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University Daily Kansan. September 30. 1983
Mondale likely to get backing from teachers
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The political action committee of the nation's second largest union recommended in a private meeting yesterday that the group back Walter Mondale's presidential bid, a union source said.
Participants in the three-hour meeting held at the headquarters of the National Education Association were sworn to secrecy, but the panel voted "overwhelmingly" for endorsing the former vice president.
A news conference is scheduled today to announce the decision.
MONDALE, LONG considered a major ally to education, has been expected to receive the backing of 17 million member teachers' union.
But in recent months, with Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, rising in the polls, some thought he might at least cause a stir at yesterday's meeting
A source said, however, "It was not an acromatic meeting at all," adding that the vote for Mondale "was overwhelming."
Mondale is expected to be at the NEA headquarters today to formally accept the union's support. The NEA, with just 100,000 members less than the Teamsters, America's union, is a potent political force.
In 1980, for instance, the association had the largest block of delegates at the Democratic convention - 311, about 10 percent of the vote, in 2004, the NEA backed the ticket of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.
THE RECIPIENT OF THE NEA's support this year will receive union-backed efforts to win delegates to the 1984 Democratic Convention. These efforts, however, will be confined to states where affiliates ratify the selection of the NEA's leadership.
For example, the NEA affiliates in
Ohio and California are expected to promote the campaigns of their respective native sons, Glenn and Sen. Alan Cranston.
It is unclear what will happen in Iowa. Last week, the president of the state NEA's affiliate, Phoebe Tupa, said that she personally attended an event where she will vote on Nov. 19 on whether to ratify the national union's selection.
The NEA endorsement for the general election will be made next year by a vote of 7,500 convention delegates. It is highly unlikely that the union would endorse a Republican, especially President Reagan, who has clashed with the NEA several times in the past year.
LEADERS OF THE AFL-CIO are expected to overwhelmly back Mondale when they meet in Florida tomorrow. Formal AFL-CIO endorsement is set for next Wednesday during the federation's 15th biennial convention at Hollywood, Fla., and will break a tradition of withholding support until after both national conventions.
Mondale's presidential campaign blitzed Maine yesterday, hoping to sweep him to his first straw-poll on the ballot. 5,000 Democrats ballot this weekend.
"We would not be happy with second place," said Don Foley, one of 60 Mondale campaign staff members working in Maine. "It would indicate that somebody else had out-organized us. We would not want to go into the spring caucasus with that kind of burden."
Sens. Alan Cranston of California,
John Glenn of Ohio and Ernest
Hollins of South Carolina also were
mounting strong efforts.
"WE'VE COME HERE to show we can be competitive with the front-runner," said Paul Ambrosino of the Cranston campaign. "If we can beat either Glenn or Mondale, we had a successful operation up here."
But Glenn's campaign downplayed the poll's significance.
"We have the least to gain and the least to lose," said John Diamond, Glenn's Maine organizer. "Our greatest campaign asset lies in the ability to rank-and-fire Democrats who are not eligible to vote in the straw poll.
MANILA, Philippines — Anti-government rallies erupted yesterday amid opposition threats to block the streets of the capital with "a million people traveling about during his planned November visit.
Philippine opposition promises anti-Reagan protests
Bv United Press International
However, administration officials said that Reagan would not change his plans to visit the Philippines, despite escalating protests there.
Plainclothes security forces raided and locked up an outspoken opposition weekly newspaper, the *Philippine*, of a death penalty, and a sedition, which carries a death penalty.
SECURITY MEN IN Malia entered an apartment in the "University Belt"
Despite tough orders by President Ferdinand Marcos to crush demonstrations, protests erupted throughout the Manila area. Riot police were deployed near the presidential palace, but there was no protest there.
near the presidential palace and arrested two students found with a stick of dynamite, a bag of dynamite powder and a .22 caliber revolver.
Helmeted, shield-wielding riot police broke up one protest at the Greenhills commercial district. Protesters threw showers of yellow confetti as motorists bonked car horns and women beat metal pans.
A 25-year-old student wearing a yellow T-shirt bearing a picture of slain opposition leader Benigo Aquino was there. There were no reports of injuries.
At the University of the East near the presidential palace, about 1,000 students held a 40-minute "noise barrage," beating galvanized iron sheets, setting off firecrackers and chanting "Marcos, Hitler, Dictator."
AQUINO'S WIDOW, CORY, joined thousands at a mass marking the 40th day after her husband's assassination at Manila airport on his return from a three-year voluntary exile in the United States.
Reagan is scheduled to visit Manila Nov. 5-6. A White House spokesman said that the trip would proceed as planned. Critics said Reagan's visit would be an endorsement of Marcos' controversial 18-year rule.
"We will get a million people sitting down on the streets," Laurel said at an anti-government march through the Makati business district in another part.
Laurel said Reagan had a "big problem. If he comes, he'll be considered as having condoned the assassination of Ninoy (Aquino's nickname). If he doesn't, he'll be considered as having condoned Marcos."
COL. WILFRED NICOLAS of the Criminal Investigation Service said the wife of editor Rommel Corro, 37, and five employees were present during the raid on the Philippines Times and would be "invited" for questioning.
Compromise on civil-rights commission proposed
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee hopes it has worked out a compromise in its deadlock over President Reagan's plans to replace list of one U.S. Civil Rights Commission on the blood, sources said late yesterday.
The compromise, worked out in private negotiations over the past three weeks, would enlarge the commission, an anti-discrimination agency, from 80 to 120 and set up staggered terms for commissioners, congressional sources said.
That would make room for only two of Reagan's three latest nominees to serve as president.
recommend which two of the three — Morris Abram, John Bunzel and Robert Destro — should be confirmed by the full Senate.
Counting two Reagan appointees already serving on the commission, the compromise would give the president a chance to join the board — less than a majority.
THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE tentatively scheduled a meeting today to publicly unveil and vote on the proposal.
When Reagan made his latest nominations to the commission, he generated charges that he was trying to stack the independent watchdog agency with him, more on key civil rights issues, such as opposition to busing and quotas.
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