. Similar groups across the
country are the key to a Carter victory." (CBS)
10
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Strategy
Oliver's 2:00, #5 report included Carter in the N.Y.
parade, excerpts of his speech, campaigning in the crowds,
cuts of Strauss' speech and Carter and Cardinal Cook in
front of the church. Oliver voiced his conclusion over
film of Carter.
The lead 1:18 ABC story included film of Carter's
meeting with Ann Landers, Carter and Mrs. Carter at the
N.Y. airport, his N.Y. motorcade, a short excerpt of his
remarks in the garment district and followed with a clip
of Carter and Cardinal Cooke. Sam Donaldson reported.
CBS' #2 story, which ran 2:10, included film of
Carter riding down Fifth Avenue, speaking to crowds in
New York's garment district, and meeting with Cardinal
Cooke. Ed Bradley commented over film of Carter with
the Cardinal. AP, UPI, Nets (10/27/76)
Mondale Defends Defense Record
Walter Mondale, defending his voting record on defense
issues, said Wednesday GOP charges that he consistently has
supported Pentagon spending cuts prove the Republican
ticket has become desperate.
At a news conference in Dayton, Ohio, Mondale said he had
"a very good record on defense. I supported a strong defense
in this country. My opponent knows that."
Mondale said he supported a $6 billion "real increase" in
national defense spending this year, and Jimmy Carter would not
permit "this nation's defense to deteriorate or be in any doubt
at all."
It is an example of the "desperation" of President Ford
and Dole that their ticket is resorting to distortion in
final weeks of the campaign, he said.
"I have not voted for all cuts. He (Dole) knows it. I've
made the distinction between strength, muscle and waste."
ABC mentioned Mondale's remarks in a #4, :08 anchor
report. AP UPI, ABC (10/27/76)
Strategy
11
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Carter's once-solid South closely
By ERNEST B. FURGURSON
Washington Bureau of The Sun
As a result, according to reliable ob-
Washington-The South that once
servers in each of the states in Dixie, Mr.
Carter now can be relatively sure of
contested
seemed SO solidly for Jimmy Carter has
turned into a closely contested battlefield
carrying only his own Georgia (12 elector-
is believed to lie with Mr. Ford. The Geor-
where fewer than half the states can be
al votes), Alabama (9), Florida (17), Ar-
gian's remarks about pardoning draft
counted as sure things for the region's na-
kansas (6) and Tennessee (10).
evaders particularly hurt him there. The
tive son.
Virginia's 12 electoral votes seem like-
Democrats hold out hope of a sizable "si-
Baltimore Sun, 10/27/76
12
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Image
Former Aide Denounces Carter
A former high-level aide to Jimmy Carter has denounced the
Democratic presidential nominee as a "mean, vindictive man"
whose campaign has been marked by hints of racism and disregard
for minority positions.
Herbert Hafif, who was co-chairman of Carter's National
Steering Committee until the California primary, issued his
denunciation in a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times
Wednesday.
The Ad is topped by a headline reading "can a man no longer
trusted by the Co-chairman of his National Steering Committee
be trusted by you?: A personal warning about Jimmy Carter."
Carter could not be reached for comment immediately but a
local campaign spokeswoman, Michelle Willens, said the Hafif
attack was not unexpected.
She noted that Carter brought a new professional campaign
staff after he won the Democratic nomination, replacing local
campaign workers who headed Carter's unsuccessful primary drive
here.
"Egos are important, especially in a political year and
(Hafif's) is a pretty large one,' she said. "But this campaign
has never alienated anyone on purpose."
Hafif, who also was Chairman of Carter's State Finance
Committee for the primary, said in the Ad he and other top
leaders had delieved in Carter's promise for a campaign of
love and compassion but had been disillusioned.
"It was thus a greater shock for us to finally see a
slipping Jimmy Carter become a mean, vindictive man, using
language and tactics designed to destroy the integrity and
person of Gerald Ford, when attacking Ford's policies would have
provided target enough," the Ad said.
Hafif said in the Ad, "It is painful to spend over $8,000
of my personal funds to confess publicly, and in print, that I
=
was wrong
Hafif says his disaffection with Carter came because
"independent of character flaws, the man is simply not capable
by experience or ability to be president of this country."
AP (10/27/76)
13
Image
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
'Presidential' image sought
Ties in, jeans out in Carter ads
By JIM MANN
he campaigned earlier in the year. In one
Unlike the Ford campaign, Mr. Cart-
Washington Bureau of The Sun
30-second ad, for example, he attacks the
er's advertising strategists have apparent-
Washington-In the final days of the
"secret hidden loopholes" in the tax laws.
ly decided against what is called "nega-
campaign, Jimmy Carter's television
In another, he laments the "far-away, un-
tive advertising"- that is, commercials
commercials have changed.
concerned bureaucracy" and concludes his
which focus attention not on the reasons
Gone are the jeans, boots and work
promises of reform with his oft-repeated
shirts Mr. Carter wore in his earlier ads.
for supporting one's own candidate, but on
pledge, "You can depend on it."
Gone are the banio and ukelele music that
the reasons for voting against the oppo-
Baltimore Sun, 10/27/76
14
Issues
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Jimmy vs. Jimmy
On some issues, Jimmy Carter has left
themselves in order to aggravate an
little doubt as to where he stands. On
already bad situation in order to enhance
others, he has compounded the confusion
their own profits."
practically every time he has opened his
-April 21, 1976: "One of the most
mouth to discuss them.
damaging things in this country is the
Reflect, for instance, on these con-
hatred that has been engendered"
flicting comments.
against the oil companies.
Richmond News Leader, (10/25/76)
15
ELECTION
Polls
Harris, Gallup: Election's Too Close to Call
The last two months of campaigning have created such doubts
about Jimmy Carter among voters that the election is now too
close to call, Pollster Louis Harris said Wednesday.
"If ever there was a year in which the odds favor the
Democrats, it is 1976," Harris told The National Press Club.
"The Democrat should win by 12 to 15 points.
"Doubts about Carter are the key to why the election is
close," He said. Voters are concerned, He said, about Carter's
experience, His "fuzziness" on issues and his independence
from traditional political leaders.
"If Jimmy Carter does lose this election--and I for one
will not say he won't--he will have booted the biggest lead in
modern election history," Harris added. (CBS)
Carter led Ford by 35 points in the Harris Poll immediately
after the Democratic convention in July. Harris and pollster
George Gallup agreed four to six point lead, making the election
too close to call.
"A greater shift of opinion has been registered in the
present race than in any which we have ever been involved,"
Gallup said. "And a new record for change within a few weeks
has been set by the South where Jimmy Carter at one point in the
campaign held an overwheming lead.' (CBS)
Harris said doubts about Carter have increased since the
Democratic convention. For example, he said a poll in July
found 40 per cent of the voters thought Carter had the
experience needed for the Presidency, against 36 who said he
did not. But the latest poll showed 57 per cent were worried
about Carter's experience, with only 35 per cent not concerned.
Harris said Carter should have a victory locked up already
because he successfully revised the New Deal coalition built by
Franklin Roosevelt. But he said that coalition has shrunk in
numbers, while a new coalition of better educated, more
affluent Americans have grown to equal size, this group favoring
Ford. Harris said the outcome of the election may depend largely
on which group turns out in greater numbers Tuesday. (CBS)
Gallup and Harris agreed that the debates have helped Ford,
but disagreed on why.
16
ELECTION
Polls
"The debates have had the effect of increasing interest
among the voters," Gallup said. "The apathy of earlier months has
been largely dispelled." This increased interest and possibly
increased turnout seem to be benefiting Ford, Gallup said, but
did not elaborate. (CBS)
He said he expects more people to vote this year than in
1972, although the percentage turnout will be about the same
55.5 per cent as four years ago.
Harris differed with Gallup, saying his polls showed a
possible turnout lower than in 1972. He argued that this could
be good for Ford.
"If turnout is below 50 per cent, Gerald Ford's campaign
will materially improve. If it's above 55 per cent or moves
toward 60 per cent, Jimmy Carter will be hard to stop."
Harris said. (CBS)
CBS' lead story, which ran 2:00, included film of
Harris and Gallup at the Washington Press Club.
AP, OPI, CBS (10/27/76)
17
Strategy
ELECTION
The
Television
in the primaries Governor Wallace and
Okay, so the campaign was not an
Blitz
Governor Reagan, the two men who
educational exercise on the issues,
might have carried the nation away
and the speeches were repetitive doz-
from its moderate course in both na-
ers, but if Carter staggers into "ethnic
tional and foreign policy.
purity" or Playboy mistakes, and Ford
By James Reston
It gave the rejected South a chance
thinks he is in Ohio when he is in
in 1976, as it gave the rejected Roman
Iowa, and liberates Eastern Europe by
6 A great change has come over the
Catholics a chance with John Kennedy
accident, or stumbles down an air-
candidates in the last week of the cam-
in 1960, to get to the pinnacle of po-
plane stairway, maybe that's the way
paign. The magical theatrical arts of
litical responsibility. In short, the sys-
they are-a little imprecise, a little
Times Square and the cunning tech-
tem made room for the political out-
clumsy or inexperienced; and maybe
niques of Madison Avenue, with just
siders this year, as it did with Wendell
after months of campaigning, a little
the right camera angles, voice levels
Willkie in 1940, and Dwight Eisen-
exhausted, confused and even punchy.
and patriotic crowd shots, have sud-
hower in 1952.
After it's all over, I don't happen
to think it's . call Mr
N.Y. Times, 10/27/76
18
Strategy
ELECTION
Jerald erHorst
It so happens that we have about
twice as many Democrats as Republi-
cans in the country. And so the polls
No-shows
reflect the allegiance of party members
to their party's ticket. My hunch is that
Carter leads in spite of himself, and
that the Democrats would still be ahead
will decide
if they had nominated, say, Morris
Udall or Jerry Brown.
And I would guess that the Republi-
cans still would be trailing if they had
bypassed Ford for Ronald Reagan.
the election
What will help turn the election is the
fact that there are substantial degrees
of difference between Ford and Carter
even though they haven't shown up with
WASHINGTON-The debates are over
diamond brilliance during the wearying
and this odd campaign nearly so. The
campaign.
candidates have only a few days left to
What the voters tend to see are two
talk before the voters talk back. On
decent, respectable, and honorable can-
what will Tuesday's verdict turn?
didates. Neither one has a monopoly on
It will turn, in great degree, on low
saintliness or sinfulness.
turnout by a turned-off electorate. The
But the key element of voter decision,
Chicago Tribune, 10/27/76
Issues
19
ELECTION
The Defense Issue
Well, if the candidates aren't
a bumbling President unable to
going to talk about the issues,
control even his own party.
somebody ought to. To fill the
Even today Mr. Ford shows no
empty campaign, let us start with
ability to learn from his own mis-
basics. For the tribes on the ice-
takes. On Monday in San Diego,
floes, the two great issues were
the President assaulted the de-
how to feed the people and how to
fense-spending cuts in the Demo-
protect them from foreign tribes.
cratic platform on the grounds
And in today's huge industrial
that they "might just mean closing
states, the two great issues re-
defense plants throughout the
main: The economy and national
United States, including some
defense.
right here in the great state of
Ao the American ---
W.S. Journal,
10/27/76
20
Endorsements
ELECTION
The following is our complete list of newspaper endorse-
ments for President Ford and Jimmy Carter, as of 10/27/76:
FORD ENDORSEMENTS
ALABAMA
GEORGIA (cont'd.)
Birmingham News
LaGrange News
Birmingham Post-Herald
Brunswick News
Selma Times Journal
Tuscaloosa News
HAWAII
Dothan Eagle
IDAHO
ALASKA
ILLINOIS
ARIZONA
Chicago Tribune
ARKANSAS
INDIANA
CALIFORNIA
IOWA
Glendale News Press
Oskaloosa Herald
Oakland Tribune
San Diego Union
KANSAS
San Francisco Chronicle
Salina Journal
San Jose Mercury
Topeka Capital Journal
Sacramento Union
KENTUCKY
COLORADO
Rocky Mountain News
LOUISANA
Shreveport Journal
CONNECTICUT
Shreveport Times
Hartford Courant
New Orleans Times Picayune
New Haven Register
Baton Rouge Morning Advocate
Waterbury Republican
MAINE
DELAWARE
Maine Sunday Telegram
FLORIDA
MARYLAND
Jacksonville Times-Union
Baltimore Evening Sun
Miami Herald
Baltimore News-American
Orlando Sentinel Star
Baltimore Sun
Tallahassee Democrat
Tampa Times
MASSACHUSETTS
Tampa Tribune
Boston Herald American
Pompano Beach Sun-Sentinel
Lowell Sun
Middlesex News
GEORGIA
Springfield Union
Albany Herald
Atlanta Daily World
MICHIGAN
Augusta Chronicle/Herald
Detroit News
(Combined Sunday Edition)
Lansing Daily World
Bainbridge Post Searchlight
Lansing State Journal
Marietta Journal
Oakland Press
Rome News Tribune
Traverse City Record-Eagle
Savannah News and Press
(Combined Sunday Edition)
continued --
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Endorsements
ELECTION
FORD ENDORSEMENTS (cont'd.)
MINNESOTA
OHIO
Cleveland Plain Dealer
MISSISSIPPI
Columbus Dispatch
Jackson Daily News
Dayton Journal Herald
Natchez Democrat
Cleveland Press
Columbus Citizen Journal
MISSOURI
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
OKLAHOMA
Springfield News Leader
Oklahoma City Oklahoman
Tulsa World
MONTANA
Ponca City News
Great Falls Tribune
OREGON
NEBRASKA
Portland Oregonian
Corrallis Gazette-Times
NEVADA
PENNSYLVANIA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Philadelphia Inquirer
Manchester Union Leader
Pittsburgh Press
Nashua Telegraph
Portsmouth Herald
RHODE ISLAND
Providence Sunday Bulletin
NEW JERSEY
Elizabeth Daily Journal
SOUTH CAROLINA
Bridgewater Courier News
SOUTH DAKOTA
NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque Journal
TENNESSEE
Chattanooga News Free-Press
NEW YORK
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Buffalo Courier Express
Memphis Press-Scimitar
Buffalo Evening News
Nashville Banner
New York Daily News
Syracuse Herald American
TEXAS
Westchester Rockland Chain
Dallas Morning News
New Rochelle Standard-Star
Dallas Times Herald
Mount Vernon Argus
Galveston Daily News
Mamoroneck Times
Houston Chronicle
Nyack Rockland Journal-News
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Ossining Citizen-Register
Tyler Courier Times
Port Chester Item
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Tarrytown News
White Plains Reporter Dispatch
Yonkers Herald Statesman
UTAH
NORTH CAROLINA
VERMONT
Winston-Salem Journal
Vermont Sunday News
Wilmington Star-News
VIRGINIA
NORTH DAKOTA
Charlottesville Daily Progre
Richmond News Leader
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Endorsements
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ELECTION
FORD ENDORSEMENTS (Cont'd.)
VIRGINIA (Cont'd.)
Stanford News Leader
Radford News Journal
WASHINGTON
Port Angeles Daily News
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
Madison State Journal
Milwaukee Sentinel
WYOMING
D.C.
Tippy-toe finish?
C.S. Monitor,
10/27/76
OPER
MISTAKE
STATE
STREME
EGG-
VIEWS
The Christian Science Monitor
23
Endorsements
ELECTION
CARTER ENDORSEMENTS
ALABAMA
INDIANA
Huntsville Times
Anniston Star
IOWA
Des Moines Register
ALASKA
KANSAS
ARIZONA
Hutchinson News
ARKANSAS
KENTUCKY
Arkansas Gazette
Louisville Courier Journal, Times
(combined Sunday edition)
CALIFORNIA
Presno Bee
LOUISIANA
Modesto Bee
Sacramento Bee
MAINE
COLORADO
MARYLAND
Denver Post
MASSACHUSETTS
CONNECTICUT
Boston Globe
Springfield Daily News
DELAWARE
MICHIGAN
FLORIDA
Bay City Times
Daytona Beach News Herald
Detroit Free Press
Miami News
St. Petersburg Times
MINNESOTA
Cocoa-Fla. Today
Minneapolis Star
Minneapolis Tribune
GEORGIA
Atlanta Constitution
MISSISSIPPI
Atlanta Journal
Cartersville Tribune News
MISSOURI
Columbus Enquirer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Columbus Ledger
Dalton Citizen News
MONTANA
Macon Telegraph, News
(combined Sunday edition)
NEBRASKA
Moultrie Observer
Waycross Journal Herald
NEVADA
Lawrenceville Gwinnett News
Valdosta Gazette
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Tifton Gazette
NEW JERSEY
HAWAII
NEW MEXICO
IDAHO
NEW YORK
ILLINOIS
Binghamton Sun-Bulletin
Chicago Daily News
Long Island Press
Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times
24
Endorsements
ELECTION
CARTER ENDORSEMENTS--con't
NEW YORK-con't
WEST VIRGINIA
Saratoga Springs Saratogian
WISCONSIN
NORTH CAROLINA
Madison Capital Times
Charlotte Observer
Milwaukee Jouranl
NORTH DAKOTA
WYOMING
OHIO
D.C.
Akron Beacon-Journal
Dayton Daily News
MISC.
McClatchy Chain
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
Wilamette Week
Salem Statesman
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia Daily News
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
Nashville Tennessean
TEXAS
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
25
ELECTION
Endorsements
Wednesday's Endorsements
President Ford picked up the editorial endorsement of the
Rockey Mountain News Wednesday and Jimmy Carter received the
support of the two daily newspapers in Atlanta.
The Rockey Mountain News, based in Denver, said "any
fair-minded examination of Ford's record in office will show
that a lot has been done and much of it done well.
"Ford's main problem is that he is a better Chief
Executive than political campaigner, and thus he finds it hard
to win votes for having done a creditable job in the White
House during a most difficult period," the paper said.
The Atlanta Constitution, in a long front-page editorial,
said "it is a choice between potential leadership and a lack
of leadership." It said Carter was "capable of vision and
competence worthy of this nation's history and heritage."
The Atlanta Journal hailed Carter as someone who "has not
lost his youthful idealism. He is capable of imagining a
better America, and through his dedication and personal
discipline, is capable of working for it."
Others endorsing Ford included the Sacramento Union, the
Pompano Beach (Fla.) Sun-Sentinel, The New Orleans Times-Pacayune
and the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, the Milwaukee Sentinel and
the Birmingham, Ala., Post-Herald.
In addition to the two Atlanta papers, Carter also was
backed Wednesday by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Florida
paper, Cocoa.
UPI (10/27/76)
26
DEFENSE
Pentagon to Increase US Jet Power In Europe
The Pentagon Wednesday announced a major increase in
U.S. Air Force jet fighter strength in Europe, including the
first deployment to NATO of the new F15 rated better than most
Russian fighters.
The reinforcement of U.S. airpower, to be started next
spring, will be the first significant action of its kind in
about nine years. The move, designed to counter the
introduction of advanced Soviet MIG23 and other fighter planes
in central Europe, will result in a net increase of 84 U.S.
fighters and bring the total deployed for the defense of
Western Europe to nearly 550 aircraft.
The Pentagon said the decision has been in the works for
months and has nothing to do with the presidential election,
CBS reported.
UPI, AP, Nets (10/27/76)
ECONOMY
Government Underspent Budget By $7.6 Billion
The Ford Administration said Wednesday it underspent its
budget by $7.6 billion in the last three months, again raising
questions of whether the Administration has contributed to
the recent economic slowdown.
The total shortfall in Government spending was $11.4
billion for the nine-month period ending in September.
Since the slowdown in spending and economic growth have
occurred simultaneously, many economists say they are
connected, although top Administration officials deny this.
The Government released another report Wednesday showing
that the productivity of the private economy rose at an annual
rate of 3.8 per cent in the third quarter. That was equal to
the second quarter rate but below the 7.4 per cent rate of the
first quarter.
Treasury Secretary William Simon and Budget Director
James Lynn said in joint statement they are not sure whether
the slowdown in spending will continue next year but added the
impact on the economy will not be great if it does. They added
there are no plans to speed up government spending in the
upcoming months, CBS reported.
UPI, AP, CBS, ABC, (10/27/76)
27
ECONOMY
GM Turns Record 3rd Quarter Profits
General Motors turned in a record-shattering performance
during the Third Quarter with net profits of $397 million
on $10.2 billion in sales, the world's largest automaker
reporter Wednesday.
Profits for the July-September period, equal to $1.37 per
share, were up 63 per cent from $243 million earned in the
same quarter in 1975 and topped its previous third-quarter
record of $267 million set in 1973.
UPI, AP, CBS, NBC (10/27/76)
UAW Sets Chrysler Strike Deadline
The United Auto Workers Wednesday set a 6 P.M. November
5 strike deadline for settlement of a contract covering 118,000
Chrysler Corporation employes in the United States and Canada.
UPI, AP, ABC, NBC (10/27/76)
Stock Market Closes Solidly Higher
The Stock Market rallied Wednesday afternoon to close
solidly higher in moderate trading on the New York Stock
Exchange in a session marked by bargain hunting.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 7.98 points to
956.12 shortly before the close. It had been ahead more than
three and lost most of the advance around noon. The Blue-Chip
Average gained 10.14 points Tuesday, its best advance in nearly
two weeks.
Advances led declines by about an eight-to-five margin
among the 1,844 issues crossing the tape. However, the large
number of unchanged issues reflected considerable investor
hesitancy. Turnover amounted to about 16,000,000 shares, up
from the 15,490,000 traded Tuesday.
AP, UPI, Nets (10/27/76)
FOREIGN POLICY
China
China Accuses USSR of Undermining US/African Diplomacy
China accused the Soviet Union Wednesday of trying to
provoke armed struggle in southern Africa to foil U.S.
diplomacy and control black African liberation movements.
28
FOREIGN POLICY
China
The Soviets came under attack in a commentary by the
official New China News Agency and a speech delivered by
Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-Hua. Both related to Soviet
activities in Africa.
UPI (10/27/76)
29
ELECTION
Outlook
Pennsylvania: Political Tossup
(By Gerard J. McCullough, excerpted, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin)
Leaders in both parties now rate the Pennsylvania presidential
contest a near toss-up, giving Jimmy Carter a slight lead (three
points in the polls) and President Ford a good chance to catch him.
The presidential race here seems so close, in fact, that the
national strategists in Washington and Atlanta plan to devote a
considerable portion of the candidates' final campaign time to
Pennsylvania's 27 electoral votes.
Philadelphia contains about 17 percent of the state's
registered voters, and with its huge black and ethnic Democratic
registration, usually has been the key to a Democratic victory in
Pennsylvania.
But some Democrats see surprising Ford strength in some of the
city's ethnic neighborhoods and lethargy among black Democrats.
Suburban Philadelphia, which also contains 17 percent of the
state's registered voters, includes the predominantly Republican
counties of Montgomery, Delaware, Chester and Bucks. Traditionally,
the large GOP margins in this area have offset Democratic gains in
Philadelphia.
Dan Beren, the Montgomery County GOP chairman, said his
telephone banks are finding 3-1 margins for Ford and he predicts the
President will carry the county by 50,000 votes.
Northeastern Pennsylvania, which includes the coal region
and the organized labor-dominated cities of Wilkes-Barre and
Scranton, contains 16 percent of the state's voters.
The area is heavily Democratic but it is also heavily
Catholic. Though Ford's supporters say their candidate is running
almost even with Carter in the coal areas, Democratic leaders are
confident they can carry the area by respectable margins.
Republic and Democratic polls show Carter, the farmer,
cutting heavily into Ford's traditional GOP support here,
especially in the southern counties of York, Adams and Lancaster.
Nevertheless, Republican leaders see signs that some of the rural
vote is returning to Ford.
Southwestern Pennsylvania contains 28 percent of the state's
voters. This is also a traditional Democratic area where
Carter has failed to generate enthusiasm among working class
voters. (10/25/76)
30
ELECTION
Outlook
Carter Ahead in 13 States of South
(By Joseph R. Daughen, excerpted, The Evening Bulletin)
Orlando, Fla. Democrat Jimmy Carter has a substantial, and
probably insurmountable, lead over President Ford in the 13
states of the South and Southwest.
Unless Ford can engineer a dramatic breakthrough in the
last week of the campaign, Carter appears certain to win a
minimum of about 100 of the region's 147 electoral votes. The
former Georgia governor's total conceivably could reach 125 or
more.
Carter's solid base here is unmatched by Ford in any region
and, if it holds, would give him more than one-third of the 270
electoral votes needed to capture the presidency.
A Bulletin survey, including visits to key states by
Bulletin reporters, of the region disclosed two major elements
in Carter's success here so far: The fact that he is a
native-born Southerner, and the absence of any divisive emotional
issues, like civil rights or the Vietnam War.
This year, Florida and its 17 electoral votes seem likely
to go to Jimmy Carter. Here, as in the rest of the region,
Democratic leaders are united as they haven't been in years.
This unity, in most states, has been translated into far superior
organization for Carter since Democrats overwhelmingly control
state and local offices in the South and Southwest.
Alabama's George Wallace, for example, is campaigning for
someone other than himself for President for the first time in
his life. Wallace's support of Carter is helpful not only in
Alabama and other Deep South states, but also in Florida, where the
northern panhandle is home to many transplanted Deep Southerners.
"You don't win the Southern vote by slick TV advertising or
by having your people give speeches to the Chamber of Commerce.
We're running Jimmy Carter for President just like we were
running him for sheriff," David Dunn, an Assistant Attorney
General from Alabama, said.
In Texas, the largest state in the South-Southwest region
with 26 electoral votes, Carter enters the final week of the
campaign with a narrow lead over Ford.
Most of Texas' 5.5 million voters are considered conservative,
but they have shown time and again that they prefer conservative
Republicans. And for the first time since Lyndon Johnson ran
for President in 1964, the Democratic establishment has put aside
it internal conservative-liberal bloodletting and is united
behind Carter.
31
ELECTION
Outlook
"Connally can't campaign here for Ford and the Republicans,"
said a Texan who has known him for years. "To do that, he would
have to be campaigning against all his old friends."
Doug Lewis, Ford's executive director in the state, said
Ford stands a good chance of winning the state. Carter, he
stated, is vulnerable on specific issues, like his calling
Lyndon Johnson a liar in his interview with Playboy.
"On specific issues, we own Carter," Ford director Lewis
said. "We own him on gun control. We own him on his support
of Proposition 14 (a California ballot question that would
permit farm union organizers onto a grower's land without
permission). We own him on his willingness to break up oil
companies.
Ford's strength seems to be centered around the Dallas-Fort
Worth and Houston metropolitan areas, both of them oil-prosperous
and highly conservative. Carter appears strong in East Texas,
where there are many transplanted Deep Southerners, in the rural
areas and in South Texas.
Ford's brightest prospects in the South at this point
appear to be in Virginia (12 electoral votes). And, unlike Texas,
where Democrats dominate the state, Virginia has grown
increasingly Republican on the state level.
Louisiana Democrats are publicly behind Carter, but the
quality of Governor Edwin W. Edwards' support is suspect. He
strongly opposed Carter for the nomination and his wife has
announced she will vote for Ford.
Mississippi has been developing a Republican organization,
but that organization was damaged by the Ford-Reagan battle.
At this point, it appears that the electoral vote from the
South and Southwest will break down this way:
Probable for Carter: Florida (17) ; Texas (26) ; Georgia (12);
Alabama (9) ; North Carolina (13) ; Arkansas (6) ; Mississippi (7);
Kentucky (9), and Tennessee (10), a total of 109 electoral
votes.
Probable for Ford: Virginia (12), a total of 12 electoral
votes.
Battleground: Oklahoma (8) Louisiana (10), and South
Carolina (8), a total of 26 electoral votes. (10/25/76)
Times of TV News Items
October 27, 1976
ADMINISTRATION NEWS
ABC
NBC
CBS
1. Ford Day
2:05 (2)
2:00 (3)
1:45 (3)
2. Ford/Watergate Probe
:20 (4)
3. HAK/Campaign
:20 (5)
4. Federal Budget
:14 (6)
:15 (7)
OTHER MAJOR NEWS
1. Ferry Investigation
:20 (10)
1:00 (lead)
1:20 (5)
2. Hawaii Sailors
1:56 (9)
1:30 (2)
3. Carter Day
1:18 (lead)
2:00 (5)
2:10 (2)
4. McCarthy Ballots
: 10 (6)
:10 (4)
5. Gurney/Innocent
: 20 (7)
:10 (15)
6. Hayackawa/Penthouse
: 30 (8)
7. Farm Vote Special
4:00 (9)
8. NY Milk
:16 (19)
: 30 (10)
9. Pope
1:30 (11)
10. GM Profits
:18 (8)
: 20 (12)
:10 (18)
11. Stocks
:13 (12)
:10 (13)
:10 (9)
12. Mexican Peso
: 16 (11)
: 15 (14)
:20 (13)
13. F-15/W. Europe
:09 (17)
: 15 (15)
1:30 (11)
14. Medicuba
3:00 (16)
15. Dole Day
:16 (3)
16. Mondale Day
:08 (4)
17. UAW/Strikers
:17 (7)
18. CT. Senate Race
3:13 (13)
19. Women/Pres. Campagin
1:21
20. Edwards Bribes
:23
21. Soviet Growthrate
:14
:30 (10
22. Booth Newspapers
:12
23. Phone Numbers
2:05
24. Election/Pollsters
2:00 (lead)
25. Lebanon
:30 (10)
26. Oil Special
3:00 (16)
27. Heintz-Gree Race
3:35 (14)
28. Vitamin C
:15 (16)
29. Oak Ridge Fire
:15 (17)
30. Kennedy Airport
:35 (19)
31. Crank Phones
3:00 (20)
News Comment
The President's Daily News Summary
QERALD R. FORD LIBRARY
Leading The News
FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON
OCTOBER 28, 1976
NEWS WRAP UP
Wall St. Journal
1, 2
INTERNATIONAL
Economy
Pound Slide Endangers French
Franc
UPI
3
ELECTION
Polls
Carter Slips in 2d News Poll
NY Daily News
4, 5
"Soft" Vote Could Bring
Ford Victory
C. S. Monitor
6
Voter Turnout Vital to Carter
Chicago Tribune
7
President Trails Carter in Grades
Chicago Tribune
8, 9
Issues
The Economic Issue
Wall St. Journal
10, 1
Some Basic Facts About the Economy Wall St. Journal
12, 1.
Staff Changes Expected in Ford,
Carter Administrations
Good Morning, America
14
Yugoslavia: The Use of Force
Abroad
Washington Post
15
Outlook
Loss of California by Carter is
Feared by Party Chiefs
New York Times
16
Wisconsin May Keep Ford in the
White House
Chicago Tribune
17
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Image
Ford Makes Hit with New Style
AP, UPI, Networks
18
First Family
Jack, Michael on campaign, Dad
Good Morning, America
18, 1
Watergate
Jaworski Ridicules Dash
UPI
19, 2
Levi stands by refusal to
Investigate
UPI
20, 2
Dean Defends "new" Watergate
Charge
C. S. Monitor
22
CARTER/MONDALE
Issues
Ervin to make Carter tapes
AP
23
Carter Says Ford Ignores Aged
UPI
23, 2
Election
Rizzo May Not Attend Carter
Rally
UPI
24
World-Wide
11's
1
NEWS WRAP-UP
CARTER AND FORD drew big crowds
as they sought votes in the Northeast.
Air France Will run up a deficit equal to
at least $32 million this year because of
With the presidential race in its home
stretch, both candidates concentrated on
operational costs of the Concorde supersonic
heavily populated Northeastern states that
jetliner, the state-owned airline said.
* * *
still could go either way. Carter traveled
down New York's Fifth Avenue in a motor-
Former Sen. Edward Gurney of Florida
cade and then addressed a crowd estimated
was acquitted of perjury by a federal jury in
at 60,000 in the city's garment district. The
Orlando. It found him innocent of lying
The Wall Street Journal ,10/28/76
2
NEWS WRAP-UP
Bethlehem Steel's third quarter
Business and Finance
earnings rose 25% to $45.5 million.
(Story on Page 11)
G
ENERAL MOTORS reported
* * *
record third quarter net of
Four oil companies recorded
$397 million, a 63% advance that
third quarter profit gains-9% for
was better. than expected. Sales
Mobil, 8% for California Stan-
The Wall Street Journal ,10/28/76
Economy
3
INTERNATIONAL
Pound Slide Endangers French Franc
The dollar weakened on most European money markets today
and fears arose in Paris that the British pound's new record low
price could drag down the French franc.
In London, the pound opened at $1.5710, down from Wednesday's
close of $1.5760 and equalling the all-time low it briefly
reached during Wednesday's trading.
A reported row between Prime Minister James Callaghan and
leftwing members of the Labor Party about the government's
austerity policy further weakened the pound in early trading
to another record low of $1.5680.
French bankers said the pound's steady slide is fanning fears
it will also drag down the French franc. The French Central Bank
had to intervene to the tune of $30 million to $40 million on
exchange market Wednesday to support the franc, they said.
The French franc and the Italian Lira were the only European
currencies losing ground against the dollar, which opened
at 5.00125 French francs against 4.9987 and at 864.50 lire against 86
In Frankfurt, Brussels and Amsterdam the dollar was at its
lowest rate since early July 1975, dripping from 2.4010 to
2.3950 Marks, from 37.40 to 37.30 Belgian francs and from
2.5190 to 2.5125 guilders. In Zurich, it weakened from
2.4348 to 2.4312 Swiss francs.
In Tokyo, the dollar steadied at 293.65 yen against 293.45
--UPI (10/28/76)
Polls
ELECTION
4
By SAM ROBERTS
Protestants preferred the President
Chief Political Correspondent of The News
by 60% to 38% and Jews favored Carter
Jimmy Carter's lead over President Ford slipped slightly
by better than 3 to 1.
Women continued to support Carter,
to 52%-46% in the News Straw Poll's second statewide
but by a smaller margin than men. The
sweep yesterday, while Daniel Patrick Moynihan-doubled his
Democrat also maintained a strong lead
among blacks, Puerto Ricans, and led
margin over incumbent James Buckley to an impressive 54%-
among lower-income voters. But he was
nosed out by the President in the $15,-
46% in the U.S. Senate race.
000 to $25,000 income bracketfund out-
With less than a week left before the election, the President
paced 54% to 44% among those who
make more than $25,000.
picked up three points in New York City-mostly in the traditionally
In the Senate race, Buckley was bol-
more Republican boroughs of Queens and Staten Island-and one point
stered in more conservative Queens and
seized the lead in Staten Island. But he
upstate to erode the 53%-44% edge held by Carter in the first voter
slipped in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
survey published last Sunday.
Moynihan shaved two points off the
Moynihan gained substantially in the
Party Lines Solidify
senator's upstate margin.
But it was in the suburbs that the
suburbs - especially Nassau County -
Party lines solidified in the latest
ex-ambassador did the most damage to
and inched upward in the city and up-
sweep as New Yorkers-sometimes
Buckley's reelection bid. Although the
state to swell his pread over Buckley
reluctantly-finally settled on their
senator overtook him in Rockland
favorites.
by four more points from his surpris-
Moynihan turned the tables to take a
"Neither candidate is any good,"
ingly close 52%-48% lead in the first
53% to 47% lead in Nassau and reduced
complained a Greenpoint, Brooklyn, man,
sweep.
"but I have to vote for Ford because he
Buckley's edge to only two points in
The latest results reflected reaction
is in."
Westchester.
to the last of the debates between
A Bronx resident declared that he
Stresses Tough Talk
Democrat-Liberal
Carter
and
intends to vote Democratic to "give
Moynihan has mounted a $200,000
Republican-Conservative Ford, and the
Carter a chance" because "Ford didn't
TV ad campaign stressing his tough-
impact of the media blitz launched late
do anything."
talking role as UN envoy and branding
Carter's solid New York City lead
Buckley as an enemy of New York. The
last week by Moynihan.
dipped from 67% to 31% in the first
senator launched his counter-campaign
Canvassers collected the 4,391 presi-
survey to 6.5% to 34% in the poll com-
Tuesday.
dential straws during a four-day period
pleted Tuesday. The ex-Georgia gover-
Since the first survey, Moynihan im-
ended Tuesday night after Independence
nor gained in Manhattan and the Bronx,
proved his position in upstate metropoli-
Party candidate Eugene McCarthv was
but slipped in Queens, Staten Island and
kicked off the Nov. 2 ballot by the
Brooklyn.
tan areas, picked up some Republican
courts. McCarthy, who was restored to
Ford maintained his 53% to 45%
support and moved into the lead for the
the ballot late Tuesday, dropped from
margin in the city's four suburban coun-
first time among women. He gained
3% in the first voter survey to 2% in
ties. He slid three points in Nassau, but
slightly among Protestants and Cath-
the second sweep.
reversed Carter's 50% to 45% first
The eight Straw-Poll crews across
sweep lead in Rockland.
olics - but still trailed Buckley among
the state began their third and final
The President's one-point increase
both groups, and led among Jews by
voter survey yesterday. The results and
upstate appeared to conie from the
36%-14%. Despite opposition from
predicted otcome of the pivotal presi-
metropolitan areas where he pulled
some black leaders, Moynihan maintain-
ahead of Carter by one point.
dential race in New York State and the
The Democratic candidate continued
ed a 70% to 21% margin among blacks
classic Senate contest between
to be plagued by a failure to attract his
compared to Carter's 88%-12% lead
Democrat-Liberal Moynihan and
party's Catholic voters, who gave Ford a
among them.
Republican-Conservative Bckley will be
49% to 48% edge in the second survey.
Although Moynihan lost ground to
reported in Monday's edition of The
Buckley among the elderly, he was
News.
ahead 57%-43% among the $25,000-
plus voters who also backed Ford.
The 37th News Straw Poll, one of the
nation's most respected voter surveys, is
being conducted with the technical as-
sistance of Dr. Richard Link of Artron-
ics Information Systems.
N.Y. Daily News, 10/28/76 (cont)
6
Polls
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'Soft' vote could
bring Ford victory
By Godfrey Sperling Jr.
Staff correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
Washington
One of the nation's leading political ana-
lysts says the vote is "softer" this year
than at any time in history - opening up
the possibility of a come-from-behind Ford
victory.
In giving his pre-election assessment to
reporters over breakfast, Richard Scam-
mon said that "among those who are
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Voter Turnout Vital To Carter
By Louis Harris
Simply put, the bigger the vote, the
the confidence test by 48 to 33 per cent
better Carter's chances. The smaller the
AS JIMMY CARTER clings to a nar-
and in early August by 60 to 22 per cent.
vote, the better Ford's chances.
row 45-to-42 per eent lead in this final
If Carter cannot hold the lead in inspir-
week of the campaign, the element of
AS ELECTION DAY approaches, the
ing confidence, he will be hard-put to
turnout-who will and will not vote-is
burden of generating the enthusiasm
get his vote next Tuesday. And he can
emerging as perhaps the most critical
that can be translated into actual votes
lose if the turnout at the polls is low.
dimension of this election. And the latest
on election day rests almost entirely
THE HARRIS SURVEY asked a
indicators now point to a lower. rather
with Carter rather than with Ford. And
1
Chicago Tribune, (10/28/76)
8
Poll
ELECTION
President trails
Carter in grades
with the economy, energy problems, and
By Michael Smith
Nonetheless, Carter has begun to
tax reform.
emerge with a better report card than
1976 Chicago Tribune
0 Ford and Carter were given the
Ford, and the vote-produsing power of
EVEN IF HE hasn't done so in the
same grades on six topics-including
such a development late in a deadlocked
voter preference polls, Jimmy Carter is
their positions on abortion and military
campaign can't be easily dismissed.
building another kind of lead over Ger-
spending and on their being likeable as
aid Ford in Illinois-one that might
well as tough and decisive.
make a difference by Election Day.
0 Ford won higher grades than Car-
ter on only two points-governmental
Carter's advantage is in voters'
experience and a knowledge of how gov-
minds, and it comes when they compare
ernment works.
feelings about Ford's and Carter's per-
sonal qualities and presidential job
THE FACT THAT undecided voters
skills.
share these perceptions of Ford and
Though very narrowly, Carter now
Carter may have an effect on the elec-
scores higher than Ford from most Illi-
tion Tuesday because the undecided
nois voters on such important points as
have enough voting clout to determine
dealing with inflation and unemployment
the presidential winner in Illinois.
and understanding the feelings of the
As The Tribune Poll reported Sunday,
people.
the Presidential campaign is ending in a
In the first and final Tribune Polls of
deadlock-Ford is backed by 45 per cent
The
the campaign, voters were asked to
of the eligible voters, Carter by 44 per
grade Ford and Carter on various is-
cent, and the final decision is in the
Tribune
minds of the 11 per cent still on the
sues.
fence.
Poll
In the first poll, in September, a com-
Whether the fence-sitters find the dif-
parison of the candidates' report cards
ferences between Ford and Carter sharo
THE TRIBUNE POLL is conducted
found voters were giving them the same
grades on 8 to 10 points and splitting the
enough to make them line up behind
for the newspaper by the National Opin-
Carter is open to question. Even though
ion Research Center at the University of
other two between them.
these voters give Carter better grades
Chicago.
In the final poll, conducted last week,
than Ford, the difference usually is that
The findings in this report are based,
764 voters were asked to grade both
stween a C and a B or a B- and a B.
on the results of 764 interviews with
candidates on each of 21 points, using
eligible Illinois voters conducted by tele-
IN ADDITION, it's also evident that
an A [for best] to F [for failure] scale.
phone Oct. 12-21. The respondents repre-
The 21 points ranged from personal
Illinois voters are not overly impressed
sent 78 per cent of the men and women
by either candidates' rredentials. While
characteristics to dealing with the issues
interviewed by the first Tribune Poll in
neither one got a flunking grade, neither
September.
as the next President.
come near getting on the honor roll.
The original sample was a probability
HERE'S HOW the candidates' report
Even among those committed voters,
sample based on random digit-dialing in
cards compare:
both are-B-level candidates.
Downstate Illinois and on modified ran-
Carter was rated higher than
The highest grades given Ford were
dom digit-dialing in metropolitan
Ford on 13 of the 21 topics, including
two A-minuses-for experience and his
Chicago.
independence from special interest
personal standards. The rest of his
To reduce bias against low-income cit-
marks were B-pluses and Bs.
izens that can occur in telephone sur-
groups, being fair to all kinds of people,
Carter's grades were no better. He
veys, the latest Tribune Poll was strati-
and being able to inspire the nation.
received five B-pluses; his lowest grade
fied by race, education, and region to
Carter also outscored Ford on dealing
insure that it is a reliable cross-section
was a B-, for the position he's taken on
abortion.
of voter opinion.
Chicago Tribune, (10/28/76)
(continued)
10
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ELECTION
REVIEW OUTLOOK
The Economic Issue
In any election in any society,
Ford and his economic advisers
the two grand issues will nearly al-
charted. The economy is growing,
ways be defense, discussed yester-
slowly but surely, inflation is being
day, and the economy. In this elec-
wrung out, and the stability for fu-
tion in this society, the first thing
ture growth restored. It seems tes-
to understand about the economic
timony to a sure touch by Mr.
issue is that the much-advertised
Ford's economic advisers, and to
"lull" is mostly a myth. The sec-
no little courage by the President
ond thing to understand is that if
himself. The conventional political
Mr. Ford loses a close election, the
wisdom, to which Mr. Ford. often
myth will haunt us for a genera-
hews, would call for opening the
tion or more.
spending throttles in an attempt to
The "lull" is absolutely, en-
have growth before the election
tirely and 100% an artifact of in-
despite the risk, or even certain-
ventory adjustments, and is no re-
ty, of inflation afterward.
flection whatever of more funda-
A very dangerous thing has
mental economic trends. While of
happened, though, in the economic
course no one should be so foolish
and political debate on the GNP
as to offer certain predictions of
figures. In an attempt to breathe
what may happen tomorrow, there
some air back into their econome-
is nothing in the evidence so far to
tric models, the Keynesian econo-
suggest that the recovery is run-
mists have seized on a "shortfall"
ning out of steam. Quite the con-
in government spending and
trary, the evidence suggests it is
blamed this for the "lull." Now,
on a steady course.
our understanding of The General
The chief evidence of a "lull"
Theory is that Lord Keynes be-
is of course the declining rate of
lieved the "multiplier" operated
growth in gross national product
through aggregate demand, of
over the last three quarters. But
which we would assume final sales
these fluctuations have been en-
are a pretty good measure. We have
tirely the result of different rates
yet to hear of a model relating jig-
of inventory accumulation. To
gles in government spending to jig-
gauge the underlying state of de-
gles in inventory numbers -
mand in the economy, one must
though we assume we will, given
subtract inventory changes from
the stake Keynes' modern disci-
GNP to arrive at what economists
ples have in their extensions of his
call "final sales." The results are
theories.
as follows:
Now, not even the Keynesians
1976
% Che. from Previous Quarter
believe the current "lull" amounts
GNP
Final Sales
to anything much. They talk about
First Quarter
9.2
3.7
it chiefly to make a more serious
Second Quarter
4.5
4.2
Third Quarter
4.0
4.4
point, which is that it would be
nice to grow faster. To achieve
One can only speculate about
the reasons for the volatile inven-
this they advocate more "stim-
tory figures. The third quarter's
ulus." The annoying thing is
low rate probably had much to do
they take for granted what "stim-
with drawdowns resulting from
ulus" is. What they have in
the Ford Motor strike. The rapid
mind, of course, is more govern-
accumulations in the first quarter
ment spending and higher deficits.
probably represented speculation
Since this standard Keynesian pre-
that the administration and the
scription is what Democratic
Federal Reserve would cause in-
Party politicians usually want to
flation by gunning the economy for
do for their own narrow reasons,
political reasons. Manufacturers
the doctrine quickly finds political
stopped inventory speculation
champions.
when the government did not
But in fact the whole debate is
"stimulate" and when the rate of
over whether higher spending and
inflation actually subsided to an
higher deficits are any kind of sti-
annual rate of 4.4% in the third
mulus to begin with. If they are,
quarter against 5.2% in the second.
the healthiest economy in the
In all, the evidence so far sug-
world ought to be Great Britain's,
gests that the economic recovery
and the strongest currency the
is right on the course President
The Wall Street Journal, 10/28/76, (continued)
12
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ELECTION
Some Basic Facts About the Economy
6. The rate of inflation in the United
States, as measured by the Consumer
By HERBERT STEIN
Price Index, rose from around 1.5% per an-
Candidates (Democratic) for high office
num at the beginning of the Kennedy ad-
seem to have forgotten a number of basic
ministration to about 6% at the beginning
facts about the American economy. On the
of the Nixon administration. Thereafter it
chance that even readers of The Wall
was reduced to about 2.5% by a policy of
Street Journal may have forgotten some of
general restraint on the economy followed
those facts I list the more obvious ones
by price and wage controls. From this low
here.
point the rate rose again as a result of
1. Total output in the United States this
more expansive policies, crop failures
year is about 20% higher than in 1968. This
abroad, the quadrupling of the oil price,
is an average annual rate of increase of
and the ending of controls. The rate briefly
2.3%. In the period 1960 to 1968 the average
reached about 12%, around the time Mr.
rate of increase was 4.5%. The 1960-63 pe-
Ford became President. Since then it has
riod began in a recession and ended in a
wartime boom. The 1968-76 period began in
been reduced to about 6% again. back to
a wartime boom and ended in the early
where it was when Mr. Nixon came in.
stages of a recovery. The wartime boom,
7. The American people are not being
which raises the growth rate for the early
crucified on a cross of high interest rates.
period and reduces it for the later period, is
If it is legitimate to adjust wage rates for
surely not a sign of good economic man-
inflation, to get a measure of what workers
agement in the earlier period or of poor
are really earning, it is legitimate to adjust
economic management in the later one.
interest rates for inflation to get a measure
The average growth rate of real output
of what borrowers are really paying. On
between the whole period 1961-68 inclusive
this basis real interest rates are now lower
and 1969-76 inclusive was about 3.25%. That
than they were in, say, 1961.
is not very different from the average of
8. Unemployment is high. In the third
the whole postwar period.
quarter of 1976 the unemployed were 7.8%
2. Probably the best single measure- of
of the labor force, compared to 5.2% in
the economic welfare of the American peo-
1964. when Lyndon Johnson won his big
ple is real per capita disposable personal
income, which is personal income adjusted
election victory, and 3.6% in 1968 at the
for inflation and taxes. This is now at an
time of the Vietnam war boom. Employ-
all-time peak (as is real GNP). Real dis-
ment is also high. In the third quarter of
posable personal income per capita in-
1976, 41.8% of the population was em-
creased at an average annual rate of 2.25%
ployed. compared to 37.5% in 1964 and
from 1968 to 1976. This is a little more than
39.6% in 1968. As a proportion of the popu-
the average rate of the entire postwar pe-
lation over 16 years of age, total employ-
riod. It is a little less than in the 1960-68 pe-
ment now is 57.6%, compared to 56.6% in
1964 and 58.6% in 1968.
riod, where, again, the wartime boom was
The high employment rate does not take
important.
3. Total labor compensation per hour,
the curse off the high unemployment rate.
However, it is significant. When the total
including fringe benefits. in private non-
employment rate is high the probability is
farm employment increased 77.5% from
increased that an unemployed worker is a
1968 to the second quarter of 1976. In real
member of a family in which there are
terms, if this is adjusted for the rise of the
deflator for personal consumption expendi-
also employed workers. Also, the incomes
tures, this was a rise of 14% or about 1.66%
earned by the employed pay taxes with
per annum. This average is held down by
which the unemployed are supported.
the increasing proportion of women and
through unemployment compensation and
young people in the labor force, since their
otherwise. Moreover, the higher total em-
average pay is lower than for adult males.
ployment is, the less room there is for ex-
4. Real net income from farming per
panding the economy without speeding up
inflation.
farm was almost 40% higher in the first
half of 1976 than it was in 1968. It had de-
9. The combination of high inflation and
clined substantially from 1973. the year
recession is not confined to the United
when farmers "suffered" from the Soviet
States. Relative to their earlier postwar ex-
wheat sales and the first grain embargo,
perience, the recession was more severe in
but was still higher than in any year before
the other major industrial countries than in
1973.
the United States. Except for West Ger-
many, the United States has had the quick-
The Poverty Figures
est recovery from the recession and the
least inflation in the past year.
5. There is very little poverty in the
10. We are not suffering from a health
United States. despite recent Census Bu-
crisis in America. As measured by mortal-
reau estimates that there were almost 26
ity and morbidity, the health of the Ameri-
million people in poverty in 1975. These es-
can people is not deteriorating. The money
timates exclude the effect of food stamps,
and resources devoted to health, per cap-
Medicaid and subsidized housing. which
ita, are rising. The problem of health care
are so great as to remove from the
is that costs are rising sharply. This is
"poverty" category most of the people who
mainly the result of the enormous increase
seem to be in that category when account
in funds available for medical care through
is taken only of money income.
private insurance and government pro-
The Wall Street Journal, 10/28/76, (continued)
Issues
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ELECTION
Staff Changes Expected in Ford, Carter Administrations
By Jack Anderson
If Jimmy Carter is elected President, his advisors expect
"fresh faces" will take over key positions within the
administration, Jack Anderson reported Thursday.
Prominent Democrats said Cyrus Vance and George Ball
are being considered for Secretary of State. But, sources
close to Carter said Dick Clark, a back row Senator from Iowa.
will take over that spot.
Admiral Zumwalt is a good guess for Secretary of Defense,
Anderson said.
The best bet for Attorney General is Morris Dean, a
Birmingham lawyer. Secretary of Agriculture under Carter could
be Bobby Smith, the Vice President of the Georgia Farm Bureau.
John Dunlop, the man who quit President Ford's Cabinet, may
become Secretary of Labor, and Leonard Woodcock could take
over the HEW post.
If President Ford wins on Tuesday, his advisors expect
him to replace Secretary Kissinger with UN Ambassador William
Scranton. Secretary Simon's most likely replacement is
Alan Greenspan. Ford is expected to retain Donald Rumsfeld,
Edward Levi, William Coleman.
Other changes are uncertain, Anderson said, but added
that Ford has indicated privately that he intends to increase
his personal control over the Cabinet in his second term.
--Good Morning, America (10/28/76)
Issues
ELECTION
15
Yugoslavia: The Use of Force Abroad
T
HE ISSUE is not really Yugoslavia. It is how a Pres-
in places such as the Mideast, Angola and Southern Af-
ident would go about deciding to use force abroad,
rica. Actually, ambiguity may inspire recklessness as
and how he would address that decision to Americans
well as caution in an adversary. It may also frighten or
and foreigners alike. As Jimmy Carter demonstrated
confuse allies. And it can have the effect of provoking
by saving he wouldn't intervene in Yugoslavia even if
domestic dissent and even some congressional restrain-
The Washington Post, 10/28/76
Outlook
16
ELECTION
Loss of California by Carter Is Feared by Party Chiefs
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
Situation in Big States
yine campaign was able to turn out
Special to The New York Times
The situation in the remaining eight
only 250 people for a rally last Sunday
on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, the
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27-Despite both
of the big 20 states is as follows: Mr.
heart of a traditionally Democratic Jew-
public and private polls showing a dead
Carter holds commanding leads in Massa-
ish neighborhood, even though Senator
heat in the nation's largest state, leading
chusetts and Florida, which the Republi-
Henry M. Jackson was the speaker.
California Democrats have almost unani-
cans have largely written off; he leads
by about 6 percentage points in Texas,
Ford Benefitted
mously concluded that Jimmy Carter is
according to two current news media sur-
"Despite a major registration drive, a
likely to lose here on Tuesday.
veys, and he is running very strongly
half million fewer Californians will be
a new survey riday, TYPE. Carter may
The New York Times, 10/28/76,
change his mind in agreement with one
supporter who argues that "he'll have
17
Outlook
ELECTION
' Michael Kilian
Wisconsin
Molldrem's plans to become a college
English literature instructor were
wrecked when he was denied conscien-
may keep
tious objector status in 1966 and was
called up for the Viet Nam War. He
refused induction and was charged with
Ford in the
draft evasion. It took four years before
the charges were dropped.
He's voting for Carter solely on the
amnesty issue.
White House
There are few like Molldrem in Wis-
consin: With blacks comprising less than
3 per cent of the population, neither is
there much of a black vote.
MADISON, Wis.-For whatever it's
Unions are strong, of course. but not
worth-which could be the whole whiz-
unified. One teachers union official who
bang-don't be surprised if President
has traditionally worked for Democrats
Ford carries Wisconsin Nov. 2.
threw away his Carter literature this
To some, it might not seem to matter.
year and replaced it with campaign ma-
terial
for
Dr
Adoinh
(10/28/76)
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FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Ford Makes Hit with New Style
President Ford, campaigning in Valley Forge, Penn.
Wednesday night, displayed a new kind of style which seemed to
please both his aides and his audience.
The President talked from a theater-in-the-round, totally
removed from the trappings of his office, Charles Gibson reported.
He said Ford established a "one-on-one rapport with an audience
of more than 2,000."
"For the next fifteen minutes I'd like to hear a pin drop.
I don't want you to cheer if I say something that might inspire
you. I hope you won't moan or groan -- and please don't fall
asleep -- I would like to talk very seriously, and straight
from the shoulder, " he said.
Ford stoof on the white stage holding a microphone in his
right hand, much in the style of a Las Vegas entertainer. He kept
moving around the stage, stepping over the microphone cord. Gone
was theusual Ford habit of shouting into the mike. He talked
softly and the audience listened intently.
There was nothing new in what Ford said. He talked of his vision
of the first Presidential term of America's third century --
jobs, catastrophic health insurance for the elderly, social
security finances, inflation, crime, taxes and government spending
and continuing his record of having no Americans in combat abroad.
But the style was new. Reporters who in the past have ducked
out for drinks while Ford spoke moved forward and joined the
audience. (UPI)
Aides said they just wish the President had been exhibiting
such style all along, Gibson said.
--AP, UPI, Networks (10/28/76)
First Family
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Jack, Michael on campaign, Dad
Jack Ford praised his father Thursday for running an open
administration where people, including his family, are not afraid
to speak their minds.
Ford said his father enjoys listening to both sides of the
issue. He does not run a "programmed, monolothic administration,"
he said on Good Morning, America.
First Family
19
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
On the subject of Mrs. Ford's health, Jack said the White
House is probably the best place to be to get medical treatment
for her back and arthritis problems.
He said his mother has been an inspiration for the whole
family because of her campaigning abilities.
On the campaign, Michael, who was also on the show, said at
one point during the campaign, his father and Jimmy Carter engaged
in criticism of each other which "wasn't fair to the American people
He said he thought the two men should keep the campaign on
thehigh road and said he expressed that viewpoint to his father.
As a family member, Jack said he has tremendous reservations
about his father becoming President for the next four years
because of the strain.
But, Michael and Jack agreed that because of their father's
accomplishments in the past two years, they think he is the
best choice.
--Good Morning, America (10/28/76)
Watergate
FORD/DOLE
Jaworski Ridicules Dash
Former Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski rejects as "silly"
Watergate committee lawyer Sam Dash's charge that a stronger
prosecutor might have blocked the pardon of Richard Nixon.
Dash suggested in a Women's Wear Daily interview Wednesday
that President Ford "wouldn't have dared pardon Nixon" if he thought
Jaworski would resist in court or by going to the people.
Jaworski, a Houston lawyer, ridiculed the suggestion.
"I got a call from President Ford at 9:30 am. He pardoned
Nixon at 11 a.m. How could I have gone to the people? That
shows how silly that is," Jaworski said.
"There was no possible way to attack it. There is no limit
to Presidential pardon. It would have to be fought out in the
Constitution," Jaworski said.
"I'm sure that when Ford pardoned Nixon, he did not think he
would get any kind of reaction from Jaworski, Dash said, suggesting
Ford believed Jaworski was too weary of Watergate to intervene.
Watergate
20
FORD/DOLE
Jaworski said Dash was in no position to know whether
or not the Special Prosecutor was weary because the two had no
contact during the last 8 months of the investigation.
"If his (Dash's) comments (in the interview) are no more
erudite than the questions he asked on the Watergate
committee, then I'm not concerned," Jaworski said.
UPI (10/28/76)
Watergate
FORD/DOLE
Attorney General Edward Levi stands by his refusal to
investigate President Ford's role in a 1972 Watergate controversy
despite a claim that key witnesses never were questioned, the
Justice Department said Wednesday.
A Department spokesman restated Levi's decision in response
to an NBC News report suggesting Levi acted on incomplete evidence
in deciding there are no grounds to investigate the
President.
Robert Havel, the Justice spokesman, said Levi explained
adequately last week why he turned down Congressional requests
to investigate Ford's actions.
"We found no credible evidence and we stand by that,"
Havel said.
NBC-TV reporter Carl Stern said he had learned Levi made his
no-investigation decision without questioning "two of the three
most available witnesses" -- Dean and William Timmons.
Stern said investigators did question Cook, but not under
oath and without asking to see "supporting records he says he has."
Following Stern's report, Rep. Henry Reuss sent Ford a telegram
urging him to answer the charges publicly at a campaign appearance
before educators in Milwaukee Thursday.
"I ask that you tell this inedpendent organization of
educators whether or not you talked to Richard Cook or any other
White House personnel about the
investigation at any time
in 1972, " Reuss said.
Watergate
21
FORD/DOLE
Stern's report also drew a sharp response from Cook,
who said he was "anxious to state under oath the circumstances
surrounding Dean's distortions regarding me," and who alleged
NBC has paid Dean a $7500 advance for documentary rights to
his book. Cook asked the network to explain why it had "concealed"
that arrangement.
An NBC spokesman said network news President Richard Wald issued
a statement two weeks ago saying: "NBC had no financial interest
in the success of John Dean's book. A year ago, when we were
planning a documentary on the Nixon administration, we took an
option to buy the TV rights to the book he (Dean) was writing.
"We paid $7500 for thatoption. It gave us a first negotiating
position if we wanted to buy the book; at the insistence of Mr.
Dean's lawyer, it expressly ruled out any obligation by Mr. Dean
to appear on NBC or do anything at all for NBC unless we decided
to pick up that option and pay for the privilege. We havenot
picked up the option. We have not paid for the privilege."
--UPI (10/27/76)
22
Watergate Probe
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Focus on Ford ignored before, he says
Dean defends 'new'
Watergate charge
Mr. Dean said he has telephone logs with the times and dates
of his conversations with Mr. Cook, in addition to "mis-
cellaneous notes" that do not "directly corroborate my testi-
By George Moneyhun
-
- Staff correspondent of
mony" but do provide sufficient reminders of conversations
The Christian Science Monitor
for Mr. Dean to vigorously defend his recollection of them.
President Ford has repeatedly indicated that he answered
New York
all questions about his involvement with the Nixon adminis-
Former White House counsel John W. Dean III accuses the
tration during his 1973 vice-presidential confirmation hearings.
news media and the public of ignoring his initial allegations
He testified that he had no recollection of any such contacts
three years ago that President Ford was involved in the Wa-
with Mr. Cook.
tergate cover-up.
Congressional critics have called on President Ford to make
Christian Science Monitor, 10/28/76
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CARTER/MONDALE
Former Sen. Sam Ervin said Wednesday he has agreed to make
radio and television commercials to support Jimmy Carter.
Ervin said that Carter had requested his help by telephone
Tuesday. Content of thecommercials will be "up to my discretion,"
Ervin said.
Ervin said he will mention in the commercials his contention
that while President Ford was House Minority Leader, he was
responsible for attempts to block a House Watergate investigation
before the 1972 election. Ervin has previously made that
opinion public.
The Ervin commercials are to be used in North Carolina
in the final four days of the campaign, a Democratic spokesman
said, adding that Carter's Atlanta headquarters expressed interest
in using the Ervin commercials in other states as well.
--AP (10/27/76)
Carter Says Ford Ignores Aged
Jimmy Carter today accused President Ford of neglecting
the needs of senior citizens and promised, "that won't happen
when I'm President."
The Democratic nominee addressed two separate gahterings
of more than 400 older persons in connection with Carter-Mondale
Srnior Citizen Day observed by party organizations across the country.
"There's been a great demonstration of neglecting the well-
being of senior citizens," Carter said before flying to Erie, Pa.,
in his nationwide blitz for votes in next Tuesday's Presidential
election.
The Georgian, who said Wednesday night his fiscal program
would provide for a tax cut in the next four years, arranged to
campaign later today in Cleveland, then fly to New York City
for handshaking and speechmaking in Brooklyn.
"In 1935, the Republicans fought tooth and nail against
Social Security. In 1965, they fought just as hard against
medicare," he told senior citizens in Pittsburgh. He also
expressed confidence that he will win next Tuesday.
"Recently, they have sought to reduce their record of
deficit by opposing Social Secutiry, cost of living adjustments.
Last year, they proposed cutbacks in Social Security benefits,
reductions in food programs for the elderly, and increases in the
cost of medicare."
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Outlining his own program for the elderly, Carter said
he would appoint a counsellor on aging.
"When I become President, I will have a full time counselor
on aging at my shoulder to make sure I don't forget to pay
attention to the special needs of senior citizens," Carter said.
He said medical treatment of the elderly, in many instances,
couldbe accomplished just as effectively at their own
homes rather than at hospitals and nursing homes.
"Currently, 72 percent of all medicaid payments go for nursing
home care, while only 0.2 percent is spent for home-health
alternatives. Experts estimate as many as 40 percent of nursing
home residents could be cared for at lower costs in their
homes,' Carter said.
--UPI (10/28/76)
Election
CARTER/MONDALE
Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo will not attend a political
rally with Jimmy Carter Friday unless some of his Democratic
Party enemies are barred, according to Carter's top Pennsylvania
staff aide.
Joseph Timilty quoted Rizzo as saying he wanted no part of
a rally that included representatives of the recent recall movement
to oust him as Mayor.
"The Mayor said if the people of the recall movement were
running the rally, he was not going to participate," said Timilty.
Timilty said he told Rizzo the invitations would not be sent
out until today. Asked whether those invited would be among
the persons Rizzo wished to avoid, Timilty replied: "I think
you'd haveto ask him."
"I will not look over 200,000 people (approximately the number
that signed recall petitions) to see who I should not invite, " said
Timilty.
Timilty said 10,000 persons were expected to attend the
political rally.
UPI (10/28/76)
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BY DAVID C. MARTIN
CAMPAIGNING IN KEY INDUSTRIAL STATES, PRESIDENT FORD SOUGHT TO
DEMONSTRATE HIS LEADERSHIP IN NUCLEAR POLICY TODAY WHILE JIMMY CARTER
ATTEMPTED TO ASSURE, BUT NOT PROMISE, VOTERS THEIR TAXES WOULD BE
LOWER IF HE IS ELECTED.
FORD, CAMPAIGNING IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, UNVEILED PLANS FOR AN
INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. HE
COUPLED HIS PROPOSALS WITH A PROMISE THAT CONSTRUCTION OF URANIUM
ENRICHMENT FACILITIES IN PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, WOULD BEGIN EARLY NEXT YEAR
AND WOULD MEAN 6,000 NEW JOBS.
CARTER TOLD A RALLY IN CLEVELAND HE CANNOT PROMISE A SUBSTANTIAL TAX
REDUCTION THAT A DAY EARLIER HE HAD DECLARED WOULD BE THE 'ALMOST
INEVITABLE RESULT OF HIS ECONOMIC POLICIES AFTER FOUR YEARS IN THE
WHITE HOUSE. THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE SAID THAT WITH A GOOD RATE OF
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND LOWERED INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT ''PERHAPS''
THERE COULD BE ''SOME TAX CUTS.
HE ADDED. ''I AM VERY CAREFUL NOT TO PROMISE THAT FOR SURE.
OHIO WITH 25 ELECTORAL VOTES IS BELIEVED TO BE LEANING SLIGHTLY
TOWARD CARTER, ALTHOUGH BOTH SIDES SAY THE RACE IS TIGHT.
AT A STOP IN INDIANAPOLIS, FORD TOLD AN OVERFLOW CROWD AT THE
SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL THAT HIS DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT HAS SUFFERED "A
PRECIPITOUS DECLINE IN POPULARITY'' BECAUSE HIS CAMPAIGN DEPENDS ON A
'DISCREDITED OLD FORMULA OF MORE PROMSES, MORE PROGRAMS, MORE
SPENDING.'
IT WAS PART OF A CONTINUING NOTE OF GOP OPTIMISM.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE. WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF RICHARD B. CHENEY
CONTENDED THAT FORD'S CAMPAIGN HAS MADE SUCH INROADS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
THAT THE PRESIDENT MAY NEED TO CARRY ONLY FOUR OF THE EIGHT MOST
POPULOUS INDUSTRIAL STATES.
CHENEY SAID THE PRESIDENT AND HIS STRATEGISTS ORIGINALLY HAD THOUGHT
HE WOULD HAVE TO CARRY AT LEAST FIVE OF THE 'BIG EIGHT'' -- NEW YORK,
NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS, TEXAS AND
CALIFORNIA. BUT CHENEY SAID REPUBLICAN POLLS INDICATE FORD'S PROSPECTS
IN THE SOUTH LOOK PROMSING IN LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, VIRGINIA, NORTH
AND SOUTH CAROLINA AND TEXAS.
AS A RESULT. CHENEY SAID, THE PRESIDENT NOW MIGHT NEED TO CARRY ONLY
FOUR OF THE BIG EIGHT'' -- BUT HE DIDN'T SAY WHICH FOUR.
FORD HAS MADE STRONG GAINS IN VOTER PREFERENCE POLLS IN CALIFORNIA,
WHOSE 45 ELECTORAL VOTES GIVE IT THE BIGGEST CLOUT OF ANY STATE. THE
LATEST CALIFORNIA POLL SHOWS THE PRESIDENT ONE PERCENTAGE POINT AHEAD
OF CARTER AFTER TRAILING BY 20 POINTS TWO MONTHS AGO.
BUT DEMOCRATIC LEADERS THERE ARE CLAIMING "IT'S ALL COMING
TOGETHER'' NOW IN THE CARTER CAMPAIGN IN CALIFORNIA. DEMOCRATS
OUTNUMBER REPUBLICANS BY ABOUT 2.1 MILLION IN THE STATE FOLLOWING A
REGISTRATION DRIVE THAT SIGNED UP THREE NEW DEMOCRATS FOR EVERY NEW
REPUBLICAN.
FORD TOLD NEWSPAPER EDITORS LAST WEEK THAT "CALIFORNIA IS THE REAL
KEY STATE IN ANY REALISTIC COMBINATION." CARTER UNDERSCORED THE
IMPORTANCE OF CALIFORNIA BY PLANNING TO SPEND THE FINAL DAY OF HIS
TWO-YEAR-LONG CAMPAIGN AT GET-OUT-THE-VOTE RALLIES IN THAT STATE.
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NEW YORK (UPI) -- A SURVEY OF 661 U.S. DAILY NEWSPAPERS SHOWS 411
EDITOR SUPPORTING AND PUBLISHER PRESIDENT REPORTED FORD'S CANDIDACY THURSDAY. AND 80 ENDORSING JIMMY CARTER,
THE PAPERS SUPPORTING PRESIDENT FORD REPRESENT 62 PER CENT
WITH THOSE POLLED AND HAVE A COMBINED CIRCULATION OF 20,951,798, COMPARED OF
CARTER, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER SAID.
12 PER CENT AND 7,607,739 CIRCULATION OF THOSE SUPPORTING
EITHER UNCOMMITTTED OR INDEPENDENT.
TWENTY SIX PER CENT OF THE PAPERS SURVEYED INDICATED THEY WERE
ONE PAPER, THE TUCUMCARI, N.M., NEWS HAS ENDORSED SEN.
MCCARTHY, AND THE DIXON, ILL., TELEGRAPH HAS ENDORSED AMERICAN EUGENE PARTY
CANDIDATE THOMAS G. ANDERSON.
THE SURVEY INDICATED THAT FORD DOES NOT ENJOY NEARLY
OVER GOERGE MCGOVERN'S 2.2 PER CENT.
OVERWHELMING 72.6 PER CENT PRESS SUPPORT FOR RICHARD NIXON THE IN 1972
CANDIDATE, ELECTIONS 1968 IN OVER THE 44 HAVE HUBERT WHEN YEARS NEWSPAPERS HUMPHREY'S OF THE CLOSELY SHOWN EDITOR 14 PER MORE WITH AND CENT. SUPPORT PUBLISHER NIXON'S FOR 60.8 POLL, THE PER ONLY DEMOCRATIC CENT IN
HOWEVER, IT COMPARES SUPPORT IN
THE 1964
COMPARED LYNDON B. JOHNSON WAS ENDORSED BY 440 DAILIES,
DUPLICATE TO B-WIRE
WITH 359 FOR BARRY GOLDWATER, THE PUBLICATION SAID.
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NON-ENDORSEMENT R N.Y. (AP) -- NEWSDAY, A MAJOR FOLLOWING EVENING ITS NEWSPAPER, POLICY OF NOT TODAY
O TOLD GARDEN ITS READERS CITY, T AT CANDIDATES. IT WAS ONCE AGAIN NOTED THAT HIS
ENDORSING PAPER'S MYSELF. PUBLISHER 2,000 so POLITICAL WHAT WILLIAM EMPLOYES MANDATE ATTWOOD, MIGHT WOULD PREFER IN I HAVE A SIGNED A FOR DIFFERENT CLAIMING EDITORIAL, CANDIDATE THAT NEWSDAY THE "THAN CAMPAIGN, I DO
ENDORSES
BUT UNDERSTAND REPUBLICAN WHY GERALD A PERSON'S FORD, DEMOCRAT WHOM HE JIMMY DESCRIBED CARTER, AS COMMUNIST AN ANARCHIST, A
HE HE THAT SAID CLOSED MY IT THE CHOICE?" WOULD BY PAPER ADDING NOT WOULD ENDORSE A 'PERSONAL CONVICTIONS CONTINUE ANYONE TO POSTCRIPT, FOR WOULD DISCUSS A NUMBER LEAD ISSUES THEM SAYING OF REASONS. OF TO HE VOTE GUS COULD HALL, FOR OR
ROGER MACBRIDE, LESTER MADDOX, DESCRIBED AS
.........................
HE HAD DISCERNABLE 'SOME TROUBLE PLATFORM UNDERSTANDING IS HIS OWN CITIZEN EGO.' A VOTE OF
FOREUGENE THE THIS "BUT UNITED IS NO " MCCARTY, TIME STATES HE ADDED, FOR CAN WHOSE ANY JUSTIFY ""I AMERICAN ONLY CERTAINLY NOT TO VOTING DON'T GIVE AT UP UNDERSTAND ALL. so RARE IN A AND HOW DESPOTIC PRECIOUS A WORLD A
PRIVILEGE."
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BY W. DALE NELSON
WASHINGTON (AP) -- THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RAISED A
QUESTION IN 1966 AS TO WHETHER JIMMY CARTER HAD DRAWN EXCESSIVE FUNDS
FROM A $175,000 SBA LOAN MADE TO HIM FOR HIS PEANUT FARMING BUSINESS,
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS SHOW.
CARTER'S BANKER REPLIED THAT THE WITHDRAWALS WERE ''POSSIBLY HIGHER
THAN AGREED IN THE LOAN AGREEMENT, BUT WE DOUBT THEY WERE VERY MUCH
HIGHER DUE TO SIZABLE INCOME TAXES'' IN CONNECTION WITH THE BUSINESS.
THE LIMIT ON WITHDRAWALS WAS $10,000 PER YEAR PLUS AMOUNTS NECESSARY
TO PAY TAXES.
THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE COMMENT FROM CARTER.
PAUL A. LODATO, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR THE SBA, SAID
ATTORNEYS AND FINANCIAL OFFICERS OF THE AGENCY HAD EXAMINED THE FILES
ON THE LOAN AND FOUND NO INDICATION THAT CARTER HAD DRAWN MORE THAN
THE AMOUNT AUTHORIZED FOR SALARY AND TAXES.
THE GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, OBTAINED UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
ACT. WERE MADE PUBLIC TODAY BY THE CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATION LIBERTY
LOBBY. THEY FORMED THE BASIS OF A STORY IN TODAY'S EDITION OF THE
ORGANIZATION'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, THE SPOTLIGHT.
THE PAPERS ALSO SHOW THAT THE SBA REFUSED A REQUEST FROM CARTER IN
1966 THAT IT RELEASE HIM FROM AN AGREEMENT PLEDGING PROPERTY OWNED BY
HIM AND HIS MOTHER LILLIAN AS COLLATERAL FOR THE LOAN.
CARTER TOLD THE AGENCY HE WANTED THE PROPERTY UNENCUMBERED so THAT
HE COULD BORROW MONEY ON IT.
JOHN P. LATIMER, REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE SBA IN ATLANTA. REJECTED
THE REQUEST IN AN AUG. 4, 1966, LETTER TO S. R. HUNTER, PRESIDENT OF
THE CITIZENS BANK OF AMERICUS, GA. HE SAID IT APPEARED THAT CARTER
WANTED TO USE THE PROPERTY TO BORROW MONEY ''FOR PERSONAL REASONS
RATHER THAN A NECESSARY AND IDENTIFIED BUSINESS PURPOSE.
UNDER SBA REGULATIONS PROPERTY PLEDGED TO REPAYMENT OF A LOAN CANNOT
BE RELEASED TO COVER PERSONAL EXPENSES UNLESS THE RECIPIENT OF THE
LOAN OFFERS SOME CONSIDERATION IN RETURN.
THE LAND WAS RELEASED AFTER CARTER RENEWED HIS REQUEST IN DECEMBER
1967, SPECIFYING THAT HE NEEDED MONEY FOR A LIQUID FERTILIZER
MANUFACTURING PLANT AND OTHER EXPANSIONS OF HIS BUSINESS.
HE HAD SAID ORIGINALLY THAT RELEASE OF THE LAND WAS "VERY IMPORTANT
TO OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS'' AND THAT THE MORTGAGE ON THE LAND WAS
INTERFERING WITH PURCHASES OF MACHINERY AND FINANCING OF INVENTORIES.
HUNTER TOLD THE SBA THE REQUEST WAS "AGREEABLE WITH OUR BANK ... IF
IT IS AGREEABLE WITH YOU.
IN AN AUG. 13 1966, MEMORANDUM, HOWEVER, MAX HOUSTON OF THE SBA
OFFICE IN ATLANTA QUOTED HUNTER AS SAYING IN A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
THAT HE HAD HEARD ''LOOSE TALK'' THAT CARTER WANTED THE FUNDS FOR A
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THEN REP. HOWARD CALLOWAY, R-GA., OR FOR
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A THIRD BANK IN AMERICUS.
CONTACTED IN AMERICUS HUNTER SAID, "I DON'T THINK IT WAS ANYTHING
BUT LOOSE TALK."
"THIS THING REMINDS ME OF A BUNCH OF DOGS WORRYING A BONE,' THE
BANK PRESIDENT SAID.
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By DOUG WILLIS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES AP - Jimmy Carter's comfortable lead in California
over President Ford has melted to nothing. but Democratic leaders say
"'it's all coming together", now in the Carter campaign.
Ford, despite spectacular gains in voter preference polls. still has
the régistration figures stacked heavily against him in California
whose 45 electoral votes give it the biggest clout of any state.
The President was one percentage point ahead of Carter in the latest
California Poll. after trailing by 20 points two months ago.
But in the samé period, a registration drive has signed up three new
Democrats for every new Republican. Democrats now outnumber
Republicans by about 2.1 million, around 58 per cent to 36 per cent.
Leaders of both parties say the race for California's 45 electors
may be decided by the size of the voter turnout and the impact of a
state ballot proposition pushed by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez.
Ford said before his final swing through California last week that
the state is on his must-win list.
**There are a number of other combinations. but California has 45
electoral votes. That means California is the real key state in any
réálistic combination. Ford told newspaper editors.
Carter underscored the emphasis he puts on California with plans to
spend the final day of his two-year-long campaign for president at
get-out-the vote rallies in three California cities.
After equally slow and disorganized starts, the Ford and Carter
campaigns both are attracting large numbers of volunteers.
"It can go either way now and it's going to be voter turnout that
decides it," said Republican state Vice Chairman Mike Montgomery.
"You're going to see people from both parties criss-crossing the
street in the same precincts. If there are kids at home. we'll
bäby-sit. If they're in traction. we'll wheel them to the polls. We
need an 80 per cent turnout of the Republicans to win, and we're
organizing to get 80 per cent, " Montgomery said.
"It will be close, with the remaining variable being the turnout
said Gray Davis. chief adviser to Democratic Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.
Dávis agreed Carter's campaign was slow starting in California. But
he said the voter registration drive was a success, and that
volunteers are in place for the get-out-the-vote drive.
"It's coming together. Yes. We will win, " Davis said. **There is
no doubt that more eligible voters prefer Gov. Carter to Gerald Ford.
A'big turnout will produce a substantial victory for Gov. Carter. A
modest turnout will produce a close victory.",
Montgomery said he will have one or more volunteers working in every
one of California's 24, 440 precincts to get out the GOP vote.
Democrats. with less precinct organization, say they will reach
three-quarters of the state's 5.8 million Democrats by letter or
telephone or both next Monday and Tuesday to remind them to vote.
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ATLANTA (UPI) -- ACCORDING TO THE DARDEN RESEARCH CORP., JIMMY
CARTER LEADS PRESIDENT FORD BY NEARLY A 2-T0-1 MARGIN IN GEORGIA.
THE POLL INDICATED 59.8 PER CENT OF THE GEORGIA VOTERS CONTACTED
LAST WEEK WOULD VOTE FOR NATIVE SON CARTER, 30.4 FAVORED FORD AND 9
PER CENT WERE UNDECIDED.
FORMER GOV. LESTER MADDOX AND OTHER CANDIDATES COULD MUSTER 0.8
PER CENT OF THE POLL, ACCORDING TO CLAIBOURNE DARDEN JR., WHO HEADS
THE FIRM.
CONTACTED IN 54 CITIES ACROSS THE STATE, 53.8 PER CENT OF THE 500
VOTERS SAID THEY WERE DEMOCRATS AND 11.4 PER CENT WERE REPUBLICANS.
INDEPENDENTS ACCOUNTED FOR 33.4 PER CENT. GEORGIA DOES NOT REQUIRE
VOTERS TO REGISTER BY PARTY.
DARDEN SAID JUST OVER 60 PER CENT OF THOSE SURVEYED WATCHED THE
FINAL FORD-CARTER DEBATE LAST FRIDAY NIGHT AND 43.4 PER CENT FELT
CARTER WON, 18.1 PER CENT CONSIDERED FORD THE VICTOR AND 32.6 PER
CENT RATED THE DEBATE A TOSSUP.
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BY DON PHILLIPS
CLEVELAND (UPI) -- JIMMY CARTER, CAMPAIGNING BEFORE ENTHUSIASTIC
AUDIENCES IN THE INDUSTRIAL NORTHEAST, SAID THURSDAY THAT BOTH A TAX
CUT AND NEW GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS COULD BE ACHIEVED MERELY BY REDUCING
UNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION.
HOWEVER, ADDRESSING ABOUT 20,000 CHEERING SUPPORTERS IN CLEVELAND,
CARTER APPEARED TO BACK OFF SOMEWHAT FROM HIS STATEMENT IN PITTSBURGH
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT A TAX REDUCTION WAS "INEVITABLE."
"I'M VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT I PROMISE," HE SAID IN THE CLEVELAND
SPEECH. "IF WE CAN HAVE A 5 OR 6 PER CENT ECONOMIC GROWTH AND IF WE
CAN CUT OUR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DOWN TO JUST ABOUT WHAT IT WAS WHEN
RICHARD NIXON ENTERED OFFICE AND HAVE INFLATION CONTROL AND A NORMAL
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND OUR NORMAL SPENDING, WE
CAN REALIZE ENOUGH INCOME TO HAVE A COMBINATION OF NEW PROGRAMS AND
TO HAVE SOME TAX CUTS.
"NOW I'M VERY CAREFUL NOT TO PROMISE THAT FOR SURE. BUT IF OUR
PROJECTIONS ARE RIGHT, IF WE WORK TOGETHER AND JUST HAVE NORMAL
ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WE CAN REALIZE A BETTER LIFE FOR OUR PEOPLE."
AT CLEVELAND AIRPORT BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FLEW TO NEW_
YORK, HIS PRESS SECRETARY JODY POWELL TOLD REPORTERS REGARDING
CARTER'S STATEMENTS ON TAXES: "IT IS NOT A PROPOSAL IN THE SENSE OF A
CAMPAIGN PROMISE. IT'S A STATEMENT OF A POSSIBILITY OR A
PROBABILITY."
CARTER WAS ASKED AT AN AIRPORT NEWS CONFERENCE IN ERIE, PA., HOW
AMERICANS COULD KNOW THAT HIS TAX CUT WAS NOT "JUST PIE IN THE SKY
ELECTION RHETORIC."
HE REPLIED, "THE PRESUMPTION THAT WE'VE MADE HAS BEEN VERY
CAREFULLY PUT FORWARD. THE 5 TO 6 PER CENT ECONOMIC GROWTH IS WHAT WE
EXPERIENCED DURING THE JOHNSON AND KENNEDY ADMINISTRATIONS. so I
THINK THESE ARE REASONABLE GOALS."
CARTER APPEARED BUOYED BY WARM RESPONSE FROM CROWDS IN
PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO, BUT STRESSED IN EACH SPEECH THAT THE ELECTION
IS NOT YET IN THE BAG AND HARD WORK REMAINS DURING THE FINAL FIVE
DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
ADDRESSING AN ESTIMATED 7,500 IN ERIE'S PERRY SQUARE AND THE MUCH
BIGGER CROWD IN CLEVELAND, CARTER CONTINUALLY STRESSED THE NEED TO
GET OUT THE VOTE.
IF A FEW MORE VOTERS HAD FAILED TO VOTE FOR JOHN KENNEDY IN 1960,
HE SAID "WE WOULD HAVE HAD NIXON EIGHT YEARS EARLIER." AND HE SAID IF
ONE MORE PERSON HAD VOTED FOR HUBERT HUMPHREY IN EACH PRECINCT IN THE
COUNTRY IN 1968, "WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD WATERGATE. WE WOULD NEVER
HAVE HAD THE ADMINISTRATION OF RICHARD NIXON."
BOTH CARTER AND HIS STAFF APPEARED SENSITIVE ABOUT POLLS WHICH
SHOWED FORD CLOSING THE GAP AGAINST HIM.
ASKED WHY HE WAS LOSING GROUND IN THE POLLS, CARTER SHOT BACK,
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PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE JIMMY CARTER
HAS WON THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS, A COALITION OF
IRISH-AMBRICAN GROUPS, IN HIS BID TO DEFEAT PRESIDENT FORD IN NEXT
TUESDAY'S ELECTION.
THE ENDORSEMENT CAME WEDNESDAY NIGHT DURING A CAMPAIGN SWING
THROUGH THE PITTSBURGH AREA.
FATHER SEAN MCMANUS, DEPUTY NATIONAL CHAPLAIN OF THE ANCIENT ORDER
OF HIBERNIANS, SAID THE CAUCUS REPRESENTS "ALL THE MAJOR
IRISH-AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES."
MCMANUS, WITH CARTER BY HIS SIDE AT THE PITTSBURGH HILTON HOTEL,
SAID IRISH AMERICANS HAVE BEEN "DEEPLY HURT BY THE STONEWALLL SILENCE
OF THE NIXON-FORD ADMINISTRATIONS" ON THE SITUATION IN IRELAND AND
ARE ENCOURAGED BY THE IRISH PLANK OF THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
THE PLANK SAYS THE UNITED STATES SHOULD ENCOURAGE FORMATION OF A
UNITED IRELAND.
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PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER JIMMY CARTER
HAD TO SOOTHE THE FEELINGS OF A DOZEN PENNSYLVANIA BLACK DEMOCRATIC
LEADERS AFTER ONE OF THEM TOLD HIM THAT "SOME OF YOUR STAFF PEOPLE
ARE RACIST."
CLIFTON PITTS OF DUQUESNE TOLD CARTER AT A BRIEF GATHERING WITH
THE BLACK LEADERS:
"WE HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA ARE 100 PER CENT GOING TO SUPPPORT YOU
EVEN THOUGH WE FEEL THAT SOME OF YOUR STAFF PEOPLE ARE RACIST.
"WE WENT THROUGH HELL TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU."
CARTER WAS SOMEWHAT TAKEN ABACK BY THE REMARKS ALTHOUGH HE
APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN PREPARED.
HF TOLD PITTS AND THE OTHERS, "IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN
DONE. I APOLOGIZE AND I DO HOPE THAT YOU WON'T HOLD IT AGAINST ME."
CARTER ALSO SAID HE DID NOT REALIZE THAT THERE HAD BEEN ANY
FRICTION.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -- ROMAN CATHOLICS AND COLLEGE DUCATED VOTERS
MAY B PIVOTAL IN JIMMY CARTER'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, ACCORDING TO
POLLSTER LOUIS HARRIS WHO SAYS THE GEORGIA DEMOCRAT IS HAVING TROUBLE
WITH BOTH.
GEORGE GALLUP, ANOTHER PUBLIC OPINION EXPERT, SAYS THE
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AWAKENED MANY APATHETIC VOTERS AND PRESIDENT
FORD APPEARS TO BE BENEFITTING THE MOST.
BOTH MEN SPOKE WEDNESDAY AT A NATIONAL PRESS CLUB LUNCHEON AND
DISCUSSED THE CANDIDATES' NARROWING GAP IN THE POLLS.
HARRIS SAID "AMONG THE COLLEGE EDUCATED ... CARTER IS DOUBTED,
MUCH MOR THAN ANY OTHER SEGMENT." HARRIS SAID. THEY "WORRY ABOUT HIS
INDEPENDENCE. THEY SAY HE MAKES THEM FEEL UNEASY
...
HE TRIES TO BE
ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN."
HE SAID CATHOLICS ARE UPSET WITH THE WAY CARTER HAS HANDLED
ABORTION.
GALLUP SAID "A GREATER SHIFT OF OPINION HAS BEEN REGISTERED IN THE
PRESENT RACE THAN IN ANY IN WHICH WE HAVE EVER BEEN INVOLVED. HIS
FIRST VOTR SURVEY WAS IN 1935.
GALLUP SAID THE DEBATES CREATED NEW INTEREST IN THE ELECTION AND
"OUR SURVEY DATA AT THIS POINT WOULD INDICATE IT IS HELPING PRESIDENT
FORD."
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BY LEONARD CURRY
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- JIMMY CARTER MADE AN UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT IN
1965 TO RECLAIM SOME GEORGIA LAND BEING HELD AS LOAN COLLATERAL. HE
WAS TURNED DOWN BECAUSE OF SUSPICIONS HIS AIM WAS TO RAISE MONEY FOR
PERSONAL REASONS -- POSSIBLY POLITICS -- AND NOT TO EXPAND HIS
BUSINESS.
THE REFUSAL CAME FROM THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND THE
CITIZENS' BANK OF AMERICUS, GA., WHICH LOANED CARTER $175,000 IN 1962
TO BUILD AND EQUIP AN AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE ON 200 ACRES OF LAND IN
HIS HOMETOWN OF PLAINS, GA. THE BANK PROVIDED 25 PER CENT OF THE LOAN
WITH THE SBA PUTTING UP THE REST.
CARTER WAS CAMPAIGNING IN OHIO AND NEW YORK AND WAS NOT
IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT.
DETAILS OF THE 1965 REQUEST AND ITS DENIAL ARE CONTAINED IN SBA
FILES MADE AVAILABLE TO UPI IN RESPONSE TO A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
REQUEST.
UPI WAS GIVEN ADDITIONAL SBA FILES BY "SPOTLIGHT," A CONSERVATIVE
PUBLICATION STRONGLY CRITICAL OF CARTER. UPI ALSO VERIFIED THE
AUTHENTICITY OF THESE FILES WITH SBA.
THE SBA RECORDS SHOWED THAT IN 1965 CARTER ASKED THAT SECURITY
LIENS BE REMOVED AGAINST SOME OF HIS ASSETS, INCLUDING 200 ACRES OF
LAND IN PLAINS, GA. HE SAID HE NEEDED THE LAND FREE OF MORTGAGE TO
BORROW MORE MONEY TO EXPAND HIS BUSINESS.
ACCORDING TO THE FILES, THE PRESIDENT OF CITIZENS BANK, S.R.
HUNTER, RECOMMENDED AGAINST THE REQUEST ON GROUNDS CARTER REALLY
WANTED THE MONEY FOR REASONS UNRELATED TO HIS BUSINESS. TWO REGIONAL
SBA OFFICIALS IN ATLANTA, JOHN P. LATIMER AND MAX E. HOUSTON, AGREED
WITH HUNTER'S ASSESSMENT IN SEPARATE MEMOS AND LETTERS.
SBA RECORDS SHOW THAT HUNTER SAID CARTER SAID HE NEEDED MONEY TO
RUN FOR THE SEAT OF THEN-REP. HOWARD CALLAWAY, R-GA. HUNTER ALSO WAS
QUOTED AS SAYING CARTER WANTED TO START A RIVAL BANK IN AMERICUS.
FOR HIS PART, HOUSTON SAID IN A MEMO DATED SEPT. 24, 1965, THAT
"MR. CARTER HAD ADMITTED IN MR. LATIMER'S OFFICE, AND THE (CITIZENS)
BANK IS ALSO AWARE OF IT, THAT THE PRIMARY REASON WAS TO OBTAIN THE
NECESSARY FUNDS IN STARTING ANOTHER BANK IN AMERICUS."
(CARTER NEVER SOUGHT CALLAWAY'S HOUSE SEAT, DECIDING INSTEAD TO
RUN FOR GOVERNOR. HE RAN THIRD IN A THREE-MAN RACE. NOT LONG
AFTERWARD, HE BEGAN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR HIS SUCCESSFUL 1970
RACE FOR GOVERNOR WHICH, IN TURN, EVENTUALLY LED TO HIS PRESIDENTIAL
BID.)
QUESTIONED BY UPI ABOUT THE STATEMENTS IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW
WEDNESDAY, HUNTER SAID THE SBA MATERIAL WAS WRONG ABOUT THE POLITICAL
RACE AND CARTER'S INTENTION TO START A BANK.
"IT REMINDS ME OF A DOG WORRYING A BONE," HUNTER SAID. "THERE'S
NOTHING IN IT."
THE SBA FILES SAID THE CITIZENS BANK RECOMMENDED AGAINST RELEASING
THE LAND TO CARTER AS THE LOCAL INSTITUTION RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING
SUPERVISE THE LOAN.
IN A MEMO TO SBA ON YELLOW FILE PAPER, HOUSTON SAID CARTER'S
REQUEST WAS DENIED AUG. 8, 1965, "WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF THE
PARTICIPANT" BANK. HE SAID "THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK FELT THAT IT
WAS NOT NEEDED FOR THE REASONS (CARTER) HAD GIVEN AND HE PERSONALLY
WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF RELEASING ANY PLEDGED COLLATERAL WITHOUT SOME
CONSIDERATION."
HOUSTON, ACTING CHIEF OF SBA'S LOAN PROCESSING AND ADMINISTRATION
SECTION IN ATLANTA, ALSO SAID HUNTER BELIEVED CARTER WANTED THE LAND
FREED OF LIENS TO USE AS COLLATERAL FOR "OUTSIDE FINANCING FOR A
COUPLE OF REASONS."
"THESE BEING (1). TO ENTER A POLITICAL RACE AGAINST CONGRESSMAN
CALLAWAY IN THE NEXT ELECTION OR TO BORROW MONEY FOR PURCHASING STOCK
IN A NEW BANK WHICH HE IS TRYING TO FORM IN AMERICUS. MR. HUNTER
STATED THAT THIS WAS LOOSE TALK; HOWEVER, HE COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT
BORROWER NEEDS THIS MONEY FOR THE REASONS HE GIVES."
SBA SAID CARTER REQUESTED AND RECEIVED ONE-YEAR DEFERRALS OF HIS
PAYMENTS IN 1966 AND 1970 -- THE YEARS HE RAN FOR GOVERNOR -- BUT
"THE LOAN WAS REPAID ON A TIMELY BASIS."
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By LYNNE OLSON
Associated Press Writer
CLEVELAND AP - Jimmy Carter said Thursday he cannot promise a
substantial tax reduction that a day earlier he had declared would be
the *almost inevitable," result of his economic policies after four
years in the White House.
Addressing a rally as he arrived here on his continuing trek through
states where the election race with President Ford is tight and
possibly crucial, the Democratic nominee said that with a good rate of
economic growth. lowered inflation and unemployment, "perhaps"
there could be 'some tax cuts."
He added "I am very careful not to promise that for sure
Carter has said that on the basis of projections by his advisers,
the government could have an additional $60 billion a year by the end
of fiscal 1981 - an amount that Republican critics of Carter have
termed impossibly large.
In a radio interview on Wednesday night in Pittsburgh, he had told a
listener who asked about taxes that rather than higher taxes under
his administration. there would be "a much more likely prospect of
tax reduction in the next four years
Carter went on to say, "I believe that is almost inevitable, but
gave no indication of how much of a tax cut he had in mind.
During an airport press donference in Erie, Pa.. on Thursday. Carter
was asked how he could achieve his goal of à genéral income tax
reduction while paying for proposed new programs and balancing the
budget by the end of his first term.
Carter replied that his advisers say a growth rate of five to six
per cent in the economy and a reduction in unemployment from the
present 7.8 per cent to four per cent are attainable, and if realized,
there is going to be about $60 billion accumulated per year above
and beyond what we have now."
Carter said. "I would guess a substantial portion of that would go
for a tax cut and a substantial portion would go for implementing
new programs
Asked how much of a tax cut he was envisioning, Carter said, "I
don't know
He reiterated that new programs would be phased in gradually to make
sure the balanced budget - which Carter has promised - could be
accomplished. And he cautioned that while his goals were in his view
reasonable. they could not be attained without cooperation between
myself as President. the Congress and the American people."
Carter's apparent retreat on the certainty of a tax cut may have
reflected some concern among his staff that he was possibly going too
far on a subject that has been troublesome for the Georgia governor
since early in the campaign.
Carter said previously be would shift some of the tax burden to
higher income taxpayers to ease the burden on lower and middle income
taxpayers. After some initial controversy with the Republicans over
where the cut would be made. Carter aides said their plan would
benefit all families earning less than $25,000 by closing tax
loopholes and lowering tax rates.
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By HARRY F. RÖSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON AP - Preferring not to wait for Supreme Court review of
his convictions, John D. Ehrlichman asked on Thursday to be sent to
prison to serve his Watergate sentences. Two federal judges agreed and
ordered him to report to a federal work camp in Arizona by Nov. 1.
When he begins serving his minimum 30 months, Ehrlichman will become
the first of the three men closest to Richard M. Nixon - and the
highest ranking member of the Nixon administration to date - to be
imprisoned.
His lawyers could not be reached to determine whether Ehrlichman
will now drop his intended appeals to the Supreme Court.
Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic counselor and his No. 2 aide, was
convicted and sentenced in both the so-called White House plumbers,
case and in the Watergate cover-up. His appeal to the U.S. Court of
Appeals was rejected in each case.
At his sentencing in the cover-up case, along with former Atty. Gen.
John N. Mitchell and former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman,
Ehrlichman expressed contrition.
""It is clear to me from the jury verdicts ... that my public life
was perceived in such a way that my peers find me unworthy of their
trust and belief, " he said. "I have been found to be a perjurer, and
no reversal on appeal alone can expunge the stigma of these
verdicts."
As the boss of the so-called "White House Plumbers, " Ehrlichman
was sentenced to 20 months to 5 years for violating the civil rights
of a Beverly Hills psychiatrist: The jury found that White House
agents, under Ehrlichman's direction. broke into the Beverly Hills,
Calif. office of Dr. Lewis J. Fielding to rifle the files of a
patient, Pentagon Papers figure Daniel Ellsberg.
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WASHINGTON: Dániel Ellsberg.
Then, he was convicted of obstructing justice, conspiring to
obstruct justice and multiple counts of lying under oath in the
Watergate cover-up. His sentence in that case was 30 months to 8
years.
U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica. who presided over the cover-up
trial. made the Watergate and plumbérs case sentences concurrent
meaning that Ehrlichman will be eligible for parole after serving 21
years.
A provision in the law. however, allows Sirica to reduce a sentence
within four months after Ebrlichman goes to prison. Sirica has done
that on previous occasions. reducing to time served the sentences of
such prominent Watergate figures as James W. McCord Jr., John W. Dean,
and Jeb Stuart Magruder.
A similar reduction in sentence was ordered for Charles W. Colson by
U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who presided over the plumbers
trial.
Sirica and Gesell jointly issued Thursday's order, saying
Ehrlichman's lawyer told them that he "now wishes voluntarily to
surrender his personal bond and to begin service of the concurrent
sentences."
Court sources said that the lawyer, Stuart Stiller. walked into the
judges, office Thursday morning, without any advance notice, and said
Ehrlichman wanted to begin his sentence.
The former White House aide could not be reached for comment in
Santa Fe, N.M., where he has been living since his conviction. An
answering service said he was out of town.
Ehrlichman will serve his sentence at the federal prison camp in
Safford, Ariz. The judges, order gives him a choice of surrendering
there or to U.S. marshals in the District of Columbia by noon Nov. 1.
Since be moved out of his home in Seattle and separated from his
wife, Ehrlichman has become a virtual recluse. He grew a beard and set
to work writing novels. The first. called "The Company, was
published this year. Another 1s in the works. He says he has no
intention of writing a book about Watergate as his co-defendants,
Mitchell and Haldeman, are doing.
The 51-year-old Ebrlichman was in Washington recently testifying
about drug enforcement in the Nixon administration. He declined at
that time to talk with a reporter about his experiences in Watergate
and his present life.
When Ebrlichman stood with his co-defendants before Sirica for
sentencing on Feb. 21 last year, another of his lawyers made an appeal
- not for leniency - but for a sentence that would give Ebrlichman a
chance to atone for his Watergate trespasses.
"He requests no less than a strict sentence from your honor. " said
lawyer Ira Lowe. But he asked that rather than be sent to prison,
Ehrlichman be allowed to spend his time working with Indian tribés in
the northern pueblos of New Mexixo where he could make use of his
expertise as a land-use lawyer.
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NEW YORK (UPI) -- THE STOCK MARKET CLOSED LOWER TODAY IN MODERATE
TRADING ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AMID UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT THE
COURSE OF THE ECONOMY AND THE PRESIDENTIAL EL CTION.
THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE, UP ABOUT THREE POINTS AT THE
OUTSET, WAS OFF 3.91 TO 952.21 SHORTLY BEFORE THE CLOSE. IT HAD
RALLIED BRITFLY FROM A FOUR-POINT AFTERNOON DEFICIT.
DECLINES LED ADVANCES BY ABOUT A S V N-TO-SIX MARGIN AMONG THE
1,840 ISSUES CROSSING THE TAPE. THERE WERE A LARGE NUMBER OF
UNCHANGED ISSUES.
UPI 10-28 04:23 PND
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INDEX NEW YORK (AP) -- AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING INDEX:
HIGH LOW CLOSE CHG.
98.64 98.28 98.29 OFF .21
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BRUSS LS (UPI) -- THE U.S. DOLLAR, WHICH HAS BEEN ADVERSELY
AFF CTED BY TH POUND'S WOES ALL WEEK, FELL THURSDAY AGAINST ALL
MAJOR CURRENCIES EXCEPT THE FRENCH FRANC AND THE ITALIAN LIRE.
MIGHT DRAG DOWN THE FRANC, WHICH HAD BEEN FIRMING UP UNTIL THE
BANKERS IN PARIS EXPRESS FEARS THAT STERLING'S STEADY SLIDE
BEGINNING OF THE WEEK. THE FRENCH CENTRAL BANK HAD TO INTERVENE WITH
$30 TO $40 MILLION WEDNESDAY TO SUPPORT THE FRANC, THEY SAID.
ZURICH FROM 2.4348 FRANCS TO 2.4295, IN BRUSSELS FROM 37.40 FRANCS TO
IN FRANKFURT THE DOLLAR FELL FROM 2.4010 MARKS TO 2.3960, IN
37.35, AND IN AMSTERDAM FROM 2.5190 GUILDERS TO 2.5075.
MILAN IT WAS UP FROM 864 LIRE TO 864.10.
IN PARIS, THE DOLLAR ADVANCED FROM 4.9987 FRANCS TO 5.0030 AND IN
IN TOKYO, THE DOLLAR STRADIED AT 293.65 YFN AGAINST 293.45.
UPI 10-28 04:26 PED
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AVERAGES
NEW YORK (AP) -- DOW JONES CLOSING STOCK AVERAGES:
30 INDUS
'952.63 OFF 3.49
20 TRANS
207.81 UP 0.13
15 UTILS
"97.42 UP 0.60
65 STOCKS
300.09 OFF 0.31
SALES: 16,920,000.
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MINISTERS-ISRAEL WASHINGTON (AP) -- SEVENTEEN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN MINISTERS
PRESENTED A PROCLAMATION OF SUPPORT TODAY TO ISRAEL AND CONDEMNED THE
UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION EQUATING ZIONISM WITH RACISM
W. A. CRISWELL OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DALLAS TOLD AMBASSADOR
SIMCHA DINITZ AT A LUNCHEON CEREMONY THAT HE IS PRO-ISRAEL BECAUSE
"THE WORD OF GOD SAYS THE LAND IS FOREVER THEIRS IN AN UNCONDITIONAL
COVENANT." THIS SUPPORT FOR THE JEWISH NATIONAL STATE WOULD NOT WEAKEN THE
UNITED STATES, CRISWELL SAID, EVEN IF THERE WAS ANOTHER ARAB OIL
EMBARGO OR A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET
UNION. ''IT'S A MATTER OF LOVE AND DEVOTION,' HE SAID. ''IT'S NOT A MATTER
OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS.'
IN RESPONSE, DINITZ CALLED THE PROCLAMATION, ACCOMPANIED BY THE
SIGNATURES OF 7,000 CHRISTIAN CHURCH-GOERS, ''UPLIFTING AND
REFRESHING. "ALL TOO OFTEN WE BELIEVE WE ARE ALMOST ALONE,' DINITZ SAID.
10-28-76 16:32EDT