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Page20 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Friday, July 19,1985 Nation Memories, not guilt dogging Etna Huberty By Ellis E. Conklin United Press International SAN DIEGO - Etna Huberty lives with a nightmare and calls it a memory. The widow of the man who went "hunting humans" and slaughtered il people at a McDonald's restau­ rant in a San Diego suburb one year ago Thursday remembers some good things about James Oliver Hu­ berty -- the autumn walks together in Ohio, the books they read and the family outings they shared. But this 42-year-old woman, who lives today in a quiet suburb about 20 miles from the site of the worst single-day massacre in U.S. history, remains chilled by the shadow of those innocent strangers her hus­ band killed. Her face reddening and the pauses long enough to bite back the tears, Huberty said, almost plead­ ing, "This may seem strange to say, but I can feel the pain of Mrs. Hernandez (whose young son was gunned down while he sat eating ice cream on his red bicycle)." It has been a troubled year for Huberty and her two daughters, a year of many sleepless nights, a year of moving, escaping, a year of enduring the hushed, but accusato­ ry voices of those who watch her going about ^he routines of life. A year of sometimes wanting, out of frustration and fear, to beat with her hands the box that contains James Huberty's ashes, the box she keeps at home. "I don't hate my husband, no. I don't hate him. But sometimes, I feel like having a beat-the-box par­ ty. The box with his ashes," she said, her arms raised and her voice rising. Life has been hard for Huberty. She re-read "King Lear" a few months ago, and she claims some­ body broke her cat's jaw and pulled the teeth from her dog. School authorities in San Ysidro, where the bloodbath took place, did not permit her daughters to re-en- roll. The girls attended a nearby school in Chula Vista for a year under assumed names. Huberty also insists some housing deals went sour because of her notoriety. And it still upsets Huberty that San Diego police have not yet re­ turned several of the guns that be­ longed to her husband -- the ones that were not used in the massacre. "They still got a High Standard .22 revolver, a derringer and I think they got a Philippine derringer," Huberty said quickly. "And I want his tool chest back. I definitely need that one Allen wrench in there. I got things to fix." Huberty still maintains that there's nothing wrong with selling her life story to a Hollywood movie producer or perhaps having a book written about her -- a pronounce­ ment that infuriated the people of San Ysidro. "Of course, why not?" the husky womman with school-marmish looks said with obvious irritation as she nervously twisted her husband's watch around her wrist. "I've seen the newspapers, and they've had a field day with it. They made a lot of money from it," she told UPI Tuesday. "If you can, why can't I?" Huberty, her black hair heavily flecked with gray, calls herself "a living victim" and feels the commu­ nity has unfairly made her the tar­ get of its revulsion for what hap­ pened that ugly hot afternoon of July 18, 1984, when her husband killed 21 people and wounded 19 before being shot to death by a police sniper. Again, in a voice singed with dis­ gust. Huberty said. "Some of the community has act&J very rotten, but I can't" say I wouldn't have done the same thing. "But all I can tell them is let them walk a mile in my mocassins." For nearly nine months following the tragedy, Huberty saw a counsel­ or as did her daughters. She said she rarely talked about that day during her sessions. "What's the sense of talking about it? What's the sense?" she asked angrily. But Huberty does talk about it. The day before the killings, her hus­ band told her he needed help and called a mental health clinic in San Diego. But according to Huberty, no one called him back. Driving home from the store the next day, "He told me, 'Society .doesn't have a chance,"' she said. Huberty said she did not pay any attention to her husband's comment that he was going off to hunt hu­ mans. "He always said things like that, and he said it very calmly," she recalled. And then after a long pause, Hu­ berty said, "You can't blame this on one person. This would never have happened in Massillon, .Ohio. He was working then. He couldn't ad­ just to having no job here. He got depressed." As far as her plans for the future? "I got two children to raise. That's it," she said painfully. Huberty said the memory that keeps recurring about her 19 years with James Huberty are those walks in Ohio. "It's fall and the leaving are fall­ ing," she began dreamily. "They're firing up the fireplaces and every­ thing smells beautiful. And it's eve­ ning and we're taking a walk together." The Kennedys do cry United Press International i NEW YORK - The Kennedy fam­ ily, a group once governed by the rule that "Kennedys don't cry" is becoming acutely aware of its vul­ nerability and the younger genera­ tion is coming "down from Olym­ pus," a published report said. "The Kennedy's have entered a new era," author Harrison Rainie wrote in the August issue of McCall's magazine. "Change has swept the family and its third generation. A group once governed by Robert Kennedy's oft-proclaimed rule, 'Kennedys don't cry,' has started to cry and live with its pain," the article said. Rainie, who wrote the book "Growing up Kennedy," said the family once seen as able to over­ come any crisis is evolving as a group all too aware of its vulnera- Year 2000 is target for Mars mission By Frank Cook United Press International WASHINGTON -- Space dream­ ers from the Soviet I nion and Unit­ ed States say a joint manned mis­ sion to the planet Mars is possible before the year 20(H). and the only thing standing in the way is a com­ mitment to do it Scientists in a daylong round of seminars argued that such a mis- sion.could be launched as early as 1995 and that its $30 billion to S40 billion cost, after factoring in infla­ tion. would actually be about halt what the Apollo moon missions cost the United States. The seminar, titled "Steps to Mars" and sponsored by the Plane­ tary Society and the American In­ stitute of Aeronautics and Astronau­ tics. included a reunion of the three American astronauts and two Soviet cosmonauts who first joined togeth­ er 10 years ago today in the Apollo- Soyuz mission The space veterans agreed that a joint Mars flight already is techno­ logically feasible. Politics, they said, was the biggest obstacle. "The biggest thing we learned in the Apollo-Soyuz mission was that we could work together." said for­ mer astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton. "We gained the knowledge that we could work together despite differences in language, technology and even measurements." Added Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. "1 think that in the situa­ tion that existed we showed people over the world that we can accom­ plish big things on the ground and in space too." A Mars mission would take two to three vears to complete - six months to travel the minimum :*4.o million miles to the planet, at least 30 davs on the surface ot the planet, and another year to 18 months to make the return trip. bility and need for unity. Rainie said the drug overdose of David Kennedy was a shattering blow to the family that has spent more than 20 years, since the assas­ sination of President John F. Ken­ nedy in 1963, weathering personal tragedy. "They have been bruta con­ fronted with the central tr.. that Kennedys do not always get what they want, that everybody is vulner­ able," said a friend of the family. "Before, there was a fundamental premise among them that 'we have no problems that can't be solved.' ...A leg is broken, it gets healed. You mess up with the cops, it won't amount to much. You take drugs, and before it's too late you stop. David took that all away ... He killed himself, and that's a 'prob­ lem' that can't be solved." Rainie said the defeat of Sen. Ed­ ward Kennedy, D-Mass., by Presi­ dent Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Dem­ ocratic primaries, and the 1983 drug bust of Bobby Kennedy Jr., also shook the Kennedy confidence. Since then, "the family has been dealt very powerful blows to its sense of invincibility," said Andy Karsch, longtime friend of several Kennedy children, according to Raines. "It shattered theic notion of who they were, and they have clear­ ly seen the need to regroup and somehow address their losses." Maria Shriver. 29, the daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sar­ gent Shriver, and now a reporter for CBS News, said of the-family in the story: "I can't imagine we'd be separat­ ed by very much now. Whatever we do and wherever we go, we will still be there for each other. " MRS. CLARK SPIRITUAL READER AND ADVISOR ALSO, TAROT CARD AND PALM READINGS SHE WILL HELPON ALL PROBLEMSOF LIFE SUCH AS, LOVE, MARRIAGE, BUSINESS, ETC. 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Still vacant a year later, the memories of James Oliver Huberty killing 21 run strong and the disposition of the memoilal fund and proposed memorial park are yet to be determined. Comet entertains, informs By Roger Bennett United Press International LOS ANGELES -- A man-made comet danced across the Western horizon, skywriting the final chap­ ter of a yearlong satellite study of Earth's environment in space and the effect of the solar wind on real comets. "It looked like the green stage of a Roman candle," said Phoenix at­ torney Van Bunch, who went into the desert to view the comet Wednesday night. "I saw it for ap­ proximately a minute. It cut an arc going from the southwest to the northwest. It was visibly moving, dancing across the night sky. It definitely had a tail. It was glowing visibly green and then changed to a hot red tint. It looked like a comet, no doubt." NASA project manager Gilbert Ousley at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland said the comet should have been visible west of the Rocky Mountains. The coihet formed at 9 p.m. PDT when a West German satellite re­ leased two canisters of barium that exploded 70,000 miles above Earth. The barium, excited by the solar wind, quickly blossomed into a dim, diffuse glob that mimicked the be­ havior of a comet. The man-made comet was the re­ sult of a three-nation study of how the supersonic solar w'ind, made up of protons and electrons blasted away from the sun, interacts with Earth's magnetic field and radia­ tion belts and how it influences the behavior of real comets. 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