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...official inquiries and public explanations concerning last July's Chappaquiddick tragedy have produced more questions than answers about Senator Edward Kennedy's role in the accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. The findings of the last round, an inquest on Martha's Vineyard in January, have yet to be made public. Now it seems that some new disclosures-and possibly more trouble for the Senator-are imminent. District Attorney Edmund Dinis last week requested that a grand jury look into the case, a move that increased the likelihood that the entire Chappaquiddick affair may soon be aired...
...scenarist. Harold Buchman, fill the frames with repeated and lingering flashbacks to the blood-splattered walls and victim, and force-feed the characters into continually exchanging one-liners as if they were Frisbees. Occasionally, Furie shows the Silent Majority homestead in its most ludicrous light (the inquest is held outdoors in a livestock exposition arena), but mainly is preoccupied with providing plenty of lip-smackin-good leers. (Told that his client never played around. Tony quips in disbelief, "What's the matter-did he have it shot off in the last war?") When he's not reconstructing Yuk Night...
...with Kennedy at his Washington home, and Joseph Kopechne last week sharply denied a report that he planned to seek damages from the Senator. The family does expect to benefit from Kennedy's automobile insurance policy, which carries a $100,000 liability provision. Mrs. Kopechne complained of the inquest secrecy. "We had tried to go to the inquest," she said, "but we were turned down." But she repeated her belief that Senator Kennedy "was speaking the truth" in his televised account of the tragedy...
...inquest does finally end the matter as far as the law is concerned, it may not completely clear up public uncertainty about the morality and maturity of Kennedy's actions on that long July night. What did Chappaquiddick reveal about his judgment? His reaction under stress? His fitness for higher office? The full inquest transcript could conceivably help resolve some of these doubts when it is released. But Mary Jo Kopechne will still be dead, and many will still wonder whether Kennedy did all he possibly could have done to prevent her death...
...When the inquest was over, Kennedy chose to look ahead, not backward. He returned to Washington with his wife Joan and said that he would accompany her to New York this week, where she will have her tonsils removed. He is eager to resume his senatorial duties, and plans a trip to Dublin for a speech at Trinity College. He expects to kick off his campaign for re-election to the Senate at a dinner on Feb. 22, his 38th birthday...