Thursday, September 6, 1334
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Lett
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Public has right
to give candidates
thorough scrutiny
I was startled by the intensity
of the invective in Jeff Browne's
editorial in the Thursday Daily
Nebraskan ("Republican witch
hunt burns Ferraro, not adviser").
His description of "Republican
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by segregationists in the South 20
years ago. Fortunately, student
journalists who stoop to dema
gogic language never make it in
the real world, being cdhsigned to
writing obituaries and stories of
chamber of commerce meetings
in county weeklies.
Then I thought perhaps Browne
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had a perfectly legitimate reason
for his name-calling and bitter
ness, so I finished reading the
piece, in which he decried the
publicity surrounding vice presi
dential candidate Geraldine Fer
raro and points out the short
comings of Schlafly. If I remember
correctly, after Ferraro was nom
inated as a candidate for vice
president, it was the press, and
not the Republican Party, that
started a "witch hunt" concern
ing her income taxes and inexpe
rience in public office.
Browne never showed pcrciscly
what qualifications Ferraro has
for the vice presidency, but in
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Schlafly. Perhaps without realiz-
ing it, he used a method of ration-
alization unsuccessfully tried by
UNL assistant Iwusing director misquoted in letter to editor
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the Republicans to explain Water
gate "Sure, we did it, but look
at the other guys - they were
just as bad." Shades of Richard
Nixon, digging up dirt on John
Kennedy to justify his own
wiretaps.
I have no great love for Schlaflv
(but I do know several women
who vote Democratic who do),
and as long as she is not a candi
date for a national office, I am
not going to worry about her.
Ferraro, however, is In a postion
where she might become vice pres
ident and perhaps even president,
and so It Li only natural that the
public get a closer view of her and
her background.
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I detect the scent of sour grapes
in Browne's editorial The Mon-
dale-Ferraro ticket is going to
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knows it. The.ploy to portray the
astute, business-like multimillio
naire Ferraro as a frumpy
working-class housewife from
Queens failed miserably. The first
female vice president or presi
dent is going to come from the
ranks of the Republican Party
which has provided this country
with nearly all of the female sena
tors, the only Black senator, the
first Asian senator, most of the
female cabinet officers and the
first female Supreme Court jus
tice. None of them even faintly
resemble Schlafly, and fortunately
all of them were (and are) more
qualified for public office than
Ferraro.
Fred Grady
senior
undeclared
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Mexico continues to be a major
conduit of illegal drugs smuggled
into the United States and, accord
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"corruntion and mismanagement
among Mexican ofSeials are partly
responsible for the problem.
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concluded, Mexican officials have
not guarded the border with the
United States as closely as they
should have. Mexican officials con
cede, according to the cable, that
they "had perhaps fdcused too
much on interior matters ana
hadnt given the border due at
tention." 1S34, Un::si resort SyndScsfa, Inc.