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A2 The Arfron Republic Friday, July 12, 1 996 ppeaking poorly of others speaks poorly of ourselves err ir urt anyone yet today? lflj Maybe not, if it's still morning. But fl sometime durinfz the dav. vou probably will. And if you go to dinner with Cfriends tonight, you almost certainly will. "There are few things we could doCCJ could have such a transforming effectiCDhe -way we relate to one another." ZZZZ Hurtful words hit children the hardCS'Jie says.

Verbal abuse can wound just asJJJy as physical abuse. Kids attacked verbj suffer twice; their self-esteem is shakfiOnd they're conditioned to grow up talkingat way themselves. Telushkin, 47, told me he wrote thX3tk because his years as a rabbi made hinCJ acutely aware of how commonly people-re harmed by unkind words. 'ZZZ He concedes the fact that human nliSfe inclines us to spend more time talking Jout negative than positive Joseph Telushkin says even the best of us tr jyjut others on a daily basis for no good "reason. He wants us to be more conscious Cof what we're doing and why.

Our favorite weapons are words. Because i jjrhey're intangible, we think they can't do rmuch damage. But anyone who believes Jwords will never hurt me" has led a I'sheltered life, he says. Unless vnu have exnerienced serious STEVE WILSON Republic Columnist status of others. No one gossips about other people's virtues.

The two areas where we most often violate the Golden Rule are gossiping and speaking "negative truths," he says. Most people see nothing morally wrong in sharing negative information about others as long as it's true. But Jewish law and many ethicists oppose spreading "negative truths" unless the person you're speaking to needs to know. Jonathan Lavater, an 1 8th-century Swiss theologian, advised: "Never tell evil of a man if you do not know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell William Blake put it in a couplet: "A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent." Speaking more kindly doesn't mean we have to avoid all critical and hurtful words. The question is whether telling a hard truth can do good or cause only pain.

For example, if your spouse looks badly dressed for a party and you say so at home, it's right to save some embarrassment. But bringing it up at the party would have no redeeming benefit. Dinner parties are breeding grounds for gossip and negative judgments. He speculates that more unkind words are spoken by people on their way home from parties than at any other time. Verbal incivility and hurtful language are used more routinely now than ever, he says, and the media are largely responsible.

He notes that the nation's most popular talk-show host, Rush Limbaugh, has belittled some feminists as "feminazis," implying that, they think like German Nazis and are capable of similar inhumanity. Journalists push the bounds of civility, he contends, by rationalizing that any dirt in the private life of a politician is relevant because of how it may reflect on character. He says such reporting weakens respect for the political system without doing any real public service. The rabbi challenges people to try to go 24 hours without slighting another soul. physical injury or illness, your worst pain i i.

I I i i Kjas prooaoiy come irom woras in me iorm of criticism, humiliation, anger, betrayal of secrets, rumors or gossip. Telushkin, a rabbi who lives in New York City and Boulder, has written an excellent book called Words That Hurt, Words That Heal. The book isn't filled with earnest moralizing or political correctness or naivete about human nature. Rather, it's rich with anecdotes that arouse an awareness that speaking poorly of others speaks poorly of us. He says if you are honest with yourself, you can see that running down someone else is a way to soothe your own insecure ego.

The biggest reason to talk about others' flaws is to raise your status by lowering the We re more easily bored with posmvm things. Even good people don't like to read novels about good people," he said. "Most of us like to sit around and analyze other people's problems." We can still indulge in others' lives without hurting anyone. The words we don't speak can be as important as any we do. POLITICAL NOTEBOOK FRIDAY 71296 i i Dole lashes out at NAACP head NEW YORK Criticized for Libertarians miss deadline, risk spot on Arizona ballot Splintered state party studies options record in Texas.

C2 FISH REPORT: Get out your flashlights! If you've been outside lately, you understand why most of the bass being caught in the desert lakes are being taken at night. The best lakes are Alamo, Pleasant, Bartlett, Roosevelt, and San Carlos. C2 By Martin Van Der Werf WOOTEN GETS LIFE: LeVonnie Wooten is sentenced to spend his natural life in prison for the murder of Al-thea Hayes, 27, a Glendale woman who was pregnant by his cousin, former Phoenix Sun Jerrod Mustaf. B1 FIRE CURBS LIFTED: Gov. Fife Symington and the State Land Department lift fire restrictions on all state and private land.

That includes all of Arizona's state parks except two Pi-cacho Peak and Lost Dutchman. Valley-News In Brief. B1 2 NAMED IN SLAYING: Arrest warrants are issued in the slaying of a 75-year-old antiques collector in Tucson, and police say they know where one suspect is and may be able to find the other quickly. Law Order. B2 John Buttrick The Phoenix lawyer says his party will do whatever is necessary to get its candidate on the Arizona ballot.

PRAYER Lord, thank you for teaching us that our disappointments can be hidden opportunities. Amen. LOTTERY POWERBALL Wednesday's results: 0211 15 30 44 Powerball: 27 Jackpot: 0313.5 million (5 numbers and Powerball) ARIZONA WINNERS 5 numbers: 00,000 4 and Powerball: 4: 64S100 3 and Powerball: 3: 2 and Powerball: 894S5 1 and Powerball: 4,23632 Powerball only: Saturday's Jackpot: 31 9 million LOTTO Wednesday's drawing and Michael Murphy Staff writers The fractured Arizona Libertarian Party has missed the filing deadline for nominating its presidential electors, making it possible that this is the only state where Libertarian candidate Harry Browne will not be on the ballot. The party is now likely to sue the state to get Browne's name on the ballot, a legal fight that many think it will win. "In other states, judges have decided it is in the best interest of citizens" to let voters decide among all the candidates who are from the viable parties.

So they have ordered bypassing the NAACP convention, Bob Dole accused the head of the civil-rights organization Thursday of "trying to set me up." Dole, interviewed by radio-show host Don Imus, said he probably would have gotten a cool reception had he agreed to address the group's annual convention this week in Charlotte, N.C. And he called NAACP Chairman Kweisi Mfume a "leading liberal Democrat" who was no friend of his. Later, speaking to reporters alongside his plane in Washington, D.C., Dole strengthened his criticism of Mfume, saying, "The head of the NAACP is a very liberal Democrat, and I think' he was trying to set me up." Although senior staff members were well aware of the NAACP invitation, Dole said he had not known about it, adding, "I don't know about a lot of invitations. The important thing is I have a flawless civil-rights record." From Charlotte, Mfume said, "I do not believe it is important whether Bob Dole thinks I'm his friend or not but rather what we can do to help our country." Campaign spokesman Nelson Warfield said Dole's comments were partly a reaction to criticism Mfume had directed at Dole for not speaking to the group. "They had two or three rogue circulators that seemed to be engaging in the practice of falsifying signatures," Osborn said.

In the case of the Libertarians, the ballot snafu seems to provide STOCKS TUMBLE: Word of weak corporate profits takes the air out of the stock market's sails. The Dow Jones industrial average loses almost 1 34 points before recovering somewhat. It ends the day down 83. 1 1 points, at 5,520.54, a decline of about 1.5 percent. El INJURY BILL OK'D: In a surprising setback to the Republican anti-regulatory agenda, the House votes to let the government move against repetitive-stress injuries, one of the fastest-growing health hazards in the American workplace.

E1 SQUEEZE PLAY CHARGED: It's a juicy story that's being played out in Pima County Superior Court in Tucson. Big Squeeze a Florida company that once had an operation in Tucson, says it sued the Price Club after it fired a buyer's father and got kicked out of the Price Club. E1 08131518 23 24 Jackpot: million (6 numbers) Second-place pool: 363687 (5 numbers) Third-place pool: 1,161343 further evidence of a party in disarray. Earlier this year, the state party decided to decertify its Pima County branch, which contains nearly half of the state's 20,000 members. The party decided to defy state law and not elect precinct committeemen.

It was further shaken by ties to four of the 12 members of the Viper Militia arrested by federal authorities last week, including Dean Pleasant, who was a Libertarian candidate for the state Senate in 1994. Scott Grainger, Maricopa County chairman of the Libertarian Party, said a list of the party's presidential UNIONS ACCUSED: House Majority Leader Dick Armey accuses union leaders of trying to buy the 1996 elections and says House hearings will probe what he calls union-administration coziness, including the settlement of a racketeering case. A6 GOP ACCUSES RENO: Congressional Republicans accuse Attorney General Janet Reno of negligence in authorizing the FBI's assault on the Branch Davidians and say President Clinton should have accepted her offer to resign. A6 VICTORY FOR NRA: In a victory for the National Rifle Association, the house votes overwhelmingly to end funding for firearms research at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National News Briefs.

A1 0 mmiinui 1 (4 numbers) Fourth-place pool: 17,25332 (3 numbers) Saturday's Jackpot: 33.4 million FANTASY 5 Thursday's drawing Winning numbers are picked after the deadline for this edition. Numbers information is available at (602) 829-PICK. CHUCKLE Some people seek the 1 spirit world by meditation, and others just go to the liquor store. PROVIDING CONTENT: "There's no longer any such thing as an artist. We are now called 'content composer and multimedia performer Laurie Anderson says.

She wasn't crazy about the concept when she first encountered it but has learned to accept and even like it. D1 AERIAL PERSPECTIVE: How many times, while looking out an airplane window, have you stared in wonder at the terrain below, savoring the different perspective and longing to get a closer view? Perhaps you even snapped a photo. If you're Adriel Hei-sey skilled in both flying and picture taking you find a way to capture that beauty and have it transcend traditional ideas about aerial photography. D1 BOB FENSTER: Watching writerdirector John Sayles' Lone Star is like sitting around a campfire as a master storyteller conjures up the people of a small Texas town, with all their dry humor and intense tragedy. D6 It's official: Perot running for president WASHINGTON Ross Perot said Thursday that his 1996 presidential campaign is effectively under way, and the response from his rivals showed that his talent for setting the political world astir is as strong as ever, even if his popular appeal is an open question.

Perot's newly announced intention to seek the nomination of the Reform Party, which the Texas billionaire founded with his personal fortune, drew a prompt and negative response from presumptive Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole. "I would hope he wouldn't run," Dole told reporters. "I would hope it would be a two-man race. Former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm, the lifelong Democrat who that they be put on the ballot, whether they followed the rules or not," said Assistant Secretary of State Anne Lynch.

"There are precedents. We just don't know if they will apply here." John Buttrick, a Phoenix lawyer who is on the party's executive committee, said, "I can't imagine any judge saying, 'OK, I'm going to disenfranchise all these He said the Libertarian Party is on the verge of becoming the first third party this century to have its candidate on the ballot in all 50 states for two consecutive elections. "Whatever is required to get Harry Browne on the ballot here, we will do," Buttrick said. Meanwhile, Attorney General Grant Woods' office is investigating the apparent forgery of dozens of signatures on petitions used ta put Ross Perot's Reform Party on the Arizona ballot. Karen Osborn, Maricopa County elections director, said the Attorney General's Office has begun a "very aggressive" look into what she called "blatant fraud" in the collection of signatures on some of the Reform Party petitions.

Attorney General's spokeswoman Karie Dozer would neither confirm nor deny the investigation. Elections officials said, however, that there is no evidence that Perot's organization is involved in the apparent, forgeries, and that the probe is unlikely to affect the party's status on the November ballot. Perot paid a Phoenix firm, Lee Petition Management, to help gather the 15,062 signatures needed to put the party on ballots in the Nov. 5 general election. MANDELA MAKES PLEA: With a blare of trumpets and an escort of dignitaries, South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in triumph at the ancient seat of Britain's Parliament and pleads for an end to racism and more help for Africa.

A5 PROTESTANTS WIN: Giving in to Protestant demands after five days of rioting, police drag away Roman Catholic protesters and line their neighborhood with armored cars so Protestants can march through in a parade. A5 WARRANTS NAME SERBS: The U.N. war-crimes tribunal issues arrest warrants for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief, Ratko Mladic, charging them with genocide. World News Briefs. A12 electors was sent by fax jfo.

the Secretary of State's Office aer the party's state convention in February. "A lot of us thought that was all we had to do," Grainger said. But state law requires that electors fill out candidacy forms like other candidates. On Election Day, voters actually cast ballots fojweight people known as electors. ThilyJand other members of the EfdSoral College gather after the electijStEand cast ballots for the presidential candidate who won the mosj3Jotes in the state.

2 Arizona gets eight electo5 because that is the size JJJ its congressional delegation. The Republican, Democratjgjand Reform parties all filed a sfete of electors by the June 27 deadline "This is really flabbergasting to me," said Peter Schmerl, chairman of the Pima County Libertarian Party. mm "This is another in a longlESe of what I would consider incompetent acts by theparty at the statOevel. It's very black and white wB3E the law is." 5 Buttrick said he hopes th(j3Jarty can mend its rift. 23 "It's too bad," he said, a small enough group withoutgplin-tering." 2 ALMANAC 194th day of 1996.

ln 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale announces his selection of Rep. Geral-? dine Ferraro of New York to be his running mate. is the first woman Jto run for the vice presidency of the United States on a major-party i ticket. 'CORRECTIONS TPOLICY Jthe Arizona Republic will correct errors fully and promptly. To report an error in the news columns, phone Managing Editor Pam John-Von, 271 -81 21 report an Verror on the Opinions pages, pphone Paul J.

Schatt, editori-al page editor, 271-8475. HUE this week announced that he was seeking the Reform Party nomination, said the movement that Perot started "needs a new face" and a leader "who doesn't lust for the office." Lamm vowed to press on with his candidacy. Conscience plank' in Dem platform draft KANSAS CITY, Mo. Democrats on Thursday released a draft platform thatcharts the party's journey to the center, lauds the Clinton administration's performance and backs away from some of the promises made four COLLEGE SUPER BOWL: The executive director of the Tournament of Roses Association says the Rose Bowl is "very close" to an agreement with the College Bowl Alliance that would allow a true college championship game as early as January 1999. CI MORRIS AVOIDS JAIL: Bam Morris, the leading rusher of the Super DOLE'S NAACP ERROR: age under fire is a universally admired trait in leaders of all kinds.

One who aspires to leadership can ill afford being portrayed as shying away from a battle in fear. While Bob Dole's campaign is built around his gallantry under fire in World War II, his decision to skip a speech at the NAACP convention sends the wrong message. B6 BLAND REFERENCES: Once upon a time, when offering an opinion about an employee's work habits wasn't grist for civil lawsuits, a good-faith reference was as good as gold. But these days companies are afraid to give honest references, fearing litigation. And this closes too many doors on workers.

B6 Osborn said her office examined 15 percent of the signatures from Maricopa County and did not find widespread evidence of fraud. Bowl and a Texas high school and college football star, is fined $7,000 for possessing marijuana but avoids jail time. He is civen six vears deferred ad judication, meaning the drug charges years ago. The draft platform eschews "big government solutions," denounces teen pregnancy and trumpets Democrats' role in enacting new death penalties. Echoing many of President Clinton's recent policy proposals, it endorses school could eventually be removed trom his fcr Start saving today.

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