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Santa Fe, N.M., Saturday, May 4, 1985 THE NEW MEXICAN A-3 The New Mexican, Inc. Founded 1849 Wayne C. Vann, President and General Manager Robert M. McKinney, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Larry Sanders, Editor George J. Wetzel, Advertising Director Rick Metcalf, Circulation Director Charles Lang, Controller Julie Padilla, Promotions Manager Jerry Quinn, Production Director Other thMi the editorial, the opinion expressed by writers on this page are not necessarily thoae of the newspaper A Gannett Newspaper Rights act expands government a rtrrxTimAM 7wt Saan 018 dfi rmt flrlrnnulnHdo av.

6V6. TllC bills PUTDOS IS tC eye. The bills purpose is to Editorial have given their which they names. James Kilpatrick Syndicated columnist restore the interpretation of the several civil rights acts as previously administered. The effect of that sly little provision is to write into statutory law thousands of regulations contrived by the bureaucracy over the past 20 years.

These interpretations, once validated by the pending bill, would be greatly strengthened and broadened. Utahs Hatch, who led the batue against the 1984 bill, says the 1985 version is even worse. He is absolutely right. The bill is not a bill to restore anybodys civil rights, for no civil rights were taken away by the Grove City case. It is a bill to expand federal power into every aspect of our public and private life that conceivably could be reached under the guise of federal financial assistance.

Members ought not to be fooled by the few differences between the 1984 and 1985 bills. This Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985 is last years model with a fresh coat of paint. The bill is a tricker. Its ostensible purpose is merely to define what is meant by program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. It says that for the purpose of enforcing civil rights laws, the term applies to all of the operations of various entities.

Thus, if any part of a state or local government receives federal aid, every part becomes subject to the entire panoply of enforcement procedures. The bill would embrace all the operations of a corporation, partnership, or other private organization. It would spread its net over every classroom in the nation. Its enforcement would demand whole armies of federal inspectors and bureaucrats to review compliance reports. The bill contains a slippery clause that slides easily past the The courts opinion set off an uproar among civil rights activists who yearned for a broader reading, and it led to the introduction last year of a bill to overturn the courts decision not only as to the 1972 education act but as the opinion might affect three other civil rights acts as well.

The bill roared through the House 370-32 but died in the Senate. Now the bill is back. It is cosmetically disguised with fresh lipstick and an innocent wig. It wears this darling new title. It is being sold by its sponsors chiefly Sen.

Edward Kennedy, and Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D-Calif. as just a little harmless measure that no friend of civil rights could oppose. The many spon- Honor speaks with no excuses Sometimes its difficult to do the right thing, especially when one can get by with less. Mayor Louis Montanos young right hand man, James J.

Gonzales, proved himself to be a man of honor this week. There is, of course, nothing honorable about drunken driving. Its illegal, dangerous and highly irresponsible. On March 14, Gonzales was arrested for drunken driving. Under state law, anyone arrested for drunken driving automatically loses his license for 90 days, but the driver can challenge the revocation.

Gonzales, 23, plead no contest to a DWI charge, paid his required $125 fine and was sentenced to DWI school as required. As many drivers do, he appealed the revocation. The day came for the hearing on whether or not he would temporarily lose his license. The police officer involved in the case failed to show up because he had never received the subpeona requiring his attendance. Because of the goof-up, Gonzales license was not suspended.

In such cases, drivers are asked if they would agree to a re-scheduling of the hearing. Rather than have the hearing he was entitled to, or argue that right was on his side which technically it was Gonzales voluntarily surrendered his license to the Department of Motor Vehicles for three months to comply with the law. Gonzales explained his action by saying that, because he is a public servant, he believes more is expected of him than the average citizen. Hes right. Public officials even in these days people realize they are human are still important role models for young people.

Because of his own youth, Gonzales is in an especially visible and vulnerable position at City Hall. He is now in a fine place to do some informal educating about the importance of sober driving. Its nice to see a public official do the right thing. Drunken driving is a serious problem in Santa Fe County and the rest of New Mexico. The publicity which the Gonzales case his drawn, and his honest admission that he made a mistake and would pay the consequences and take his punishment is a good lesson for the community.

WASHINGTON Very soon now, the House of Representatives will take up the most dangerous bill of the year. If last years'precedent is any guide to this years action, the House will whoop its approval. The bill is the marvelously named Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1965. That title is truly marvelous, is it not? It was devised by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and we can imagine the knee-slapping and the cries of Hoo, boy! that arose with this delightful invention. The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1965! Who could vote against it? Well, if the principle of federalism still has meaning, if separation is to be maintained between the public and private sectors of American life, if the heavy hand of federal regulation is not to be laid upon the whole of our society, members of Congress had better vote against this devious and deceptive little sleeper.

Let me explain. In 1972 Congress passed a law prohibiting sexual discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. In 1984 the Supreme Court considered a case involving Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Hie college did not discriminate against anyone; it accepted no direct federal aid; but' it did enroll students who had received federal grants. The Grove City case presented two questions: (l) By accepting students who received federal aid, was the college itself a recipient of federal aid? (2) If so, would anti-discrimination provisions of the 1972 act apply throughout the entire institution? The high court said yes to (1) and no to (2).

It held that the grants received by many Grove City students did not trigger institution-wide coverage. The grants affected only the program of financial aid. Twuzn't Twuz VOUUA TMt Sb- ffVJUZ Hit a Letters Los buenos vecinos de mi barrio Vistas hispanas Ior Pedro Ribera-Ortega formed. Three strong relationships ended all the same way, Each woman could not understand my actions. They all said the same thing; that my depressing outlook on life and moodiness was too much for them to handle.

They also became afraid of my sudden outbursts of mixed emotions. They were right. My bitterness for this country, and what it had done to so many young mens lives was eating away at me. Doctors said it was self pity. The Veterans Administrations Outreach group told me to talk it out.

My family and friends stopped looking into my eyes. They all saw the same thing; the pessimistic iris, cynical cornea, and tombstone lenses. I am used to their off-centered, tight-faced glances. My eyes dont zoom in on life too much anymore. They just stay oh a fixed, telephoto view.

Somewhere in Vietnam I lost that youthful idealism and zest I once had for life. On this tenth anniversary of our countrys second place finish in Vietnam, I am writing and not drinking this time. I still wonder who the enemy was that I was fighting. Now in my life, I think it is myself. Again, I watch glimpses of television coverage of the Vietnam nightmare.

I remember that I was a second, the thoughts of all the pain come back. My check tightens up and a tear runs down my face. I say, its over, and Im sad, so, so sad. A poet once said; the things that are remembered are real. Room for improvement Because of the recent public discussion of the layoff of LPNs at St.

Vincent Hospital, there have been some questions about why the nurses union supported St. Vincent Hospital in the county commissioners hearing on the HCA psychiatric hospital. We want to make perfectly clear that the union position against for-profit hospitals is not an endorsement of St. Vincent Hospital managemient. Our concern is that the local hospital be accountable to the community; our experience in other communities is that for-profit chains are less accountable than community-based voluntary hospitals.

Our over-riding concern is that Santa Fe citizens have easy access to affordable, high quality health care and that health care workers have secure, safe working conditions. In an era of rapid economic change in the health care industry, we expect to participate in a community discussion of how St. Vincent Hospital can best serve Santa Fe. We will continue to be critical of short-term answers, such as laying off LPNs. We will continue to demand of St.

Vincents explanations of decisions that affect their employees. We believe that HCA means fewer jobs in the future at lower wages. We will continue to work against for-profit hospitals. As a Union we will continue to make St. Vincent Hospital accountable for its actions.

Diana Deyo District 1199 Santa Fe A synopsis: The good neighbors of my neighborhood In my old neighborhood of Garcia Street and Acequia Madre there have been several news-worthy events. One was the recent death of one of the barrios oldtimers, dofla Filomena Garcia de Sandoval, whose home has been made into a show place across from La Tienda. This friend and neighbor for generations died at the age of 98. With her passing goes one more of the many oldtimers that made this neighborhood something special. Perhaps because la Calle Garcia area has been our home for countless generations, we hate to see the oldtimers pass away, but passing they certainly are.

Dofla Filomena and her deceased spouse, our friend and mayordomo of the acequia for many many years, don Ysidro, were of the old school: friendly, neighborly, and very much a part of the hispanic culture of the eastside. To their family from all of us de la Calle Garcia and Acequia Madre areas, our most sincere sympathy. Recalling don Ysidro Sandoval, as one of Santa Fe oldtime mayordomos, reminds us that May 15th is the fiesta de San Ysidro, Patron of Farmers. Here in New Mexico we appeal to him yearly for success and rains for our crops green chili, fruit trees and anything that we call gardening. Lets not forget to invoke him again this year as we could certainly use his intercession upstairs.

Another announcement that made us very happy was the public-notice that our neighbor and educator of the Garcia Street Club, Mrs. Laura Daughterty, will receive state honors for her service to the community and state in Albuquerque. This wonderful teacher, and promotor of all the good that has come out of the neighborhood Garcia Street Club, has already served, unstintingly and dedicatedly, for more than 30 years in our midst. And we appreciate the honors she will receive. En mi viejo cecindario de la Calle de Gari-ca Acequia Madre, esta semana se hici-eron dos importantes anuncios.

Primero, la defuncidn de una buena amiga, vecina miembra de viejas familias santafesinas; la muerte de la ancianita (tenia ya noventa ocho aflos, imagfnensel) dofla Filomena Garcia, viuda de Sandoval, ya se nos van desapareciendo todo los viejecitos de nues-tra vieja vecindad campechana; sdlo quedan los reCuerdos. Pero, asf es la vida, iverdad? nacimos un dfa, cuando mi Tata Dios decide de que ya es tiempo oportuno, se nos aparece la muerte sin pedirle permiso a nadie. habiendo bien conocido tan to vieji-to bueno en mi vecindario por ya muchisi-mos anos, si qud nos da mucha tristeza ver: que los mayores ya se encaminan muy presto a la Etemidad. A dofla Filomena la recordamos porque siempre era buena comadre de mis abueli-tos, por parte de ha ber sido padrinos de bautismo de una de la muchas hijas, Catalina Sandoval. a Catilina.

como a todas las demds hijas nietos, les damos la mds sincere expresidn de nuestro pdsame, roga-mos por la alma de la difunta, que des-canse en paz. Tambidn recordamos en este tiempo, nos recuerda el quien fue esposo de la difunta, aquel mayordomo de las acequias por muchos anos, don Ysidro Sandoval. de all! que no olvidemos, que el 15 de mayo es la festividad popular de gran San Ysidro Labrador; quien con su tambien santa esposa, Sta. Maria tiburcia, son los Santos Patro-nos, no sdlo de las labranzas por todo el Mundo Hispdnico (y, tambidn acd en los Es-tados Unidos le tenemos su patronazgo, le pedimos por las siembras cosechas esta-dounidenses, como tambien son los Patonos de la captialicia Madrid espaflola. Alld se celebra la fiesta por toda una semana; entre nosotros sdlo con vfsperas procesidn por los campos, en muchas comunidades rurales.

No olvidemos pedirle por buenas cosechas necesarias lluvias, para todas las siembras hortali-zas; tambidn por el chile verde, por todo el estado de Nuevo Mexico, mucha buena fruta de todas clases. Otro importante anuncio fue tocante nues-tra vecina, la Sra. Laura Daughterly, quien recibira una proclamacidn, estatal, le hon-rardn por Servicio Publico. Para nosotros de la Calle Garcia, alii siempre sabemos que estd haciendo mucho bien; esta seflora que ha regido mantenido el entusiasmo que requere todo lo que se hace en pro del projimo la educadion, en nuestro vecina-dal Garcia Street Club. A millares de niflos se le ha ensefiado leer; se les ha entrenado en avacaciones de todas clases; todo buen arreglado disciplinado, en la Casona de los Garcia, donde la Fildntropa difunta Miss White nos regald, ya hace muchos anos.

En el Garcia Street Club desde el princi-pio, siempre ha habido una acogida buena a toda la juventud entre nosotros; ya por muchos anos, quizes unos treinta si no estoy equivocado, bajo la comandancia matema de la Sra. que llamamos cariflosamente, Mrs. Daughterty. tambien se tiene que decir aqui, que no sdlo el Estado de Nuevo Mexico honrard a esta buena Educadora entre nosotros; sino que, hace unos dfas que alld en El Rito, se honrd a la Sra. Daughterty como la primer graduada de esa renom-brada institucidn.

asf, felicitaciones de corazdn alma a esta vecina nuestra, que bien ha sabido compartir de su experiencia educacion, con millares de nosotros que, estusiasmada-mente, hemos asistido al Garcia Street Club, una institucidn en nuestra viejo barrio vecindad santafesina, que ha influido a millares por caminos del bien de la en-semanza de la crianza, para el bien del projimo. Gregg K. Klaja Santa Fe BY GARRY TRUDEAU Doonesbury NO.NOBOPY UKESTO FORGETTING IS SOMETHING WEP0UTD0 OFTEN. I KNOU) THIS FROM MY OWN WARTIME EXPERIENCES UH-INHOUYWOOP WENT THROUGH HELL-MAKING SOME OF THOSE PICTURES, BUT YOU KNOW, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CANT REMEMBER WHO WON THE OSCARS IN 1945. HERE TO COMMEMORATE thews liberation OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, WEMU5TREMINP OURSELVES NEVER TO FORGET.

TB IT A Sad Ten years ago, while attending the University of Arizona, I sat with my buddy and watched the special coverage of the fall of Saigon on network television. We drank for three days. Later that week, we found time to be guests and talk about Vietnam on the university television station. We had both shed our blood in the conflict overseas. I have not been right since I arrived in Vietnam in 1971.

And Im still not. Perhaps Ill never be. I quit college and went into seclusion. I tried writing about my experiences in Southeast Asia. It was like pulling a scab off a wound over and over again.

It seems the wound has never healed. The more I wrote the more depressed I became. The drinking did not help either. Over the years, a pattern Those kids were pros As a member of the technical crew for Actors Workshops recent production of Romero and Julia in a Southwest Side Story, I would like to comment on Ron Peets use of the phrase "amateur kids in his review of the show. Any parent or person who works with kids could compile quite a list of words to describe My list would include amusing, directable, durable, enthusiastic, exasperating and hard-working.

They may be amateur actors but they are, since their birth and for some time to come, professional kids. Hedi Gairey Santa Fe A 5-4.