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The North Texas Daily
Wednesday, November 7, 1984
North Texas State University, Denton, Texas
68th Year No. 38
American people give Reagan four more years
Frtifn staff and wire reports
To no one's surprise, President Reagan
chalked up a landslide victory over Demo-
cratic opponent Walter Mondale Tuesday,
winning 309 electoral votes and 32 states
as of 10:21 p.m. CST.
The president led in nine other states
with 114 electoral votes. Mondale won
the District of Columbia and his home
state, Minnesota.
Texas went for Reagan, where he cap-
lured 64 percent of the popular vote, as
opposed to Mondale's 36 percent. With
2,523 of 6,617 precincts reporting, Reagan
led with 1.002,480 votes. Mondale had
received 566,147 votes.
In Denton County, with 61 percent of
the votes counted, Reagan led with 9,017
votes; Mondale had 3,906 and LaRouche,
42.
No Democrat has become president in
this century without winning Texas.
Though Reagan and Mondale had
agreed not to claim victory or concede
defeat until polls
closed in Western
states, the three
major television
networks projected
a Reagan win
shortly after 9 p.m.
Mondale con-
ceded at 10:22
p.m. CST. After
saying he had
called Reagan to
congratulate him,
he said, "He has won. We are all Amer-
ican . He is our president and wc honor
him for it.
Mondale said Tuesday's election was
Reagan
"a choice made with pcaccfulness, with
dignity and with majesty." He thanked
running mate Geraldine FerarTo, saying
he was proud of her. "Wc may not have
won anything but we made history and
that tight is just beginning."
From a Los Angeles hotel where he
had gone to await election returns, Reagan
said, "We are going to carry on the pro-
grams we started four years ago, an
economy growing, without inflation, a
strong defense with every effort to get
arms negotiations started again."
If Reagan serves out his term, he will
be the first president since Dwight Eisen-
hower to have been elected to two com-
plete terms.
Jess Coffey, Denton County Rea-
gan/Bush campaign chairman, said he was
thrilled by preliminary predictions of a
Reagan victory. "Of course, all wc have
are exit polls and, as they say, 'The
opera's not over until the fat lady sings.'
But we're just ecstatic about results so
far and wc hope they carry over into local
races."
Dr. Jim Daniel-
son, Mondale/Fe-
rarro Denton Coun-
ty campaign chair-
man and member
of the political
science faculty,
said the Reagan
victory was no sur-
prise but the mar-
gin of victory was.
Reagan is likely
to regard his mar-
gin of victory. Danielson said, as a man-
date to continue programs initiated in his
first term. "He has got court appoint-
Bush
HMD
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REAGAN
MONDALE
LAAOUCHE
Illustration by RICHARD CALOOY
Armey, Vandergriff run tight race
From staff and wire reports
The 26th District U.S. Representative race between
incumbent Rep. Tom Vandergriff and Republican chal-
lenger and former NT economics department chair-
man Richard Armey was too close to call early this
morning.
At midnight, with 62 percent of precincts reporting,
Armey had 70,030 (50 percent) of the votes. Van-
dergriff had 69,070 votes, also 50 percent.
AS OF 11:30 P.M., the vote count showed Van-
dergriff with a slight edge in Denton County. With
six of Denton County's 54 precincts reporting,
Vandergriff had 6,784 votes and Armey had 6,039
votes.
The early returns had Armey winning overwhelm-
ingly. At one time, Armey had 59 percent of the
vote. But those statistics did not include ballots from
Tarrant County, which contains Arlington, Van-
dergriff's power base. Vandergriff was mayor of
Arlington for 26 years.
The 26th District was targeted by the Republican
Party as ripe for a Republican upset of a Democratic
incumbent. Monday, Vice President George Bush
visited the NT campus on his way to Houston in an
effort to drum up support for Armey.
President Reagan taped televised endorsements of
Armey and sent out Mailgrams and letters to Reagan
supporters.
ARMEY FIRMLY grabbed hold of Reagan's
coattails, hoping to ride them to victory. In a comic
book he published and mailed to supporters, Armey
pledged to support Reagan's economic programs. The
cover of the comic book pictured Vandergriff stand-
ing in Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill's coat pocket.
At midnight, Vandergriff, who defeated Republi-
can Jim Bradshaw two years ago by about 350 votes,
said he was not ready to concede. He said he was
used to close races.
Vandergriff attributed Armey's good showing to
Reagan's coattails. "The man is immensely popular,"
he said. "In my case, his television commercial,
Mailgrams and letters had a powerful effect on the
voting public."
Armey was not available for comment.
Police report minor incidents at rally
Agencies work together to protect vice president
By DEBRA McGUIRE
Staff Writer
Although several thousand people cheered
the arrival of Vice President George Bush
at NT Monday, another group celebrated
later, as the candidate's motorcade disap-
peared down I-35W, heading back to Fort
Worth's Meacham Field.
That group was the small army of law
enforcement personnel charged with ensur-
ing the vice president's safety during his
brief stop in Denton. The celebrating was
for the absence of an incident that could
have turned the day into a nightmare, cata-
pulting Denton into the kind of headlines
that every police officer dreads.
"Given the state of world affairs today,
it's the nightmare of every police officer
when the president or vice president comes
to your town, that some terrible incident
could happen while you're trying to pro-
tect him," said Dan Martin. NT police chief.
Although other officers refused to go on
record as saying so. memories of another
November day in another Texas city 21 years
ago occupied a lot of minds Monday. "We
didn't want Denton to be another Dallas,"
one officer said.
Martin said, "We plan for the worst and
hope for the best Wc plan for every con-
tingency."
THE WORST that happened Monday,
he said, was a series of minor skirmishes
between Democratic and Republican loyal-
ists, who traded insults and seized opposi-
tion signs. Police experienced only one dircct
confrontation, an encounter with picketers
who objected to being assigned a location
some distance from Coliseum entrances.
"They did get close to the entrances and
there was some name calling and obsceni-
ties because they didn't like the area we
had assigned to them. But one of our designs
was to put them in an area where they would
be less likely to be disruptive to people
entering the building."
The pickets returned to their assigned
location after officers asked them to do so.
As part of security precautions imposed
inside the Coliseum, security officers
searched purses, knapsacks and other bags
and people entering the building were re-
quired to pass through metal detectors. In
the course of the search, several knives and
a toy gun were confiscated, Martin said.
"1 don't think people realized how tight
the security would be," he said, "and a
lot of people always carry pen knives with
them. In the case of the gun, somebody
was trying to be funny but that wasn't very
funny."
No arrests were made, he said.
Eighty officers from NT, Texas Woman's
University, Texas College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Denton, Dallas and Fort
Worth police departments, the Denton Coun-
ty Sheriff's Office and the Department of
Public Safety, as well as an undisclosed
number of U.S. Secret Scrvicc agents, were
involved in security for the vice president's
motorcade to and from the airport and for
his appearance at the Coliseum.
AGENTS AT the Secret Service's Dal-
las office referred all questions regarding
security procedures to their public affairs
office in Washington, D.C. Agent Mike
Tarr of the' Washington office said prepara-
tions begin weeks in advance for visits by
candidates under Secret Service protection.
"When we receive information that some-
one is going to visit an area, wc begin draw-
ing up security plans," he said. "Wc assign
a lead advance agent to work with the local
agent in charge of that district where the
visit will take place. We have 65 district
offices, in the major citics. The advance
agent and the local agent draw up security
plans for the visit.
"Wc also call upon local, state and county
law enforcement agencies tor assistance.
Wc rely quite heavily upon them because
we're just too small to do it all ourselves."
Agents visit sites where the president,
vice president or candidates arc scheduled
to make appearances, Tarr said, and also
designate hospitals and evacuation routes
to be used in the event of an emergency.
NT police had only three days to pre-
pare for Bush's visit, Martin said.
FOR LOCAL officers involved in pro-
viding security for the vice presidential visit.
ments to make, and an opportunity to
consolidate all of his economic policies.
He has got to introduce some kind of
tax plan, 1 assume, unless he is actually
going to let the country go down the
dumper."
During the next four years. Danielson
said. Democrats will need to take a look
at the coalitions upon which they have
traditionally relied for support. "There
also needs to be a full-scale effort to edu-
cate the American people on the long-
range and short-range consequences of
their choices in such areas as the econo-
my and civil rights and civil liberties."
Texas offered 29 electoral votes this
year, more than 10 percent of the 270
needed for victory. Texas was designated
a key state early in the .ampaign.
Mondale made five trips to the state,
hitting Austin, Dallas, Texarkana, Hou-
ston. El Paso. McAllcn and Corpus
Christi. Running mate Geraldine Ferarro
visited the state twice, to Austin. Dallas
and Arlington.
Reagan and Vice President George
Bush kicked oil their national campaign
in Austin before the Republican conven-
tion in Dallas
Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. Senator from
Texas, had been a finalist in Mondale's
search for a running mate and some Tex-
ans believed the Democrats' national cam-
paign could have been enhanced if the
Texan had been chosen.
A New York Times-CBS poll said
respondents were more likely to list the
economy as their first concern, and these
people voted heavily for Reagan. Mon-
dale, the poll said, ran better among peo-
ple who listed the nuclear arms race as
their primary concern.
Gramm wins bid
for Senate seat
From staff and wire reports
Republican candidate Phil Gramm swept
in on Presideni Reagan's coattails Tuesday,
defeating Texas Sen. Lloyd Doggett. Demo
crat, in the race for a U.S. Senate seat.
Gramm will replace retiring Republican
John Tower.
With 2,516 of 6,617 precincts reporting
(38 percent). Gramm had 887,994 votes,
or 59 percent, compared to Doggett's
612,965 votes, or 41 percent.
Gramm pronounced victory at S.23 p.m..
with 3 percent ol the precincts reporting
"This is not a victory of an individual l iiis
is not a victory for a party. It is a triumph
of philosophy."
Five minutes alter Texas polls closed.
ABC News projected Gramm as the win-
ner in the race to replace Tower, who is
retiring after 23 years in the Senate.
Gramm attributed his victory to Presi-
dent Reagan's performance in the last lour
years, and to Reagan's strong showing.
"The overwhelming feeling in Texas is
that the Reagan program is working,"
Gramm said, "and they wanted to send me
to the Senate to finish the job Reagan set
out to do four years ago
"I was more closely identified with the
president than any other member of the
House."
Gramm, a former Texas A&M Universi-
ty economics professor from College Statior),
resigned Ins U.S. House scat as a Demo-
crat and won re-election as a Republican
last year.
The campaign was one of the nastiest in
Texas history, with television commercials
hurling accusations and counter-accusations.
Doggett conceded shortly after 10 p.m.
Addressing campaign workers in Austin,
he said. "We can swim upstream, but it's
hard taking on a tidal wave. The numbers
are going to show us defeated in this effort,
but they don't show the hard work ' jiat peo-
ple have been putting in this effo.t in the
last one-and-a-half years."
Voters pass amendments
As of 9:40 p.m. Tuesday, six of the eight
proposed amendments to the Texas Consti-
tution were passing, with more than 2.0(10
of the 6,583 precincts reporting.
Sixty-nine percent of the voters were in
favor of Proposition 2. an amendment that
would establish a SKX) million fund for l ex
as colleges and universities not in the
UT-Austin and Texas A&M systems. Thir-
ty percent were against the amendment.
Seventy-five percent of the voters were
in favor of an amendment that would grant
state banks the same rights and privileges
as national banks. Twenty-lour percent were
against the amendment.
An amendment that would authorize the
Legislature to provide assistance to surviv
ing dependent family members of certain
public servants killed while on duty was
favored by 62 percent of the voters I hirty
seven were against the amendment.
Sixty-eight were in favor of an amend-
ment to abolish the county treasurer's office
in two counties. Thirty-one percent opposed
the amendment.
Sixty-two percent of the voters favored
an amendment that would authorize the Sen-
ate to fill a vacancy in the office of lieuten-
ant governor I he amendment was opposed
by 37 percent.
An amendment that would permit use of
public funds and credit to pay premiums
on certain insurance contracts was opposed
by 65 percent of the voters. Thirty-five per-
cent favored the amendment.
Seventy seven percent of the voters fa-
vored an amendment relating to the mem-
bership of the State Commission on Judi-
cial Conduct and the authority and procedure
to discipline active judges, certain retired
and former judges and certain masters and
magistrates of the courts. Twenty-three per-
cent opposed it
An amendment that would provide a per
diem for Legislature members equal to thai
allowed by federal law as a deduction for
business expenses was opposed by sixty-
six percent ot the voters. Thirty-four per-
cent were in favor ol the amendment.
Student elections
continue today
the day began at an 8:30 a.m. briefing at
which assignments were distributed. Partici-
pating departments coordinated their activi-
ties through the Secret Scrvicc, an agency
that proved to be cooperative with local
agencies, Martin said.
"They took the attitude that this is our
community and wc have to live w ith it after
they leave. So they agreed to a lot of our
proposals. But they have a bottom line, so
those things we had to go along with."
All 20 of NT's police officers, as well
as eight or nine public service officers, were
involved in motorcade escort or Coliseum
security, Martin said.
Lt. Paul Carbcrry of the Denton police
said his department began preparing last
week for Bush's campaign appearance
Carbcrry said 16 or 17 of his officers were
posted inside the Coliseum, while others
helped provide security for the motorcade.
Sgt. Gerald Hildcbrand of the Denton
office of the Department of Public Safety
said six officers also helped with security
for the motorcade. All exits along I-35W
to Denton were blocked as the motorcade
went by, he said.
MARTIN SAID the 80 officers involved
in providing security for Bush's visit to NT
chalked up 400 man hours Monday. The
Reagan-Bush campaign will be charged for
all expenses connected with the vice prcs
ident's visit, he said.
Almost 8(H) students voted Tuesday in
Student Association elections for repre-
sentatives and Homecoming Queen and
King.
Matt Council, assistant director of stu-
dent activities, said 765 students voted.
Elections continue today.
Polling places are scheduled to be open
front 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and will be
in the University Union outside the Uni
vcrsity Store and in Wooten Hall on the
first fl(X)r. Polls will lie open from 5 p.m.
to 7 p.m. in front of Willis Library.
Connell said 306 students from the Col-
lege of Business Administration voted,
90 from the School of Music, 54 from
the College of Education. 289 from the
College of Arts and Sciences. 16 from
the School of Home Economics and 10
from the School of Community Service.
Karen Mailloux, SA director of rules
and elections and Carrollton senior, said,
"Wc expect that about one-fourth of the
students will be voting. "
Candidates for SA representatives and
Homecoming Queen and King must be
full-time students with grade point aver-
ages of at least 2.0.
The following SA positions were avail-
able: one cach in the School of Library
and Information Sciences and School of
Home Economics, two each in the School
of Music and School of Community Ser-
vice. three each in the College of Educa-
tion and at-largc positions, four in the
College of Business Administration and
10 in the College of Arts and Sciences
Mailloux said no one filed for posi-
tions in the School ol Music, the School
of Home Economics and the School of
I ibrary and Information Sciences The
positions were converted to at-largc posi-
tions under the SA constitution, but stu-
dents in these schools will receive ballots
for the three schools.
Fourteen at-large positions will be filled
because of the vacant at-largc positions,
those that were converted to at-largc posi-
tions and positions vacated b) SA mem-
bers,
Homecoming Queen nominees are. in
the order they appear on the ballot: Cookie
McKeon, Lisa Wilson, Tracy King. Cin-
dy Pearmon, Andra McMillan. Molly
Smith, Sara Barber, Victoria Luna and
Robin Rains
Homecoming King nominees arc Russ
Finks. Kok-Tai (Desmond), llomcro
Bavarena. Jamie Creed. Rob Graham and
Kelly O'Neal.
At-large candidates arc David Morris.
Sandra Richards. Robert Jannasch. Sit
rame Sarkis, Gary Gunter. Phillip Bar
ccna. Tamra McGraw. Michael DeMint.
Abbie Bartiey, Lowell Ovclup. Connie
Manly. John Hernandez. Jamey Miller.
Kenneth Fcigeles, Melissa Anderson,
Christy Ruszkowski, William Fisher. W al-
ter Guess. Andrew Springer and Angic
Todd.
John Griffin is the candidate for the
School of Community Service.
Candidates for the College of Educa-
tion arc: Kenneth Smith, Paul Bielss and
Charles Buchtel.
Candidates for the College of Busi
ness Administration arc Dcbby Cass.
Brenda Bryant, Michelle Anne Bohn. Jeff
Graham. Laura Cuntptom. Martin Me
secke and Stacey Wiikey
Candidates lor the College of Arts and
Sciences are: Theresa I amb. Grace Hat-
gis. Dee-Annette Faith. Carol Yarbrough.
Chen I Mendenhall and David Masses.
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