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Show Mondale Wins In Delaware to Date Delegates - Included from Tuesday are complete results from Democrats Abroad, Georgia. Alabama, Massachusetts, Florida and Rhode Island. Some results are in from Oklahoma. Previous results are from primaries and caucuses through March 12, commitments of 164 members of the House and 72 state Democratic chairmen and vice chairmen who are unpledged. Needed for nomination are 1,967 of the 3,933 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco Julv FollowWASHINGTON (UPI) ing is the projected delegate count for the Democratic presidential nomination as of 2:30 p.m. EST Wednesday. 16-1- Senate Panel OKs Emergency Aid to C. America Campaign Off to Midwest By Evans Witt Associated Press Writer Gary Hart told Michigan voters Wednesday that trade protectionism economic surrender would, be while Walter F. Mondale accused Hart of advocating "dangerous defeatism in foreign policy as the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination shifted from the South to the industrial Midwest. Michigan and Illinois are major battlegrounds in the next six days in what now looks like a long war for the nomination after Hart won three primaries and Mondale two in Super Tuesday primaries. Mondale picked up another victory Wednesday night in Delaware, where Democratic caucuses gave Mondale eight delegates to four for Hart and two for the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The counting was torturously slow in four states that held caucuses on Tuesday, but Hart was ahead in tallies in Washington and Nevada. He and Mondale were in Oklahoma. Mondale was the leading candidate in Hawaii, but an uncommitted slate of delegates took a majority of the vote. The results left Mondale ahead of Hart in national convention delegate strength, although that margin will narrow with final results from Washington. With Delaware's results added to the total, the former vice president had 340 delegates to 197 for Hart. Peter Hart, Mondales pollster, said they have dug out of an avalanche that followed Hart's victory in the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 28. But Mondales campaign will lay off some staff to reflect a campaign that is lean for a marathon. said campaign manager Robert Beekel. White House chief of staff James A. Baker III acknowledged that Republicans wouldn't mind seeing a long struggle for the Democratic nomination with Mondale emerging as the winner. I wouldn't say that we would be totally unhappy if that happened. he said in response to a question during a Cable News Network interview. Mondaie looks strong in Michigan because strong support from the United Auto Workers should help in the complicated caucus system there Saturday. I think it would be very difficult to win, Hart said during his only visit to Michigan this week. We think weve got an awfully good situation this weekend." Beekel said of the six caucuses and a primary scheduled Saturday and days in the state pumping up support for the March 20 primary. Sen. John Glenn of Ohio spent much of Wednesday pondering whether to withdraw from the battle, after failing to make the kind of showing he had hoped to in three Southern primaries and facing a campaign debt already above $2 million. Alabama balloting Tuesday, but he expressed disappointment w ith other black leaders who supported Mondale and other candidates for failing to band together to end plantation politics. Hart defended his labor record before Michigan auto workers w hile claiming as much support among union members as Mondale, who has the endorsement and the National olthe AFL-CIEducation Association. I will have as much labor support as any other candidate. That's because I have a strong voting record over the last 10 years on issues important to labor, Hart said. The Colorado senator was asked rank-and-fi- Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern did pull out of the race after a poor finish in Massaand was considering chusetts whether to endorse another candidate and how best to be an influence in the Democratic Party. The Rev. Jesse Jackson did better than many expected in Georgia and O repeatedly about his opposition to legislation requiring that Japanese cars be made with parts manufactured in the United States and his vote against the 1976 financial bailout of Chrysler Corp. During an informal discussion in a tavern with a dozen United Auto Workers union members. Hart said he opposed the domestic content bill as "bad economic policy" that would encourage other countries to impose even tougher trade policies against the United States. Mondale, in a speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, outlined some of his differences with Hart on foreign policy. neck-and-ne- By Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times Writer WASHINGTON The Senate - Ap- propriations Committee approved on Wednesday President Reagan's requests for immediate new military aid for El Salvador and Nicaraguan rebels, reversing setbacks the administration suffered last week and setting the stage for a debate on the Senate CIA-funde- floor. By a voice votelwith no dissent, committhe Republican-controlle- d tee approved $93 million in emergency aid for the Salvadoran army and $21 million in continued covert funding of the Nicaraguan guerrillas. Senators and their aides said the measures still faced a battle on the Senate floor next week and opposiHouse tion from the Democratic-le- d Record Snow Buries Northeast By United Press International Record March snowfall second only to the Blizzard of 1868 buried the Northeast Wednesday. Power was knocked out to more than 111.000 customers and Caribou, Maine, got 24 inches of snow before the storm blew out to sea. Northeasterners who spent the day digging out of snow drifts were warned to expect local flooding in the next few days as warmer temperatures arrived. Snow fell at the rate of 2 inches an hour, blanketing Rumford, Maine, with 12 inches in just six hours. The 24 inches in 24 hours in Caribou broke the previous record set in 1982 of 21.1 inches, and brought the total on the ground to 49 inches on the level. It's the most snow so far this season from a single storm, said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe McCall of the 15 inches in Concord, N.H. For something really sensational, this is the second greatest amount of snow measured in a March storm, McCall said. The record is 27.5 inches in the blizzard of 1888. he said. 21 Have Died At least 21 people including tw o young Colorado brothers trapped in the frigid waters of a Rocky Mounhave died in weather-relate- d tain lake deaths since the storm swept out of the Plains Sunday. Four people died in Missouri, three in Indiana and New York, two in Nebraska and Connecticut, and one each in South Dakota, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire. In another possibly snow-surface- 31 mph w inds Sunday. But Illinois looked much tighter as both men were there Wednesday for campaign appearances. Hart will spend most of the next three George McGoverns daughter, Teresa, yields to emotions as her mother, Eleanor, WASHINGTON (AP) McGovern is out of the - George race for the Democratic presidential tion. but he feels nomina- redeemed says he silent. Even before he ended his second White campaign l House; follow- -' ing his third-plac- e finish in Tuesday's Massachusetts primary, McGovern was ahead to career as businessman, university president or even secretary of state. And he vowed to keep on speak- - Mr. McGovern ing on the issues he raised in a presidential bid which began last Sept. 13 to the sound of skepticism and the suggestion that he might become the Democratic Harold Stagsen." a perennial hopeless candidate, running just for the exercise. Saluted by Hart The question now is whether McGovern will endorse one of the survivors of the Democratic campaign. He kept the suspense alive, promising to discuss what my future role should be" at a news conference in Washington Thursday. Gary Hart, who won in Massachusetts and who was McGovern's campaign manager when McGovern was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1972, saluted his former mentor in a statement distributed in looking a new Today's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity and Mostly cloudy. Lows in mid-30- s highs near 50. Details. B-1- 3. s looks on at McGoverns Boston campaign headquarters after Tuesday's primary. McGovern Quits Race Meese Admits Failure But Feels Redeemed 'Disclose toLoan Washington. weather-relate- d death, searchers fought their way on snowmobiles over powdery snow 10 feet deep to the wreckage of a small plane, and its dead pilot, found near the summit of southeast Wyoming's Elk Mountain. Sleet glazed highways from Vermont to New Jersey. 37 Inches of Snow Portions of Windham. Rutland, and Bennington counties in southern V ermont received 37 inches of snow. "When I went to measure the new snow at 7 a m., I lost the yardstick, said Kurt Wisell. manager of at the Killington ski area. "That hasn't happened in years. It's the biggest snowstorm we've had in a couple of years. Throughout the Northeast. 111.000 55,000 in Connecticut, people 19.000 in the Boston area and 37.000 were w ithin upstate New York out power at the height of the storm. Bradley International Airport at Windsor Locks, Conn., was shut down all morning by a combination of freezing ram, ice pellets, low visibility and after that. But Reagan administration officials, clearly pleased to see their requests finally making progress after several apparent blunders, predicted privately that they would get most of the money they wanted. Were pleased with the action, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. "This is an important part of the presidents program for democracy in Central America. Reagan had lobbied personally for both aid requests, senators said, arguing that El Salvador needed new military' supplies before its March 25 presidential election and that the Nicaraguan rebels were helping U.S. policy by tying up the army of the leftist Sandinista regime. One key Democratic moderate. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye. noted that the administration s request for $93 million includes a major expansion of the Salvadoran army and announced that he will seek on the Senate floor to cut the aid figure to $49 million. That is the amount the Defense Department says the Salvadorans need to continue fighting at their present level. The president suggests that the military in El Salvador is running out of ammunition, Inouye said. This is not entirely correct. Aides to Republican senators said that they had been told that the administration, although it hoped to win all $93 million, would be satisfied with Inouye's $49 million. The funding measures were added to a $150 million bill for emergency food relief in Africa that passed the House with wide support last week. The administration hopes that Democrats in the House, given the choice of approving the Central American aid or killing the African relief, will swallow the military aid requests. House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip O'Neill Jr., predicted that the bill, once passed by the Senate, will stall in House-Senat- e conference. He denounced the administration's strategy as a mean thing to do to those Africans over there. The administration first proposed the military aid measures last week. But it neglected to inform senators of the plan in advance, and the Appropriations Committee refused to act on it. Sen. Ted Stevens. the White House's chief lieutenant in getting the aid passed, said Wednesday's action may breathe life back into the program. Even if Congress blocks or turns down the requests, the president can send emergency aid to El Salvador under a law that allows him to sell weapons abroad without demanding immediate payment. The administration had planned such a move three weeks ago, but Republicans in Congress argued that they should be given a chance to approve the money first. It is a special joy of this campaign that the country has come to recognize in George McGovern the decent, principled and strong man those of us who stood with him saw in 1972. before the distortions began, Hart said. He has renewed the call to conscience. His presence has enriched the debate. McGovern, 61, staked his campaign on Massachusetts, the one state he carried in 1972, along w ith the District of Columbia. He said he would quit if he didnt finish first or second Tuesday. Finished Third His 21 percent of the vote gave him a third place finish, behind Hart and Walter F. Mondale. In no previous political campaign have I ever had more peace of mind and warmth of soul than I have experienced in this uphill, but deeply satisfying campaign of 1984. he told supporters in Boston after the returns were in. Although I will be withdrawing from this campaign, this is not a concession of defeat. What greater lasting victory than to emerge with the titles of conscience and statesman and peacemaker? In a slightly roundabout way. he made it clear he would like to be secretary of state. I wouldn't take just any Cabinet thing that were offered just to get a job. he said. I don't have any problem getting jobs. - AN-40- He got it by reading everything available on Soviet planes, tapping old friends in key positions in Soviet aviation and adding two and two to get four. We dont have any c . 4 private spy system or anything like that, said ' Taylor, 61. Its all above board. Our biggest asset is the trust of aviation people, military and civilian, around the world. We dont encourage espionage. For instance, a businessman I know told me he was going to East Germany and asked if we wanted him to get photographs of Soviet planes. I turned him down. We dont want people getting chopped playing spies. I dont believe the odd scoop is worth risking the life of a friend or anyone else. Wed rather err on the side of caution. If were not sure of something I work on the old adage, When in doubt, leave out. Playing it straight pays off. The Americans let him sit in the cockpit of the prototype Falcon when the jet fighter was still on the restricted list, and asked his opinion. F-1- 6 The current yearbook includes two pages and plan drawings of ChFantan fighter inas Qiang-- 5 courtesy of the People's Republic. 0 In addition to the Condor, which is believed to be the world's largest plane, the latest Jane's named the new Soviet interceptors NATO codename as the MiG-2Foxhound Fulcrum, the MiG-3- 1 Flanker. and the Sukhoi SU-2- 7 AN-40- Taylor said the giant Condor could become a factor in East-Wemissile talks because it is big intermediate-rang- e enough to move SS-2missiles quickly toward Western Europe even if some future agreement required they be stationed farther east. The new interceptors. Taylor said, erode the West's edge in superior combat planes. All their new planes may not be as advanced as some of the new U.S planes, but they seem to be sturdier," he said. st 0 - WASHINGTON President Reagan's nomination of White House counselor Edwin Meese III to be attorney general ran into new problems Wednesday after Meese admitted he failed to disclose a $15,000 interest-fre- e loan a former aide had made to Meese's wife. Senior government officials under the Ethics in Government Act to make disclosures of loans outstanding of more than $10,000. Meese wrote to Sen. Strom Thurchairman of the Judiciary panel, saying that he had inadvertently failed to list a personal interest-fre- e loan of $15,000 made to my wife by Edwin Thomas. Thomas had been Meese's chief aide at the outset of the administration and was a fellow native of San Diego. He w as later named regional chief of the General Services Administration in San Francisco. Thomas is the third person to surface who gave financial help to Meese and subsequently obtained an administration job. Tax accountant John McKean, who made large loans to Meese. was named to a prestigious, though part-timpost on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service, and real estate developer Thomas Barrack, who helped arrange the sale of Meese's California home, became an assistant interior secretary. Meese's admission coincided w ith a decision by the Republican-controlle- d Senate Judiciary Committee Love must be blind! That's why to recall Meese probably next you see so many young people makweek for more questions about his ing spectacles these days. financial dealings and about allegations he had knowledge of 1980 campaign documents that had been pilfered from former President Jimmy Carter's camp. Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum. chief foe of the nomination, I know most of the Soviet designers personally. I know what they're said that Meese "does not meet the like and how they think." Taylor criteria of integrity" necessary for the nation's top law enforcement ofsaid. ficer and urged Meese to save himwhat and Between that assessing self further embarrassment" by askthey need to produce it's not really ing Reagan to withdraw his name. w kind ith of the to come hard that up Despite the developments. Readata that we do. gan expressed confidence the Senate One plane leads to another," he would approve Meese. Asked if the added. Soviet aircraft design is priMeese nomination was in trouble. marily based on what's gone before. Reagan declared. Not as far as I'm A lot of what we do is simply concerned." He rejected a suggestion that Meese "hid" the newly diprojecting on known data. For instance, the next major Soviet develvulged loan from the committee. I don t think he did. Reagan said. "I opment will likely be a helicopter think he will make it clear when he designed to shoot down other helitestifies. copters, that's where the gap is. Senate Majority Leader Howard Taylor, the aircraft annual's also expressed Baker. fourth editor, has been at the controls for 25 years and has earned a strong backing lor Meese. I'm absofor Ed Meese and if there reputation for hitting it right on the lutely were a reason not to be. I'd say it. button. but I'm not convinced there is." said His expertise, and that of the edi-Sr- e Baker, who served on the Senate Page 2. Columa 4 Watergate Committee 11 rears ago. Todays Chuckle Janes Exposes Five Secret Soviet Aircraft By Ed Blanche Associated Press Writer The latest "Jane's All LONDON the World's Aircraft contained new details on three new Soviet interceptors. a strategic bomber and the worlds biggest transport plane, the 0 Condor every one of them on the Kremlins secret list. The publication was the latest in a long line of coups for John W. Taylor, veteran editor of the authoritative yearbook and one of the world's foremost aviation experts. But. he said in an interview with The Associated Press, he didnt get the information through a network of agents or undercover sources inside the Soviet Union. Bv Bruce Drake New York Daily News mond. e, |