Friday, November 2, 1984 Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio Volume. 64, No. 145
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Friday, November 2, 1984 Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio Volume. 64, No. 145 Editor's note: The following analysis of some issues involv• ed in next meek *s presidential election is based on research done by the entire Jambar staff. Sources include: The New York Times, Time Magazine, The 1984 Democratic National Plat• form, USA Today, Newsweek and College Press Service. Unfortunately, not all of the issues involved in the election are included in this article, due to space limitations. It is hoped that the reader will carefully consider these issues, as well as the many others involved, before voting next Tuesday. The Jambar/Tom Welsh REAGAN: The chief complaints about the Reagan ad• nuclear freeze and has called Reagan's recent peace offering reduce tensions between the two superpowers. The former vice- ministration's handling of higher education has concerned cuts to the Soviets a "death bed conversion." Mondale is strongly- president also supports the continued defease of Europe, Israel to federal financial aid programs. Here we have to make a opposed to any type of "Star "Wars" defense system. and any other country if "vital U.S. interests" are involved. distinction between'what Reagan wanted to do and what Con• Mondale strongly.opposes the Reagan administration's covert gress has let him do. • operations in Central America and^has pledged to end what he In his first three yearsin office, the president proposed cut-. considers an "illegal war." - v. ting foancial aid fimding'by 30-50 percent. Even with Con• REAGAN: The current administration has been accused by gress' rejection of the more drastic cuts, total student'aid has environmentalists of mishandling institutions designed to pro• dropped about 20 percent since 1980, according to the College tect the environment. Reagan has cut the spending power of Press Service. the Environmental Protection Agency by nearly a third of the Reagan has also been criticized by education officials for back• Carter Administration levels. Reagan also tried to eliminate the REAGAN: Reagan promised to balance the budget by 1985. ing off a strict enforcement of Title IX of the 1972 Higher advisory Council on Environmental Quality. He failed, but the . He hasn't. The interest alone on the federal debt of $1.6 trillion. Education Amendments, which prohibits federally-funded col• council's budget has been slashed from $2.5 million to $700,000, accounts for nearly 15 percent of the annual federal budget. leges from discriminating based on sex. The adrauiistration fur• and its staff of 50 has been reduced to 12. Many economists feel this growing debt has caused interest rates ther proposed to start granting tax exemptions to schools that Efforts to clean toxic waste dumps have improved since to remain high, despite low inflation rates. discriminate on the basis of race. William Ruckelshaus took over the EPA, but still only six of Reagan says he will still push for a Constitutional Amend• On the bright side, students' scores on the Scholastic Aptitude a possible 20,000 waste sites had been cleared by July, and the ment requiring a balanced budget. He also counts on an ex• Test (SAT) increased this year, but when a Reagan official Reagan administration has opposed Congressional efforts to panding economy that will continue to increase tax revenues credited the president's education policies for the improvement, tighten the laws regulating handling, transportation and disposal while simultaneously cutting funding on unemployment and the College Board, which runs the SAT program, denied the of toxic substances. welfare benefits. claim as "simply impossible." Reagan believes in loosening laws that require industries to MONDALE: Mondale is promising to reduce the federal MONDALE; Reagan's Democratic challenger has sharply clean up air and water they pollute. He also opposes programs budget deficit. But according to the National Taxpayers Union, criticized the president for allegedly making college less ac- designed to control acid rain, arguing that more research is need• he is already planning to spend $30 billion more than the cur• cessable to poor people and minorities. According to the ed before such programs should be funded. rent budget estimates. Democratic National Platform, Mondale is "committed to equi• MONDALE: From the outset of his campaign, Mondale has In a controversial move, Mondale has promised to raise taxes. ty in higher education . and ensuring that all American blasted the president's environmental policies, tagging it "the He has also promised to defer income tax indexing scheduled families can send their children on to college or advanced lousiest anti-environmental record in modern American history." to start next year. This income tax bracket creep, which index• training." Mondale supports revitalizing the EPA through budget in• ing eliminates, affects mostly middle-income families. Another The platform offers no specifics for how aid will be increas• creases. He believes careful resource management and strict main feature of bis tax increase package is a 10 percent sur• ed, but it does make special note of bolstering black colleges: pollution control enforcement are keys to "a prosperous economy charge on the income tax of individuals earning $70,000 and "The programs that assist them, which have been severely and a healthy environment." up and families earning $100,000 and up. weakened in recent years, must be greatly strengthened with According to its platform, the Democratic Party is commit• Mondale's spending cuts include farm-price supports, try• funding targeted toward black and Hispanic institutions." ted to "dramatically increasing Superfund resources" to clear ing to contain government-subsidized hospital costs and limiting hazardous waste sites. It also supports a reauthorized and the rate of increase in defense spending. strengthened Clean Air Act, and proposes an "immediate prcr gram to reduce sulfer dioxide emissions [acid rain] by 50 per• REAGAN: Defense policy is one of the cornerstones of the cent" by the end of this decade. Reagan campaign. Reagan has criticized past Democratic ad• ministrations for weakening our national defense and has con• REAGAN: The two candidates are in sharp disagreement vinced many Americans that he has rebuilt our forces back to over social program appropriations. Reagan has cut $80 billion an acceptable level of strength. REAGAN: Foreign affairs may be one of Reagan's weakest from Social Security, $30 billion from Medicare, and $27 billion Reagan proposes a five-six percent increase in military spen• areas. Critics point to the president's fiasco in Lebanon, the from the food-stamp program. He has also cut child nutrition ding after inflation for the next fiscal year, slightly more than failure of his Mid-East peace initiatives and the strained rela• aid to families, dependent children assistant programs, Mondale's plan. He also favors building major weapon systems' tions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union as proof. Reagan unemployment insurance and housing assistance. Reagan is also such as the B-l bomber and the MX strategic missile system. was successful, however, in rallying the NATO allies to deploy expected to ask for further cuts from federal education spending. • He is totally against any nuclear freeze and prefers to promote Pershing II missiles in Europe. MONDALE: Mondale supports increased aid to educational, a highly-advanced "Star Wars" defense umbrella. In El Salvador, Reagan continues to support the Duarte ad• social and welfare programs. He has proposed $30 billion to MONDALE: Mondale proposes an after-inflation boost of ministration, which may have turned the corner in its battle aid domestic, educational and environmental programs; and $11 three-four percent in the Pentagon's budget. The former vice- against guerilla forces. Reagan also strongly supports continued billion to help school districts upgrade math, science and com• president, however, prefers the build-up of our conventional financial aid to the contra forces in Nicaragua, which are try• puter programs. Additional plans call for $3 billion for disad• forces oyer spending vast sums for new weapon systems. ing to overthrow the Sandinista regime. vantaged and minority students, with 1.5 billion specifically Mondale has been unrelenting in his harsh criticism of MONDALE: Mondale had proposed an early summit.with marked for college students. Reagan's arms control policy. He endorses a mutually-verifiable tbeSoyietsand regularly scheduled follow-up summits to help See Issues, page 6 2 The Jambar November 2, 1984 writers take opposing sides in special commentary see page 5. By CLARENCE MOORE debates and said Reagan did not "have a firm grasp of Jambar News Editor the election issues, failed to accept responsibiltiy for his policies and that his ideas of foreign policy were Although election polish show her husband behind "dangerous." . ~ •? '"- • Ronald Reagan; Joan Mondale told an enthusiastic group She also attacked Reagan's supposed 'Star Wars' pro• of Democratic supporters that she remains optimistic and posal, which would put anti-nuclear weapons in outer believes her husband will be elected president come next space. She said Reagan's arm race with the Russians in• Tuesday, dicated that he thinks he can win a nuclear war. Mondale wasin Youngstown yesterday afternoon to "He also thinks that once he has pushed the button, speak before a group of supporters, mostly women, at he can change his mind and recall the missiles," she said. an informal campaign reception at Mt. Carmel Social "You need someone who knows what he's doing, so• Hall sponsored by the local Democratic Party. meone who knows how to be responsible, and next Tues• Introduced by Mahoning County Prosecuting Attorney day the voters willhave a choice between salesmanship Vincent Gilmartin as"the next First Lady of the United (Reagan) and leadership (Mondale)," she noted. States," Mondale was greetedby a thunderous ovation, Mondale criticized Reagan's economic policies, which * cheers and Democratic hands holding high Mondale/Fer- she had said created huge deficits by building up the raro banners.