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SAN FRANCISCO Democratic presidential nom
inee Walter Mondale Thursday fired up hb party for
the 1084 campaign with a hard-hitting attack on
President Reagan and a vow to beat him by preach
ing "a new realism." Mondale, who won the nomina
tion by vote of the party's convention Wednesday
night, issued his call to arms and set hb campaign
themes in an acceptance speech prepared for deliv
ery Thursday night.
The 5G-year-old former vice president under
Jimmy Carter started with a candid admission that
he had learned painful lessons from Reagan's land
slide win in the 1980 election. "Ronald Reagan beat
the pants off us...and our party heard you," he said
in a remark addressed to the voting public watching
his televised address.
Mondale said he travelled the land to learn what
his party's mistakes had been and had emerged
wiser and stronger. Tonight we come to you with a
new realism; ready for the future and recapturing
the best in our tradition...If Mr. Reagan wants to
rerun the 1G80 campaign, fine. Let them fight over
the past. We're fighting for the American future
and that's why we're going to win."
Then he swung into his assult on Reagan, saying
the conservative Republican had given America a
government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. He
repeated the Democratic view that the presidents
tax cuts had favored the wealthy at the expense of
the poor and middle class and said his record $180
billion annual budget deficits would drive up inter
est rate3 and ruin economic recovery.
Spelling out some of what he meant by the "new
realism" theme, Mondale, who i3 fighting an old
image as a big-spending liberal, stated: "By the end
of my first term, I will cut the deficit by two thirds.
That raised the stakes of his campaign pledge to cut
the deficit by half, and was the only explicit new
policy promise in hb speech.
On foreign policy, he repeated familiar allegations
that Reagan has, helped perpetuate a nuclear arms
race and failed to pursue serious negotiations with
the Soviet Union. "Why can't we meet in summits at
least once a year? The truth b, we can," he said.
Mondale's main objective, however, was to pres
ent himself as a leader of inspiring vbion and offset
impressions that, by comparison with the polbhed
and popular Reagan, he b a stiff and lackluster
figure. He recognized that problem and dealt with it
simply:
"I'm Walter Mondale. You may have heard of me
but you may not really know me."
Draft ruling probably won't affect
conservative Nebraskan students
EyJ&aa Dahfanan Poena
Young men who do not register with the selective
service cannot receive federal financial aid after all,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently.
But the ruling probably won't affect most of
Nebraska's rather conservative students, according
to Don Aripoli, UNL scholarships and financial aid
director.
Since schools began collecting certification of reg
istration in June 1 933, Aripoli said, only one student
has refused to sign the required statement. That
student wa3 an honorably discharged veteran who
refused strictly out of nrinciple. Although he was
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tag major, tzEta to Delcrss Eobiaette, UNL
Fiisi&ckl Aids Clerk.
denied federal aid, alternative funds were made
available to him, Aripoli said.
During the 1933-84 school year, Aripoli said, UNL
spent between $2,000 and $3,000 on postage, enve
lopes, paper and clerical time to collect draft infor
mation from students arid send it to the Depart
ment of Education. However, he said, the require
ment will cost the school $500 to $1,000 during the
1984-85 school year. The cost will be lower because
the certification statement b included in the award
letter mailed to each student who receives financial
aid.
Shelley Stall of UNL's Student Legal Services office
said she agreed with Aripoli that few Nebraskans
would be affected by the ruling.
"IVe worked here three-and-a-half years, and IVe
never had anyone ask me about thb particular
bsue," she said.
Because Nebraska b more conservative than
other parts of the country, Stall said, most students
who are required to register just go ahead and do so.
The Supreme Court ruling overturned a previous
decbion by U.S. Dbtrict Court Judge Donald Abop
of Minnesota. Abop had ruled in favor of six ano
nymous Minnesota students who claimed the law
required them to provide incriminating evidence
about their regbtration status. They also claimed
that by withholding federal aid, the government was
punbhing them without first proving their guilt.
Abop issued an injunction banning enforcement
of the law more than a year ago, but the Supreme
Court placed a stay on the injunction. Because of
the stay, schools continued to collect certification of
regbtration from students while waiting for the
Supreme Court to make a final ruling.
Bob Seeley of t he Central Committee for Contien
tious Objectors said hb organization has many con
cerns about the ruling.
Seely said hb organization believes that the law,
commonly called the Solomon Amendment, b "in
herently discriminatory against minorities."
Seeley said that in 1982, 56.7 percent of Basic
Educational Opportunity Grants and 46.4 percent
of work-study positions went to minority students,
although only 146 percent of all students belong to.
an ethnic minority. Because minorities and low
income students receive the most federal aid, he
said, the law punbhes those students but leaves
high-income students totally unaffected.
Abo, Seeley said, hb organization fears the ruling
will open the way for the passage of similar measures.
Socialists put candidate on ballot
By Gecf Goodwin
Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale won't be the
only presidential candidates on the Nov. 6 ballot in
Nebraska
' The Socialbt Worker Party qualified its presiden
tial candidate, Mel Mason, for the ballot by submit
ting petitions to Nebraska Secretary of State Allen
Beermann last week.
But Beermann said Mason will be lbted on the
ballot as an independent
"They are representatives of the Socialbt Workers
Party but will be on the ballot as independents
because they didn't submit enough signatures to be
lbted as a party " he said.
To qualify as a party, the SWT would have had to
submit 5,500 signatures. That's about 3,000 more
than they actually submitted
Beermann said Nebraska usually has more can
didates on the ballot than it will in 1934.
This year b a little unusual," he said. "At one time
we had as many as four or five candidates on the
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ballot."
Several other parties could make their way onto
the ballot as a result of a lawsuit filed last week by
the Libertarian Party.
The lawsuit contends that the state statue requir
ing a party to qualify for the ballot is unconsti
tutional No date has been set for the lawsuit to be heard.
The recently resurrected Populbt Party may abo
find a place on the Nebraska ballot.
Rolland Victor, state chairman of the Populbt
Party, said the party b attempting to gather enough
signatures to beat the mid-August deadline.
"We're certainly going to try," Victor said. "I don't
know whether well make it. We're in the process of
getting people to collect signatures in various counties."
Nebraska state law requires that the signatures
must come from 19 of Nebraska's counties.
Beerman said Nebraska's election laws are much
easier than some states in allowing new parties to
get on the ballot
"We think it b (easier)," he said, "but apparently
the Libertarians dont."
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Ferrari) accepts
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SAN FRANCISCO - Gercldine Ferraro Thurs
day night accepted the Democratic nomina
tion to become the first woman vice presiden
tial candidate of a major party and predicted
that president Reagan will be defeated in
November.
"By choosing an American woman to run for
our nation's second highest office, you send a
powerful signal to all Americans," the New
York congresswoman said. "There are no doors
we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on
achievement," she said in accepting the posi
tion on a ticket headed by presidential nomi
nee Walter Mondale.
The 48-year-old daughter of Italian immi
grants delivered a blbtering attack on Reagan,
casting him as a dangerous man militarily and
a leader who favors the rich over the poor, men
over women. Recent public opinion polls have
shown a Mondale-Ferraro ticket trailing Rea
gan and hb vice president, Georgs Bush, by 14
percentage points in advance of the November
6 election. Some analysts have suggested the
Democrats made a mistake by putting Mon
dale and Ferraro on the same ticket because
both are considered Northern liberals with lit
tle apeal to Southerners and Westerners, whose
support will be critical if the popular Reagan b
to be unseated. In her speech, Ferraro tried to
show the appeal of the Democratic combina
tion by highlighting her gender and her working-class
urban roots, while portraying Mon
dale as a champion of traditional American
values with a small-town Midwestern back
ground. Violence peaks in Peru
AYACUCHO, Peru Ninety-two Indian pea
sants have been reported massacred in three
villages thb week as political violence reached
a new peak in a month-long offensive by Maobt
guerrillas. Refugees arriving in thb southeast
ern city Thursday said the biggest massacre
took place in Arcac, where 40 people were
shot. The killers wore hoods and security force
uniforms, and drove police or army vehicles,
they added.
The army's anti-guerrilla command in Aya
cucho declined to comment on the massacre
reports. The command has said that Maobt
Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas,
who have been waging a guerrilla war against
the Peruvian government for four years, often
masquerade in police or army uniforms. More
than 400 people are believed to have died in
the latest guerrilla offensive.
Diplomats face stalemate
BERNE, Switzerland The first direct talks
between Britain and Argentina since their
1082 war over the Falkland Islands broke
down Thursday night, the day after they began,
because the two countries could not agree
whether to dbcuss the sovereignty of the Brit
bh colony. Britain formally announced the end
of the talks, whose goal had been to normalize
relations severed after Argentine military for
ces invaded the blands. The chief spokesman
of the Swiss Foreign Minbtry, which chaired
the talks, confirmed the meeting had ended,
but a senior Argentine diplomat said informal
discussions could be continuing. x
Britbh Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe
said in a statement that the talks had ended
because Argentina insisted on discussing the
islands' sovereignty, which Britain said was
not negotiable. According to Britbh sources, it
wa3 clear the talks had broken down md that
there was little prospect of art carry resumption.
Argentina has long claimed th f eUdands,
which it calb the Malvinss, and invaded the
Britbh colony in April, 1032. Britain recap
tured the bland 10 weeks later after a savage
battle in which 2,000 people were killed.
nount Everest sanitized
KATHMANDU, Nepal A special police
team plans to climb Mount Everest soon to
recover the bodies of three climbers and remove
piles of garbage left by thousands cf tourists, a
Nepalese official said here Thursday. Veteran
mountaineers have warned thr.t Everest b fast
becoming a high-altitude garbass dump as
thousands of trekkers and cllrtibsrs litter it
from top to bottom with mcunda of refuse that
do not decay in bw temperatures. The Minb
try of Tourism had earlier mounted a similar
campaign to remove litter left by trekkers on
the trail to the pealfs'bsse. They buried or
burned about 33,000 pounds of rubbish at base
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Friday. Jut 20, 1934