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Candidates to head Senate GOP emerge
by Wesley G. Pippert
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The maneuver
ing already has begun to see who will
succeed Howard Baker as Senate Repub
lican leader.
When an agricultural measure was
ign
foundering in the last Congress under
Sens. Robert J. Dole, 60, of Kansas,
Pete V. Domenici, 51, of New Mexico,
and James McClure, 58, of Idaho, and
Richard G. Lugar, 51, of Indiana, are the
likely candidates — and probably are fa
vored in that order, too.
Senate Agriculture Chairman Jesse
Helm’s management, Dole took over and
pushed it through.
He has vastly changed from the days
when as Republican national chairman
he tonguelashed George McGovern in
the 1972 presidential race, and when he
was President Gerald R. Ford’s running
mate in 1976.
Dole joined McGovern in pushing
food stamp legislation. He heads the
McClure probably starts with the most
votes, but the ultimate winner may be
Dole, who has shed his acerbic image to
become one of the most respected and
powerful senators. His tongue has alien
ated a few over the years, but he com
mands the respect of all.
ly s
Dole, who has kept his sharp wit, loves
the give-and-take of debate, and stand
ing at his back-row seat he frequently
grabs the ball even when his legislation is
not involved.
(Pete) Domenici, a former
Albuquerque mayor, would be
most like Baker in style, at least
outwardly.
powerful Finance Committee and took
the lead in writing a $100 billion tax re
form bill last year.
What Reagan says
not what he does
by Helen Thomas
United Press International
WASHINGTON — As the saying
goes, “Foolish consistency is the hobgob-
hn of little minds.” The White House
cannot be accused of that.
negotiated political settlement of the civil
strife in El Salvador and to curb the Mar
xist government in Nicaragua.
Reagan has repeatedly
ba and Nicaragua for aidii
In fact, it is the mindboggling contra
dictions that defy all logic, and makes one
realize that it is an administration where
the words “watch what we do, not what
we say” mav apply.
President Reagan has no problem in
bridging the gap. He told the National
Councilof Negro Women last week that
nothing frustrates him more than the
“false image” that has been created “that
I am prejudiced if not an outright bigot.”
member
I’ve "lived a long time and I can’t re-
nber a time when I didn’t believe that
prejudice and bigotry were the worst of
sins in the sight of man a
and God,” he said.
The contradiction between
Reagan’s rhetoric when discus
sing the Soviets and his actions
also speak louder than words.
But the president manages to have it
both ways. The day after the White
House announced the five-year grain
pact, Reagan slapped the Soviets, telling
the Future Farmers of America in a Rose
Garden speech:
On the same day, Reagan accepted
with “regret” the withdrawal of the nomi
nation of Thomas F. Ellis to the Board
for International Broadcasting.
Ellis asked that his name be withdrawn
after disclosures in a Senate confirmation
hearing that he had been executive sec
retary of a foundation that studied
whetner whites were genetically superior
to blacks.
The president recently established a
new crime commission to “break the
F >ower of the mob” in the United States.
n fact, he has used that expression on
several occasions in relation to the cam
paign against crime.
On another score, Reagan has sought
"din-
to play down as nothing out of the ort
ary the dispatch of two naval battleship
groups, along with other surface ships
for naval maneuvers in Central Amer
ican waters and 4,000 combat troops for
joint training exercises in Honduras.
But he had high praise for the leaders
of the International Longshoremen’s
Association when he spoke at its conven
tion in Hollywood, Fla. ILA leaders have
been identified in senate testimony by
federal prosecutors as being connected
nzed crime. And he m
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to organized crime. And he has also had
friendly contacts with leaders of the scan
dal-ridden Teamsters Union.
attention” is being paid to the show of
strength and not enough to the U.S.
peace efforts.
The military muscle flexing, adminis
tration officials, said was to bring about a
For some observers all of this adds up
to Orwell’s “newspeak” in “1984” but
then again in Washington, where consis
tency is not necessarily a virtue, it can just
be called good politics.
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Many attribute his softening to his
second wife, Transportation Secretary
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Elizabeth Hanford Dole.
Dole tipped his hand about the leader
ship role in Kansas, but when asked ab
out it at a Capitol news conference he
squirmed and finally acknowledged he
had told a questioner back home, “Yes,
I’m interested.”
on legislation and his own re-election
race in 1984.
Lugar, the dark horse, is one of four
Rhodes scholars in the Senate and was
Domenici, a former Albuquerque
mayor, would be most like Baker in style,
at least outwardly. Domenici used gentle
ness and quiet determination to harness
the unwieldy Budget Committee and get
fiscal blueprints through against great
odds.
Whoever succeeds Baker's
Tennessee twang and pencil-
tapping will follow a tough act.
President Richard M. Nixon’s “favorite
mayor” as mayor of Indianapolis. He has
been praised as the consummate senator,
but his speech and demeanor lack flair.
Domenici’s heavy smoking — he
would go through six cigarettes in a half
hour — betrayed tension and nervous
ness. But after a chest operation to re
move a lesion that proved benign, he
stopped smoking. Even President
Reagan pleaded with him to stop.
His staff said that Domenici, too, is
interested but for the present is focusing
But Lugar already demonstrated his
popularity among colleagues last winter
by ousting liberal Sen. Bob Packwood of
Oregon as chairman of the National Re-
ibhcan Senatorial Committee.
McClure, chairman of the®
Energy Committee and chainm]
conservative, informal Senatej
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Packwood of Oregon.
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move up, but there is almostu
agreement that his flashes of tal
the floor have removed himftT
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Lugar acknowledges his name has
ggested as leader but he tells in-
he thinks it is important now to
concentrate on his role in helping Repub
lican senatorial candidates.
been su
quirers
condemned
Cuba arid Nicaragua for aiding the insur
gents in El Salvador against the govern
ment in power. But the United States is
covertly funding 10,000 Nicaraguan re
bels bent on overthrowing the Sandinista
g overnment in Nicaragua, claiming the
andinista’s “stole the revolution.”
The contradiction between Reagan’s
rhetoric when discussing the Soviets and
his actions also speak louder than words.
In a speech in Orlando, Fla., Reagan
describea the Soviet Union as the “focus
of evil in the modern world.” But last
week, he approved a long term grain sale
agreement with the Kremlin, which will
make farmers happy. Some critics of the
deal said he was feeding the Russian
army.
“There’s another country with re
sources just every bit as much as our own,
a major power. It’s citizens are decent,
hard-working people, but they have no
freedom. And that lack of freedom is
matched by the lack of productivity.”
There is no lack of other examples
where the contradictions loom.
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Ronald Reagan was sitting in his back
yard with his pals the other day, when
suddenly he said, “Hey, guys, let’s put on
a show.”
“Gosh, Ronnie, what a great idea!
What should we do it on?” someone
asked.
“What about Central America?” Ron
nie said.
“That would be neat. What do we
need, Ronnie?”
“We need military advisers and ships
and airplanes and U.S. Marines.”
“Gee whilickers,” someone said. “This
is going to be fun.”
“Who we going to fight, Ronnie?”
“The Nicaraguans. They’re being sup
plied with guns and equipment by the
Cubans and the Soviets.”
“Oh boy, it will be like old times going
into Nicaragua again.”
“I didn’t say we’d go into Nicaragua,”
Ronnie said. “I thought we’d quarantine
them for awhile to make sure they know
we’re not just a bunch of kids putting on a
show.”
“Heck, Ronnie, I thought you were
talking about a real prodviction with war
songs and parades and everything.”
“I can’t put on a real war show until the
people say they’ll all come to see it.”
“How do you propose to do that?”
Ronnie thought hard as everyone
looked towards him. Finally he got a big
smile on his face. “I’ve got it. I’ll appoint a
committee.”
“That’s going to take time. I thought
we were going to have a show this after
noon,” someone said.
“No,” Ronnie said. “This one has to be
thought out carefully. I’ll get Henry Kis
singer to head up the publicity.”
“Henry Kissinger?” everyone said in
disgust. “Why would you want Henry
Kissinger to get involved?”
“Because he has a lot of experience in
show business. If he reports to us on how
we can justify this one, we could rehearse
the bombing of Managua by Christmas.”
“Anything you say, Ronnie. What
should we do now?”
“We’re going to write a script. We have
to prove the Nicaraguans are getting all
their arms by sea, to supply the rebels in
El Salvador.”
“Is this going to be a comedy?”
“No, it’s going to be a musical, but it’s
going to have a message in it for the
Cubans and the Soviets.”
“What should we call it?”
“How about ‘Babes in Arms’?”
“That’s a neat name, Ronnie.
“Our plot will be that if we
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Letter: Accident victim
lauds bicycle crackdown
Editor:
I’m glad to see that the University is
finally enforcing this state’s bicycle laws
by ticketing cyclists who run stop signs.
I was run down four years ago by a
maniac on two wheels, knocked out, and
transported via ambulance (at that time a
station wagon) to the health center,
where I spent one of the most unpleasant
nights of my life.
The cyclist who perpetrated this evil
deed couldn’t be bothered to leave his
name with bystanders, and it’s probably a
good thing for him that he didn’t, as I
would undoubtedly have sued him.
I was urged at that time to instead sue
the University for failure to enforce bicy
cle laws. I know not whether such a suit
would have been successful; I refused to
sue because I happen to like this school in
spite of its shortcomings.
However, I have always worried that a
visitor might suffer the same fate as I and
relieve the school of a large sum of
money.
The time of the campus police is far
better spent in protecting students from
injury than in enforcing parking regula
tions. Hooray for the K.K.!
Mary Hart ’83
‘The doctor will see you