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Monday, Jan. 27, 1986
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Cherokee honor first woman leader
The Associated Press
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to lead a large Native American tribe, says being chief of the Cherokee Nation is a milestone for all Indian women.
The Cherokee honored Mankiller in a daylong powwow Saturday at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah.
"I think women have a lot of attributes we can bring to tribal leadership," she said. "Can you imagine a female Sitting Bull or a female Cuser?"
"I can't imagine them putting entire communities at risk without a whole lot of deliberation."
A sacred cedar ceremony, usually conducted in private, began the powwow.
Only Mankiller and her family took part in the ceremony, performed by Melvin George, a Yuchi Indian from Tula. George waved smoke from burning cedar chips with an eagle-feather wand in the ceremony.
"Fire, cedar and the eagle all have powers." George said afterward. "We call on them to use their powers to help our people."
Over 500 people attended the intertribal gathering, offering the new chief ritual blessing through prayer, song and dance, as well as gifts and good wishes.
"It's a tradition still being carried on by Oklahoma Indians where they honor a leader," said head powwow singer Kenneth Anquoe, a Kiowa from Tulsa. "And this leader happens to be one of our most respected."
Mankiller's role will be to guide the tribe's $30 million a-year operations that include 45,000 acres of farm and timberland, a motel and restaurant in Tahquah, a wholesale and retail greenhouse also there and an electronics manufacturing plant in nearby Stilwell.
Dressed in a long black dress with ribbons of primary colors, Mankiller said she was a little embarrassed by the crush of media attention and well-wishers.
She does not spurn the spotlight, she said, because it may help to further expand the role of women in Indian affairs.
She belongs to Indian women's organizations and calls herself a very strong feminist...
"For right now I think it is appropriate." Mankiller said "I feel very good about showcasing what we are doing."
The constant influence of European culture took Indian women a step backward from their place as partners in a fight for survival, and now they are stepping forward again, Mankiller said.
Mankiller was elected deputy chief in 1983. She will serve as chief executive for the 68,000-member tribe through 1987, when she can run for a full four-year term.
Reagan could win contest for military aid to contras
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan faces a tough battle to resume military aid to rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government, but he could prove victorious, according to an Associated Press survey of key swing votes.
In the Democratic-controlled House, where the main legislative battle will be fought, only a few swing congressmen said they were leaning toward voting with Reagan on lethal military aid, but that could be enough for the president, considering the 64-vote majority he gained for non-lethal aid last year.
Democrats, however, note that Reagan's expected proposal for $100 million in military and logistical aid will go to a Congress which is doubtful about his Nicaraguan.
"There's a lot of skepticism up here about the lethal aid, and when you factor in the Gramm-Rudman limits, I'd have to say now that I don't think they have the votes," said Rep. Dante Fascell, D-Fla., House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, who sided with Reagan on non-lethal last year but lists himself as undecided on lethal aid.
An AP survey of 33 swing votes from last year's congressional battles over aid to the contra rebels found 13 against or leaning against Reagan's lethal aid plan, 17 undecided or not available and three leaning in favor.
But because Reagan had a 64-vote victory margin on the non-lethal aid vote last June, the Democrats must win back nearly all the swing votes or persuade other House members who normally back the president to switch.
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PEKING—China's "one couple, one child" family-planning policy is producing not only spoiled brats but fat brats, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday.
Chinese doctors are concerned about the growing ranks of obese youth, many of whom are pampered by their parents with goodies like chocolate, sugar and fatty meat. Xinhua said.
A newspaper survey of more than 2,000 Chinese children said one out of every 60 were obese, Xinhua quoted Yan Chun, director of the department of internal medicine of the Peking Children's Hospital, as saving.
"Since 1978, my department has received about 850 overweight children who exceeded the child's
normal weight by seven or eight kilograms (15.4 to 17.6 pounds),” Yan was quoted as saying.
Among her patients, Yan said, two boys died because their obesity led to failure of the lungs.
"Most of the patients are the only children of their families. Their parents believe that for a child, the fatter the better, so they feed them with such high-fat and high-calorie food es fat meat, chocolate and sugar." Yan said.
She warned that about 80 percent of the fat children will grow into fat adults and will be 12 times more likely to suffer from diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
In Peking parks, parents and grandparents often are spotted hovering around a single, brightly-clad youngster.
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