Reagan blasts Congress for credibility loss
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON President Reagan
delivered a withering attack at Congress
last night for second-guessing the
commitment of U.S. troops to Lebanon. He
said Congress "must take a responsibility"
for a loss of credibility that followed the
Marine withdrawal.
Once U.S. forces are committed, Reagan
said, "You have rendered them ineffective
when you conduct that kind of a debate in
public."
"All this can do is stimulate the terrorists
and urge them on to further attacks," he
said.
"I just don't think that a committee of 535
individuals (Congress), no matter how well
intentioned, can offer what is needed in
actions of this kind or where there is a
necessity, he said, contending that foreign
policy must be in the province of the
president as constitutional commander in
chief.
Reminded that he had said in October that
King draws full house for Hart
By MICHAEL J. VAND
Collegian Staff Writer
Gary Hart has a friend in
Pennsylvania helping him
campaign for next Tuesday's
primary election.
Singer/songwriter Carole King
last night sung and spoke on behalf
of the Democratic presidential
hopeful to a crowd in the HUB
Fishbowl. Police estimated between
800 and 1000 people attended the
performance. The appearance was
sponsored by the Undergraduate
Student Government.
King told a press conference
before the show that this was her
first campaign appearance in about
a week. King, an Idaho resident, has
been testifying before a Senate
sub Committee to support the Idaho
Wilderness Bill.
King came to central
Pennsylvania because it is a very
important area that tends to be
neglected in campaign
appearances, she said. The Hart
campaign agreed and arranged for
her' appearance.
When asked what qualified her to
campaign for a presidential .
candidate, King answered that she
is a person as well as an entertainer
and that she believes in Hart.
"I believe so strongly in Gary
Hart and feel so close to him in our
ideal of what the country should be
doing•that I have taken my time to
do this and happily." she said.
She said her responsibility was
not to tell people to vote for Gary
Hart because Carole King says so
but to tell voters to focus their
attention on the man and check him
out. She said voters should not just
go by first impressions but should
be informed and make intelligent
decisions.
King said she has familiarized
herself with Hart's record over the
years and does not disagree with
the
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the presence of U.S. Marines in Lebanon
was central to American credibility on a
global scale, Reagan was asked how much
credibility has been lost now that he has
pulled out the Marines and ended American
involvement in the multinational
peacekeeping force after a loss of more than
260 American lives.
"We may have lost some (credibility)
with some people," Reagan responded, but
said the situation in the Middle East nation
has changed and that the United States will
continue its diplomatic efforts to achieve
peace.
Reagan began his 23rd formal news
conference since taking office with arr
announcemeht that the United States will
seek a worldwide ban on the production and
use of chemical weapons. He was also
questioned on U.S. policy in Central
America and the ethical standards of his
administration.
Asked about Democratic charges that
there has been a "sleaze factor" in the
ethics of his administration, the president
said, "I reject the use of the word 'sleaze,"'
!!!!
him on any issues.
"I found over the years that every
time he cast a vote or took a stand it
was common sense. It was exactly
what I would have wanted to see
happen in the name of what was just
and what was going to be the best
solution," she said.
King said Hart has strong feelings
for a nuclear freeze and is
concerned about the unemployment
situation. She said his programs are
spelled out in his book, A New
Democracy. For example, jobs can
be provided by government and
private business getting together to
repair the infrastructure of roads
and bridges, she said.
"The beef is in the book," King
said.
King said she believed Hart's
poor showing in last Tuesday's New
York primary was due to the voters
being more comfortable with ideas
that are old and endorsed even if
they are not good. She said she
thinks Pennsylvanians will be more
independent-minded and do more
thinking for themselves. She does
not anticipate a defeat in
Pennsylvania, she said.
"I feel Gary's own merits will
carry him in this state."
She also said she is impressed
with his integrity. For example, she
said Hart has refused to accept
political action committee money.
"He's refusing actual money,"
King said, "Who refuses actual
money these days?"
King refutes opponent Walter
Mondale's remarks that Hart does
not have the experience necessary
to be president. In defense, King
pointed to his 10 years experience in
the Senate and his service on
various committees. Mondale is
concentrating on the experience
issue because it is the only thing he
can find to attack in a candidate
with new ideas, she said.
"New ideas mean untried ideas,"
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tried ideas have not worked."
After the press conference, King
spoke to the audience in the
Fishbowl. With the Reagan,
Administration funding cuts for
education, many students may be
wondering if they will be able to
afford to stay in school, she said.'
"You do have a chance, you do
matter, you do make a difference,
Democrats to debate
tonight in Steel City
Editor's Note: Daily Collegian
reporters Mike Netherland and
William Scott will be at tonight's
debate to cover the event. Please
see tomorrow's Collegian.
'By WILLIAM SCOTT
Collegian Staff Writer
The Democratic presidential
campaign moves to Pennsylvania
today, with the League of Women
Voters hosting its third in a series
of debates at 8 tonight in
Pittsburgh.
Former Vice President Walter
,Mondale, fresh off of Tuesday's
victory in the New York primary,
Sen. Gary Hart, D-Col., and the
Rev. Jesse Jackson are scheduled
to participate in the event, to be
held at the David L. Lawrence
Convention Center.
The debate will be televised live
in the State College area on
WPSX, channel 3, beginning,at 8
The league previously hosted
presidential debates in New
Hampshire and Atlanta, and a
fourth is scheduled to be held in
Dallas on May 2.
The race in Pennsylvania
and that critics were ignoring the American
tradition of "innocent until proven guilty."
Without mentioning the stalled
nomination of his , counselor Edwin Meese
111 as attorney general Meese is being
investigated by a special prosecutor the
president added: "We're having an awful
lot of guilt by accusation."
Reagan's news conference ended in an
eye-catching way. Rather than walking
through the room and mingling•with
reporters as he usually does, he stepped
through a door behind his podium and two .
Marines in full dress uniform slid closed the
door behind him.
Speaking of congressional criticism of his
decision to deploy U.S. Marines in Lebanon
and to keep them at Beirut International
Airport even after 241 servicemen were
killed in a terrorist attack on their
headquarters last fall, Reagan said the only
thing such discussion can do is worsen the
situation.
"When you're engaged in this kind of a
diplomatic attempt and you have forces
there, and there is an effort made to oust
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you can take control of your own
lives," she said. "You have to try,
you have to go for it."
King closed her speech by telling
the audience to vote because each
voice counts. She performed three
musical numbers including "One
Small Voice" from a new album,
"Speeding Time." She closed with
"You've Got A Friend" from her
1971 album, "Tapestry."
between Mondale and Hart
appears to be close, with a Gallup
poll conducted last week showing
42 percent of the Democrats
surveyed favoring Hart, 40
percent favoring Mondale and 8
percent favoring Jackson.
The poll, conducted by Gallup .
for television stations KYW-TV in
Philadelphia, KDKA-TV in
Pittsburgh and WNEP-TV in the
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area,
showed Jackson's vote coming
almost exclusively from the black
community, with only 2 percent of
the white voters surveyed
favoring him.
Jackson finished a strong third
in New York's primary, gathering
26 percent of the vote. Mondale
and Hart garnered 45 and 27
percent, respectively.
With nearly half the committed
delegates to the Democratic
National Convention now chosen,
Mondale has 861.25, Hart 512 and
Jackson 140.5. It takes 1,967 to win
the nomination.
Democrats in next Tuesday's
Pennsylvania primary will elect
117 of the state's 195 national
convention delegates.
them, a debate as public as was conducted
here raging with Congress demanding
'Oh, take our, bring our men home, take
them away' all this can do is stimulate the
terrorists and urge them on to furthei•
attacks," he said.
"Once the force is committed," he said,
"you have rendered them ineffective when
you conduct that kind of a debate in public."
"In the last 10 years, the Congress has
imposed about 150 restrictions on the
president's power in international
diplomacy," he said. "I think the
Constitution makes it pretty, plain back in
the beginning how diplomacy was to be
conducted."
The administration has been stressing
that Congress must share responsibility for
the failure of Reagan's policy to achieve its
goals in Lebanon a stable government
and the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli
forces.
Last month, the Marines were withdrawn
from the airport to ships offshore, and on
Friday Reagan quietly announced the
Buildings collapse
in East Manhattan
By WILLIAM MURPHY
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK Two adjacent
buildings undergoing renovation
collapsed yesterday on
Manhattan's Lower East Side,
killing two people, injuring 19
others and reducing it to "a big
pile of dirt," witnesses and
authorities said.
The dead men apparently were
two members of a construction._ ,
crew pouring concrete inside the
vacant brick buildings when they
collapsed at 2:35 p.m., Fire
Department officials said.
Last week, the Buildings
Commission had ordered a safety
inspection of the buildings.
"Everything just came dawn.
. . . It's a big pile of dirt," said
Michael Cruz, an employee of a
nearby store.
There were only 10 workers
believed fo be inside the buildings
When they collapsed, said Police
Commissioner Benjamin Ward.
The dead men and three injured
workers were pulled from the
Thornburgh to appear
in State College today
By MARCY MERMEL
Collegian Staff Writer
Governor Dick Thornburgh will
be in the area today appearing at a
private reception and a public
meeting.
Thornburgh will address
students in the University
Scholars Program at an informal
reception in Old Main this
afternoon.
Boris Simkovich (junior-nuclear
engineering) said Thornburgh will
answer students' questions on
topics such as his work before
becoming governor, his emphasis
as governor and his future plans.
University President Bryce
Jordan is also expected to attend
inside
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redeployment of the fleet away from the
Lebanese coast.
Reagan was asked about a string of
resignations by individuals accused of
abusing their government responsibilities
or using their office for personal gain.
With Meese's nomination to be attorney
general now in limbo, Reagan said, without
mentioning Meese specifically, "I'm not
going to take any action that is based on
accusations without proof."
Democrats hope to capitalize on the issue.
They have started using a television
commercial emphasizing ethical questions
raised against Reagan - appointees.
Reagan opened his news conference with
the announcement that Vice President
George Bush will go to Geneva in two weeks
with a new American proposal aimed at
breaking stalled 40-nation United Nations
negotiations on a treaty banning
development, production and stockpiling of
chemical weapons.
Reagan said this country is developing
"bold and sound" means of verifying
compliance with a treaty.
rubble, said Fire Lt. Frank
Martinez.
Of the 19 workers and
bystanders who were injured, •
none was seriously hurt, said
Jared Lebow, a spokesman for the
city's Emergency Medical
Service.
Service on three subway lines
was halted in the area for two ••
hours, and police closed the
Williamsburg Bridge.
__The collapse caused a.2o,inch_
water main under the buildings to
snap, sending cascades of water
into the street and nearby sewers,
said Andrew McCarthy of the city
Enviromental Protection
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Department.
Fire. Lt. James Curran said the
workers apparently were pouring
concrete, and that "apparently
brought the two buildings down."
Buildings Commissioner
Charles Smith said his department
had ordered the buildings' owners
or renovators to commission a
private safety inspection of the
buildings or show cause why such
an inspection was not necessary.
the reception to be held at 4 today
in the Alumni Lounge of Old Main,
said Simkovich, an Honors
Program Assistant who helped
organize the event.
After speaking with the
University Scholars, Thornburgh
will meet with the State College
Chamber of Commerce at 7 p.m.
at the Sheraton Penn State, 290 S
Pugh St.
The governor is expected to
speak on economic developments
and business initiatives in the
state, according to one of the
governor's aides.
The public is invited to attend
the Chamber of Commerce
meeting.