The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, August 10, 1982-Page 3 Women in office Numbers have tripled in just seven years WASHINGTON (AP)- A fund- raising brochure of the Women's Cam- paign Fund claims that men run America. If that's true, it is less true than it once was and after November it is likely to be a little further from the truth. After the elections, four women may sit in the U.S. Senate where there have never been more than two at any time. And women may govern two states previously run only by men. "EVENTUALLY I think we're going, to get a Congress that looks like the country," says Ann Lewis, political director of the Democratic National Committee, the first woman to hold so high a post in the inner workings of Students Japan a U.S. 1ifei either poli Women' is still min total of 5, fice; five; almost trig Ten yea: members the state 1 the mayor THOSE or more: percent of state legis mayors. But the a third of legislatur s f du sty yhnnn tical party. s role in governing America nimal, but growing. In 1975, a 765 women held elective of- years later, the number had pled to 16,136. rs ago, only two percent of the of Congress, five percent of egislators and one percent of s in America were women. percentages have all doubled Women now constitute four f Congress, 12 percent of the slatures, eight percent of the picture in uneven. More than the women elected to state es in 1980 were in seven rom aire le dents met with a Chrysler arketing representative in ridayand noted after their 1 Japanese factories make se of automation and robots. aid the students were worried w they would be accepted by s. But the students said they treated very well by all their E COMING to Michigan, the toured the semi-conducter in- ar San Jose, Calif., the oil in- Houston, and the manufac- cca of Chicago. dent, Satoru Fukauda, said he ressed by the diversity of people and their lifestyles. an," he commented, "there is rogeneity. People think more ople here are very different, on is unique." This uniformity however, is slowly beginning e,he added. HER student, Toru Ogawa, erican education is more ed. In Japan,ahe explained, the study broader areas and ee WEALTH, Page 4 states-New Hampshire, Maine, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Con- necticut and Vermont. In the legislatures of Pennsylvania and five Southern states-Mississippi, Louisians, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee-women hold less than five percent of the seats. Nonetheless, women who earn their livings in politics say they sense that women are going to play an ever-larger role in governing the country. LEWIS THINKS an anti-government mood that first helped Jimmy Carter and then helped Ronald Reagan now is going to help women. "If people think political institutions aren't working in their interests, they think, 'These men don't care about what I think or how I live,' " she says. "A woman candidate is a little more likely to know what-real life is like. Just like you, she's a bit of an outsider. To a voter, that can be attractive." There once was a prejudice against electing women candidates. "WE SAW in 1980 the crumbling of that sort of attitude in a lot of places in the country and I can't think of any area where it's a big problem now," says Nancy Sinnott, executive director of the Republican Congressional Cam- paign Committee. Rugh Mandel, director of the Center See NUMBER, Page 5 By BARB MISLE Thest The stun Everthing Americans have is - in a Corp. ma word - BIG. From their houses to Detroit F their cars to the highways on which visit that they drive, Americans are accustomed greater us to a deluxe lifestyle. Shore sa That's the conclusion drawn by 12 about how Japanese college students who swept American through Ann Arbor last weekend on their had been cross-country educational tour of hosts. American industry. BEFOR THE STUDENTS, who are members students t of AIESEC, an international student dustry ne business and economics club, said they dustry in couldn't understand why Americans turing me still are hooked on big, luxury cars. One stud More accustomed to smaller, fuel- was impr efficient Toyotas and Nissans, the American Japanese students also noted the dif- ference between their country's "In Jap narrow, crowded roads and America's more hom wide and lengthy highways. alike. Pe Karen Shore, a University business each pers school undergraduate who hosted the in Japan, foreign students on their visit to the to change area, said she was impressed with the ANOTH students' eagerness to learn, said Am "THEY HAVE tons of questions and specializ are very curious," said Shore, director students of projects for the University's AIESEC S Governors support balanced budget at meetings Sea breezes One of man's oldest methods of transportation becomes fun as the skill of a local windsurfer is put to the test at Gallup Park on the Huron River. AFTON, Okla. (AP)- Budget balancing fervor swept the nation's governors yesterday, but they quickly parted company on how and when to achieve that goal. A majority of speakers at a closed meeting of the National Governors' Association supported amen- ding the Constitution to requiure a balanced federal budget, according to several governors, but there were strong reservations over the proposal before Congress and backed by President Reagan. SEVERAL governors were seeking support for sending Congress a message to "keep it simple" in an amendment it might approve and send to the states for ratification. A few governors strongly opposed amending the Constitution while others questioned whether an amendment, which would take years to be put into af- fect if approved, was the way to deal with current soaring deficits. Every governor who commented after their two- hour closed discussion of the budget amendment ex- pressed dedication to balanced budgets. "I'm very much in factor of balancing the budget," said Gov. Scott Matheson of Utah, a Democrat who will take over as chairman of the association at the close of this session. "I don't like this amendment," he added, "and, frankly, I would like to do it another way than with a constitutional amendment." Michigan's governor, William Milliken, said an amendment for balancing the budget "is not sound public policy," and added that "the answer really is for a responsive and responsible Congress to make the tough hard, politically courageous decisions to bring that budget back into balance in a period of time." GOV. BRUCE Babbitt of Arizona, another Democrat, said there was widespread agreement among governors that "the present proposal is needlessly complex and holds out an invitation to the courts to become the arbiters of the budget process."