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Postmaster General to resign
Runyon credited with making Postal Service more modem, efficient
WASHINGTON (AP) — Post
master General Marvin Runyon,
credited with modernizing the
postal service and turning it into a
profitable business, announced
today that he is resigning.
During his six years at the helm
of the nation’s largest civilian em
ployer, Runyon, 73, was credited
with improving delivery of first-
class mail while trimming the ad
ministrative staff by 23,000.
He also looked to technology to
help speed up mail processing. For
instance, he added robotic com
puters, optical character readers
and other computer automations.
The U.S. Postal Service turned a
$1.26 billion profit in 1997 and ex
pects a profitable 1998. The Postal
Service’s financial successes of 1997
follows profits of $ 1.77 billion in 1995
and $1.57 billion in 1996, after years
of red ink. The strong three-year per
formance trimmed the agency’s
long-term financial deficiency from
$5.9 billion to $1.36 billion.
“We have made significant strides
in raising our service performance
levels, in developing a customer-fo
cused approach to postal issues....”
Runyon said in a statement.
Runyon’s time with the Postal
Service was marred by a conflict of
interest investigation that ended
last year with him paying $27,550
as part of a civil settlement.
Runyon was accused of break
ing federal law by taking part in
talks about placing Coca-Cola ma
chines in post offices. He owned
Coke stock at the time. The deal
was never completed.
A former executive at au
tomakers Ford and Nissan Amer
ica, Runyon was named chair of
the Tennessee Valley Authority by
President Reagan. At the TVA, he
earned the nickname “Garvin
Marvin” when he slashed the pay
roll by one-third.
In 1992, the governors of the
U.S. Postal Service recruited him to
become postmaster general.
Runyon said he will remain post
master general until Feb. 15 and
then return home to Nashville to
consider other job opportunities.
“I like a challenge and would
like to find something like a TVA
or a Postal Service, which gives
me that challenge,” Runyon told
the Nashville Banner. “What
would really be good for me is to
find something that can create a
partnership between business
and government. That would be
along the lines of what I have
been doing.”
Abortion-rights debate continues
as court ruling anniversary nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of the 25th an
niversary of Roe vs. Wade, the woman at the center of
the landmark Supreme Court ruling says she wants to
see the law overturned — either by Congress or the
court itself.
“I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life un
doing the law that bears my name,” Norma McCorvey,
the Texas woman who was the plaintiff under an as
sumed name in the 1973 case, today told a Senate sub
committee hearing on Roe vs. Wade.
“It is my sincere prayer that there be no 30th an
niversary of Roe vs. Wade,” she said. “I would like
nothing more than to have this law overturned, ei
ther by an act of Congress or a reversal in the
Supreme Court.”
McCorvey stunned the abortion-rights community
several years ago with her announcement she had
come to believe abortion was wrong.
McCorvey, who worked in several abortion clinics,
said she finally grew “tired of the lies and deception and
decided to come out and tell the truth.”
After 25 years of legalized abortion, “I can tell you
from the bottom of my heart that our experiment with
legal abortion has utterly failed,” she said.
Abortion-rights advocates, meanwhile, gathered a
few blocks from the Capitol for a breakfast that includ
ed numerous Hollywood celebrity supporters who lat
er would lobby the few members of Congress who were
in town.
President Clinton reassured them he was on their side.
“I'm committed to keeping abortion safe, legal and
accessible,” he said in videotaped remarks, “and to
making it rare.”
Activists representing both sides also demonstrated
in the capital Hxesday.
Carol Wall had four children in 1966 when she found
out she was pregnant. She and her husband felt un
prepared to have another child but after deciding to opt
for abortion they encountered another problem: The
procedure was illegal.
“My husband and I had a warm, loving family,”
Wall, who traveled to Puerto Rico for an illegal abor
tion, said. But “it was extremely clear to me that, fi
nancially and emotionally, I could not have anoth
er child.”
Wall joined other abortion-rights supporters outside
the Supreme Court Tuesday to share personal experi
ences from both before and after the ruling that legal
ized the procedure 25 years ago.
Anti-abortion activists made their voices heard too,
shouting over the speakers with their comments.
“This court stands in contempt of the God
almighty,” the Rev. Philip Benham, Operation Res
cue’s national president, said, pointing to the
Supreme Court. He and others protested the event
sponsored by the National Abortion and Reproduc
tive Rights Action League.
On Thursday, the actual anniversary, abortion op
ponents plan their annual March for Life from the
White House to the Supreme Court.
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