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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
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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
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—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. At 2:20 a.m.
r ields learned the last precinct pushed his margin to 2,917 and by 3
m. the absentee results gave him a margin of 4,099.
^ “My wife and I did not necessarily want to go to Washington, but
somebody’s got to go and we ll go be citizen representatives,” Fields
said.
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