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I Brill SL mmifl Uw -U 2 2A THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Tues July 4 1972 Felt He Was As A Freak know you can trust me Teddy I voted for your brother Now what really happened that night on Chappaquiddick Island CHAPPAQUIDDICK: Spectators watch as Sen car is pulled out of the pond in which it fell the night of July 18 1969 The incident had devastating effects on personal and political life Continued From Page 1A tliey liked him any less They just needed him The senior Senator from Massachusetts Edward Kennedy who had returned to his front-row seat in the well of the Senate in September sat through the pumped-up over-hgarty welcomes and decent Republican silences was a phenomenon skeletonized this Kennedy recognized sooner than anybody 'Remember when people used to ask me for my he wondered to one aide as they left an elevator three weeks after his return He laughea as much as he could about the little old lady who waddled up to him on the street in Boston and pulling his sad head down to her own whispered know you can trust me Teddy I voted for your brother Now what really happened that night or Chappaquiddick Island?" He was absorbing It day by day even incorporating it into the necessary abrasive teasing he took to favorite staff members When he soon fell inside a strongly admired category group from 85 per performance during the September Administrative Practices and Procedures hearings into the Federal Trade Commission Stunned Witness One of witnesses FTC Chairman Paul Dixon presuming evidently that Kennedy had been too badly vitiated to worry about felt well-wrought and relentless questions pinning him into unwelcome corners throughout his testimony Dixon stunned suggested that other subcommittee members were laughing at persistence "Now to whom are you referring?" Kennedy demanded annoyed enough by then at a Dixon slur of Ralph Nader don't see anybody here laughing I don't think anybody ly hoped to avoid inference of But the inquest procedure decided on by Judge James A Boyle would admit all kinds of evidence even rumor and malicious gossip without right of objection and the press would be free to report it all To lawyers it seemed like a tar-and-feathering party They wrangled the summer away It was a frantic time Joan Kennedy miscarried Unanimous Decision On Oct 30 the high court brought In a unanimous decision in the form of a court or- here would do that Is it all right if they smile? Can we smile? Would that just be Kennedy labored among the colleagues frowned above his hands at his own uneven concentration as 1969 became 1970 over the same months those overstimulated townspeople of sea-girt Edgartown while careful to preserve their starchiness in front of the continuing migrations of very nosy mainlanders were privately hyperhormonized by the fallout of publicity that rolled across the island the day Mary corpse was discovered Each time the investigation opened up in headlines again the new skin of Edward Ken-n post-Chappaquiddick reputation patched and blistered miserably with unhealing fresh radiation burns The misleading and indecisive management of the crisis during its first few hours and days had aroused a kind of intense international prurience toward the details no subsequent explanation or information or depth of interviewing no matter how specific was liable to satisfy After that initial bewildered week when nobody in significant authority in Massachusetts seemed to be prepared to carry through a persevering investigative effort a mood of frustration and demand had begun to threaten like a blackness in the sky Finally heavily pressured and responding to his own deeply political impulses toward the center of a situation so invitingly vacant and so universally scrutinized the operatic district attorney for the Southern District of Massachusetts Edmund Denis on July 31 made known his determination that in view of the yet gathering uncertainties he had himself requested that the Massachusetts Superior Court authorize an investigation into the Kopechne death by means of the loose non-accusatory form of an inquest had already been frustrated by the quiet but impeccable executed general evacuation the Kennedy aides had arranged within hours the embalmed remains of Mary Jo Kopechne had departed the island the Lawrence Cottage was picked over meticulously and so well scrubbed that later clue-seekers were reduced to scrounging through the island dump in their efforts to locate empty whisky bottles every one of the cookout participants appeared to have been whisked away unavailable on the advice of counsel and Police Chief Arena and Special Prosecutor Steele were reduced during their daily empty press conferences to private admissions to individual newsmen that they were as unhappy as hell about the runaround they were getting in their efforts to determine even the most primary of facts was conspicuous by its absence: the comptroller functions The approximately $700000 needed this time had all been raised at loyalist fundraisers outside family coffers completely unique perhaps in Kennedy political history There was no mushroom of financial scandal this time as there had been in 1962 when both a Boston Globe reporter and a Boston University political scientist Murray Levin suggested that the Kennedys had circumvented new Massachusetts fund-disclosure laws by funneiing expenditures through the Dowd advertising agency A commendable straightforwardness was possible this time because Re-publican opponent Josiah Spaulding a nicely bred politely spoken near-Brahmin who differed with Kennedy on relatively little Spaulding supported abortion on demand and the Nixon vetoes on major welfare money bills both of which Kennedy opposed had drawn very little funds once it was clear that such favored candidates" as the Volpe ex-Com-missioner John McCarthy and A1 Capp would not be Involves Edward Kennedy was reelected finally by a well-shook-down 58 per cent majority a half-million-voter bulge Celebration He absorbed more than usual on the Democratic The announcement of the impending Inquest landed on the Kennedy camp like a big horizon-darkening legalistic Jellyfish no shape and compcteiy appetite Much of the fall was taken up with request for an exhumation and autopsy On Dec 8 cognizant largely of the Kopechne feeling that an autopsy would amount to to them Judge Brominski turned Dinis down District Judge Boyle then scheduled the inquest itself: it was to be convened or 5 closed to-the press When' after a dispute with rendered legally meaningless and politically ineffectual whatever did turn up The public and press were to be barred But to the politically threatened district attorney who had been bumping around law libraries and telephoning legal experts for a week hoping to come upon a device that would clear the water up without bruising further the badly striken career of Edward Kennedy It seemed Jhp quick-' l' Invest way to elude further nato- General Evacuation riety 'r Whatever- hope the' Edgar- town authorities themselves town autnormes tnemseives had of running down the facts had second thoughts about holding the wide-open inquest Boyle originally demanded After reviewing the testimony the persistent old man concluded in his summation that Kennedy had had no expectation of returning to Edgartown the night of July 18 that he had deliberately turned right on Dyke Road and having admitted to 20-miles-an-hour en route to the bridge was ipso facto guilty of operating his motor vehicle and so contributing to Mary death was the hook Boyle intended to hang him by" Dinis later concluded Charges had been left to Dinis Dinis had decided privately not to press any The first test of Ted viability as a politician in the wake of Chappaquiddick came as he ran for reelection to the Senate in 1970 His campaign was short and sweet and its outcome may have portent for the Democrats who assemble in Miami Beach July 10 for their national convention day in the Capitol is lived for the sole purpose of getting to the Kennedy intoned on June 12 1970 acknowledging renomination by his Massachu- setts party in convention Is the vision we knew so well! Gone is i faith in Election summer gloominess such a off rhetoric that it takes the torrential perspiration bulging npnW tjm certify his outrage pies to certify his outrage lend a little sincerity Real Perspiration The perspiration is genuine Kennedy is already moving earlier even than ever before and very very powerfully into the lacerating process of getting himself reelected in Massachusetts The approach the Kennedy political mechanics had decided on the year before had been to push Kennedy out let him show himself everywhere stamp out the notion that he had been after some occasional early foot-shuffling Kennedy had found that he could do that in fact needed to do that Old Kennedy organizers Gerry Doherty and giddy behemoth of a Boston office manager Jim King and Eddie Martin pitched in the Washington staff philosophers hid upstairs there was the usual determined voter-registration drive One element They dumped 138 Inches of rain on Memphis in a six hour period The cold front dropped the early morning temperature to 33 at Casper Wyo the lowest ever recorded there in July Afternoon readings ranged from 40 at Colorado Springs Colo to 108 at Needles Calif TIDAL DATA Charleston High 1:57 am High 245 pm tow 822 am Low 906 pm Myrtla Beach Hloh1-42am Hfah 2 30 om Low 8 07 am Low 851 pm CaroHna Beach High 1:45 am High 233 pm Low 8:10 am Low 854 ppi McGovern counting noses Judge Upholds Calif Ruling cent to 45 per cent he remarked to Wayne Owens you imagine how much trouble be in if caused that drop In my Matt Storin who interviewed Kennedy often found him once the immediate aftershock of Chappaquiddick had dissipated itself much much more in command of himself incomparably more relaxed than before the incident Between nightmare and breakdown Fate had intervened of Itself selected Kennedy: he moved day by day beyond the intimidations of both Regulars on his staff hoping not to watch too closely were impressed and surprised w'as the best ever seen him in Jim Flug said of his brief by his physician Dr Joseph Schanno Burke did not know where Wallace went to lunch or who he was to see Wallace is recuperating from bullet wounds he suffered in an assassination attempt while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination May 15 at a Laurel Md shopping center He is scheduled to leave the hospital Friday moining stopping over in Alabama and then going to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach Burke said Wallace went out on a routine leave checked out several hours ago saying he wanted to spend some time with friends Who they are and where they are I have no Burke said The hospital official said not unusual for a patient to check out on a pass ficm his doctor is just a routine thing except of course for the added security in this case" Burke stated adding that he did not know if Secret Service agents were with Wallace der that while carefully sus taining Judge Boye's overall obligation to preside over and direet the inquest so sealed the proceedings off and controlled the release of the testimony as by the very nature of the procedures demanded the stenographers the tran- script of the inquest was final- script ot tne inquest was nnai- ly released Kennedy probably appeal to the courts came after about a week of polling delegates on the California question Rauh filed his suit against the Democratic National Committee the Credentials Committee and their officers He argued that the winner-take-all primary was held under California state law had the approval of the Democratic state law and had the approval of the commission on delegate selection the Democratic National Chairman and the official convention call He pointed out that the candidates and voters understood the winner-take-all process and agreed with it Thunderstorms developed from the upper Ohio Riter Valley to the North Atlantic states Monday while a wedge of cool air pushed southward between the northern Rockies and lower Great Lakes to the Texas Panhandle A flash flood watch was out for waterlogged parts of western and northern Pennsylvania and Garrett County in north western Maryland Thunderstorms also roamed from the eastern parts of the southern and central plains to the lower Mississippi Valley IRS Plans Convention Cost-Watch United Press Internetlonal MIAMI BEACH Fla Just in case merchants get greedy federal state and local agencies will be keeping an eye on prices here during the Democratic National Convention next week Agents of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be at Miami Beach during the convention to make sure there are no violations of the federal price guidelines fearful that some of the hotels have made reserva- -tions at rates that would be in violation of the federal price said Holger Eurin-ger a spokesman for the IRS The agents also will watch other businesses for possible price gouging Businessmen are aware of the situation The owner of a liquor store near the convention hall said only way I could raise prices is if our wholesalers And he pointed out that the wholesalers are watched carefully by the Price Commission In addition to IRS surveillance three other agencies will operate a service under which delegates tourists or citizens can make a telephone call to report any suspected price hikes Operating 24 hour switchboards will be the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce the Florida Hotel and Restaurant Commission and the Miami Beach Tourist Development Authority A store operator snapped: can sell that reporter swim trunks for $19 and good ones If he wants a pair for $5 I can send him on down to Washington Avenue i a convention he said get lots of tourists year-round If the mer-chants tried to gig the tourists or delegates It would give us bad Only the commission will be armed with anything more than the power of persuasion Inspector Michael Tampas says hotels or motels who overcharge can be fined up to $500 after a special hearing IRS public information officer Holger Euringer of Jacksonville said South Florida motel and hotel operators had been warned they could not charge summer convention guests winter rates Wl jt (Utjarlotfr too Tryon Charlotte 3120) Telephone: Switchboard 3747070 Classified Ads 377-7414 Circulation Sarvlce 374-7321 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bobby Ponders Move Chess Back In Play Associated Press NEW YORK a stupendous offer! I gotta accept That is how US chess champion Bobby Fischer is reported by his lawyer to have reacted to $130000 offered by a British banker if Fischer would show up in Iceland and play Boris Spassky in a world championship match The first scheduled match is today James Slater chairman of Securities put up his own funds because he wanted to solve Fischer's reported money questions and get the match under way saying to Fischer now is out and Slater said in making the offer Marshall said he called Fischer as soon as he got word of the offer and it took Fischer about six hours to decide thought the offer was incredible and generous and said Marshall only negative comment was that he felt the English were assuming the Icelandic Continued From Page 1A coalition had set aside the results of the winner-take-all California primary Instead of getting all 271 delegates McGovern was given 118 and the rest were apportioned among his eight opponents in that primary On the day after the Credentials Committee action last week delegate counters said they had enough votes to overturn the decision at the convention and added that a court challenge was of our But the anti-McGovern forces including the AFL-CIO and backers of Sen Hubert Humphrey and Alabama delivered his accept- ance speech wet-combed under Parker House ballroom lights Joan and several of the sisters and Ethel and Lem Billings were there to celebrate at least that hear Kennedy josh Joe Kennedy III for recruiting so many volunteers all girls The family group repaired to a suite in the hotel There Kennedy watched the Western returns coming in Kennedy was buoyant when Roman Hruska nearly lost he got excited just wrote my a privileged newsman ribbed Kennedy a little said this was the beginning of your campaign for President in Kenne dy very expansive now expostulated trying to shove me out in front where I can get go out and look for somebody look was sidelong with me before you do that" The Sky Monday's Year Aoo Today 1am 2 am 3 am 4 am Sam 6 am 7 am 8 am 9 am 10 am 11 am 12 noon High 91 Low 15 Hlsh 81 Low 66 68 1 pm 67 I 66 3 Pm 66 P-m-5 5 pm 65 m- 66 7 m- 86 87 88 89 61 73 73 72 72 71 7Q 70 73 8 Dm 9 77 10 82 11 84 Midniaht Mlscellantous By ordering up an Inquest as opposed to a grand jury m- as opposed to a grana jury m- vestigation Denis had original- Gov George Wallace with representatives of Sen Edmund Muskie tagging along intend to make the vote on the California issue the do-or-die vote for the McGovern candidacy That vote is scheduled to come on the first night of the convention and if McGovern fails to overturn the California decision his candidacy could die with that failure partly because of the psychological impact on the delegates Furthermore although McGovern has a number of delegates legally committed to him for the nomination their votes on such issues as the California case are only as good as their word The McGovern decision to Warmer on Saturday with a chance of showers Highs in the upper 70s in the mountains to low 80s elsewhere lows in the 50s mountains and 60s elsewhere The Nation Showers are predicted for most of the South from New Mexico across to the East Coast on Tuesday Rain is also predicted for the southern Great Lakes region A cool front will drop from the Great Lakes while the rest of the country will be experiencing warm dry weather Big Fireworks Today May Come From Wallace Receives Hospital Associated Press SILVER SPRING Md -Xlabama Gov George Wallace left Holy Cross Hospital Monday for the first time since he was shot to take a ride and have lunch with some friends Tom Burke public relations Spokesman for the hospital 'said the governor was given a Data From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NOAA US Dept of Commerce Today should be partly cloudy warm and humid with showers and thundershowers through tonight Wednesday is expected to be partly cloudy and not as warm and humid High 90 low 65 High on Wednesday 85 Southwesterly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour Chance of rain 70 per cent through tonight Beaches Showers and thundershowers through tonight Southwesterly winds 15 to 20 knots becoming strong and gusty in shower Visibility 5 miles or more becoming less than 2 miles in showers The Carolinas North Carolina: Partly cloudy warm and humid through Tuesday with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers Thundershowers more numerous in the mountains Highs 80s in the mountains and UDper 80s elsewhere Lows in the 60s mountains and upper 60s elsewhere South Carolina: Partly cloudy and warm today and tonight A chance of thundershowers northwest portions Highs around 90 and lows near 70 EXTENDED FORECAST Thursday through Saturday Partly cloudy and mild Thursday and Friday Highs in the 70s in the mountains to upper 70s to low 80s elsewhere Nixon To Speak Jo Nation Today 0 Associated Press CLEMENTE Calif Nixon will address the nation by radio Tuesday in July 4 holiday speech to call for unity to meet the the President sees ahead for the -American people Press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Monday the chief speech will be live at 1205 pm today from the Western White House Nixon will talk for 'about 10 minutes Ziegler said 4 6 7 A I furnished upon request Mall subscriptions are payable In advance resident add SW sales tax Second Class postage paid at Charlotte All carriers dealers and distributors are Independent contractors Peyments not In accordence with the established rates not euthorlnd Net Paid ABC Publisher's statement Sept JO 1071 Dally 172758 Sunday 211980 Figurot Shew High Temperotursj Expacted For Doytim Tuesday Isolated Precipitation Not Consult local Forecast t).