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Rose Kennedy, 'anchor of family,' dies
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HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy clan, who saw one of America's most prominent families through three generations of political triumphs and personal tragedies, died Sunday. She was 104.
Mrs. Kennedy died from complications of pneumonia at 5:30 p.m. at the family compound on Cape Cod, said Scott Ferson, a representative for her son Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
"She was surrounded by family," Ferson said.
Mrs. Kennedy lived her life in the public eye, always in a supporting role: daughter of a congressman, wife of an ambassador, and mother
She once described her life as a series of agonies and ecstasies. The exhilaration of political success and the horror of violent death ran like twin threads through her long life.
of a president and two U.S. senators. For her, family was all.
Four of her nine children were killed in their prime — two in plane crashes and two by assassins' bullets. One daughter was retarded, and a grandson died of a drug overdose.
She was a devout Roman Catholic, and her church helped her bear her sorrows. After President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, she said "I learned to be brave and put my faith in the will of God."
"No matter what, God wants us to be happy. He doesn't want us to be."
Mrs. Kennedy knew kings, queens, presidents and popes. She spent her summers on Cape Cod and her winters in Palm Beach, Fla. She was a tireless worker for her sons' election campaigns.
sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?" she said in a 1983 interview.
But she was rarely seen in public after April 1984, when she suffered a stroke.
At celebrations marking her 100th birthday, her only surviving son, Ted Kennedy, told a crowd of nearly 400 people, "In the chaos of our household, she was the quiet at the center of the storm, the anchor of our family, the safe harbor to which we always came."
greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?" She called child rearing a "profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession."
In her autobiography, "Times to Remember," she said: "What
Her wedding to Joseph P. Kennedy in 1914 was front-page news in Boston.
Mrs. Kennedy was born July 22, 1890, in Boston and tasted politics early, parading through the streets with her father, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a congressman, Boston mayor and Democratic power.
Kennedy was a dynamo who amassed a fortune in banking, real estate, liquor, films and Wall Street — holdings that grew to an estimated $500 million by the 1980s.
Joseph Kennedy suffered a stroke in 1961 that left him an invalid. Two years later, John was assassinated in Dallas. In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was attorney general under his brother, was gunned down after winning the Democratic presidential primary in California. And in 1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward Kennedy ran off a bridge, and a young aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, died. Later that year, Joe Sr. died.
Mrs. Kennedy had 30 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Kennedy insisted that she was one of the most fortunate people in the world.
"Even though my life has been scarred by tragedy, I have never lost this feeling," she once said. "God has held us all in his hand."
Prisons see increase in violence
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Violence in high-security federal prisons has increased dramatically in the past year, a trend that prison officials blame on rising prison populations and a new, more violence-prone class of inmate.
But prison guards say the increasing violence — including the first murder of a federal corrections officer in seven years — also stems from tougher sentences that deprive inmates of hope and from budget cuts that leave prisons understaffed.
"Nobody is listening to us," said Donald Tucker, president of the council of prison locals of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than half the federal prison guards.
"Congress is not listening, the Senate is not listening, (Attorney General) Janet Reno is not listening," he said. "Nobody wants to hear the truth, and the truth is we need more staff."
Tucker said the recent spate of violence at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, including the slaying of a prison guard, should draw attention to the increasingly dangerous conditions.
inmate who had smuggled a hammer into the prison. Several days after the Dec. 23 slaying, a female guard at the same prison was beaten unconscious. Last week, three inmates were knifed during a fight that resulted in a lock-down of the institution.
Greg Bogdan, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, said the outbreak of violence in Atlanta involved unrelated incidents. But he acknowledged that the bureau's own records document an increasingly violent atmosphere inside the five U.S. penitentiaries — Atlanta, Leavenworth, Kan; Lewisburg, Pa; Lompoc, Calif; and Terre Haute, Ind.
The Atlanta guard, D'Antonio Washington, was beaten to death by an
Bureau records show that assaults by inmates at those prisons totaled 646 in fiscal 1994, an increase of 18.3 percent over the previous year. Inmate-on-inmate assaults were up 28.5 percent, while attacks on guards increased 11 percent.
In the most serious category, assaults with weapons, the five prisons experienced a 30 percent increase in inmate-on-inmate attacks from 1993 to 1994 and a 13 percent increase in prisoner attacks on guards.
eral prison population has increased from 63,930 in fiscal 1991 to 85,540 last year.
Prison officials and outside experts also blame the increasing violence on a change in the type of federal inmate. No longer are most inmates doing time for nonviolent crimes like interstate transportation of stolen vehicles.
Bogdan said part of the reason is that there are more inmates. The fed-
"Most of them now are affiliated with different types of gang activity," Bogdan said. "Their answer to any conflict in prison is to turn toward violence."
Bogdan denied that prisons are understaffed. He said the size of the federal prison staff has increased from 23,913 in 1992 to 26,265 late last year. Bureau projections call for 40,000 prison employees by 1999.
"I don't know that the staff is any more at risk," he said. "Obviously, anyone working in corrections, regardless of the security level of the inmates, is at some risk because you're dealing with people who don't want to be there.
"But our staff receives the proper training they need to do their job and we believe that all the institutions are safe, when you consider the type of clientele they have to deal with."
Lil' doggies may need help
The Associated Press
Ranchers consider the prairie dogs inhabiting the Great Plains to be a nuisance, but scientists say the wild animals are key to the survival of 165 more species on the prairie.
That's one reason federal wildlife officials have begun considering whether the black-tailed prairie dog should be listed as a candidate for the federal endangered species list.
Officials were prodded by a nonprofit group based in Boulder, Colo., that petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in October to protect the remaining black-tailed prairie dogs on public land.
"What we intend to do is tell all the federal agencies that they no longer can allow the hunting, shooting, fumigating, poisoning and pretty much total eradication of the prairie dog on public lands," said Jasper Carlton, executive director of the Biodiversity Legal Foundation.
Carlton and wildlife biologist Jon C. Sharps of Box Elder, D.S., plan to file several other petitions, all aimed at protecting animals dependent on prairie dog colonies.
But some worry that any effort to protect prairie dogs will ignite a range war between endangered-species advocates and landowners.
"You can expect strong repercussions from ranchers and others who regard the rodent as a varmint and general nuisance," said Bob Henderson, a Kansas State University specialist in animal-damage control.
The petition from Carlton's group asks that the black-tailed prairie dog be designated as a candidate for the endangered species list. Thousands of other species already are candidates, so it would be unlikely that the prairie dog would be declared endangered soon.
It will be at least March before officials take any action, said Larry Shanks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's endangered-species director in Denver.
Federal wildlife officials say they have received calls from concerned ranchers as word of the petition has trickled out. The agency plans to meet later this month with public land officials to explain the petition, Shanks said.
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