Ford attacks Carter on proposed defense cuts
By ROBERT BENJAMIN United Press International President Ford. telling a Jewish group that Jimmy Carter seems to have “kicked off our debates," Thursday charged Carter's de- fense cuts would stop America from defending Israel and other allies. Carter, responding to Ford's charge he lacked “compassion" about FBI Director Clarence Kel- ley. said Ford was using the fatal illness of Kelley's wife “to cloud the issure.” He noted Kelley apparently “has found a new loved one" and plans to remarry. As the Republican President and the Democratic presidential cand-
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idate clambered over each other's charges. the Harris Survey show- ed Carter leading Ford, 53 to 39. in a two-man race including independent Eugene McCarthy, who got 6 per cent. Carter had a 66-27 lead after the Democratic National Conventionl
McCarthy, a liberal, poses a threat to Carter's lead over Ford. The most liberal of the major-par- ty top four candidates is Sen. Walter Mondale, Carter's vice presidential running mate. who said Thursday Ford should “get off the sidelines and provide leadership.’ ’ '
Ford appeared Thursday before the B'nai B’rith national conven-
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tion in Washington. which Carter addressed Wednesday. Ford said he planned a “nonpartisan speech" but “when I saw the morning newspapers. I was dis- appointed to see that one of your speakers yesterday kicked off our debates."
“Now it's my turn at bat." Ford said. hitting Carter's call for less defense spending. withdrawal of U.S. forces from overseas and limits on arms sales: ‘‘If we did any of these. it would be impos- sible to defend our allies. includ- ing Israel."
Carter told the group Ford's administration was “cynical and dangerous" in selling arms to Israel and Arab nations. Ford responded: “Does he really regard the foreign policy of the United States as more cynical and less moral than that of the Soviet Union?"
In Columbus. Ohio. Carter ac- cused Ford of “a deliberate attempt" to cloud Kelley's case. The President had charged Carter with a lack of “compassion" in saying he would fire the FBI director for accepting gifts and allowing bureau workmen to build furnishings for him-
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The Nation in Brief Susan Ford on her own
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Susan Ford ‘moved out of the White House and is now living with three college classmates in a townhouse in suburban Alexandria. Va.. it was learned today.
Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld. press secretary to Betty Ford, said Susan. 19. moved into the townhouse last week-a few days after she came back from a family holiday in Vail. Colo.
Weildenfeld said Susan made the move with the approval of the President and Mrs. Ford. ‘She has been talking about it for some time.‘ she said. ‘It's what she wanted to do.-'
Weidenfeld said she expected Secret Service agents
protecting Susan to set up headquarters in the basement of the townhouse.
Lockheed gets federal loan
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Lockheed Aircraft Corp. won continuation of $160 million in federal loan guarentees Thursday under a
pledge not to engage in bribes and kickbacks of the sort that have had strong repercussions at home and abroad.
Announcement of the agreement was made by Treasury Secretary William E. Simon. chairman of the U.S. Emergency Loan Board which extracted from Lockheed the promise to refrain from illegal or improper payments to promote sales of its aircraft.
After a pitched legislative battle. Congress in 1970 passed a law authorizing the federal government to guarantee loans to financially ailing corporations. Lockheed. a major defense contractor which was in that condition at the time. is the only firm to apply for such backing thus far.
White gang attacks blacks
NEW YORK (UPl)—Washington Square. storied heart of Greenwich Village where nannies once took the air with the children of the rich. Thursday saw its fading reputation further tarnished by a gang of white toughs who set upon a group of black strollers with knives. chains and clubs.
Police said they could not come up with a motive for the apparently well-organized attack. No one was arrested.
Twelve blacks were wounded in the melee Wednesday. Four of them were hospitalized. one man in critical condition with a fractured skull and another facing the possible loss of vision in one eye.
Dupont heir injured in mishap
NEW LONDON (UPI)-Henry B. DuPont Ill. 44. an heir to vast chemical millions. was in critical condition Thursday after falling from the wing of his plane as it careencd out of control across a small airstrip.
Police said Dupont was climbing from the plane Wednesday when his father-in-law. Daniel Wheeler .lr.. apparently brushed the controls accidently. causing the craft to accelerate cra/.ily down the air strip at Block Island. R.l.. with DuPont clinging to the wing.
Bedroom bugging upsets Gov. Wallace
MONTGOMERY. Ala. (UPl)—- Cornelia Wallace wouldn't talk Thursday about Gov. George Wallace's disclosure that she'd
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The Wallaces arranged to make their first public appearance to- gether—since the phone bugging came to light—at a reception in the governor's mansion Thursday afternoon in honor of Jimmy Carter's wife. Rosalynn.
Wallace told a hastily-called news conference Wednesday night that the bugging was a “purely domestic matter" be- tween him and his 37-year-old wife.
vernor said.
Wallace. who says he is think- ing about running for U.S. sen- ator in 1978. said “there were no politics involved at all" in the action of his wife. who is thinking about running for governor the
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Mrs. Wallace did not attend the news conference Wednesday and refused to talk to reporters about either the bugging or a report she had a face-life operation at a Birmingham hospital in July.
Wallace appeared tense and tired as he conceded the tel- ephone in his" bedroom was tapped for ll months without his knowledge. He said all the tapes had been destroyed and said he would support his wife for gov- ernor if she ran. although he doubted she would do so.
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