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/ V s Turner’s Man Terry BY MONSIGNOR NOEL BURTENSHAW You could call him Ted Turner’s top project promoter and confidential inside executive. “Don’t do that” says six foot three Terry McGuirk “call me a trusted lieutenant.” Whatever you decide to call this right hand of Turner Communications you’ll find him on the inside of the doings of Mr. Ted. Right now, Terence McGuirk, 28 and growing, sits on the edge of the most exciting project in the expanding art of the television camera since Super Station-Channel 17 was born. And he attended that birth too. “I came on board with Ted Turner in 1973 straight out of college,” says the bachelor redhead “in fact my Dad and I passed each other on the road. He, another Terry, was leaving Channel 5 for Albany, New York and I was headed for the sunny south. Channel 17 was just coming alive.” Well, 17 is alive and doing fine. It now penetrates 8 million homes. The Cable News Network is next. June 1, 1980 will see the beginning of an era which has grown from the wild, but wonderfully working, ideas of Ted Turner. Cable News Network (CNN) will be an around the clock, 24 hours news service. The kernel will be a two hour prime time newscast beginning at 8:00 p.m. But for the first time the nation will have an all-news TV network. “Cronkite and Company,” says McGuirk “give you the world’s happenings, once each day in 24 minutes. We say there’s more, lots more.” Where did the idea for Cable News Network originate. “Turner of course,” says the smiling Cathedral parishioner. “Ted conceived the Super Station idea, not strictly from research, but rather from a seat of the pants decision. CNN has been something similar.” Ted Turner sees the media of television line up in this order. Number one is sports. Then comes movies, next the Archie Bunker type Sit-Coms and finally news. “Channel 17 gives us the first three,” says Terry “now we are going after The last.” Will it work? Will people buy into the Cable for the all-news station? Terry McGuirk has the answer. “The Pros think so. Daniel Schorr is on board and he is a respected veteran. Anchor people from 20 markets have signed with us. Ralph Nader will do a daily piece, so will Barry Goldwater, William Simon, and Dr. Joyce Brothers. The Pros like the idea, it will work.” It better. The start up costs for this the 5th Network (McGuirk says the current Channel 17 is the 4th) is 50 million dollars and when it starts operations in June the bill will be 2 million a month. The figures are most believable when you see the rising Turner conglomeration in mid town Atlanta. The old Standard Club with it’s adjoining 22 acres was purchased, gutted and expertly carved into the nation’s most up to date network studio. Like a giant Disney space condominium, with glass walls and blinking gagets the 90,000 square feet are reaching for a completion date of early summer. “Then the army of trained experts will move in,” says Terry in anticipation” and we can’t wait. This will really be a center of Communications. Large hotels want to locate close to us and news people from round the nation are visiting to look. It’s happening here in Atlanta.” You look and you readily believe this lieutenent of the terrible Ted. The figures are frightening, but not to Terry. “Listen,” he smiles, “we will start with 3 ] /2 million Cable homes, who knows what it will be in a year. Cable News Network is bringing hope to the industry. Besides we have already seven sales people on the road.” Will the new venture be quality? The answer is fired at you in a returning question. “Is TV quality now? Ted Turner is a great humanist. To him life is a game to be played and enjoyed. And the marvelous thing is he wants those who work for him to enjoy it too. And so he gets the best from his people. He gets quality.” It will be tough going financially for a few years and Terry McGuirk knows it. “When we started Channel (Continued on page 2) Terry McGuirk *9 Arlington Cemetery Like an ugly reminder of pain endured, the eternal flame still burns. If you look back over your shoulder, the tunnel-like view through the trees, across the Potomac, into the heart of Washington is spectacular. You remember that somber route, taken by the procession 15 years ago, as John F. Kennedy was brought here to Arlington for final rest. T w e n t y minutes ago, along with a friend from the Washing ton press, you attended the News Confer- e n c e of Secretary Brown in the stiff and starchy halls of the Pentagon. The heart-breaking high point of that sad confession was the dreadful realization, those who died were still lying in the deserts of Iran. Their place was surely here in Arlington among heros who answered a call.. Their headstones should pronounce their honorable deed, laying down life for a friend without - ever reasoning why. Yes, they should be here, in this sacred place, to rest. You look at the tasteful quotes chiselled into the walls of the Kennedy tomb. He said them as our youngest President and now this day, as misery and hopelessness spread their evil layers, these words bring new meaning and a glimmer of fresh strength. “Let the word go forth to friend and foe alike . . . we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship . . .” We have paid the price. With patience and muted meekness we have asked that innocent men and women be returned. But with vicious glee, puny captors have simply poured vinegar into the open wounds of our painful requests. We have borne the burdens. Fanatics stand dangerously close to the fringe of lunacy. Round table agreements concocted by reasonable men find only demented rejection. Commandos were sent to steal back what was ours. We bear the burden of their failure and their death. But still we will meet any hardship. Our backs are to the wall. We have made our pleas. We have gone the way of arbitration. We have used the halls of United Nations. We have sought the World Court verdict. We have passed the test of patience. The High Priests of Islam may now wake the sleeping giant as their open flaunting fanaticism carries them into possible oblivion. These thoughts of humiliation and terror pass through your mixed up mind as you stand among the beautiful blooms of Arlington. Above you on the incline, the guard changes in slick precision at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. And the eternal flame still bums. ■ ; Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 18 No. 18 Thursday, May 1, 1980 $6.00 Per Year Bishops Request Restraint By US BiiiaiK I1S1I TEKAKW1THA CELEBRATION ~ Rejoicing at the news that Kateri Tekakwitha will be beatified by Pope John Paul II, members of the Kateri Society of the Pueblo, Colo., diocese celebrate the 300th anniversary of her death with RESCUE MISSION a Mass at Holy Rosary Church in Pueblo. Members of the society have been publicizing the life of the “Lily of the Mohawks” for four years seeking her canonization. Vatican Silent On Deaths BY NANCY FRAZIER VATICAN CITY - A Vatican spokesman declined to comment April 28 on reports from Iran that the Holy See may be asked to be an intermediary in the transfer of the bodies of Americans killed in the aborted mission to rescue U.S. hostages. “I have said nothing and I will have nothing to say” about the reports, said Father Romeo Panciroli, director of the Vatican press office. The Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, president of Iran’s Revolutionary Court, said April 27 in Teheran, Iran, that the bodies would not be released to anyone acting for the U.S. government, but might be released to a third party such as a delegation from the Vatican. He specifically mentioned Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, former Mel kite-Rite patriarchal vicar of Jerusalem, as a possible Vatican-appointed intermediary. Archbishop Capucci has visited Teheran three times since the Iranian revolution, but Vatican spokesmen have emphasized that he made the trips on a private basis. The archbishop, who was convicted of gun-running for Palestinian guerrillas in 1974 but released from Israeli prison in 1977, was not available for comment. In Teheran, the Ayatollah Khalkhali said nine bodies had been recovered from the Iranian desert after the United States abandoned an attempt April 25 to rescue the hostages held since Nov. 4 at the U.S. embassy in Teheran. The United States said eight Americans were killed in the aborted rescue mission. In Rome, Jan Queen of Lincolnville, Maine, reportedly met with Cardinal William Baum, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education and former archbishop of Washington, and Cardinal Egidio Vagnozzi, chamberlain of the College of Cardinals, at the Vatican April 24. Cardinal Baum’s office could not immediately confirm that the meeting took place. Mrs. Queen’s son, Richard, the U.S. vice consul in Teheran, is among the hostages. She was on a European tour to gain support for the release of the hostages. After news of the failed U.S. rescue operation reached Rome, she said, “I cannot believe that the Iranian people can associate the operation with the fate of the hostages.” Addressing a news conference at Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci Airport before leaving for Luxembourg, Mrs. Queen added, “I hope and pray that they will understand. I am nevertheless worried as I believe any mother in my position would be.” Vatican sources said Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials were watching the Iranian situation closely after the failed rescue mission. Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, apostolic nuncio in Iran, has been asked to keep the Vatican constantly up-to-date on developments and other Vatican diplomats were requested to transmit world reaction to the situation, the sources said. WASHINGTON (NC) - The president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) has advised ‘‘a continued policy of patience and restraint” in a statement issued after a U.S. mission to rescue the hostages in Iran was aborted. Noting that all Americans feel frustrated by the plight of the hostages and desire their speedy release, the NCCB president, Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, called the behavior of the responsible parties in Iran “an affront not just to the United States but to basic human rights.” “Nevertheless,” he said in the April 25 statement, “the recent events, even though they underline the gravity of the situation and reflect an understandable desire to take action, do point to the wisdom of a continued policy of patience and restraint. ‘‘The international community has a serious responsibility in this matter,” Archbishop Quinn continued, “since the issue does not simply pit the United States against Iran, but raises severe questions of human rights and international law.” The archbishop said he prayed that the U.S. government would continue to pursue possibilities in the international forum, “frustrating as such an approach may be.” He said he prayed also for the hostages and for the eight Americans who died in the collision of two U.S. aircraft during the attempt to withdraw the failed mission from Iran. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit, who visited the hostages at Christmastime, said, “My main concern was that we would not be able to bring them out safely.” Even after reading newspaper accounts of the rescue plan, he said, he considered the operation “very highly risky” and capable of succeeding only if everything worked “100 percent.” “I feel so close to the hostages,” Bishop Gumbleton said, “that I felt it would not be worth it to take the risk.” Having seen the set-up of the embassy compound and the determination of those holding the hostages and others to resist, the bishop said, he thought there would have been massive resistance. “I felt very distressed that we would risk the lives of the hostages that way,” he said. The bishop was also critical of making the rescue attempt after telling U.S. allies that military action would not be taken. Japan had said it had been humiliated by being misled, he noted. Cubans Keep Coming Hyde: Decision Out The arguments are over and now both sides - those who favor life and those who oppose it - are waiting for the Supreme Court to hand down a decision in the Hyde Amendment case. The issue is constitutional; does the Congress have the right to limit the use of federal funds in abortions to those cases in which the life of the mother is at stake? The government says yes; however New York court said no and the issue went before the United States Supreme Court. The Justice Department says the matter is one of the Congress’s right to budget. Those who wish to overturn the Hyde Amendment say that abortion is a right that all women have and that limiting it by any means is unconstitutional. There are at least three issues at stake - the definition of medically necessary abortions, an earlier Supreme Court ruling that says states do not have to fund non-therapeutic abortions, and the argument that the judiciary has no right to be involved with the budgeting process. With so many issues to consider no one is predicting the court’s decision on this case. NC News -- ‘‘The Cuban community is going through an emotional moment,” said a Miami pastor, Father Jose Nickse, as Cuban-Americans began rescue attempts to bring refugees to Florida. “It’s the opportunity to go down in boats' and literally bring back relatives.” But as storms lashed the Key West, Fla., area April 27, emotions turned to grief and fright and sent people waiting on the shore to their knees in prayer for those still at sea. Families and volunteer workers could only wait as U.S. Coast Guard rescue teams, augumented on presidential order because of concerns for the safety of the flotillas, fished people from a turbulent sea. No lives were reported lost following the storm. Father Nickse, pastor of Christ the King Parish, predicted April 28 that the rescues would continue with the return of favorable weather. “It would be difficult to stop. When it amounts to rescuing a brother or a sister or a mother or father, people will do anything,” he said. Father Nickse said he thought the boatlift, which has brought more than 3,500 refugees to Florida in defiance of U.S. government warnings, would continue “unless another alternative is offered.” Even before the storm, dangers arose because of the small boats used and the inexperienced sailors. Many boats had been considered unseaworthy to start with and were manned by people with no sailing experience, using no radios or charts. “No one can be indifferent to the dramatic effort by Cuban-Americans to bring, at risk of life and limb, their relatives and friends out of Cuba,” said Archbishop Edward McCarthy of Miami April 25. “We recognize the seriousness of such unregulated and unorganized an exodus,” he added. The U.S. Catholic Conference’s Migration and Refugees Services (MRS) representatives in Miami began immediately helping the first waves of refugees who fled Cuba. “The situation is very muddled,” according to Don Hohl, associate director of MRS. He said the agency had originally offered to accept 3,500 of the more than 10,000 Cubans who had taken refuge in the Peruvian embassy in Havana. But, with the stream of refugees fleeing Cuba by boat, “we can’t have any orderly movement if they are brought in this manner to the United States,” he said. . Father Nickse said the exiled Cuban community has raised close to $500,000 for the refugees. “Families are taking care of their own here,” he said, and there is “money and food to support those who have no families. They will be very little burden to Dade County (Fla.).”