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Republican witch hunt burns Ferraro, not aaviser
foreign oolicv subcommittee of
the Republican Platform Com
mittee at the party's convention
in Dallas.
Her first appointment by Kea-
s soon as Waiter Mondale first holding a press conference
named Rep. Geraldine to explain the action.
lerraro as his running On the other side of the race.
mr.te, Republican campaign rats another woman, much less quali-
ECUrried to the nearest Dublic fifrt than Fprrarrv Is coini about
end private fli cabinets to dig the business of deciding the future gan was to the President's Defense
un tr.at 13 maing tne issues of the country without any mtcr-
ialliis presidential campaign. ference from the press or public
Fcrraro's supposedly limited po- opinion,
iitlcal experience (six ye irs as a Meet Phyllb Schlafly, author,
member of the House o Repre- lawyer, housewife, mother and
sentatives) makes conservatives one of President Reagan's closest
bedn chcTtlinfith&t Mondale chose advisers on foreign policy.
the wrong woman. "Nuclear weapons in the hands
Nevertheless, Ferraro still has
been an active and elective represen
tative and has been elected three
times by a conservative Congres
weve heard ome rhetoric fr
the president about evil empires
before.
Feel worse for the women rr
Illinois. Schlafly b a member of
that state's Commission on th
tus of Wencn.
are typical of most women in thb
country.
Her simplistic views are not
clouded by the reality of political
haggling and the intricacies of
negotiation. Therefore she is the
Policy Advisory Group when he perfect adviser for the simplest
was running for President in iva). prcsurenc since i ukvw c -
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but not before it sooamea me -we couia nave iskch uvu ugr nui8 i.., .j wuuia Doth
President's "Build now, talk never country in the world without any excite the American people and
foreign policy. risk to ourselves, and we didn't provide strong leadership in the
SchJafiy's qualification is that she do it," Schlailysald. Dut,ol course, benate ana me niair House if
.!. written hnnks on defense Dol- it's difTcrent now tnat tne i:us- wonaaie is eieciea.
of the United States are the great- icy wntten from the comfy con- sians have them. It s like a gun. In Wbat he started was a witch
test instruments for peace man fines of her Alton, I1L, home. She the hands of a policeman, a gun u nuni in wnscn potn the media
has ever devised," Schlafly claims, has never been elected to any good. In the hands of a criminal, a and the-Republican party have
tk! friohtpninoiv cimnlp vhpw office bv her Deers. Reagan still gun is evil The Russians have found the wrong witch.
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sional district of New York City, of world politics pervades the claims, nowever, inai ocmaiiys maae ine uumuevu.
Even so, Ferraro and her hus- Republican party's platform. Not views (an anti-feminist strongly We all know that policemen are
band cant buy groceries without surprisingly, Schlafly headed the opposing abortion and the ERA) never corrupt, right? And it seems
Walter Lfonde crignaUy want-
cd only to choose a strong run-
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Jeff Browns
CtHy Kcbtskim Senior Reporter
etters
Officer lielps cut through bureaucracy
My many thanks go out to the call the plant; the plant had him
UNL police and LtAlBroadstone. call the baseball field; the base-
Broadstone helped an awkward, ball coordinator said, "What?"
inept, bumbling person; myself. Broadstone patiently weaved
Two weeks ago, I deftly dropped through the web of bureaucracy,
my bike key down the heating He went over and just pulled up
grate by Oldfather Hall. With my the grating and told me to go
bike locked and my key sunken, I down and get that key. Thanks,
harked Broadstone.
Broadstone patiently called his
dispatcher and told him about
the situation. The dispatcher said
to call grounds; grounds said to
Al Broadstone.
Jim Perry
Graduate student
Political Science
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Eliminating useless waste best way to curb deficit
V
r JASHINGTON We are hearing a lot of political
I bombast this presidential-election year about
t the soaring national debt and how to reduce it.
Walter Mondale says he's going to bite the bullet and
raise taxes. Ronald Reagan says hell spare the taxpay-
ers such pain and instead curb the deficit by reducing'
expenditures.
We believe that neither major candidate is giving
enough attention to the most obvious way of relieving
the taxpayers burden: cuttmg waste and iraua.
Jack Anderson and
Joseph Spear
Consider a couple of incidents that occurred in just
one, elatively small arm of the federal bureaucracy, the
Department of Energy:
Officials at the energy agency recently spent more
than $500,000 for a graphics facility that is both
unneeded and badly designed.
The IG noted that five darkrooms were proposed,
though only one photographer was employed in the
office.
"The project will also include room for 30 artists; there
are now eight artists assigned," the IG pointed out in a
memo obtained by our associate John Dillon. "Consider
ing the abovc.it would appear that the justification of
such expenditures is questionable."
The IG's Warning fell on deaf ears. The graphics facility
was built for $490,000, with an additional $73,000 in
design costs.
Another IG memo last June listed several construc
tion flaws, including improper sinks, paint, drains, light
ing, electrical systems, air conditioning and fire alarms.
Not only was the wrong kind of lighting installed in the
darkrooms, but the rooms were not "light-tight."
The graphics fiasco falls under the jurisdiction of Wil
liam Heffelfinger, the Energy Department's director of
administration. We have reported before on Heffelfm
ger's antics, including his failure to do anything about a
print shop employee who had been getting kickbacks for
funneling Energy Department business to a private
printing company where he was moonlighting.
The two officials in charge of the graphics office, Gene
Fleming and Don Hunt, are said by our sources to have
known that the new graphics facility was a white ele
phant, yet allowed construction to go ahead. Neither
Fleming nor Heffelfinger returned calls for comment.
Hunt hung up when asked about the new graphics shop.
An Energy Department spokesman said the General
Services Administration handled the design and engi
neering work not the Department of Energy and
said the designers "inadvertently" left out the light-tight
seals for the darkrooms. Though he conceded that there
are five darkrooms for one photographer, he claimed
that 14 graphic artists not eight, as the IG charged
are using the new space. That's still fewer than half
the number the facility was built for.
In the second incident, a major Energy Department
contractor charged the government $30,000 for a "nuclear
legislative handbook" that consisted of publicly availa
ble photocopied material arranged in alooseleaf binder.
Investigators for the House subcommittee on energy
conservation and power said the material copied for the
handbook included profiles of lawmakers, a digest of
nuclear energy legislation and a compilation of legisla
tors' voting records on nuclear issues.
But the profiles were lifted whole from a book pub
lished by the Congressional Quarterly, the legislative
digest was available free from the subcommittee itself;
and the voting records could have been obtained easily
from the Energy Department's own legislative liaison
office.
What really appalled the investigators was that only
six copies of the looseleaf handbook were produced over
a three-year period at $5,000 each, one of the most
expensive photocopying jobs in history.
In an effort to curb these sorts of extravagances, we
recently joined ranks with Peter Grace, head of a presi
dential commission that has been investigating govern
ment waste. Former Treasury Secretary William Simon,
former Sen. George McGovern and others have also
joined to form a bipartisan coalition called Citizens
Against Waste. We invite all Americans to sign the fol
lowing declaration:
"As the true owners of the US. government, we protest
the appalling waste of our money by those we entrust to
spend it. We demand action, not discussion, to stop the
excessive and unnecessary squandering of government
funds for foolish projects, wasteful programs and ineffi
cient operations. We want corrective measures taken
against those in Congress and the federal bureaucracy
who irresponsibly authorize and misspend our tax
dollars."
Sign your name to this protest, and collect the signa
tures of your friends and neighbors (include addresses
for verification).
Mail the declarations to: Citizens Against Waste, P.O.
Box 1000, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044.
We will deliver the signed statements to the next presi
dent and new congressional leaders in January.
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