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presidential campaign ’80 Chip says Carter will win in 80 JRns Christmas give a Music Box ' from THE BATTALION Page 9 MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1979 — ————— CLIP N SAVE ■■ 500 OFF with coupon FLORIST QUALITY POINSETTIA PLANT 6” POTS GREAT GIFT IDEA one coupon SAVE COUPONS FOR „ r MULTIPLE PURCHASES P p (Across from Luby'^ I i Bob's m hjv ab ™l • 25I0TEXASAVE V 822X413 1 y we ble United Press International WASHINGTON — In the world I of politics, members of the Carter I family were just about the only ones I last Christmas who thought the pres- if ident could win a second term. Chip I Carter said in an interview. Now Jimmy Carter is running ■ neck and neck with Sen. 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He said he kept the faith during the low points. “The polls don’t bother you be cause in the personal factor—hones ty and intelligence — he is always rated high,” Chip said. “They might not like my daddy but they believe in what he says.” Chip recalled that “at this time last year, only members of the family thought he could be re-elected. I find it hard to believe he is tying Senator Kennedy in the polls.” He said he finds “almost universal support” for the way the president has handled the crisis in Iran. Chip has been campaigning ac tively for his father since last April, and he rates himself the family’s second best campaigner — after his mother and aside from the presi dent. He also gives high marks to his grandmother, “Miss Lillian.” In an interview in his sparsely de corated office at the Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters, where he is a $22,500 a year deputy. Chip was optimistic. “I have no doubt now that he (Car ter) is going to be the next presi dent,” he said, “and it will be easier this time around.” Kennedy attacks defense spending, says Carter made ‘deal’with senator United Press International Sen. Edward Kennedy has step ped up his attacks on the administra tion, while President Carter shun ned political campaigning again to spend the weekend at Camp David and closely monitor the Iranian crisis. In San Francisco, the Mas sachusetts Democrat charged Carter made a deal with Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., that resulted in approval of a $2.1 billion nuclear aircraft carrier. Kennedy said Carter agreed to accept the carrier — a proposal he vetoed last year — to get Helms to drop his insistence on a congression al call for an immediate end to U.S. trade sanctions against Zimbabwe- Rhodesia. Helms denied the allegation, and a presidential spokesman said Ken nedy’s charge was “groundless and irresponsible. In Los Angeles Friday night, Ken nedy criticized Carter’s defense spending proposals as straddling be tween hawks and doves. Kennedy said Carter tried on one hand to “placate” hawks in Congress by offering a 5.6 percent increase in “budget authority” — an amount that can be appropriated but not necessarily spent. On the other hand, Kennedy said, Carter was offering “outlays” — the actual spending figure in a given year — amounting to only a 3.4 percent increase. “In effect,” Kennedy said, “the administration has split the defense baby.” Meanwhile, Carter was spending the weekend in seclusion at Camp David after another week of diplo matic maneuvering to win release of the 50 American hostages in Tehran. While watching for new signals from Iran, he also will be keeping close tabs on Congress in its closing days, hoping for passage of an oil windfall profits tax before recess. In other developments on the campaign trail: — In Columbia, S.C., Ronald Reagan filed papers to enter the March 8 South Carolina GOP prim ary and then took off for his final campaign swing of the year through Illinois and Iowa. — Kennedy’s sister, Jean Ken nedy Smith, officially entered his name in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire Feb. 26. ^ when you sd " ack your Ihufe us hac k weilgne you 2 on a . 7 i AG&iE. T-SKiH' a great Christmas BOOK Store | Northgate Kennedy criticized United Press International WASHINGTON — California Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. apparently has decided that Sen. Edward Ken nedy — not President Carter — is the weak sister in the race for the Democratic presidential nomina tion. Campaign manager Tom Quinn made that clear at a recent breakfast with reporters where he argued that Brown is a serious contender and getting more so because of Ken nedy’s supposed slippage. He speculated Kennedy might drop out of the campaign early. “I’m counting on a major candi date I don’t believe has his heart in the race . I mean Senator Kennedy,” Quinn said. “For whatever personal or politic al reasons, he is not running a very effective campaign. It’s very possible someone is going to be out of this race in mid-April.” “I think you see the perception growing, Kennedy is flawed,” said Quinn. “Kennedy is not doing well on the campaign trail.” V 20% off turn SPRING 1980 1 MCATLSATGMAT SAT-DAT-GRE Educational Center TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 Call Days Evenings & Weekends 696-3196 707 Texas Ave. Suite 301C College Station ARTEX COTTON •JERSEY all T- shirt* when yon sell ns your used boohs* EARLY REGISTRATION 12-13-79 through 12-20-79 (Full transfer privileges over break) For Information About Other Centers In More Than 80 Major US Cities & Abroad Outside NY State CALL TOLL FREE: 800-223-1782 1 In Dallas: 11300 N. 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