University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1984
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DES MOINES, Iowa — President Reagan speaks at the Iowa Republican caucus kickoff rally in 'Veterans' Auditorium. Reagan was unopposed yesterday in the caucus. United Press International
Reagan out to beat 'dinosaur mentality'
By United Press International
DES MOINES, Iowa — President Reagan, stepping into the first political showdown of the election year, yesterday called his Democratic majority "a humiliating mauritian mentality" with a record of failed leadership.
As lowans kicked off the presidential nominating process at 2,495 precinct caucuses, Reagan appeared before cheering Republicans in the Des Moines to chants of "four more years."
But, across the street from the auditorium where Reagan appeared in Waterloo, out-of-work autoworkers ran a soup kitchen and waved placards proclaiming: "Out the door in '84."
LATER, REAGAN WAS heckled in Des Moines by a man standing with a placard that read "Reagan lies." As the heckler was drowned out with boos from the crowd, Reagan quipped. "Don't tell me one of the eight (Democratic candidates) is here?"
Former Vice President Walter Mondale got nearly half the vote in the caucuses, overwhelming the other seven Democratic candidates, but Reagan was mostly concerned with focusing on his own "day in ina," White House spokesman Pete Roussel said after the caucuses were called in favor of Mondale.
"My hunch is he went up and to bed" rather than watch the returns on television,
On his Iowa trip, the president recited a titty of his economic achievements and decried domestic content legislation backed by unions that support Democratic front-runner Mondale.
Reagan labeled such legislation — designed to protect U.S. automakers and the jobs of autoworkers — "just the kind of tinkering" that allowed trade war disastrous for American farmers.
REAGAN ASSAILED Mondale not by name, but by association — hammering away at Mondale's former boss, Jimmy Carter. The president reminded lowlands of the 'fairn grain' assault by Carter and defended the time by Mondale, who since has said he opposed the action.
anti-growth, dinosaur mentality that offers nothing for the future but repeating their failed past."
"We had a plan to rescue this nation in 1980, and that plan is working." Reaagain said. The Treaty of Paris is one of the few signs of progress.
"Let others appeal to greed and envy, pit group against group, treat people as helpless victims and seek to weaken our national defense by increasing the promise the they'll deliver green cheese."
MOVING TO GRAB some coveted media exposure from the Democrats, for whom the causes served as a key first-round test, Reagan and his pair of GOP allies to make his
Offering his policies as a prescription for "an opportunity society," he portrayed his challengers as beholden to special interests and appeared to take special aim at Mondale, who was expected to have his front-runner status solidified by the caucuses.
"The candidates in the other party have already laid out a strategy of promising everything to everybody." Reagan said, "Yes, we Republicans make promises, but not to interest groups to be paid from the public treasury and not to promises that cancel each other out."
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Republicans also held caucuses in Iowa yesterday, mostly pep calls for President Obama.
contenders did. But he was a nostalgic favorite as the 1972 standard bearer.
Reagan sought to steal some of the thunder from the Democrats by holding two big rallies in Waterloo and Des Moines where he denounced the entire Democratic field as captives of a "dinosaur mentality" with a record of failed leadership.
THE IOWA CAUCUSES play an important role in the presidential race not only because they are first, but because of their role of picking winners since they took over first place in 1972. That year McGovern got his start toward
winning the nomination with a strong and unexpected second place finish here. In 1976 an almost unknown Jimmy Carter scored an upset by winning Iowa.
At 8 p.m. CST Democrats gathered in informal meetings in church basements, fire stations and living rooms in the state's 2,495 precincts, divided into groups according to candidate preference and cast a public ballot for their favorites. Some voted to stay uncommitted.
At stake are 50 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco in July. Yesterday's caucuses actually are only the first step in the selection process but the breakdown by candidate will be clear after the voting. Eight delegates will be selected by the Democratic party.
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present the bill to the House because he did not think it could pass.
If it did get through the committee, Charlton said. House Speaker Mike Hayden, RI-Atwood, said.
By next week, Charlton said, the bill will be tested. Members of the House must begin reviewing Senate bills in the next two weeks, she said, and time is running out for the bill to make it through the House before Senate proposals consume House business.
The bill proposes the following changes to the general improvement and assessment law:
- The city must put a bond issue of more than $50,000 up for a public vote. The present law says that the city may put a bond issue — it does not specify an amount — for a public vote.
- The amount of time for protest of an
improvement is extended from 20 days in the present law to 60 days.
Charlton said the bill might pass only if it were amended. She said she had suggested possible
One change would increase the amount the city could pay for a project from 20 percent to 50
Another change would increase the amount that would mandate a public vote from $500,000 to $750,000.
Lawrence City Commissioner Ernest Angino said he opposed the bill.
"I don't think in the long run it would make for good or effective government," he said. "I think the bill was too restrictive. It just doesn't suit our area. It applies to anything else you want to do."
"It would have the effect of reducing change, and things either get better or worse."
German economics minister admits his party accepted illegal cash gifts
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Economies Minister Count Otto Lambsdorf admitted yesterday that his Free Democratic Party accepted $115,000 in payment, while he was party transgressor in the 1970s.
Lambsdorff appeared yesterday for the second time before an all-party parliamentary committee to answer charges that he took $50,000 in bribes from the Flick holding firm.
But Lamsdorff said his acceptance of the gifts from Flick between 1976-77 for his party and 1978-79 for his election.
He said his party accepted a total of $115,000 from Flick in undeclared payments between 1976 and 1977 when he was treasurer for the North Rhine Westfalia state branch of the party.
LAMBSDORFF WAS charged late last year by Bonn state prosecutors with taking $50,000 in bribes from Flick while he was a minister in return for granting the company a $175 million tax waiver.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl has said he would retain Lambordsdorff in office pending a decision
by the courts on whether to press charges against him Lambsdorff has repeatedly denied the charges and maintained again yesterday a cash from Flick as a government minister.
Lambdorfdiff said yesterday that in 1972 and from 1974 until 1977, Flick had donated an additional $6,000 in cash gifts for his "personal political work." He said he deposited $3,800 of that money in the personal bank account and the remainder in the party account.
HE STRESSED THAT as a member of Parliament at the time, he was entitled to accept cash gifts of up to $3,000 a year for his personal use, under West German law.
He said the decision not to declare the cash gifts was made at the donors' request and said that the opposition Social Democratic Party had also accepted similar undeclared gifts at the donors' request.
The state prosecutor's charges against Lambdorrif were reportedly based on files kept by the prosecutor.
But Lambsdorf said the witnesses would testify that Diehl had gained his information secondhand from telephone conversations with various company executives.
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