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18 Santa Cruz Sentinel Sunday, Nov. 8, 1981 SANTA CRUZ' WINDS OF CHANGE FROM PAGE 1 majority tried to hold to that belief, but was pressured by old-style liberals such as Bert Muhly and early neighborhood activists such as Carole DePalma and Sally DiGirolomo. Current Mayor Joseph Ghio says he saw changes coming when he found himself branded "establishment" when he launched his first City Council campaign in 1975. "The Ghios had never been classified as the establishment of Santa Cruz, but there had been a change in the community and those who once were outsiders had become the establishment," he explains. He reasons he became establishment because he was a native Santa Cruzan.

Ghio was, for whatever connotation, the establishment to the thousands of new arrivals to the city in the '60s and 70s, people like John r'Cl I AP Laserphoto Secretary of State Alexander Haig, left, huddles with Press Secretary James Brady, center, and National Security Adviser Richard Allen at the White House in January of 7987. Socialist-Feminist Rotkin Emphasizes The Feminist Haig's Uneasy Tenure By R. GREGORY NOKES WASHINGTON (AP) The first nine months of the Reagan administration have not been easy ones for Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig by his own account. He asserted last Tuesday that a high official in the White House had been conducting a "guerrilla campaign" against him from the outset of Reagan's term in office.

Analysis His claim stunned official Washington. It was unprececented for such a high official to air publicly the "dirty laundry" of an administration he serves, although such revelations are often made privately. As if that wasn't enough controversy, Haig was involved two days later in a public disagreement with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger over whether the NATO alliance has a plan for a nuclear warning shot in the event of war with the Soviets in Europe. Haig said yes, raising eyebrows that he would even mention such a plan at a time of extreme sensitivity in Europe to discussion of anything concerning nuclear war. Weinberger said no.

The White House sought to nip the disagreement in the bud by claiming both were right, which, of course, they both couldn't possibly be. But Haig's disagreements with other administration officials are nothing new. Sometimes they are over policy, such as his opposition to the White House decision to proceed with production of the neutron weapon. He wanted a delay. He also favored putting off the AWACS sale for Saudi Arabia, but lost.

Sometimes they appear to be over turf, such as his complaint to Congress earlier this year that he should head the administration's crisis management team. The vice president got the nod. In another move that raised eyebrows, he sought to place himself in charge of the government on the day President Reagan was shot, setting off a nasty row with Weinberger and White House officials, who didn't agree. But Haig feels he has come up short in the administration so far because he thought he had assurances from the White Not only does Santa Cruz have its first-ever liberal City Council as a result of Tuesday's election, but that liberal majority is expected to elect the first socialist mayor later this month. Second-year councilmember and UCSC lecturer Michael Rotkin says he expects to be elected mayor at the council's Nov.

24 meeting. Rotkin describes himself as a "democratic socialist" or a "socialist feminist." Both descriptions, he asserts, have different meanings than the popular view that a socialist is a dyed-in-the-red-wool communist. He says he calls himself a socialist "because I believe we need to have more public control over the resources and institutions that intimately affect our daily lives." And, Rotkin says he calls himself a socialist-feminist, with an emphasis on that he knew it wasn't him. Haig didn't say anything publicly either way, dodging reporters and their questions for the balance of the week. "He has nothing further that he intends to say about it," Alan Romberg, the deputy State Department spokesman, said Friday.

For his part, Reagan acted like he didn't believe, or didn't care, that someone was out to get Haig, although he did call columnist Jack Anderson in praise of his secretary of state. It was an Anderson column that pushed the latest controversy into the limelight. Reagan also met on Thursday with Allen and Haig privately in an effort to prevent any more public eruptions of dissent. Reagan had said even before the latest controversy in putting down rumors Haig might be dropped from his administration that "Al Haig as secretary of state, I think, is one of the finest we've had in a very long time." For all his troubles at the White House, Haig has impressed the nation's key allies abroad, especially those in Europe where he once served as NATO commander. European leaders, such as Great Britain's Margaret Thatcher and West Germany's Helmut Schmidt, seem to regard him as the only high official in the administration who has a grasp of foreign policy issues and whom they can trust to keep their interests in mind.

Laird and Mardi Wormhoudt, who were elected to the City Council in Tuesday's election. Still, there was a blending of ideas between newcomers and natives, particularly among young people, who passed every liberal initiative to come down the pike. That coalition blocked another segment of the community's plan to build a convention center at Lighthouse Field, but failed last year to forbid Lockheed Missiles Space Co. from manufacturing or testing parts for nuclear weapons in Santa Cruz County- Because of such issues, some complained Santa Cruz had become more of a Berkeley than Berkeley. Some went so far as to accuse socialists in Santa Cruz of bringing in busloads of hippies from Berkeley to vote illegally in Santa Cruz County elections.

feminist, "because I think we have to begin to take up the questions traditional socialists have not concerned themselves with, such as the problem of violence against women and children as were addressed in the recent CURB initiative." Rotkin says he believes fellow coun--cilmember Bruce Van Allen "is comfortable" with the definitions of the socialist philosophy. "But," he stresses, "we do not see ourselves implementing a socialist program in Santa Cruz." Rather, he explains, "we Bruce and me realize that the constituency we represent elected us for our progressive stands on concrete issues that affect the city of Santa Cruz, not primarily for our long-range vision or philosophy. "Therefore, although we explicitly call ourselves socialist-feminists, we don't have any illusion about the constituency "What made it possible is my modest goals," said Huega. "I didn't try to compare myself with other people" or remember my past accomplishments. "I set modest, small As I reached those goals I would update them and make more goals." Huega said his life is "as fulfilling today as it was when I skied internationally.

I feel I am a success in the way I handle each day." Huega, who currently lives in Truckee but spends most of his time traveling for oral biology and anatomy at the University of California at Los Angeles. It quoted Sognnaes as saying "The Russian identification (of Miss Braun) would never stand up in court." Sognnaes believes Miss Braun may still be buried in the rubble of the Chancellery, now part of East Berlin, according to the journal. Or, "It is possible Eva Braun escaped," it quoted him as saying. "After all, there were a number of men in the bunker unaccounted for who could have helped her. No one actually witnessed her death and there are inconsistencies in the accounts of those who supposedly took Eva's body outside the bunker." Hitler's final hours have been documented by aides who were with him in the bunker, 50 feet below Berlin's Reich Chancellery building, on April 30, 1945.

With the city surrounded by the Soviets and the bunker under artillery bombardment, Hitler assembled his officers and staff and, Eva at his side, bade them farewell. The two then retired to their wood-paneled sitting room. A short time later, one shot was A SKIER'S BATTLE FROM PAGE 1 He added swimming to his regimen along with exercises from a physical therapist. He took himself back to the baby slopes at the ski resorts and started from scratch. Currently, he said, he is a good intermediate skier.

The 38-year-old Huega currently works out two hours each day with swimming, his own exercise program and bicycle riding. Such allegations and the use of the label "socialist" had little impact. It was further evident Tuesday that charges by the conservative slate that Wormhoudt and Laird are socialists had little impact in the voting booth. Related story, page 16. Neither Laird nor Wormhoudt embraced any political or ideological labels in the campaign, but the issues they raised and their past participation in city affairs show them to be clearly progressive.

Tuesday night, they will be sworn in and will join self -professed socialist-feminists Michael Rotkin and Bruce Van Allen as the city's first-ever liberal council majority. In light of the transformation of county government to that philosophy years ago and the complexion of the city, one might ask: What took you so long, Santa Cruz? we represent or the kinds of programs we can actually implement in Santa Cruz. "I would go on to point out that it was not the newly-elected eouncilmembers (Mardi Wormhoudt and John Laird) who raised the issue of a socialist majority on the City Council, but rather it was the opposition in this election. "I think labels such as conservative, moderate, progressive or socialist do less to tell people about a candidate or councilmember than the actual programs they support and work for. I would hope people will judge all the eouncilmembers on what they do, not what others call them." Rotkin expects to fight for some programs some members of the community won't like.

"They made that clear in my election and again in this one, but I think they would be mistaken to merely fear the label (socialist-feminist)." By MARK BERGSTROM the MS Society, said his physical activity could backfire in his face. Since doctors don't know everything, about the disease, the physical activity could eventually exacerbate the disease. "One lady asked me what would happen if I ended up flat on my back," said Huega folding his arms in front of him. "I figure I very well may end up flat on my back, but at least I've gained nine years. I think my attitude has a lot to do with it.

"Nobody promised me a rose garden," he said. heard. The Fuhrer's deputy, Martin Bormann, and other aides burst in to find Hitler slumped on a sofa, his Walther pistol at his side and a bullet through his head. Beside him lay Miss Braun, dead after biting into a cyanide capsule. Aides said the bodies were carried up to the Chancellery garden under shell-fire and burned.

It is there that the Soviets found the two charred bodies, along with 11 others. An autopsy was conducted on them May 18, 1945, at a military hospital in the Berlin suburb of Buch. On the basis of the autopsy, the Soviets concluded that Hitler and Miss Braun had died. The BMA review said Sognnaes team recently obtained a handwritten report by dental technician Fritz Echtmann testifying that the gold bridge with four teeth he made for Miss Braun had never been installed because there was no time. The document led researchers to dental assistant Kathe Keusermann "now in her 50s and living quietly in a West German city" who confirmed the information and filled in details of Miss Braun's dental history, the periodical said.

Brezhnev meeting leaders of other Warsaw Pact countries. However, there was no picture of the Soviet president with a Polish leader. There have been no reported meetings between Brezhnev and Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's premier and defense minister who took over as Polish Communist Party chief last month in that country's continuing power struggle between the party and the independent Solidarity union. Poland's state news agency PAP said Jaruzelski sent Soviet leaders telegrams to congratulate them on the anniversary. The message pledged stronger friendship with the Soviet Union and a vow to "counter all attempts of reactionary forces." The message, PAP said, hailed the Kremlin as "the principle guarantor of peace and security of nations." Falling Interest Rates Give Administration Ray Of Hope Eva Broun: Dead Or Alive? By OWEN ULLMANN WASHINGTON (AP) Amid the dark signs of a worsening recession, rising unemployment and burgeoning budget deficits, the Reagan administration has found a bright ray of hope falling interest rates.

And, as long as interest rates continue to recede, President Reagan and his economic advisers seem willing to accept a weakening economy and a jobless rate likely to burst above 8 percent as the necessary trade off. No Response House that he would be the "vicar" of foreign policy, aides say. "On every single issue it has been difficult for him to prevail," said one key aide, who didn't want to be identified. After his earlier battles, which raised speculation he might resign or be fired, Haig adjusted to having less authority than he wanted and appeared to become the "team player" the administration wanted him to be. But adjustment wasn't the same as liking it.

"There was an acceptance (by Haig) of the collegia! atmosphere of this administration," the aide said. "But he has not been entirely comfortable with this. He thinks there should be only one spokesman on foreign policy him." But aides also admit privately that some of Haig's problems are of his own making. They say he can be "abrasive" and is jealous of his turf, which leads him into conflicts he would be better off to avoid. It is turf and abrasiveness that some officials see at the root of Haig's problems at the White House.

Haig never named the official he said was trying to discredit him from within Reagan's inner circle. Most everyone familiar with Haig's problems believed Haig thought his tormentor was Richard V. Allen, Reagan's national security adviser. But Allen denied to a reporter that it was him and said Haig had assured Allen "Interest rates are dropping, and dropping rapidly," Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan noted Friday, trying to cushion a new report by the Labor Department that unemployment had surged to 8 percent in October, the highest level since 1975.

Although there has been only slight downward movement in mortgage rates, which have kept millions of would-be homebuyers out of the market, other long-term and short-term interest rates have shown rapid decreases in recent weeks. The short-term prime lending rate that istan." The conservative Svenska Dagbladet newspaper said: "For everyone with common sense and elementary knowledge of military and political realities in our part of the world it has long been clear that sweeping communist talk about the Baltic as the 'Sea of Peace' is nothing but propaganda." The liberal Expressen said: conception about Sweden, Scandinavia and Europe cannot remain what it used to The Soviet activities force us to ask ourselves if the Soviet Union really respects Swedish neutrality. For Swedish opinion neutrality is something that applies in any situation. Now the Soviet Union behaves like it was a question of neutrality for the time being, to be respected as long as it fits them A poll by the Institute of Market Research published in the liberal Dagens Nyheter on Saturday showed 37 percent of the respondents saying Sweden needs a stronger defense 49 percent saying present military capabilities are adequate, 7 percent supporting a reduction and 7 percent undecided. Previous polls have shown an average of 25 percent of the respondents believing Sweden needs to upgrade its defenses and that between 75 percent and 80 percent support the general idea of a strong defense.

The new poll shows 90 percent now support the general idea of a strong defense. Nineteen percent of the respondents also said their view toward the Soviet Union became more negative because of the incident but 80 percent said their attitudes were unchanged. IMU director Hans Alfredsson said "This has to be seen in the light that many Swedes already held a negative view of the Soviet Union." Swedish Demonstrators March On Soviet Embassy banks charge their most creditworthy customers has dropped from 20.5 percent to 17 percent within two months, and Regan predicted "17 percent would be pierced in the near future." Interest rates on long-term government bonds have fallen from 15 percent to below 14 percent just in the last two weeks. These developments are a mixed blessing for Reagan's fellow Republicans in Congress, who have been under intense pressure from constituents to bring interest rates down from their painfully high levels. But the Republicans also are concerned about the effect their president's policies will have on the economy by next fall's congressional elections.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration was saying the nation was in a short and mild recession. Now it appears the recession will be deeper and longer than expected. Administration economists predict the economy will remain in a recession until next spring, with unemployment likely to climb above 8 percent. But they say a strong recovery should be under way by the summer well in advance of the elections with a cut in personal income tax rates scheduled for next year providing the needed boost. Private economists are issuing similar forecasts.

The administration defends the rising unemployment rate as a "natural short-term consequence" of its fight against inflation, but Democratic critics say the nation is witnessing a repeat of a familiar Republican formula trading jobs for more stable consumer prices. And on Saturday, Democratic Party Chairman Charles Manatt said the latest economic news was "the first of many broken promises of this administration as far as their economic policy, as far as their debates on deficits versus unemployment versus interest Most economists trace the recession to the tight-credit policy the Federal Reserve Board has employed at Reagan's urging to fight inflation. Tight credit drove up interest rates to the point where businesses and consumers could no longer afford to borrow, triggering the eighth American recession since World War II. Now that business activity is falling off, the demand for credit is declining, pulling down interest rates. The administration is counting on the Federal Reserve to maintain a tight rein on credit throughout the recession rather than pumping up the supply of money as the nation's central bank has done during previous downturns to stimulate economic expansion, but at the price of renewed inflation.

The administration expects its tax cut and a large increase in defense spending to provide enough stimulus to generate an economic revival that will create new jobs to fight unemployment withdit sparking a new round of high inflation and triggering a resurgence in interest rates, LONDON (AP) New dental evidence uncovered by a California research team strongly suggests that the woman found next to Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker was not his mistress, Eva Braun, a British medical journal reports. The findings indicate Miss Braun was buried elsewhere, or may even have escaped alive, the British Medical Association News Review said in its November issue. Miss Braun was 24 years old when she met Hitler in 1936 through her Nazi photographer employer. She spent nine years as the Fuhrer's mistress before marrying him in the last days of his life. Soviet soldiers who captured the burning German capital in the spring of 1945 came upon 13 bodies near the bunker, and Soviet authorities cited autopsy records to prove the bodies of Hitler and Miss Braun were among them.

The British medical journal said a 10-year study of World War II-era records revealed the Soviet evidence on Hitler matches the Nazi leader's known dental records on 26 separate points, including a unique "window crown" on one tooth and bridgework in Hitler's lower right jaw. However, "The odontological data virtually eliminates the previous assumption that (the woman's body found by the Soviets) was the remains of Eva Braun," the BMA review said. It presented evidence that a dental bridge made for Miss Braun and used to link the corpse with Hitler's mistress had in reality never been installed in her mouth. Several teeth found with the body showed extensive cavities while Miss Braun's dental records showed the same teeth cavity-free, it said. Moreover, it claimed two cosmetic "Hollywood crowns" made of fireproof porcelain should have been found with the body but weren't.

The medical journal also said the woman whose remains were found by the Soviets had suffered extensive shrapnel wounds and had hemorrhaged. Miss Braun is believed by many to have committed suicide by taking poison. The BMA rpview based its report on the findings of a research team led by Reider F. Sognnacs, a professor of SOVIET MILITARY STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Four hundred demonstrators, some carrying a cardboard submarine and posters mocking Kremlin proposals for a nuclear-free Nordic zone, converged on the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm Saturday. There was no response from embassy staffers who were celebrating the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

The embassy festivities were low-key, apparently because of embarrassment over the recent violation of neutral Sweden's territorial waters by a Soviet submarine believed armed with nuclear-tipped torpedoes. There was a heavy snowfall and temperatures dipped near freezing during the rally organized by the East European Solidarity Committee and several Baltic organizations, mostly made up of anti-Moscow exiles from the Soviet bloc, and the Swedish Liberal Party's youth wing. Signs such as: "Keep on Sleeping, Europe, Soviet Missiles Will Wake You Up" and "No Soviet Nuclear Subs in the Baltic" referred to the 10 day stalemate which ended Friday when the Soviet sub that ran aground off the Karlskrona naval base Oct. 27 was released. Sweden said there was evidence the submarine's torpedoes were armed with nuclear warheads and called the incident the worst violation of its sovereignty since the end of World War II.

Swedes said it raised new questions about Soviet sincerity in proposing a nuclear-free zone of the Nordic area and a public opinion survey showed more than a third of Swedes who responded believe Sweden's defenses need to be bolstered. Other signs bobbing along in the Saturday procession criticized Soviet interference in other nations' domestic matters "No Soviet Interference in Poland" and "Soviets Get Out of Afghan FROM PAGE 1 The Soviets rarely exhibit their latest military hardware in the parades, apparently preferring vintage displays that give a mighty appearance. There were no intercontinental missiles shown, nor any of the multiple-warhead SS-20 nuclear missiles that ring the Soviets' Western Europe border, trained on European targets. As in other years, the parade included the 35-foot long SA-2 "Guideline" surface-to-air missile, which has eight fins and a large movable launch pad. Also shown was the BMP armored infantry vehicle, used by Soviet troops in Afganistan.

Some veteran observers said there were more portraits of Brezhnev than at similar events in the past. Several marchers carried pictures, of.

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