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Sturgill questions center

Happy rejoins Board of Trustees

A familiar face rejoined the UK
Board of ’l‘rustees yesterday.

As former ttov AB. “Happy"
t‘handler took the oath of office
alo rig with fir. M ichai lAdelstein, he
returned to a panel be chaired
during his 1015-35) aird 1955-59 terms
as l:t)\'t'l’llt)l‘.

(‘lrandlcr‘s last term ended in “172,
aft er he was selccttd by former (lov.
louie B. Nurui iii 12138. tlov. Julian
('ai'roll I'errarrrrd t'liandler to the

board III \ugust.

'lhe Board ie- elected William B.
sturgill as (haiirrran and selected
Albert clay vice chairman. Dr. Pat]
hears was named secretary and
Bitty t‘lark was chosen assistant

sett‘elttl'y.
The Board voted to give the
\Ieldon House. a coop housing

struct ureonMaxwelton t‘ourt that is
no longer used. to the Episcopal
liiocese of li-xington for a tokm

lease.
The church. said Business Affairs
Vice President .lack Blanton,

needed rrrore space for St. Agnes
House, a feiii pirary home for cancer
julieirts at the Mulical (‘enter
The establishment of a center for
Appalachian studies was approval.
but with the I'iservations of' Sturgill.
The center “could be used as a
forum to exploit Appalachian
problems“ and should “not get in

li‘rrllsof purple who would use it for
st‘ll-St‘t‘y’lt‘t‘ imposes," he said.

The Appalachian finder is
‘etpirvalent tori research institute.”
III-cording to the l’resident's
recoirrIm-Irdafion. and will be
located If tlretii'uduate School.

The center will provide servrce.
teaching mid research III Eastern
|\eirtucky arid the (‘entral Ap
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Volume LXIX Number 24

Wednesday. September 2I 1977

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Accusations

Suits filed in Kincaid closing

By KEN KAGAN
and
CHARLES MAIN
Kernel Staff Writers

Cwyrlirht 1%. © Kentucky Kernel

ridior‘s note: Kagan and Whit
have been research'ng controversy
about the detention of juveniles in
Fayette County. This story is the
first in a series that will contain
the'r observations and conclusions.

Dean Hunter. Lexington-Fayette
County chief administrative officer,
and Carol S. Wigginton, social
services commissioner, have been
accused by former Urban County
Government fUCGi employes of
deceiving the public about the
reasons for a shake-1p of UCG's
children’s services division. with
political motivations alleged.

Incidents of sexual abuse of a 13-
year-old juvenile by other juvenilts
at the Kincaid Juvenile Detention
Home in June led to the dismissal of

 

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six counselors, the resignation of the
home‘s smervisor. the suspersion
with out pay ofthe director of UCG‘s
children’s division, and the transit!
of juveniles from the home to the
county jail.

the official explanation for the
Aug. 2 dismissals of the counselors.
who were to have received civil
scrvice status Aug. 7, is that they
failed to complete satisfactorily
their six-month probation pa‘iod.

The Kernel has obtained the
counselors' official evaluation
forms. pod-dated Aug. 7 in ac-
cordance with standard procedure.
’I'beforms show that the six received
excellent reports on their
probationary period and had been
recommended for civil service
status.

Some of the Kernel‘s sources
spoke ody with the assurance of
anonymity because of a pending
$2.8-million lawsuit against Um.

.Iuveniles are still being housed in
the county jail, an adult facflity.
This action is possibly in violationof
Kentucky statute 208.120, which
prohibits the detention of juveniles
in an adult facility unless the
juveniles are completely isolated
from the adults.

Kincaid Home has been the
subject of countless government
meetings in the last two years, to
determine its future as a juvenile
detent'on home.

Kincaid is an old building, termed
by some officials in recent in
tcrviews as “inadequate and an-
tiqiiated."

Jim Holifield, former home
Ilircctorwho resigned Aug. 24. made
a request to the Departmert If
Public Works in March 1976 to
renovate Kincaid to bring it up to
minimum state building. fire and
safety standards.

Some rcqwsts were: installation
of improved heating and air con-
ditioning. and emergency lighting to
be used during power failures
trt'qtlired by state fire marshal);

, ewes-r, a wMer ‘

replacemmt of worn and missing
doors; installation of bulletproof
glass (Kincaid counselors were
threatened by a juvenile with a .38
pistol two years ago).

According to Gordon Garner,
public works commissioner, UCG
and Ilunter deter mined it would cost
at least $100,000.

" Wedidn‘t do the work at Kincaid
bit-arise we had no idea how long it
would remain open. 'l‘here was the
distinct possibility that the juveniles
would be moved tothe county jail, so
why should we have wasted all that
money if Kincaid was going to be
ciised'f" (larner said. ‘

lir Ala rch representatives of social
s erv ices. t't 'ti. llunter arid thejailer
met to discuss possibly moving the
juveniles Lurd staff at Kincaid to the
county jail until a new facility could
be built.

ltay Sabbatine. assistant jail
director. informed officials that
llrrrold Buchignzini. the jailer, op
posed the transfer because juvenile
care requireirrents, and ex-
pet'tatforrs for counseling and
recreation were entirely different
from adults.

The real reason for Buchignani's
opposition. according to some of-
ficials including Vt'igginton. was that
the Kincaid staff would soon attain
civil sei'rirc status. removing from
Buchigirarri the power to fire those
r-mployr-s.

'l'lrciefore. efforts were made in
the spring to eliminate the coun-
selors' ptxs'ititms. \Vhen iirwiries
were made to the tft‘G law depart-
ment. the department issued a
rcpirt stating the illegality of such
efforts.

'Ilie deprrtment stated, however.
that if those positions were empty,
ether through the termination or
resignation of the ernployes. the
positions could then be abolished.

In a reemt interview. Wigginton
said. "Sony-times it takes a tragedy
to get people to realize how serious a
situation is.and to get some action.“
An incident III mid-June led to ac-
lion.

.-\ f:I-ye;u‘-okl nrale was admitted
to Kincaid originally for 24 hours, By
law. a juvenile may be held up to 72

Days of

By M“. .\N Nit. “'I‘ZIINI‘IS
Kernel It eporter

Students only have about 10 days
left to file bankruptcy action as a

way to “clear the ledger" and
escape paying back educational
loans

As of (id. 1. an amendment to the
federal Iliglier Education Act will
make student loans non-
dischargeable for a five year period
following graduation or withdrawal.

According to the amendment. nm~
dischariaalie means a court cannot
erase student loan debts.

last year. +1 llK students can
celed loan payments by filing
bankruptcy, Walter lt‘ister. loans
collection officer. said this
amounted to almost $16.0“).

v

“W'rr’ we * 'i "'

hours without a detention hearing.

this juvenile remained at Kincaid
for 110 how's, with no hctu‘ing,
because his mother did Irot come to
get him.

fiuring that time.
jected to ripeated incidents of
sexual abuse. according to in-
vestigations conducted by Ilolifield
and the police. Four juveniles were
later convicted on sodomy chargts
arid sentenced in juvenile court.

III interviews with the Kernel,
Kincaid munselors on duty at the
timeof' theabusesJune 16. I7, and 18
have said normal security
proceduris were followed. and that
the victim exhibited no unusual
lit‘ililt’ftil‘.

Whur ore counselor thought he
heard noisein the boys' bedroom, he
said he went to check and found
them all in bed He asked each if
everything wasall right, and in each
case receivid an affirmative reply.

According to the counselors.
normal procedure of checking
bedrooms every 15 minutes was
followed during the entire period the
youth remained at Kincaid.

After sparking to the counselors
and their srpervisors (who were
present at Kincaid with the coun-
selors i, Ilolifield was satisfied there
was no deviation from standard
[il‘ti ct ices.

’III e youth didn't report the abuses
although, according to counselors.
he had numerous opportunities to.

He didn‘t. he said. because the
others had threatened him with
bodily harm and even death.

he was sib-

('ounselors on duty during the
youths stay told police and officials
that they were “unable to percdve
any trace of fear or hesitation to
remain with the others on his part."
They said he seemed cheerful and
willing to be with the others.

tin Sunday. June It). llolifield's
report states. the juvenile‘s mother
\is'ted him and was told by her son
that he had bien “made to do stuff
sexually."

She told shift supervisor David
Lewis what she learned. and Lewis
separated the youth from the others.

i ontinucd on page t

The major part of the loss wzs
sustained by the fideral govem-
ll‘t‘ill. though. IlK lost only onetcnth
of that sum. or $3.600.

This is not a lot of money, but
lI‘ister said the number of
bankruptcy suits is increasing.

Nationally. the trend is also up.

According to a New York 11mm
tll‘tit‘il‘ in November 1976, $21 mill'nn
were ilefauled through bankriptcy
claims on student loans in the last
three years. Only $17 million,
however. had been defaulted in the
13 previous years.

Most student bankruptcies are
hardship -ascs. the Times stated.
Most studeris who file bankruptcy
often have ittle or no assets and
have ittle to lose in bankripry

KENTUCK

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an independent student newspaper

  

 

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—Bill Kight

Let me in, wee—co

It‘s Iiot construction being hidden from public view her e. It‘s the
football team fraying a practice game and liarl (‘ril-ch. biology
sophomore. strains to watch the action by peering between hanging

mats.

proccidings. Kentucky law states
fha 1 $1.50) worth of personal goods is
exunpt in barikruotcv actions and

$1.5tltiofthevaluc of a car. if used as
traispirtation to work. is also
exempt.

Because nrost student loans are
e'lher directly from the governIIIent

or from banks where the loans are
insured by me federal government.
the govvrnment Inust foot the bill.

Time is a new bankruptcy bill
that was reportrd favorably out of
the ffouse Judiciary (‘oniinittce in
July w lIich. although it still must go
through the Bronte. makes studeit
loam Ilischargeable.

Also pend'ng in the committee is a
III! that woukl postpone the effective
date of the Higher Education Act

bankruptcy ’out’ ending

Amendment. The tit-ti deadline is
still \alid, though.

'l‘hose who file for bankruptcy
iriist haveat least $50 (‘hestert‘aro
a Lexington lawyer and student
legal aid counsel, said this is the fee
for filing a bankruptcy case. alorg
\\ Ith fees for lawyers.

Judge .loe Lee, bankruptcy judge
for the Eastern llistrict of Kerlucky
Bankruptcy t‘ourt. said that
although bankruptcy records wil
remain with credit agencies for 14
years. the fact is often lost in paper
shuf'flis betwren the agencies arll
stores wishing to (heck a person‘s
credit.

“If you don't owe anyone
aiiyth Ing. you become a good cn'dit
risk. .how many people do you know

ho don't vae anybody?"

doday—

l'iilt\II-.lf (.t)\.
accused tiov

Hit ”‘1 If. \l'NN
.lirlrarr ('arroll yesterday
of ”political Irrar.eriverrng” iIr handling
the Beverly Hills Supper t'lub fire
report

t'ar'roll said Sunday that architects
employed by the club's owners.
Itichard J. Schilling and his sons.
srrbiiirifed plans for renovation to then
State lc'rre Marshal John t‘alveit's
office 111 1971. during the Nunn ad-
Irrirristration

t‘ai'roll ‘Hiltl (‘alyeit knew the plans
violated state fire codes. but approved
them ‘Irry'w av after architects promised
corriections would be made.

Nunn blasted ('arroll for over
stepping his authority in mentioning
possible indictment of club owners and
(‘alyer't

'ft’s pretty senous when you start
accusing people of murder or any

lroirrocide." Nunn Silld.

"(‘ti.\'l"l,lt'T til" iNTI‘IliICST
i’novisioss III the new federal strip
mine law could affect
ability to enforce it,

Kurtucky's
the head of the
state environmental protection agency
sillll.

"It's going to be very difficult." said
tobert Bell, secretary of the State
Department for Natural ltesourccs and
Environmental Protection

The law bars federal and state
employis who enforce any part of the
act from having a direct or indirect
financial interest in any coal mining
operation.

nation

'I'Ill-Z I‘Blsays it paid Inore than $1 6
million to informers who spied on the
political and financial affairs of the
Socialist Workers Party during the past

lt'i years. according to documents
disclosed yesterday
The cash payments were Irradc

periodically from 1060 through 1976 to
.iof volunteer infomiers who joined the
party or Its affiliate. the Young
Socialist Alliance. to gather in-
formation about the 'l‘rotsyite groups'
activities. the (lgcuments~ showed.

The Political Itights Defense Fund.
which Is financing the party‘s
multimilliondollar lawsuit aginst the
against the FBI. made the documents
public

'i‘lll’. SI'INA'I‘I‘I FINANFl-I (’OM-
\|l‘l"I‘Iil-‘ dealt another blow to
President t‘arter's energy program

yesterday. rejecting his call for a
haeavy tax on fuel‘efficient cars. The
coIIIIIrittce eliminated the tax from a
House passed energy bill on a vote of If
to .3 after one critic called the levy a
way for the wealthy to buy their way
out of the energy problem

Some members said they voted
against the tax bicaus the full Senate
already has passed a separate bill
baiiir Ing th e manufacture of gas-hungry
cars cars after 1951.

weather

I'AItTIJ' ('l.0l'll\' AND
I'l.l-I.\§.\\Ttoday. high in the mid 705
Mostly clear and cmltonigbt. low in the
low 30s. Tomorrow Will be sunny and
mild. high In the upper 70s.

t'olitpfk‘d from Associated Pres and
National Weather Bureau dispatches

  

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New Panama Canal treaty

\t’ts‘llI.\'t;’l‘r)N——Apparently, the
two dozen South American dictators
imported for the signing of the
i'Lllltllllti (‘anal treaties had been
schooled in our sensibilities. None of
them wore the cream and orange

nicholas
von hoffman

uniforms Wlih gold braid so much
favored by ice cream vendors and
limits of states in those sunny
clinics. The strong nien- when not
In a liberty—loving mood. we jour-

 

 

nalists preferto call dictators strong
mew-looked less savage in their
business suits, although the one
concealing the nakedness of
Panamanian strong man Omar
Torrijos was obviously new and a
tad too tight by North American
standards.

This probably didn't impre§ the
country at large, which thinks of the
strong men as coffee bean ex-
tortionists if it thinks of them at all.

Since the ceremonies were on
television they must have irritated

those who lost their favorite
programs without convincing the
rest of us who aren’t entertained by
watching foreign strong men ex-
change pens and platitudes with our
not-so strorg man. 0n the plus side,
the ceremonies went offwell except
when the set of thumbscrews fell out
of the pants pockets belonging to a
fellow from a vile, little equatorial
tyranny distinquished only by its
cream and orange octagonal
postage stamps.

Now everybody has signed the
treaties but the Senate and, as John

 

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The afterlife, Cleveland
have a lot in common

By JOHN (‘OOKE

i suppose that we are all
susocptible. some more so than
others to those debilitating attacks
of witschmerz. You recall all those

 

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nights you wrestled with the Void,
nursng despirately on a bottle of
Jose (‘uervo You woke up in the
rooming in a pile on someone's floor.
5 our hair full of salt and lemon peels
and s\-.'eaters on your teeth. The
ordeal repeats itself night after
night until time or the booze rurs
out.

i‘orthose with a tendency towartb
this sort ot’indul gent behavior, there
s moll‘ bad news.

’he truth about the afterlife has
been revealed by a meat-cutter from
Vermont. one Robert William
Fatamite. .‘vlr. (‘alamite suffered a
heart attack last string. He claimed
that he was "dealer than Sunday

 

afternoon TV" for more than eigit
minutes The attendirg physician,
Dr Pat Magroin verified that
Catamite was indeed clinically
deceased

(‘atamitehas written a book abort
his experience titted Not Unlike
(‘leveland He clairrs that heaven is
very much like that seamy and
gamey cry of northern Ohio.

“I sorta floated around for a
while,“ hesays, “and I came to this
bus stop full of drurits and makk.
Some hoodlum was hassling this
really inst-up old lady with a tat-
tered raincoat and a ratty prrse.
Anyways, I got onti‘e ‘E‘ bus before
I could tell what would happen
Everyone I saw had bad teeth, bad
posture and double-knits."

Since his return to the land of the
living, Catamite has refused to have
any association with the Midwest, or
anything that reminds him of the
greed American lin‘bo.

The book was released last week
and has treated a furor in the in»
tellectual, theological and medical
c ommuniti es.

“1 refuseto take it seriously," said
Dr. Anna Lingis, mted scatolegist,
“butit‘s a lot more fun than to read
than The Thornbi'ds.

“ i always suspected that we would
be doomed to an urban sort d
purgatory," said the Rt. Rev. Bill
Dew. “it should make a very in
teresting TV series. The Methodist
Church is currently negotiating hr
the rights. They are planning a full-
length feature film that could easily
gross rnorethan The (loss and the
Switchblade.

“We encounter this peculiar
phenomenon among terminal
patients quite frequently,” con
fessed the imminent physician
Arthur Rightrs. “Some say it has
giventhem hope. lthasn’t helped me
any. 1‘ m still an alcdiolic with a six-
figure amual income. I won’t be
happy until someone who's been
dead for, oh, six or seven montis
comes back to tellus about it. Until
then, pass the glass..."

 

John Cooke is an English junior. His
column smears periodically.

 

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Claude Raines' Dog

with?) M

flay. Teddy Roosevelt’s secretary of
state, remarked, “A treaty ordering
theScnate is ike a bull going into the
arena: no one can say just what or
how the blow will fall—bu one thing
is certain-it will never leave the
arena alive."

l-‘avorite argument

The liberals of the Tri—lateral
Commission who're pushing this
thing are using their favorite
argument on it; to whit, that doing it
now, whatever now is, spending it

now, will save us money and trouble
later. They advance the same
proposition with everything——
schools, dope addicts, rehabilitating
crooks in jail—and it‘s true if you
know what you‘re talking about. in
the Panamanian situation, nobody
can know if we have really bought

ourselves 23 years of peaceful,
continued occupancy or not. By that
even Ronald Reagan will be ready to
give up a centuryoid, Edwardian-

period piece of public works.
The point is the country should be

is a gamble

told that what is being misleadingly
sold as a certainty is a gamble. It
may be a reasonable gamble, but a
gamble it is, not a sure thing. We‘ re
not out of the canal situation with
these agrcmients, and it could pop
up anytime after the Senate ratifies.

A last course of action would be to
take the canal home with us when we
leave. A nation with London Bridge
in ilavasu, should have no difficulty
in locating the Panama Canal in
l’ottstown, Pa.

Copyright, King features fiyndlrnlr

Television: Does it cause
someone to murder?

HARRY B. MILLER

Three newspaper items came to
my attention last week. They may
not seem important today, but our
lives andculture in the future may
be changed as a result.

Item ()nczPlayfully reenacting a
scene. from the recently televised
movie Dirty Harry, a 14-year-old
Columbts, Ohio boy shot and killed
his 11-year-old brother. The older
challenged the younger to go for his
gun. The younger went for a toy
pistol. The older had his father‘s
derringer. He shot his brother
through the chest and was charged
by police with negligent homicide.

item Twozln Hartford City, lnd.,
four men are on trial for the St.
Valentine‘s Day murder of four
brothers.The ages of the accused

';rarige from t7-to—24. One of the four

testified that the ring-leader was
motivated to kill people “ jtst for the
fun of it.”

UPl, which reported the story,
said that the accused were “in-
fluenced by the television version of
the Manson murders (llelter
Skelter).“

commentary

Item Three: A Dade County t Fla.)
judge ruled that being under the
influenceof “TV intoxication" was
an acceptable plea in the trial of 15
year-oldRonald Zamora, accused of
murder. Result, actor Telly Savalas
(Kojak) has been subpoenaed as a
defense witness.

in all the items, TV is accmed as
the impetus for murder. But the
impact these cases will have won't
be limited to television.

Repercussions will be felt in the
media.

What is at issue is the First
Amendmert. The freedom of speech
clause in the U.S. Constitution has
been a cause of controversy ever
since its inception.

May an individual at all times say

 

 

, what he wants in the manner he

chooses?

TV is increasingly becoming the
subject of freedom of speech
arguments because of its wide ac-
crssibiiity and its large but un-

Is anyone on this campus
qualified—and willing—to give a
botanical tour of the campus? I am
interested in learning a bit about the
trees and shrubs that have been
planted here. as many are clearly
not native to the area—DAN.

A: Dr. Rumsey, in the Forestry
Department, teaches a course in
Tree identification, and will try and
arrange a tour for you if he can‘t
conduct one himself. His number is
258-4709.

Q: Who is responsible for the hours
of operation of the men's sauna at
the Scaton Center? It's. only open
from it mm. to 5 p.m.. and it doesn’t
seem like many people can use it at
UK It those hurt—CD.

A: The hours were set as such

 

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became the sauna must be super-

determined impact.

Does television cause someone to
commit murder? To say yes is to
argue that TV and other forms of
communication tfilm, newspapers)
should be culled of all socially
unacceptable content.

To say no, on the other hand. is to
argue that these divisions of media
have no impact on the audiences
that perceive them. Both arguments
are faulty, but this is an area where
doing nothing could be an equally
poor soltliort

First, it would be naive to say that
mass communications have no ef-
fect on the people to which they are
directed. The bombardmert surely
affects most individuals in some
way. The effects could be positive or
negative, sometimes no effect. But
in general. the media will in some
way determine how we perceive
ourselves, others and our en-
vironment.

To say that people have no control
over their minds is equally faulty.
For example, there is selectice
perception—the concept which
suggests that people tend to see only
what they want to see

i don‘t see the solutions to crime
as expressed in Dirty Harry as the
proper ones. i also don’t see that
movie’s character as one to emulate
in real life. But the kids in Colum-
bus, Ohio did.

Cersorship isn‘t the answer. It
never has been. It never will be.
Contro over dissemination of in-
formation is incompatible with a
free society. which the U.S.
proclaims itself to be.

Yet the problem is still there. In a
society as large and as diverse as
ours, there are individuals that do
not operate within the accepted
norms of society. It‘s often im-
possible to identify these in-
dividuals, who consider violence an
acceptable value.

Witness Son of Sam.

Unfortunately, there‘s no way to
identify and enforce control over
these people

The solmion is definitely not to
control the environment in which
these individuals. and all of ‘15, live..
if anything, it‘s to expand the
cultural variety.

vised by a staff member, and there
are no members of the staff at the
center before 8 or after 5. in order
for the hours to be changed, the
center would have to hire another
staff member to supervise. For the
time being, though, that is a moot
point. The sauna is closed for
repairs, but according to Bill
Cornett of Cornett Construction, it
should be open again by Thursday.

0: My problem rs i can't seem to get
my diploma. The ”records” people
say it was mailed out First Class In
mid-July, and that since I am a May
grad with no financial claims or

library fines against my record. i
should have received it at that time.
When I told them that neither myself
nor my parents have received it as
yet. they said that they were sorry

Television is notorious for limiting
that variety. Films that glorify
violence and justify its uses are
commonplace on TV. if the boys
from Columbus had seen llarlan
County, USA, instead of Dirty
Harry, their concept of physical
violence may have quite different
from the concept that resulted in
death.

Certain people can‘t and won’t fit
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the violence they wish to do on those
around them. TV couldn't teach
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kill. Nor cmld TV be the overriding
cause of their violence.

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society around them. They are
looking forsocial behavior models.
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models they present.

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showing violence as the answer for
almost all situations. By showing the
negative aspects of violence.
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alternative to impressionable
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Carter’s halo is gone

By GREG KOCIIER

l was working when Amy
skipped into my office.
Suddenly she stopped in her
tracks and gasped. Startled, I
looked up and asked what was
wrorg.

"Ah dmno, dadday. but you
look different—funny.”

I went back to work but I

could sense Amy was
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focusing those eyeglasses
right into my forehead.

“Amy, Ah'm busy. Please
go upstairs."

“Well all right. Ah just hope
you know your halo is
gone!"With that Amy
skipped to the stairs leading
to the living quarters.

Halo?. Another of my
daughter s quixotic fantasies.
Kids.

My eyes felt as if they were
being pulled by their optic
nerves deep into my head. I
massaged my eyes and read
the same sentence for the 20th
time. On the 21st try I uttered
a cry of disgust, slapped the
report into my briefcase and
walked to the foot of the
stairs.

“A-A-Amy, are you getting
packed for the trip to
Plains?”

“Yessir dadday!
almost done.”

This trip back home was
coming none too soon. With
Bert battering down the
hatchesbeforethe Senate and
Ronald Reagan and Sen.
Strom Thurmond doing
everything but striking up
John Phillip Sousa marches
to drown out the purpose of
the Canal treaty, I was

hushed.

To top it off, Jody came in
this morning and said that

. Bertdidn‘t thinktoo kindly of
me. leaving town right in the
middle of Bert's hearings
before the Governmental

Affairs Committee.

Wellladda~da—da. Sorry
Bert, but I gotta go back
home and see if my own
account is in order.

The Plains trip was
uneventful. Amy was looking
forward to the reunion with
Mama and Rosalynn, but her

Ah'm

exc‘te ment didn't keep her
from staring at the space
above my head. Perhaps she
was looking for my halo.

The questions were mostly
aboutBert. about whom I had
nothing to say. Then. out of
the blue, come this:

“Mr. President. Could you
tell us what has happened to
your halo?"

What is this about an
alleged halo? The CIA never
issued any directive named
“Halo" or anything.

“That’sbeing looked into at
the moment and Ah’ll get
back to you on it,” I said.

make a movie with Mel
Brooks. And another thing.
Youtell those 'IIme magazine
people to quit writin' sudi
hateful things ‘bout your
mother. One of them high
falutin’ people said that if a
diabetic kissed me he‘d keel
over on the spot cause Ah’m
so sugar-coated. "

The family sat down for
supper and Amy said grace.
and added, “I’lease God, give
Daddy anothuh halo"

I glared at Amy. I had had
enough.

“What is this about me and
a halo?"

“But...sumpthin‘ went
wrong, Jimmy. See, people
saw their hopes it your halo.
()f course, you never did have
a real hdo; it was more of a
flow or, oh, I don't know.

“But when you started
saying things like ‘many
things in life are unfair’ and
unemployment didn't really
go down, well. people were
brought back down to reality.
They came down hard,
Jimmy. Just like they have
done since the beginning of
the country.

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bad Presilent. No, Jimmy. it

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