A6é CASTLEGAR NEWS, April}, 1981 Mood of resignation follows shooting | By Carl Mollins WASHINGTON (CP) — The shooting of Ronald Rea- gan, while it has provoked some anger, seems to have evoked among Americans more a mood of resignation that desperation, more dis- may than distress. “shocking in a way, but ex- pected, I guess,” said Linda Kole a senlor at George session of guns, “Congress is disgraceful,” remarked one of a crowd of about 200 who waited Tues- day behind police barriers at the hospital. SEEM UNTOUCHED Otherwise, some of those interviewed indicated that they and their friends were: untouched. The event was portrayed over and over campus etch includes the hospital where the U.S. pres- ident is recovering. “It is an unpleasant part of being American,” the student added in one of a series of Canadian Press interviews ‘Tuesday. There is some frustration, too, especially among advo- cates of a sterner U.S, federal law to control pos- y again, until — as one person remarked — all the terror was expunged, the episode's meaning for U.S. society purged of any importance, That sensation was ex- pressed, haltingly and barely explained, by Jim Harrigan, a retired department store employee in Iowna, who watched the reallife drama unfold and repeat itself on television for about six hours. “This type of violence is a different kind of violence,” he said in a telephone interview, suggesting that the shooting was somehow different from _ other street violence, “I was nowhere near as shocked or stunned by this as I was by Kennedy” -~ a ref- erence to the 1963 assassin- ation of president John F. Kennedy, whose. brother Robert was similarly slain in 1 968. NO DISCUSSION “Nobody has been talking about it much,” said one stu- dent in Detroit, echoing com- ments on George Washington campus here. Matthew Melko, professor of sociology at a university in Ohio, agreed that popular re- action to Monday's attack Scattered clues provide no answer or motive WASHINGTON (AP) — In the agonized search for ex- planations, the clues that John W. Hinckley Jr. scat- tered about his life still do not add up. The more that is learned about him, the more he remains a mystery. _ He was a loner. He could not get a job. He blended into the background. He went to ‘Texas Tech University in ‘Lubbock for seven years ‘without finishing. He wrote Tove letters to an 18-year-old ‘movie actress he never met. He once voiced an idea about ‘politicians: “They should all be eliminated.” A former teacher calls him a typical kid. A former high school classmate remembers “as nice a guy as you'd ever want to meet, a pretty easy- going person.” A woman who worked ina Denver motel where he lived recalls; “He was the all- American kid, to look at him.” He was such @ nice kid to his parents and neighbors that when the news of his ‘arrest flashed across the country Monday, they ‘thought someone else was using his identification docu- ment. One thing is clear: Hinck- ‘ley is one of those people few people ever pay much atten- tion to. Now that he stands accused of shooting Presi- dent Reagan, they do. He came from a well-to-do family. The Hinckleys live in Evergreen, Colo, a Denver bedroom community, in a $300,000 home. The senior Hinckley is chairman and president of the Vanderbilt Energy Corp., a Denver oil and gas explor- ation company with sales of $4.5 million last year. He belongs to a weekly Bible reading club. FOUND LETTER In perhaps the most puz- ziing manifestation of a puz- +zling man, authorities found an unmailed letter in Hinck- ley's Washington hotel room. The letter was to Jodie Foster, 18, who played a pre-teen prostitute in the movie Taxi Driver about a gun fancier who planned to assassinate a U.S. Senate candidate. One report, by NBC News, said Hinckley carried Foster's picture in his wallet. Sources familiar with the letter say Hinckley wrote, “T'm going to do it for you,” going into specifics about his plans, The picture painte din court by U.S. Attorney Char- les Ruff comes out in un- flattering tones. He said Hinckley's 's parents “describe him as “wandering, dent Reagan. aimless and irresponsible,” with a history of psychiatric re, He said Hinckley has never held a job, has “no fixed address, anywhere,” has en- rolled and dropped out sev- eral times from Texas Tech. Hinckley joined the Na- tional Socialist Party of America a few years ago, but parted company with the Neo-Nazis under circum- stances that are not quite clear. Party leader Harold Covington said Hinckley re- signed because the Nazis were not militant enough; Michae} Allen, a Nazi leader in Chicago, said Hinckley was, thrown out because of his violent attitude. ° vision WASHINGTON (AP) — White Huse press secretary James Brady, once given little chance of surviving a, bullet wound in his brain,’ now is able to see and move his right arm and leg and may recover without severe permanent mental or physi- cal impairment, doctors say. “It's incredible,” James Baker, White House staff chief, told reporters Tues- day, 24 hours after Brady was shot during the assas- sination attempt on Presi- that’s a total paralysis or just weakness, mostly it’s the arm they think.” Baker recalled that when Brady, 40, was brought to George Washington Univer- sity Hospital doctors said: “People just normally don't recover from this kind of wound ... They said, ‘We hold out very little hope.’ " However, ‘by Tuesday af- terneen a White House state- meat quoted doctors as re- porting Brady was in “critical . but stable" condition. The statement said Brady was being watched closely peed | mecman - Engineering & Testing Ltd. Consulting Engineers © Cranb * Sparwood but that he was able to “move the right side of his body in res- ponse to voice command, im- plying significant retention of brain function.” The bullet caused “some minimal amount of damage’ to the left side of the brain, which controls Brady's men- tal processes, speech and motor movement on his right - - side, said Dr. Dennis O'Leary, chief of clinical af- fairs at the hospital. -"Pairly extensive damage” occurred on the right side of Brady’s brain, but that is hte non-dominant ‘side, O'Leary ' said. He said Brady was “clearly receptive to command,” but is not able to speak. “If he's going to have a level im- pairment, it would probably affect the left side of the body.” y “—““Whether~ seems to be low key. “I remember we were just so demoralized when Ken- nedy was killed,” he said, “I don't think the lack of feeling this time is political, although T have heard some people remark on the element ‘of frony since Reagan opposes gun-control Jaws,” One obvious factor in the low-key response is that Reagan survived, The danger in Monday's violence is that people might see it as the work of the radical right or political left “and the violence of the bul- let will be magnified by the violence of glib generaliz- ation,” the New York Times says, President Reagan OF: FISH over 60 varieties FRIDAY, APRIL 3 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Castlegar Hotel West Coast Seafoods After By Al Colletti. NEW YORK (CP) — It's called the national press card and it is the property of the Unites States gov- ernment, Without it, a reporter or photographer normally can't get near a president or even some members of the cabinet. Yet outsider John W. Hinckley Jr. stood with re- porters three metres away from President Reagan on MOnday and shot him as he was leaving a Washing- ton hotel. In effect, Hinckley com- promised the security sys- tem meticulously set up by the U.S. Secret Service to give clearance to legiti- mate media represen- tatives, ~ Media people go through a rigorous personal check before they are given the cards, Names and back- grounds of holders are fed into the Secret Service's computerized master list. But Hinckley didnot “display” a” national press strategic position ‘in the reportorial pack waiting for the president to come out of a side entrance of the Washington hotel, The entrance was con- structed especially for top card while he jostled: for ° assassination attempt Must tighten security dignitaries to cut down security risks, It's only a few metres for a quick getaway by limousine. But the president almost lost his life becaue of what appears to be a grievous security lapse in his own backyard. In other cities, such as New York, Secret Service agents are sticklers for making reporters and pho-_ tographers display their national press cards and lining them up in a semi- circle away from a visiting president, Something went amiss in pre-checking the Washing- ton hotel exit area. A closer check could have spotted Hinckley as the imposter. While the media must undergo rigid security checks to cover the White House, Hinckley did not even make the twin dan- gerous lists compiled by the*FBJ, although there _ h were solid reasons iekley’ : had known history of instabil- ity. He was in and out of the neo-Nazi movement. Last Oct. 9 he was arrested in Nashville, Tenn., trying to smuggle three guns and 60 rounds of ammunition aboard an American Air- lines plane. He was fined and released. Less than a week later, he was in Dallas, Tex., and purchased two .22-calibre pistols from a pawnbroker. They cost $47 apiece and appeared to be of little better quality than the Saturday Night Specials used in.so many armed robberies and muggings. Hinckley was fascinated with guns. Six rounds were fired from a .22-calibre pistol — presumably one of the Dallas purchases. Four rounds found their mark — wounding the president, his press sec- retary, a Washingon po- liceman and a Secret Ser- vice agent. During the 1980 pres- idential campaign that led to Reagan's landslide vic- tory last Nov. 4, Secret Service agents insisted on reporters, photographers and other media personnel having their, national press” PB them near the-candidates. Although the 1980 card expired last Dec. 31, the Secret Service granted the media a one-year extension to avoid another round of security checks and exten- sive paper work. Alfonso Apa Ladies and Men's Wear Ltd. “Where service begins.” New Spring Fashions arriving daily Ladies and Men's made-to-measure GUARANTEED FIT Ph: 368-5314 1364 Bay Ave. Teall, B.C. MU TTART MAN UFACTURED HOMES... x* Your Dreams can come true . . . at Muttarts. * Build your own Muttart Home. * A price you can afford. * Quality you will appreciate. - * Send for your copy of our new homes brochure. * * Early purchase discount Check with your local sales representative before April 15th. Parents ‘just destroyed’ EVERGREEN, COLO. (AP) — The parents of John W. 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John Hinckley Sr. and his wife, Joanne, stayed at their next-door ‘neighbors’ house all day Tuesday as 70 re- porters ‘assembled on the front lawn and curiosity- seekers cruised past, A statement released by a lawyer for Vanderbilt En- ergy Corp. said the elder Hinckley has “temporarily relinquished his duties” as chairman of the Denver- based firm “because of a tragedy involfing a member of his family.” John Hinckley Jr., 25, who was arrested soon after Rea- . gan was shot, was being held Tuesday at a U.S. Marine base in Virginia, The corporate statement did not mention any change for Scott B, Hinckley, vice- president of oerations for Vanderbilt and brother of John Jr. The Hinckleys, through lawyer James Robinson, is- sued a brief statement Tues- day expressing their “deep concern” for President Rea- gan and all those involved in Monday's shooting, including their son, John. 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