14A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY,AUGUST 16,2004
Kerry's stepson shuns limelight
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press
H. John Heinz IV is pictured during the 100th Anniversary Gala of the Sarah Heinz House at the Omni William Penn in Pittsburgh May 26, 2001. He refused to reply to inquiries about the campaign of his stepfather, John Kerry, the Heinz foundation or his own work and ambitions.
OTTSVILLE, Pa. — Teresa Heinz Kerry once hinted at tensions with her first-born son, a 37-year-old blacksmith who seeks an anonymous life with his wife and child in rural Pennsylvania.
But if H. John Heinz IV is noticeably absent from his stepfather John Kerry's presidential campaign and in news photos of the high-wattage Heinz-Kerry clan, his activist interests — the environment, youth, local programs — mirror much of the focus of his family's $1.5 billion Heinz Endowment charities.
He operates a small Buddhist high school for troubled teens, and makes reproduction ironwork in a studio on his secluded property, land he has conserved so it can never be developed.
On a much larger scale, Teresa Heinz Kerry has steered money to the environment, education and local art and cultural groups as chairwoman of the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Endowments.
Heinz Kerry's eldest son lives with his physician wife, Kristann, on a farm near Philadelphia, refusing all inquiries about Kerry's campaign, the Heinz foundation or his own work and ambitions.
Heinz Kerry told The Washington Post in a 2002 profile that John started "hating her" after his daughter Astrid — her only grandchild — was born in 2000. She did not elaborate and her eldest son did not comment afterward.
John Heinz surfaced briefly in
the news at a 2001 cocktail gala for a Heinz enrichment program for Pittsburgh children, warranting a small notice in a Pittsburgh newspaper, but generally asked friends and family to help guard his privacy.
Heinz Kerry plans to honor that request throughout the campaign, a spokeswoman said.
Heinz declined an interview with The Associated Press.
In Boston last month, Hein
H. John Heinz IV is noticably absent from his
skipped the family photo op at the Democratic National Convention, leaving his two brothers, Andre and Chris, to share the stage with stepsisters Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry.
Is noticeably absent from his stepfather John Kerry's presidential campaign and in news photos of the high-wattage Heinz-Kerry clan.
He has no announced plans to join the campaign.
"He's a very serious person, and he does not like his privacy meddled with," his mother said.
Heinz was 24 when his father, Republican U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III, died in April 1991 along with six others in a helicopter-small plane collision above a suburban Philadelphia elementary school.
"He's a great guy," said shop master Ken Schwarz, who remains a Heinz friend. Heinz sells his ironwork through a Web site.
already a trained blacksmith,
Heinz soon afterward moved to
Virginia, where he worked for a
year as a volunteer blacksmith in
Colonial Williamsburg.
Many people in Ottsville, population 3,645,seem unaware a Heinz heir lives among them.
"We've been here 10 or 12 years and we've never heard of him," said John Roberts, who owns the Ottsville Inn.
Anti-Bush movie has mixed reviews in Middle East
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is provoking strong Arab reaction. Kuwait banned it, Jordan tried to cut it, Syria has not decided, and Saudi commentators are denouncing it.
Arab moviegoers said with a twinge of envy that they wish the region, where free speech is for the most part restricted, had its own Moore.
own moor.
Some say it reinforces their bad image of the United States and shows Americans what their own media does not.
A few believe Moore is unfair to President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Prime Minister Tony Blair "When he condemned the war in Iraq ... he pictured it this way: Baghdad was happy and safe until cowboys Bush and Blair came," Saudi columnist Reem al-Saleh wrote in Kuwait's Al-Siyasah daily.
"He ignored 50 years of muscle-flexing invasions, villages massacred by chemical weapon
... millions of bodies, and mass graves. He has no right to hide the full truth."
Gianluca Chacra, whose Dubai-based company released the film in the Middle East, said attendance is at blockbuster proportions.
portions.
"We were quite scared that due to the Saudi content it might not pass," Chacra said.
In the United Arab Emirates, the information minister, in an
unusual step, asked to see it first, then approved it. In Jordan, the censors insisted the Saudi content be cut, Chacra said. They later took the film to "higher authorities," who OK'd it in full, he added.
Kuwait banned the film on the spot, Chacra said. He did not bother showing it to the censors in Saudi Arabia, where there are no movie theaters, only videos.
only videos. In Syria, Yousef Dakalbab, head of distribution at the government-run Public Cinema Organization, said the film "may be shown or may be banned."
Fahrenheit 9/11 is playing in Lebanon and Israel and will open in Egypt later this month.
Emerging from a Beirut theater, 22-year-old student Shafiq Nassif said the film showed dead and mutilated Iraqis that Americans do not see much of on their TV screens.
"It's good that Americans can get to see this," he said.
Sulaiman al-Hattlan, a U.S.-educated Saudi columnist for the Walatan newspaper, said Moore lacked objectivity, and made too much of the U.S. Saudi relationship.
"The movie is using the Saudis as scapegoats for domestic, political issues in the U.S." he said.
Still, al-Hattlan enjoyed Fahrenheit 9/11.
"In every Arab country we need one Michael Moore or more," he said.
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