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Mixed s accomp Some think history tends to i prime example of this phenomer campuses and demonstrations statment of draft registration, w the draft. Noisy draft demonstrations campuses in recent weeks. At C both pro-draft and anti-draft pro The scene immediately brings ( era. "History has shown us that evt draft, and you can't have a dra Bates, of the Columbia Universi Against the Draft. BUT "AFGHANISTAN" has new battle cry for anti-war prot marched on President Carter's last weekend. A rock smashed a Two were burning a Carter poste "It's one, two. three, what art give a damn ..next stop's Afghan History repeats itself? So it w< women will be directly involved After Carter announced Kridi and women 18 and 11) years of ag< about the future of the Kqual Rig Rep. Norma Russell. R-Lexin said two weeks ago the amendi eludes women in his call to reinst Rep. Russell has been in the unsuccessful effort to keep the m Carolina General Assembly. TIIK AMKN'D.MKNT has now ratified in .'instates by June 30. 19 Robin Anderson, president of Organization for Women said dra much better chance of getting EI She noted that during the Viet! drafted and fighting and not eli troversy because they had all th have the rights." "ll women are drafted, it woul A new poll by the Louis Harris of the American people, especial support the measure by a 59-35 p to 38 percent. TIIK KKA BATTLK is most ui According to a Harris represei W1JA in ic f>lnco u>i' views." Congress seems cool toward legal scholars say there is no wa have the final say on whether w( An opposite view is taken by says, "Tb is whole question on t all along, that Congress ahead nothing to do with ERA. Whet decision, not a legal one." The American Civil Liberties any attempt to register only me "The day that the president s in court, vows a staff attorney ii THK FIGHT for female dr, parallel in history is unmistake this time for the best, with won in national and world affairs. 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Others are sure of it. / ion is the recent controversy on colleg< around the nation concerning rein ith particular emphasis on women an( have mounted on many university olumbia University in New York City testers tussled over the American flag o mind the '60s and the Vietnam Wai M'v time there is a registration there's i ft without a war," according to Larn tv-Barnard College Ad Hoc Committer replaced "Vietnam" in becoming th< estors. About 2,500 chanting protestor: campaign headquarters in Manhattai Ii'inrlnu; -inr) lliron tnon U'On? n f?H ? UIUU*? 14 1 IV* VIII VV IIIVII *? v ? v v?? . r and a small American flag. > we fighting for...don't ask me. 1 don' listan." >uld seem, but the new twist is whethe ly that he wants to register both mei ? many Americans are wondering mor hts \mendment. gton and a staunch opponent of EH/ lient faces certain death if Carter in itute draft registration. forefront of what has so far been ai easure from being ratified by theSoutl been ratified by 35 states. It must b< 82 to become part of the Constitution, the Columbia chapter of the Nationa ift registration for women "will mean; passed." nam war era, "when 18-vear-olds wer igible for voting, there was a big cor q responsibilities of a citizen, but didn r\ hn cmhi/i t hintf " clin c fl i/"l V* UV HIV OUUIV llllli^, OI IV. OUIVJ. ; organization indicates that a majorit ly men, favor passage of the ERA. Me ercent margin, while women beck it. f> icertain (not surprisingly ) in the Soutl ntative, "Obviously, the division ove th each side deeply entrenched in il registering women for the draft. Bi y around it - the courts most likely w >men join men in registration lines. Kathleen Currie of ERA America wl he draft has pointed out what we've sa y has the power to draft women; it h her to draft women is a political issi Union already has said it will challen n. igns (male only registration), we will n the ACLU's Washington office. aft registration is only beginning. T able, but times are a changing.Hopefu ten playing a more active and equal p; k Opinion Letters 10 f i(? 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Thei 10 advice is based on intelligence id coming out of the Middle East. as ue The reasoning goes like this The invasion of Afghanistan ha uo nut fht? Snvipts within pnsv aii n- i ?? .... ~?" j strike distance of the Persian Gull be They now have the military powe to choke off the jugular vein whic carries oil to the Western work he And the industrial nations will b Uy absolutely dependent on Persia irt Gulf oil for at least two decades. Meanwhile, the Soviet invasio of Afghanistan has shocked th Moslem world. It is stark evidenc that the Soviets are willing t ? devour their allies. So the Moslem nave become extremely war 350111 Soviet offers of friendship. Thus, White House advisers ai []"[ telling Carter that the Afghanis^! i,,.., conquest gives the United Stat< an opportunity to rally the Moslei rl s world to its side. But this cann possibly be accomplished withoi , i?. solving the Palestinian problem. ;i i)t Ht- One of the president's associat< ion was almost poetic in h assessment. "The Saudis," 1 said, "are like gazelles in tl jungle. They're surrounded 1 hostile powers. They need tl United States for protection. B mi? they have a deep emotion commitment to the Palestinian ..tl,. u; ill min in /?/\?v**v*/v iiii> i iivj nui iivvvi jmu in vuiiiiuv ix'1 cause with the United States uni an<) the Palestinian question is se nusl ?? iitor any anil Since the United States dependent on Saudi Arabia f ^ most of its overseas oil, the a uU, visers argue, the president shou isc. recognize the PLO now, before tl Afghanistan issue cools off. think Carter ng tip to us, comrade 1? i. He's sent our m watic corps <a jfl EiS5 m sers urge ( recognize There is however, a fly ointment. PLO leader ' Arafat was in the Soviet huddling with Kremlin lead< the eve of the Afghan inv And other PLO leaders ha^ nounced their support o s Russian move into Afghanis e the grounds that the Sovieb t repelling "pro-Amei r elements." e One PLO official even w fr?r ac tr? nraico thn Qm/ipt r?ri ^ out uui duuitca ociy it is lift the veil of secrecy just a *e have learned that State I ut ment officials turned to the aj soon as they discovered tha s dozen diplomats had escap n U.S. Embassy takeovei NTntrntVk ?j| lll/V^IIIUUl . Some CIA operatives pu own lives on the line to save diplomats. At various tim< is escapees were hidden in CIi or houses" that were still mail (j. in Tehran. Id The CIA also helped to \ le the false Iranian visas an< documents that were used I I..V UVVip.' there as "an important ass the rest of the world. s In sum, the president is urged to recognize the P ' order to offset the Soviet pr ? in Afghanistan at the sam h the PLO is supporting the move. You might call ^ diplomatic puzzle. n Thank you, (MA e TheCanadian governmei o received a lot of fav |S publicity ? and deserved!} y for helping six Ami diplomats escape from Iran much maligned organizatio e here in the State's also de some credit ? the Centr 3S telligence Agency. The six Americans who ei are not talking about dramatic adventure becaus don't want to say anyth es endanger the lives of the is people who helped them hostages who are still in Irai Carter nr s\ I rL,\j \ in the the Iranians into letting the it'assir Americans leave the country. Union ers on Sting scene asion. ye an- 1? its recent "sting" operation, f the the FBI netted a half-dozen tan on prominent congressmen who ; were allegedly accepted bribes from rican agents posing as wealthy Arab sheiks. But it has upset some ent so prominent Arab Americans. esence The influence-peddling probe ;et" to was code-named ABSCAM, which stood for "Arab Scam." And the being Arab-Amercians say the name LO in enhances the stereotype of the esence wheeling-dealing petroleum e time potentate anxious to but favors Soviet with bribes. 11 a Nap of luxury U.S. congressmen are permitted to furnish their well-appointed offices virtually any way they like fh ? and the taxpayers, of course, orable up the tab. f so _ In one three-month period last erican year> members of the House of But a Representatives spent nearly n right $35,000 on new furniture. They also serves lavished close to $100,000 on 10,000 al In- yards of plush new carpeting. The legislators are free to scaped Purchase as much carpeting as their and they apparently like a >e they 'ot T^ere are several employees ing to on t*le H?use and Senate payrolls brave w*10 noth?n8 *)ut install rugs in or the the offices on Capitol Hill. safe to Pragmatic voter bit. We r^Ar* ^ ieast one v0*e '^mmy * as Carter got in the Iowa caucuses Ir? h was not cast out of any devotion to . i .t his political viewpoints. last A Mrs. Esther Peterson of Exira . told the president's campaign IV their tno m cVia Itmul/I .i . tvaui out vvuuiu OU^pUA I V>ai ici th* b^31186 taxpayers could not "Je afford to put another ex-president . . ? on a fat pension. itamed K jrovide * Copyright. 1910. J Oiner United Feature Syndicate. Inc to trick