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,
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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.