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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MAR. 5, 1976
Campaign round-up
Who’s saying what about who, why and whatever
Associated Press
MIAMI,, Fla. — Ronald Reagan,
denying any retreat from his “11th
commandment” against saying nasty
things about fellow Republicans,
charges President Ford with presid
ing over the country’s diplomatic and
military decline.
Reagan, challenging Ford for the
GOP presidential nomination, un
leashed his strongest attack to date
against the administration as he
stumped for votes in Florida’s March
9 primary.
The development came the same
day Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh ceased
active campaigning for the Democra
tic nomination and Sargent Shriver,
the Democrats’ vice presidential
nominee .four years ago, indicated
his future as a candidate for presi
dent is in doubt.
Bayh announced in New York on
Thursday that he had decided to sus
pend his campaign after Tuesday’s
seventh-place finish in Mas
sachusetts’ presidential primary. He
said he was not quitting altogether,
so he could continue to get matching
federal money to pay campaign
debts.
“It is not easy for me to say the
things I must say to you today,”
Reagan said shortly after arriving in
Florida. “But I have decided that
matters of national security and de
fense are beyond politics, and the
American people are entitled to my
assessment of them. ”
The former California governor
called Ford a man of “evident de
cency, honor and patriotism” but
tion has become No. 2 in military
power in a world where it is danger
ous, if not fatal, to be second best. ”
In Washington, Ford’s press sec
retary, Ron Nessen, said, “The Pres
ident’s recognized leadership in
keeping the national defense second
to none is so well known that I don’t
think any response is necessary.”
Of the four Democrafts actively
pursuing votes in Florida, three
were tangled in disputes of their own
Thursday.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson of
Washington, winner of the primary
in Massachusetts, charged that
former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter
made contradictory statements in
Black Caucus. Later, Rep. Charles
B. Rangel, D-N.Y., said the session
was more advisory in nature than
anything else.
Speaking at a night-time Orlando
rally, Reagan stressed what he called
Jackson claims the Florida
primary will he a “three-
horse race” between Wallace,
Carter and himself.
Ford’s press secretary says
the President is recognized
as a leader in maintaining
the nation’s defense.
Reagan says Ford has made
the United States No. 2 in
military power, and asserts
that it is “dangerous, if not
fatal, to be second best.”
blasted Ford and Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger for allowing the
country to lose ground militarily to
the Soviet Union.
“In my view, the policy of detente
as pursued by the administration is
one of making pre-emptive conces
sions to the Soviets,” Reagan said.
“Under Kissinger and Ford, this na-
Florida and Massachusetts about the
location of a proposed federal solar
energy center.
Jackson, stopping several times for
hand-shaking, said he is the only
Democratic candidate familiar with
Florida’s energy and ecological prob
lems. And he chided Carter for re
peatedly referring to Florida’s prim
ary as a Wallace-Carter affair. “It’s a
three-horse race,” Jackson said.
Carter, touring the center of the
state, ignored Jackson’s remarks and
concentrated on Alabama Gov.
George Wallace, considered the
frontrunner in the race in Florida.
Carter said Wallace’s popularity in
Florida is based on the governor’s
criticism of the federal bureaucracy.
But he said Wallace has done little to
keep bureaucracy out of government
in Alabama.
Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp,
the fourth Democrat seeking Florida
backing, stumped the Miami area.
Bayh, in suspending his cam
paign, made no mention of throwing
support to any other candidate.
Arizona Rep. Morris K. Udall, who
finished second in Massachusetts,
has declared himself leader of the
party’s “progressives” and openly
sought Bayh’s backing.
Udall, meantime, met in
Washington with the Congressional
the “basic fundamental differences”
between Ford and himself.
“One candidate is a member of the
Washington establishment, one is
not,” he said. “One candidate has
faith in the Washington establish
ment to solve our problems. One
candidate believes those who are
part of the problems are not the best
equipped to solve them. ”
Earlier, Reagan admitted that his
Florida campaign may be in trouble.
He said he could live with a loss to
Ford, as long as her percentage of
the vote did not slip out of the 40s.
“If it is close like New Hampshire,
at least up there in the 40s, this
would still be a campaign, ” he said.
Jackson’s campaign organization
said former United Nations ambas
sador Daniel P. Moynihan would
campaign with the senator in joint
appearances in Miami Beach Sun
day. Moynihan endorsed Jackson
just before the Massachusetts prim
ary.
Aides also said the Jackson cam
paign has begun a stepped-up media
effort in the final week before the
primary, even though the candidate
has discounted the importance of
Florida to his political future.
Wallace, at a series of airport news
conference and an evening rally, de
cried the federal welfare system and
what he called a one-sided detente.
the president’s staff, ambassadors to
foreign nations and heads of federal
regulatory agencies.
Shriver, in Chicago, said he is
short of money and will have to rely
on volunteers for the March 16 Il
linois primary. And, he said, if he
loses there, he may take the Bayh
option.
There were these other political
developments Thursday.
The Schriver campaign is
short of money. A loss in the
Illinois primary could mean
his withdrawal.
And he called for stronger law-and-
order legislation.
In Miami, Shapp suggested a na
tional code of ethics for top federal
officials, advocating a provision re
quiring public financial disclosure
for cabinet members, members of
— The Federal Communications
Commission ruled in Washington
that radio and television stations
cannot refuse to sell a political candi
date less than five minutes of air
time. The ruling had been sought hy
the Ford campaign committee,
which sought 90-second spots from
WGN Radio-TV in Chicago.
The commission also turned down
a request by Reagan’s supporters
that a Miami television station be
forced to give the former governor
equal time to match a series of inter
views with the President.
— The Census Bureau reported
more than 150 million Americans,
nearly 10 million more than in 1972,
will be old enough to vote in the
general election in November.
Praises Abraham Lincoln
Ford seeks farmers 9 votes
Associated Press
PEANUTS
WASHINGTON — President
Ford, making a pitch for the farm
vote in Illinois, might disclose new
U.S. grain sales to Russia.
As Ford prepared to fly to Illinois
today for two days of campaigning,
reports circulated here that the Ag
riculture Department might sell as
much as four million more tons of
wheat and corn to the Soviets to help
make up for a small Russian harvest
last year.
The announcement could be made
when Ford addresses a farm forum in
Springfield, III., in mid-afternoon.
Such a move would be politically
popular with farmers, who were
angered last July when Ford ordered
an embargo on grain sales to Russia
after the Soviets had made large
purchases. The embargo was lifted in
October after the United States and
Russia signed a long-term grain sales
pact designed to bring more stability
to the U.S. grain market.
Even with new grain sales now,
the US DA says there will be plenty
of grain from 1975’s record harvests
to meet all demands without signific
antly raising American consumer
prices.
The 1975-76 grain sales were to
help meet current Russian needs and
do not count against the long-term
agreement which goes into effect
with shipments after next Oct. 1.
The Soviets have bought about 13.3
million metric tons of U.S. wheat
and corn so far this season to help
make up deficits caused by its small
harvest last year.
In his swing through Republican-
dominated downstate Illinois, Ford
will be seeking votes for Illinois’
March 16 primary. Buoyed by three
straight primary victories, the Presi
dent and his aides feel back-to-back
wins in Florida next Tuesday and in
Illinois the week after that will just
about deal a knockout blow to the
GOP presidential hopes of Ronald
Reagan.
Ford’s first planned stop was at the
Abraham Lincoln home in
Springfield to unveil a cornerstone
for a new visitor’s center.
“Ours is a more perfect union than
the founding father created, because
of this one man,” he said. “It is to
Abraham Lincoln that we owe the
opportunity to observe bur national
bicentennial — at peace among our
selves and with all the nations.”
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