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THK BAYTOWN SI N
Friday, June 26, 1987
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Jack Anderson
Jackson incident recalled
Plan backfires
Political strategy devised by Polish leader Gen. Wo-
jciech Jaruzelski and other high government officials
designed to turn Pope John Paul’s visit to his native land
into a victory for the government backfired.
Soon after the Vatican announced the pope’s schedule,
Gen. Jaruzelski’s government set about to make the
Roman Catholic Church’s world leader welcome. They
hoped by “courting” John Paul they somehow could win
support of Polish Catholics, which would help them in
keeping the Polish free trade union Solidarity from re-
emerging.
The communist government’s strategy evaporated v,
the moment the pope began to speak before a throng of
300,000 plus. He had met with Gen. Jaruzelski shortly
after tps arrival and urged him to respect human rights.
' Jaruzelski had promised reforms in 1980 and 1981
when Solidarity was at the height of its popularity.
Pope John Paul told the cheering crowd that the
outlawed Solidarity movement, forced underground by
martial law six years ago, remains essential to the
struggle for freedom in Poland.
“Yes, Solidarity purifies struggle,” the pontiff
declared, “a struggle for humafi rights and his (man’s)
rights, for his genuine progress is in order. This is a
struggle for a more mature way of life.”
It was the first time the Polish-born pope had visited
the cradle of Solidarity since assuming the papacy in
1978. He had met with Lech Walesa, Founder of Solidari- watched^ Jackain on tV thV nPvt~mnmTng
ty, who had had a difficult time staying out of com-
munist jails since Jaruzelski’s government outlawed the
only democratic union in communist Europe in 1981.
Only fear of an uncontrollable uprising had kept
Jaruzelski’s government from imprisoning Walesa, pro-
bably the most respected man in Poland.
From Sun files
WASHINGTON - The Rev. Jesse Jack-
son’s emergence in front of the pack in the
Democratic -presidential race is widely
attributed to his greater name recognition.
How he achieved celebrity status is, there-
fore, a matter of legitimate public concern.
Jackson became a media star literally
overnight, within hours of the assassination
of Dr, Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4,
1968. Jackson was only 26, a junior member
of the Southern Christian Leadership Con-
ference. He was part of King’s party in Mem-
phis, Tenn., on the fatal day.
Jackson’s actions — and the media’s ins-
tant lionizing of him — still mystify some of
King’s old associates after 19 years. He flew
home to Chicago within hours after the
assassination.
“We saw him on TV at the Midway Airport
in Chicago doing a press conference,” re-
called the Rev. Bernard Lee, then a special
assistant to King, now an aide to Washington
Mayor Marion Barry. “All of us were sur-
prised to see him doing a press conference.
He had some blood on his shirt, saying ‘This
is Dr. King’s blood.’ I personally did not see
him touch Dr. King.”
Another SCLC leader interviewed by our
reporter Lisa Sylvester was the Rev. Hosea
Williams, now a member of the Atlanta City
Council.
“Jesse was talking to the press out in the
yard after we were sure Dr. .King was ab-
solutely dead,” he recalled. “Jesse was talk-
ing to the press and showed them the blood
on his shirt, and I know the blood didn’t come
from Dr. King. I reacted very violently.”
Williams said he and other King associates
“Jesse said he was feeling bad and sick.
Before we knew it, he was on the ‘Today
Show.’ 1 thought it was horrible,” Williams
said. “Jesse flew out that night to Chicago.
Why would he keep a bloody -shirt on all*
night? The blood did not come from the body
of Dr. King.”
Williams attributes Jackson’s actions at
the time to his youth. “I feel very bad about
It,” Williams said. “He was just a young man
and made a mistake. It could hurt him.”
The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, who
succeeded King as head of the SCLC, ex-
pressed a similar view. Abernathy, who was
the first to reach King’s side when he fell to
the floor of the motel balcony, said he has
heard of press accounts saying Jackson was
the first to reach the fallen leader and the
last person to talk to him.
Jesse Jackson became a
media star overnight,
within hours of the
assassination of Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. He was
part of King's party in
Memphis, Tenn., on that
fatal day, April 4,1968.
“I am sure the press has been told that,”
Abernathy said. "But that was not important
to me, because we had lost our leader. 1 can
only say Jesse has grown He has matured
greatly.”
Abernathy and Williams both recalled
Jackson being in the motel courtyard near
the balcony when the fatal shot was fired, but
they have no recollection that he reached
King’s side. Yet the news account in the Chi-
cago Defender of April 8, 1968, said.
“(Jackson) said he rushed to Dr King’s side
immediately, but got no response when he
asked, •Doe, can you hear me?’ ”
We called Jackson’s campaign office for
comment. His press aide, Frank Watkins,
said Jackson makes no claim that he spoke
with King after the shooting. He said that
just before the murder, Jackson was in the
motel courtyard talking with King as he
stood on the balcony. Watkins suggested that
could be the basis for the claim that Jackson
was the last person to talk to King.
As for the blood on Jackson’s shirt, Wat-
kins said: “Were there other people shoU?
i’m"jdst talking about the logic of it. Where
did it come from if no one else was shot?”
The press aide noted that Williams is the
only one who directly charges Jackson with
having exploited King’s martyrdom.
POISON GAS in the Gulf - A U N. investi-
gating team ha? uncovered discouraging
developments iii the Persian Gulf war: Iran
has apparently retaliated against Iraqi use
of poison gas with chemical attacks of its
own. f
Four doctors — from Australia, Spain,
Sweden and Switzerland — made three visits
to the desert battlefields They found Iraqi
soldiers who had been exposed to a severe
irritant, which they concluded was probably
phosgene gas. Their injuries were different
from those caused by mustard gas, which
Iraq has used against Iran, so they could not
have been the result of accidental mishand-
ling of Iraqi chemical weapons Document-
ing the gruesome indiscriminate nature of
chemical warfare, the doctors cited the case
of an Iranian peasant family: a pregnant
mother Jnd her daughters ages 2 and 4 who
had been exposed to mustard gas The doc-
tors performed an emergency tracheotomy
to help the 4-year-old breathe, but she died
within two hours. ~ .....
The U S. team returned from its latest trip
last month and reported: "In our view, only
concerted efforts at the political level can be
effective in ensuring that all the signatories
of the Geneva Protocol of 1925 abide by (it).”
Joseph Spear assisted l mted Feature cotum/usl Jack .Krtdersor.
m writing today « story
Thomas Wright, pioneer
resident, died at age 79
CjftF. news fv
seflviCTt
. From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO '
Thomas Wright, 79, pioneer
resident of Cedar, Bayou and
founder of Old Goose Creek, died
early today. A native of
England, he came"here with liis
parents when he was a small
boy. The family lived at Cedar
Bayou. Wright was the owner of
the original Goose Creek town-
site, east of the Southern Pacific
railroad, and promoted and
developed the townsite. A por-
tion of of the propperty on the
east side is still owned by rel-
atives of Wright. He was vice
president of the old Guaranty
State Bank, a director of Securi-
ty State Bank and had an in-
terest in a brickyard in Cedar
Bayou at one time. ’ >
Reuben Japser Tompkins. 63,
died of a heart attack last night...
For many years he oeprated a
blacksmith shop in Cedar Bayou
and t)wned an undertaking
establishment.
50 YEARS AGO
More than 3,000 people gather
for the dedicaion of Chambers
County’s new $280,000 air-condj-
tioned courthouse in Anahuac.
M'aster of ceremonies is Guy
Cade Jackson, county judge and
a leader in the movement to
build the new courthouse, after
the old structure was destroyed
by fire.
School trustees award a
$65,104 contract to General Gulf
Co. of Houston for a new class-
room lying at Robert E. Lee
High School.
40 YEARS AGO
City manager C.R Myers
-resigns. A former mayor of
Goose Creek, he became city
manager of Pelly in 1946 and his
year inherited the task of man-
, aging the enlarged city after
-consolidation of Baytown, Pelly
and Goose Creek. »>
30 YEARS AGO
Capt. John Kader, former
commanding officer of Company
E, Texas National Guard in Bay-
town,” is killed in a car-truck col-
lision on Highway 75 ne?ar Con-
roe.
20 YEARS AGO
John C. Echols becomes presi-
dent of Goose Creek Country
Club. He replaces Jim Black,
who resigned this week because
of a new assignment for Marbon.
.Black will be’ moving to Baton
Rouge, La., to supervise the con-
struction of ^?tyi^ne plant of
Marbon. After its completion.
Black-will manage the plant.
Asa Morgan Wilburn died to-
day at his home. He was lifelong
resident of Baytown.
Bob Davis is promoted to man-"
ager of Bay Fair at Bay Plaza.
Kathryn Priest of Baytown is.
named on tjie dean’s list at
Texas Christian University.
I Vincent Carroll
Supreme Court content to
r just peck at edge of issues
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Thank the Supreme Court for small favors.
They’re very likely to be the only ones you’ll get. •
That’s because the court seems to content itself
with pecking at the edge of issues. Its recent deci-
sion protecting property owners, from unjust
regulation is simply one more proof of the pattern
— although it was greeted, depending on the
source, wif}i lavish praise or regret.
Actually, the case involved sudh an extreme in-
stance of governmental “taking” of property that
it is a wonder even three justices would dissent.
<• Judge for yourself: A church in Glendale, Calif.,
tried to reopen a recreational complex after a
flood, but was prevented by a new drainage or-
dinance. So the church sued for compensation,
pointing out it had lost all use of its property.
If the county had simply seized the entire 21
acres, the effect on the church could hardly have
been worse. ° j
Not exactly a subtle case, right? In fact, the
shower of publicity it received only underlines the
more typical impotence of citizens these days
before official edicts reducing the,value of their
property.
Still, perhaps we should be grateful whenever
the court does manage to notice the Fifth Amend-,
ment’s requirement of “just compensation” for
government seizures. •
This decision may not have been bold, but at
least it reminds us that constitutional ptptections
extend beyond personal liberties such as freedom
of religion and of speech.
Most people forget the extent to which the Con-
stitution emphasizes economic rights, too. Yet this
amnesia is probably natural, since courts have
often shared ft during the past few decades.
Consider the fate of the Fourteenth Amendment,
which says no state shall “deprive any person of
life, liberty or property Without due process of
law.”
As Harvard professor Stephen Macedo has writ-
ten, this amendment clearly means to limit "the
ways in which the state can interfere with private
relations."
Yet, Macedo notes: "The court has simply
shifted its inquiries away from the economic
sphere When it comes to state economic regula-
tion. the court requires nothing more than the
merest ‘rationality’ to justify restrictions on in-
dividual liberty.”
The fault doesn’t lie with ‘‘liberal’'
jurisprudence, either. Conservative judges defer
regularly to laws eroding property rights, too.
That’s one reason Richard Epstein’s book, “Tak-j
ings: private Property and the Power of Eminent
Domain,” created a stir when it was published a
couple of years ago.
With forbidding logic, this University of Chicago
law professor flattened the legal consensus.
Epstein favors a principled activism for courts,
one that entrenches individual rights against
government in all spheres — including the
economic.
The sad alternative submits personal treasure to
lawmaker whim, a lesson bitterly learned by the
people of a Detroit neighborhood a few years ago.
They resisted a plan to condemn and raze tpdir
homes so that General Motors could buildXnew
plant, yet the Michigan Supreme Court refused to
intervene on their behalf.
Tfever mind that both state and federal constitu-
tions restrict seizure by eminent domain to a
“public use,” and that” GMhardly a unit of
government.
They said a “public b^nbfit” was reason enough
to proceed. .
By that standard, ttf course, the locality council
could declare yptir downstairs bathroom a public
latrine and invite in the Fourth of July parade.
All righj/let’s be fair. Even the Supreme Court
would prbbably balk at that one.
newspaper Enterprise Association
Today in history
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
On June 26. 1945, the charter of
the United Nations was signed
by 50 countries in San Francisco
The text of the charter was in.
five languages: Chinese.
English, French; Russian and
Spanish__________________
On this date: ^
In 1870. the first section of the
boardwalk in Atlantic City. N.J .
was opened to the public^
In 1900. a commission that in-
cluded Dr Walter Rt>ed began
the fight against the i deadly
disease yellow fever
In 1917, the first troops of the
American Expeditionary Force
arrived in France during Wofjd
War I' . 4
In 1948, in response to the
Soviet blockade of Berlin, the
United States announced it
would increase its daily cargo
flights to the isolated German cF
ty
In 1959, President Dwight”D
Eisenhower joined Britain's*
Queen E1 i z‘a b e t h 11 in
ceremonies officially opening
aiw rente Seaw ay —
in 1963. President John F
Kennedy visited West Berlin,
where he declared. "Ich bin ein
Berliner 11 am a Berliner i " ’
In 1975, citing what she called
a "deep and widespread con
spiracy" against her govern
ment. Indian Prime M+nister'In-
dira Gandhi declared a state of
'emergency '■ '
. In 1984. with only four seconds
remaining in the countdown, the
maiden launch of the space
shuttle Discovery was scrubbed
when a problem developed in an
engine fuel valve.
Ten years ago: Forty-two peo-
ple were killed when a fire, caus-
ed bv an inmate who had ignited
padding material in his cell,-sent
toxic smoke pouring through the
Maury County Jail in Columbia,
Tenn.
Five years ago: The-Unite
States vetoed a-United Natjdns
Security Council resolutiohcall-
ing for a limited withdrawal
from Beirut of Israeli and
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion forces.
One year/ago: Vbtefs in
Ireland decided by a more than
3-2 margin against a proposal
that would have, ended the na-
tion’s constitutional ban on
vorce.
Thought for Today: "The
United Nations was set. up not to
get us to heaven, but only to save
us from hell.” - Sir Winston
Churchill, British statesman
(1874-1965).
’■ Bible verse
•*> *
For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth In
Hint should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
«*- • John 3:16
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