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Hands across America Some of the major cities to be joined by the human chain Bee map Hands Getting through the Western desert stretches has given the organizers some problems A section of desert in eastern Arizona has already been excluded and will be joined with symbolic red and white ribbons The route was chosen to highlight the cultural and ethnic diversity In Palm Springs where even the local Indian tribe is wealthy and where there are 105 golf courses and tennis clubs the word would appear to be a stranger It is the kind of community where Thrifty Drug stocks designer stationery and importea water But Davis said it exists among retirees and minorities who are not visible to the tourist population A group of about 600 Sacramento volunteers has been assigned to downtown Los Angeles Carrick said The California route makes all the right stops: Cesar Chavez will join in East Los Angeles Pat Boone and Attorney General John Van de Kamp at the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County Mickey Mouse in Disneyland singer Bob Seger in Riverside County cookie-maker Famous Amos and a number of stars in Hollywood actor Richard Dreyfuss and his family in the San Fernando Valley and Dyan Cannon in Santa Monica Film director Steven Spielberg a mile of the route for $13320 Famous Amos and Embassy Pictures did likewise Wrather Enterprises which operates the Queen Mary in Long Beach the western end of the line and the Coca-Cola Co each bought three miles As time for the great handholding grew nearer the organization grew visibly more chaotic final advice: go find a legal parking spot somewhere and get in 2800 peopie ge a jump on Hands Across America forming a line Saturday across San Francisco's Golden Gate Continued from page A1 to $100 million that foundation USA for Africa will earmark for the hungry and homeless in the United States Volunteers in various cities report a crescendo of calls from would-be volunteers in the last 48 hours some at least alerted to the drive by the decision to participate from the White House grounds Last week Reagan told some visiting students there is hunger you have to determine that that is probably because of lack of knowledge as to what things are Carrick in an interview Friday in a donated office suite at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood was not at all critical It was probably at least part of the he said probably is a great deal of confusion worked for government all my life and I know I get confused I think terrific that the president will join the line I bear him no ill will at Reagan had initially declined an invitation to participate in the national event The plan is to span a 4152-mile route through 16 states and the District of Columbia at noon local time The project resembles one immense political campaign which is one reason why people like Carrick with campaign experience have been put in leadership positions got all of the positives and almost none of the negatives of a political Carrick exulted nobody on the other side do you know of a pro-hunger lobby out eagan hails the spirit of Hands Rpnnrtc Reports UPI AP that role in Hands Across America damages spirit of the deserve a president who will not offer cake prayer clothes flag and glitter as a substitute for a sound diet for our Jackson said Meanwhile about 2800 people from punk rockers to senior citizens got a head start Saturday linking up to the tune of Are The across San Golden Gate Bridge WASHINGTON President Reagan on Satur-jday hailed the 4152-mile Hands Across America drive as evidence of a resurgence in voluntarism and reassertion of good old-fashioned that has swept the nation "Tomorrow millions will join in that ancient gesture of goodwill and friendship the linking of hands in a demonstration of concern for the less Reagan said in his weekly radio address Reagan spoke from the White House as final arrangements were made for him to participate in continental human chain to raise money and the conscience to aid the hungry and homeless In a sudden change in plans that followed a much-criticized statement two days earlier about the reason for hunger in America the White House announced Friday that Reagan his wife Nancy daughter Maureen and son-in-law Dennis Revell will help form the part of the chain chat will wind its way through the White House grounds and link up with the official Hands Across America line on Pennsylvania Avenue The Rev Jesse Jackson in San Francisco to deliver a commencement address said Saturday all those participating good he said can wish you nothing finer than the satisfaction of knowing that given of yourselves to helD Music blasted from speakers across the 17-mile span as people who had pledged at least $10 apiece for the hungry and homeless joined hands and swayed from side to side for about 15 minutes Many remained on the span for about an hour before leaving for a party at a nearby park Zschau Herschensohn Continued from page A1 started a television ad program in late February he said be nowhere I be able to raise money I be down in the polls So television has enabled me to get into the As the primary campaign enters its final days the latest polls indicate that Zschau is in a virtual dead heat with former Los Angeles television and radio commentator Bruce Herschensohn who is widely known in southern California but not elsewhere Judging from attacks being leveled against Zschau by rival candidates and a negative advertising campaign being waged by a conservative political action committee Zschau has become the man to beat see me as the front-runner and if anybody else is going to win I have to be knocked he said with a grin i 3 ED ZSCH FOR Bee'Erhardt Krause would never vote for a nuclear freeze because it would freeze us into says GOP Senate candidate Bruce Herschensohn AV Continued from page A1 And while this former White House speech writer for Richard Nixon has emerged as one of the top contenders to be the Republican nominee challenging incumbent Democrat Alan Cranston this fall even some of those who say they are going to vote for him know little about him or what he stands for When he spoke to a GOP group in Rancho Cordova last week the woman introducing him mispronounced his name And between bites of banquet-cuisine lunch another woman asked her table partner he running Pollster Mervin Field reported earlier this month that Herschensohn whose political commentaries on radio and television made him a familiar figure in Los Angeles and Orange counties has only 1 percent support in Northern California never in 40 years seen someone leading a state-wide poll who was drawing only flies in one large section of the Field said Those conservative commentaries from the broadcast pulpit apparently tended to polarize feeling about Herschensohn however because Field reports large numbers of Republicans also say they are not inclined to vote tor him But that may not matter if as predicted bv many analysts 25 percent support is enough for victory in the crowded GOP field Herschensohn 53 says he became frustrated during his eight years at KABC as he watched elected leaders taking the country in the wrong direction So he decided to run for the Senate to get the nation back on track He tends to view things in black and white or in his case red and white As a result unlike most politicians doubf where he stands on almost any issue The preservation of the United States is the number one issue of this Herschensohn said during a three-day swing last week to make himself more familiar to north state voters It is his guiding principle feel we in this generation better see to it that the United States lives he told a fundamentalist Christian group in San Jose He frequently recites John dictum that merica should "support any friend oppose any even if it means backing such authoritarian anti-Commu-nist regimes as that of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and the racially separatist minority government of South Africa tiveilnes-61 pronouncements follow the same conserva- neVer vote for a nuclear freeze because it would freeze us into inferiority Our quest superiority11 quest Should be t0 the Gramm-Rudman (budget-cut-forf to3 bmfdnn6 undermines President ef- UnlLStaS ome'Jlc: CXperlment called I believe all the bilingual laws should be abolished ey discouraSe the learning of English" We should get the United States out of the United Nations and the United Nations out of the United States Weve given it 40 years With 128 countries generally SnnitiinT Q8ainSt lhe Uni'ed Staes we simP'y If Congress doesn't back President call for hriS assistance 0 Contra rebels fighting the Soviet-bucked government of Nicaragua "next they will be asked to aid thq freedom fighters of Mexico" His critics including some of his Republican oppoF I A moderate on social issues but conservative on fiscal questions tjie 46-year-old Zschau is being tagged by opponents as less than a true believer in the conservative 'redo The Free Congress Political Action Committee a washington-based group has produced a elevision commercial that portrays Zschau as a mem-ier of the reJects such labels and pointedly notes that the group gave him a 67 percent vote rating in recent years To combat the charge Zschau lets his ludiences know of the recent endorsement he received rom Holmes Tuttle an early member of cabinet But Zschau also stresses his independence landed as a moderate while being a fiscal conservative not all that bad" he said before a fund-raising event at oe posh estate of a Sacramento developer last week fhats an appealing combination to young voters and r-epublicans across the After being so far back that he did not register in early tatewide polls Zschau clearly relishes all the attention Apart from the statewide nature of his campaign what 'Is Zschau apart from Herschensohn and other leading ontenders such as state Sen Ed Davis and Los Angeles ounty Supervisor Mike Antonovich' is a maverick rath-r than dogmatic approach to issues While he used to describe himself as being conser-itive of conscience rather than a conservative of he now savors the moderate label and wel-mes the conservative attack trying to let people know the moderate who in defeat Alan he said Zschau is counting on the negative advertising to back- getting a positive reaction to the negative adverts- namely people saying like that kind of and we think the kind of campaign iit's destroyed the Republicans in the he said tA former Stanford University and Harvard business ofessor and the founder of a successful high-technol-iv company that makes computer memory devices the Altos congressman believes his pragmatic approach the only way the GOP can appeal to the political cen-r and deny Democrat Cranston a fourth term in the (ll Bee Skip Shuman I wouldn even be in the pack if I started a television ad program in late says Republican Rep Ed Zschau be nowhere nents say Herschensohn is too conservative for California voters Others suggest that if he wins the nomination nationa Republican leaders strategists and elected officials will press him to tone down his rhetoric for the general election campaign against Cranston 8 be woSSr" fiends" will De two words The second one is fe-ItnJhcfne elections' Cranston easily has conservative opponents and Herschensohn detractors say he is likely to meet the same fate But he challenges that assumption He is more articulate than any of the previous GOP losers particularly on foreign policy issues He believes Californians have moved to the right in their political fn 3S most Americans have putting Reagan the center of mainstream America And if he can entice Cranston into a debate he be-eves his television skills a well-modulated voice and the ag'big heP SCOre ainst Perhaps because of his passionate beliefs Herschen- timesrSidsT public as a humoress man at nprcM endS 8 are when he sets worked up the corners of his mouth turn down too often But he has a self-deprecating sense of humor cism th-ft l3St he reflected on criti- cism that he is too conservative for California: "Like Po- peye says I yam what I yam and all that I vam Popeye the Sailor Later a chagrined Herschensohn chuckled and told a uple of just heard those words cSminX of my mouth and I believe it myself an WOrds Herschensohn eer dent by opposing the MX missile which he calls a waste of money And until recently he opposed military aid to the Contra rebels battling the Nicaraguan government He has since switched sides To underscore his commitment to a strong defense one Zschau ad features a quote from industrialist and former Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard a key player in extensive fund-raising efforts Another ad underscores interest in the environment a basic concern in his San Francisco Peninsula district In another break with the administration he opposes oil drilling off the California coast Zschau takes a middle course on questions such as limited economic sanctions against South Africa rather than advocating the more extreme divestiture of American businesses operating in the racially divided nation To the ire of rival Herschensohn and others he also believes the United States must be wary of undue sun-port for governments that deny basic human rights If we re not willing to take a stand against repression no matter who is doing the repression then to a certain extent our own freedom and our own ideals are dimin-lshed he told students at a recent noon-hour rally at UvLA At every opportunity Zschau stresses his business background and the importance of bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to government We need more people who understand where jobs come from and what it takes tQ create economic growth and he said 6 i ii At campaign stops the normally staid Zschau loves to eak into song The lyrics are corny but the message is nous: be dancing when beating Alan anston" Zschau approach to issues takes many forms in- uding an outright rejection of two basic tenets of ultra-o nservatives: He is pro-choice on abortion and favors 11 11 (jqual Rights Amendment 'iu Congress ZschaiAhas broken ranks with the presi.