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WW ; fRy UJJC ' ri- 4- ' COLUildlA, 0. 65211 76th Year No. 285 Good Morning! It's Friday, August 24, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents 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- - See REAGAN, Page 8A 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.
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Item.Transcript | WW ; fRy UJJC ' ri- 4- ' COLUildlA, 0. 65211 76th Year No. 285 Good Morning! It's Friday, August 24, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents 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- - See REAGAN, Page 8A 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. |