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Show i j rn limn Sunday, December 3, 1995 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, ;Hufti ngton trying waice ' By RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON She has a powerful pal in Newt Gingrich. She gets to opine on editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal. She offers a conservative opinion on almost everything, and has managed to get under Bob Dole's skin. Arianna Huffington seems to be everywhere, making herself the voice of the Republican "revolution." Along the way, she's trying to bury her reputation as a diva who encouraged her congressman-husban- d, Michael, to drop $29 million in a futile effort to get elected to the Senate. "That beating really strengthened me," she says of the 1994 campaign, emboldening her "to speak my own truth." And that she is doing. ' in newspaper columns, news conferences, TV appearances and lectures, Huffington is on a crusade to awaken the "sleepwalking" Republican Party, her stature enhanced by her friendship with Gingrich, the House speaker. She preaches that smaller-governme- nt proponents must find ways to supplant government pro- grams for the needy with private, charitable efforts. She worries that a "leadership vacuum" will stall the GOP conservative movement. There, her main target is Dole, front-runnfor the GOP presidential nomination. She calls him uninspiring, lacking in message and unable to defeat President Clinton. The fact that she gets a hearing at all is victory for the tenacious Greek immigrant turned commentator and writer. Huffington has spent the year trying to undo critics' portrayals of her as a social climber who maser terminded her husband's self-financ- transition from oil baron to California politician. In her husband's Senate race, Huffington was battered by news accounts of her ties to new age and religious leader John-Roger reports of campaign dissension over her approach. After the 1994 defeat, she eschewed print interviews and carefully selected live or unedited TV appearances in which she could present herself as a conservtake-char- ative thinker. Working from her stone manher sion in Washington bicoastal family also has a home in I "We 7 . u 11 WASHINGTON Teachers' job satisfaction jumped in the last decade, a survey found. But while suburban teachers have grown more cheerful about the quality of education in public teachers urban schools, Darling-Hammon- have grown more worried. They cite violence, drugs, teen pregnancy and diminishing public support as their main worries, the Louis Harris and Associates survey released Wednesday found. Urban teachers also were less pleased with their schools' curricu-lum- s and academic standards than the GOP presidential nomination. in volunteer programs as an alternative to welfaie. She is trying to develop a TV show called "Eat the Press," originally named "Beat the Press," that would take a satirical look at reporters and news coverage. But mostly she has caused a buzz with her anti-Dotirade. She doesn't think the Kansas senator can beat Clinton a worry privately shared by many Republicans. And if Dole does win, Huffington says, "Even if he does no harm, this would be like an empty vessel." In two recent Wall Street Journal articles, Huffington accused the Senate majority leader of "political hackmanship" and "a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups." Dole angrily retorted that this was no way for her to repay him for campaigning for her husband. "She's sort of out of control," said David Keene, a longtime Dole ally who also drew Huffington's wrath. But Huffington friend Jim Pinkerton, a conservative writer and former White House domestic policy aide, credits her for showing "some guts. She ... articulated w hat a lot of people were thinking. She hit a nerve." While Gingrich has embraced Huffington's "12 steps to American renewal" thesis, many Republicans consider her a gadfly and believe Dole overreacted. "She's not a player except maybe in her own mind," said Lyn Nofziger, a veteran GOP strategist and Dole supporter. But Huffington has a coterie of mostly young conservative fans who see her as a visionary committed to Gingrich-styl- e political change. governments. A random sample of .01 public school teachers were interviewed by telephone nationwide over the summer. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1 indicate "a slow, steady dangerous drift toward inequality" between city and suburban schools, said Sibyl Jacobson, a vice president for Metropolitan. Life Insurance Co., which financed the survey. Overall, the survey found teachers like their jobs more today than a decade ago and are more likely to recommend the profession to others. In addition, teachers arc nearly twice as likely now than in 1985 to say their jobs pay them a decent Photo by Tim Guymon The trashing of Utah County Geneva The tiny community of Vineyard, which encompasses Steel, may not have problems with slag or ash, but more insidious than any industrial pollution is the almost-intentionfouling of uncaring motorists. These beer cases alongside a pasture are a perfect example. le Muscular Dystrophy Association I VyS - fc.r-niEj.,---- - -- ita. --" m 1 five percentage points. The survey found 54 percent of teachers very satisfied w ith teaching as a career, compared with 44 said percent in 1985. Two-third- s they would recommend the career to young people. Seventeen agreed percent strongly that their jobs allow them to earn decent salaries, and 46 percent agreed somewhat. That was up from 8 percent and 29 percent, respectively, a decade ago. People Help M DA... Because MDA Helps People -- L.. d, The surv ey, done annually since 1984 for MetLife, also was sponsored this year by the Education Commission of the States, a Denver-based group financed by state suburban teachers. That could Gingrich, she has launched an effort to get Americans interested ja il H I salary, the poll found. And more teachers felt they were recognized when they had performed well. "There is a real, objective basis for these findings, and that is the rise in teacher salaries and the restructuring many schools have undertaken," said Linda a researcher at Columbia Teachers College in New York. By SALLY BUZBEE AP Education Writer er K) TrTTTTZZZJL iiwuriimyiiim Mwrswraw AU VCRs'in Stock "l m 2 "cad leavers combos H Merco 1 TVVC.R lliEiFfEi " Really burns up the road! Spring suspension and NO INTEREST t'l lllltll ""afc. 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