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JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (AP) ?
i ne presence of iSoutherners in the
Carter White House has stirred up
feelings of geographical prejudice,
Press Secretary Jody Powell said.
"There certainly does exist,
unfortunately, still in this country
some degree of a tendency to look
down on and to turn up your nose at
Southerners, just as there exists
prejudice to other groups in our
society," Powell said in an ini
! 11, A*
icrview wiin tne JtsrunswiCK
News published Saturday.
"It's something that you know is
there, that you run into every now
and then and it is something that
from my part at least I'm determined
not to let bother me," he
said.
"I'm a Southerner, I'm proud of
it and if anybody doesn't likejthat,
ACLUc
reflects o
of Skok
By Joseph
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an attorney for the American Civil
the emotional scars of his successful
the right to march in a heavily Jewis
"I don't think I'll ever look back 01
caused," he says. "The hardest thir
whom you had strong feelings of emi
It was slightly over two years ago
the ACLU, answered a call from Fn
neo-Nazis barred by village laws fro
Goldberger, who finds Collin and
tried to find another attorney for t]
represent Collin because the dis
questions about free speech and ass<
The ACLU attorney, who is Jewisl
Nazis is one of the ugliest things
Amendment has to be protected."
After an 18-month court fight, Gc
right to march through Skokie, but
changed his mind and held a protest
Skokie was particularly sensitiv
living there are survivors of Hitler
also suffered, losing about 30,000 me
The ACLU recently has begun to
traumas of Goldberger and David
the ACLU in Illinois, have largely be
nrv. tu? i?1 j a r r??ii_
nucu uic uiuctii caucu, nuiiiuii
fatigued and burned-out," but he ha
Skokie provided the vehicle. His
Protest" after lines in a poem by the
When the Supreme Court last Oct
decisions upholding the Nazis' rigl
biggest celebration I ever had in anj
because of "the relief of finally beim
Goldberger, 37 has remained w
another First Amendment case, thii
a college newspaper.
He says he wants to go on to oth<
forget and I don't expect to forget" t
"You always wonder whether th
reaily worth it," Goldberger says. 4
going over it and you come up \
Amendment has to be protected."
"When it started, I regarded the c
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maintain a prejudice against th<
Georgians in Washington, Powel
said, "In my mind, that's theii
problem. They've got some sort o
warp in their minds that's going t<
hurt them much more than it hurfc
me."
Powell also commented 01
national noils whirh inriiralpH s
decline in Carter's popularity
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has slowed but David Goldberger,
Liberties Union, ACLU, still bears
effort to gain a small band of Nazis
h suburb.
1 it without remembering the pain it
ig was being at odds with people for
pa thy.''
that Goldberger, legal director for
ink Collin, leader of a little group of
m marching in Skokie.
1 his belief "absolutely disgusting,'
he case. He couldn't, and agreed tc
pute raised classic constitutional
embly.
h, says that "defending the rights of
at attorney can do, but the First
ildberger won Collin's fight for the
the march never took place. Collin
in Chicago last July.
e because thousands of the Jews
's concentration camps. The ACLU
mbers and $500,000 a year.
recoup its losses, but the personal
Hamlin, then executive director of
en kept private.
resigned. He said he was "battled
planned to take time to write and
book will be entitled "The True
late Phil Ochs.
ober declined to review lower court
[it to march, Goldberger "had the
/ case," not because he had won but
? out irom under."
ith the ACLU and is working on
3 one dealing with the censorship of
zr things but there is "no reason tc
he Skokie affair.
e agony of this kind of a case was
'But you just keep going over it and
vith the same answer: The First
ase as one that was unpleasant and
n the OhiPAtfn arpa for n .rnnnlp r?f
blivion like most cases do," Gold[ko's??
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1 rating. "You can't win an election
on image," he said.
> If a president is worried about
; "making everybody happy, not
1 making anybody mad, not stepping
r on anybody's toes, then you end up,
f in effect, abandoning the
) responsibilities of the office,"
j Powell said.
If Carter was concerned with
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i a high popularity rating, Powell
i added, "he would not have chosen
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Carsor
LOS ANGELES <AP) ? Joh
despite NBC's ratings trouble he
"Benedict Arnold ... or a deserte
leave the "Tonight" show after n?
popular late night host.
Carson, television's highest-pai
host of one of NBC's few popula
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apecmi; uepanure uaie, uui saiu
show before his contract expires ir
Some reports said he wanted to 1<
17th anniversary with the show.
"After 17 years I'm getting a
Carson told NBC News in an interv
"I don't think I can bring anyth
gets a little tougher all the time to
keep the standard of the show up.
long I won't be able to do that."
Carson denied he has been
?I President Fred Silverman over h
A Silverman reportedly had be
I frequent appearances by Carson I
drop whenever he's absent and
over.
The entertainer said, "I'm ur
network ... I've been with them i
viously this has not come at a goo<
as I told Silverman I don't want t
Arnold and I think after 17 years
11 rl /I am
iLdiuru a ucsci ici .
"It's just a desire to leave earlic
years. As to when that time will tx
t eater
cal bia
to become involved in t
and almost always co
issues that have charac
administration."
As for his own job, Pc
is difficult because of "
of cynicism and distrui
built up, really over
decade or so. Sometime
the most negative int
on anything that happen
Regarding the right
ters when gathering
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in a Frankle
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nny Carson says goir
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rM for wanting to moi
irly 17 years as its wor
bee
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d entertainer and
ir shows, gave no C
he wants off the Pre
i the spring of 1981. at P
save on Oct. 1, his His
A
little tired of it," abs
iew Friday. we<
rep
ing new to it and it oftc
do it, and I want to whi
I feel if I go on too for
fou
a yi
feuding with NBC
lis many nights off. A
en uiuie ?pu
because the ratings had
a guest host takes quo
ear
cer
ihappy ... with the
i long time and ob 0
i time for them, but NB
o feel like Benedict mil
you can hardly be net
?r than the next two NH
j, that's what we're to J
Powell said, "1
S breed of repoi
try to convince
the right to
anything evei
| really believes
LC9 tug of war back
"Powell sai<
what direction
he difficult take should X
ntroversial election. "I'll v
'terized his happens," Pom
say he would i
well said it all" book,
the climate "They (the p
it that was in Washington
the past worry about t
s it leads to later after the
erpretation what's in a co
is." going to be
i of repor- Monday morn
a story, what they had t
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to busy hunting for
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of To nl
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ig to have to talk about within
tie "Tonight" show is
leymaker, accounting for 17
k's profits last year. Since S
i last in the prime-time Niels
it weeks.
arson, in a recent interview
ss, talked of the strain of his
4BC said this is the reason he
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ictwyei, rieiiry i. oumimii, coi
nother source said, howevei
ences from the show had c?
m Carson and Silverman,
ortedly asked Carson to b<
in than three or four times a
ch pays him a reported $2.5
Carson to appear three times
r times a week for 12 weeks ai
iar.
BC News Correspondent Ba
ke with Carson early Friday
I not talked to Silverman s
ted him as saying he probabl
ly as Oct. 1, "But doubted d(
Lainly not beyond the first of tl
verall, the year has been a
n Silvprmnn trwilr nunr .1
lion salary with the speeifi<
work out of the ratings doldru
^arson's departure could mea
C's ratings if it causes any n
ump ship to ratings leader AF
It is inherent in the
ters that they will '
! you that they have
? everything and
n though nobody
that. It's a constant
; and forth."
i he doesn't know
his own career will
barter lose the 1980
/orry about that if it
rell said. But he did
never write a "tell eople
he deals with
) ought not have to
wo or three years
u'ud lrtner fnrffntton
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nversation that I'm
taking notes and
ing quarterbacking
;o say.
im*N P*C? ? GAMECOCK
supper to be
Ight lights of
nKl
a111
the next few days."
NBC's biggest
percent of the net eptember
NBC has
en ratings in all but
with The Associated
routine, and sources
wants to leave early.
ncurred.
r, Carson's frequent
iused a dispute betThe
NBC president
i on the show more
week. His contract,
million a year, callsa
week for 25 weeks,
rid 15 weeks vacation
rbara Walters, who
, said he told her he
ince March 17. She
y would not leave as
ring it past late fall,
hie year."
ratings disaster for
lune at a reported $1
: task of lifting the
ms.
n a further erosion of
lore affiliate stations
iC.