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cache of commercially produced pornographic films, photo- graphs, and magazines featuring young children as sexual objects . "Little Brother Wants a Kiss!" reads one magazine . "Yes! A minor is loads of fun!" Another shows pictures of children in black leather performing oral sex on each other; one headline advertises "Big Prick Dream Boy ." A how-to article entitled "Young Boys Are Fun in Bed" instructs "fellow boy-fuckers" on how to seduce children, from hanging around near schoolyards to striking up conversa- tions-"Be nice"-to initiating sex ("A few drinks or a pipe of hashish . . . will help you a lot") . The mere possession of such material carries a mandatory jail sentence in Louisiana, which has one of the strictest child-pornography laws in the nation, but there was more . Also found in Father Cinel's room were 160 hours of home- ig and sprawling and a bright- made pornographic videotapes in which the handsome yellow brick, St. Rita's is an imposing presence in a performed anal sex, oral sex, group sex, and a dizzying array quiet neighborhood of neat little houses and of other diversions (often including his fluffy white lapdog) well-tended lawns . It is scarcely past dawn when the first pa- with at least seven different teenage boys . His voice as soft rishioners begin to file into for early-morning Mass, as a caress, he was relentlessly persuasive as he urged one but already the air is as hot as a furnace . Outside St. Rita's, boy to have sex with his brother on-camera, another to have the force of nature is inescapable: in this tropical climate, intercourse with his mother and to bring in his sister and her lush green vegetation thrusts into every crevice, floods come boyfriend to make a group-sex video they might sell in Den- with the first hard rain, and thunder rumbles across the skies mark. At one point one of Cinel's partners reported back on in a low, continuous murmur . Inside the pristine, air-condi- his mother's reaction when he tried to seduce her: "She got tioned church, however, an old-fashioned decorum prevails . real upset," he said plaintively . "She never reacted the same Although most of the women wear casual clothes on this to me after that . It blew her mind ." weekday morning, their heads are modestly covered, as if all Hers wasn't the only mind that was blown . To the horror the years of liberalization since Vatican II had never hap- of the parishioners at St . Rita's, many of the videotapes were pened. As a white-robed priest leads the faithful in prayer, made in the rectory, in Father Cinel's modest little suite of his voice is mellifluous and soothing : "And lead us not into rooms right under the noses of the other in residence temptation, but deliver us from evil," he intones solemnly . there. But the uproar last spring was only the public eruption The faces of his flock are as serene as their sanctuary ; inside of a scandal that the church had kept secret for more than two I this place, man has triumphed over nature to impose a rigor- years and that was finally revealed not by diocesan officials ous order on its darker and more luxuriant excesses . but by Richard Angelico, an outstanding investigative report- Or so it seemed until last spring, when the parishioners at er on WDSU-TV, the local NBC affiliate . Father Cinel's St . Rita's finally learned from the news media about the cache of contraband had been discovered at the end of De- activities of one of their favorite priests . Father Dino Cinel, a cember 1988, and although he himself was discreetly ousted charming Italian-born priest who lived at St . Rita's for nearly as a priest shortly thereafter, the archdiocese held on a decade, was discovered to have stockpiled an enormous to his collection of pornography for three months before 224 puhdoplhilia in the priest hoo( 1-its Iam suit I)avouts could total I billion within the next fevV years . But hoc is the church con fro IItini the Ilrohlenl? reports (lit the case of a \'ew Orleans priest who allegedly exploited young men for sex and collected child pornop-alhv, but was allowed to re-emerge as a tenured college pirofessor in New purlk

turning it over to the district attorney's office, prompting a barrage of later questions about whether the tapes had during that time been purged of sequences involving minors or parish- ioners. In addition to the resulting charges of a church cover-up, when the news became pub- lic the district attorney immediately came un- der fire for his failure to prosecute Cinel . f- - Harry Connick Sr., the father of the singer, is a devout Catholic and a parishioner at St . Rita's as well as the longtime D .A . of Orleans Parish, New Orleans being a town so Catholic its counties are called . Although Connick had lobbied hard for Louisiana's tough new child- t pornography statute, he had also entertained Father Cinel in his home, and the sociable priest had even' •,, performed the rites at the wedding of Connick's r brother-in-law . In a television interview with Angeli- co, the D.A. admitted that one reason he hadn't prose- cuted the case, despite a recommendation by his own investigators that he do so, was his unwillingness to em- ban-ass "Holy Mother the Church ." The ensuing outcry drove him from public view, although the D .A.'s office did finally file a single, unspecific charge of possession of por- nography against Cinel-a move so halfhearted that it elicit- ed still more criticism, since hundreds of charges could technically have been filed based on the commercial por- nography collection alone . Indeed, the Cinel case is being described as the largest documented case of priest pedophilia in the history of the crime. Federal authorities are expected to file additional', charges this fall based on violations of customs and postal regulations, since Cinel admitted he had smuggled some o his stash into the country from Europe . Then there are the civil lawsuits : two so far, one by each of Cinel's most long-standing boyfriends, citing not only the priest but

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also the church for its failure to protect them from Father Ci- living in Brooklyn since last summer with Linda Pollock, the nel's predations . fellow Tulane history professor he married two years ago A major New York educational system has also become after getting her pregnant, and with their toddler, a girl . embroiled in the controversy . After being quietly dismissed The Scottish-born Pollock is "kind of a wallflower," ac- from St . Rita's in early 1989, Cinel, a respected historian, cording to Dr. Bressler . "She's the opposite of Dino ." continued to teach at Tulane University a few blocks away, Indeed, even his enemies acknowledge that Cinel is ex- and before the next year was out he had landed a job as tremely charming. He is now presenting himself as a re- "distinguished professor" of history at the College of Staten spectable family man while maintaining a posture of Island, which is part of the City University of New York . aggrieved innocence, telling everyone who will listen that The distinguished-professor rank carries a $20,000 bonus, so his sexual peccadilloes are behind him and that he can't by last winter Cinel was ensconced at Staten Island in the understand why everyone is making such a big deal out of cushiest of academic posts, with an annual salary of $90,000 something that happened in the past . "Before this I was a and a decidedly underwhelming work load of half a course prince-now I'm a pariah," he said bitterly to another per semester . The new distinguished professor was given professor over the summer . tenure, of course, so when the scandal broke shortly there- He may be a pariah, but he's also free to walk the streets, after, the College of Staten Island found, to its extreme dis- and the mere thought makes many observers shudder. may, that it couldn't even suspend Cinel without running a "Somebody's got to put this guy in jail," says Gary Ray- lengthy procedural gauntlet of byzantine complexity, a pro- mond, a private investigator and former New Orleans police- cess that would obviously take months to complete and in man who has worked on the case . "The experts always say which Cinel was entitled to an automatic defense by the there's no cure for pedophilia, and based on the lack of proof union representing faculty members. In September, the col- of rehabilitation other than Cinel's saying 'I've given it up,' I lege finally reassigned Cinel to a theretofore nonexistent po- can only assume that what he's doing at the present time is sition at CUNY Press, a largely nonexistent entity that has yet molesting kids, because that's what Dino Cinel has always to publish a book . "The highest priority is to avoid contact done, and everything else-the priesthood, Tulane, CUNY- between him and students," said Dr. Barry Bressler, the vice everything has been secondary. If he's photographed seven president for academic affairs at the College of Staten Island . boys, he's seduced seventy, and if he's seduced seventy, The college had originally settled upon Cinel after a long he's taken a shot at seven hundred ." search process ratified by some of the most prominent histo- rians in the country, but after the scandal broke the school nfortunately, such numbers would not be was besieged with criticism for its handling of the situation ; unprecedented ; in the last few years, the it turned out that most of the professors on the search com- has been overwhelmed mittee never even knew Cinel was a former priest-a fact he with similar cases . In fact, it is surprising had somehow omitted from his vita-let alone a disgraced that Cinel's own archdiocese handled his one facing a multitude of potential criminal charges . The case so ineptly, since it had already en- lone priest on the search committee-Lydio Tomasi, execu- dured a horrific embarrassment a few years tive director of the Center for Migration Studies on Staten earlier with a slew of lawsuits against Gilbert Gauthe, a Lou- Island, who had known Cinel for more than twenty years and isiana priest who has thus far cost the church more than $20 even belonged to the same order, the Scalabrinian Fathers- million. "According to some of the estimates, as many as never told any of his colleagues that Cinel had been a priest . twoU hundred kids, mostly altar boys, were abused over a "It was quite irrelevant," insists Tomasi, who claims to five- to seven-year period," says Raul Bencomo, an attorney have known nothing about the sex scandal . for some of the plaintiffs . The damage was exacerbated by With assorted religious, educational, and criminal-justice the fact that church authorities had known Gauthe was a systems reeling in his wake, the fifty-year-old Cinel has been pedophile. "They shuffled him from one parish to another 226 l, l~(~ ( ;ilWi ctrl c' IS a 1\ Utc'I 'Li(

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home, and both remain deeply disturbed by their experiences old in my brain . . . . I didn't think about the cost . All I knew with Father Cinel . Tichenor says he was only thirteen when was here was a person telling me he loved me, and I was he began having sex with the priest (Cinel claims he doesn't going to do everything in my power to keep him. . . . remember how old Tichenor was when they got involved), When I was with him, I really didn't doubt his word . All I but the passage of years has done little to assuage his tur- knew was that for the first time in my life I had somebody moil. "Many's the night I sat in the kitchen of my mother's home waiting for me that was supposedly going to be there house with the barrel of a gun in my mouth," Tichenor told forever for me. . . . I sat outside that church many a night in Richard Angelico . the pouring rain, waiting for him to come home, where I Fontaine acknowledges that he- was seventeen when his could go inside . That's how much I loved him ." affair with Cinel started, but he has always looked far young- er than his years, and his mental capabilities are limited; cluster of television cameras and reporters indeed, he is described by his lawyers as borderline retarded . are massed in front of Darryl Tschirn's law Cinel's videotapes provide eloquent testimony to Fontaine's office overlooking Lake Pontchartrain as childishness ; in one sequence, he is watching a Smurf car- Dino Cinel and his attorney step off the ele- toon on television while Cinel performs oral sex on him . vator. Cinel's lawyer is scowling as they Fontaine remains particularly fragile ; he has been diagnosed dart through the assembled press, but the in the past as both suicidal and, after threatening to kill Ci- former priest simply looks shell-shocked, nel, homicidal, and he is haunted by his feelings of betrayal his eyes wide and startled like those of a deer caught in by the priest, to whom he had been deeply attached . Fontaine headlightsJN. Pale and wan, clad in a pin-striped navy suit finally decided to sue only after seeing an issue of a Europe- jacket over rumpled khaki pants, he keeps his head down as an porno magazine entitled Dreamboy U.S.A ., which con- he disappears into the inner office, where he is about to give sisted entirely of pictures of himself-posing in provocative a deposition in one of the two civil suits that have been filed positions, pulling down his underpants, displaying his erec- by Tschim and David Paddison, the attorneys for both Fon- tions, masturbating-secretly supplied to the magazine by taine and Tichenor. On this particular occasion, Cinel spends Cinel . Cinel claims he never got any money for the pic- a lot of time pleading the Fifth Amendment, but it doesn't tures-but for Fontaine, who believes that Cinel sold the matter; he has already aired a remarkable amount of dirty material without telling him, the discovery was the ultimate laundry in a videotaped deposition taken in August of 1990 . blow in a series of disillusionments made possible by his If Cinel looks somewhat chastened now, back then he own terrible vulnerability . seemed a different man entirely-arrogant to the point of A slight, freckled young man with reddish-brown hair, insolence, cavalier, even nonchalant as he discussed his rich- Fontaine speaks slowly and haltingly, stumbling over syntax ly varied sex life with both men and women during his twen- and groping for words ; he may not be articulate, but after ty-three years as a priest, his illicit activities in the rectory at years of therapy he has come to a clear understanding of why St . Rita's, and his contraband pornography collection, Father Cinel was able to manipulate him so egregiously. "I among other topics. was just begging for somebody to love me," Fontaine told According to his deposition, Cinel, the youngest of nine Richard Angelico, his voice suffused with bitterness . "He children, was first introduced to sex back home in Italy by made me believe he loved me and he would always be there the headmaster of his boarding school, whom he described as for me . My parents didn't care about me, and I didn't have "an eminent priest who was a friend of the ." Cinel was nothing. If he had told me to jump off a bridge, I would have thirteen or fourteen at the time, and the encounters with his jumped . . . . He made me believe that I was a kid in need of a superior continued over the next couple of years . After Cinel father and he was a father in need of a son, and God put us became a priest, his sex partners included both women and together to help each other and to serve each other's needs . I young men ; after acquiring a master's degree at New York was seventeen years old, but I must have been fourteen years University, he earned his doctorate at Stanford, maintaining 228 Nee Ul]cities 1) . 1 . Ilar" ( onnick .Sr . near lc/h and former I,ee Orleans archbishop Philip Ilannan . one ol'the first to be infimned ofCineIs actisities .

a four-year affair with a woman in California in addition to Connick even filed the one charge against Cinel . After his more fleeting homosexual contacts . Cinel's taste for ado- months of continuing criticism, this fall the D .A . finally lescent boys was already well established ; when he moved to charged him with sixty separate counts of possession of child New Orleans, he made a point of calling the D .A.'s office to pornography .) ascertain the age of consent in Louisiana . He had been down The alleged agreement with the D .A. isn't the only deal to the French Quarter, where many male hustlers hang out, Cinel claims to have made : when another priest finally blew "and I had seen that some of them looked young and I the whistle on him, Cinel says, the archbishop agreed that if wanted to know what the situation was here," Cinel ex- he departed quietly the material discovered in his room plained. "I tried to stay clear of the law ." At no point during would not be used against him . The circumstances of Cinel's his entire four-hour deposition did he mention the conflict downfall were ironic . He had just been driven to the airport between his behavior and his vows as a priest . Sparring ver- by Linda Pollock, his future wife, who was to use his car bally with the lawyer who was questioning him, Cinel taunt- while he made a lecture trip to Italy . She promptly locked the ed his opponent as if he thought he were invulnerable, and a keys in the car and called the rectory to ask another priest to mocking smile rarely left his face. Cinel's lawyer, Arthur check Cinel's room for an extra set . Father James Tarantino Lemann, has a ready explanation for his client's attitude began poking around in Cinel's desk, where he found piles back then. "He had been assured he wasn't going to be of child pornography . Archbishop Hannan was notified and criminally prosecuted and that the deposition he was giving called Cinel in Italy the next day . Both Cinel and Hannan would be confidential and sealed," says Lemann, a sleek, agree that the archbishop's first request was that the errant portly man who favors three-piece white linen suits, saddle father simply stay in Italy ; Harman doesn't seem to see any- shoes, Panama hats, and fat cigars . "The D .A . had agreed thing wrong with having encouraged a priest who had just not to prosecute him ; there was a binding oral agreement ." been discovered to have committed criminal acts to become a The beleaguered district attorney refuses to comment on fugitive from justice . But Cinel refused to disappear . "He this or any other aspect of the Cinel case, which has been a replied, to my great surprise, that he resented the invasion of major headache ever since Connick admitted he went easy on privacy of his room, and didn't show any kind of remorse," Cinel because he didn't want to embarrass the church . "It's a Hannan reports . The rest of their conversation is a matter of pending case, and I'm not going to discuss anything about bitter dispute. "Of course I did not make any deal at all," it," Connick tells me . Even things he's said in the past? He protests Hannan . "Those charges are ridiculous ." Indeed, groans. "Especially things I've said in the past," he says . Hannan has repeatedly expressed outrage that anyone would However, Cinel isn't the only one who got the distinct even question his word against that of someone like Cinel . impression that Connick didn't want to prosecute him . Gary "Father Dino was a real number-one con man," he says Raymond, who worked as an investigator in the D .A.'s of- indignantly . fice for seven years before retiring to establish a private prac- However, Hannan's version of events is contradicted by tice, wrote Connick a three-page letter in the summer of others as well . One key issue is whether the archdiocese 1990 outlining the case against Cinel. "I literally begged notified Tulane University when the tapes were discovered . Harry Connick to charge this man," says Raymond, a wiry, The first time I ask Hannan whether he told Tulane, he stam- intense man who is determined to see the former priest mers and hedges . "I'm trying to think . . .I don't remember brought to justice . "I was then told by an investigator in the what we did about Tulane," he says . Half an hour later, his D .A.'s office that Connick was upset because I had created a memory suddenly improves, and he calls me back with a paper trail ." Connick still took no action ; months later, Ray- new answer, saying that he had indeed informed the school . mond ran into him on St . Patrick's Day. "When are you "It was all done within twenty-four hours," he says briskly . going to prosecute this priest?" he demanded . "Never, as "I took care of notifying some of the people, and Bishop long as I'm D .A .," Connick replied, according to Raymond . Muench notified some of the others-right away ." (It was only after the media broke the story last spring that Tulane has a different story . (Continued on page 268) 229 "No, no, Seamus, let's save them up for to A Colder Eye: in it, Kenner attaches an Famous Seamus tonight ." epithet to each person. Thus: "Keaton, Her reward for this attitude of loving Buster, equilibrist"; "Woolf, Virginia, now. They keep old bicycle clips of his unkindness, as well as proper pride in her embroiderer." When Heaney introduced and photos and so on . No. You're too husband, has been some of the finest love Joseph Brodsky, it was simple: "Brod- young for a tee-shirt ." Another card de- poems since the 1912-13 poems of Thom- sky, Joseph, poet, " to which Heaney then picts three farming types outside a bar as Hardy written to his dead wife . There is added, "the poet ." This exaltation of i whose name has been changed to read, a poem by Derek Mahon which covers the Brodsky is typically generous, but Heaney LADIES' TOILET . One man has a newspa- case exactly : it describes a pub singer in is now himself so schooled in the dangers of per parcel under his arm and a speech bal- the Aran Islands with one hand cupped to exaltation that his tribute in The New York loon extruding from his mouth : "I got the his ear, listening to himself, and using the Times, on the award of the Nobel Prize to last of the tee-shirts ." The man next to other hand to ground himself through his Brodsky, contained the just, but deflation- him is saying, "A lot of people would girlfriend . It is appropriate that the poems ary, statement that, in English, Brodsky's agree with you, but I still prefer the earlier themselves should be earthy, unembar- poetry can be "animated and skewed ." I poems ." rassed by sexuality, accurate and eloquent don't doubt that the Sunday Tribune re- Heaney's wife, Marie, shares this sense about love-from her "deliberate kiss" viewer of The Cure at Troy has a similar of humor and necessary irony, which keep on "our first night years ago in that ho- sense of admiration and rueful correction . at bay self-importance and pomposity . tel" to Heaney's comparison of her to an One last anecdote, told by Heaney She is a great beauty, with a generous otter "heavy and frisky in your freshened against himself. Asked what his worst mouth, vigilant eyes, and an amused tilt pelt" to the fancier reaches of marital sex- fault is, he answers, "Tolerance ." A cer- to her bold and beautiful jawline . She is uality in "The Skunk" and its mention of tain drunken, pathetic, belligerent, hap- quick to prick and quick to protect . When "the black plunge-line nightdress" and less poet attached himself to Heaney one I first met her, it was after a lecture on the stir of excitement caused by "the soot- evening, not for the first time . Any other Heaney's poetry given by Christopher fall of your things at bedtime ." person would have escaped immediately. Ricks at the Roundhouse in London . The Irish readers who resent his popu- At the door of the bar, the drunk was Modestly, Heaney skipped the lecture, but larity-or think it invidious-actually stopped by the bouncer because he had at the reception afterward he was curious . share the wary, careful love of Heaney been banned for bad behavior. Heaney "Och, Seamus," said Marie, "you're with his family and friends . They, too, are pressed on . Ringing in his ears was the I such a clever fellow ." After another lec- "bitter / and dependable"-determined cry "Dinna deny me, Seamus . Seamus, ture, this time given by Heaney in Ox- that their hero's elevation should not also dinna deny me ." When he tells this, ford, two friends presented him with a be his fall . Heaney's exaltation is reserved Heaney looks very serious and says, "I pair of broad, handsome suspenders . With for others, not for himself. In 1988, mean, it was awful . Christ and all that ." a look of scampishness, Heaney removed Heaney was the master of ceremonies at And then a wonderful look of villainous his jacket and began to try them on . As he the Royal Free Hospital in Dublin, intro- mischief comes into his eyes and he says, was experiencing some difficulty fixing ducing readings by Susan Sontag, Chinua "But I needed a drink, so what could I them to the back of his trousers, Marie Achebe, Les Murray, and Yehuda Ami- do?" He doesn't permit himself the exal- intervened, to gales of laughter, with chai. His model was Hugh Kenner's index tation of shame, either. O

t t Unholy Alliances t r (Continued from page 229) Strangely, the about? In any case, Tulane later said noth- cese's own lawyer . "As soon as he knew university has also assumed an embattled ing to the College of Staten Island about about this, Father Tarantino told the peo- c posture, with top officials refusing to an- any problems involving Cinel . ple and apologized to the people," Han- swer any questions about Cinel, but in re- Further questions have been raised nan maintains . "He didn't even wait for a sponse to my repeated inquiries the about the archdiocese's dealings with St . Sunday ; I think he told them at a weekday school's Office of Public Affairs finally Rita's . "Parishioners were never told Mass so they would know immediately ." read me this statement, approved by the about what happened in the rectory, nor Another question is why the church president: "The archdiocese did not in- were they ever asked to speak with their didn't insist Cinel get some kind of treat- form the university of the allegations children," reported Richard Angelico on ment . "Dino flounced out on us," says made against Dino Cinel prior to the news WDSU-TV . Don Richard, an attorney for Hannan . "He left angry, and we had no reports about him ." Although it would the archdiocese, admitted to Angelico that knowledge of where he had gone ." In appear that either former archbishop Han- this was true, and tried to justify the fact, Cinel could rather easily be found a nan or the university's president must be church's silence in terms of its sensitivity few blocks away, in his longtime office at lying, even Tulane faculty members are to a possible criminal investigation : "My the Tulane history department . But per- puzzled . According to one professor, the advice to the church was 'You do nothing haps the most important controversy in- history department received a directive to prejudice a criminal case that might volves the church's decision to hang on to from the dean more than two years ago arise against anyone'-and so we did ab- Cinel's pornography collection for three that they were to respond "No comment" solutely nothing," Richard explained . months before turning it over to the au- to any questions about Cinel from the me- A couple of months later, however, thorities. Even then, the archdiocese made dia. If university officials didn't know when I ask former archbishop Hannan its squeamishness about prosecution more anything, what were they instructing fac- about it, he suddenly changes the official than apparent . "We therefore wish to ulty members to stonewall the press story, thereby contradicting his archdio- make it clear that it was not the intention

268 VANITY FAIR/DECEMBER 1991 operation, but in the back room in the mission found that priests who abused Unholy Alliances chancery, they're designing a plan to boys sexually were better treated by the stonewall ." hierarchy than were the victims, and said of the Archdiocese in taking such action that the lack of archdiocesan leadership that it would be regarded as seeking to avid Figueroa was only five years old might actually have encouraged the abuse. initiate or urge prosecution of Dr. Cinel or back in 1964 when, he says, Father Archbishop Penney, who had resisted ear- anyone else thereby," wrote Thomas JosephD Henry, the pastor at the Church of lier calls for his resignation, finally took Rayer, an attorney for the archdiocese, in St. Anthony in Kailua, Hawaii, began to responsibility for the church's failure to a letter to the D .A.'s office . "This action abuse him sexually. One of fourteen chil- act on long-standing reports of molesta- on the part of the Archdiocese should dren in a devout Catholic family, Figue- tion. "We are naked," said Penney . therefore not be considered by your office roa attended the St . Anthony Parochial "Our anger, our pain, our anguish, our as in any way seeking the initiation of School, and his mother worked as a shame, and our vulnerability are clear to criminal charges with respect to this ma- housekeeper at the church rectory, one of the whole world ." terial or any activities of Dr . Cinel in several places where he says he was rou- That scandal was only one of many that relation thereto ." Judging by his subse- tinely molested by his priest during the have stunned Newfoundland's Catholic quent inaction, the district attorney got next eight years. When the pastor died in community in the last couple of years . the message . 1972, he was replaced by Joseph Ferrario, More than two dozen priests and Christian Many wonder if the evidence was tam- who is now the bishop of Honolulu . Fi- Brothers have been convicted of or are pered with while in the hands of church gueroa says he confided in Ferrario that he facing charges of sexually abusing boys, officials, but Hannan denies there was any had been sexually exploited by Father and the moral verdicts have been even purge of the material, saying the church Henry for years, whereupon Ferrario em- harsher than the criminal ones . Last Au- kept it for so long merely to "get some barked on what was supposed to be coun- gust a Newfoundland judge told Edward idea of who was involved" on the video- seling. Instead, according to Figueroa, the English of the Christian Brothers, "You tapes. Others are less than convinced . priest began his own sexual relationship are a disgrace to the order and to human- "This is a classic story of a church cover- with the boy, which would continue for ity," and sentenced him to twelve years in up," says Jason Berry . "I think the arch- the next ten years . When he was nineteen, prison. While Canada has been rocked bishop and the lawyers for the archdiocese Figueroa began to receive counseling by its epidemic of priest pedophilia, it broke the law . You don't sit for three from Father Tony Bolger, another dioce- doesn't compare with what is going on in months on child pornography ; possession san priest, but before long Bolger too had the United States, where the cases have of it is a crime . . . . Dino Cinel should instigated what Figueroa says was a sexu- been multiplying faster than anyone can have been arrested the moment he got al relationship. The teenager told Ferrario, count. Not that church officials particular- back from Italy ." According to a recent who allegedly continued to molest him as ly want to ; the Catholic Church insists that deposition by Bishop Robert Muench, the well, about his experiences with Bolger, it has no central reporting system and tapes remained at St . Rita's for six days but instead of taking any punitive action, therefore no figures on the extent of priest after Father Tarantino found them, before Ferrario appointed Bolger as pastor at St . pedophilia around the country . "We have they were even turned over to the archdio- Anthony. By this time Ferrario himself no way of knowing for sure how many cese. "I think in those six days Tarantino had become a bishop . It wasn't until cases or complaints are out there," says blasted through those tapes to see who 1985, more than twenty years after the Mark Chopko, general counsel to the was there and who shouldn't be there," whole saga had begun, that David Figue- U.S . Catholic Conference, the public-pol- says attorney Darryl Tschirn . "Nobody roa's mother learned about the alleged icy arm of the National Conference of ever inventoried the tapes . Nobody knows sexual exploitation and reported it in a let- Catholic Bishops . Chopko, who is also how many there were-and how many ter to Archbishop Pio Laghi, then the pa- the author of a 1988 statement on priest they ended up with." Bishop Muench ad- pal pro-nuncio in Washington, D .C . pedophilia that remains the last official mitted in his deposition that he and Taran- Ferrario defended himself by saying that pronouncement on the subject, admits that t tino fast-forwarded through some of the an investigation had been conducted by the situation got so bad that by the mid- tapes to see who was on them, but Tar- the church and that the accusation was un- 1980s the church was totally unable to ob- I antino says, "The materials I found founded. However, David Figueroa was tain liability insurance covering sex abuse, were turned over to the archdiocesan just getting started . In 1989 he publicly although he claims that such coverage is representative precisely as found with- announced his charges of sexual molesta- } gradually becoming available again . But out exception ." tion against Bishop Ferrario, who again despite the loss of hundreds of millions of But if there was a cover-up, it wouldn't denied everything and dismissed Figueroa dollars in punitive and compensatory surprise some who have dealt with pedo- as a "good storyteller ." Last August, the damages, the official church position con- F philes in the church . Louisiana attorney young man finally filed a civil lawsuit tinues to be that its pedophilia problem is n F. Ray Mouton served as the lawyer for against the bishop. no worse than anyone else's . "I don't the notorious Father Gauthe, and he also Although Ferrario is the first member of think it's a crisis for the priesthood," says co-authored a confidential report to the the U.S . hierarchy to face such charges, Chopko . "I think it's a problem for all American bishops on priest pedophilia in another North American bishop has al- institutions, like churches, that have to 1985. Last spring, Mouton was asked by a ready been brought down by a pedophilia care for children . It's a problem for C Washington, D.C., television station, scandal . Last year Newfoundland's Arch- schools, for child-care agencies, for w WUSA, how often the Catholic Church bishop Alphonsus Penney resigned in dis- scouting agencies, for day-care centers- tries to obstruct criminal investigations grace after an investigative panel he and it's a problem for the clergy ." Chop- and cover up incidents of priestly pedo- himself had established condemned his ko rejects as "utter and complete non- philia. "Always," Mouton said flatly . handling of widespread sex abuse at a sense" the idea that the church frequently "They may put forth an appearance of co- Catholic-nm boys' orphanage . The com- tries to cover up the problem . "I can't tell

270 VANITY FAIR/DECEMBER I99I dred ." At least half of the cases he hin Unholy Alliances self has dealt with involve some kind 1 church cover-up, he adds . "The pattern you that every time one of these charges one of institutional indifference and con has been filed it's been handled with an plicity to misconduct," he says . "Even adequate degree of charity or the right the church has reason to know it's goin degree of promptness," he says, "but, on, there's a head-in-the-sand kind of al knowing many of the bishops and clergy titude-and when they do discover it involved in some of these cases, either then there's a pattern of conspiracy t they didn't know what was happening or conceal it and avoid any public scanda they didn't believe anything so horrific or scrutiny ." could be happening in one of their insti- As in the Adamson case, the expiratioi tutions." of the statute of limitations has oftei Courts around the country are increas- worked in the church's favor in preclud ingly finding otherwise as a massive ing criminal prosecution when past abust amount of documentation accumulates on finally does surface. However, in som( efforts by church officials to conceal inci- states the church has a more powerful all) dents of child molestation and a wide- in the so-called doctrine of charitable im- spread pattern of gross insensitivity to the munity, which bars lawsuits against chari- suffering of victims . Last December, a table institutions . This law has been up- Minnesota jury awarded $3 .5 million, in- held under even the most tragic circum- cluding $2 .7 million in punitive damages, stances, as in the case of Christopher to a young man who had been sexually Schultz, a New Jersey boy who was abused molested for eight years, starting when he from the age of ten by Edmund Coakeley, was a thirteen-year-old altar boy, by a a Franciscan brother who was a parochial- priest with a long history of such abuse. school teacher and a scoutmaster . According to Father Thomas Adamson, Schultz's brother was also molested by he began molesting boys in 1961, in his Coakeley, whose taste included bondage first parish assignment, and he admitted and sadomasochism : "He would take pic- such transgressions to his bishop three tures of them doing what he'd tell them years later . The bishop told him to control were the Stations of the Cross," says Da- his behavior and transferred him to anoth- vid Jaroslawicz, the attorney who eventu- er parish . For the next twenty-three years, ally filed suit on behalf of the Schultz Miracle cures, pumpkin pie, Father Adamson continued to be reas- family. Christopher Schultz became in- signed to different parishes despite ongo- and the greatest weather creasingly disturbed, and when his parents ing complaints and at least three inter- finally learned about the abuse, they went predictions ofall time... ludes of psychiatric treatment at different to the church and asked for help . "The facilities . Internal church documents re- church denied anything happened, and THE BEST OF veal a great deal of hand-wringing about said the child fabricated everything," says 01_0110 RNIA the problem and a constant concern that Jaroslawicz. Christopher finally commit- the scandal might become public, but no ted suicide in 1979 . "He ingested win- 191DIM IT decisive action by church officials to en- tergreen tablets from the medicine cabi- sure that Father Adamson would no long- net and said, in essence, 'I can't live er be in a position to molest youngsters . anymore with what I've done,' " says "They knew about this guy and they Jaroslawicz . "The real outrage here is didn't report it, so he never got prosecut- the cover-up . This child probably ed, and now he can't be, because of the wouldn't have killed himself if these passage of time," says Jeffrey Anderson, people had acknowledged that the child a St. Paul attorney who is representing hadn't done anything wrong and had Adamson's victims in eleven different been taken advantage of. The fact that civil lawsuits . "Father Adamson sexually they made him feel that nobody believed abused at least thirty-five boys we've him, and that he had to go to school ev- identified in various parishes, but he's ery day and see this guy-that totally never spent a day in jail ." shattered the child ." It shattered his Anderson, who is also the attorney for family as well ; his mother, a nurse, had In one rich, fond, nostalgic David Figueroa, is currently handling a nervous breakdown, according to court volume, a country mile of wisdom more than eighty cases involving priest papers, and the parents were later di- from the publication America has pedophiles around the country . The often vorced . The family's subsequent lawsuit loved for 200 years. repeated figure of two hundred priests re- was vigorously fought by the Archdio- ported for sexual misconduct in the last cese of Newark, the Franciscan Broth- six years is a gross underestimate, accord- ers, and the Boy Scouts of America, ing to Anderson, who says he personally who demanded it be "thrown out on the knows of well over two hundred and the grounds that charities are immune from total figure "has got to be over four hun- paying damages to beneficiaries of their

272 VANITY FAIR/DECEMBER 1991 phone wails plaintively in the hands of a Cinel apparently told them that the teen- Unholy Alliances street musician, and a sidewalk artist agers who frequented his room were home- draws pictures for the passing tourists less boys whom he was counseling . Still, it services in New Jersey," according to who flock to this quaint landmark in the is difficult to comprehend how his fellow the Asbury Park Press. In 1984 the New middle of the French Quarter, where the priests could have missed what was hap- Jersey Supreme Court agreed, dismiss- dignified spires of St . Louis Cathedral pening. "They had to know," says Fon- ing all claims by the Schultz family . tower over the lacy wrought-iron balco- taine. "They always saw me in the middle Representatives of the church now ac- nies that ring the square . Chris Fontaine's of the night making sandwiches, making I knowledge that mistakes have been made, father used to work the crowds here as a noise in the kitchen . Sometimes we would but they claim that the church has changed sidewalk artist, and it was here that Chris watch TV and I'd be in bikini drawers or in recent years . "We have been trying says he first met Dino Cinel, on a day something like that." According to Fon- harder, and we've been generally doing when he was upset about family problems taine, Father Cinel's acts of sacrilege better," says Mark Chopko of the U .S. and particularly vulnerable to the atten- weren't confined to his bedroom ; one time Catholic Conference . "If you look at the tions of a sympathetic stranger . "He came he told Fontaine he needed an altar boy, cases that are filed now, it's not new inci- walking up to me . . . and he started telling persuaded him to serve at Mass, and then dents as much as it is abuse that happened me he was a priest," Fontaine reported in had sex with him afterward in the sacristy in the 1960s and '70s ." Chopko vehe- a taped interview with Richard Angelico . (a claim Cinel denies) . Other sexual ren- mently denies that cover-ups are still oc- "We became friends ." According to Fon- dezvous were held at a country house Ci- curring . Police officials in two Virginia taine, they didn't have sex until they had nel bought in Mississippi and at the bor- counties have recently offered a different seen each other two or three times, where- rowed homes of various parishioners . point of view . Earlier this year, Father upon Cinel "asked me if I smoked weed, Wherever he was, Cinel recorded his Thomas Chleboski was arrested in Arling- and asked me if I knew how to roll ." Af- trysts on video . "He had this obsession ton and charged with six counts of molest- ter they had smoked some marijuana, with the camera," Fontaine reports . "Ev- ing a thirteen-year-old student at our Fontaine said, "he just reached over and erywhere he went, the camera was with Lady of Victory School . . "Police say they started rubbing his hands on me and told him. He was always taking pictures of received a complete lack of cooperation me he wanted to give me a massage . everything ." from the Roman Catholic Church," re- . . . Then he told me to take off my While Cinel was extremely skillful at ported Washington's WUSA-TV . Indeed, clothes. He just told me to leave my un- fostering Fontaine's sense of emotional according to Detective Tom Bell of the derwear on, and it went from there . He dependency, he apparently didn't hesitate Arlington County Police, when detectives started masturbating me, and I tried to get to use harsher forms of leverage as well. first contacted church officials, "they away; he held me down for a minute and Early in his relationship with Fontaine, would not even acknowledge that this told me, 'Just relax and close your eyes .' whose troubled adolescence included at man was a priest," let alone give the po- He put it in my head that they did it in least one episode as a juvenile offender, lice any information on where to find Fa- Greek days and it's all right ." Cinel went to court with the boy to help ther Chleboski . An investigation revealed Cinel has provided a markedly different get him out of some minor skirmish with earlier alleged incidents of abuse at previ- account of these events . He claims that he the law. The judge released Fontaine on ous places Chleboski had served, but picked up Fontaine several blocks away probation, under the priest's supervision . there too detectives were given the cold from Jackson Square at the corner of "Father is willing to work with you and shoulder by church officials . "The indi- Bourbon and St . Ann, a notorious hang- willing to help you," said the judge . "I viduals told us that they were told by the out for male prostitutes, and that Fontaine hope that will be sufficient to get you on archdiocese not to say anything to the was an experienced hustler. "He ap- the right track, young man ." According police," said Detective Gary Costello of proached me and asked me first if I was a to Fontaine, whenever he resisted Cinel the Montgomery County Police Pedo- policeman," Cinel said in his 1990 depo- thereafter, Cinel would threaten to have philia Unit. sition . "He was afraid I was there to bust him sent to prison . "Dino Cinel may Asked about the Chleboski case, Mark him, because it was obvious what he was have told him that he may report him to Chopko says the lack of cooperation was doing . . . . He said, 'Do you want to have the judge if he didn't do certain things," due solely to the archdiocese's administra- a good time?' " Cinel admitted that Fon- says Buddy Lemann, Cinel's lawyer . tive desire to centralize communications taine looked "very young . . . probably "But it's our position that Chris Fontaine and make sure any statements came from fourteen, fifteen years of age," and said voluntarily entered into all acts with Dino the chancery rather than from individual that the boy showed him an ID to prove he Cinel ." parishes. "Conspiracy to me connotes was seventeen. At the time, Cinel was These days Fontaine works as a carpen- some intention not to tell the truth and not forty-one . ter when he can, but his lawyers and his to deal honestly with a known situation," Both Fontaine and Cinel agree that the psychologist say he's in tenuous shape at Chopko says . "The idea that there has boy went on to become a regular visitor to best. "Chris is a mess," attests David been some kind of intention to deal dis- the rectory at St. Rita's. Indeed, Fontaine Paddison. "He's probably going to need honestly with reports of child abuse is just says he lived there off and on for six to some type of medical care forever ." nonsense ." nine months, lounging in the common room, where he watched television with onnie Tichenor was in residence at a n a drowsy afternoon in high sum- the other priests, and spending the night 1Ddome for runaway children in the mer, New Orleans's Jackson Square and waking up to the housekeepers, who French Quarter when he first met Father is0 quiet and picturesque . Just beyond a routinely found him in Cinel's bed in the Cinel. "He told me he was looking out for line of horse-drawn carriages, the plantain morning . Former archbishop Hannan ad- my welfare, that he could help me better fronds rustle faintly in the ghost of a mits that other priests at St . Rita's were achieve an education and a better position breeze off the Mississippi River, a saxo- aware of such comings and goings, but in life," Tichenor says . 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had changed hands until Fontaine saw his ac proclivities behind him . "It was a pa- Unholy Alliances own photographs in Dreamboy U.S.A. Al- thology in his past," his wife told Lem- though Cinel says he never got any money ann . Whatever Pollock chooses to be- him many of the same lines he had used for them, their existence raised new ques- lieve, however, even a passing familiarity with Fontaine, such as the one about be- tions . Cinel was earning $42,000 a year at with the literature on pedophilia would in- ing a "father in need of a son ." Although Tulane, and although he was receiving dicate that this is highly unlikely . "We Tichenor is now a tall, strapping dark- free room and board at St . Rita's, his ex- certainly would never talk about this as haired young man, in one videotape Cinel penses were considerable . In addition to being curable," says Dr . Fred Berlin, the can be heard bragging about how small the country house in Mississippi, he also director of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at the boy was when they first had sex . Like bought a duplex and a ten-unit apartment Johns Hopkins . "If you're sexually at- Fontaine, Tichenor became a familiar face building in New Orleans, a speedboat, tracted to children, that doesn't change; at the rectory . At one point he got very and a Lincoln Town Car. After he left the that's with you for the rest of your life . upset about his relationship with Father rectory, he bought a $200,000 house a We do believe that pedophiles can, with Cinel and even confided in another priest, few blocks from Tulane . How did he fi- proper treatment, learn to control them- but his protests were brushed off. "I did nance it all? His lawyer, Buddy Lemann, selves so they don't continue to pose a break down emotionally with Father Mi- smiles enigmatically. "Manna from heav- danger ." chael," Tichenor told Angelico. "But he en," Lemann drawls, mouthing his frayed Although anyone who molests a child did not act like there was anything strange cigar. under the age of consent is legally a pedo- or forbidden . He comforted me for five Lemann, who is best known in New Or- phile, technically Cinel is probably an minutes in a general sense, and that was leans for defending members of the Mar- ephebophile, or one who is attracted to it." In a later deposition Father Michael cello crime family, portrays both of the adolescents; the term "pedophile" is used Fraser said he had attributed Tichenor's civil lawsuits currently pending against Ci- clinically to describe those who are sexu- angst to "just basic adolescence" and nel as cynical attempts by "two streetwise ally drawn to pre-pubertal children . Ci- never even realized the boy was upset consenting adults" to fatten their bank ac- nel's commercial pornography collection about Father Cinel. However, the attitude counts. "Chris Fontaine is pissed off be- favored pre-pubertal boys, but his known of Cinel's colleagues had a profound im- cause he thinks Dino sold his pictures and real-life encounters were generally with pact on the teenager. "I knew that all made a lot of money," Lemann charges . teenagers. Most pedophiles are believed the other priests and the other associates "Chris is a hustler who thinks he's been to be heterosexual in their orientation, but at the church were familiar with the go- out-hustled. I think this is a case of two experts are finding a different pattern ings-on ; they couldn't help but have homosexuals having a fight ." within the priesthood . "The overwhelm- been aware," Tichenor said . "And if In fact, Fontaine, who says his sexual ing majority of priests we've seen would they accepted it, I felt it must be right, preferences were always heterosexual, has have the diagnosis of homosexual ephebo- even if it seemed wrong to me. . . . Be- since married and fathered two children, philia," says Dr . Berlin . cause of the general acceptance of ev- gotten divorced, and is now planning to Whatever the age of their victims, pedo- eryone around me, I assumed it was me marry again . Tichenor has also married, philes are notoriously difficult to treat . who was confused ." although at one point, he says, Cinel lob- "Traditionally, using psychoanalytic tech- Tichenor has put some distance be- bied hard against his emerging heterosex- niques or behavioral therapy has not been tween himself and Cinel since then, mov- ual orientation . "I was approximately fif- that successful," says Dr . Eli Coleman, ing to Florida and going to work for a teen years old when I found out what director of the Program in Human Sexual- mosquito-control service . But he suspects homosexual sex was, and that that was ity at the University of Minnesota Medical he knows what Cinel is up to these days . what I was involved in," says Tichenor . School . Some programs report a signifi- I "He looked for guys in basically the same When he told Cinel he liked women, "he cant degree of success with a combination position as myself, who were in need of tried to sway me. He told me that men of group therapy, behavior modification, leadership and support from a male fig- knew men better and men were to be to- and medication, hormonal and otherwise, ure, boys who had no father figure at gether." According to Lemann, Cinel de- but most experts agree that progress is dif- home," Tichenor says. "He has this nies having tried to steer Tichenor toward ficult and the subject's full cooperation is sense that these things are O .K. He is homosexuality . crucial . able to instill this sense of security in Since his public exposure, Cinel has of- A higher rate of success is found with young boys . I hate to think of the possi- ten accused his critics of homophobia, pedophiles who are distressed about their bilities ." and Lemann enjoys casting. this case as a urges and wish they were not attracted to For Tichenor himself, some of the pos- noble crusade against bigotry . "I'm going children. The task is much harder with sibilities are terrifying ; both he and Fon- to elicit the gay and homosexual commu- those untroubled by a guilty conscience . taine wonder if Cinel infected them with nity to get behind this," he vows . "This "Not only are they sexually attracted to the AIDS virus, but they are too scared to is positively a gay-rights issue . This guy children, but there's no conflict between be tested . Nor is Ronnie the only Tichenor is being crucified because he had a homo- that fact and the sense of right or with cause for concern : Cinel also man- sexual tendency. If it was little girls, wrong," says Dr . Berlin. "Trying to aged to ensnare his twin brother . Cinel, you wouldn't have had nearly the same treat somebody like that is like trying to who enjoyed threesomes, often encour- amount of commotion . . . . Greed and sex, treat an alcoholic who denies he has a aged Ronnie and Chris to have sex as that's what this case is about . Cinel's mo- drinking problem." The prognosis is well . With both boys the priest sometimes tivation was sexual; his partners' motiva- even bleaker when offenders are sim- discussed his porno-house connection in tion was greed . I think Dino Cinel may be ply incarcerated without treatment . Denmark and speculated on the possibility a sinner, but he's not a criminal ." "There's an 80 percent recidivism rate if of selling pictures or videos abroad, but Those closest to Cinel seem to accept you just put pedophiles in jail and let neither boy was aware that any material his assertion that he has put his pedophili- them out," says Dr. Jay Feierman, a

276 VANITY FAIR/DECEMBER 1991 when sexual abuse takes place the greatest he feels he's done anything wrong ." Unholy Alliances damage done to the child is the betrayal of Cinel certainly doesn't deny his trans- that trust," attests Dr . Mulry Tetlow, a gressions; indeed, before Buddy Lemann psychiatrist who has treated an estimated clinical psychologist and former Jesuit signed on as his lawyer and told him to three hundred priests for pedophilia at priest . "The damage is much more severe shut up, Cinel was even discoursing to the Servants of the Paraclete Treatment than sexual abuse by a stranger or baby- tabloids about the fine points of his sexual Center, a New Mexico facility run by a sitter." tastes . "He explained to reporters at a Catholic religious order . Nevertheless, those who have had re- press conference in his home that sex with Cinel claims to have gone for counsel- cent conversations with Cinel report a dis- young men gave him a greater sexual ing in New Orleans "for a couple of years turbing sense that he is more aggrieved high, while sex with his wife was `more every week," and says he stopped all sex- than penitent . "He just doesn't under- emotionally fulfilling,' " the Staten Is- ual activity with teenage boys in 1986 . stand," says Sandi Cooper, a fellow his- land Advance reported . With intimates, he However, he has frequently seemed to tory professor at the College of Staten can be even more forthcoming . W. D. At- lack any sense of remorse, and in his 1990 Island, adding that Cinel was "shocked" kins was Cinel's lawyer until earlier this deposition he even boasted that he had that the school wants to get rid of him . year, when they parted company over the helped Chris Fontaine. "Were you trying "He's upset ; he feels betrayed ." Robert $30,000 he says Cinel still owes him (a to help him get his life together by having Viscusi, a Brooklyn College professor debt Cinel denies) . But the attorney re- sex with him?" he was asked . who also talked to Cinel over the summer, mains sympathetic to Cinel's case, and it "Probably, considering the promiscuity says, "There is this strange kind of disso- was to Atkins that Cinel offered one of his in which he was living, I was the best ciation that I found more troubling than more explicit confidences-one that would person he could have sex with," Cinel anything else . He talks about it very dis- not seem to augur well for the former said smoothly . "Knowing the other char- passionately and loftily, as if it all had to priest's prospects of leading a reformed acters he was involved with, yes ." do with somebody else." Lawrence Pow- life. "He told me, `I just love to fuck To the contrary, many experts say . ell, a Tulane history professor and former young boys in the ass,' " Atkins says . "Because of the position of trust and au- friend of Cinel's, observes, "Even to- "He's delighted with his attitude . He's thority that a priest holds in a child's life, day, he has no moral sense . I don't think not embarrassed in the least ." D

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(Continued from page 239) next of kin to him ." He adds the deadly rhetorical ques- The princely Shevardnadze appeared in us; we shared all our intimate secrets with tion "Did he not want to see it?" a dark and sober blue suit, warmed with a him!" she exclaimed in shock during the The day of the putsch, outside the vest. After a long talk with Gorbachev, he coup. White House, Shevardnadze held out the said, he no longer believed the president While her husband had surrounded dark possibility that under pressure Gor- sanctioned the coup . The passion he had himself with weak personalities who bachev had gone along with the hard-line felt during the days of the putsch seemed could never overstep him, or so he takeover and could re-emerge as its fig- somewhat tempered, perhaps by a rethink- thought, Raisa had helped to arrange the urehead . Many citizens of the Soviet ing of his own political role in a postcoup minors around him so that they would re- Union had the same suspicion . Soviet government . He said, "Thank God flect only the image of the genius leader . Shevardnadze and Gorbachev also had Gorbachev is a person of character . Only But, if anything, Raisa Gorbachev was once loved each other . The friendship be- a person of character could have started more paranoid and dependent on the appa- tween these two southerners goes back al- perestroika . Gorbachev will enter history rat for her sense of security than her hus- most forty years to when they met as as a great reformer, a great revolutionary . band. She was even suspicious her own starry-eyed Stalinist youths in regional It was not so easy to begin ." phone was bugged . As a child, she had Communist organizations . Then, several Still, there were flashes of lasting disil- seen her father imprisoned for speaking years before Gorbachev became general lusionment . "He enjoyed maneuvering out against collectivization ; her mother of- secretary, the two men took a walk on a too much. There is a moment when one ten broke down and wept over their plight ; lonely beach together and agreed that has to say tactical considerations are not her talented younger brother became an "everything is rotten" in the country uppermost-my stake is with democracy alcoholic. Such a grim background seems and the Communist Party . Unless seri- and democratic forces . And in this he was to have marked her personality with deep ous reforms were made, they concluded, too late, my dear, dear friend ." pessimism-as she expressed it herself . the would perish. Although Shevardnadze would like to "the feeling that people are doomed ." I interviewed Shevardnadze in Septem- think Mikhail Gorbachev has become a ber in a building on Yelizarov Street do- different person since the putsch, he told nother of Gorbachev's oldest friends, nated to him by a group linked to the me that the Soviet leader is "still a prison- then foreign minister Eduard Shev- K.G .B . It was stone-cold and the furnish- er-of his own nature . . . his way of think- Aardnadze, had warned the president re- ings sparse . (Shevardnadze complained ing and acting . . . his poor judgment of peatedly about the "two-faced partners privately that after his resignation Boldin people, his indifference toward his true al- that he himself had put in power ." In his had stripped him of everything but an lies, his distrust of the democratic forces, new book, The Future Belongs to Free- apartment, TV set, and VCR .) The job- and his disbelief in. . . the people." dom, Shevardnadze writes, "With amaz- less former foreign minister was attempt- Like Yakovlev, Shevardnadze had pri- ing stubbornness, he refused to see that ing to establish his Foreign Policy Associ- vately- disagreed with his boss-an un- the circle of the coup was closing in on ation here . known concept in Soviet leadership cir-

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