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r i .11 . I " iHlssourian iiy -- g Bradley n Baseball kyfefl Mariners. See Pages 6- 7- B. ISEr--- 1 jffctjfr Columbia 76th Year No. 226 Good Morning! It's Monday, June 11, 1984 2 Sections 20 Pages 25 Cents United Press International Gary Hart, while insisting Demo-cratic Party rules " have to be changed," said Sunday he will not challenge Walter Mondale's dele-gates for the presidential nomi-nation. For the first time, Hart publicly disclosed he would not threaten par-ty unity by staging a last- minu- te challenge to Mondale's accumula-tion of enough delegates for a first ballot nomination. Since Mondale narrowly acquired more than the 1,967 delegates needed for the nomination last week, Demo-cratic leaders have feared the Colo-rado senator would pursue his claim that 500 to GOO of his rival's delegates are " tainted." His campaign has filed a com-plaint with tiie Federal Election OCampaign ' 84 Commission stating that the dele-gates were elected through so- call- ed independent committees designed to circumvent federal spending limits. Mondale, while discontinuing the practice, insists nothing illegal took place. " It's a legal and ethical question, and not a political one and I think that's where it should remain," Hart said during an appearance on ABC's " This Week With David Bnnkley." " The Democratic Party is going to have to resolve this issue," Hart said in response to a question. " I think it's up to the party and its official institutions to undertake that. What I intend to do ... is wage a positive campaign for this party's future and for this nation's future. I think that's the best contribution I can make to our party. " Hart who has 1,212 delegates of his own compared with 1,975 for Mondale and 367 for Jesse Jackson, has been meeting with party leaders and political allies since Tuesday's final primaries when he won three out of five, including California to assess his chances for a challenge. Party rules " have to be changed and they have to be made more fair," Hart said. In response to another question. Hart would not flatly renounce a pos-sible vice presidential post: he called such talk premature. " I have no intention of being vice president" Hart said from Denver. " I didn't undertake this race to be vice president " I'm not much good at taking or-ders. . . . The job I have now ( rep-resenting Colorado in the Senate) is a better job." Mondale, meanwhile, was resting at the Long Island, N. V., estate of a fnend, where he intends to stay until Wednesday. Jackson, back home in Chicago, talked with the city's mayor, Harold Washington, who has a favorite- so- n slate of 36 delegates. Turning his at-tention elsewhere, however, Jackson told reporters he was devoting his weekend to " playing basketball in my back yard and eating hot dogs " Despite the difficulties of raising their retarded sons alone, strength apparent as Women endure By Linda Stelter Mtssourian staff writer Great hopes and fears hover in the mind of every expectant parent For Alice Morison, the hopes for her first child were slowly drowned in a three- da- y nightmare of labor pains and anxious thoughts. Twenty- fiv- e years ago, Alice's doctors were hesitant to perform a Caesarean section when the size of her baby's head made a routine birth impossible. Alice's baby, Don- ni- e, lived. But his head was crushed during birth and doctor's indicated that he would spend the rest of his life mentally handicapped. They were right. Five years later, in 1963, Margaret Turner entered the hospital to give birth to twins. The head nurse as-sured Margaret that the pair was sit-uated correctly. There would be no complications, she said. Forty- eigh- t hellish hours later, Margaret's room was full of soft- spok- en doctors. The nurse had been wrong. Marga-ret's twins were not in the correct position. One of them was under Margarefs rib cage. She gave birth shortly thereafter. The first baby was a healthy 6 pounds. The second baby weighed sis pounds and was born dead. Five minutes later, the doctors had re-vived him. He would live, but he would be mentally retarded. Margaret's husband, Fred, asked . what it would take to keep the baby alive. Expensive specialists was the answer. " It took every cent of our life sav-ings of 10 years," Margaret said, " andthenmore." The baby, named Trent, left the hospital alive, as his father had vow-ed he would. In 1974, in a moment of troubled emotions, Trent's father was asking if the expense had been worth it. The Turners not only had lost a lot of money. They had lost their marriage and they were losing hope. The trials and tribulations of being the parent of a retarded child are more than many people can endure. Nonetheless, some people are made stronger by the ordeal. Margaret and Alice, despite their difficulties, have endured. They know the pain of receiving telephone calls in early morning hours from well- meani- ng relatives who demand that the child be shut away. They also know what it is like to give up the simple pleasure of a night out because baby sitters are afraid of jobs involving retarded and epileptic children. Although both women's marriages ended in divorce, Margaret and Al-ice have few complaints just a lot of insight Three years ago the two met at work. They became close friends af-ter they realized they have more in common than being single parents with mentally handicapped sons. The more they got to know each other, the more they did together: Trent Turner receives a helping hand and a worm from Alice Morison and his mother, Margaret, center. fishing, camping, picnicking and the Special Olympics. The more in-volved in the Special Olympics they became, the higher the praise they gave to a program that recognizes the needs of the special persons in their lives. " It's a program," Alice says, " that lets these kids have their mo ment of glory. " These kids go through life being told directly and indirectly that they can't do this or that. Then you see them doing things that everyone told them they can't do." For example, Alice tells of a girl she taught to play baseball. The girl hit the ball after a few practice swings. " She only hit the ball two feet, but her expression was worth 10,000 practice swings," Alice says. " Even if I didn't have Donme, I'd still be involved." Both women have pushed their sons, though they say that is unusual for the parents of handicapped chil dren. " If you tell me I tan't do some-thing, I'll do it," Alice sj. just to prove I can. " That's how I brought Donme up ' Margaret also has cncour, iged Trent to constantly expand his abili- - See MOM, Page 8A SurveyJ 10 drop In violent crime WASHINGTON ( UPI) Violent crime dropped 10 percent in 1983, the sharpest decline in six years, the Justice Department reported Sunday. There was a dramatic IS percent decline in personal rob-beries, the department said. The annual National Crime Sur-vey said Americans were the vic-tims of crime 2.9 million fewer times last year than in 1982. It found record low rates for several property crimes including theft, I which dropped 8 percent to the lowest level recorded in the sur-vey's 11- ye- ar history. I The government's survey is 1 based on interviews with 123,080 i people in 60,000 households. It is I considered by many to be a more J accurate gauge of crime in Ameri-- ca than other surveys because the victims of crimes are interviewed. In April, the FBI issued its pre-liminary crime statistics for 1983, which showed a similar pattern. The FBI, which bases its figures on crimes reported to police, found serious crime including rapes, assaults, thefts and other offenses dropped 7 percent in 1933, the biggest decline in 23 years. . Many criminologists believe the decline is due to the aging of the crime- pron- e baby- boo- m genera-tion, and crime wUl increase again in the late 1980s and early 1990s when children of the " baby boom-ers" reach the crime- plague- d teenage years. The Justice Department survey said the rate of residential bur-glaries declined by about 9 percent in 1983; assaults declined 7 per cent. Steven Schlesinger, head of the department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, said the drop in victimi-zation rates was due to several factors, including sentencing changes, shifts in population and " neighborhood watch" programs. " The increasing willingness of judges to send convicted felons to prison, which is reflected in rec-ord- high incarceration rates, may act as a deterrent by the mes- - g sage it sends to potential crimi-- nals," Schlesinger said. The report also said there were 1 approximately 568,000 fewer vio- - B lent victimizations rapes, per- - 8 sonal robberies and assaults thaninl932. I It noted there were 36.9 million g victimizations in 1933. I Mondale has a long list of potential VP choices WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Walter Mondale's virtual lock on the Demo-cratic presidential nomination has spurred the inevitable guessing game on possible running mates. Gary Harf The first woman? A Southerner or Westerner to balance the ticket? Geography, age. ideology and gen-der are among the considerations Mondale will weigh in choosing a vice presidential candidate. Would a Hart- Monda- le ticket be the strongest possible against Presi-dent Reagan? And would Hart ac-cept in the aftermath of the hard- - fought pnmarv campaign ' Should Democrats seloct a wom-an, putting aside the fa t that the party has no women politicians that now are household names . ktoss the nation' Does organized labor. oper: all the AFL- CI- O. have enough ilout to dictate Mondale's selection ' In these days of virtually instant mass communications, are regional considerations important enough to tip the selection toward the South or See SPECULATION Page8A Tubman rescued slaves; relative works to rescue spot in history BUCKTOWN, Md. ( UPI) - Deter-mination is what kept Harriet Tub-man smuggling black slaves to free-dom through Green Bnar Swamp and determination is what fuels a struggle to preserve a place in histo-ry for the American heroine. " To look at the swamp, it don't look like nothing particular," says Addie Clash Travers, 72, a distant relative of Tubman. " But that's where she ( Tubman) hid out. The slave church also means a lot to me. It don't look like nothing but it's all in the head." Travers has led an often discour-aging drive to promote the memory of the courageous black woman who helped hundreds of slaves escape the pre- Civ- il War South via the under- - ground railroad. Travers single- handed- ly founded " Harriet Tubman Day" nearly 17 years ago, a tune when fiery race ri-ots npped through Cambridge, the county seat of Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. " Sometimes you could count the heads ( at annual church services in Tubman's honor)," says Travers, who stubbornly persevered until last year when she saw standing room only at the Tubman ceremonies. Tubman, who often is called the " Moses of her People," was bom about 1820 in a slave cabin on the Brodas Plantation southwest of Cambridge near Bucktown. Original-ly named Ararrunta Ross, she even-tually assumed her mother's first name, Harriet, and later married a free Negro named John Tubman. She began her work of leading slaves to freedom about 1851, when she made contact with Quaker farm-ers and learned of local connections to the underground railroad Tubman is credited with helping about 300 slaves to freedom on 19 for-ays into Maryland after her own es-cape from slavery. She was so suc-cessful in her efforts that a bounty of $ 40,000 in gold was placed on her See TUBMAN'S, Page 8A
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Item.Transcript | r i .11 . I " iHlssourian iiy -- g Bradley n Baseball kyfefl Mariners. See Pages 6- 7- B. ISEr--- 1 jffctjfr Columbia 76th Year No. 226 Good Morning! It's Monday, June 11, 1984 2 Sections 20 Pages 25 Cents United Press International Gary Hart, while insisting Demo-cratic Party rules " have to be changed," said Sunday he will not challenge Walter Mondale's dele-gates for the presidential nomi-nation. For the first time, Hart publicly disclosed he would not threaten par-ty unity by staging a last- minu- te challenge to Mondale's accumula-tion of enough delegates for a first ballot nomination. Since Mondale narrowly acquired more than the 1,967 delegates needed for the nomination last week, Demo-cratic leaders have feared the Colo-rado senator would pursue his claim that 500 to GOO of his rival's delegates are " tainted." His campaign has filed a com-plaint with tiie Federal Election OCampaign ' 84 Commission stating that the dele-gates were elected through so- call- ed independent committees designed to circumvent federal spending limits. Mondale, while discontinuing the practice, insists nothing illegal took place. " It's a legal and ethical question, and not a political one and I think that's where it should remain," Hart said during an appearance on ABC's " This Week With David Bnnkley." " The Democratic Party is going to have to resolve this issue," Hart said in response to a question. " I think it's up to the party and its official institutions to undertake that. What I intend to do ... is wage a positive campaign for this party's future and for this nation's future. I think that's the best contribution I can make to our party. " Hart who has 1,212 delegates of his own compared with 1,975 for Mondale and 367 for Jesse Jackson, has been meeting with party leaders and political allies since Tuesday's final primaries when he won three out of five, including California to assess his chances for a challenge. Party rules " have to be changed and they have to be made more fair," Hart said. In response to another question. Hart would not flatly renounce a pos-sible vice presidential post: he called such talk premature. " I have no intention of being vice president" Hart said from Denver. " I didn't undertake this race to be vice president " I'm not much good at taking or-ders. . . . The job I have now ( rep-resenting Colorado in the Senate) is a better job." Mondale, meanwhile, was resting at the Long Island, N. V., estate of a fnend, where he intends to stay until Wednesday. Jackson, back home in Chicago, talked with the city's mayor, Harold Washington, who has a favorite- so- n slate of 36 delegates. Turning his at-tention elsewhere, however, Jackson told reporters he was devoting his weekend to " playing basketball in my back yard and eating hot dogs " Despite the difficulties of raising their retarded sons alone, strength apparent as Women endure By Linda Stelter Mtssourian staff writer Great hopes and fears hover in the mind of every expectant parent For Alice Morison, the hopes for her first child were slowly drowned in a three- da- y nightmare of labor pains and anxious thoughts. Twenty- fiv- e years ago, Alice's doctors were hesitant to perform a Caesarean section when the size of her baby's head made a routine birth impossible. Alice's baby, Don- ni- e, lived. But his head was crushed during birth and doctor's indicated that he would spend the rest of his life mentally handicapped. They were right. Five years later, in 1963, Margaret Turner entered the hospital to give birth to twins. The head nurse as-sured Margaret that the pair was sit-uated correctly. There would be no complications, she said. Forty- eigh- t hellish hours later, Margaret's room was full of soft- spok- en doctors. The nurse had been wrong. Marga-ret's twins were not in the correct position. One of them was under Margarefs rib cage. She gave birth shortly thereafter. The first baby was a healthy 6 pounds. The second baby weighed sis pounds and was born dead. Five minutes later, the doctors had re-vived him. He would live, but he would be mentally retarded. Margaret's husband, Fred, asked . what it would take to keep the baby alive. Expensive specialists was the answer. " It took every cent of our life sav-ings of 10 years," Margaret said, " andthenmore." The baby, named Trent, left the hospital alive, as his father had vow-ed he would. In 1974, in a moment of troubled emotions, Trent's father was asking if the expense had been worth it. The Turners not only had lost a lot of money. They had lost their marriage and they were losing hope. The trials and tribulations of being the parent of a retarded child are more than many people can endure. Nonetheless, some people are made stronger by the ordeal. Margaret and Alice, despite their difficulties, have endured. They know the pain of receiving telephone calls in early morning hours from well- meani- ng relatives who demand that the child be shut away. They also know what it is like to give up the simple pleasure of a night out because baby sitters are afraid of jobs involving retarded and epileptic children. Although both women's marriages ended in divorce, Margaret and Al-ice have few complaints just a lot of insight Three years ago the two met at work. They became close friends af-ter they realized they have more in common than being single parents with mentally handicapped sons. The more they got to know each other, the more they did together: Trent Turner receives a helping hand and a worm from Alice Morison and his mother, Margaret, center. fishing, camping, picnicking and the Special Olympics. The more in-volved in the Special Olympics they became, the higher the praise they gave to a program that recognizes the needs of the special persons in their lives. " It's a program," Alice says, " that lets these kids have their mo ment of glory. " These kids go through life being told directly and indirectly that they can't do this or that. Then you see them doing things that everyone told them they can't do." For example, Alice tells of a girl she taught to play baseball. The girl hit the ball after a few practice swings. " She only hit the ball two feet, but her expression was worth 10,000 practice swings," Alice says. " Even if I didn't have Donme, I'd still be involved." Both women have pushed their sons, though they say that is unusual for the parents of handicapped chil dren. " If you tell me I tan't do some-thing, I'll do it," Alice sj. just to prove I can. " That's how I brought Donme up ' Margaret also has cncour, iged Trent to constantly expand his abili- - See MOM, Page 8A SurveyJ 10 drop In violent crime WASHINGTON ( UPI) Violent crime dropped 10 percent in 1983, the sharpest decline in six years, the Justice Department reported Sunday. There was a dramatic IS percent decline in personal rob-beries, the department said. The annual National Crime Sur-vey said Americans were the vic-tims of crime 2.9 million fewer times last year than in 1982. It found record low rates for several property crimes including theft, I which dropped 8 percent to the lowest level recorded in the sur-vey's 11- ye- ar history. I The government's survey is 1 based on interviews with 123,080 i people in 60,000 households. It is I considered by many to be a more J accurate gauge of crime in Ameri-- ca than other surveys because the victims of crimes are interviewed. In April, the FBI issued its pre-liminary crime statistics for 1983, which showed a similar pattern. The FBI, which bases its figures on crimes reported to police, found serious crime including rapes, assaults, thefts and other offenses dropped 7 percent in 1933, the biggest decline in 23 years. . Many criminologists believe the decline is due to the aging of the crime- pron- e baby- boo- m genera-tion, and crime wUl increase again in the late 1980s and early 1990s when children of the " baby boom-ers" reach the crime- plague- d teenage years. The Justice Department survey said the rate of residential bur-glaries declined by about 9 percent in 1983; assaults declined 7 per cent. Steven Schlesinger, head of the department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, said the drop in victimi-zation rates was due to several factors, including sentencing changes, shifts in population and " neighborhood watch" programs. " The increasing willingness of judges to send convicted felons to prison, which is reflected in rec-ord- high incarceration rates, may act as a deterrent by the mes- - g sage it sends to potential crimi-- nals," Schlesinger said. The report also said there were 1 approximately 568,000 fewer vio- - B lent victimizations rapes, per- - 8 sonal robberies and assaults thaninl932. I It noted there were 36.9 million g victimizations in 1933. I Mondale has a long list of potential VP choices WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Walter Mondale's virtual lock on the Demo-cratic presidential nomination has spurred the inevitable guessing game on possible running mates. Gary Harf The first woman? A Southerner or Westerner to balance the ticket? Geography, age. ideology and gen-der are among the considerations Mondale will weigh in choosing a vice presidential candidate. Would a Hart- Monda- le ticket be the strongest possible against Presi-dent Reagan? And would Hart ac-cept in the aftermath of the hard- - fought pnmarv campaign ' Should Democrats seloct a wom-an, putting aside the fa t that the party has no women politicians that now are household names . ktoss the nation' Does organized labor. oper: all the AFL- CI- O. have enough ilout to dictate Mondale's selection ' In these days of virtually instant mass communications, are regional considerations important enough to tip the selection toward the South or See SPECULATION Page8A Tubman rescued slaves; relative works to rescue spot in history BUCKTOWN, Md. ( UPI) - Deter-mination is what kept Harriet Tub-man smuggling black slaves to free-dom through Green Bnar Swamp and determination is what fuels a struggle to preserve a place in histo-ry for the American heroine. " To look at the swamp, it don't look like nothing particular," says Addie Clash Travers, 72, a distant relative of Tubman. " But that's where she ( Tubman) hid out. The slave church also means a lot to me. It don't look like nothing but it's all in the head." Travers has led an often discour-aging drive to promote the memory of the courageous black woman who helped hundreds of slaves escape the pre- Civ- il War South via the under- - ground railroad. Travers single- handed- ly founded " Harriet Tubman Day" nearly 17 years ago, a tune when fiery race ri-ots npped through Cambridge, the county seat of Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. " Sometimes you could count the heads ( at annual church services in Tubman's honor)," says Travers, who stubbornly persevered until last year when she saw standing room only at the Tubman ceremonies. Tubman, who often is called the " Moses of her People," was bom about 1820 in a slave cabin on the Brodas Plantation southwest of Cambridge near Bucktown. Original-ly named Ararrunta Ross, she even-tually assumed her mother's first name, Harriet, and later married a free Negro named John Tubman. She began her work of leading slaves to freedom about 1851, when she made contact with Quaker farm-ers and learned of local connections to the underground railroad Tubman is credited with helping about 300 slaves to freedom on 19 for-ays into Maryland after her own es-cape from slavery. She was so suc-cessful in her efforts that a bounty of $ 40,000 in gold was placed on her See TUBMAN'S, Page 8A |