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Mail Edition 4 Sections In Accordance with U.S. Postal Regulation By Clay F. Richards PI Political Writer Walter Mondale and Gary Hart stormed across Georgia, Florida and Alabama Monday on the eve of "Super Tuesday" the most critical battle of the 1984 race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hart told Southerners he would be a president free of obligations to labor and other special interests, while Mondale hammered away at Hart's inexperience, saying he would be a "people's president." Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, saying he is more conservative and more in tune in the South, made a desperate last-minute appeal for votes, although polls show him running a distant third or fourth.

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson went from town to town in Alabama, the state in which he has the best chance, and talked to two one-time symbols of segregation: former Arkansas Gov. Orval Fau-bus and Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Former Sen. George McGovern continued to campaign in Massachusetts.

Apparently pleased with the results of Sunday's debate when the other four contenders ganged up on Hart in Atlanta, Mondale chal-lended Hart to a debate before every major primary for the rest of the season with or without the other candidates. Hart immediately rejected a one-on-one confrontation with Mondale, saying it was only fair to include the others. But, if Glenn and McGovern do poorly on "Super Tuesday," Jackson could be the only other candidate in the race. Never before has the South played such a key role in selecting the Democratic presidential nominee. Eleven jurisdictions hold primaries and caucuses today to pick 511 national convention delegates, but the two front-runners have made it clear it is the primaries in Florida, Georgia and Alabama that count.

If Hart wins two of the three, it could deal a crippling blow to the Mondale candidacy, which was once expected to win the nomination without serious challenge. A win of all three by Mondale would put him solidly back in the race, even though Hart is favored in the two northern primaries Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Hart will be considered to have won the day if he wins one Southern stale and Mondale two, but that result would leave the battle for the nomination at a standoff. Such an outcome would likely mean a state-by-state, knockdown, drag-out slugfest for the nomination through Illinois, Penn-sylavania, New York, Ohio, New Jersey and California all the way to the San Francisco convention. On the day after the debate in Atlanta among the five contenders, Southern voters jumped immediately on Mondale's taunting APNews Graphics of Hart.

The former vice president said when he hears Hart's "new ideas" he thinks of the television commercial for a hamburger chain "Where's the beef?" As Mondale stumped through the three states, hitting every major TV market in the area, the phrase became a new campaign slogan for his supporters. "Where's the. beef? I love it," shouted a woman at a Pancake House breakfast stop Mondale made in Tampa, Fla. From there the Mondale marathon went on to Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville, Atlanta; Muscle Shoals and Birmingham, and back to In a speech at Columbus College in Columbus, Hart referred to the jab, which implies that his candidacy and his issues have no substance. "The beef is there, but they don't want to digest it because it doesn't come from special-interest cattle," Hart told 350 students and faculty.

Hart hammered away at what Mondale owes labor and other groups who have endorsed him, saying his own campaign stresses "the national interest over the special interest." While Hart and Mondale battled for the lead, the other candidates battled for survival. Glenn searched the South for votes and was not expected to find enough to keep his campaign going past "Super Tuesday," although there were indications he would not drop out immediately. Fighting gamely against the odds, Glenn refused to give up, picking up the endorsement of for-: mer Attorney General Griffin Bell in Georgia, and attacking the military policies of his opponents to a large and enthusiastic audience in Birmingham. Contrasting his experience and views with those of Mondale and Hart, Glenn said, "Others talk programs that would gut the defense of our country." 'Tampering Prompts EPA to Consider Ban On Leaded Gasoline JT awMMMWUwuHHMNMiHMait tlUmflil mm ft I Edwards Begins Term Stressing Fiscal Woes By Robert Morgan Town Talk Capitol Bureau BATON ROUGE With a promise to "bring together the people of this state," Edwin W. Edwards was sworn in Monday to an unprecedented third term as governor.

In his inaugural address, Edwards struck a somber chord in emphasizing financial problems he says the state is facing. But he said history will record Louisiana's elected officials as meeting the challenge if the Legislature will follow his lead. "I am here today to tell you I accept the mantle of leadership," Edwards said in a House chamber packed with lawmakers and vistors. Edwards rattled off a litany of problems stemming from a shortage of state funds from underfunding of the public school system to high unemployment. "I say these things not to engender fear or to encourage despair, but simply so that you will know the truth because you are entitled to the truth," Edwards said.

He said the problems were brought on by decades of neglect and he would not try to point the finger of blame at any past officials, an apparent reference to the outgoing administration of Gov. David C. Treen. But the new governor promised to provide the leadership necessary to overcome the state's financial problems. His (Turn to A-3) tion problems.

"Looking at the phasedown schedule (for leaded gasoline) and when viewed in conjunction with the tampering that has gone on with the emissions systems, we are concerned with whether or not we will make it by the end of the decade or the early part of the next decade," said EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus. "The idea was that as the new cars came on with catalysts that required unleaded gasoline, you could phase (leaded gasoline) out by the end of this decade or early in the next. Because there would be so little demand for leaded gasoline, essentially service stations would stop carrying it." But with such widespread tampering with anti-pollution devices, EPA believes controls on leaded fuel may be necessary. When cars were stopped by Vermont state police and checked for tampering several years ago, 28 percent had emissions control equipment that had been thwarted. Disabling the catalytic converter first introduced on new cars in 1975 to burn more of the pollutants before they pass through the exhaust system By Kathryn Kahler Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON Tampering with pollution controls on automobiles has reached such proportions that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a ban on leaded gasoline by 1988 because its unlawful use is causing air quality to worsen.

EPA estimates that pollution control equipment on as many as 50 percent of the cars in the United Slates has been altered in some way, causing more than 65 localities to fail to comply with federal air quality standards. "This is probably the biggest single factor in air pollution in. cities now." said Richard G. Ko-zlowski, EPA's director of field operations for the office of mobile sources. A recent EPA study found that 17 percent of the cars showed significant tampering, including disabling catalytic converters.

Another 14 percent of the nation's fleet of 107 million automobiles is burning leaded gasoline in cars that require unleaded fuel. The study was based on voluntary participation, which led some EPA officials to estimate that perhaps as many as 35 percent of the nation's vehicles are causing serious pollu Edwin Edwards is sworn in as governor at noon Monday in Baton Rouge as his wife Elaine looks on. Edwards was beginning an unprecedented third term. AP Photo) Session to Focus on Tax Hikes Alario, Nunez Win Top Posts Rep. John Alario was elected Monday as speaker of the Louisiana House, and Sen.

Samuel Nunez was chosen president of the Senate. And the election of Rep. Joe Delpit as speaker pro tem gave the House its first black leader in more than a century. Story and photos on C-4. Gemayel Pleads for End To 'Insane' 9-Year Battle he has proposed will require $600 million to fund in 1984-85 and the cost will rise to about $950 million per year over the next five years.

Edwards also said he has decided not to try to undo the Department of Environmental Quality created in 1983. Edwards opposed combining the departments of Corrections and Public Safety to make room for the new department. In his campaign for re-election, Edwards vowed to separate the two agencies and reduce DEQ to a subdepartment until a constitutional amendment could be passed allowing creation of a 21st department in the executive branch. "In one of my many compromises, I'm going to allow the (environmental) department to remain," Edwards told reporters. Edwards said he has asked environmental groups around the state to submit names of nominees for the DEQ secretaryship.

He said he offered the secretary's job to Rep. Manuel Fernandez, D-Chalmette, but Fernandez declined the offer in favor of keeping his legislative seat. To accommodate the combined departments, Edwards plans to create a separate unit in the executive budget for Public Safety, giving the head of State Police responsibility over the new budgetary unit. (Turn to A-3) By Robert Morgan Town Talk Capitol Bureau BATON ROUGE Gov. Edwin W.

Edwards wasted no time taking hold of state government Monday, signing an executive order calling the Legislature into special session one week to the day after his inauguration. Edwards signed the seven-item call less than 30 minutes after inaugural ceremonies in the chamber of the House of Representatives. In his inaugural address, Edwards promised to meet the state's critical financial problems by raising taxes and cutting spending by $100 million per year. But in a subsequent press conference, Edwards avoided giving specific answers about his legislative package of taxes or plans to cut programs. Edwards confirmed that his tax package will contain proposals for eliminating the exemption for food from the state sales tax, changing the method by which businesses are taxed and increasing the state gasoline tax.

Asked for specifics on his plan to cut state spending by $100 million, Edwards said, "I'm talking about cutting $100 million from services that are in today's budget." He said the cuts will be made whether the Legislature approves higher taxes or LAUSANNE, Switzerland (UPI) President Amin Gemayel opened peace talks between Lebanon's warring factions Monday with an appeal for an end to nine years of "insane and continuous war" that has killed 100,000 people. As the Lebanese president spoke at a gathering of sect leaders at a luxurious lakeside rival militiamen pounded Chris- lian and Moslem residential areas xf Beirut with rockets and mortar fire. A total of 17 people were killed and 38 others were wounded dur-: ing the day, according to radio reports and hospital sources in Beirut. Lebanese leaders at the talks set up a five-man committee to at tempt to halt the fighting, but combatants ignored an announcement of a cease-fire broadcast live to Lebanon from Lausanne by a government spokesman. Speaking to factional leaders at the Beau Rivage hotel, Gemayel said all Lebanese are "looking to us here in the hope that we bring forth the good news of salvation to a people exhausted by massacres and to a nation afflicted with wounds." He said that 100,000 people had died during "nine years of an insane and continuous war." Government sources in Beirut said Gen.

Ibrahim Tannous, the Christian commander of the U.S.1 trained Lebanese army, had sub-(Turn to A-3) not. Edwards added, "We anticipate that 6,000 people will lose their jobs in state government through attrition" and some may lose their jobs if programs are cut out. Asked for an estimate of the amount of new money he plans to raise, Edwards repeated that he does not yet have sufficient information about the money needed to maintain the current level of state services. He said he will meet with officials in the Division of Administration today and Wednesday "to get a better idea" of the money needed. Edwards said, however, new programs.