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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 25, 1976
Links Republican economic policies to Nixon
Mondale: Inflation, unemployment big issues
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democratic
vice presidential nominee Walter
Mondale said Monday that what he
calls “Nixon-Ford” inflation and high
joblessness will be a central issue in
his campaign.
Mondale said in an interview that
he and Democratic presidential
nominee Jimmy Carter would
achieve full employment, meaning a
job for everyone who can work, by
1980.
He said full employment would
mean an additional $55 billion in
taxes and said the rest of the
economy would fall in line.
Mondale said it was no accident
that he started linking President
Ford’s policies to former President
Richard M. Nixon’s last week, at a
time when the Republican National
Convention was not mentioning Ni
xon.
“The last President they could
remember in most of the speeches
was Abraham Lincoln,” he said. “I
thought they’d forgotten, that was
all. I was trying to help them out.’’
Mondale sidestepped the ques
tion of whether his repeated refer
ences to Nixon and Republican vice
presidential nominee Robert Dole’s
reputation as a gut fighter will mean
a bloody campaign.
“I want a constructive campaign,”
Mondale replied. “I’ve never taken a
low road in my life. We’re going to
talk about issues and not per
sonalities.”
Mondale said Ford’s economic
policies are the same as Nixon’s and
blamed them for the current 7.8 per
cent joblessness, 6 per cent inflation
rate, interest rates around 9 per cent
and last year’s $70 billion deficit.
He said he’ll be arguing in New
York City Thursday in the first major
speech of a nine-day campaign swing
that those policies are also wiping
out Republican businessmen.
“The Republicans always do bet
ter when the Democrats are in,” he
said he’ll say. “If you want to live like
a Republican, vote Democratic.”
Ford’s answer to Mondale charges
is likely to be the one he gave in his
acceptance speech at the Republican
Convention last week.
Ford said then that he inherited
runaway inflation and has led “an in
credible comeback” in spite of what
he called the free-spending Demo
cratic Congress.
Mondale accused Nixon and Ford
of “the most inconsistent, botched
management of the economy
perhaps that we’ve ever had. ”
The Democrat said the worst Re
publican practice has been inconsis
tent tight money raising interest
rates so high that businesses and in
dustry cannot expand and put more
people to work.
Mondale said reversal of that
money policy will be the key to his
and Carter’s programs for full em
ployment.
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only six-foot drop
Jaworski says greed kept
Nixon from destroying tapes
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — A
self-styled daredevil, sealed in a six-
foot long converted propane gas
tank, slipped into the upper Niagara
River in an attempt to go over Niag
ara Falls.
Several hours later Tuesday —
with his ill-fated metal craft snagged
on rocks and stalled in shallow water
about 200 yards short of the brink of
Horseshoe Falls — a Canadian mili
tary helicopter arrived on the scene.
A crewman opened the hatch and
Tibor Hetenyi, 26, of Edison, N,|
climbed aboard the hoveringcraltl
“Did I go over her?” was the!®
thing he asked. Just before thec)|
inder became stalled, it wei
through a six-foot drop in the rapid
and hit the rocks.
“I thought I had gone over,
Hetenyi said. “I felt a thud when
hit the rocks.”
Hetenyi, examined for cli
bruises at a hospital and then
leased, was charged with disorder]
conduct.
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Associated Press
HOUSTON — Former special
Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski
says he believes former President
Richard Nixon would have “survived
and remained in office” if he had de
stroyed his tapes.
Jaworski speculates in his new
book scheduled to be released today
that one reason Nixon refused to de
stroy the tapes was because they
were worth money.
“He hoped to realize a fortune
from them,” Jaworski writes, “and
his background showed him to be a
man greedy for both money and
power.”
The book, entitled “The Right and
the Power” had been scheduled for
release in September but officials at
Gulf Publishing Co. said it would be
released today in Houston. The
Houston Post obtained a copy of the
book Tuesday.
Jaworski says little in the book
about the pardon of Nixon by Presi
dent Ford but offers some conclu
sions about the former president.
“I often wondered,” Jaworski
writes, “how Nixon was able to con
centrate even briefly on the matters
of state that begged for his attention.
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There he was in the Oval office, day
after day, night after night, schem
ing, plotting and finally sacrificing
his staff and others one by one so as
to save himself.”
Jaworski also relates an incident in
which Sen. James Eastland,
D-Miss., describes a sobbing Nixon
pleading with the senator to save
Nixon from criminal prosecution.
Jaworski said Eastland told him
Nixon had called from San
Clemente, Calif. , a short time after
the resignation.
“He was crying,” Jaworski quoted
Eastland as saying. “He said, ‘J im >
don’t let Jaworski put me in that trial
with Haldeman and Ehrichman. I
can’t take any more.’
Jaworski also writes that former
Nixon aide H. R. “Bob” Haldeman
once offered to plead guilty to a
single Watergate felony charge and
testify against John Ehrlichman,
D-FW to get
helicopter
airline soon
Associated Press
AUSTIN — One of the nation’s
few scheduled helicopter airlines
will begin service soon in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area, the Texas
Aeronautics Commission has an
nounced.
The Commission approved Tues
day the application of Metroplex
Helicopter Airways Inc. to provide
air passenger and cargo service to six
airports and five heliports in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The airline will fly five-place jet
helicopters between major airports
and downtown areas of Dallas and
Fort Worth at fares ranging from
$9.75 to $19.50.
In other action Tuesday, the
commission approved issuance of a
$50,000 grant to Beeville for recon
struction of a runway and connecting
taxiway and apron.
A grant of $40,000 was made to
Cleburne to strengthen a runway
and connecting taxi way and apron.
The commission reinstated the au
thority of Purolator Courier Corp. to
serve Tyler as a terminal point on a
route to Dallas Love Field.
The certificate of Mid-Continent
Airlines to provide a scheduled air
service between Dallas-Fort Worth
and Palestine was cancelled. Mid-
Continent discontinued the service
last June.
another former Nixon aide, “in all
other matters known to him” if the
government would dismiss other
charges against Haldeman.
But the deal fell through, Jaworski
writes, when U.S. District Court
Judge John Sirica refused to assure
Haldeman’s attorney what sort of
sentence Haldeman might face.
A run-off election will be held
September 14 for the class of ’79
treasurer according to Susan Price,
executive director of Student Gov
ernment.
The election is due to an error on
the first ballot in last spring’s campus
elections. The run-off is between
Michelle Marti and Mark Hryhor-
chuk.
Price said that there willbeodl
one polling place, the MemorJ
Student Center, for the electioJ
Election regulations normally pi
quire at least three polling places:]
the student senate waived the
last spring. Price said this was
because of the limited scope
election and the additional costs
personnel needed to staff the
polling places.
Inmate says jail death a jok
Associated Press
DALLAS — One of six prisoners
charged in the torture slaying of a
Dallas County Jail inmate testified
Tuesday that the choking and stab
bing death started as “a big joke.”
The testimony from Steven Clyde
Valentine, 19, came in a deposition
to be used in a $5 million lawsuit
filed earlier this month against Dal
las County Sheriff Clarence Jones
and probation officer Waylon D.
Vernon by the family of Kenneth
Nile Coppinger Jr.
Coppinger, 20, was found dead in
his cell less than three hours after he
was arrested because of what later
was determined a mixup in identity.
He had been arrested for possible
revocation of probation on a statut
ory rape conviction after officials be
lieved he had been arrested on a
charge of driving while intoxicated.
It was later learned that he had not
been arrested on the DWI charge.
Valentine testified Tuesday that
some of his fellow prisoners in the
cell had been talking for about a
week about killing someone.
“It was a big joke at first; that’s all
it was. . . they started talking about
how we were going to do it,” Valen
tine said. “The talk was we were
going to hang someone up from the
heels from the bars, cut them open
from their stomach to their throat
and have everyone stab him at least
once,” he continued.
Valentine testified that he saw one
prisoner wrap a piece of leather
around Coppinger s neck and*
another man stab Coppinger will
home-made knife.
Coppinger never yelled loudly:|
help, Valentine said.
Other inmates who witnessed
incident were to testify todayfor
depositions.
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