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Monday, April 22, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Kennedv scandal confuses Palm Beach
Incident upsets some of the residents others say it will not affect their lives
The Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. — There's a For Sale sign just a few doors down from the Kennedy estate. But, no, an international scandal in the neighborhood isn't driving away the always preened, sometimes prim and usually private residents of this island of wealth.
Indeed, while many longtime Palm Beachers express disapproval, even suggesting it's the Kenndees who should move out, feelings among the Kennedy-Royce set are mixed about the Kennedy case and all the attention it hass brought to their town of 12,000 residents.
'Except for the ones who are
titillated, the rest are embarrassed," said Kathryn Robinette, editor of Palm Beach Today, a newspaper that chronicles charity parties and gallery openings and appears twice weekly during the Thanksgiving-to-Easter social season, weekly the rest of the year.
"It's a terrible thing for Palm Beach," said Esther Elson, who like other longtime residents, worries that publicity surrounding a woman's allegation that she was raped at the Kennedy estate will further change the town.
Many older Palm Beachers remember a world even more cloistered and set apart and say they are
adjusting reluctantly to many changes - some subtle, some less so - that have come to their town.
They speak snobbiety of "new money," which they say they understand too well. They say they do not understand the trust fund children who, as news stories surrounding the Kennedy case have hinted, might lighten the burden for love or something smaller by hopping from club to club until closing time.
Other Palm Beachers implied that the real trouble with the periodic scandals involving Kennedys, or whomever, is the attention they bring, the invasion by the world outside Palm Beach
"For a couple of days our regular clientele stayed away," said Stuartichtener Schmidt, club that the Kennedy party left from before the alleged
But after avoiding the initial onlaugh of the news media, the regulars have returned, said Lichtenstein.
attack
Marion Jones, who operates a real estate agency, said publicly like that in the Kennedy case neither attracts homeowners nor homebuyers in this rare market.
Advertisements for the $5.8 million home - 6 bedrooms, elevator, pool, marble floors, 118 feet on the ocean - a few doors down from the Kennedy will not mention the famous neighbors.
Last year, on a nearby sale, Jones said someone proposed, "Maybe we should advertise, 'Live across from the Kennedys.'"
"They did not, of course, she said. And it didn't have any effect on the sale."
Poll shows public supports Kennedy, but not victim ID
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy retains strong public support in his home state despite an alleged rape at his family's mansion in Florida, according to a poll published yesterday.
A large majority of the Massachusetts residents who responded to the poll, conducted for the Boston Globe, also thought that news media should not identify rape victims.
Police in Palm Beach, Fla., said a 29-year-old Florida woman had accused William Kennedy Smith, 30, a nephew of the senator and a medical student, of raping her at the beachfront villa on March 30
By a 3-to-1 ratio, those polled said the events surrounding the incident would have no lasting negative impact on Kennedy's ability to serve effectively in the Senate. Seventy-three percent said the events would have no impact on their decision to vote for Kennedy, should he run for re-election in 1994.
Sixty-nine percent said news media should not publish or broadcast a rape victim's name. Sixty-seven percent said the woman in the Kennedy case should not be identified.
Of those polled, 53 percent said they viewed the Kennedys positively.
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