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Wednesday, October 19,1988 The Battalion Page 5 Warped by Scott McCullar Waldo by Kevin Thomas THEN AGAIN, I GUESS THE COWS HAVE THEIR OWN WAY OF RUNNING FREE TOO-.. Libertarian campaigner travels presidential trail JERSEY VILLAGE (AP) — The presidential campaign motorcade speeds down a Texas freeway at about 75 mph — a radar detector perched on the dash board of the lead car. It seems almost appropriate that when the entourage makes a quick stop for lunch, the candidate who favors a return to the gold standard as backing for American currency orders his driver to pull under the McDonald’s golden arches for a cheeseburger. This is no ordinary national political campaign. No Secret Service agents. No police escort. No freeway roadblocks. No ac companying horde of reporters and cam era crews and no frantic campaign staff ers or advance people. And the “motorcade” consists of three cars, the candidate in the front seat of a four-door Ford and two reporters weav ing their vehicles in and out of traffic desperately trying to keep pace. If a dark suit and light blue shirt and red striped tie make for the classic uni form of a presidential hopeful, then Ron Paul is playing the part correctly. But that’s about where the similarity to people like George Bush and Michael Dukakis ends. Paul, 53, a former four-term Republi can congressman from Lake Jackson, is the Libertarian Party nominee for presi dent. Although his campaign is low-key and operating on a miniscule budget compared to Bush and Dukakis, he will share a ballot spot next month with his better-known rivals in 47 states and the District of Columbia. “The odds aren’t very good,” he says of his chances for moving into the White House in January. “But the odds are very good that we are going to take hold in this country. We’re realistic in knowing Libertarian candidate Ron Paul will speak at Texas A&M on W'ednesday, Oct. 19 at 7:00 p.m. in 201 MSC. Ad mission is free. - we’re not going to be elected this year, but we’re not a fly-by-night operation.” Paul’s campaign is not so much aimed at electing him but about promoting the philosophy of the Libertarians, who claim a membership of more than 200,000 nationwide. The party has fielded a presidential candidate since 1972 and picked up some 250,000 votes in the 1984 election. Paul, by profession an obstetrician and gynecologist, he rarely refers to himself during campaign appearances, preferring instead to tout his party’s goals of a com pletely free marketplace, unbridled civil liberties and a non-interventionist for eign policy. “We’re spoiling the comfort of the politicians who won’t deal with the prob lems and are bankrupting the country,” he says. “That’s a great role.” Paul, who during his congressional term once proposed changing the color of money from green to pink and blue and yellow, among other things favors abolishing the personal income tax and the Internal Revenue Service, disbanding the FBI, pulling U.S. troops out of Eu rope and the Far East and getting rid of all drug laws and making illegal drugs le gal. He’d also let private firms handle Social Security and get the government out of public education. Paul says he quit the Republicans after becoming disenchanted with Ronald Reagan. “He told me he would get the govern ment off my back,” he says. “But look what’s happening. If you look at the IRS or DEA or INS or whoever, they’re not off our backs. They’re into our wallets and into our bedrooms and into our pri vate lives more so than ever before.” His rather populist message draws a smattering of enthusiastic applause dur ing campaign appearances. On the drug issue, however, some of the opposition can get hostile, especially when Paul suggests it should be left up to the indi vidual whether to use narcotics. Joseph Azmeh, 19, a University of Houston student said after a recent Paul campaign, “I was in favor of everything he said until he got to the drug issue. I have a small brother and he watches TV and I know how advertising affects him.” Paul believes making drugs legal would reduce crime by 50 percent and eliminate the profit motive for drug deal ers since the substances would be readily available. “It’s pretty hard to get a young person to work for $4 an hour when they can make $400 a day pushing drugs,” Paul says. “Those profits and high salaries would be gone if drugs weren’t so artifi cially pumped up in price.” And he insists it’s wrong that the gov ernment is so involved in anti-drug pro grams when the teaching of other dan gers to children is handled by parents at home. “It’s gone mad, it’s an obsession,” he says of campaigns like Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No.” “What I’m promoting is liberty and freedom of choice and indi vidual responsiblity.” After nearly 10 months full time on the campaign trail, after appearances in nearly all of the states, he says he has a feeling of “tiredness but not futility.” Expert: Costs of fall clothes may escalate By Michelle Carney Reporter A rejection of recent clothing trends and an increase in the cost of labor is driving fall clothing prices up, said Dr. Ann Beard, a clothing and textiles spe cialist with the Texas Agricultural Serv ice at Texas A&M. “Consumers can expect a big jump in prices this fall,” Beard said. Many women, especially career women who support the clothing indus try, didn’t like the styles offered, she said. An example is the mini-skirt. Career women want more conserva tive clothing for the workplace. Another factor influencing clothing prices and sales is the economy. The stock market slump in October had some effect on the buying market. Beard said. People have taken on a wait-and-see atti tude and replace only what has to be re placed, she said. “Higher prices may encourage con sumers to be more conscious of what they’re getting for their money — espe cially in the big-ticket fall and winter clothes made of wool,” Beard said. Although the price of wool has doubled in the past year, that is not the only cause for increasing wool clothing prices this fall, Rita Kourlis, director of wool marketing for the American Wool Council, said. “The cost of the wool is only three percent of the retail price for the finished garment,” she said. “So, in a $300 suit, only about $10 goes for the wool.” Everything along the way affects clothing prices, Kourlis said. “There is somewhat of a trickle effect, with the cost of wool yam and fabric in creasing as the price for raw wool goes up,” Kourlis said. Beard said that in an attempt to help keep the cost of winter clothes down, consumers are purchasing wool blends. Blends, a combination of wool with other fabrics, are increasing in popularity because consumers get the best of both fabrics, she said. Blends are also more durable and there is no difference in look or feel between blends and actual wool. Beard said. To avoid high clothing prices, many people avoid buying clothes, she said. But climate changes, job changes and school force people to buy despite high costs. To help consumers get the most for their dollar, Beard suggests that they not avoid buying, but make careful selec tions. People should shop more for quality items and for styles that will last, she said. Sticking to moderate styles allows consumers to get the best out of their clothing budget, she said. “You don’t want to be too conserva tive or too trendy,” she said. “Trends are nice occassionally as accents because they add spice to life.” Comparison shopping is one way to stretch dollars. Too often people are hur ried and don’t take time to look at what they are buying, she said. Some clothing manufacturers skimp by using less qual ity interfacing and cheaper buttons. 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