O’Connor Friends: Justice Burger and Mary Crisp

Remember Mary Crisp? She is the outspoken Arizona woman who rocked Ronald Reagan’s boat at the Republican National Convention last year. She clashed with Reagan over the Equal Rights Amendment, and her insubordination cost her the cochairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Now anot~er Arizm)a woman is in the limelight. She is Sandra D. O’Connor, who has been nominated by President Reagan to the Supreme Colll’t. Mary Crisp and Sandra O’Connor have been friends for years. ‘f hey both worked for the Republican cause in the Phoenix area and their children attended the same schools. The two women have had long talks about political issues. And Mary Crisp thinks Reagan may be in for a surprise. She describes O’Connor as a moderate with a fiercely independent streak. Crisp also called her friend “a real civil libertarian.” As a judge, she demonstrated a devotion to detail. Sandra O’Connor has another surprising friend: Chief ,Justice Warren R Bur!!er. ‘I’he two became acquainted at judicial outing8. They got to know each other on a trip to England and a cruise on Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border. Burger has told associates that O’Connor has a fine judicial mind. But the chief justice is fretting over one problem: O’Connor will be the first woman in history to sit on the Supreme Court, and there’s no ladies’ room in the justices’ chambers. Walloping Watt ‘- Interior Secretary James G. Watt has aroused the wrath of many important environmental grot1ps. According to repqrts,