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Reagan challenges front-runners
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WASHINGTON — Presi
dent Reagan, saying he has re
versed an awful past, chal
lenged Democratic front
runners Thursday to campaign
against his record instead of cat
ering to the “trendy politics” of
special interest groups.
In a biting political speech to
about 600 leaders of the Ameri
can Legion Women’s Auxiliary,
Reagan mentioned neither Wal
ter Mondale nor Gary Hart by
name. But the former vice pres
ident was his unmistakable tar
get when Reagan said leaders of
the late 1970s “openly blamed
their own inadequacies on our
system of government and our
people as a whole.”
“The three-year record of
this administration shows how
dramatically we broke with the
legacy of an awful immediate
past,” Reagan said. “Yes, this
administration has a strong re
cord, a hopeful record. It’s
open to scrutiny. We welcome
it.”
Apparently lumping to
gether Mondale and Hart, the
senator from Colorado, Reagan
said he could not understand
“how under the guise of com
passion and fairness those who
once stood for the working peo
ple have now divorced them
selves from the concerns of ev
eryday Americans and turned
themselves over to the trendy
politics of the special interest
groups.”
Mondale has been attacked,
by Hart among others, for cat
ering to “special interests” such
as organized labor. Hart was la
beled a “trend Democrat” by
prominent Democratic consul
tant Miohael Barone, who said
such Democrats “aren’t quite as
good at running things as they
are at complaining about the
failures of others.”
Three times Reagan referred
to the “malaise” or “loss of self-
confidence” expressed by na
tional leaders before his elec
tion. They were references to a
speech made by President Car
ter in 1979 focusing on discon
tent among the public with
American institutions.
said, ‘,‘We have come a long
way; success is in sight.”
“We’ve shown that America’s
problem wasn’t a great national
malaise at all, but a failure of
leadership in Washington,”
Reagan said. Contrary to “some
of the doom-criers who even
now are saying our country is
on the wrong course,” Reagan
Asking if the audience
wanted to “return to self-delu
sion about our adversaries and
retreat in the face of provoca
tion and aggression to the days
of decaying defenses and shat
tered prestige,” Reagan said,
“Or will we get on with the unfi
nished agenda of the ‘80s?”
He described the agenda as
economic recovery, strong de
fense, discipline in schools, a
crackdown on crime and “a re
naissance of traditional values.”
Meese says he will be impartial if elected
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WASHINGTON — White
House counselor Edwin Meese,
declaring he is not a “political
ftrehorse,” pledged Thursday
before the Senate Judiciary
Committee to act indepen
dently if confirmed as attorney
general.
Meese seemed well-prepared
and confident on the first day
of hearings on his nomination
by his close friend, President
Reagan. But skeptical Demo
cratic senators greeted him with
a barrage of questions about
whether he can forget his con
servative political ties and serve
as “the people’s lawyer.”
The 52-year-old former
prosecutor insisted he can act in
an “impartial, independent
manner” as the nation’s top law
enforcement officer.
“I am not a political fire-
horse,” he said, adding that his
background as a lawyer and
aide to Reagan both in Califor
nia and Washington have been
with the “the policy and govern
ment side,” rather than with
politics and campaigns.
Chairman Strom Thurmond,
R-S.C., wasted no time in airing
a host of questions about Meese
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NEW YORK — Owners of a
Manhattan bar, which bills itself
■ is the “Best Little Honky Tonk
' lorth of Abilene,” said Thurs-
lay they will poll patrons on
vhether the tavern should se
cede from New York and annex
nternational tsell to Texas.
, JjThe eyes of Texas have been
' n f U jthe Lone Star Cafe in Green-
optei 1 11 v ic|| village since Texas Gov.
iiirsd.n tlark White urged it to “sever
uldre.n 0 ^official ties” with New York
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[ White’s proclamation was
:ft of the Lone Star state’s
'ently re( ljns for the 1986 celebration
end accri" jj-h ls y ear 0 f j nc | e p en .
im r en u all SS lc efrom Mexico.
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Commission, who was at the
bar.
Over the next few months,
patrons of the bar — known as a
home away from home to trans
planted Texans — will be given
fliers asking them to vote on
possible secession.
The box marked, “stay a part
of New York City,” has a minia
ture Statue of Liberty hovering
over it; the box favoring annex
ation to Texas is adorned wilh
longhorns.
The bar was named Texas’
“official embassy,” in New York
two years ago, and Dick read re
cent telegrams from Texas no
tables, including Sen. John
Tower and Vice President
George Bush, who congratu
lated the owners for helping to
publicize the state’s upcoming
celebration.
Former U.S. Attorney Gen
eral Ramsey Clark, a Texan
now in private practice in New
York, has been reviewing the le
gal ramifications of secession.
The bar has already been of
ficially designated a “Texas In
dependence Community” by
the Sesquicentennial Commis-
blic Educa% nce w j|| ce i e brated to
il ren to be
through t jjj s presents the Lone
, Mr with a dilemma,” Bill Dick,
Parker,Cmj ew Yorker and one of the
jminittee ' ; a fe’sowners, said,
ommendaijl p onner Texas Gov. Dolph
-nts wlio 3 r iscoe was there to press the
consliU 111 ;ase f orsecess i on Qn whites be-
ieir own ‘Talf.
j "The question remains,
ink it s a Vhether to secede or not to se-
r, D-Port Ljjgi. Dfo]^ at i(jj n g that he
do it tor * ln[ j co-owner Mort Cooperman
Jave decided to survey their
dation ^J 1 ‘constituency.”
forwarded I “h 0 f capitalizes on the
re, which “{gotism of Texans and New
e recoin 1 Yorkers alike,” said Susan Mc-
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— including his personal fi
nances and alleged political fa
vors — that have been raised
since his nomination Jan. 23 to
replace Attorney General Wil
liam French Smith, who is re
signing as the top man at the
Justice Department.
Point by point, Meese, now
serving as Reagan’s No. 1 ad
viser, testified there is no im
propriety in his personal or
professional affairs.
His explanations were clearly
not enough to satisfy some, in
cluding Sens. Howard Metzen-
baum, D-Ohio, and Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass.
At Metzenbaum’s request, the
hearing will extend at least
through Monday to hear testi
mony from three men invited to
answer questions about their in
volvement in selling Meese’s La
Mesa, Calif., home and procur
ement of a $60,000 personal
loan.
Metzenbaum has questioned
whether the loan and profitable
home sale were arranged as a
political favor, considering that
two of the businessmen later re
ceived appointments to govern
ment posts.
A principle concern raised at
the hearing is whether Meese,
who is both Reagan’s longtime
friend and chief of staff of his
1980 election campaign, can im
partially enforce the law — not
only against criminals, but also
in such sensitive areas as civil
rights and antitrust.
Metzenbaum raised the ghost
of Watergate in criticizing the
appointment of someone who
held a high campaign job to the
critical Cabinet post of attorney
general. John Mitchell man
aged Richard Nixon’s 1968
campaign, became attorney
general, then resigned to run
Nixon’s 1972 re-election effort.
But Meese testified, “At no
time during my service as a
member of Reagan’s campaign
committee did I incur any per
sonal, political or other obliga
tion that would in any way in
terfere with my ability to carry
out the duties of attorney gen
eral ... in an impartial, indepen
dent manner.”
To head off criticism, Meese
confirmed he has asked the
Army to rescind his controver
sial transfer to the Army Ready
Reserve, made six days before
he would have been forced to
rearranged some of his per
sonal finances, which have been
questioned in part because of a
$00,000 loan arranged by his
accountant, John McKean, who
was later appointed to the U.S.
Postal Service board of gover
nors.
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Meese also disclosed he has
Meese said he expects appro
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mortgage on his $300,000 Mc
Lean, Va., home to secure a
new $80,000 loan to substitute
for an interim loan he secured
to pay back the $60,000, plus
$20,000 in interest.
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