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tion President, US. Delegate to the United Nation's
(Commission on the Status of Women and Director of
the Women's Bureau for the US. Department of
Labor. She holds more than 30 honorary decrees.
Women have never been certain what their rights
are, Koontz said.
"Women need to learn to regard power as a
natural right," Koontz said "But weVe always handed
power to everyone else and shied away from it
like shrunken violets.
"We have it in us but weVe been controlled," she
said. "Today, what we're about is change. The issue ia
to come together, bring about change and make it
better for all of us."
People should earn as much as their talents are
worth, Koontz said.
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ferently for their skilb, Koontz said.
Koontz pointed to two factors women should use
to evaluate their jobs.
First, the ability to handle interruptions while
continuing to give out and take in from several
different sources and handling it all at once with
efficiency, and second, frequently picking up lighter
objects. Men usually are paid a lot for picking up
heavy objects, but women frequently pick up lighter
objects and are not paid more for it, Koontz said.
Women have let themselves earn less for these
abilities because it is ego-fulfilling to be able to shift
gears quickly and to do so many things at once.
"Ego is not going to pay the rent," Koontz said.
But, Koontz said, achieving pay equity will take
time. Women must give the time necessary because
their lives depend on it, she said.
By the end of this decade, Koontz said, the
number of women who will be older than 65 is scary.
Their pensions will be based on what was earned in
their working lives. The pensions these women will
be receiving will place many of them below the
poverty line, Koontz said.
"How long should women have to suffer this
economic bias?" Koontz asked.
The economic plight of single college students,
especially women in the same category, is another
problem group Koontz discussed.
Students in college will take any job they can get
short temporary, transitional, low-paying subor
dinate positions because they are desperate for
money, Koontz said.
"We should stop assigning jobs that don't pay
anything to single women and students. But, these
people become stuck in this class and it's hard to get
out," Koontz said.
"Tou just don't realize how many of these people
are up against a brick wall," Koontz said.
A college education is not compulsory, Koontz
said, it's optionaL
The issue now, she said, is should public funds
such as grants, loans and state-funded universities
support a profession allowing people to become
self-employed?
If you're going to be a doctor, the answer seems to
be no. If you're going to be a public-serving lawyer,
the answer seems to be yes, she said.
Marolyn Robson, chairwoman of the Nebraska
Commission on the Status of Women, said parents
who support children in college are beginning to
realize it costs as much to educate daughters as
sons. However, Robson said, college graduates with
the same skills and same degrees are earning
different salaries only because they are male or
female.
Young people need to understand pay equity and
to work for it, Robson said. "Our country recognizes
groups," she said.
College students could form support groups,
learn about pay equity, contact senators and use the
Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women as an
information referral center, Robson said.
Koontz said that along with women and college
students, part-time workers also are not getting
benefits full-time workers do. Part-time workers
need an association to belong to with an executive
director to get group benefits, she said.
"Empowerment," Koontz said. "That's what we're
about, finding resources and using them."
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BEIRUT, Lebanon Snipers killed one U.S.
Marine and wounded three others at Beirut
airport Monday, and the marines retaliated
with tank, mortar and machine gun fire in
three separate exchanges that shut the airport
for several hours. Sources in Amal, the Shi'ite
Moslem militia, said the marines' fire killed two
people and wounded 15, in Shi'ite slums ad
joining the marine base.
Beirut Radio said that in addition to the
marine casualties, four other people were
wounded at the airport. The marines opened
fire after being attacked by sniper fire and then
twice more by rocket-propelled grenades, mor
tars and automatic weapons, Maj. Dennis
Brooks said. The marine that died had been
awaiting helicopter evacuation to a U.S. warship
offshore for treatment of his wounds. He was
the 259th marine to die since U.S. forces
deployed in Lebanon in August 1032.
Dyrd questions Marine cafety
WASHINGTON Senate Democratic leader
Robert Byrd Monday suggested a second high
level Pentagon investigation maybe needed to
determine if security for U.S. Marines in Beirut
has been bolstered enough. The first study,
chaired by retired Adm. Robert Long and
completed last month in the wake of the
October 23 terrorist bombing of Marine head
quarters in Beirut, sharply faulted US. military
commanders for inadequately protecting their
troops and also criticized overall U.S. policy in
the area. The West Virginia lawmaker made his
suggestion as Democrats took to the Senate
floor to launch a campaign critical of the
Reagan administration's approach to Lebanon.
U.S. to Bell tanks to Lebanon
WASHINGTON The Pentagon informed
Congress Monday it plans to sell Lebanon 35
M-60 tanks as part of the U.S. effort to build up
the Lebanese armed forces and help the country
reassert its sovereignty. It put the value of the
tanks and spare parts at $28 million, and said
the sale would require that 1 2 U.S. government
personnel be assigned to Lebanon for about six
months. Other recent U.S. arms sales to Lebanon
included $102 million worth of ammunition
and 253 armored personnel carriers worth $61
million.
Rollins: Rearjan has head ctart
WASHINGTON President Reagan's re
election campaign director said Monday Reagan
was starting his race well ahead in about 46
states but could still lose "if everything went
wrong" especially on the foreign front. In an
interview following Reagan's announcement
last night that he and Vice President George
Bush will seek a second term, director
Edward Rollins said what worries him most
are uncontrollable international events includ
ing the vulnerability of the U.S. Marines in
Lebanon.
Rollins, in an interview with wire service
reporters, said he assumes the Democratic
nominee will be liberal ex-Vice President Walter
Mondale and that Reagan pollsters cannot
find even four states where Reagan is clearly
trailing Mondale. -
Wolfe, 75, marries 2Ctli bride
LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Glynn "Scotty" Wolfe,
who claims to be the world's most married
man, said Monday he had taken his 26th bride,
Christine Camacho. "I feel wonderful," the 75-year-old
Wolfe declared. "Manias is the greatest
adventure in the world, next to death." Camacho,
at 38, is the oldest of Wolfe's string of brides.
They were married on Saturday, he said, at the
Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
The chapel hostess, Leslie Ortega, said of the
bride, "What I mostly remember of her is she
had a lot of tattoos." Wolfe, who says he has 40
children and has paid more than $500,000 in
alimony, is a former coal miner and used car
dealer who runs a boarding house in Elythe,
Calif. None cf his previous brides was older
than 22. He said hb longest marriage lasted
five years and his shortest SO d?ys. Asked his
plans for bh latest bride, Y.'clfe sdd, "I'm going
to cook her favorite type cf har.bur-r.