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University Daily Kansan, October 13, 1983
Leads on missing children result from television show
By United Press International
NEW YORK - A South Carolina teen-ager abducted from home almost two years ago returned to her grandparents after seeing a television doc-drama on missing children, and good leads have been received on five other children, a national agency said yesterday.
Child Find, based in New Palzt,
N.Y., said that since the Monday
night airing of the NBC show
"Adam" — the true story of a
missing child — it has been getting
150 calls an hour from people either
reporting leads on missing children
or asking for information.
Kristin Brown, a representative for Child Find, said that the agency had good leads on five children among 55 youngest whose pictures were flashed on the screen following the show. Another child — not one of them — was brought home this week because someone telephoned Child Find.
"WE'VE BEEN DOING press interviews for a long time but this was different," said Alice Byrne, a member of the board of directors at the 3-year-old agency, the largest of its kind in the nation. The agency has located 595 children since its inception.
"The problem has not changed since Monday. There are still the same missing children. But the production is so well done it touched people. We needed a good storyteller."
The toll-free number of Child Find
- 800-431-5065 — was also flashed on the screen following the NBC telecast of Adam Walsh, a child murderer, and *Pla*, who was killed in 1981.
The flood of calls and the first success came soon after.
VALERIE STOCKIE, 15, of South Carolina, missing for almost two years, is now back with her grandparents in Arkansas. Brown said, the agency girls' girlfriend asked that her exact whereabouts not be published.
"She had been allegedly abducted from her mother's home by two male friends of the family," said Byrne. "She read about the program in TV Guide. Then she called Child Find."
Byrne said that although she did not speak with the youngster, "She probably just did not know what to home when she was taken from her home.
Eighty percent of the calls to Child Find have been from people "who feel they've seen the children and give information on their location." Byrne said. The other 20 percent are asking children who want information.
"I really feel the dedication of the program was felt by people," said Byrne. "On a personal level, people in the anguish of the Walsh family."
She said that their story in some ways paralleled the plight of Julie and Stan Patz, whose son Etan disappeared from a street in New York City's Soho district in May 1979.
Official defends U.S. human rights policies
WASHINGTON — The State Department's top human rights official said yesterday that the United States sometimes had to reluctantly support regimens for neglected policies because the communist-inspired opposition was far worse.
By United Press International
"As we see in Nicaragua, a crucial question which we need to ask about every government which abuses human rights is what the alternatives Elliot Arms said. "Surely this is one lesson can learn from Vietnam."
Abrams, in an address at Georgetown University, said the leftist opposition in El Salvador consisted of communists and non-communists, as it did in Vietnam.
And he said there would be no doubt about the results of a leftist victory in El Salvador — "the armed elements tied closely to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet propaganda line on all international issues, would in fact take over."
RIGHTIST ELEMENTS IN THE government of El Salvador, its army and the security forces are frequently criticized by the administration, Congress and human rights groups for political abuses.
But, Abrams said, El Salvador
cannot be abandoned because of human rights defects.
“In the light of our experience, even a highly imperfect regime may well give a much better prospect of democratic achievement than any regime that might follow it,” he said.
"It is therefore no contribution to the cause of human rights to replace a regime we can work with and improve, with a communist regime.
"What this means is that the United States is at times reluctantly compelled to support regimes which abuse human rights, because we think that their control of people has the cause of human rights, and because we think that American and other
pressure can greatly improve these regimes over time."
ABRAMS SAID THE administration followed a policy of quiet diplomacy on friendly regimes, contrasting it with the more militaristic approaches in agreements by the Carter administration.
"In the real world the choice is frequently not between good and bad but between bad and worse or, perhaps more accurately, bad but improvable, or worse and permanent," Abrams said.
"To prevent virtually any country from being taken over by a communist regime tied to the Soviet Union is in our view a very real victory for the cause of human rights."
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