2AThe Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 26, 1984
Poll reports Lee and Andrews running even
By BILL RIEDY
Assistant Stale and National Editor
With a recent poll showing Howard Lee running even
with incumbent Ike Andrews for the 4th District congres
sional seat, Lee is counting on both Andrews' negative
image and the pull of presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson
to pull him through the Democratic nomination for the
seat.
Jim O'Rielly, a Durham political consultant who con
ducted the poll for Lee's campaign in the first week of
March, said, "One of the key findings is that among
Democrats saying they would vote in the primary, 33 per
cent support Andrews and 33 percent .support Lee."
Lee also stands to benefit from Jackson's ability to per
suade blacks to vote in the May 8 primary. Black voter
registration is up in North Carolina 17 percent. "If he
pulls out more voters, I feel I have a fair shake at getting
their votes," Lee said this week.
One of the key factors O'Rielly found was that Lee was
running about even among whites in Wake County.
White Wake County Democrats make up 49 percent of all
Democrats in the 4th District, which includes Orange,
Wake, Chatham, Randolph and Franklin counties.
"For a black in North Carolina, I don't think I've seen
a poll with such a strong showing," O'Rielly said. "The
bottom line is that the two are running even and headed
into a runoff."
The third candidate seeking the Democratic nomina
tion, John Winters Jr., will either cause a primary runoff
or will pull enough from Lee's black support to let Ike
squeak by.
Another significant finding of the poll is that
Republican challenger Bill Cobey would be able to draw
considerable support from Andrews if the two were to
meet in the November election. "One of the rationaliza
tions for rejecting Lee is the claim that only Ike can-ljeat
Cobey," O'Rielly said. "Among Democrats there has
been a measurable weakening of support for Ike. A
significant fraction voting for Ike in 1982 said they would
vote for Cobey now. The poll suggests if Ike wins, we'll
get Cobey for Congress.
"It's clear, directly or indirectly, that lots of people
think positively about Lee, but negatively about Ike as a
person and about performance in his job. Ike has been no
better than mediocre as a congressman," said O'Rielly.
Speaking at a Phi Beta Sigma Anniversary Celebration
Tuesday night in the Carolina Union, Lee went on the of
fensive against Andrews.
"When a congressman does something, it should be
done in such a manner that he stays in touch with his
district," Lee said. "Many people in this district cannot
name one bill he (Andrews) has introduced in Congress or
one critical vote he has cast."
Andrews narrowly defeated Cobey, his Republican
challenger, in the 1982 election. The race was marked by
Andrews' arrest for driving under the influence less than a
month before the November election.
N.C 's Safe Roads Act of 1983
encounters difficulties in court
By FRANK PROCTOR
Staff Writer
North Carolina's Safe Roads Act of
1983 is proving to be a major headache
for the North Carolina court system,
officials in the N.C. Department of
Justice say.
Lawyers defending against driving-while-impaired
charges have found
numerous ways to challenge the law,
Deputy Attorney General Ike Avery
said this week. The main challenge has
come over the law's provision allowing
Breathalyzer operators to submit af
fidavits on Breathalyzer test results
rather than actually appearing in court,
Avery said. Defense attorneys have
claimed this violates the right of the
defendant to confront his accusers.
"When the law was passed it was felt
that this was an easier way to present
Breathalyzer results," said David
Land, a Breathalyzer expert with the
Office of Highway Safety. "You can
see the difficulty of operators working
all right and then having to be in court
too."
Land said he viewed the challenges
as "picky."
"All it does is cause a backlog of
cases. The result of the tests is what is
important as evidence." Land also
pointed out that the defendant has the
right to subpoena a Breathalyzer
operator if there is any doubt about test
results.
"It's going to end up costing a lot of
people a lot of money plus time (if
operators are forced to appear in all
DWI cases)," Land said.
Avery said the other major challenge
to the DWI law has come over the pro
vision for mandatory 10-day revocation
of the driver's license of those who
refuse to take a Breathalyzer test. This
challenge has come up in at least three
places, Avery said. He added, "we
have had numerous other technical
challenges as well."
One technical challenge has been to
the clause that states it is illegal to have
a blood-alcohol level of .10 "any rele
vant time after the driving." Avery said
the vagueness of this provision had
been grounds for challenge.
Another technical challenge has been
that the statute does not include the
word "unlawful" in the definition of
driving while impaired. And in Wake
County there has been a controversy
over whether conviction of the de
fendant for driving under the influence
before October 1983 can be considered
an aggravating circumstance for his
trial under the new law.
Avery said most challenges have
taken in Wake County. The DWI .
legislation has not been contested as
often in the Chapel Hill area, he added.
"I understand that in Orange and
Chatham counties their implementa
tion is flowing very smoothly," he said.
Candidates receive coaching
By JENNIFER MOON EY
Staff Writer
The 1984 candidates spend 12 or more
hours a day on the road meeting and
speaking to their constituents; they are
constantly in the public eye.
How do the rookies and the veterans of
state politics stand up to the pressure?
Most of them have coaching on public ap
pearances, often from staff members, but
in some cases help comes from .outside the
campaign.
Aides say that Gov. Jim Hunt, who is
challenging Sen. Jesse Helms in the U.S.
Senate race, receives pointers from his
staff. His years as a lieutenant governor
and a two-term governor have also made
him at ease in front of the public.
Likewise, Jesse Helms, who was a
television broadcaster for 12 years before
turning to politics, has no problem with
public speaking. Helms' press secretary in
Washington, D.C., Barbara Leukens, said
that Helms writes many of his speeches
and has more experience in public speak
ing than anyone on staff.
Many of the gubernatori ,;s candidates'
aides said that there are staff people who
follow the candidates and criticize their
speech delivery and gestures. Some candi
dates have mock sessions, and others have
hired speech coaches to hone their skills.
Brad Crone, deputy press secretary for
gubernatorial candidate D.M. "Lauch"
Faircloth, said that the staff gives Faircloth
feedback on his public appearances. Crone
said that Faircloth's biggest problem is
dealing with a script. "Lauch is generally
an off-the-cuff speaker, and he is his own
best speechwriter." Crone saiH the key to a speech.'
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good speech is effective communication
between the staff and the candidate while
making the transition between the idea and
the written product to the spoken pre
sentation. The candidate should also be comforta
ble with the crowd he is with, Crone add
ed. "If people expect to see the next gover
nor, he's got to be gubernatorial."
Another Democratic gubernatorial can
didate, Tom Gilmore, receives help from
press secretary Rodney Maddox. He has
also hired a speech and drama teacher in
Wake County to improve his delivery and
gestures. Gilmore's' Issues Committee
writes his speeches, then Gilmore makes
revisions if needed. For candidate's
forums and appearances, Gilmore holds
mock sessions with staff members and his
speech coach.
Maddox said that the key to good
delivery is rest and relaxation. "But," he
said, "after a man has been in the public's
eye as long as Gilmore has, you can't
dramatically alter his speaking habits."
Gilmore also is debriefed after speeches
to find out what he thought went well and
what went wrong, Maddox said.
Arleen Higgins, on the Eddie Knox for
Governor staff, said that Knox meets with
his Issues Committee for briefing and
delivery pointers once a week. Knox
doesn't have a speech coach.
An aide for Republican gubernatorial
candidate Jim Martin said that Martin gets
little coaching and doesn't use notes for his
speeches. "He is a former chemistry pro
fessor," she said, "so he can assimilate his
positions from his notes before he gives a
Kennedy relative found dead
The Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. David An
thony Kennedy, the 28-year-old 'son )f
the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was
found dead in a hotel room Wednesday
in this oceanside resort where his family
had wintered for 40 years. Kennedy
had a history of problems with drugs
and alcohol.
Palm Beach Police Capt. William
Shetron said the body was taken to the
County Medical Examiner's office for
an autopsy to determine the cause of
death, but he said, "There's no sign of
foul play."
Kennedy, the fourth of Robert and
Ethel Kennedy's 11 children, had been
treated for drug addiction in 1979 and
1980: His older brother, Robert Jr.,
was given a two-year suspended
sentence in South Dakota last month
for possessing heroin.
His uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy,
D-Mass, issued a statement in
Washington saying, "This is a very dif
ficult time for all the members of our
family, including David's mother,
Ethel, and his brothers and sisters, who
tried so hard to help him in recent
years."
Court rules on custody
WASHINGTON The Supreme
Court, saying a white woman's child
wrongly was taken from her because
she married a black, barred courts
from bowing to society's racial biases
in child custody cases.
"The Constitution cannot control
such prejudices, but neither can it
tolerate them," . Chief Justice Warren
E. Burger wrote for a unanimous
court.
The decision overturned Florida
court rulings in the case of Linda Sidoti
Palmore, who lost custody of her
daughter, Melanie, after she married
Clarence Palmore, who is black.
"Star Wars" weapons debated
WASHINGTON President
Reagan's top military and scientific ad
visers stood fast Wednesday behind his
call for development of a high
technology shield against nuclear at
tack, despite a non-partisan congres
sional study that virtually pronounced
the program a pipe dream.
In a stormy confrontation with
members of a Senate subcommittee,
Defense Department and White House
News In Brief
planners behind' Reagan's proposed
Strategic Defense Initiative dubbed
"Star Wars" by critics acknow
ledged that its promise hinges on
discoveries that could be decades away.
China set for Reagan
AGANA, Guam President
Reagan, who spent a generation as one
of the United States' harshest critics of
China, underwent final preparations
Wednesday for his first visit to that
communist nation.
After an overnight visit to Guam, the
president and his wife, Nancy, were set
to fly the final leg of a 9,290-mile
journey across the Pacific Ocean and
land in Peking early this afternoon.
A bouquet from school children and
a low-key welcome, led by Foreign
Minister Wu Xuesian, awaited the
Reagans at the Peking Capitol Airport,
a 30-minute motorcade ride from
downtown, before a more formal
welcome at Tiananmen Square, the
largest public square in the world, and
a conference with President Li Xian
nian in the Great Hall of the People.
MacDonald papers filed
FAYETTEVILLE Attorneys for
Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald filed papers in
federal court Wednesday claiming that
a former soldier made statements in
dicating he was involved in the 1970
killings of MacDonald's wife and two
children.
Bryant and Norma Lane of
Charlotte say Greg Mitchell, who died
about six weeks after the alleged
statements, talked to them about an
unspecified crime which they later
believed to be the MacDonald murders.
MacDonald was convicted of the
killings in 1979, nine years after the
bodies of his wife and two children
were found in their Fort Bragg home.
MacDonald, who was a Green Beret
doctor at the time, suffered multiple
stab wounds.
MacDonald has contended the
murders were committed by a band of
hippies, and his attorneys say Mitchell
was a member of that group.
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