, On The Inside State conventions: bucolic plague ..• pages · 8 & 9 A convention for beer cans? ... page 14 serving the notre dame -st. mary's community Vol. VII No. 21 Friday, October 6, 1972 On campaign trail for McGovern enne resses j I an crow I J I by Jerry Lutkus After asking the crowd if Notre Dame j was going to beat Michigan State tomor­ I Ann Therese Darin row he related that he heard the students and John Abowd elected a King for president. He added that ''The Republicans seem to think that Senator Edward 1Kennedy blasted the they did the same thing." "corruption" of the Nixon Administration Kennedy's speech was introduced by today in a speech before a standing room Congressman John Brademas, Democratic crowd in Stepan Center. Representative of Indiana's third district. ''They say it was just a matter of coin­ Making the rounds with Kennedy and Brad­ cidence that those men were out there meas was Matthew Welsh, the Democratic bugging the conversations of LarryO'Brien candidate for Governor of Indiana. and the Democratic Party. It was also just coincidental that those people hap­ TV appearance taped pened to be on the payroll of the Com­ mittee to re-elect President Nixon," Ken­ Before his speech at Stepan Center, Ken­ nedy asserted. nedy and Brademas taped a question-answer He struck out against Nixon's ''corrup­ forum with several Notre Dame law stu­ tion" in the I'M' affair, the dairy industry, dents and undergraduates. in the wheat deals with Russia. ''They Talk centered on Domestic Legislation. call it coincidence, I call it corruption," Kennedy and Brademas emphasized the fu­ claimed Kennedy. tility of pushing legislation on the aged, Speaking before a throng estimated at health care and education. 4000, Kennedy attacked Nixon's policy on As chairman of the senate subcommittee the Vietnam war. 6n health, the Massachusetts Senator de­ "Next week, we celebrate an anniver­ plored present condition hampering medi­ sary on October 9," Kennedy claimed. He cal school intents. ~ 4 pointed out that it was four years ago Medical care on that date that Nixon claimed that any I man who caJlllot bring peace in four years I "Medical schoolshaveturneddownappli­ j should not be given another chance. cations from many thousands of well-quali­ Kennedy added, "I'm glad that I can I fled medical school applicants because j find something that I agree on with the of lack of space," he said. "However, Senator Edward Kennedy addresses a fund raising j President." over 55% of all interns now working in breakfast at the Indiana Club in South -Bend. The 7:30 I hospitals are foreign born and foreign­ breakfast was attended by 800 democratic sympathizers. I trained. This simply cannot continue to be.'' War Casualties I Both the senator and the congressman emas, and Senator Kennedy. In addition, Republican in the Senate voted in favor I deplored the Nixon administration for fail­ 13 Democratic party leaders from South of the tax reform amendment offered by The war goes on, according to Kennedy ing to endorse social legislation - bills to Bend, Elkhart, and surrounding cities sat the Democrats during the last week. l and he pointed out that since 1969 "22,000 cure sickle cell anemia, multiple scleu­ at• the head table. ''The tax code in this country is the brave sons have lost their lives" and rosis and other fatal diseases. Kermedy called the Nixon administration greatest welfare code of all," Kennedy 'i I America has spent 70 billions of dollars I & ''government of narrow self interest" claimed, adding that the code itself contains 1- on the war. Economic and unemployment as he asked the crowd to hold Nixon to over 900 pages of ''exemptions, excep­ The !:e!"'.!cr senator from Massachusetts his promise that he would bring peace tions and loopholes. '' pointed that this money "ought to have Several students questioned the team on to Vietnam in four years. Charges Nixon been expended in the cities of this coun­ economic conditions. Kennedy commented "I don't think we ought to give him another try" on the problems of the elderly, of that despite Nixon "propaganda," there is chance," Kennedy said. The youngest Kennedy also charged the crime, health, and law enforcement. more unemployment in America today than Praised Brademas and Welsh Nixon administration of acting under the ''How infrequently we think of the dev­ in the last 16 years of government under pressure of special interests in the ITI astation of this war. There are one mil­ ~Isenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. ''This Praising Brademas' record on educa­ case and the authorization of a milk price lion orphans in Vietnam," Kennedy con­ i~ the highest peacetime unemployment in tion and senior citizenship, Kennedy said, increase after the milk producers made tinued. He termed this devastation a the peacetime since World War II," charged ''John Brademas doesn't need words of "substantial contributions to the Nixon "price no society should have to pay." Kennedy. endorsement. You know him and I know campaign fund.'' Kermedy pointed to the war as the key Queried on amendments to the natiooal you will send him back to Congress where Kennedy said, in conclusion, ''We must issue in this year's Presidential election. s;tudent defense loans which would stop we need him." again in 1972 try to be a source of leader­ He reaffirmed his belief in George Mc­ students from reducing the amount of money 'Legislation passed by tne Congress ship and direction ... really concerned Govern and said that he could end the they must repay the government, Brademas requires the cooperation of statehouses and about all the people. '' war and bring home the prisoners of war. replied that this amendment would probably state legislatures to operate effectively. Brademas introduced Kennedy and Welsh ''We know the prisoners won't be re­ not pass. Many N.D. & S.M.C. students We need people with the sane philosophy to the early morning group. · leased as long as we stay in Vietnam." attend school on government loans. and outlook on life from the President Welsh called ''the central issue'' of his ''The president and his administration on down,'' Kennedy said in endorsing Welsh. campaign for the statehouse ''the ineffec · Welfare Plans have the time to talk to lobbyists for tiveness" of the Republican administra­ Defends McGovern ITr, for the AMA, the dairy industry for tion. The economic question prompted Ken- countless other special interest groups," In calling for support for George Mc­ Long Day nedy to note that despite Executive pro- Kennedy said, "But they don't have time to Govern, Kennedy said ''we have a choice testations against the Democratic welfare talk to the Senate and the House or ask us of whether the special influences will con­ Kennedy arrived in Elkhart last night plan, in the last 3 1/2 years over 6 1/2 for our opinions.'' tinue to dominate and control this admin­ at 10:00. He spent the night in the Albert million people have been added to welfare istration or whether we will, as George Pick Motor Inn in downtown South Bend. rolls. Fund Raising Breakfast McGovern says, "Return the government The Senator left South Bend immediately Nixon's welfare plm of four years ago Earlier today Kennedyaddressedastand- to the people.'' after his Stepan Center speech. After was supported by the Democrats according lng room crowd at the Indiana Club in The Senator challenged the Nixon ad­ a brief speech at the Elkhart airport, he to Kennedy, but wben it came to~- South Bend. Over 800 democratic sym­ ministration's crime record, saying "The was scheduled to fly to Fort Wayne, In­ the Republlcana ref.. ed to "ltand up for pathizers contributed $25 to hear the Sen­ 'American people have more to fear from diana. Kermedy will campaign in Muncie it.' • ator praise the democratic slate in In- crime and violence in the streets than and Indianapolis later today. The Republicans "don't raise their voices diana. from peasants running around in pajmas The Kermedy-Brademas show will be about the loopholes in the tax code, but The featured speakers at the breakfast and being bombed to death everyday.'' broadcast this evening on WNDU (<llannel when It comes to giving a blood test to included gubernatorial candidate Matthew Kennedy also defended McGovern's tax 16) at 7:30 p.m. and WSBT (Olannel 22) J a poor person, they're all for it.'' Welsh, incumbem congressman John Brad- reform proposals charging that ·'not one'· at 10:30 p.m. _ .............--------------------------------------------- 2 the observer Friday, October 6, 1972 Cleveland-sen. McGovern proposed what he called a new foreign c.ampu• today policy based on international idealism and domestic strength. •• • Describing his policy as a "new internationalism," he P:Oposed for­ 3:00 .. lecture, max black, library auditorium mal recognition of Peking, promised to stop deploymg nuclear 7 & 10 .. movie, guns of navarone, lyons hall, 75 cents missiles and warned that the Vietnam war would "drag on for years" 7 & 10 -- movie, andromeda strain, zagran's zinema west, flanner if President Nixon is re-elected. hall, $1.00 7, 9 & 11 .. movie, big jake, knights of columbus hall, $1.00 warld Washington-After weeks of silence, President Nixon used his first 8: 00 .. dance, 2 bands, Iafortune ba II room press conference since August 19 to dismiss Democ_ratic _charges ~at 8:30-- play, the lion in winter, o'laughlin auditorium, smc his administration is the most corrupt and deceitful m American 9:00-- concert, people and song, alumni hall lounge, 25 cents history.