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Show r.f.iic SEPTEMBER 14 PRIMARY ELECTION DAY PAGE Vol. 7, No. 37 g 4 J In July 1976, 35 womens magazines published tides on the Equal Rights Amendment. Tliis was not a coincidence. It was the result of an idea and a plan advanced last winter by Sey Chassler, editor of Redbook, as a means of promoting ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. He persuaded the other magazines to join him in this effort. This was the first time that such a large consortium of womens magazines had been joined together for any purpose. The total circulation of the 35 magazines is 60 million. This consortium included magazines which have had a respectable reputation right along with the womens lib magazines such as Ms, those which feature the true confession type of sensationalism, and the pornographic magazines. Most of the articles were so blatantly that their bias shocked even those who have become accustomed to the refusal of the to give equal rights to those opposed to ERA. Most of the magazines made no pretense whatsoever of giving both sides of the issue. The articles sounded like pumicity handouts right out of headquarters. Although these magazines received thousands of letters prior to July asking for fair treatment of the issue, these letters had practically no effect. Most editors arrogantly used their freedom of the press to present only the side, and to distort, ridicule, or falsify the Stop ERA side. Only two magazines (Mademoiselle and Ladies'. Home Journal) published statements by ERA opponents. pro-ERAe- rs pro-ER- A pro-ER- A 0 - KISSINGERS COSTLY RHODESIAN POLICY Paul Scott overturn the pro-U.government there will have on the American Washington: Secretary of economy. State Henry Kissingers highly The dark heart of the Kisquestionable policy toward singer program, still to be unveiled Rhodesia could turn out to be very in this country and presented to ostly for U.S. taxpayers. Congress, is the establishment of a The unpublicized price tag $500 million fund to compensate runs to nearly a billion dollars and whites who lose property or are could go higher depending on the forced to resettle by blacks taking impact that Kissingers plan to control of the country. Under the Kissinger plan, for example, those among Rhodesias UTAH INDEPENDENT 278,000 whites who choose to 57 OiUud Avenue resettle in South Africa or Western Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Europe would be given fixed grants to make the shift, including reimbursement for their holdings in Ptidet Rhodesia and travel expenses. CdtUSadty, Utsh The buy-oproposal was outlined by Kissinger in a private meeting held earlier in the month in London with Britains Prime Minister James Callaghan when they discussed the problem of growing violence in southern By September 9, 1976 Propaganda in Womens Magazines Pro-ER- A pro-ER- A J 25C Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 r- - 4 S. ut Africa. The massive fund was needed, according to Kissinger, to help erode support among Rhodesias whites for the present minority government of Prime Minister Ian Smith. As one of Kissinger's senior policy advisers put it after the meeting: We are telling the whites in Rhodesia that we'll make good vour losses if you elect to leave or lose property in a black takeover of the country. This is the best deal available under the present circumstances. The alternative is the loss of everything, including vour life. Aides say Kissingers objective is to bring about a transition of power in Rhodesia with the least A Womans Self-Estee- m? Parents' Magazine summarized the basic assumption that runs through most presentations: If pro-ER- A you have a baby girl, she is also all too likely to be limited in her sense of and handicapped in her capacity to take the full pride and pleasure she should in being female. After reading the 35 womens magazines, we come to the conclusion that any American woman who is h limited in her sense of or handicapped in her capacity to take the full pride and pleasure she should in being female must have gotten herself in that condition by reading womens magazines. Those n 35 magazines are the biggest of women we have ever read! Anyone who spends much time reading those h magazines could not help but lose her sense of as a woman! They are often an insult to womens intelligence, morality, sense of decency and decorum, and normal family relations. Most of the magazines create problems instead of solve them. Many assume that women have neither intellectual nor emotional fulfillment in their personal lives, and therefore must escape vicariously into an unreal world of abnormal creatures. In addition to a pro-ERarticle in July, many of the magazines carried other womens lib articles such as Cosmopolitan's The Myth of Maternal Instinct. self-wort- h, self-wort- put-dow- self-wort- A Continued on page 6 FREAK BALLOTS CHEAT VOTERS Copyright Jo Hindman 1976 ballots, invented by metro political engineers, are to be used in a city election Sept. 14 in Billings (Montana). A metro city charter is being offered to Billings voters with no room on the ballots for No votes against the measure. Voters can vote for the charter but notagainst Pre-stuff- ed semantics now assumes great importance when illuminated by the metro trickery in Billings which has dropped the Nay. The proposed charter if approved by Billings voters will take their city government out of their hands and put it under control of an all powerful group of metro bureaucrats endowed with limitless authority. A concept known as the metro General Power Grant (GPG) in the charter does it by this wording, The city shall have allpowers possible for a.. .city to have under the Constitution and laws of this state as fully and completely as though they were specifically enumerated trifling violence possible. Otherwise, they contend, there will be a bloodbath as the present guerilla war escalates with thousands of whites and blacks being killed by Soviet supported terrorist attacks from nations. bordering black-rule- d DESTROYING A NATION In his talks with Prime Minister it. In the freakish situation, the Callaghan, Kissinger gave the impression that there was little chance space normally reserved for a No of getting Smith to accept black vote is (on the Billings ballot) rule without first undermining his preempted by a Yes vote space on another matter authorization support among whites. Kissinger expressed the belief for unspecified changes to be made that Soviet and Cuban backed in present city government if. the in this charter". guerrilla warfare against the Smith charter fails to pass. The section says plainly that No vote Against A write-i- n regime would continue to grow and the citizens is are giving city hall all that a United Nations Emergency the Charter a saving alternative force After voter distressed would a be needed but power. Billings approving that if military before the end of the year to con- reports, I have been told very, they do the Billings voters will g trol the violence and arrange for plainly by the head of the election have no power, no the evacuation of whites from department that it will not be posUnder Article XI of Monsible to just write in No or Rhodesia. controversial metro Once black rule was esAgainst Charter" because it will tanas tablished in Rhodesia, Kissinger void the ballot on the voting constitution (which was an earlier trick pulled on the state), the local stressed, the U.S. would be willing machine. American charters and government powers consist of to underwrite an aid program that would run into the hundreds of constitutions have gone to great anything the local governments millions of dollars over the next lengths to avoid dilemmas such as (cities and counties) want to do, what is specifically the engineered vote monopoly in except five to ten years. forbidden to them. The irony of the offer is that Billings. In heretofore seeming No charter under the sun Rhodesian redundance which now turns out to the present white-rule- d be a show of wisdom, basic could despossibly anticipate the government is millenia of things that should be pite the U.N. embargo which has American documents frequently forbidden to those running the that limited its exports of chrome, the mention, require, and specify votes on any question shall be cast government. The best solution, country's chief money-make- r. While contending that his in yeas and nays. Article I sec- therefore, is for citizens to retain self-ruthey are policy was designed to help a tions 5 and 7 of the U.S. the freedom and with. born In discuss matter. the Constitution charters, they should moderate leadership emerge What before may have seemed Continued bn pnfe 11 Continued on page 11 self-rulin- self-governm- self-supporti- le |