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Another clear day
Today will be partly
cloudy, with no chance
of rain. The high
temperature should
reach 60, after a low
temperature around
freezing Wednesday
night.
Election returns
Over 25,000 Orange
County voters cast
their ballots in the
election Tuesday. For
the county election
results, see the story on
page 4.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Thursday, November 4, 1976, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Volume No. 84, Issue No. 51
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Ford concedes election, congratulates Georgian on race
From staff and wire reports
Gerald Ford asked the blessing of God
and the nation for Jimmy Carter
Wednesday standing there in the White
House, surrounded by his proud and shaken
family, a big man in a blue suit swallowing
defeat...,.. ,
They faced it together, fighting back tears
and mostly succeeding: the President and
Mrs. Ford and their children. And when they
walked into the room at about 12:25 p.m.,
losers for the first time in their lives, all the
noise died away.
The President, his voice reduced to a
painful croak from 11 days of nonstop
homestretch campaigning, stepped up to the
podium, managed a weak smile and
announced he had finally conceded defeat in
the cliff-hanger presidential election and had
told Carter so by phone call and telegram.
He said Betty would have to read the text
of the concession telegram because his voice
was gone. Then he turned away, took his
wife gently in his arms and kissed her on the
mouth.
"The President," she said in a voice tense
with strain, "asked me to tell you that he
phoned President-elect Carter a short time
ago and congratulated him on his victory."
She called her husband "the President"
once more in the formal style of the occasion
and then quit that and said, simply, quietly:
"It has been the greatest honor of my
husband's life to have served his fellow
Americans during two of the most difficult
years in our history."
Her eyes glistened there, but she did not
cry. Behind her, Ford looked on, biting his
lip and mastering emotion as she read the
"Dear Jimmy" telegram.
The Rev. Sun Myung
by Tom Ward
Staff Writer
Like so many young people in the '70s,
John M. MacDougal wanted to travel. To go
West. A recent graduate of the College of
Charleston in South Carolina, he was 21. It
was time to discover America.
His parents thought his desire to explore
was only natural. As a child, MacDougal
had been independent, inquisitive. If he saw
something he didn't like,-he said so. And If,
his tongue got him into trouble, his winning
smile usually got him out.
"John was intense about whatever he did,"
his mother says. "He had a mind of his own
and was open with everyone."
"He was always searching for something,"
his father says.
But MacDougal had not found that
"something" in his college biology courses or
in fencing, honor grades or joking around
with his Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers.
He was still searching.
So on Feb. 1 5, he left his Charleston, S.C.,
home with a backpack, $50 and a journal. He
was going to write a daily record of his
experiences as he hitchhiked across the
country.
But MacDougal's experiences were to
take him beyond America and into the
spiritual world of the Rev. Sun Myung
Moon, the controversial Korean evangelist
who makes headlines throughout the United
States and in several other countries.
The Rev. Moon claims that when he was
16, Jesus appeared to him and said, "You
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Daughter Susan, who looked as though
she had been crying all night, blinked back
more tears unsuccessfully. Son Jack, 24,
stood head bowed at his father's shoulder.
Sons Steve, 20, and Michael, 26, looked
grim.
"It is apparent now that you have won our
long and intense struggle for the
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congratulate you on your victory.
"As one who has been honored to serve the
people of this great land both in Congress
ECOS chapter
by Mary Anne Rhyne
Staff Writer
The University-sponsored ECOS chapter voted
Tuesday to support a boycott of the new Western
Sizzlin' steak house by enlisting student help in the
protest.
The boycott is being organized to protest' the
removal of three 100-year-old trees to make room for
the steak house, a parking lot and a sidewalk.
Residents of lots adjoining the 324 W. Rosemary St.
location are organizing the boycott.
ECOS will place a sign-up sheet at the desk in the
Student Union for students who wish to picket the
restaurant. David Kleinbaun, one of the boycott
organizers, said he hopes to recruit 400 people to picket
for one-hour shifts.
According to town ordinances, only 10 people may
picket at a time.
The pickets will be stationed in front of the steak
house for the first two weeks it is open. The boycott wil
only take place during peak business hours from 1 1: 30
will be the completer of man's salvation by
being the second coming of Christ." Many
people believe him. On Sept. 18, for
example, the Rev. Moon held a $1 million
"God Bless America Festival" at the
Washington Monument in Washington,
D.C. Nearly 50,000 people attended.
Moon claims to be the Messiah for more
than 535,000 followers throughout the world
who actively support his belief: "The world is
in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate
the world."
Millions of tax-free dollars pour into
Moon's Unification Church each year
primarily profits from his "Moonies," who
sell flowers, candy, candles, peanuts or
ginseng tea to the public for any cause which
a misled donor might support most. Among
other things, the profits subsidize Moon's
Tong II Industries in South Korea
(manufacturers of air rifles) and his
$600,000-plus home and "training center"
overlooking the Hudson River in New York.
And purchases such as the Hotel New
Yorker in Manhattan for more than $5
million.
In return, his disciples live on a low
protein diet, five or six hours of sleep a day
and the preachings in the "Divine Principle"
book alleged to be God's revelation to
Moon.
Now, MacDougal finds it hard to believe
he nearly gave up his family, girlfriend and
scholarship to do graduate work in botany at
Duke University all for Moon's
Unification Church. MacDougal thinks he
would have done just that if his parents had
Joy in Georgia
and as President I believe that we must
now put the divisions of the campaign
behind us and unite the country once again.
"Although there will continue to be
disagreements over the best means to use in
pursuing our goals, I want to assure you that
you will have my complete and whole
hearted support as you take the oath of office
'HuV January;-- - - -"May
God biess you and your family as
you undertake your new responsibilities.
Sincerely, Jerry Ford"
votes to support boycott of
a.m. until 2:30 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
"The ECOS action is not quite an endorsement of
the boycott," ECOS President Dan Besse said. "It is
simply an effort to help the group reach interested
students."
Kleinbaun said the boycotters hope to get the
Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen to pass an ordinance
banning construction without regard to environmental
effects.
"This is the place to bring up such a concern and
provide some kind of retribution for the area's
residents," Kleinbaun said.
During the summer, the neighborhood residents
presented a 2,000-signature petition to the Board of
Aldermen seeking consideration of an ordinance
against further construction exploiting the natural
environment. He said the group hopes to get an
ordinance passed as soon as possible.
Another complain voiced by the boycott organizers
was that William Fetzer, deceased owner of the
property now being used for the restaurant, designated
in his will that no trees be cut on the property.
Moon: second Messiah or big
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John MacDougal, shown here in his lab, is a
MacDougal, who is a former "Moonie," was
not "kidnaped" him after his 47-day
involvement with the cult. They hired "de
programmers" to free him from Moon's
"mind-control."
"I was brainwashed to believe that
anything that didn't belong to Moon was a
result of Satan's work," MacDougal says. "I
called everybody after a month and said I
was giving up everything for God and
America."
This is the way it all began:
On April 30, in a San Francisco subway,
Jimmy's excited; Rosalynrt's excited; the crowd's excited, and Amy's. . .bored. Or at
least tired, and she had every reason to be, as the celebrating didn't get started until 4
a.m. Appearing before about 5,000 hard-core
victory.
The President had been scheduled to make
a statement to a crowd of waiting supporters
at the Sheraton Park H otel early Wednesday
morning. But on the advice of White House
Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, he retired for
the night with the election outcome still in
doubt at 3:30 a.m.
White House aides said that it was a
combinatioirof the weak condition of the
President's voice and the closeness of' the
returns that had forced his decision to make
no
statement until later in the day
Photo by Robin Clark
first-year botany grad student at Duke.
"kidnaped" and "deprogrammed."
MacDougal meets Mark Ungar, a"clean-cut
man who was very friendly and pleasant."
Although MacDougal didn't know it at the
time, he wasan easy target. His backpack
and jeans made .him a marked man.
"Where are you going?" Ungar asked.
"To Berkeley to visit a friend," Mac
Dougal responded.
"Hey, I'm from around there, and I'll show
you around if you want. What are you into?"
They begin talking about what they hope
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supporters, the Carters accepted their
Wednesday.
Running mate Sen. Robert Dole also
failed to appear before the exhausted and
thinning crowd to make an official
statement, as did Ford's campaign
chairperson James Baker.
Finally, at 4:30 a.m., Ben Cotten, director
of election night activities, told the few
remaining- loyal supporters and reporters
that' it he "outcome was Still in doubt and that
there would be no official statement until
later."
steak house
Jim Henderson, leaser and general contractor of the
restaurant, contends that a city ordinance required the
trees be cut to make room for a five-foot sidewalk.
Sidewalks are required by central business district
zoning rules.
Kleinbaun said the sidewalks could have been built
around the trees. There are no specific distance
requirements between the sidewalk and the street.
Kleinbaun also argued that Alderman Gerry Cohen
was given the wrqng address for the restaurant when he
went to inspect the site. Cohen makes an unofficial
inspection of construction sites when they are applied
for to check for possible environmental problems.
Cohen said he heard from friends that the Sizzlin'
site would be controversial. When he went to check the
lot, he mistakenly looked at the lot across the street.
"That lot is a dirt parking lot, and I felt like it was
already polluted enough. I never bothered to check
anymore," Cohen said.
Cohen said the Chapel Hill Planning Board is
considering a proposal to pass a city ordinance
requiring ecologically conscious construction.
to do in the future and then about America.
Finally, an invitation to dinner is extended.
Almost 20 people are at the meal.
Conversation is informal, centering on
peace, philosophy and America. No mention
is ever made of the Rev. Moon or God for
fear a recruit might lose interest.
"The people were always nice and
interested in me. I thought they were pretty
cool at first because they discussed all that
heavy philosophy.
"At dinner, they asked me to visit their
farm (the New Ideal City Ranch 120 miles
north of San Francisco), and they really
played up the fact that my botany experience
could help them out with their crops. 1 didn't
have anything to do for the next couple of
days; so I decided to go with them. That was
the beginning of the end."
MacDougal wrote the following in his
journal at the time:
Friday 30 April Boonville. Calif.
To Mark Ungar's family for a good dinner
and fellowship. Now 120 miles out of
Berkeley to the farm with the spiritual family
of his (ours). I feel that meeting Mark on the
subway was a spiritual connection not to be
lost. He and all these people are very open,
warm, loving and responsible. Working for
peace on earth.
Unknowingly, MacDougal was entering
the spiritual world of Moon's Unification
Church.
The Unification Church is only one of
dozens of religious cults that draw on
Americans, mostly 1 8 to 30 years old. Others
include H are Krishna, the Children of God,
Expresses
appreciation
for support
by Dan Fesperman
Features Editor
ATLANTA, Nov. 3 Flashing
perhaps his widest grin ever, President
elect Jimmy Carter claimed victory here
at 4 a.m. before nearly 5,000 supporters
who had hung on through nine hours of
close returns.
Joined on the speaker's platform at
the World Congress Center by his wife
Rosalynn, 8-year-old daughter Amy
and 13 other relatives, Carter appeared
worn but relieved as he thanked
.supporters.
"This tremendous crowd at four in the
morning represents hundreds of
millions of Americans who are ready for
America to be unified," he said.
Carter also gave a sketchy outline of
his administration's goals. Calling for
brotherhood and sisterhood, he said, "If
I can tap the greatness that's in you and
the American people, then I can make
this nation great. It's time for us to get
together."
He also praised his opponent, whom
he called the toughest of opponents. "As
I've said before, he's a good and decent
man."
By the time Carter's speech rolled
around, most of what had been more
than 25,000 would-be celebrators had
gone home to bed. The loyal knot that
remained cheered loudly but hoarsely as
Carter waved and generally soaked up
their rowdy admiration.
Seemingly bored with it all, Amy
rubbed her eyes, yawned and scampered
from relative to relative to collecjhugs.
CarterVspeech was actually the third
victory announcement of the eveningT
Congressman Andrew Young had
fired up a burning-out crowd at
approximately 1:30 a.m. He rejoiced the
end of the Republican reign in the White
House, saying America had been
overdue for a change.
About an hour later, Coretta King,
wife of the late Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr., gave another victory speech.
But at 3 a.m., with Carter still
struggling to go over the needed total of
270 electoral votes, campaign director
Hamilton Jordan and press secretary
Jody Powell cautioned the crowd that
the race wasn't won yet.
Sensing that the other
announcements had been a bit
premature, the crowd quieted down,
and the bulk of it gave up and left.
Waiting in the wings all this time were
Seals and Crofts, who were to supply the
celebration music.
There were also rumors that the
Allman Brothers and the Marshall '
Tucker Band were just waiting for
Jimmy to arrive before performing. If
they were there, they never let anyone
else know.
tycoon?
Brother Julius, Love, Israel and the Divine
Light Mission. But Moon's knack for
publicity and his ability to stir the strongest
emotions make his organization one of the
most successful.
Moon, 56, claims 30,000 followers in the
United States, 300,000 in Korea, 200,000 in
Japan, 1,000 in France and 6,000 in West
Germany. He came to the United States in
1973. Most of his American followers are
middle- or upper-class undergraduate or
graduate students with conventional
religious backgrounds. They are usually
white and intelligent, and they seek a higher
purpose in life.
More than 40 different organizations
across the country are fronts for the
U nification Church. 1 n San Francisco, one is
the Creative Community Project (CCP). In
Raleigh, the College Association for
Research of Principles (CARP) makes
initial contacts. In many instances, Moon is
not mentioned until after several weeks of
participation in the "training camps."
Tuesday 4 May
Decided to stay here for a week, after
spending last weekend. The Truth is being
taught here, correct theories of evolution,
wedding of science and religion, unification
of man is being worked for. They say
everyone on earth wants peace. Why isn't it
here? No one is doing it! So everyone here
lives, works, for the Glory of God and love of
higher cause. I came out West to come here.
My life has new hope and direction, and God
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