Pessimism, dour outlook an ingrained habit in U.S. NATIONAL 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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