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Griffin Daily News Friday, November 4,1977
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This is the Crown of St. Stephen, part of the Hungarian crown jewels which have been in U.
S. possession since the end of World War 11. It was learned in Washington Thursday that the
Carter administration is preparing to return them probably by having Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance make the delivery next month. (AP)
Mother believes her son
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+- A year ago today, as Kevin
Clifft headed down a rural road
to buy his mother a birthday
present, his car blew a tire and
flipped over. Doctors said he
wouldn’t survive the night.
Instead, he has lived a year in
a coma.
Because he is still alive, his
parents, Ray and Marti Clifft,
hawe hope.
The hope is built on little
things — and is sometimes
fragile.
After several weeks on the
critical list, with extensive
brain damage, a bruised left
kidney and cracked ribs, Kevin
squeezed his mother’s hand.
The nurses said it was just a
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reflex.
It was more to his mother. "It
wasn’t a reflex. I knew it wasn’t
a reflex.”
To prove her point, she asked
Kevin on successive days to
squeeze her hand if he knew she
was there. He did.
“As long as you have com
munication with your child, you
can’t let go,” Mrs. Clifft said.
“He’s a fighter. He’ll fight his
way back.”
But the parents admit they’ve
had to fight against giving up.
“You learn to survive these
things when your heart is
breaking,” Mrs. Clifft said.
“You can’t believe the pressure
you live under. Each day you
say, ‘this must be it.’”
And life, she said, "has no
guarantees.”
Kevin, now 17, has grown IVi
inches but has lost more than 40
pounds since his accident.
“The thing that no one under
stands is that time is the healer.
We’re very, very encouraged,”
his mother said. "Kevin hasn’t
made a backward step yet."
Mrs. Clifft feels her son is “at
the highest level of awareness
that he can be at before con
sciousness.”
Kevin’s paternal grand
mother, a registered nurse from
Illinois, has moved in with the
family to watch the youth while
his parents work. Kevin was
released from the hospital in
September.
Clifft is a sheet metal worker
in Gary. His wife is a book
keeper.
Medical bills have totaled
more than $5,000 a month. Sev
eral benefits have been held,
but the donations have fallen far
short of meeting expenses.
Dr. Clark
claims he
was fired
ATLANTA (AP) - Dr. Rus
sell S. Clark, recently criticized
for his handling of the state Of
fice of Adult and Vocational
Education, says he has been
fired from his job as head of the
office.
Clark said Thursday he “will
be terminated Dec. 31” from his
$32,000-a-year job with the
Georgia Department of Educa
tion.
He recently had come under
fire from legislators and voca
tional school directors for his
performance.
State School Superintendent
Dr. Charles McDaniel, soon
after he was appointed to fill the
unexpired term of former
superintendent Jack Nix,
pledged to improve vocational
education in the state. Last
month, at McDaniel’s request,
the state school board removed
Clark from the job protection of
the state merit system and
ruled that he would serve at the
pleasure of the superintendent.
Clark, 57, has headed the
vocational and adult education
division for five of the 10 years
he has been with the depart
ment. He said he does not plan
to fight the dismissal.
McDaniel could not be
reached for comment.
Helms case
Judge says he is not bound by White House approved deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - For
mer CIA Director Richard
Helms faces sentencing by a
judge who says he’s not bound
by a White House-approved deal
for leniency.
Helms pleaded nolo con
tendere — no contest — on
Monday to two counts of failing
to answer the “material ques
tions” of a Senate committee
inquiring about CIA activities in
Chile.
The charges are mis
demeanors, each punishable by
a minimum of one month in jail
and a SIOO fine to a maximum
one year in jail and SI,OOO fine.
The Justice Department rec
ommended the minimum sen
tence for Helms and the sus
pension of both jail and the fine.
Funeral Saturday
for Samuel Burgess
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Funer
al services will be held Satur
day for Samuel L. Burgess,
head of editorial services for the
college of agriculture at the
University of Georgia, who died
Thursday after a brief illness.
He was 57.
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But when Helms was before him
Monday, U.S District Judge
Barrington D. Parker said,
“This court does not consider
itself bound by that un
derstanding.”
The 64-year-old Helms was
scheduled to be sentenced to
day.
Helms had been a profes
sional spy most of his life,
serving as director of the agen
cy in the last years before
his 1973 retirement, and he had
sworn everlasting silence on
some matters. Then, on two oc
casions in 1973, he was called
before the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee and asked un
der oath about Chile.
“I found myself in a position
of conflict,” he told Parker on
Burgess, a native of Ashburn,
Ga., had been a member of the
college of agriculture faculty
since 1954.
He is survived by his widow,
Martha Postell Burgess, and
three stepchildren.
Monday. “I had sworn my oath
to protect certain secrets. I
didn’t want to lie. I didn’t want
to mislead the Senate. I was
simply trying to find my way
through a very difficult situ
ation in which I found myself."
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tions to prevent the 1970 election
of Salvador Allende, a Marxist,
as president of Chile.
The government said “Helms
failed to answer those questions
fully, completely and accurate
ly as required by law.”
In court, a Justice Depart
ment lawyer said the CIA “fun-
ded and engaged in propaganda
activities designed to reduce the
number of votes for Allende in
the Sept. 4 election (and) funded
directly or indirectly various
individuals and groups in Chile
opposed to the election of
Allende.”