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“You ought to run in the street. That way, everybody gets to suffer along with you. ”
Instant notoriety puzzling
Ex-hostages look back
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Two Texans who
were hijacked in the Middle East last
June said T uesday news coverage of
the crisis generally was accurate, but
they still are puzzled how people
simply caught up in world events be
come instant celebrities.
“It worries me that a society seems
I to make celebrities out of people for
such unimportant reasons,” said Dr.
Ben Harris, a University of Texas
; professor who was a hostage for
about 36 hours.
“One of the really amazing things
I to me as a professional educator for
I 4|<<t i the past 40 years is that I spent my
LMAN lifetime making a reputation in my
YBC0 i anc ^ ^ become a celebrity in a
TKlw few short days,” Harris said.
— r His comments came during a ses-
5t AfteM * s ‘ on w ‘ t * 1 m e m bers of the Austin
chapter of the Society of Profes
sional Journalists.
Harris, 62, of Round Rock, is a
professor of education administra
tion. He and his wife, Mary Lee,
were aboard the TWA jetliner that
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was hijacked in mid-June by Shiite
extremists. His wife was released af
ter about 12 hours and Harris the
following day.
Mrs. Harris said she shared her
husband’s feelings about being made
an instant celebrity during the crisis.
“All in all, I think the press
treated us very fairly,” she said. “I
felt as Ben did that they were mak-
'Ing celebrities out of us when we
really hadn’t done anything, making
almost too much out of this.”
Harris said news reporters ap
peared to try to be as unobtrusive as
possible in dealing with the ex-hos
tages. He also said he was satisfied by
the newspaper coverage he received,
but some television coverage was less
complete.
“I was generally very pleased with
the way the (written) press did treat
the information we gave them and
the way they approached us in terms
of getting access to us,” he said.
“They were always courteous, they
were always thoughtful, they were
always willing to take ‘no’ or a delay.
“The coverage I got in the press I
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age almost always gives you both too
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Harris said the couple made brief
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However, they then avoided all
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“I said I felt a little guilty about
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join strikers
Associated Press
BEAUMONT — Nursing home
workers striking against proposed
wage cuts say they hope to gain na
tional attention by having civil rights
leaders participate in a Labor Day
rally and march.
Members of the Service Employ
ees International Union Local 706
went on strike against the Schle-
singer Geriatric Center on July 1. All
of the 150 striking workers are fe
male and most are black.
Negotiations between the union
and nursing home adminstrators are
currently stalled.
Attorney John J. Durkey, who is
representing the home in the labor
dispute, has said Schlesinger Center
is not facing financial problems. He
said the non-profit home proposed
cutting the average pay of $4.10 an
hour because “we just wanted to get
more in line with, other nursing
homes in the area.”
The ttvereage,wage for a nursing
home worker is $3,55 an hour in
Texas and $5.39 in the nation as a
whole, according to government sta
tistics.
Texas AFL-CIO president Harry
Hubbard has said he believes the
proposed wage cuts are racially mo
tivated.
Union officials said the “Justice
Comes To Beaumont” rally and
march will be attended by the Rev.
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Leadership Conference and an asso
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King Jr.
Also scheduled to appear at the
march is Ben Chavis, deputy direc
tor of the Commission for Racial
Justice.
Benjamin Hooks, the president of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, said
he might participate if a previously
scheduled engagement doesn’t in
terfere, union officials said.
John Sweeney, the union’s inter
national president and AFL-CIO
vice president, also said he would ap
pear at the rally.
Marchers will walk from Beau
mont’s Central Park to a site near the
nursing home, where participants
will hold a rally and picnic, union of
ficials said.
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