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Monologue Donovan investigation reveals incongruities More dust kicked upon the trail Stems from a simple loan How long has it been si nee we Donovan gave to a small com have had as good a barn pany. This small minority based company needed to burner as Raymond J. Donovan? From what I’ve meet a few requirements to be read in the Oregonian friends considered a minority business have put together a first-rate, enterprise. The loan contained class A-l scandal. His friends a mere $200,000 and was include nine former and cur thoughtfully interest-free. rent construction company of Now someone has to be a ficials, two companies, a state minority and work for this senator and an organized small company. Enter Joseph crime figure. Your standard L. Galiber, a state senator who lifelong chums. happens to be vice president of You would think with two said company and is also previous investigations under black. his belt that this would be old There is also a trivial hat for him. Well, William P. $8,000,000 out of $18,000,000 Masselli seems to have rattled in federal loans to the com a barrel of monkeys. Things pany Donovan worked for have begun to point to Mr. that mysteriously seems to Donovan again. Masselli is at have somehow showed up this time serving a seven-year while Mr. Donovan has tem prison term for hijacking and porarily resigned from his drug trafficking. post. By Joel Miller Photo Editor Mondale cool, Reagan flustered in debate By Shelley Ball Editor in Chief The long-awaited-for political event finally took place last Sunday night. On Oct. 7 television viewers watched as President Ronald Reagan and former Vice President Walter Mondale stepped into the political boxing arena, shook hands and prepared to come out fighting for the first of their two scheduled debates. The second one is slated for Oct. 21. The debates are being sponsored by the League of Women Voters, and the first confrontation took place in the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville. The second debate will be held in Kansas City. Budget deficits, leadership qualities, religion, abortion and poverty were some of the issues raised at the debate. The format was question-and-answer, with three journalists asking each can didate the same questions. As in all debates, there is the oppor tunity for participants to resort to mud-slinging tactics. The fact that Reagan and Mondale differ markedly in their views on how the government should be run makes it easier for each of them to take pot shots at each other. This debate, however, while far from being boring, was conducted with an overall air of respect for on** another. There were a few digs here and there, but Reagan and Mondale appear to be saving their heavier ar tillery for the Oct. 21 confrontation. Who won the first debate? Had this question been asked a week earlier, most people probably would have guessed Reagan. After all, he was about to enter the debate with an 18-point lead, 55 percent to 37 percent, over Mondale, according to the latest Washington Post—ABC News poll. Just as Reagan appeared so confident against former President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 debate, so again might one expect him to appear in this confronta tion. But, surprisingly enough, this was not to be the case. When Reagan step ped up to his podium, he looked ready, --------------------------------------------------------------- \ THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, aims to be a fair and impartial journalistic medium covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opinions expressed in THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of the College administration, facul ty, Associated Student Government or other members of THE PRINT. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045. ---------------- _-- J willing and able, and he displayed his classic everything-is-right-with-the- world grin. But as the debate wore on, President Reagan found himself on the defensive quite often and his responses were punctuated with noticeable pauses in speech. These pauses served to fluster the president even more, and his answers were filled with a barrage of facts and figures, so much that it sometimes became to difficult to understand just what he was trying to get across. Mondale, however, carried himself much better in the debate. At first glance, he looked a little pale, and one could easily see the pockets of fatigue under his eyes. But his mannner was calm and cool, and his answers were delivered with a clear, direct, to-the- point approach. He remained this way, literally unruffled, throughout the entire debate, and his appearance improved considerably as he warmed to the con frontation’. While he needs to work on being charismatic (so what else is new?), he was also not the boring speaker heretofore found on the cam paign trail. Fighting Fritz presented himself as an intelligent debator, on top of the facts and was said to have “knocked him (Reagan) off his script,” by Mon dale aides. Both Reagan and Mondale received support for their replies through ap plause from the audience, although it appears Mondale received a tad bit more than did the president. Both debaters, though, were reluctant to let each other get the last word in on par ticular issues (two examples were social security and the economic situation of farmers), and moderator Barbara Walters had to ask each to stop using valuable time rehashing subjects. In reviewing the first debate, Mon dale clearly dominated the event, but he did not outshine Reagan, either. So what are Mondale’s chances of closing the 18-point gap between him and Reagan? Critics have said Mondale would have to be spectacular in the debates in order to have a fighting change for the presidency. Well, he was close enough to being spectacular that he may be within striking distance of winning votes from those who swore they would vote Reagan, since their Democratic presidential nominee favorite, Colorado Senator Gary Hart, wasn’t nominated instead. As for those who support Reagan, their views will undoubtedly remain unchanged. But don’t forget, there’s still one debate left between Reagan and Mon dale, not to mention the upcoming debate between Vice President George Bush and Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro. The second Reagan/Mondale debate will concern national defense and foreign policy, two issues which will make it easy for Mondale to criticize Reagan. If Mondale does as well as he did in the first debate, then there’s a good chance this year’s election won’t be the Reagan landslide victory everyone thinks it will be. In any case, Mondale is once again off to a good start.