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United Press International
WASHINGTON — House
Majority Leader Jim Wright
ofTexas lists jobs, energy, de
fense and agriculture as top
issues this year for regional
congressional delegations, but
said they do not always agree
on all of them.
“Hardly ever could you
find an issue — with members
from such a disparate, heter
ogeneous mixture of states —
onwhich you could unite,” the
Democratic leader from Fort
Worth said. “But we do have a
hind of camaraderie, a loose
itsattherti spirit of understanding.”
In an exclusive interview
with United Press Interna
tional, Wright took a look at
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for the delegations from
Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas,
Louisiana, Missouri, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
and Wyoming.
“1 think jobs is the top issue
as in any other region,"
Wright said. “Unemployment
is considered the biggest
problem in our area like any
where else.
“Some parts of the region
are particularly sensitive to oil
and gas. Aerospace and milit
ary bases are important to use
in Texas, at least, and New
Mexico partially.
“Agriculture is important,
especially to Louisiana,
Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri,” he said.
But he said the issues were
perceived differently state-by
state throughout the South
west and contiguous states.
“For example, in agricul
ture in Louisiana and parts of
South Texas, sugar is impor
tant, but it’s cane sugar,” said
Wright. “In the Texas
Panhandle, Colorado and
Wyoming it’s beet sugar. In
Louisiana, Arkansas and
South Texas, rice is impor
tant. In Oklahoma, Kansas,
Missouri and the Texas
Panhandle, it’s wheat.”
He said sometimes portions
of states may have more in
common than regions within a
state.
“The Piney Woods of East
Texas have more in common
with the old South —
Louisiana and parts of Arkan
sas — than with West Texas,”
he said. “New Mexico and
parts of West Texas have
more in common with each
other than with the Gulf
Coast.”
He said the region’s delega
tions also will be heavily in
volved in issues of importance
to the entire Congress. He
predicted the Democrats, at
least, would form task forces
to study several issues this
year.
“The jobs bill, level of milit
ary expenditure, the Federal
Reserve Board and monetary
policy, job training and in
dustrial renewal are the basic
ones,” he said.
Wright said the region’s de
legation is part of a new phe
nomenon for Congress in the
20th century.
“It’s new in the sense that it
began probably about two
years ago,” Wright said. “This
is the first time the absolute
majority of members have less
than six years experience.
Back in the early days it might
have been more common, but
not throughout this century.”
Nuclear issue lacking
roots education’
‘grass
United Press International
DALLAS — Nuclear war has
become a major issue across the
country in Senate hearings, pro
test marches and now the college
classroom.
In the past few years, colleges
across the country and around
the state have begun teaching
the ef fects and consequences of
a nuclear war.
Academics are perplexed by
the fact that now, 40 years into
the nuclear age, the fear of
Armageddon has suddenly be
come a controversial issue.
What has prompted their
concern is ihe Reagan adminis
tration’s support for an arms
race, and what some political sci
entists call an ideological com
mitment to arms superiority
among President Reagan and
his cabinet.
“What’s needed is a halt, a
reversal to the arms race. I’ve
argued that a reversal of the
arms race is the only strategy
that will ensure national secur
ity,” said Lloyd Dumas, a profes
sor at the University of Texas at
Dallas.
During the past two weeks,
UTD has sponsored a series of
lectures on “The Hazards of a
Nuclear Age.” Robert Scheer, a
reporter for the Los Angeles
Times who is the author of sev
eral articles and books on the
issue, was the featured speaker,
Stephen G. Rabe, another
UTD professor, who along with
“I see this issue like the
‘teach-ins’ in the 1960s
when students were
educated on American
involvement in the Viet
nam war. But the col
leges haven’t been the
initiators. The nuclear
freeze movement is sup
ported by all segments
of society. ” — Stephen
Rabe, UTD professor
Dumas, co-sponsored the con
ference, said although he
doesn’t try to persuade his stu
dents to advocate a nuclear
freeze, he believes “they’ll be no
plebiscite left on buttonpushing
day.”
“There must be a movement
to educate people about nuclear
arms. And colleges should play a
major role,” said Rabe, who
teaches the course “Issues on
Peace and War.”
Other Texas professors have
also felt a need to begin a grass
roots educational movement.
They have formed an organiza
tion called the United Campus
to Prevent Nuclear War.
At the University ofTexas in
Austin, a course is taught in the
government department on
nuclear disarmament by Steve
Baker. The professor, who once
worked for a Senate staff in
charge of drafting the SALT II
proposal, said his teaching ob
jective is not to persuade, but to
educate students on the poten
tial for nuclear war.
“Where we have gone wrong
is that since the mid-7()s we have
demanded too much from arms
control,” said Baker. “We have
overloaded the expectation.
The expectation should be a
more modest one.”
Sociology students at the Uni
versity of Texas are studying
“Nuclear Warfare: Its Origins
and Consequences.” At Rice
University, students are study
ing “Perspectives on the Nuclear
Age,” a course that examines the
nuclear freeze movement and
military strategies on nuclear
attack and deterrence.
Most professors interviewed
agreed that the nuclear freeze
issue will become a major move
ment in the United States within
the next few years. But none
argue that it will be a student-
based movement.
“I see this issue like the ‘teach-
ins’ in the 1960s when students
were educated on American in
volvement in the Vietnam war,”
said Rabe. “But the colleges ha
ven’t been the initiators. The
nuclear freeze movement is sup
ported by all segments of
society.”
A major concern among pro
fessors is to educate the public
on the issue and in turn, press
ure elected officials toward arms
reduction in time to prevent a
nuclear war.
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MADISON, Wis. — Method-
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one of few hospitals in the
mntry to allow children to be
ivolved in the birth of a brother
r sister.
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ons of the family birth,” said
laryBina-Frymark, R.N., head
arse of the hospital’s Birth
lace.
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5th the labor and delivery.
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elivery,” she said. “The varia-
pns depend on what the family
comfortable with.”
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ith children present for three
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umbers aren’t really that big,
ut it is becoming more fre-
bent.”
Out of 850 births at the hos-
itallast year, about 30 involved
lildren.
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ti far, Ms. Bina-Frymark said,
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together. Obstetric nurses lead
discussions on topics like how
the baby grows in the mother,
how it is born, what new babies
do and can’t do.
The children have access to
books and pictures on reproduc
tion and birth, birthing dolls
that demonstrate both vaginal
and cesarean births, and a slide
program explaining the process
of birth.
“It’s pretty much an indi
vidual decision,” Ms. Bina-
Frymark said. “If the family
wants to do it, they are pretty
much tuned in to making it a
positive experience.”
While Methodist Hospital
allows children of any age into
its Birth Place, other hospitals
generally bar children under 12
from the labor and delivery
rooms. The prohibitions stem
mainly from concern that young
children will not understand
what is happening.
“It’s our philosophy to be
family-centered,” Ms. BinaFry-
mark said. “The ideal way to
make it more a family event is to
have kids present and let them
take in the whole thing.
“It’s not something for every
family,” she added.
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