Show The Utah Statesman Here and NovT Glen by Maxell Cody Shearer Mondale aiEu-3uuty£- ) Wednesday December 2 l?n IV-- tS 0 r?r3 going to run for president? in college Sen Walter “Fritz” Mondale iaone our friends Many of us considered working for the the real thing minister who opposed the Viet-W- r Unitarian a of tful ion and championed minority and women’s rights in the tro easy to admire a fellow who dropped an early with the comment that the White House Jtworth spending night after night in Holiday Inns y friends when he Mondale impressed our Watergate-wearBow-ingoidmowledged that running for president was “mindless” in style he admitted that a national campaign required and I just don’t one to move “in the direction of compromise ihinkl’m suited for it” It was almost as if our perfect candidate emerged there and then seven years ago next MnnMaU made these astute observations Today it appears he’s forgotten them entirely He’s 1 duady groveling with the best of them on the 984 presidential before jumping he a didn’t waste moment trail— and campaign otjitjential bid in 1974 ut in presidency a year ago he told The New anxious to “go back to learn to think and talk to all sorts of people about where we After losing the vice Tones that he was lid Amp through Front & Center Jcwoters NORTH MAM — LOO AN fculdgo” two weeks after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration supporters filed documents with the Federal Election Commission forming the “Committee for the Future America” On the surface this political action committee will niieand spend money on a variety of Democratic candidates lut it’s also underwriting Mondale’s current expenses on the unofficial campaign trail During the first six months of this year Mondale’s committee pnmed 1217000 At Si 000 each former Carter campaign Quitman Robert S Strauss and ex Treasury Secretary G Wlim Miller have been among the PAC’s contributors Meanwhile Mondale is “earning” a six figure salary as a “problem solving’’ attorney for the Washington office of the Qucagodmsed firm Winston & Strawn He has a staff of five ®d i limousine at his disposal And though we’ve seen plenty of wire photos of Mondale tdaring it home with a sheaf of policy papers we doubt their But mow less than Moodale and -- -- rtf ' nwrity Indeed Walter Mondale knows exactly what he’s pmeplan is to go out He’s modeling idate One could up to His early run hard and lock up critical himself as the centrist compromise sup-pone- n cand- conclude that Mondale has adjusted his style and of the presidency whatever the strain on his mental and moral resources But are these the odket Mondale wants to make? In his 1976 book The Mondale bemoans the fact that so much of a can-- i time is o “spent with prospective contributors o little with unemployed or disabled workers” Qir political system often makes milk-toa- st out of principled most public-minde- d us But our kttSw!! among new Mondale is that he starts thinking reading and rijjwifor the sake lyl The Outdoor Recreation Comm & Entertainment Comm present Accoun-JMpyto- well-to-d- "fcriog to the J wtute “Fritz” we remember lnentor Hubert Humphrey lost the presidency in 1961 frhman senator told the Washington Star that a deserved to lose some elections until they took programs espoused by liberals in the last decades Mondale admitted then “have not worked and rrV'Many dvice was good then and it’s good now MEED t OMEY? TiMigl&'S §®l Imtflsmmfc— i'fwW Vi 10am on (TIMS r nowaitm or VAIMI - lAAttST SELICTION Of WARMS 4MS ni wn Mountain V isions Friday December 4 8:00pmFAC Morgan Theater |