Show IMAM Saturday August 17 2002 A4 The Herald Journal Our view Logan mural a keeper W vageable That was all Jean Pugmire and Marsha Rawlins needed to hear You may know those names from their ongoing work with the Whittier Community Center — the two local firebrands are a major reason we have a thriving local facility there instead of an abandoned firetrap If the mural needs a champion — and it does — it couldn't do better than these two Provost has yet to come back with an estimate but one thing is for certain: restoring the mural to its original vivid colors won't be cheap Then again it's hard to pul a price tag on our town's quirky charm which is quickly vanishing into the homogeneity of big box stores and chain restaurants Let's save the mural It's one of the things that makes Logan Logan c can let the little vestiges of Logan's historic charm slip away unnoticed and unmounted Or we can do something - Tvo local women are spearheading an effort to restore Everett Thorpe's mural of the history of Logan located in the Bluebird restaurant and the crusade deserves our support The mural started in 1955 and completed in the 1970s chronicles Logan's history from pioneer days to what was then the future: 1988 It's an irreplaceable piece of nos- talgia within an irreplaceable piece of nostalgia: The Bluebird Sadly time has ravaged the painting and its earliest panels are so dingy one has to squint to make out the images However art conservator Elizabeth Provost visited the mural last week and declared it quite sal Illness changes perspective An exciting new twist in media manipulation By Daniel Schorr For The Christian Science Monitor w e thought the FBI's practice of manipulating the news media against its targets had gone out with J Edgar Hoover but apparently not Dr Steven Hatfill the germ scientist has been left to contend with suspir cion of involvement with anthrax That suspicion appears to have been orchestrated by an FBI suffering from a tattered repu tation in the war against terrorism Pr Hatfill who worked in the Army’s biological research center in Maryland was one of many persons questioned by the bureau in its unrewarding search for the mailers of the anthrax letters that killed five people The FBI stresses that he is not a suspect only a “person of interest" But twice his home was searched and each time the news media were tipped off in advance coming with cameras satellite trucks and helicopters The public was left to mise that he was more than just a person of interest Last weekend Hatfill did something unusual He launched a retaliatory media strike He called a news conference to denounce the federal authorities for a smear campaign trying to make him Ihe’fall guy for their failure to solve the anthrax puzzle The FBI denied any such intention' 1 ' By Chris Matthews Newspaper Enterprise Association Still I kept thinking — to the ' extent my brain was working — it was some kind of flu I could sweat hospital so nice they call it “Club Sib” I kept thinking especially in those early days in intensive care what it’s ' disOn Monday I was heading for like getting malaria for the average Vatching a work with an extra shirt in my bag African You’re lying in some hut ease can be a experiThe one I had on was already It’s 105 degrees You’re running a ence A month ago I felt bad That’s the drenching temperature almost that high You best way I can say it I was at my have no quinine no drugs whatsoevFinally I did something smart and called my doctor It was clear what I father’s wedding in New Jersey — er and no clean water You just lie was going through was not going to there sweating and delirious ’til the he's 82 and a very hot ticket! — and go away by itself lights' go out something I Dr Dennis Cullen agreed that I wasn’t sure Africa accounts for nine out of 10 should come to his office As he what was malaria cases Children are the most examined me I told him my urine vulnerable with one dying every 30 wrong with had turned maroon He sent me to me seconds I suppose Africa too is where I the emergency room at Sibley Since it wasMemorial Hospital as I was dangern't one of was bitten My family and I were those symp- there at Christmastime Though all ously dehydrated and needed an intravenous Just as important I toms — the books say you get the bad sympheadache needed to be tested toms within about two weeks I may In the emergency room after have taken enough malaria pills to upset stomach — I could spell out I shrugged it off blood tests and a sonogram suppress it all these seven months and went to work that Monday Dr James Kane who was a Peace None of the doctors I’ve spoken to Still something wasn’t right By can quite explain how I got it It may Corps doctor in Africa the same time I was over there walked in with the then nausea was as good a word as have been something I got visiting to describe my condition I took the West Bank in May or Vietnam “You have malaria" last spring It may be one of those Tylenol and kept plugging along It was unmistakable from my “Hardball" my TV show had an rare cases of “airport" malaria where blood smear he said The parasites the victim gets bit by a mosquito that expensive new set Phil Donahue that had taken over an unhealthy was premiering the hour before me had just bitten someone who was and I had a job to do: Sparkle! infected ' number of my red blood cells were I all was over The important thing I think is it By Friday doing anything I had the species of malaria falcibut I was sweating like a pig and how the experience affected me could barely hold my head up I had There is no adequate emotional parum which is the most aggressive It kills you either by clogging up the to stick around die studio that night accounting for the effect of all those arteries to your brain or by simply to gp live with the Samantha Run-nio- n flowers plants fruit baskets letters case The kidnapping-murdand phone calls Or for the calm joy killing enough blood cells to cause of simply having my crazed career police were holding an evening press extreme anemia conference to announce their arrest Parasites had taken over 4 to S per-- ' engines turned off for a couple of cent of my blood cells A pathologist weeks Or ifor the love that has of a suspect: I spent the awaiting hours on the Green Room couch at Sibley told my wife Kathleen that flowed from Kathleen and the rest of The following weekend I was he’d never seen sq many parasites on my world : one slide delirious My brain which I had With all those rioting bugs racing Chris Matthews author of “Now Let hoped to employ to finish writing a Me Tell You What I Really Think” (Free book and then a speech I had to give through my brain no wonder I was the following week kept cooking oh Press 2001) and “Hardball" (Touch-delirious atone Books 1999) is a nationally synone impenetrable problem after The bottom line is that I’m a very dicated columnist for the San another Each crazed quandary meltlucky fellow I had great doctors I Francisco Chronicle and the host of ed into the next: was given quinine antibiotics and “Hard baT on CNBC and MSNBC that wonderful intravenous that kept My temperature hit 103 — way cable channels too high for a guy my age running fluid into me I was in an it out In the past targets of FBI media campaigns have found it difficult to respond Richard Jewell a security guard at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in 19 spotted an abandoned knapsack that turned out to contain a pipe bomb Before it could be disarmed the device exploded killing one person injuring more than a hundred Soon Mr Jewell was under surveillance his apartment searched with the media on hand and he was designated in the press as the FBI's “prime sus- pect” Eventually he was recognized as the hero not the villain of the episode and was left to recover his reputation by lawsuits against his newspaper and television defamers Wen Ho Lee Los Alamos scientist was under an FBI espionage investigation for 10 years with periodic leaks to the press He spent278 days in solitary confinement before the government gave up andaccepted a guilty plea on a minor charge Federal Judge James Parker denounced the FBI and the prosecution for misleading him and made a public apology to the defendant Wen Ho Lee’s book is titled “My Country Versus Me” and it blames the FBI for the end of his American dream Whether Steven Hatfill ultimately turns out to be innocent remains to be seen But he has done what no FBI target has done before: summon the news media to proclaim his patriotism and to put the FBI on the defensive for its manipulation of the media I X-ra- ys er : Danfol Schorr is a senior news analyst at National Public Radio Your view No faith left in judicial system ' To the editor The news reported id yesterday’s (Tuesday's) story of sexual abuse : disgusts me In the past few years I have lost all faith in the judicial tern: A man has allegedly victimized five young children in the form of sexual abuse This man makes a plea bargain and is only convicted on one felony charge He is still responsible for restitution for the other “alleged” victims however First off no amount of money can give these children what was taken ! from them These crimes will no doubt affect these children the rest of their lives consciously and uncon- sciously Second if this man is still responsible for restitution how is that different from stating that he is guilty? He is responsible but he will not be charged with a criminal sentence on these four cases That Is - ' ludicrous This “man” if he rightfully fits the definition has the possibility of being released after a mere five years (not to mention if he happens to get paroled earlier) while these children are affected for life Yet at the same time I have a brother that is presently incarcerated for getting in a drunken fight and hitting a man over the head with a beer bottle The wounds of the victim in my brother's cAse have already healed and my brother is still incarcerated My brother and I were both enrolled in college and a month before we were to move he committed a crime on sheer drunken impulse He was sent to prison and I continued my education I am now finished with college and my brother remains in his celL The man in the article no doubt afore-mention- ed the unspeakable crimes against these children The terrible crimes that will still haunt die iqnocent children after the man’s release fromincarceration What kind of world do we live in when a man that sexually abuses innocent children gets a similar sentence as a man that gets in a drunken brawl with another man? 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