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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1980
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Martha
Coleman, the only witness to the
tenon Jordan shooting, said a motel
lerk told her Jordan had received a
ieries of strange phone calls from a
oman before he was seriously
ounded by a sniper’s bullet.
For the first time since the May 29
hooting of the National Urban
jeague director, Coleman came out
if seclusion to talk with reporters
tionday.
In addition to discussing the
ihone calls, she said she resented
the innuendoes, the implied things,
he half-truths” about her private life
ind said the publicity might under-
nine her effectiveness as a civil
>hts worker.
“I have no regrets because I did
wthing wrong,” said Coleman, a
lirector of the Fort Wayne Urban
jeague.
Meanwhile in Indianapolis, the
? BI says “it’s doubtful” a man who
police Monday he shot Jordan
vas involved in the shooting. The
nan, Willie Johnson, 25, In-
lianapolis, was given a mental ex-
mination and ordered held pend-
ng an FBI investigation. He was to
te arraigned Tuesday.
Jordan, who remained in serious
imdition Tuesday, was shot as he
tepped from Coleman’s car in a
notel parking lot.
She said the desk clerk told her
Her the shooting that Jordan had
been getting some strange phone
alls all night.”
"He showed me a message from a
raman he had received. He asked
ne did you leave this, I said, ‘No.’
[bat message said, ‘For your next
bicken dinner call something, a loc-
Fort Wayne number.’ He said it
J.
was the third call from that particular
woman that night.”
Jordan was in Fort Wayne May 28
to speak to a local Urban League ban
quet. After the dinner, a mutual
friend introduced him to Coleman,
36, who has been divorced four
times.
She said they wound up talking in
the bar at his motel and when the last
call was made, Jordan said he wanted
some more coffee.
“He indicated he was tired of bars,
restaurants, that type of thing. He
was just talking. I drove him to my
home,” she said. “I made coffee and
that was that.”
She said Jordan spent about 30 mi
nutes at her house and she then
drove him back to the Marriott Inn,
arriving there at about 2 a.m.
“I heard a sound which to me
sounded like something breaking my
car window. He screamed and said,
‘I’ve been shot, call the police.’ I
jumped out of the car, I saw him
lying on the pavement. I immediate
ly ran into the Marriott and told
them someone was shot and to please
call the police,” she said.
She said in the publicity that fol
lowed, her house was shown coast to
coast, and people were told she lives
there alone.
“I’m going to have to go back there
and live alone,” she said. “I’ll be left
to deal with the kooks, and people
who know I’m living alone. ”
Coleman said while she was wait
ing for an ambulance, she called a
lawyer because she felt it the logical
thing to do.
Though Jordan was reported still
in serious condition, he was “alert,
coordinated, conversing at times,”
after undergoing surgery for a
second time Sunday.
She swings in another direction
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CHICAGO — Christie Hefner may be the crown prin
cess of Playboy but she won’t follow her father as the
magazine’s swinging symbol.
Hugh M. Hefner gave up too much, his daughter said,
in creating the bunny mini-empire of Playboy.
“I value my privacy too much to lead the kind of life
publicly scrutinized in a way that my father has,” she said in
an interview.
“I think I was affected as a child, at least subliminally, by
seeing him in the early 60s when he was here in Chicago in
the mansions, when he was working around the clock.
“He really gave up a lot in terms of family relationships
and personal and friendship relationships as well as just
things like travel.
“Happily, I don’t think I have to make those same sacri
fices to continue to build the company from where it is —
because it’s hardly starting from scratch.”
But she readily acknowledges she will be, in all likeli
hood, mistress of the Hefner domain. Largely, she con
cedes, because she is the apple of her father’s eye.
She is also very smart, cool and quick, an ardent feminist,
an avowed Ms.
She has no intention of tampering with her father’s crea
tion — a glossy magazine condemned by feminists as sexist,
pornographic and demeaning of women.
Christie Hefner will not buy that description. If she has
her way—and she quite likely will—Playboy will continue
to expand its financial support of feminist causes, whether
feminists like it or not.
“I guess I have to ask the critics of the magazine how they
explain the feminist positions that the magazine has taken.
If I were on the other side of the table and saying T think
Playboy is degrading to women and sexist,’ I would have
trouble in explaining them.”
Christie Hefner is 27, a Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis
University. She is attractive in a lean, lanky way, with a
quick, beguiling grin, a quick mind, and rapid speech. She
rattles off perfectly parsed sentences at a machine gun pace.
She is also a vice president and member of the board of
Playboy Enterprises Inc., the international soft porn and
Christie Hefner readily
acknowledges she will become, in
all likelihood, mistress of the
Hefner domain. Largely, she
concedes, because she is the apple
of her fa ther’s eye.
gambling conglomerate founded by her father in Chicago
26 years ago with a handful of borrowed money and a hunch
American males were more than ready for a bit of explicit
sex.
Hefner, now 54 and still much in command, was very
right. Playboy became the biggest U.S. publishing marvel
of its era since Life.
As he nurtured it, Hefner left his wife and two children
and immersed himself in a dour Chicago mansion where,
largely squatting on a huge circular bed, he would work the
clock around and often not emerge for months.
Still Hefner strived to be a good father. He has a lot to
pass on and his prime choice settled on his daughter,
Christie.
In good time. Ms. Hefner is fond and admiring of her
father, whom she visits in his Los Angeles mansion for four
or five days every month. She is, she said, in no hurry to
replace him or expecting to do so soon.
“He is a very young, active 54,” she said.
But the time to take over, she and most other persons at
Playboy indicated, will come. Ms. Hefner has definite ideas
of what to do in the meantime:
— Get Playboy’s gambling casino-hotel operation in
Atlantic City in operation either late this year or early in
1981. A substantial, perhaps the biggest, portion of PEI’s
income now comes from two casinos in London. Playboy
has $35 million-$50 million or more staked on starting the
dice rolling on its tables in the United States.
— Launch one new magazine and perhaps two. One
would be for both men and women. The other would be a
women’s magazine.
— Continuing to advance feminist causes through the
Playboy Foundation, even if some feminists object. Ms.
Hefner is described in Playboy literature as “overseer” of
the foundation.
One thing she will not do, although she is qualified for it,
is pose for the Playboy center fold. She has nothing against
it but does not feel like it.
“Modeling just doesn’t appeal to me. The difference
between modeling with my clothes on or my clothes off is
not a very important decision to me. I came very close to
being a bunny, which is a related thing in terms of women at
Playboy. ”
Using the Playboy Foundation to promote feminist
causes interests her far more. In this she perseveres
although some feminists balk at taking Playboy money.
When Christie Heftier came into its councils off the
Brandeis campus, where her majors were Shakespeare and
modern literature, the company had become too big for its
own good.
“I think we’re at a threshhold right now in terms of the
company,” Ms. Hefner said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Dr. Ben
iamin Spock, whose book on child
are reared a generation, pleaded
juilty Tuesday to blocking the Pen-
agon during an antinuclear demon
stration and was fined $25.
Spock, 77, had said before the sen-
i |*nf| fencing that jail would be a “small
v/Jl )r j ce j: 0 p a y” protest of nuclear
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“1 consider nuclear weapons the
lost terrible danger that the world
as ever faced,” Spock told reporters
tutside the court building. “I’ll do
I’ anything possible to call attention of
‘the American public to this danger.”
Spock, who lives in Rogers, Ark.,
id agreed to plead guilty to the
charge if he could be sentenced at
Little Rock rather than return to
Washington. The maximum punish-
nent for the violation is 30 days in
ail or a $50 fine, U.S. Magistrate
lobert Faulkner said.
Faulkner noted many of the other
demonstrators at the April rally were
iiven suspended five-day sentences.
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authority to investigate state agen
cies’ finances.
Clements told delegates to the
American Legion Boys State that he
has an extensive list of recommenda
tions to present to the 1981 Legisla
ture.
The governor drew loud applause
and cheers with a mention of his
proposal to legalize wiretapping in
drug cases.
“We ll have an electronic surveill
ance bill — wiretapping, ” Clements
said. “I’m absolutely dedicated to
the proposition that we re going to
put these drug pushers and drug
dealers in jail. ”
Clements also listed legislation to
ban head shops and drug parapher
nalia and set mandatory sentences
for drug pushers.
The governor said he will suggest
changes in the shock probation law,
tougher laws against pornography
and measures to restore discipline in
classrooms.
“WeTI probably have the most
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SEATTLE — President Carter
and Edward Kennedy were to sepa
rately address the U.S. Conference
of Mayors Tuesday, but the White
House applied some pressure and
Kennedy was bumped from the
speaker’s schedule.
Conference officials Monday
abruptly canceled Kennedy’s long
standing invitation to address the
convention the same day as Carter
after the White House termed the
arrangement “unacceptable.”
“It is important for this conference
to have the president of the United
States appear and we are certainly
willing to accommodate him,” said
‘ Mayor Richard Carver of Peoria,
Ill., a Republican and current presi
dent of the conference.
Carver said Kennedy only con
firmed two days ago he would come
Tuesday. His invitation was dated
April 9. Carver said the president’s
confirmation came last week.
“I want to assure you that if the
senator had confirmed first and then
we had to come under pressure (from
the White House) to change the
schedule, I would have made the re
verse decision,” he said.
After he was told of Kennedy’s
plans, Carver said, he instructed his
staff, “as a courtesy,” to inform the
White House. Carter staffers said it
was “unacceptable in their opinion
for the president to appear on the
same day as the senator,” he said.
Carver phoned Kennedy’s staff
with the news and offered to move
the senator’s speech to Wednesday.
Kennedy declined.
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