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Show HEADS UP I Lloyd by John Houston As I sat in Rep. Lloyd's office in the Federal Building there was the usual hubbub of any campaign with secretaries and volunteers making calls and doing the thousand things out of ten thousand that need to be done. In contrast. Rep. Lloyd seemed detatched from all the scurrying going on. His conversation con-versation focused on the bills that he has been working on in the House, and upon the needs of Utah. In this campaign he had to first fend off an attack from the reactionary reac-tionary right by Mark Andersen who accused him of being too liberal. Wayne Owens is now criticizing Rep. Lloyd for being too conservative. The truth would probably lie somewhere in be-ween; be-ween; i.e., that he represents a middle-of-the-road philosophy which reflects the interests of a SttV hiS con9ressinal In comparing himself with his Democrat opponent, Mr. Lloyd d a well-known quote by Owens that he would vote 85 percent dfferently than the has ,n his last term. Mr. Lloyd has supported the SALT talks Resident Nixon's new wi h China and Russia the volunteer army concept; reduction of armed service persohel by 1.2 million in the last four years, revenue sharing and welfare reform. He said revenue sharing was an important alternative to categorical aid in solving the problems of the cities by local leaders at the grass roots level. The middle-man bureaucrat in San Francisco or Denver who has previously been the clearing house for expenditures and programs could be eliminated. In terms of the future the congressman felt that domestic priorities must come first and that we need to solve problems related to social welfare and education and thus making military expenditures secondary. Rep. Lloyd felt that his opponents oppo-nents apparently taking a crash course on Utah in his walks after spending most of his adult life. working on various political assignments assign-ments in Washington. He himself has been in Utah 18 times in the last 12 months and made four on the spot inspections of Glen Canyon project. It was obvious at the time that Mr. Lloyd was concerned with the House's failure to act on a land use bill that would have stopped poor planning of land development and allowed recreation areas to be preserved from commercial ploitation such as the Bear Lit region. His stance on consw is that Utah shouU achieve i balance of development that w" both preserve it's natural resort and beauty as well as to utilize Jrtf potential value. An alarmist ecjf group has maligned him, he e for an attitude that he holds to responsible and honest. Speaking randomly l s "Bugging for political purpo' contemptable'Hewas that the President ha WJ ledge of it beforehand home, Mr. Lloyd wouldnt l see the University cse n nomy as a part of the w due to strings attached b JJ grants. He felt it ptam g prt in creating the 'de?; community held of P j? integral part in ere mg that the community neia Mentioning his working legislature and as f defending the business m , lot representatives!,!! I c situations that felt that hisaPP portant committees , are vital if Utah is to ha for its needs. |