European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 17. 1980 Reagan says civil rights stand changed san Antonio. Texas a Ron Ald Reagan responding to new criticism by president Carter of his record said tuesday he thinks Carter is raising old issues be cause he does t want to debate the new think he s trying to hide the fact he does t want to debate Reagan told re porters in an Impromptu meeting while campaigning in san Antonio. Reagan was asked about a Carter Allega Tion that the Republican presidential Nomi Nee had opposed the civil rights act of 1964.Reagan did t deny he had opposed the legislation at the time but said Bac there a great Many people questioned the same thing not the fact that there was a need for civil rights bul that provisions might be setting precedents for infringing individual but Reagan said that in retrospect he thinks it was Good legislation. It has worked and like Many of those other people i m satisfied with it and if anything i d like to it belter he told reporters. Reagan seemed annoyed at having to re Spond to Carter charges about his past positions. The former California governor had hoped to focus attention on his Campaign for support in Texas a crucial Carter Rea Gan Battleground with 26 electoral votes at stake and especially from the state s Large hispanic population. Reagan addressing a mexican Independence Day rally attended by about 800 per sons and the Fence that separates parts of the . And Mexico to keep out illegal aliens. He said he favored issuing documents to people entering the country answer to the problem is that you document these workers. You Don t build a nine foot Fence along the Border Between two Friendly nations he said to loud applause. Appearing on the podium with Reagan and his wife Nancy was former Dallas cow boy quarterback Roger staubach a Reagan supporter who received a noisy ovation when Reagan said he appreciated having a great quarterback behind him. Monday night on his arrival from Washington Reagan responded to a Barb from Carter about being under wraps and muzzled from talking to reporters. Rea Gan said he was just As accessible to the press and Public As Carter in fact More Reagan said monday night that has t been quite As accessible for Impromptu questions from reporters recently because he did t think it was fair to hold Spur of the moment news conferences which some reporters might miss. A Trail president blasts staffing of hatred challenger courts the mexican vote Carter uses Black pulpit in Atlanta a run in these socks Independent presidential candidate John Anderson holds up pair of running socks by Way of assuring a crowd of supporters in Portland ore., that he s still very much in the running for the White House. A photo participants in 1st debate to be asked 6 questions Washington up the league of women voters has announced that each participant in the first presidential debate sunday will be asked six questions and will be allowed time to Challenge his opponent s league announced the format for the hour Long debate which will be held in Baltimore at 10 . Sunday. Republican Ronald Reagan and Independent John Anderson will stand at podiums to be questioned by six panellists Ana a Moderator a league official said there will be an empty podium or chair for president Carter who has declined to participate insisting he must have a two Way confrontation with Reagan first. The panellists will question the candidates on three issues Domestic affairs the Economy and National defense. Each Candi Date will have a 2w-Minutc response to each question then an additional one minute 15 seconds to question or half Cage each other s answer. Each also will have a three minute closing statement. The official said this was the format suggested by the league aug. 25, and representatives of the candidates met monday to firm it up. Carter had no representative at monday s will be six panellists and each will ask one question. Neither the panellists nor the Moderator have been chosen. Abc said later its Anchorman John Chancellor will be the Moderator and it will carry the debate live. Lbs already had announced it would carry it but Abc has not yet decided. Atlanta a president Carter told Black southerners tuesday that Ron Ald Reagan has clouded their political Hori Zon by using the code words of the past and raising the stirrings of hate m the Campaign for the White House. You be got a Friend in the Oval office Carter said urging Black leaders to get oat the vote in the nov. 4 election and help him stay there. He said they would have a hard time getting a Telephone Call answered at the White House if Reagan became presi the conservative Republican Nomi Nee looming Strong in the deep South which is Carter s base the president needs a big turnout of Black supporters to hold i Home Region on election Day. With a Black choir behind him Carter took the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church to preach his political Sermon this meeting could very Well decide the outcome of this election he declared. It was the pulpit of the late Martin Luther King jr., and Carter invoked his Mem Ory in urging that Blacks exercise their hard won right to cast be seen in this Campaign the stirrings of hate and the rebirth of code words like states rights in a speech in Mississippi and a Campaign reference to the Kun flux klan relating to the South Carter said. That is a message which creates a Cloud on the political Reagan in an aug. 3 address in Phila Delphia miss., said he believed in states rights and As president would do All in his Power to reorder priorities to restore to states and local governments the Powers that properly belong to and in a Detroit rally Reagan said he was Happy to be campaigning among people who know first hand the economic problems besetting America while Carter who at tended a picnic in Tuscumbia ala., was opening his Campaign in the City that gave birth to and is the Parent body of the Kun flux Carter has t forgotten the comment saying tuesday hatred has no place in this country. Racism has no place in this speaking later to reporters travelling with the president. While House press Secretary Jody Powell said in Spartanburg s.c., that Carter is not calling Reagan n racist. He s just trying to Point out to minority groups his differences with Reagan. Those differences Are a legitimate part of the in an apparent attempt to goad Reagan into a one on one debate with the president Powell accused the Republican candidate of biding himself from used Walker when he married Young Man who died 4 years ago is a father Melrose Park 111. Up four years ago Pete Saraceno was pronounced dead. Then doctors detected a faint pulse. For four months he was in a coma his Fiancee Linda doctors warned if he did survive he would be a vegetable because brain damage was irreversible. But two years ago he walked Down the aisle to marry the woman who stood by Friday he is to bring his wife and Newborn daughter Nicole Home from the Hospital she s a Beautiful healthy baby girl. It s wonderful said Pat Xavier director of Community affairs for West Lake Hospital in Chicago s West suburban Melrose Park. Four years ago Saraceno was in an Auto Accident in the Western suburbs. Paramedics wheeled him into the Hospital and doctors pronounced him dead. But before the body was removed from the emergency room someone noticed a faint revived him then put him on life support systems. For four months Saraceno was in a coma. Linda quit her Job to be with him though doctors warned her that her Fiance was for All practical purposes dead. But she stayed with him. Lie regained consciousness. He recognized Linda. She helped him learn to talk urged him into rehabilitation. Linda s father James Frachalla told Saraceno that Linda could be his Bride when he could walk Down the aisle. On july 16, 1978, Saraceno decked out in a Tuxedo and balancing on a Walker walked Down that aisle to our lady of Pompei Church in Chicago. On sunday night. Saraceno now 26, walked Back into we slake Hospital with Linda. At i p Mill nne born we 8h n8 " Al 1 pounds 8 still Don i believe it said Linda also 26 now i have someone who really needs me
