The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, July 16, 1980-Page 7
Reagan
softening
adamant
anti-union
position
DETROIT (AP)-In a bold overture
to lure t;raditionally Democratic union
members to the Republican Party this
fall, Ronald Reagan is retreating from
anti-union stances'that have riled labor
leaders.
Trying to bridge the historic chasm
between the GOP and most of the
\ nation's 24 million union members, the
Republican presidential nominee-in-
waiting has assembled a group of ad-
visers-including a Teamsters of-
AP Photo ficial-to promote his candidacy in
union halls and labor leaders' suites.
THE INFORMAL GROUP of labor
ep i eidentify- advisers-has urged Reagan, apparently
its behind Stein with success, to adopt less hostile
positions on matters of top concern to
labor. The group's intention is to under-
cut an AFL-CIO campaign that is por-
traying Reagan as a stridently anti-labor
candidate who is an enemy of working
people.
The advisers note for example, that
Reagan himself was a union president
at one time, heading the Screen Actors
Guild for a time during his move-
making days in Hollywood. -
Although Reagan has yet to win any
endorsements from national union
leaders, at least one of these advisers
s released the same said there is a good possibility that he
well and returned to will gain the support of the nation's
e 17. largest union, the two million member
Teamsters.
ter supported Ford, Some of Reagan's labor advisers,
the nomination over who wished to speak anonymously, said
Hater became one of that since their recent participation in
in supporters in the the campaign, Reagan is no longer
calling for repeal of the federal
minimum wage law.
Gacy victims
Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Robert Stein asks members of the press in Chicago yesterday for h
ing the remaining bodies found in the crawispace of John Wayne Gacy's home. The picture composi
is of the faces reconstructed from unidentified skulls found in the crawlspace.
Goldwater promotes
Reagan at conventio*
DETROIT (AP) - Barry Goldwater
left a hospital bed yesterday to address
the Republican National Convention,
helping Ronald Reagan celebrate a
conservative takeover of the
Republican Party much like his own 16
years ago.
The appearance of the party's "Mr.
Conservative" was expected to set off
cheering as loud or louder than that ac-
corded former President Gerald Ford
when he addressed the convention
Monday night.
THE ARIZONA senator is recovering
from a problem similar to the one that
had his right foot in a cast when he won
the party's 1964 presidential
nomination in San Francisco.
It was at that convention that
Reagan, then newly embarked on a
career of speaking out on conservative
causes, took his first national bow on
the political stage, exhorting the
delegates to embrace both Goldwater
and his philosophy.
There were three memorable
speeches at that convention.
THE BEST remembered was Gold-
water's controversial declaration that
"extremism in the defense of liberty is
no vice" and "moderation in the pursuit
of justice is no virtue."
Another was by moderate Nelson
Rockefeller in support of an amen-
dment that would have called on the
party to repudiate the efforts of ex-
tremist groups. Rockefeller, then
governor of New York, was booed and
interrupted frequently by Goldwater
supporters.
But also remembered as electrifying
was the address by Reagan. It so im-
pressed party leaders that not long af-
ter the convention, he went on a
speaking tour for Goldwater. He was
embarking on a course that will climax
today when his party nominates him for
president.
Goldwater, 71, has suffered for years
from calcium deposits. He was on crut- operations. He wa
ches when he went to San Francisco in day, but didn't heal
1964, although he was able to stand 'the hospital on Jun(
alone to accept the nomination.
He has had replacement of both hips. In 1976, Goldwat
On June 11, at the hospital at Andrews who narrowly won
Air Force Base, the senator underwent Reagan. But Goldm
surgery to remove calcium from his the earliest Reaga
right hip, the site of previous 1980 campaign.
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