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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1981
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with choice of O’Connor
United Press International
’ WASHINGTON — Presi
dent Reagan appealed to a wide
range of his constituency — and
s won back many disaffected Re
publican women — with his
choice for the Supreme Court,
but he continued to alienate the
far right.
I The choice of Judge Sandra
Day O’Connor to become the
first woman on the nation’s
highest court was superb polit
ics for Reagan.
It strengthens his credibility
— he pledged early in his pres
idential campaign that one of his
first appointments to the high
court would be a woman.
Heagan already has gotten more
credit than most of his prede
cessors for keeping his cam
paign promises.
It wins back to his corner
thousands of rank-and-file Re
publican women who were in
near open rebellion over the
ministration’s meager record
of finding women for top jobs in
Washington.
1 At the same time, it takes
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its and poi W ASHINGTON - The Navy,
se for inc: iding the high tide of the adminis-
ration’s emphasis on defense, has
proposed a massive five-year ship-
milding and aircraft procurement
wram to meet the goal of
| IT/"•p natching Soviet naval power by
11 V. I, he end of the decade, Pentagon
ifficials say.
mse away inn ?'The plan entails building 143
hips, including two more nuc-
? to attract , ear-powered aircraft carriers and
a shot at tb 14 additional nuclear attack sub-
narines, plus 1,890 planes be-
ise Marie, s ween 1982 and 1986 — a 75 per-
ecause the i rent increase over what the Carter
Ministration proposed, the offi-
ket, ’she sail rials said Tuesday,
owningak: They said the Navy also plans to
we kept tbf‘eactivate four lowaclass bat-
leships for use as cruise-missile
> have acbaicarriers and two aircraft carriers,
$500 in cast he Oriskany and Bon Homme
i parish is ofen&hard.
'd to 2,Odder- The proposed buildup, which
las been submitted to Defense
the giveawn secretary Caspar Weinberger for
?ur. Todispc/ipproval, would cost about $120
of the honifSillion—more than half the entire
|>222 billion proposed defense
ickets after , budget for fiscal year 1982.
Although Weinberger is not ex
showing tk Jected to make a formal decision
nt to agucstmtil he prepares his fiscal 1983
t because o: budget later this year, he is certain
o endorse the Navy program be-
•s ago to str ;a use it supports the administra-
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fruit crops
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Record-
rnpif setting crops of some popular
“ iresh fruits are expected during
July — and they are likely to be
tion City Hi good food buys.
away an argument from Equal
Rights Amendment supporters
that the ERA is needed because
the Reagan administration is no
friend of women.
But the nomination outraged
the easily outraged Moral Ma
jority, which vowed to fight the
Analysis
nomination on the grounds
Mrs. O’Connor, while in the
Arizona Senate, took stands in
dicating support for ERA and
abortion.
One leader of the antiabor
tion movement, theologian
Harold O.J. Brown, declared:
‘‘Reagan is absolutely finished
with pro-life people, absolute
ly. They are so betrayed by this
that he will never have one bit
of credibility.”
In fact, Mrs. O’Connor was
not a leader of the pro-ERA
forces, nor did she ever advo
cate abortion or vote to legalize
it. The White House said she
told the president she personal
ly opposes abortion.
In short, Reagan found a
modern woman who apparently
advocates women’s rights with
out feeling a need to crusade on
the issue.
Reagan also found what he
wanted to install on the court —
a basically conservative jurist
who believes the role of the
court is to interpret and imple
ment the law, not rewrite or
enact it.
But the strength of the
O’Connor nomination is in the
message it sent to women.
From the outset of his cam
paign, polls consistently
showed Reagan to have a favor
able rating by a majority of men,
but an unfavorable rating by a
majority of women.
The women’s question was
probably Reagan’s greatest poli
tical liability. The maledomin-
ated world of politics tends to
forget there are more women
than men in the country.
tion’s goal of building a naval force
that can match Soviet seapower.
In testimony before Congress,
Navy officials have said U.S. sea-
power has been endangered by in
creasing Soviet naval strength, di
minishing America’s ability to
keep supply lines open to Europe,
Asia and the Persian Gulf in the
event of war.
The buildup would enable the
Navy to reach the administration’s
objective of 600 ships by 1987, at
which time it plans to enlarge the
fleet still more with newly de
signed vessels that could include
light carriers, the officials said.
The Navy plans to increase the
number of carrier battle groups
from 12 to 15.
“The theory now is to build on
what we have in order to restore
the fleet,” said one senior official
who requested anonymity. “First,
we ll get up to 600 ships” from the
456 now on active duty.
“We can’t hold the North Atlan
tic and the Mediterranean with
one
block fe
Both California and South
Carolina anticipate record peach
:rops, say marketing specialists
pr the U.S. Department of Agri-
:ulture.
In addition, the Georgia peach
:rop is larger than last year’s.
I California also expects record
:rops of nectarines and plums and
rship with‘Florida a record lime crop.
I Other fresh fruits in plentiful
[upply for July are oranges and
emons.
| Beef and pork supplies are ex-
gggggggS&ected to be only adequate,
Recording to USDA’s monthly
Food Marketing Alert, but broil-
:r-fryers, turkey, eggs and milk
md dairy products will be plenti-
ul.
So will major canned, noncitrus
hiits, including peaches, pears
ind fruit cocktail; raisins and dried
>runes, rice and dried beans.
The USDA defines plentiful as
nore than enough for require-
nents and adequate as enough to
neet normal needs.
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Canadians
Gobbling’ U.S. energy
what we have now,” he said.
The Navy would like to double
the size of the present fleet to ab
out 1,000 ships, including 22 car
riers, to establish what officials
termed a “prudent risk force” —
one able to give the admirals suffi
cient power projection to contain
the Soviet navy in port.
“It would meet the require
ments with acceptable risks,” one
official said.
The proposed fleet expansion
goes 80 percent beyond what Jim
my Carter’s Pentagon proposed—
from 80 to 143 ships — and raises
aircraft procurement by 70 per
cent — from 1,091 to 1,890
planes, the officials said.
It would include 14 new attack
submarines instead of seven,
bringing the number of the $500
million nuclear boats to 100 by the
end of the decade.
There also would be nine fri
gates, instead of one under the
Carter plan, and nine amphibious
vessels and six destroyers.
United Press International
NEW YORK — In what some
U.S. oilmen have branded “buc
caneering,” Canadians have been
gobbling up billions of dollars
worth of U.S. energy properties
on both sides of the border.
Just one day after Congression
al legislation was introduced to
thwart such moves, Canada De
velopment Corp. announced a
plan to acquire the Canadian
assets ofTexasGulf Inc., the huge
American-based energy concern.
The same day, Francana Oil and
Gas Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta,
made a bid for Connecticut-based
Amax Inc. ’s 30 percent interest in
Adobe Oil and Gas.
The previous day, the Mon
treal-based Seagram liquor
empire bid $2.55 billion for a 41
percent stake in Conoco, the ninth
largest U.S. oil company. Con-
oco’s chairman said the offer
“escalates the continued Cana-
dianization of America’s natural
resources to a new and more dan
gerous level” and filed suit to
block the move. Two weeks ear
lier, Canada’s Dome Petroleum
Ltd. had succeeded in acquiring
Conoco’s controlling interest in
Hudson’s Bay Oil & Gas Co. of
Canada.
Meanwhile, Cities Service, the
18th largest U.S. oil company,
filed suit against NuWest Ltd. of
Canada, which has a 7.2 percent
stake in Cities and an eye on
Cities’ Canadian unit.
The list goes on, and most be
lieve the buying spree is far from
over.
“We ll see much more of this,
I’m convinced,” said Dr. Sanford
Margoshes, an oil analyst at
Bache, Halsey Stuart Shields Inc.
The impetus for much of the
Canadian buying is Canada’s con
troversial seven-month-old Na
tional Energy Program.
On the one hand, NEP,
through its low ceiling on well
head prices and higher taxes, has
spurred many Canadians to flee
south across the border to drill
where oil prices are higher and
taxes lower.
On the other hand, NEP —
whose goal it is to make its pet
roleum industry 50 percent Cana
dian-owned by 1990 — gives firms
majority-owned by Canadians
huge incentives for exploration
and development. Thus Canadian
properties are far less valuable in
the hands of Americans who are
not eligible for the outright grants
of 80 cents for every $1 spent on
exploration.
As a result, embittered U.S. oil
companies which haven’t already
had their Canadian properties
snapped up have been forced to
consider selling or entering into
some imaginative joint venture
with Canadians to be eligible for
the same incentives. Some of the
larger U.S. firms may wait it out
hoping, as one Canadian oil indus
try official remarked, that “sanity
will eventually prevail” in Cana
da’s energy policy.
Also banking on the same hopes
are large Canadian firms who view
this as an opportune time to buy
up Canadian oil properties from
Americans and other foreigners.
“It makes a lot of sense for the
longer term since they can buy
these assets at depressed current
prices,” said analyst Todd Berg
man of Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Simultaneously, other Cana
dians have bought up oil prop
erties and drilling rights in Amer
ica. Industry figures show 150
drilling rigs have been moved to
the United States over the past
year.
Joe Horler of Canada’s Inde
pendent Petroleum Association,
says the reason is simple: net re
turn on a barrel of oil after taxes,
royalties and operating expenses
is up to 10 times higher in Amer
ica.
On June 25, U.S. Reps. Bob
Whittaker, R-Kans., and Mike Sy-
nar, D-Okla., introduced legisla
tion to thwart such takeovers, in
cluding a provision which would
restrict Canadians from buying
more than 5 percent of a U.S.
energy firm until the issue can be
fully studied.
They also introduced a resolu
tion urging President Reagan to
give the issue highest priority at
the U.S.Canadian economic sum
mit conference in Ottawa July
2021.
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