Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, March 13, 1984

WASHINGTON (CP).— Walter Mondale and his backers’ in the Democratic party establishment face a kind of moment of truth today — a decision by rank-and-file members in nine states on who they want to lead them in next November's presidential election.

But polls in advance of today’s so-called Super Tuesday primary elections and district caucuses gave the Mondale camp little reason for ‘optimiam.

Voters willing to state their preferences indicated’ Hari’ 5

momentum continuing to grow in three crucial states of tlie Deep South where the senator from Colorado was only * recently written off as a serious challenger.

’ Polls indicated Hart would win handily in Florida and running neck-and-neck with Mondale in Georgia. Only in . Alabama did Mondale appear to have a lock on vietory, but even there Hart's support has been growing.

The leaders concentrated their closing efforts in the three ;

states Monday, as they did last week, because each needs to demonstrate vote-getting clout in the South — hotbed of

“is whe has won four ‘of the. first tive such state com- . ‘

petitions over the last three weeks, said Monday he. is:

hoping for further gains, but “I Tefuse to project or. brediet!" .

the outcome of Super Tuesday. . - - :

‘Mondale, considered an almost unassailable front-runner’ after winning the opening contest Feb. in Towa, has been - desperately trying to slow Hart's’ momentum. : :

-Mondale, the man who set out with the official bieasiig of Democrat power, brokers, including organized labor, challenged Hart to a series of debates before the next major “nominating primary Match 20 in Tinois and all subsequent ; major state contests running intoJune. . . - oh

The challenge, planted ‘the idea: with, the. public: ‘that:

Mondale expects to remain in, the rimning. after today: It.”

also smacked of a desperation attempt to cut down a Hart’: lead widened by opinion polls in the last few ‘days. |

Hart and Mondale both changed earller plans and added.

appearances in Georgia, Alabama and Florida on a the eve of ; conservative philosophy so favorable to President Reagan. party voting in those three states. * oo. a

ge Senator John Glen: of Ohio, woolng : ‘white conservative Democrats, and black preacher-politician Jease Jackson, courting black liberal Democrats, also campaigned in the South following a televised all-candidates debate in Atlanta on Sunday in which Hart fought off attacks from his rivals.-

- Former : senator ‘George McGovern ‘of South Dakota

~ campaigned in Massachusetts, the only slate that voted for.

him In his falled run for the presidency against Richard -

Nixon in 1972,

But recent polls showed Hart well ahead in that state, A

" poll by Harrison and Goldberg Inc, for the Boston Globe on

Monday showed Hart with a “42-27. per. cent lead over: Mondale. Glenn had nine per cent; while ‘“MeGovern,, who has indicated he will quit the race If he’ fails to win in. Massachusetts; trailed with only six: per ‘cent. ‘Jackson: was

Usted at four per cent “and: elght, percent ware, undecided.

“The contests in, Massachusetts and: ‘the: three’ southern .

states, as well.as those in Hawali,.Nevada, Oklahoma, |

_ Hhode Island and Washington aie, will Heleet delegates to,

Artillery exchange. shake Beirut overnight —

BEIRUT (CP} — Hours of

artillery exchanges shook .

Beirut overnight and radio stations reported scores of casualties as Lebanese leaders tried to arrange a ceasefire at reconcillation talks in Switzerland:

There were no reliable casualty figures.

Police said 23 people, including 12 children, were

killed and 107 others injured .

by the latest shelling. But security sources said 26 people were killed, in- cluding 14 children, . and

about 40 people .were in-

‘Rebel

Election officials says leftist rebel activity will

make voting impossible in -

about 20 towns when El Salvador chooses a president March 25.

The Central Election Council did not elaborate on ils statement Monday, but officials said previously they would try to set up polling places for guerrilla- held towns to give residents an opportunity to vote.

Thus far, the rebels have nat-mounted a pre-election offensive, and El Salvador is much quieter than it was two - weeks before con- stituent assembly elections in March 1982.

Election officials reported

Monday that more than 2.5.

million Salvadorans are

‘boycotting: the Saying thelr candidates

jured.

A Moslem radio station: spoke of up to 20 dead. Another Moslem station, the Druse Voice of the Moun- taln, said 40 people had been. wounded in Moslem areas. The Christian Volce-: of Lebanon said at least seven had been wounded in Christian districts. :

Rival Christian | ‘and Moslem militias accused each other of starting -the Shelling, which forced thousands of families to sleep _ in basements and

activity:

registered to vote and thata

90-per-cent | predicted. °

They said it will take about three days to declare a winner because results will be hand-delivered from

6,806 polling places.

turnout ig

Rebels fighting the U.S...

. bomb shelters, :

Artillery and rocket fire .

began. ‘smashing into residential districts in Moslem western Beirut and Christian eastern’ Beirut in - the early. evening as President Amin Gemayel opened the reconciliatlon talks in Lausanne with a call for an end to “the onal of blood and tears. ‘

midnight Monday night but

picked up again at dawn .

today.’

makes

Ever Hernandez, a judge and party secretary general

in Oratorio de Concepcion, -

32 kilometres northeast of” San Salvador.

Roberto . ‘d’Aubuisson,

. candidate of the far-right Republican - Alliance,

and’ Christian ©

backed’ government . are - Democrat. Jose Napoleon

would be easy targets for right-wing. death squads.

The four-year civil war. ,has: .killed’an “esliniated 51,000 Salvadorans. ARREST OFFICIALS

The Christian Democratic party said in a statement Monday. one of its local’ officials: was arrested and taken away by military | helicopter Saturday night. Tt identified him as Jose

election, :,

. Duarte, the most liberal "candidate, are considered frontrunners in the race.

In San Esteban, “kilometres | “east of san j * Salvador, residents - - paid

guerrillas seeking recruiis *:

marched off: dozens. of young’ townsien last’ week toward the San Pedra hills,

a longtime rebel stronghold ‘ “and the: ‘Honduran army-ia”-*

about 13 kilometres to the ..<

northeast.’

The archbishop at. ‘san

Team investigates. charges

MANANA, Bahraln (Reuter) — A team of ex- perts appointed “by the United Nations arrived in Tehran today to investigate charges that Iraq has been using chemical weapons in its war with Iran, the

Iranian news agency IRNA _

reported,

-Tt said the six-member team will see Iranian vic- tims of chemical attacks and visit areas where Iran says chemical have been used,

IRNA gave no details of ' but UN,

the delegation, sources said last week it “probably chemical weapons experts from Nordic countries. |

Iran says about 1,700 of its

frontline soldiers have fallen victim to ITraqi chemical weapons since the Persian Gulf war began in September 1980.

In other developments, an Arab League source in Tunis said 15 League members were expected to send representatives to a meeting In Baghdad today to discuss the war.

A spokesman for Iran's Supreme Defence Council, quoted by IRNAon Monday, sald Baghdad Radio's Persian service had urged Irantan civilians on Feb. 6

and Feb. 7 to leave their —

homes to avold “serious danger,”’ apparently ‘irom chemical weapons.

ISSUED WARNING IRNA, monitored in London, sald Baghdad radio

had warned ‘‘restdents of all .

targeted (Iranian) citles”.

testines, and sterility, aa well as tens of other ef- . fects."

IRNA . said Iraq used chemical weapons Monday - in an attempt to reapture Majnoon island in southern Iraq.

Traqg has denied ‘using chemical weapons.

IRNA said ‘“‘it appears that the time is.very.close”; for Iraq to wse chemical *

‘bombs against civilians, = weapons _

Tehran radio reported that another..-11 | Iranian soldiera it said’ ‘were suf- fering from ‘the effects of

chemical attacks-had been

flown to Europe for treat- ment. Six of the 15 soldiers flown to Austria and Sweden for treatment 11 days ‘ago. haye died. ,

An Iraqi military -‘com- ‘mand . ‘statement

Tranlans. had been killed - during the previous 48 hours “in fighting‘ east of the | Southern Iraqi. “port of ‘Basra, |" :

iin eenevat the ss-country

‘UN Human Rights - Com- mission passed-a resolution urging Iran to stop using children’ as soldiers in the war.

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BOTH. SECTORS HT, ns protested : we angrily that: he: ‘gould’ not

Police said the ‘ghetlng. . tapered off shortly after .

Nationalist ~~

" country," The ‘Staged: Saturday. through * * Monday, aveurred near thé. -Somotillo “in. Chinanidega ‘province. No.”

~ said . "Monday ‘more’ than. 1,000.

In Lausanne, a “radio

microphone .. inadvertently .

left. on by. ‘participants

‘picked up a furious. ex-

‘change between Christian ex-president .. - Camille Chamoun and . Moslem

‘former premier Rashi

Karami about the shelling.

Charnown..

discuss national _recen- cillation . when ‘Christian sectors of Beirut were being shelled. He was interripted by Karami, who reminded

voting difficult |

Salvador, Msgr. “Arturo Rivera y Damas, who was born in the’ hilltop village, went to San Esteban on Sunday to celebrate a mass

‘for the missing ‘men and

their families, . Rey.. Rene Valles, the town’s Roman Catholic

- priest, sald the guerrillas

told the people the March 25. election was a farce; and

aeet Founded up about 60 _ young ‘wen, ‘He-said about. {wo doen of the. men ;;

escaped, REBELS: ATTACK’

wn Nicaragua, the Foreign

_ Ministry: protested: ‘Monday five. attacks ‘it ; anid. were.’

carried out by rebel fighteys.:° the’ “western: part. of the

town’ of.

reports of casualties or damage were available,

The ministry said rebels blew up an electricity tower . Monday near Somotiilo, but that the tower provides

electricity to , Honduras,’ “¢

where it . says: ‘the’ naregyan _Tebels’ are

him that. Moslem. districts . committees should meet in

‘reluctant . to... announe

"+ of assaulting’ residents sof =

Managua.

. Benedicto” Lucas.‘ ‘Garcia, . ; who ‘headed’! the: _atined - — ’ ‘s Py all Commercial - 7 6Steam Cleaning

“because. f.08 5 un ‘ . professlondfizn ind. Tow... a 0 . “morale, He suggested-the “fi 6 country. should return to |

attacks, .

for the army. denied there is -a-erisis- in the Tailitary ‘government and suggested _

; broadcasts, .

radio that - the epriference

were also being shelled... hae agreed on ‘a ceasefire to . Official sources said the ‘effect « # throughout : nine leaders at the con- Letenai oe

’ Repeated ‘attempts ‘to arrange 4 ceasefire before; the ‘reconciliation _ talks” began failed, The’-govern- ment had hoped a truce

ference -had: agreed "that |

Lausanne and Beirut to work an ‘a ceasefire .and disengagement of forces.

They said delegates were |

time for'a ceasefire | ‘Lebanon: " committee” of military representatives had been able to meet in Beirut... They could not confirm a report by Lebanese state

In Israeli-oceupled southern Lebanon, two _ Israel : soldiers . were wounded by light arms fire Monday. night in the Palestinian refugee camp of

Ein Hilwd near Sidon, the |

Israeli military. command said today,

It “accused "Honduran soldiers of acting in concert with rebels in- weekend attacks: in firing on Nicaraguan military: in- stallations. ;

Honduras has Nicaragua’s charges. that Honduran _ soldi are’ taking part in rebel attacks.

Barricada, the oificial newspaper of Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinistas, reported -. that, -13° people — civilians

dnd ae, je tor kiling arrested at Ein Hilwe, the

‘ “home of 20,000 Palestinians.

“hospital. . A. Reuter “news agency |

denied entrances to Ein Hilwe at.

more than 25 people. - The French news agency, Agence

quoted its. correspondents

the. :Pantasma “ area ‘in: ‘Jihotega provirice about 160 « kilometres = north, of

la ‘Guatemala City, « Gen. forces . 1970-82, - said

Guatemala’ 8. military is *.. suffering a gertogs crisis” ;

clvilian-rule. A. spokesman

“Dave Brown ;

that Lucas Garcia obtained - 24HOUR:

yy the » Deniscratic party iene convention July 16-19 in ’ San Francisco.

- -eventual selection of 613 voting convention delegates, moat

candidate-in the complex. nominatiig process, At stake, “White House, against Reagan.

Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Misslssippt and South

“former astronaut: galned. sonie regional: political “en.

..” in the past.’ . potential totat in Georgia and Alabama. But | some: regional

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would. create a leas crisig- . “Maden. atmosphere in which | e -to--debate the future , Of effect: before ‘the “security” - 7 ms

_. The command said troops: “ei returned fire’ and combed . the Brea while the wounded soldiers were. ‘evacuated, to .

reporter in. Sidon - sald . Israeli. troops closed all :

dawn and conducted house- - to-house searches, arresting -[-

France-Presse, -

- The Super Tuesday contests involve the immediate or of-whom will be .commitied in advance to a presidential

therefore, are almost orle-third: ‘of the majority 1,967. § delegate votes:required by the man 3 who’ will Fun for the 4

: Similar ‘contests are slated in. Delaware’ and. North Dakota on Wednesday, in ‘Alaska’ on ‘Thursday; and: in

Carolina on Salurday. Glenn, 62, was reported gathering, support in: the Sd after a strong’ performance in the debate. Sunt 3 The

dorsements, but the latest polls Monday atil showed hum ry poor third In all ‘three southen states. :

‘Jackson, 42, seemed set to peel away. ‘votes. ‘trot the leader in the South if newly registered supporters bother‘to vote at all, a weakness of auch campaigns for the black vote

The black vote makes up more than ‘onie-fth f- ite

black leaders have stood aloof or openly backed Mondale, 56, arguing theneed for a candidate whocan beat Reagan, in November... ~

Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young claimed neuttailty

Le ut the '

* a7: year-old, Hart picked up aa endorsement Monday from -

Mayor’ Richard Arrington of Birmingham. Ald, wo awitched his support from Mondale. . .

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