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Candidates strut;
Barb Bush slips
(AP) — Pres. Ronald Reagan
and a buoyant Walter Mondale
courted support from Italian
Americans on Columbus Day,
pressing their campaign battle
for "the soul of our country”
one day after a televised debate
that neutral polls indicated was
a triumph for the Democratic
challenger.
"Today we have a brand new
race,” Mondale told a Monday
rally in New York after he and
running mate Geraldine Ferraro
marched past thousands of sup
porters at a holiday parade in
Manhattan, “Today everything
is different. Millions of
Americans know what’s at stake
in this election.”
Reagan, campaigning on his
own in North Carolina and then
Baltimore, said, “I’m smiling.
I’m smiling” after the first of
two televised debates.
Meanwhile, while Vice Pres.
George Bush competed with the
Democrats for attention by car
rying the Republican banner in
the New York parade, his wife
Barbara drew notice for a
derogatory comment to two
reporters aboard the vice
presidential airplane, Air Force
Two. Bush said that she and her
husband are comfortable with
their lifestyle and don’t pretend
to be poor “like that $4 million
— I can’t say it, but it rhymes
with rich.”
It was a smiling reference to
her husband’s Democratic op
ponent, Ferraro. Bush had
thought she was speaking off
the record in the chat in the
aisle of the jet and didn’t mean
to be derogatory, the vice presi
dent’s spokesman said later.
Mondale’s press secretary,
Maxine Isaacs, said: “I assume
this was Mrs. Bush’s attempt to
make a joke, but I don't think it
was funny. It was in poor
taste.”
Aides to Reagan and Mondale
both claimed victory in the
debate. But in an overnight
survey conducted for
Newsweek magazine, 54 per
cent of those polled said Mon
dale did better than Reagan in
Sunday night’s debate, com
pared with 35 percent who put
the president on top.
Even so, a majority also said
Reagan was “more capable of
dealing with the country’s
problems.”
Stumping in North Carolina,
the president said there is “op
portunity unlimited” in
America.
“That is what we are about to
restore for all of us,” said the
president', who led Mondale by
15-20 percentage points in most
pre-debate polls.
Reagan then traveled to
Baltimore, where he dedicated a
statue of Christopher Columbus
and jabbed at Mondale —
without mentioning his name
— for being among the
“pessimists who can’t bring
themselves to admit America is
back on the right track.”
The president said that at
titude reminded him of what
Baltimorean H.L. Mencken said
of the feeling that possessed the
Puritans: “The haunting fear
that someone, somewhere may
be happy.”
Reagan also referred to the
debate while in Baltimore,
when he said, ’'Contrary to
what you may have heard in the
last 24 hours, I do have a plan”
for a second term.
Mondale charged during the
debate that the president had
not offered the voters a clear
idea of what he would do if re
elected.
The president declared that
the campaign between him and
Mondale is a battle “for the soul
of our country.”
Duarte invites
rebels to talk
UNITED NATIONS (AP) —
Pres. Jose Napoleon Duarte of El
Salvador invited his guerrilla
foes Monday to meet with him
Oct. IS and discuss “details for
their incorporation in the pro
cess of democracy” and new
elections.
Duarte said in an address to
the U.N. General Assembly that
as El Salvador’s president and
commander-in-chief, he would
guarantee the rebels safety at
the meeting in the town of La
Palma in northern El Salvador.
He said both sides would be
unarmed, that he himself would
arrive without weapons and
without protection — "placing
my life as a guarantee to have
this meeting attain peace.”
He said he has invited the in
ternational press and
Salvadoran church leaders to at
tend the meeting, which has
“the complete support” of the
Salvadoran military high
command.
Duarte called the meeting for
10 a.m. in La Palma, a town
near the Honduran border in an
area of frequent clashes between
guerrillas and government
troops.
He invited rebel leaders "now
in the mountains" to discuss
"the details for their incorpora
tion in the process of democracy
and the preparation of an at
mosphere of freedom so that we
may have another popular
election.”
The U.S. Embassy in San
Salvador, the capital, issued a
statement saying: "President
Duarte's offer to meet with guer
rilla military leaders is a major
forward step in the process of
national reconciliation based on
democratic elections and a clear
advance in the search for peace
in Central America.
"We applaud the action and
the speech and fully support
it."
Duarte’s speech drew a warm
response from most assembly
delegates. U.S. envoy jeane
Kirkpatrick applauded en
thusiastically. Representatives
of Nicaragua, which El Salvador
accuses of supporting the guer
rillas, and the Soviet Union did
not applaud.
In El Salvador, the rebels’
clandestine Radio Venceremos
made no mention in its midday
broadcast of Duarte’s speech.
Both the United States and
the Contadora Group — made
up of Mexico, Colombia.
Venezuela and Panama — have
urged such talks for more than a
year. The rebels had insisted
that the man then heading the
Salvadoran government —
Duarte’s conservative
predecessor, interim President
Alvaro Magana — negotiate a
power-sharing pact first. The
talks proposal foundered on this
issue.
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