Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 254, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1979 Page: 4 of 28
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hopeful's expiring campaign to the
already Tolling Carter bandwagon,
thus keeping alive his dream of one
feachers invested a lot of time and
money to give you the best possible
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Seems that a lot of people do not
believe that there is anooilshortage.
and held on last November, tells the
audience of his main concern
fast as in my youth, and I sometimes
have to wait until after midnight to
• safely cross the road to my mailbox
Eventually we will run out of all
fossil fuels, especially oil, and
unreasonable searches or seizures I
just thought I would remind some of
the people who might be reading this,
in case they have forgotten.
assist in verification All letters
will be verified for authenticity
prior to publication
To assure a fair hearing for all.
letters must be limited to a 400-
word maximum Anonymous
letters are never printed
Address your letters to "Our
Readers Say"’ Denton Record-
Chronicle, P 0 Box 369, Denton.
Texas 76201.
We see a shift in the administration’s
attitude toward the feminist movement:
Success depends on an alliance with
traditional middle-class values
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WASHINGTON - There art many
things which Lynda Johnson Robb
knows about firsthand and intimately
She knows for example, how it feels
never to quite have an identity of your
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It is now almost 11 p m., 15 hours
after his working day began, and he is
heading on foot toward his bachelor
apartment, a briefcase in one hand,
and a plastic-wrapped suit, returned
from the cleaners, slung over his
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city paid for the board members
wives’ expenses
Members of the utility board
have elected instead to have two
or three members of the board
attend and then share the in-
formation they gained with other
members of the board on their
return
Mayor Bill Nash also made the
point in his arguments that his
wife "works as much for the city
as he does," and therefore should
go with him to Seattle at tax-
payers’ expense
We are in no position to argue
with the mayor as to how much
time his wife spends at City Hall
or on other city business, but we
can point out with certainty that
no one elected or appointed her to
any position of authority that
would burden her with respon-
sibility
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WERE THINKING OF PERMITTING YOU PEOPLE TO ■
PROPOSE use BY INTWKTVE, BUT OF COURSE
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— Abrahom Licoln
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON — It is always a
special experience to come back to
this capital after a trip abroad. Its
physical beauty overwhelms you and
lifts your spirits As a rule, the
returning traveler finds more cause
for cheer than those who — with their
noses to the government grindstone —
have never been away.
[/wilting back at the column written
after the last such absence — in the
fall of 1977, when I went to China and
Japan — there is evidence for this
proposition At the time, people were
pronouncing the1 Carter ad-
ministration "in shambles," because
Bert Lance had just been forced to
Robb may alienate poor women
congressman, who won in a normally
Republican suhurhandistricLin-—dayLworking in the -White House—
fluence, says "If I were a lawver and
had a law firm to go back to. I d quit
this Congress so 'fast you wouldnt
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By DAVID BRODERa""" " " "
The first automobile that I ever aw
was purchased bv a doctor in our
town I was about 4 years of age, and I
barely remember my first sight of it
We lived out at the edge of town in the
middle of a cotton patch, and the little
car came down a sandy lane that
served as a rood by our house The •
sand was deep, and the wheels of the
car did not correspond with the deep
ruts cut by the passage of wagons and
buggies, and on this occasion the little
car was having a difficult time, and
the several spectators who were
walking and trotting alongside
shouting advice were having to push
in sandier spots, but when a firm
place in the road appeared they had
trouble, keeping up with the con-
traption.
They finally went over the hill and
Congress, and President Carters
efforts to nudge the Middle East
nations toward a Geneva summit
conference appeared stymied
At the time, I thought and wrote that
the judgment that the administration
. was "an unmitigated disaster—--
think the blacks will I don't think
on Iran
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another argument for taxpayers
sending him and his wife to
Seattle, with expenses paid, the
fact that he was working long and
hard on city business, and the trip
would serve as some . com-
pensation for those hours
We agree that no one forced the
mayor to run for office He
volunteered for the job, not once,
but twice.
It seems a strange reason for
asking the taxpayers to pay the
expenses for his wife to go to an
important utility meeting instead
of sending an individual who has
the responsibility of supervising
and regulating this city's utility
system
educating these people ”
The confusion in rationale came
when it was discovered that by
"these people," the mayor meant
his wife and the wives of the other
councilmen, instead of the
members of the Utility Board
who, under the terms of the city
charter, have the responsibility of
serving as “a consulting, ad-
visory and supervisory body,”
including the preparation of the
city’s annual utility budget
Traditionally, the city has in-
vited members of the utility
board to attend this important
meeting. However, seldom, if
ever, have all members of the
board attended, and never has the
The congressman's latest vexation
involves pressure on himself and his
hometown parish priest and bishop
from right-to-Hfe activists, but hrs
anger goes beyond that ' I'm just
getting buried in trivia and I'm sick of
seeing people trim," he says
Scene Three At a trade association
dinner that night, another Democratic
telligence and openness, it is difficult
not to see the choice of Robb, like the
choice of Sarah Weddington the
president's adi iser as a changing of
the guard
nurhber and variety to allow any solid
conclusions, but they all point in a
single direction a sense of truly deep
disquiet among the governing
Democrats, almost a sickness of the
soul
Scene One: On a stopover in New
Thecountryworkson the squeaks
wheel theory, and the middle class E
often squeaks loudest
"I've been Lady Bird s
looks like a classic case of
. overreact ion
Returning now, after a month in
’Britain and Canada, to a Washington
beset by doubts about the economy,
energy and both Carter's and the
Congress' leadership. It is less easy to
dismiss the widespread fears that
things are unraveling
"Carter has just lost touch with the
Democratic party," he says Tin
afraid that it heris our candidate, we
won't, get any turnout of the
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worked better for the middle class
than for the lower class. Abortion is
now a right reserved, for all practical
purposes, to the hon-poor. The ac-.
ceptance of day care has provided
more in the way of moral support for
middle-class mothers than inservices
for poorer mothers Even sex
discrimination cases, like the one al
the telephone company, "have ended
up helping educated women more
often than working class women
especially perhaps with the working
women, the working-class women and
the poor
We now see a shift to the idea that
success depends on building an
alliance with more traditional middle
class values and with women who are
homemakers
Abzug was fired because she con
fronted the president and because she
took sides against him on economic
issues, especially the issues ot
working class” women and he poor
Robb was appointed quite con
sciously, because she could, as ‘he
administration said rrach out to
other married, mothering, mddle
class homemakers
The women s movement has like
almost every other mm lai movement
Want to have your say about
community-related problems, to
be heard, to have an influence on
events that shape your city,
county, state, nation 2
The Record-Chronicle
welcomes letters from its
readers; however, letters must
include' the signature and full
address of the author, plus a
telephone number, if available, to
out of-sight, and I and the remainder
of my family who had watched from
the unscreened doorway of our home
stood and stared across the wilted
cotton plants and the dancing heat
waves of midsummer and marveled
at what we had seen
No gas shortage huh’ That was
close to three quarters of a century
ago I do not live on a major highway
but if traffic . is as constant
everywhere as it is by my home. I
can t see how we can have enough gas
to last anther two weeks even if the.
earth has only a 12 inch crust and is
full of refined gasoline I am not as
very public role and from the
peripbery of ’be women's movement
to a hot seat — the chair from which
FOR GODSAKE- IF YOU WERE
RENY FOR SELF-GO/LRANMGAFT, YOU ,
CERIAINLY WOULDNT HAVE ELECTED US.
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If--
. labor can turn out a vote for Carter
It s going to be tough for guys like me
it Carter's on that ticket
Scene Four The balmy night
beckons, and the reporter decides to
walk a way before catching a cab
home Two blocks from the White
House, he meets a young deputy
assistant to the president Three years
ago this spring, the young man
managed the difficult leap from a
s losing Democratic presidential
daughter, Chuck's wife and Cindy.
Cathy and Jennifer's mother "
She knows too about the problems of
being a homemaker in an era that
often devalues that rote “I was at a
back "We had to put together "
—- HFhe- trouble-—ts, he cohfiriues?
"He’s a leader who takes nobody with
him He s lost whatever power he had
to persuade "
Scene Two At a reception on
Capitol Hill, one of the ablest
Democrats in the House, a 10-year
veteran still young enough to look
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in the women’s worth a bag of peanuts
Vet for all of her goodwill, in
congressman, frustrated with inability
to change the nation's course r
party and a doctor said.to me, wha: —Bella- Abzug was' so crudely ejected
.else do you do aside from being a Yet sitting in the ballroom-sized
mother’ I said to him, what else do green and white living room of her
you do besides being a doctor’" plush McLean: Va home, as she got
Now she also knows what it is like to her children "off to school and
be a working mother There are the organized her day. I couldn t help
pros "We are all coming to have a thinking about what she didn't know
desire to do something on our own " 'he issues As she put it herself. "I feel
And the cons "Pressure like the exam is tomorrow and I ve
Moreover this 35-year-old woman been cutting class "
who has grown from awkwardness to Lynda Robb ts a good student and
assurance has a sense of uhat she she s cramming hard As need of a
represents in her new job as chair of committee with little power - it is not
•he Presidents Advisory Committee even technically “allowed to lobby -
on Women "Women like me care but with high visibility, her exam will
about women's issues but have not be graded by women and by Carter,
been active There are a lot of people whose popularity among women s
out there who feel they have not been rights activists at the moment isn t
To the Editot
To the persons who spray painted
an obscenity on my drveway in large
white letters, may Isay I am sorry if
this was all high school graduation
.meant to you The taxpayers and
To the Editor, top 100 or so Texas state officials were
Our beloved Gov. Bill Clements to be the first ones tapped, then this
"Nixon Memorial Wiretap Law, as it fascist-type legislation would never be
is termed by Port Arthur Sei Carl seriously considered
Parker, is a foot into the door of By the way, our U.S Constitution
"1984." ■ protects the individual in the right of
The author, Eric Blair, who went by privacy in his person, papers, and
the name of George Orwell, described property and also
in his novel “1984'’ how the police
voters I
would monitor • all citizens
sporadically and-or constantly, in
eluding the other policemen
Once telephones are economically
feasible enough to have their visual
counterpart, Arhericans better watch
very closely the actions of their
government to prohibit our elected
officials from using "progress”
against us.
Perhaps if a condition of the Nixon
Memorial Wiretap Law” was that the
This ts the constituency which
Lynda Johnson Robb will appeal to in
her new job She has been thrust from
a relatively personal life as wife of the
lieutenant governor of Virginia to a
York en route home from Canada, a
. conversation with a black civil rights
leader who has been both a comrade
and critic of Carter "I talk in a dif
.ferent town almost every night," he
says, "and I've got totellyou, his
support has just disappeared. Fean‘t
find ANYBODY standing up for
Carter.
But the women's rghis
organizations especially those who
quit the Advisory Committee in the
wake of he Abzug Affair - have kept
their sense of commitment to the
poor, the working woman, the
displaced' homemaker, the single
parent
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Sarah Weddington has stressed m
ceveral speeches lately her fear that
the movement divided employed
women and homemakers Lynda
Robb s appointment is meant to heal
his gap Robb is a quick study and a
caring, forthright woman and it would
be a shame if in the attempt to heal
one breach we ended up emphasizing
another - the gap between the
classes
Both of these women's
predecessors, Midge Costanza and
Bella Abzug — whatever their flaws
were part of an ideology trying to
build a movement that would cut
across class lines Their definition of
success depended on building an
alliance with all women, but
< en’ually. too, we will surely find a
suitable substitute Wasn t the con
sensus opinion a few sears ago to use
up all the foreign oil first and to keep
our own for an emergency ’ D W
Smotherman
reslutions usally are hke the ones
peopie make on New Year » Dav thee
sound good but they aw t binding
This time though ‘he resolution go'
resul’s Hie Senate * condemnation ot
revolutionary ustice in Iran ha-
added a new cotnpli al son te relations
between Che llu Led Statesand wha
was a key ally in the Middie East
There may be more to come Therr
already is preasure in the Senate for
the administratn to offer asylum’te
he depud Shah of Iran trathded ar
ou’law and sentenced to death be the
new regime
The remnluhon the Senate adopter!
last Thursday with no disnent was its
Ils' of ihe yeat They are not laws
only exprensions of Mnate opinion on.
one matter or another
Bui tills one hit home, at least 11
Tehran It was propord by Sen
Jacob K Javits R N Y and I’ .
denounced theexrcuton of more than
200 Iranians by order of Islami
courts under the neu regime The
Iranians retorted by assailing Jai its
and by telling the administration nor
‘0 send its new ambashador to Tehran
as scheduled
While Javits took the lead the
resolution had 20 sponsors and among
'hem were sen Frank Church. D
Idaho, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee Majority leader
Robert C Byrd D A Va and
Minority Leader Howard H Baker
Jr R Tenn
On three occasions, the ad
ministration has publicly criticired
'he summary trials and exe utions in
Iran. aithougt less vehementiy that
the Seiate -teeluttom
Tbe State Department was con
dilatory on Monday, urging Iran to
accept the new ambassador in order
to resolve misunderstandings bet
ween the two countries. Ironically the
administration decided to send a new
envoy to help ease relations with
revolutionary Iran
something for me president on
energy," he says Jerry Brown s
coming in tomorrow to complain '
in the street light, he looks much
older than he had thre years ago
Sene l- ive The next afternoon, al
the White House The reporter is
waiting for clearance for an ap
pointment , and suddenly the president
moves down ihe corridor, headed for
the cameras and an explanation of his
efforts to relieve the California
gasoline shortage —,1
He pauses a moment to shake hands
and say a lew words, and, close-up, in
late afternoon, his face and body show
the marks of fatigue, the eyes red
——rimmed and'deeply shaiFiw-M. Ihe
shoulders slumped. ——
And you realize, suddenly, that it is
not just young congressmen and
presidential assistants who are
feeling the strain (c) 1979. The
Washington Post Company
The rationale that has been
emanating from the Denton City
Council chamber in recent days
gets stranger and stranger
The latest example was tne
decision, at this week s council
meeting by a majority of the
council, to pay the expenses of the
council members’ wives to attend
the annual meeting of the
American Public Power
Association, but to pay no ex-
penses for any member of the
Public Utility Board to attend the
same meeting The meeting will
be held in Seattle June 15-21
The mayor was high in his
praise of the expertise that will be
available at the meeting, and of
the valuable knowledge that
attendance at the meeting will
provide for making the major
decisions facing Denton’s
municipal utility system. In fact.
'Carter has just lost touch with the
Democratic Party," says the young
believe if I've never been • more
frustrated w ith what I see going on
And it gets uglier all the time "
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