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Debate features initiatives By Thomas Henderson Of the Kmerald Ballot measures took center stage Wednesday night when Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer and his Democratic challenger Vern Cook debated in the EMU Dad’s Room. Cook attacked Frohnmayer's handling of ballot measure titles, charging that the attorney general’s mishandling of his of ficial responsibilities has resulted in unclear wording of the ballot measures. “In one case, the sales tax ballot title, if you voted ‘yes’ you thought you were voting ‘no,’ ’’ Cook said. Dave Frohnmayer Adding that reviewing ballot titles should be a primary duty of the attorney general's office, Cook charged that ”23 out of 28 challenges to Mr. Frohnmayer’s ballot titles have been found to be unfair, misleading and insuf ficent” by the Oregon Supreme Court. “Challenging ballot titles is the oldest political game in the book,” Frohmayer said. Addi tionally, he said, anyone who thinks reviewing ballot titles should be a primary duty of the attorney general should in troduce legislation to abolish the office. According to Frohnmayer, most people decide how they will vote on ballot measures before they go to the polls. “I trust the voters more than my opponent,” he said. The candidates also collided on their views regarding Ballot Measure 8, the ‘‘victims’ rights” initiative, which revises numerous criminal laws concer ning police powers, trials, evidence and sentencing. Frohnmayer said he supports the measure as a means of balancing the inequities of the judicial system. “Virtually everything in that measure has been before the Legislature before in oiie form or another” but has been defeated by ‘‘strategically placed’’ legislators, he said. “I’m not really suprised Dave F'rohnmayer supports the Caldicott speaking tonight . Nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott will discuss the nuclear arms race and her recommendations for stopping it in the EMU Ballroom tonigh* at 8. Caldicott, a native oi Melbourne, Australia, was in fluenced as a teenager by Nevil Shute’s “On the Beach,” a novel about the effects of nuclear war. But it wasn’t until after the birth of her first child that Caldicott's concern became her cause. “At that moment 1 accepted personal responsibility for stop ping the nuclear arms race,” she says. In 1971, Caldicott began pro testing French atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean. I.ater, the movement spread throughout Australia arid New Zealand, and the French halted the tests in 1972. In 1978. Caidicott published her first book “Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do!” She is a past president of Physi cians for Social Responsibility and founder of Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament. “The 1984 elections are a political crossroads that may determine our survival as a planet,” Caidicott says. “We have to use this opportunity to elect a president and a congress who are committed to multilateral nuclear disarma ment as their top priority.” Caldicott’s discussion, which is part of the ASUO-sponsored political symposium, is free and open to the public. Vem Cook measure,” Cook said, "because he has such little regard for the Oregon Constitution.” Cook said he opposes the measure since several of its pro visions would likely be judged unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court, particularly a provision allowing victims to participate in criminal sentencing. Such a provision, he said, would promote vindictiveness instead of fehabiiitation. Both candidates oppose Measure 2, the property tax limitation. Although Frohnmayer said he understands concerns over pro perty taxes, he said “it makes no sense to shoot at the Legislature through our heads.” Cook said he opposes the measure, but he charged that Frohnmayer’s office did a "miserably poor” job in prepar ing the ballot title. Both candidates also express ed opposition to Measures 6 and 7, which would reinstate the death penalty. Cook said he objects to capital punishment not on moral grounds but because it is not an effective deterrent to crime. However, he added, “I’d rather have nine guiity men on life sentences than execute one in nocent one.” Frohnmayer voiced similar objections to the measures, say ing “if mistakes are made in the adjudication of capital punish ment, it is irrevocable.” Nonetheless, both said they would enforce capital punish ment as attorney general if the ' measure passes. — -, Political symposium schedule The 1 ‘>84 ASt JO political symposium con cludes today with a discussion on nuclear arms by Dr. Melon Caldioott at a p.m. in the KMU Ballroom. Today's schedule also includes a discus sion on peace negotiations in Central America by F elix kurv. who directs the San Francisco office of the coalition currently engaged in discussions with FI Salvadoran Pres. Napoleon Duarte. Today’s symposium schedule is. • 12:30 p.m. — Congressman Jim Weaver, Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress, 4th District. •2:30 p.m. — Eugene Council for Human Rights in 1-atln America presentation; Felix kurv. 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