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University faculty salaries are lower than nation's average See story Page 3A Oregon daily emerald Wednesday, October 24, 1984 Eugene, Oregon Volume 86, Number 39 Melee welcomes president to Portland By Paul Ertelt Of the Kmerald Exploding red. white and blue balloons nearly drowned out calls for "four more years” and made the finale of President Ronald Reagan's Portland rally sound like a battlefield. And it was. Several times during his Tuesday morning speech at the Earle Childs Center of the .University, of Portland, Reagan was-upstaged by. hostile ex changes between hecklers and ' supporters. But the president seemed un daunted by the verbal jabs. “I may just le*. Mondale raise his taxes.” Reagan joked, poin ting to one of the hecklers. Ap proximately 5.000 people - at tended therally. Reiterating his theme of • “Amerjca is back.” Reagan said Walter Mondale ' would lead -America, into economic, social and international chaos - if elected. Under the Democrats, “our. leadership was .adrift and rud derless without a compass,” he said. He accused the Democrats of weakening national defense but said that since he took office four years ago, his administra tion has begun to make the country “strong again.” "It was the second American Revolution, and it has only just begun." he said. But his op ponents are "small voices in the night sounding the call to go back.”. Reagan took credit for lower ing inflation from 12 percent annually to 4 percent and creating 6 million new jobs. Taxes were cut by 25 percent during his administration, but Mondale would raise taxtfs if elected, he said. “My opponent’s economic policy has two parts — first raise your taxes and then raise them again.” he said. “America President Ronald Reagon addresses a hall of students and party faithful, including (from left to right) Gov. VicAtiyeh, Sen. Bob doesn't want his taxes and they’re not going to get them.”. At that point Reagan paused while a shouting match ensued between his supporters and the hecklers. But the entire speech was punctuated with taunts ranging from obscenities to ac cusations, that he is a liar and a murderer. One group chanted "We don’t want your war in Central America” while others countered the supporters chant of “Four more years” with “Two more weeks.” “This is a perfect example of where we solid citizens are,” the president said after the uproar subsided. “Caught bet ween the right and the left.” Reagan continued his attack on Mondale arid his plan to raise taxes to reduce the federal deficit. But Reagan predicted that Mondale would double the current deficit. “He sees an America where every day is tax day — April 15,” he said. “We see an America where'every day is In dependence Day — the Fourth of July.” Reagan also attacked the foreign policy of the Carter ad ministration and Mondale’s role as President Jimmy Carter’s vice president. That administration made no strong response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, Reagan said, but no country has fallen to com munism since he (Reagan) has taken office. , • “One year ago we liberated Grenada from communist thugs,” he said. Reagan made no mention of another anniversary. It was one year ago Tuesday that 241 * Marines were killed when a Continued on Page 8A A variety of political signs adorned the Earle Childs Center in anticipation of Reagan’s speech. Photos by Michael Clapp Packwood and San. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., at the University of Portland campus Tuesday. Anderson attacks Reagan’s policies By Stasia Scarborough Of the Emerald •John Anderson, former Independent candidate for presi dent, stumped Tuesday for Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign, putting the weight of the national Independent Party behind the Democrats. ; In a speech before approximately 250 students and Eugene residents, Anderson criticized President Reagan, calling his campaign and presidency one of “cotton candy.” “It’s pink and pretty and full of air,„but no nutritional value,” he said. Anderson has been campaigning for the Democratic can didate for two months at the request of Mondale. Chair, of the national Independent Party, Anderson has put his party's support behind the Democrats, but the focus of his campaign is to ensure that President Reagan is not re elected. . In his attack against the incumbent president, Anderson selected issues he said are of interest to Oregonians in par ticular, including the environment and interest rates. Citing Oregon’s interest in environmental issues, Ander son told the audience about Republican'mismanagement of the Environmental Protection Agency. He said “the environ ment has suffered and suffered grievously” as a result. The Reagan administration has tried to "drag their feet on the issue” of toxic waste clean-up. he said, illustrating his point by calling Anne Burford and Rita Lavelle — former Reagan appointees to the EPA — “characters out of a Fellini movie.” Oregon, he said, is an “interest-rate-sensititve state” and has suffered more than many parts of the country in the re cent economic recession. Reagan’s failure to suggest a means of lowering the federal deficit, he said, is inhibiting Oregon’s economic recovery. In one of his few references to Walter Mondale, he said that Mondale “has had the courage” to suggest means of lowering the deficit, including lowering spending and in creasing government revenues. In national issues, Anderson claimed Reagan’s policies for nuclear arms control are long on talk but short on action. Saying Reagan looks back to the time when the SALT I treaty was negotiated as a “bad time” in history, Anderson accused Reagan of saying he longed for the day of nuclear arms control, while purchasing every item on the Pentagon’s wish list. “It’s not a question of good intentions,” he said. “It’s go ing to take more than glib, glittering generalities.”