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Show Tfc D3y Utah Chwirlt, PI y, Hwrrtcr 5, ItSI Page Three President Reagan smelling a by United Press International President Reagan, smelling a te landslide in made an unscheduled election, Tuesday's stop in Walter Mondak's home state of Minnesota Sunday to ask for votes in the state his Democratic rival has the best chance of winning. 50-sta- Reagan's last minute political maneuver came as poll after poll showed a big win for the conservative oresident. The final Washington Post-AB- C poll showed Reagan ahead 57 percent to 39 percent, with a strong lead in 45 states and a chance of capturing all 50. With Reagan's reelection seemingly assured, Republican thoughts turned to coattail power, especially in close Senate races where GOP incumbents Charles percy of Illinois and Jesse Helms of North Carolina were seen clinging to narrow leads, while a third, Roger Jepsen of Iowa, was slightly behind. No Democratic Senate incumbents were in trouble in final polls. But there was no veil of doom in the Democratic camp as Mondale fought on despite the odds. Speaking from the pulpit of a black Baptist church in .Memphis, Mondale invoked the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. and said the Reagan administration "has turned its back on civil rights." "This crowd can hear the faintest drum, but they can't hear the cry of a hungry child in the street," Mondale, son of a Methodist minister, told the congregation. He continued his plea for votes, saying "we need everybody." Reagan spoke to reporters in Rochester, Minn., during a hastily arranged airport news conference, with Air Force One waiting outside to whisk him on to St. Louis. Reagan said he could not resist the temptation to stop in Mondale's backyard, "particularly when I know my opponent's spending so much time in California." "Everyone knows that we've never written off any state We've never taken the nor taken any state for granted said. votes for granted," Reagan Reagan laughed when a reporter asked whether he was trying to run up the score in his contest with Mondale. "I don't think of it as running up the score," he said. "The gipper would never quit before the final whistle." Reagan sought to dismiss any notion that his second term might bring an increase in taxes, reiterating a firm stand against any boost in rates while offering a more ambiguous explanation for what might be expected from a tax reform study nearing completion by the Treasury Department. Both Mondale and Reagan wound up Midwest campaigning Sunday and headed for California, where the president will spend Election Day at his ranch. Mondale will fly home to Minnesota for the voting. Vice President George Bush was heading home to Texas for some final campaigning while Geraldine Fcrraro campaigned in Michigan and planned a final swing through New England before going home to New long-await- ed York. "PROMISE THEM ANYTHING" 3 Reagan's unscheduled stop in Minnesota, the only state where aides concede the president is trailing, was announced less than two hours before the president's planned departure from Wisconsin, where a ne v Milwaukee Journal poll showed his lead has doubled from 1 1 to 22 points since late September. White House spokesman Peter Roussel said Reagan himself proposed the stop in Minnesota a brief airport news conference Saturday evening. In Memphis, Mondale held out the prospect to the black congregation of what a second Reagan term protends, warning that a majority of the Supreme Court may retire, leaving the body to the far right fringe. Mondale said Reagan and nis administration do not understand that civil rights for minorities make America strong. "This is something we do for everybody and they're turning their backs on civil rights." Mondale said. "You know it. I know it. Don't let them get away with it. "Mr. Reagan gets four more years and the far right, Jerry Fallwell and his crowd, may get five more justices and then where do we go for justice?" Mondale asked. The prospects of a Reagan landslide also increased chances of Republican gains in the House, but not enough for the Democrats to lose control. If Republicans pick up 20 to 25 seats, however, they could be back in the situation Reagan enjoyed in his first two years in office when enough conservative Southern Democrats crossed the aisle to pass his economic program. 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