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MONDAY, OCTOBER 9,1995 GENERAL NEWS PRESS-REPUBLICAN PAGE 9 stepfMier's rage IB ACMkli ngj vr in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^fflfftfftf^ftyfflflBiyffifflRitfytfijflff ^immir re IE -.*• V DFC1 KE31 • • I -I'J* ••MMnW Artifacts going back to Iroquois tribes WASHINGTON (AP) - After more than 40 years, President Clinton still remembers a terri- fying scene from childhood. He was barely 5 years old when his stepfather, Roger Clin- ton, fired a gun at his mother, Virginia Kelley. The bullet smashed into a wall next to where Kelley was seated. cidc \I remember that incident vividly, like it was yesterday,\ Clinton said in an interview in November's Good Housekeeping magazine. Aides said it was perhaps the most personal, frank interview Clinton has given as president. i. \That bullet could have rico- cheted and done anything,\ Clin- ton recalled. \It could have killed me. If anything had happened, Roger would never have gotten over it. Roger wasn't a bad man, and he didn't want to hurt any- body. He was just an alcoholic, full of self-loathing and anxiety, with no way to deal with it. He had problems before we ever came into his life.\ Roger was Virginia's second husband. Her first husband, William Blythe, was killed in a car accident before Bill Clinton was born. As he grew older, Clinton began to intercede when trouble started with his stepfather. • Twice, the president remem- bered, he had to stop real vio- lence when Roger Clinton threat- ened to kill Kelley. . Looking back on his childhood, Qlinton said, \There are two or three bad things that happened. Number one, I was deprived of a male role model. I grew up with this idealized version of my own father who died before I was born. I loved my stepfather very much, but he was rarely — not never, but rarely — engaged in my life. I can count, on one hand, the number of things we did together — the times he took me hunting or fishing, or into the woods to cut a Christmas tree, or to a baseball game in St. Louis. I tell you, I remember every one of them because there were so few.\ The second thing, Clinton con- tinued, was how it affected his views on marriage and family. Given his background, Clinton doubted his own ability to have a successful marriage. \I wanted it desperately but I did not know if I could do it,\ Clinton said. \When I was 21, I put down the things I really wanted in my life — and having a good family life and a child was one of them. But I just didn't know if I could ever get there, because if your model of a mar- riage has been bad, it has a sub- conscious drag on you. \The third thing that happens when you grow up in a dysfunc- tional home is that, in- advertently, you send mixed signals to people,\ Clinton said. \You learn that other people, in the outside world, didn't live in the same context as you. I see this as president. I don't believe in psychobabble — you can over- do all that — but I think I have to be acutely aware that I grew up as a peacemaker, always try- ing to minimize the disruption. \When you are president and go the extra mile, others will in- terpret it as weakness. In Haiti, I pretty much had to invade the country because people didn't believe me. When I finally had the planes in the air, they be- lieved me and got out of there. That's happened all my life, from the time I was in school. People underestimate your resolve because you go out of your way to accommodate them before you drop the hammer.\ MAI-Seton Alumni schedule meeting PLATTSBURGH — The MAI-Seton Alumni Association will meet Oct. 16 at the alumni room in Seton Catholic Central School building at 7:30 p.m. The agenda for the coming year will be discussed. The meeting is open to all. i'or more information, contact Brother Rene at 562-0504 or Jim Rood at 563-0699. By JEFF MCLAURIN Associated Press Writer ROUNDUP Grant to help libraries improve services CANTON — The North Country 3Rs Council has received a grant of $195,011 from the New York State Department of Education. The grant, part of the Regional Bibliographic Data Bases Program, will be used to help libraries use automation to improve their ability to serve patrons. The council will fund projects such as building a regional database of machine-readable library records, production of a regional catalog of library holdings on CD-ROM, support for a -toll-; free electronic bulletin board for interlibrary loan, purchase of equipment, purchase of network passwords allowing libraries to search electronic information sources at no charge, and production of workshops and other educational opportunities for library staff. Libraries that will participate include school, public, academic and special libraries in the Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Jeffer- son, Lewis and Oswego counties. Free rock climbing clinic Oct. 12 KEENE VALLEY — There will be a free rock climbing clinic at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, at the Mountaineer in Keene Valley. PMI-Petzl presents Dynamic Climbing Systems hardware and self-rescue techniques in a two-hour seminar covering topics for all levels of ability but ideally suited to lead climbers. Anchor systems, belay techniques, and escape of belay, passing knots, hauling, rappelling and ascending will be taught. NORTH COUNTRY NOTES ARRC meeting TUPPER LAKE - The mon- thly meeting of the ARRC will be held Oct. 10 in the Tupper Lake High School Industrial Arts Room at 7 p.m. The guest speaker, Hal Post, will speak on the official observer's program. The public is invited. Planning Board , SARANAC LAKE - The Planning Board of the Village of Saranac Lake will hold a meeting Thursday, Oct. 19, at the village offices, 2 Main Street. The meeting will follow a public hearing on the site-plan- review permit for Redwing Con- struction Company Inc., 250 Averyville Road, Lake Placid. A site-plan-review application is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The board may render its deci- sion on the site-plan-review- permit application. ALBANY (AP) - Officials on both sides of negotiations to have Indian ancestral artifacts returned by the New York state Museum to Iroquois tribes say the process is going smoothly, though slowly. \It takes time to meet as a group, agree on a list, then sub- mit the list,\ said Doug M. George, who is among the repre- sentatives from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Still, George said his group has had \very good communica- tions\ with officials at the Albany-based state Museum, holder of wampum belts, false- face masks, human remains and other items. By law, some of the items must be prepared for return by mid-November, said museum Director Louis D. Levine. He also said the negotiations appeared to be going well. \We are working with their staff and are dedicated to the task,\ he said. \A lot of items will be subject to repatriation, but we have to follow a process.\ That process includes identi- fying remains and reconstructing burial sites. Also, agreements may have to be worked out be- tween tribes laying claim to the same artifacts, said Levine. The Indian delegation consists of representatives from the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Tuscarora and Oneida nations and the Tonawanda Band of Seneca. It began its mission to reclaim the objects in April under the provisions of federal law. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 mandates that organiza- tions receiving federal funds must allow tribes an opportunity to reclaim religious artifacts and human remains. Since the law spells out which items can be retrieved by In- dians, there has been little disagreement in the discussions between the Iroquois and museum officials, Levine said. \The museum is a law-abiding citizen,\ he said. \The decision was made by Congress, and we will abide by it.\ The state Museum contains hundreds of Indian items stored in an anthropology survey at the institution. The collection has long been a sore point for some Native Americans, George said. \It's very disturbing to go into a museum and open a drawer and there's the skulls and actual bones of your ancestors,\ George told the Watertown Daily Times earlier this year. George, a Mohawk living on Oneida land near Utica, said the items being considered should all be returned early next year. Some items, such as a collec- tion of wampum belts turned over in 1988, have already been retrieved by the Indians. A point of contention may be the museum's concern that the artifacts be preserved after their return to the Iroquois. \A concern they have is that since these items are so great historically, what assurances can we offer that they'd be pre- served?\ George said. \And our response is these pieces are not meant to be taken out of human activity. They're not meant to be put in vaults, or in metal cases. They are to be used in our spiritual practices.\ The subject of repatriation may come up at a board meeting this month at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. 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