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Thursday, June 28, 1973
University Dallv Kansan
'Ms.Ery' Thrives in Liberated Company
By JACK SMITH
The Los Angeles Times
After stacking the dishes in the rollin Saturday night, I drove out to Rollins Hills on the Palais Verdes Peninsula to a women's club given by the peninsula Women's Coalition.
I had been invited as an honorary member of the coalition, a status which, as far as I know, was quite unofficial and perhaps precarious. Evidently it was a reward for my recent suggestion that we should be on the same Liberation day instead of Labor day.
The party was held in a home at the crest of the peninsula. I reached it after a long twisting climb through wooded hills and rustic estates lightly only by a crescent in the air of scent and horses and eucalyptus. The lights of the city glittered far below.
I THOUGHT WOREN ironic it was that women who a gracious fortune had placed in this bosky elysium could wish to be liberated. But my consciousness had been raised some months ago on a visit to the coalition's center in Palos Verdes Village. I lived there for a sainterhood lives on both sides of the tracks, a lesson I was soon to encounter again.
It was a wine and cheese party in honor of author Anne Wittels and illustrator Ivy Bottini, who had recently completed a new softcover book. The book, "Ms.Ery.", was published by Wellstonecraft, a local firm organized and run by women.
Wittels and Bottini sat at a table in the kitchen autograph copies of the book. The rooms were crowded with women and their men, sipping wine and talking. The conversation had reached that high pitch, just short of a shout, at which it always
seems to stabilize at literary parties.
I bought a copy of "Ms. Ery," which Wittels and Bottin amitably autographed, and backed up against the sink to look at it at the edge of a drifting tide of quests.
IT WAS A BOOK that could be read in
IT WAS, even by me; only a couple of
hundred words, with pictures in shocking pink. In brief, though, it seemed to answer my question again—what was there to liberate these women from?
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The first half of the book was subtitled
"When . . . after living in a house cump-garden with your husband, two children, a barnaster, a tortoise, two cats, an ever-greening hedgehog, a care of all of them; as well as being a Girl Scout leader, doing the P.T.A. bit, going back to college half time, and still keeping it all together . . . your 5-year-old asks, how come you don't do any real work?"
"It's Time For Liberation When . . . " I skimmed through the of the wheres—
The pardon will be effected July 4 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the suspension of the 22nd amendment and Nixon's appointment as President-for-life.
"WHEN," YOU tell Harry you are
voting on the zoning plan, and he uses a
SPEAKING FROM THE WHITE House in San Clemente, Nixon said that he had been arrested and questioned.
When... you apply for a job with your newly earned Ph.D. and are asked, Can you
The move will free all 2200 prisoners, most of whom were found guilty in the late 1970's of violating the sodium penthalide clause of the Sunshine Voting Act.
The director of the Federal Mental Health
Glaucoma Institute, Dick Gray
II, confirmed Nixon's remark.
WASHINGTON, June 28, 1984--President Richard M. Nixon today announced a general pardon for all persons currently in prison for violations of the 41st amendment.
"These people were never of a criminal ilk," Gray said. "They ended up here because they were unable to adjust to the principles of the New Democracy.
"My first reaction was one of great surprise," Liddy said. "But in my heart I know that if he (Nixon) made the final decision, it must be the right thing to do," he said.
Nixon and the Watershed Pardon
"THEY SAW THE Sunshine Voting Act as a negation of their constitutional rights. During their years of confinement here and in the W. Clement Stone Memorial Center in Chicago, we've been able to help them cure their problem.
"When. . you hear people saying hens, birds, ladies, gals, frails, breads, darnes, chicks, tomatoes, girls. . but never women."
"They are now able to understand how once well-serving voting practices had been perverted to the extent that they had acquired societies to the implementation of true liberty.
parootees would not present any problems whatsoever when they re-entered society.
Kansan Staff Writer
LIDDY SAID, "I only hope that when these people are released to join their fellow Americans, they will be guided by His God's wisdom."
"Wouldn't you like some more wine?" she asked me.
"I remember how everyone questioned his (Nixon's) decision to back the IRA-iceland alliance," Liddy said with a chuckle, "and we all know how that turned
At a press conference immediately following the announcement Nixon was asked if the pardon indicated a loosening of federal reins.
By ALAN HURLBUT
Nixon replied, "Let me make this perfectly clear. It will remain the function of this office to prosecute who violate the laws of the land. This pardon would not have been granted if I didn't have complete confidence in Pat's (Grav)'s judgment.
I knew how he felt. It was better to have a wife with a broken leg than one who turned out a widow.
"People who lament the passing of the closed voting booth, the closed jury room, closed caucuses, closed Congressional meetings, and failing to confess sentimentality with patriotism.
Senate majority leader, Gordon Liddy,
NR-N.C., expressed guarded dismay.
"THE IDEA THAT a person should feel compelled to conceal his political activities at any level is aberrant to us. It that kind of level that caused all the trouble back in the 70s.
husband. I'm the man in the book."
The second half was sutitled "It Is Women's Liberation When . . ."
The hostess moved toward us
"No thanks," I said. "I'd better be getting on home. I still have the dinner dishes to
"I would describe their rehabilitation as complete," Gray said.
"I believe the American people will back me per 100 per cent when I say our country is weak."
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"Harry, you hear yourself saying, 'No,
'Harry, I'm not going backpacking again'
with you."
"WHEN," YOU ask Harry how he's going to vote, the school tax, he tells you, "to get into the city."
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY Jr., mouthpiece for the liberal wing of the New Republican Party, said that he fully believed the candidate's victory in a primary indicated a return toward normality.
In her irreverent illustrations Botini's people were eggshaped. She indicated sex by letting it hang out, but with a remarkable economy and purity of line.
On the way home I hope to feel less sorry for Harry. So his wife was a librarian. She would have been much happier.
perience like that."
A young man drifted up to me with a glass of pink wine, as if cast off from the mainstream of the crowd. He looked friendly and interested at the moment, like an extra gear.
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(Editor's note: The President was obviously referring to the 14-month Senate hearing known as the "Watergate Follies," which ended in June 1974. At that time the country barely escaped the disgrace of a presidential impeachment.
We were saved only by a dramatic, last-minute confession by a high official of the now-defunct Democratic Party, saying that he had forged the Presidential seal and signature to fraudulent orders authorizing the Watergate break-in. )
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