13,011si4rs liVeklition site , ••••••••••• L WEST on Bureau INGTON — Republican White House officials are g Dallas as a likely site for -,op Convention, a nation- (leer said Tuesday. h the convention is nearly s away, meetings have al- 'n place at the White begin preparing for the Roger Allan Moore, gen- ol of the Republican Na- mittee. A tentative open- Aug. 20, 1984, has been n, he said. certainly meets a lot of ." that have been set for Moore said. However, ;election is not expected •time next year and a cities are expected to be he emphasized. 'avoring the selection of ude the belief that it friendly city to Republi- "e Reagan — who is ex- .k re-election — has not it deal of time and might n added exposure, Moore ps more important, Dal- Central Time Zone, con- 1 for reaching the widest me-time television audi- led. rty rules, a site selection made up of representa- iround the country must a convention city to the National Committee. ,publican in the White wever, the President's (ely to be the most im- :tor in the committee's inistration spokesman hat White House chief of A. Baker HI, a Houston talked with party offi- the convention and that of towns have been Ind." But deputy White ; secretary Peter Roussel es have been ruled in or in Tuesday's editions of York Times said that counselor Edwin Meese it the White House were lard Dallas as the con- • The paper added that me town of Los Angeles possibility. re insisted Los Angeles has already been eliminated because the 1984 Olympic Games will be taking place there that month. Dallas was one of seven cities that competed for the 1980 Republican Convention and reportedly came within one vote of winning. The convention was awarded instead to Detroit. • Moore noted that Dallas officials have yet to write for an apPlication for the 1984 convention, a prerequi- site for formal consideration by the party. Moore, a Boston attorney with longtime ties to Reagan, is the general counsel of the site selection and arrangements committees, in addition to his other duties with the national committee.' One of the leaders in Dallas' un- successful drive for the 1980 con- vention. Republican state Sen. John Leedom, said he was contacted about a 1984 bid earlier this month by county GOP Chairman Fred Meyer. Leedom expressed confi- dence city officials would agree to compete for the right to host the event. But another Texan who played a key role in the city's first effort at wooing the Republicans, former Midland Mayor Ernest Angelo, says the city's prospects of winning the next convention should be viewed in a different light. "If the people of Dallas really wanted it badly, we Texans on the (Republican National) Committee would certainly get behind it," he said. Because of. thePar- ty's strong position in the state, however, landing the convention in Dallas "would be less important this time than in '80." Angelo, a leader of the Reagan forces in Texas, said party leaders might decide to boost Republican strength in another part of the country in 1984, leading them to pick another city over Dallas. . • And a political factor that could work against the selection of Dallas is, ironically, the fact that Vice President George Bush is from Tex- as. Anti-Bush conservatives, who could find themselves challenging the vice president for the presiden- tial nomination in 1984, would like- ly object to having to fight him in his home state. A Bush spokeswoman, Shirley Green, said Tuesday the vice presi-. dent plans to stay far away from the convention site selection process. 0 (t) 0 pl(6k5 P< r•t CpL By SARALEE TIEDE '0 Austin Bureau 2.' a,•10 41 1c-j 5 U) , • 9 . ..... • 0 0 ui ' .. ,:.• ..... S.+ z •-• c.., z.1 Fq 6 -t, - c....m ? Y.• ' 1 ;74 . - . :c i c` 1 ' '. . 7'3 • Ez1SIL714, t. cJw8Ewn8 g _C.- (-• I- 4 •-' t: c c 0 . c:, - a, v.) a A. ..1, c - — c., .,... .2 '7. '0 L. ';': cn .... u ...Ne _.!.. I C •••••4 Is L., 7.7. CU (..) 0 C.) (S3 p :7, c . 1: ,.. 2 0 .c to 0 CO „...... • 6 1.4 1.4 0 CD (I) C. - : 1. CO . ). 3cn 2 CI 4.. >. ..7'. •-• ,.) C4) CI Vi 10 X .-+ VI 2 « f) ;-: (-1 • 0.) C., '..-7 ...0 C cn I —Y g 1:34 ' ct;C ti) G.) • — C Z 0 P t ij C/) >0 0 .p.j .9...J ..." c., t A 3 8 4
