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1 1 1, -T- i im tui jjnr'rji i.iiwiu' jifB-yc'j" y'Tif rwii" I PES MOINES SUNDAY KKilSTKR fl Novemhrr 4, 1 WO 9 LARRY FRUHLINGThe Reljtf ongrossional influence pays for state -1 1 1 'v t- 1 i I 4't ill i i i C'ormriuttirom Page One ty had received 1 4 million for an aircraft testing program, $5.25 million for an Advanced Technology Support Center, $2.2 million for a supercomputer project and $1.5 million for clean coal research. Camp Dodge got $9.4 million for new training facilities. The University of Northern Iowa got $1 million for a regional metals casting center. There were several others. Taking From Military Earlier, Smith had diverted $6.1 million in a continuing budget resolution from the Defense Department to establish the Walnut Creek Wildlife Refuge.

The refuge, complete with buffalo, will be established near Lake Red Rock, itself the result of a federal dam project. "I saw my opportunity to take another $6 million and use it for this purpose," Smith said. "What it amounts to is we took another $6 million out of defense." David Stanley, president of lowans for Tax Relief and the National Taxpayers Union, said in one sense he doesn't blame members of the Iowa congressional delegation for getting all they can. Rewarding Spending "We've got a system that rewards spending and punishes those who favor restraint," Stanley said. His solution is a constitutional amendment to balance the budget and restrain taxes on a system that he and others say is out of control.

Smith, too, said the problem is systemic, but in a different sense. For years, he said, the defense budget has been a Keynesian pump primer working to the benefit of many southern and western states, and to the detriment of states such as Iowa. "The underlying theme of all this is a kind of seed from which good jobs will grow," Smith said. "All of these programs, including those at Iowa State and at Drake, are gument for his re-election. Last week he was quoted as saying, "I make no bones about it, I intend to use my position to help the state of Iowa." Rep.

Tom Tauke, the Republican who has made spending restraint a centerpiece of his challenge to Harkin, did not return calls requesting comment on the Drake grant. Smith, who is the third-ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, has never been one to flog Congress for wasteful spending, running on the slogan "He Delivers." Other Winners He's not the only one. During the final days of the session, Sen. Quentin Burdick, secured $500,000 for his home state to turn Lawrence Welk's birthplace into a tourist site. The same bill that brought $10 million to Drake channeled $10 million to Pennsylvania to set up a "National Drug Intelligence Center," something neither the Defense Department nor the Drug Enforcement Agency reportedly wants.

Rep. John Murtha, the influential chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee in the House, got the money for the center, and stipulated that it be built in his state. He and Smith supported each other's efforts. Sparing Pain Despite earnest discussions about shared pain, those who didn't have to, didn't. In the final budget package, Sen.

Robert Dole, successfully raised the threshold for a luxury tax on aircraft purchases to $250,000, say Senate staffers. The New York Times reported that in doing so, he protected buyers of the smaller planes produced in Kansas by Cessna Aircraft and Beech Aircraft Corp. Similarly, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine, home of several boat builders, successfully urged that the luxury tax on boats costing $30,000 or more be raised, kicking in at $100,000 Instead. Few boat buyers will be taxed. Further, the threshold for the luxury tax on furs was doubled to $10,000 after the authors of the budget compromise were persuaded that a tax on $5,000 fur coat purchases would be unfair to the middle class.

These were not national Interest types of changes, but Drake's Gold-ford said, "Nobody In Congress represents a national constituency." David Bawden reigns as Pope Michael I in Belvue, Kan. Self-named pontiff in Kansas twits the real one at the Vatican Neal Smith Delivering money to his district posed for re-election. Dennis Goldford, a Drake University political science professor, said if voters are really serious about cutting spending, "they have to allow their representatives to make cuts that will affect them personally." That, he made it clear, is unlikely. The failure of a member of Congress to acquire federal money for his or her district fits effectively in a challenger's 30-second campaign ad. Cherished Tradition Taking credit for bringing home federal money is a cherished a political tradition as kissing babies.

Grass-ley, a fiscal conservative, said if Congress must waste money, it might as well waste it in Iowa. "If Congress would decide to build a cheese factory on the moon, you can bet I would fight to make sure Iowa contractors build it and scientists at our Iowa colleges and universities conduct the research," Grassley said. Grassley, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, blamed Democrats like Harkin for cooking up ideas like his metaphorical lunar cheese factory. "I believe my approach is the more fiscally responsible of the two," Grassley said. Harkin, who is running for re-election, did not return calls seeking comment on how one reconciles pork barrel with budget restraint.

Bringing Home the Bacon However, Harkin makes little pretense that his job includes shuttling tax dollars back to Iowa, despite the furrowed brows in Congress recently about tough choices. Harkin has made his seat on the appropriations committee a central ar al pontifical roles, including his in The 5320 Cordless Phone on page 7 of Today's Target Sale Section may not be in stock, due to manufacturer's inability to ship sufficient quantities. We will substitute a similar Cordless Phone (No. 5200) at the Sale Price of $82.31, which is a 10 greater savings than the 5320 Phone. We Regreat Any Inconvenience This May Cause.

TARGET in stallation as bishop of Rome. "We don't know God's timetable," he says. "We believe it will happen We had to make the first step the papal election. One problem Michael I faces at present is that he has never been ordained a priest, meaning, among other things, that he can't conduct a Catholic Mass. Michael I says he has studied for years for the priesthood, mostly on his own, and thinks someday he will find a bishop who will ordain him.

A ii The Lord works in strange ways. Often he uses the most unlikely people. The first pope was a Michael I bishop who would do that, Michael I says, probably would have to be found somewhere in China or the Soviet Union. He says that such a bishop might have lived so long in seclusion from mainstream church affairs that he would not be aware of Vatican II and would not be contaminated by the errors that Michael believes are em bedded in the new practices. Getting Out the Word Until his ordination, Michael I says he will be content merely being the pope and busying himself with study, prayer, correspondence and attempts to get the word out that he's the new leader of the church.

Michael I maintains that although he never has been ordained, he met the church's qualifications for becoming pope: "You have to be a Catholic man and be elected." Although he stands firmly behind the Catholic prohibition against women in the priesthood, Michael I says he believes it is acceptable that three of the five people who elected him were women. "In an extraordinary situation the church would certainly allow it," he says, adding that for Catholicism's first 1,000 years, popes were chosen not by the cardinals of the church but by the clergy and the people of Rome, the latter group presumably including women. mi 3 says. "I don't think they know what to say." "Very Upset" But the Rev. Ramon Angles, rector of a Catholic school at St.

Marys, a strongly Catholic town six miles east of Belvue, has a less benign view of Michael I's proclaimed reign. "I was very upset when all this non sense started," Angles says. Angles maintains that in the initial days of his reign, Michael I tried to swipe converts from among the 1,000 Catholics who attend services at St. Mary's Academy and College, which itself is at odds with the mainstream church because of differences over Catholic doctrine. Although the churchgoers, students, clerics and staff of St.

Mary's are followers of the excommunicated Swiss Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, another opponent of the reforms of Vatican II, the dissident religious order that operates St. Mary's still recognizes John Paul II as head of the church. "Go to our bookstore and you can buy a picture of John Paul II, not of Michael says Angles. Of Michael Angles says, "I am wondering every day what he is doing. If he really believes after four months that he is pope of the Roman Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome and the successor of Peter, he must really be unbalanced." History of Disputes The history of the Catholic Church is filled with disputes about who was the real pope and who wasn't.

The greatest schism started in 1378, when Clement VII reigned as pope in France and Urban VI reigned in Rome, each with a following of millions of Catholics. But for all of the church's great papal disputes, Angles maintains that Michael I may be breaking new ground. "We've never had anyone just appear and say, 'I'm the Angles says, adding that until Michael I came around there was always some "appearance of credibility" attached to those who have claimed to lead the church. Angles says that at the present time four men, in addition to Pope John Paul II, claim to be the legitimate head of the Catholic Church. The four would-be popes are In Spain, Canada and France "and now we have Michael in the United States," Angles says.

Michael I says he does not expect that his breakaway papacy will be forever headquartered in Belvue, where he holds forth in a big room that is carpeted in well-used red shag and contains a battered couch; a couple of folding chairs, an altar with a crucifix and six candles and a few handmade kneeling rails. Pontifical Roles The somewhat fidgety pope says that in time, he expects to enter the Vatican and fulfill all of the tradition- you which comics made your Continued from Page One been without a legitimate pope, except of course for himself, since "Pius XII died in 1958 and the church embarked on a series of sweeping re- forms known as Vatican II. That the would-be leader of the world's largest religious denomination, should surface at a second-hand store in northeast Kansas, dressed in raiment he acquired over several years of buying and selling religious items, should not be all that surprising, Michael I insists. "The Lord works in strange ways," Michael I says. "Often he uses the most unlikely people.

The first pope was a fisherman." The Catholic Diocese that includes eastern Kansas has declined to com- 'ment about Michael other than to say that it considers that he has left Ihe church, as anyone may do. And, at the moment, it appears that Belvue, a town of 200 residents scattered along Highway 24 and a Union Pacific rail line, poses little threat to the Vatican. Papal Chapel r- Michael I was elected at and continues his reign from a store in Bel-: vue called The A Resale Shoppe. In addition to the papal chapel, the store contains a bit of dusty glassware, a few pieces of used furniture and cans of soda pop to restock the Coke and Pepsi machines that flank the front door. The store is owned by Michael I's father, and was the best accommodation available for the pontiff, who iil was very upset when all this nonsense Rev.

Ramon Angles rector of a Catholic school lives at home with his parents and still mows the grass, does some of the cooking and handles his share of the housework. Belvue seems to be taking the presence of a pope in its midst quite in stride. only real trouble so far in Michael I's reign was the theft in August of the white and gold papal flag that he and his family had ordered from a store in Kansas City and placed in the window of The A Resale Shoppe. "I think the kid's no dummy at all," says Lyle Mumaw, 58, a retired supervisor at a tire manufacturing plant. "I feel everyone is entitled to his own belief as far as religion is concerned." Kennett Bawden, Michael I's father, says the reaction seems to have been slight among local people.

"They haven't said much," Bawden The results are in. We asked the solid foundation for jobs. They are long term. They are designed to make central Iowa a good place to live and work." Defense Disparity Last year, according to a Census Bureau report, defense contracts totaled $132 billion, although the distribution was far from equitable: California received $23 billion, Texas received $9 billion and Iowa received $425 million. Stated differently, while California got more than $700 in defense con tracts for every person in the state and Connecticut got more than $1,800 Iowa received $150 per person.

As far as defense research conduct ed at universities is concerned, said Smith, there has never been a peer- review system for awarding grants, "That's just talk," he said. When it comes to non-defense re search grants, he said, a closed loop has developed that keeps money flow' ing to a handful of centers of excel lence that were built on earlier feder al grants. The only way to break the loop is legislative influence. In addition, Smith said the grants are budget neutral" shifting spending already in the budget from one address to another. Timing Was Right A timely military justification was used for getting defense money for Drake.

The grant is generally for the study of heat stress and chemical weapons exposure, both of which are matters of concern in the Persian Gulf crisis. The practical effect of the grant, Smith said, will allow construction of a building for continuing statistical research into reactions to drugs and treatments of those reactions, which is useful to everyone, particularly to Iowa's medicated elderly. It affects 2 million people who are in the military, but it also affects 250 million people who are not," he said. Encourages Incumbency Few in Iowa's 4th District seem in terested in replacing Smith with a freshman who couldn't possibly bring home federal money. Smith is unop- j- There's nothing plain about these pumps, especially when you consider the enhanced comfort features: flexible soles, padded insoles and superb fit.

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