News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 21

Thursday, July 21, 1988 News Journal, Mansfield, O. Nation 7-b Kitty's drug victory a campaign message II 4 ''i ll 1 WN. 4 1.1'. I Ark I iK-J 87n 7 f. iR'C2Ftf 5 1 -B ATLANTA (AP) The semicircle of children eyed Kitty Dukakis intently as she talked about peer pressure, about accepting an amphetamine from a friend and about 26 years of addiction that followed.

"The words I want to say to you are 'don't she said. She also spoke of the fear and eventual joy that came with her successful effort to end her dependence on stimulants. "I gave credit for everything good that happened to me to the pills, because I didn't think I could do anything without them," she said, describing the steps that led to her decision to seek treatment in 1982. "Life is so much sweeter now," a beaming Mrs. Dukakis told the children as her husband Michael stood by her side.

The children hearing the story were gathered Wednesday outside a community center in Conyers, a predominantly black community near Atlanta. They could have been anywhere in America. As Dukakis crisscrossed the country in his successful quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, he made anti-drug efforts a major issue and his wife his top spokeswoman for the cause. He talks of tough law enforcement but also compassionate drug education; she speaks of dramatic mood swings and skipping from doctor to doctor to gain a new prescription for the pills she took each morning from age 19 to 45. "I couldn't stop using them and I became dependent," she told the children in Conyers.

When asked how she kept getting new prescriptions, she said, "I think most physicians and people in the country didn't think they were dangerous." She then detailed how she hid her addiction from her husband, who met his future wife seven years after she began taking amphetamines to lose weight, and her decision to enter a Minnesota treatment clinic in 1982 in the middle of her husband's successful campaign to regain the governorship he had lost four years earlier. "I was very scared," she said. "I was afraid because for 26 years, every morning, I had taken a pill, a mind-altering pill." At that time, Dukakis said his wife was receiving treatment for hepatitis. When she disclosed her addiction at an emotional announcement last year, Dukakis defended his decision to lie about his wife's condition in 1982. Mrs.

Dukakis, in a recent interview, said the decision was made to keep her treatment private because "at that time, I could not handle the public scrutiny. I was embarrassed and vulnerable and afraid." But now, her victory over drug dependency has become a powerful message of her husband's campaign. "I feel strong and confident in myself and what I have done," she said. "And secondly, and as important or more important, one of the tenets of recovering is helping other people." 9 I Ill JBit JT 111 I il mm WmimMM SCSI Of A sea of sins supporting Michael Dukakis washed into the Omni in Atlanta following his nomination Wednesday night during the Democratic National Convention to represent the political party in the SlgnS 1988 presidential race. (AP Photo) Cuomo says he'll never be president I really took some Everything WHS 1 UlUl nil i i I ATLANTA (AP) New York Gov.

Mario Cuomo says Michael Dukakis will win the White House in November and serve for two terms, putting to rest any thought of a Cuomo presidency. "Governor Dukakis will be President Dukakis for eight years and by then I will be, I hope, somewhere on a bench," Cuomo said at a news conference outside The Omni just before Dukakis won the nomination Wednesday night. "I'll be too old eight years from now," said the 56-year-old governor who once was the most talked about possible contender for the 1988 nomination. "I think I will be a footnote in history. I hope an unambiguous footnote." Before leaving the convention to fly home to Albany after casting his delegate vote for Dukakis, Cuomo said he didn't feel snubbed at not being asked to play a role at the convention by Dukakis.

And Cuomo, as convention delegates gave the nomination to another Northeastern liberal governor who is the son of immigrants, insisted he had "no regrets at all" about not running himself. The governor refused to discuss the possibility of Dukakis losing in November. "He's not going to lose," Cuomo said. When it came to this year's convention, Cuomo called Dukakis' decision not to invite him to speak a "perfectly appropriate judgment and I told him that." Cuomo, who electrified the 1984 convention with his keynote address, think I will be a footnote in history. I hope an unambiguous footnote." Mario Cuomo met privately Tuesday with Dukakis.

On Monday, both Dukakis and Jesse Jackson had told Cuomo they didn't have the time to meet with him. "I was sitting there with him. He offered me cheese. He offered me fruit. I said hello to his mother.

I didn't feel snubbed," said Cuomo. "I spoke to them (the convention delegates) in 1984. Have you forgotten already?" Asked if Dukakis had requested Cuomo's presence on the podium on Thursday night at the end of the convention, a traditional honor accorded prominent party members, Cuomo said he hadn't been asked. "It's unimportant who's on the podium or unimportant whether I'm on the podium," he said. Cuomo didn't endorse Dukakis until after all the primaries had ended and Dukakis had the nomination locked up.

The New York governor also refused to rule out accepting a convention draft for the nomination until well into the primary season. Despite that, Cuomo and Dukakis have said their relationship is good. Cuomo said he would do whatever he could for Dukakis in New York and elsewhere, "consistent with what I do as governor and we're very busy, as everybody knows." I should've known the minute I headed for the lake, somebody's air conditioner would blow. So I wasn't exactly surprised when I got the call in the van. My biggest customer's air conditioner had just quit.

His restaurant was hot. And he was even hotter especially since I'd just worked on the compressor the day before. It turned into an all-afternoon job. But by the time the first reservation walked through the door, everything was cool. It wasn't the most pleasant Saturday afternoon.

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