iff r irg ian Baff Edittd and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of the author. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 23, 1972 News Phone: 764-0572 Women sell themselves ... for The Cause Agnew's ambitions demand a new image IN A COPYRIGHT story, The Detroit News yesterday revealed that Spiro Agnew agreed to accept the sec- ond spot on the Republican ticket only after being as- sured by the President that he will be given "a clean shot" and the presidency in 1976. What this means, a high-ranking Republican told the News, is that Nixon has promised not to block Ag- new's candidacy in any way. Agnew apparently feared that Nixon might choose to promote someone else's candidacy in '76 - perhaps that of Democratic-turncoat John Connally. But Agnew received his reassurance from the President, and is com- ing back to take the lumps of the vice presidency, while keeping his eyes on the next presidential campaign. If this story is to be believed, it means that Repub- lican-watchers can look forward to seeing a "new" Agnew during the coming campaign..Agnew can be expected to move out of his "free-swinging image". No longer can he afford to be Nixon's hatchet man. Agnew must broaden his appeal in order to be a via- ble candidate in '76. He must appear to be more liberal than ever before, while carefully seeing that he doesn't step on any of the toes of his present core of conserva- tive supporters. It will be a difficult tightrope for the vice president to walk. Yet, it is not an impossible route. Nixon suc- cessfully shoolf his image as both a "loser" and a rabid anti-Communist in his election campaign in 1968. NOSTALGIA FANS might recall back in the late fifties when Nixon was Ike's comical sidekick. Agnew's position is not very different. And like his present boss, Agnew might be able to pull off a similar deception on the American people. -ALAN LENHOFF Julie to the rescue 1ULIE EISENHOWER is a very precious commodity these days for the Nixon administration. Julie and her smiley husband are Nixon's house hippies (they're both under thirty) as well as liaisons to the youth vote. Julie is also a woman and can relate, therefore, to the women voters for her father. But somewhere in the Nixon entourage, Julie's powers were overestimated. Early yesterday morning, she appeared before the irate black caucus at the Republican convention in Mia- mi and prepared to wave her magic wand. Unfortunate- ly no one had briefed her for the antagonistic crowd and she could only stutter and declare that her father's ad- ministration has "really done the best that it can do for the black man in America. Blacks, youth, women . . . what's the difference to Nixon? He's not going to listen to any of them. -MAYNARD Marijuana match "JOCKS FOR JOINTS," a new California organization of athletes favoring an easing of dope laws, has chal- lenged members of "Californians Opposed to the Mari- juana Initiative" to a softball game. Californians Onposed to the Marijuana Initiative -called COMI's ("Commies") for short - are attempt- ing to defeat a proposition on the November ballot to decriminalize marijuana. A spokesperson for "Jocks for Joints" reports that the purpose of the game will be to prove "that marijuana smoking does not cause atrophy of the brain and mus- cles." The "Jocks" say that they fully intend the drub the COMI's to prove their point. "We've really become anti- Commies," they say. -ZODIAC NEWS SERVICE Today's Staff: News and Editorial Pages: Alan Lenhoff, Carla Rapoport Photo Technician: Denny Gainer Summer Staff EDITORIAL STAFF Dan Biddle, Jan Benedetti, Meryl Gordon, Jim Kentch, Lorin Labardee, Alan Lenhoff (co-editor), Diane Levick, Maynard, Chris Parks, Carla Rapoport (co-editor) Marilyn Riley, Gloria Smith, Paul Travis, Ralph Vartabedian. By JAN BENEDET'TI 'ITE TALL, ruggedly-attractive woman marches into view on the screen. Clucthing a copy of "Sisterhood is Powerful" tight- ly to her massive, but sleek, karate-honed body, she raises her powerful right hand in a right- eous salute. She lowers her arm and in a strong voice, speaks. "Sisters. Here come the fab- lous feminists. Rent a femin- ist for any occasion from t h e New Feminist Talent Associates (NFTA) of New York City. Yes friends, be the envy of the lib- erated or about-to-be-sisters on s'oor block. Having a rap session? I-ave Betty Friedan talk to your CR group. Buy the services of a feminist rock group, dancers or even hold a workshop on "Freud is Fraud". Call today." The image fades. WATCH OUT. One of these days, a version of that commer- cial may appear on the f i r s t break in "The Dick Cavett Show." Owned and run by feminists, according to its ads, NFTA is a newbooking agency which repre- sents "'feminist talent." The agency's flyer describes a range of feminists. "Just name your area of interest, we have feminist experts on everything from death and taxes to ecology and astrology." Choose from a "spell-binding one-woman revolu- tion, the Mother of the Movement" Betty Friedan or a "boat-rock- ing panelist on TV", Robin Mor- gan or author Warren Farrell, "not our token man, a r e a l feminist." Another of NFTA's feminists, Wilma Scott Heide, president of the National Organization f o r Women (NOW) is called a "warmly witty speaker with a W hat's tte difference? genius for translating complex ideas into pithy quotable lang- uage." Here's one of her pithy quotes on the women's movement: "No woman, no man, no child who is aware of the issues of this move- ment can ever be the same again." Exactly. If the women's move- ment has accomplished o n e thing, it has brought the issue of sexism into the open. The move- ment has irrevocably altered many persons' perceptions of so- ciety, sex, and the nature of wo- man and man. Most feminists nuture this awareness of sexism. Denounce-, ments of Madison Avenue's por- trayal of women as either dumb housewives or eye-shadow-and- lipstick-bathed temptations a r e particularly vehement. No doubt, every one of NFTA's feminists would attack the TV commercial which sells a woman along with the soap or car. But these women have submit- ted to their own brand of slick packaging. They are being sold as 'outstanding feminists of our time" just as surely as the Play- boy playmate's help sell maga- zines. BUT DON'T WORRY. Suppress those cries of "sell-out" because this agency may only be the be- ginning. Imagine another ad. The rugged, but hip, man, clad in a slightly faded workshirt, strides into view. He holds u5 a copy of "Quotations from Chair- man Mao" and displays his finger in salute. He speaks. "Having a convention in town? Do you expect the same, dull fac- es and the same dull floor fights? Well, what about a real fight before that next roll call v.:te. Just call Rent-a-Radical. We've got all kinds of radicals - white, black, Chicano, Yippies, zippies, even a liberal - to show we're not elitist .. . RALPH NADER The land's slipping away VVASHINGTON - A pot-boiling controvorsy is brewing over the ownership and use of underde- veloped and agricultural land throughout the country. The cries of land fraud, land dispossession and the need for land reform are being heard with increasing fre- quency from a wide diversity of groups. Arrayed on one side are small farmersand landowners,econser- vationists, elderly retired people, and officials who take their law enforcement duties seriously. The trends that are feeding this struggle over the land are: 1. A growing concentration of land ownership, particularly in ag- ricultural areas such as Califor- nia, by giant agribusiness cor- porations. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has information on land ownership concentration but refuses to make it public. 2. Corporate speculators are buying up large land tracts, and by legal and political maneuvers, are jacking up land prices which influence housing and other de- velopment costs. A great deal of secrecy precedes these purchases in many cases,thereby depriving nearby residents from learning what the corporation plans to do that might drastically upset their way of life. International Tele- p~hone & Telegraph, for example, is quietly boying up tens of thom- sands of acres in northwest Maine and isn't saying why. 3. Attention is focusing on the gigantic land holdings of the rail- roads obtained free from the U.S. Government in the 19th century. A group headed by Senator Fred Harris (D.-Okla.) has demanded that Southern Pacific Railroad give up these surplus lands, claim- ing they are not being used for railroad purposes as required un- der the original land grants. 4. Public interest lawyers in Ap- plachia are studying the notorious broad-form deed used decades ago by corporate lawyers to fleece in- nocent mountain folk of valuable coal and other minerals on their land. This broad-form deed is still current in these areas. 5. Property tax reformers are documenting their charges that large timber, coal, and oil and gas companies are among those who are vastly underpaying their tax- es through politically-inspired low assessments. Schools and other services suffer as .a result. Small businesses and home owners' pay higher taxes as well. 6. Interstate land sales frauds directed at retired people who sant to settle in Florida, Arizona, or other retirement centers, are mushrooming. High pressure tac- tics and deception have often cost elderly people their entire invest- ments in misrepresented acreage. Federal lan enforcement agencies are paying too little attention to these abuses. 7. Congress is presently delib- erating a national land use policy to prod the states into establish- ing planning programs for such major land uses as highways, parks, mass transit systems, air- ports, utilities, and other large de- velopments. The chief sponsor of this legislation is conservative S e n a t o r Henry Jackson, (D.- Wash.). All this adds up to a recognition of just how critical and limited the nation's land resources are be- coming, and the potential loss to future generations. It is the pres- ent and future duty of all Ameri- cans to keep the land from being seriously polluted or contami- nated. 1972, Harrison-Blaine of New Jersey, I ne. Never in the field of human conflict have so many dropped so much on so few for so little.