Page 10-Thursday, July 31,;1980-The Michigan Daily
CARTER CAMPAIGN CHIEF CONFIDENT
Strauss balks at open convention
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From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - President Carter
has had more bad news from political
pollsters, but his campaign chairman
predicted yesterday that by mid-
October Carter would catchwRonald
Resgan in the polls and then would e
re-elected in November.
Carter chairman Robert Strauss
called the effort to free convention
delegates to vote theirnchoice, rer-
dess of primary election results, an at-
tempt to disenfranchise the 19 million
people who voted in Democratic
primaries this year.
HE SAID AT a news conference,
"We've seen no indication there's any
reason for any 'concern whatsoever"
that anti-Carter Democrats can muster
the votes to reject a rule requiring
delegates to abide by the primary
election results, which gave Carter a
solid majority going into the
Democratic National Convention next
month.
"If you were to free each delegate,
you'd bring total disarray on that con-
vention floor," he said in an earlier in-
terview with ABC-TV. "The president
would be renominated with just about
the same vote." '
Strauss was asked why, if Carter has
the nomination locked up, his political
committee is fighting so hard against
releasing delegates on the first ballot.
"You don't go into a convention and
create a shambles where you can have
order," Strauss replied.
THE CARTER chairman stressed he
has no hard feelings. "If I was running
Senator (Edward) Kennedy's business,
I'd be doing this," he said. In fact,
Strauss recalled he used a similar
strategy in 1972 in an unsuccessful ef-
fort to block the nomination of Sen.
George McGovern (D-S.D.).
As for Carter's low standing in the
polls, Strauss said, "Of course, I wish
we were ahead in the polls. I think it
will be mid-October before we're ahead
in the polls. It may be a little earlier or
a little later.
"Does it dismay me? No._Do I wish
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MEANWHILE, Edward Bennett
Williams, prominent Washington trial
lawyer and former Democratic Party
treasurer, was named chairman of the
Committee for an Open Convention.
In Lincoln, Neb., Sen. J. J. Exon (D-
Neb.), said he would lead a movement
to get Democratic senators to back the
effort to open the convention.
Exon said he believes a majority of
Democratic senators support the open
convention idea but "no one wants to
take the lead, so it has fallen on a few of
us who are not afraid to stick our necks
out."
BAD NEWS FROM the pollsters
reached the White House from two fron-
ts: A nationwide survey said that Car-
ter's approval rating was the lowest for
an incumbent president in modern
times, and a California poll showed him
running third in the state behind
Republican nominee Reagan and in-
dependent John Anderson.
The latest ABC News-Louis Harris
survey found that only 22 per cent of the
sample of 1,458 likely voters questioned
July 18-21 - the three days following
the Republican National Convention -
said they approved of Carter's handling
of his job. The survey said 77 per cent
expressed disapproval.
With the opening of the Democratic
National Convention just 12 days off,
the latest delegate count shows Carter
with 1,985 delegates, more than 300 over
the 1,666 he needs. Kennedy has 1,239.
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PRESIDENT CARTER WAVES to the crowd after giving his remarks at the Capitol yesterday where the U.S. Olympic
team was presented with special gold medals. Carter told the athletes, including the gymnastics team shown beside
him, that by not participating in the Moscow Games they did more than anyone else "to hold high the banner of liberty
and peace."
IOCass or investation of
Soviet track and field judging
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MOSCOW (UPI) - The International
Olympic Committee has asked for an
investigation of charges by Western
athletes that Russian officials cheated
in judging track and field events at the
games, a committee source said
yesterday.
The IOC requested that the Inter-
national Amateur Athletic Federation
investigate the charges, a well-placed
IOC source said.
ADRIAN PAULEN, 78, Dutch
president of the IAAF, went onto the in-
field at Lenin Stadium for the first time
to obeerve the pole vault competition -
one of four events in which Australian
and Scandinavian athletes complained
their communist rivals were given an
unfair advantage.
The other events were the men's
javelin, the men's discus, and the triple
jump.
The Western athletes charged that in
the men's javelin event, won by
Russian Dainis Kula, Soviet officials
opened the doors of the stadium behind
Russian throwers so they would have a
following wind, the IOC source said.
"WE HEARD about this and asked
Adrian Paulen about it. He first said it
wasn't true, but when he checked up, he
came back and said it did in fact hap-
pen," the source said. measurement" treatment and Swedish
There have also been allegations television videotape editors believe
Kula's gold medal throw in the javelin they have the evidence to prove it.
not only landed flat on the ground, In yesterday's 11th day of com-
which does not count, but also was petition in the two-week Games, the
marked about a yard longer than the host Russians won six gold medals of
first point of impact. the 13 at stake to boost their total to 62
There were also claims that Cuba's of the 153 awarded so far. The East
bronze medal throw by Luis Delis in the Germans won three and have a total of
discus was given the samne "long 37.
Three Georgia death row
fugitives captured in N.C.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Three Flamont, 33, who rented the house on
convicted murderers who sawed their Lake Wylie about 15 miles southwest of
way out of a Georgia prison were recap- Charlotte. Flamont, a former leader of
tured early yesterday in rural North the Outlaw motorcycle gang in Charlot-
Carolina. The body of a fourth fugitive, te, was charged with harboring the
apparently beaten to death, had been fugitives and jailed under $40,000
found earlier floating in a lake a few bond.
miles away. Acting on a tip, about 20 local police
Police ' lobbed tear gas into a and FBI agents surrounded the house
lakefront home nar here to force the and spent six hours trying to coax the
surrender of Timothy McCorquodale, men out with bullhorns before resorting
27, of Alma, Ga.; David Jarrell, 25, of to tear gas about 1:30 a.m.
Greensboro; and Johnnie Johnson, 26, "No shots were fired other than the
of Logan, Utah. tear gas," said Mecklenburg County
POLICE ALSO arrested William Police Capt. Mitchell Barnes.