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Vol. 76 No. 29 USPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, October 11, 1982
Reagan to visit Dallas
United Press International
SANTA BARBARA — President
Reagan, facing a barrage of criticism
for an upsurge in unemployment, in
tends to stress his “dramatic progress”
in lowering interest rates and infla
tion in the waning weeks of the con
gressional campaign, aides indicate.
After spending a relaxed weekend
at his mountaintop ranch, Reagan
flies to Dallas today for two political
appearances in support of Republi
can senatorial candidate Rep. James
Collins, who has an uphill battle
against incumbent Democrat Lloyd
Bentsen.
Afterwards Reagan will head back
to Washington, where he will spend
the rest of the week, highlighted by a
nationally broadcast “progress re
port” on the economy at 7:30 p.m.
EDT Wednesday.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes has labeled the address “non
partisan,” but speaker Thomas
O’Neill already has made a protest to
all three major networks for giving
Reagan time for what he calls “a pa
tently political address for an elec
tion.”
NBC said it will air the address, but
a spokesman for CBS said “no final
decision” had been made although it
was “likely” the network will carry the
address. ABC said it was undecided.
The harshest criticism for Reagan
Sunday came from AFL-CIO Presi
dent Lane Kirkland.
“Never before in history have two
crack-brained theories like supply-
side economics and cultist monetar
ism had a more extensive trial and
been proved so wrong, to the great
harm of so many people so quickly,”
said Kirkland during an appearance
on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Chief of Staff James Baker said in a
broadcast on ABC-TV Sunday that
Reagan deplores the 10.1 percent un
employment “and we’re going to do
what we can to remedy that situation.”
But, he added, “We’re making dra
matic progress on two fronts — infla
tion has been reduced by over 50 per
cent, and interest rates are down by
some 40 percent.”
Baker also insisted that the 11.3
million people out of work would not
be a dramatic election issue or “a
watershed event” as far as the ballot
ing on Nov. 2 is concerned.
He said the administration does
not believe it will be hurt badly be
cause it had been anticipated for some
time that the jobless rate would top 10
percent.
Furthermore, he said that “the 99
to 100 million Americans who are em
ployed are considerably better off
than they were two years ago by
reason of increased purchase power.
“Their taxes are down and infla
tion is down, and they’ve got more
real take-home pay,” he added.
Reagan’s political advisers and the
GOP campaign committees were
working out the final stages of the
president’s participation in the cam
paign.
So far, only one other date has been
set for the president to travel. He will
fly to Peroria, Ill., Oct. 20 for an
appearance in support of Rep. Bob
Michel, the House Republican leader,
and the following morning will fly to
Omaha, Neb.
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before Friday’s parliament session,
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Jaruzelski expressed his sympathy
to the rank and file members of Soli
darity and the state-sponsored
“branch” and “autonomous” unions
also outlawed by Friday’s Parliament
session.
He stressed that new unions simul
taneously created by the bill would be
different from the old state-
sponsored unions and Solidarity,
which he called “an anti-socialist
group.”
Jaruzelski said the authorities had
been guided by good intentions in
their dealings with Solidarity •
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round
the Moon landing to the Space Shut
tle program.
“The space program should be en
ded,” he says. “The whole thing is a
hoax. It is simply a case of everything
that goes up eventually comes down.
It doesn’t orbit. What we see on televi
sion are pre-arranged movies made in
studios.”
But why would the United States
perpetuate such a “myth?”
“The space program keeps the
myth alive that the world is round,”
he said. “You must have a total lie, not
a partial lie. In order to keep the hoax
alive, they staged the moon landing,
and of course we all know that was a
lie and that it never happened.
“Now they keep telling us the shut
tle is orbiting the world, but it is just
falling down. Again, what goes up,
must come down.”
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cadets.
“It’s the natural evolution of the
way things are in our society,” he said.
“Our women do a damn good job.”
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liversity
i “In the first place, we are now en-
: forcing the quiet hours. Our fresh-
.• men and sophomores are being pro-
, vided that time to study. Our senior
• class is dedicated to that.”
Burton has high hopes for the new
faculty adviser program, in which 44
faculty members have volunteered to
serve as advisers to Corps outfits. The
commandant cited an especially
’ gifted incoming class as another
reason why he expects the Corps to
' improve academically.
, “I think it’s clear to our seniors and
our juniors that these freshmen are a
cut above the average bear,” he said.
Friday, October 8, 1982