Pessimism, dour outlook an ingrained habit in U.S.
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WASHINGTON
(AP) — In good
limns and bad.
Americans s««m to
havn an overriding,
downbeat ••valuation
of the national condition: I hey think
things were belter before and will be
worse later, savs a pollster who has ana
lyzed years of readings of the national
mind-set
Everett C. (.add. executive direr tor of
the Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research at Storrs. Conn., also finds that
discontent with the way things are going
economically has become rampant in the
world's ri< best economies
People in Japan, (.rent Britain, France,
Germany, Spain, Italy and Canada, in a
variety of polls taken by his and other
polling organizations sinc e last fall, have
said that their homelands' e< onomic situ
ations were bad and getting worse, he
said
Ladd offered a theory to explain the
widespread pessimism n bad news syn
drome. All of those countries, he noted,
have similar communications systems
"which make large doses of negative cov
erage a constant in the experiences of
their citizenries."
(.add's evaluation of what polls from
the present and past reveal about the
industrial world's attitudes will be pub
lished next week in the Public Perspec
tive, n Roper Center publication, and in
The American Enterprise, a magazine of
the Arneruan Enterprise Institute, a con
servative think tank
"There is survey evidence that Ameri
cans have long been anxious about the
status of things that are important to
them." 1-add said In 1948. when his orga
nization asked people whether the next
few years would bring better or worse
times or little < hange, nearly twice as
many said "worse" than "bettor "
And in July 1963, Itefore John F
Kennedy’s assassination, when Camalot
supposedly still reigned in the national
Thera isn’t a single
instance when more
people celled the
economy good to
excellent than labeled It
not-so-good to poor.’
— Everett C Ladd.
RCPOR director
psychology, just 34 percent of those
polled bv Gallup pronounced themselves
"satisfied ... with the honesty and stan
dards of behavior of people in the coun
try today."
A dour outlook is an ingrained habit,
Ladd suggests, noting that John Quincy
Adams in his Jubilee Address of April.
30, 1830. observing the 50th anniversary
of George Washington's inauguration,
expressed deep pessimism about whether
tin* country could live up to it* promise
In more recent times. Americans were
asked in 377 polls between December
1985 and last month to describe the state
of the national economy.
"There isn't a single instance when
more people called the economy good to
excellent than labeled it not-so-good to
poor." Ladd said.
On one occasion, in April 1986. half of
those who responded were positive and
half negative. "In every other instance,
the composite score has been negative —
in boom times as well as during reces
sion."
in the United States in a February poll.
71 percent said they were dissatisfied with
the way tilings were going at that time.
In Canada. 78 percent were dissatisfied
with their country's direction; in Great
Britain. 6.1 percent thought their country
was not going along broadly the right lines.
In France. 61 |X‘rcent said things had a ten
dency to get worse, not better; in Japan, 44
pen ent said things were getting worse.
Barracuda
attacks
woman
KKY WKST. Fla. IAI’) —
barracudas generally don't
attack people unless pro
voked Hut don’t toll Hint to
Nadine Cloer. who received
nearly 200 stitches aft• • r an
eight-foot lhirrni tida leaped
into a I ion sehoat and hit her
hand and leg.
"1 saw him come out of the
water like a bullet. " the Tam
pa-area woman said from her
key I .nrgo hospital Im-iI Sun
day ' It was like a torpedo
right out ot the water It
loukod like it was diving
straight for me."
Family members rushed to
help Cloer after the fish
lunged at her Saturday off
the Florida Keys They
pushed it overboard with
poles
Coach coerces teen into sex, reports say
HKMKT. C.olif. (AP) — Two formi»r high
s< hool quarterbai ks who said they ware
lured into tin* fantasy sex world of their
i oat h are still haunted by loyalty to their
foothall mantor
“I never, never want anyone logo through
what I had to go through." Man Sear I said
Soarl was joined by m hoolmale A T Pago
in tlioir first interv iew sint o the March arrest
of former Hemet High School coat h Kandy
Brown and Ins wife, Kelly Hemet, a town of
50.000. is 20 miles southeast of I .os Angelos
The teen agers made their < omments in an
interview last week with the /Overside /’revs
h'nlrrpri\<‘
Authorities said the coa< h i oert ed Page,
now It), to have sex with his wife, often
while he watched. Searl, now 18. refused the
advances despite four months of solicita
tions by the coach
The Browns pleaded guilty to charges of
conspiracy and committing oral copulation
with a minor.
The teen-agers said Brown told them a
boti hed vasectomy prevented him from hav
ing sex In addition to salvaging his mar
riage, they said, the i oar h told them that
having sex with his wife would make them
[letter football players
Page claims Ihnt during sex at the Browns’
home, the conch would lecture him about
footltall plays.
"He called it astronaut training," Page
said, "lust ns something would be going on
with Kelly, he'd plug in a videotape of a
scrimmage or something or a practice, and
say. 'Now this is what you're doing wrong.
A T You'll remember this when you play
tomorrow ' "
The Browns, who said they pleaded guilty
to avoid a trial and a possible three-year
prison term, were given 16-inonth suspend
ed prison terms and Sr>,0(M) suspended fines
Student killed during Weber State shootout
Ot.lJKN. Utah CAP) — Mark
I lining bared a coll«,ge grievum •>
hearing would load to his expul
sion Su, police sav. lie sIimm) up
at till’ end. pulled out a small
revolver and opened fire
In a mutter uf seconds, he
struck three people, including
< uutpiis |H)lne Sgt Kent Kiornun
Bui Kiernan, with a bullet in the
t.n v and hand, was able to return
(ire. killing Duong
Authorities at VVelier State 1 in
versitv were investigatinga feud
between Doting, 2?. and Tuan
Nguyen, who lutd at i umh) Dining
of harassing and threatening his
wife. Nguyen's charges had led
to Thursday s hearing.
Friends s)ns ulated that Duong,
a computer sc ience major out*
i lass short of graduation, could
not hoar the thought of being
kicked out of the sc hool.
Duong I vegan shooting shortly
after the hearing com lulled Tim
hrst shot grazed Nguyen's head
t ’ni vorsilv attorne\ Richard Hill
was shot twit e in the arms as Ini
charged the gunman.
kitirnan, though shot in the
nose and hand, ordered Duong to
drop his weapon Instead, Duong
shot again, and kiernan pumped
live huliets into the gunman, who
died later at the hospital.
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