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Show The Salt Lake Tribune OPINION Sunday, August 30. 1998 California GOP Candidates Make Like Centrists in Abortion Debate eding C mon ground with those whi centrist voters looking for a compromise Fong and Lungren are reaching beyond their conservative core of support fo those swing voters who Oe WASHINGTON — Californian Matt Fong. Republican candidat e for TT4A4 BB the US Senate. wants to limit abortionsin three p on the issue areas. He wants to require Parent tal apwal eliminate taxpayer funding and quire parental approval, eliminate taxnayer funding and outlaw the Procedur e st balance th eir personal opposition to abo trongbelief in human liberty, their ral philosophy andtheir political plur: m. What both men shareis a realization rd andfast pro-life” platform them electorally he abortion-rights waters reflects the cal President Clinton on his campaign promise o make abortion not just legal, watched elections. as ensured by the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, but “rare. utlaw the procedure known as partial. irth” abortion Californian Dan Lungren, Republican andidate for governor, wants to limit eh haw rtion in three areas. He wants to re- known as “partial-birth” abortion This synchronized swimming through The two men face pro-choice Democratic rivals, Lt. Governor G ‘ay Davis and U.S. Sen. Barbara quire parental consent S ears of pro-choice his practical pow. ban onpartial-birth abortion wing this procedure, which in volves delivering the baby uptoits neck. s one of three areas where Lungren ost pro-choice regions in the country win in November, the GOP hope- fuls must keep the support of vote: Ts who are passionately pro-life, avoid igniting even greater passions on the other side. wants to limit the numberof abortions as governor The other steps would be to reduce taxpayer funding drastically for upbringing TRIBUNE MED: abortion an in the case of n can't even bring himself to sup- Boxer, in a state known to be amongthe r ri But it’s not Dan Lu: This explains why Lungren is ready to trickiness of the issue in two nationally A fe tion ers as California governor would be lim- ited to this trio of areas. These are cases where a governor elected in 1998 assert some change and bring someleadership.” he says. “I've said 1 ampro-life. he de- by taxpayers withou seat As far as a constituti more time talkin hurts them. [banning abortion altog Mayan Medicine Man Praises Work of Fellow Elders, the ‘Original Environmentalists’ The Mayan elder and medicine aan prayed to Heart of the Sky the celestial space with allits elements and energy that keep the sniverse in equilibrium. He prayed ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ PATRISIA GONZALES > Heart of the Earth, honored as he female energy that feeds us. He rayed to Heart of Water and and the original environmentalists. To the four directions he prayed: ess, nO more science that destroys fe and plants and Earth. May the f the Earth, that they might When the people are ill, the land will be ill. DonAlejandro Cirilo Perez Ox- UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE prophesies of what awaits us if Mother Earth is not respected. Recently, we attended ceremonies and workshops with him at the XII International Congress a) is a 13th-generation Quiche Maya High Priest. He is the head of he Council of Elders of the Ameri- of Tra- ditional and Indigenous Medicine in Albuquerque, N.M., an academy of scientists, physicians and tradi- tional healers and medicine ‘as, whose members represent inenous peoples from Argentina people. to Alaska. He travels the world ver with the palabra, or sacred visdom, ofthe elders to foretell the Look at your lakes, your springs — they are drying up.” He asked where were the tigers and lions. They can be seen only on TV. Where are the birds that sing to the dawn” Ve have one sun that the ancient knowledge of medicine people and curanderos. Elders pet long said theytoo practice sei- shines, one water, the same Mother Earth forrich and poor, white and — the science of life. And what May seem mystic is only so because our minds cannot yet understand the power of prayer nor black, Indian and non-Indian.” He said poverty and ignorance weren't the only causes ofillness. “Violence is a product of inequality, a product of injustice. The ill- the forces that lie in the unseen world. It is a science and wayoflife passed down from elders and with- Homeowners with moneyworries mayqualify for low-interest loans Evening with the Experts 1998 FALL SERIES quirements for homeowners who need money now. Have youbeen tumed down fora loan? Doyou need mon for any reason? Areyou pal than 10% interest ona or credit cards? If you are a homeowne: em generations. that o and our prayers are f tions to come. It is now must think of ourselves as cestors of our future. Whenever Don speaks, his words w dren in his village ir whieh has bee the violatio: P kind of medicine lo ofthe Creator: the medical professio al medicine, or power, th: pear Ma y the “good medicine.” Plax healing and ceremonies also are vered as medicine. The thers and the grandmothers. ders are called. as el “Ma: my prisoners be free. They are my valleys. They are my mountains. Just as the shadowcannotbe sev- prayed that ered from the body, healing cannot from within to heal the people and the land bedy from the mind, nor the delusions of the mind — such as avarice and hate — from their conse- humankind bring out the medicine Another Mayanelder counseled peopletolive with the vision of sev- be fissured fromthespirit, nor the quences upon the Earth or limit the potential of people.” Don Alejandro was hon- ored with the Martin de la Cruz award, named after a Nahuatl Indian doctor who wrote oneof the Doa Alejandrois responsib takingcare of 200 w si ws and ness ofviolence can create diabetes in families and medicine societies. LOANS:Directlenderloosensits re- | “EE you are asleep, wake up. Raise youre Lookat your volcanoes; look at your mountains. “Medicine willbe nothing if the en- vironment is polluted,” he said. Los sabios, the wise people, struggle to protect nature.” The congress’s scientific mem bers have been “proving” as valid et there be no more violence, no yore nuclear bombs, no more ill hange their hearts. were alsothe trees — he lamented their destruction. “They arethe authorities of tradition. They are the administrators of the natural world.” he said. Alejandro spokeof cures andill ness, his primary message was of the elders’ concern for the land, as the guardians of the natural world Heart of Fire. hildren live long and the women e strong for seven generations. \nd he prayed for the four colors Don Alejandro said his elders several codices of Mexico following the Spanish invasion While Don fect credit? Self-employed? Late house cal bills? IRSliens? Bankruptcy? it doesn't matter! If you are 4 homeowner with sufti cient equity. there's anexcellent chance payments? Financial problems? Medi Back to School = ale: eee 150 Co > vO 200 you will qualify for a loan—usuall within 48 hours. 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