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4A, The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Monday, November 19, 1979 Kennedy plays host Florida straw ballot to AFL-CIO leaders BUSH DARI1 MTS A CRAFTS SALES GALLERY tOO MISSION ST. SE pep rally for Carter Daily Sot Sun 1 -5 Closed Mon POTTERY BY RETA UltON I MICHAEL PRATT SPECIAL SECTION tETKANY PRATT IEKIFIT SALE MTWCXX CSXATED IT AREA ARTISTS WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, already a political favorite of many in labor's top command, played host to AFL-CIO leaders Sunday as he tried to line up additional support for his challenge to President Carter. Kennedy invited all 104 presidents of AFL-CIO unions to his Virginia home for what one union leader said was a low-key afternoon of political talk, mixed with watching televised football.

"It was sort of a social gathering," said Fred J. Kroll, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, adding there "was no big arm-pulling or arm-twisting. J' Kroll, in Washington with many other union leaders for the AFL-CIO biennial convention, said Kennedy reminded his guests he had helped labor when it has needed it. "He said he knew labor would be there to help him," said Kroll, who has not yet endorsed a candidate. There was no immediate word on how many of the 104 union presidents attended the gathering, but the Kennedy campaign used three buses to transport labor's elite from Washington to Kennedy's Virginia estate.

The reception was a further indication of the intensse political courtship of labor by both Carter and Kennedy. I SALEM ART ASSOC FOR THE HAIRDRESSER WHO SEEKS SELF EMPLOYMENT The "Other" Shop in Keizer is offering a salon station space for lease. For more information contact Gene Snook 585-8122 MILLERS INTERIOR FLAT LATEX Ready Mixed Colors RUBBER LUSTRE 9 GALLON McGILCHRIST AND GOP hopefuls blast Iran plans to try hostages AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker said Sunday that a trial of Americans held captive in Iran is "totally unacceptable" and the United States should act to stop it. Baker, one of several Republican presidential candidates here to address the GOP governors' conference, also accused the Soviet Union of inflaming the situation in Iran and said it should be "stopped instantly." FORMER TEXAS GOV. John Connally, another GOP presidential hopeful, said Sunday it was unfair for President Carter to suggest that candidates remain silent about the Iranian hostage situation while he makes "ringing speeches" and "inflammatory remarks." He criticized Carter for denouncing the Iranian students' actions before last week's AFL-CIO convention.

"The president has not been quite fair because he has asked us to remain silent while he takes that period of silence as an opportunity to go before a convention and use inflammatory language himself, which he asked us not to do." OTHER GOP HOPEFULS were slated to speak to the 17 governors at the three-day The first session was mainly given over to the Iranian situation. About 60 American have been held hostage since the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was seized two weeks ago, and militant students said Sunday that some would be put on trial for espionage. About a dozen black and female hostages were expected to be released. "It is up to the president to decide how he wishes proceed," Baker said at a news conference.

"We have a wide range of options and opportunities and I would support him in any reasonable measure that he cares to take. And I believe the country would support him." CONNALLY, SPEAKING at another news conference, said he agreed that "to see our embassy people put on trial in Tehran would be unacceptable." "I don't think there's any question about that," Connally said. 'What action could or would be taken or what option would be available beyond that I wouldn't want to spell out since I don't have the information to base an informed judgment." But he added: "I would not question if something more would have to be done than what we've already done." Saying he had conferred with Carter before making his statement, Baker said he was "not advocating any particular action, military or otherwise" but said some strong action should be taken. ONE OPTION MIGHT be closing Iran's Embassy in Washington, he said. Criticizing Soviet broadcasts into Iran that allegedly spread anti-American feeling, Baker said: "They are disturbing the purpose of trying to get these Americans out of an unlawful circumstance and environment.

And if detente and relations with the United States and the Soviet Union are ever to be improved and thrive, that sort of thing should stop and stop immediately." On presidential politics, Baker said the straw polls in which he faired badly, including one in Florida Saturday that gave him less than 1 percent of the vote, were only preliminary and the real battle would come in the early caucuses; r' Continued from Page 1A. Before the straw ballot, she claimed "we would be happy with 11 to 15 percent of the vote," but the president's people noted that last week Kennedyites had been talking about a possible 30 percent showing. "We got about what we figured," insisted Sergio Bendixen, one of the draft organizers. "We're just happy we helped to convince Kennedy to run nationally by getting substantial support here in October without a formal organization." THE FLORIDA straw ballot was a Carter pep rally all the way. While Miami lawyer Talbot D'Alemberte delivered a luke-warm nominating speech for Kennedy, Carter's banner was hoisted with ringing oratory by two political figures wildly popular in the Sunshine State Gov.

Graham and his predecessor, Reubin Askew, now Carter's trade ambassador. Kennedy supporters kept repeating "we'll see you in March" to fellow Demo-'crats. They frequently tried to start pro-Kennedy chants, but the band on-stage, playing to the party organization's tune, drowned out the Kennedyites whenever Carter's name was mentioned. KENNEDY PROPONENTS privately grumbled that Carter had peppered the state with water projects, construction grants and other federal funds before the October caucuses, but whatever caused the Carter victory good organization, political dollars or key party appoint-. ments it buoyed the president's people.

They think the heavy television coverage of cheering, enthusiastic Florida crowds waving Carter placards might help slow Kennedy's national effort. Graham and Askew both said they will back whoever wins the Democratic nomination next year, but both sincerely expect Carter to recover from a recent nadir of popularity. "THE NEXT PRESIDENT should be selected on leadership," Graham pointedly told the convention, "not on nostalgia and not on tinsel." Indeed, timing seemed propitious for Carter here. In the midst of intensely anti-Iranian feelings, Rosalynn Carter -subbing for her husband while he stayed in the White House to deal with the Iran situation was able to keep talking about the only good news in days: the announcement that the Ayatollah Khomeini would free blacks and women among the 60 American hostages. Making two speeches, she drew sus- vka- i SONS S48 HIGH ST.

NE FREE PARKING AT REAR OF IUILDINO n0- nrr ra SE RVICE ova CENTER TED KENNEDY tained ovations every time she referred to "this outrage, totally outside international law" WHEN DELEGATES exited the Bay-front Convention Center Saturday night, they were urged by anti-Iranain demonstrators to step on the Iranian flag that they had placed on the sidewalk below the main steps. About a third of the delegates and some local police did so some of them dancing on the fallen standard. The results of the Florida straw ballot, as Kennedy backers contend, may indeed be technically meaningless in terms of not committing anyone to anything, but they do indicate President Carter is still a political force to be reckoned with no matter what the popularity polls say. ASKEW, WHO ONCE was a foe of Carter and backed Sen. Henry (Scoop) Jackson, in the 1976 primaries, said he is confident the president can win "only because I know he is willing to work hard on this election nationally.

He has grown tremendously in the White House." Some Democratic oldtimers noted the difference in modern campaigning from the more leisurely pace of 20 years ago. John F. Kennedy, they pointed out, did not make up his mind to run until Thanksgiving Day of 1959. Two decades later, his younger brother has already lost a key straw ballot the week before Thanksgiving. fl Chemical Flush Radiator Engine Block Pressure Test for leaks Inspect Belts Hoses.

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