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President Reagan expresses confidence as he accepts Republican nomination. upiT. i. Phoo
Reagan attacks
' fear' policies
of Democrats
DALLAS ( UPI) - President Rea-gan
accepted the Republican Party's
nomination for a second term Thurs-day,
warning the nation that a re-turn
to Democratic rule would mean
" confiscatory taxes, costly social ex-periments
and economic tinkering "
In his acceptance speech at the.
grand finale of the Grand Old Par-ty's
33rd national convention, Rea-gan
said voters this year have a
clear political choice between the
Democrats' " government of pessi-mism,
fear and limits or ours of
hope, confidence and growth "
The 55- min- ute speech by the presi-dent,
who is dubbed the " great com-municator,"
was the emotional high-light
of a suspenseless convention
that brought Republican delegates to
Dallas for the sole purpose of renew-ing
Reagan's mandate for four more
years of conservative national lead-ership
First lady Nancy Reagan, watch-ing
in a box of honor near the stage,
wiped a tear from her eye as the 73- year-- old
president entered the hall to
strains of " Hail to the Chief "
" Tonight, with a full heart and
deep gratitude for your trust, I ac-cept
your nomination for the presi-dency
of the United States," Reagan
told the delegates
He got one of his biggest cheers
when he told delegates that since he
was sworn in Not one inch of soil
has fallen to the Communists "
The delegates hung on every word
of Reagan's speech, waving Ameri-can
flags, cheering every adminis-tration
accomplishment, booing ev-ery
Democratic wrong and rocking
the hall with chants of " Four more
years' Four more years'" every
time the possibility of victory was
mentioned.
Following the speech. Vice Presi-dent
George Bush joined Reagan on
stage, then both were joined by the
first lady and Barbara Bush More
than 85,000 red balloons dropped
from the rafters, while helium- fille- d
white balloons rose from the floor
Reagan's speech ranged from dra-matic
condemnation of the Demo-crats,
Walter Mondale and their poli-cies,
to a sentimental, emotional
view of his vision of America
1 With our beloved nation at peace,
we are in the midst of a springtime
of hope for America," Reagan said
looking back over the accomplish-ments
of his years in office " Great-ness
lies ahead of us '
For four days, Republicans ham- -
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University presents
needs for funds
$ 172- millio- n requested
By Elizabeth L Bland
Mlssourian staff wrltor
JEFFERSON CITY - The Uni-versity
system will request $ 172
million in state funds for capital
improvements in 1985- 8- 6
Interim President Melvin D
George Thursday told the fiscal
affairs committee of the state
Coordinating Board for Higher
Education why the budget re-quest
is $ 17 million higher than
last year.
" Our capital needs have sky-rocketed
in the past couple of
years," George said. Because
last year's maintenance funding
was limited, problems have in-creased
this year. And George
said even more money will be
needed to catch up. " New con-struction
costs have risen, too,"
he said
George noted that capital ap-propriations
from the state have
fallen far short of the Universi-ty's
need for several years
Earlier this month, the coordi-nating
board's staff recommend-ed
$ 891 million for capital im-provements
jtn the University
system The enure board will
consider the recommendation on
Sept. 13 and 14. Final recommen-dations
including dollar
amounts and priority rankings
will go to the General Assembly
during its next regular session,
which begins in January.
The University of Missouri was
one of 20 state- fund- ed colleges
and universities represented at
the meeting. Preliminary recom-mendations
by the higher educa-tion
board's staff totaled $ 161.3
million for all of the schools.
More than half of the $ 172 mil-lion
request $ 98.6 million
would be spent on new construc-tion.
The Columbia campus would
get the bulk of that amount- - $ 2 5
for the first phase of the addition
to Ellis Library, $ 8 2 million for
an agricultural engineering build-ing;
$ 17 million for a new law
school building; $ 11 4 million for
an engineering laboratory and
classroom building; and $ 108,000
for a second phase of im-provements
at Ellis.
The remainder of the $ 172 mil-lion
would be spent on im-provements
to existing struc-tures
repairs and maintenance,
$ 24 million; safety measures and
building codes compliance, $ 19 5
million; energy conservation, $ 6 3
million; renovation and rehabili-tation
of existing structures, $ 12 6
million; capital equipment re-placement,
$ 8 6 million; and in-creased
handicapped accessibili-ty,
$ 2.4 million.
GOP assumes fight, not victory
DALLAS ( UPI) - President Rea-gan
and his conservative army
launch the 75- d- ay war to retain con-trol
of the White House convinced
that the only thing they have to fear
is overconfidence
After a dull but harmonious con-vention,
the Grand Old P? rty leaves
Dallas with everything going in its
favor
Reagan is one of the most popu-lar
American presidents, seemingly
impervious to the criticism leveled
at his programs and the scandal that
swirls around some of his aides.
The economy that was flounder-ing
when Reagan took office has re-covered
enough for Americans to
feel they are better off today than
they were underthe Democrats.
The Republican Party and Reaga-n-
Bush have put together a
smoothly operating, well organized,
highly financed campaign machine
The polls show Reagan 20 points
ahead of the Democratic ticket of
Walter Mondale and Geraldine Fer- rar- o
The Democratic drive to mount
an offensive has been thwarted by
problems ranging from the appoint-ment
and firing of Bert Lance as
campaign chairman to Ferraro's fi-nances
Many Republicans leave the con-vention
wondering how their ticket
can lose But for months Reagan's
campaign chiefs have been warning
that overconfidence could bring
them down.
White House Chief of Staff James
Baker, who will run the campaign
from his desk just outside the Oval
Office, said he expects the election
to close up
" We know how these presidential
elections can close up and get tight
and there are just a lot more Demo-crats
out there across the country
than there are Republicans," Baker
said on NBC's " Today" show " So
we're not the least bit sanguine "
He said the White House is " wor-ried
a little bit about . . overconfi-dence
on the part of some of our
troops across the country
" Those of us in Washington are not
the slightest bit overconfident," he
said " We don't believe a lot of the
numbers that are blowing around
out there in the polls We're looking
for a close election and a tough
fight"
Baker said Reagan will not use a
" Rose Garden" strategy to maintain
his leadin the polls
" We're not just going to try and sit
on our lead, whatever tnat lead
might be," he said " You'll see the
president out there quite a bit He
likes to campaign"
For four days in Dallas the Repub-- '
licans pursued a strategy of trying to
divide rank- and- fi- le Democrats from
their leaders Speaker after speaker
said Walter Mondale does not rep-resent
workers, just union bosses
He is the candidate of special inter-est
they said, not the general inter-est
It was an effective argument and
if it works Reagan will be re- elect- ed
with the same blue- coll- ar votes that
put him in office in 1930
Mondale's only hope is to get
across his message that Reagan's
programs are unfair and help the
nch while hurting the poor and mid-dle
class As long as the economy
stays healthy, that is a big order for
the Democrats
Roll call highlight for most state delegates
By Linda Pulg
Mlasourlan staff writer
DALLAS Missourians, who have
always been a " show- me- " people,
were proud to turn the tables and
show themselves to the rest of the
nation on Wednesday night of the
Republican National Convention
That was when Gov. Christopher
Bond read Missouri's delegation
votes, which officially gave Presi-dent
Ronald Reagan and Vice Presi-dent
George Bush the nomination for
the Republican ticket
For most Missourians who at-tended
the convention, the roll call
wasthe highlight of the week
Some delegates found Missouri's
roll- ca- ll vote though exciting
secondary to the 23- minu- te, " pro- protes- t"
celebration, as it was
called, complete with falling red,
white and blue balloons
" Everything from then on is al-most
anticlimacbc," said David
Mangelsdorf of Imperial, Mo
A delegate from St. Louis, Grant
Keyes, also was savoring the pleas-ant
memories of the colorful cele-bration
" That exemplified everything," he
said. " It electrified the people, and I
doubt they an get that high any
more until be s elected in Novem-ber"
Erie Lionberger of St Louis said
she is proud to have a purpose in the
Reagan- Bus- h campaign to re-elect
the pair to another successful
term
But Lionberger's favorite incident
of the convention occurred during a
rally at the Loews- Anato- le Hotel A
young woman of about 18 stood next
to her, Lionberger said The woman
turned to her and whispered, " I'm
one of the ones here today that is
going to be president someday "
" And she will try," Lionberger
said " I'm sure of it "
Another young woman made the
highlight for national committeewo- ma- n
Bobbie Capps during the Eagle
Forum Luncheon, hosted by Phyllis
Schlafly The luncheon's guest
speaker was a 16- year-
- old Vietnam-ese
girl who had won an award for a
speech entitled, " Americanism "
The young girl spoke of the sacri-fice
her parents made to send her to
America They spent their entire life
savings to send her to the United
States where she would have free-dom
and opportunity
' That was the most outstanding
part of the whole convention," Capps
said
Joint pane! develops guidelines
for media, military relationship
New York Times v
WASHINGTON Secretary of De-fense
Caspar W. Weinberger made
public on Thursday a panel's recom-mendations
to provide access to mil-itary
operations for news organiza-tions,
and he gave orders to put the
recommendations into effect
But Weinberger made it clear that
military security would remain the
paramount consideration in
guidelines for news coverage.
The panel, composed of officers
and journalists, was headed by MaJ.
Gen. Winant Sidle, a retired chief of
information for the Army. It was
convened after the U. S. invasion of
Grenada in October 1983.
Reporters were initially excluded
from covering that invasion limited
access and coverage were permitted
in later stages of the operation. First
reaction from the American public
supprtedthe restriction of coverage.
In its recommendations, the panel
urged the Defense Department to be-gin
planning for news coverage of
military operations while the opera-tions
themselves were being
planned, including communications
and transportation for the reporters
covering operations
At the same tune, the panel urged
news organizations to agree to vol-untary
guidelines to maintain the se-curity
of operations. The panel said
there should be as few rules as possi-ble.
Under persistent questioning,
Weinberger's chief spokesman, Mi-chael
I. Burch, acknowledged that
there might be instances when the
press would be barred from covering
a military operation, such as the at-tempt
in April 1980 to rescue the
Americans being held hostage in
Iran.
Among its other recommenda-tions,
the panel proposed that mili-tary
training schools teach officers
how to deal with reporters during op-erations,
a provision with which
Weinberger said he agreed. He also
said he would appoint an advisory
council of Journalists to suggest
ways to meet the objectives of the
report.
But both Weinberger and Burch
made clear that civilian officials and
military officers would have the fi-nal
word onaccess for journalists.
Burch said planning had begun for
a national pool of reporters who
could be called upon at short notice
to cover the early stages of an opera-tion.
But the Pentagon, he said,
would determine how many would
be in the pool and who would be in-cluded.
In addition, Sidle said that " We
feel we should state emphatically
that reporters and editors alike must
exercise reponsibQity in covering
military operations."
In February the Sidle panel held
three days of hearings at which mili-tary
officers and news executives
from 19 organizations presented
their views.
Then the panel held two days of
private deliberations. Later in the
spring, their report was submitted to
Vessey, who sent it on to Weinberger
for his approval.
Defense Department officials said
that there had been much debate
within the Pentagon among civilian
officials and military officers.
Mondale criticizes GOP platform
as helping ' Reagan's rich friends'
NORTH OAKS, Minn. ( UPI) - D-emocratic
presidential nominee
Walter Mondale Thursday pre-pared
to return to the campaign
trail by watching the end of the
Republican National Convention
and ripping the GOP's platform as
a tax- cutti- ng blueprint that would
benefit the nch and balloon the
federal deficit
1 Just hours before President Rea-gan
accepted his party's nomi-nation
for a second term, Mo-nday's
campaign charged that the
platform is built and designed for
the wealthy.
" It seems clear that the Republi-can
version of tax reform is more
tax breaks for Reagan's rich
friends," deputy press secretary
Dayton Duncan told reporters.
Reagan himself has declined to
embrace the non- bindi- ng platform,
which seeks to spur economic ac-tivity
by eliminating such levies as
the windfall profits tax and taxa-tion
of dividends and interest
Mondale goes back on the road
Friday with a rally m Springfield,
HI , confident the financial ques-tions
about running mate Ger-aldine
Ferraro that have dogged
his campaign have been resolved
and that he can now focus atten-tion
on his attack of Reagan.
" One of the central questions
Mondale has been raising is how
are we going to be dealing with the
record federal deficit, the overrid-ing
domestic issue facing Ameri-ca,"
Duncan said
" Ronald Reagan refuses to say
what he will do whether he will
cut the budget and, if so, where,
and what taxes he will raise and
who will paythem"
Mondale will offer his critique of
the GOP convention during his Illi-nois
campaign stop.
Duncan offered a preview
Thursday, quoting Mondale as
saying the GOP affair " did not re-flect
America, both in terms of del-egates
their incomes and the
lack of minority representation
and their attitudes as reflected by
their platform "
Susan Estnh, a senior campaign
staff member, issued a sheet of pa-per
to reporters titled, " The Re-publican
promises and what
they'll cost"
Quoting the Congressioinal Re-search
Services, Estnch said six
of the proposed tax cuts would in-crease
the federal deficit by $ 159 9
billion
In response to questions, howev-er,
she said no attempt was made
to estimate how much the cuts
would stimulate the economy and
thus reduce the federal deficit.
" We don't see the stimulation,
though," Estnch said, noting that
the tax cuts Reagan imposed dur-ing
his first administration failed
to cut the deficit
Following Mondale's trip to
Springfield, he is to meet in St
Paul, Minn, Saturday with 15
Democratic governors for a strategy- u-nity
session
On Monday, Mondale is to go to
Dallas, site of the GOP convention.