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inn dm i imuuini Page 3 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1976 ebate topics are major issues of candidate negotiators ercely | an ce spe. F 0r <l’slllt; ‘d beensii le Texas By WALTER R. MEARS Associated Press IPresident Ford and Jimmy Carter e sending their rival negotiators ck to work to draft ground rules for he presidential campaign debates Ms ttasj; oth candidates seek , The major issue to be settled as ^ gotiators return to work today ap la t Com 'ished root rently is the uestion of what the r 6 et "lij: j i 'ord was, ch ended ‘gan, Cot fbe elln One see was® 1 as mucin oward lie and the | ''one need [ goodnei on Posl ndidates will debate. Republican Ford and Democrat irterboth have proposed that their rsonal campaign specialties be iked out as topics for the first de le, likely to be conducted during e third week of September. Those proposals, like the issues of e number, duration and timing of debates, may yield to com- omise in order to get the show on fore the national television audi- Ford spoke to the conference of National Guard Association to- iy, praising increases in the de nse budget. He didn’t mention garter, but the Democratic nominee is said that “improved manage- ent techniques” could cut $5 bil- On to $8 billion from Ford’s record defense budget of more than $100 billion. Ford also told the military audi ence he opposes efforts to cut U.S. troop strength abroad. Again he did not mention Carter, but Carter has said NATO member nations should take more responsibility for the de fense of Europe and has suggested that most U.S. troops now in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines could be withdrawn. He said that when he took office “a decade of congresses had chopped away at America’s defense budgets... I knew that dangerous trend had to be reversed and I re versed it. I will not lead the Ameri can people down the road to need less danger or senseless destruc tion.” Ford summoned his two chief negotiators on debate arrangements to a Tuesday night White House meeting to give them final instrufc- tions. He met with Dean Burch, a Wash ington lawyer and former White House aide, and former Deputy Atty. Gen. William Ruckelshaus, on the debate situation, but his ttorney says police ay have framed trio spokesman would not discuss their plans. Carter already has said that the initial negotiating session last Thursday produced a tentative plan for a series of three debates, each 75 minutes long, beginning the third week in this month. Each candidate has three repre sentatives in the debate talks, being conducted by officials of the League of Women Voters, the group that has offered to sponsor the joint appear ances. All sides agreed after the first meeting that they would not disclose the terms under discussion until there was a final agreement on de bates and the rules to be followed. “We intend to keep our part of the bargain,” said White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, noting poin tedly that Carter disclosed what he said were tentative terms. Nessen insisted no agreement had been reached, but said there had been progress in the talks. The League of Women Voters got clearance on Monday from the Fed eral Election Commission to sponsor and finance the debates, which could cost $150,000. But there remained a possibility that independent candidate Eugene J. McCarthy or former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox, candidate of the American Independent party, might go to court in an effort to block tele vised debates matching only Ford and Carter. Under current law, television and radio networks could broadcast campaign debates between the major party candidates, without being required to provide equal ti me to minor candidates, so long as the debates were independently staged and were covered as news events. While the debate talks were re sumed, Carter returned to Plains, Ga., after a day of campaigning in Washington and New York. In Washington, the presidents of 109 AFL-CIO unions promised a massive voter registration and turn out campaign in behalf of the Demo cratic ticket. Carter also met Tues day with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who said he would actively campaign for the Carter ticket. Carter met privately with the Na tional Council of Catholic Bishops, and got a cooler reception there be cause he has declined to support a constitutional amendment to forbid abortion. Carter also renewed his proposal that the terms of chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board coincide with those of presidents. The board governs the nation’s money supply, and its members are appointed to 14-year terms, with one member designated chairman. While the proposal is one Carter made repeatedly during the presi dential primary campaign. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon issued a quick rebuttal to Carter’s renewed suggestions. Simon’s statement, issued through the Ford campaign commit tee, said, “While Mr. Carter’s words are typically vague and general, they represent nothing less than a thinly disguised plan to politicize the na tion’s monetary system.” Both candidates for vice president were campaigning Tuesday, with Sen. Walter Mondale meeting Democratic officials in California and Sen. Bob Dole arguing in Dela ware that the Republican party was not involved in Watergate. Mondale, Carter’s running mate, met Tuesday with California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Brown renewed his promise to campaign for the Democratic ticket in the nation’s most populous state. Mondale met with Brown for three minutes in the governor’s of fice, emerging to say he was “very. very heartened by the fact we have the most unified campaign in many, many years here in California under Gov. Brown’s leadership.” Brown, the last of the Democratic presidential contenders to drop his campaign and endorse Carter, praised the nominee in a brief news conference with Mondale, saying, “I think that Jimmy Carter has a very good understanding of the environ ment. I think he has a strong sense that government has got to keep its spending down. He has the ability to commit this country to full employ ment. All these things are very, very necessary.” Meanwhile, Dole said the Watergate scandal cannot be used as a legitimate campaign issue against the Ford-Dole ticket because neither man had any role in it. “It’s a fact — the Republican party was not involved, Gerald Ford was not involved,” Dole said in Wil mington, Del. Dole said that even though he was party chairman in 1972 at the time of the Watergate break-in and initial coverup, he did not feel that associa tion would taint his current cam- paign. “I’m not going to try to live it down, I wasn’t involved in Watergate,” Dole said. Doke criticized the AFL-CIO en dorsement of Carter and union pres ident George Meany’s criticism of the Republican platform, saying Meany does not speak for rank and file laborers. Meanwhile, the Ford campaign in Washington announced that Lynn Nofziger, a key Ronald Reagan aide, is joining the President’s staff. Reagan, who narrowly lost his bid to become the GOP’s nominee in stead of Ford, has agreed to take part in a Republican National Committee closed circuit television fundraiser Oct. 7, a party spokesman said. But Ford campaign officials say they have had no indication that Reagan plans to campaign for Ford. Associated Press j EL PASO, Tex. — Defense attor- Jeys for three Mexican-Americans larged with firebombing an El Paso epartment store said Tuesday they light try to prove their clients were Wd. “That could develop, ” said Brady loleman, one of the defense Iwyers. Jury selection was scheduled to continue today after defense attor neys asked prospective jurors if they “think it was possible the police would plant evidence on a defendant in order to obtain a conviction.” The three defendants are Alfredo Espinosa, 31, Ruben Orgazm, 24, and Ramon Arroyos, 15. Rio Grande Valley upset over devaluation of peso ) per st ales to. )1 ilion, 1 served. ferry IW d Cliaiiii ... Liiii . Jamiel .. Pad: Kevin * .. LioiJ , LeAi Bob C l ti/ondl Associated Press The Mexican government’s deci sion to float its currency in the money market, thus allowing it to settle down to about 20 to 60 per cent less than the fixed rate, will affect South Texas sales to Mexico border towns. But it could be a big boost to Mex ican exports, the chairman of the Frost National Bank of San Antonio said today. Tom Frost Jr. said sales at the an nual Mexican Trade Fair in San An tonio next week may benefit from the government’s action. Frost said San Antonio banks would continue to exchange pesos for dollars at the current market rate today. Mexican government officials said yesterday they expected the peso to drop eventually from its current fixed rate of 12.50 to a dollar, set more than 2 years ago, to about 20 to a dollar. “The news wasn’t a surprise, ” said Jim Spellings, executive vice presi dent for Dallas’ 1st National Bank. “I doubt it will have much effect on the U.S. economy,” Spellings said. But in the Valley, where Mexico often is only a river width away, the news spurred hurried meetings and some quickly-taken action. 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