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Reagan courts the Democratic South
By TERENCE HUNT
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas President
Reagan yesterday portrayed
Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro as insensitive to the South,
and he implored conservative
Democrats to "Please don't let
them bury the American dream in
their graveyard of gloom and
envy."
Reagan, in his first campaign
foray since the 'nomination of the •
Democratic ticket, charged that
"The national Democratic
leadership is going so far left,
they've left America."
"I'm sorry they seem-to see only
misery, feel only fear, and never
stop pining for their days of tax and
tax and spend and spend," Reagan
said, characterizing the 1984
election as "the sharpest, most
important choice in modern times.
greater freedom or coercion."
"The leadership of the
Democratic Party gave Texas the
back of their hand," said Reagan,
in an apparent reference to
Mondale's choice of Ferraro over
popular Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-
Texas.
Bentsen called that charge
"ridiculous." And Mondale
asserted that Reagan was getting
"a little bit desperate."
Reagan, referring to his
Democratic challengers, said
"Please don't let them bury the
American dream in their
graveyard of gloom and envy,
ouse cuts subsidies for Synthetic Fuels Corp.
By MATT YANCEY
AssoCiated Press Writer
The House moved yesterday to strip the
crippled Synthetic Fuels Corp. of billions of
dollars and recover what's left of a $2O billion
check it wrote four years ago to wean the
nation from imported oil.
On a 261-148 vote, the House overturned its
Rules Committee and demanded a floor vote
on amendments to take back between $9
billion and $10.25 billion of the $13.2 billion in
uncommitted federal subsidies for squeezing
oil and natural gas from shale, tar sands and
coal.
While the vote was technically on a rule
whether to consider the billions of dollars in
cuts favored by the Reagan adminstration,
defenders of the corporation acknowledged
that it was a major defeat
"These amendments, in effect, would cut
out the lights at the SFC," said Richard \
Durbin, D-111.
Supporting the effort to drastically cut the
government synthetic fuels effort was the
same coalition of budget-conscious fiscal
the
daily
~r,
endless tax increases, deeper
dependency, planned
protectionism, certain sacrifices
and veiled quotas."
"We don't need that kind of
progress, do we?" he asked.
The president uncorked his
charges at a political rally in a key
battleground state with 29 electoral
votes more than one-tenth of the
270 needed to win the White House.
Since,Texas was admitted to the
Union in 1845, no Democratic
nominee has won the presidency
without carrying the Lone Star
State.
Reagan, on a stage filled with
balloons and American and Texan
'Secret tax hike'
By DAVID GOELLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Congressional Democrats,
reacting to President Reagan's assertion that he has
"no plans" to raise taxes in 1985, said yesterday that
White House aides have confided for months that one is
inevitable.
"There's no question we're going to have to have a
tax bill, and he (Reagan) knows it as well as everyone
else," House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., told
a news conference.
The speaker, who accused Reagan of telling "tall
stories" by saying his policies have not hurt the
nation's needy, said a broad-based tax hike is needed
because the government spends $5OO million more each
day than it takes in.
"Everyone from the White House has been saying,
after the election we'll have to straighten it out,"
conservatives and environmentalists that last The House rarely overturns
year succeeded in scuttling the Clinch River recommendations of its Rules Committee on
Breeder Reactor in Tennessee. The handling amendments to legislation. The last
administration is seeking the return of $9 time was in November on the budget-cutting
billion, but that was not enough for its allies in and loophole-plugging Tax Reform Act.
`The members of Congress have demonstrated that they
cannot support wasting billions of dollars on the premature
commercialization of ventures plagued with economic,
technical and environmental uncertainties.'
the House, who want to delete a proposed
expansion of a Union Oil Corp. shale project in
Colorado to make the take-back $10.25 billion.
"The members of Congress have
demonstrated that they cannot support
wasting billions of dollars on the premature
commercialization of,ventures plagued with
economic, technical and environmental
uncertainties," commented Robert Roach of
the Environmental Policy Institute.
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flags, spoke to a crowd of thousands
in sweltering heat at an outdoor
park. The audience repeatedly
applauded and cheered but booed
when Reagan mentioned House
Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-
Mass.
There were several small pockets
of hecklers who tried
unsuccessfully to interrupt with
shouts and chants.
Reagan ended his appearance by
asking, "Are you better off today
than you were four years ago? Is
Amerfca better off then she was
four years ago?"
As the crowd roared "Yes,"
Reagan said, "Then I'm going to
charges continue
O'Neill said, less than a day after the president told a
nationally broadcast news conference that "I have no
plans for a tax increase" to attack the budget deficit.
Reagan, however, seemingly left the door open when
he added that "you would have to look at the tax
structure" if a substantial deficit remained after all
spending cuts were carried out.
This brought a sharp rebuttal from Democratic
presidential candidate Walter Mondale, who has
pledged both to raise taxes and cut spending in order to
cut the federal deficit by two-thirds in his first term.
"I've been hearing fish stories all week, but tonight
Mr. Reagan told a big one," Mondale said in a
statement from northern Minnesota, where he is on a
fishing trip.
"He said that no tax increases would be necessary,
but then proceeded to open the•door for unfair taxes
after the election," said Mondale, who accused Reagan
of planning a "December surprise if he is re-elected •"
Robert Roach, Environmental Policy Institute
Chemical Co. project in Lousisiana.
The agency was paralyzed in April, just
when it was on the verge of signing contracts
for nearly another $5 billion in subsidies, by
the resignations of five of its seven directors
amid charges of cronyism, mismanagement
assume you don't want to go back to
the days'of America being second
best."
Reagan appeared alongside Vice
President George Bush, a onetime
Texas oilman who still calls the
state his home. The president flew
to Atlanta later in the day, and will
continue to court Southern voters
today before going to New Jersey
for a campaign pitch to Catholics
and women in an area near and
like Ferraro's district.
In Atlanta, the president gave a
15-minute pep talk to Republican
leaders from throughout the South
who met earlier for five hours in a
strategy session.
In its four-year history, the corporation has
handed out only two grants $l2O million for
the Coolwater coal gasification project in
California and $620 million for a Dow
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'White slips' mailed,
computers get busy
By KRISTINE SORCHILLA
Collegian Staff Writer
Computerized registration is
going on as scheduled with the
mailing of white slips earlier this
week, the director of registration
and scheduling said yesterday.
James J. Wager said students
were mailed schedules along with
instructions on what to do whether
the schedule is complete or
incomplete and will receive them
within the next few days.
Students living in the Centre
County area during the Summer
Session may now pick up a copy of
their schedules in Shields
Building, Wager said. Schedules
are available Monday through
Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m
at the Registrar.
The Registrar's Office prefers
that these local students who
receive incomplete, schedules
register in 112 Shields building
rather than call a toll-free
number, he said.
According to a statement
released by the Registrar's Office,
the registration process is on
schedule and is "way ahead of
what they were at this time last
year," Bill Mahon of University
Public Information said.
The computerized registration
process began when students
submitted a registration request
form, or scan form, either last
spring or before July 6. The
student's requests were then
matched up with available spaces,
Mahon said.
More than two-thirds, or 20,000,
of the students expected to attend
the University Park campus
during the Fall Semester were
Wachob repeats challenge
for 'head-to-head' debates
By MIKE NETHERLAND
Collegian Staff Writer
After receiving a negative
response the first time,
Democratic Congressional
candidate William Wachob has
again challenged incumbent
Republican William F. Clinger Jr
to a series of "head-to-head"
debates before the November
elections.
In a press conference Tuesday,
Wachob said there is no precedent
for such a series of debates in past
23rd.district races "but there
hasn't been a race or campaign
with this much interest."
Wachob, state representative
from Elk and Clearfield counties,
first broached the idea of a debate
in a letter to Clinger dated June 15.
At the press conference, he
released copies of Clinger's
response citing possible
scheduling problems of a series of
debates because "Congress will be
in session during periods of July,
and August and the entire month
of September."
In a counter proposal, Clinger
suggested a single debate
sponsored by "public television
and unethical conduct
President Reagan, who campaigned
against former President Carter's launching
of the program in 1980, used the resignations
to press for return of two-thirds of its unspent
money.
The White House has repeatedly refused to
consider filling any of the vacancies on the
corporation's board to give it the required
quorum to operate without action first on the
budget cuts by Congress.
"Despite the leadership's efforts, it's clear
that the majority of the House agrees that we
can cut back without jeopardizing a sound
synfuels program," Chris Warner, a deputy
assistant energy secretary, said after
yesterday's vote.
The amendments, to an $8.5 billion Interior
Department appropriations bill, would still
leave the corporation between $3 billion and
$4.2 billion to hand out in the form of loan
guarantees and price subsidies for a half
dozen oil shale, tar sands and coal gasification
projects around the country.
The corporation was established after the
1979 revolution in Iran.
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sent complete schedules this
week. The remaining students
with incomplete schedules were
also mailed instructions on how to
complete registration, Mahon
If a student has a complete
schedule, he must only submit his
estimated bill to the Bursar,
Wager said. These students will
also receive instructions stating
that schedule adjustments and
changes may be` made only during
the drop/add period which begins
on Aug. 23, Wager said.
Students who reside outside the
Centre County area and received
incomplete schedules were
instructed to call a toll-free
number. These students may call
between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. from
now until August 16 and submit
their estimated bill to complete
their registration, he said.
All estimated bills must be
submitted by Aug. 3, Wager said.
A third category of students
incoming freshmen for the Fall
Semester must participate in
on-line registration Tuesday, Aug
21 in the Intramural Building,
Mahon said. The students will
register through 25 computer
terminals set up in the building.
Some minor problems with the
computer have caused
adjustments in the mailing
process, Wager said.
"(The computer) has developed
some problems . . . things that
didn't progress as we would have
wanted. For students here this
summer, we are not in the position
to mail their schedules to their
local addresses as we wanted to,"
Wager said.
and/or a group a radio stations
and newspapers."
Wachob said he would accept
the proposal as a last resort but
added, "it is essential to hold
head-to-head debates in every
county. One debate simply cannot
deal with the range of issues that
are involved in this campaign."
He said a debate in each of the 12
counties in the 23rd district is
necessary because each county
has its own issues.
"Geographically, our district is
one of the largest east of the
Mississippi River. There are
many shared concerns . . but
there is also a great diversity of
concerns and needs," he said.
Wachob also rejected the idea
that there would not be time
enough for a series of debates
because "both legislatui.es will
spend ample time in recess before
November." He also cited a recent
newsletter in which Clinger
expressed a desire to address his
constituents's clubs, school and
church functions.
"Obviously, to make this offer in
a mailing that is sent to more than
500,000 people, Rep. Clinger must
have a great deal of time set aside
for public appearances," he said.
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