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Wednesday, September 9, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Hart admits to adultery; won't re-enter race
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former Democratic presidential front-runner Gary Hart, grappling with the issue that drove him from the 1988 campaign, admits he has committed adultery and says he doesn't plan to re-enter the race although he still wants to be "part of this debate" over the country's future.
"I'm not running for president," Hart said in a 60-minute appearance on ABC-TV's "Nightline" program last night. "I have no plans to run for president."
The former Colorado senator was contrite and defiant by turns during the question and answer session, which he concluded with an emotional apology to his children, Andrea and John.
"I just want to say to one very
special young woman and young man how sorry I am for letting them down for many others like them. Have courage, we are not defeated and we will not be. I will find some way, I promise you, to continue on," he said.
Thus ended an extraordinary late-night television session in which Hart took full responsibility for the serious mistake of keeping company with Miami model Donna Rice. Questions about his relationship with Rice led to Hart's withdrawal last May 8, at a time when he was the prohibitive front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"I made a serious mistake. I should not have been in the company of any woman who was not a friend of mine or my wife," Hart said. "I should not have been with Miss
"I am totally and fully responsible for my own actions and I want to say to everyone how sorry I am. I want to apologize to you for those actions," Hart said.
Rice."
Hart sat. Hart has stayed out of the public spotlight since his withdrawal from the race, and his appearance on the television program marked the beginning of his re-emergence as a public figure. He said he plans to meet later today with New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, and has scheduled a speech in Philadelphia tomorrow that marks the start of a series of such addresses.
Asked by interviewer Ted Kopplow whether he had an affair with Miss Rice, Hart refused to answer directly.
If the question is in the 29 years of
my marriage, including two public separations, have I been absolutely and totally faithful to my wife, I regret to say the answer is no.
"But I also am never going to answer any specific questions about any individuals," he said.
Hart also delivered a lecture to Koppel on the propriety of the question.
"I've been forced to make a declaration here that I think is unprecedented in American political history, and I regret it. That question should never have been asked, and I shouldn't have to answer it. . . . I will say to you this, and I would say this to the national press corps: never ask another candidate that question. It isn't anybody else's business."
As for his political future, Hart said that while he has no plans to run for
president, "I want to be part of this debate.
"I am going to give speeches and I am going to have an impact," said the man who ran a surprisingly strong race for the 1984 Democratic nomination before losing out to Walter F. Mondale.
"I'm not going to create a campaign organization. I'm not going to raise money. I'm not going to hire a pollster. . . And I hope, by getting what I think are irrelevant issues behind us, and certainly private issues behind us, and certainly focusing on what is a real issue — and that is the privacy of political leaders, so we do get the best leadership for this country — I can make that contribution. And that's all I want to do."
Suburb life costly
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — For sale: nice house and yard, good neighborhood, convenient commute to city, $1.2 million.
That's no type, according to a nationwide survey of 50 exclusive suburban communities released yesterday. It found $1.2 million is the average price of a single-family home in the most expensive U.S. suburbs.
That distinction is shared by the New York bedroom communities of Greenwich, Conn., in lower Fairfield County northeast of New York City, and Mill Neck, N.Y., a tiny town on the northern tip of Nassau County on New York's Long Island.
The survey also found it takes at least $500,000 to buy a home in any of the country's top 40 suburban neighborhoods.
Montville, a tiny community in northern New Jersey, was at the bottom of the list, with an average home price of $440,000.
The Relo Broker Network, a Chicago-based residential broker referral organization that serves more than 13,000 communities nationwide, conducted the survey. Relo said figures were based on summer sales prices
in what it described as active, upscale real estate markets served by the organization's 1,100 members.
"We're dealing with the most affluent buyers in America, so price and interest rates often become secondary considerations." Benjamin A. Rowe, president of the group and chairman of Preferred Properties Inc. of Greenwich, said in a statement accompanying the survey.
"a potential buyer falls in love with a house in this marketplace, he often pays whatever it takes to make a deal, and that's why prices for luxury homes are skyrocketing nationwide," Rowe said.
The report said New York led all states with 18 suburbs in the top 50, followed by New Jersey with 12 and California with 10.
Connecticut's lower Fairfield County had three in the top 10, with Greenwich at $1.2 million, and New Canaan and Darien at $800,000 each. New Jersey's Bergen County had two $1 million-dollar suburbs, Alpine at $1.18 million and Saddle River at $1.15 million.
The survey did not specify what the buyer gets for the money.
PTL meets fundraiser goal
The Associated Press
FORT MILL, S.C. — The Rev. Jerry Failwell announced yesterday that PTL surpassed two fundraising goals in a “summer of survival” drive, so he will keep a promise to plunge down the ministry’s 52-foot water slide fully clothed.
Failwell, PTL's husky, 6-foot-4 board chairman, said he would wear a navy blue suit, necktie, and shoes and would say a few words at the top of the slide before launching himself downward tomorrow on the slide at Heritage USA.
USA.
"I realize it may be my last sermon. I may break my foo neck, but I'm going down that water slide." Fowlclub told viewers of the "PTL Club" television show, with a shake of his head and a grin. "I invite you to watch this idiot do it."
Falwell, who took over the PTL ministry and Christian theme park from evangelist Jim Bakker in March, said the ministry met its goal of raising $20 million by Labor Day. He said the ministry needed the money to survive.
He also said that as of Monday, more than 1,000 people joined a Resurrection Committee by pledging $1,000 aniere.
Falwell said in May that he would go down the theme park's
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We still need to meet the $4.5 million monthly budget. We're not free and clear but thank God the summer's over and we made it.'
— Jerry Falwell PTL board chairman
yesterday, "I told you we needed $20 million to survive. There was a lot of people who said we'd never make it. But I'm here to tell you as of yesterday we went substantially over the top."
water slide if 1,000 people joined the Resurrection Committee by Labor Day. At the time, he cailed "PTL Club" co-host Doldham to take the ride with him. But Fallow spokesman Mark Demoss said yesterday that Damh was off the hook.
Falwell said he didn't know the specific amount raised during "the summer of survival" as of Labor Day.
But he said PTL received the largest amount of mail ever yesterday. If donations continue at the present rate, Ffalwell said, the ministry may raise between $21 million and $22 million by tomorrow.
"In May," Falwell told viewers.
PTL, which filed for protection from creditors in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court on June 12, three months after Bakker's downfall amid a sex scandal, is preparing a reorganization plan to be presented next month.
Falwell said PTL has paid its bills to stations around the country and can meet its payroll and utility bills now that the fund-raising goal has been met.
"We're still on the air," he said.
Michigan will rule on state abortions
The justices voted 6-0 to take the case, which was appealed by the state and Right to Life of Michigan.
The Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court agreed yesterday to determine when a law ending statepaid abortions for poor women should take effect.
"We're pleased that they accepted the case," said William Perrone, attorney for the anti-abortion organization. "Hopefully they will decide this case favorable to the pro-life forces."
People's Campaign for Choice is challenging the anti-abortion law in court and circulating petitions in an effort to stamp it out at the ballot box.
"We feel confident that our legal language and our reasons are well spelled out," said Judith Frey, a spokeswoman for the group.
At issue is a law abolishing state- paid abortions for the poor unless a woman's life is in danger.
Right to Life, which initiated the law with a petition drive, contends the law should have gone into effect as soon as it was enacted by the Legislature in June. The pro-choice group contends the law can't take effect until spring.
The two pursued that point in court because the issue had never come up; only a few state laws have started as citizen petition drives, and none was crafted in the same way as the abortion spending ban.
The Supreme Court's decision case came more than two months after Gov. James Blanchard asked the justices to bypass two lower courts and hear the case.
The justices balked, and the case moved quickly through Ingham County Circuit Court and the Michigan Court of Appeals, which agreed with Blanchard that the new law shouldn't take effect until spring.
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