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### 13. Congess as well as me riesi ency?A. There are three basic questions that come up. In the first place, I do vor at least an automatic vote by residential electors once the general election is completed. I think the Electoral Colllege, for instance, should be iminated. Whether the ratio among cates of votes ought to be changed m not prepared to comment on now.Ine Knancing of Congres-onal elections by public funds-it has roved to be successful, I believe, in le Presidential election. I strongly favor that, yes. And the other element * the overall package would be a simple way. for American people who are tizens and 18 years old to register › vote. And I am committed to that roposition and the Vice President has raciously consented to take on this verall election process responsibility. hose three will be basic elements of de proposals.### 10. Relations With CubaQ. Mr. President, are you prepared lift the trade embargo against Cuba ; one step toward normalizing relations?A, I think any substantial move in ur relationship with Cuba would have › await further discussions with them directly, and also some tangible evi-ence on our part that they are willing › restore basic human rights in Cuba, volving the number of prisoners who e being held, their attitude toward verseas adventures such as the one Angola, and other matters. So I can't y what might come in the future. I'm willing, though, to discuss these atters with the Cuban leaders. At this me we have no direct relationships ith them, political. But through inter-ediaries comments are being exchanged back and forth. Most of my omments are in public statements like is, but we do have messages coming ack from people who visit Cuba.### 11. Defense Savings GoalQ. In answer to an earlier question, r. President, you said that you couldn't say whether next year's defense udget will be lower or higher than is year's. But as I understood your arlier postion, you did want to achieve five to seven billion dollar savings gardless of the overall level of spending. Do you still hold with that figure? that still your goal and a commit-ent?A. Yes. The analyses that I've made ' the defense budget so far-which ; you know has been limited to about month's study just part-time-indicate that that's a goal that will be ached.### 12. Natural Gas DeregulationQ. Mr. President, in letters to the overnors of Oklahoma, Texas and ouisiana last October, you said uncon-tionally that you would work with ongress to deregulate new natural as. And I wondered if you planned › keep that promise, and if so how ou will go about it?A. I don't know how I'll go about I do try to keep my promises. The osition that I have taken, and the osition. that the governors of Oklahoma and Texas took at governors con-rences to which I was referring, was me deregulation of natural gas for a mited period of time, four to five ears, to see how it works out, leaving xisting contracts in effect.is not to cause sacrifice or hardship among the American people. Unless I can demonstrate that in balance the temporary sacrifices in a certain area are far overcome by immediate and ultimate benefits then nobody's going to buy it.And I believe that we've now got such a horrible conglomeration of confusion in the energy field that nobody knows what's going to happen next. So I think that the sacrifices will be far overcome by the benefits that the American people will be easily able to discern for themsels.### 15. U.S. Role on CanadaQ. You said that in spite of the fact that the Canadian people would have to determine their future for themselves, particularly in regard to the separatism issue in Quebec that you had confidence that the issue would be straightened out relatively peacefully. Do you really think that there is little concern in this country about the future of a unified Canada and is there anything really that we can do about it?A. There's a great deal of concern in this country about the future of Canada and I have complete confidence, as I said in an interview with the Carnadian news media in the sound judgment of the Canadian people.I'm familiar and even more familiar today than I was two days ago after Prime Minister Trudeau's visit with the problems in Quebec and the inclination of some of the French Canadians to have an independent status from the rest of Canadian Provinces.I don't know what's going to be the ultimate outcome. But I believe that we are so closely tied together with Canada on a mutually beneficial basis, sharing problems, sharing opportunities, sharing trade, sharing manufactur-ing companies that have joint owner-ship, our exchange of energy sources, our sharing of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Great Lakes as far as water pollution is concerned, the bringing of Alaskan oil and natural gas down to us that we have got to have a continuing relationship with Canada.My own personal preference would be that the commonwealth stay as it is and that there not be a separate Quebec province. But that's a decision for Canadians to make and I would certainly make no private or public move to try to determine the outcome of that great debate.### 16. Keeping Campaign PromisesQ. Mr. President, you've had a month now to enjoy the view from the Oval Office. Do you think you'll be able to keep fully all the campaign promises you made?A. As you know, we have issued what I believe is the complete book of my campaign promises, which is, I presume, being made available to all of you. My determination is to keep all those promises.Obviously if circumstances should change I would have to reserve the right to go back to the American people and say "now that circumstances have changed this a better approach to that particular problem." But I will do my utmost to keep all the campaign promises that I made to the American people.### 17. Production of B-1Q. Mr. President, you said at various times during the campaign that the B-1lilave all accepted and I will be meeting with the heads of the nations in dispute, in the Middle East, all of them, before the end of May. The first visit of one of those leaders will be Mr. RabinL believe, March 12. And he will be fol lowed by the leaders from Egypt, from Jordan and from Syria, from Saudia Arabia and I look forward to meeting with them.At that point I hope I will have a very clear picture of what we the American Government ought to play. The same thing applies to the situa tion that exists between ourselves and Turkey, ourselves and Greece, our-selves and Cyprus.We can't impose our will on other people. But if they honestly want to seek a solution, we are perfectly willing to offer our good offices as a coun try with influence and interest to help them resolve their own differences. But it's got to be done primarily by those countries involved.We have begun again, and within the last week, our discussions on the Panama Canal Treaty. We have two! extremely good negotiators and I hope that we will have success there. There's, no way that I can say at this point what degree of progress we have made. His just beginning.So throughout the areas of high dis-pute, including South Africa and others that I don't have time to mention we're probing as best we can to discern some possibility of resolution of those tension areas.We are meeting today, in fact all this week with the British, to try to get a renewed proposal to make concerning the question surrounding Rho-desia. And then, of course, we'll still have left Nambia and ultimately ma-jority rule question in South Africa.But I've only been in office a month. I don't claim to know all the easy answers. And these questions that have are not going to be easy to solve. But we're going to do the best we can openly and forcefully offering our good services, not trying to impose our will on other people.Q. Thank you, Mr. President.### Carter Errs on Rabin And U.S.-Uganda TiesWASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (AP)-President Carter made two errors in his news conference today, which the White House staff later corrected.Mr. Carter used a wrong date. för the forthcoming visit to the United., States of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, of Israel. The President said that he thought the visit would take place March 12.The White House later corrected that to say "the proposed visit is tentatively planned for March 7 and 8."The White House also corrected the... President's statement that the United States does not have diplomatic relations with Uganda."This is not strictly accurate," the correction said, explaining:"While the United States has withdrawn its mission from Uganda and. has no direct diplomatic representation there, United States affairs in the Republic of Uganda are carried out. through the West German embassy and the Republic of Uganda has an operating embassy and charge d'affaires in Washington."Right-sudePAGE 3Воттом