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TV ay Lansing State Journal Wednesday, Aug. 1, 1990 4D gress. He believes, and I agree, that the loan-guarantee legislation he helped craft and navigate through the shark-Infested waters of Congress was his greatest legislative achievement. It also charted his way to the governorship. Jamie invested his resourcefulness, energy, skills, negotiating talents and ability to compromise to this endeavor.

For over a year, Jamie came home about the time I was going to bed almost every night. It consumed him like nothing had ever consumed him before. He gave it everything. He gave it his all. He succeeded.

paigning before the November election and I became very ill. This was Jamie's second re-election and we expected and won a clear victory. What we didn't expect was that I would spend that election day in the hospital. When Jay and I and Abby arrived at Detroit's Metro Airport from Washington, D.C., I was bent over double in pain because my abdominal area was causing me extreme discomfort. After several hours in the emergency room and several doctors and diagnoses, I was taken into surgery for an appendectomy.

Upon Inspection, however, doctors discovered they were dealing with a severe case of endometriosis. They promptly sewed me back up and scheduled a hysterectomy for several days later. I wouldn't have any more children; Jay wouldn't have any brothers or sisters. I recovered well from the surgery and have experienced excellent health ever since. I never completely lost the desire for at least one more child, nor have I ever completely dismissed the disappointment.

It was through the Chrysler loan guarantee that Jamie made his mark in Con To his credit, Jamie did his best to meet my needs within the context of a profession Hint allows for none of them. The Inck of time, my lack of patience nnd my building resentment and anger caused a nearly complete breakdown in communication between us. We lived in the same house but we spoke less and less. We stopped sharing and we stopped listening. Dut we didn't stop feeling.

Instead of love, Intimacy and fondness, however, we felt hurt, disappointment and abandonment. I retreated into silence, distance, anger. Jamie retreated to Michigan, spending every weekend there. In June 1980, our marriage reached the crisis stage. I was a bitter, disappointed, angry and resentful wife.

He was a preoccupied, distant and absent husband. One early Sunday morning in June, as I was about to take Jay to one more baseball game by myself and sit with other mothers and fathers as we watched our children's teams play, I couldn't take being alone any more. I telephoned Jamie at our Pleasant Ridge home. In tears, I choked on my own words as I told him I was afraid our marriage had come to an end. He was quiet for a minute and then said, "I'll catch the next flight to D.C.

and we'll talk about it when I get back." And talk we did. The crux of my concern about our marriage was.Jamie's commitment and ability to bring as much fidelity to the marriage as he did to politics, which was a demanding mistress. For the rest of the summer, we talked about marriage, our feelings and ourselves every spare minute we could steal together. We discussed separation and divorce and couldn't bear the prospect of either. We rediscovered how much we loved each other and wanted to stay together.

I began to think of Jamie's needs as well as my own. Jamie promised to be. home as much as possible and leave his -work mentally, physically and emotionally at the office as much as possible. We recommitted ourselves to each other, our life together and our mutual goals. Eventually, one mutual goal became the quest for the governorship.

In my heart, I believed he was destined to be the next governor, and I the next first lady. THURSDAY: The First Family. "TIL POLITICS I DO US PART FROM 1 responsible young high school student whom Jay liked very much and I hired her to babysit for Jay those two nights while I went to school. I studied in the master's program for one year and earned a straight 4.0 average. After a year, I dropped out of the program for a variety of reasons.

In November 1978, Jay and I and Abby, our Labrador retriever, were on a plane to Michigan to return for a week of cam To Jay and me, he became an absent husband and father. Even when he was there, he wasn't. Our marriage was in trouble. During our congressional years prior to 1980, Jamie and I were trying our best to meet each other's needs. We were managing, but just barely.

I felt continually torn between Jay's need for a normal, stable family life and Jamie's need for love and support from a family willing to accommodate a totally erratic schedule. I valued routine, predictability and control of our family time. Tune in to Lansing's changing TV world Networks ban new Maples ad By MIKE HUGHES Lansing State Journal Dan Springer has a new job and Channel 53 has a building. Those are the latest changes in Lansing's I w. p-a uuw-iiuia iv ousiness.

Springer, fired July 9 by Gannett News Service The three major networks have banned a new No Excuses jeans commercial featuring Maria Maples because the ad takes a shot at supermarket tabloids. The ad features Maples, also known as Donald Trump's friend, standing in front of a cascading waterfall. "The most important thing we can do today is help clean up our planet," says Maples, tossing several tabloids into a trash can. "Things are looking better already." New Concepts president Neil Cole said the commercial might "have raised some eyebrows, but it is the first time we've been denied the right to convey our message on television." Speaking for CBS, spokesman George Schweitzer confirmed the network had nixed the ad: CBS won't accept advertising "that denegrates another product no matter what the product is," he said. wila (cnannel 10), has landed a job as capitol reporter in Des Moines.

Iowa- He left Tuesday, with mixed pi ml Michigan State University in 1987, promptly became sports director of an Alpena station, and was news director six months later. He went to WLNS (Channel 6) in September 1988 and then to WILX the next February. There, Springer 6-foot-3, athletic and handsome formed a picture-book team with Heidi Mitchell. They co-anchored on weekends and also dated each other. But both say the job soured in November, after news director Dan Tambellini resigned over principle.

"It just changed gradually," Springer said. "This was not a good environment to work in." Mitchell was fired May 14 and has since landed a weekend anchor job in Salinas and Monterey, her native state. Springer says he began applying for jobs immediately, but the firing caught him by surprise. He promptly drove across country, visiting news directors. On Monday, he received offers from WOI in Des Moines and from an independent in Fresno, Calif.

The choice was easy, Springer says. WOI is an ABC affiliate and a serious news station, in a state that takes politics seriously. "It's the Capitol job that appealed to me," Springer said. "Also, the chance to cover the caucuses. If you love politics, you can't pass that up." At WILX, news director Doug Chalgian said there will be no quick change.

Suzanne Wan-gler will continue as solo anchor on weekends, with no rush in replacing Springer. For now, the WLAJ news staff consists of two people news director Bruce Cornelius and anchor Warren Williams. They're going through the audition tapes that keep pouring in. But one hurdle was cleared when the station picked its site. Jones said it might be ready for makeshift office space next week.

That's part of a sudden move to South Lansing by local stations. WILX, which has its studio in Jackson, recently moved its Lansing office to 500 American Road, near Edgewood Boulevard and near Sam's Warehouse. Jones is now predicting a WLAJ launch on Monday, Oct. 1. By then, he expects a news department of about 17, concentrating only on 6 p.m.

and 11 p.m. weekdays, plus morning inserts during "Good Morning, America." An extra 10 people might be on hand by the time the station adds newscasts on weekends and at noon on weekdays. views: his is a good news town; it's just a -shame that stations aren't covering it very well." The new competitor will be WLAJ (Channel 53), Lansing's first ABC affiliate. tied on the former Dambro's store, a site at 5815 S. Pennsylvania.

"We'll be on the air by early October," general manager Tom Jones predicts. Details include: Springer, a 25-year-old Royal Oak native, had been climbing quickly. He graduated from mow 0 Teens From 1D 4ti. -Hnmij i M-78 DRIVE IN I RMffOHH GENERAL CINEMA LANSING MALL WEST 21 WIST MM I MIVK 321-1550 NEWTON a M-78 I uHilMJlll.tiH.HlMl 339-8709 I 1349-5200 "Irj ,1 ft i 11: I Tl I (12:30 2:45 5:00 $3.50) 7:15 9:20 Box office opens at 8 p.m. (1:30 4:30 $3.50) 7:00 9:30 i But for the most part, the managers said, kids aren't out to make trouble; they just want to have a good time.

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