European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 Colin iritis the stars and stripes saturday March 22, 1986 Ellen Goodman someday me a s 6,000 shoes i be extinct Foo when they turn the Marcos pal Ace into a museum i want to be appointed the curator of Imelda s 6,000 shoes. Let someone else have the Gucci pocketbook collection and All the Beautiful dresses and the 500 Black brassieres. All i want is the 3,000 pairs of shoes. I hereby Promise to keep them catalogued and color coded. I Promise to keep them polished and neatly lined up left right left right left right left right left right left right. Of i know what you re thinking. I m just another bleeding heart who does t understand How Imelda could buy 3,000 pairs of shoes while the people went Bare foot. According to my calculator it would have taken More than eight years just to soil the soles one Day at a time. As rep. Stephen Solarz said compared to Imelda Marie Antoinette was a bag  so you assume i d use my Post to paint her As a Sicko a compulsive shopper a woman who had her Gold cards made out of real Bullion whose political philosophy fit on a bumper sticker when the going gets Tough the Tough go  Well As curator i would be compelled to write a Short text on narcissism to be offered visitors. I would quote the former Beauty Queen explaining her sense of duty i have to look Beautiful so that the poor filipinos will have a Star to look at from their  i would As matter of historic record repeat her attack on Cory Aquino she does t do her  but deep in my heart As i lined up the shoes each morning left right left right left right 1 would think of myself As manager of the ultimate display Case of the last great torture instrument of 20th Century fashion the shoe. After All if the shoe fit Imelda might have worn it More than once. The Iron Butterfly of the Philippines is the most outrageous the most notorious slave to fashion in modern history. But i am convinced that for most women the shoe is the Ball and Chain they willingly attach to the end of their leg. There is for example the laughable David Broder to soul intr b6ueve the things Tapp the v\ua6e nce i in one x inc Lek s a sets 1hev found matter of size. I Don t know How big Madam Marcos feet Are but it does t really matter. Sizing in shoes bears about As much resemblance to sizing in feet As did Imelda s Campaign predictions to the re sults filipinos who love Beauty will vote for Ferdinand  in the years since Imelda was dubbed the Rose of Taloban the world s shoe business has adopted the ugly Stepsister approach to fit. The customer has to fit the shoe. If you have narrow feet Wear socks. If you have mismatched feet find yourself a great looking pair of boxes. If you have Large feet let me recommend surgery. Somewhere in the shoe world i am sure there is a manufacturer planning to introduce one size fits All. Imelda May be the Only woman to own 3,000 pairs of shoes. But i know a lot of women who have to try on 3,000 pairs to find one they can Wear. More to the Point there in t a shoe in the Marcos collection that is actually made for walking. That in t All that unusual. Women have stopped wearing corsets and girdles Long sleeves in summer and miniskirts in Winter. In China they have stopped binding feet and in America yup pies now dash from one appointment to another in running shoes. But for the most part women still spend their social lives hobbled. No one has yet designed a shoe that looks like a Spike and feels like a sneaker. So we Are going along putting round toes in pointed shoes Flat feet on heels. What we want most to do with shoes is take them off. In my new role As Barefoot curator of the most extensive collection of shoes in the world i will keep everything just the Way she left it Ungaro Gucci Jourdan Beltrami Pancaldi Steiger left right Etc. But if you see me humming happily As 1 dust the Monument to the Queen of shop Ping first the blues and then the reds and then the Blacks it s because i m planning for the Day when shoes like these Are museum pieces just As extinct As Imelda. C Washington Post writers group democrats super or Mary strafe by won f work 17 ni7mnr d a Tir dad tvs �. I of t. The democratic party s deep commitment to fairness requires that in designing its nominating process every faction have its turn to foul up once. The reformers rules in 1972 gave the democrats George Mcgovern the regulars rewrite in 1976 produced Jimmy Carter of whom they had not previously heard the congressional Wing asserted its prerogatives in 1984 and came up with Walter Mondale. And now the South is saying stand Back boys Well show you How to do it  the main topic at the recent democratic National committee meeting was the Southern super primary which is beginning to look like a 1988 reality. Since the scheme of moving most Dixie Delegate selection into the second week of March was first broached last december it has spread like Kudzu. Kentucky has voted to join Florida Georgia and Alabama in a March 8, 1988, primary. Bills setting caucuses or primaries the same week have passed one House of the Legislatures in Maryland Mississippi mis Souri Oklahoma and Tennessee and Are awaiting the governor s signature in Virginia. Texas is expected to sign up in 1987. The goal of the governors and legislators promoting the scheme is not to get the voting done before the chiggers Start to bite. Their strategy is to amass such a Bounty of Southern Delegate votes in one week that the contenders will shape their Early campaigns and messages to Dixie sensibilities. They Hope to assure that this time the democratic ticket is led by someone who can be sold in the South in november a moderate definitely and southerner ideally. The chances of it working out that Way Are not terrific. Their dream will be realized if but Only if a Southern moderate can do in 1988 what Carter did in 1976 sneak off with a plurality Victory Over a Large Field of liberals in Iowa and new Hampshire. New Hampshire is scheduled to hold its 1988 primary on March 1 the Iowa caucuses come a few Days earlier. If a Chuck Robb of Virginia or a Sam Nunn of Georgia can win new Hampshire the availability a week later of a huge Block of votes in his native Region might make him unstoppable. But the leverage will still be with new Hampshire and Iowa. Bert Lance the former Georgia democratic chair Man said the other Day that the Southern primary Means Iowa and new Hampshire will no longer Tell us who the nominee is going to  that s wrong. None of the advisers to 1988 hopefuls with whom i have talked thinks for a moment his Man can skip the Iowa caucuses or the new Hampshire primary and Start his Campaign in the South. We know from history that the Winner of new Hampshire whether a moderate or a Liberal gets a tremendous temporary boost in publicity and support across the country including the South. The bigger the bloc of votes available the next tuesday the larger the Premium for winning new Hampshire. It s a fallacy to think that Southern primaries Are inherently Tough for liberals. Between them Mondale and Jesse l. Jackson the two most Liberal democrats running in 1984, won anywhere from 54 to 66 percent of the votes in every Southern primary except Florida s. Florida was won by Gary Hart strictly off his new Hampshire momentum Lee Atwater George Bush s South Carolina born strategist thinks the democrats in the South Aren t calculating the Odds right because they be forgotten we republicans will have a contest for our nomination in 1988." Atwater notes that the Power of Blacks and Liber als in the 1988 democratic primaries in Dixie will be enhanced if conservative Whites Are drawn off in Large numbers into the gop primary. That is the likelihood. In eight Southern states Ala Bama Arkansas Georgia Mississippi South Carolina Tennessee Texas and Virginia there is no party registration. Moderate and conservative Whites who have voted overwhelmingly twice for Ronald Reagan May Well be tempted to seek his successor in the Republican Pri Mary contest. If they desert the democratic primary in droves they automatically dim the chances of a comeback by a moderate Dixie Democrat who has been Defeated in new Hampshire. Donald Fowler the South carolinian who headed the latest democratic party rules revision is sceptical of the Rush to a regional primary for exactly the reason Atwater suggests. Take a look at who turns out he suggests. The Best comment on the whole democratic scheme comes from a Republican North Carolina gov. Jim Martin. I m almost afraid to talk about it too much in Public he said for the fear they the democrats won t do it. I feel like b re Rabbit and the Briar Patch. I think it s wonderful and Noble that these democrats want to improve their party by increasing the Southern influence in their process. But i think it s even More wonderful that they want to bring All their candidates Down into our states. By the time they have paraded Mario Cuomo and Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson and the rest of their roster through the South. I think the election will be about Over. C Wash Noton Post writers group