University Daily Kansan, September 26. 1983
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Writers say movie could boost Glenn's campaign
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — "The Right Stuff," a new movie depicting the origins of the U.S. space program, should provide an unexpected lift-off to the presidential campaign of Ohio Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, political writers say.
But the film's producers, who have planned a detailed marketing strategy aimed at taking full advantage of the Christmas movie season, are concerned that a public could react adversely if the film is perceived as a political advertisement.
Despite that fear, the Ladd Co. producers of "The Right Stuff," recently screened a three-hour unfinished print of the film for New York Times and Los Angeles Times political writers.
'THE FILM could hardly come at a better moment for Glenn — just when he is striving to get his own campaign
into high gear and when (former Vice President Walter) Mondale is expecting a furry of public attention resulting from expected endorsements from the National Education Association and the AFL-CIO, Robert Shogan said last Thursday in a front page story in the Los Angeles Times.
Reporter Howell Raines, writing in The New York Times last Wednesday, also pointed out the fortunate timing of him on Oct. 16 premiere in Washington.
"The movie seems to fit Mr. Glenn's political purpose almost ideally since it depicts him as an heroic square with a self-deprecating sense of humor about humourness, as a devoted protector of his father's fierce, driven patriot." Raines wrote.
THE POLLS讲 Glenn trailing Mondale for the Democratic nomination, and both stories stressed that the movie could only help Glenn's name identification and image — especially among younger voters, who comprise
the majority of moviegoers and may be unfamiliar with his history-making flight.
Ashley Boone, vice president of marketing and distribution for Ladd Co., said that the Glenn stories stemmed from "the desire on the part of the press to seek out a story that's not necessarily there.
"Political desks do all sorts of strange things and a lot of them perceive the movie as something it was not made to be," he said in an interview with a history of flight. "It the story of astronauts. It's the story of Mercury program.
"THERE HAPPENS to be one character that decided — after we started making the movie — to throw his hat in the ring for the presidency, therefore the political writers keep hounding on that aspect."
Bob Dingillian, in charge of publicity for Ladd, called early attention to the campaign.
It is highly unusual for studios to
screen movies for the media until they are completed.
"We didn't go to the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times and say, 'Hey guys, we have this wonderful political document for you,'" Dinar McGraw says he met us because of the heat they were from their own management."
IN AN INTERVIEW, New York Times reporter Raines said that he was not responding to any "beat" from his team. He wrote, "the story, but simply covering his beat.
Dingilian characterized the political stories about "The Right Stuff" as "a fair representation of the movie." He said that Dingilian's political stories would help at the box office.
Boone said that he would have preferred that there were no political overtones to the film and stressed that he was only one of eight astronauts featured.
U.S. Central American policy might backfire, Mondale says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's Central American policy strengthens "the forces of right-wing extremism" and unwittingly makes dictatorships more likely, former Vice President Walter Mondale said yesterday.
Mondale offered a blistering critique of Reagan's positions on El Salvador and Nicaragua in a speech to the national board of Americans for Democratic Action, a group representing liberal Democrats.
Reagan's policy, Mondale said, "de-emphasizes land reform, support for democratic institutions," and "legitimate the forces of right-wing extremism."
Mondale, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he did not support the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua, but argued that Reagan was pursuing a dangerous policy based on the concept that "the very existence of the Sandinista regime is intolerable."
LENDING SUPPORT to right-wing elements in Central America is likely to backfire on the United States. Mondale
asserted, because, "The extreme left
affects it on the face to ace off
accent in equally extreme fields."
"I don't want a communist dictatorship in Central America or anywhere, but strengthening the extremes to block communism." said Mondale.
Mondale told an audience of about 150 delegates to the meeting that Reagan's Central American policy rested on several "illusions." including:
"The illusion that the challenge we face primarily an east-west security problem
This ignores the fact, he said, that
"generations of poverty, disease and militarism have created a breeding ground for revolution."
"THE ILLUSION that a military solution is possible."
Any military action against the Sandinistas would end with a “pronged underwriting” of a new Nicaraguan government, he said.
—"The illusion that the American people don't support Reagan's position because they are being misinformed ... Polls show that those best informed opposed the Reagan positions the most."
Student reports $17 knife-point robbery
By the Kansan Staff
A 19-year-old KU student was robbed at knife point at about 9:05 p.m. Thursday. She was walking under the walkway between Marvin Hall and the Visual Arts Building, KU police said, when the assault confronted her.
The student told police that she was
walking toward the Visual Arts Building and saw the suspect walking ahead of her. She said he stopped and turned around as if he had forgotten something, drew a 6-inch knife, and asked her to turn over her money.
She told him she had no money, but he grabbed her backpack to search it. She then handed him $17 and he pushed her to the ground and fled.
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Kite-flying expert hoisted skyward killed during world record attempt
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LONG BEACH, Wash. — A kite-flying expert attempting to recapture the world record for the biggest kite became caught in its lines, was hoisted skyward and fell 100 feet to his death.
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SHOULD OUR COUNTRY COMMIT ITSELF TO REFORMATION OR RETREAT?
One piece of literature distributed by the K.U. Committee on South Africa last spring was entitled Investors In Apartheid; U.S. Firms With Subsidiaries In South Africa and began with the following paragraph:
The more South Africa moves from racial skirmishes to sustained racial struggle, the more urgent the issue of U.S. commercial involvement becomes. Supporters of U.S. investment assert that a U.S. corporate presence can exert a moderating influence on the policies of the white minority government in South Africa. Opponents say that it has not in fact done so and that the sooner the minority government is cut off from its external supports, the better the chances that it will come to terms with the black majority, advance the cause of justice and avoid an out-and-out bloodbath.
With all due respect to divestment's proponents, I hold that divestment and other such expressions of isolationism can only exacerbate South Africa's troubles and thus greatly increase the possibility of "an out-and-out bloodbath" occurring. Because "U.S. investment is concentrated in the most crucial sectors of the South African economy—automobiles, oil and energy, and computers", our government could effect significant change in South Africa by requiring each U.S. corporation located there to adhere to a program designed to improve the lot of and eventually liberate the oppressed majority.
By permitting this laudable goal to shape our relations with, for instance, the brutal governments of the Soviet Union, China, Iran and El Salvador as well, the United States could regain from its neighbors and allies the respect they once accorded it. Instead the national powers-that-be plan to send grain and technology to the Soviet Union even while, according to Mikhail Makarenko who spent eight years in Soviet forced labor camps, it (the Soviet Union) feeds the more than four million prisoners in such camps less than the Nazis fed their captives at Auschwitz and continues to kill Afghans defending their native land.
Although the United States has the means both to buy all the world's grain while fairly compensating our productive farmers for the fruits of their labor, and bring material improvement and political freedom to South Africa's exploited masses, our governing units continue to squander public funds at home maintaining athletic stadiums, constructing shopping malls, and ending unwanted pregnancies and abroad assisting tyrannical governments like those of the Soviet Union and South Africa.
By choosing to use our resources productively, this country would be committing itself to reformation rather than retreat and stopping the use, in the words of former Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, "of public funds for inhuman purposes." There is no other course of action that will bring this nation's and the world's people peace and plenty.
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