November 1, 1984 Page 2
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Contempt charges filed against attorney general
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, yesterday cited Attorney General William French Smith with criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to provide a Senate panel files on the administration of the General Dynamics Corp.
Grassley's action just one week before the election could embarrass the Reagan administration, but it likely marks no more than the first step in a lengthy process that could lead to the full Senate contempt resolution sometime next year.
Thomas Decair, the attorney general's chief spokesman, said, "We are at a loss to understand what Sen. Grassley is doing. We have repeatedly tried to explain to him how damaging to the criminal justice system it would be to allow political pressure and pressure to be brought to bear on an open criminal investigation."
Media asked not to call race
LOS ANGELES — Concerned that Californians might not vote if the presidential race is called before the poll close, Mayor Tom Bradley has asked major news services to hold off from making early projections in the Nov. 6 election.
Bradley asked CBS, ABC, NBC, United Press International and The Associated Press to refrain from projecting the winner before the polls closed.
Show prompts suicide callers
Suicide crisis volunteers nationwide were reeling yesterday from an avalanche of calls prompted by a fictional television portrait of a teenager who found life
The CBS production "Silence of the Heart" was broadcast Tuesday night.
In Atlanta, harried suicide prevention volunteers said they received 10 times the average number of calls. In Los Angeles, St. Louis, Boston, Detroit, Dallas and other cities, callers swamped crisis center switchboards.
Helms loses VFW backing
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars political action committee yesterday withdrew its endorsement of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., saying its original backing of the senator's reelection was due to a tabulation error.
The VFW political group said in a statement that its endorsements were based on a tally of votes cast by each candidate. If the candidate casts 60 percent or more votes favorable to the VFW, the endorsement is granted.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
SAN FRANCISCO — The tanker Puerto Rican burns after two violent explosions ripped her interior. Three of the 28 crew members were seriously injured and one was missing
after the explosions yesterday. The FBI is investigating the原因 to determine whether the explosions were caused by the bomb.
V.P. candidates take turn at barbs
By United Press International
The presidential campaign turned into a contest of vice presidents yesterday when President Reagan suggested that Geraldine Ferraro was chosen to be the Democratic vice presidential candidate only because she was a woman, and Walter Mondale responded by saying that George Bush had a "character flaw."
The swapping of vice president barbs came as Reagan spent another day at home off the campaign trail while Mondale stumped Lousville and Baltimore, the closest he came to the South in the final two weeks of the drive for the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS on the first woman nominated for vice president by a major political party were made in an interview Tuesday with Hearst Newspapers executives and editors. It was published yesterday.
Asked about the Ferraro choice, Reagan said he did not see it as "a great breaking point" because the third-term House member had not established herself in the Democratic primaries or by other experience.
"I guess what I'm saying is that movement must be based not just purely on the sex of
the candidate but must be based also on the qualification of the candidate." Reagan said.
"Just to say, 'That's who I want to be my running mate,' (was) kind of reaching. I think it looked to too many people as if they were simply reaching just for that reason."
MONALE, AT AN impromptu news conference upon arrival in Baltimore, said Ferraro "was picked as the result of a process in which we reviewed every possible candidate. I picked her because she's the
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best. I picked her because she has a capacity to be a super vice president and president and the record is there."
Mondale said Ferraro "is far better prepared for her position than Mr. Reagan was when he was elected president of the United States. But more than that, she's a very bright person who applies herself and learns every day."
Mondale then asked, "What about his vice president?"
"IVE GOT SOME MORE to add. There's a character flaw in Mr. Bush. He has not once but three times made snide remarks about Geraldine Ferraro. It had to be deliberate and he didn't have the character to apologize."
unsavory businessman from television's "Dallas."
As he has several times in recent days, Malone quoted from a Washington Post editorial branding Bush as "the Cliff Barnes of American politics," a reference to the
Reagan, who opens a 10 state campaign swing today, took one trip out of the White House to visit the Indian Embassy to express condolences on the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and to stop at campaign headquarters to spar on his troops.
Mondale was referring to Bush's comment after debating Ferraro that he "tried to kick a little ass last night" and other similar remarks from the Bush camp.
The president, sporting three Reagan campaign buttons, said he would keep the government in power.
"I'M AS NERVOUS as you are tired," Reagan told campaign workers. "So, we'll sweat it out together."
Mondale, in the only southern campaign stop of his final tour in quest of the White House, told a large crowd in Louisville that the Republicans plan Halloween "treats for the very wealthy and the big corporations and tricks for everyone else."
Devil's Night vandalism burns Detroit
By United Press International
DETROIT – Vandals set more than 400 fires on Devil's Night, but city officials said yesterday beethed-up police and fire patrols and faster response times helped keep damage below last year's record toll.
Fire Commissioner Melvin Jefferson said fire crews, assisted by crewts from surrounding suburbs, made 410 runs between 4 p.m. and midnight Tuesday. Twelve people, mostly in their teens and early 20s, were arrested for suspected arson, he said.
Most of the fires were set in garbage dumpsters, but some vacant garages and homes and cars also were torched. Eight firefighters suffered minor injuries. Jeffer
"They don't care for other human beings." Johnny Thomas, whose home was spared when a vacant home next door was torched. "And I wouldn't do anything with it. I would have them all locked up with it."
Devil's Night has been a pre-Halloween tradition in Detroit for nearly 40 years, but autumn did not become a major problem until the early 1980s. Many cars were up with rash of tires, many set by youngsters.
About 100 fires are reported in Detroit during a normal 24-hour period, the commissioner said.
Mayor Coleman A. Young planned a major offensive against Devil's Night vandalism in the wake of a near riot after the Detroit Tigers' World Series victory on Oct. 14. Stinging from criticism about the city's failure to contain the violence, the mayor quadrupled police patrols and ordered the curfew for youths under 17 strictly enforced.
But despite elaborate preparations, dispatchers said reports of fires came in so fast that there were temporary delays in firefighters' getting to the scene of new
On the East Side, Gilbert Morris said he resorted to a garden hose to fight a blaze in a neighboring garage because it took firefighters 25 minutes to arrive.
One serious fire broke out on the East Side when flames from a vacant home spread to adjacent houses, including a four-unit building. Firefighters prevented it from spreading to a string of homes, each separated by only a few feet.
In Highland Park, a suburb surrounded by the city, fire officials said more than 30 fires were reported, compared with four or five most nights.
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