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BOSTON (AP) — Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II,
sensitive to the negative publicity he and his
family have received, announced Thursday that
he has decided not to run for governor next year.
Kennedy, whose approval ratings have plum
meted this year, said he feared his candidacy
would end up highlighting recent scandals within
his family, such as his brother’s alleged relationship
with a teen-age baby sitter, rather than weighty is
sues such as health care, jobs and education.
“In recent weeks, I’ve come to the conclusion,
reluctantly, that if I am a candidate for governor
next year, the focus will not be on those issues,”
he said at a news conference. “The race will fo
cus on personal and family questions. It’s not fair
to my family. It’s not fair to the people of Massa
chusetts, and it’s not the right thing to do.”
Although Kennedy, 44, never formally declared
his candidacy, he often said he planned to run.
Kennedy also said Thursday he planned to
run again next year for Congress, an office he first
won in 1986. He represents the 8th District,
which covers much of Boston and Cambridge
and is the same seat held by his uncle, the late
President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy, the eldest son of the late Robert F.
Kennedy, had been viewed as a heavy favorite
in the governor’s race as recently as a year ago.
The Kennedy family has gone 18-for-18 in gen
eral elections in Massachusetts over the past 50
years, and Kennedy was re-elected last year
with only token opposition.
Throughout 1997, however, his public stand
ing has been undercut by negative publicity.
First, his ex-
wife, Sheila Rauch
Kennedy, pub
lished a book ac
cusing him of try
ing to bully her into
granting him an
annulment of their
marriage. His
brother Michael
then was investi
gated for allegedly
having sex with his
family’s teen-age
jit awiiiiiim baby sitter.
More recently,
Joe Kennedy and one of his 16-year-old twin sons
were lighting fireworks on July 4 when the boy
was accidentally burned. Fireworks are illegal in
Massachusetts.
Just as that news was dying down, his cousin
John F. Kennedy Jr. said Joe and Michael Kennedy
had become “poster boys for bad behavior.”
The congressman, flanked by his campaign
supporters and staff, said Thursday that his
cousin’s article in George magazine was “very,
very much misunderstood.”
But, he said, “You have to be realistic about
“It’s not fair to my
family. It’s not fair
to the people of
Massachusetts, and
it’s not the right
thing to do.”
JOSEPH KENNEDY II
the fact that people are very angqatw
of my family and me in particular, and I an
responsibility for that.”
“I don’t think Joe Kennedy rel
thought of being the first member of Camel
lose a battle in Massachusetts,” said politic
alyst Kevin Sowyrda.
Just this past weekend, Joe Kennedyk
stroke of bad luck, injuring an ankle inafj
football game on Cape Cod thatsoughu
capture the atmosphere of happier days
his uncle was president.
Kennedy apologized for both his aai
brother’s conduct at a state DemocraticPai
sues convention in June. In several met
with reporters afterward he insisted hen
still run for governor next year.
He had about $1.8 million in his federal
paign account, much of which he figuredi
be used in a state race. Earlier this monthh
opened a state campaign committeeandln
campaign manager.
As recently as January, Kennedywasm
favorably by 60 percent of those surveys
poll released by The Boston Globe andlil
In another Globe/WBZ-TV released k
Kennedy was viewed favorably by 34 pern
400 people surveyed, while45 percentrad
unfavorably.
The polls had a margin of error ofplii!
nus 5 percentage points.
Study: Little Ice Age may slow global warm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Linger
ing effects of a frosty 500 years
called the Little Ice Age may be
helping to slow global warming, ac
cording to a new study.
Researchers at the University of
New Hampshire said cold winds
roaring over the North and South
poles are almost the same now as
they were during the period of glob
al chill that started in 1400 and ap
parently ended at the beginning of
this century.
“This shows we are still feeling
the effects of the Little Ice Age,” said
Karl J. Kxeutz of the Climate Change
Research Center at the University of
New Hampshire. “This could be
modifying the temperatures caused
by the greenhouse effect, although
we can’t be certain of that.”
Another scientist said the re
search adds important new under
standing about the Little Ice Age
and raises the possibility that the
warming effects of greenhouse gas
es may be worse than now believed.
A report on the study will be
published Friday in Science, the
journal of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
During the Little Ice Age, global
temperatures are thought to have
dropped by 2 to 3 degrees F, enough
to make winters longer and harder
and summers cooler throughout
countries in the Northern Hemi
sphere where most weather records
were then kept.
In the 15th and 16th centuries,
glaciers that had been receding
started marching down mountains
and, in some cases, casting in
creased numbers of icebergs into
the sea. The timberline retreated
down mountainsides, away from
the chilled peaks. Some agriculture
areas were abandoned to the creep
ing cold. Vikings who had home
steaded in Greenland gave up their
settlements, never to return.
Kreutz said new cores drilled
from permanent ice sheets in
Greenland and Antarctica show the
Earth has yet to fully recover from
the Little Ice Age.
Kreutz said layers of ice cored
from more than 500 feet below the
surface clearly show that wind pat
terns suddenly changed at the be
ginning of the Little Ice Age. Gales
started blowing in from the ocean
dropped concentrations of sea salt
— a compound of sodium, chlo
rine, magnesium and potassium —
onto the surface of ice sheets near
the poles. The chemicals became a
part of the seasonal ice layers.
The sea salt, in effect, left a fin
gerprint of wind patterns: The
stronger and more frequent the
winds, the greater the amount of
sea salt. Thus, by measm
concentration of sea salt,
searchers can determinedit:i
sityof the winds.
New ice cores show that to
patterns established at tliebea
of the Little Ice Age are the sai
the patterns of today, said Kra
"We’re seeing the same tj
winds blowing into the polaii
that occurred during the Litti
Age,” said Kreutz. "That d
some of the effects from thatpi
are still happening."
“This is pretty important 1 1
because it shows that theLittiB
Age was a global effect,” said I
D. Keigwin of the Woods
Oceanographic InstitutetnM<
chusetts. He said there are
worldwide data on the Little Ice
and any new information 11
eventually help scientiststind[
stand what caused it.
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