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Show r ' Governor Calvin L. Rampton is in favor of University growth over the next four years. Now that the student population has stabilized he feels "now is our opportunity to get ahead in quality as well as population." : War, economy, taxes Presidential spokesmen debate I 4 t r ,... j I I P" ft Wayne Owens says he would take an opposite stand on 80 to 85 percent of the bills Lloyd has voted on. His views on amnesty, however, are similar to Lloyd's. Photos by Ron Kesler The nation's economy and the war in Vietnam highlighted a debate Wednesday between spokesmen for the two presidential contenders, Nixon and McGovern. The discussion concluded the Candidates Fair. Nixon's Utah campaign manager, mana-ger, Ogden attorney Richard Richards, led off by saying "Young people in this country have rallied around the President, primarily because the President has proved himself to be a problem-solver." In response, Dr. Charles Nabors, University professor serving as head of McGovern's Utah drive, attacked the administration's record on "hunger, poverty, the war, jobs, and unfair tax system" and "the ultimate corruption of our opponents." The first clash was over U.S. policy in Vietnam. Mr. Richards : defended Nixon's record, admitting : "It's true, we're not out but casualty rates are down, 90 percent of our forces have been pulled out, : and the cost has been lowered from $24 billion a year to only $6 billion." Dr. Nabors said "The way to end the war is to elect George McGovern" and asked, concerning the continued American bombing of Indochina, "Do you think that the color of the bodies burned by napalm matters?" He said that i although American casualties had ' dropped, Vietnamese casualties were as high as ever. Those who have had a chance for four years and could not produce peace should not be given another chance," Mr. Richards responded, "the four years aren't up yet." Next the debate moved to the state of the national economy. Dr. ; Nabors said that food prices have i risen 18 percent under Nixon and ' wholesale prices had risen four ; times faster under Nixon than under Kennedy and Johnson. Inflation can best be curbed, he indicated, by terminating the war, providing a complete overhaul of the tax system, and fair use of wage, price, and profit restrictions. He said Nixon had nearly doubled ! unemployment without providing for a smooth transition from wartime to peacetime production, Wigh hesaid McGovern would do. Mr. Richards argued, instead, that profit controls would discourage discour-age privat investment in job-j job-j producing industries. He attributed unemployment to the cutback in ; troop strength in Vietnam, and stressed that defense and aerospace spending would create ' Jobs, which Nixon favored and McGovern opposed. "There will be no Presidential tax increase in the next year," he declared, although overn Congressional appropriations ; might make a "Congressional tax increase" necessary. |