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Show Page AIO THE DAILY Hl'RALtX (www HriThcHcnild eoml. Provo. I'tnh, Friday, June 21. 20(12 Women's rights treaty proves divisive Navy sailor's photo By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK Now 23 international treaty promot-- , ing women's rights has returned to the political front lines with images of liberated Afghan women fresh in Americans' minds. The treaty, approved by 169 nations, has the potential to become a campaign issue in this election year and a dilemma for the Bush administra- group. the Foreign Relations Committee. "It is a terrible treaty negotiated by radical feminists with the intent of enshrining their radical agenda into antifamily international law," Helms said at one point. This year, with Democrats controlling the Senate, Biden was pleasantly sur- when the State Erised told him two-thir- ds d the administration considers the treaty ' "generally desir- l., tion. many of Opponents them part of Bush's consercondemn the vative base able." . However, the treaty urges nations to remove barriers Women, treaty as a UN-supervis- ed blocked while Republican Sen. Jesse Helms chaired Democrats call the situation a disgrace, and last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the treaty. Democrats hope that was a prelude to a vote on the Senate floor, where a majority would be needed for ratification. "Action on this treaty is long overdue," said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Foreign Relations Committee chairman. Titled the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against years old, and still unratified by the United States, an long-debate- United States is the lone industrialized nation in the to equality for women in education, employment, marriage and divorce, health care, and other areas. For years, the agreement has lingered in legislative feminist initiative to promote abortion, legalize prostitution and weaken traditional family structures. Supporters describe it as an international bill of rights for women that can combat systematic oppression and abuse, like what occurred under Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime. Afghanistan is among 22 countries that havent ratified the treaty. Others include Iran and Syria; the limbo. It was signed by Jimmy Carter in 1980, but not ratified in the Senate. Ronald Reagan and the elder George Bush refused to seek ratification; the Clinton administration's efforts were then-Preside- pro-treat- nt y . sHsortly before committee's his long- lanned hearing, fiiden earned the Justice Department was reviewing the pact's legal ramifications. Biden chided the administration for a "casual attitude" toward the treaty, and his allies worry that the review may bog down efforts to hold a ratification vote. hope the Opponents review, under the auspices .of conservative Attorney General John Ashcroft, will doom the treaty. "I think it will get shot down in flames when the Justice Department comes out with its report," said Wendy Wright, policy director with Concerned Women for America, a conservative group that shares Helms' mailed home shows up 59 years later objections. "IVople will wake up and say, "Wow, this really is a bad treaty.'" Lester Munson, spokesman for minority Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the history of which lacks the treaty any viable enforcement mechanism gives senators little incentive to approve it. "Why are we wasting our time supporting an institution that is so obviously irrelevant, when we have real foreign policy concerns to address?" he asked. Many nations that ratified the treaty fail to live up to its principles and have rejected a clause that would subject them to international arbitration. Defenders of the treaty while stressing it would not require any changes in U.S. laws argue it has symbolic and practical impact on nations with entrenched gender inequality. two-deca- de By MARC LEVY Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG, Ta. Richard Ebling, a proud to be photographed with his fellow graduating sailors from a Navy boot camp, wanted the picture mailed home to his mother in Pennsylva. nia. It never reached her, but the package did make it to 59 years later. his family Bearing 4 12 cents in postage, a cardboard tube carrying the photograph inexplicably arrived severago at the of Lebanon doorstep who Ebling's daughter wasn't even born when the package was mailed in al months 1943. , I saw the "When I was amazed," postage, said Cathy Heller, 51, a teacher who has two kids of her own. "Where did this come from? Where was this sitting?" It's a question that not even the postal worker who tracked down Heller can answer. all Jack Heisey , For knows, the tube was sitting behind a piece of machinery or shelving in a post office somewhere between Lebanon, where he works as ,a desk clerk, and Newport, R.I., the town where Ebling attended a Navy boot camp. "There s a lot of nooks and crannies, and we check them regularly," Heisey said. "But sometimes things happen." Several years after he sent the photograph, Richard, Ebling returned home from World War II, married his high school sweetheart, Eileen, in 1948 and had the first of their two daughters, Cathy, several years later. Around March 1 this year, the tube showed up in Lebanon in a batch of mail from a Harrisburg distribution center without a Now you can get more Anytime minutes than ever from America's 1 Wireless Carrier. Anytime 700 , Anytime 1000 fresh postmark, Heisey said. The postmark on it is illegible; the same package would require, anywhere from 80 cents to $1.03 to send today, Heisey said. Struck by the aged on the parcel, rostage peered into one of the opened ends of the tube. A Navy veteran himself, he immediately recognized the dark blue suits and white caps in the boot-cam- graduation graph. "To me it was an important, picture," said Heisey, 55. "To someone else, it might not have been. But I was in the Navy and I still have my boot, camp picture." Heisey began tracking the name on the sending label, Richard Ebling. He asked around unsuccessfully at various area veteran's groups before he tried the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital. The hospital said that Richard Ebling died there two years ago and directed Heisey to Ebling's widow, Eileen, at a Lebanon nursing home. Eileen Ebling, however, died there a year ago. The nursing home provided the name and address of her daughter, Cathy Heller, and Heisey sent the package with the regular route carrier along with a note bearing his phone number. When.she discovered the' ; tube outside her door, Heller thought the photo- graph had been left by a Navy buddy who was sentimental about the deaths of her father and mother. "It was in the midst of settling estates and I just thought it was a natural part of that," Heller said. Somebody else was going through the same thing." Then she called Heisey, 'who explained the strange story. The photograph is now framed and circulating among family members. 10 Monthly Anytime Minutes Monthly Access Sign up now and get UNLBffTBD I V Night St Weekend Airtlme Minutes And Mobile Web by m urn i ' Now get direct access to Hotmail whenever arid wherever you use your Verizon Wireless phone with Mobile Web. Mobile Wet) With requires digital service and Is not available in all areas. 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