Page 10-Thursday, July 31,;1980-The Michigan Daily CARTER CAMPAIGN CHIEF CONFIDENT Strauss balks at open convention 0 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 MICH IGAN REP '80 La- Arthur Schnitzler's skillfully constructed circle of ten in- terlocing love affairs. Each scene is ade for two characters, one of whom will encounter a new partner in the following scene A as cinating peek into the par frs and bedrooms of 1890 Vienna. July 31, August 2, 6,8 OPENS TONIGHT POWER CENTER PTP Ticket Office-MI League, Noon- 5 pm, M-F. Master Chrge & VISA by phone: 764-040. Power Center bo office opens at 6 pm (763-3333). TOMORROW NIGHT: OF THEE I SING we were ahead? Yes. Am I alarmed? No. Am I concerned? Yes." 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. 4 I I I 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 A 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.