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Folder Citation: Collection: Records of the 1976 Campaign Committee to Elect ; Series: Noel Sterrett Subject File; Folder: ; Container 89

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The 1976 Democratic nomination for President is I. WALTER MONDALE up for grabs. The field is Has he ever been tested? getting crowded. This month by Albert Eisele profiles three early hopefuls-Senators About an hour after Senator Ed­ available, few Democrats would Mondale and Bentsen and ward Kennedy took himself out of focus on him in the search for new Congressman Udall. the race for the 1976 Democratic presidential timber. Now, with Ken­ presidential nomination on Septem­ nedy's withdrawal, Mondale has Examinations of other ber 23, a reporter asked Senator emerged as the leading candidate of aspiring tenants of 1600 Walter Mondale of what the perpetually restless, and fickle, Avenue will he thought Kennedy's action would liberal wing of the Democratic follow in subsequent issues. mean for himself and others 'who party. might ~eek the nomination. Minnesota's contribution to 1976 Mondale, sitting in his office presidential politics and the people around the corner from Kennedy's around him are realistic enough to on the fourth floor of the Russell understand that Kennedy's action . Senate Office Building and puffing merely removed the biggest of intently on a cigar, answered by re­ many big obstacles between Mon­ calling something the late Stewart dale and the Democratic nomi­ Alsop had written about Kennedy. nation. "Mondale's not going to in­ "He once wrote a column com­ herit anything from Kennedy paring Ted to a shade tree that is so automatically," Richard Moe, Mon­ big and effective that no other trees dale's administrative assistant, said could grow around it," said Mon­ after Kennedy's withdrawal. "He's dale, "Well, I think maybe we'II see going to have to show people h.::'s some of the sunlight coming got something before they'ii go for through now." · him." But Moe, a dedicated profes­ Whether enough of that sunlight sional politician of thirty-eight who will fall on the forty-six-year-old was attracted to politics by the ex­ Mondale's sharp-edged profile to ample of John F. Kennedy, notes transform his senatorial acorn into a with irrefutable logic that "the odds presidential oak, only time will tell. on us are no longer than they are But there is no mistaking the feel­ on anybody else now. Certainly, ing of relief that Mondale now dis­ they're good enough. to warrant plays after ten years of trying with- · making the effort." out much success to emerge from Some people think Mondale has Kennedy's large shadow. Since com­ been conte'mplating that effort al­ ing to the Senate in December, most fn;>m the day he arrived in the 1964, as Vice President-elect Hubert Senate as the latest export of Min­ Humphrey's handpicked successor, nesota's robust and progressive the former Minnesota attorney gen­ Democratic-Farmer-Labor, party. eral and son of a poor country Unlike his political mentor~ Hum~· preacher has le<}rned to accept the phrey, who arrived in the Senate fact that as long as a Kennedy was sixteen years earlier like a rowdy -i .. .,..

lumberjack barging in on an old next · to· , the biggest mains unknown and ~nrecognized folks' picnic, .Mondale prudently self-promoter next to Bill Proxmire by 97 percent of the American elec­ avoided offending senior senators, and Jack Javits, and the toughest torate, according to the Poll, and concentrated on learning about s.o.b. next to Scoop Jackson." ·and with Kennedy out of the race, the levers of legislative power. Care­ Such a senator did not go unno­ GaUup still shows Mondale as the fully heeding Humphrey's advice ticed by that mysterious but influen­ preferred nominee of only 2 percent that in the Senate, it's often not as tial force that Times col­ of Democrats, trailing even his ex­ important what one says as how one umnist Russell Baker once dubbed colleague, former Senator Eugene .. says it, Mondale began an uninter­ "the Great Mentioner." Mondale McCarthy. Naturally, Mondale likes rupted climb to a certain kind of began to be mentioned with increas­ to quote another pollster, his friend national prominence. ing frequency as a presidential dark Lou Harris: "It's going to be an un­ He was one of a dozen young, horse. But the Mondale-for-Presi­ known in 1976 and it might as well liberal Democrats who came to the dent boom didn't begin in earnest be you." The fact remains that after Senate in the , one of a new until the night of November 7, a year of hard campaigning as an generation of senators who were 1972, when he won re-election to a undeclared candidate in more than ideally situated to use that vener­ second full term by a healthy mar­ thirty states, including repeated vis­ able institution as a launching pad gin. His victory was greatly magni­ its to all the key ones; after taking for loftier ambitions. Under the fied by the fact that it flew in the all the ritual steps required of a se­ egalitarian leadership of Mike face of George McGovern's dis­ rious candidate, including formation Mansfield, who believed that fresh­ astrous defeat by , of a volunteer campaign committee, men should be heard as well as and it was hailed as a polit­ beefing up his professional cam­ seen, Mondale and others-Edward ical watershed by Humphrey, an ex­ paign staff to six, traveling to Israel, and Robert Kennedy, of pert at running for, if not winning, Bonn, , London, Paris, and , of Hawaii, the presidency. Moscow, and writing a forthcoming George McGovern of , book on his view of the presidency, of Connecticut, Mondale· has yet to strike many Gaylord Nelson of , Fred sparks. ·· - Harris of , Thomas Eagle­ One reason may be that Mondale ton of , of just doesn't turn people on. A man California, and Harold Hughes of of average size, with prominent blue -not only swept away some of eyes, a slightly beaked nose, and the Senate's musty gentility, but carefully groomed, straight, dark also gained· the kind of visibility blond hair that he has let grow that has long made that body the slightly longer at the urging of his best breeding ground of presidential wife,. Mondale conveys an image of dark horses. earnest youthfulness and Boy Scout Starting with his maiden speech Walter Mondale sincerity. He is a good but not out­ in the Senate, which dealt with the standing speaker, and his voice world hunger problem, Mondale . Standing at Mondale's side in· the sometimes takes on 'a whining, ser- identified himself with the politics same hotel ballroom monizing quality. · of human need. In countless legisla­ where he gamely conceded to Nixon Mondale's shortcomings as an tive battles, he prodded his col­ four years earlier, Humphrey orator were demonstrated in Los leagues about the problems of "the anointed his political protege as the Angeles last June when he spoke poor, the powerless and those who latest in a long line of Minnesotans before about 2000 people at a con­ are without adequate representation who have aspired to the White vocation sponsored by the Center in our political system." House. ·~we are seeing the begin­ for the Study of Democratic Institu­ Characterizing himself as a "prob­ ning of a truly great national career tions. His speech, titled "The Crisis lem-oriented, pragmatic liberal," that can take Fritz Mondale to the in the Contemporary Presidency,': Mondale constructed a career out of office which. I long sought," Hum­ was a thoughtful argument that the the issues that were the touchstones phrey declared. Then, with Mondale presidency must be stripped of some of --Great looking more grim than grateful, of its regal trappings and made "life Society liberalism. He was, he told · Humphrey added, "Ifit isn't being too . size" and "open and accountable" the voters of Minnesota and the na­ sacrilegious, I don't mind being John to the people. . . tion in 1972, not a radical, but a re­ the Baptist for Walter Mondale." "It had all the earmarks of a · former. With that kind of an evangelical great ·speech," recalls a California At the same time, Mondale built send-off, Mondale would seem to be newspaper editor who was present a reputation as an expert legislator. a shoo-in for the nomination. But and wanted to see if Mondale was As one of his coUeagues remarked obviously, he is not. As he ap­ as good as advertised. "He''delivered earlier this year, "Fritz Mondale is proaches the point of no return for it well, but he just sort of swallowed the best politician in. the Senate an all-out campaign, Mondale re~ the ending. He dribbled it out and

83 . \ / } what he said was almost lost in the attractive. The only question about The Making of the President series, way he said .it. I thought to myself, him is whether he really wants to be David Halberstam's The Best and 'Boy, if you're going to run for President." the Brightest, and Tim Crouse's The President, you've got to do this kind The most compelling evidence Boys on the Bus, and lately has of thing better.' He's been on the that he doesn't was provided by been reading a great deal about do­ scene for a long time now and he Mondale himself after he helped mestic and international should be doing something about Humphrey win the 1968 Democratic and trade. When he was in the this problem." nomination and then watched him army, more than twenty years ago, One who sees this problem in a narrowly lose the presidency to he read books like Maugham's Of different perspective is Joseph Rauh, Richard Nixon. "I don't have the Human Bondage, Koestler's Dark­ the liberal gadfly who stomach for a presidential race," ness at Noon, and the historical ·.'1 has known Mondale for twenty-five Mondale told an interviewer. "I works of Arnold Toynbee and i years. "There's nobody in the public watched Hubert up close and I , but he has life I respect more," says Rauh, \Vho don't like the way something like no time for such reading now. is even willing to forgive Mondale that tears you apart. I like some pri­ for his slowness in opposing the vacy. I like to see my family once Johnson Administration's Vietnam in a while." The sense of social responsibility policy. "I've never seen him do any­ There is no question that Mon­ and compassion for the down­ thing shabby or second-rate and I dale, having seen up close the ter­ trodden that were to become trade­ consider him and (Senator) Phil rible physical and psychological toll marks of Mondale's political career Hart (of ) to be two of a running for President has taken of were the legacy of his parents. His kind in that they predicate their Humphrey, McCarthy, McGovern, father, the Reverend Theodore Sig­ lives on decency and integrity. I'm Muskie, and above all, the Ken­ vaard Mondale, was an itinerant lyrical about everything except nedys, is reluctant to pay that toll Methodist minister in southern Min­ Mondale's chances and I'd mortgage himself. He has a genuinely close­ nesota for a quarter-century before my house if it would help him. But knit family life with his wife, Joan, his death in 1948. A successful the fact is Fritz just isn't very good and three children, Teddy, sev­ farmer and land speculator before at projecting himself. I was at a enteen, Eleanor Jane, fifteen, and going into the ministry, he aban­ party recently with about sixteen William, thirteen. He and his wife, doned the Lutheran faith of his people and Fritz walked in and who is the daughter of a Presby­ Norwegian immigrant parents be­ nothing happened. It was like I terian minister, an art critic and au­ cause of its rigidity. walked into the room. I said to my thor of a book called Politics in Art, By the time his son Walter Fred­ wife, if had and an accomplished political cam­ erick, or "Fritz," as he would be walked into that room, everybody paigner in her own right, prefer a called, arrived in January, 1928, the would immediately know he was night at home in their large, old­ elder Mondale was serving a church there and he'd be the center of at­ fashioned house in Washington's in the hamlet of Ceylon, and raising traction in two minutes. I guess Park neighborhood, by his second family. His first wife died Fritz just doesn't have that kind of themselves or with friends, rather in 1924 after a long illness, leaving chemistry." than circulating among the George­ him with three sons and an adopted Another reason Mondale's candi­ town social set. daughter, but not before picking out dacy has not caught fire may be,his Mondale, whose obsession with the young woman she wanted to inability to dispel nagging doubts things political leaves him little lei­ care for her husband and children about whether he is willing to make sure time, relaxes by playing tennis after she was gone. The chosen the costly personal and political sac­ regularly with several Cleveland woman, whose name was Claribel rifices that all presidential candi­ Park neighbors, taking an annual Cowan, was a member of the first dates must make. Those doubts family skiing vacation in Vail, Colo­ church the Reverend Mondale were summed up recently by Gay­ rado, and going deer hunting and served, and sixteen years his junior. lord Nelson, one of Mondale's best fishing in northern Minnesota and After a courtship by mail, during friends in .the Senate, when he sai:d, Canada at least twice a year with which she completed her music "Fritz Mondale combines more of friends from Minnesota. "The skiing studies at Northwestern, they were the qualities that people look for in and hunting and fishing trips are married in 1925, and subsequently a presidential candidate than any the only times he really relaxes and had three sons, of whom Fritz was young guy in the Senate. He's tre- · gets his batteries recharged," says the second. mendously intelligent, he's honest, an aide, who confides that Mondale It w.as a difficult period for the he's tough, he's a good senator and is an "airport caller" who, rather Reverend Mondale. At about the a g?od liberal and he's personally than sit idle five minutes waiting for same time his first wife died, he and a plane, will call friends and aides a local lawyer who were speculating Albert Eisele is a Washington "to find.out. whafs. happening." in. farmland .. were wiped. ouL when correspondent for the Ridder He reads voraciously, usually po­ the postwar economic boom col­ newspaper chain. litical books like Theodore White's lapsed. To add to his miseries, the

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Methodist hierarchy decided he was man is nothing, and his cardinal finish college, graduating cum laude · not cut out to serve larger, wealthier rule of child-rearing, his most fa­ in political science at the University churches, but was better suited for mous son remembers, was "you can of Minnesota. He spent two years in poor, rural churches. Ironically, in make mistakes around here but you the army at , Kentucky, light of his son's later oratorical can't lie." . and enrolled in the University of shortcomings, the major reason for To the Reverend Mondale, drink­ Minnesota law school the day he the demotion was that the senior ing and smoking were serious vices got home. Mondale made the Law Mondale was unimpressive in the indeed. Once, when the family was Review, and graduated in the top pulpit, a problem that was aggra­ returning from one of its frequent fourth of his class in 1956, a few vated by a slight stutter and a lin~ camping trips to northern Minne­ months after he married Joan Adams, _gering Norwegian accent. sota, the elder Mondale· spotted a the sister-in-law of a classmate. The Mondales moved twice when drunk passed out in front of a He practiced law for four years,. Fritz was growing up, first to Heron small-town bar. He stopped, went first with the politically active Min­ Lake in 1932, and then, in 1937, to inside, and sarcastically con­ neapolis firm that produced Gover­ Elmore, where they stayed until he gratulated the bar's owner and pa­ nor, later Agriculture Secretary went away to college. Elmore was a trons on the excellent advertisement Freeman and Congressman Fraser; typical Corn Belt village of less than for alcohol who was lying outside. and then on his own with his closest a thousand inhabitants, close to the On another occasion, when he friend, Harry. MacLaughlin, now a Iowa border and not far from where caught Fritz smoking a cigarette, he member of the Minnesota Supreme Fritz's great-grandfather home­ bought two big black cigars and in­ Court. In May, 1960, Governor steaded in 1864, after emigrating vited his son to join him in a gen­ Freeman, whose 1958 re-election from . tlemanly smoke. Ten minutes later, campaign Mondale managed, The future senator's childhood the boy was in the backyard retch­ named the thirty-two-year-old Mon­ was poor, but not poverty-stricken. ing while his father urged him to dale attorney general after the in­ Even in the worst years of the finish the cigar. The boy was in his cumbent abruptly retired. Mondale, the Mondales twenties before he touched tobacco _ the youngest attorney general in the - never went hungry, because farmers again or took a drink, and although state's history, proved to be ex­ he now smokes cigars occasionally, in the parish brought them meat tremely popular in his four and a ·, .... and produce in lieu of monetary he is still somewhat prudish about half years on the job, earning na­ contributions, and the family always alcohol, never allowing himself tional recognition for his ._ prose- kept a large garden. Often, Fritz more than two scotch-and-sodas - cution of charity frauds and price­ and his father and brothers drove to throughout an evening. "I must fixing and his consumer protection the county seat of ·Blue Earth and say," Mondale confided to a friend efforts. hawked surplus com and cabbages later, "after seeing some of the Then in December, 1964, all the door-to-door . for cash, while Mrs. problems alcohol causes people, I cards came up right for Minnesota Mondale gave piano lessons to sup­ don't think ?1Y dad was very far Attorney General Mondale. Lyndon plement her husband's meager min­ off." Johnson's selection of Humphrey as isterial salary. -At Elmore High School, Fritz his vice presidential White the Reverend Mondale was Mondale's accomplishments were left a vacancy that the governor,. not an outstanding preacher, he was not academic-his grades were only , filled with Mondale. a respected and well-liked pastor average-but athletic and social. He who was devoted to his flock, and worked at odd jobs and summers to they to him, even though few of help pay his way through Macalester While Mondale's political luck them shared his enthusiasm for College in St. Paul and the University has been indisputably good-he was Minnesota's socialistic Farmer­ of Minnesota. appointed to both elective offices he _ Labor party and its flamboyant gov­ Mondale's- first real political in­ has held, and has never had a ernor, Floyd B. Olson, or Franklin volvement came in 1946 and 1947, tough election opponent-there are Roosevelt and his New Deal. Since when he helped Humphrey and those, including some of his biggest he couldn't mix politics and religion other future stars of the newly boosters, who think it is also re­ in the pulpit, the Reverend Mon­ formed Democratic-Farmer-Labor sponsible for what they consider his dale did it at the dinner table by party-including greatest weakness as a person and a preaching the virtues of humani­ and Eugene McCarthy-wrest con­ politician. tarian government based on a con­ trol of the party from left-wing ele­ Minnesota's senior congressman, cern for people's needs; man's obli­ ments and Communist sympathizers. , who is retiring this gation to serve as a wise steward of In 1948, after helping Humphrey year after twenty-eight years in the God's material blessings; and above get elected senator, Mondale took a House, says, "Fritz has many all, the need for individual charity -year off to head the student arm of strengths and I rate him «yery high and honesty. His favorite Bible pas­ the liberal Americans for Demo­ all down the line and I think he sage was St. Paul's admonition to cratic Action in Washington, D.C., would make a good President be­ the Corinthians that without charity and then returned to Minnesota to - cause he. has the right instincts and

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concern for humanity." Blatnik, who "You've got to give him credit be­ bag with a brush-you get it all at was bitterly disappointed when cause he has made the most of ev­ once." A more succinct t.Titicism of Mondale, rather than himself, was ery opportunity he's had and has Mondale is embodied in the cam­ picked to succeed Humphrey, adds, never let himself get into a position paign slogan that Republicans are "But l think he lacks the self-con­ where he's politically vulnerable. waiting to unveil if Mondale wins ' fidence or the guts to stand up and But the fact remains that he hasn't the Democratic nomination-"lf you { fight when things really get ·rough. gotten out in front on any hard, liked McGovern, you'll love Mon­ .. When the wind is blowing hard tough issues. He's never had to go dale." Still other critics of Mondale a!?ainst him, he likes to wait for a to a legislature or to the people and point to his espousal of what they little more favorable tide. We had a recommend a tax increase like Free­ call "cheap" issues, easy targets like lot of tough fights back there, but man did and he's never had his child abuse and dmg control, which somehow, Fritz always managed to friends desert him over an issue like no human being would be against slip out and disappear." they did with Humphrey over Viet­ anyway. "Mondale never puts any Blatnik's criticism may be colored nam. With Fritz, I think you have real chips on the table," says one by his personal feelings, but Mon­ to ask yourself the basic question­ such critic, "only funny money." dale's penchant for political caution wh at's he going to do when the Mondale undoubtedly will have and for avoiding controversy is well chips are down?" plenty of opportunity to refute-or known in Minnesota, where the Some Mondale-watchers wonder reinforce-those criticisms as he news that he had his appendix re­ if the man, having never endured heads down the long, lonely, treach­ moved in 1967 caused some Demo­ political defeat or the kind of per­ erous path toward the presidency in crats to say they hoped the surgeon sonal tragedy that makes a man look 1976 or some future year. When the had inserted some guts before sew­ deeply into himself, possesses a self­ going gets rough, as it undoubtedly ing him up. Another Minnesota identity strong enough to inure him will, Mondale may well recall what Democrat who has been intimately against the pressures that are he told a group of reporters in 1970. involved in party affairs since the brought to bear on a presidential It is important for libaal senators late 1940s and who thinks Mondale candidate. Far less charitable critics lo stick to their Senate duties, he has most of the strengths of Hum­ see him as a kind of Scandinavian said, and not liskn to the siren song phrey, Freeman,. and McCarthy, Sammy Glick, a political opportun­ of presidential politics. "The one big and few of their weaknesses, echoes ist in populist clothing who has all problem most liberals have when Blatnik in kinder but no less dam­ the markings of the great midwest­ they get down here is that when aging words. ern progressives of the past, but they get their first big national news "Fritz Mondale's biggest weakness little of their fire and feeling. That story, they're off and running," said is that political success has come too judgment was given early expression Mondale, who obviously has easy for him and that he's never by Mondale's then senior colleague, changed his mind. "I thjnk some of been tested in a really tough cam­ Eugene McCarthy, who once de­ us have got to stay around here and paign," says the individual, who will scribed Mondale as "the new brand do the work. I do believe liberals not speak for the record because he of Senate liberal. He's like that are inordinately susceptible to the is in a sensitive government job. toothpaste that comes in a plastic presidential bug." ··, ~ \ . '. .. : Clayt

I ~,. . ~· . . . , . . .. " ·. -· .,~. ". I Since an prospective cancUctates for i third with 22. · -:, . out, but l!e. 11.1 'not ll~ely fo make a vote in_ a way that could play into the 1the 1976 Democratic presidential nonll-. ·.1 Obviously~ M;o11dale has come a long move unless something resembling a ·hands of Mond11le, especially if he 1; nation agree that, Sen. Edward Ken- \vay in a short time and seems to be Oil develop~ for him. -Humphrey has ends up being the only major liberal l nedy of l\1assach11setts can have it If the rise. These fil1dings, like my own, already takeli hl(nself out of the 1976 in the primaries, :- . !he wants it, the only unresolved ques ... do not, howevf)r, jipe with the ratings race, saying he. iptends to campaign . -. Some unheralded dark horse may, c>'f 'tion is who the nominee will be if Ket\• · . given . the prospective candidates in for Mo11dale. " course, sucldenly appear

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; 'Why is the senior senator from Min· • h~ve gone from being an unknown to : L--- :: : nesota swiveled away from' his desk',.:C ,., being just another old face without i i squinting.: intently into one of his. , ever having .been ~a«~'fresh: face."r.ln ·its;<~ I shoes? He is. trying to read the label. · · cmTent sour mood the ·country looks· 1 Why? Because an intrepid reporter (yr . >with ill-coneealed disgust,..upon any poli- · '.mst hmbl & ob't'. sv't) has challenged . ,. tician it has .to look· at twice. Mondale · hfm to confirm a white-hot rumor: that . : is unknown, and he. is not wealthy, so ·; ·he wears Thom McAn shoes. . he has to· start ·merchandising himself :,, :. : This ·may not seem to you to be a;( now. Thus, the first test of his political '!. ; ': trriatter of· great pith and moment, but · skill will be in getting known without ':·;''then, you probably are not-interested· getting tiresome. · ·. · · ·. . .. in getting the Democratic Party's nom- ..· His next test will be to avoid seem-·,'.. ination for' President.· Sen. 'Walter· , .. ingtoo liberal. Like any sensible man.,; Mondale. is interested in ",that, so re-. . who covets the presidency, he winces · . · cently he' spent some time in Califor- when called a liberal. He· is one, of nia; "testing the water," as hard-run- course, but he knows there is nothi111g · . :nlng ·noncandidates. usually put .it. At to be gained in advertising ·that fact.~.~' one function a journalist asked a Dem-.. He has voted _against enough weapons.,,..·' ocrat for. an opinion of Mr.:.'Mondale; \. systems, and advocated enough eco- . : The Democrat sniffed: "A'" guy .who} ,"nomic controls, and .generally. commit- ", wears· ·Thom McAn shoes· ·cari: never, ted .liberalism all ·over ,the'. map. :ue"-::., 'make it out here." ...... : .· ... : ':.. ., .. will have. no. trouble passing the. saiiva ! "·~ ... Thom McAn shoes are inexpensive,. ·,.test that bitter-end McGovernjtes wm-.·: · sensible, unpretentiou~but' not chic . 'apply before conferring the . dubious · or exciting-,..-shoes, much "like those O'. blessing of thefr· endorsement. 'Un for· worl.1 by most American male_s:. The. /. tuna.te.ly, Mondale probably needs·that:; Democrat · disdaining Thom McAn : · endorsement 'in, the early going.·., . .. shoes, .and Mondale with them, was. · · 'Mondale .. must energize on his ·own ... saying: "Mondale lacks pizzaz. Sure he: :. behalf the intense Denioeratic left, btik" is earnest, conscientiOus. But he is a· · he must clo 'so without alienating thf · .. painfully· plain Micldlewesterner, just mass of Democratic voters. He wonf

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By George Lardner Jr. ties to include women, young 11 Would Mean Clash I n..uvw - .1.... ~t . ....1.ld...1:p-.;'l'"~·h~i.~\.'\!' 1 ~\·.·~.. washlnston Post start Writer . people (between t~e. ages of 18 visit and has not seen or The Democratic Party needs and 30), and mi~ont1es_sucthh ~sl If that is what the President k" , blacks and Chicanos m e1r means, "there's going to be a talked to him since." to take "a good, hard loo at ~ delegations in "reasonable bitter clash with the 1 The department also said the controversial "quota sys- 1 proportion" to their perc~nt- 1 ICongress," Mondale predicted. The Times story "contains nu­ tern" before picking delegates i age in each state's population.· . Similarly, Mondale called 1 merous misstatements of fact to its next national conven- Failure to mai~tain t?.ose per-. , Mr. Nixon's landslide re-elec­ and false innuendoes." tion, according to Sen. Walter centages cons~1tu~es. a .pr1~a: tion more of "a negative vote" · About a month after the . facie case of d1scr1mmation. ~ against Sen. McGovern" than : visit, on Jan. 28, Prcsidrnt F. Mondale (D-Mmn.). . Mondale said he had no· a vote of confidence in the r Nixon named J\mbrose, 45, a He said he felt the Repubb- clearcut solutions to make the Nixon political philosophy. As i. Special Assistant Attorney cans were all to? . successful system more palatable to evidence, he pointed to Demo· I: General and director of Drug this year in explo1tmg the re· other groups who felt un- cratic gains in the Senate and Abuse Law Enforcement. sentmentsJh_C!_t it caused. i wanted or unneeded, but in state legislature's such as According to the Times, Bu­ Mondale, who is counted "something ~ust b~ d~ne to . Minnesota's, which he said reau of Customs officials had among the "winter book" pos-. correct that impression.. Mon- went Democratic for the first : begun to investigate Ha1·per in · : dale called it "a wrong impres- time in 114 years. ; December, 1970, and had int!'r­ si·bilities for the Democrats' sion" but still perhaps the "I think," Mondale said, i cepted a shipment of merchan­ next presidential outing, said biggest factor in the "disaste;'' "that the people of the coun- dise from Hong Kong that the he too was "troubled" by the that McGovern suffered 111 try in a strange way have ' ' · · d f 1 ballot- ' ' made to l\Iexico in October,; way the system worked out. :rucsday's . presi en ia ! elected ~ixon president, ~nd . 1971. I · delega rng. 1 ·'then decided to surround him, The department said the i this year among some - · The Minnesota senator a s~ ·so that he couldn't get away "Hong Kong merchandise"! tions. t k trong exception to Presi- · h f . h oo sN. · ,s surTgeslions. in wit sol'!'e o these things e was nothing more than: Working people, farmers, dcnt 1xo11 . " _ was talkmg about." 11 "personal items" that Am· ! labor leaders and "regular: an interview with the \Va~ brose's wife had bought and! .Democrats" wound up with a: ington Evening St~r and Daily ·· ----·-­ "shipped in bond through the r very small role in some states, News that the nation ~as had I to her home in: IMondale told interviewer Eliz· enough of the pampermg f?s-'. Mexico." a beth Drew in a program I tcrcd by expensive new social, The Times said and the de­ broadcast Thursday night on programs. : WETA-TV. Taking educational needs .as partment denied-that Cus­ toms officials had strongly ad· Mondale said he recognized · an example, Mondale sa.id: \'ised Ambrose not to visit the the party's new reform rules "One of the most <:xp<:nsive ranch. calling for the inclusion of things we do in America is un-. ereducate children • • • and Ambrose also denied this in women, minorities and young d , h ap the Times interview, saying people technically prescribed • just to say th~~~~ ~--~- .. 1 the purpose of the visit was to "not a quota, but an objec- way of developin;:r human be-, attend the annual fiesta at tive." · ings, I think, is baloney. ! which Harper distributes The system, he added,· "[wish the President would. Christmas gifts to his ranch worked well in the sense that show the same interest in hands. it broke down old patterns helping youn~ people who: "Richmond Harper has a i and brought into Democratic need help as he, say, showed· very distinguished reputation" I politics "persons who might in Lockheed Aircraft or (the), and. "has a million friends in: have been excluded in subtle Pennsylvania Railroad," Mon-[ the federal service," the Times I ways ..." In general, he said,: dale protested. He said a study I quoted Ambrose as saying. I the party's new rules are too by his Equal Education Com-· The department said last fundamental and important to mittee in the Senate showed I night that the visit was an of­ be tampered with. that for every $4 the Govern-I iicial one, part of an I , ment spends on education,! ''inspection of Southwestern I , Favors Hard Look :!'there's about a $7 return to. !:>order stations," and that it i But of the "quota system," . federal, state and local treas-• '.lad been arranged by David I he said, "I think we ought to uries from the improved learn-. irns and William Magee, Cus-1 take a good hard, look at that ing levels and working capaci-; ~oms aides who accompanied question as we prepare for the ties of (the) people who are• :\mbrose to the ranch . •(1976) election ... because the educated." . Six months after the visit. ! Democratic Party has only Mondale said he was all for: :ustoms officials arrested ' succeeded when the average f · worker· and his family, the av-~ tougher evaluation o federal; narper and eight other men , programs and efforts to re­ in charges of conspiring to erage farmer, the average citi-: ·duce waste and bureaucratic. 1 zen identified with us and felt. i inefficiency. But he said Mr. that •we had their best inter-' Nixon seems to be saying; ests at heart." The so-called "quota" guide- "they're all a failure" and that lines, laid down by a Demo- many of 'them should be com­ cratic reform commission ini-j pletely disbanded. · tially headed by Sen. George McGovern, require state par- ( '

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~~2'""" ··:·'""d~'al"'-" ... ,. •,·'-·~- .. :z~:~:(':.. 7''7.:j9' ... - ....~ .., :,,G nur~Jo.y I Au1v~t "'~ ii~~d!_!Oll e sees ... ~i -_, 6 as 1-= / c-· =- ;_ '- 1ByeourtneyR.. Sbeldo~ . -·~,';·\~,,,·, .. ,-.:~',~· ...... -~.j::'"\-":::··•:o"''""' . . < " :v~-:;.;,~... The=~~:::~~~..; ~~~~g'';Dc:_mOc:r:~J:!~ }7~ · '· ·: Washington' ,_. The Miruiesol&)~emmr ~~ . With Watergate corrosion and skit·j Does he think S~n. Edwar.. .tish prices, 1976 looks to most Demo·; Kennedy is going to run? ' · {-:' 0 cu...,...... ~ . =:"m'."' ~·'toJ ~as°'.~~~~ toi ~~;!nie=;y ~.':;'.,';~.'.'~,'::.'! f 'he ~ :.~~~:'~-;:.;'"..':~ ·,-..sen. Walter· F. Mondale of Min-' .·that if he decided to run, and he may, notimpeachedorforceitxne~t.:.··>· .nesota speaks for many of them when!! 'weTf~o so~· ahd he may have already ·I was fascinated by Olm QiBtll\.~ I ,he says, "I think 1976 is going to be a . '"[decfded], that he will .be our' nomi~ I ' article suggesting somlsorto!~ strong Democratic year. We have /nee. J:lut three years· in Amertcan ' · tion. · - · Wate t w ha · in dibl 'politicsisalifetime." .'<''-:.:.:,-.... ,... "There.~ ·no~ in a.e -~ ,.mismr::a_:~d e~ono~~ .. ~n·,:' ~~~;:•:,,,,~'I · Wearing a shirt with bro~d yell~w ' stitution that anticipaJts that.~ · .. ;. ... The Senator himself is· more than: .. s~ipes~ the youthful Senator is unre- , have no way, even' un.llrr tbe ~ 'evel,' in the lens of his ·fellow Demo~\ pressed.when he talks of the pOtentiar· ! .• _ments in which incapa..'ity um~'t. crats as they try to focus on new, ! opposition ·in. 1976, Vice-Presiden:F}t- /!&re anticipated,· to &al -.iih ~ .,,unmarred timbel;' for a presidential• ~SpiroT.Agnew,forexample:··. ~;:i:;"';' ~fPerhaps some_kind Qf ~llJ: nominee. . , ~\ ; . < " ' . :i ' . '.'If he has a strength, it is that he.la ~ :.r coalition wotilci')nail#Jin a ~ "•·>Iil' his Senate ·office; ·a., relaxed! ~:bona fide right wing, a nian who·· ~·-:..p~sidency. 'L.....,~;S~ . . · . ' ')enatorMond8.Iesaidquietlyatendof! ·,expresses his prejudices with great ; ~~But.,'Vo1.t~'OUi ., :: ~- .fiv_e years he has been here. I think he · Ia ogue 1a rcil .. .., ' keeping decent health care and pay- -ls r' sWl reacung othj!r people's v~'"'" .r;;t,;:-:,· • • .:::~\; ·.in. ghis expenses. · · ' · ""' h If h h · On foreign lloo-""" ! st""ec es. e as been a strength in : is "supportivepoUcy,.~tor of his ifrorts to orNi t4'

'•',. . ·.· ' i ,::~~t~nc~sof ~overnment, I havEm'~ a dialogue and to normalize rm~ . ~ . with the Soviet Union and CJlina, ' ~ ~ .Plea for fairn~ss '· :~-: .'' ·.•... :1_,_t_·~ "A strength he has is. that he is so I also support the objecU\>e .~ ~. ..,. far out of it th.·at he wasn'.t in on. the .' effort .to _try to· put a··..:..,_ .._ ~ ,, '.'And I think it .is particularly true, , . atergate. . · I do u bt very muc h that he strateg1·c arms, altho"~ I '"""""~.am.~~\ . that despite OIJr 'wealth. and pow···· er' Will. b e th e1r. can di date, because I - all sure that we are.p-""'1"'6...... o. .. .., .. ~~ . . 'that there are millions of kids who do 't think h .. .. •~'6...,"" " still don't get a really fair chance .. r I . :I ... · · , ·~: is~ pre_sid~n~al ~~~e~ .i to reach a ceiling on qualltaU\"e ..~~g

; believe. our country. has to do far I' . : The Senator. never gets far away asr~e~~o1;1~p~~i8ri,'' -~~,~~'.:~'-~:~· better in that area. .. · .. . · ·• · from his favorite theme· ' · · · .. · · a \t ".. "In a sense ffis ah.n osi as serious aS ''They [the Nix d in.is... t'·' '.'t·i· . ] I romantic about 'w,hat ls __ ~e·~~e\\l ~n , w t t · · on a m ra on .terms o_f a .. u.~s ... b. ~.dup of' arm.$. ·. a erga e. n may not , violate any 1 cut back so· cial · in · \ l 1 .. · · . programs rang g negotiations with the Russian· s, ·'"·' I . ·_law.s. Bu. t it is' a form of spiritual from he alth t 0 pove rtY t o e d ucaUon,. think from t. ime·· .to.,· u· m' a· w·e·' n· .-...~\ _I\_ . 'shortchanging of American life that I' m tal h Ith··· · · b h ""' fiitd almost as enormous." . ., .. .,.. . : ; en ea · · · ·. A ove it all as . bargaining cJy.p.1 -~~t I. thin~.. ~at \~\ been · the rhetoric from the White the crunch, Nix' on~.. •:-;-i-ds to err on u.' @. . .. His friends feel . this son of a : H th . . . . ' ~· 11 UI Methodist minister lias 'the kind of : · ouse' at we shouldn't care any side of thi!teS:'th.ati'.ui ~scalate". · .:i ~\ . , more. That programs never work. . Continuing, th.e .. ·_.aena· tor satd, 1 •, engagin_g'personallty and intellect_ual I Th a t they are always ripped off and · have some .Ques· tionsI'" about wh~tl\111 ·. attainment which would wear well 1 twist d th ·with the electorate if he were better · e ' at we lack the capacity to we have tried .to.use what we hl\\'~ 1 known. . ·" .,.., ~. < :,:, · · ~~~;:r :e ~ee::djse~~· and th~~ · that they ·v.:al&~"~, f~rcetully aid wt\ 0 Does the fact that tie is on the lists of . ' us e care, · shou}d.f.Qr:,..thin.. , '~.· ;.. ~t-~e m..o.•:.s.)}':~i!.:.':-.'.• .all political experts .as a 'potential ' ~u_u~~!v_~:;t~erything is goi~g to work' Sov_1ets n_e£... ~-)lS ,,. i··~:,,.f; · .·. ·I Democratic nominee .. mean he . has ' · ·"If we are;~: · open up t1•ttth ~gh ambitions?" k·:::;·.i ;<·J': .. , ·, . :'1 ~·r don't belle~e that. is ~hat .. our with the Spvit;iL~ •· ,,,we,~now thll ·-·"I don't wanito. SQund .coy, because .:. 'country stands for, and I don't think ·i they desperate! ·· d ur credtt11 lill -Idon't reall,Yfeel th&tway about it. rt \ . we· can continue ori thai kind of-: technology. Thi'~~~si~n economY r is so spealilng-:- sqtiinty-eye.d ., · · ''· . flat. Its is a dtsaett1r early:'I~!e ~n~)R>me approa~h.'' l tec~i:iol.ogy J/1f, ~round.the ci:>unW.'rfiave listened to ! ,"_ .. '.·· "c' .. . · · ·· and large ··.. ··--~·and they need .vt · some people whiftilii'to rrie about it. ·: \ · · ·. · · ·. "· · · 1 , .. i :·agricultur~·{p~~ducti~tty. ,::::·:·.~:-';(:,~:,,,, .rt for needed public services by f manence... : there mUIJt · be #(1f{t have alway1i'been "atriend of Hubelrt. · ~· closiilg tax .loopholes, which would, underlying 8.bility -Ao comrfit'I· Humphrey. I know what he has been have.· a salutary effect on the econ-· •nicate ... more than "an P.phf:rrfi!fV through. I just don't know yet." omv, and bv reorriPrinP- nrinrit;.,., .. occasional mPl>tinP- h<>tw<·•·n h<::: ': ,. · r

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Mondale listens to voters .. - By Curtis J. Sitomer · Staff correspondent of ·Like several other politi­ The Christian Science Monitor cians, Minnesota's Sen. Walter F. Mondale is out testing the presidential Here is a politician who says he is winds; but unlike some out listening - not to polls, or trends, or party maneuvering - but to others, he. is not listening people. to the polls or the pols. ln­ Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D) ·of ~tead he is hearing what Minnesota does not deny, however, 1s on the people's mind. that he was testing presidential politi· cal waters as he cruised up and down "Fritz" ·Mondale admits he does not california for a week. have any easy solutions· to these His name keeps cropping up on lists problems. But he says he will honestly of hopefuls in the 1976 U.S. presiden­ search out alternatives. tial race. And he knows - as do others -that a nonincumbent must win (or He calls himself a "responsible at least not lose) California's all· populist'.' with a desire to solve important primary to cop the nomi- "people" problems. And he feels he nation. · · may be just what voters Will be looking for next time arowi d. But the primaries are still two years away. And Senator Mondale . Liabilities noted feels his prime role now is "listen­ When he is not listening, the former ing." Minnesota Attorney General likes to In California, he was doing just talk about honesty in government, that. H\l was listening to poor people and the bureaucracy "responding" to and blacks and working people and the needs of the electorate. union members and a lot of others tell Senator Mondale is aware of his a Senate subcommittee on employ­ liabilities as a presidential aspirant. ment, poverty, and labor about their He is relatively unknown, his fin.?-nces economic plights. · are meager to wage an all-out cam­ paign, and his foreign policy· ex- · And he was listening ·to those who perience is limited. · said that Watergate had eroded their But, 0n the other hand, he sees faith ih ail politicians. himself as a party "unifier" - some· . And he was listening to small­ one who can bring together tradi· business men who complained about Uonal Democrats, working people, taxes and high costs and other in· .organizedlab~r. lib_erals, and youth. flationary woes. .. · · ...... ·'··. ·: · · ·· ·smr~thi~ 1 ,.wS,i:::~~'eni w:gu ""·~no . · =·tak~fr-'awif~mYStoap Jackson withol!t · ,busting up th .::·--artY" Mr; 'Dutcher re­ m!rk~d 'later of the undeclared race ·.between Senator Edward M. Kennedy_ of ' IVJassachusetts Says He Is. Encour~ged b~y and Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washin~on:· ,::-. ,,,.,;_·_'.:i;;;_;' • . · · Calffornia · ·Barnstorming · ~-Senator : Moridale 1 ~.'has more : iialt and · pepper - than · l ex- i ··· in Bid for. '76 Nomination pected,'' Mr. Dutcher said, ~'but · the real struggle in the · party now and probably for the next By CHRISTOP~ Lm._oN :_ two . years js. betwee11 · Scoop SP•c1al to The Ntw York Tl.mu "'' and Teddy, and I; can't help. . CORONADO, Calif., Feb. 18- feeling this guy is· a· little bit 0ver breakfast this morning at irrelevant.' .. '• :O: >0f}. ~? ;~~,,-':: -~:•:" · . ·the edge of the Pacific surf, · When Senator George Mc­ Senator Walter F. Mondale of Goveni . was put .down as ir~ Minnesota concluded predid­ relevant in the · early stages ably that he was "sufficier.tly of tl.Je last, :Presidential cam­ encouraged" by a week of ~ign,_the Soµth Dakot_a• Demo" barnstorming in California to crat · sharpened · his .. :f.ocus on c.. ontinue his ."exploration" of a. I the as .an organ- ! race for the Democratic Presi- i.Zing issue an4• recriiited_, h_is .dential nomination in· 1976. : own hisurgent :.~.re~ w.i,thm · ·• But the hardest part of this the p. arty. · -~ •< ;::';'<:~· ;-·,1 /~-· .. Vietnam · of · course -u ·no theo_ r any course other ise_ xplorati.on uncharted is ·th·a.and t. I longer an organlZiiig issue; ..but early progress is almost impos­ Senator Mondale di>es not seem sible to measure. .. · •· :. · · · . to have found a substitute, and ' ':·This is the season when visit- I insurgency d9eS . not. seem to : ors like Mr. Mondale can speak be ·his style .. ''<•··~,1'.1\?>~· "j,. : . I warmly of four or. more Demo­ AJl:he is looking for. accord- 1 cratic candidates for the Cali­ Ing to R~charci Moe, ,his admiri-: 1 fornia Goyernor's office, and i istrative assistant,·.:~ ."recep~ every faction of the party ' tivity" . amorig the symbolic ~~:-f'f[J:;,..-~~1:.>;~. . shows a friendly face. to any leaders of the Dem()Cratic ·pa . ~;;;.:~flWTdai'd. ·.·.:,_,,._Mondale · would-be contender for nation­ ty, among businessmen .an , ~~·g8t'S-~_l#J.lt8J>Ph.iUSe aj leadership .. · . .. :1 • c•,• · union leaders, · among blacks, ' but does not seem tO leave < But what does -ft mean two Chicanos and Jews, ·among a clear mark of the man. In years prior to the campaign, · elected officials and'in the par­ Palo Alto the other night, Bar­ when Mr. Mondale is looking l ty apparatus-and he Is satis­ bara Klein, a housewife in her n_ either for . contribution·s nor I fied so far that "people have 30's "watcher Mr. ·. Mondale commitments. much less for been very warm." ·• ';.. : ,.. \.';··'·:., _spe~kii:ig. '·arms folded. to a ' ~~~:se;1tion delegates or prim~ry I Mr. Mondale·~ speeches are •--voter registration fund-raiser. built around a. familiar litany :·"In. 'bC?dY. .~.;langtiage · that , .· · The conversation tflls morn­ of liberal complaints about. the means he's· up 'tight;· uncom- , ing was -typical. A. reporter ! Nixon Administration. A new 'fortable, protecting himself, un- , asked Cornell . Dutcher, a : recesslon~r Nixon.· "slump- wealthy . .Democratic patron, ! .. flation" has already started, he '~~:iy;;ar~r!~e~~intii:rr:~ : .whether . we was . backing Mr. i says, Unemployment . is · up, I before from other politicians. i 1 Mondale:· :.'He'.s ·.my kind of . while the inflation, '1-.te, J;ie p~· ' He didn't make-~a· very per- : Demoerat,'~'~Mr: ·Dutcher re· diets. could be between· 9 and soria11mpre.ssion." ·<''' .. ·.··I plied, ~·but iijs much. too early 10 per cent this year. The Ad· :;::Yet_ it is_M_. r:·Mondale's hope/ to talk. about ·supporting can· . ministration's centnll mistake .that what some see as the lack didates." ··•'·'·~·.-..-..'. :·. _.:-· . in the energy aiSis .' .. he · s~y!. Of "cutting edge" will also be .. . "Let the re"co'rd show " foter- • has been the use of free-mar­ the power . to. 1mifyr his .. party, fected Representative ' Lionel · ket .thinking on a problem of and· that ·the.. very absence of Van Deerlin, the San Diego monopoly: .· ~e ·-Arabs ,._~ve spectacular ·personal quality in Democrat whose Jund raising : "rigged" their oiL Price for-~ , this 46.ye!lr~old minister's ·son dinner ·the . nigh(~pefore had . litical ends, yet American pro· will set a' more human model Mr. Mondale as·. :~st< speaker : ducers are allowed to charge a·gainst what- he anct · -:\rthur ··~let the; record/~ow. .th.at : "those same .. Arab • boy~ott . Schlesinger, the historian; called ,e ·, "imp~rial_-: Pre~idency'.' .of i Mr. Dutcher. p~sse~_;the sugar =~~~;t~!'Y~P every time: ~e,natori'AMOI1dale .. ; ' , ' . ?cl., ~!H,. " ·lhiJ~~g~1\,'! asked for it~'..: .. '.:fl;<'.. - '"··, · ·· · . "::...,_ - . ,~.:'f"·',•; .. -~O . :Tlien Senator'Mondale joined . In. ·~u someone'. were for me ' the ffrst morrier:it.'.he met me," : he siild/sni~lirig~a~ -Mr. Dutcher, "I'.d• figure.· 1;1e~41~:J:>e for the next: ttir. the _1U()11l:~nt he met h.µ11 .. ·_-·ef ;·, .-~-:..--:-~,~ :\•.;:.: .. ~~·i:··: ... .- . ~".: re intere.sted in me." - . . , · Ii can still stroll. unrecognized in · . •in the week ·after Mr. Kenne-' 's O'Hare Airport; '· :.f){.· . _di dropped om; 11: Mand.ale as·) . :. YMr. Mondale plans to open a · sociate. rep~rte9. the Minpeso-· · ~Campaign 'office in Washington •titi raised -S~,000-compa!edi ,: . late tJ¥s. ~ar and ~ announce ' .. ;'~~-~~~t~~;:J~~: ~:e;}~~~~d~~,,: ·. ~ ~s :~·~~;fe!t~~~= , tWith the new.uiflux ol funds; · . ·has hegU: assemblmg a staff, · ~d some private commit.me~tsl . -: : on which ithree key members _"'":(.foc ·more, ithe. 46-yea:r:old. ~-/. ' .. ! w~ll be RiFhard: Moe, a former 'f'·n!so~n is'wetl ~uippoo f~r an'.; :;. ·Minnesota; Democratic chair­ y,<~ens1ve ~a1gn effort ia 15[1 '.} man; James A. Johnson, who ,')rtttes in the (llext. thr.ee weeks,'. · ~ warked hi Senator Edmund S; • /.~ltih~- c~~j~ ~-~~Ja1... ~e.~~j~ JMM~~ele'~ .,,Bl972 campaihgn. anhasd ' ·"'·~lSCi:t11Uiwi.cy.1 ··,.:-;:~.. ·' ·:;:·:.·•. ~ i1.a .... •. erman, w 0 . ·!i[-ff. y three Democrats ll!l'e' l workeci'in·a nwnber of Minne- :'J,-:;:~:. · ning openly for their party's . t sota campaigns, including Sen- . ;;): '.,ii. · sidentiaf nomination ·at the :,J ator Hubert H. Humphrey's. ; . ·"·".'. memtmt-Mr. Mondale, Senator · .f · :·Mr... ;.Mondale's jormerly ' "":~•:L~d M. Bentsen Jr. of ·1.• somewhat 'soporific 'speaking . ~~~~-(~ Sena~or Henry M. Ja~kson I style h~s ·brighten~4 consider- i-:h'-~ Washington (a!H, cunously • ably, with the .addition of ges- ·:i.ftelltugh, come from west of the ; · ttires, a generous sprinkling of ·ft~si~sippi aind aill are af sea~ , '. wit (''There is a clause _in ~e ~. ~~ .. :- ·;::.:, .-: ~·:~~:~· ~... :·~~:e'j_~:t(:,~~~ :..~r '~ '!/.r.;cliiavlllal stock). \ - - . l'J'" " o'"" Minnesota State Constitution t-,;;_1:~-, the'three, Mr. Mondale is ·\ur J',ear_s.~~). and punch- . t · 's liberal wing. But when -"if 'ieflbiiScin ·ithe. .JSsues:" i;_4~:·'::::;·; ,1 ;'7th November elections ·are . rl"~~:J!e)vas very·w~y ~elv'ed , 1 'ririr~ m;['chw~1bi~e ;>~: ••· ~f}.~ ~th labor audien~s, de: } . ', __ , • ,. -, pn • ., • -~t~1;~~are~~~u1!~ ~·· ~~~~~~Vf~~~ ~WJ~0&:i:!~~:t~~~~~~~ ·.· · press1()i\_ on the prot:essu>na:IS . ,., :µ" '"°"·~· ~· -· . ·-;- . .· . · · .. . ;0eCMt~:~~t ,B~ne~tlon,7 : Workers· a speech for a Jegisla- , sea. of upraised hands and ~P· ally and .on: the:1ssues I fit my tive candidate; ·another to the . ·\ preciative chuckles. · i.l ~; · ~arty,".>ffis, liberalism, ~e be· conventiio"1' ~f the state Ameri- l ,Attacking the · Republican heves_; 1~·. J!!mpered by.. his long can Fede tion of ;tabor ,an~ / economic record, Mr. Mondale associ!i-t1on withl\~r. ijumphrey, _Co~gress I11d~l Orgam- I used several times a rhythfuiC ":~o ha~ a>~e .~9,,i~!e;~~onsider_a~ -;ri~~n~; i c~y; "'°!thq~?c~· e:~:t I tittle iitttany ~at went weu{:)'. ~);hlf~fi;·~~'·iritJ;· w~·nti ~;-;::;;:wi.$,. ·Mayo Henry Maier. of I · ·.'"J'he.y've give.n ~s two ~r~si· i(: ~ progres~i".~:,: J>em_c>crat.'~ .he . ;~,:,, ~d. a· ~ew words ! den,t§ and thr~ Vice Presid1in.ts sa.1d, '.~b~t,.~c:>t(a··non ,9wxote · ·:I :1,e:;:,;,foreveryte ~s1onf1lm~.8m~£! }) ~:twoyearswithorilyone~_¥c-. whO\Cflnnot~~·~~~d. :,. ·A ~:'d:·;:: : ..i>unlladPiuslntirnittoMI,..,. J :3f,~t_'hecoul fm~·,< ,::.5~i/f;.~ ~!o"!h.ey gave us the -~~h.Th~Se~at_ mo~. Qr i~;: .th~··'first , .~bi.. Ilion. .$300".~illion · bud.. ~e. ~ -~d budgee tbelj in~_Wi~on,s~~·--~states·i·d·_·e·r.~.'.]l... ~~~. lt._.},Il·.. strong.~ha~ .he .has "''-t.·· .;;::,:::_: . · · ..."f"iz.-i·,,:.:;·-.:~'fi:':~::: : .:.. '.··· .. .-.·'·_:-.··_.' -"''"".-·.:.·.,:·-·~. il ~;:i}ffi'..the, Amal ated · Cl~ng' 1 .Tb· ve. given· u,~ seven w,ag~ Yisite(;l·';~~~.ri\~ this .year: them·.Je~~y) to :l~)t e~;i.tt>~, ·'.(;/:·Yorke~ U n an~ ar;i app~a: 3 · ~ rollers,· six ener~ c~r!I! ~ost.:·P~X/l~d~:sJ:iare hi~ foundati<>n or,.,•.$Uc~s~~~; · ~~· .~ranee at Mo day night s Mianu , · fiVl ·Treasury :Secretaries, , tWQ view;".He:'filso plans to 'concen• fort, ·:Ntd· he,

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~ ond al~, and ;·)\~ ~ ~WhYii~Wa§ ~Unable td:Dd • '-~t.. ~~ . - . : ; • • . -' - ... ' :tyhe 'Required',< .J.;. .. ;_ ~ . ·,. :-;-»_.:_;f\.' '.-r '_ >"· ·.::::..~·.•~·-·.; ~'.~f:~~-- -. / {' .._ ,· .~~ \ :.· - ~~:--~:?;..__;__~~------~----,----.,.-,--.,,...-:-- ·7~~.;_>_~-.•.~.. ·By ·R. W. -APPLE Jr. .. ~; ._ ·_. \·:·:~\,~~ _'('"_ -- . 1.~ ..• ' <·~ to~ r-'---:~-. ;_ . .. . . - ;, . . - • . --:~; ~: -~~,';}~ Senator Walter F. Mondale's· illiannounced campaign for · · Jr~. :ii.le. ade! in _what he li~es_, to cal~ the progres~~v~,~?g Of th~. ;, S\~~na...t9(}Y_'.1:!t~~<'i-':;,:iw~~-~~·~,~~P..~m-Qcz:a_t\l~. f Minnes~~ -:.1; ).)emocrat1c party. , · . , · ·" ··t · . >· '···\ · .~- ·.. 1:,, ;"' :-~·~ :: :->1J:J,;'~~:~r:-~rt~';,,_ 3°'./'.7 ·:~ :.. <~ -mw~ \::~.l The Milme~ot~ Deinoc~at "'.as not leading the ra!=e but he :.:.:>~~ ~!-me·~,d_:~oi:ri~ t?~·se_ek:·c~~it~~i{~~··t~ ask othei po~tij,~ · t~~\~~s. at leastm 1t, and h1_s w1thdrawal.~n !'lo"'.. 21 Vias sur~ :· ,~,tt,c1apH0:1.nY.~t a·!itt!~ bit of_tl'1e1r.\~!eers m _me"~nd h,~'l. ~;;i,.rismg not only because 1t occ~rr~ when 1t did but because :~,did nQ~,fee~_:J~t ..~_e ~oul?.J;Ie ;ha~;~ad 'd:'.:·•/,-~''. ~'-·~t~~-,;:~-: .}'.;)i?: ··/· · ,,_.,~:Ii~#, 'il d:ency, but I have found that I am not among them.''. , . : ' . Mr. Monda1e"'~·ouiicl~d'.·g fr ··h.e· ~~~e fiti.piiatly ~r-itfoiiiri . ,:' ._ :~:~}~T~at statement_ implied a gre~t ~ea!, about his jud~_ent ·\.Hie fr~7'.Y_()f pre:~'O~v~ntiofr.Pr~sid~ntia!:'~olitics, but ~e ~~ ~~·: }~'"·m himself and, perhaps, about his Judgment of the poht1cal .... otherwise. 'Although he favor!! changes m. the_ .nommatibg -~: 1 ·.r_·;~~sy~t.·em. Wh.a·t did he mean? _senator Mondale discussed ~s. _-.-.·.system (fewer J>.riri:Iazy.· .4ate~, ·r~r -~~am.::p~e)·,-~e: insis~ed ~"'t~n~_: Ji:.:-··- action in an extended interview last· week. - · ·. · ' - ·.-:·anyone who.w·anted the nc:minatiorf'should have.to "sur:viv .:>~:. .. was he ·.'not among;' those w.·ho could do wh. at was •. ·" this· ordeal. ..\<.<.:·/"'-C.:.{!;;_'.:: ·;f.-.- ~r,,.;.-~·~:~.<~Why ·--;~ - -- . . . . ;.~·: .~.· .,_ ~,~ ...... <~'~-'"' ....,', - ( _,J·r.~-'~:'P~.';·.'·;,~'.~_;.;(~::.;r:... ~~-.... -... r, ···! ~:-~r:_. ...'.'. '\...... t-;~~.,.~ ~ :1.-:i; ,~:~quired"? - .· . ~ - . : . " · -... . -. . . .- _ ..: , .. ; . \He recalled that .Theador~'C" Silrt;!nson,)q~ F. :f{eµned a ~ , :~1il;·Senat~r Mo~dale gave two_ n:iain ·r:a~c>ns: .. : , .. · 'i ~: .·· ,_:;·•,·''associate, .~ad, $o~Clud!d .. w~1Ie: seI!i~~- in _Hie ~hite -~o~ :W..;~~~~e ~aid he J1ked to "ponder issues, __sit down w1~ ~~>'·YI-· ?;. ,that. the ,Pres~':'re~,·a,tl~ m,ten~1~y :~f .. ~,s1dential dec1s!dJ\•-1. ~-: ~able people and talk about them, chew _them over, read . making were..almost perfectly. foresliad()w~d· by the pressu~ · , .1l~~lf.).o~k, let them r~st a little, then reacli..a concl~sion that ;:-._and inten~ity.ofthe.fr~~d~tiaJ'.campaign~ ~-::,,~_~::~ ... ·.·'>'.£'.. ,-J·&~m comfortable with and go to work. All of that.s out the_ , .i~ ,Was.Mr ..:\\fondale.saymg then that,""since he was un~ll~.-,. ',~{.w:,. ~dow in ~ P~esidential campaign, and. I'd neve. r ge~- a. .::_to .~ace".th:e pri~~ry ~~ggl_~;_,_hej)r?~~~l~ w~uld not ~biC~~tt ~*'{}~a,nce to thmk ideas over." · / ·. : , · · · · •. ' · . .,. good President?' No, _Senator ~ondale replied, he lm~w. ~f; ·J.'Jj'.:"flie'.also said, "Nationally, it's_ more theater than pie poli-. --~·that was-'the ,1¢gical"fonclu~loi\. from' what·he had said, Sir£'...... -~~{jJCli I know. 1 kept getting constant suggestions that 1·. ·::.he stiilsomehow·felt he ci'Qwd have·Jiandied the Presidency, ' ~1~ittiided"to.buy different clothes and'go to speech instructors .·'..'.).'.thoughi>f Course now:we:Wi11rnever.know:":,, . .-:~_·:·-:_,_ .. ·:·--:· .~,.G~fi~ spend t\VO days in Hollywood with a videotape 'rila-'.--!f '::iY'et as·he talked! the handme young Min~esotan seemed . ~~.. ~e. I hated that. . ,'._; ··· ", ;"'<;·e,·-' · · · .:..· \: -. · i_:,\:!i:·.:~~t'o<;~6e picturing )iimsel( a5 the~ p$totypicai'.Seniate ·man-:-- . . : my state kind-of like a family-when I'm ()on,i:ler to d!,:n":~n1 it'~ ~tck .. qf_~~~q~ii·than'~i~~~ d~-~.i~iorj;~a~ipg,':w~l~ing. -~] j :· lJi~fe.1 I don't ha"'.e to pose o_r even make good _speeches. A}.1. ~7.~<;>rl£:~af4 bµt ru>t}~ ~ant ~at; th~~. i_~-ri~ ~jme !!'r _an~ng -:: : have _to}o 1s talk ~~ra1ght. and m.ake _a httl~ c?mmi~:~1l~i .~~O.d~r~o~~~ .c~_nstituency ~-~ .Ci!n .lfu.?W ~irectly ~ha_!1. of , .j1 ·" · · ··. ·. ·· . <: ·~ . · ·-::-- ·.. ,'~.:. -.._, .... :lr~:...::.~:_ab~~asQ'?.n a~«Y.!1-W~~.. the_~Ple.o(,t~e-p~i~ed Stat~s ...... ·. ;; Senate duties also womed him. !1e s_a1d ~ii-~ _he wa,s ·"-~~.'.,;~~hop.~; l!e,~aid,.tpa~t9e~~ul,d ~erge_from ''.the fm;" -r1j . :· .... ,, id if I, kept this _up_ I w~~ld dq bot.I:. th~~gs ~oor~y." _He ,·y~ ~~~p,rljh~rie~ ~ 'B~grC:Ssi~~Jj~eJii~se.lf: .~(had 11:0 na~es - -~ t,~;~~· apropos 9,f th~ _de~ands of a Pres1dent1al -~1d, "'! .thm~, ::y-to ,s~~st,.~u!.~:e s.~11? h.e.hoReil.;tl).e elect~r~t.~.,.~~v~~; h:v;~. 1.:;~'· ~when you do s9methmg you're not comfortable with-:- some- ., ,.- ~through-Watergate, ·woiJld- look carefully a:t:the 'contenders -'_,_~ ,. . thing t_hat c;auses ambivalence anii' giiilt in you~it's g_o_t · ~o~~,;!1~9: ~~R~J~p~~e::;;iviih'.·~61~~<~!;9.~t ~4 ,.~,o.s.e '.'.Yf~?-~e .. ~ sh~:~a~·~t~;·!J~r!t, ·''~'..,.~~~~ . . -- " {{~!~; tci'\.t~.£~"-'-;\>1:_ .. ;~<,:').{~\;.'>~;,r·;-·, ;o.;.;,"' ~,;IN'.': ' ' ,;;,..!? ~~~~~($-·~.h.!i•".,r.. ~-~{~t°4.•-.:.-t~:°!~.J.J f '11 r-~ .,,, • .•I ~ . ~(',.!-"'fa-"'"~f':;.:.p;~~~94!,~· j '- - !

wiC_ ~~:'eilfotVn1f~i;k~.; . ·_~n~... ···•·· ?'ttirib;~_~n_.· to ,;::_:..:c neso~wive1~d awa-Y~iio'jii:::·~' " : ] ,. mtL~:-JJI.' ~· ~- "_ ~race without squinting.. intently · ti;ito ,_on_e of. his ~.eyer Jia~~~-- face.".-. Jn-its . shoes? He is.trying to read the labet ·:::current·sour mc>oO.tbe .. country·looks Why? Because an intrepid rep'orter )( ~~ Wi~~_<~Mori~ale ;:.~. hfm to confirm a white-hot rumor: that ':is unkri9wn,. ana:be.ishotwealthy;·so ;:· ·h.e '.wears Thom McAn shoes.· ;;. .:" -'·~:> ::~·:~; ~~.has to start''riiercluiiidisilig .himself ·· . :·i\'J'his may not seem;to you to be a -~>,now. Thus, thefl!~ test of ~s political __ ; ··::·t.~·· tter of great pith ~nd momen_t,_but ::.,;?~ W.f.ll _be iO:~~~~~g_!t:n,ow._tt~:\!!~ou.t .:· >i .. '". -~.. 'n, you p. robably ll!e not ·interested: -·~.~-~.gettl. ng tfresom.e •.·."i~·;~~~~.;.::ii~~.·J~ef~f;.~Y,.~.>_~.1..{~.; ~ . gettibg the Democratic Party's nom- ;:;~'.~,:Bis next ~est Will:~·: to ·a".'oid· seem·.:~:;

: ·. tion for President. -::Sen. ·.Walter ;f:Jn.g too liberal. __Like any~;i:iensible man · ' 0 Mondale. is interested in that, so re- s.wh_o covets. the ptesidency,:J;ie:·Winces -~i '.cently he. spent some time in Califor· .. ·when called a- ;tiberiil.~ He'::iS oiie; ·of -, ·Dia~ "testing the water," as hard-run~ '· cotirse,-.but lie knows· there.1silothihig'' ·;: -~ noncandidates usually put it., At '~.to be gained in. advertising'"tbat·:fact.·· ._, ~~~ function a jouiriallst asked a· Dem~.~ .. ;)le has. voted· agalriSt · ~!101;1glf:w,~ai>~# c~j ·oc111t for an opinion of Mr: Mondale. )}:ystems, ~d advoo,~~,J~~~ _.,~o. ·:: :The Democrat sniffed: ~'A, guy who JnOmic controls, _and @neriilijr comlriit· ;; weirs Thom McAn shoes can never --_,:·ied- liberallsm all over''tlie 'map: 'He ' '~aJte it out here." . '. :- :' . ': ::;--· ~ :-.~- Will have DIO' trouble l!a~i~ the silliv -: " ·'~i'J:'P.om McAn sho~s are inexpensiv~, .ably needs ~ocrat disdaining · . Thom· .. McAn •~ ';'~n~orsemen~~.~(efirW going7:~if~%'~: ~oes, .and Mondale with .them, .'!as : ,; ;c· Mondale . m~ __ en@rgize ~n bis _ '!faying: "Mondale lacks pizzaz. Sure he .·. behalf the mtense Democratic left, b 1s earnest, conscientious.. But he is . a .,, he must do: so~ Without alienating. . \p_8iMully plain Middtewesferner, Just 'Hnass o~ Democratic "yoters. He ~~ii .not the sort of' chap who causes the·· -.hurt himself-oon·'.theinormal .doineilt · party's pulse to. poui:id ..with exci_te-. c~.issues. H~ is:'.'1)~i1:llodox•<~(reinar. ment" · · .·· · · · :,' ··· · -,·,_·. · >~'-· .:·:0 bly

~.:.,:~.~~~ pr:1liaz~fP~~~P~~~e':te:f:i~ :~~~:.O:."s.. ~~esITi~_.e,D··.... i:s_ ... ·~.;.~ur. ilE~~~~_Jf_li.:f~.~:~1 :~[{is in a league with Ger~ld Ford_ Mondale is. fo~~~-::.}C#,o~lb,usi~g~_;:· (and~Sen. Henry Jackson when it comes, ''.:tQ~t .. llgain b~in~ll.~-:a:"b;ot\!ssue,':._· tb - ordering.a good speech,' ordraft- . candidacy will'be•:cold,as· a:corpse:,· irig .. a bad one~ But Mondale's shoes ,:·he bas iii. the past;'he °Will ill tJie fuiU '-"· ~<~!?are plain; a,nd. ~oul~. use~;shine) .•~~not -~Dly supportJ>!rt~$,!.efend,~.:~~~i' ·are .. not really good symbols -~of.. Ute · -'ing ordered by the cotirt; He obviouisJI :i'.i\Wier salty private man who'\vears· is hoping .that, the· Supreme'.coµrt ·.. > them. And however. h~ is shod, he stiU . ; '.;;perman_entcy, .. ,d~ftJ6e 1;91e ., .~e 70,iJl ) ·.' has some interesth~g s~en•gtb~.· -~nd: ,. ";Detroit case by_re.~~sing-'#>~~equire.. weak~sses as 11- candidate. . ·. • .. _., ·.. · -,_ .: ,~, busing of children.across county line . He is a ftesb face at a moment when .. '.:;-..: If-the busing•issue rematn6 dorm .. the nation ls bone~tired of every.public ·~:Mondale ~_conc~ntrate··:-oii what · figUre who has suc.ceeded in. becommg : ;:fak?OWS .. is .. th,e .. Demo<:r.atlc \ r~·s_ )iStt'.'~ .well-known .. But .being a·"fresb f~ce" .ls .. _;:,problem..:..app_ealing;t0\tb.e~peopl~:-~li9... ~ a fragile. achievement. The only .other .. ':inade ·George, -Wall8c_e -;µte:~Star; of: . . . Democratic candidate who is as 'active .... :i;l972 priinaries;;_;Wallace:_ -i8 :; t)?._e -- ". as Mondale is Jackson. In the last 1year '·.· model of ·a Thom IMc ·W . ' Jackson·o haS'"t0gged::'lDore-tereVISi()~77.01fMoilaif"'1"i."iilfQiif · ume th·"''?:t-i."e"wa1ton-1a1DUY;-and~ · "k~t c;,v:;.be~t·· ~~~-"' .... ~.:.i-'.~~:. .-.....::.:.:..-· '---~--;-~it-(-->-··~~·;~·• .. - ! ~hl~ c:ro~-r Oct. 1, 1q7f

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·. :Presi~~h~~~;~;~ :was· otlt;a~~~~·w~;~£' · ··;I.r~~re:.::~~~-~ 4tii~t~~}~~\~~h~~ ':y~;:~:;,}r~~~p;~~~ent-i~me;ci~~~-el;:,i·~Je;Jf~~" d that Seii'YWalter Mondale 'of Min· . · rael;" one :told us; 0''and noisy<'ways.'' '·'that·if ~the ·Israeli aid nioney'W8s .cat> .·., Qta, -a D~mocfatic. presidentuil bop~.~· ~ondale pic~ed·the ~~·Y. ..yayt C' ~::~ :\::; ,~;~~,ta.c~.~d.'.fo.tlie C?~tinuiilg resolutfoii,~b~r'. · had suddenly· pumed through the · The. PreSldent's .:intercession; ~wilh . b,tl~e 'Vati mone~ w~s not~~he ~en~·,j )··~ ~ ate a $20' ifilllion 'special' aid fund for ;; McClellan and at least one other 5eila-·'c''__·~handed U;S. policy In the Mi(feast_ es- : _,;;•r:·~ ~~el l~t.,~esd~y'. .. :{ _. ~·, ,.:--.:.:"·/ tor.dn .the· joint: Senate•House~Confer>:,;.se_nti~l~ keep'lhe negotiating do.ors·:" .. 1 ,~;;,: .· :I ~,gnorhlg; the.. $3·50 tjlillion aid fond, . ·. ence.· Committee barely tipped" tbe:bal.i~ "~ro·pelf wowd have been shatterec;f .. ,. ~X:t.i\:'; j:; };1 e~rm.arke4 for E,gY'J,>t and Syria in thf:!. ·• ance ·against :Mondale. The committee ·:./2!;\Jildeed; Mr/'Ford's private · warhlng · :! '~:~> now-dead · f.oreign · aid - bill, ·Mondale,. . ,' yoted, .4 -;to ?; to kill t1le; .$llecla,1 J>r'o.;Is• '~)'.tO:?>fcC~e.lla1i"l~at ·"war". co..uld ~~~ ~as- ., " ~ver before: a l~ader of the powerful . raell fund and let both Israel and :the :·: ,te_ned. by any such ~ublic Show of, fa~. · p)"o-IsraeU Senate bloc, tacked the spe-. ~~ ·Arabs wait . until: the .regular iforeigri ~. lyoi'Jtis~ !as··a1~,:0 partly the r¢sulf of .. cw Israeli funcjto a· routine .reso~utiori aid bill is,.taken up: again ear1y::next:':'.~'tthe fye_~aent's ·o!"n ill-advised. hints. ro . . P#!Ilittin~ tJi~,gover~m~Jif t0 continu.e.< ye&r. ::: ..':;;,,;: ~t<,·;,«•:''.: ''::;.: ;.._:;;:'"'.f,:;;J1ri!;i:r·~~i{''.f ~ays ago. that .tti~· Unite,d State.s. ~ght_,: itS . spending .:R.rogra.Dls in. the. absen~ . ', . Mondale's ..·foreign. 'l>Ollcy ! •advisers· t; :f.'!l.e ~.o~pell~d ~~ ~a~e t9ugh ,meas~es · . 0£.new apptoffi'iation m,easu.res. · : ;;; .._; :,,, -. ·told us that the senator or .1Ils·: 'staff 1 ·:;;~gains.~ maJor .risid~ ,. .consulted both. tne Israeli 1!."mbas# and .' r ot~er~,_, be~.~~~e~.~o-~ .. ~~.)11;~.,p~~:,,9£~ , · 'J ei:abl~ politi<:al courage. Ile telepho11ed ,0 ·~ '1ower,levels''. of the State Department _!.),;f~Ude-of;I.. · -'. ·"':> · •. : <:: '. :·.";; ' ·"'~:;;1);. "~· .tff~'1 ~: · Jolin. ,McClellan · .of .·M~an~as;. ~: .an~ foreign aid bureaucx:acy before. de~ ;~:.::.~ The imp~Cit tli.r~t o~. some kin.~ o.f. , ~;[-:'. . cbrurman of tlie sena~e. Appropnations .. . ·cldmg to .offer: bis ·amendment.:,niere·i' .•11.ew !iard-line American counteraction ·.. 'r~51,\ Commi~tee handling '.the .. continuing .. was,· ·gen~rlll. · approval·· in_<.~·~ ~re~ ~~.f.again~t~ ·the _·,oil:. producer~po~lbly ..• 17:~i resolution~ ·At·worst; he warned;··Mon". ·_:places. · ·;:~-, ,:~.:r:~·:\ -::;,~:'. ~.'. .. ;:;,.siv~"":',;:;,;::-,~:;:tt

, col.lid nsk w:ar;. at 'J?est, it would tor·; lobbying teams1 aware ~:"., 84'. With no follow-up-' · .. / ..:;::.·, ::.:.~:\.;'~>''.'? . ptdo Secretacy of State Hericy Kissing" that the amendment had heeD. offered;'': ~i~ty,Bti~ Mondale's·:·senatNppi'oveCi ·rs< · er's mission,to the . Mideast. ,µiis week . with no ~imililr: amendment fot. E'gypt "·~~r.aell '~d ·pac~!lge :ca:rtied ~~t~: lsraeU•. 1 with:.:\·\]ng aid:pledged to the Arabs, lt would .. •,r; :J~ckson (D:wa,~h.),. Sen; Jac.o~. Javits· \: drawal agreements· since .. tiie:,r<>ni~~.r;i}:pot only,;haye aborted· Kiss~nger's -*~w .~; d·:U~~ ~f ~~.e,~,st_~h:1;1ttle diplo01~~¥·· It , ~j:Ccnn.) were: .s4rprise~ wh~n· ~ondale .. · ~g the . M~ ,,J>residerit ·~r.e!tflly .J.or ~{;i:iil~9 ~igbt ~v~: spill~d .'OVP.r .i;nd un_i;ler~ .~ ·f ·,:;suddenly emerged . with . h~s.. Jud fund .. "signs of ,p_os~i.ble .change from .Richat~·:.. /';';'.~E'.~ -CQ_~tilll~.H1~ .. ~l_ll~i1~an-=~~!..~. .': ,.;,_ IsraeL>:.rhey •spoke al)d v:oted for :.-26 Senate· tally. ap· , . ·pro-Israeli): policy in the Mideast:' ''';'.t;~;;'.:dheir:._erude oi[' prices. ~>"::j~'2\:;·:::{:';\,~,,~Tyiif; 1 ."' .. proving the amendment,. but -privately :, · .· .· . With, negotiations· .on 'dead: 'diii~i-::::;;'f';?::That,; .iP.. fa.ct, i_s •why' more·: 'seiiat<>F'iC . ; ,: ' ; o~e le~der ,, '()f ·• .th.~ pro~lsrael 'bloc , since l~st '·sprll)g; ··.·they :V.'.arit c'~eassu~t\§:~an' u,.s.ual~~(>ted 'against -'ihe ';special '' viewed it .as a slap m th~: face•Qf th~ : _:,:ance tliat 114r. Ford iS kePping -~iXon~:~~~.. a1,d ~ackag(! t:br ~srael. Th~ Mideast. tp:.' Arabs which was too public ii,t too deli· : : style pressure on Israel for' new .with·" :r: day IS. too. explosive for pohtics as usual .~t~~ --~~ M&4r~ 7 /10/7-Y ,, ;: ---., __ ) - }) NEW YORK TIMES Thurs. May 10

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Criticism. Reflects Crowing Unease Over Reform Plan ·· :::: ·'. By JMms M. NAii~m~~· .. Special to The New Yor!C Times. . WASHINGTON, May 9 - ,:. . A.DA aattng ci&ecf'..- ,~: -s'l1metable ~~clzed. :-·:t ~ > Senator Walter F. Mondale de­ . :· · Mr. siiull ~ktt " Senatoi: :?.iondaie- and ~~ ~ ·:. .' maCie . tlie · ·· ull also said- that· ·the pro- - nounced 'today a plan for an . even mo~. directly .. Asluming overhaul .·of the Con~lonal ·· that the members· would be . · set out a timetable for ;congressional action on spend- 8J>ending · system, contending selected in terms of seniority i g limits; iilcltidiilg ·a. maxi~ that it :would tum most Sena­ he said, "the • dominant . two: l ~rds" of the budget'·'Ccom- ·; um of 30 ihours of 'floor de­ tors and:: Representatives into m1ttees would have an avei- \ ~ate and· restrictions on amend­ mere "petitioners" on money i age A.D.A. rating of 18.25 dn· ~ illblents, that would reduce. the · ! a scale in which 100 represents '\ bility of most Senators and \ matters. ; . . ·.·1 epresentatives ·to .affect . the . The complaint by the Minne­ the most liberal attiltude. · I Furthermore, Mr. Shull said ; sota Democrat was echoed by 1 in.~1~c~~n~tiesiio~' riiil:i· :J .Leon Shull, national director of : : th. _etlimajc:igtyd.w9y1r;1 .c()~~ _froro _\ of 8ou em an rura areas. "It i foreign aid ,might. well de­ .Americans for Democratic A.c· .:1 1 erve 30 hours of debate," Mr. ·: tion, who said that the budget' ' : ondale said. ·.~,'.'n ...: .•.;·,L~.·x >:i\ reform :plan would ·~pface . itc~-~=;w~-=·~~ifficulty surviving in .such a ' ~ The Minnesota -Senator of- , sweeping responsibility for all ered the ''bare outlines" 'Of Federal spending in the hands , :pimmittee," he· said. ··· ·. . an ,· .' mative ·plan that he~ siLld r IJf ~ unrepresentative ,[email protected] < · · Representative · Jamie L. , uld preserve the rights of all of legJ.Slators." . f:>~·):' t .c:: tten,. co-chairman of the The criticism of the:·Jand- : t study .committee de- ngressmen to parti~ate in e spending decisions. · . . · snark proposal, which wa5 sub; .'·i ded the.: pioposal, noting 0 .· fip,111; He · called for selection of mitted to Congress last.month '' I it · had been· approved anlmously by the 32 mem­ .:. cget committee. members by by the Joint study .. ~!immiftee :; .! ' ' caucU:Ses and floor votes. on Budget Reform,.:,~fle'cted · .·.\ . ~rs of the study panel. . · growing unease amongJlb'erals '; Mr. · Whitten, a · e said that: the committee , emocrat, .added that the .. · hould merely recommend . a i . :r~~!n~ey jijf)'{. :~.e }) udget committees would mere­ ' · nding limit, along with an ''·1 recommend spending and ppropriat.e b. µdget. d.. ~icit or. :i . Make-up Ojiposed ~ ."' -1> :I g actions: tha't the ulti~ urplus, and that cuts should 1 decisions still would be .. ~e made·' a:eross the bo~ in r~~~~~!~ti~~i~i~:; ...• 1<111ade by the fulrmembership ~ programs, if .the spending ' tudget committee that. wollld .. ' !i'Ceiling was exceeded by the ac- · · be set up in ~Ch house to rec- ' ' .~f· ,, · "No.thing.the Senate. th.a~. arid this ·.Hou·s·.e. [budget) "i.: r~umulated actions of Congress. ... ommend an :ilrinual sJ)ending omnuttee does .fs .worth. two . ~· Late .in the Congressional ceiling, determiiie the amounts J • ts except. u acted on'· bY ' · iession, Mr. Mondale said, the that should be aflocated ' for ' ' Congress,'.' Mr. . Whitten udget committee .could pro- each Governmenf function, and , old the Senate subconlmitted. : .. se changes in tlfe way spend~ ·'.' JUggest tax 'changeS in an.at­ · g pti>grams had been reduc~ tempt to balance revemies With . . ~o.~ reflect the priorities ~e com-' . , spending. · · ·:;, .. ·: ·· · · ·: ;;m.ittee regarded as desirabJe. , ~·. · , . The jOint committee plan 1 ~ Mr. Shull •. urged extensive .; ~alls for two-thirds of the i budget committee members to J j l>e drawn from the existing, 'f ;~~:~::n;~:~~~::: __ and basiCally conservative, ap- 1 t!are far.'· too important JO: .be . ~' · propriations and tax .commit·. ,:-.dopted .i!i ~..::':·:/::{: ,:·:/~L ;~,: tees. The other thi!l"d would be appointed from among Senate and House members at· 1&rge. . Thus, Senator Mondale. said _ \ an testimony this morning be" '\ f(!re a subcommittee of the Senate Government Operations , Committee, "The · proposal : ;would bypass existing pro­ .cedures requiring · approval .by party and by the full Senate and: House: committee ~ Jnembers:!1i~':> 'i~'.'"~·~'},~-~il :.:· , "