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Show THURSDAY. FEB. 1977 24. There Are Many Hidden Dangers In ERA By JOHN F. McMANL'S Activity in behalf of the controversial Equal Rights Amendment has heated up in recent months. Its proponents know that time is running out for them, as the Amendment has to gain ratiof the fication by two-thir- state legislatures before March 1979. As the battle intensifies, additional sound arguments for defeating it continue to pile up. In any discussion of ERA, it is vitally important to since, no ruler of Hungary has been considered legitimate until he has been crowned with the Holy Crown. More than once in its thousand-yea- r Patton. It ended up in the vault at Fort Knox. Now, as before, the inability of an illegitimate ruler to get his hands on the Holy Crown provides a hope of freedom for the oft betrayed people of Hungary. Last December, then Secretary of Commerce Elliot history, the -- Crown has been sent out of Hungary for safekeeping. the arrival of Soviet occupation troops at the With close of World War II, Richardson visited Hun- Buda- pest, where he was told in no uncertain terms that American retention of the Crown was "an unacceptable situa garian officials gave the Crown to a U.S. Army unit under General George tion." Members of Congress who have also toured Hungary in recent months have been informed that the question of the Crown "is preventing an improvement of relations" between Hungarv and the United States. With the inauguration of the more liberal Carter Administra tion, Hungarian officials op enly express hope that the symbol of Hungarian authority will be returned to S. Union." Khrushchev was In 1956 Hungarian patriots stated the famous revolt that temporarily freed their land from Red rule. But help that had been expected from America never materialized. Instead, the U.S. State Department sent the following message (Nov. 2, 1956) to Yugoslavia's Tito: "The government of the United States does not look with favor upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the borders of the Soviet thereby assured that we would not intervene, and his tanks rolled into Budapest. The American people were unaware of the role played by our government during the Hungarian Revolt. And they have been kept in the dark about numerous other betrayals. But an increasing number have begun to wonder why our leaders continue to .make concessions to the Communists. 'y HSI. 10 THE COST HH TO T0UI WET STOMfiE HEEDS. MAUGHAM CONSTRUCTION CO. ' MEST0H 0EI IMSEY 152 ZIM 0FHCE IS24741 10SM OFFICEJU 7100 realize that the proposed Amendment will not gain for women equal pay for equal work, bank credit, or educational benefits. These are already covered by existing federal law. On the other hand, an understanding of what ERA will do is even more important. 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