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Mondale, Hart both fear
second Reagan term
United Press International
NEW YORK — Democratic rivals
Walter Mondale and Gary Hart
made peace Tuesday, saying a “pro
found fear of a second Reagan
term” will heal their differences and
unite their party for the fall election.
While Hart said he will not drop
his bid for the nomination because
his delegates deserve an option at
the Democratic National Convention
next month, the two said they will
talk later about the possibility of
Hart being Mondale’s running mate.
The once-bitter rivals met for
nearly two hours in a millionaire
friend’s townhouse just off Park
Avenue, as 200 reporters and pho
tographers jammed the street out
side awaiting their joint appearance.
Hart and Mondale exchanged an
gry charges and counter-charges
during the long primary season, but
called each other life-long friends af
ter the meeting. In Mondale’s words,
“The things that divide us are mod
est compared with the things that di
vide us from President Reagan.”
“Neither of us accused each other
of witchcraft, which Mr. Bush ac
cused Mr. Reagan of four years
ago,” Hart said in a reference to can
didate George Bush’s description of
candidate Ronald Reagan’s eco
nomic program as “voodo econom
ics.”
“I think the reports of conflict or
animosity or hostility have been
over-reported,” Hart said.
While Hart and Mondale both
said they will have further dis
cussions later, they called it prema
ture to talk of a Mondale-Hart ticket
while both are formal candidates for
the nomination.
As of Tuesday, Mondale had
2,065 delegates, with 1,967 needed
for nomination. Hart had 1,249 and
Jesse Jackson 340, with the remain
der uncommitted or pledged to
other candidates.
Mondale said he will get in touch
with Jackson when the black candi
date returns from a tour of Central
America and Cuba, and set up a
meeting with his other rival for the
nomination.
Throughout their news confer
ence on the front stoop of the home
of movie producer Arthur Krim,
Mondale and Hart spoke almost
with one voice of the things they
have in common.
“Walter Mondale and I are united
by two principle objectives,” Hart
said. He said one is the “fundamen
tal values of the Democratic Party,”
and the other is “our profound fear
of a second Reagan term.”
“We will do everything in our
power to see that Ronald Reagan
does not have a second term
Medal of Freedom awarded
Reagan honors civilian
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan posthumously honored Sen.
Henry Jackson with the nation’s
highest civilian award Tuesday,
praising the Democrat as a “biparti
san patriot” who championed a firm
and realistic foreign policy.
“Henry Jackson was a protector of
the nation — a protector of its free
doms and values,” Reagan said in a
Rose Garden ceremony bestowing
the Presidential Medal of Freedom
on the senator from Washington
state who twice sought the Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
“Henry Jackson understood that
there is great good in the world and
great evil, too — that there are saints
and sinners among us,” Reagan said.
Jackson, nicknamed “Scoop” in
childhood, died of a heart attack
Sept. 1. He was 71.
Reagan also urged Senate Repub
lican leader Howard Baker to make
room for Jackson’s portrait in a Sen
ate conference room where liknesses
of five senators — selected 20 years
ago by a Senate group as the best in
history — are displayed. The five are
Robert Taft, Robert LaFollette, John
C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster and
Henry Glay. Reagan offered to un
veil the Jackson portrait when it is
completed.
The ceremony came as Reagan
stepped up a week of meetings and
ceremonial events that reflect the
Rose Garden strategy his advisers
are determined to follow until the
campaign heats up this fall.
The guest list included prominent
members of the American Jewish
community — an important political
constituency for Reagan — as well as
members of Congress and the Gab-
inet. Jackson’s wife, Helen, accepted
the medal.
A liberal on many issues, Jackson
was one of Israel’s strongest allies in
Congress arid — like Reagan — took
a hard-line stand toward the Soviet
Union.
The president dubbed his Central
America aid package “the Jackson
plan” after the 40-year veteran of
Congress and others persuaded him
to have a bipartisan commission as
sess the economic and military needs
of the region.
Reagan, whose handling of mili
tary and foreign affairs has pro
duced major confrontations with
Congress, praised Jackson as “the
great bipartisan politician of our
time.”
“His sense of bipartisanship was
not only natural and complete, it was
courageous,” Reagan said. “He
wanted to be president. But I think
he must have known that his outspo
ken ideas on the security of the na
tion would deprive him of the
chance to be his party’s nominee in
1972 and 1976.”
Reagan, who has sought to attract
conservative Democrats into his po
litical camp, used the ceremony to
offer a veiled invitation.
“I’m deeply proud, as he would
have been, to have Jackson Demo
crats serve in my administration,” he
said. “I’m proud that some of them
have found a home here.”
Earlier in the day, Reagan — at 73
the oldest man to occupy the Oval
Office — joked about his age as he
saluted 200 of his fellow senior citi
zens for their volunteer activities.
The East Room ceremony af
forded him an opportunity to again
dismiss suggestions that he may be
loo old for another term.
“They always talk about presi
dents aging in office. And, of course,
like everyone else, we do,” he said.
“But I also think that if you enjoy
this office and the great debates of
the day, then you’lE stay young ”
Warped
by Scott McCuIgi
Jackson meets
with Fidel Castro
United Press International
HAVANA — Jesse Jackson
met Tuesday with Cuban Presi
dent Fidel Castro in expectation
of securing the release of Cuban
political prisoners and Americans
held in Cuban jails as a human
rights gesture from the commu
nist leader.
Jackson and Castro began a
scheduled 3!/2-hour meeting at
the huge, modern Palace of the
Revolution in late afternoon.
They initially sat at a long confer
ence table with about 30 aides and
advisers and planned a later pri
vate session of several hours.
Jackson said earlier he had got
ten “good vibrations” from Castro
and had “very high” hopes of se
curing the prisoner release. He
met with the top U.S. diplomat in
Havana to discuss setting up the
machinery for a release should
Castro agree to it.
The two leaders planned a
public statement at the conclusion
of their talks, expected about 7
p in. EDT.
Among those sitting with Cas
tro and Jackson at the conference
table were top Cuban officials, in
cluding Ramon Sanchez Parodi,
chief of the Cuban diplomatic of
fice in Washington, who set up
Jackson’s unusual visit to Havana.
Also present was Rep. Mervyn
Dymally, D-Calif., and his two
teenage sons, Yusef and Jona
than.
Castro paid Jackson the un
usual honor of meeting him per
sonally at Jose Marti Airport
Monday night when Jackson, a
Democratic presidential candi
date, arrived
“We had good vibrations. It
was not difficult to commu
nicate,” Jackson told reporters on
a sight-seeing tour of Havana
Tuesday.
“I get the sense that Castro
really understands the advantages
of relating to the United States,"
he said.
Aides said Jackson took two
lists of prisoners to his meeting
with Casdro, who has ruled the
Caribbean island nation for more
than 25 years. One list has names
of 21 Cuban political prisoners
given him by Cuban-American
groups, and the other contains
names of 23 Americans in Cuban
jails for various crimes.
“I think it is important that Mr.
Castro send a message to Cuban-
Americans to give them the assur
ances they need," Jackson said. “I
think it is important that all of us
do what we can to rebuild families
again. We shall make an appeal to
release as many political prisoners
as we can.”
Before seeing Castro, Jackson
met with John Ferch, head of the
U.S. interest Section in Havana,
in an effort to “put the apparatus
in motion” for release of the pris
oners if he succeeds in securing it.
In Washington, a State Depart
ment spokesman said, “Ob
viously, if the Cubans decided to
move on this issue, we would be
helpful and would move expedi
tiously also.”
Panel urges
affirmative
action OK
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A bipartim
panel of former high-ranking goi
eminent officials Tuesday urjti
President Reagan to reverse whale
chairman called “open hostilityu
lukewarmness” toward affirmami
action programs.
The private Citizens’ Commissi
on Cavil Rights issued a ISI-pagert
port saying affirmative action remi
dies, with the backing of several pj
administrations, led to signilht
improvement in the occupations
status of minorities and women
“Beginning in 1981, iheexecuiht
branch reversed its position,’’s
panel chairman Arthur Fletnmi
former secretary of health, edua
lion and welfare and a former
man of the U.S. CommissiononC
Rights.
The report was financed hvgrans
from the Rockefeller Foundaiiot
and the Carnegie Corporation,
“Our strongest recoiimiendatioi
is that President Reagan re-examia
his position of opposition to affirmi
live action policies developed ari
implemented by his five predtctt
sors," the report said.
It said the administration's stand
“has encouraged opposition and
creased the protections of thela>
available to persons who have bet!
subjected to discrimination."
In a statement accompanyingl!(
report, Flemming said die recon
mendations “are all designed toit
verse the tone set by the presentai
ministration of open hostility!
lukewarmness to the developim*.
and vigorous enforcement of affi
inative action plans.”
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