European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 18, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3now credits membership Rise to Bush Washington up the nations biggest feminist group said wednesday it can thank president Bush for an unprecedented surge in membership by thousands of women riled by his steadfast support of Clarence Thomas. The National organization for women said it has been deluged with Calls from women since the Senate judiciary committees weekend hearings into Anita Hills allegations of sexual harassment against Thomas. Now officials said women Are peeved at Bush who voiced unconditional support of Thomas on the opening Day of the hearings and who charged that his 43-year-old supreme court nominee was the victim of a  Rosemary Dempsey a now vice president said women Are also angered by the treatment Hill received from Senate republicans who attacked the Law school professors veracity and who went so far As to suggest she had illusions. Sens. Orin Hatch a Utah and Arlen Specter r-pa., served As Lead interrogators of. Hill during the hearing which became a National teach in on sexual harassment. A a we be never received so Many Calls a thousands and thousands of them a said Dempsey. A once the dust settles we May be Able to thank Bush Hatch and Specter for doubling our  Dempsey said now which counted 250,000 members before the hearings had no immediate figure on new members. But she said the Post Thomas growth May Well swell its numbers to 500,000. Monika Bernstein 47, a single Mother and the manager of an Energy company in Washington walked into now a National Headquarters wednesday and signed up. A i voted for Bush last time. But i wont next time a she said. A i think this will galvanize the women a movement a said Bernstein. A we lost the Battle to Block the Thomas confirmation but we Arentt going to lose the War for women a rights a the american civil liberties Union experienced a similar surge in membership in 1989 after Bush criticized democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis for being a a card carrying member of that organization. At the White House press Secretary Marlin Fitz water brushed off suggestions that the Thomas confirmation Battle coupled with Bush a opposition to abortion and a parental leave Bill May erode the presidents female support. A Gallup poll earlier this month found Bush enjoyed an Overall approval rating of 65 percent among men and 64 percent among women. A we think our policies arc fair and helpful to All a Fitzwater said. A we feel confident that we have Broad support and will continue to have Broad support from women men and everyone  various polls show that americans by a 2-to-l ratio believed Thomas a not Hill even though she passed a lie Detector test. Despite now a reported surge in membership polls also found that women supported Thomas by the same margin. A poll by Abc news sunday found that 64 percent of the men approved Bush a handling of the Thomas confirmation hearings. Among women the figure was 57 percent. Dempsey dismissed these figures and said a people in polls Are not necessarily the ones who vote in elections. Our movement is growing. And we  killer was Likely an enraged loner Boston apr the Man who killed 22 people in a Texas eatery May be an increasingly familiar Type in America experts say a loner Seething with pent up anger and ready to Fly into a Homicidal rage. Jack Levin a sociology professor at Bostons northeastern University and coauthor of mass murder americans growing menace said wednesday that such killers usually have led lives of desperation. A the kind of frustration required to take 22 lives does no to accumulate overnight a Levin said. A you done to get a a do on your report card and then kill 22  shortly after noon wednesday George Hennard 35, of Belton Texas drove his pickup truck through the window of a crowded cafeteria in nearby Killeen and began methodically shooting people with a High powered pistol. He snot himself to death after killing 22 people and wounding nearly two dozen others. It was the deadliest mass shooting in . History surpassing the july 18,1984, slayings in san Ysidro calif., when the kind of frustration required to take 22 lives does t accumulate overnight professor Jack Levin James Oliver Huberty opened fire at a Mcdonald a restaurant killing 21 before he was fatally shot by police. Levin and his co author James Fox also of northeastern said the killers in almost every such Case were sent into a Homicidal rage by a triggering event. A a it a usually a loss. Whether the loss of a Job or a relationship from the killers Point of View its catastrophic its the last Straw a Levin said. Huberty was an out of work Security guard. Pat Sherrill was a postal worker about to lose his Job when he shot 14 people to death in an Edmond okla., Post office in 1986. Neighbors said Hennard was an unfriendly loner who had frightened people by running in front of their cars Ana making strange phone Calls. Quot one rambling letter he wrote to two Young women referred to a mostly White treacherous female vipers he said had tried to destroy him and his family. A these Guys have no place to turn when they get into trouble a Levin said. A they done to have friends and family Church and fraternal groups to support them to get them through the bad  Fox and Levin said Many of the killers target people they know and kill others who get in the Way. But some As Hennard appeared to do just kill at random. The Best known of those was Charles Whitman a student who shot and killed 16 people from a Campus Tower at the University of Texas in 1966. Typically a person who kills a group of strangers a might think there a a wide ranging conspiracy against him a Fox said. Levin said that a the More random the massacre the More Likely it is the killer is insane delusional and  fitting that Type would be Marc Lepine who killed 14 students at the University of Montreal in 1989, seeking revenge against feminists. Levin said Hennard May have been just such a person. Witnesses said he yelled a this is what Bell county has done to me a before he started shooting. A Bell county is an abstraction a Levin said. A when you hear about a random Public massacre you think the person is paranoid and is conspiratorial in his thinking. He thinks Large numbers of people Are out to get him and he seeks  Winner will be shoe in Manila Philippines up a a popular radio station has been swamped with Calls and letters since it began a contest offering shoes As a prize to 50 listeners who could correctly guess when Imelda Marcos comes Home. The widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos has announced she was ending five years of . Exile on nov. 4. But said Joe Taruc station manager of radio station Ezrh in Manila on thursday a a it a still anyone a guess when she a  a collection of some 3,000 pairs of shoes was found when the Marc oses were ousted in a civilian backed military rebellion in 1986 and fled into exile in the United states. Ezrh launched the contest saturday asking listeners to mail their entries. All envelopes would be opened after mrs. Marcos return. Entries with the Correct answers would take part in a raffle. Fifty pairs of shoes Are at stake for 50 winners. A a we be been swamped with Calls from As far As England and Alaska asking about the contest a said Taruc. More than 100 listeners personally delivered their entries in the first three Days. Tennessee Ernie Ford Dies at 72 Reston a. Apr Tennessee Ernie Ford whose Bass voice boomed out on the million Selling record sixteen tons and on his to variety show spanning two decades died wednesday after a Long illness. He was 72. Ford died at 6 15 . At Cha Reston Hospital where he had been admitted on sept. 28. A mrs. Ford was at his Side As she has been throughout his illness a said Hospital spokeswoman Claudia Smith. Smith said Ford had suffered from a lengthy liver disease. She would not disclose the nature of the ailment. Ford became ill at Washington a Dulles International Airport As he was about to Fly Home to san Francisco following his attendance at a White House dinner. Ford known affectionately As a the old pea pick Era and a a old Ern a was Host of to shows in the 1950s and 1960s. He was k Host of a nighttime variety show on Abc from 1956 Ford to 1961, then had another program from 1962 to 1965, this one on Abc in the daytime. Ford recorded More than 80 albums during a singing career of More than 40 years. He was especially known for his gospel music. The mustachioed performer with a mischievous Grin and Homespun humor said in a 1990 associated press interview that he believes he came across the to screen As a Loving member of the family. A they Felt like when the time came for my show they did no to have to change clothes or put Sterling on the table a Ford said. He said it was exciting breaking into to in the mid 1950s when most of the country was getting acquainted with the relatively new household fixture. At last count he said his big hit sixteen tons had sold 20 million copies worldwide after becoming a sensation in 1955. It was a tribute to Blue Collar workers especially Coal miners with lines like a i owe my soul to the company store and a another Day older and deeper in  a every artist dreams of a song like this a Ford said. A a it san everlasting hit. A a. Its still a must on my act even though it was done in 1955. It seems that Young marrieds and even High school kids know it. It caught on to every working Man in the world i  he did a concert tour of the soviet Union in 1974 and recalled that soviets were aware of the song. A they did no to know me but they knew the song and recognized my voice when i did it on stage a Ford said. Ford was born Ernest Jennings Ford in Bristol Tenn. After playing trombone in his High school band he began his career As a radio announcer for $10 a week in Bristol in 1937