To subscribe or unsubscribe: irenestuber@delphi.com !^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^ ! ! Catt's Claws ... a feminist newsletter ... February 12, 1995 ! !^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^ ! NBC is getting a lot of Religious Supremacist cum radical republican right hate mail regarding the Monday Night Movie _Serving In Silence_ that honestly portrayed the life of the highest ranking woman officer in the U.S. military to be discharged because she said she was a lesbian. We need to tell NBC that we admire their courage: director@news.nbc.com should do it. I'm not sure about the "director" part but the @news.nbc.com is valid or you may call NBC at 212-664-3370 The only address I could find for Barbra Streisand who produced the show along with star Glenn Close (strong women finally getting enough power to do things) was to Creative Artists Agency, c/o Fred Spector, 1888 Century Park E. Ste., 1400 Los Angeles, CA 90067-1768. I could find no address for Judy Davis who portrayed Col. Cammermeyer's partner, but I think she did a superb job - as did Close. They were allowed to be so HUMAN, enjoying life with senses of humor and love ... It's such a breakthrough to see a show portray lesbians as strong, normal, sane human beings instead of the vicious, unhappy killers that the MEN of Hollywood have done for years...and showing that families accept the lifestyle built on mutual respect. ..................................................................... And talking about needing to write and put on pressure, there is the nomination of Dr. Foster as Surgeon General. A couple of workers in the offices of republican right Senators have slipped out the information that the Senators are not always telling the truth about the number of calls they are receiving. In fact, one group that covers Washington actually named Senator Kassenbaum's statement of 400 to 1 as totally false. Several have written me to say that their calls to Senators were treated with disdain and obviously not recorded. If any of this is true, it is the most sickening of all developments in the squeeker that the Republicans won in November ... and REMEMBER, they didn't win by all that much, regardless of the multi-million-dollar publicity campaign they have been putting on to convince us we can't read or think. And Clinton has the veto .... so how about helping Clinton out so he can help you? Email your support to President@WhiteHouse.Gov or the following members of the Labor and Health Services Committee who have posted email addresses: CT Dodd, Christopher* sendodd@dodd.senate.gov IL Simon, Paul* senator@simon.senate.gov MA Kennedy, Ted* senator@kennedy.senate.gov (www home page: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/ Kennedy/homepage.html) VT Jeffords, Jim* vermont@jeffords.senate.gov WA Gorton, Slade* Senator_Gorton@gorton.senate.gov - and, of course, write your own Senators. We must not let women's health suffer at the hands of a few radical activists who know how to make noise louder than their numbers. ..................................................................... My, my. Newt Gingrich screamed and did carry on when he pointed a finger at past speaker Tom Wright and his wife Betty when he charged them with unproved corruption and conflict of interest - and is squealing like a stuck pig now that HIS actions are under scrutiny. Seems like the second wife of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (the one he married after telling his older, first wife while she was lying in her hospital room after cancer surgery that he'd found a trophy wife) is earning $2,500 a month plus commissions while working for an American company pushing for a free trade zone in Israel. The Wall Street Journal reported that Mrs. Gingrich was hired after her husband told Israeli officials he supported the free trade zone. The company's investors include prominent business executives such as CBS President Laurence Tisch, clothing magnate Sy Syms and real estate developer Robert V. Tishman, according to The Sun in Baltimore. (HEAD of CBS? How much unbiased news coverage do YOU think we're going to get on this matter from CBS?) David Yerushalmi, head of the Israel Export Development Co., said he hired Marianne Gingrich last September and promoted her this month to vice president of business development. "She brings to the project an enormous understanding of urban planning and design," said Yerushalmi. "We hired Marianne on her ability (and) enthusiasm about Israel." Ralph Nader and a private group, the Congressional Accountability Project, filed a complaint with the House ethics committee against Gingrich seeking an investigation of whether Gingrich was violating House rules by using a consultant paid by his political action committee, Joseph Gaylord, to do official work. They cited news accounts that Gaylord, one of Gingrich's most trusted advisers, appears to be working out of the speaker's office. Was that Gingrich's Contract with America or a Contract (hit) ON America? .................................................................... AFTER the trial in which a Jesuit priest and expert on medical ethics told jurors the decision by the father to disconnect life support systems of his preemie baby was within medical and ethical standards; and AFTER the father's acquittal of murder; And AFTER loud and long protests of hypocrisy by feminists groups who pointed out the dichotomy of okaying the murder of a *born* child while condemning the aborting of a fetus; The Vatican FINALLY spoke out in a newspaper article denouncing the acquittal by describing euthanasia as part of a "culture of death." No action against the Jesuit priest, Rev. John Paris was announced. ..................................................................... Both Catt's Claws and Women of Achievement and Herstory are available on the WEB and through FTP - William S. Affleck-Asch of Washington State NOW is keeping copies of Catt's Claws (Catts.Claws.YEAR.MO.DY.TXT and then a month kept in CATTYRMO.ZIP (YRMO= 9502 for Feb) ) and Women of Achievement and Herstory (Women.of.Achievement.and.Herstory.YEAR.MO.DY.TX T and then a month kept in WOAHYRMO.ZIP (YRMO = 9501 for January) ). Also WordPerfect versions (CATTMODY.WP (MODY is 0305 for March 5) and WOAHMODY.WP (ditto) ). in his FTP directory, which is at: FTP://ftp.eskimo.com/feminist/ or just connect via FTP or NCFTP to ftp.eskimo.com and cd feminist then ls -l ... Laurie Mann has put both the Claws and WOA on her Web page, giving me the following basic explanation because Delphi doesn't have WEB facities yet .. "The way the Web works (and you probably have access to it---try typing "lynx" at command level from your account and see what happens) is that it doesn't matter where files are stored, it matters how they are linked to. "If you type 'lynx http://www.lm.com/~lmann/feminist/feminist.html' you should reach the new Feminist Web. You'll find some material on abortion rights, feminist mailing lists and censorship here." I cannot express strongly enough my deepest appreciation for the work Laurie and William doing in archiving and making the Claws and WOA as well as other feminist news available. I do not have the facilities for doing any of it with my Delphi account, nor am I financially able to get to a service that has such facilities. Thank you Laurie and William. 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