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AEOLUS The Chronicle's weekly magazine 76th Year, No. 44 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Wednesday, October 29, 1980 INSIDE Today's news Page 2. Campaign '80 Platforms: John Anderson Campaign '80 Page 3. Jimmy Carter aaSff^T Page 3. .Caml»i8n, Ed Clark ill Page 4. | Barry Commoner Page 4. r Ronald Reagan Q? \&. Page 6. Clifton DeBerry Page 7. What if - — the election were thrown to Congress? Page 6. Celebrity Look-alike Contest It wasn't hard to tell who each of these people was impersonating, but to choose the best of these 12 contestants was nearly impossible. Thank you' and 'happy Halloween' to one and all. Page 8. Arts Page 10. On the soapbox Sports Page 11. The Bag Page 16. .Today's news _Aeolus_ Carter, Reagan square off in debate By Adam Clymer « 1980 NYT Nt-ws Service more relaxed, more genial manner in the only resort" and then only when the security ofthe United CLEVELAND — President Carter and Ronald campaign confrontation between the two this fall. But States was at stake. But he said that the "burden" of Reagan each sought in a 90-minute debate Tuesday there were sharp differences offered. Carter contended maintaining peace was the responsibility of this night to reinforce the dominant themes of eight weeks that "the crucial diffference" was their attitudes on country. of often desultory campaigning. arms control. Reagan said the basic question for As a follow-up, Reagan was askedhow he reconciled Carter hammered on arms control and the risk of voters was economic: "Are you better off than you were his positions that military spending should increase, war, while his challenger repeatedly denounced the four years ago?" taxes decrease and the budget be balanced. Without president's economic record. providing details, Reagan declared that his economic The first question dealt with the use of military plan would achieve those goals. With one week left in a tight race for the White power. Each'candidate was asked how his positions House, Carter repeatedly appealed to the traditional differed from those of his opponent. Carter did not respond directly to the question of elements of the Democratic constituency — blacks, how his militasry policy differed from his opponent's. Southerners, union members and admirers of the late Reagan, who answered first as the result of a coin He used his time to state that he had dealt with Hubert H. Humphrey, the defeated Democratic toss, began by saying that he did not know exactly "thousands" of critical military issues during his time candidate of 1968. what Carter's policies were because the president had in office and had learned from his experiences. There Reagan sought, with equal determination, to never specified them. The Republican then asserted are "no simple answers to complicated questions," the emphasize an image of reasonableness, and to deflect that military force should be used only as a "last president said. D Carter's continual charges that the Californian's past statements contradicted his present policy. "There you go again," he said once before insisting Carter had misrepresented his position. Carter's focus on detail contrasted with Reagan's ASDG passes flurry of bills By Loren Weil The ASDU assembly passed eight legislative bills last night in its weekly meeting. One approved proposal recommended several changes in the current advising system at Duke. The statute, which incorporated suggestions made by the Two contestants in the homecoming lip-sync contest. UFCAS standing committee on advising last year, proposes that all students be allowed to choose their departmental advisers, that special training for advisers be available, and that several other changes Defense concludes argument be made to improve the quality of advising at Duke. A resolution was dismissed which challenged a quote by Chris Meyer, ASDU vice president for Trinity in Greensboro Nazi, Klan trial College, in the October 16 Chronicle. Meyer's GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Defense lawyer Robert Cahoon also questioned why the state did not ask a comment, regarding his views on minority Cahoon said Tuesday the news media engaged in a federal agent who infiltrated Wood's Forsyth County recruitment, came under fire at last week's legislative "conspiracy of silence" before the fatal clash last Nov. Nazi unit last year to testify in the trial. meeting and a statute was passed asking him to 3 between Ku Klux Klan-Nazis and members of the Cahoon said federal agent Bernie Butkovich, who clarify his statement. Communist Workers Party. attended a Nazi planning session two days before the Tera Hunter, the representative who proposed the Cahoon, completing his closing statements, also shootout, must have known that the group planned no statute, delivered a short speech questioning whether said that his client, Winston-Salem Nazi Roland violence. Meyer could successfully function in his position. Wayne Wood, never killed anybody with his gun at a In other closing statements Tuesday, Robert Meyer defended his record and assured the legislature "Death to the Klan" rallv sponsored by the CWP last Douglas, the attorney for Lawrence Gene Morgan, that he could serve effectively in his executive role. fall. asked the jury to exonerate his client because he did The legislature also approved several bills Cahoon's remarks about the media came six hours not "do anything out there that would justify holding concerned with student services. A proposal into his nine hours of closing arguments at the first- him responsible for the deaths of those five people." requesting improved student laundry facilities was degree murder trial of six Klansmen-Nazis charged in Morgan was the driver ofthe van which carried four passed, as were bills recommending more change of his co-defendants and seven other men, some of machines on campus and extended library hours on the shooting deaths of five CWP members. whom have also been charged with murder in the case Sunday mornings. He said reporters knew CWP members were armed and will be tried later. The assembly then passed bills supporting various and planned to "annihilate the Klan." "Lawrence Morgan had no idea that this was going student groups. Legislation was en acted thatendorses "They [the medial never went to the police saying to. happen," Douglas said ofthe clash. increased involvement oi graduate students in they had been notified there would be violence," Douglas said Lawrence is not seen in many ofthe campus life, Duke energy awareness month and a Cahoon continued. "It did not bother them so long as photographs, films or videotapes taken by news media proposed forum on affirmative action to be sponsored the objects of the violence were the Ku Klux Klan. because he didn't attract any attention because he by the Race Relations Committee. D That's the God's truth. didn't do anything. "It only became a terrible thing when those who "Lawrence didn't grab a gun. He didn't have a gun planned the violence got the worst of it," Cahoon said. period. He didn't go get one from anyone else," Cahoon said if the media instead had known the Douglas said. CWP member arrested Klan planned to "inflict violence on the CWP, the Even if the jury finds that Morgan was not reporters would have informed the police." responsible or the deaths of any of the CWP members, passing out leaflets Cahoon, the first of six defense lawyers to present he could still be found guilty of murder if he aided and closing arguments, spent much of his time Monday abetted or acted . in concert with; any of his co- pointing out testimony he said showed the Klansmen DURHAM. N.C. (AP) - A Communist Workers defendants who may be found guilty. acted in self-defense. None of the defendants are guilty, Douglas argued, Party member and a party supporter charged with In closing statements Tuesday afternoon, Cahoon trespassing while distributing leaflets at Duke because they acted in self-defense when attacked by said. "Nobody was killed by the kind of shot that • the CWP. • University Hospital were arraigned in court today. Roland Wood had in his gun, and he never shot Both cases were continued. anyone." CWP member Rosalyn Pelles and Libby Gell, a Prosecutors are expected to argue that Wood Duke Hospital employee, were arrested Friday wounded James Waller, on of the CWP members who shortly before 7 a.m. by Duke public safety officers. was killed by a shotgun blast with different type of The pair was arrested when they refused to leave shot from Wood's gun. the hospital grounds, Duke police said. Cahoon worked around scientific evidence the state Pelles and Gell were released from Durham said linked Waller's wounds to Wood's gun and Country Jail on $100 bond. addressed himself only to Waller's fatal wounds. Wednesday, October 29, 1980 .Campaign '80. Aeolus deeply regrets that screening of the movie Promise Them Anything had to be cancelled last week. To reconcile that The Anderson difference misfortune we hereby offer these brief -By Jon Hoffman outlines of presidential platforms for ;&*&: John Anderson and Patrick Lucey have graver economic problems). In addition, personal candidates on the North Carolina state 1 I I fi r developed a platform that is specific, income taxes would be indexed to prevent the erosion I I * coherent and realistic. Unlike the party of consumer purchasing power and the automatic ballot. platforms, it is an actual program designed increase of government revenues. Tax cuts would be But seriously, folks, we hope you'll read to solve the problems of this nation — it is not a postponed since they only would swell the deficit and these columns very carefully and make a collection of planks representing the relative power of fuel inflation.