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-w ww -f- ISA THE MIAMI NEWS Friday, August 6, 1976 'Go easier on John Connally' THE PEOPLE SPEAK Emphasize athletes, not national flags The editorial "Return Olympics to the athletes" WASHINGTON Intense attacks, both public and private, aimed at blocking John B. Connally as President Ford's vice-presidential choice now threaten to backfire with conservatives as well as the one man the anti-Connally crusade is aimed at: Gerald, EVANS AND NOVAK 4 Ford. A longtime Ford adviser, who privately wants on August 2 was a great lob of in-depth, soul searching, tell-it-like-it-is reporting. My special thanks to you. It seems that man and nations' gov ernments are still human beings, and therefore subject to vanity when such as gold or silver Connally kept off the ticket, believes the "vituperative" onslaught will strengthen, not weaken, Con-rally's hand.

He reasons that it will trigger a pro-Connally reaction among conservatives, particularly Southerners, many of whom will go, to Kansas City angered by Ronald Reagan's probable defeat. Furthermore, there are signs now of such a reaction by the President himself. The present practice of ralsine the three flaes 'Consequently, the many foes of Connally inside of the victorious gold, silver and bronze nations does tend to get boring over and over and over, again. It only inspires nations to try to get one up on each other while vying to see who can get their flag raised the most. This is why the spotlight is on politics: the accent on the flag.

the Ford campaign want no more nasty talk about that Connally would be "a disaster" on the ticket because, he is "indelibly associated in the public mind with Watergate." Nevertheless, all signs indicate deepening resistance by the President. Instead of showing concern, Mr. Ford now seems unlikely to meet Railsback or any other Republican on an anti-Connally errand. Rather, In Jackson, last week, Mr. Ford was pleased to whisper in the ear of one Mississippi Republican that Gov.

James Rhodes of Ohio is backing. Connally. This attitude Is surprising only to Republicans with a short memory. Mr. Ford was strongly criticized when he went out of his way to greet Connally, then under Indictment, in Houston in early 1975.

White House insiders say he regards Connally as by far the best equipped of any possible running mate to assume the presidency. Indeed, one Ford crony confides that Connally "casts an amazing spell over Presidents, and Jerry Ford is no exception." When Connally rushed to the White House to endorse the President once he heard about the Rea-gan-Schweiker misalliance, White' House staffers were on guard to stop a joint Ford-Connally appearance. But Mr. Ford, without notifying his chief of staff, Richard Cheney, slipped out to the White House driveway for an impromptu press conference with Connally by his side. Accordingly, Connally's shrewdest enemies are now counselling an abrupt switch from public to very private lobbying.

Going public might provide a rallying point for pro-Reagan forces at Kansas City, where Connally may embody their symbolic aspirations. Besides, it is alienating the one Republican who really counts. nign risks tor tne msiaent wno paroonea Kicnara Nixon now linking himself with a Nixon" lieutenant who was Indicted by the Watergate prosecutor (though later acquitted). But agitation against Connally outside the Ford inner circle will escalate, perhaps with counter-productive results, i the proper post-Watergate "image." Mr. Ford's reaction to this was sharp, unpleasant and quickly conveyed back to Michigan.

So, earlier plans by Milliken and McLaughlin to write the President about their Connally worries were demolished by the President's displeasure. But hostility In Mr. Ford's home state barely scratches the surface of influential anti-Connally Republicans. For example, Rep. Tom Railsback of Illinois, pro-Ford, has asked for a meeting with the President to make certain he has every pertinent document dealing with relations between Treasury Secretary Connally and President Nixon.

Rep. William Cohen of Maine, who with Rails-back voted to impeach Nixon as a Judiciary Committee member, told liberal Republican Wednesday Group Congressmen July' 28 that a Ford-Connally ticket would be disastrous. The next morning, Rails-back asked Cohen to go to the White House with him. Railsback wants Mr. Ford to study the record of Connally's 1972 campaign efforts to collect political milk money for the Nixon campaign (despite Connally's acquittal last year of political bribery charges involving the dairy worried by the Connally-milk money equation is Rep.

Paul Findley of Illinois, who has written all House Republicans wouldn't it be far more dignjfled to award the medals on the podium as usual but eliminate the raising of the flag after each ceremony? This would definitely throw the spotlight squarely on the Individual, not the country. This was what was meant to be anyhow. Hence, politics and nationalistic Ideals disappear from the Games. The backlash is reflected by one pro-Connally Southern leader, uncommitted in the presidential race, who last weekend decided to cancel his private At the closing ceremony, each nation's flae agreement to work with Ford forces at Kansas City. He was infuriated by the fact that Mr.

Ford's closest supporters in his home state of Michigan last week joined the shrill public attack on Connally. could be raised individually, starting with the last place finisher citing the total achievements of the athletes of that particular nation, on up to the 1st place finisher, thus achieving a holding interest to Republican state chairman wunam MCLaugnnn assaulted Connally's "wheeler-dealer image" which "conjures up images of Watergate." Gov. William the observers and a last chance to express a big "Hurrah" "Well Milliken, a liberal Republican, was milder, calling Connally a "stem winder on the stump" but lacking For myself, would like a last look at who did what at the Games' end, as well as a running commentary during the Games. Again, it would be the athletes who would be the focal point, not the pol-' itics. 4.

vHrrM a HERB RAU It a o-i Couldn't you just see each athlete who won a medal being wildly, cheered by 70,00 people on hand, as well as millions watching TV? What an impact! I'm sure the participants would know they were appreciated, and that it was worth all the TtV ffO.VSftlJU-. time and pain involved. RONALD CUSICLE, Miami Beach. Guns don't kill people In response to letter writer Dr. Irving Vinger, I request equal space as a legally registered and law-abiding owner of firearrms.

In practicing medicine, the learned doctor will surely have seen numerous occasions and incidents of violence In which human beings were injured, School lawsuit noted nationally TODAY'S HEARTBURN Since "chairperson" is an ungainly word, an outfit here is their discussion leaders "meet heads." MIAMI CONFIDENTIAL: Legislative candidate Bob Bosnian's lawsuit asking that violence-plagued Dade public school system be declared a public nuisance made wire services. Received calls next day from friends in Phoenix, New Orleans. He's running in Dist. 113 Back from Montreal Olympics, Joe Griffin swears he overheard this conversation: "Are you a pole vaulter?" "No, I'm a Lithuanian but how'd you know my name was Walter?" Allegheny Airlines flies over a million more passengers annually than Northwest, two million more than Pan Am and Western, three million more than Continental, and six million more than National buddies driving to' Mexico should leave their CB (Children's Band) radios at home. Below-border officials won't permit cars with CBs to enter their country.

METRO Commission candidate Ruth Shack keeping at least one memento of campaign: a homemade billy club grasped from a contender in a domestic quarrel. Occurred on recent night when she rode with Central District Metro police. They responded to call for quarrel, and in order to defend herself she took the club from one of the contestants. Police gave her the club inscribed: "Presented to Ruth Shack. Keep your back to the wall and your nose to the wind.

For outstanding assistance in the line of duty from your friends at the Public Safety Platoon 3-Squad State Sen. Bob Graham, seeking re-election, hired Sam Crispin Advertising to handle campaign Gables-based David Pearson the resort and recreation consulting firm, picked up post-Seabrook Island off Charleston, Heritage Oaks in Tequesta, Mill Creek Club in Franklin, N.C., and'Arvida's new Boca West resort in Boca Raton. IFRC0flF IPROMM To HAtffHi OFFICE CfPRESmT WRETHM A taii" PATRICK BUCHANAN Sanctity and silliness in Philly WASHINGTON The 41st Eu- charistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church, meeting in Phila maimed and even killed by objects other than firearms. I realize that the statement: "Guns don't kill people kill" has been used extensively, but it remains valid. What of kitchen knives, table legs, tire irons, matches? Automobiles kill many people.

Not to mention doctors. To end violence, we need a firm stand of making the punishment fit the crime, as well as stricter enforcement by our courts of the multitude of laws already over-crowding the legal libraries and offices of our courts, attorneys, and police, in our country. Dr. Vinger seems to forget that the toughest gun registration law ever enacted in the United States, the Sullivan Act, has failed miserably, as well as Boston's attempt to purchase all the handguns from the citizens, from a fund which went broke. And now the state of Massachusetts wants to ban all handguns with a 16-inch minimum barrel length.

To complete the picture, we have Jamaica's gun court, where all handguns and ammunition are considered illegal and one is subject to indefinite Imprisonment for their possesion. Is that Dr. Ving-er's idea of a perfect democracy? As a member of a local gun club, the National Rifle Association, I am a firm believer in the the usefulness, of sport shooting and hunting, as well as the right to keep, maintain, and protect my home and myself with a hand-gun or long gun. JAMES GIBBS, Hialeah Call or write To telephone a letter to The Miami News, call our tape recorder at 350-2230. Please spell your name and give us your exact address.

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delphia, has provided us further proof, were any needed; that sanctity and silliness I 1 often go hand-in-hand. The conven tion has tabled the moral and oolitical I issue of world nun- BUCHANAN ger. It has called upon Catholics, especially in the wealthy Western nations, to consider the plight of the poor and the destitute among mankind. Which, in charity, Cath et Union, a vast percentage of the food that enters the Russian markets comes from private plots worked by farmers in their off. hours from state and collective farms.

If the Russians gave these farmers more land, more freedom and more time to work those plots, the food problems of the Soviet Union would quickly be solved. And Russia would be helping to solve the world's hunger i problem, rather than contributing to it by buying up the U.S. reserves. If the government of India, which has the same percentage of arable land as France, would get off its farmers' backs, the govern-ment of India would not have to show up in the West each year, begging bowl in hand. If the Catholic bishops of the Eucharistic Congress want truly to solve the world food shortage, they should make a novena that some of these left-wing regimes will convert to capitalism from their expensive and ruinous heresy of socialism.

The Third World has two choices. It can have its anti-Western bigotry, its anti-capitalist ideology, its anti-American rhetoric or it can solve its food problem by imitating the United States instead of calling us names. Take your pick, Your Grace. "Apostle of the Poor" from northeast Brazil, summed it up. Begging the archbishop's pardon, this is the sort of silly and pernicious myth, the repetition of which blinds us to the ultimate solution to the problem of world hunger.

It is not the fault of the democracies that there is hunger and malnutrition in the Communist and Third World. That is the direct responsibility of their own bull-headed and blind regimes. Over the years, this nation has poured more than $25 billion into Food for Peace, a record unmatched in history. America's farmers, one-tenth of one per cent of all mankind, are helping now to feed, a fourth of all mankind. If Communist China would only adopt agricultural policies of Free China, she would be, exporting grain rather than buying it from Canada.

In the '30s, mainland China dominated the world soybean market. Now, with 80 per cent of her population still working the land, China imports soybeans from the United States. Why? Because Peking holds with fanatic tenacity to the idiotic notion that communes are more productive and superior to leaving farmers alone to till their own land. Even now, throughout the Sovi olics ought to do. But the convention has gone be I ''H 'a yond this.

Its spokesmen have embraced and propagated the same foolish nonsense that marked the World Food Conference in Rome several years back: i.e. that there V'( McLEMORE HOSMAN SHACK is malnutrition, hunger and starvation in the Third World because there is over-consumption in the West. People are starving, say the prelates, because we Americans eat too much. "There is under consumption on the part of millions as a result of our super selfishness-" is how Archbishop Helder Camara, the DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Church schools preferred Regarding Rev.

Gordon's letter in which he impugned the motives of those parents who elect the hardship of sending their children to religious schools, I wish to make one point. There has been a shift over the last generation of educators a shift away from the stance of non-sectarianism. The shift has been toward outright secularism, a secularism which has a marked intolerance to any piety saved to the most current of secular dogmas. It is regrettable that the good reverend could not approach the realm of religious parents with any more compassion or insight than one might expect from the most stereotyped bigots. PETER GRANT GIOIA, Miami This is in reply to the letter "Religious schools are racist, elitist." In fact, Rev.

Gordon went further. He wrote: "It is a religious act to educate our children in the public school sytem." The U.S. Supreme Court does not agree with him. In the early 1920s, the state of Oregon passed a law to compel all children to attend public schools only. The Supreme Court, in 1925, declared the Oregon law unconstitutional.

Carrying that further, in 1947 the Supreme Court upheld the use of tax funds to pay for the bus transportation of parochial school children. Not easy to be second best GRIOTS will be on the menu at Novo's on the 18th, but you can bet they won't be prepared authentic Haitian way cooked in the sun on a hot tin roof Alan Mandel celebrating 10th year for his Executive Motors, the luxury car mart on N.W. 7th Ave Talkalikes: Tom Lane of Southwest Banks in Orlando and Maitland (son of Geneva and the late Ed "Mark 'em Down" Bob Newhart of TV Buddy Halpert, who used to own Halpert's Trophies, making it big in real estate. Plenty action in sales of shopping centers in Florida and Dallas, now heading Europe-ward to negotiate multi-million dollar deal with client in Hamburg. Miami mishmash ODDITY: For five years, the Don Shula-Morris Mc-Lemore Report was aired on Channel 7 Friday nights during football season.

McLemore and Channel 7 parted. He is now president of Information Enterprises, one of whose clients is Greater Miami Federal. They will sponsor the Don Shula-Dave Willingham Report, on Channel 7 each Friday night during current football season Beach wholesale fresh fish mogul Seymour Friend of Sanitary Markets touring Canada and Alaska, where the salmon come from Askew-appointed Circuit Court Judge Herb Stettin, seeking election to the bench, was an Army cook, worked his way through law school United Airlines shuttered its Miami Beach office and moved to 100 Biscayne Blvd Today's Calorie-Carbohydrate Counter: i2 cup boiled cabbage, 15 calories and 3.1 gram's carbohydrate. The unquestioned star at the summer games of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal is 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci. The 80-pound gymnast from Romania has upst other hand, Dr.

Bruce Ogilvie and Dr. Thomas Tutko found in research that many assumed stable athletic personalities tested during the 1972 Olympics showed neurotic symptoms under competitive stress. Some ended in states of serious emotional depression due to failures in their own contest areas. How psychologically injurious can such demanding sports activity be to young people? Obviously, such pressure is harder and more damaging psychologically to the teenage competitor than to the adult. This is the period of life when such young people are seeking identity as human beings quite And earlier, in 1939, the Court upheld the use of aged Olga Korbut, her Iron Curtain competitor, who herself garnered gold medals and major public attention in the 1972 games.

Not surprisingly, Korbut's reaction to Comaneci's unprecedented per tax funds in Louisiana to supply secular text books to parochial school children. Apparently, the Supreme Court considers religious schools as contributing to the common good. any athlete and especially on those international champions who have gained Olympics status is always extreme. Olga Korbut, still Vivacious at 21, reflected the tension she felt both her appearance and her gymnastic presentations. She was more unsmiling than in 1972, appeared tired and unkempt, and even bumbled a few of the acrobatic feats she made look so easy at Munich.

Clearly, she resented being edged to second best. Olga Korbut's symptoms of dismay can be applied to anyone in any sort of endeavor. Yet the youth of Olga and Nadia and the constant pressures of athletic training and trial heighten the potential for personality tions. There are many positive values to be gained from athletic competition; the regimen can develop highly disciplined, organized and controled individuals. On the- Parochial schools in all large cities are notably BROTHERS non-racist and non-elitist.

C. FREDERIC BELL, Miami Jail the con men HEATHCUFF fect performance was disdainful. She refused to watch the younger girl perform and, although it was evident that Korbut avidly desired victory, the brilliance of her rival's showing was just too much for her own sparkling finale. "I gave it all had," was her corrl-ment. The stress of competition on 1 refer to the article about the Dade County veteran service officers warning veterans about an organization known as the National Association of Veterans Affairs contacting veterans ana promise ing to get benefits for them.

Evidently, they are a bunch of crooks. What I can't understand Is that if they are aware that such an organization is thereabouts, Ask Social Security No address change needed why report it to warn the veterans? Why not just catch them and put them in jail? That would end It all or is that included with our permissible rape and murder theory of today? The veterans have problems of their own apart from their roles as athletes and superstars. They need time to relax and daydream, time to play in free, wide-ranging activities that require no pressures to win, much less to achieve. Perfectionism and confidence such as the young Romanian champion displays are admirable qualities for strong competitors. Yet the "little girl," as she has been described, is also very intense and aloof, leading to suspicion that in past years of training she has denied herself that all-important necessity of play.

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, investigated adult play and found that in the varied games and leisure activities the participants shared a common experience. He called it "flow," and defined it as. "a sensation present when we act wih total involvement." It cannot be maintained for long periods of time. And that's probably why Olga Korbut, once it became apparent that Nadia Comaneci had the crowd with her, became a less able performer. society many problems.

What do we have to do, get our guns out and go after them? Why doesn't the law go after them? HENRY LENKIEWICZ, Miami Remember Pearl Harbor with rfiference to Saturday's article on the Hi By ARTHUR FOGELSON District Minigtr, Miami Social Stcurity Q. How can I have my address changed on my Medicare card? A. It isn't necessary. Your actual Medicare card doesn't have your address on it anyway, but only your name and claim number and the date your coverage began. Your address was printed on the other part of the large card you received, but only as a means of mailing It to you in a window envelope.

Any Medicare payments will be sent to you at whatever address you show on youn Request for Payment form. Social Security Tip: A widow age 50 or older who receives Social Security benefits because she has children in her.care may be eligible for Medicare if she becomes disabled. Contact your Social Security Office for more information. Do you have a question for Social Security? Write: Ask Social Security, The Miami News, Box 615, Miami, Fla. 33152.

We'll getA-our question to the proper authorities. roshima bomb watch demonstration, may I ask whether they plan a similar demonstration on Pearl Harbor day, the day of the sneak attack of tho iinanpcp nn niir shlDs and our men? VICTORIA BECK, West Miami WHENEVER YOUfcg FIHI9HEP.V mm i-ft.