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JFK rued Diem defeat,
released tapes reveal
1 BOSTON — Weeks before
his own assassination, Presi
dent Kennedy said he was trou
bled by his actions preceding the
overthrow and killing of South
Vietnam’s president, according to
tapes made public today.
“I was shocked by the death of
Ngo Dinh Diem. He was an extraor
dinary character, while he became
increasingly difficult in the last few
months. He has been able to hold
his country together for the last 10
months,” Kennedy said in an Oval
Office tape on Nov. 4,1963.
Two days earlier, a group of dis
sident generals assassinated Diem,
and the United States became in
creasingly drawn into the civil
war there.
Kennedy also questioned what
the outcome of the coup and assas
sination would be.
“The question is now whether
the generals can stay together and
build a stable government or
whether public opinion will turn
on Saigon.”
The recording was among 37
hours of tapes released by the John
F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
Four hours of the tapes had been
in the possession of Kennedy’s
personal secretary, Evelyn Norton
Lincoln, who died in 1995 and left
them to Robert L. White, a collec
tor of Kennedy memorabilia.
White gave the tapes to the library
earlier this year.
In the tapes, Kennedy expressed
regret over sending a cable that
preceded the Diem overthrow.
Stephanie Fawcett, former senior
foreign policy archivist for the JFK
library, said the wire gave indirect
support of the coup.
Early screening
for diabetes advised
2 CHICAGO — People should
be considered for diabetes
testing beginning at age 25 — 20
years earlier than now recom
mended — to save them from
blindness, kidney failure and am
putations, government re
searchers say.
Earlier screening likely would
mean earlier diagnoses and treat
ment to avoid the debilitating
complications of the disease, said
the researchers, led by Dr. Michael
M. Engelgau of the federal Centers
for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Their report was published in
Wednesday’s Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Association.
Diabetes afflicts 16 million
Americans, and at least a third of
them are unaware they have the
illness, experts estimate. It is the
leading U.S. cause of blindness,
kidney failure and amputations
and kills 180,000 a year.
Dr. Gerald Bernstein, president
of the American Diabetes Associa
tion, agrees with the study’s con
clusions, even though his group
recommended last year that rou
tine screening begin at age 45
among the general population.
The ADA also recommends that
testing be considered earlier than
age 45 among people in high-risk
groups, such as non-Caucasians,
the obese and people with a family
history of diabetes.
Bernstein said in a telephone in
terview Tuesday that even though
the CDC report differs from the
guidelines, it is consistent with
their intent and approach.
“What we are learning, unfortu
nately, is this is now a disease of
children,” said Bernstein, director
of diabetes management programs
at Beth Israel Health Care Systems
in New York. One-fourth of new
diabetes cases among people un
der age 20 are now type 2, he said.
Formerly called adult-onset or
insulin-independent diabetes,
type 2 diabetes generally develops
after age 40 and is treated only
with dietary changes and pills,
though many type 2 patients now
take insulin shots.
Type 2 is making alarming gains
among youth because of rising
childhood obesity and the preva
lence of sedentary lifestyles, said
Bernstein, who was not involved
in the new study.
New Lebanese leader
takes oath of office
3 BEIRUT, Lebanon — Com
pleting the first smooth transi
tion of power in a peaceful Lebanon
in nearly 30 years, the nation’s new
leader took the oath of office Tues
day and promised to clean up a
graft-riddled government.
In a speech repeatedly interrupt
ed by applause, President Emile La
houd told lawmakers that taxpay
ers want a transparent civil service
where nobody is above the law.
“It is the people’s right, before
anything else, that they see how
the decent are rewarded and how
a thief s hand is chopped off, who
ever that may be,” he said.
On foreign policy, Lahoud is ex
pected to change little. In his
speech, he pledged to continue
close relations with Syria, without
whose approval he would not
have been elected. Syria stations
30,000 troops in Lebanon and is
the main power broker.
Lahoud said Lebanon would
continue to ally itself with Syria in
any peace negotiations with Israel.
Beirut has long rejected Israel’s at
tempts to negotiate a separate
peace that would involve Israeli
troops withdrawing from the
buffer zone they occupy in south
ern Lebanon.
The choice of Lahoud, a Ma
ronite Catholic, respects the reli
gious divisions that dominate the
politics of this nation of 3.2 mil
lion: The president is a Maronite
Christian, the prime minister is a
Sunni Muslim and the parliamen
tary speaker is a Shiite Muslim.
The assembly is divided equally
between Muslims and Christians.
Lahoud is the 11th president
since independence from France
55 years ago. Two previous presi
dents took over after assassina
tions in Lebanon, which ended a
15-year-civil war in 1990.
Lahoud, a 62-year-old British
trained general, was elected by
Parliament on Oct. 25 amid hopes
that he would rebuild the admin
istration as he had done the army:
taking an organization fractured
by the 1975-90 civil war and weld
ing it into a coherent body free of
sectarian tension.
‘Nappy Hair’ book
causes furor in school
4 NEW YORK — A white
Brooklyn teacher who gave
an acclaimed children’s book
called “Nappy Hair” to her mostly
black and Hispanic third-graders
was removed from her classroom
after parents complained and
threatened her.
Ruth Sherman, 27, was trans
ferred out on Tuesday after a tense
school meeting Monday night.
“The term ‘nappy’ is generally
derogatory and not every parent
felt that using a book like ‘Nappy
Hair’ in a classroom setting, al
though the author was black, was
a wise way to go,” said Board of
Education spokesman J.D.
LaRock. LaRock said that despite
some “provocative passages,” the
book has a positive message.
Told in a gospel-like, call-and
response style, the book is about a
little girl with the “nappiest, fuzzi
est, the most screwed up,
squeezed up, knotted up” hair. It
received rave reviews, including
one from The New York Times.
“The idea that it is a racist book
is ridiculous,” said the author,
Carolivia Herron, who believes
the book should be used to teach
racial diversity. “This book is a
wonderful celebration of nappy,
African-American hair.”
The district superintendent told
Sherman to report to district head
quarters instead of her classroom,
pending further investigation, ac
cording to Ron Davis, a
spokesman for the teachers union.
Sherman, who began teaching
full-time this fall, could face trans
fer or disciplinary action. She did
not return calls Tuesday.
Davis said several parents at the
meeting stood up and threatened
Sherman.
— The Associated Press