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News
Comment
The President's Daily News Summary
LIBRARY GERALD R. FORD
Leading The News
FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1976
Page
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
Report Says Mayaguez Actions Unnecessary
AP, UPI, Networks
1
Dole: Carter Should Withdraw
AP, UPI, ABC
2
Butz Resignation
Butz Denies Plotting Against Blacks
AP, UPI, Networks
2,3
Nessen Blamed for Banning Butz Questions
AP, UPI, NBC
3
No Place for Bigotry in Cabinet
L.I. Newsday
4
Crass-Roots Politics
L.A. Times
5
Goodby, and No Regrets
N.Y. Daily News
5
Sizing Up Votes on Butz Ouster
C.S. Monitor
8
Strategy
Ohio Vote Shift May Cost Ford
Chicago Tribune
9
Funds Probe
Politics?
Arizona Republic
10
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Issues
Ford, Dole Tried to Stop W'gate Probe
AP, UPI, Networks
12,13
Strategy
Carter Has Calif. Campaign Woes
CBS
13
Carter Staffers Remain Optimistic
Wall St. Journal
14
Debates
Carter: Attack on Lone Rangerism
C.S. Monitor
15
Endorsement
Catholics Endorse Carter
UPI
16
Threat
Callers Warn of Carter Assassination
UPI
16
ELECTION
Poll
Survey Sees Ford as Nov. Victor
UPI
16,17
Debates
Carter to Focus on Morality of For. Pol.
UPI
17
FCC Denies McCarthy, Maddox Equal Time
AP, UPI, CBS
18
Soviets Await Debate
AP
18
ii
Page
ELECTION (continued)
Strategy
Ohio's Presidential Battleground
Washington Post
19
Campaign Momentum and the Press
Eric Sevareid, CBS
20
Issues
Building a Wider Alliance for Democracy
L.I. Newsday
22
FOREIGN POLICY
Egypt
Sadat Ready to Work w/Either Candidate
ABC
23
Africa
War or Peace in Africa?
U.S. News & Wrld. Rpt.
24,25
South Africa in Our Future
National Review
26-29
China
Keeping a Handy Ax
Newsweek
30
Overview
Realities of U.S. Power in World
U.S. News & Wrld. Rpt. 31
PRESIDENCY
Congress
Ford Blames Congress for Compromises
AP,UPI
32
U.S.
Radioactive Fallout Plagues East Coast
AP, UPI, Networks
32
ECONOMY
Stocks Fall in Moderate Trading
AP,UPI,ABC,CBS
32
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
1
Report Says Ford Mayaguez Actions Unnecessary
A Congressional report said Tuesday President Ford did
not need to bomb Cambodia or send Marines to rescue the crew of
the Mayaguez in 1975 because the Cambodians had already decided
to free the hostages.
White House spokesmen rejected those conclusions but
declined to speculate whether there were any political motiva-
tion in releasing the report on the eve of Ford's foreign
policy debate with Jimmy Carter.
The report was submitted some time ago but its release
was held up while the National Security Agency, a presidential
body, edited it. Observers noted if politics were involved, it
would have been easy for the agency to hold on to it for a while
longer. (CBS)
The assessment of the Mayaguez incident came in a 162-page
study prepared by the GAO, Congress' investigative arm, for
the House International Relations Committee.
In a minute-by-minute chronology of events, the report
said the newly-installed Communist Cambodian government had
decided to release the Mayaguez crew before the bombing raids
and the Koh Tang island assault occurred. It suggested Ford
and his advisers paid too little attention to diplomatic
initiatives being carried out by third powers.
"While the United States undertook a number of diplomatic
initiatives to secure the release of the Mayaguez and its crew,"
it said, "little weight appears to have been given to indica-
tions that the Cambodians might be working out a political
solution." (CBS)
The Pentagon did not question the accuracy of the report,
but questioned the interpretation of the facts, Ike Pappas said. (CBS)
Lawrence Eagleburger, a key Kissinger aide, termed the
report "inadequate, misleading and second-guessing. (CBS)
In San Francisco, Ron Nessen told reporters: "We disagree
with the conclusions" of the GAO report. "The President carried
out the actions in the Mayaguez case and believes they were proper."
NBC gave a #9, :20 anchor report.
CBS' lead story ran 2:10 and showed Defense Dept. photos
of the Mayaguez. Ike Pappas reported.
ABC's story was included in a #2, 1:25 report on Ford's
preparations for tomorrow's debate with Jimmy Carter. AP, UPI, Networks -
(10/5/76)
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
2
Dole: Carter Should Withdraw Over Playboy Comments
Sen. Robert Dole tried turning the tables on Jimmy Carter
Tuesday by saying the Democrat lacks leadership and should with-
draw from the battle for the White House.
Campaigning in Virginia, Dole told an enthusiastic crowd
that Carter "doesn't know the meaning of the word leadership,"
and he criticized the Democrat's ability to handle foreign affairs.
Dole told a downtown Richmond rally that Carter keeps
changing positions so often that "no one knows where he stands."
The senator repeatedly tried to tie remarks about adultery
and religion which Carter made to Playboy magazine with the racial
slur that forced Earl Butz to resign Monday as Agriculture Sec.
"I suggest that he take a page from Earl Butz' book
and think about withdrawing and let Monday run for President,"
Dole said.
Dole said Carter's comments in the Playboy interview,
along with other remarks during the campaign, showed the Democrat
is not capable of leading the country.
At a GOP luncheon in Richmond, Dole said: "If Carter
really had the courage Butz has, he'd join him, but he doesn't
have the courage."
Earlier, Dole questioned the merits of his upcoming
debate with Mondale. "I don't think people look to us for
policy decisions. They look to the presidential candidates,
either Ford or Carter, " he said. "I don't think we're going
to set the world on fire."
ABC's #4 story, was an anchor report over silent film
of Dole campaigning in Virginia. It ran :30. AP,UPI,ABC - (10/5/76)
Butz Resignation
Butz Denies Plotting Against Blacks
Earl Butz Tuesday denied a report that he held secret
meetings to advise the Agriculture Department's cooperative ex-
tension service of ways to avoid hiring more blacks.
Government statistics show the Agriculture Department has
the worst record of any Cabinet-level agency on hiring minorities.
But, Butz claimed that the situation has improved since he be-
came Secretary. He said part of the problem is that blacks do
not want to enter the field of agriculture. (NBC,CBS)
Despite his resignation, Butz said, at the request of
President Ford, he will continue to campaign for him. (NBC,CBS)
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Butz Resignation
3
Butz' plans to campaign for Ford give the appearance,
at least, of the President wanting to have his cake and eat
it too, Irving R. Levine reported. (NBC)
Talking to reporters at the Agriculture Dept., Butz praised
the President, saying the country and world needs him. He said
Ford needs the farm vote to lock up the election, and Butz
pledged to help him get it. (NBC) AP, UPI, Networks -- (10/5/76)
Nessen Blamed for Banning Butz Questions
As President Ford studied foreign policy briefing books
Tuesday, reporters accused Ron Nessen of preventing reporters
from asking the President questions about the Butz incident. (NBC)
Nessen disagreed with that conclusion, but declined to say
if the President wants Butz to continue campaigning on his be-
half. Nessen referred all questions to the PFC.
James Baker talked with Butz Monday, but would not say
if he asked the former secretary to continue campaigning.
Baker did say, however, that there are areas where Butz would
be helpful.
One aide said the committee is now working on a schedule
for Butz and another said he would be a real asset to the Ford
campaign, Don Oliver, reported. AP, UPI, NBC -- (10/5/76)
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Butz Resignation
4
No Place for Bigotry in the Cabinet
(Editorial, excerpted, L.I. Newsday)
Earl Butz's racial slur transcended the offhand use of
locker-room language and exposed the man's innate philosophy,
President Ford's 20-year-old son, Steve, observed over the
weekend. His father finally agreed yesterday, although it's
disturbing that in accepting Butz's resignation Ford felt the
need to praise him as "a close personal friend who loves his
country and all that it represents."
Butz may well love his country, but he has no concept
at all of what it represents. A family newspaper can't print
his disgusting reply to a totally serious question about how
the Republicans could attract more black voters. His remark
was deeply offensive not only to blacks but to women.
For a time it looked as if Ford would wait for a poll
of Midwestern farmers to determine whether keeping Butz in
his cabinet would help or hinder his campaign. A strange
reaction from a candidate who has based so much of that cam-
paign on his own decency.
There's no way of telling what finally caused Ford to
act. But, any candidate who has to rely on the votes a bigot
like Butz can always attract simply doesn't deserve to win. --
(10/5/76)
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Butz Resignation
5
3n
Crass-Roots Politics
Singer Pat Boone asked Agriculture Secretary
words, he was leaving because he had become a po-
Earl Butz why the Republican Party was unable to
litical embarrassment to President Ford. But what
attract more black voters. Without meaning to, Butz about the much more significant embarrassment
L.A. Times, 10/5/76
GOODBY, AND NO REGRETS
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz finally has had
the grace to quit, bowing to the furor that arose over
an obscene insult to blacks.
Our only regret is that
President Ford didn't fire the
foul-mouthed secretary out of
hand, instead of letting him
N.Y, Daily News, 10/5/76
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Butz Resignation
6
1
C.S. Monitor, 10/5/76
Butz Resignation
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
L.A. Times, 10/5/76
Butz Resignation
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
8
Sizing up
votes on
Butz ouster
resignation would have an effect on the farm vote because "it would
look as if he was forced out."
Illinois corn farmer John Curry, on the board of the National Corn
Growers Association (and campaigning for local Democrats), put it this
Ford tries to limit
way;
"If he [Butz] is forced out it probably will force some farmers to feel
damage in farm belt
they really don't have a friend in the administration." A forced resigna-
tion could make some farmers "less enthusiastic" about voting Republi-
can, he adds.
By Robert M. Press
Mr. Jones expressed his personal view minutes before the resignation
Staff correspondent of
was announced: "If the President cuts the cord and lets [Butz] go, it
The Christian Science Monitor
will loose [Ford] more votes than it gains him.
Chicago
By allowing Agriculture Secretary Earl L.
Policy critic speaks
Butz to make up his own mind to resign be-
But the Iowa Secretary for Agriculture, Republican Robert Louns-
cause of the Secretary's racial racial slur in an
interview Drocident Ford mov have reduced
berry, inh And thought Mr. Butz should resign even though he had done a "good
C.s. Monitor, 10/5/76
Strategy
9
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Ohio Vote Shift May Cost Ford Key State
"HE'S A FARMER he came from
By F: Richard Ciccone
HORGAN COUNTERED. 'voter regis-
poor, Southern origins and he's a fresh
tration doesn't mean a whole lot.
Chicago Tribune Press Service
face," Horgan said. "He's perceived as
Voting registration continued Monday
BRYAN. Ohio-"No farmer is going to
some kind of Horatio Alger and that
and final Ohio figures were not com-
forget the grain embargo, but most of
always makes it in Middle mericaA -
plete:
us hope President Ford learned his les-
and Ohio is Middle America."
Ford supporters are confident the
son," said Chuck Lehman.
But Horgan isn't gloating. "There will
President can defeat Carter with help.
"It Hirt a lot of uc, but we feel that
be about four million votes cast in Ohio,
from the Dayton Cincinnati, and Colum-
Chicago Tribune, 10/5/76
Funds Probe
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
10
Politics?
If any Washington politician's
Ruff is interested, so say the ru-
public and private closets have
mors, in whether Ford converted
been scrutinized, it's Gerald
campaign contributions from
Ford's.
unions into cash for his personal
Coming to the vice presidency
use.
as he did during the early days of
Nowhere in the record, or in the
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Louisville Courier-Journal,
10/2/76
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Issues
12
Ford, Dole Tried to Stop Watergate Probe
President Ford and his running mate tried to thwart the
Watergate investigation and the Administration has since tried
to block reforms, Walter Mondale charged Tuesday.
In what one aide called Mondale's strongest attack on
Ford's actions during Watergate, Mondale told University of
Missouri-Kansas City law students. "To the bitter end, Mr.
Ford strongly defended the actions of Richard Nixon, long after
it was obvious to many members of his own party, as well as most
of the American people, that the Nixon Administration was ob-
structing justice.' (NBC, CBS)
Jimmy Carter has said in the past that Watergate would
not be an issue in the '76 election, but Mondale accused Ford
of showing a weakness of leadership throughout the Watergate
crisis. (NBC, CBS)
Beginning a campaign tour of the Midwest, Mondale said
Ford and Robert Dole both tried to play down Watergate. "As
House Minority Leader, Mr. Ford led the fight to prevent the
first investigation of the Watergate break-in of 1972 by the
House Banking Committee. Mr. Dole sought to limit public dis-
closure of Watergate-related abuses, first by offering a resolu-
tion to require that the Ervin Committee investigations be con-
ducted in closed session and when that failed, by offering
another resolution to prohibit live broadcasting of the
proceedings." (CBS)
Then, Mondale said, Ford made "an incredible agreement"
as President to let Nixon keep White House tapes and took an
action that "could not be reversed -- the pardon of Nixon. " (CBS)
He contended the pardon "made a mockery of the notion that
in America, there is no sovereign who stands above the law." (ABC)
Mondale charged that Ford and his administration have "opposed
and attempted to block Congressional action on Watergate reform
legislation."
Mondale also charged that Ford and Dole supported the
"Saturday Night Massacre." He said, "This was probably the
most crucial point in American history, when the principle of
law was at stake. Had the President succeeded in his massacre,
Mr. Nixon would probably still be President of the United States."
Mondale said openly that he has been anxious to give this
speech since the beginning of the campaign, but said Carter op-
posed making a major issue of the pardon. (NBC)
Don Farmer reported that Mondale "will continue to raise
it unless he gets a direct order from Carter not to do so." (ABC)
The Mondale story ran 2:13, #6 on CBS and included filmed
excerpts of his address. Jed Duval reported.
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Issues
13
NBC presented film cuts of a cheering audience and
excerpts of Mondale's speech. Robert Hager concluded this #6,
2:00 report with a stand-up comment. AP,UPI,Networks -- (10/5/76)
Strategy
Carter Has California Campaign Woes
Some Democrats have expressed concern that the Carter
campaign has not made enough use of existing political organiza-
tions, and California is a case in point.
Roger Mudd reported that a highly-esteemed, key
California Democrat made the following off-the-record remarks
about this problem. "Carter's problems are so immense I don't
know where to start. His headquarters don't know anything. He's
come in here with a new team and a new manager. His scheduling
is a laugh and the new federal spending limits have us ab-
solutely crippled."
Terry O'Connell, Carter's California manager, conceded
there were problems initially, but that now the campaign is
solid. O'Connell said they are conducting a grass-roots cam-
paign, contacting people throughout the state, adding, "I have
total confidence that Jimmy Carter will take care of the rest."
In fact, Carter's California headquarters is "unsettled,
unsure and uneasy about Carter's chances," Mudd said. Carter's
schedule has allowed him little time in the state, perhaps re-
flecting Atlanta's indecision about whether California is worth
a full-scale effort, Mudd added.
Carter's California troubles may be "more imagined than
real," stemming from resentment in his campaign style than a
serious defect. But, whatever the cause, Mudd said, Carter
"has very little time to do something about it." CBS -- (10/5/76)
Strategy
14
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
This confidence rests on a conviction
Carter Staffers
that fundamental and powerful political
Nor do Carter strategists concede disap-
forees are working in Mr. Carter's favor.
pointment with the candidate's lackluster
They can be stated briefly: Mr. Carter al-
showing in the first debate with Mr. Ford.
Remain Optimistic
most certainly will carry most, and maybe
Although independent polls show that Mr.
all, of the Southern states. With this base,
Ford won, Carter men insist the Georgian
he needs victories in only a few big North-
battled the President to a draw and that
ern states to put together an electoral-vote
this helped establish his "presidential cali-
By NORMAN C. MILLER
ber."
majority, and the economic issues-high
ATLANTA-In an office building sev-
unemployment and still-significant infla-
Mr. Carter doesn't have to best the
eral miles from Jimmy Carter's campaign
tion-give Mr. Carter a powerful boost in
President in the next two debates, his
command post here, 15 specialists are con-
the Northern battleground states.
strategists insist. Matching the President
ducting a crash study of major problems
Carter strategists claim the Republi-
on equal terms is good enough, they con-
facing the country.
talk
of
tend. because if many unters
Wall Street Journal, (10/5/76)
Debates
15
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Carter: attack on Lone Rangerism
Mr. Carter also has said: "Under the Nixon-
Ford administration, there has evolved a kind
By John Dillin
of secretive 'Lone Ranger' foreign policy - a
Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
one-man policy of international adventure."
Atlanta
Four years ago, when mapping his presidential eampaign, Jimmy
. GOP-style détente isn't working. Mr. Car-
Carter was told by aides that his greatest weakness was lack of ex-
ter charges that the Republicans have given
perience in foreign affairs.
away too much to the Soviets in the name of
For that reason, Wednesday night's foreign and defense policy debate
détente. Better relations are a two-way street,
with President Ford looms as one of the roughest 90 minutes of this
he says. Get tougher.
campaign for the former governor of Georgia.
C.S. Monitor, 10/5/76
A bad performance Wednesday, some 00-
servers say, could cost Mr. Carter his lead;
and with the momentum against him, there
could well be too little time before Election
Day to get it back.
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Endorsement
16
Catholics Endorse Carter
A group of faculty members at the University of Notre
Dame endorsed Jimmy Carter Tuesday, saying the Democratic
presidential candidate has no "Catholic problem" because of
his position on abortions.
In Washington, a group of Roman Catholics, primarly from
the Virginia suburbs, said they will take out an advertisement
in a liberal church publication -- The National Catholic
Reporter -- announcing formation of a national "Catholics
for Carter" organization.
They said -- despite Carter's opposition to a
Constitutional amendment prohibiting abortions -- his campaign
stands are closer to the social goals of the church than
President Ford's.
Although members "believe wholeheartedly in the right
to life," the group said it was concerned that antiabortion
activities of the church hierarchy were turning the election
into a one-issue campaign for Catholics. UPI -- (10/5/76)
Threat
Callers Warn of Carter Assassination Threat
Two anonymous phone callers warned an assassination
attempt would be made against Jimmy Carter during his Colorado
visit, a Secret Service spokesman said Tuesday.
"One was called into the FBI and one was called into
Denver police. One furnished a name but it proved nebulous,"
he said Monday. "Happily, nothing materialized and Carter is
on a plane to San Francisco now. UPI -- (10/5/76)
ELECTION
Poll
Survey Sees Ford as Nov. Victor
Jimmy Carter is seen "at this time" as a stronger
candidate than President Ford, but Ford will win the election
with the economy as the overriding issue, a survey has found.
The survey, conducted by RKO General Broadcasting, used
59 responses from Washington bureau chiefs of major daily news-
papers, syndicates and news magazines to reach the conclusion
that President Ford will be elected.
Twenty-nine of the 59 said Ford would win, 22 said Carter
would win, and eight were undecided.
ELECTION
Poll
17
But in answer to the question: "Who is stronger at
this time," 51 said Carter, seven said Ford and one saw it as
a tie.
Thirty of the respondents believe the economy is the
No. 1 issue, 22 said confidence in government, and 16 said
leadership. UPI -- (10/5/76)
Debates
Carter Debate to Focus on Morality of Foreign Policy
Jimmy Carter will try to make Secretary Kissinger and
the morality of U.S. foreign policy the main issue in Wednesday's
debate. Aides said that Carter will take a more aggressive ap-
proach in the second confrontation.
White House aides contend the President will be somewhat
at a disadvantage in the debate because his every word will be
interpreted as policy by foreign observers, Bob Schieffer said.
Although Ford's aides are not saying it, unlike the last
debate, "the Butz affair and the Mayaguez report put the
President on the defensive this time," Schieffer stated. (CBS)
Sam Donaldson reported, "Carter's goal in this debate
is to persuade people that he is, in fact, knowledgeable about
foreign affairs. Whereas Ford has only limited experience in the
conduct of foreign policy, the former Governor of Georgia has
none. (ABC)
In Oliver's 1:15 report, NBC featured a shot of the
house the President is renting and silent film of Terry O'Donnell
with Ron Nessen walking away from the cameras. The story ran eighth
in the show, concluding with a stand-up report outside the Calif. home.
This story was part of a larger #2 Ford Day CBS story.
Film showed the President and Hayakawa, and the debates theatre
in the 2:05 story. ,UPI,Networks -- (10/5/76)
Lou Harris Says Ford Has Most to Gain from Debate
Pollster Louis Harris said Tuesday President Ford has the
most to gain from Wednesday's foreign affairs debate with Carter.
"Ford has the most to gain in the next debate because the GOP
has been winning the msot when it concentrates on foreign af-
fairs, "he said.
Harris also said that voters, by a 57 to 27 percent margin,
"feel that Ford is not experienced in foreign affairs and that
is his weak point," and that a good showing in San Francisco
could gain him respect in that area. UPI -- (10/5/76)
ELECTION
Debates
18
FCC Denies McCarthy, Maddox Equal Time Request
The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday denied
requests from Eugene McCarthy and Lester Maddox for broadcast
time equal to that given major party candidates in the presi-
dential debates.
The Commission rejected complaints from both McCarthy
and Maddox alleging that the networks have violated the
fairness doctrine in the coverage of their campaigns. AP,UPI,CBS
-- (10/5/76)
Soviets Await Debate
Soviet political analysts are eagerly awaiting
Wednesday's debate on foreign policy between President Ford
and Jimmy Carter.
Moscow does not expect to learn many details from the
debates. "What they really seem interested in is getting an
overall picture of how the candidates handle themselves in
general, " said one diplomat. AP -- (10/5/76)
Strategy
ELECTION
19
Joseph Kraft
Ohio's Presidential Battleground
MANSFIELD, Ohio-After Lauren
But many of the local people hail
What seems to be happening, in Ohio
Bacall married Humphrey Bogart at
from the South and are partial to
as in many other states, is a return to
Louis Bromfield's Malabar farm near
Jimmy Carter's religious fundamental-
norm. Carter's capacity to break ortho-
Mansfield here in central Ohio, the
ism and country style of living. Carter
dox pattern has been reduced almost to
nuptial couch was put on display as a
carried the district 3 to 1 in the Demo-
zero. The traditional Democratic-Re-
Due
there
is
Too
.
noit
of
district
publican split seems to be reasserting
Washington Post, 10/5/76
20
ELECTION
Strategy
Campaign Momentum and the Press
(By Eric Sevareid, CBS)
There are, alas, days like this, as the ancestor warned.
The subject matter does not yield sentences complete with
subject and predicate, or argument fully-equipped with evidence
and conclusion.
In the messily incomplete world, there are times when one
can only mutter, conjecture, exclaim, and raise questions. What,
for example, are the implications of this game the press is
playing -- Momentum, momentum, who's got the momentum?
Carter had the momentum, they said, because he was on
the move, talking every day. Then he said something about
ethnic purity. Ford, standing still, got the momentum. Carter
somehow got it back. Then he said a string of sayings about
median income, Lyndon Johnson, the promotial urge in beastly
man. Ford just stood there and got the momentum again. Then,
Earl Butz said something about black Americans, a dreadful
something; fickled momentum surrendered itself to Carter again.
Then, Ford got rid of Butz. Has he got the momentum back again
or did he stand still a day or so too long, so that momentum
rushed back into Carter's arms?
Millions of voters anxiously wait for the press to tell
them what their own emotions are this time around. It's a
marvel to behold the press can detect in a day the surges of
feeling that a majority of 75 or 85 million voters. The mošt
appalling aspect of all this that the press writers, and the
headlines, might be approximately correct. That would mean
that the leadership of the strongest nation on earth, the
official voice and symbol of the one great engine of freedom
in a shadowed and a dangered world, will be decided by the
measurements of a dirty joke, or a silly indiscretion or an
off-hand remark.
It would be impossible to believe except that it has
happened. As every school child knows, or did when school
children read history, James G. Blain, Republican, lost the
election of 1884 because he lost New York State by a thousand
votes. He lost New York because of one remark by a man of
piety, The Reverend Samuel Bircher. In Blain's presence, he
called the Democrats a party of rum, Romanism and rebellion.
That blew it for Blain and Cleveland White. Unlike Earl Butz,
Bircher never apologized; and unlike Butz, he blamed it on God.
He said if I had been an instrument of providence against my
will, then I am content to abide by the consequences.
Times have changed. While both candidates may frequently
ask counsel of the Almighty, they'd never tell us what He tells
them. Concerned for the First Amendment, perhaps, never divulge
the source of your information. The press should understand. -- (10/5
ELECTION
21
MACNELY
The Columbia, S. C. State, (10/1/76)
ELECTION
Issues
22
Building a Wider Alliance for Democracy
(Editorial, excerpted, L.I. Newsday)
If the presidential candidates agree on nothing else
in their foreign policy debate tomorrow night, they're certain
to agree that the U.S. musn't be dominated by the Soviet Union.
One way to avoid domination is to match your adversary's
strength, division for division, tank for tank, strategic
missile for strategic missile. Even Gerald Ford doesn't want
to do that, although he does favor bigger defense budgets
rather than smaller ones.
Another way to keep from being dominated is to have
friends and allies whose support is based not merely on
short-term national interest but on a shared view of what
humanity should aspire to.
Jimmy Carter evidencly understands as Ford apparently
does not that the U.S. can't expect to rally the world's un-
committed against Soviet tyranny if Washington countenances
tyranny in Seoul or Santiago.
Too often in dealing with the weak nations of the world,
the U.S. has tried to have it both ways, backing autocratic
regimes while proclaiming democratic principles. Carter con-
demns "policies that strengthen dictators or create refugees,
policies that prolong suffering or postpone racial justice."
An administration that avoids such policies can begin to exert
the moral authority Americans aspire to on the world stage. --
(10/5/76)
FOREIGN POLICY
Egypt
23
Sadat Ready to Work with Either Ford or Carter
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt says he will work with
whoever is elected U.S. President this fall.
Sadat called President Ford his "dearest friend," and
said if Ford is elected, it would be a "happy occasion" for
him.
Asked if Henry Kissinger's absence from the Cabinet
would make a difference in the Mideast negotiations, Sadat
said that it would be much easier if Kissinger remained in
the position, but that he will work with whoever is in the
post. ABC -- (10/5/76)
24
FOREIGN POLICY
Africa
WAR OR PEACE
IN AFRICA?
How the Experts See It
Rhodesia
Namibia
South Afri-
ca-all seem to be heading for an explo-
sive black-white showdown. The U.S.
has moved in to try to stave off disaster,
but still worries that it may be too late.
Henry Kissinger's mission to southern
Africa brought blacks and whites in Rho-
desia closer to agreement on their future
White Rhodesians. Many were shocked at news that blacks would rule
than at any time since the maverick
nation broke away from Britain's colo-
Does this mean the U.S., Britain and
The money would be used to pay
nial rule 11 years ago.
South Africa now are committed to a
white Rhodesians for any loss of proper-
For an explanation of the abrupt turn
Rhodesia under black-majority rule?
ty, to provide an economic "safety net"
of events and an assessment of pitfalls
Definitely. Primary responsibility for
for whites who choose to stay on in
that may lie ahead, U.S. News & World
overseeing transition of the former Brit-
Rhodesia, to train black leaders and to
Report went to experts in the U.S. and to
ish colony from white to black rule be-
strengthen the nation's economy. The
its correspondents in southern Africa.
longs to London and, because of its own
U.S. share could run as high as 500
Key questions and answers:
self-interest, to neighboring South Afri-
million dollars, subject to congressional
ca. But the U.S. has put its prestige and
approval. Britain, France, West Germa-
Now that the dust is settling, is it safe
credibility on the line in pushing a set-
ny and Canada, among other nations,
to say that peace in Rhodesia is assured?
tlement and apparently has assumed a
would pay lesser amounts.
Or is a racial war between blacks and
strong moral obligation to see that the
Why did the U.S. get involved in
whites still possible?
changeover succeeds.
southern Africa in the first place?
Peace is far from certain. The agree-
How much is this obligation going to
In a word-Russia. For years, the U.S.
ment to negotiate a transfer of power
cost the United States?
virtually ignored southern Africa. Then
from whites to blacks within two years is
Hundreds of millions of dollars. Pre-
American interest skyrocketed when
just a beginning, not an end. Talks could
liminary plans envision the establish-
Marxist regimes backed by Moscow took
break down at any time over a number
ment of an international trust fund of
over in Mozambique and Angola.
of issues, as shown by black objections to
between 1.5 and 2 billion dollars.
Fearing that racial war in Rhodesia,
conditions for setting up an interim Gov-
ernment. If negotiations founder, mod-
eration would go out the window, and
prospects of an all-out race war in Rho-
desia would become very real.
Just as ominous: the possibility that
black leaders of the so-called front-line
nations-Mozambique, Angola, Zambia,
Tanzania and Botswana-would carry
NOW
out their threat to send armed forces to
fight the "white racists" of Rhodesia.
Why did the white Rhodesians capitu-
late so suddenly?
Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-mi-
nority Government in Salisbury is
backed against the wall.
Rhodesia's 278,000 whites are
hemmed in by hostile black nations, un-
der pressure from the U.S. and Britain,
threatened with loss of their lifeline to
South Africa and confronted by an in-
creasingly bloody insurgency involving
the nation's 6.1 million blacks.
Standing alone, whites had the choice
of throwing in the towel or going down
fighting. As one official said: "They had
Black Rhodesians. Skeptical of promises they will eventually get control, they deman
us in the nutcracker."
power now. Black ranks, however, are disrupted by feuds in African National Counci
U.S. News and World Report, 10/11/76 (Cont.)
Africa
26
FOREIGN POLICY
An irrepressible black drive V. an immovable
white core. Soon the immovable core will be able
to produce nuclear bombs. And then it will
also be able to defy its enemies-and its "friends"
South Africa in Our Future
LAURENCE SALOMON
W
HEN GUERRILLA warfare begins on South Africa's
assistance from West German authorities, the South Afri-
borders it will not be another one of those lib-
cans completed a pilot uranium enrichment plant that
eration wars that have passed by in rapid succession over
utilizes the jet nozzie system of uranium reprocessing de-
the last thirty years. All those conflicts, from Indonesia's
veloped by the West German scientist E. W. Becker. This
independence struggle (1945-48) to Mozambique's (1964-
year construction will begin on the prototype plant at Pa-
1974), were but stations on the way toward the overthrow
lindaba, near Pretoria. Once South Africa has atomic
of five centuries of white Western rule in Asia and Africa.
weapons, it will be in a position to defy its enemies-and
The struggle for South Africa will be the end of that line.
its "friends."
It will not resemble previous liberation wars where an ir-
Its will to inflict and endure nuclear holocaust is in as
repressible drive met a movable object. Nor will it be like
little doubt as that of any of the other nuclear powers.
the Middle Eastern cauldron, which appears now to have
When gunfire begins to echo in the wooded valleys of
been contained and cooled by the agreement of both super-
Zululand and along the Swazi border, and shattered glass
powers to recognize the right of Israel to an independent
and bomb fragments explode across pavements in down-
existence. The struggle for South Africa will pit an irre-
town Johannesburg, there will of course be whites who will
pressible drive against an object with an immovable core,
pack up and leave. Perhaps many of the 160,000 Jews-
black freedom against white freedom. Here there is no
accustomed to uprootings, formerly tolerated, then perse-
hint of superpower agreement. Here, for the first time, a
cuted, then once more tolerated but seldom wholly at
situation seems destined to arise in which a nuclear power
home in that prosperous and troubled land-will gather
is backed against the wall.
their belongings and trek again, some to where they will
South Africa is Africa's richest and most powerful coun-
trek no more. Many of the English-speaking whites, mem-
try, heavily industrialized, far more developed than are
bers of an esteemed culture, will seek new homes. But few-
some of the smaller countries of Europe. It is the world's
er of the more than two million Afrikaners will leave.
chief producer of gold and diamonds. It has vast coal and
iron ore reserves, steel and chemical industries, and the
world's largest oil-from-coal extraction complex. Together
T
HE AFRIKANERS are a scorned people. The great-grand-
with the disputed territory of South West Africa (Namibia),
parents of their great-grandparents are buried in that land,
which it controls at present, it possesses 20 per cent of the
and their speech is heard nowhere else. They are a stiff-
world's economically usable uranium.
necked, hypocritical, lying people, scornful of the moral
Its four million whites are not dependent for their pro-
upbraiding they receive constantly from a world whose
tection on the presence of an army from Europe, as were
moral standard, they observe, is distinguishable only in
the pieds-noirs of Algeria and the colons of Mozambique
outward appearance from their own. Not with Jehovahji-
and Angola. Not only does it maintain the best trained
reh, nor with Jerusalem, nor with the towers of Westmin-
and equipped armed forces on the African continent, but it
ster do they link their identity, but with the still karoo,
has been working for approximately twenty years to de-
the burning grass of the highveld, the hill of Vegkop. They
velop a nuclear-weapons capacity. This requires that pro-
have no achievements, no self-identity, outside their own
cessed uranium, in which the light isotope U235 occurs in a
majestic land. No threat, no pain, no inducement will cause
concentration of under 1 per cent, be reprocessed to con-
them to abandon it. Nor will they, in the present moral
tain a 90 per cent concentration. In 1975, with long-term
climate, accept the world's prescription for the inhumani-
ties that they perpetrate: the prescription of black majority
rule. It is wrong to assume, one Afrikaner has remarked,
Mr. Salomon has taught at the University of Botswana,
that if blacks acquire political power, they "will act differ-
Lesotho, and Swaziland and at the State University Col-
ently and more fairly toward the European population
lege, New Paltz, N.Y. For the past four years he has been
than the Europeans were or are prepared to act toward
assembling the largest diachronic collection of slides on
the native population." They will consent to become out-
African history and society extant, which is now in need
siders neither within nor without South Africa. If they can
of a permanent institutional home.
not live as freely as their fathers did, they will in fear and
National Review,
10/15/76
(Cont.)
30
China
FOREIGN POLICY
Keeping a Handy Ax
Next to Richard Nixon, the most
tour, "the trip was an opportunity to
popular American in Peking is proba-
demonstrate their ultimate weapon: the
bly former Defense Secretary James
Chinese people. They did it at every
Schlesinger, whose frequently voiced
turn, lining the roadsides with militia
misgivings about U.S. détente with the
guards in Inner Mongolia and showing
Soviet Union have been applauded by
Schlesinger vast tunnel networks built
an official explained: "Soviet revision-
Newsweek, 10/11/76
ism is a paper tiger against a people
armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought."
MILITIA DRILLING IN SHANGHAI
31
Overview
FOREIGN POLICY
Backdrop for Second Debate
REALITIES OF U.S. POWER IN WORLD
The assessment that follows was
tions with Moscow and, at the same
abroad. Ford has promoted these ven-
written by Deputy Editor Joseph
time, contain Soviet expansionism
tures on a massive scale, especially to
Fromm, who has been in Europe on an
worldwide and counter Russia's drive
Iran and Saudi Arabia. Carter tends to
assignment discussing U.S. security
for military superiority.
endorse the view of those in Congress
affairs with Allied leaders.
As for the other Communist giant,
who favor stringent controls.
China, all available evidence indicates
The other possible change of course
When you cut through the political
that so far the death of Mao Tse-tung is
concerns U.S. policy on the proliferation
bombast surrounding the debate over
not affecting Peking's basic policy aimed
of nuclear weapons. Whatever state-
foreign policy and defense, what you
at normalizing relations with the U.S.
ments emerge in the campaign, arms-
U.S. News and World Report, 10/11/76
PRESIDENCY
Congress
32
Ford Blames Congress for Weak Compromises
President Ford took a parting shot at the 94th Congress
Tuesday, saying it generally sidestepped tough decisions and
gave the nation an almost unprecedented string of "weak
compromises and evasions."
"I hope the adjournment of this Congress marks the end
of an era -- an era marked by a growing gap between Congress
and the people," Ford said in a statement assessing the per-
formance during the session which adjourned Friday.
Ford's statement was issued to reporters at a downtown
press center while he remained in a nearby private mansion
preparing for tomorrow night's debate. AP,UPI -- (10/5/76)
U.S.
Radioactive Fallout Plagues East Coast
Low amounts of radioactive fallout have sprinkled
upon Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other Eastern Seaboard
areas as the result of a Sept. 26 nuclear bomb test in China,
federal and state officials disclosed Tuesday.
Other regions where the fallout was reported included
South Carolina and the southern shore of Connecticut on Long
Island Sound, according to the ERDA.
In Pennsylvania, state authorities said the levels aren't
high enough to pose a health danger, except that residents should
wash their garden vegetables carefully before eating them.
Minute increases in radiation levels were reported also
in Washington, D.C. AP, UPI, Networks -- (10/5/76)
ECONOMY
Stocks Fall in Moderate Trading
The stock market yielded to another wave of selling
Tuesday as investors looked ahead uneasily to corporate earnings
reports for the third quarter. Trading was moderately active.
Brokers noted concern that the next few weeks would
produce continued evidence of sluggishness in the pace of the
economic recovery.
The Dow Jones average of 30 Industrial stocks fell
11.22 to 966.76, extending its decline since early last week
to 46.37 points. AP,UPI,ABC,CBS -- (10/5/76)
Times of TV News Items
October 5, 1976
ABC
NBC
CBS
ADMINISTRATION NEWS
1. Ford/Mayaguez
1:25 (2)
:20 (9)
2:10 (lead)
2. Ford/S.F.
1:25 (2)
1:15 (8)
2:05 (3)
3. Butz/L.A. Times
:25 (7)
2:00 (7)
1:42 (4)
OTHER MAJOR NEWS
1. Mayaguez report timing
:50 (2)
2. Callaway
:22 (8)
:42 (5)
3. Mondale/Nixon pardon
2:00 (3)
2:00 (6)
2:13 (6)
4. Carter/Calif. problems
4:40 (7)
5. McCarthy/Maddox/debates
:15 (8)
6. China/U.N.
1:32 (9)
7. Brezhnev/interview
:18 (10)
8. Israel fights
:17 (13)
:10 (11)
9. Radioactive fallout
1:30 (5)
1:30 (lead)
2:00 (12)
10. Allied Chemical/Kepone
:22 (6)
:15 (2)
:42 (13)
11. Stocks
:15 (11)
:12 (14)
12. Campaign momentum/Sevareid
2:35 (15)
13. Carter/S.F.
1:35 (lead)
14. Dole/Va.
:30 (4)
15. Smith/comment
1:50 (9)
16. UAW
:15 (10)
17. Close-up/Runaway fathers
4:00 (12)
18. Lettuce cost
1:15 (3)
19. Lockheed
:10 (4)
20. Carter/Helsinki
:10 (10)
21. Crime report
4:00 (11)
22. Spain
2:00 (12)
23. Texas/breakfast
:30 (14)
24. Debate site
2:00 (15)
News Comment
GERALD R. FORD LIBRANT
The President's Daily News Summary
Leading The News
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
OCTOBER 6, 1976
Page
NEWS WRAP-UP
Wall Street Journal
1,2
POLLS
California Results
Carter State Lead Cut to 6% in
Los Angeles Times
3
Poll
Southern States
Did Carter Drive Peak Too Early? C. S. Monitor
4
DEBATES
The Mayaguez Matter: Topic A
New York Daily News
5
At Debate II?
Mayaguez Report Released Early
AP
6
Carter, Ford Flex Muscles for
Chicago Tribune
7
Round 2
And A Strategem for Upstaging
Wall Street Journal
8
Carter
Carter vs. Ford on Test-Ban Pacts
Baltimore Sun
9
Missing An Easy Trick
Wall Street Journal
10
Ford Campaigns, Studies for
AP, UPI, Morning Shows
11
Debates
Carter Strategy Outlined
UPI
12
Carter Prepares for Debates
CBS Morning News
13
Analysis of First Debate
CBS Morning News, Good
14
Morning America
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Page
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Dole: Ford Will "Clean Up"
CBS Morning News, Today 15
Show
Black Agriculture Department
AP
16, 17
Employee Defends Butz, Los
Angeles Times Accuses Knebel
Issues
Jerry Ford's Heavy Burden
Chicago Tribune
18
Carter's Defense Attitude
Chicago Tribune
19
Dangerous: Air Force Head
Strategy
Ford's Come-from-Behind Campaign C. S. Monitor
20
Right on Schedule, His Strategists
Say
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Election
Industrial-State Voters Begin to
Wall Street Journal
21, 22
Lose Interest in Carter's
Candidacy
Cartoon
New York Daily News
22
Issues
Mondale Continues Watergate Attack UPI
23
Ervin Accuses Ford
AP
24
Thinking Things Over
Wall Street Journal
25
ELECTION
Issues
Mr. Carter's Peanut Spread
Chicago Tribune
26
Both Campaigns Have Their
CBS Morning News
27
Troubles
DEFENSE
Ford's Nuclear Policy: An
Wall Street Journal
28
Industry Bailout
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Page
FOREIGN POLICY
Next Step in the Middle East
Baltimore Sun
29
INTERNATIONAL
Rhodesia
Rhodesian Blacks, Whites to
UPI
30
Meet on Interim Government
Plans
OPEC
OPEC May Raise Oil Prices By
AP
31
$1.50 Per Barrel
Thailand
Military Coup in Thailand
AP
32, 33
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NEWS WRAP-UP
mosphere Sept. 26, radioactive particles ap
World-Wide
parently were carried across the Pacific in
clouds and then fell to earth with rain. The
CARTER AND FORD prepared for their
fallout was similar in intensity to that which
foreign-policy and defense debute tonight.
was common during the 1950s and early
Both candidates were in San Francisco
1960s before the U.S. stopped atmospheric
studying briefing books to get ready for to-
nuclear tests.
night's debate, which will be televised start-
Federal energy and environmental
ing at 9:30 EDT. Carter promised to be
agencies said the radiation was only 1%
more aggressive this time and predicted a
of the level that they think would re-
"free-wheeling" exchange. He is expected to
quire precautions.
charge that Ford has vielded his command
* * *
I
China exploded a nuclear device in the at-
Pittsburgh.
W.S. Journal, 10/6/76
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NEWS WRAP-UP
* * *
Business and Finance
Westgate-California was forced
into bankruptcy because of years
F
ORD MOTOR and the United
of inept and corruption manage-
Auto Workers reached a tenta-
ment under C. Arnhold Smith
tive accord on a contract that, if
followed by shocking deceptions
approved by Ford workers, would
and inaction by federal bank regu-
and
c
W.S. Journal, 10/6/76
California Results
POLLS
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Carter State Lead
FORD CUTS CARTER
LEAD TO 6% IN POLL
Cut to 6% in Poll
Continued from Third Page
tioned Sept. 18 through Sept. 25 was Carter 41%, Ford
Write-in for McCarthy
35%. Among those who say they are most likely to vote,
Carter's lead was even slimmer-44% to 40%.
Could Slash It Further
Here are the results for candidates on the ballot:
All Voters
Likely Voters
BY MERVIN D. FIELD
Carter
41%
44%
e 1976 Field Research Corp.
Ford
35
40
Others
3.
4
The 20-point lead that Jimmy Car-
Undecided
21
12
ter had over President Ford in Cali-
Five minor party presidential candidates will be on the
fornia in August has dropped sharply
California ballot: Lester Maddox, American Independent;
and the Democratic presidential nom-
Margaret Wright, Peace and Freedom; Peter Camejo, So-
inee has a 6% lead, according to a.
cialist Workers: Gus Hall. Communist: and Roger Lee
Los Angeles Times 10/6/76
POLLS
Southern States
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DID CARTER DRIVE PEAK TOO EARLY?
Carter experiences steady, possibly
inevitable, erosion in Southern states
By John Dillin
Problem of overconfidence
Staff correspondent of
"A lot of people who traditionally vote Dem-
The Christian Science Monitor
ocratic have been in the undecided column,"
Atlanta
says a Florida Democrat. Every time Carter
President Ford now threatens Jimmy Car-
speaks - in Playboy or wherever - a few more
ter's hold on the South.
of these people flake off-and go to Ford.
Pollsters are rubbing their eyes over the lat-
"Another problem we're experiencing with
est figures, which show the President gaining
our whole ticket in Florida," the Democratic
on Mr. Carter faster than they thought pos-
official said, "is a reluctance by volunteers to
sible.
work. It's over confidence, and it could hurt."
The rapid shift has moved Mr. Ford to
Party officials are unable to pinpoint a single
within striking distance of the lead in Florida;
cause of the Carter problems in Dixie. It is a
- - Monitor 10/6/76
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DEBATES
The Mayaguez matter:
Topic A at Debate II?
personally monitored the rescue, and a timely one too,
JAMES WIEGHART
coming as it did on the heels of the humiliating,
forced U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam and
Cambodia.
W ASHINGTON - One of the proud per-
Ford flaunted the rescue as a demonstration of his
sonal mementos President Ford has
will and the nation's power to honor American com-
added to the White House Oval Office is a
mitments around the globe. The Mayaguez victory was
hailed by defeat-weary Americans as proof that their
handsome, highly polished ship's wheel, bearing the
country was still capable of projecting its military
brass nameplate, SS Mayaguez.
might halfway around the globe to protect U.S. inter-
The large, wooden-spoked wheel, placed behind and
ests. Needless to say, Ford's popularity, which had
slightly to the right of Ford's desk, adds a nice nautical
plummeted with the Nixon pardon and the fall of
touch to the rather stark white walls of the attractive,
Vietnam, rose sharply.
doomed office Rut
import want issues, much as the argument between Rich-
ard Nixon and John F. Kennedy over the defense of
New York Daily News, 10/6/76
the relatively unimportant Chinese offshore islands of
Quemoy and Matsu ate up so much of the time in the
first televised presidential debates.
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DEBATES
Mayaguez Report Released Early
Republicans are complaining about the timing and content
of a Congressional report that criticizes the handling of the
Mayaguez incident.
Rep. Larry Winn, Jr., of Kansas, one of two Republican
members of the House subcommittee that released the report,
noted that the document was released the day before Ford and
Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter were to debate
foreign policy.
"I'm sorry that someone saw fit to release it now, because
I was told it wouldn't be released until after the election,"
Winn said.
Winn said he had been told by a subcommittee staff member
it would not be released until after the election "because it
could--they didn't think so, but it could--become a political
issue."
But Rep. Dante Fascell, D-Fla., chairman of the subcommittee,
said timing of the release "was never a question." He said the
report had been held up by the National Security Council, which
is controlled by the White House, because of a dispute over
what portions of the report should be seen by the public.
Fascell said the NSC had at first wanted to keep the
entire report secret, but the subcommittee had refused, leading
to negotiations that did not end until late September.
Fascell said timing of the report was "coincidental" and
that it was the Administration's own delays that caused it to
be made public on Tuesday.
"We thought it was essential to get that information to
the public," Fascell said. "And as far as I know it could have
been done months ago."
--AP (10/6/76)
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DEBATES
Carter, Ford flex muscles for Round 2
By Aldo Beckman
ASPIN, A FORMER Department of De-
and Eleanor Randolph
Site for round 3
fense official, is the leading congressional
authority onwaste in the defense budget, and
Chicago Tribune Press Service
Carter is anxious to use Aspin's expertise to
SAN FRANCISCO-Like traveling gladià-
SAN FRANCISCO [AP]-The third
show that his proposed cuts would not weak-
tors, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford moved
debate between President Ford and
en America's military strength.
their battleground to California this week -
Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter
Carter, who spent some of his time this
a sunny, easy place that betrays the bruality
will be held Oct. 22 at historic William
summer being briefed by prominent Demo-
of the fight to come.
and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va.,
cratic foreign policy experts, conferred over
In marked contrast to the tame, even bor-
the League of Women Voters saidTues-
the weekend with W. Averell Harriman, who
incr fire debtate on domestic notion in Phile
dav.
returned
from
Moscow
Chicago Tribune, ]0/6/76
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DEBATES
...AND A STRATEGEM FOR UPSTAGING CARTER
By ROBERT KEATLEY
plutonium. Brazil ordered a similar plant
from Germany so it, too, would have the
tration's new efforts to contain the nuclear
WASHINGTON - When Jimmy Carter
makings of atomic bombs. South Korea
danger as incomplete-however commend-
tackles Gerald Ford tonight in round two of
sought a plant from France, and Iran said
able-and he can promise to do more.
the presidential campaign debates. he is
it wanted one too. The race seemed on.
without secrecy. That's because no irre-
sure to raise one matter which he calls "of
Finally Washington acted. For one
versible gains have been achieved, and
deep personal concern to me."
thing, the U.S. held secret meetings with
much of what has been done was worked
It's the threat that nuclear arms will
the six other main suppliers of nuclear
out in extreme secrecy.
proliferate around the globe as have other
technology: France, Germany, the Soviet
For example, the seven nuclear sup-
lethal weapons. This threat "is a danger-
pliers have never said precisely what
ous and unacceptable barrier to world
Union, Britain, Canada and Japan. They
they've agreed to do, or not to do. Moreover.
peace," he warns, promising counteraction
If elected
agreed to practice "restraint" and tighten
they've only reached gentlemen's agree-
W.S. Journal, ]0/6/76
DEBATES
- 9 -
Carter vs. Ford on Test-Ban Pacts
The dirty-words factor in the presidential
sarily mean he would be more successful. The
campaign has helped obscure clear differences
Russians have not yet said they are prepared to
between President Ford and Governor Carter
join Americans in suspending nuclear explo-
on the important question of a comprehensive
sions for alleged peaceful purposes, nor have
nuclear test ban treaty. With the Soviets hinting
they agreed to inspection procedures for a com-
that they might at last accept on-site inspec-
prehensive treaty that would satisfy the Senate.
tions of all suspect underground explosions the
Without these specifies the latest Soviet gesture
Baltimore Sun, 10/6/76
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DEBATES
Missing an Easy Trick
We keep reading that even
supposed to go along with this be-
Jimmy Carter and his staff figure
cause the U.S. will offer to make
that foreign policy, to be debated
Barnwell "international." Natu-
in tonight's television spectacular,
rally enough, clear-eyed Germans
is President Ford's strong suit.
and Frenchmen will not for a mo-
Which leaves us wondering where
ment take this farrago seriously.
Mr. Carter and his aides have
There are promising alterna-
been since January.
tives, for example designing new
We should have thought that an
reactors that could reuse old fuel
W.S. Journal, ]0/6/76
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DEBATES
Carter Strategy Outlined
A confident Jimmy Carter plans to make the Mayaguez
incident, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's power, and
Pentagon waste major debating points in an aggressive attack
in tonight's second confrontation with President Ford.
Aides said the candidate probably will make use of a
Government Accounting Office report saying that 41 American
lives were lost unnecessarily in the Marine assault on a
Cambodian island to free the Mayaguez crew.
Carter gave one hint of debate tactics Tuesday when he
saw reporters briefly during a picture taking session.
He was aksed if he was going to use the same foreign
policy points he made during the weekend in a meeting at
Pittsburgh and he replied: "I may very well."
In those comments, Kissinger was the target of Carter's
criticism--not because of his actions but because Kissinger,
not Ford, was conducting American foreign policy.
Carter was also critical of the Helsinki agreement because
he said it cemented communist control of Eastern Europe without
getting anything in return.
Carter also received a last-minute briefing from
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., a leading critic in Congress of waste
in the Pentagon.
Carter's press secretary said the Georgian also received
some "very interesting comments" on pentagon spending from
former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger.
Discussing the strategy of a second debate, Powell said
that Ford and Carter face the same problem in the second debate
as in the first--"and maybe even more so."
"The Republicans need some sort of coup--something to move
support in their direction and they need that more than we do,"
Powell said.
Ford is vulnerable, according to Powell, "Because he has
not staked out a position on foreign policy--he has ricocheted
all over the place."
Powell said Carter does not plan to inject the resignation
of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz into the debate, although he
thinks there are issues in which that matter could arise.
Powell was believed to be referring to embargos on foreign
grain sales while Butz was in office. -- UPI (10-6-76)
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DEBATES
Carter Prepares for Debates
Jimmy Carter has prepared for the debates with two briefing
books, one with the general statements and positions of both
candidates and the second with probable questions that will be
asked, Ed Bradley reported.
There was no Q & A session with staffers firing questions
at Carter.
Some of Carter's aides think the Republicans have dug
themselves into a deep hole by painting Carter as incompetent
and not able to conduct foreign policy. They feel he is as
knowledgeable as Ford was when he took office two years ago,
Bradley said.
Carter still trys to exploit what he calls a "demonstratable
lack of leadership" in the U. S. foreign affairs as well as a
lack of morality in foreign policy. He says this exists because
most of the U. S. foreign policy is determined in secret by
Secretary Kissinger without the American people knowing where
the country is headed.
On defense, Carter has to try and prove the budget can
be cut without any harm to national security. His aides say
he will use the "common sense approach" trying to show that
with a budget as large as $100 billion, somewhere in the budget
there has to be some waste.
-- CBS Morning News (10/6/76)
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DEBATES
Analysis of First Debate
Researchers at the State University of New York at
Buffalo analyzed the first debate from a physical point of
view and came up with the following findings:
* Jimmy Carter used 158 facial expression, Ford used
only 44.
* Carter smiled broadly 10 times, Ford didn't smile
broadly at all.
* Carter frowned 14 times, to Ford's 3.
* Carter licked his lips 86 times to Mr. Ford's 33.
* The President looked down on the lectern 6 times and
Carter looked at the ceiling 16 times.
* The President spoke well of himself 56 times to
Carter's 15 times.
Telly Savalas, star of Kojak, will announce his support
for President Ford in the near future.
--CBS Morning News, Good Morning America (10/6/76)
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FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Dole: Ford Will "Clean Up"
Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Bob Dole says
President Ford should "clean up" in the second debate with
Jimmy Carter because of Ford's firsthand experience in dealing
with world affairs and defense issues.
Dole was to watch the debate on television Wednesday night
in Washington after spending the day campaigning in North
Carolina.
Dole told reporters on Tuesday that Carter has had no
experience in foreign policy matters while the President
does and that Ford "is going to clean him up during the debate."
Dole contends that Carter's approach to national defense
"frightens" him, especially his call for $5 billion to $7 billion
reduction in defense spending." Carter has said this would only
eliminate waste, not military strength.
Meanwhile Dole responded to Mondale's charge that both
President Ford and he sought to impede Congressional probes
of the Watergate scandals. He called it "the start of the
mud-slinging by Carter and Mondale." (CBS, Today Show)
Dole said, "Senator Mondale must be reading the polls.
We're going to hear the start of the mudslinging by Carter
and Mondale. My resolution simply terminated live broadcast.
I wanted justice done. We've had several weeks of televised
and other electronic media coverage. We weren't closing any
hearings. We said nothing about the evidence. That shows
how far Senator Mondale is going. I'm sorry to hear that." (CBS)
Dole also said the Democrats are trying to revive Watergate
because their campaign is in a slump and the race is dead even
now. (NBC)
--CBS Morning News, Today Show (10/6/76)
Butz Resignation
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FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Black Agriculture Department Employee Defends Butz, Los Angeles
Times Accuses Knebel
The only black in the policy-making hierarchy of the
Agriculture Department defended Earl L. Butz, saying the
resigned Agriculture Secretary "doesn't have a racist bone
in his body."
James E. Bostic, Jr., 29, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Rural Development, said Tuesday that as a Southern black "I
know my racists and Earl Butz is no racist He was just one
of the nicest men I ever met."
Meanwhile, Butz' temporary replacement, Undersecretary
John A. Knebel, was reported today by the Los Angeles Times
to have helped Butz allegedly assist agriculture officials
from seven states to avoid compliance with equal employment
laws.
Quoting unnamed Agriculture Department sources, the Times
said that when Knebel was the Department's general counsel in
1974 under Butz, he attended a meeting in which Butz and aides
reportedly agreed on delays in requiring civil rights compliance
in Cooperative Extension Service programs in seven states.
Department sources said that as a result of the meeting
the programs in the states avoided the requirement of hiring
more blacks and still kept their Federal funds, the newspaper
said.
A 1965 Civil Rights Commission study lambasted the
Department's Extension Service for segregated programs and
offices in the South.
A 1971 review was almost as critical, and a report 10
months ago from Butz's outside civil-rights advisory committee
found the seven states still not in full compliance. The
states are Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Maryland
and Texas.
During Butz's tenure, the percentage of blacks in fulltime
nonpolitical jobs had increased from 6.58 percent of the work
force to 7.48 percent, although it was unclear exactly what
those jobs were.
The Department, with about 85 percent of its employees
outside of Washington and in rural areas, is still almost 90
percent white and 76 percent male.
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Butz Resignation
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FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
One official commented, "To say we have a dismal record in
hiring blacks is true. But that doesn't mean any secretary is
going to make a difference; he doesn't hire people
And for
three years that's been irrelevant--we've been cutting back
everywhere!"
Over-all employment in the Department has been reduced
4.5 percent, or 3,750 employees, during Butz' tenure.
Bostic first worked on environmental issues for Butz,
translating scientific reports "into usable English." Then
Butz got him the deputy assistant's job, he said.
Bostic's position puts him in day-to-day control, with
Assistant Secretary William Walker III, of the Farmers Home
Administration, USDA's major loan agency, the Rural Development
Service and other agencies with rural programs.
--AP (10/6/76)
Issues
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FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Jerald terHorst
Jerry Ford's heavy burden
WASHINGTON - President Ford
American surrender to the forces of 1:
Just a week ago, in fact, a new
might as well, face up- to it. Henry
godless cemmunism and # sellout: of
organization calling Itself the Black
Kissinger once again has become a
the white minority in Rhcdesia and
Leadership Conference of Southern
heavy political cross, with scant time
eventually in South Africa
Africa and including black members of
before the election to ease the drag on
Conservatives. link Kissinger's Afric
Congress, as well as church and civil
the President's chances.
can diplomacy to the !coddling of
rights. groups, found itsek preoccupied
IN is had enough for the Ford diplò-
Castro, to the Panama Canal give-
with this dark question: If the Ford-
Kissinder
policy
is
in
Chicago Tribune, 10/6/76
Issues
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FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Carter's defense attitude
dangerous: Air Force head
By Sean Toolan
SECRETARY OF the Air Force
Thomas C. Reed Tuesday accused Dem-
ocratic presidential candidate Jimmy
Carter of having a "dangerous attitude
towards national security."
Speaking at a press conference in the
Sheraton-Chicago Hotel, Reed said,
offerd
to
Strategy
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FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Ford's come-from-behind campaign
right on schedule, his strategists say
By Godfrey Sperling Jr.
President," one White House aide says. "He's
Staff correspondent of
ahead of the other pollsters on this. But he's
The Christian Science Monitor
confirming what our own polls are showing."
Washington
Gallup's latest poll shows Mr. Ford closing
Convinced that Jimmy Carter "peaked too
in but still 8 percentage points behind Carter.
early," President Ford's political strategists
A Harris poll gave Mr. Carter a 9 percent
say they are on schedule in their come-from-
bulge.
behind effort.
At midpoint the Ford campaign looked like
Further, they say their own findings indicate
this:
that Time magazine's Yankelovich poll -
The campaign organization; inept in its
showing a 43-to-43-percent Ford-Carter dead- early stages, was turning into an effective,
C.S. Monitor, 10/6/76
most
OF
high, dissatisfaction with Republican poli-
Apathy Factor
cies is pervasive. and the Democrats, who
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
hold a big registration edge, are ostensibly
united and working for the Carter-Mondale
Industrial-State Voters
ticket. Mr. Ford has a clear lead only in his
Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia, are supporting
home state of Michigan. Illinois and Indiana
the Carter-Mondale ticket.
are toss-ups, and the President is trailing in
Yet, Democrats and Republicans here
Begin to Lose Interest
the other four states.
say that Mr. Carter now holds, at best, only
But beneath the surface, Democratic
a slim lead. "Right now, we may be slightly
In Carter's Candidacy
problems present Mr. Ford with a better
behind, but the direction is great, and I'd
chance in the Industrial Belt than once
rather be where the trend is," says Drew
seemed possible. Petty rivalries among
Lewis, the Ford-Dole campaign chairman in
Democratic politicians are hurting. Front-
Pennsylvania.
Catholic and Black Workers
line union leaders are working hard, but it's
Interviews across the state confirm this
questionable whether labor can deliver its
impression. The surface Democratic unity
Start Deserting Ranks,
politically turned-off rank and file at the
seems a sham. Gov. Shapp's camp spends
polls. Blacks seem especially apathetic
more time complaining. about the Carter
But Ford Still Trails
about the election, and many ethnic, work-
campaign than helping it, and Democrats
ing-class Catholic Democrats remain notice-
grumble that Mayor Flaherty seems inter-
ably apprehensive about their party's South-
ested only in getting himself elected as gov-
"Carter Jokes' in Philly Bars
ern Baptist nominee.
ernor in 1978.
All of these troubles are heightened by
In Philadelphia, many politicians ques-
Mr. Carter's own campaign problems. Re-
tion whether the Democratic machine can
ferring to the candidate's controversial
produce the vote margin of 250,000 or 300,000
By ALBERT R. HUNT
Playboy interview, James Mahoney, the po--
in. that city that a Democratic. presidential
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
litical director of the Pennsvlvania AFL-
candidate normally needs to carry the state.
BEAVER FALLS, Pa.-Eugene Weath-
CIO, complains: "We
Already it's clear that the Rizzo-dominated
erly, a political operative for the United
campaign is being di
nachine intentionally held down the regis-
Steelworkers union. is at an early morning
issues about who someone lusts after a.
tration of blacks, fearing they might turn
factory work change urging workers to at-
woman." When asked why his candidate
out to vote against the mayor if a referen-
tend a Jimmy Carter rally near here the
raised that subject. Mr. Mahoney replies,
dum to recall him- were put on the ballot.
next dav.
"Don't ask me."
(Last week, the state supreme court ruled
Carter here. AFL-CIO officials estimate
oroader ammunty in attracting rank-and-me
union workers; many of whom are Catholic.
they will spend about $700,000 to turn out the
Wall St. Journal,
Democratic vote. Moreover, all elements of
10/6/76
the faction-ridden Pennsylvania Democratic
narty ranging from Gov. Milton Shapp to
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CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
"Our people feel like they don't know what
he stands for." says Mr. Weatherly in Bea- 16
ver Falls. "The debate was terrible. People
around here say it was a waste of money.
Even the economic issue isn't working town
tally in Mr. Carter's favor. "Carter says.,
he's for all these programs to put people A
back to work, but then he says he's going to.
have a balanced budget," says Joe Orosz,
president of the United Steelworkers localing
MAGNESSY
NY Daily News,
10/6/76
Issues
- 23 -
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Mondale Continues Watergate Attack
Democratic Vice Presidential hopeful Walter Mondale is
attacking President Ford on two levels--Lambasting the
Pardon of Richard Nixon and administrative errors he says
scuttled a significant tax cut.
Mondale made the Watergate charge first to law students
at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, then expanded
it in airport remarks at Rochester, Minnesota, and Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
And he told the Minnesota state AFL-CIO convention in
Rochester that Administration errors and bad information cost
Americans a substantial tax cut this year.
"Congress would certainly have considered significantly
greater tax relief for American families if we had had accurate
information," he said.
Mondale said Ford's economists overestimated expenditures
by $8 billion this year, effectively forestalling the chance
for a substantial cut.
In Kansas City, Mondale told a student audience at the
University of Missouri Law School that Ford's pardon of Nixon
"Made a mockery of the notion that in America, there is no
sovereign that stands above the law."
"Even beyond the pardon, however, there has been a
fundamental failure in the Ford Administration to heed the
lessons of Watergate and the abuses of the intelligence agencies,"
Mondale said.
"They have opposed and attempted to block Congressional action
on Watergate reform legislation they have not removed from
key jobs, let alone prosecuted, officials involved in many illegal
activities which have been disclosed."
Making clear he did not blame Ford for the abuses, Mondale
said he did hold him responsible for actions since.
-UPI (10/6/76)
Issues
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CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Ervin Accuses Ford
Sam Ervin says President Ford was responsible for people
not finding out about Watergate before the 1972 election.
"President Ford was responsible for the delay in getting
the Watergate investigation to the people because of his lack
of knowledge of Watergate and out of party loyalty," Ervin said.
He said Ford had assured the American people that former
President Richard M. Nixon was not involved in the Watergate
scandal "out of his own ignorance" about Watergate.
"Watergate should definitely be an issue in the campaign,"
Ervin added.
He said he hoped Watergate "taught politicians that some
things just don't belong in politics."
--AP (10/6/76)
Issues
THINKING THINGS OVER
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
By VERMONT ROYSTER
Question: Is it. a good social purpose
In any. event all those special provisions
Carter and Taxes
that the law should encourage home owner-
which let Mr. Carter pay only a $17,484 tax
ship by allowing deductions for local real-
on a $136,138 adjusted gross income were
Jimmy Carter says one thing with
estate taxes, as well as mortgage interest?
put there with a conscious public purpose.
which hardly anybody will disagree-that
Is it equitable that a home-owner. like Mr.
Some, like income averaging, for the pur-
our present tax system is a complicated
Carter, can take these deductions while a
pose of equity. Some, like the deductions
mess and that the time for a complete ov.
renter cannot? Would it be equitable to re-
for charitable contributions or interest
erhaul is overdue.
move these deductions, raising the taxes
paid, for clear social purposes.
suddenly on home-owners who were thus
In that first television debate Elizabeth
He also says that in the process he
encouraged to buy? Would that serve a
Drew pressed Mr. Carter for more specific
wants to eliminate all provisions that give
good social purpose?
answers about what his tax reform pro-
special treatment to some taxpayers -
Another: Present law encouraged Mr.
gram would do about all these various pro-
those so-called tax "loopholes" -and tax
Carter to make those charitable contribu-
visions. Keep all, some, or none? Mr. Car-
all income the same in the name of equity
tions, although the effect of progressive tax
ter did not answer.-Which. the more you
and sound social purpose. That too seems
rates makes them less costly for the rich
think about it. is understandable.
W.S. Journal, 10/6/76
Issues
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ELECTION
Mr. Carter's peanut spread
Jimmy Carter's concern about what to
a desirable way out of the dilemma
do with his $800,000 or so in financial
where it can be created without undue
holdings if he is elected President raises
hardship, and is better than making a
anew the question whether a public offi-
man sell off large holdings at a substan-
cial can be made honest by separating
tial loss [as some have done].
him from property that might tempt
The important thing, therefore, is not
him into dishonesty.
to see that a public official does not
know
about
accisions anecing
them. But something so visible as a
farm or a peanut warehouse is harder
Investigating the President
to put out of sight and out of mind
President Ford's campaign has been
vetoed a bill the unions particularly
Besides, even assuming that Mr. Car-
hampered in recent weeks by a vague
wanted, requiring 20 per cent of United
ter were to sell the farm. and the ware.
accusation that, some time between 1964
States oil imports to be carried in
house, what would he do with the pro-
and 1972, he diverted congressional
American ships.
ceeds? They would have to be invested
campaign funds to his personal use. It is
somehow [nobody, least of all a trustee,
The investigation, which the attor-
the kind of charge no candidate should
is going to keep the money lying around
ney general promptly turned over to Mr.
have to face in the heat of a campaign-
in cash]. And the mere knowledge that
Ruff, included subpoenas of campaign
so shadowy and insubstantial as to be
contribution records over a 10-year peri-
Chicago Tribune, ]0/6/76
labor faction with a particular grudge campaign. Mr. Ruff should do his part
against Mr. Ford. In 1974, the President promptly
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ELECTION
Both Campaigns Have Their Troubles
(Comment By Bruce Morton, CBS Morning News)
Jimmy Carter's campaign seems to be in considerable
disarray. Item: One experienced Democratic campaign official
phoned a reporter the other day to ask: Has Carter blown it?
The professionals working in a key northeastern industrial
state went on "I've never seen such inexperienced people running
a campaign. They have people who are supposed to be doing
organizational work here and they just don't know how."
Item: Reports from Atlanta of discontent within the
Carter staff. A lot of the new people recruited for the
campaign feel there is no point to their work since only a
handful of Georgia insiders has any influence over what the
candidate does or says.
Item: Is Carter fuzzy on the issues? Even some people
in the Mondale campaign say they aren't sure what Carter
stands for. We are confident a visitor is told, but we're
not too sure about that other guy.
Item: Wounded feelings among some long time Democrats who
want to work in the campaign. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith
according to news reports got a mimeographed, "No thank you.
Item: Bad scheduling, sloppy advance work and bruised
egos on Carter's last swing through California.
It's hard to guage how serious all this is since there
is always some staff grumbling in any campaign. But clearly
Carter seems to be operating something less than a smooth
well-oiled machine.
President Ford has been having trouble of his own lately
with Earl Butz and the Mayaguez report.
The campaign is beginning to look like a championship
game between two loosing teams. Each one trying to give the
game away to the other. That may be why the suspicion is
growing that if Carter wins it will be for a reason that has
nothing to do with his campaign- the steady stream of the bad
economic news over the past few weeks. Discontent with the
economy could generate desire for chance to elect Carter no
matter how bad his campaign runs.
--CBS Morning News (10/6/76)
FORD'S NUCLEAR POLICY: AN INDUSTRY BAILOUT.
DEFENSE
By TIM METZ
ford project, whose costs would be more on
than they are being discovered. And exploi-
The billion dollar nuclear fuel recycling
the order of $10 million to $30 million.
tation of coal reserves is lagging in the
and waste treatment project that President
The government already has vast expe-
Ford is expected to advocate seems de-
U.S. and other developed nations because
rience in extracting plutonium from the
signed to further both his election ambi-
spent fuel of its own reactors for the nu-
of concern over the environmental effects
tions and the nuclear industry's long-term
clear weapons program. There also have
of mining it and the air pollution problems
strategy.
been successful experiments in making
associated with burning it.
As reported on Monday, the President is
new fuels using plutonium and scientists at
Indeed; there's a question about
expected to ask Congress earlv next vear
Hanford previously developed the opaque,
whether in the absence of the fast breed-
before answers are in nanu urom use nan-
puce VL VM assu 600 are MCING used laster
W.S. Journal. 10/6/76
FOREIGN POLICY
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Next Step in the Middle East
In the very short run there may be no move-
for the very short run. Once the new realities
ment to bring Israel into harmony with her
from the Lebanon fighting are established, the
neighbors because her borders are quiet and her
imperatives for progress toward a settlement.
neighbors in disharmony with each other. Some
will return with urgency. Yigal Allon, Israel's
resolution of the Lebanon war is required be-
deputy premier and foreign minister, showed
fore new arrangements could be reached for the
his perception of urgency in an article for For-
Israeli-occupied territory formerly part of Jor-
eign Affairs quarterly detailing a personal
:f
Baltimore Sun, 10/6/76
Rhodesia
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INTERNATIONAL
Rhodesian Blacks, Whites to Meet on Interim Government Plans
Rhodesia's white regime and black nationalist leaders
have agreed to convene a conference within two weeks to set
up an interim government--the first step toward black majority
rule.
"We are on course as far as arrangements for the conference
are concerned," British Minister of State for African Affairs
Ted Rowlands told reporters Tuesday night before he and U.S.
envoy William Schaufele left for London at the end of a week-long
African tour.
Rowlands said the target date for the conference was two
weeks.
Rhodesian Parliamentarians said the meeting probably will
take place in Livingstone, Zambia.
"All parties agree to a venue," Rowlands said. "I think
we can report positively."
Leaders of Rhodesia's divided black nationalist movement,
meanwhile, stepped up political maneuvering in anticipation
of black rule.
Joshua Nkomo, leader of the moderate wing of Rhodesia's
African National Council, left Tuesday for a tour of Zambia,
Mozambique and Tanzania.
Before leaving Rhodesia for Lusaka, Zambia, Nkomo said
he hoped to form an alliance with guerrilla leader Robert Mugabe.
Nationalist sources said Mugabe commands more popularity
among Rhodesian blacks than either Nkomo or Nkomo's main
political rival, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who heads the external
faction of the ANC.
Nkomo apparently hoped to outflank Muzorewa through a
pact with Mugabe and emerge as supreme black nationalist leader
before the conference.
--UPI (10/6/76)
OPEC
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INTERNATIONAL
OPEC May Raise Oil Prices By $1.50 Per Barrel
Finance ministers of the Oil Producing and Exporting
Countries (OPEC) may announce today a price increase of
$1.50 per barrel effective January 1, 1977, industry sources
said.
These sources said while the OPEC oil ministers announce
any price changes, their finance ministers have as much say
on the changes.
The current price of oil is $11.50 per barrel.
There was no immediate reaction available from the OPEC
ministers, here for the joint International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Bank annual meeting.
The ministers were scheduled to meet late Friday afternoon.
--AP (10/6/76)
Thailand
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INTERNATIONAL
Military Coup in Thailand
Thailand's defense minister seized power today after
frenzied fighting between leftists and rightists over the
return home of former military dictator Thanom Kittikachorn.
Police said at least 22 persons were killed, most of them
students, and about 180 wounded.
Radio Thailand said Defense Minister Sangad Chalawyu had
taken power from Prime Minister Seni Pramoj's elected government
and delcared martial law.
The city was calm as night fell with no overt opposition to the
move.
Fighting first erupted between right-wing and left-wing
students, then waves of police firing machine guns stormed the
leftists. Right-wing groups moved in again behind the police.
Then a right-wing mob of about 10,000 broke through
the gates of Thailand's government house but did not enter
the building itself, which was surrounded by 1,500 police.
Witnesses said rightists hanged two students, then set
upon their bodies with sticks, gouged out the eyes and cut
the throats. The body of another victim lay headless on the
college grounds.
Photographer Chee Sae Chu saw a mob drag four students
from the university gates through nearby streets, beat them,
soak them with gasoline and set them afire. Strips of
automobile tire were used to feed the flames. Chee said
he could not tell if the victims were dead or alive when
they were set afire.
Authorities arrested more than 1,300 university students.
Field Marshal Thanom returned from exile to Thailand on
September 19.
Leftist students and labor groups have demonstrated
almost daily since Thanom's return, demanding that he be deported
or tried for the deaths of 72 civilians during the 1973 rioting and
other crimes allegedly committed during his rule. Leftists and
rightists have also clashed.
When the rightist mob reached government house today,
Prime Minister Seni came out and climbed atop a bus to
address the demonstrators through a microphone. He promised
that he would resign if their demands for the resignations of
three cabinet members were not met.
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Thailand
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INTERNATIONAL
Crown Prince Vachiralongkorn, dressed in an army captain's
uniform, also appeared and urged the demonstrators to disperse,
saying they had already shown their bravery.
Later a brief announcement, reportedly signed by Sangad,
said: "The government cannot govern the country properly and
in order not to let Thailand become a prey to Communists and
to uphold the monarchy and royal family this council has seized
power.
"
A series of announcements over the official radio said
the constitution was abolished, parliament dissolved, all
civilian courts placed under military jurisdiction and political
meetings of more than five people forbidden. All newspapers
were oredered to stop publication.
Some of the demonstrators said they had toppled the
leftist student movement in Thailand and now would "get the
Communist ministers" in Seni's cabinet.
Under fire for indecisiveness, Seni had resigned two
weeks ago. But he then agreed to form a new government.
He had called a special cabinet meeting today to discuss
the on-and-off rioting at Thammasat since Thanom's return.
Labor groups earlier said they would go on strike Monday
if Thanom did not leave Thailand by then.
--AP' (10/6/76)