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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Tues July 4 1972 Kennedy Felt He Was Regarded As A Freak 2A know you can trust me Teddy I voted for your brother Now what really happened that night on Chappaquiddick Island Continued From Page 1A they 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 overhearty 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 laughed 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 on Chappaquiddick 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 Kennedy demanded annoyed enough by then at a Dixon slur of Ralph Nader "I see anybody here laughing I think anybody 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 here would do that Is it aU 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 hyperhormonlzed 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-' 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 General Evacuation striken career of Edward Kennedy it seemed the quickest way to elude further notoriety By ordering up an inquest as opposed to a grand jury investigation Denis had originally hoped to avoid "any 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 order that while carefully sustaining Judge Boyle's over-all obligation to preside over and direct the inquest so sealed the proceedings off and controlled the release of the testimony as by the very nature of the procedures demanded rendered legally meaningless and politically ineffectual whatever did turn up The public and press were to be barred Much of the fail was taken up with request for an exhumation and autopsy portent for the Democrats who assemble In Miami Beach July 10 for their national convention day tn the Capitol is lived for the sole purpose of getting to the next" Kennedy intoned on June 12 1970 acknowledging renomination by his Massachusetts party in convention is the vision we knew so well! Gone is faith in Election summer gloominess such a portliness of rhetoric that it takes the torrential perspiration bulging out of peaky temples 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 1 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 was conspicuous by its absence: the comptroller functions The approximately $700000 needed this time had ail 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 funneling expenditures through the Dowd advertising agency Edward Kennedy was reelected finally by a well-shook-down 58 per cent majority a half -million-voter bulge Whatever hope the Edgar- town authorities themselves had of running down the facts McGovern counting noses Judge Upholds Calif Delegate 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 for Kennedy: he nw moved day by day beyond the intimidations of both Regulars on his staff hoping not to watch too closely were impressed and surprised was 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 morning 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 from his doctor is just a routine thing except of course for the added security in this Burke stated adding that he did not know if Secret Service agents were with Wallace 1 vs i 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 offer 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 Slater-Walker Securities put up his own funds because he wanted to solve 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 "Fischer thought the offer was incredible and generous and said Marshall "His only negative comment was that he felt the English were assuming the Icelandic 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 The announcement of the impending Inquest landed on the Kennedy camp like a big horizon-darkening legalistic jellyfish no shape and competcly appetite 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 with- out bruising further the badly 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 candidafcy 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 appeal to the courts came after about a week of polling dele 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 weathpr EEESSEBB 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 on Jan 5 closed to the press When after a dispute with the stenographers the transcript of the inquest was finally released Kennedy probably 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 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 reflection to the Senate in 1970 His campaign was short and sweet and its outcome may have said if you change the rules with respect to only one of the players and in only one of the Several states and most congressional districts use the winner-take-all system Rauh said but only delegation was challenged Hart on several occasions noted that the contention is self-governing body and a law unto and therefore has a right to change the rules through its credentials committee and on ihe convention floor Rauh replied that the Credentials Committee when it took the California action was operating under 1968 convention rules and that 1972 rules are not adopted un'il Tuesday night after the Credentials Committee report is voted on 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 2-45 pm Low 8:22 am Low 906 pm Myrtle Beach Hlah 142 a Hlah Low 6:07 am Low 851 pm Carolina Beach Hlqb 1:45 am Htqh 233 pm Low 8:10 am Low 8 54 ppi rzTTfri 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 (he day after the Credentials Committee action last week delegate counters said they had enough votes to overturn the decision at (he 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 IRS Plans Convention Cost-Watch United Press International 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 reservations 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 phees 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 $10 and good ones If he wants a pair for $5 I can send him on down to Washington Avenue 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 (Cljarlctfr (0krwr (00 Tryon Charlotte 58201 Telephone: Switchboard 3747070 Claielflod Adt 377-7474 Circulation Service 374-7221 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Slnjlo Copy: Dally He Sunday 2Se Home Delivered: 7-Day Wc week 370 month (-Day (Oe week 240 month Sunday 30c week 130 month Delivered By Mall TO Postal Zonae 12 13 1 Mo 1 Me 3 Yr Dilly 3 30 1980 3940 Sunday 190 1140 2280 Dally Sun 43J 2410 5220 Ratal to Postal Zones 4 5 4 7 A I furnished upon reouest Mall Subscription! are payable In advance resident add 354 sales lax Second Class posts? paid at Charlotte All carriers dealers end distributors ere Independent contractors Payments not In accordance with the eatabllshed rates not suthorlied Not Paid Circulation -ABC Publisher's Statement Sept 30 1971 Dally 172758 Sunday 211989 gates on the California question Rauh filed bis suit against the Democratic National Com-mitlee 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 party's 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 "We believe you change the rules after the game has been Rauh Thunderstorms developed from the upper Ohio River 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 Big Fireworks Today May Come From The Sky Monday's Wallace Receives Hospital 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 showers 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 upper 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 1 om 2 am 3 am 4 am 5 am 6 am 7 am 8 am 9 am 10 am 11 a 12 noon at 1 pm Humidity at 7 pm Sunrise 6:14 Sunset 8:42 Moonrlse 12:48 Moonset 2:13 Monday's Mean Temperature Monday's Norm Temperature Record Hlah for the Day Record Low for the Day 24 Hour Precloltatlon Normal for the Dav Normal for the Month Total for the Month Total for the Year Excess for the Month Deficiency for the Year 64ea am Dm am pm 78 79 985 654 41 15 4 88 4 2095 01 117 Bomb Blamed For Viet Crash United Press International SAIGON Investigators have established that a bomb blew apart a Cathay Pacific Airways Convair 880 jetliner over South Vietnam June 15 aviation sources said today All 81 passengers in the jet were killed The sources said police have a suspect in the case "under but have made no arrests Associated Press TER SPRING Md -na Gov George Wallace oly Cross Hospital Mon-ir the first time since he hot 'to take a ride and lunch with some friends Burke public relations man for the hospital he governor was given a Nixon To Speak To Nation Today Associated Pmss SAN CLEMENTE Calif -President Nixon will address the nation by radio Tuesday in a July 4 holiday speech expected to call for unity to meet the "great the President sees ahead for the American people Press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Monday the chief speech will be broadcast live at 12:05 pm today from the Western White House Nixon will talk for about 10 minutes Ziegler said Figures Show High Temperatures Expected For Daytime Tuesday liofated Precipitation Not Consult local Forecast i qgars a.