t Page 4-Thursday, September 29, 1977-The Michigan Daily 0, ht Sirigaun ;n aug Eighty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 19 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan A costly delay on a lif and death issue A T EACH successive vote, the House of Representatives seems to achieve new depths in self-deceit. No better example of this phenomenon can be found than Tuesday's session, when a large majority of the body votjl against adopting a liberalized Se te version of an appropriations bile.mendment prohibiting the use of M caid funds for abortions. is self-deceit and boondoggling in th worst congressional tradition for re e sentatives to wreathe their m4es with sanctimonious phrases "i defense of life." R:.e Senate language, in fact, is it- el ia defense of life since it allows ec ral funding for abortions in cases f O edical necessity, which the renal House version did not. It also eits payment for abortions in cases f tape or incest. And what humane ion can justify - on any moral or e ious plane - forcing a woman to ala daily reminder of a painful and r t*l experience in the countenance f child. Or foisting the infant off of n optive agency where its chances f & appy life are slim indeed. kh is is the state to which the House, prently wishes to relegate those olden who are too poor to pay for the peration themselves. Members have istened unmoved to tales of the back- lley butchershops these women will ow be forced to resort to, since they on't be able to afford good doctors. On another level, House action on. he abortion funding issue has created series of inexcusable delays in pas- age of the Health, Education and Wel- are appropriations bill, to which the bortion amendment was cleverly at- ached as a rider.. House refusal to ompromise with the Senate is ringing HEW and Labor agencies angerously close to financial crisis: heir funding will run out on Friday if he bill, rider included, isn't passed. Representatives have used many xcuses for tying up the bill. here can be no compromise on h,- sue of life and death," said Rep. rt Bauman (R-Md.) grandly. What, then, is the death penalty? Whit is war? Yet Congress has rather requently funded both, with hardly a lualm. And the victims in those cases vere grown human beings who could eel: the pain the mental suffering -- iot tiny embryos without capacity to hink, feel, or even to ;breathe unsup- orfed. A NOTHER ARGUMENT frequent- ly heard is, that "my constitu- ents are against abortion, they don't want to pay for it." Actually, on most national surveys, the issue is very close, and a majority of Americans have indicated they are in favor of abortions in the cases the Senate has cited. So that reason won't hold up either. In a June ruling, the Supreme Court stated that government need not finan- ce abortions. Funding by Medicaid for the procedure has been nonexistent since August 4, except in cases where the woman's life was endangered. House legislation would remove even this exception. The 'Court, and more vitally, the House - because it enacts the laws - are playing high-handedly with issues that vitally affect the lives of thousan- ds. They are making decisions that should be made by two people, private- ly: a woman and her doctor. What is worse, they are trying to impose a medical funding system which clearly discriminates against women who are statistically most like- ly to need abortions; poor women. On this issue, there can and should be compromise. Wherefore art Wal Wt er Mond By JAMES GERSTENSANG That role last week prompted an he spei unusual, public chastisement when Preside WASHINGTON (AP) - Whatever Senate Democratic Leader Robert people b happened to Walter Mondale? Byrd of West Virginia took him to consulta Eight months ago he moved into task for failing to recognize the Re- Monda the vice presidency, established publican leader, Howard Baker of sensitiv what he called "a perfect relation- Tennessee, after a vote on natural discussi, ship" with President Carter, and set gas pricing that the administration case. off on trips to Europe and Japan as lost. It wa the President's highly visible emis- The vice president's schedule has experie sary. been replete with swearing-in cere- tality." BUT IN RECENT weeks, the vice monies for ambassadors and other THE L president has nearly sunk from administration appointees; political doldrum public view, so much so that at least speeches in Pensacola, Fla., and Secreta one of his staff members worries Columbus, Ohio, and fundraising ap- Mondal that "in terms of strategy, it makes pearances in Washington. ' Page On sense for Mondale to be a little more EARLY NEXT MONTH he will Eisel visible than he's been." make a weekend trip to California, spoke w While Mondale takes pains to Kansas, and Illinois - the last step about L defer to the President, his staff will be the Chicago Columbus Day be up to members are mindful of his public parade. the exac image and the possibility that some- "There has been an increase in HOW day he may run for the presidency political activities," said Johnson, dale m himself. sitting in the vice president's office White H Close aides to the vice president down a corridor from Carter's, while Lance,a say he is as busy as he has ever been Mondale attended Carter's weekly cause h in the Carter administration, but his breakfast for congressional leaders. trip in C activities - advising Carter, attend- Pointing to such duties, one aide sota. ing meetings with foreign officials, said: Howe quietly lobbying the Senate, and has the making out-of-town political speech- HE WAS ALWAYS involved in the the sam es - are not likely to attract public base line sort of stuff that a vice since In attention. president does ... but it is more visi- "He d WHAT'S HAPPENED to Walter ble now. I don't think he's taking on any dim Mondale? I don't know how many as many visible, public things, but said. people are asking me that," said James Johnson, his executive as- sistant. "But the weeks since Labor Day have been the busiest three weeks since he came into office. In the international sphere, Mon- dale took part last week in meetings Carter held with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko._r zy; WITH THE PRESIDENT, Mon- dale has been urging his former col- leagues in the Senate to support the Panaa Canal treaty. His much-heralded role in setting U.S. policy toward Africa has les- sened to some extent, although he is still "keeping himself up to date on the African developments," Johnson said. On domestic issues, Mondale an- nounced the administration's pro- posal last week for expanded home rule for the District of Columbia. He is working with Carter on the admin- istration's major tax revision plan, expected to be announced within two ' £-,-' weeks. a- , r'.4< - HE TRIED TO shepherd the ad- ministration's election law reform package through Congress, but ran head on into Republican and Demo- cratic opposition that he could not overcome. Working mostly on the telephone, he has spent a considerable amount of time in recent days fighting for the administration's proposed crude oil tax and against deregulation of natural gas prices, -but he has met with less than total success. The Senate Finance Committee rejected the crude oil tax and the full Senate's moves toward removing controls from the price of natural gas forced Carter last Saturday to raise the threat of a veto. HE CARRIES OUT MOST of his Senate-related activities on the tele- phone, but on occasion fills his con- stitutional role of presiding over the Senate. th Lab( rds more time ant than ever befo ring him more p tion and advice.' ale's staff is p ie, and guard rig his role in the s, said one said, nce with the s LANCE CASE an is" were credite ry Al Eisele as e's disappears ie. e said the vice ith Carter in ge ance, but added Mondale himsel t role he played. EVER, HE SAIl issed a number louse meetings d at least on one o e was on a pri ,anada and nort ver, said Eisel same access to e influence, that auguration Day. Doesn't feel ther inution of his ra OU F.1 e with the re and more roblems for articularly led, about Bert Lance "our first siege men- id "summer d by Press reasons for ance from e president neral terms that it will f to disclose D that Mon- of crucial dealing with occasion be- vate fishing hern Minne- e, Mondale Carter, and he has had e has been ole," Eisele ori Gapczynski pinski: If Zbigniew :inski could of the National you may still to make it to - . And think of i who became But then he o Gribbs. Of tie irbiga r D ttt-iu EDITORIAL STAFF ANN MARIE LIPINSKI JIM TOBIN Editors-in-Chief LOIS JOSIMOVICH....................Managing Editor GEORGE LOBSENZ .......... ................ Managing Editor STU McCONNELL........r.. .... ........ ....... Managing Editor JENIFER MILER ........R.............. Managing Editor MIKE NORTON .............................. Managing Editor KEN PARSIG IAN ............... Managing Editor BOB ROSENBAUM ......................... Managing Editor MARGARET YAO ............................ Managing Editor SUSAN ADES..... ................ Magazine Editor JAY LEVIN ......... .................... Magazine Editor ELAINE FLETCHER ................ Associate Magazine Editor JEFFREY SELBST ................................ Arts Editor Weather Forecasters: MARK ANDREWS and MIKE GILFORD STAFF WRITERS: Susan Barry, Rick Berke, Brian Blanchard, Michael Beckman, Lori Carruthers, Ken Chotiner, Eileen Daley, Ron DeKett, Lisa Fisher, Denise Fox, David Goodman, Michael Jones, Lani Jordan, Janet Klein, Garth Kriewall, Gregg Krupa, Doblilas Matunonis, Patti Montemurri, Tom O'Connell, Karen Paul, Stephen Pickover, Kim Potter, Martha Retal- lick, Keith Richburg, Julie Rovner, Dennis Sabo, Annmarie Schiavi, Paul Shapiro, Elizabeth Slowik, Mike Taylor, Pauline Toole, Sue Warner, Linda Willcox, Shelley Wolson, Mike Yellin, and Barb Zahs SPORTS STAFF KATHY HENNEGHAN ........................... Sports Editor TOM CAMERON........................ Executive Sports Editor SCOTT LEWIS Managing Sports Editor Don MacLACHLAN .................. Associate Sports Editor JOHN NIEMEYER................... Contributing Sports Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Paul Campbell, Ernie Dunbar, Henry Engel- hardt, Jeff Frank, Gary Kicinski, Brian Martin, Bob Miller, Brian Miller, Dave Renbarger, Errol Shifman and Jamie Turner- JiMMY/ AMolk4& THE ELt)E4S m1 What's in a name? Last Thursday, Daily Co- editor Ann Marie Lipinski wrote a heart-warming story about a little girl who couldn't pronounce or spell her name, who grew up to be a big girl who could spell and pronoun- ce her name, but lived in a world full of people who still couldn't pronounce or spell her name. Todav Ann Marie czynski by marriage, so for most of my life I lived unhassled as a Caursen. When the burdens and traumas of being a Lipinski in the outside world get to you, I recommend a trip to Alpena, Michigan. There you will be lost in the welter of Gapczynskis (there are seven in the phone book), Dziesinskis, Ci- arkowskis, Brilinskis, Helenskis, Idalskis, Januchowskis, Jarczyn- skis, Jarmuzeskis, Kaczonowski, I guarantee you could call of- fices in Alpena and leave your name and the secretary would not ask you to spell it because she would be a Lipinski married to a. Sczukowski. It would be a real treat for you to ask the secretary .to spell her name to you! You could go to McDonalds and be waited on by Peplinskis and Lewandowskis and Roznowskis! When you stop for gas, you might be served by a Rygwelski Wieczarkowskis.. --D( * * Dear Ann Marie Lij Cheer up! I Kazimierz Bzez become Chairmant Security Council, have your chance whatever you wish Roman Grzybowsk Mayor of Detroit. changed his name t iItI rIiw-"T ____________________