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county to a smaller workforce com
peting for the same number of jobs.
Clinger said at a press conference
after the debate that the incubator,
though not yet filled, was designed to
improve the success rate of new
small businesses.
When referring to recent advertise
ments detailing Clinger’s votes in aid
of oil and gas interests and contribu
tions from those groups, Wachob told
his opponent: “I stand by what we put
forward in regards to your race.”
Wachob compared his actions with
those of a private citizen with ques
tions about Clingcr’s record. All in
formation, he said, came from the
Congressional Record, the Library of
Congress and Federal Election Com
mission records.
“The Federal Election Commission
reported (Clinger) number five in
receiving PAC money from Texas oil
and gas money,” Wachob said.
Wachob, Clinger countered, “was
number one in terms of challengers
receiving PAC money. Being accused
of taking PAC money by you is like
being called ugly by a frog.”
The recent Rejkjavik, Iceland,
talks between President Ronald Rea
gan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba
chev drew discussion centering
around the issue of the Strategic
Defense Initiative, also known as the
"Star Wars” defense program.
Clinger described SDI as “the ma
jor reason the Soviets came to Rejk
javik” and said the talks provided the
hope of “a real breakthrough” in
nuclear weapons treaties.
Wachob replied that the program
kept Reagan from “looking seriously
at the Soviet proposal.”
“The Soviets were willing to reduce
Casey vs.
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Casey said Scranton’s defense was
misdirected, adding that the question
should be asking rhetorically whether
a public official should be able to
withdraw his record from public
scrutiny.
“If the day ever comes that a
candidate can withdraw his public
record, the fact that he didn’t go to
work, that he wasn’t in his hometown
at the time of a flood ... if this
information cannot be communicated
to the voters, we may as well abolish
elections,” Casey said.
Scranton, 39, and Casey, 54, also
fielded questions concerning funding
for basic and higher education,
agreeing that a tax increase was an
inappropriate solution to helping the
state provide the 15 percent of state
public education funds required by
the federal government.
“We spent too much time and
worked too hard to cut the taxes to the
taxpayer, to start raising taxes
again,” Scranton said. “I believe one
of our fundamental and most impor
tant investments is in basic education
and higher education.”
Scranton said re-orientating the
present tax system and continuing to
direct portions of this and next year’s
state budget surplus would help ease
the responsiblity of local govern
ments in funding education.
- “Education and local government
must be one of our top priorities and
will be under my administration,”
Scranton said.
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‘(Wachob) was
number one in terms
of challengers
receiving PAC
money. Being
accused of taking
PAC money by you is
like being called ugly
by a frog.’
U.S. Rep. William F.
Clinger
(intercontinental ballistic missiles)
aimed at us in exchange for keeping
SDI in the laboratory,” Wachob said.
“That’s a favorable proposal for all
Americans and one I would agree to.”
The program should be compared
to the space program, Clinger said.
“When we targeted research and
Scranton
The administration of Gov. Dick
Thornburgh raised taxes by over $5
billion in the last eight years, Casey
said, adding recent tax cuts near an
election were “a la the old politics. ..
but the fact of the matter is that this
administration’s commitment to pub
lic education has not been a valid
strong commitment.”
Casey said funding for public edu
cation must be. approached gradual
ly, looking at what the budget surplus
will be several years in the future and
adding, “we have to look at what our
costs are which will make it possible
for the last eight years to be rewrit
ten.”
While Casey said he was opposed to
abolition of the state-owned liquor
system and called such an action
“fiscally irresponsible in the long
term,” Scranton favored eliminating
the current system through a referen
dum.
Casey mildly opposed putting the
question to a referendum vote, saying
“most things in a democracy should
be decided by elected representa
tives.”
“I can’t think of two other issues
which show the fundamental differ
ence between Bill Scranton and Rob
ert Casey than on the liquor issues
and the issue of initiative and referen
dum,” Scranton said.
“I am not afraid on any issue,
whether abolition of the control board
or whatever, to be brought before the
people. We need some opening of this
state.”
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challenger
development, we really got the space
program going,” Clinger said. “It
created lots of new jobs. .. The same
thing is going to happen with the SDI
program.”
Wachob termed the use of SDI
funding to create new jobs “ludi
crous” and said the main emphasis
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government must be
one of our top
priorities and will be
under my
administration.’
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for governor
should be on the basic research
funded at a lower level, which was
begun during the Carter administra
tion.
The two also opposed each other on
sending $lOO million in aid to Nicara
guan Contras, who are fighting a
guerrilla war against a Sandinista
government deemed oppressive by
President Reagan.
“We’re not directly involved in
Central America but it is necessary to
take a direct and personal interest in
it,” said Clinger, who supported the
Contra aid package.
“Supporting aid for the Contras
avoids the possibility of sending
American troops in,” Clinger said.
“The only way to bring the parties to
the Contadora table is to bring mili
tary pressure.”
Wachob said he has visited Nicara
gua and talked with both proponents
and opponents of the Sandinista gov
ernment, all of whom opposed U.S.
assistance to the Contras.
“Surprisingly, every person I met
said, ‘We don’t need Americans to
come down here and tell us what to
do,’ ” Wachob said.
Providing aid to the Contras
“pushes the government of Nicara
gua into a closer sphere with Cuba
and the Soviet Union and just contin
ues to prolong the conflict,” Wachob
said.
The debate was held at the WPSX
TV studios in Wagner Building. Duke
is the host of Washington Week in
Review, which airs on that station.
The debate, sponsored by the
Centre County League of Women
Voters, was structured to allow the
two candidates to counter each other
immediately rather than during set
rebuttal periods.
‘lf the day ever
comes that a
candidate can
withdraw his public
record, the fact that
he didn’t go to work
. ..we may as well
abolish elections.’
Bob Casey,
Democratic
governor candidate
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