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If there Is one thins this country doesnt need, it is
to haw Walter Mondale o its next president .
By all indications, Mondale, the former vice presi
dent who served under Jimmy Carter, has become
the front-runner for the 1084 Democratic
nomination. .
Saturday, he was given a resounding endorse
ment from the leaders of the AFL-CIO, Mandate got
98.5 percent of the ballots cast by 0 AFL-CIO union
presidents. That came only one day after Mondale
won the endorsement of the National Education
'. Union. ' ' .
If the Democrats do nominate Mondale next
summer, they may end up regretting it when the
general election rolls around.
This country's voters are not likely to forget the
disastrous leadership of the Carter administration,
in which Mondale served.
And they shouldn't .
,Mondale, of course, is running for. president
instead of vice president this time, but he has given
every indication that he would lead the United.
States much the same way Carter did.
We shouldn't be surprised, then, to find Mondale
using many of Carter's campaign tactics. He seems
to promise everything to everybody, a trick that
worked the first time around for Carter but that
failed miserably after the voters saw just how many
of those promises he kept
Newsweek reported in its Oct 3 edition that Mon
dale has developed a habit of telling interest groups
their concerns are "at the very core of my being."
In fact, the magazine reported Mondale used that
exact phrase three times in a three-week period to -express
hi3 commitment to civil rights, quality edu
cation and the rights of unions.
Just as Carter blasted Reagan's proposals in the
1930 campaign, Mondale now is bury blastbg the
Reagan record, without coring any viable sciatic-s
of his own.".- :
The Reagan economic program has been a dicas-'.
ter, Mondale says. Since he offers no real program -.
himself, maybe we should look back to his days as
vice president, when inflation and interest rates
soared to record hri levels. : .
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Heigh-ho 'Mandate'1 'and -away . .'
Reagan despoiismthinly disguised
Ronald Reagan's first two years as president cf
the United States were marked by unprecedented
coincidence between the desires of the Oval OlSce
and Congress' actions. Atop his trusty steed, Man
date, and surrounded by a bevy of Republican con
gressional members, Reagan ran roughshod over
uic i-cuvs process, cectrcjisg social prenrarr.
j rcaLE-aa c:uncs3 ana vctsLtg every Ccn-
The current level of unemployment is unaecspta- -
ble, but taken as a whole, the economy appears to be
on the mend. We can hope for better eecr.crie times
, and that's more than the Carter cdmiabtraiton ever
" offered us. .
' - Mondale. has promised to cut' back on' military
spending, saying it has caused many of our eco-'
nomk problems. But -voters should remember the
Carter days when so little emphasis was placed on
national defense that other nations' could invoke
. whatever penalties they wanted without fear of any :
real response from Washington. ' '
. Many Americans are unhappy with the current
administration. But even more were'unhappy with
' the Carter; administration 'and they wont forget
that the next time they go to the polls.
, Unless Mondsle .can offer gome evidence 'that his
. leadership wen! j be much' different than that of
Jimmy Carter, the Democratic party is not lively to
find hfca si sucte:;! candidate for the ltZ general
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about nuclear arms li:Ldup from a public which is
increasingly better informed bj the nuclear frccis
AcccrdLig to a Ilrrrb Cnry puthed 'in
days LL-.ec!a Ctar, a merl cf Americans tost
msderatian end tz-zx ii Cztrj vfdh the Soviets.
Cever.ty-sis pcrccr.1 cithers pzZzd said Presided
ngm has chca tZzZxZZs ratramt in not cist
tmg elf all ccntact rdlh tha Cr.icts after they shot
dpvm the Kcrcan pbr.s. A rarrSy of those pcHcd
ts prairsd the prcisr-t fcr not osEing off srra '
tal! cr car.ec:g recent VLCzizt grain deals.
lis remitarized Ar:arisan fcrefg pc!!ey v.ith
defense spendir.g and cbaTidcnad Clzzz: Ln
favor of berc3 b fcitcmatianal dialogue.
: AH this, Reagan ciaiised, wes justified, nay,
. demanded by the Aracriear.s who voted for hia. In a
manner that breIit to mi-d John Bdnshi and Dan
Akroyds ,fre on a mbcisn from Gcd," the presi
dent mycLd again and agam hb "mandate from the
people. -
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. Substsathl Democratic gains h 1CC3 House of '
Irccsntctivsa elections we&cned that mandate
sostewhst; now Reagsn has to wheedle, bsrcsLn and
sometimes even comproshe to get what he wants.
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the VR mirtary b vrihra ths Coviet Unicai
Vciili!:a cutting o&diccazed finger
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caLing for a firecre, 77-23 percent
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whether cur pre:; J r -1 tnzl j cILcrcs to mandito cf
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Jack of prcgrc-s b cixri r:;:et;:n talks' ar.i is
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