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Abigail Von Dear Abby FiWiy MIWIHM iHiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimmimiii DEAR ABBY: Your reply to the secretary whose boss received pornographic mail was, in my opinion, shortsighted. The secretary job is to assist her boss in his business duties, not to be forced to participate in his voyeurism. Having the same experience myself. I threw away the literature and photographs choosing to believe that it was unsolicited mail rather than believe that the man I was expected to show respect for had thoughtlessly (or intentionally) subjected me to the trash that came in the mail addressed to him One day he asked me if that was all the mail there was because he had been expecting something else. Then I learned that he had actually sent for this pornography! I promptly admitted that some had come, but I had been throwing it away He seemed shocked.

Then I asked him why he didn't have that stuff delivered to his Home, and he replied, "My wife would be offended she doesn't share my interest in voyeurism." I told him that I didn't either and that I felt that I deserved no less consideration and respect than his wife. This opened the door, conversationally, for him to tell me about his dreams and fantasies which involved me. It was apparent that he felt he was sharing with me an imagined experience which he thought I would find flattering. (People who get their kicks "watching," also enjoy talking about it.) I quit my job, but the problem of what to tell prosepective employers about why I left a top-paying job as secretary to the president of a well-known company plagued me, so once again, it is the woman who pays. Nuts to you.

Abby! 'HAPPIER IN MY NEW JOB- DEAR ABBY: The first time I came across pornography, I was working for the president of a large corporation. He was a very proper gentleman and a very shy one. Some mail came, and I opened it routinely. When all the filth fell out, I didn't know whether to put it on my boss's desk with the rest of his mail or not. After pondering about it all day, I tore it up into tiny pieces and buried them at the bottom of the wastepaper basket.

From that time on, if any mail came that looked as tho it might contain pornographic material, I opened it partially to make sure, and if my suspicions were correct, I would seal it back up again and leave it on my boss's desk UNOPENED with the rest of his mail. Since my boss never instructed me to throw away any envelopes that looked like those containing pornography I had to assume that he had sent for it. Since all this stuff is put on his desk UNOPENED, at least I am spared the embarrassment of having my boss think that I had seen it too. PROBLEM SOLVED DEAR ABBY: The question about what a secretary should do when she has been instructed to open all her boss's mail and throw away the junk is a puzzling one when her boss gets pornographic mail. I know many competent secretaries who have had this problem, and you have no idea how many of them, right or wrong destroy pornography to avoid embarrassment to themselves and their bosses.

If the bosses WANT to receive this type of literature (which is their privilege) why can't they arrange to have it sent to a post office box, or elsewhere, to spare their secretaries possible embarrassment? If they don't want any part of it, why don't they instruct their secretaries to throw it away? Maybe we could hear from some of the bosses on this subject? SLIGHTLY PUZZLED DEAR SLIGHTLY: I wish we could. Bosses? Gerrymandering is a legislative rearrangement of voting districts so that they favor the political party in power by creating new areas of support. The World Almanac notes that the term was coined after Massachusetts' Gov. Elbridge Gerry redistricted a county so that its shape resembled a salamander. Copyright 1971, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

Democrats Request TV Rebuttal WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic National Committee wants free air time on the Columbia Broadcasting System to respond to President Nixon's appearance Sunday night with CBS correspondent Dan Rather. The National Broadcasting Company also received a request for time from the Democrats to answer the NBC program "A Day in the Presidency," aired Dec. 21. Neither network had a response to the requests, which were made in telegrams from Joseph A. Califano, the committee's, general counsel.

The Sunday night program was termed "highly political in its overtones and offered the President an opportunity to express his views on a number of controversial issues of public importance." Califano said NBC's telecast was "clearly political in its conception and execution." A similar request for time was made of the American Broadcasting Company last fall, following a program March 22, when Howard K. Smith interviewed Nixon. The Federal Communications Commission upheld ABC's refusal of the request, but the ruling is under appeal in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here. Rep.

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