Show OgO©n iianOdfu-UAailnito- I IU luuouay lou4 iH Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau I BOSTON — It was not praise the Lord a rerun of Bobby Riggs vs Billie Jean King For all the hype we saw a debate between two candidates for Vice Presi- have never seen her on the trail dent not a battle of the sexes Those who like Ronald Reagan A few people in the Bush cam- paign lost their Ps Qs and com- posure under the pressure Barbara Bush in a rare slip of tact described Ferraro with a noun that “rhymes with rich” and then tried to convince us that the noun was witch Bush spokesman Peter Teeley on the other hand called the congresswoman “bitchy” and than said that “bitchy” was an androgynous word like “crabby” But one word was indeed liberated Thursday night: shrill In a role reversal of stereotypes Ferraro was subdued lawyerlike and cool — too cool for my taste — while Bush often was shrill strident and gasp hysterical Bush didn’t use the lines that Ferraro predicted — “gosh gee whiz — but he offered up a nasal rendition of “nyet nyet nyet” He sounded like a parody of Jimmy Stewart to the tune of John Philip Sousa The only lesson in lethal chivalry came in the middle of the debate Bush offered Ferraro some foreign aid “Let me help you Mrs Ferraro” he said as if he were giving the lady a hand into the car There must have 50 million female spines that stiffened and then relaxed when Ferraro gave an understated reply “I almost resent your patronizing at- titude” Almost? Ferraro had to and did prove her competence and independence Bush had to and did prove his loyalty Indeed he may have won the blue ribbon for the corporate vice president exhibiting the most unbridled praise of his boss “It’s a JOY to serve with a President” But in the end the debate was something of a draw Only someone who has never seen Ferraro on the campaign trail would think she put in her best performance most Americans I " AH HOUR LATE THEN MV OFFICE WASN'T REA V THEN THE RECEh TIOHIST MAPE A MAJOR mSS Ellen Goodman There were of course some touchy moments In the briefings before the co-e- d event the candidates had to gorge on advice about “the gender issue” George Bush was urged to be less preppy and more uh manly but not a bully “I don’t want my mother mad at me” he said Geraldine Ferraro was advised to present herself as commanding but warm strong but not steely and above all else presidential IMS THEN TO TOP IT OFF IN -FORMED THAT MV FIRST ASSIGNMENT IS TO PREPARE A REAGAN CAMPAIGN HOW PIPIT GO? WEIL 1STME-- TELLVOU-FIRSMISSED MV TRAIN ANP WAS NEVER MINP THAT THE WHOLE IPEA IS PREPOSTEROUS WHAT REALLY WORRIES THAT TO I ME IS THAI ACCEPTED I'M ALREADY BEGINNING LOSE THE COURAGE OF MY ATME probably loved his surrogate George Bush Those who are with Mondale felt comfortable with the representative from Queens Neither of them made a mistake And therein lies another tale I don’t know how many women took their seats in front of the television set Thursday night with a case of the butterflies As one woman put it “I haven’t felt this way since my gave a piano recital” There was a palpable concern that the First Woman make it through without a blunder It wasn’t just Democratic women who felt that they had something riding on Ferraro’s performance Ferraro is as she is the first to recognize “standing in for every woman in this country” A week before the debate she said “I must say there’s a sense of responsibility that I have to do what I’m doing and not make a mistake It’s not just for me It’s for every one of us to show that As good as we’re as good men nine-year-o- ld as” There is still that anxiety among American women the fear that every step forward is a risk that visibility makes us vulnerable that there is less leeway for error less forgiveness for the first woman in a formerly male role There’s the terrible perhaps irrational concern that if one woman makes just one mistake we’ve all lost a chance Many women watched the debate with their own peculiar double vision: one eye focused on their own opinions another on what men would think How many shared the rule of the first woman anything: “Above all don’t screw up” Overall these 90 minutes produced a debate between a Republican and a Democrat rather than a Fight between a man and a woman It may not make political history but it does make social history As Ferraro said of the first debate between a male and female candidate for the national ticket “Once it’s done the question will never arise again ‘Can a woman do it?’ So it’s more than me against George Bush It’s much much bigger” And now it’s behind us Washington Post Remember when 20 YEARS AGO October 16 1964 : Communist China joined the world’s atomic powers with an announcement that it had exploded its first atom bomb in the western region of China The announcement came less than 24 hours after Moscow had exploded a political bombshell of its own — the ouster of Nikita Khrushchev Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F Dobrynin said at the White House that the new Soviet government intended to maintain the established policy of “peaceful coexistence” and work for a further relaxation of tensions in the world Cole Porter one of the 20th century’s great composers and lyricists died in a Santa Monica hospital He was 71 Big Bob Hayes of Florida A&M wearing borrowed shoes tied the world record of 10 seconds flat as he blazed to a gold medal and his long expected 100 meter triumph at the Olympic — r 50 YEARS AGO October 16 1934 Games in Tokyo Looking on were big Bob’s mother and 1936 Olympic ace Jesse Owens neas from persons suffering from In New York a handwriting expert’s testimony indicated that The St Louis Cardinals swept the fate of Bruno Richard Hauptto their seventh world series mann indicted in New Jersey on championship in 10 tries with a a charge of murder in the Lindcrowd of 30346 cheering them bergh kidnapping might rest on the letter “X” It was upon the on in Busch Stadium The Cardiformation of this letter in the ranYankees York New nals beat the 5 It was the first World Series som note and in Hauptmann’s victory for the Cardinals since writing of the word “Bronx” that the handwriting expert formed 1946 his opinion In Hungary hundreds of coal Mount Ogden and Mound Fort came back from the miners 3 battled to a standoff in a of the earth to a future of City Junior High League football depths more pay and more work More game at the Ogden City Stadium 1200 miners had threatened than The game’s most spectacular play came in the second period when suicide Many were brought out on stretchers Behind they left Craig Farr intercepted a Mound comrades too near death to be Fort pass and scampered 40 yards some moved of them mad They for the first Mount Ogden touchhad been in the mine for 110 down hours without food In Boston a gathering of Ben Lomond High School’s Ron Zefferer won the annual Og- American and European eye speden High Invitational Cross cialists heard Mrs Daphne Muir Country Meet prior to the “Little British novelist describe how her Brown Jug” football game His sight had been restored after nine e time for the course was years of blindness by artificial 9:214 grafting of other eyes The cor 7-- 13-1- two-mil- Our Great Rates Just Got nearly total blindness were grafted onto Mrs Muir’s eyes and she was able to see again Returning from a 2400-mil- c trip during which he campaigned in 14 counties Arthur Woolley Republican candidate for First district representative in congress' predicted that “southern Utah is going Republican without a doubt” ! Junior Democratic league of Weber County held a special meeting at the Democratic head-- i quarters with Milton B Taylor iri charge Fred T Odell spoke oq “Election Laws” Miss Elva A Wilkinson vice president of the league was in charge of the buffet lunch W Eccles Baird had returned' to Ogden and was operating a general real estate business for the Reliance Realty Company on Washington Avenue Mr Baird! was a charter member of the’ Utah State Realtors Association! He had been working in the real! estate business in Salt Lake City! for a number of years Greater V2 Writers Group Letters Daily Compounded Interest FDIC Insured $5000 or more Mayor should submit resignation The vast majority of children have learned by the age of 5 that if they get into their mother’s wallet to take money for “goodies” without her permission they’re going to be punished As a resident of Layton who has been subjected to a 4 franchise tax on my utilities and a 35 property tax increase this year I am absolutely furious that our mayor put his hands “in the wallet” and took money for “goodies” without permission! the idea that Mayor Shields “didn’t know that I was tion this year because we had un- usually high medical bills too but if we could have gone to our banker and received a $1538 interest free loan for seven months then we undoubtedly would have taken a nice little trip at the bank shareholders expense Banks aren’t in business to lose money evident Mayor Shields thinks that Layton City Corp is! According to this newspaper “the provisions of the state statutes and the Utah Constitution precisely spell out how those holding elective and appointive offices shall be disqualified for doing anything wrong” DOESN’T WASH! the unauthorized use of public We’ve heard for years that “ig- monies” What will your punishnorance of the law is no excuse” ment be Mr Shields The very If Mayor Shields is really that ig- least we can expect as voters who norant then he certainly has no placed our faith and trust in you business being mayor and he def- as an elected official is your resinitely shouldn’t be mayor if he ignation IMMEDIATELY! “wasn’t ignorant of the law” Teresa H Hood Our family didn’t take a vaca- Layton Vita you boons interest w‘rtb city-impos- ed 4r receive V2 bonus interest over and above our already high rates open your account with $5000 or more on or before November 30 1984 To Phone o? visit our office near you Letter onMiss America ‘sour grapes’ This in reply to Ms Helen V Mill’s letter of 23 Sept 1984 Your letter did not make any sense at all Sour Grapes? I did not see where Miss Wells ever said she represented everyone — not even in Utah — no one ever could no matter what religious affiliation She represented herself and what she stands for: everything decent honest true chaste benevolent virtuous praiseworthy and of good report It was commendable that she could state that she had no skeleton in her closet Would it not be wonderful if every person could say that? On the panel juding Miss Wells there must have been several judges and I am sure they did not all if any represent her faith but must have felt she would not put their judgment to shame The statistics you quoted I am sure are correct but not due to persons of Miss Wells’ caliber and were well discussed a few days after by Mr Maurice R Franks LLD of Denver Colo May I assume you read his letter? I not he stated that: “disgruntled SALT LAKE CITY spouses accuse former husbands of sexual molestation of children — 90 percent being groundless and 50 percent vindictive Also 679 percent of physical child abuses are committed by custodial mothers live-i- n boyfriends and their new husbands” — hardly people like Miss Wells He also quoted: “A girl is seven times more likely to be abused if living with her mother than father” Having been trained in the life and social sciences I believe his quotes to be correct! 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