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THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1980 Reagan labels Carter concedes war issue is hurting By WALTER R. MEARS The Associated Press SFREVEPORT, La. Ronald Reagan called President Carter an incompetent yesterday and accused him of "reprehensible and unthinkable" tactics for suggesting that a Republican election victory might mean war. But Reagan acknowledged that the war issue Carter has raised against him is hurting the GOP nominee's campaign for the White House. "I think there's no question it's been effective in creating a stereotype of me," Reagan said in an interview with Cable News Network.

"It is a stereotype. I don't think anyone in this country is more in favor of peace than I am." Later, the Republican nominee told reporters: "I think it is apparent that his (Carter's) whole campaign effort has been one of personal attacks trying to make the issue of this campaign me rather than his record of failures. "I'm going to talk about his record of failures. But to suggest that anyone wants to start a war, I think, is reprehensible and unthinkable." In Columbus, Reagan gained the endorsement of Charles Evers, the black mayor of Fayette and brother of slain civil-rights leader Medgar Evers. "I just feel that he's the best man for president of the United States, and I'm going to support him with everything I have," said Evers, who added that he never has supported Carter.

Evers backed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Evers ran for the Senate as an independent in a three-way race two years ago. Evers said he came to the airport to see Reagan because "I wanted to ask him point-blank, 'Is he as bad as people say he He said, The mayor said he thought Reagan would be fair to all Americans and would give black people a chance to earn a living instead of accepting welfare.

"I guess you all know how proud I am to have the support of Charles Evers," Reagan said. At Centenary College, Reagan criticized Carter's economic policies and said, "The man who is asking four more years is incompetent to do the job." The Reagan rally drew a crowd of about 3,700 people, with perhaps another 1 ,000 outside the hall, unable to get in. "We have to have a change," Reagan said. "We have to have an end to incompetence." Reagan also renewed his attack on the U.S. Department of Education, saying it seeks to take over American education.

"If the day ever comes that government succeeds in getting all of education into the tax-supported public sector, that will be the day that academic freedom ends in the United States," he said. As he began a day of campaigning in Louisiana and Mississippi, Reagan said he is dropping any further discussion of the American hostages in Iran, a subject he addressed repeatedly on Tuesday. Reagan blamed administration policies for the plight of the hostages held captive since last Nov. 4. "I am not going to comment on this any more, because it is so obvious how they (the Democrats) tried to make a political issue of this," Reagan said.

"With 52 human beings at stake, I'm not going to discuss it. I'm not going to touch on it at all. I'm going to keep on talking about his record, which I think is the issue of this campaign." Looking toward next Tuesday's tele vised, 90-minute debate with Carter in Cleveland, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, Reagan said the event could be crucial to the outcome of the Nov. 4 election. He said the debate would help make up the minds of many undecided voters, calling them "a smoking gun" in the 1980 election campaign.

Reagan said he still is an underdog to Carter in the final two weeks of the campaign, even though his own polls give him an electoral-vote lead. Reagan said his own polls show that he still leads Carter in prospective electoral votes, but he said there are enough undecided voters in all the key states to tip the Nov. 4 outcome either way. PAGE EIGHT SECTION A Iran nearer decision on terms to free hostages Carter mocks Reagan 'secret plan' (Continued from Page One) American officials said Iran had been in tion Day in this country, which by coincidence is the anniversary' of the hostage seizure. He replied that the Majlis' decision "has nothing to do with Nov.

4 or the American elections. "It depends when the Majlis (parliament) will make a decision and its vote," he said. Rajai also affirmed Iran's unwillingness to negotiate with the United States on an exchange of hostages for spare parts. Khameini, of the parliamentary commission, told Reuters that "probably in the Majlis session on Sunday the issue of the hostages will be discussed, and the terms for their release drawn up by the commission will be announced in a public session. "They could be released even the day after the conditions have been announced by the Majlis.

If they (the United States) accept the conditions and put them into actions, they could be released as early as Monday." formed through the Swiss Embassy that the United States was ready to work out an arrangement covering claims and assets, and to lift the trade embargo on Iran. The United States also is willing to issue a non-intervention pledge, they said. As to the most difficult issue, the return of the shah's "wealth," American officials said the Iranians were told that the United States did not know where the shah's assets were kept and had no legal way of giving them to Iran. But the United States government is considering ways of helping the Iranians, through private lawyers in this country, to locate the holdings and to seek through the courts to retrieve it if they can prove that it rightfully belongs to the Iranian government, officials said. Rajai was asked at this press conference if the hostages would be released before Nov.

4, Elec States to "repent" its past role in Iran. Other hard-liners had said the United States had to issue a formal "apology," something President Carter has ruled out. Last weekend in New York, Rajai seemed to be demanding the return of four American AWACS radar planes sent to Saudi Arabia during the current Iran-Iraq conflict and an end to U.S. support for Jordan and other Arab st.ites backing Iraq. But since his return to Tehran, Rajai has appeared to drop the radar-plane demand as a formal condition.

Khomeini, in his statement last month, said the hostages would be "set free" upon "the return of the deposed shah's wealth," the "cancellation of United States claims against I ran," a guarantee of no United States military and political interventions in Iran" and the "freeing of all our investments." over former President Gerald R. Ford, but has been trailing Reagan in recent polls. Nonetheless, the president's political advisers believe the state can be won. They have tentatively scheduled him for another visit here before Nov. 4 Carter's fourth since the Democratic convention.

The next Texas visit will be wedged into a schedule of almost continuous campaigning between now and the election. After a rest in Washington today, Carter is to set out tomorrow for a two-day trip to Ohio, New Jersey and Michigan. On Monday, he will fly to Cleveland to begin preparations for the scheduled presidential debate with Reagan Tuesday night. After that, Carter will make a final campaign swing around the country that may include a visit to the West Coast. He is expected to conduce his campaigning in his home-town of Plains, on the night of Nov.

3. After voting in Plains the next morning, he is scheduled to return to Washington to receive the election results in the White House. Judging from his expression, the highlight of the president's Texas campaign swing came yesterday morning in Beaumont, Texas, where Rep. Jack Brooks presented him with a pair of red, hand-tooled cowboy boots with the advice that "these are walking boots, and I want you to use them to stomp the Republicans." Arriving in Waco a few hours later, Carter proudly held up one leg to display his new boots to the audience. "I grew up on a farm, and I know you need hightop boots for things besides stomping Republicans," Carter said.

"As you well know, Republicans have a habit of spreading a lot of horse manure around right before an election. And lately, as ycu also know, it's getting pretty deep all over this country." (Continued from Page One) plan secret," the president launched into a litany of other "secret plans" he said Reagan has. "He's got a secret plan for providing for the well-being of retired Americans by calling four times to make Social Security voluntary," he said to more laughter and applause. "He has a secret plan for providing good health care for senior citizens by being against Medicare. He has another secret plan for helping working families by being against minimum wage.

"He has already revealed one of his secret plans for curing pollution," Carter continued, pausing for effect like a stand-up comic. "He wants to cut down all the trees in the United States he said that's v. here the pollution comes from." The president also said he had noticed a recent news account that Nixon "one of the great Republican presidents, you know" had bi'en writing campaign advisory memos for Reagan. "When 1 saw where Ronald Reagan was getting his advice," Carter said sarcastically, "1 began to understand a few of the things he'd been saying." The audience and the guests on the speaking platform, who included Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady, loved the one-liners, but some of the Reagan supporters were hitter when the president finished speaking. "Carter has some nerve complaining about Reagan's mud-slinging," said Patsy Hamilton, a registered nurse from Waco who was perched on an oil barrel at the edge of the crowd, wearing a blue Reagan T-shirt.

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