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BY FIRST LADY ~ET Y F01D 1~AI IHE R PUPLICA ~HALLE GEK U ~ APPROACH~D A·~BASSAlhJ AN 1 AR C:TRO r A uUI l1U I FLJi VIC C:ID 'T 1vITli !'1 UT lHAf WS . A MSTkOJG DECLI ED .

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-Is she a high·priced call girl. a noodle.headed female driver. a housewife fearing latent lesbianiSm. a street walker?. She: is- all those, depending· on her a.Ssignments. but actuaU)' she is 28-year.old Cynthia Kane, who, before joining the Chicago police-- force two· years ago as· a decoy prostitute. was known as Sister Mary Anthony-a Roman Catholic nun of the Sisters of Our Lady of the G<>Qd Shepherd. ·"heally didn't know what.vice- was when I was detailed to the prostitution unit.'' said officer Kane,:'.Who-•doesn't·,want. her face photo. graphed. Now she·iSone of a number of policewmen who-when men offer to pay her for sex-help· change their game:plan by:shipping them off to jail. Sip.. ter Mary Anthony :was a senior novice and about to take her final vows in 1970 when>-she decided t~ . quit the order, whitjJ,deals with delinquent girls. .And now as a police.womettshe still works with troubled youngsters and their iamiles as a p~-time social worker at' a· youth slielter. Of all our duties, she· :finds somethin& esPeclallY. frustrating about·-~g in the prostitution .unit.1 !'There is no way .in the world we'll eve? St.op it:' she,admits. But if it is illegal; .. "then the. patron ls;jllst as guilty as the'womart.: An(l, the use .of decOys to ar ..

-~these m~~~ ~;~:effec~ve wa:, tO~~~~r_of.~~ are..:._-. as.-"---, ..:."I just tmJ.1tlt:.hen Nancy met;RQ'ime-;·tliat.was it as:far"as-her own .

life was concerned~ ~e· fell apart. at the; seams,11• Jime magUine quotes First '

Lady Betty .Fordt-as saying about Na.ncy·ReagQ., M~.- Ford, an QUtspoken. fe. l'I1in$. apparently;was commenting on Mrs. Reagan's traditional view et:wom." an'_!t}'.ole. But in._the:same issue Mrs. Reagan says she has been upset-by her ini~ as a homebody who always defers to her- hUsband, adding -~she has .~~n out.on~~tical~es, ~iallyf~·poijc~ · __.·':_-.-_. __ ' __ :;::~ ;• ~ (• ;;· • • r .•

:-.:...ne fallout or- the Israeli raid on Entebbe Airport in . Uganda hcisn!t &OP.Ped yet. Sadie Galvin, a London··irurse;'.~s she was inspired'by it to rescue her son, Barry, 20, from the French:Foreign Legion. As she sipPed champagne with Barry at their home in·Londo~ she told how she and Frank Whitley, 72, a former legionnaire, drciv,e an·ambulance in which Barry ~ hidden in a secret,compartment 1,500 miles acrosS:-France: BarryJeft home 21h years ago because.of '..'family difficul.fies'''aJ1d signed up fo(a 5-year hitcfr wi~ the famed legion; He probably had .~n reading too much. o.f P. C... Wren, .a;dQ;j'ie soon found:,that the-rugged life was.'not"for him. When he appealed to· ¥s mother to getJll#i. out, of the legion ~eadquirterS-on the island of Corsica; ·Mr& Galvin thought of'.'_the Israeli rescue mission at Entebbe~ "They showed. 5.Vhat action could· ~-anctI decided to--jllst go,in;and get him out,'' said·M:ri Cynth.ia:Kone: . . decoyi".Q ~ $.lvin, 42. So· s}l~~d Whitley drove and sailed-to ~orsica,. tucked aamr away~ ·~ .Wt~i ~?:t their ambulance and got him back to Eng~d~ Th¢re was a· bit or ~ble- · . ·~ -, · -~ " . 'Mih Frank:.1.'I· had to ~eep· screaming'-at hint.an.cf.thumping him.to keep.:him Leonard Nimoy; .tft~ ·pointy-eared. a!iake,'' Mr$; GaJVin .said:tAnd as-for Barry~ifter-:lie rests.up a bit, "he's-going omniscient Vt,tlcan} known as- Mr~ ~look for. a COri!Jlfeteif~iifferent1ob.1!_0 .. -~ ·5--:, ;j . · ~-· -,;- o: •• -; ·""'. Spock, of t]le'late ~nd -foudly lament-:~·~ , ~,., "~ · .:.. - ~·iJ., 1~- • .;_ • • .Y..,-""·.;,-.,.. ~SW'1rek',.-to ~ presef!~atthelah-·~.:-:~. ~" ": · ·: · ,. '- · • : '-· /''... .. · · : , ·:--~;:- · :. :, ~as a special guest (anct,.perhaps .tech-~ ... - .. . • ·t ,; " .)_;:,.._. - ... . , . " " _,..~.... ~· . ..

!:>~~The boffins at the Jet-Propulsion Laboratory in - . · '.:~·-· ~.::;~ .nical constiltant} for · the landing F,ri• ~dena like t'o ·touch.,all bases. So; as ~fmther guarantee that nothing'" wilh day of Vikibg 2 on the p~@.e~ars. ~~-~ong, they ha-ve invited,~ says program manager James S. Martin. Jr;. · -~ - B1Jemilngs Parrott

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he Girls Talk It Over-1~ Talking to Time Magazine. Beu, FOrd criticiie(f1 ancy Reagan for opposing the Equal Rights_ mendment~ "I just think.'.'n ·Betty said, ~'when ancy met Ronnie that was .it as far as her own re was concerned. She just 'fell apart at the !ams:·· Nancy, meanwhile, talking to Time, said le doesn't make speeches but-~'I answered ques­ons wherever I. went." Meanwhile, Betty was ntical of the Ford campaign organization: "They , ere not organized early enough. . • . I don't now who to blame. Maybe the· President himself. . i some states we had nothing at all. I would go "" 1to some states, like Utah and Arizona and find ilch." Meanwhile, Nancy·said: "I've never known le White House to be used by either party the way . was in this campaign.'" . She traced her hus­and's campaign problems to a _lack of funds and rent so far as to state: "Wr: had no money. No ioney.'' Meanwhile, Bettr·ts ... suffering from a lareup of chronic arthritis and has been told to ake it easy in Vail Colo wllere- the President is on ·a cation.

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r • I . llsitea y~sterday, First Lady lietty ·who sat thtoµgh a 16-hour Pop music~ ' . · :l ;.,».;~rd criti~.lzed Nancy Re~gan, wife ~f., .'.fesuvai billed, as possibly th~ ihial · h[! " •>tU Cletl:iafod~h-e~ubllcan pretdtlerttiat 1 'concert bY:the"liblUrtt !Htin~ lieltl'th~~. ' ' . ' . . ' ' ' ,; .. . 'I\. ., ' ~ · • \ , •

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ttaditlonal view bf a woman'$ . tof~. ~I. '· nebworth, England; "·v11Warm·UP''· · .~ just think when N~ncy ,me.t . Ronnie, groups Stich as Hot Tun~;. and 1~ ccf thlit was it as far its her OW'1 life wati played fol' about 14 hours befON! the .conce'rned," Time ttuoted M~ll. Ford .as Stones reached the stage hrly yeste,..0 saying. "S~e fell apart.~t rhe ,seap:n." 1; • ;ct~ .. ~ot,nhig. TM jeant-.ind·T·•hlrfU

Mrs. For~ said she· t.r1e~ u,ns14~c.ess-1 .b1a.a audience :which paid. $8.iO per '· fully, to h*Y~. th~. amb~s~a~o~M gt~a~.: '.· ~erso1 ··:to get.tin, report~dt)f bougttt 'I' BHtain; Anni Arms\ronlr; ·Cihb!len M · ' 4lnd llo\d~ marijuana and other drugs t

;· :Mr: Ford's tUQriirtg ~mate •tttl; ~Mit ~h ~ ·zfpperttY1l ~lt~o~gl( poUct! ' s~.d thl!te Ji would continue to -Work fQr, the <t-a~lf1. r .~ . ere lef· drug arrests. qrgait~:tet'S .M~:. cation of the Equai r; l!i~hij Ain~n(i· ; the gat~I at $1.36 mllllort ·ahd ttld:'t. ment. Stie also said she' would ,lobby · '· · · ' '- J r' for a salary for tlie work of the First Stones !'_ere somewhat optimist c··· Lady, after she is n~ . longer Jn that.. about playing again. "If all these ped; position. "I~ has 101~~ •• hours,)ind a lo,t 'ple , still "?nt to see us," co~mentet\_ of respons1bilities, .. sl'le cdmmente~ J\flch laner ot the Stones "who ~bout the work. "Bul I , woul~ h!l"..e. 1,t ' knows W.hat ~ill happen ,,. · -' : " so t~at a; Fir~t Lady cap't~cl;l)ec~"~: \• · , /f~~ ,, ". .. · i .. , · · Ie111 she wot'kil." .:s'~f - l•·r\ ·-" • ~.; • . · :! l \ 1, ~ 1 L ' .• ;. ·'.' Mrs. Reagan says I~ ,.. n ~~~ ~l '.!rt'{ i . ~ '. ' !~~ ~q( ahnlvep~ary ot th~ d~~t -~e same isstJe of TJJll~ tb~~· slie I, .UPf'. 1

1 ~ . i f~~t scl'~en ttar Ru<ttHpll 'Vale set by her Image as a qomebbdy who tlno 'rolk by today ballet star R~do always defers to her h usband .. She Nureyev ls portraying thll romantic , says she has spoken out on political star in a movie, "Valentino," on the issues, especlall.Y foreign policy. life and times of the actor, ~urrentl~ . '· ~; '.; f. '.· .t, .l_,: being filmed In England and Spain.1,I;<

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BETTY-N AN CY NEW YORK CAP> -- BETTY FORD, CRITICAL OF NANCY REAGAN FOR OPPOSING

THE EQU AL RIGHTS AMENDMENT, SAID IN A TIME MAGAZINE INTERVIEW, ••I JUST THINK WHEN NANCY MET RONNIE THAT WAS IT AS FAR AS HER OWN LIFE WAS CONCERNEo.• •

BUT MRS . REAGAN SAID SHE DISLIKES BEING TAGGED AS A HOMEBODY WHO DEFERS TO HER HUSBAND .

THE TWO WOMEN, WIVES OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND HIS UN SUCCESSFUL CHALLENGER, DISCUSSED THE CAMPAIGN IN INTERVIEWS PUBLI SHED SUNDAY BY THE MAGAZINE.

MRS . FORD WAS QUOTED AS SAYING SHE BELIEVES MRS. REAGAN ••JUST FELL APART AT THE SEAMs•• WHEN' SHE MEI RONALD REAGAN.

MRS . REAGAN, ADMITTING THAI THE BRUTALITY OF POLITICS WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR HER ro HANDLE, SAID SHE NEVERTHELESS SPEAKS cur ON THE ISSUES.

••wHEN I FIRST WENT INTO POLITICS, l WAS CONSTANTLY GETTING MY FEELIN GS HURT,'' SHE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING. ''IF SOMEBODY KNOWS A WAY TO MAKE IT FEEL LESS PAINFUL, I WISH THEY•D TELL ME.••

MR S. FORD SAID HER HUSBAND·s CAMPAIGN WORKERS ··wERE NOT ORGANIZED EARLY ENOUGH AND WERE NOT GOOD ENOUGH, I DON•t KNOW WHO TO BLAME, MAYBE THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF.••

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