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that the current issue facing this
nation is the illegal seizure of
an ambulance brought in a lady who
had broken her hip in the bathroom ,
I tried to speak to a nurse who
treated the shah. but she sent word
down that she has been ordered not
occasionally is called for in times
of grave threat to the nation's ।
security and honor and the lives
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more than an hour "
"Thank you, Janet We'll get back
to you if they leave Now let’s go to
an on-the-spot live report from Tom
in New York, a politician IKitow
was faTking-notvery favorably, about
Teddy’s personal problems in the kind
of conversation that leads to stories
about the candidate's weaknesses
among his "natural" constituency,
liberal activists Then it struck,me
that she had been for Adlai Stevenson
against John Kennedy in 1960 and for
Eugene McCarthy against Robert
Kennedy in 1968 — and many like her
had preferred a Republican. Kenneth
Keating, against Bobby when he ran
for the Senate in New York in 1964
American property and the illegal
holding of American hostages by
a foreign government. It is not the
political record or the present
circumstances of the former-
shah
If the American government
agrees to return the shah to Iran,
refuses to let him leave this
country or forces him to leave, or
takes any action that could be'
construed as- giving in to the
pressures or demands of the
Iranian mob, no American citizen
will ever again be safe outside the
boundaries of the United States
Once the Americans have been .
released and returned to safety,
there will be an appropriate time
to talk about what the shah did.
who let him into the country, why
we didn't kick him out, or to
debate any other question , that
any politician might want to try to.
capitalize on in running for public
office
That' perhaps will also be the
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"Tdm. where are Henry Kissinger
and David Rockefeller at this
moment?”
- "That's the interesting thing.
Chester Kissinger is out lecturing
and David Rockefeller’s office said
he had gone to the opera with his
wife" .
"Well, that puts a whole new light
on the problem, doesn’t it, Tom?”
“Yes. it does. Chester. If anything
develops I'll let you know."
"Thank you Now we will go to
Nancy Dunsmore at the Supreme
Court "
"Chester. I am standing in a pay
phone booth two blocks from the
Supreme Court and have been trying
to call Chief Justice Burger to get
him to comment on Bob Woodward’s
book revealing intimate details on
how the justices operate. He hasn’t
returned my calls for three days,” 1
"Why don't you try once more.
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represents such a threat
The senator's statements were
evidently prompted by his
campaign being crowded out of
. the public limelight by the -
Iranian crisis and the president's
required role in it in desperation.
Mr Kennedy's ambition to be
president took precedence over
any concern for the fate of the
hostages
Later, reacting to the furor
caused by his statements even
among some of his staunchest
supporters, the senator began to
back down by saying his remarks
had been misunderstood
He now claims that he is in full
support of this country’s demands
that the hostages be released, and
that he only meant that the shah
had violated the human rights of
the Iranian people and should not
be allowed to remain in this
country
For a number of reasons, that
explanation doesn’t help anyone
balanced, embittered fanatic with
a proven record of misin
terpreting words and actions of
friends-and foes alike
Add to that the fact that, based
on America ‛s track record during
the Vietnam years, this Iranian
mob apparently believes that if
they hold the hostages ' long
. enough our spirit will weaken
They think we will begin fighting
among ourselves and become
divided with the result that we
will be defeated without a fight
The results are conditions .
under which Kennedy's state-
ment enforces that expectation of
the kidnappers and gives aid and
comfort to their cause x
Another point Kennedy ap-
said they were having trouble getting
‘ the non-Chappaquiddick story in
print "Maybe people out in the
country are just too polite to ask. or
-----maybe it's another example of the
differences in perception between
Washington and every place else.
one said "I can't get my editors to
believe that no one in the crowds is
talking about Chappaquiddick. They
don't want to run the story and they
keep telling me I must be talking to
the wrong people."
When big news breaks,
TV reporters stand by
school right here in good ol'
Denton County' -
Hamilton Jordan has yet to make an
appearance This is the fifth day that . to talk to anybody about his stay
Jordan has not come out to talk to- here
reporters A Whitt House spokesman
said Jordan is very busy working on
the crisis in Iran and the economy
Just before I went on the air a black
limousine pulled up to the driveway
behind me, and two people carrying
. briefcases stepped out and went into
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or other women. Until that morning
- television show, the questions that
have been burning up the right dinner
parties in Georgetown and on
Manhattan's East Side had never
been asked by the public press
- Kennedy talked with in his first three
weeks of national campaigning
A group of national reporters were
— talking about that over lunch the day
before the Los.Angeles show Two of
I them — .working for two of the biggest
and best newspapers in.th_ecountrY._-T—
Personally, I've heard plenty about
Kennedy’s “character " But I realize
that Ive been hearing it from the
"right people An the right places — at
parties of pretty fancy folks n New .
___ York. Washington and sometimes Los
Angele's. And, on reflection, I
remembered।hat most of those folks
have always been anti-Kennedy — at
least when a Kennedy was alive and
'running ■ .
Stinch in front of New York
Hospital "
“Chester, it’s all quiet at New
York Hospital at this hour The Shah
"Kissinger is out
lecturing and David
Rockefeller’s office
said to had gone to
the opera with his
wife.’
news shows on television is that you
have to use your imagination when
watching them. =
I don’t seem to react much when
the newspaper correspondent is
actually talking to somebody But I
jump out of my seat when the
reporter has failed to interview the
subject he has been assigned to
More and more of this is going on
now You've probably seen it
yourself but haven't paid any at-
tention to it.
Here's how it goes
"For the latest report on medical
fraud in the United States, let‛sg0 to
Michael Mindlin in Thyroid. Long
Island."
“Chester. I'm standing here in
front of the $500,000 home of Dr.
William Scalpel, who made $150
million from Medicaid this year by
advising alf his patients to go to a
different physician for a second
opinion. Dr Scalpel is now in the
house6, presumably on the second
floor, but he has refuse to come out
to talk to me He arrived home at
seven o'clock and drove his Mer-
cedes into these closed garage doors
behind me Then I knocked on the
front door over here but no one an-
swered. I went around to the back
and rang the kitchen doorbell and he
refused to respond to my rings
Neighbors have told me that Dr
Scalpel will probably stay in his
WASHINGTON (AP)----Secret
Service red tape, which frequently
delays and puzzles White . House
reporters who have to deal with it.
may be getting worse
A White House press pass — hun
dreds of which are issued to reporters
whcover the president regularly and
who have no record of assaplt against
politicians — has for years entitled the
holder to walk into the office of the
press secretary, which is perhaps a
dozen paces from the door of the
president's own Oval Office
But the same pass will not entitle
- the holder to get into the cafeteria of
the Executive Office Building across
the street In fact, reporters can’t get
into the EOB at all without an ap-
flointment.
The other day the president's chief
economist, Charles Schultze, and the
head of the Environmental Protection
1 Agency. Douglas Cootie, scheduled a
* news conference. But they were left to
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cool their heels for 20 minutes while
the Secret Service took its time about
admitting a group of reporters who
had been invited to cover the event
The anfererce was delayed so long
that Schultze and Costel read short
statements and left before answering .
questions as planned
The Subject of the news conference
Jimmy Carter's progress in cutting
governmental red tape
The administration public relations
man in charge of the event said the
delay was because new Secret Service /
regulations had been' put into effect
without senotice. Secret Service
spokesman Jack Warner said,
however, that he knew of no new
regulations and didn't know the
reason fof’the delay
As for the rule preventing holders of
White House press passes from
routine access to the EOB. Warner
said. "That was a decision by White
House press secretary Jody Powell ”,
The continuing plaint that
newspapers 'never print good
news is proof, if there eVer was
any, that all things are relative
if we are to better our lot on
Earth, to make life even a little
better for the children we will
leave behind, we must identify
the problems and seek solutions
And wegyill not find the solutions
until wknow what the problems
are.
Could the Denton churches that
raised money for food for the
starving Cambodians have done
that good deed if the media had
not calld their attention to the
problem’ Of course not
There are those who will say
bad news breeds worse news —
that the madmen of the world get
new ideas from the atrocities
published in the papers
But the unfortunate truth is that
there will be madmen, whether
newspapers write about them or
Kennedy liberalism has never been
that popular with the right people 1
remember Bobby complaining, in the
spring of 1968. that all the “A"
students were going with Eugene
McCarthy and he was stuck with “B"
studentsthought of that, too, when a
good stapen) I know at the University
of Chigo said it was “very un-chic"
' in his world to say that you were for
■ Teddy.
The real Kennedy constituency has’
always been the white working class,
often Catholic, and black people. The
"best" and the brightest usually came
around when the votes were counted
and titles were to be had. When
Hubert Humphrey voted for the
beaten Stevenson, instead of John
Kennedy, at the 1960 Democratic
National Convention. he said: "This is
anything but a protest vote — it is •
concern for my country.”
The dynamic ambition and amoral
pragmatism of the Kennedys have
always been slightly offensive to
“better” "people. Like his brothers,
Teddy appeals to the masses; he is, in
fact, a bit of a demagogue. Maybe
they, the great unwashed, are just not
as concerned about good manners or
good grammar as their betters. When
Kennedy met. privately, with the
editorial board of the Los Angeles
Times, he was, I am told, asked about
Chappaquiddick and character, once
— the questioner was the chairman of
ther board, Otis Chandler.
- The Chandlers. Roger Mudd, the
editors of The New York Times,
white-wine liberals and the rest of the
better people may be talking to
themselves these days.
ora 5-year-old watchingrviolenceon
television . it- may appear har-
mless But how isit registering in his
mind’ Without a parent's foresight
— without your foresight — your
child may be a 12-year-old, standing
in the hall of some school, holding a
gun. Without your involvement to
remove violence - from the
“television-fixed eyes" of the
children of less concerned parents,
your child may be the 11-year-old
should think about what the toy.
teaches before we buy that toy for
Christmas
if a child-learns from television
that people who wave guns around
appear to be important, he may take
a gun to school with hopes the other
kids will think he is important
if a parent wants a child to be
"familiar” with a gun, the parent
should take the time to see that the
child is familiar: explain how the
gun worksshoot a tin can to.show
him how destructive a gun can be.
explain when, where and for what
reasons a gun should be used
'hunting, "targets." etc. and that
a gun should not be used unless the
Maybe But watching Teddy
campaign — often clumsily and often
woodenly — you get the feeling that
the old magic till works He may not
look so flawed and inarticulate when
votes mean more than words in New
Hampshire. Massachusetts. Florida
and Illinois.
___ Universal Prss synaicar
and I am now dialing the number
It's ringing. 'Hello, this is Nancy
Dunsmore from station WDFC. May
I speak to the chief justice? He's in a
meeting? Thank you very- much.
Chester, he’s in a meeting.”
"Don’t run out of dimes, Nancy.
And now let’s go to Al Kilduff at the
Red Coach Inn in Detroit, where
Jimmy Hoffa hasn’t been seen for
four years ”. ‘ ‘ .
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For those American voters who
did not learn from the events at
Chappaquiddick that Sen Ken
nedy’s priorities, in time of crisis,
give precedence to his own safety
* and ambitions over those of his
i fellow man, his inexcusable
-2 public statements made this week
attacking the shah and his
presence in the U S should have
made the point crystal clear
On most issues, and at most
times, public discussion and
opposing views on national issues
are healthy They are basic
ingredients in our form of
government —
But just as a prohibition against
. the right to yell “fire" in a
crowded theater is one of the few
recognized exceptions to the right
of free speech, the need for a
unified demonstration of strength
cries. tears. smiles and laughs' He
also learns by the responses of
pleasure or reproach from his
parents as to what he can or
shouldn't do
if he learns that “shooting ” a toy
gun brings the smiles of "Isn't he
cute?” he may believe his ac-
tions to be acceptable Certainly. by
the age of 16 or 17. he should re learn
that it is not acceptable' But what if
he shoots someone when he is 6 or 7
before he relearns maybe we - child bleeding in the hall of some
house all evening. This is Michael . of Iran has been gone for a week
Mindlin reporting from Thyroid, and hospital officials, who wouldn' t
Long Island " let our cameras inside, say that it is
"Good work Michael, and now now business as usual. An hour ago
By ART BUCHW ALD ’ lets go to our White. House
syndicated ( olumnist • correspondent, Janet Blonde
WASHINGTON One of the T “Chester, I‛m standing here in
things I enjoy the most about the front of the White House where
very much in repairing the _ appropriate time-to re-examine
damage done by his first the honors and tributes paid, in.
pronouncements • happier times, to the then
The facts are that the American ’ reigning shah by Sen . Kennedy
hostages'lives are in the hands of and other members of the John
an unstable mob led by an un Kennedy administration.
parent is present " be verified for authenticity prior to
its impossible to kitow what the publication
future effects of a situation like the To assure a fair hearing for all.
Lewisville shooting will have on the’ letters must be limited to a 400-word
children involved Luckily, both are maximum Anonymous letters are
alive 4o have a future however. never printed
with a little thought to the future by Address your letters to “Our
all parents, theentire situation could Readers Say!" Denton Record-
beprevented. Your child may be a3- Chronicle. P O Box 369. Denton,
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knowledge of evil men and hope
God will root them out, or we can
make known their misdeeds in the
hope that someone will discover
■ how to help them to normalcy, or
at least bring them to justice
And now the good news Most
every newspaper in the nation
devotes many pages to sports. .
entertainment (movies, drama,
art, music, books, travel),
cooking, sewing, fashion, wed-
dings. shopping, medicine, births,
volunteer work, civic activities —
all non-essentials, luxuries we’d
never have time for if our lives
were dominated by bad news.'
We as a society, as a culture,
are very rich We do not live
under threat of death or im-
prisonment Most of us work just
eight hours a day and earn good
livings We have time for sports,
entertainment , volunteer work — -
all the above-mentioned
pleasures we take for granted We
take them for granjed because we
, live in a society so designed that
we have time for something other
than hard-scrabble subsistence
And that’s the good news
Page 4A DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE Friday, December 7. 1979
By RICHARD REEVES
Syndicated Columnist
’ LOS ANGELES - Jess Marlow, the
host of KNB’s "News Conference,
asked Edward Kennedy recently why
Mary Jo Kopechne didn't have her
pocketbook with her the night she died ■
on Chappaquiddick Island The
senator's staff-and the reporters
traveling with him were shocked
The fact is that' outside of
Washington and New York, Kennedy
is not being hounded with questions
about Chappaquiddick. his
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To the editor
Friday, Nov 30. I was among
many Denton County residents who
were stunned by a news story on the
front page of the Denton Record-
Chronicle " 12-year-old shot by-
fellow student” it 's not the fact
of the shooting that was so shocking
Shootings of this sort happen all+the
time — in Dallas, Houston. New
York City , Chicago, and Los Angeles
the shock was that this one
happened 1,1 Lewisville' Right here in
good oi Denton County'
Such incidents leave us asking;
those after the fact questions ...
What was a 12-year-old doing with a
gun at school’ Why would he fire a
gun knowing the destruction it could
, do’ What will the impact not only on
the life of the injured chfldbut also,
on the life of the child who could
have easily killed a classmate’
I think I discovered Ute answers to
some of..these questions Saturday-as
I sat in a large waiting room of a
doctor's office A small boy (ap-
proximately 3 years ald) was
wheeling around a toy rifle almost
as bigas he was For 20 minufes, his
amusement came from raising the
gun, aiming, and "shooting” the
people in Ihe waiting room
Though this may appear "har-
mless" nothing taught to a child
goes unnoticed by his attentive
mind. A child experiences his
greatest learning potential between
. 18 months and 8 years . he learns
to walk, talk. read, memorize, and
"manipulate” his parents with his
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