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Show Standard-Examiner Postoffice filled with love | here in tiny Romance, Ark. ROMANCE, Ark. (AP) — Love keeps Glenn Belew busy. Rheumatism has slowed the 74-year-old postmaster of Romance, but his hands and wrists remain nimble. He needs them to postmark by hand the many love letters, valentines and wed- ding invitations sent from this tiny town. “I'm not a romantic — just an ordinary, everyday fellow trying to do my job,” said Belew, | Thursday, Feb. 13, 1992 9a NATIONAL who has worked at the post office for 32 years. During that time, folks from around the country have sent him letters and cards they want mailed with the Romancepost- mark. The volume of mail doubles in the weeks before Valentine’s Day, Belewsaid. The airwaves of Romance also will come alive with messages of love on Friday. NSRLJ — phonetic pronunciation November Five Romeo Loves Juliet — will be the cail letters adopted by the Metropolitan Amateur Radio Club of Arkansas when it sets up outside the post office. “We'll be talking to hams around the state of Arkansas, around the country and, hopefully, around the world,” said Ron Baynton, treasurer of the group. Belew is called on year round to stamp love letters and wedding invitations. And at least ‘So a professor, a schoolteacher, suggested ‘Romance’ because it looked so romantic around here.’ — Glenn Belew Does a military record count anymore? Conflicts of Vietnam War era playing a big part in this year’s presidential campaign WASHINGTON (AP) — Like post-traumatic stress, Vietnam shire’s leadoff primary is gone and won't gO away. the line. “If you offer a plate filled with Vietnam memories, people are go- The conflicts that tore at the nation 25 years ago are being played out in the presidential campaign amongthe first generation of candidates young enough to have been caught in thé net of a war we'd rather forget. Vietnam was a no-win proposition two decades ago when these And yet they may be forced to, Two years ago, the U.S. post- or three presidential campaigns are going to be haunted. It started with master general came to Romance — which Belewsaid has 75 to 100 inhabitants, “depend- tial dreams. to Vietnam, lost part of his ieg in a the Quayle flurry. That was a prefiguration,” says Berkeley sociologist Todd Gitlin. Dan Quayle was the first Viet- ing on where you stop andstart” — to dedicate one ofthe series of “Love” postage stamps. The town 45 miles north of Little Rock wasn’t always synonymous with love. Belew said the Kentuckians who settled the ar- ea called it KentuckyValley. But the postal service around 1880 worried that mail headed for Kentucky Valiey, Ark., might get mixed up with mail bound for the state of Kentucky. Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey went grenade explosion and won the Medal of Honor. But his wartime heroism, a central part of his camsupport. Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton didn’t serve. But he’s paying a high vice — did he pull strings to get in? Was it hypocritical to serve that wayif he supported the war? price now for the tortured twists There were few definitive answers and there probably neverwill be. “A whole generation of middle and turns he took before drawing a never-called lottery number. His front-runner status in New Hamp- out of going to Vietnam. That was universal behavior,” says Erwin Hargrove, a Vanderbilt professor Two Democratic presidential candidates besides Clinton did not serve in the military — former California Gov. Jerry Brown and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin was in a college ROTC program and was a Navypilot during the Vietnam War. Kerrey graduated from the Uni- who wasteaching at Brown during the 1960s. “They were desperately trying to stay out of Vietnam and everybody knowsthat.” Clinton on Wednesday released a long letter he wrote 23 years ago to the head of an Arkansas ROTC program he had agreed to join. He nam-aged candidate on a national ticket. He paid with harsh questions about his National Guardser- ment “should have the power to makeits citizens fight and kill and die in a war they may oppose.” “Every student I had tried to get their past. “Probably the next two paign, isn’t translating into political despite his belief that no govern- men at elite universities. as baby-boompoliticians ascend to up the same waythis year as the Democrats pursue their presiden- generation and especially of young Clinton, who attended Georgetown, Oxford and Yale during the Mark Mellman, a Democratic strategist. “It’s the last thing they want to think about.” the national stage and confront Vietnam era, was typical of his than the draft would have been, because I had no interest in the ROTC program in itself and all | seemed to have done was to protect myself from physical harm,” Clinton wrote He said he put himself back in the draft pool “for one reason: to maintain my political viability,” sort of morality play,” says Gitlin, author of a book about the 1960s. ing to push that plate away and look for something else,” says 40-something politicians first faced it as draft-age youths. It’s shaping at the post office. class guys faced a moral anguish and resolved it in a variety of ways. I'm not sure there were any clean outcomes — not with this his White House ambitions are on discusses his decision to bypass versity of Nebraska and was about ROTC and the four-year deferment it would have offered, despite his opposition to the war. to be drafted into the Army; he de- cided to join the Navyinstead. He was chosen for the elite SEAL unit “I began to wonder whether the and went to Vietnam gung-ho about his mission. 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