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Good evening and welcome to GBH journal I mean E. sands. Well it looks like Ed King has decided to keep his hands off Massport for the time being. Greg Fitzgerald fills us in on that. Then it's some thoughts from a visiting Israeli feminist on the oppression of women in Israel a visit to the sounds and even the sights and smells of the Boston Food Co-op. And finally Louis minds brings reassurances that spring is really on the way. We'll have all of that right after the local news. It will be a state supported agency that will collect data for insurance rating this year instead of an industry supported one. Steven Clifford former insurance commissioner of the Commonwealth. Before resigning under pressure began a move that would have the insurance industry collect data for rate setting. But the person who replaces Clifford Michael Sabbagh reversed that decision today. The Massachusetts automobile rating an accident prevention Bureau which is an industry controlled agency was to gather reading information from Massachusetts drivers. But after a general outcry from consumer groups Sabbagh who was selected as interim commissioner from within the insurance department assigned a duty to the quasar government

state motor vehicle reinsurance facility the insurance industry fund that agency but the state controls it. State Senator Allen McKinnon co chair person of the insurance committee reacting to today's decision said that while no great changes are expected to result from the switch the public perception of industry bias will be eliminated. Six members of the Vanguard affinity an anti-nuclear group related to the Clamshell Alliance were found guilty today of disorderly conduct in Amesbury Massachusetts district court. The charges stem from Friday's actions against the transport of a giant nuclear reactor core from Amesbury to the plant. The members of the Vanguard affinity rushed out of the woods on Friday chained to each other and attempted to block passage of the two tractors pulling the core. Police eventually dragged the group out of the road and into police vans. Three other Clamshell Alliance members were also arraigned today in Amesbury for similar actions and more than one hundred fifty other alliance members face arraignment in New Hampshire for their actions at the gates of the power

plant. April 16th will be the day when 18 and 19 year old will join the ranks of their younger friends and being barred from purchasing alcoholic beverages. Governor King announced today that he would declare that the law passed last week by legislature is an emergency law giving him powers to speed up the effective date. Under the bill passed by the legislature the effective date was to have been June 1st. In the meantime opponents of the age change have launched a petition drive for a repeal or that would be on the nine hundred eighty state ballot. Finally Chinese born Boston symphony conductor Stadio Zavala arrived in Shanghai today for the start of an eight day four concert tour of the People's Republic. On arriving Azhar announced the trip his dream come true. The conductor invited the Chinese to send students to the symphony summer home in Tanglewood and he said he hoped this trip would lead to a regular exchange of American and Chinese musicians. When the orchestra returns from its visit on March 20th it will bring back two or three Chinese soloist for performances in the United States. And that's the

local news. The administration of Governor Edwards today apparently seeing the political handwriting on the wall gave up on a legislative move which would place the political power of the Massachusetts Port Authority back in the hands of Edward King. King who was ousted as executive director of Massport in 1074 has been critical of mass sports operation under present director David Davis and several of King supporters offered bills which would oust most Massport members and replace them with King appointees. But a number of factors have apparently swayed the Qing camp away from supporting the legislation as we hear in this report from Greg Fitzgerald. They say that the makeup of the present Massport board is an anti Edward King board would be an

understatement. The board consisting largely of holdovers from Sargent and the caucus administrations will not begin to see significant numbers of King appointees until 1983. The last person appointed to the board was John vatech Liana a former East Boston City Hall manager who grew up and went through a thousand feet from the end of runway 22 a factor which would make anyone a strong neighborhood anti expansion proponent. The king philosophy for Logan Airport fits in very well with the rest of his economic development philosophy that philosophy is one of bullish industrial and commercial growth on hindered by state environmental and community restrictions. The governor is for runway expansion and against night time curfews at Logan and one of the lowest level priorities of the governor is the equitable relationship between Massport and logans residential neighbors. In the past several weeks the administration has been hinting around at different approaches to getting control of Massport. A number of King's supporters have drafted legislation to do sell.

Democratic Representative Charles be phony of Westar has authored several bills which would replace most or all of the present Massport board with King appointees with Tony has been guaranteed a $36000 a year job within the king administration but denies that factor has anything to do with his legislation. And the State House hearing this morning on that legislation before any chairperson of the Committee on state administration did not testify for any of his bills but the testimony against a Massport reorganization was overwhelming. The strange alchemy of East Boston a Boston politician joined with Massport management to fight the threat to Massport. My name is Representative Alford said J.C. joined year of the 20th Suffolk district which comprises the communities of Winthrop in Riviere. And I guess that I speak today as a surrogate of the two hundred fifty thousand people or so who live in the impacted areas of Logan Airport. Those people for whom noise pollution is not only a reality but a way of life. And I have

appeared before this committee and other committees of the legislature over the last five years. I've taken a very parochial view towards many of the things that are happening at Massport. Yes I've criticized them. Yes I've been before you complaining about corkscrew turns over my neighborhood about soundproofing of schools in my neighborhood about providing some basic relief. For the quality of life for the people who live in my district. But the one thing that I've learned in the last four years is that the people who are running Massport Authority is doing so at a profit to the state and they're doing it with an open door to the community. Barney Frank from the Suffolk district this is a very complicated set of times we have been. And it's essential that people in office be able to balance conflicting pressures. What we've learned now is that it's that constituencies have gotten articulate and organized. And we made a mistake years ago I think in burdening one group of people with a facility that had statewide or region wide benefits. The critical thing about the

current Massport administration is that they haven't police exactly anybody. Yes they're going to be people from the communities here supporting keeping them in business. Mark many of these people have been critical on specific decisions of that board. And what we've got is a board an administration that recognizes that there are environmental and social concerns that have to be balanced with the economic concerns. And as we well know not simply out of the goodness of their hearts although there is in most of them a certain amount of that. What they are understanding is. That today with constituencies having gotten articulate with the laws on the books that are there with the litigation ability that people have. If you don't respond to the legitimate concerns of people who are bearing those burdens we will be able to develop. It's not simply good environmentalism to be concerned about noise. It's good transportation policy. My name is David W. Davis and I am the executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority. One must ask why reorganization is being considered at all in the

face of mass sports extraordinary successes over the past four years. Why with the air and sea port traffic at record levels is mass ports management. Being challenged. Right now with revenues at an all time high. Is there this rush to reorganize. Why would more private sector and job producing programs in place than ever before in history is reorganization being given serious consideration. But most of all well when antagonism between Massport and its neighbors has been brought under control is there any desire. To turn the clock back in time. Where is the incentive for Massport to reorganize. Coming from Massport executive director Dave Davis did not have to answer the question of where those initiatives were coming from. Following his testimony a letter was read from Governor King's transportation secretary which in effect tore apart the administration of

Davis what it called a bloated bureaucracy and neglect of FAA safety initiatives and an inflated rate structure. The letter from Secretary Locke asked the legislature not to support the reorganization of Massport But the letter is seen as a middle ground move to protest the present Massport administration's slow growth attitude without taking the politically inopportune step of taking control of Massport for GBH Journal. I'm Greg Fitzgerald. It was a small but interestingly varied group that gathered yesterday for the third of a

series of forums on Jewish women forums that have been held for the last several months and read clips Hillis library Jewish and non-Jewish female and some male feminist and non feminist about 50 people were there to hear several Jewish feminist speak on Israeli women. Are they equal to men in Israeli society prevailing opinion has it that they are but not so said Israeli feminist. There is a wildly held belief that in Israel women are more equal than a lot of places in the world. Unfortunately this is not true. Not only women are not more equal I think actually the situation of family in Israel is considerably worse than the situation of women in other western states. The first thing is the army which is supposed to be a big stronghold of equality. It's really women in terms of how much women participate in actual button roles. This may be a very ironic stat. But since they and their

1948 the Independence War only two women soldiers were killed in hostilities which may indicate how close women actually get to being in the front. As for the role of women in the Army one of the official definitions of the role of women in the army is to raise the. Soldiers. And here comes my personal story this is something that I didn't learn until it actually happened. I was a surgeon and a sergeant in the Army and was a secretary for a colonel who was a commander of a field unit. And the way I was selected for my job is very I think indicative of what women do in the Israeli army. They were bused 35 women who were assigned to that specific army. I was in. And my commander at the time the secretary she was a very good secretary much better than me I was very incompetent as a secretary but she wasn't very pretty. So my

commander just went to our officer and went through the FASA pulled the women and picked me up by the picture. So that's how I ended up being where I was. Another thing is politics. Israel is very famous because it has a woman prime minister. Israel had one prime minister who was a woman that is cool to me. I had one secretary of the party it was a women that was going to me in two books that were published that were some review off leaders in Israeli politics. Each one of them there was only one woman mentioned one was published in 1940 and one was published in 1970. The one woman was going to meet you. So it seems to me. I hope that people are convinced that women are not equal. The question is why. The last point which I believe is special. The oppression

of women in answer has something to do was Zionism as the expression of the Michie Jewish people around the world. I grew up in the NEWSROOM and it's really very clear the amount of contempt and disrespect that I was brought up to feel towards the Jew of Europe. These we can trade if weak spineless contemptuous sort of slimy type creatures and there is an incredible amount of contempt you may find that unbelievable is incredible amount of contempt contempt for the victims of the home office. The fact that they let the Nazis do that to them is an indication that something was wrong with them particularly with their manhood. When I gave his first speech in the United States after he got elected.

He said that. The main importance after the main trauma after this for the Jewish people was that Jewish men had to stand helpless and watch not doing things for their family their children and wife and women and they were helped with and they couldn't protect them. That's the main essence of trauma. And he further went on to say and I don't have the exact quotation that it is Zionism which makes it possible for the Jewish people to feel proud again to be able to protect their children and women. So Zionism is very much based on trying to establish that Jews can be men and women and to be forced into the natural. Roll

off of Israeli feminists. Speaking yesterday at the third in a series of forms on Jewish women which are being organized by a group called the Boston committee to challenge anti-Semitism the next in that series will be on Sunday April 15th. The subject Jewish women. A view of ourselves. The food co-ops I wanted those inspirations of the 60s that have managed to root themselves in the prevailing dog eat dog United States economy and actually survive and grow into the present day 70s. Boston is a center of this cooperative movement. There are three storefront co-ops in the area not to mention myriad preorder groups. David Frederick took a tape recorder along on a visit to the

Boston Food Co-op in Austin. Here's what he found. I don't work on impulse buying. We don't work on. Coming up with specials to grab. I appeal of things that people don't really need or don't actually even want. We carry as many. As many alternatives to traditional diets as you probably can find in any and anyone store generally of a much lesser cost. Ed Cobb staff member at the Boston Food Co-op is a master of ambidexterity. When things get hectic you might find him punching up grocery prices verifying the merchandise from a recent delivery explaining to a bewildered volunteer how to find the zucchini squash and incredibly he does it all at once. Such is the pace for the co-ops skeleton staff housed at a former tire warehouse in Allston. The nonprofit store now serves

over 1000 members who donate two hours each per month in exchange for about the cheapest grocery prices in town. The co-op offers also an atmosphere. Call it less antiseptic than supermarkets which many shoppers find appealing. I'm getting fried Ben Matt and Brad climb. You live nearby they have a store here yeah I do. And how long you been shopping at the co-op shopping here. Ever since about three years ago when they had their own place. How do you find the prices here are very good. Much cheaper and then we have a chance to select quality merchandise. And if you like. Cooperative spirit they have so few staff people working here because it is a whopper of a venture. Do you put in your two hours a month. Well I know the 65 I put in more than that as I feel like it that I'm not required to because after the age of 65 they think that everything happened in that event. But I think it's a nice feeling you feel your own responsibility and we have to

learn how to live in a cooperative society. Whenever possible we try to carry what is good for people. Very often we can't follow a specific way. People do want other things and that's certainly the duty of a co-op is to provide what people want. But it's also our duty at the same time to try to educate people. So. The items that they are purchasing that. We're now entering the freezer. Of the Boston Food Co-op. So they want to be sure if you look at the apples and make sure that all the kind of apples we have here we have here. Even. With. Room. Since you're sitting here OK. So we've got to bring out. Some of. The most of what we do. Is. To show people how to do the different kinds of work they need to get done. And. Sometimes I'll be a new it will be a new member and some of us will be an old member who just hasn't done that particular kind of work.

Yes they're awful people. Why did you decide to sign up for the boss. Full quote in the first place. Well I want to save money. Yeah I really don't like. Supporting. You know big food business. Gardening. Being involved. Somehow with what goes on in my stomach. But this is a good place to do to. Really do. For me. OK. OK. 64 cents for a 30. Dollar a for grapefruit juice right. I got three years of course. 52 people 44 team. And I got two bagels for 20 cents and I drank a key for munchies to 44. And they just kind of an honor system here about eating munchies while you shop and reporting them when you get to the cash register every ship is a membership organization. So the losses at the end of the year if a cop takes a loss everybody's a member takes the

loss. So you're only hurting yourself if you don't most people. There's a lot more creative ways to steal that people forget that people are forgetful feed an apple or something. They tend to pay over it if they forget they'll come back next week and say oh you know I ate about this much so here take this much more than that to make up for it so it works out. I like the atmosphere in the store I like the type of food that we carry. For you. Yeah. A real sense of community. I really enjoy eating I'm addicted to food. Eat meat at least once or twice a day and if you want to eat everyone you know your food then you should go and go food for your wife. Good food it tastes good it's fresher the produce is a day out of the market instead of sitting somewhere else. Availability you get stuff you can't get in other places as well as it's fun visiting a very healthy family. The 1000 member Boston Food Co-op in Allston.

Next block strikes midnight and. Sales. Were good combination on my secret hideaway. Man I pull out some Fritos corn chips Dr Pepper a.. Having. Various expectations with you John that sound portrait was produced by David Freiberg. Well it's just about time for those co-ops to start planting their gardens. It's also almost time for eastern collegiate hockey playoffs and for Massachusetts town meetings. What does it all add up to really says Louis Lyons. Spring is coming off spring is rains had lasted long enough to thaw the ground and start rumors of crocus isn't snowdrops before they ended another cold snap last night. But just such weather as last night's freezing alternating with today's bright sunshine is what it takes to keep sap running and save the season in Vermont maple bush. The realists of Vermont have set May 5 as a date of the Mark

Green up day so the beautification plans well circumvent any untoward backlash to winter. New Hampshire's win over Dartmouth and hockey Saturday shift the hockey center of the east from a Boston Cambridge axis to northern New England. The two New Hampshire teams had eliminated Boston University and Cornell in the finals of the Eastern collegiate tournaments have been for the first time in years and failed to reach the finals. It was a first hockey championship for the University of New Hampshire and for that matter the first time it had reached the finals since the tournaments began in 1962. The one more romantic element would have been a championship final between New Hampshire and Vermont which also would become a persistent challenger in recent years. It isn't wholly realistic to picture the rising prowess of the northern teams as a triumph for the country where boys go up skating on natural

pawns over the artificial ice of million dollar indoor rakes. But there's a satisfaction in seeing the country college come into its own in such a country sport as hockey. Town Meetings get down to voting on the want this week across knowing them this will string out for several weeks. But the early voting will give a forecast a popular response to the pervasive issue of Texas. It arises on every article in the warrant for funding town departments for meeting cost of living increases for town employees for starting new programs deciding on expenditures for him for everything from a new fire engine to a new school town meetings a notably conservative in voting expenditures generally the smaller the town the more parsimonious. But the rural reaction has been leavened enough in suburban and exurban towns to be fairly representative. The Equal Rights Amendment has had a bad legislative season. Had Congress not

voted to extend its time limit it would have died this month. No state is approved at this season. It still lacks three of the 38 required. It was defeated this winter in Nevada Arizona Virginia North Carolina. Failure in Illinois came on an attempt to reduce the needed vote to a simple majority from the two thirds required there. It's been a season of moves to rescind earlier ratification so the COTA voted last week to rescind Montana on Saturday defeated such a move in Kentucky it took a governor's veto to block a move to rescind before this went to Idaho Nebraska and Tennessee had voted to rescind both motions to do so before the legislature is now. Delaware Kansas New Hampshire Ohio Texas Wisconsin. The legality of these rescinding votes has not been tested and is denied by the Justice Department. But they indicate the negative climate has faced

since the Congress was persuaded to extend its deadline to June 30 1982 that's time enough for a total revolution of national sentiment. This is a season of reaction across the board from taxes to solve and one might hope not typical but it's bogged down the amendment which faces a struggle. Has President Carter set out on his personal pilgrimage for peace to the Middle East. He sent a carrier with an escort of destroyers to stand off the coast of Yemen just across the Red Sea. This was a warning to keep that border warfare local protecting Saudi Arabia's vital underbelly headline calls it. The president also ordered 390 millions of alms to Yemen to counter reported Soviet support of South Yemen. For the average Americans question what is Yemen and where is it. Newspapers print maps that give a shorthand answer. Both Yemen's border the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf both Saudi

Arabia and the neighbors of the chaos of Iran. Their show is Franke percent as oil across the Arabian Gulf and Somaliland and Ethiopia whose local war last year became of international consequence because the confidence shared this sensitive location. Any of these would be a strategic place for US based around monitoring center. The United States has lost hers in the Iran revolution and the prospect of keeping the nearest one in Turkey is reportedly uncertain what American had ever heard of Sarajevo in 1914 but World War was set off there. A letter to the editor yesterday asks Where is the understanding of the unprecedented antagonism and confusion that presently right around the world. One might think this would be an argument to the Israelis and Egyptians to Center for Peace. That's one of Jimmy Carter's funny ideas and he thinks it will be a likely time for control or game of it with us

obvious commentator Louis Lyons. That's GBH journal for this Monday evening like to let you know that the journals International Women's Day special on housewives and working women will be rebroadcast tomorrow night at 10 o'clock. The program includes interviews with six women about their kids their jobs and how they hold it all together. So again the journal International Women's Day special on housewives and working women will be rebroadcast tomorrow night. That's Tuesday at 10:00 pm. Producer for tonight show is more sure hurts the engineer Michael Garrison. My name is Amy sands. Have a good evening.