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— Griffin Daily News Thursday,Septembers, 1977
Page 10
G. Gordon Liddy remains silent
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - On
this third anniversary of Rich
ard M. Nixon’s “full, free and
absolute pardon” another ma
jor Watergate figure, G. Gordon
Liddy, is tasting his first full
day of absolute freedom in more
than four years.
His first night out of prison
was spent with his wife in a
fancy Washington hotel not far
Parent Power
The ‘special’ child
(Eighth in a series)
By John Douglas
In the last analysis, the
question facing the parents of
a child whose abilities or han
dicaps set him apart from his
classmates is this: Should the
child be enrolled in a special
school or program? In the
nations public school
systems, at least, this ques
tion is largely being answered
for you. Current educational
philosophy and recent civil
rights legislation both dictate
that such children be
‘‘mainstreamed’’ into regular
school classrooms. Unfor
tunately, the facilities and
teacher training needed to
make mainstreaming run
smoothly have not always
been provided.
The Education of All Han
dicapped Children Act of 1975
requires that, from 1978 on,
states must provide “free, ap
propriate education” to all
handicapped children, and
promises that the federal
government will pay 40 per
cent of the excess cost. The
effect of this legislation will
be that all but the most
severely handicapped
children will be integrated
into regular classrooms.
Theoretically, this will insure
that they receive a 'normal''
education in an environment
more like that of the world at
large Also, in theory, the
average children will learn
about handicaps in this en
vironment and thus become
more tolerant and understan
ding
Critics of this trend point
out that unless such integra
tion is conducted with con
siderable care, there could be
a severe backlash Some
school systems are reportedly
using the concept of
“mainstreaming” as an ex
cuse to save money by simply
doing away with existing
special programs for the han
dicapped. Unions are up in
arms over the possible loss of
jobs for “special ed”
teachers. And a report by the
“Congressional watchdog”
General Accounting Office
glumly concludes that the
U.S. Office of Education is not
living up to its obligation of
providing enough money to
retrain regular teachers to
handle the handicapped.
How can you cope if your son
or daughter with “special"
needs gets trapped in a school
program that seems inap
propriate?
— Don’t accept a judgment
that your child is mentally
retarded on the basis of one IQ
test, administered to a whole
class, by a person not special
ly trained for testing that par
ticular age group
' — Do seek testing by a
specially trained professional
if your child appears to be
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from his suburban home where
the five teen-aged Liddy chil
dren awaited his return.
He was released from the
federal prison at Danbury,
Conn., on Wednesday.
Liddy, who devised and su
pervised the Watergate bur
glary which started Nixon on
the road to resignation, held to
his personal code of secrecy
through 52*4> months in prison.
While others talked, wrote
having unusual trouble in
schoolwork —for whatever
apparent reasons. Some han
dicaps are subtly displayed
and hard to discover; on the
other hand, some students are
still judged “retarded” when
all they need are eye glasses
or a hearing aid. Emotional
problems may also play a
role.
— Your ‘‘gifted” child
needs special help as much as
a handicapped child. Early
childhood programs have
proved successful in
stimulating ability: dull
classes and repetitious
lessons can smother it.
Discuss with your child the
possibilities of acceleration.
If he or she wants to advance
more rapidly, go to bat for the
child. Encourage any specific
“creative” ability the child
displays, such as musical
ability.
— If your handicapped child
is “mainstreamed” into a
regular classroom, talk to the
teacher to see if the teacher is
prepared to make the adjust
ment a smooth one.
— Remember all children
have some “special” needs.
All people have weaknesses
Listen to your children when
they seem troubled about
school. Are they having trou
ble with homework? Find out
why. Are they rejected by
other children? Find out why.
You hold the key to success.
You have the duty to make
sure that available school
programs work for your child.
PARENT POWER is the
book that helps you take an ac
tive role in your child's
education.For your copy send
$1.75 plus 25 cents postage and
handling to Parent Power, in
care of this newspaper, P.O.
Box 91428, Cleveland, OH
44113.
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and testified about their part in
Watergate and its aftermath,
only Liddy held the answer to
the central question: What were
the burglars looking for when
they entered the Democratic
party offices? And Liddy never
talked, even to the point once of
refusing to state his name.
Chief quits
TALLAPOOSA, Ga. (AP) -
Virgil Seagle, who served six
weeks as police chief of Tall
apoosa, has resigned.
Officials said Seagle, 30, gave
no reason for quitting Wednes
day.
He had replaced Jimmy D.
Folsom after Folsom and about
20 other persons were convicted
of federal charges in the theft of
gasoline from interstate
pipelines in Georgia and Ala
bama.
City officials have named
Ronnie Campbell, 27, as
Seagle’s replacement.
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Three Democratic senators talk with reporters at the White House Wednesday after
meeting with President Carter to discuss the Panama Canal agreement. From left, they are
Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi, Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia and Sen. Henry Jackson of
Washington. (AP)
Alma plans
to sue
ALMA, Ga. (AP) - The Alma
City Council and the Bacon
County Commission have voted
to sue the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban De
velopment in an attempt to free
$2.3 million in federal funds to
begin construction of the Lake
Alma project.
HUD refused last month to
release funds for the project
after opposition developeid from
the U.S Department of Interior,
the U.S. Environmental Protec
tion Agency and the President’s
Council on Environmental
Quality.
Opposition to the 1,400-acre
lake centered around the de
struction of high quality wet
lands along Hurricane Creek.
The price for that silence was
not only the longest sentence
handed any Watergate figure,
but also refusal by the judge to
grant a plea to shorten it and an
additional 18 months tacked on
for contempt.
Nixon, who once told aides he
thought Liddy was a “little
nuts,” received his pardon from
successor Gerald Ford on Sept.
8,1974, a month after resigning
the presidency.
Liddy’s neighbors in Oxon
Hill, Md., had banded together
in a petition drive and that may
have played a part in the
decision by President Carter to
commute the 20-year sentence
to eight years. Now the neigh
bors are starting a fund drive to
help Liddy pay his debts and
they plan a party for him on
Sept. 24.
To win parole and get his
$40,000 fine deferred, Liddy had
to declare himself a pauper with
less than S2O to his name. He
said he owes $337,500 — the bulk
of it to his lawyer and former
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law partner Peter Maroulis who
fought his case to the Supreme
Court.
“Throughout our campaign to
have the prison sentence com
muted, we never once solicited
any funds as we didn’t want it to
have commercial overtones,”
said neighbor James Gavin, an
executive with one of the
nation's largest firms.
“Now that he’s released,
however, he faces debts and
fines of approximately $300,000
and unfortunately he’s deprived
from practicing law, which is
the thing he knows and does
best.”
Liddy did some writing in
prison and the November issue
of Chic magazine has his article
on national security. Larry
Flynt, publisher of the men’s'
magazine, refused to say how
huch Liddy was paid.
Friends say he probably will
write a book, but not about Wa
tergate. He has received a
number of job offers but as far
as it’s known, accepted none.
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Dawson residents promote harmony
DAWSON, Ga. (AP) — Black
and white residents, saying they
are tired of “bad publicity"
generated by the “Dawson
Five” trial, have formed a
council aimed at promoting
harmony between the races.
The “Dawson Five” are
young black men accused of
killing a white ranch foreman in
January 1976. The case has
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attracted national attention.
“We’ve formed a human rela
tions council to work out our
own problems,” said Public
Safety Director Phil Law, one of
the 14 members of the newly
formed committee.
“Basically, people from At
lanta or New York couldn’t
come down and run Dawson.”
Law said the council hopes
“to handle grievances before
they start. If a member of the
council gets a complaint, that
member would sit down and
talk. If the answers are not sat
isfactory, then the complaint
would be brought before the en
tire council.”
