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ah "'REPUBLIC The Arizona Republic Wednesday, June 4, 1980 Carter's aides extend peace feelers to Kennedy staffers New York Times WASHINGTON President Carter's top political aides quietly have opened preliminary discussions with officials of Sen. Edward Kennedy's campaign to close the breach within the Democratic Party and to prepare for the fall campaign. Carter said over the weekend that he intended to contact the Massachusetts Democrat himself in the next few days to see if they could reach an accommodation on the party platform and other issues. Kennedy has said he would welcome such a discussion, although he has continued to call for a debate on the issues. Meanwhile, Robert Strauss, the chairman of the Carter-Mondale campaign, has been in touch with Paul Kirk, the political director of the Kennedy campaign, as has Richard Moe, Vice President Walter Mondale's chief of staff.

The discussions so far have been tentative and informal, but the Carter officials hope they have laid the groundwork for eventual accommodation. Jam 68 Flug, a spokesman for the Kennedy campaign, confirmed the contacts but said they were "meaningless" at this point. "The Carter people are talking as though this contest is over, but we don't see it that way," Flug said. "We expect this thing to go down to the wire at the convention in August." At the Democratic National Committee, Chairman John White said Tuesday that Kennedy would be invited to address the first national hearings of the party-platform committee in Washington next week. The senator has said publicly he wants the opportunity to present his views on the economy and other issues directly to the platform committee.

In addition, several Kennedy supporters are expected to be included on the platform-drafting committee, whose chairman will be Coleman Young, the Detroit mayor who has been a strong Carter backer from the outset of the campaign. The composition of this 15-member committee is expected to be an nounced before June 12, when the full president upset Kennedy, the chairman called Dudley Dudley, the principal organizer of the Kennedy effort there. "They've been very receptive to my calls," he said. "There hasn't been the kind of bitterness within the party we had after the 1968 and 1972 campaigns." White also said he had been in touch with Democratic leaders in Illinois but had not spoken to Mayor Jane Byrne, an early and controversial Kennedy supporter. Strauss, who is campaigning in California, met Monday night with Gov.

Edmund Brown who abandoned his own race for the nomination after the Wisconsin primary. platform committee meets in Washington. "The reconciliation process is going on," White said. "There's nothing specific yet, but the mood is better than you might expect." White, whom Kennedy supporters have attacked as an overt Carter advocate in his party role, has been busy mending fences since the Iowa caucuses in January. After each primary or caucus, White said, he has made it a point to telephone the Kennedy supporters to congratulate them on the campaign they have run and begin discussions on party unity.

After the New Hampshire primary, for example, where the Economic problems cost Carter votes; defections forecast il AP one-quarter of those in New Jersey said the same. In New Jersey and Ohio, as in New York and Pennsylvania earlier this spring, close to half of the voters said their personal economic situation is worse now than a year ago. But in California, less hit by industrial layoffs than the other two states, only a third of the voters said they feel less well off than last year. In all three states, the poll showed Kennedy leading Carter by a 3-2 ratio among those who said their economic situation had worsened. The Massachusetts Democrat, who has accused President Carter of adopting the Republican strategy of inducing recession to cool inflation, also scored majorities among the growing number of Democrats who said jobs and unemployment are their primary concerns.

But the Times-CBS polls showed in all three states this is a minority. A majority still views inflation as a higher priority than unemployment and, among that group, Kennedy's margin over Carter was modest. Even though the polls showed that the economy had become the overriding issue, the three major primaries developed into close contests because the president was able to capitalize more effectively on the smaller base of voters whose principal concerns were the issues that favored him a balanced budget, energy, and the crisis in Iran. In terms of personal qualities, Tuesday's primaries followed previous patterns, with Carter scoring well on honesty, integrity, electibility and judgment under pressure, whereas Kennedy was seen as a strong leader, as the one who cares more about people's problems and who is is more consistent on issues. Although Tuesday's primaries assured the president of more than the majority of delegates needed for nomination, there were some ominous signs for him, especially if the nation's economic situation continues to worsen.

In 1976, by comparison, Carter seemed assured at this stage of the political year of retaining the loyalty of most Democrats in spite of his challenge as an "outsider" to the party establishment. Times-CBS polls in Ohio and California that year showed that seven out of eight Democratic voters intended to stick with Carter in the fall. New York Times Foreign policy, energy and a balanced budget were the issues that helped carry President Carter to his nominating majority on the final day of the primary marathon. But the nation's sharpening economic downturn cost him broad support Tuesday, pointing to potentially widespread defections among Democrats this fall. New York Times-CBS News polls in Ohio, New Jersey and California showed that, in these final showdowns with the president, Sen.

Edward Kennedy effectively exploited widespread economic dissatisfaction with the president. And more than two-thirds of the Kennedy supporters in each of those states said they now intend to vote for Rep. John Anderson, the independent candidate, or for Ronald Reagan, the expected Republican nominee, in the fall. Ten percent to 20 percent of Carter's own supporters also said they will defect in the general election, although this may reflect a high tide of alienation from the president before the general-election campaign arouses traditional partisan feelings. The polls, taken among voters who just had cast their ballots, disclosed broad signs of voter disaffection at the end of the grueling primary season, which led the candidates through 35 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

Republicans and independents interviewed Tuesday were more disenchanted with the primary process than Demo-crate, with majorities of them asserting that the votes Tuesday made no difference because Reagan's nomination already had been assured. But the polls showed that Kennedy's final intensive campaigning had stirred interest among Democrats and, as expected, had won him the major share of votes from those who made up their minds in the last week. It also revealed that many Democratic voters had cast an "anti" vote against the other candidate rather than for their own man. In all three states, for example, by far the most frequently cited personal characteristic that voters said had led to their choice was that their candidate was "the lesser of evils." Nearly half of the California voters said this was their principal motive. One-third of the Ohio voters and Surrounded by campaign signs in Cleveland, Sen.

Edward Kennedy improvises a speech Victory Continued from Al to about 3,000 Democrats before leaving for other campaign stops. Tuesday's primary campaign." The challenger said the voters had decided "that what counts is not the quantity of delegates but the quality of their lives." Kennedy said he will describe later his strategy to undo Carter's majority. Among them, the eight states were apportioning 696 Democratic nominating votes in proportion to the popular vote, and even where he was losing, Carter was adding to his delegate count. He led for more than 180 delegates, which put him more than 90 nominating votes past the 1,666 majority level. Kennedy was ahead for about 200 delegates.

The precise count awaited final returns. The president told cheering supporters in the courtyard of a bar called "The Buck Stops Here" that he had won the nomination and now will "reach out the hand of friendship" to Kennedy. "I'm now dedicated to bringing our Democratic Party back together," he said. "I intend to be very active as a campaigner in the fall," Carter said. He said he expects to meet Reagan in "head-to-head debate." The early results: Ohio: With 42 percent of the precincts reporting, Carter had 52 percent of the vote to Kennedy's 43 percent.

That put Carter in the lead for 87 delegates, Kennedy for 74. NBC, ABC and CBS television networks all projected a Carter victory in Ohio. New Jersey: With 59 percent tallied, Kennedy was gaining 55 percent of the vote to 37 percent for Carter. That put Kennedy ahead for 67 delegates, Carter for 46. West Virginia: Twenty-five percent of the precincts counted made it 61 percent and 18 delegates for Carter, 39 percent and 15 delegates for Kennedy.

elections could be the last hurrah in Kennedy's campaign for the presidency. South Dakota: With 81 percent counted, Kennedy had 48 percent of the vote for 10 delegates. Carter had 45 percent for nine delegates. New Mexico: With 53 percent counted, Carter had 46 percent and 11 delegates to 42 percent and 9 delegates for Kennedy. Rhode Island: With all the vote counted, Kennedy had 68 percent of the vote and 17 delegates to 26 percent and 6 delegates for Carter.

Montana: With 3 percent in, Carter had 50 percent for 10 delegates to 41 percent and 9 delegates for Kennedy. Carter needed only 82 delegates to push his commitment list past the 1,666 that will make a nominating majority at the Democratic National Convention. The Associated Press-NBC News poll indicated Kennedy had a slim edge in a relatively close contest in California. The survey was based on interviews with voters leaving their polling places. Even as his strategists conceded Carter would emerge from the primary finale with the support of more delegates than he needs to win the nomination, Kennedy campaigned from Los Angeles to Newark, N.Y., saying he still hopes to top the Democratic ticket.

JThe president made his one and only campaign trip to Ohio, the state that cemented his 1976 nomination. Tuesday's contests: California for 306 delegates, Ohio for 161, New Jersey for 113, West Virginia for 35, Rhode Island for 23, New Mexico for 20, Montana and South Dakota for 19 each. Delegates were apportioned in line with the vote, a proportional system assuring the loser a share of the nominating votes. formidable candidates who ran tremendous campaigns on their own," Carter said. "To reach out the hand of friendship to them and their supporters, to share the values and the commitments and to share the future of the Democratic Party and what it stands for." Carter said he had not yet spoken to Kennedy, but when he does, "I'll tell him he ran a good campaign." Carter, smiling constantly, declined comment on Kennedy campaign tactics, including a charge Carter is a clone of Ronald Reagan.

"No, that was during the campaign," he said. "That's over now." Carter stood on a brown-carpeted podium surrounded by a moat in Liberty Plaza, a park near the White House. After talking to cheering supporters, he turned and kissed Rosalynn Carter. "I have one deep feeling in my heart, and that is thanksgiving to ail of you who turned what eight months ago was a prediction of absolute defeat into a wondrous victory tonight," he said. "Many of you have campaigned for me while I had! to remain at the White House," Carter said, noting the mostly surrogate campaign he staged that frustrated Kennedy.

"I've had two secret weapons. One of them is you out there who worked so hard and the other one is my wife who is not a secret weapon any more." Although Carter was talking of a drive for party unity and vowing an intensive, active campaign against Republican Ronald Reagan, Kennedy was declaring, "I am committed to continue this W. Virginians vote by candlelight Jefferson's name finds new home WASHINGTON (AP) Congress, which in 1976 named an annex of the Library of Congress after Thomas Jefferson, reconsidered Tuesday and voted instead to name the library's main building after him. The promotion of the nation's third president was "in recognition of his status as father of the library," said Rep. Lucien N.

Nedzi, a sponsor of the bill. Previously, the building had not borne any individual name. The former "Jefferson Annex," immediately behind the main building becomes the John Adams Building under the legislation approved by voice vote in the House and sent to President Carter. A new, second annex recently opened in the same vicinity remains the James Madison Building. Associated Press KINGWOOD, W.Va.

Voters ir Preston County cast ballots by candlelight and kerosene lamp Tuesday after a tornado knocked out power lines and plunged voting booths into darkness. "Some people were trying to move voting booths over to the window so people could see who they were voting for," said County Clerk Nancy Reckart. She said election workers and local residents kept the voting going with candles and oil lamps after the tornado swept through the rural county, knocking down lines and blacking out most polling stations. "They're doing the best they can with kerosene lamps, flash lights and candles," she said. "Right now, it probably couldn't get much worse." High winds and extensive storm damage also prevented many people from getting to the polls, election workers said.

Voting stopped at several places after the tornado toppled live power lines in front of polling stations, Mrs. Rechart said. Gay Childs, an election worker in charge of a remote rural polling station, said roads to the station had been blocked by felled trees, but residents and crews from coal companies had worked to clear paths for voters. "We didn't think too many people would be able to get through. But everyone turned out to clear the roads so people could get through," she said.

Of the precinct's 118 registered voters, 89 voted, Mrs. Childs said. A neighbor rushed a portable generator over to Mrs. Childs' station when the lights went out and power was restored quickly, she said. In Camden, N.J., meanwhile, an early evening hailstorm blacked out the county courthouse, knocking out a computer that was to have been used to tabulate primary-election results.

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