Waterloo Courier Cedar Falls (Newspaper) - November 13, 1989, Waterloo, Iowa INSIDE-Business Quarterly looks at FEATURES Exchange Claire Townsend is having no problem adjusting to room life in A9 Waterloo Courier Cedar Falls Copyright 19897 Waterloo Waterloo Iowa Save money with home delivery NEWS FOCUS Lost elections can take heavy toll on spouses BY ELIZABETH MEHREN Los Angeles Times i BOSTON Winning may not be everything in American politics was it former President Richard Nixon who said that? but losing is definitely no fun When Massachusetts first lady Kitty Dukakis ingested rubbing alcohol last week on the eve of the anniversary of her husband's campaign loss to George Bush the Dukakis family's private problems thrust attention on the price of losing a public office As Kitty Dukakis treatment for alcoholism last year and her movement called The hood I think you get a really terrible frustration when your deepest ambitions are dependent on er said Cohen As a consequence Cohen added political spouses may have a sense of being out of control of their lives They are to win what is really someone else's victory They're not supposed to be dis- appointed for themselves if their husband Cohen said In the case of an incumbent ernor who is running for higher Dukakis last week would seem to indicate the cost may be far greater than the forfeited job sonal lives and family concerns often are left untended in the crush of a campaign and the effects of that neglect may not surface until much later Increasingly as campaigning becomes a family matter political spouses are sent out with ules almost as daunting as the er's In the case of Kitty Dukakis and the wives of other 1988 Democratic presidential aspirants that meant the travel the hand-shaking and the non- stop smiles and speaking ments began more than a year before the July 1988 nominating convention But where the candidates can bask in the adulation even as they brave the chaos the spouses must live vicariously While their roles still call for the perfect hairdos and adoring gazes of past political eons today's political spouses also are expected to serve as for the candidates Once these spouses mostly wives as the candidates for higher office remain almost exclusively male were supposed to hand out brownie recipes But the new generation must deliver policy positions on everything from nuclear weaponry to federal farm subsidies It is understood of course that they are speaking not for selves but for their husbands the candidates No matter how enthusiastically they perform this task they may be feeling a certain ambivalence suggested Marcia Cohen the author of a history of the women's office such as Michael Dukakis he at least had a job to go back said Lewis L Gould a sor of history at the University of Texas who teaches a popular undergraduate course called First Ladies It may not have been the most pleasant job but there were duties things to attend Gould said For the spouse there is no sort of on-the-job therapy Obviously campaigning and then losing does put a lot of sure on the Gould con- But they don't have any way to relieve it Gould who also was a tor to a book published by the National Archives called Modem First believes they are saddled too with a kind of tive identity crisis In August you were going to be the First Lady of the United States In November you're the wife of the defeated candidate At first Kitty Dukakis seemed to have rebounded admirably nering a contract for a book that would present her side of the campaign experience But even then said Gould she was positioning herself as a kind of successful someone whose success depends on lessly going over the same tions about what happened what went wrong on the campaign It wasn't What did you do about art in public places in or What about the It was What went For the Dukakis family the troubles that surfaced publicly when Kitty Dukakis entered an alcoholism treatment center three months after her husband's defeat were only compounded by the governor's growing problems with the budget and plunging populari- ty in his home state By the time Kitty Dukakis was hospitalized SPOUSES Continued on page A2 East Germans head back to jobs Officials believe fewer than decided to remain in West BERLIN AP East Berliners today began returning to their jobs after four days of frenzied tions at the newly opened Berlin Wall and officials said fewer than 1 percent of those who crossed into the West during the weekend chose to stay The government formally ished the death strip along border areas where Communist guards once shot would-be escapees A border guard said soldiers had been told to begin removing barbed wire and other fortifications to the Berlin Wall It was the latest move to end the division between East and West Germany following the opening of 22 new border crossings and the dismantling of parts of the wall In East Berlin the nation's ment convened and was expected to name Hans Modrow a leading reformer to be the new premier He would replace Willi Stoph who resigned along with his Cabinet on Tuesday Also today the party's ber Central Committee was ed to set a date in December for an emergency party congress which would have the power to elect an entire new Central Committee and change party politics Activists in Leipzig which has been the site of huge protests planned another stration tonight West Berlin began cleaning up the remnants of a celebration that began Thursday with the opening of East Germany's borders and finally began winding down Sunday night Federal government officials in AP PHOTO An East German mother is overwhelmed by emotions when crossing the border at Bernauer Strasse Sunday with har daughter on her ders Bonn said fewer than 1 percent of the estimated 3 million East mans who arrived over the weekend decided to stay la he sign that the policy would not backfire Lack of freedom to travel had been one of the major complaints of hundreds of thousands of East mans who abandoned their nist homeland permanently before the borders opened It was something special but anyway things have to go on as said Peter Normann an East Berliner who visited West Berlin and then went home West Berlin's bustling the tree-lined shopping thoroughfare that had been jammed with revelers today was filled with workers and shoppers The carpet of shattered bottles crushed cans fast-food wrappers and cigarette packs was swept up and hauled off overnight leaving behind few traces of the celebration East Berlin Mayor Erhard Krack strode through a new breach in the Berlin Wall on Sunday and shook hands with West Berlin Mayor Walter The ing took place at the Potsdamer Platz once the vibrant hub of a united Berlin speaking this morning on Today show said the mayors discussed the need for between authorities in both sides of the city to handle the increased car and foot traffic ing from the new border policy Today's announcement on the border areas covers both the mile frontier between East Germany and West Germany and the even more notorious stretch of land ning along the Berlin Wall in East Berlin The borders had been one of GERMANY Continued on page A2 Salvadoran soldiers battle rebels toll tops 300 SAN SALVADOR Ei Salvador AP Government forces fought today for control of the capital after leftist rebels in their biggest sive since 1981 dug trenches in parts of San Salvador and attacked military posts in the provinces At least 139 people were killed and 317 wounded in fighting that began Saturday night according to reports from hospitals and the military In the capital the fighting was the heaviest of the civil war The rebels launched the offensive after pulling out of peace talks to protest a series of attacks on leftist political and union leaders they blamed on the ment Rightist President Alfredo tiani whose official residence was attacked in the early hours declared a state of siege that rescinded basic rights and ordered a 6 p.m to 6 nationwide curfew Also targeted were military and police bases and the home of the president of the country's ture Fighting was reported in at least four of the country's 14 provinces including the northern section of San Salvador much of which was being held by heavily armed rebels It was the biggest coordinated rebel attack since a 1981 offensive in the provinces Early today the sound of mortars j CUBA AP PHOTO Salvadoran soldiers march down the street in San Salvador Sunday to enter combat against guerrillas and sporadic gunfire echoed through the deserted streets Military and medical officials said at least 139 people had been killed and at least 317 wounded mostly civilians An American teacher not immediately identified was among the dead The rebels claimed 400 soldiers were killed or wounded and gave no casualty figures for their own forces By late Sunday rebel snipers had taken posts in the high floors of buildings in the northern sections Residents of the area helped rebels dig trenches A free country or one group called out when they saw journalists approaching suburban Metropolis On national television Cristiani announced the state of siege pending rights of assembly as well as free speech and movement The terrorists must know there are judicial tools to fight these P Hernandez irrational he said For their part the rebels declared a nationwide ban on traffic and ordered all gas stations to close The rebels enforce such bans with tage Both sides made public appeals for international support and claimed they held the upper hand Cristiani called the offensive indiscriminate terrorism He leads the rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance or Arena and took office June 1 after winning a presidential election His party has been linked to death squads that operated with near impunity in the war's early years and are blamed for most of its deaths Abortion rights advocates rally Navy nearly bombs campers f A DN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON From the Lincoln Memorial to the Golden Gate Bridge abortion rights cates rallied Sunday by the dreds of thousands warning cians that they will be holding them accountable in next year's elections and beyond Their prime target they said is President Bush an who recently vetoed legislation that would have permitted the ment pay for abortions performed on poor women who are victims of rape or incest No woman can be free to plan her life if she cannot decide when and whether to have National Organization for Women President Molly Yard told the rally at the base of the Lincoln Memorial As the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down President Bush would enslave the women of this country by not allowing us to control our reproductive lives People were jammed along the reflecting pool on the grassy mall that stretches from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Police estimated the crowd at but organizers insisted that the number was twice that The day's events began with a sunrise candlelight vigil in unk Maine near Bush's vacation retreat In his inaugural address George Bush spoke of a new breeze of dom refreshing the Planned Parenthood President Faye ton said there This is no fresh breeze of freedom This is a ABORTION Continued on page A2 1 Business Celebrity Daily DESERT CENTER Calif AP Two U.S Navy jets mistakenly dropped a dozen bombs about 300 yards from a campsite leaving six campers shaken including one who was slightly injured by shrapnel Two attack bombers from the Naval Air Facility in El Centre accidentally dropped the round of explosives three miles north of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial nery Range a Navy spokesman said Sunday It was definitely a mistake but as to why I don't said Mike Ray public affairs officer for the El Centre station Saturday's bombing was under investigation and Ray said he had no further comment The bombing left a half-dozen craters 10 to 12 feet in diameter and about a foot deep The jets apparently overshot the target area and dropped the pound bombs igniting small fires over four acres of the California Desert Conservation Area said Tom Biller a U.S Bureau of Land Management ranger who ed the accident Sunday with Navy officials The fires posed no threat in the desert scrubland
