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Monday. November 13.1978
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THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Friends reach beyond buddies
viewpoint
Goodman
shackle
companies
Harvey
NO, THAT’S
in share disenchantment
Anderson
What’s
your
opinion?
A
verified for authenticity prior to
publication.
Israelis were elated over their first that he had developed a warm per-
Clements would like them to.
Clements has also promised to
shut-off Texas’ oil and gas lines if
whilst women ask fewer proofs and
more signs and expressions cof at-
tachment."
Well, she thought, on the whole, men
had- buddies, while women had
friends. Buddies bonded, but friends
loved. Buddies faced adversity
together, but friends faced each other
There was something palpably
.different in the way they spent their
WELL-HoHO My BOV,
THAT'S ON THING TH
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
CAN'T DO!
Bill Clements:
promises to keep
Carter, B
By JACK ANDERSON ——
Syndicated Columnist
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Washington today -
A compatible Congress
what might happen to Bill
. Clements' promises once he takes
office Jan. 16.
strong educational system — go
where the money is the best.
The legislature will probably
It is time to cut through the provide more money to the
campaign rhetoric and look at classroom instructors than
contacts with Carter. -
The new president invited Begin's
predecessor, then-Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, upstairs into the
. family quarters of the White House.
• By ELLEN GOODMAN
Syndicated Columnist
BOSTON — It was, in many ways, a
slight movie. Nothing actually hap-
pened. There was no big-budget chase
scene, no bloody shoot-out. The story
ended without any cosmic con-
clusions.
Yet she found Claudia Weill’s film,
“Girlfriends,” gentle and affecting.
Slowly, it panned across the tapestry
of friendship — showing its fragility,
its resiliency, its role as the con-
necting tissue between the lives of two
young women.
When it was over, she thought about
the movies she'd seen this year —
"Julia,” “The Turning Point" and
now "Girlfriends.” It seemed that the
peculiar eye, the social lens of the
cinema, had drastically shifted its
focus. Suddenly the Male Buddy
movies had been replaced by the
Female Friendship flicks.
This wasn't just another binge of
SANTA, DYOU SUPPOSE
YOU COULD FLAP YOUR
ARMS AN’ FLY TOTH’
MOON FOR ME?
TELL YA WHAT OL' SANTAS
GON DO, SONNY- I'M
GONNA SHUT OFF TH’
GAS AT TH STATE ONE
IF WE DON’T GET A FAIR,
PRICE FROM THOSE
YANKEES
hunters and Hemingways, inherited a
primal capacity for friendship In
contrast, they portrayed women
picking on each other, the way they
once picked berries
Well, that duality must have been
mortally wounded in some shootout at
the You're O.K., I’m O.K. Corral.
About 150 years ago, Coleridge had
written that, "A woman’s friendship
THEN I’M GONNA CUT
- THOUSANDS A PEOPLE
OFF TH STATE PAYROLL!
— A motorcycle handlebar loaded
with shotgun shells The Handlebar
acted as a gun barrel'; the shells could
be fired by pushing a button.
— A firearm disguised as an or-
dinary smoking pipe.
buddies, college buddies and club
buddies. Men often keep their buddies
in these categories, while women keep
a special category for friends.
A man once told her that men
weren't real buddies until they've
been "through the wars" together —
corporate or athletic or military. They
had to soldier together, he said.
But — the product may not be put
back on the market. The government
ban stands — because the company
"has not proved that it does not cause -
cancer."
word.
Begin told associates in confidence
that Carter would put on a show of
blue-eyed sincerity until he got an
agreement but that Carter’s com-
mitments had a way of evaporating
afterward. The Israeli leader spoke
bitterly of Carter’s "deception" and
negotiations —-
Yet Carter dispatched Assistant
State Secretary Harold Saunders to
Jordan and Saudi Arabia with the
message that the United States still
felt Israeli occupation of East
Jerusalem and the West Bank was
step.
Reducing the state’s budget by
$400 million and cutting 25,000
employees off the state’s payroll
are the two promises Clements
will have the hardest time
The relationship began to sour
as their private understandings,
one after another, developed Into
misunderstandings
- Hemingways, inherited a primal
capacity for friendship
By WALTER R. MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Carter is going to have to get along
with a more conservative Congress,
but on a good many issues he may not
find it all that difficult.
If the Senate is a bit more con-
servative than it used to be, so is
Carter, by his own account.
He’ll get no argument from con-
servatives on his call for government
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have detected and confiscated some of
these hidden devices. -
Once they expropriated a leather
wallet which contained a derringer
capable of firing 22- magnum or long
rifle slugs. Another time, they
discovered a folded knife in a tooth-
paste tube. Here are a few other
weapons that they have seized:
- An imitation coin that concealed
a two-bladed, stainless steel knife.
— A money clip that looked per-
fectly innocent. But under the folded
bills was a sharp blade that could
easily kill.
— A 12-gauge shotgun concealed in
a car door. When the door was opened,
the barrel pointed directly at anyone
approaching the car. The shotgun
could be fired by a trip wire attached
to the dashboard
verite. For once the movies were
reflecting a shift, not just from men to
women but from one definition of
friendship to another.
Across millions of miles of celluloid,
the ideal of friendship had always
been male — a world of sidekicks and
. “pardners,” of Butch Cassidys and
Sundance Kids. There had been
something almost atavistic about
THEN I’M GONNA CUT
TH STATE BUDGET BY
600 MILLION BUCKS!
misunderstandings. Each leader
blamed the other for going back on his
carry a variety of fancy weapons. But
alert Customs Department inspectors
of the Abbott company’s many
products, but by now the company had
decided to determine the “why” of
this government policy if only to
anticipate similar edicts banning
other products.
So Abbott submitted results from
100 separate studies affirming that
cyclamate was safe; that diabetes
sufferers need it as a sugar substitute.
But in early November of this year,
the Food and Drug Administration
came back with the doggondest ruling
ever
In essence, it is now true that there
is no evidence that cyclamate causes
cancer — or any other physical ill. - 1
austerity, his promise to veto what he
regards as excessive spending and his
Vows to cut the federal budget deficit.
There will inevitably be ample
argument about where to cut spen-
dingf but Carter may be debating that
with liberals in his own Democratic
. Party about as often as with the
Republicans,
SoCarter the economizer is likely to
find the new Congress a compatible
one.
For two hours, they talked in private.
Carter expressed deep personal after another, developed into
feelings for Israel. Our sources
Women, on the other hand, didn’t
borders more closely on love than count themselves as friends until
WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter
and Menachem Begin can put on a
show of smiling solidarity when the
occasion demands. But behind the
pleasantry, the American and Israeli
chief executives have grown to
distrust and dislike one another.
Ironically, they make the same
complaints against each other. The
president has grumped to intimates
that Begin will seem to agree to a
concession but will back off after
encountering political opposition at
home.
The Israeli prime minister, in turn,
has grumbled privately that Carter
will talk as if he favors a position
Then in 1970 the U.S. Food and Drug Z
Administration (FDA) banned the use
of cyclamate, saying that laboratory
tests indicated it might cause cancer
in animals.
In the years since we have learned a
great deal about such lab tests For
one thing, that, if administered in_________
massive doses, almost anything will
kill a mouse. .
In late 1973 Abbott submitted to the
FDA the results of two new studies .
which indicated that cyclamate was
entirely safe for human consumption
For three years the FDA reconsidered
the evidence; then, in 1976, decided it
would not allow cyclamate to be
returned to the market.
Cyclamate is a minuscule fraction
movies, they would die for each other,
but never hug each other.
She’d re-read "Babbitt" recently,
that extraordinary catalogue of male
grievances. The only relationship that
gave meaning to the claustrophobk-
life of George Babbitt had been with
Paul Riesling. But not once in the .
tragedy of their lives had one been
able to say to the other: You make a
difference
Even now men shocked,her at times
with their description of friendship.
Does this one have a best friend?
"Why, of course, we see each other
every February." Does that one call
his most intimate pal long-distance?
"Why, certainly, whenever there's a
real reason.” Do those two old churns
ever have dinner together’ "You
mean alone? Without our wives’"
Yet, things were changing The
ideal of intimacy wasn't this parallel
playmate, this teammate, this trench-
mate Not even in Hollywood. In the
double standard of friendship, for
once the female version was
becoming accepted as the general
ideal
After all, a buddy is a fine life-
companion But one's friends, as
Santayana once wrote, “are that part
of the race with which one can be
human " (c) 1978. The Boston Globe
Newspaper Company
FDA bans
Bill Clements. The first
Republican governor in 104 years
of Texas history has four years to
make good on his promises.
But Clements has already
shown the people of Texas that he
believes in the old adage, “Where
there’s a will, there’s a way."
the West Bank controversy during the . versations but everything said in your
delicate Israeli-Egyptian peace home; electronic or radiowave bugs
smaller than a match book; two-way.
peekaboo mirrors;. “sniperscopes"
capable of scanning a house perfectly
from 100 yards in total darkness
The cloak-and-dagger boys also
" — Buddies seek approval. But friends
> • " seek acceptance.
She knew so many men who had
Movies portrayed the idea that been trained in restraint, afraid of ‘
■ PAL 1 eachother’s judgment or awkward
only men, those direct descent with each other's affection. She
dents of hunters and wasn't sure which. Like buddies in the
which he may later renounce. He has described his attitude toward Israel
a habit of emphasizing what his as “almost religious.” The president
listeners want to hear. But when the swore to Rabin that the United States
chips are down, Carter may repudiate would preserve Israel. He would see
what he earlier seemed to accept, to it, Carter said, that "Israel con-
Begin has complained. tinues to exist for a thousand years.”
This mutual disenchantment has Later, Begin also came away from
grown out of a relationship that his first White House visit glowing. He
started out to be positively cozy. The returned to Israel to report happily
By PALL HARVEY
Syndicated Columnist
A former president of Abbott
Laboratories, George Cain, once
startled a stockholders’ meeting by
describing all the problems the
company was having in a country he
identified as "X "
After he had recited the long list of
arbitrary, dictatorial, rules,
regulations and restraints — the
frightful unnecessary cost of trying to
operate in a country where the ruling
bureaucracy was frequently in con-
flict with itself- stockholders were
indignant _____________
Why didn’t the company give up, get
out, stop even trying to do business in
a country where it was not ap-
preciated®.
After his stockholders were thus
unanimously aroused. President Cain
revealed that "Country X" was The
United States.
You could have heard a pin drop -
Cyclamate, a chemical sweetener,
was used for years as a substitute for
sugar in soft drinks, candy and other
foods. Diabetics ecame particularly
dependent on cyclamate as a
sweetener..
sonal relationship with Carter. Begin
assured subordinates that the
president was a staunch friend of
Israel. illegal
But the relationship began to sour
m . Saunders mission infuriated the-
as their private understandings, one Israelis who reacted angrily by ex-
panding their West Bank settlements.
They fear the U.S. policy would bring
the Soviet-backed Palestinian
Liberation Organization to power in
the occupied areas and, thereby,
would increase Kremlin influence in
the Middle East.
Discussing this danger behind
closed doors, Begin told associates
firmly: “(Egypt's President) Sadat
doesn’t want it! (Jordan's King)
Hussein doesn't want it! And Israel
won’t tolerate it!" -
Begin confided sadly that he had
lost his faith in Carter. The Israeli
leader recalled a statement that has
been attributed to former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger: “It’s a
mistake to think you can compel a big
power to do something because of a
pact. If we want to help you, we’ll do
it. If not, no agreement can force our
hand."
SECRET WEAPONS: The James
Bond industry is every bit as fantastic
During the campaign Clements the deregulation program ap-
promised the voters of the Lone proved by Congress follows the
Star state a number of things; a course oil and gas producers in
“Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights," an Texas believe it will. Whether
increase in teachers’ salaries, a Clements will actually keep
fight against the de regulation of Texas’ supply . of natural
gas and oil prices, a cut in the resources in the state is
state’s budget and a reduction in debatable. Politically-minded
the number of state employees, people in Austin have said the
Clements in now faced with a Republican will not take or may
tough question; Did he promise not be able to take ^at drastic a
too much to the voters?
Legislative leaders are already
talking about how tough it is going
to be for a Republican governor to
work with a Democratic
legislature. However, there are a
number of things working in keeping
Clements’ favor. , nill Speaker of the House Bill
First, a ‘Taxpayer’s Bill of Clayton has already said that the
Rights will find little opposition budget being prepared for next
in the legislature. Following last year is as trim a budget as can be
summer’s special session tax produced; there is little to be cut.
revision was an area legislatorsAnd if the governor-elect wants
earmarked for further discussion to take 25,000 employees off the
in anuary for Clements public payroll, people in Austin
.Score one for Clements, think he will have to cut off an
Whether or notall his ideas of tax entire state agency,
revision will be adopted by the elements has a different ap-
legislature during Ite five-month proach, however.
meeting is debatable. But there Since there is a high turnover in ,
will be more breaks for the state jobs, Clements said he
taxpayers when all is said and would not hire as many people to
done. * >n 1 . fill positions from which current
Teachers’salaries will also be a employees either quit or retire,
topic of discussion in Austin Instead, the Republican leader
- during the legislative session, said he would hire 80 people for
During the course of his cam- every 100 who leave the state's
paign, Clemente spoke out in employment, and over the course
favor of raising teachers of four years this would amount to
salaries; not an across-the-board 25 000 fewer state,employees
raise, but merit raises. .... employees.
On this item Clements will There is a tough road ahead for
probably meet with success,
possibly more than he would like.
Educators in Texas want to be
: competitive. They claim that
good teachers — the basis for a
some pop anthropology book on male together . — - moaned, “Can you believe me? A 35-
bonding. Buddies came linked, like ac- year-old lawyer, making a chicken
Movies portrayed the idea that only cessories, to one activity or another call?" Together they laughed and
men. those direct descendents of People have golf buddies and business made it better
man's. Men affect each other in the they’d shared three loathsome con-
trendiness, but a kind of cinema reflection of noble or friendly acts, fidences.
Buddies hang tough together;
friends hang onto each other.
It probably had something to do :
with pride. You don't show off to a
friend; you show need Buddies try to
keep the worst from each other;
friends confess It .
A friend of hers once telephoned her
lover, just to find out if he were home
She hung up without a hello when he
these visions of attachments — as if time. Buddies seemed to “do" things picked up the phone Later, wretched
producers culled their plots from together; friends simply ' were" with embarrassment, the friend
“duplicity." as the movie script writers have
The latest misunderstanding arose portrayed it.
over Israel’s disputed West Bank Real life James Bonds can tune in
settlements. According to Begin's on almost anyone with devices from a
version, an understanding had been catalog that includes: wirelaps which
reached at Camp David to soft-pedal . can pick up hot only phone con-
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