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PEORIA, III. (AP) - Pres
Ronald Reagan makes a cam
paign visit to Peoria today,
home of the Caterpillar Tractor
Co. which has been hurt by his
embargo on U S equipment
and technology for the Soviet
natural gas pipeline
With this economically de
pressed central Illinois city
staggering under a 15.1 percent
unemployment rate, Reagan is
making two appearances in the
18th Congressional District on
behalf of Rep Robert Michel,
R-lll., the House minority leader.
The first appearance, a visit to
a farm show in Chapin in the
lower tip of the district, is also
aimed at winning support for
some candidates in adjoining
districts
Later Reagan will attend a
Michel fund-raiser — an ex
travaganza that also will feature
actor Charlton Heston and
singer Pat Boone — at the
Peoria Civic Center
Michel's most recent polls
show him with a 10-point lead
over his Democratic opponent,
labor lawyer G Douglas Ste
phens, but Republicans say the
lead is nothing to inspire over
confidence
The polls show a 50-40 split in
Michel's favor, with 10 percent
undecided
With unemployment in all of
Illinois running at 12 5 percent
— the worst since the Great De
r
pression — Stephens has been
hammering away at Reagan
omics and criticizing Michel for
supporting Reagan s economic
policies. Michel continues to
back most of Reagan's program
but recently broke ranks with
the administration over the
pipeline sanctions.
Tickets to the fund-raiser are
selling for $5, $10 and $15. Mi
chel has reserved a block of 600
tickets which his aides say will
be given to elderly and
low-income people
Michel has generally discour
aged trips here on his behalf by
congressional allies, but Wed
nesday's event is expected to
be loaded with the likes of Sen.
Charles Percy, R-lll, Gov. James
Thompson, Agriculture Secre
tary John Block, and a host of
Republican congressmen from
Illinois.
Off-year election ads;
the muck mushrooms
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Lyndon Johnson was
running against Barry Goldwater for president in 1964,
Democrats used a television commercial that has been cited
ever since as a low water mark in political campaigning it now
appears the 1982 campaign tide may be just as low
There are so many negative television campaigns in the
off-year elections that candidates often criticize their oppon
ents' ads more vigorously than they do their policies.
The 1964 ad showed a little girl plucking petals from a
daisy while a clock ticked down tc zero The next scene was
of a nuclear blast The commercial made no mention of
Goldwater, but it was pulled off the air after Republicans
yelled "innuendo" and “libel per se.”
There is a strong family resemblance in some 1982
versions.
A spot that ran for a week in California ended with a
mushroom cloud and a child saying, "I want to go on living,’1
followed by a voice: "Pete Wilson opposes the Nuclear Arms
Freeze Jerry Brown supports it. Vote for your life Elect Jerry
Brown to the U S. Senate."
Wilson, the Republican mayor of San Diego, said the
commercial was "innuendo by graphics," and complained it
depicted him as "Mayor Strangelove” Brown, the Democrat
ic governor, said the purpose of the commercial was "to
initiate a debate on the nuclear issue”
The ad drew a lot of criticism and was withdrawn a few
days later.
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