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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, March 27, 1986
Democrats fight threat Radicals seek state offices
United Press International
Hundreds of radical followers of extremist Lydon LaRouche are running for Congress and statewide and local offices in at least 20 states, and more are expected to file before deadlines, a nationwide survey indicated yesterday.
United Press International state capitol bureaus found that LaRouche's National Democratic candidate has candidates running in 19 states;
California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Texas and
Arizona. Ronald McDonald
patheriz is running for the Senate in
North Carolina.
The survey didn't list any LaRoche candidates in the 30 other states but indicated that they would make ballot efforts in some, including Georgia, Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Tennessee and Louisiana.
In most cases the LaRouche candidates are running in Democratic Party primaries and are often not clearly identified with radical anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi philosophies.
Often their technique is to run unopposed in House primaries for seats where Democrats seldom challenge entrenched Republicans.
In the March 18 Illinois primary, LaRouche candidates defeated Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor and secretary of state
who had anticipated easy victories.
That forced Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adalai Stevenson to renounce his ticket, saying he wouldn't run as a regular Democrat with a radical.
"The future of the Democratic Party is now seriously threatened," said Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., who said the LaRouche followers were members of an anti-Semitic fascist cult.
Nationally, the Democratic Party is seeking legal methods to remove LaRouche candidates from the ballot, including checking to see whether they have proper party registration.
The party is undertaking a nation-wide effort to alert voters, many of whom are apparently unaware what LaRouche stands for.
"It is not accurate to call them right wing; they're not even close to the mainstream political dialogue," said spokesman Terry Michael of the Democratic National Committee.
Calling the Illinois result a fluke, Michael said he hoped the news spoillight on the LaRouche candidates would end their victories.
In addition to statewide offices in Illinois, LaRoche candidates have won isolated races for school boards, state legislatures and local offices.
Michael said it was very difficult to compile a list of LaRouche candidates because they often didn't identify themselves and often ran for obscure offices that don't normally attract mainstream Democrats.
"We are going to go county by county and identify all the LaRouche candidates," said Diana Walsh of the California Democratic Party.
LaRouche supporters say they have 200 candidates in California.
In New Jersey, LaRouche's National Democratic Policy Committee will run candidates in all 14 congressional districts and boasts that as many as 1,000 candidates will run throughout the state.
"We will work to transform the Democratic Party," said Eliot Greenspan, one of the House candidates. Greenspan, who has run and lost in primaries for governor and Senate, said things are different this year because of the extreme economic depression and AIDS.
In Minnesota, where Andrew Olson is the LaRouche primary candidate against Democratic Gov. Rudy Perpich, Attorney General Hubert Humphrey led the fight against letting him sit at a party fund-raiser last weekend.
Olson won the battle and challenged Humphrey, the grandson of the former vice president, to a debate.
In North Carolina, Democratic Senate candidate Milton Croom said he is a LaRouche sympathizer, and a prominent member of his staff is on leave from LaRouche headquarters in rural Virginia.
"He is a dedicated American working harder than anybody else to preserve the interests of the United States," Croom said of LaRouche.
WASHINGTON — Soviet schoolgirl Katya Lycheva, on the third stop of her five-city mission of peace to the United States, told elementary school students in the nation's capital yesterday that children must stand up against nuclear arms.
Katya, blonde and green-eyed, joined students in an inner-city school in a Russian folk dance. She told them that said youngsters in the Soviet Union planted trees to honor the 2 million Russians who died in World War II and suggested that children in the United States begin a similar project.
United Press International
Soviet girl protests weapons
"This way, people going ahead with the arms race might think again before destroying all that," she said in broken English, giving the Wheatley Elementary School students a book on the Soviet tree program. "I'm giving this book as a relay of peace. It's springtime now, so why don't you start right away?"
"The time for peace has come," she later said through an interpreter. "If there is a nuclear war, it won't be grown-ups killed first, kids after. Because of that, we all stand equal. Kids must stand up here and they must be
Lycheva, 11, said youngsters were the same all over the world.
heard."
"I see many familiar faces in this room," she said. "You will ask me why I say this. I say this because children all over the world look like each other. That is why children agree sooner than adults."
Lycheva, who has eaten at several McDonald's restaurants during her visit, dismissed reports that she has grown bored with fast food.
Folk dancing is one of her favorite hobbies, and when the students began dancing to the Russian music, Katya smiled and leaped from her seat to join them.
"It's not that I got tired of it," she said. "I never liked it in the first place."
Lycheva, daughter of a research scientist and a commercial artist, was chosen for the mission by the Soviet Peace Committee and the International Friendship Club, a children's peace organization she helped create.
Lycheva's peace mission is dedicated to Samantha Smith, the 10-year-old Maine schoolgirl who toured the Soviet Union in 1983. Smith was killed in an airplane crash last year.
Dartmouth 'cleanup' appealed
United Press International
HANOVER, N.H. — A Dartmouth College committee yesterday deliberated the appeals of 10 students suspended for attacking symbolic anti-apartheid shanties in what they described as a campus cleanup.
The activists responded to the attack with a 30-hour sit-in at college administration buildings. The sit-in resulted in suspension of classes Jan. 24 to discuss campus turmoil.
Dartmouth's $63 million investments linked to South Africa.
A disciplinary committee heard two days of often emotional testimony this week from the 10 shanty attackers, who were granted a second hearing after they appealed their suspensions to college President David McLaughlin.
The students, who are affiliated with the right-wing off-campus Dartmouth Review newspaper, were suspended last month for assaulting three scrap-wood shanties with sledgehammers in a predawn raid at the Ivy League campus on Jan. 21.
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McLaughlin ordered the rehearing for the group after he was advised of procedural problems with the first hearing. He also ordered a new panel of committee members.
after the conclusion of the new testimony and recessed early yesterday morning without reaching a decision. Deliberations were scheduled to resume late yesterday.
The Committee on Standards begin deliberations late Tuesday
The 10 went before the new committee but criticized it for focusing on philosophical issues rather than the charges brought against them of malicious property damage, disorderly conduct and violence.
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