European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday june 3, 1980 modern living the secret service s h. Stuart Knight protecting candidates from the press new York times Ince one of the techniques of modern campaigning is to reduce voters passions to statistics it should be reported that of 220 million Ameri cans 400 Are currently on the secret service s most Active list of potential political assassins. There Are nearly 30,000 other citizens on the Agency s computerized lists regarded As worthy of occasional Reche Kim. But us secret service s "400" is the one roster that undoubtedly was the most culled last month As president Carter left the White House for the Campaign Trail. He had secret service bodyguards All about him As he went Forth to his first Large Public crowds after six months of self imposed absence from obvious politicking because of the crises in Iran and Afghanistan. H. Stuart Knight chief of the secret service is free to regret privately the end to whatever Rose Garden strategy May have existed. But in the last seven months his men and women have guarded the Pope in an unnerving Selling of Public allure and Access As they guarded Fidel Castro the cuban Leader in a bristling setting of armed Security. So Knight is believable when tie says there is no undue excite men As the president re approaches Campaign crowds. The secret service is a quiet Agency that must look away from the stump speech hyperbole and watch for the undertones of America. Practically every week it lakes a citizen or two into custody without making announcements that Knight fears could encourage More suspects to stalk presidential candidates. Many of those arrested Are referred to other authorities for psychiatric examination and some of them turn up again and again As troubled repeaters. Being lulled by the repeaters is a danger unto itself. An agent was shot to Dalh in the secret service s Denver office this year by a repeater who suddenly went beyond verbal criticism. There is no profile of an Assassin Knight says. We keep searching for it but there is no sure fire  tall lean and Gray haired after 30 years with the Agency Knight has had his share of fright. Many people can recall the photographs of vice president Nixon sit Ting in his limousine when it was attacked by a mob of students in Caracas in May 1958. Knight was on duty outside the car stretching to prevent danger. Journalists complain that More often he main Job of the secret service seems to be protecting the candidates from be press. The complaint was dramatized this year at a meeting in new Hampshire when an agent turned Back a reporter who was wearing a half dozen credentials but not the latest Security tag. The reporter simply pocketed his credentials and walked in As a citizen joining a packed meeting of gun enthusiasts close by the presidential candidates. On the other hand there was a terrible moment in Chicago s St. Patrick s Day Parade last March when someone set off firecrackers in a crowd near sen. Edward m. Kennedy. The candidate flinched and so did Many reporters but the secret service agents instinctively knocked people aside to press closer to Kennedy a Welcome touch of rudeness under the circumstances. This Campaign has been one of the most difficult for the Agency with presidential Kin darting across the land scape every Day with a third major candidate planning to go All the Way through the autumnal grind and with a certain level of general ennui already cushioning the Campaign. To the secret service boredom is As challenging As the "400." on duty agents seem self sufficient and edgy As the stare out at the fringe of modern democracy. They draw eight hour shifts in 21-Day assignments wearing tiny radios and packing .357 magnum revolvers some in fast draw armpit holsters under their business suits. Like Bis agents in the held watching the voters and the roof tops. Knight has a certain stoical air b accepting lie condition of american politics. He makes no complaints about Bow gun Ridden the nation is or Bow much of celebrity oriented hire its politics Are to the Craven minded. He talks of professionalism and communications As his key resources but also emphasizes toe need for us agents to have sixth sense for anticipating the most random quirks in a Nrec. He has a healthy sense of these quirks. He can Tell for example Why this is a numerically special year for some americans an even decade year when past presidential elections were sometimes followed by tragedy i Don pay any attention to that Knight says quite profession ashamed of too much Money  Kipin Taij. By John Needham United press International Obby growing orchids. Cars Mercedes Benz. Notable characteristic no. I on Japan s reported income list with earnings of $8.7 Mil lion in 1979. Shokichi Uehara self made Moneybags and chairman of a pharmaceutical company re entered the limelight last month Hanks to Japan s National tax administration. While the is. Internal Revenue service solemnly pledges to keep the taxpayer s returns secret Japan s tax people each year make Public a list of Bose who Iff Una 1 Falcom of " Tiaa million yen $43,470 at current Exchange Rales. Jobs who would t make it big elsewhere like the owne Rofa Plant for weaving sashes worn on Kimonos. A reporter who visited Uehara found he likes to play popular music on the tape machine in his Mercedes has spent Lens of thousands of dollars raising his orchids does t drink and dislikes banquets. The runner up to Uehara was a 76-year-old tobacco shop owner in Tokyo who lives with his wife and son in four rooms above the shop which lakes in about $870 month. But 1979 was a Good year financially for Zoncki Chikatada not because people smoked More but because of vhf f just in cause and a " h Ems y " a con rib a to various Mim r d. Matsu Lelta has announced he will use $30 on we h h than $100 too Tare Ards real pulls to More the list has the predictable Industrial magnates a an s versions of America s Hunt Brothers or Rockefell lers. Increasingly it has names of people who got Rich Quick by Selling land. Occasionally it has practitioners of More Ihan Mizii a a thigh ". Kama Dalai when he saw his name btltehfh2h,d� a e 1pilined a a d have Bee belter if he had been Able to earn the Money on his own rather than Selling the land of my ancestors " the lax administration said 380,000 people reported sem rfrrh1 3 -143 470 each in $00 of them reported earning Over $434.000 up s Hatrel v fram8 year since fiure were when around 300.� Ned a � jul Var u0�