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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Thursday, May 17, 1979 he knew would get a better air JOCK licrmono Juius uncover ing if he left the door open to a possible candidacy. But in 1974, a host of other Democrats were lusting after the 1978 presiden ennedy Knows How tlal nomination, and none could really move as long as Kennedy's candidacy remained Sanity Test Given To Suspect Held In Carter Death Plot a possibility. And so. In Sep To Draw A Crowd tember, Kennedy called a press tutions and attempted suicide 10 to 12 times, was arrested holding a starter's pistol and 70 rounds of blank ammunition just before the President was to speak at a Cinco de Mayo gathering here. Assistant U.S.

Attorney Dor.ald Etra requested appointment of Pollack after Harvey told the Federal Bureau of Investigation of his mental history. Harvey told authorities he was recruited by three other men involved in the alleged plot. He said his role was to fire the starter's pistol at the ground as a LOS ANGELES (AP)-A court-appoirAed psychiatrist has examined Raymond L. Harvey to determine whether the former mental patient is competent to stand trial on charges of scheming to kill President Carter 11 days ago. Federal authorities would not disclose results of the examination by Dr.

Seymour Pollack, but they must choose between indicting Harvey by today, proceeding with a preliminary hearing or dismissing charges against him. The 35-year-old transient who claims to have spent half his life In mental Insti conference In Boston and cate gorically took himself out of the running. This time around, except for Gov. Jerry Brown, the Democrats arent lining up to seek the White House. And Brown has made It fairly clear that he Is likely to challenge Mr.

Carter no matter what So Kennedy Is not holding up the show by standing on his repeated state ment that he has no plans to run and intends to support Mr. Carter. WASHINGTON: If you didn't know better, you could have gotten the Impression when Sen. Ted Kennedy packed the Senate Caucus Room the other day that he was declaring his candidacy for President rather than merely unveiling his long-awaited national health insurance plan. Reporters and the faithful were hanging from the rafters as Kennedy kicked oft his latest challenge to his fellow Democrat in the White House.

As Important as his health care proposal may be, the turnout never would have been what it was except for one indisputable fact Ted Kennedy, for all his denials, remains In the public mind a potential 1980 challenger to President Carter. BUT WHAT he may be doing is undermining his own party The whole episode was yet another example of Kennedy using his special ability to seize the limelight to get the optimum hearing for his views on a pet issue. Had Sen. Claiborne Pell, one of the cosponsors, been introducing the health care legislation, he could have done it in a phone booth. It's smart politics on Kennedy's part to let the pot simmer in this pre-presldentlal election year, if only to assure such attention for his proposals and to keep the White House worried and Just possibly more willing to make legislative compromises.

But the more Kennedy operates this way, putting his opposition to the President on the front burner so conspicuously, the more encouragement he gives to Democrats who want him to run. "He wouldn't be talking that way," many of his fellow politicians are saying, "if he didn't want to run." by criticizing the President he says he intends to support, at a time when Mr. Carter seems very vulnerable to a challenge from either Republican or Democrat opposition. Even when Kennedy Is careful to JgfiSL ffl BATH' I keep his differences with Mr. Carter strictly on the merits of an issue, as he has done on health care, the result is the same.

The popular scenario among politicians continues to be that Brown will bloody Mr. Carter in some early 1980 tests and then Kennedy will be persuaded to come In and save the party, STORE HOURS: F.10N.-FRI. 9 to 9f SAT. 9 io 5, SUil. 1 1 to 5 and the country, from Brown.

But what if Kennedy really is determined not to run in 1980? His actions now can contribute to a further undercutting of Mr. Carter, and if he is not pre I TAPPAN I Although the subject was health care, the most pointed questions were about the Kennedy-Carter competition. Kennedy dodged the first one: whether anybody meaning the President who didn't support his comprehensive national health insurance plan could be nominated. He said only that he thought voters would decide on a range of issues, not any one. WELL, HE was asked, would he support Mr.

Carter in 1980 if the president declined to support his bill? "Yes," Kennedy said flatly. He acknowledged differences" with Mr. Carter on health care and energy but cited agreement on strategic arms limitation, normalization of relations with China and the Middle East peace treaty as justification for his continued support. 9L CUSTOM MADE pared to step in, the result ALL OVER the country, draft-Kennedy efforts are cropping up in Iowa, site of 1980's first delegate-selecting caucuses; in New Hampshire, the first presidential primary state; in Minnesota, Ohio and Florida. Every time Kennedy goes public with any opposition to Mr.

Carter, these efforts are encouraged, and never mind that a Kennedy aide religiously goes through the motions of contacting the would-be drafters and asking them to desist. In the summer of 1974, a similar situation existed, with talk of a Kennedy candidacy rampant. Then, too, Kennedy had legislative objectives that could be Brown or Ronald Reagan or John Connally or Howard Baker. In terms of Kennedy's own Aors FORMICA TOPS FOOD DISPOSER 51-1066 Vi Horsepower motor, 1725 R.P.M.'s Continuous food operation Easy installation 3 bolt quick mount VU MAT INCLUDING B3WL FITTINGS') political future, it probably makes sense for him to play the game this way, criticizing Mr. Carter but remaining loyal as his bottom-line posture.

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While true Integration has occurred neither In the North nor the South, the schools In the 11 states of the Old Confederacy are the least segregated in the country, while those in the industrial North are more segregated than ever, with hardly any desegregation progress In the last decade. According to a recent report by the Institute for Southern Studies, at Chapel Hill, N.C., one Southern black student in 10 12 attends a school that is at least 99 black. In six Northern industrial states Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York one minority student in five 17 attends a school with a white enrollment of less than 1. There has been progress, of course, some of it quite dramatic. In 1968, for Instance, 75 of minority students in the South attended essentially segregated schools, compared with only 12 In 1976, the last year for which figures are available.

In the nation as a whole, the 1968 figure was 53, down to 17 in 1978. BUT THE six Northern industrial states have scarcely moved. Thirty-six percent of WASHINGTON: Perhaps In my lifetime I remember when the order came down but anybody who thinks that they'll desegretate the public schools in a place like Mississippi In the next 25 years has another thought coming. My college classmates in Indiana Just didn't understand the pervasiveness and deep-rootedness of Mississippi's racial segregation. But I had Just left that state two years earlier, for the first time In my life, and I knew: White Mississip-pians would sooner kill or (lie than go along with the Supreme Court's desegregation order.

My college classmates, self-rlghteously incredulous that any state could be so backward, split their time between being sympathetic toward me and poking fun at my native state. Cbut THINGS change, albeit slowly and not necessarilly for the better. By 1968, my initial prediction was looking pretty good. Some 88.2 of Mississippi's black pupils were still attending schools that were 100 black. The comparable figure for Indiana was 12.8, with much of that number comprising the enrollments of the state's three all-black high schools In Indianapolis, Gary and Evansville.

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