4—The Daily Collegian Monday, July 7, 1980 Turmoil continues at political convention site Republi From our wire services DETROIT The vanguard of the Republican National Convention assembled yesterday to draft a 1980 campaign platform and celebrate a foregone conclusion the nomination of Ronald Reagan for their bid to reclaim the White House. The whole show was orchestrated for harmony as the GOP sought to contrast its solidarity with the contention still facing the Democrats. However, while the Republicans were in harmony, Detroit was in a turmoil. While the Republican platform committee started its deliberation, sun baked piles of garbage and parked city buses greeted the members while contract talks continued in the six-day municipal employees' strike. Potential points of Republican friction seemed to evaporate in advance. Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who had been due to speak before platform draftsmen today, abruptly canceled his appearance. A spokesman for Sen. John Tower of Texas, the platform chairman, said Kissinger blamed personal com mitments for his withdrawal yesterday. He will speak before the convention next week. Conservative Republicans have long been critical of Kissinger and Reagan certainly is no fan. In 1976, he forced language sharply critical of the then secretary of state into the platform upon which President Gerald R. Ford ran. Further peace-keeping moves make a News briefs Clergy advise draft objectors SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (UPI) Some 40 South Dakota clergymen are ad vising men registering for the draft to express their objections to war when they sign their registration cards. The Rev. Russell Trayer, University of South Dakota campus minister, said men who object to war should write on the bottom of their registration cards: I am a con- Fund to be cured, leader says HARRISBURG (AP) House Majority Leader Matthew Ryan said he does not want to quit for the summer until the financially ill unemployment compensation fund is cured. And he said he is still confident the House can ;do it, even though that chamber 'filled twice last week to approve a bill that would strengthen the fund's finances. With a third vote scheduled for tomorrow, Ryan told reporters: "I think enough people either haven't voted yet or are wavering that we can get it up to 102 votes (the minimum needed for passage)." Gov. Dick Thornburgh and his top aides have been asking officials such ap Philadelphia Mayor Bill Green and Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri to help convince lawmakers to vote Pigeon shooter stops problem FRENCHTOWN, N.J. (AP) —Russ Barton, official pigeon shooter, loaded his shotgun, walked down the middle of Bridge Street and scanned the skyline of this normally tranquil borough on the Delaware River. The 53-year-old glared at the roof of the old Gem Theater. He liked what he didn't see pigeons. "Not a one, Billy Buck, not a one," he told William Burd, 64, who picks up the birds after Barton shoots them. "Used to be hundreds of 'em up there till I finished 'em off . . ." Barton and Glinn Hummer, another sharpshooter, were retained by the borough council a few years ago to terminate "the pigeon ,problem" in this rural community of 1,500 people some 30 miles northwest of Trenton. Sargent Russell, who is renovating the Gem Theater into shops and of fices, estimates there were 500 of the birds in the attic of the Civil War vintage building when the ceiling was gutted a few years ago. For $lOO a year and all the bird shot shells they need, Barton and Hum mer are authorized to shoot pigeons at will. "I shoot 'em anywhere and anytime there's a complaint, but Soviets uneasy about tourists MOSCOW (UPI) Yesterday, less than two weeks before the opening of the Moscow Olympics, Soviet television broadcast a documentary warning Soviet citizens against ideological subversion by foreign tourists. The broadcast, entitled "Lies and Hatred," was the latest evidence of official concern about the influx of thousands of tourists for the Games, which begin July 19 Viktor Grishin, a Politburo member and head of the Moscow party organization, warned Soviet citizens months ago against ideological contamination from foreigners. The broadcast yesterday renewed a number of old charges, including the can vanguard assembles, compromise likely to avoid a platform dispute over the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Campaigning for the nomination, Reagan repeatedly declared his support for equal rights for women, but said he was opposed to the constitutional amendment. The platform may skirt the ERA dispute in much the same way. However, setting the stage for a convention floor fight, both pro-ERA and anti-ERA forces rejected yesterday the latest attempt by Ronald Reagan's lieutenants to compromise on platform language for the amendment. As the 109-member Republican platform committee gathered for a week of testimony and drafting sessions, leaders circulated several possible planks which would appear to support ERA without actually calling for ratification. That is simply an unacceptable position, said Rebecca Leet, press secretary for the Republican Womens' Task Force which is leading the fight to keep ERA in the platform. Pam Curtis, vice chairwoman of the task force, acknowleged the language proposed by Reagan officials was closer to pro-ERA position than to the anti- ERA faction but said it is still totally unacceptable Clearly it is more unacceptable to Jesse Helms than to us, which is pretty funny, she said, referring to the North Carolina senator who is a leading GOP conservative. Phyllis Schlafly, the Alton, 111., scientious objector to war in any form. Traver said men who are convinced that war is wrong should exercise the legal option to be a conscientious objector instead of fleeing to Canada in case of war or refusing to register. The ministers have made initial plans for a Peace and the Arms Race conference, to be held sometime in November. for the bill, said press secretary Paul Critchlow. "We don't think it would serve any useful purpose for the governor to come out right now with guns blazing, but there has been a lot of quiet, behind the scenes work," Critchlow said. Because businessmen must repay the ever-growing billion dollar debt that the unemployment fund owes to the federal government, Thornburgh said it could drive industry away from Pennsylvania. The legislation would help balance the unemployment fund by raising taxes for businesses by $4OO million and cutting unemployment benefits by $143 million. The bill affects who is eligible for unemployment pay, but leaves un touched the maximum benefits and the annual escalator clause. ' v . ft\ e, ( 11 tf ,EI El zi El ri" Illustration by Ram never on a Sunday 'cause of all the people going to church," said Barton, a life-long hunter and mechanic by trade, who goes on pigeon patrol about once a week. Esther Bloomer, president of the Hunterdon County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said shooting pigeons is probably "the most humane and least painful" way to kill the birds. labeling of two former Moscow correspondents for American news organizations as CIA agents. The documentary 'charged that a Russian emigrant organization met with the CIA in January and was directed to go to Moscow under the guise of friends. It said the organization has prepared instructions for anti-Soviet activity by tourists attending the Olympic Games, including ways to conceal contraband documents and to whom they should be given. . . The film showed tourists arriving by bus, apparently from Finland. Several tourists were photographed with anti-Soviet pamphlets strapped to their waist beneath their clothing or concealed in their luggage. a' El 1 ••.m, y au.eman housewife who leads anti-ERA forces, also rejected the language and said, "That's simply not acceptable to the big majority of delegates " All the polls show a majority of delegates oppose ERA, she said in a telephone interview from her home. The latest of several suggested drafts states: "We reaffirm our . party's historic commitment to equal rights and equal opportunity for women, a commitment which made us the first national party to endorse the Equal Rights Amendment. We are proud of our pioneering role and do not renounce our stand." However, the proposed language then deplores White House pressure to ratify the ERA, saying the fight for equal rights has become ensnarled in legal tangles and divisive political struggles. "We pledge to rise above the un productive stalemate and act to make equal rights for women a full reality in America favors Republican Party, poll says WASHINGTON (UPI) The Republican Party is favored over the Democratic Party by the electorate as the party best equipped to deal with most of the nation's leading. problems, according to a new GOP financed poll. The poll, the Washington Post reported yesterday, shows the GOP is regarded by voters as better able to control inflation, government spending and taxes, and to maintain world peace and military stability. The nationwide poll was taken in mid-June by our society. To this end we will work. vigorously to eradicate every remaining vestige of discrimination against women in state and federal law," it states. This language apparently will please no one. Curtis said she doubts pro-ERA forces have the muscle to succeed in the platform committee but thinks they will be able to muster the 27 votes necessary to take a minority plank to the convention floor. In addition to the ERA battle, the abortion question is likely to cause a flap, but no serious floor fight is ex pected. The platform likely will simply restate the 1976 abortion plank, which took no position. But, it will be Reagan's platform. He is unchallenged for the nomination, and his delegates are in full command of the proceedings. Today the committee hears addresses from Michigan Gov. William G. pollster Robert Teeter, president of Market Opinion Research Co. of Detroit, and paid for by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. It is to be released in detail today by Rep. Guy Vander Jagt, R-Mich., chairman of the committee, at GOP platform committee hearings in Detroit. The poll shows Republicans have increased their lead over Democrats from a similar survey taken in October from 8 percent to 29 percent on controlling inflation; from 17 percent to 33 percent on government clashes Milliken, economist Arthur Burns, former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld and Rep. Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan Reagan is due in Detroit Sunday. Signs of progress emerged yesterday from . bargaining to end the six-day municipal workers, however negotiators said there was "slim chance" of a set tlement before the Republican Party's platform hearings begin today. • We are considerably closer together than we were before, said Lloyd Simp son, chief negotiator for County and Municipal Employees. "We're struggling to reduce the size of the package so we can deal with the more priority issues," he said. "The attitudes at the table are becoming more realistic on both sides." Simpson's comments came as negotiators began an eight-hour recess following a lengthy overnight session. Earlier yesterday, Council 25 Whatever your game this summer 44. # eft\ the NOII dailysp • to keep you collegian orts.o. the ball! on ERA President Bob Johnson said agreement in principle had been reached on several important issues, including sup plemental unemployment benefits and a dental package Bargainers for both sides recessed yesterday morning until late afternoon. A city bargainer who asked not to be identified said 13 of 46 supplemental contracts, in addition to a master con tract, were still unsettled. Chief city negotiator Mark Ulicny said the city was examining a union counter proposal made Saturday night. "I'm a little discouraged. I was hoping we could get this thing wrapped up yesterday," he said. "I guess it's still possible but that's a very slim chance." Simpson called Saturday's counter offer "our final proposal." Meanwhile, GOP convention manager 'Robert Carter insisted the strike was "having no effect whatsoever" on early convention activities. spending; froM 7 percent to 21 percent on holding down taxes; and from 1 percent to 20 percent on military security. On the issue of world peace, the GOP went from a deficit of 4 percent to plus 1 percent. On unemployment, traditionally an issue helpful to Democratic candidates, Democrats held a lead over the Republicans 38 to 18 percent in October. In the June survey, however, Democrats led the GOP by 41 to 38 percent, the GOP poll said. Stadium setting for the Fourth Setting up, Setting off, Setting down ,; * 1 *t , %~ ~~ ; 4' , „. , • k, , 4 v.. r ' ' • • ra y ti • , i * 4 1 Photos by Brian Gamerman and Chuck Andrasko .tom '6; 4 "`"'" Top left: Crew from the Happy Valley Fireworks Co. raise the flag display prior to the show at Beaver Stadium last Thursday. Above: A sole worker, wearing ear protection, sets off a charge then clamly walks a few feet away before the skyrocket explodes. Bottom: Just a few members of the awe-struck crowd. The Daily Collegian Monday, July 7, 1981.--5
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