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Welfare bill passes
despite objections
WASHINGTON (AP) — House
and Senate negotiators overwhelm
ingly approved a historic, work-
oriented welfare bill Tuesday de
spite bitter objections by several
House members who labeled it puni
tive and fraudulent.
The conference committee
adopted their landmark compro
mise 35-8 after conservatives and
moderates had heaped heavy praise
on the plan, designed to foster inde
pendence and parental responsibil
ity among welfare recipients.
“A chance like this doesn’t come
along very often,” Rep. Dan
Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee said.
He said the $3.34 billion plan de
mands that welfare recipients help
themselves, but it also provides the
training and work-related assistance
that is needed for economic inde
pendence.
President Reagan, returning to
the White House from New York,
said he was very happy with the mea
sure, the first major overhaul of the
welfare system in 50 years.
House insurgents led by Rep. Au
gustus Hawkins, D-Calif., chairman
of the Education and Labor Com
mittee, condemned the bill for im
posing a workfare requirement on
some recipients. “It is simply a puni
tive approach for forcing people off
the rolls,” Hawkins said.
Hawkins and others also charged
that the bill fails to assure high-qual
ity child care for mothers who would
have to participate in a work, educa
tion and training program. And they
said people working off their grants
in public work programs could be
paid the equivalent of the minimum
wage regardless of how much those
working next to them were making.
Rep. William Clay, D-Mich., asked
for a roll call vote on the wage provi
sion. His request was defeated by
one vote after Rostenkowski said it
would unravel the compromise so
painstakingly worked out all sum
mer.
Most lawmakers agreed with Rep.
Stephen Solarz’s assessment. “On
balance, people who are on public
assistance today will be better off
with this legislation than without it,”
the New York Democrat said.
The five-year, $3.34 billion cost of
the compromise bill is modest but its
aims are not.
Its architects say they want to
move welfare recipients from de
pendence to independence, to instill
a sense of responsibility among par
ents, to help them get the skills and
services they need to support their
own families.
A large-scale Job Opportunities
and Basic Skills program offering
job training, education and work ex
perience is the focal point of the new
plan.
Wednesday, September 28, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7
Quayle’s looks
baffle strategists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some
may swoon, but others demand,
“Can he type?” Indiana Sen. Dan
Quayle is making an impression on
women but it’s not always the one
Republican strategists may have had
in mind.
When Quayle catapulted to prom
inence as the GOP vice presidential
nominee, it was hard to ignore two
facts: Other Republicans were far
more experienced, and Quayle,
blond and fresh-faced, possessed
striking good looks.
I can’t believe a guy that hand
some wouldn’t be attractive in some
respect to women, Sen. John Mc
Cain, R-Ariz., said at the GOP con
vention in August.
“Anyone that good-looking must
stand for really good things,” a sup
posedly surveyed woman in a recent
Doonesbury comic strip said.
“I think most women want a really
hot guy to be in charge of the coun
try,” her friend agreed.
McCain wasn’t kidding. But the
mock Doonesbury poll should have
been “adjusted for sarcasm,” accord
ing to the strip.
Experts disagree on whether
Police search
for suspect
in stabbing
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities
were searching for a suspect Tues
day in the stabbing death of a 57-
year-old bar owner who apparently
died during a robbery at her home.
Mary Dobbins, described as a cau
tious woman who usually entered
her well-secured home with a gun
drawn, was found sprawled on her
living room floor Monday night by
her 18-year-old grandson and a
friend, police said.
Investigators speculated that Dob
bins, who owned nearby Mary’s
Lounge, may have been surprised by
her assailant because her body was
found just inside the front door with
her money bags and her purse be
side her. She had been stabbed re
peatedly, police said.
The attack came despite Dobbins
efforts to secure the home by nailing
down windows and dead-bolting
doors. Investigators believe an in
truder entered the house by prying
open a washroom window that had
been nailed shut.
Robbery may have been a motive
because cash was believed to have
been taken from the four or five
money bags found near Dobbins’
body, Houston homicide Sgt. M.E.
Doyle said.
Some small change was found in
the bags as well as a .357-caliber
Magnum gun Dobbins carried for
protection.
A large butcher knife, covered
partially by leaves, was found in a
ditch in front of Dobbins’ home, but
investigators were not certain it was
the murder weapon, Doyle said.
“She had always been real cau
tious since she’d been burglarized so
many times,” Jan Bethune, a family
friend, said.
Quayle will help attract women to
the GOP ticket headed by Vice Presi
dent George Bush.
He’s been credited with narrow
ing the gender gap, but he’s also
been compared to a “Ken” doll —
“Barbie” doll’s friend — and labeled
a hindrance rather than a help for
Bush.
When actor Tom Selleck escorted
Nancy Reagan to the podium at the
convention, “I saw grown women
faint and moan,” GOP consultant
Ann Stone said. “There are a lot of
women where (physical appearance)
still is important. ... I don’t think
Quayle has the charisma of Selleck.
But that still has some impact.”
Ann Lewis, a Democratic consul
tant and Ms. Magazine columnist,
sniffed at the thought. “Candidates
that would pass a Hollywood screen
test do not do noticeably better than
candidates that would flunk it.
Looking at the House of Represen
tatives will bear this out,” she said.
On the other hand, former actor
Ronald Reagan has had some politi
cal success.
Recent polls showed Bush had
erased a 20-point gender gap and
was winning as much support from
women as Michael Dukakis, the
Democratic nominee.
Democrats say Quayle had noth
ing to do with this development. But
GOP consultant Eddie Mahe said
Quayle has been the only variable in
the race since the conventions; thus
you could hardly make the case that
he’s not a factor.
At rallies across the country,
Quayle has encountered a mixed re
ception. Some placards carry mes
sages such as “But Can He Type?”
and “Women Don’t Vote For Men
Prettier Than They Are.” But many
women eagerly press forward to
hear and touch him.
Lewis predicted Quayle would at
tract women who would have voted
for the GOP ticket anyway.
“He may cause some excitement
at parties and gatherings, but he
doesn’t cause vote-switching among
undecided or independent women
voters,” she said. “Right now he is
the biggest single danger to George
Bush’s election. He is a land mine
that George Bush planted in his own
territory.”
Republicans claim Quayle has
more than sex appeal to offer
women voters, and hold up his mar
riage as exhibit A. Quayle’s wife,
Marilyn, is a lawyer taking off more
than a decade to raise the couple’s
three children.
“A lot of women in that age group
of his wife, professional women stay
ing home to raise the children, can
relate to that family,” Mahe said.
“They feel that he understands
working wives, women as profes
sionals.”
Lewis said, “If I were a partisan
Republican desperately looking for
something good to think or say
about Dan Quayle, Marilyn Quayle
would be the best example I could
think of.”
Mrs. Quayle herself blamed the
pretty-face controversy on the news
media and recently declared,
“George Bush wouldn’t have se
lected someone who could not stand
in his stead for president.”
Lotus 1 -2-3
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TUESDAY OCTOBER 25. 1988
G. Rollie White Coliseum
8:00 P.M.
TICKETS GO ON SALE SEPT. 24
Tickets are available at the MSC Box Office
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For more Information call 845-1234 - Tickets are $14.00
Alpha Kappa Psi
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