Mondale the winner in
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA Walter F
Mondale easily won the
Pennsylvania primary yesterday,
defeating a fading Gary Hart and
rolling past the halfway mark in his
quest for the delegates needed to
capture the Democratic presidential
nomination.
Mondale called it a "major step
forward" and said he had
established new momentum. Hart,
putting forth an optimistic face as he
arrived in his hometown of Denver,
told supporters, "We are headed into
our territory, folks."
With 62 percent of the vote in,
Mondale had 45 percent of the vote to
34 percent for Hart.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was
winning Philadelphia "with a
poor campaign and a rich
message," he said and had 19
percent statewide. He sought a
strong third-place finish statewide to
impress the party's establishment
with his ability to register thousands
of black voters and then win their
votes.
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Senate votes to end CIA Nicaragua funds
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON The Senate approved a
non-binding resolution yesterday.B4-12 calling
for an end to the use of CIA funds to assist in
the mining of Nicaraguan ports.
The Republican leadership agreed to sup
port the measure in return for Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy's agreement to defer a companion
proposal demanding that the administration
reverse its decision to remove its Central
American policies from World Court jurisdic
tion for two years. Nicaragua has appealed
the mining issue to the World Court.
Republican sources said Majority Leader
Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., outlined the
compromise at a closed-door meeting before
the vote.
"The White House sent word it would have
no problem if this passed," one source close to
the GOP leadership said
"I think they want to liquidate the political
damage," Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., said.
"The thing is not working, so they want to get
it over with and go on to the next thing."
Pressler voted for the compromise, al
though he said, "The administration has left
the
daily
Hart's remarkable winter surge
thus ended with a springtime thud;
after sweeping New England and
claiming several victories
elsewhere, he has lost Illinois, New
York and now Pennsylvania key
states in the Democratic industrial
belt.
A, total 172 Pennsylvania delegates
was being apportioned. Mondale led
for 107, Hart 11. Jackson had just 2,
but the Philadelphia count was slow.
Five were uncommitted and John
Glenn supporters claimed two spots.
Mondale thus passed the half-way
point in his quest for the 1,967
delegates needed for nomination in
July. He claimed or led for 1,018.8
delegates, compared with 569 for
Hart and 153.2 for Jackson.
"We're moving on up," Jackson
said:
Mondale claimed victory and said,
"I'm encouraged to believe that
what I have been saying about
where I want to take the country, the
differences as the public perceives
them, is helping me gain momentum
toward the nomination" and victory
over President Reagan in
November.
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us who supported the administration package
(of aid to El Salvador and Nicaraguan guerril
las) in a difficult position."
Sen. Russell Long, D-La.; joined 11 Republi
cans in voting against the resolution.
As part of the agreement, Baker agreed to
vote for the Kennedy resolution on mining and
Kennedy agreed to put off the matter of the
World Court action until after a 10-day con
gressional Easter recess that starts Friday.
Although his resolution merely expresses
the "sense of Congress," Kennedy told report
ers after the vote, "I am confident the mining
is going to stop."
Baker said that if Central American devel
opments during the recess warranted further
congressional action, he would confer with
Kennedy and others to work out procedures
for taking the appropriate steps.
"I have no desire to hogtie the Senate," he
said.
A week ago the Senate rejected by a 61-30
vote a move by Kennedy to kill an administra
tion request for $2l million in aid to anti
government guerrillas in Nicaragua.
The resolution adopted by the Senate reads:
"It is the sense of Congress that no funds
heretofore or hereafter appropriated in any
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"Something powerful is
happening," Mondale said. "The
feeling that is beginning to spread
across the country is that we need a
change in Washington. We came
from behind and today we won big
and I feel good about it."
Hart said he would do better as the
election calendar turns west, and
before the sun set yesterday he was
testing a new voter appeal in Ohio.
Hart said where Mondale had
strong labor support in the industrial
states, the union connection would
prove a disadvantage in the Western
states to come. "Those states are
much more favorable to us," said
Hart, citing Texas, Oregon and
California among others.
"Tonight, we may not have won in
Pennsylvania, but we are going to
win the nomination of this party
and we are going to win the
presidency," he said.
The returns, from 62 percent of the
state's precincts, were: Mondale,
455,767 or 45 percent; Hart, 340,364,
34 percent; Jackson, 194,681, 20
percent.
Minor candidates shared the
remainder of the vote with several
Democratic dropouts.
According to the network exit
polls, Mondale expanded his
traditional Democratic labor and
blue-collar constituency and began
for the first time to cut into the
young urban professional "yuppie"
support that had carried Hart to
earlier primary victories.
act of Congress shall be obligated or expended
for the purpose of planning, executing or
supporting the mining of the ports or territori
al waters of Nicaragua."
Its adoption made it part of a pending tax
bill, which if passed would be sent to the
Democrat-controlled House for action.
Last week's vote in the Senate was taken
before most members of Congress had heard
that the CIA was assisting in the mining of
Nicaraguan waters, a move reportedly in
tended to disrupt arms shipments by the
leftist Nicaraguan government to insurgents
in El Salvador.
The administration, seeking to quiet fears
raised by the mining disclosures, sent CIA
Director William Casey to meet with the
Senate Intelligence Committee and Deputy
Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to brief the
Fokeign Relations Committee.
Afterward, Casey gave another briefing for
all senators. Baker said he had "a lot of
question marks" meaning undecided sen
ators and "the purpose of the briefing will
be to erase those questions marks one way or
the other."
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., chairman of
Pennsylvania primary
Centre County is taken by Hart
By TERI WELLS
Collegian Staff Writer
As of 11:10 last night, with all 85 By comparison, in last year's
Centre County precincts reporting, May primary, 96 percent of
Gary Hart was the Democratic registered Democrats in the County
winner with 4,723 votes or 50 voted and 53 percent of registered
percent. Republicans voted.
Walter Mondale was in second Mark Cullinane, 23rd
place with 3,747 votes or 40 percent, Congressional District Coordinator
and Jesse Jackson was in third for Hart's campaign said support
place with 711 votes or 8 percent. from University students was
About 44 percent of the registered "crucial" to Hart's victory in
voters in Centre County voted. Of Centre County.
the registered Democrats in the Cullinane said he believes
Coed housing:
University may consider alternate wings in 'B5
By KAREN NAGLE
Collegian Staff Writer
After seven years and five
proposals by the Association of
Residence Hall Students in support
of housing men and women in the
same dormitories, University
officials have indicated they may
favor adoption of the idea:
In a letter given to the ARHS
president last night, Patricia
Peterson, directoi of the Division of
Campus Life, gave ARHS the go
ahead to select residence halls for
alternative wing housing of men
and women on a trial basis for Fall
1985.
"For Fall Semester 1985, we
could consider converting a
maximum of four buildings to
alternative wing or alternative
floor housing," Peterson stated in
the letter.
She further suggested that in
selecting residence halls for the
"possible conversion", ARHS
members should "keep in mind
that such arrangements must
provide for separate and private
living quarters for men and
women."
Clinger defeats Wachob in 23rd district
By MIKE NETHERLAND
Collegian Staff Writer
Incumbent Republican
Congressman William F. Clinger
Jr. last night defeated Democratic
challenger William Wachob by
1,978 votes in the primary election.
Despite the news, •Wachob, who
represents Elk and Clearfield
counties in the state House, is
optimistic about his chances to
unseat Clinger in November's
And while Hart had been
emphasizing in campaign speeches
that he was the more likely
candidate to defeat President
Reagan in November, respondents
in the NBC News poll picked
Mondale as the stronger candidate
against Reagan by a 2-1 ratio.
With no primary elections and just
four caucuses coming up in the next
county, 55 percent voted and 42
percent of registered Republicans
voted.
Selected residence halls should
have separate corridors and
bathroom facilities, but common
study lounges, she added. Common
study lounges would facilitate
programming efforts and
contribute to house unity, she said.
The suggestion from the Division
of Campus Life that ARHS select
residence halls caine - IftilAßl-IS
submitted a proposal that
alternative wing housing of men
and women be done on a trial basis
Linda Rovder, ARHS president,
said much of the positive response
from University officials is a
matter of timing rather than a
result of any changes ARHS made
in its proposal from other years.
"We're working with a new and
different administration, and co-ed
housing is not an issue any longer,"
she said. "A lot of the negative
connotations are no longer there."
Rovder said a conversion of the
selected residence halls would be
evaluated at the end of the 1985-86
school year. If approved,
alternative wing housing of men
and women may be implemented at
the University on a more wide
spread basis, she said.
general election. Reached at a
"Ideal establishment" in
Johnsonburg last night, Wachob
attributed his loss to a closed
primary system.
"When you look at Centre
County, there is a majority of
Republicans with no option to
cross party lines," he said. In
Pennsylvania's primary election,
voters must cast ballots according
to the party for which they are
registered. Wachob indicated that
the Intelligence Committee, said he had writ
ten "a strong letter" to Casey protesting that
the committee had not been consulted in
advance about the mining.
"I told Mr. Casey that this is no way to run a
railroad and that it is indefensible on the part
of the administration to ask us to back its
foreign-policy when we do not even know what
is going on because we were not briefed
pursuant to the legal requirements," Goldwa
ter said.
"The committee and Congress were left
holding the bag in this instance," Goldwater
said.
Another senator left unimpressed by Ca
sey's briefing was Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
D-N.Y., vice chairman of the Intelligence
Committee. Referring to the mining, Moyni
han said, "I consider that we were not in
formed of an altogether new dimension of a
policy, and I will not support it in any circum
stance and feel that it has to stop."
Other Democratic senators said the briefing
was marked by angry charges that the Senate
had not been advised fully about the mining.
Participants predicted in advance that the
Kennedy resolution would be adopted.
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three weeks, the former vice
president looked back at the first
half of the primary season and said,
before the polls closed here, "I win
some; he wins some. We have a long
fight ahead of us."
At stake were 172 Pennsylvania
delegates, including 117 elected in
contests separate from the
presidential preference balloting.
University students turned out
strongly for Hart because they
believe in the "new ideas" that
Hart is proposing in his platform
Cullinane noted that Hart's
Centre County victory also
depended strongly on community
support especially from workers
and nuclear freeze supporters.
The switch from a paper ballot
system to a computerized punch
card system allowed ballots at
Centre County precincts to be
totaled more quickly and
efficiently.
"We're pretty positive that it's
going to work out for the best,"
Rovder said.
Studies have shown that housing
men and women together results in
neither a drop in academic
adjustment nor an increase in the
level of promiscuity, she said.
Rovder said evidence that
University students favor
alternative wing housing of men
and women comes from the
popularity it has enjoyed in
Interests Houses at the University.
In other business last night,
ARHS voted unanimously to send a
proposal to University officials that
the Penn State Football Team be
housed in a hotel at the beginning of
Fall 1985 orientation. The purpose
of the proposal is to prevent
temporary displacement of dorm
residents, said Joseph Cronauer,
chairman of the ARHS football
housing committee.
Football players are housed in a
resilience hall during pre-season
practice. However, a conflict arises
when time-frames for practices
and orientation for new students
coincide, he said.
he would pick up Republican votes
in the November election which is
not closed.
Clinger, who was at a speaking
engagment in Hershey last night,
was unavailable for comment.
Last night's results were not
significant in the congressional
race because neither candidate
ran opposed on their respective
party tickets. Both will be on the
ballot again in the general
election.
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