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...AMAZES ME THAT AMERICANS HAVE become so hardened that we value national parks and cultural institutions over people. The American Indian was the first one here, yet he receives last consideration from Senator Slade Gorton's appropriations subcommittee overseeing the Interior Department funding. While cultural institutions are important, they cannot possibly take precedence over the very existence of human beings. JOYCE HERTZSKE Whitehall, Pennsylvania...
...Americans, their culture, their traditions and, in some cases, their self-esteem. And now Congress is about to stab them in the back again. It will come as no surprise to them. Throughout the years, the U.S. government has broken promises and reneged on one treaty after another. Senator Gorton's assertion that as budget cuts take place, Native Americans must sacrifice like other Americans is akin to Hitler's telling the Jews in Auschwitz that although conditions there were bad, things in Berlin were not so good either. The American Indians in our country need to rise...
...showdown came on the evening of Sept. 7 at the Newport Beach mansion of billionaire Donald Bren, the Irvine Co. developer and a longtime Wilson backer. In a tense session with Wilson, Bren and Fuller, Gorton recommended bugging out of Iowa for lack of organization, manpower and money. Instead the campaign should concentrate on New York, he said, where TV ads can achieve far more bang for the buck. Fuller argued vehemently against the idea, but Wilson backed Gorton. Fuller then sidelined himself to Washington as fund-raising supervisor and surrogate public campaigner, leaving Gorton supreme in Sacramento--for about...
...time, instead of the giant pledges to which Wilson was accustomed in California. LeGassick's promise to raise $29 million was seen by insiders as unrealistic. Wilson's fund raisers say he will be lucky to get half that. Until now, though, LeGassick was untouchable: she and Gorton are romantically involved...
Even with Gorton in limbo, what remains of the Wilson strategy after the retreat from Iowa is Gorton's go-for-broke concentration on the Northeast and a slice of the West. Wilson hopes to score well on Feb. 20 in pro-choice New Hampshire, where he is already running a $35,000-a-week series of TV ads. After New Hampshire, Wilson would like to rob Gramm of the Feb. 27 primary in Arizona. Wilson then hopes to win at least two, maybe more, of the five states in the March 5 New England primary. Gorton proposed using that...