Page 2 - The Michigan Daily -Tuesday, January31, 1984 Re-election fever . infects entire Reagan camp From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - President Reagan is planning an active campaign outside the Rose Garden this spring, although he faces no opposition for his party's presidential nomination, and he said yesterday that he favors a debate with his Democratic opponent. Reagan, in a chipper mood after his formal announcement Sunday night, shied away from a victory prediction. "YOU KNOW ME. I never say anything like that. I'm too super- stitious," he told reporters in the White House Rose Garden just 10 hours after his announcement. Asked about debating his opponent, Reagan said, "I said in principle, I support debates, yes." Reagan, who will battle for many of the same labor votes that helped him win the 1980 election, argued that his tax cut program benefited a wider range of Americans than did an ex- tensive tax reduction offered by President John Kennedy 22 years ago. "Our tax program was fair," said Reagan. "It was fair across the board." Edward Rollins, the political professional running Reagan's cam- paign, told wire service interviewers at a dawn breakfast, "We've got tremen- dous leads," but added, "we under- stand this is not going to be the case nine months from now." "TODAY IF the election were held it would be far more of a rout than in 1980," when Reagan carried 44 states and crushed Jimmy Carter, Rollins said. In recent polls, he said, "We could not find four states in which we were trailing in the country." Michael Deaver, the deputy chief of the White House staff and one of the president's closest advisers, said Reagan will seek to appeal to blue- collar workers, who proved to be a key element in his landslide electoral vic- tory in 1980. Deaver and other Reagan aides are quick to express their admiration for the support former Vice President Walter Mondale is getting, from the AFL-CIO, as well as for the highly charged state of his campaign organization. AP Photo gan talks with Vice President George Bush in the Blue ouse Sunday before announcing that he will seek a nt. Reagan welcomes debate with possible party can- aign, well underway, seems to have little opposition s. eroup $100,000 other gifts," he said. BUSTAMANTE said the second Arab League con- tribution turned up when Jackson asked him- to review the records of several of the PUSH groups. "I don't think he knew about it," Bustamante said when asked about Jackson's knowledge of the gift to PUSH-Excel. THE ATTORNEY, who is general counsel of the foundation and Operation PUSH, said none of the money from any of the PUSH groups has gone to Jackson's presidential campaign. President Ronald Reag Room at the White H second term as preside didates, but his camps from other Republican Arab donors give Jackson s WASHINGTON (AP) - An organization headed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson received a $100,000 con- tribution from the Arab League, the second $100,000 donation from the league to a group connected with the Democratic presidential candidate, a spokesman said yesterday. John Bustamante, Jackson's personal attorney told reporters that PUSH for Excellence Inc. got the noney in 1981 or 1982 from Clovis Maksoud, the Arab League's permanent observer at the United Nations. "THE ARAB League did make a gift of $100,000 to PUSH-Excel," Bustamante said. "It was a perfectly legitimate, legal gift." Bustamante attacked the New York Times and other media organizations for singling out the con- tributions from the Arab League, an official group of Arab governments, as unfair, unAmerican and defamatory. The Times reported Sunday that the PUSH Foundation received a $100,000 donation from the Arab League in 1981. "It is part of an organized attempt to make Arab gifts seem different and unacceptable compared with THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN KIBBUTZ Summer Session in Israel June3 -August 8 EARN 8 CREDITS Language Studies (all levels) . Seminar on Kibbutz Society Tours and Hikes'with the Society for the Protection of Nature MEETING FOR ALL INTERESTED STUDENTS: FEBRUARY 2, 1984 3050 Frieze Bldg. - 4:00 p.m. STUDY ABROAD 764-4489 HEBREW PROGRAM 764-3016 Recall election may I I E !1 alter Sen at LANSING, Mich. (UPI) - Voters in Macomb and Oakland counties today will determine replacements for two lawmakers recalled in November, with control of the Senate resting on the out- come. Republican candidates Kirby Holmes and Rep.rudy Nichols are favored in the special elections to fill the seats vacated by the anti-tax recalls of freshman Democratic senators last fall. AN INCREASE in the state's income tax was the predominant issue in the five-week campaign, especially in Macomb County, where Utica Rep. Mary Ellen Parrott, a backer of the hike, faces Holmes. the battle in that district which in- cludes Sterling Heights, Utica, and Shelby Township is generally con- sidered closer than the race in Oakland e majorlit County, where Nichols faces Democratic attorney Stan Kurzman. KURZMAN, Waterford School Board president and former journalist, expec- ts to get support from voters in his hometown as well as in the mostly Democratic city of Pontiac. Phil Mastin of Pontiac and David Serotkin of Mount Clemens were ousted last fall after anti-tax groups forced a recall election against them for sup- porting a temporary increase in the state's income tax last spring. Democrats currently-runi the upper chamber and could lose their nine-year reign if Republicans win the two seats. The Senate is now tied with 18 members of each party, but Senate President Lt. Gov. Martha Griffiths can break tie votes in favor of Democrats. IN BRIEF Complied from Associated Press and United Press International reports U.S. moves to resume arms talks WASHINGTON - U.S. negotiator Edward Rowny said yesterday the" United States would consider any serious Soviet proposals, including curbs: on new U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe, in an effort to work out a strategic arms control agreement. After a half-hour meeting with President Reagan, Rowny said he has. several U.S. approaches or "trade-offs" to present if the Soviets agree to,- resume discussions in Geneva, Switzerland. "It's in their interest to come back," Rowny said. "We are now in a position, when we return to the table, to make a breakthrough." Negotiations to curb medium-range missiles in Europe and separate talks on controlling intercontinental nuclear weapons are stalemated. The Soviets disrupted both discussions to protest installation of U.S. Pershing 2 missiles in West Germany and cruise missiles in Britain. Rowny said Reagan agreed a settlement might be based on trimming the U.S. lead in some weapons if the Soviets gave ground on others. O'Neill calls Reagan's deficit talks attempt to "pass the buck" WASHINGTON - House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said yesterday that President Reagan is trying to "pass the buck" on record red ink by pressing for bipartisan talks on trimming $100 billion from federal budget deficits. O'Neill's remarks were another indication of how little progress has been made since last Wednesday when Reagan issued his election-year invitation for a bipartisan congressional delegation to discuss deficit reduction measures with White House officials. So far, distrust on the part of Democrats fearing a political trap, and con- fusion over what items the president is willing to negotiate on, has resulted in rhetoric rather than substance. No meetings are expected until after the president sends his fiscal 1985 budget to Congress on Wednesday. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said yesterday that the ad-" ministration was "prepared to sit down and negotiate" and he insisted the president's offer was "no ploy." Rev. Billy Graham hospitalized ROCHESTER, Minn. - The Rev. Billy Graham, suffering a high fever, acute infection and exhaustion, has been admitted to a hosptial affiliated with the Mayo Clinic, officials said yesterday. The 65-year-old evangelist was being treated with antibiotics and decongestants for acute sinus and left inner ear infections, a Mayo Clinic spokesman said. Graham's condition is "satisfactory and improving," he said. An aide said Graham's unexpected hospitalization forced the evangelist and his wife, Ruth, to cancel an invitation from President Reagan and first. lady Nancy Reagan for a visit and overnight stay at the White House this. week. Graham, who recently completed a three-week trip to England to arrange for an upcoming three-month British crusade in the spring, will be hospitalized until about the end of the week, doctors said. He was admitted Sunday to Rochester Methodist Hospital. Workplace efficiency rates rise WASHINGTON - The government's gauge of workplace efficiency ad- vanced at an annual rate of 3.1 percent last year, the best pace since 1976, the Labor Department said yesterday. But economists questioned whether the stellar'showing means the nation is returning to an era of robust productivity' growth. Although the overall productivity indicator showed the best annual growth. in seven years, the gains in the last three months of 1983 slowed con- siderably, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report. The 3.1 percent net annual increase in private business productivity reflec- ted a 4.4 percent rise in output and a 1.2 percent increase in the hours of all workers. When farming was included, overall U.S. private business produ tivity increased at an annual rate of 2.6 percent last year, compared to a 6.1 percent decline in 1982. President Reagan has voiced concern about declining American business productivity growth. After a long period of average annual gains of about 3 percent between 1945-68, the worker efficiency gauge has registered little or no increases in recent years, harming the ability of U.S. business to cope with mounting international competition. Private economists have noted that the productivity performance typically improves following a recession because businesses step up produc- tion in reaction to improved sales prospects, while delaying large-scale hiring. Thus, the productivity gauge rises because stuffers on the payroll put out more while a company's unit labor costs hold relatively steady. Mock miitary campaign marks'} end to U.S.-Honduran exercises SAN ESTEBAN, Honduras - Some 5,000 U.S. and Honduran troops, wrapping up the longest and most costly joint military maneuvers ever held in Central America, opened a mock counter-insurgency campaign yesterday in the rugged terrain of eastern Honduras. The troops were taken by helicopter from El Aguacate, 108 miles northeast of Tegucigalpa, to San Esteban, where they began their sweep of the rugged terrain i a simulated exercise against rebels. The exercises - nicknamed Big Pine II - were intended to improve Hon- duran military preparedness because of the military buildup in neighboring leftist-ruled Nicaragua, U.S. military officials said. Although there has been no official figure on the total cost, observers said that the duration and the improvements of Honduran military installations made Big Pine II the most expensive joint exercise staged in the region. (DIe Iir igan aily Tuesday. January 31, 1984 Vol. XC! 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