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Fowler: BY BOB FISCHL "I feel that one of the basics of the McGovern reform is to open the Democratic Party to participation by people who have never partici pated before, expecially minorities, women and youth! This was the format of State Democratic Chairman Don Fowler speech Tuesday night. Entitled "The McGovern Reform," it encom passed the steady change exhibited by the Democratic party. Minorities, 'Fowler said, are not taking action because they had never been encouraged or political discriminations were so great as to stifle any actions they might under take. Youth, he said, did not see the relevance of party politics and are inclined to be apathetic. "The youn gest age group, 18-29, are the ones least participating in the political process, he said" The McGovern Reform accom plished some of its goals during this election year. "This years conven tion was more black, more Latin, and more feminine than any Repub lican or Democratic Convention ever before.' Can't have quota system Fowler criticised, though, the Democratic Party's idea of quotas insomuch as: "You can't have a quota system and also have a democratic process." What this quota system implied was that the party had to involve a cer tain amount of women,blacks and other groups into the political pro cess. An ex-political science professor at USC, Fowler had this to say in reply to specific issues of the McGovern campaign: Q: What impact do you think the recent scandal over the financial campaign status of the Republican party will have on the general elec tion in November? Do you think it will influence the voters? A:I think it will influence some. Obviously it will because it's a terri ble indictment on our system. It's serious that we would have a major party and people associated with that party's candidate who would stoop to that sort of thing. I think it's just absolutely incredible with the revelation of today. Not only were they bugging the headquar ters of the Democratic national A bove: Five-thous ticated test equipi oratory engineer unit.' Below: Laborator ceive free showin acteristics of your quota s committee, but also of all the can didates. That to me is just absolutely incredible and I think it's going to be an influence of importance in the campaign because who knows where this is going to stop. I can just say this that the administration has been incredibly arbitrary in keeping the lid on this thing. They tried, I think, to manipulate federal judges, put the trial off and have used the justice department as much as possible to cover-up as much as possible. And the Presi dent himself, who is responsible for what his people do, has refused to say anything about it. Q: Can you think of any motive for this? A: If you could bug somebody suc cessfully and not get caught, you would know what they're planning. That's a tremendous advantage just like a football team knowing all the plays and strategies of the other 9 team. Q: On the abortion issue, Presi dent Nixon is a firm believer in anti- !' abortion legislation while McGovern has taken the stand that "I will not decide a matter of consci ence, but will defend liberty of con science." Do you think that this is a wishy-washy, middle-of-the-road stance or is it a firm commitment and if elected what will he do om this mattay? FREE AMPI ind ollrs wrthof sophis nent used by Mcintosh L.ob for free analysis of your Engineer Hi-Fi Sou dollars y graph you will re-mesr g performance chor- and distc equipment. es...You will - once of y Sorry, or will be t ners, or r Please be * . -.tested. w~ and ans, white yot yste m ! McGovern Misinterpreted A: I think Mr. McGovern's posi tion on abortion has been misinter preted. He has not taken a stand against abortion, such as President Nixon has, nor has he endorsed the legalization of abortion, like the Republicans say he has. I think his position on that is similar to his posi tion on marijuana which is that each individual state decide what it's to be. Q: Presently the Nixon Administ ration is spending $100 billion per year for defense. McGovern says he wants to cut $30 billion off of this sum. How can he propose to do this t' f .IFER TES YOU STILL GETTI THE PERFORMANCE YOU PAID FOR? IND OUT FOR SURE! 3ring your Amplifier, -eamplifier or Receivei o our free audio clinic from McIntosh L.aboratory will be c nd Distributors using over five thousan vorth of precision test equipment t the power output, frequency response rtion of your amplifier or receiver. receive a graph showing the perform our equipment. ly the amplifier section of your receive isted. We are not equipped to test tu ion-standard amplifiers. i prepared to wait for your unit to b 'e con give you the best possible servic Ner your questions if you are preser ir unit is beineg tested. m't demI and still "create and maintain a strong force of nuclear arms" and t also honor our present treaties to Israel and Western Europe? A: This is another proposal, like his welfare proposal, that has been misinterpreted. His proposal to cut t *30 billion dollars on the defense budget is not a proposal to come in January 21 and cut it by $30 billion dollars on January 22. It's a phase three year program. He'll cut it by one third the first year and if that t works and if we continue to main tain our military strength we'll go to phase two which is another ten t billion and then another ten billion the third year. Specifically what he proposes is to eliminate and get rid of the waste that everybody knows exists in the military. I've had substantial experience in the military myself, and we all know it's there. The tre mendous cost overruns that have i been evident in many of the missle systems, where the government has picked up the tab for the ineptness, inefficiencies and downright bumb ling of some of the defense corpora tions, he proposes to do away with. The whole command structure of the military today is top heavy. I think, under Sen. McGovern's prop osals, we would have exactly, on reserve, the same number of mis sles, Polaris submarines and bomber forces as we have under President Nixons system. Sen. McGovern would reduce the number of men in the service which would achieve substantial savings. Many people would deny this, but, in fact Sen. McGovern's proposals are very much like the ones of Gen. Eisenhower, and no one would have accused Gen. Eisenhower of being a traitor or a radical. I think Sen. McGovern is definitely on the right track as to cutting back on the defense spending. Q. Another issue confronting most Americans today is the drastic increase in the sale and addiction of narcotics. Sen. McGovern said that he is going to halt the national and international narcotics trade and also increase drug abuse educa tion and rehabilitation centers. How does he plan to solve these prob lems, especially the narcotics traf fic that goes on today? Diplomatic sanctions again st Turkey? [CUNC! IG 2 DAY! ONL1 OCTOBEI 19th ..d2 Thursday 12 'til I Friday 12 'til 6 All the stereo excitE HI-FI SOUND Disi T he South's 'Bes t-Bu y Dcratic A: There are a number of things hat the United States could do with -espect to the actual drug traffic. We could, for example, take the pos tion with Turkey and with some >ther countries which are substan :ial producers of raw narcotics, that f they do not take internal steps to imit the export of drugs, which ventually come to the United itates, that we will take economic ind diplomatic sanctions against hem. 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