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Oregon daily
emerald
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Tuesday, February 21, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 105
Walter Mondaie
Graphic by Shawn Bird
Mondale wins Iowa caucuses;
Hart finishes a distant second
DES MOINES, lOwa (AP) — Walter Mondale
swept the field to win Iowa's Democratic
caucuses Monday night and called it “a great vic
tory" pointing to his nomination for the White
House — and to the beginning of the end of the
Reagan administration.
Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado was running a far
back second; Sen. |ohn Glenn of Ohio looked like
the night's big loser. He was polling only 6 per
cent of the vote, in fifth place.
With nearly half the precincts reporting in the
keynote contest of 1984, Mondale's vote tripled
that of his closest challenger in an eight-way
count.
"I think I'm going .to be the nominee, and I
think this win here in Iowa strengthens me con
siderably," the former vice president said in Des
Moines. "It now appears we have won a great vic
tory, perhaps a spectacular victory .. .This is the
beginning of the end of the Reagan
administration."
Hart, in Manchester, N.H., campaigning for the
first primary election a week from Tuesday, said
the results "look good for us."
"Hopefully it does turn this into a Hart-Mondale
race," he said.
Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, who did little
campaigning in Iowa and found scant support
there Monday night, said the Mondale victory was
to be expec ted. "It's not a big victory,” he said.
"The real story is )ohn Glenn," said Hollings,
who also was campaigning in New Hampshire. He
said it was devastating for Glenn to have run so far
back in the field. Hollings said Glenn supporters
in other states may now shift to other candidates.
Republicans caucused too, with President
Ronald Reagan unopposed.
Reagan had campaigned in Iowa hours earlier,
saying his would-be Democratic challengers think
like dinosaurs and offer only failed answers out of
the past.
The major TV networks all said their projections
showed Mondale an easy victor in the leadoff con
test of the year-old Democratic presidential race.
The first projection came from NBC News with
just two precincts reporting and angered some
Iowa Democratic officials.
The caucuses were the first phase in the selec
tion 50 Iowa delegates to the Democratic National
Convention, and Mondale's showing pointed to a
near-sweep of those nominating votes.
With 54 percent of the 2,495 precinct caucuses
reporting, Mondale had 21,367 votes or 45 percent
of the total.
The Democratic caucuses were expected to at
tract nearly 100,000 people to registef their
presidential preference in meetings convened in
living rooms, schoolhouses and fire stations.
Grants Pass city officials confirm space reports
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
The proposed relocation of the
American Society of Aerospace Pilots to
Grants Pass, creating an estimated one
million jobs in 10 years for Oregon, was
confirmed by Grants Pass city officials
Monday.
ASAP announced Friday it will relocate
its headquarters, primarily the manage
ment, from Illinois to Grants Pass and
build a commercial aerospace flight
school which will train pilots, ground
crew and flight attendants.
But according to Grants Pass Com
munity Development Director Ed Mur
phy, no ASAP officials have filed for
building permits as of Monday.
"I don't think they are nearly ready for
that,” Murphy says of the training center
developers.
Gentry McKinney, ASAP director and
owner of the 2300 acres of land pur
chased last year along the Rogue River in
Grants Pass, says his architects are
designing blueprints as fast as they can.
McKinney says the land will be used for
the space training center.
And the project's planner says Oregon
is ready for the space industry.
"I chose Oregon because I felt it has
the best quality that will permit us to
create the image that will attract and
motivate the youth to lead our country
and future generations to be first in
developing the world in a new frontier in
space," McKinney says.
Grants Pass City Mayor Bruce
McGregor said in a telephone interview
Monday that he has known for three
months that McKinney did indeed pur
chase property and will begin remodel
ing the Riverside and Bridge motels and
conference center next month.
"Construction for the training center
will begin in three to six months," says
Ron Bergman, former Grants Pass city
manager and now chairman of the
Josephine Economic Development
Association in Grants Pass.
Training seminars tor the space tourist
center will begin in the Riverside Con
ference Center next month, says Alan
Goldberg, KOBI news director in
Medford.
McKinney, Bergman and Goldberg all
confirmed Monday that within the next
five or 10 years one million jobs will be
generated in the state of Oregon through
the ASAP training project.
“The figures seem so mind boggling
for what the area could actually handle,”
says University geology major Mike
Bishop, who left Grants Pass after seven
years in the housing business because
the economy was so slow.
Hendriksen seeks Hatfield's Senate seat
By Richard Paxton
Of the Emerald
After one term in the Oregon House
and one term in the Oregon Senate,
Margie Hendriksen, D-Eugene, is runn
ing against incumbent Mark Hatfield, R
Ore.
Hendriksen will be on campus today to
campaign for the U.S. Senate seat at 7
p.m. in room 101, EMU.
Hatfield has been in the Senate since
1967 and has never lost an election in his
33 years in Oregon politics, officials say.
Secretary of State Norma Paulus calls
Hendriksen "a feminist ally in the
Senate," but says Hatfield's many years
in office give him an advantage.
"I am supporting Senator Hatfield
because he now has achieved a position
of power in the Senate that I think few
senators have," Paulus says.
But Hendriksen is confident she has a
chance to win.
"A poll was run this fall by the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Com
mittee back in Washington. It showed
that he (Hatfield) is not invincible and
that I would be a very viable candidate,"
she says.
The poll marks Hatfield as the most
popular politician in Oregon, and while
77 percent of those asked have never
heard of Hendriksen, 76 percent find a
candidate of her description appealing.
"While it (the poll) showed that Margie
isn't that well known state-wide, we have
to keep in mind that other candidates,
like Denny Smith, were not that well
known at this point in the campaign
either," says Mona Sturges, Hen
driksen's campaign manager.
So far, only one Democrat is challeng
ing Hendriksen in the run against Hat
field. He is Sam Kahl of Portland, who is
supported by Lyndon LaRouche's Na
tional Democratic Policy Committee.
Kahl has never held political office.
"Senator Hatfield takes every cam
paign very seriously," says Gerry Frank,
Hatfield's chief aide.
"The Senator is in Oregon three or
four days every month talking to the peo
ple and finding out what they want and
He will be in the state, campaigning as
hard as he ever has," Frank said.
Although Hatfield supports President
Ronald Reagan, he opposes some of his
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