News Scrapbook 1984

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Student Stands 0 t Strongly as Reaganite San D,egan Carl Moore opposes abortion, favors a military or national ervice draft and ts v. hemenlly against the equal rights mendment And like most of his friends at he Umvers1ty of San Diego, 19-year-old Carl Moore 1s also a loyal supporter of Pr ,dent Reagan's reelection campaign. Moore wa born m 1965, a little more than a year before Ronald Reagan was first el ctcd governor of California. To hlm, Reagan "America in one person. He's our o. I ambassador." oore is one of about 20 collegiate Republicans from USO who spent the weekend painting signs, distributmg flyers and doing other odds and ends to prepare for Reagan's speech Monday at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego. Hts JOb Monday afternoon was to help control a crowd that police estimated was 11,000 strong and to hand out pro- Please aee STUDENT, Page 2 By DANIEL M. WEI TRAUB, Times Staff Writer

BARBARA MARTIN / Loi Aogel Tunff County Administration Center, below, to catch a wave, above, from the President of the United States.

USO student Carl Moore, left, was one of more than 11,000 San Oiegans who turned out for the rally at the

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STUDENT: Supporting President Continued from Pa,e 1 Reagan signs With slogans like "We Love Ronald Reagan" and "Four More Years." But mostly, the red. hite and blue-clad sophomore It.cod around and looked young and Republican. 2 Held During Reagan Visit Two people were detained Monday in connection With President Reagan's visit to San Diego, police spokesman Bill Robinson said. ,

The youth vote, once Virtually taken for granted by Democrats, appears LO have shifted sharply since . Reagan took office. One recent national poll found that voters ages 18 to 21 supported Reagan over Walter Mondale by a margin of63% to 18%,rtronger than any other group. Moore thinks he knows why. Seea 'Positive Future' "Reagan offers a posiUve future," .Moore said of the 73-year-old President's appeal to college students. "lt's a future of proIIUSe rather than a dim VJew that we ought to be scared of the future . I think that's what most young people would like to see. They'd rather look forward than go back to the past." Moore is a native San Diegan whose family moved LO central Oregon 10 years ago. Hts father works as an operator on the Pelton Dam. Hts mother is an adnurustrator for a special education program in Culver, Ore. "She's a moderate," Moore says of his mother, almost apologlZl!lg. "But you've got to figure, &he's a teacher." \\'hen he returned to San Dlego to enroll at USO a year ago, Moore said, he was astonished at the number of liberals he found. "Coming to a pnvate school, you'd ..Reagan offers a positive future ..: rather than a dim view that we ought to be scared of the future.'' -c..tMoe.-e think most of the people would be really conserva- tive," he said. "I was surprised at how liberal some people could be. It's mostly the teachers, they're really liberal." How liberal? "They think we're really interfering Jn Central Aroenca. They think we're doing wrong by supporting people who are trying revolution to form a democratic governmenL I don't agree with that. I actively support people m any coimtry who try to better themselves their human needs or liberty." • Admires Tourh lmare

A 17-year-old boy was picked up after directing what Robinson called "unsubstantiated threats" to- ward the PreSJdent. The youth, whose name was Withheld because he is a minor, was released later to the custody of his parents in Coronado. Howard John Shine, 10, of San Dlego, was arrested after he stepped m front of Reagan's motorcade as it moved down Harbor Drive from the airport. Robmson &a.1d Shine was contacted by police because of his behaVior and jailed when it was learned that he had some outstanding misdemeanor warrants. ., "There wasn 't enough propaganda," Moore said. "Usually in a war, they wh!p the public up, get 'em really behmd it. get support bebmd the war effort. The government just didn't give people enough informa- tion." Moore said he would be willing to fight in Nicaragua if President Reagan .decided America ought to lend overt support to the. groups trying to overthrow the Sanctirusta government. What does he think 1 or those Please see STUDENJI', Pllge 3 • L people, Moore said.

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Continued from Page 2 who beheve the United States should keep out of Central Amenca? "J don't agree with them," he said flatly. "Why don't they be ieve you should support democracy? Why don't they believe m wars? Sometimes they have to be fought. Sometimes 1t comes down to blows." Moore said he's not the best person to ask about the shift m young people's attitudes, because he would have been a conservative m any era. If he had been in

college m the 1960s, he said, "J would have been one of those guys wearing a skinny tie, catching a lot of hell. I don't go with the flow. I'm not a conformist." But it's nice to have philosophical company, even if its motivations sometimes perplex you. "These are the kids corning from parents who were on the picket lines in the '60s," Moore said of his Republican classmates. "Are they doing it to spite their parents, or do they really support Reagan? I don't know."

A Wiry, baby-faced youth who admits his physical appearance Is anything but macho, Moore admires the tough foreign policy image that Reagan once again put forth in his speech Monday. "He won't take any guff from the RusSJanS," Moore said while waiting for the President's motorcade to amve. Moore had not been born when the first U.S. troops were sent to Southeast Asia. Still, he said, he has read a lot about the SUbJeCt and supports the "police action in Vietnam." Hts only regret iii the lack of public support the effort got "on th!! home front" The Uruted States I IIUght have won had the government been more effective in getting Its message across LO the American

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