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> Xl \ ni White House mood somber THE BATTALION Page 9 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1980 United Press International WASHINGTON — President Carter, soundly ated in his re-election bid, will focus his ittention on negotiating the release of the 52 I merican hostages in Iran, a White House aide lid Wednesday. pCarter also is “determined to leave with grace nd class” when he turns over the Oval Office to onald Reagan on Jan. 20, the aide said. Carter as passed the word that aides should cooperate ith the Reagan team for a smooth transition to ie new administration. As a last word of consolation, former White [ouse chief of staff Hamilton Jordan told despair- ig campaign supporters Tuesday night at a pri- ate gathering, “In years to come, you are going pbe proud to say you worked for Jimmy Carter. Barter’s immediate attention, an aide said, mild be devoted to freeing the hostages, who ive been held in Iran for more than a year. As for the future, Carter is expected to write his imoirs, and as the first Southern president There was a stillness in the Oval Office Wednesday morning after the Tuesday election debacle. But Carter was at his desk at 8 a.m.... Many of the other offices were empty. since 1844, he will also establish a presidential library in Georgia. A deeply religious born-again Baptist, he has expressed in the past a desire to do some mission ary work. But he has always said that he would return home to Plains. His wife, Rosalynn, has often expressed the same desire to go home “to my things” and her people. There was a stillness in the Oval Office Wednesday morning after the Tuesday election debacle. But Carter was at his desk after 8 a.m. and conferred with aides before a planned noon departure for Camp David. Many of the other offices were empty. It was with some dread that aides and secretaries came to work, knowing it was all over and that working for a “lame duck” president would be less deman ding, and in many ways futile. They had a day to prepare, one aide explained: “We knew it was coming. ” As for the so-called “Georgia Mafia,” press sec retary Jody Powell, who has been closest to the president, is expected to remain in Washington if he gets a good job offer. He also has expressed a desire to teach and indicated that he will write a book. GOP election security boss says watchers found fraud United Press International AUSTIN — The ballot security chairman for the Republican Party of Texas said Wednesday volunteer poll watchers had uncovered evi dence of election fraud in two coun ties. “We uncovered evidence that cer tainly justifies closer investigation,” said John Clark, a San Antonio lawyer. Clark was the Republicans’ ballot security chairman in Texas during the 1978 state election. “In Travis County there were a couple of registered voters in Pre cinct 124 who went to the polling place to vote, but each one was told he couldn’t vote because he had voted absentee,” Clark said. He said a trip to the courthouse revealed absentee ballots in the vo ters’ names, but the signatures on them were not those of the indi viduals who allegedly voted. The Republican Party enlisted 6,000 volunteer poll watchers elec tion night and offered a $1,000 re ward for information leading to the conviction of anyone committing election fraud. Clark said he also had received reports that two Dallas County citizens voted both absentee and in the regular election. One, he said, was even encouraged to vote twice and was told it did not matter. Clark also said he had received reports of irregularities from other counties. The irregularity reports, said Clark, fell into four categories: elec tion judges attempting to restrict the activities of poll watchers; election judges attempting to influence vo ters; registration problems and out right evidence of fraud. Clark said one election judge counseled friends to vote a straight ticket. “As voters would enter the polling place— particularly voters that he knew — his tactic was to guide the voter over to a booth and say, You wanted to vote a straight Democratic ticket, didn’t you?’ and he’d show them how to do it. ” Clark said some poll watchers ulti mately may collect a handsome bonus. Compromise not only solution United Press International NEW YORK — Americans often fail at negotiation, whether in International politics or business, because they put too much faith in compromise, says Gerard I. Nierenberg. | Nierenberg is a New York lawyer who has written half a dozen books on the art of negotiating that have been translated into many lan- ingitsom juages. He founded the Negotiation Institute, which holds frequent ll ear Abat of war, ! Amerio itraryto! nduct.” linisferi roopskaJi lan andqi southwestj ith the ■vra he annihilati lat tried tal imuniquel an said ikj anning tk liver to Ad long ieminars for which people pay up to $500 for a seat. About 70,000 have /ear, tied ittended the seminars over the past 20 years. :ondemDeij "Compromise is useful but too often it doesn’t solve anything for ong. Putting all the emphasis on it prevents the study and practice of negotiating as a real art and science,” Nierenberg said. He said the U.S. State Department, the Labor Department and nost other government agencies appear to know nothing about the rue art of negotiating. Neither do most labor unions, he added, but ome businessmen, lawyers and academic professionals are learning bout it. The true aim should not be victory or even compromise, he said. It hould be to find a solution that benefits both sides by fulfilling their leeds. To accomplish that the first thing necessary is to establish a limate of mutual trust and confidence. You don’t achieve that, Nierenberg said, by making ridiculous de- ind the nflnands and counter-proposals, such as a union coming to the bargaining table and demanding four times what it hopes to get, or management iking a blustering stand and saying it won’t give a red penny. Nierenberg offered some general suggestions for negotiating: —A successful negotiation must make both parties winners. —The professional negotiator must learn to recognize person’s, stitutions’ and nations’ differing styles of negotiation and how to cope tanks aii(i$with them. | —Strive first to foster a positive climate. “Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is accomplishing that with Israel by going out on the limb and lutting his own career in jeopardy,” Nierenberg said. —A professional negotiator is necessary to solve really tough prob- ms because “usually the two sides are too blinded by the dispute to let to creative solutions. ” —Beware of winning a battle and losing the war. Pressing too hard id winning a quick victory can lead to lost custofners or some other ss. ' ^ ^ , —Also beware of bluster such as “That’s bur best offef, take it or ave it.” —Strive to negotiate problems, not demands. —Do your homework thoroughly before going to the table. Eckhardt exits with no regrets United Press International HOUSTON — Bob Eckhardt, a white-suited Democrat who battled imber companies, railroads and big oil for 14 years in Congress, ednesday conceded his House seat “with no regrets” to Jack Fields, , a political novice who said Eckhardt lost touch with his district. An exhausted Eckhardt, 67, avoided his downtown office, his cam- jaign headquarters and reporters Wednesday. An aide issued his iflective concession statement shortly before noon. “Mr. Fields ran an effective race and the voters have spoken,” the mouncement said. “I wish him and the people of the 8th District well ifi the upcoming Congress.” Eckhardt also thanked his loyal supporters and the people of the 8th Mstrict, but added, “I also think, as (Edmund) Burke did, that ‘your epresentative owes you not his industry but his judgment.’ He lought, as I do, that a legislator betrays you if he sacrifices this to an xisting electoral opinion. Perhaps in the ebb and flow of political pinion one who holds these principles inviolate may not expect to urvive in office more than 14 years. I have enjoyed my 14-year stay in Bice and am satisfied with my service to you and the nation. I have no egrets.” Eckhardt and Fields fought to represent a diverse district of blue- ollar petrochemical workers and wealthy suburbanites of north and :ast downtown Houston. It was almost 2 a.m. before Fields claimed he lead for keeps. By then, Eckhardt’s headquarters were deserted nd he had gone to bed knowing he needed a swing of more than ,700 votes from the final precinct and absentee ballots. 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