Former Reagan Speechwriter angers feminst The Michigan Daily- Friday, September 16, 1983- Page 5 Indian swami pilot lands kite in E. Berlin WASHINGTON (AP) - Feminists charged yesterday that a former Reagan speechwriter's claim that rape 's a "cherished fantasy" for omen reflects the "cheerful, stupid insensitivity" that has cost President Reagan the support of many women. Aram Bakshian who resigned as the president's chief speechwriter two weeks ago, said the feminists' criticisms are ridiculous misinter- pretations of his review of a book on romantic fiction. UNDER THE headline "Two Cheers or Rape," Bakshian's article in the current issue of National Review magazine praised the book "Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance and the Female Imagination," by Helen Hazen. "She has written a funny, insightful, slightly disconnected, but mostly sen- sible little book about the question Sigmund Freud asked but could not an- swer: What do women want?" Bakshian wrote. Talking about themes in some Oromantic novels aimed at women readers, Bakshian wrote: "RAPE, especially seems to strike a deep instinctive chord in millions of female readers, a cherished fantasy that is not confined to air-headed bits of fluff or frustrated dowds." That line angered some feminists. "The confusion of rape with romance is an outrage," said Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women. "IF HE DIVIDES the female population into women who want to be raped on the one hand and feminists on the other, then the entire female population of this nation is feminist,'' she said. "I think the controversy is ridiculous," said Hazen in a telephone interview from her home in Iowa City, where she is an administrator with the University of Iowa library. "It's being built around the reviewer and I am the one who made the statements. If the people read the book, they would un- derstand a little more of what Bakshian was talking about. Of course, he was in a difficult position saying such things - he's a male.' Hazen said her book attacks the philosophical tenets of feminism and tries to describe basic differences bet- ween passions of each sex. "Women by the millions are reading these romance novels in which these things are happening. that doesn't mean they want to get raped. That's ridiculous." BERLIN (AP) - An Indian swami bearing purple chrysanthemums flew his motorized kite over the Berlin Wall to East Germany yesterday, "to prove that love and flowers can overcome barriers better than bombs." The Communists gave him a cheese sandwich and free subway ride home, but kept his kite. Nonetheless, the yoga master said he will continue his peace mission and may try to fly over Beirut next. SWAMI VISHNU Devanada, 55, was temporarily detained by authorities af- ter landing his $7,200 craft in an East German field. The official East German news agen- cy ADN said Devananda had "deliberately entered EastcGerman airspace and landed in the capital of Berlin. After examination of the cir- cumstances surrounding the violation of airspace, the pilot was warned and expelled to West Berlin." ARMY U SURPLUS 201 E. Washington at Fourth Open M-W 9-6_ Open Th-F 9-8 Open sat. 9-7 VJS4 994-3572 The silver-haired mystic said that he was questioned for about six hours, then sent back to West Berlin via sub- way with a stern warning "never to do that again because it's too dangerous." DEVANANDA SAID he took off from a field in the British sector of the divided city around 7 a.m. despite war- nings from West Berlin police "who told melI would get shot down." His red-and-orange kite had a 16-foot span, and was equipped with a lawn mower seat and a Kawasaki motor- cycle engine. With the pockets of his robes filled with chrysanthemums, Devananda said he "sailed like a beautiful bird 100 feet above the wall." "I WAS COLD and couldn't see well through the clouds, but I saw the wall and the guard towers. As far as I know, no one shot at me." "Finally, after about 15 minutes, I spotted a field being plowed, and I lan- ded there." 20% OFFI OUR ENTIRE LINE OF SWEATSHIRTS & PANTS Available in Many Styles & Colors WITH THIS COUPON (EXCEPT SALE ITEMS) Expires Fri., Sept. 23, 1983 D, Balloonatics Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER I Civil Engineering Grad student Dave Godfrey relaxes and reads the paper yesterday afternoon amongst the balloons left over from the Society of Women Engineer Society gathering. Regents postpone Ed. School decision (Continued from Page 1) Stark, however, refused to make any personal comments on the proposed budget cuts, saying, "anything I might say might be quite contrary to anything (Berger) might say." Berger told the Regents that the tran- sition team that will lead the school through the proposed cuts - which is yet to be appointed - "will work closely with the school's executive committee and faculty seeking their in- put, advice, and council to produce rapid but reasoned movement." Regent Nellie Varner (D-Detroit) asked University officials to prepare periodic reports on the progress of the transition. Regent Roach said he was "im- pressed" by the improvement at each level of the reviews, and that he realized many of the problems the University is facing under the reviews are mostly "external to the Univer- sity," such as declining state money and "shifting federal and state policies on social issues." Police. notes Flasher spotted A man in his twenties approached an Ann Arbor woman sitting in her car Wednesday night and exposed himself, Ann Arbor police reported. The suspect was watched by several witnesses on Reuthven Place then turned and walked away. 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