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DATELINES Even the Least among Us WASHINGTON, D.C. On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley Jr. gunned down the President, his press secretary, a Secret Service agent, and a police officer in front of...
...Because of the President's involvement, however, the FBI soon took over the case and moved Hinckley from police headquarters to the Bureau's Washington field office...
...But nowhere in the discussion was it even considered that a good deal of the legalistic squabbling that is slowing things down could have been avoided by the simple expedient of having the constabulary act within the law...
...Tordon was used by the U.S...
...They fear their very identity—already strained by mass exodus and military control—will be lost unless they embrace their Islamic roots...
...Hinckley, like other Americans, possesses certain constitutional rights...
...But in the Middle East today, the rule seems to be violence, intolerance, and reaction...
...What next for Reuber...
...Keith Schneider (Keith Schneider is the editor ofSC Featured news service in Charleston, South Carolina...
...But in the very rawness of the production lies its appeal...
...This agency used him often...
...The change of heart underscores a number of recent moves by the Reagan Administration to strengthen ties with the apartheid state in the euphemistic name of "constructive engagement...
...They have shown a longstanding religious tolerance and include in their numbers a large Christian minority...
...Only four years ago, the Brotherhood was not considered a factor at all...
...Though the PLO charter still advocates the former position, most PLO leaders appear ready in practice to support the second...
...In March, The Washington Post editorially bemoaned the delays and, by implication, answered the first question yes and the second no...
...John Hinckley: The authorities were all too quick to break the law...
...Thus, Israel's apparent efforts to divide and conquer the Palestinians may backfire...
...It was known as Agent White...
...officials admit that one of the South Africans—Lieutenant General P.W...
...Hinckley was subdued immediately, the gun still in his hand...
...In January, at Najah University in Nablus, a Palestinian nationalist professor was attacked by a mob of militant Islamic students...
...But the oligarchic nature of the television industry has blocked alternatives until now, leaving most Americans reliant on the lighted box as their primary source of information...
...The public ought to have some assurance that officers of the law obey the law, simply to keep their cases free from the taint of illegality and avoid evidentiary challenges like these...
...Theoretically, there are few limits...
...Personal computers, communications equipment, chemicals, and industrial goods are now all fair game if they are not of "national security concern...
...Virtually the entire "Alternative Views" budget is devoted to the purchase of video cassettes, which cost about $30 each...
...Immediately after the assassination attempt, Hinckley was arrested and taken to Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, where he was read his Miranda rights by city police officers...
...By using the simple technology of video without succumbing to its seductive embellishments, Kellner and Morrow serve up diverse, provocative, and, often, emotionally intense shows...
...These gestures grow logically out of earlier ones: U.S.-run training for the South African coast guard, restoration of military attaches, and, reportedly, intelligence sharing...
...Interviews are usually videotaped at university facilities or at studios the franchisee provides for $15 per year...
...Cancer research at the Center is conducted under a contract from the NCI...
...The show's producers, Doug Kellner, a University of Texas philosophy professor, and Frank Morrow, an ex-GI doctoral candidate in communications, think it is the only news program of its kind in the United States...
...Kellner sees in "Alternative Views" a precursor to a "Left television network...
...The Moslem fundamentalists reject both...
...Together, they reverse what both Democratic and Republican Administrations have tried to do, however halfheartedly, for the past two decades: use export limits and other official policies to give South Africa a cold U.S...
...The FBI interrogation was not the last recorded instance of illegal Government behavior in Hinckley's case...
...As Miranda required, Hinckley was not interrogated, pending consultation with a lawyer...
...Before his ouster in April 1981, Reuber had become one of the nation's leading authorities on rodent liver tumors...
...He also reviewed slides prepared by Dow...
...And if "constructive engagement" flops, Reagan will have given away the store to apartheid, with precious little to show for it...
...And if she is not a full human being, she cannot be politically mature enough to be involved in the struggle...
...The set is the studio floor, with three metal folding chairs lined up to face the camera dead-on...
...The extreme Islamic Right is also on the rise on the West Bank...
...The FBI has long prided itself on its fair treatment of criminal suspects and has been quick to point out that its agents gave Miranda warnings twenty years before the Supreme Court required them to...
...Permanent residents are outnumbered by 400,000 refugees and their descendants, people uprooted from their farms and villages in the 1948 war who have lived ever since on the world's handouts...
...Relying on Supreme Court rulings of the past decade, the Federal appeals court declared that "prisoners retain some remnant of Fourth Amendment [prohibition of 'unreasonable searches and seizures'] rights consistent with the legitimate demands of prison security...
...Reuber charges in his suit that the Hanna letter was "personal" and "confidential," but was leaked to the press...
...In January, three busloads of Moslem rightists from Gaza came to Bir Zeit for a demonstration, passing through several Israeli army roadblocks...
...The decision requires police to advise suspects of their rights and to implement them when necessary...
...They were killing me...
...Had the officers involved in Hinckley's case acted within the law, justice could conceivably have been swifter and surer...
...The Israelis would then be up against a far more militant, irrational, and uncompromising force than they face now...
...At the Federal Corrections Institution at Butner, North Carolina, where Hinckley was held for psychiatric evaluation, prison guards routinely read his private papers—his diary, and notes he wrote on paper they provided— when he left his cell...
...If such a breakthrough occurs, it may salvage U.S...
...African policy in the eyes of many in the black continent...
...The technology is easily mastered and costs are modest...
...In the meantime, police went about their booking and processing business...
...The constitutional rights of prisoners have been defined in scantier detail and with less finality by the Supreme Court than those of suspects in criminal cases...
...The Hinckley family attorney, when finally found, advised the young man to call on a Washington lawyer, but the record does not show that any effort was made to contact the local man...
...In 1966, the two guarantees were welded together by the United States Supreme Court's decision in Miranda v. Arizona...
...For the past three years, a weekly news/ documentary program, "Alternative Views," produced in Austin and broadcast over the public access channel provided by the local cable franchisee, has been doing what the others do not: It presents very un-slick, intense, hour-long documentaries and interviews with the likes of Ramsey Clark, Russell Means, Stokely Carmichael, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, John Henry Faulk, George Wald, Helen Caldicott, William Kunstler, Daniel Ellsberg, and John Stockwell...
...And so are "ambulance aircraft...
...Some Islamic theologians, like Ali Shariarti, have led the way to ideologies as profoundly revolutionary as those of the activist priests in Latin America...
...Here, says Pari Sabati, an American teacher of Iranian extraction, women with dark complexions risk being stoned if seen jogging, or even driving a car on a side road...
...Many of the city's 260,000 inhabitants view the Center as a giant boondoggle, considering the dire poverty they see everywhere else...
...There is a problem here...
...Giving people the opportunity to know is the raison d'etre of "Alternative Views...
...The firm is a subsidiary of the state-owned South African Armaments Development and Manufacturing Corporation (ARMSCOR...
...Moreover, licenses to export computers destined for several South African ministries will be considered on a "case-by-case basis...
...More than a year passed, however, before a trial date was even set...
...The chemical has since been linked to a host of serious health disorders...
...What possible loss of evidence could have resulted from getting Hinckley the best lawyer in town...
...Reuber's resignation came after M.G...
...Where Gulf South and Dow pathologists saw no malignancies, Reuber saw one right after another—cancer throughout the bodies of rats fed large and small doses of picloram...
...Army in Vietnam, sprayed from tanker planes to kill plants that survived the onslaught of Agent Orange...
...Palestinian nationalism has traditionally been split: "Rejectionists" would see the Jewish state dissolved and a democratic secular state created, while more moderate forces advocate two nations, with a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...But the price, measured in support for apartheid, will be high...
...Already, despite the military embargo, the Administration has approved the export of a Sperry Rand Univac 1100 series computer for the Atlas Aircraft Corporation...
...Hanna, like his co-defendants in the suit, said he would not comment while litigation continues...
...Reuber's troubles began in 1979 when he wrote "Carcinogenicity of Picloram," a paper published last year in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health...
...Appeasing Apartheid WASHINGTON, D.C...
...When I asked Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker about the visit, he shrugged it off as routine, saying, "It's not our business who sits across from us at the negotiating table...
...companies to sell "non-military" goods to the South African military and police...
...But Reuber again reviewed Gulf South tissue slides and wrote a paper arguing that malathion was carcinogenic...
...At last, this stranglehold may be broken...
...The former prisoner broke into a sob, and, after being comforted by Morrow, said he wished to continue speaking: "I have a duty to say these things for the American people to know...
...I don't think Reuber's conclusions can be dismissed that easily...
...Rumblings on the Islamic Right GAZA Add another piece to the complex mosaic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the rise of right-wing Moslem fundamentalism among the Palestinians...
...Mary Khass, the Palestinian director of a kindergarten program sponsored by the United Nations and the American Friends Service Committee, believes "the Israelis would rather have the Palestinians praying in their mosques than agitating on the streets...
...With attacks on left-wing nationalists reported almost weekly, many students have learned to fear the Islamic Right as much as the Israeli occupation forces...
...The Carter Administration had halted even the sale of non-military items in an effort to tighten loopholes in the arms embargo against Pretoria...
...NCI cancer research studies show malathion to be non-carcinogenic...
...And residents of mountainous Cherokee County, North Carolina, cited Reuber's findings in their fight to ban Tordon from western North Carolina...
...The letter's The 'obstreperous' Melvin D. Reuber...
...The assassination attempt was witnessed by hundreds...
...Picloram is the primary ingredient of Dow Chemical's popular line of weed and brush killers, marketed under the trade name Tordon...
...But now, more and more Palestinians are beginning to equate modernization with the Israeli occupation...
...He was the Environmental Protection Agency's primary expert witness in hearings to ban five carcinogenic pesticides from the marketplace between 1973 and 1978...
...Nevertheless, some of Hinckley's private papers were confiscated, copied, and turned over to the FBI...
...Reuber's report helped the townspeople of Spooner, Wisconsin, convince the state Department of Natural Resources to suspend the use of Tordon in brush control there...
...And a young instructor at Bir Zeit University narrowly escaped assault by a dozen extremists during her lecture on Darwin's theory of evolution...
...Even if law enforcement's duty to obey the law were not a consideration, the practical results of sloppiness or overzealousness or whatever else tempts FBI agents and corrections officials to disregard the rules would be...
...hence the deep-seated distrust of the broadcast media...
...The movement has scored its biggest gains in the Gaza Strip, where 600,000 Palestinians crowd an eighty-square-mile stretch of land...
...In February, The New York Times asked in a news analysis, "Is this an example of a judicial system tied into knots by technicalities, a system that cannot give a quick answer to even the simplest of questions or administer swift and sure punishment...
...they are always arrested or forced back first...
...The Administration says an agreement is near on constitutional guidelines for an independent Namibia...
...Melvin D. Reuber, fifty-one, was the head of the Experimental Pathology Laboratory at the Frederick, Maryland, Cancer Research Center...
...The Fifth Amendment guaranteed him the right not to be compelled to incriminate himself...
...The Sixth Amendment guaranteed him the right to counsel...
...Nevertheless, FBI agents went right on asking not only for his vital statistics—which might be justified in a booking process—but also about his activities during the past year, his medical problems, his psychiatric treatments, and his relationship with his parents...
...And ARMSCOR is, naturally enough, wholly under the thumb of the South African Ministry of Defense...
...So far, so good...
...Hanna blamed Reuber for "obstreperous actions [which] have had a multimillion-dollar implication, giving the impression that the NCI may be administering programs of questionable competency...
...Prompt and effective exploitation of the opportunity could not only provide a valuable forum for the unfettered discussion of local or national issues...
...The degree of freedom such a state would grant Christian Palestinians and Israeli Jews, and the integrity it would permit their holy places, is questionable...
...All rights, however, are not signed away at the penitentiary gate...
...Compared to "Alternative Views," "Meet the Press" is a Busby Berkeley musical...
...The Federal district court declared that all evidence obtained during these FBI interviews with the suspect must be suppressed...
...According to Morrow, the show does nothing more or less than portray "reality...
...In his picloram research, Reuber studied hundreds of tissue slides prepared by the Gulf South Research Institute for a cancer study it conducted under NCI contract...
...Its looming presence may upset the calculations of the current Palestinian leadership in Israel and the occupied territories...
...If the Islamic Right continues to build, it could nullify the PLO's growing moderation...
...No other Palestinian demonstrators have pulled off such a feat...
...He charged Reuber with "carelessness" and "lack of professional expertise...
...The Frederick Center is a research laboratory owned and operated by Litton Bionetics, a subsidiary of the multi-billion-dollar Litton Industries of California...
...To that end, Kellner and Morrow hope to encourage activists around the country to set up their own shows on public access channels which, despite recent Supreme Court limitations, are still maintained by most cable franchisees...
...The FDA [Food and Drug Administration] used him often...
...The police and Secret Service agents told the FBI that Hinckley had asked for a lawyer and did not want to talk without one present...
...publication had a "devastating impact" on Reuber, says the suit, and caused "severe damage" to his career...
...These were, as the U.S...
...shoulder...
...Another Washington lawyer, told by a Federal magistrate that he might be appointed to the case, sought access to Hinckley, but the FBI hung up on him when he called for information...
...The Israeli government appears to be encouraging the Islamic Right's rise both in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank...
...Austerity marks the format as well as the budget...
...Islam, like its two monotheistic counterparts, Christianity and Judaism, has both its progressive and its reactionary elements— its William Sloane Coffins and Arthur Waskows, and its Jerry Falwells and Meir Kahanes...
...it could ultimately affect commercial television news by showing that the people, who by law own the airwaves, want more than they are getting...
...More than a year ago, when several key South African officials came to Washington to meet with United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and others from the State Department and Pentagon, a storm broke loose...
...It lets the Brotherhood run its own radio station and circulate publications, while banning virtually all media favoring the PLO position...
...Hanna, director of the Frederick Center, wrote a blistering letter of reprimand accusing him of involving himself in "controversies that have both scientific and economic impact...
...They got my testicles .. .opened my mouth with their fingers...
...Now, U.S...
...But final consensus has not yet materialized, and Pretoria has a way of backing out at the last minute...
...On the practical side, could the presence of a lawyer have jeopardized the case against a suspect caught in the act on national television...
...He said he wanted to talk to his father's attorney in Dallas before he answered any questions, and police tried to find the man, although unsuccessfully...
...And That's the Way It Really Is AUSTIN, TEXAS The ever-shriveling scope, the triumph of technique over content, and the cheerful rush to insipidity among anchors are all familiar aspects of television news...
...He had to withdraw the report from publication after Hanna's letter was printed in the petrochemical industry newsletter, but he defended it this way: "There's no other way to do a responsible job, except to say and publish the truth...
...Robert A. Manning (Robert A. Manning is the Washington correspondent for the London-based Africa magazine and writes frequently about foreign affairs...
...The agent left the room, but another came right back in, asking about Hinckley's "girl friend...
...Their adversaries are not just fringe groups...
...Now, the pressure is on for dress codes, curriculum, and student life that follow a strict reading of the Koran...
...Viewers know this...
...And Israeli authorities seem willing, even glad, to see it take hold...
...The show operates on an annual budget of about $1,000, not counting the considerable time donated by Morrow and Kellner, who schedule guests, edit tapes, research proposed topics, and do all the other things most "producers" have twenty eager young assistants to handle...
...They want a Moslem state, like Khomeini's Iran, in all of what was formerly Palestine...
...Ever...
...I'm certain Hanna had pressure from industry to get rid of me...
...gunned down the President, his press secretary, a Secret Service agent, and a police officer in front of the Washington Hilton...
...I don't know of any other human pathologist who has as much experience in experimental pathology," says Adrian Gross, senior science advisor in the EPA's Hazard Evaluation Division...
...Now we're saying he's incompetent...
...Here, too, the Israeli-appointed mayor of the city of Gaza has opened an Islamic Cultural Center, apparently with funding from Saudi Arabia...
...So unless women are liberated, the whole people cannot be liberated...
...Much of the letter was later published in Pesticide and Toxic Chemical News, a major petrochemical industry newsletter...
...They were like animals...
...Beech Aircraft, according to Africa News, has applied to the Commerce Department for permission to sell up to ten SuperKing turboprops to the South African air force...
...Kirkpatrick claimed she did not know who they were until it was too late...
...Each year, Morrow's documentary on the history and effects of atomic war is shown, including rare footage of art work from survivors of the Nagasaki bombing...
...An especially wrenching interview featured a former political prisoner of the shah of Iran describing his torture at the hands of SAVAK: "They fastened me to a bed, half-naked...
...Whistleblower's Revenge COLUMBIA, MARYLAND One of the nation's top experimental pathologists, forced to resign a key cancer research position last year after telling rural people across the country that pesticides sprayed where they live were carcinogenic, has filed a $7 million lawsuit against officials of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Litton Industries, charging they conspired with petrochemical industry leaders to "ruin him professionally...
...Dow and Shell and DuPont have been gunning for me for a long time," Reuber says...
...Anyone tuned in to one of the 130 editions shown so far would probably agree...
...From the happy talk and video gimmicks of local newscasts to the corporate paranoia of the networks, television's current events reporting has become almost dysfunctional...
...Van Der Westhuizen, chief of military intelligence for the white minority regime— has been back, and that the State Department knew about it a week in advance...
...The Administration hopes its "constructive engagement" policy will induce South Africa to cooperate on Namibia...
...A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed, in a per curiam opinion handed down in February...
...The Reagan Administration has been leading a group of five Western nations in negotiations over Namibia with South Africa, the South West African People's Organization, and the African frontline states...
...A Gaza teen-ager who writes an anti-Israeli slogan on a wall is apt to be surrounded by troops in minutes, but no one bothered a mob of Moslem extremists who sacked and burned a PLO social welfare office—even though the police station was right across the street...
...Slightly altered versions of the same planes are used by all four branches of the U.S...
...Traditionally, Palestinians have been the best educated, most Western of the Arab peoples...
...The South Africans had been banned from Washington as a matter of officially-stated policy, yet there they were...
...In April, the North Carolina Department of Human Resources announced it would study rapidly rising cancer death rates in two western North Carolina counties and test soil and water samples for the presence of picloram...
...Rod Davis (Rod Davis, former editor of The Texas Observer, teaches English at the University of Texas in Austin...
...Hinckley, like other inmates, possessed "some remnant" of a right to privacy...
...National television broadcast it across the country...
...It may win the Bir Zeit elections next time...
...For example, within a week of the general's visit, the Administration said it would ease restrictions on exports to South Africa...
...But the Administration's hope that a placated South Africa would end its illegal occupation of Namibia and grant independence and free elections won out...
...Or is it a model of an adversary system in which, at its best, all citizens are more free because of painstaking procedures to safeguard the rights of even the most despised among them...
...It is difficult to estimate the size and influence of the Moslem Brotherhood...
...Liva Baker (Liva Baker is writing a book on Miranda v. Arizona, to be published by Atheneum...
...She also sees something for the Israelis in the Brotherhood's conservative stance on women: "If a woman cannot be liberated as a woman, she cannot be a full human being...
...Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia described them, "highly trained agents whose job it is to prevent and investigate assassination attempts on major political figures...
...In the November-December 1978 issue of The Socialist Review, he wrote, "It is incorrect to argue that television is in itself evil or regressive...
...This second point appears to have been lost on the authorities in Hinckley's case...
...At one point, Hinckley asked his interrogators to stop until he could talk with a lawyer...
...First the Federal district court, then the Federal appeals court declared the papers inadmissible as evidence...
...The loss that resulted from the agents' failure to respond to Hinckley's requests, however, could be serious...
...Put that kind of muscle together long enough and eventually there will be some changes made...
...The Moslem Brotherhood controls the student council at Najah and won 42 per cent of the vote in student elections in Bir Zeif, long the hub of Palestinian nationalism on the West Bank...
...Last spring, Reuber did it again: He warned Californians about the dangers of malathion, an insecticide being sprayed from helicopters to kill fruit flies...
...Morrow and Kellner, often in jeans and sweatshirts, typically flank their guests and carry on open-ended discussions with what seems but a mild regard for the presence of the video equipment...
...A program exposing boy prostitution operations drew such a reaction that one of the guest panelists, University of Texas Professor Tom Philpott, was later shot and wounded at his home, apparently by persons connected with prostitution...
...Television is an instrument of unrealized possibilities...
...military, and were used in Vietnam for electronic surveillance and transport...
...And after much debate, the Reagan Administration has also decided to give a green light to the export of a Control Data Corporation Cyber 170/750...
...Why the apparent Israeli collaboration...
...They called in soldiers [who whipped him]----This continued the whole day until evening...
...Stephen Zunes (Stephen Zunes is a graduate student at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C...
...These were the officers who ignored Hinckley's repeated requests for legal help...
...Their loose ideological affinity reflects the constantly evolv: ing pattern of other fronts and coalitions in Middle Eastern politics...
...But even then, the Congressional Black Caucus and other groups called for her resignation...
...The new policy, in effect since March 1, allows U.S...
...The sale raised some eyebrows at the Pentagon, since the computer can code and decode intelligence and handle some of the crucial calculations for nuclear weapons-making...
...Now the BBC is interested in airing it...
...From its beginnings in Egypt in the 1930s and its spreading influence in the Levant in the 1950s, until its renaissance in Egypt and Syria in recent years, many groups have formed, coalesced, and dissipated under the Brotherhood rubric...
...This extremely sophisticated computer will go to the state-run Council on Scientific and Industrial Research, which coordinates engineering and research for the government...
Vol. 46 • June 1982 • No. 6
