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January 19, 1982
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.■MIAMI — Miami is asking the
ou t,l< ‘ Justice Department and a blue
ribbon panel of community
leaders to investigate charges
that police used excessive force
to break up a protest by Cubans
angered at the swift deportation
of a stowaway.
Police Chief Kenneth Harms
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|VS wou * c * investigate the charges
but said, without providing evi
dence, there were very strong
rumors that the weekend vio
lence might have been provoked
in part by Communist agents
from Cuba.
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be inappitj demonstrated Saturday to pro-
e merits of test the deportation of Cuban
tecourthai stowaway Andres Rodriguez
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Texas A&M campus.
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Police made 34 arrests as the
result of skirmishes Saturday
afternoon and that night. Minor
injuries were reported by 10
officers.
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that more demonstrations
would occur Sunday, there was
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Cuban leaders charged police
with violating the rights of
peaceful demonstrators by forc
ing them off the streets and
causing the rock-and-bottle
throwing melees that Finally
were put down by tear gas gre
nades.
City commissioners, in an
emergency session called Sun
day night, approved a resolution
calling on the Justice Depart
ment to launch a probe into the
incident.
The commission also called
for an investigation by a blue rib
bon citizens’ panel. No opposi
tion was voiced on either resolu
tion.
The police chief met with
community leaders earlier Sun
day and promised that all allega
tions of brutality would be inves
tigated through the depart
ment’s Internal Affairs Division,
the Office of Professional Com
pliance and the State Attorney’s
office.
Harms also told the group,
which included City Manager
Howard Gary, that he had heard
some very strong rumors that
part of the violence was pro
voked by “outside agitators,
some Communist agents that
were put here specifically by
Castro to disrupt local govern
ment and create an internation
al incident.”
He offered no proof in sup
port of the rumors, however.
Hernandez, 20. He was sent
hack to Havana by immigration
officials just two days after he
arrived in Florida — making
him the first Cuban refugee to
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United Press International
SHAWNEE-ON-
DELAWARE, Pa. — Color Mr.
Greenjeans blue.
Fans of Captain Kangaroo
and his sidekick had to get up a
half hour earlier Monday if they
wanted to see the children’s
show on CBS, and the actor who
plays Mr. Greenjeans is dis
appointed.
Hugh “Lumpy” Brannum,
72, said in a weekend interview
from his home in the Pocono
Mountains that the network’s
decision to start the program at
6:30 a.m. EST is ridiculous and
shows CBS is more concerned
with making money than pro
viding children’s entertainment.
It was the second time in a
year that CBS has changed the
show’s starting time.
On Sept. 8, the title of the
show was changed from “Cap
tain Kangaroo” to its current
“Wake Up With the Captain.”
The program’s running time
was cut from an hour to a half-
hour, and its starting time was
moved from 8 a.m. to 7 a.m.
“In my most optimistic view
of what has been happening to
us, I figure that if we keep going
backwards in time, we will soon
be on at the same time as Johnny
Carson (on NBC’s “Tonight
Show” at 11:30 p.m. EST) and
eventually we’ll roll right into
prime time,” Brannum said.
He said the time change was
dictated to make room for an
extra half-hour of the CBS’s
“Morning” news program and
to make “Morning” more com
petitive with ABC and NBC
news programs, which also air at
7 a.m.
Brannum has played the TV
character since 1955 when Cap
tain Kangaroo, played by Bob
Keeshan, first took to the air
waves.
“I think the whole thing is
ridiculous,” Brannum said of
the new time slot. “I don’t be
lieve children are up and about
to look at television at that time.”
“They (CBS) are forgetting
that although money is an im
portant thing, it is not the only
thing,” he said. “We have other
responsibilities. If the treatment
of ‘Captain Kangaroo’ in the
past six months is any indication^
CBS has not been terribly con
cerned about responsibility tot
children.”
Gene Mater, senior vice pres
ident of the CBS Broadcast
Group, denied Brannum’s
assertions, said: “If money was
the issue, ‘Captain Kangaroo’
would have been cancelled a
long time ago. That’s not the
issue. We feel we have a respon
sibility to children and to the
adult audience.”
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