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Reagan returns teen horror classic HOLLYWOOD-ON-THE- POTOMAC - Ronnie is floating, for the third whether that be blac ks over 18, women, Re publican studios announced to day swnmer in a row, the idea that teen hispanics, or white males over 50 - a revival of a horror movie classic , agers don't deserve the minimum wage will soon be demanding their own sub targetting the teen audience with of $3.35 an hour , but instead should m1n1.1T1.um rate, and then there is no "Teen Rip-Off III," starring their be paid the sub-minimum wage of $2.50 minimum wage law left at all. favorite horror film star, Ronald an hour . Reagan. And no minimum wage law at all is the Now a sub-minimum wage is a difficult long-term goal of the Reagan folks, Re agan , fresh from two foreign film concept to understand . The minimum who would like to see us al l reduced ventures , one in German and the is supposed to be the least, the bottom, to some pr imeval, dog-eat-dog capital other in Spanish, is thrilled to be right? So to sell this 85¢ an hour ist jungle , where the sacred "market bac k in what he called "a good , rip-off from young workers , the sub place" would set wage, meaning "I'll family-oriented, red- blooded American minimum wage is called "The Youth slash your throat if you don't slash slasher film. " Employment Opportunity Act. " mine first. "
Reagan 's two mo st recent thrillers And of course, in his benevolence and Don 't think that the folks in Mc Donald were "I vas an SS ghost in der concern for minority rights , Reagan land haven 't figured out how many Bitberg Cemetery" and "Contra," a is using high unemployment among millions pa ying their teen ernployees tale of terrorist raids to rape, blac k youth as his excuse for needing 85¢ an hour less would add up to. pillage and murder innocent Central to slas h this basic protection from That's why they' ve been a consistent American villagers. In both films teenagers. lobbyist for thi� legislation, long Reagan pl ayed his favorite role, the before Ronnie walked into the White happy-go-luc ky heavy \\ho brings death Now $3.35 an hour ain't muc h, and House. and destruction ever ywhere he goes. $2.50 an hour is even less. There are all kinds of folks out the re And imagine what Mc Lean County 's In his latest venture, Reagan leads trying to just survive at $3.35 an biggest swnmertirne youth employer, an all-out onslaught on teen wages, hour , which, at 40 hours a week, 52 the seed corn company, would do if ending in carnage at fast-food out wee ks a year, still leaves you below they can pa y 85¢ an hour less. All lets across America. the po verty-line . of their help is only swnmertime .
;Using a secret plot, he atternpts to And there are teens who aren 't just Corn detasseling, stuc k between the :cut minimum wage protection for teen out "loo king for a swnmer job" to hot , humid, sharp-edged rows of corn, surrounded by bugs and mosquitos, is \ agers, hiding his actions under the stow aw ay a few dollars for that ;n ame of "T he Youth Employment new sports car, but who are ac tnally not the great uplifter of youth that .Opportunity Act. " Reagan sneakily out on their own, supporting a yo ung our local leaders W>uld have us uses unemployed blac k youth as his family, or trying to make enough to believe . Teens doing that job should entry to the teen wor ld , and once in pay college tuition -- especially be paid at least $5 an hour as a min the door, he assumes his mad slasher since Reagan cut student loans . imum, and maybe get a bonus for every part. degree the temperature goes up on 60"/o of all minimum wage wor kers are those stic ky July and August days . over twenty, and these folks, for If a sub-minimum wage passes , don't Entering the series for the first whom a minimum-wage job is their time is William Broc k, who runs cover think our local seed corn moguls will only livelihood , would be thrown waste any time in counting that extra for Reagan and distracts tho se who into direct competition with teen 85¢ an hour in their poc ke ts, too . might rescue the helpless teens . He agers who could be paid less. And replaces Ray Do novan in this role, one exception to the minimum wage whose heavy-handed comedy never quite One suggestion for those under the would breed another, so that soon clicked in the first two films in age of twenty-one who are outraged at this series. groups with high une rnplo yment. -- the po ssibility of this rip-off - Today, or tomorrow morning, go down The film is timed for impact on the to the McLean County Courthouse. sununer drive- in audience. "It's one Register to vote. Take your registra of my favorite swnmertirne stories," tion card , make a xerox of it, and said Reagan, "and I like it so much, send it to Representative Edward I just want to do it over Madigan (c/o U.S. House of Re presen again every s ummer -- at least until tatives, Washington, D.C. 20515) and we get it right," he joked. Senators Paul Simon and Alan Dixon (both c/o U.S. Senate, Washington, In typical fasion for Republican D.C. 20510). Let these gentlemen, studios , which underwrites most of who will have to vote on Reagan's its productions with outside investors , "Youth Employment Opportunity Act" McDonald's Hamburgers and other fast know that you registered to vote food corporations are paying for because you were outraged over the "Teen Rip-Off III." "We see great idea of having your wages cut. prof its from productions of this type," said Ron ald McDonald, second Teenagers are usually ignored , and cousin to the famed slasher actor, powerless. One reason they 're ig� and a clown in his own right. "If nored is because they don't show up 'Teen Rip-Off III' can make it, we'11 on politicians' opinion po lls, be looking at a box-office take you because so few are registered to vote. wouldn 't believe , and one we hope to But if they get enough ·letters from sustain for years to come. " teens , they'll suddenly become very aware and defensive of this new- "Teens deserve a break," said Reagan, found constituency. "and they like a thrill. I bet my latest film will really make tfemi Otherwise, beware for the mad scream. " slasher is on the loose again, and teenagers are the intended victims this year. ****
The abo ve little satirical piece is .no joke folks -- as there are few -- MgM . jo ke s left in Ho llywood-on-the Potomac , .unless you have a particularly sick ·sense of humor. 1985
4 Post-Amerikan June-July, page FBI surVei:llance B·N:
Last August my wife and I decided to requests to process? On Oct. 24, the tion ? My wife's file contained on ly request whatever files the FBI and CIA CIA sent word that they could find � pa�es--all of them copied fr om pages had been keeping on us. Under the nothing in their files pertaining to in mine where her name was mentioned, Freedom of Information (FOI) and Pri us. Not so the FBI. usually merely identifying her as my vacy Acts, any citizen has the right to wife. In early Oct. we got letters saying request this information. You can too, that references to us had been found . using a letter similar to the one that So: what was the nature , scop e, and On Oct. 26, Jos eph E. Ondrula, Special acconp anies this article. Th ough the duration of the surveillance contained Agent in charge at the Springfield CIA claimed to have no files on us, we in my file? The 201 pages they let Field Office, informed me that did receive some of our FBI files, and me have covered 19 67 -7 4. Th ese were investigative material on me had been we thought we 'd share what we learned . the final nutsy-kookoo years of J. forwarded to Washington, and that, in Edgar Hoover: of the smear campaign addition, there was two-page docu of Martin Luther King, the Cointelpro Thr oUg'h out the 19 60s and early '70s a ment in Springfield (in wh ich my name the FBI'collected information and kept scheme to infiltrate and disrupt fr om was mentioned ) which would be forwarded files on tho usands of citizens and within various progressive Movement to me with the rest. organizations. Ass uming that there organizations ranging fr om the Black would be files on us because of our Panther Party and Students for a One month later, on Nov. 28, political and social activism in this Mr. Democr atic Society (SDS) to moderate Ondrula ch anged his mind and decided to period, we decided to make our request civil rights and anti-Vietnam War - withhold the two- page document under gr oups. It was the period of the great before Ronnie Raygun succeeded in loophole provisions in the FOIA, Sec. showcase cons piracy trials (such as clos ing down the FOIA on ce and for all. 552, which exempt fr om disclosure law that of the Chicago 8) in all of wh ich enforcement records which would reveal the governme nt failed to ob tain con We both wanted to know the nature, the identities of confidential inform victions. It was the height of the scope, and duration of the surveillance ants or information not public Vietnam pr otest and Hoover 's paranoid we'd been subjected to1 and my wife knowledge or available to the FBI wanted to know whether her file and vendetta against the "Conunies" he saw through "overt" means. I app ealed under every bed. mine were comparable, or wheth er, as · Ondrula's de cision to an As st. Atty. she suspected, the FBI was so sexist General in Washington, and my app eal as to spend most of its energy on me In this period, I was working with was denied on Feb. 27, 1985 . I could since I was a man and she was "j'ust many others in Bloomington-Normal for have challenged this in court, but it social ju stice and educational re form, a woman. " didn't seem to me worth the effort. racial equality and an end to the Vietnam war . The FBI took note of this We made our request on Aug. 22, '84. Finally, on April 2, 1985, our FBI By Sept. , letters began trickling in but focused on ly on ce rtain types of files arrived. Out of the 348 pages fr om the CIA and FBI (a separate activity I was engaged in. claimed to be in mine , 201 pages were request went to each) . Ye s, they wer e released to me 7 the other pages were searching their files7 could we please In the pages they gave me , and in the withheld under the loophole already be patient since they had so many portions which aren't blacked out, I mentioned. As for sexist discrimina-· find that they were particularly concerned with my supp ort of black - students in their effort to name the How to ask_ for. your. fi·le ISU Student Union after Malcolm X, my FBI presumed. association with the campus SDS (I was ne ver a part of the group,
Federal Bureau of Investigation Return address though I knew some of the peop�e and 10th and Pennsylvania, attended some of the meetings), my NW ___ Washington, D.C. 20525 invol vement with the local ch apter of Amer ican Civil Liberties Union, my To the FOI/PA Unit: supposed invol vement with an organiza This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act (Title 5, U.S. Code, tion in the high school s called the Section 552) and Privacy Act (Title 5, U.S. Code, Section 552a). Student Freedom League (a short-lived I wish to obtain copies of all documents retrievable in a search for files listed group concerned with student rights- under my name in your national office and in your regional and local field offices in and not, as the FBI believed, a train Chicago, in Springfield, Illinois, and in Bloomington-Normal (McLean County), Illinois. This request includes, but is not limited to "main" files and "see references", including ing ground to prepare students for SDS numbered and lettered subfiles, lA envelopes, enclosures behind files (EBFs), bulky when they got to college). exhibits, control files, and "JUNE" files. I am seeking copies of "see reference" cards, abstracts, search slips, including search slips used to process this request, all documents generated pursuant to this request and as a consequence of it, file covers, multiple copies of the same documents if they appear in the files, tapes or abstracts of tapes of any electronic surveillance, and photographs in which I am identified. Please also search "DO NOT FILE" files, SAC safes, special file rooms, and all other Upon his arrival at Miami Inter FBI files. national Airport on January 16, To reduce the possibility of confusion between me and persons with similar names, Edward Haase, a broadcast engineer the following is provided: and freelance journalist fr om Kansas Name: Social Security #: City, Mo. , checked into U.S. Customs . Date and place of birth: _____ He was asked the usual questions . A Current employment: Customs official then took his dec name Married: spouse's laration card and circled several of Address: his responses, including the country Schools attended: he had visited--Nicaragua. If all or any part of my request is denied, please list the specific exemption(s) on which you are relying to withhold the information. For any "classified" material with Hasse was then directed to a secon held, please include the following information: the classification, identity of the classifier, the date or event for automatic declassification, classification review, dary inspection station, where or downgrading. another Customs official searched his luggage. The Customs agent If you determine that portions of the requested material are exempt from release, I will expect, as the FOIA requires, that you provide me with the remaining, non-exempt, removed several of the book s and segregable portions. magazines Haase had declared , as well as a list of addresses he found Because this request is being made under the Privacy Act, I understand that, as behind a picture fr ame . He called that act provides, no fees will be charged for locating the requested files. I request in addition that you waive any copying fees under the provision of the FOIA that permits in a supervis or, who then contacted you to waive or reduce copying and search fees when release of the requested information the FBI for assistance in deter would be "in the public interest." mining whe ther any of these materials might be seditious and, thus, un As provided by the FOIA, I will expect a reply within ten working days. If you have any questions, please call me at importable under federal law.
Sincerely, The FBI agent conducted his own search of Haase's bags . While Haase was off purchasing a ticket for his next fl ight, the FBI agent made Name copies of all the materials he found IMPORTANT: Be sure to have your signature of interest. When Haase returned , notarized by a Notary Public. If he was given back his material and you don't, the FBI can use this allowe d to continue on his way . The as a reason for delaying an answer FBI agent kept the copies of the to your request. Be sure to keep copies of all your correspondence. material, wh ich had been judged un Probably most of your material will be in the Springfield Field Office; threatening to the republic. that's wh�re it's generated and stored before copies and summaries are sent to Washington. Your request should go to Washington, however. Th is is how the FBI came to possess 1 copies of Haase's pe rsonal address book, his diary, two ar ticles he had Post-Amer ikan June-July, 1985 page 5
·V ro-ze..s Now, I don't kn ow what's in the 147 r pages they didn't let me have (I ESTIGATION learned fr om a former FBI �gent that FEDERAL BUREAU OF it probably was stuff supplied by IOATIVK NIUOO informants wh o were enrolled as stud REPORTING Ol'l'1C2 Ol'l'ICE C# ORIGIN ents in my classes at ISU, and that SPR!NGFIELD SPRINGFIELD to let me see those pages would have CASE I been a dead giveaway). Likewise, in �OFDEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING the pages that I did get, there are �-UNITED STATES INTERVENTION many blacke d-out sections--names, whole --IN \·IET NAM paragraphs, several pages that are nearly all blackl But enough remains to give me a good idea of what the FBI was interested in, and a fairly clear picture of how they went about their op erations. By no means are all of the names deleted. As the years went by, they kept closing my file and then--when something else happened--opening it up again. The file contains much inaccurate inform ation. They have me present at meetings I never attended. They have me as a me mbe r of SDS and then as the organizer of the Student Freedom League . They have my eyes br own (most people it contains .. infor Instant report is .classified "Con ntial" as th ink they 're blue) . They credit me sclosure of which could jeo-· mation from informants the unauthorize .// ect the national security again and again with having one child pardize future usefulness and adversel I (unnamed ), when actually I have two , bo th with names. In spot-checks they drove by my house to see what license plates were on O No: Pendlnq proHcutlon o••r alifm.-tha D Yea 0 . No the cars parked nearby. Though they -;r&:CIALAGENT claim not to have conducted electronic INCHARGll: surve illance on me , they did at one point re fer me to the Secret Service as a "d ange rous person" (no spec ific reason mentioned ). They had a local flunky perform a clipping service for them: on page after page I find Pantagraph or Vidette clippings where my name was unuerlined for giving a speec h or be ing mentioned as a me mbe r of the ACLU steering committee. In 1970, I and several others in to wn were receiving threats on our lives signe d by the Ku Klux Klan and the Minutemen; a friend had a roc k thrown through his living room Continued on next page on Cen tral Ameri:can . activists written , and a list of names and oppose U.S. policy in Central America, Lewis of the southeast regional office organi zations concerned with Central is but one exami?le of government of the Committee in Solidarity with American affa irs. harassment of dissidents. the People of El Salvador (CISPES ) in New Orleans. "T hey want to intimi date Lawsuit Intimidation me mbers into ceasing their activities. " This is also what prompted a lawsuit The most obvious form of intimida Beth Perry, who works on the national brought by the New York -based Center tion they point to is FBI visits to staff of CISPES in Washington, D.C., for Constitutional Rights (CCR) , persons ·who have traveled to Nicara says that she has assembled a list which sought to force the FBI to gua and to those active in organiza of more than a do zen instances of return the copies and to prevent it tions that protest administration FBI agents attempt ing to contact from using any of the materials it policy. On April 17, in testimony CISPES me mbers. A hotline op erated swiped from Haase for intelligence be fore the House Judiciary Subcom by CCR received about 25 calls in purposes. The suit also called for mittee on Civil and Con�titutional the first three months of the year, a halt to such border sear�hes, a Rights, FBI Director William Webster each alleging some form of FBI harass move that the FBI opp osed. confirmed that the FBI had que s ment, acc ording to Ratner. tioned 100 American travelers to Nica On May 14, u.s. District Judge Th omas ragua, at the behest of the CIA and St unned Penfield Ja ckson ruled against the National Security Council. These granting such an injunction. Before visits, Weber maintained, were con Investigating some of the complaints this, however, he did issue a temp o ducted for "a speci fic foreign received on the hotline, Ratner con - rary restraining order that prohibited counter -intelligence reason fo r each tacted several FBI offices. "I was the FBI from using any of the Haase case." They were not intended to in stunned ," he says. "I called four material. After that the FBI proposed timidate the subjects, he said . or five agents, and they admitted to seal the Haase papers, an arrange openly that they were conducting a ment that Jacks on accepted. But when the FBI come s knocking at counterintelligence op eration and the door, the chilling effects cannot gathering informatio� on people who "We won the battle but lost the war, " be ignored. At the hearing , Rep . visit Nicaragua. " remarks Micheal Ratner, an attorney I Jo hn Conyers Jr . (D-MI) told Webster for CCR. He adds that CCR plans to he was amazed to hear the director On Capitol Hill, several congressional appeal Jacks on's denial of the injunc suggest that "n o one should be in committees have taken an interest in tion. "We want a prohibition on cus timidated by a little fr iendly visit the FBI visits. The House jud iciary toms and the FBI from reading the pri from a polite FBI agent who le ft his subcommittee on civil and constitu vate papers of u.s. citizens when card. " tional rights plans to hold further they cross the border." In several cases, FBI agents have Continued on next page The Haase case, though, represents visited peop le's residences, leaving more than just another civil liberties notes or cards asking that their violation. What happened to Haase, visit be returned with a phone call. say members of or ganizations that "We know what they want, " says Danny Post-Amerikan June-July, 1985 page 6 on f .., FBI spied Cont inued from ' ·' window--with a note coming later , SI lOO-f0850 saying: "Commie , the hole in yo ur window will be in yo ur head next LElD: time ." We had a small fire set in our garage--with a note coming later , SPRINGFIELD DIVISION saying: "Comm ie , the fire in yo ur garage will be in yo ur be adroom next." ' .. At Springfield, Il linois· Irritated , we de cided to call in · the postal authorities and the FBI to l o Wil , upon subj ect be ing approve d f r th e Reserve · stop the harassment and name some Inde x, disseminate a co py of th is re po rt to the Unite d S��tes names. Secre t Se rvice at Springfield. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA: -- The report of the agents who inter ' viewed me is in my file (the one . This r f ... ·. . thing that ought to be )--and I'm eport l� being· cl ��� ifie d "Co n as co ntains info rmation fro m 1IY pleased to say that their report is a straightforward, descriptive o ormation fro m th ese sources coul d·. e in account of what I said--with no in security and/o r impair their future ferences or judgments on their part. The name s I mentioned of local people . . . who might be respons ible for the It is no t be ing re co mmende d that subje ct be inte rviewe d at th is time in· vie w of his pos itio n on th e threats were not me ntioned in the facul ty of Ill inois State University at No rmal, Il lino is . report. (But after this interview Fu rthe r, th ere does no t appe ar to be any info rmant po te ntial. and one with Normal Police Chief Richard McGuire , the incidents of intimidation stopped , as we expected they wo uld .) Items of genexal interest: a copy of my birth certificate is in the file , obtained from Ar kans as during the initial wo rkup on me in 1968; the y never did get my academic degrees straight; their informants weren't always we ll-informed (but were quoted nonetheless) ; I was called a supporter of the Blac k Panther Party --probabl y bec ause I subscribed to their newspaper; the FB I was extre . me ly cautious in dealing with univer . �. . ..,. sity personnel (because I was a professor, the matter had to be handled'with the "utmost discretion" ); B they felt that I was not good COVER PAGE "informant potential" (they're to be commended fo r havin g that muc h astute ness); and they didn't think a second interview with me was advis able , for it might "be embarrassing FBI to the Bureau ." spying on C. A. activists Continued from receding age Co nclusions ? When you thin k that p p this kind of surveillance was being vehicle dept. had no record of such a hearings on the FBI vis its next month. done on thousands of individuals license plate, cl aims Dennis Marker The House Select Committee on Intel and organizations during the '60s of Sojourners. ligence, according to a staff aide, and '70s who we re expressing them has held an exe cutive session on The alleged FBI harassment has caused selves within the law and in acco rd CCR to consider reviving a lawsuit this matter. with the Constitutional rights of it brought in 1982 charging that freedom of speech and association, Besides the FBI visits, represen President Reagan's exe cutive order you're left with mixed fe elings of tatives of groups opposing adminis expanding the authority of the FBI humor (at how paranoid and ridiculous tration policy in Latin America and CIA to conduct fo riegn counter it was) , anger (at the invas ion of suspect that they may be victims of intelligence operations in the u.s. your privacy by snoops and sp ies and other forms of gove rnment harass is illegal. The suit was dismissed in formers) , and rage (at the enormous ment and surveillance. Though they because it did not contain c0irq;>laints waste of resources and tax dollars) . possess no conclusive proof, they from persons who cl aimed they worry that their mail and telephone suffered damages. Now CCR has It's grotesque to think of these calls may be monitored. specific co nplaints. armies of bureaucr ats and clerks taking themsel ves, their "work, " One surveillance ep isode involves --David Co rn and you so very seriously--yet per Sojourners, which sponsors programs forming their job s in so perfunctory that ch allenge u.s. policy in Central Reprinted from In May 29, and slipshod a manner that they America. At 5:45 on a Saturday morn � �. 1985. sinply record hearsay as fact and ing last fall, an early ris ing staff member encountered four men at two back door entrances to the group's office in Washington, D.C. One of the fo ur had a camera. When the staffer asked what they wanted, one replied that they had come to visit the office. Then they left, with one saying that they would return when it wasn 't so early. Harassment The Sojourners staff member wro te down the Virginia license plate number of their car and passed it on to the police, who promised to report back. When the police did not call, a Sojourners membe r con tacted the police. He was told that be cause there was no evidence a , crime was committed the police co uld not reveal to whom the car was registered. Meanwhile, separate inquiries conducted through other ch annels, including some congressional offices, found that Virginia's motor Post-Amerikan June-July, local citizen 1985 page 7 p receding page compound inaccuracy up on error . But, at bo ttom, it's not funny at all . There 's something stinky and low about it: dirty business--not at all in keep ing with the professed pr inciples of a demo cratic society . While the FBI can be said to have a legitimate fun ct ion in inve stigating ce rtain types of cr iminal activity, there is nothing legitimate about mass ive spying on law-abiding citi zens suspe cted of "s ubversion " be cause they dissent fr om government policy, protest social injustice, and dare to question "authority ." Wh ether the result of excessive zeal, a pedes trial "following of orders" to earn their pay, or a compulsive desire to kn ow everything in the interest of power and co ntrol, the co mpilation of exhaustive doss iers on non -criminals is not a legitimate activity in a nation that prides itself on be ing a "free society ." The file I've shared dates from the 1960s and '70s. Unfortunately, the mindset that produced this massive spying on U.S. citizens is still very much alive. Not only will sur veillance activity continue , it will , in all likelihood , increase . The ; machinery is in place. Through executive order, Ray.gun has ' already broadened the CIA's functions to encompass domestic spying . As the '8 0s move into the '90s and mili tarism is whipped into a patriotic frenzy and the Cold War grinds on i (because gove rnme nts don 't put a stop to it) , as the economy Worsens for large numbers of American citi ze ns , as the anti-nuc lear movement -·· - gains strength and soc ial protest increases in response to Raygun 's :�·.; . domestic policies, as protests on • c�uses and elsewher e escalate over South African ap artheid and American investment in that system, as opposition grows over American discontents) , as non -dissent becomes If you want to re quest your file lind er military involvement in Central the litmus -test fo r patriotism, and . America (and possibly the Philippines) , governmental repression increases in the Freedom of In formation and Privacy Acts (while you still can) . as policy makers increasingly need the name of st�ing out "terrorism, " to find scap egoats to blame for their the surveillance and harassment of send a letter like the one on p. 4. reverses (and to distract the popula citizens --individuals and groups--will --R . D. Sutherland tion and provide a fo cus for their move into high gear. Improve your minds Improve youur life. J(mprove your world® College & Linden i-Normal. Illinois . Pf�OTEST! -·· - - ,,. :- '- � ' -Telephone * Quality Bicycles in All PriceRanges FreeService Policy with New Bicycles * Parts, Accessories & Servicefor All Types Col.... &Unden -...... on 454-1541 * 30 DayWarranty Repairs RALEIGH • SEKAI • MOTOBECANE • FUJI • TREK . Post-Amerikan June-July, 1985 page Miscellaneous outrages Reporter's Deputies round up word choice picnicking BHS seniors According to Sheriff Brienen , there �eventeen of the 22 were seniors , and reveals bias just aren 't enough deputies and squad they wer� punished with 3 days in At a time when the entire nation was cars to adequately patrol our large school suspension. They were also debating whe ther Cathy Crowell was county�s rura l area. banned from the school 's official sen ior picnic. lying then or lying now, Pantagraph reporter Scott Richardson had no With the limited patrol capabi lity of doubts. the Sheriff's po lice , it seems that Some parents protested their kids ' squads wou ld be assigned on ly to banishment from the official picnic. That's what the Pantagraph a�ticle was "She admitted last week that she missions that the po licy-makers about. fabri cated the story to cover having considered very important. had sex with her boyfriend," Richardson wrote in his Apri� 8 article about the Consider "senior skip day " for The school board , showing its mercy , example. granted amnesty to the 17 sen iors. Gary Dotson case. They were permitted to attend the It's a high school tradition. On sen ior picnic. , Richardson could have sa id "She April 19 , 93 sen iots--38% of the claimed." He could have said "She sen ior class--did not show up for If anyone wondered why the McLean stated." He could have used the words school , according to a Pantagraph County Sheriff's Depar tment bothered asserted , dec lared , contended , article. to send squad cars out to Lake maTntairied, or even professed. Bloomington , it wasn't reported in the Wi lliam O'Neal , Bloomington High Pantagraph ar ticle. Judges, pa role and pardon boards, even School's new assistant principal for the Governor, were all trying to decide students , didn 't like it. whe th er to be lieve Kathy Crowell's School boss recantations. A lot of the students "were seen " at Lake Bloomington , the Pantag raph But with his choice of the word admit, ar ticle said. uptight Scott Richardson revea led his -- conclusion. "This was a preconceived plan by the about King sen iors to take a skip day," O'Nea l ctory and Bloomington school superintendent Kathy Crowell"s contradi was quoted at a schoo l board meet ing. confusing statements simply confirm George Stimeling doesn't like the idea what Richardson has apparently bel ieved of naming a proposed middle school According to the Pantgraph article, all along: when women make reports to afte� Dr. Martin Luther King. "O 'Neal informed the McLean County the police, they are not to be trusted. Sher iff's Department and squad cars The Bloomington city counci l has were sent to the lake. " Two issues ago , a Post article already turned down the Human criticized Richardson's coverage of an R� lations Commission's proposal to It didn't say a squad car was sent to rename Hershey Road after Dr. King. incident which resulted in police the Lake. It iaid cars were sent out· charging a woman with filing a false there. It's possible that the entire po lice report. Richardson added the As an alternative, the council fleet of operat ing McLean County unnecessary and unrelated detail that a suggested that the school district Sheriff's Department squad cars was different police agency had recently might name one of the proposed midd le out there intimidating BHS seniors. complained of false reporting by a schools ?fter the civil rights leader. different woman (for a different O'Nea l told the School Board that an inc ident). Two middle schools are under "undetermined " number of students consideration as part of a "were seen" at the Lake , but only 22 Richardson recognition of this reorganization of the Bloomington 's were identified. "pattern" showed that he is influenced school district. by an unfortunately prevalent negative stereotype of women. And his articles Stimeling said that it was "premature" reinforce and perpetuate that bias. to consider naming either of the middle schools, since voters had not yet even approved establishing them. by Ni�ole Hollander' "Why don't they try Martin Luther King City Hall?" Stimeling said , according Sylvia '. -lflE.RE"'-Cz!W APf1/Nlfft'AtioN A Loo1<5 to the Pantagraph. A�NO�N Gen Tel, pu ll fast one A couple months ago , a smal l item in ICC, !PC's construction budget brought a Only 45 days after filing its request , the company gained approval to bit of embarrassing pub licity. General Te lephone Company has received implement the system in a bunch of small Central Illinois towns. permission to impose USS (Usage The power company is charging Sensitive Service) on Bloomington ratepayers $2 0,000 for t-shirts passed Normal. Bloomington-Normal peop le weren't out to construction workers at the directly affected at the time, so Gen Clinton nuc lear power plant. Beginning January 1, residents will be Tel didn't have to worry about our bil led for each local cal 1. In opposition. "This is one part of the program to addition, residents will be bil led instill an espr it de corps and keep But guess what ? We didn't know it extra for each minute the call lasts. before peop le the need to bui ld a safe then , but Bloomington-Normal residents plant as promptly as possible, " IPC PR The new system will change our way of who objected to USS should have hack Al Adams told the AP. life in ways that have not even been protested back-in 1982. The ICC discussed by the Illinois Commerce now considers �he question of USS "The significance of the slogan [on closed. To the ICC, letting Gen Tel Commission (ICC). (Think of the the t-shirts] is that there is a typica l response when you ask , at a impose USS on Bloomington-Normal was - commitment to complete the project in only a footnote to their 1982 decision. business, if you ·can use the phone. a quality way and timely manner ," "Is it a local cal l? All right." Adams reported ly said. After the imposition of USS, it won't If Usage Sensi tive Service faced any be "all right" any more. ) potential act ive opponents in The t-$hirts say "Later is now. " The • Bloomington-Normal, Gen Tel and the ICC Clinton nuclear plant is already 6 Rate-hike requests usually take almost stopped them short. During the brief years behind schedul7 , with an .. a year before they are approved. USS 45 days between Gen Tel's request and estimated cost six times the original will affect us all far more than a the ICC's no-questions-asked approval, estimate. mere rate increase. How did this far no citizen's group even had time to reaching change gain approval so consider the issue and decide to quickly, with so iittle discussion ? "intervene. Gen Tel was slick. Three years ago, Post-Amer1kan June-Jul y, 1985 page 9 you may have missed Compiled by Mark Silverstein No pho , no letters Pantagraph ne If you can't be reached by telephone Even if the paper doesn't enforce this reporters during the day , don't write the new po licy , the fact that it was even Pantagraph a letter to the editor . formu lated tells us something . Pantagraph editoria l workers all have snitch That 's the gist of a new po licy phones . All their friends have announced in the Pantagraph 's phones . Pantagraph editorial workers editorial pages in early May . can make and receive phone calls at on source? wo rk . All their friends and News report.ers are very sensitive about The Pantagraph was embarrassed after associates can also make and receive turning information over to the po lice, pr inting a letter about schoo l ca lls at work . even when the reporters learn of discipline which purported to be serious crime. wr itten by the principal of Oakdale And this limited , isolated , very white School . After the letter was collar view of the wor ld--revea led Some reporters have even gone to jail pub lished , the principal denied accidently in a hurried po licy rather than turn information over to authorship. formu lation--is constant ly influencing investigative grand juries . the editora l dec isions and opinions According to the paper's new policy , that are reflected in the paper 's Though reporters traditionally keep letters wi ll be accepted only if they pages . their silence, a recent federal court contain the author 's written case suggests that someone at the signature, complete address , and Pantagraph has been blabbing . "DAYT IME TELEPHONE NUMBER ." (Yes , they pr inted it all in capital letters .) According to an Apri l 20 Pantagraph story , Bloomington resident Alfred It's bad enough that this po licy Gilliam Jr. has been sentenced to 12 denies editoria l-page access to people years in prison . without home phones . But it also denies participation to lots of blue His crime? Threatening to kill �o llar workers whose empl oyers don't President Reagan . permit them to make or receive casua l phone calls dur ing working hours . How did authorities know that Gillia m had threatened the President ? The Pantagraph probably will not enforce th is new po licy rigidly. (If According to the Pantagraph article, you have no phone , but visit the Gi lliam made the threats during severa l editoria l offices persona lly, I bet phone ca lls to the Pantagraph last your letter wi ll be printed .) December . Gil liam was a pr isoner in the McLean County Jail at the time. Somehow , apparently, federal prosecutors found out what Gil liam had 1Truants' been saying to the Pantagraph . The Pantagraph article did not say how ,parents authorities learned of the contents of Gi lliam's communications with the inadequate newspaper· . The Pantagraph article also did not say whether Pantagraph employees would ··judge says have been the main prosecution Juvenile court judge Charles Witte witnesses against Gi lliam . (Gilliam li�es to throw kids in the county jail GTE entered a guilty plea , thus avoiding a for skipping school. He believes that More trial .) straightens them out . s rv c For the last two years , though , the e i e Illinois legislature has interfered State's Attorney �ith Witte's ability to jail truants . cutbacks 1Truancy , by itsel f, is no longer Genera l Telephone Company has made it prays with enough to get a kid locked up. even harder to question long-distance charges on your phone bi ll. · Some school administrators and judges r o ers like Witte have objected to the new Service representatives wi ll no longer p is system . On May 23, the Ill inois identify the party to whom a call was Assistant Stnate 's Attorney Brad Murphy Senate voted to return to system made while you wait on the telephone . prays with the prisoners in the McLean iwhich wou ld al low truants to be County Jai l, according to a May 14 ,jailed . a Sometimes mysterious calls wind up on Pantagraph feature . \ your bill . You didn't make the cal l. :In a May 25 article, the Pantagraph None of your roomma tes made the cal l. Murphy , who has been known to wear a jpr inted the reactions of two school None of your visitors made the ca l l. small cross on his lapel , is second \administrators and Judge Witte . Maybe the phone company 's computer in-command at the State 's Attorney 's I dreamed the call up . office. 'In that article, Witte said he has : •rarely" sent a truant to jail. Identifying the cal led party is the In addition to holding Bible classes first·step to investigating the in the jail, the Pantagraph said , ; Actually, though , Witte has managed to mystery . When the cal led party is Murphy reads the Bible in his off ice 1 continue jail ing truants despite the identified, you know whether the call every morning . Murphy 's office wa ll 1 legislature's two-year-old law. was really made from your house or is decorated with a poster which reads whether the phone company's computer "Murphy 's Law: Do the Crime , Do the Any juvenile offender put on is just trying to earn its keep . Time." / probation--for anything from :shoplifting to drinking--can have If the phone company programmed its As assistant State 's Attorney , Murphy 'special terms of probation imposed . computer to add just one bogus call to wields power over the county jail :Attending school is often listed as a every bill, they'd make jillions . prisoners who are awaiting tria l or 'condition of probation . If the kid On ly a certain percentage of the awaiting sentencing . In many cases , :skips school, then Witte can order the public wou ld go to the trouble of the state's attorney 's opinions--of .kid sent to jail. Technically, the arguing about an extra dollar or two the appropr iate plea bargain and the young person is doing time not for charge . appropriate sentence--are the most truancy , but for contempt of court- important determinants of a convicted for violation of probation. Now the phone company has made it even person's fate . more trouble. In the May 25 story about truancy, As Murphy kneels in prayer with County none of the interviewees suggested Instead of identifying the cal led Jail prisoners , is he deciding whether that there was something in the nature party while you wait on the line , his fel low worshipper should go up the of school that drives some students service representatives wi ll tell you 'river for 6 years instead of 12? away . that they are "unab le" to find out would a convincing display of faith today . They offer to call you back at improve a convict's chances for Judge Witte bel ieves the failure is in the end of the week . probation? If a prisoner dec lines to �he nature of kids and their parents . pray with Murphy in the County Jail, "These kids are, for the most part , I had to ask four times just to find does the pr isoner suffer the products of inadequate parents ," the out whether there was something consequences in court? Pantagraph quoted him. special about "today" that made them "unable" to identify the cal led party These questions don't need to be Witte also advocates haul ing these or whether there had been a po licy answered . The fact that they can be "inadequate" parents into court for change . asked is enough. Murphy should take their kids' truancy, he told the himself and his Bible back to the Pantagraph . There'd been a po licy change . privacy of his own home . Post-Amer ikan June-Ju ly, 1985 page 10 In the pr ocess of investigating Usage due date , so your budgeting can be more Also, the company must tr y to call you YoSensitive urService (seefr lasti issenue) , a daccur theate. phone (tcomhey know your nupmberan) the dayy before Post repor ter acquired a copy of an or on the day that they cut you off, to Illinois Commerce Commission pamphlet When you find that your so-called give you a last chance. cal led Te l ephone Service: Your Rights fr iend s fr om New Yor k have run up an and Responsibilities � � Consumer. impossibly large long-distance bill Gen Te l can't cut you off on weekends Th is pamph let, which you wi ll notice whi le visi ting you , you don't have to or holidays or after 12 noon on days doesn't come automatically when you despair. If you haven 't messed up on before weekend s or hol idays. You can sign up for phone service, reveals your bill before, the company has to usual ly on ly be discontinued between several rights and responsibilities let you make a "deferred payment the hour s of 8 am and 2 pm ; basically, that you may not know about. agreement." They can require no more the company has to be open for three than a quar ter of the past due bill hour s after your disconnection so that Consider depos its, for example: if you immediately, and they have to give you you can pay your bill and get haven't had a phone before, the company four to twelve months to pay the total. reconnected the same day. wi ll ask you for an exor bitant fee to Again, this is a plan you have to ask Surprisingly, you have a right to one hook you up. What they don't tell you for : it's not automatic. free reconnection ever y year. about is the wr itten guar antee as a Our repor ter says that this infor mative substitute for the deposit. If you Most of us ar e familiar with that red pamph let was not a piece of cake to know someone who's had a phone for 12 "Final No tice" in the mail; the get, but you can tr y by calling the months or mor e and has paid their bi lls Illinois Commerce Commission pamph let Consumer Affair s Divis ion of the regular ly, they can sign for you and gives some detai l about what it means. Il l inois Commer ce Commission at (217) the company must accept that instead of· First, your fina l notice must come at 782-2024 (Spring field) or (312) 793- a cash deposit. least five days before they intend to 2887 (Chicago) . cut you off (discont inue your service). Once you get your phone you 're still --Phoebe Caulfield not safe from being char ged a deposit, . though. If you pay late four times or get discontinued (disconnec ted for under 10 days) twice within a year , the company can be latedly as k you for a deposit. You should ask them for a discount. when your phone is o� for 12 hours or more. The company is required to ad just your bi ll when you haven't had service, but on ly if you report the interruption or if they already know about it (like having line s down due to a storm) , and on ly if you request that the ad justment. be made. This means that when both you and your next-door ne ighbor lack phone ,, service after a storm, you can request and get a discount . However , your ne ighbor s will not get one automatical ly, even though the phone MOUSE company knows that their ser vice was WORK1 out too. WE You can also ask for a change in your LOVE bi lling date. For example, if you'r e • bi l led on the 21st of each month and IT/ '' get your socia l secur ity check on the 26th, your finances are likely to be a dr ag. You can ask the telephone company to give you a Prefer red Payment Date up to 10 days after the regular Bloomington Council condemns apartheid On April 8, 1 985, the Bloomington porations heavily involved in South It wa s pa ssed the same night that the City Council passed a resolution con Africa, However , the commi ssion council engaged in the brouhaha about demning apartheid in the Republic of hopes that if enough cities take renaming Hershey Road after Dr . King . South Africa. The resolution gives similar action, bo th the individual Tim Wa lker said he suspects that the numerous reasons why apartheid should states and the federal government apartheid re solution go t lost in the be condemned, and concludes by "join will be pushed to take ma jor action. shuffle (I wo uld ha' e called it ing with other vo ices across the The resolution was apparently passed "hysteria-;-;) , or that the media di dn't wo rld calling for an "end to apar with little argument . think it was important . th id " e . It was then promptly ignored or for So ...in Bloomington, the name nf a The resolution was initiated by Tim go tten . street is mo re important than the Walker of the Bl oomington Human systematic oppression of a race? Relations Commission and drafted by Th e apartheid resolution has received the commission. almo st no media coverage. If it Makes ya think ...in a city wh ere the weren 't for a letter to the editor in white folk become irate at the Locally the effect of the resolution the Pantagraph , the resolution might possibility of a street being named is expected to be slight. For this after black ur not have received any coverage , a hero , is it any s reason , it do es not urge specific pris e that efforts to end apartheid tactics, such as divestment of cor- go unheralded? --Chris M . . . in Spring 105 Broadway .• Normal We. �ea. c'1 . _plat,, you ·to .;.-..-� ·sell e _,ou h t ri..-t gu�itar�; review June-July, 1985 page 11 ·TV Post-Amerikan i a Beck' 'The Rape of R ch rd worth watching Judith Crist says of this movie : Television movies have made great The movie then focuses on the reac ' strides this year . TV has tackled tions of his friends on the force, who "This story of a tough, rule-bending, male-chauvinist cop winds up telling incest ("Something About Amelia" ), hit him wi.th such lines as "What us that there 's nothing like being wife abuse ("The Burning Bed" ), were you doing down there alone , raped to turn him into a warm, tender , repe/kidnapping/murder ("A Death in anyway?" and "They're saying you socially aware professional and a California") , child abuse/murder met those guys there a lot . Did you? ". loving and understanding father . ("The Right to Kill"), acquaintance Exit peer support . rape ("When She Says No" ). Things Good intentions and a social con His father , the tough ex-cop , can that used to be daring for tv (rape, science, granted to all invo lved, neither accept nor understand why don't justify this sort of sinq>le abduction, etc.) are now being seen his son let this happen to him. minded manipulative drama. " on sticoms . There seemed to be "They were going to kill me ! I little that the made-for-TV movies didn't want to die! Can't you under hadn 't touched . The few untouched I would give the movie and its makers stand that?" Richard screams . Dad muc h more credit . Ye s, it is sinq>lis top ics seemed not only untouched , shakes his head very slowly, and but also untouchable . tic . Yes, his transformation is says , "No. I can ' t. " Exit parental quick . And yes, the movie is probably support . On Memorial Day, 1985, ABC touched manipulative . But what tv movie is the untouchable: male rape . not all three? I was reminded , Richard alienates his girlfriend , while watching this, of the state taking out his anger and hostility of female rape movies 10 years ago . Richard Crenna starred as Richard on her. Exit significant other support . Beck, a Clint Eastwood/Charles They were painfully similar . Elizabeth Bronson type cop in a we'st coast big Montgomery 's classic "A Case of Rape " His ex-wife is synpathetic and under The city (Los Angeles would be my guess, showed us a very brutal rape. stand ing , but Richard won 't accept police and hospital personnel are but it 's never stated and I'm lousy her help . His children are confused at skylines) . He is a tough, macho hostile and unbelieving . Her husband and no help . Exit family support. leaves her because she has been cop , the type everyone who reads "touched " by another man . The this paper hates . He is the son of Barbara, the rape hotline volunteer, rapist returns and rapes her again, a cop, probably the grandson of a tries to talk to him calmly, but more brutally than before, letting cop , and he clearly would like to be he does not want to be another of her know he 's doing it because he the father of a cop . her "charity cases ." In their next can. Recent tv rape movies are encounter she tries confrontation, delving into non-brutal, acquaintance He plays by his own set of rules, telling him what he is feeling and rape -- rapes that would not have conq>letely disregarding department that everything he is feeling is what even been considered crime s to poor policy or human decency, with a every other rape victim feels . He Liz 's audiences. sense of fierce pride and noble is not ready to hear that , nor is he justice . _ ready for confrontation . Exit social But TV doesn 't do male rape . Beck defies policy once too many service support . "Deliverence" can be shown in theatres, times and once too flagrantly when but when it hits TV, the rape scene he trades a suspected rapist in on a So Richard is left back where he is edited out . Men don't get raped suspected murderer . His punishment, started - alone . He pulls himself on TV. Doesn 't happen . which amuses e�eryone but Beck together (somewhat ) and goes in and search of the rapist he let go Barbara (Meredith Baxter Birney) , So for a man to get raped on TV, to the rape hotline volunteer, is that earlier in the movie . He goes out dare to admit male rape happens, to he be reassigned to the sexual assault alone , without back up , and this time suggest it happens to men who are task force . he is the victor . He holds the not gay and by men who are not gay rapist's head and hands across a (and that point is made during the He is, of course, as brutal and non railroad track when a train starts rape scene} is in itself courageous . understanding about the rape victims moving toward them . The audience is he deals with as he can possibly be . convinced that he will kill or dis I think this movie was all that the One night on his way home , he is play member the rapist. Amerikan public could bear : perhaps ing safari, a game he made up and But just at the right moment the more than they could bear . To make used to play with his partner, which rapist screams , "I don't want to it more realistic , to take away the can be loosely translated into police diet " The audience remembers, with sinq>le characterizations, to not have harassment . He sees two suspicious Richard, how many times he spoke rape change the character of Richard characters he thinks are dealing those very words to his attackers. Beck would have rendered it unwatch drugs, does not call for a back up , He lets him up , and takes him down able and unacceptable to the public . and follows them into an underground to the police station . alley. There are of course things I would Richard now has enough strength to like to have seen changed. I wish the The two proceed to beat him up , make pursue a court case against his rape volunteer had been more synpa thetic to Richard and not done confron him beg them not to kill him, and assailants . And the last scene we anally rape him. An eyewitness in see is a conpletely reformed Richard tation counseling. I wish we had " sures that the police will be called, teliing a class at the police academy seen more of the change as it was the hospital notified, and his his story, and reminding them that happening inside his head . I wish friend informed . No retreating into every rape victim they see could be the two men had not been armed , had himself and never telling anybody "your wife, your sister, your mother, not been as brutal , and that there for Richard Beck. your friend , or you. " had not been two of them ." But very few people, within or outside of the anti-rape movement, believe that a single man can dominate, humiliate , and violate another single man . But I have some problems with every movie , book , series, article dealing Rape Crisi� Center with sexual assault. There is always something I -would like to have seen done differently, something I of Mclean Coun1ty would like to change . "The Rape of Richard Beck" is no exception . WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO OFFER AS SISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT But I applaud ABC for airing this AND THEIR FRIEND� AND FAMILIES . '· movie, and Richard Crenna for starring FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS , BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE : in it. With a few more movies like VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANC E, INFORMATION . this one, maybe men who are victims AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS . of rape will feel they can talk about · their experiences and can get some If vou want to talk to one of us :· he1p . And maybe in 10 years or so · CaU . a sensitive and cmrplex movie dealing PATH 827·4005 with male rape can be made for Judith and ask for the · Crist and her ilk . But for now, this · is a good beginning. And I don• t · think we can ask much more . --Peborah Wiatt Post-Amerikan June-July, 1985 page 12 Medical expe rts After the anti-choice movement 's film, "The Silent wi ll rear away from it (the abortion instrument) and ref Scream ," appeared on the major television networks on undergo much more violent , much more agitated movements . January 22 , medical experts across the country have The child is moving in a much more purposeful manner refuted at length the film 's premise and revea led its as the abortionist seeks the child ··s body . . . . the many distortions, inaccuracies and half truths . child 's movements are violent at this point. " Fo llowing are just some of the comments made by leading gynecologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, "There is no evidence in the literature , or anywhere, neurologists , and neuroembryo logists. to indicate the fetus has the capability of purposeful movement , that is has the capability to perceive the 1. THE FILM: Bernard Nathanson , the film's narrator , thing that he said that is was perceiving , to struggle points to an ultrasound image of a 12-week fetus--an against whatever he said it was struggling against ." image not easily discernible--and says : "We see he --Dr . John Hobbins child 's mouth wide open in a si lent scream This� is. Ya le University School of Medicine the silent scream of a child threatened imminen..•• tly with ex tinction." " right before he says the fetus is reacting and fi•.•ghtin g aggressive ly, he has the film in very slow "To make a statement that the fetus feels pain is a motion . And then as the suction catheter 's placed , he totally ridiculous statement . Pain implies cognition . then turns it (the film) on to regular speed , so that There is no brain to receive the information ." it 's really very misleading ." --Dr . Jennifer Niebyl --Dr . Edwin C. Myer Johns Hopkins University School of Med icine Chairman , Department of Pediatric Neurol ogy Medical College of Virginia in Richmond 3. THE FILM: Nathanson implies that the feta l head at "The cortex is what 's important. The cortex perceives 12 weeks requires the use of "crushing instruments" for pain , it senses things , it changes. things , it processes extraction . Nathanson holds up the foot-long fetal information and that 's what makes us human . And the model (6 times larger than the 12 -week fetus in the cortex really is not functioning at all, at the time ultrasound) and says : "this head is simply too large when the narrator indicated that it was perceiving to be pu l led in one piece out of the uterus . The something that was going to do it in." abortionist is going to have to employ this instrument, --Dr . John Hobbins the polyp forcep , in an attempt to grab the head . The Ya le University School of Medicine abortionist will attempt to crush the head with this instrument in this manner , and remove the head piecemea l from the uterus ." "The mouth of the fetus cannot be identified in the ultrasound image with certainty . The statement that "What he 's saying and what you 're seeing don 't really the screen identi fies the open mouth of the fetus is a jibe He goes through the procedure to ex tract the subjective and mis leading interpretation by Dr . head of the fetus , wh ich you don't have to do in a Nathanson . His conclusion is not supportable. A ••. first trimester abortion ." scream cannot occur without air in the lungs. " .•. --Dr . Fay Redwine --Planned Parenthood Expert Medical Panel Medical Col lege of Virginia 2. THE fILM: Nathanson says that , before the abortion , "Over ha lf of abortions are done at seven to nine weeks "the child is moving quietly in its sanctuary ." He ma intains that the 12-week fetus makes purposeful at wh ich time the fetus is so smal l, the physician •.. needs to use magnification to remove it from the movements to avoid the abortion instrument. He points to the indiscernible ultrasound image and says : "the child uterus ." --Dr . Ruth Krauss Group Hea lth Cooperative of Puget Sound Movie review 'Silent Scream' a hoot Until a couple months ago, everyone was ho lding up, in a menacing manner , the clear on what exactly is The Silent instruments used in the procedure. Screa�. It's that subthreshold noise Now , if you've ever had surgery of any you make when you get your February kind , you know that you really don't NIGas bi ll. want to look at what they 're going to use on you ; those instruments look But, true to form, the right-wingers nasty, no doubt about it, but you 're are trying to redefine everything. certainly not going to say, "Hey, doc, They scraped some quack medic off the if you're going to cut me with those bottom of someone's shoe and made icky knives , I think I'll just keep my themselves a movie, starring Dr. appendix here in its sanctuary." Bernard Nathanson and an immense pink plastic Tiny Tears , who is grossly Not only does the movie give us a bold miscast as a 12-week-o ld fetus in the expose of what surgical equipment looks feature . like; it also pu lls out those old bloody bucket baby pictures that the This movie is an anti-abortion flick; anti-choice clan has been using in its title, The Silent Scream, refers to their assaults for years. Talk about the horror a fetus expresses when an icky. Even a rank counterfeiter like ' abortionist is sucking it out of the Nathanson won 't directly claim that womb. Within the movie, we see an these are aborted fetuses (they 're ultrasound film of an abortion being autopsied stil lbirths, really) . per formed. We supposed ly see the Instead , we gaze on rows of disjointed little boopsy 's itty-bitty mouth open and gutted poopsies lined up like so in--you got it--a Si lent Scream as it much Kentucky Fried Chicken as gets aborted . Give me a break. I saw Nathanson 's vo iceover tel ls us that this movie with a friend , and I agree aborti6n clinics are run by the "dark If you ' ll remember , President Reagan with her when she says that this hand of the crime syndicate." Hasn 't has in the recent past bel ieved that seg ment might as well be a fi lm of the this guy even seen The Godfather? trees cause po llution and that nuclear moon walk for all you can tel l. This Christ . missiles , once fired , can be called buffoon Nathanson keeps pointing out back; it is not surprising at all that the murky images and labell ing them for I assume that he is speaking for he believes that a 12 -week-old fetus us , things like "the sanctuary" (that 's himself when he says that a 12 -week-old with no air in its lungs is howling. the womb) and "the child's tiny heart" fetus is "indistinguishable in any way You could probably tel 1 him that it was (where? where?) . from the rest of us." A 12-week-old singing The Star SpangleClBanner. fetus shows no brain wave activity Tiny Tears comes in as a prop : either . The Silent Scream, luckily, wou ld never Nathanson holds up this fat pink persuade a woman who wants an abortion bambino next to the ultrasound film to Why in the wor ld is there such a big not to get one. It's just too bogus. demonstrate the position of "the child" deal about some benighted creeps hiring But it does reinforce in some people's in the womb, since otherwise we'd a semi-catatonic quack to argue against minds the be lief that it is all right mistake the blob for the woman's lunch abortion, basically on the grounds of to produce babies, in fact better to going through its normal digestive ickiness? Wel l, the benighted creeps produce babies than to prevent them--a process . are rich rich enough to send a viciously se lfish, socially copy of this••. gem to every member of irresponsible, and globally murderous During the abortion, Nathanson says Congress and in genera l really take the belief. The screams in Bangl adesh, that "there is no question that this show on the road. And President Reagan Ethiopia , and Cal cutta aren't so child senses danger ," and he has tried thinks the movie is the cat's pajamas. silent. to prepare us to bel ieve this crap by --Phoebe Caulfield Post-Amerikan June-July, 1985 page 13 ute 'Silent · Scream' " when a woman is forced to continue with a pregnancy that sh doe 4. THE FILM: Nathanson , in talking about the fetus , ..• � sn't wish to continue--then we see the says , "Now , this little person at 12 weeks has had depr�ssions . Then we see the suicides Then we see brain waves for at least six weeks ." •.. the incredible infections and deaths--a•••ll kinds of �orrible medical consequences from the improper ly, "Although some electrical impu lses have been recorded illegally performed abortion ." as ear ly as 10 weeks' gestation , these cannot be --Dr . Michael Rothenberg interpreted as or compared with brain waves . Genuine University of Washington School of Med icine brain waves do not occur until the th ird trimester ." --Planned Parenthood Expert Medical Panel 7. THE ILM : Nathan�on says that the crime syndicate is heavi� ly invo lved in the abortion industry today . 5. THE FILM : Nathanson states that the heart rate of the fetus rises from 140 to 200. He says , "There is no "There is nothing to prove or even suggest that the crime syndicate is presently invo lved in provision of 9ues ion this child senses the most mortal danger imagina� ble." abortion services . However , it is a we ll-known fact that � rganized c : ime was indigenous to illegal "The heart rate of the fetus portrayed in the fi lm does abortion . The high cost of illegal abortion made it not change significantly at any time . Neverthe less , lucrative for underworld elements . In the 1960s fetal heart rate of 200 is within the normal range illega l abortions cost from $750 to several thou�and (norma l 180-200 beats per minute ) for this stage of dollars . Today the average cost for a first trimester pregnancy . It is also unlikely that the fetus had a abortion is $2 00." heart rate of 140 which rose to 200. A rate of 140 is --Planned Parenthood Expert Medical Panel generally noted in the latter half of pregnancy ." --Planned Parenthood Expert Medical Panel 8. THE FILM : Dead fetuses in disposal containers are flashed on the screen . It is impl ied that they are the 6. THE FILM : While footage is shown of depressed products of late abortion . women , Nathanson says : "Women have not been told of the true nature of the unborn child . They have not "Most of these festuses are so large and in such a been shown the true facts of what an abortion really state of deterioration that they are actually is . Women in increasing numbers, hundreds of sti llborns (fetuses spontaneously born dead ) rather thousands, even tens of thousands, have had their wombs than aborted fetuses . It is possible that some of the perforated , infected , destroyed . Women have been smal ler fetuses resu lted from late sa line abortion . sterilized and castrated , all as the resu lt of an Late abortions (after 22 weeks gestation) constitute operation of wh ich they had no true knowledge ." less than 1% of all abortions . Many late abortions are performed as a resu lt of fetal abnormali ties which can " ear ly pregnancy termination is the safest surgical on ly be diagnosed later in pregnancy or other extreme harship cases ." procedure••• that doctors do . Contrary to Mr . Nathanson's diat ibe ma jor complications of ear ly pregnancy --Planned Parenthood Expert Medical Pane l � '. termination are almost unheard of and virtually all women who have ear ly pregnancy termination are ab le to (Exerpted from The Brief, April 1985 ) have pregnancies and babies in the future at the right time." --Dr . Ruth Krauss Group Health Cooperat ive of Puget Sound /'Scream' filmda ngerous weapon Medical experts contend the movement "The Silent Scream, " a 28-mi'nute film aseen in the ultrasound image is what which purports to show a 12-week fetus normally happens anytime uterine mus "screaming in pain" as it is aborted, cles are stimulated in any way. In has become a major new weapon for the f.ac t, medical experts have refuted anti-abortion groups in their inten all of the major premises raised by sified campaign to deny women their Nathanson in the f ilm--there is no right to choose legal abortion . pain without the cortex; there is no scream without oxygen, etc . (see This film is a scientifically un accompanying article) . founded propaganda piece that erron eously depicts the 12-week fetus as Considering these distortions , it is a person capable of perceiving "im amazing that the film has received minent danger " and feel ing pain from such wide distribut ion. Portions from the abortion procedure . have been aired on the news programs of the 3 major tv networks . The The film' s narrator , Dr . Bernard film' s transcript was entered into Nathanson, a gynecologist and former the Congressional Record on January head of a large abortion clinic , ex 3. The Crusade for Life--whose plains how an abortion is performed founder Donald Smith produced the while he shows an ultrasound image film-- sent. a video cassette copy in of a fetus inside a womb . (The ultra February to every member of Congress sound image is created by high fre and the U.S. Supreme Court. Recent quency sound waves. ) ly, some 100 people including members of the press were invited to see the film at the White House . Nathanson uses a number of tricks to convince a general audience of the film' s premises. He intermittently Reagan called the film a "chilling holds up a plastic model of a fetus documentation of the horror of abor that is 6 times larger than the one tion. " On January 22, he told 70, 000 in the ultrasound image to make the "right-to-life " demonstrators in viewer think that the 12-week fetus Washington : •1f every member of Con- You know how parenllare. They allthink their kid ia"special' is far more developed than it possi gress could see the film, they would bly could be . By using two kinds of move quickly to end the tragedy of cameras , the film initially shows abortion and I pray they will ." ultrasound images which are sharp ; abortion under some or all circum then, when Nathanson describes the The President's public support of the stances, the President, members of � abortion and says the fetus is anti-choice movement -even after the Congress, the state legislature and "screaming, " a less sophisticated bombings of 24 abortion clinics in the op inion leaders need to know just camera is used and the image is 1984 alone--the extens ive distribu how ronglyst the majority feels. blurred . tion of this propaganda film, the They 've got to know they cannot take great attention the media have given back a woman 's right to reproductive The speed of the ultrasound image is this issue and its shift in focus choice--go back to the bad old days- also manipulated to make it appear away from the role of the woman to without the nation suffering dire that the fetus is reacting to its the we lfare of the fetus--these are consequences. environment. The film is slowed down only some of the indications that the while Nathanson describes the fetus �ti-choice movement is becoming far --Jay A. Miller, Executive Director as serene ; and then speeded up to ex more effective. Illinois ACLU (Reprinted from The Brief, April aggerate the movement while he says While the polls show that a substan 1985) the fetus perceives danger and moves tial majority of Americans believe purposefully. women should have the right of legal Post-Amerikan June-July, 1985 page 14 "Silent Scream II: The Prequel" 51.Jf?E ee£N RIO<..9JP..R.Y, I' ve BUPJllN6UP BE.f-:N TRYING TD GlIPfU t.C f!..JC£M£ t.'V T FOR!Hf llXAL "51/..ENl5UJ" AM" PR[lltST.- I If• ' (,�� .. ,, 1.U'sCALL HIM TIMM Y. ii/Hilt ().JH; il HAPrfN.3 WHEN HE IS H/5 MAIN P.1?£[)(£JJPA TION ,L/7 ABRUi1TlY5tA.ltF f f/<.J/11 HIS 81/TFl51, l£I5TA U<.. TH/5 POINT15 CELL[)/ Vl510N, M(J!Hf.R ? tUf-fA TARE H/5RlAQluNS, IV THt MVRuRi.5.S IN MC5 TR£.5PEV5, HE� /1�; H/5 I ff.LJN&5, HIS POiN r Uf Hi/0Clf.. 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Arron's says it has in don't produce the cash, they will ca ll 'tte discovered that whether an agency house lawyers for these cases. you on the phone. will really take you to court depends on several factors. Since court costs may be about $30, Slavens said that 95% of their cases are settled by this point. Legal action is the next step, so if We cann ot recycle tin cans you 're getting phone calls, it's time to decide whether to risk it or pay up. this su mmer clue to market RECYCLE that agencies and Another factor conditions. Please don't cred it ors take into account is whether Because using it once you 're like ly to be able to pay the br ing them. bi ll. You obviously don 't want to, but is never enough. they have to figure ou t whether you can if forced . If you are unempl oyed , o n- public aid , or heavi ly in debt, they may figure you 're a lost cause , not 24 worth the troub le of lega l action. 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Dear Post Amerikan , The Post-Amerikan , long- that---rt'""is, has endured the stigma of per" through I'm still amazed that yo� can a�ntain being "that trashy newspa Then , if you're feel ing really � ication In such high-quality reporting/writing out our 1J years of publ : experimental , come by on one of the ite on almo st no budget. You're the best the past , our feelings have , qu days of the sale to see what kind of alternative newspaper I've read. frankly, been bruised . stuff other Post readers throw away . It could be the start of intrigue , • Even though I've lived in Bloomington But not anymo re. By golly, we re romanc e, or ideological discussions! only 10 months in the last 8 y ars, Amerikans , too, and we 've.got the � stick-to-it- iveness that it takes to I'm still fascinated by the goin s-on Don 't forget to mark the dates June 29 � turn a bad situation over to our in my home town--from a perspective and JO on your calendar now! Br ing us favor! So, on Saturday and Sunday , different from our "other," daily your trash so that we can keep bring June 29 and JO , we 'll be ho sting the bringing you ours! publication. Trash-The-Post Great Group Sale Gala at 915 West Grove St ., Bloomington. Thanks again . --LVD, for the � staff We 'll be turning trash into cash and --C . Whitehurst the �roceeds will go to the promiscuous purveyors of petty pulp , the Post Amerikan newspaper . So here is what you, the generous reader , can do , Round up your saleable refuse I No dollars, (note1 saleable) and bring it over to 915 W. Grove between now and June 28. 1Recycle 1 �pdate s If no one is home , you can leave your many thank stuff in the driveway . If you have Operation Recycle will no t be able to a seriou s problem with transportation, accept tin cans during the summer Dear Post, call 829-8460 and we can make arrange- months because it has no way to get This is my second letter to you, my them recycled. The market for first one being on an outrageous recycled steel is currently poor and Disney film probably now long G� fly a kite the cans have been accumulating for over a year no w. forgotten. In this one I'm not · writing to complain about anything. , soar into swnmer with the Bloomington Operation Recycle asks that recyclers but instead to tell you what a great Public Library Kite Flying Contest, job you 're do ing . no t bring the cans to recycle drives , Tuesday, June 4 at 3:30 p.m. a 7 to the warehouse , or to OR's 5 drop Miller Park. The Bo okmobile will In an era wh ere mo st publications are off locations until further no tice. so full of the classic conservative be located at the Northeast corner bullsh*t, you present an interesting of the Park by the war Monument for The ban on tin cans does not include and informative view of the screwed registration from 3:00 � 3:30 the bimetal cans . Bimetal cans are soft drink cans with an al uminum body and up wo rld around us . day of the eve nt. Free registration steel en ds. Operation Recycle is will be held for three age groups : I would love to send you some money , still able to recycle these cans and 5 years and younger, grade sc ool, but considering I usually have less ? will accept them. Prizes than 50¢ at a time , I will have to and junior high to adult. wait. will be awarded for the kites that � In other recycling news , the price fly the highest and farthest, and paid fo r al uminum cans has gone down to 20¢ a pound at the OR Thanks again for your great paper for the mo st unusual. buyback, held every Wednesday and Saturday •. morning from 9 to noon. OR al so Yours truly, All participants must furnish their Jason Morgan buys newspapers at t¢ a pound and .. own kites. For more information, container glass at 1¢ a pound . P.S. Best of luck to Ms . Hippie ! call Extension Services, 828-6091. ' OR needs your help in properly preparing materials for recycling . Newspapers should be tied or put into Drama grocery sacks . Anything that comes with your newspaper may be recycled worksh�p with it, but do no t mix in other Open books· kinds of paper. for kids Container glass should be washed and open doors have lids removed . No window glass, The Bloomington Public Library is Registration for the 1985 Swnmer mirrors, drinking glasses, or light Readinq Proqram OPEN BOOKS - OPEN sponsoring a DRAMA WORKSHOP for bul bs, pl ease. DOORS begins Monday, June 3 in the children in grades four to six. The Bimetal and aluminum cans should be Children 's Room of the Bloomington workshop will cover pantomime , improvisation and hand prop construc separated. You can tell the Public Library or on the Bookmob ile. difference by using a small magnet tion all brought together in a OPEN BOOKS - OPEN DOORS will center which will be attracted to the bimetal Reader 's Theatre performance during on a keys and keyholes theme with cans or by the cloudy bo ttom of the the last class. children receiving a key to the bimetal cans . Aluminum cans have a Stage Door, the Castle Door , the shiny bottom. Lorna Demp ster, BPL Story Lady, will Laboratory Door, the Great Outdoor · s, teach the course which Corrugated cardboard should be and the Door to the Sea. will meet on ·June 13, 20, and 27th from 9: 30 to flattened. Only cardboard with an 11 :30 a.m. Ms . D� ster inner waffled core is corrugated. Kindergartners who can read alone recently directed the children 's production through sixth graders may join the Office paper includes all paper of Puss in Boots at Community reading program. Prizes will be Players. except magazines, carbonless carbon awarded after 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 paper, and paper with cel�ophane Registration for the class begins books have been read. A spec ial windows . Please keep office paper and June 3rd . Children who wish to sign newsprint separate as they are sold feature of this year' s program will up will be expected to participate to different recycling companies. be the Keeper of the Keys . Each in all three classes and will receive two weeks, one key will be chosen at An ordinary brown grocery sack makes a certificate upon COnt:>letion of random and the owner of the key will the best container for collecting the workshop . The class size is be awarded a special prize and have recyclables. It holds a load limited to 15 and children must call his/her picture displayed in the comfortable to carry , is something or visit the Children 's Room to mo st of us ac cumulate, is Children 's Room. register for this free works hop . surprisingly durable, and best of all , it can be recycled after it 's Pre-School children who listen to For mo re information , call Lorna empty . 25 books will earn coloring sheets, Dempster or Phyllis Wallace at a bear mask and certificate. The For mo re information about recycling a 828-6091 Read-To-Me program will be held at . and Operation Recycle, call 829-0691 . the main library only. Additional programs such as we ekly movies, live zoo animal visits, a magic show, and a puppet show will. Business card size ads be featured throughout the swnmer . $6 for individuals A mo nthly calendar of events is (bus inesses slightly high· er) available in the Children 's Roopi . lOTH ANNIVERSARY of Vietnam's victory . Read How We Won the War For more information, call Kathy by General Giap. Send°"$3.00 A Gre at D eal! carter, Public Information Officer , (includes handling ) to RECON, P.O. Call 828-7232 828-6091 (work) , or 663-2040 (h ome) . Box 14602 , Philadelphia, PA 191J4 . or write Box 3452 , Bloomington P.O. 1985 page 17 Rulers- measure up as g g�·ost-Amerikan o:une-July, _ , i i '" n l t j;; J .}J ��• e l •ee e : t �9 � ���: t �{�� heir �� � �;� · �:��� otherwise impre ssive performance (a Me ? I 'm Already De ad, " Eugene and your indul�ence for one � � kind of Jam-cum- Clash thing ) alto - the boys rubbed the audience 's co llec- last time. ) � gether forgettable . tive no se into the pile of sh*t that May 1st was a pleasant spring night at all of that great 6os· peace/love the Galery in Normal, where maybe 55 When the Rulers began, the dancing (as dogma has lately become . people gathered for the last local always ) did too , but , compared to appearance of perennial danceband before , it came forced, subdued by a It was a profoundly di sturbing per favorites, the Uptown Rulers . After terrible irony : on this bri sk spring formance , one that nevertheless five years of touring , two re cords (on night , such vital sounds , such life possessed moments of savage humor Red Scare ), and a re cently-filmed New affirming musical joy, contrasted directed at U.S. imperialism, Yo�k City video , these skanking ro ckers wi th the knowledge of the 'danceband 's George Schultz (its spokesman ), and are calling quits one of the mo st demise . The finality was soberiPg the charade of peace talks that the . successful bands ever to burgeon out against the beer, and paralyzing superpowers are treating us to . In of Bloomtown/Norrnal . That sad news (almost) aga inst Adducci and Callahan 's honor of the current Geneva talks , for colored the last gig blue and kept beat . example, Sho ckabilly raved out a many fans away . mani cally-depressed version of Hendrix ' But for fans who stayed away , a summary "Purple Ha ze ," a song wh ose r�levance There was a lot of tension up in the of what you missed: a really inspired to contemporary isE?ues was crmve rt�q Galery , a strong undertow of black performance . From beginning to end, quite readily under Chadbourne 's the band played harder and more direction . adventuresomely than I ever heard before . Dennis Willan's keyboard solos Nothing was sacred to this ballsy , Hand icapped simply soared; Adducci 's basslines iconoclastic trio. John Wayne and the broke bones and records ; Callahan 's misogynist cowboy mystique , even drums snared your steps ; Goodrich 's Dwight Eisenhower got hauled up for parkin,g guitar ground out solid exuberance; and inspection and then trashed. Such Grigoroff 's vocals were as rawly true 60s musical giants as the Byrds , the as they've ever been, especially on Beatles, anrl the Yardbirds had their 1enforced the last encore , a brilliant-to -the songs electrically altered into angst point -of-painful rendition of the filled po lemics against the way things Begiru;ing June 1st, the City of Beat 's "Sooner or Later. " have turned out in the age of Reagan . Bl oomington will initiate a It �as a night that Red pities your c�mpr e�ensive program to el im inate having mi. ssed, but one that he In a more topical , benign bit , Eugene viol tions of reserved hand � icap can understand your having stayed pi cked up a purple , electrified par�ing spaces. Unauthori zed mo tor away from . No";hing is more pain- garden rake , and ba�;,ged out , a la vehicles parked in handicap parking f l, after a l, han bummers in spring Prince, a poignant "Purple Rake " spaces, eve in private parking � � � � lots , time , death in life ; this, Red that left people in hysterics , ner ill be subJect to a minimum fine of : certainly knows . vously giggling , or disgusted and .,,50.00. leaving . It was that kind of intense , However, Uptown Rulers , speaking for multivalent experience all night long . �nl ehicles transporting handicapped ¥ y all of us whom your sounds have so Likely it will be a long time before i dividual and properly di splaying � � the years , Red sensibilities are rocked in this town either a disabl ed veteran license mani cally enwound over for having as they were by Shockabilly. pla�e� handicap license plates, or says a long �hank You oeen . lou gave to countless people 's official handicap parking permit are If you think that your aesthetic sense authorized to park in reserved handi lives some authentic fun-filled times, and what more could a danceband do ? can stomach it, Red urges you to get cap spaces. and listen to �ne of their many tapes Now for Red 's Predi ctions : drummer or records . The music on them is You may receive a helpful brochure Ken Callahan will quickly become a harsh, ugly--but real , all the same . describing t�e enforcement program and magnate of the battery-world, raking t�e proper di�play of handicap parking ***Spe made of in millions before he 's thirty with· cial note should also be s�gns by calling or writing to the exclusive sessions and his own line of Nameless Dread 's opening stint for City Cl erk's Off�?e, Bloomington City Sho ckabilly , which to everyone 's Hall , 109 East Olive St. , Bl oomington skins ; toge+.her or apart , Joe Adducci ' and Chris Grigoroff will astound surprise was dynamic and even appealing . IL The City of They seemed to have progressed! Are Bloom�ngton61?01, 828-7) 61. the musical world with a radi cal encourages everyone to these nihilistic, gloom7punk bleak help improve synthesis of country , blues, and accessibil ity for our speakers becoming artistic and worthy· handicapped reggae that will break all rules ; citizens. of praise and blame ? Their April 6 gig D�nn�s Willan will end up recording his Jazz for Blue No�e with an would say a resounding "Yes! " but to accomplished combo around him; Mike Red 's ears , at least, the boys are Goodrich will take his folksongs to nothing without Diane P. 's input , a �Ye. and be the next Bob Dylan ; and fact painfully illustrated in their in its own, absurd way , life will tedious usurption of the April 2J GEORGE F. TASEFF probably go on. Peace and love , da -da-da pro ceedings . But that was everyone . another gig you probably mi ssed. AT TORNEY AT LA'v./ And like this column , it 's now hi story.. elcSe;f/eJtdp� . wifA ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ****** ***Red urges you to get out and support Mr/pAru w m"/ ifriol Peace and love in their twisted the local music scenQ , There 's no thing modern forms are the sub ject of quite like witnessing history , and M/& 0Jv.ii 0U.Jrr/ � Eugene Chadbourne 's songs , wh ich he good mus ic speaks to , edifies your soul . Furthermore , it won't exist if 503 E. Empire, BlCftjjJMoomington, IL 6/70/, 82 7-6528 and Shockabilly displayed in all of the ir decadent splendor April 6 at the you won't support it. Galery--a show that , though partly sponsored by the Post, drew surpris Stay real . Keep ro cking . ingly few Amerikans . And see you at the scenes . From his first song , a Charle s Man --Red Newton Alllerlcan son anthem entitled "How Can You Kill 'r·A hilarious cartoon histol"} Orea• of the good old By Estelle Carol.RhodaU. Gro55manS.A. and Bf}b Simpson $6.95 - ...... _. _.. _ .. - - - - FREE SUBSCRIPTION 2, Box 136A Little Free Press56443 Rt, Cushing, MNbe I wish . to on your free mailing list to receive the Little Free Press. I I a�-ree to make, at least, two copie� of each issue receive and give them to thinking people. Name ...... Post-Amerikan June-July, 1985 page 18 Vicious police clubbing ISU student acquitted i:n Steve Kreutz testified that he and his The first trial of charges emerging girlfriend , Jamie Bourzak , had been Another cop closed in . This cop from last fall's beer riot lal at tr fiISU wasrs t beer ri:ot hanging around the ISU quad for a wrapped a club aro und Steve 's chest. he ld April 29 . ISU student Stephen whi le, just wa tching what was going Then more cops came and took Steve to Kreutz was found not gui lty of mob on . the ground . action and resisting a peace officer . Three or four cops It seemed like there wasn 't much to had Steve on the Testimony revealed that Kreutz ground , face down was the see any more . , arms behind his victim of an unprovoked and vi cious back . Steve saw a cop swing a club at beating by po lice . him . He fe lt Four witnesses A few hundred students were mi lli ng a club strike his knees said they saw Kreutz forced four or five tim to the around . Police formed vague lines and es . He also got hit ground and surrounded in the face . by club-swinging advanced for short period s of time , riot-helmeted pol ice officers . then stopped . Jamie testified that a cop wa s Kreutz rece kneeling on ived hospita l treatment for Pol ice claimed that they were marching Steve 's back while injuries sust swinging a cl ained during his arrest. in textbook-perfect "cordon lines ," ub at his knees . with officers spaced about two feet Kreutz 's arrest occurred When po lice final about 2:30 apart . Police claimed they were ly let St eve up , Jamie testified , a.m. , after a long evening of "sweeping " the quad to push students he was bleeding from confrontations his left eye . Jamie between angry ISU toward the northwest corner . 's foot was students and Norma l police . bleeding , too , because she got kicked or stomped by But Kreutz and other defense witnesses police as they we re Although they were forcing Steve to unorganized and testified that the police were spaced the ground . there were sporadic instances of at least 10 feet apart , and sometimes po lice excess , the cops were It wasn 't as much as thirty feet apart. None of until three hours later , relatively restrain Steve tes ed during most of the defense witnesses hea�d po lice tified , that he was even told the evening . w�at issue any orders to disperse . he was arrested for . The bulk of the Judge DeCardy crowd dispersed aro und Kreutz testified that he and Jamie dismissed the charge of 1 a.m. , after po lice tear- mob action gassed a decided to leave . She wanted Kreutz after hearing the large crowd of student prosecution s at Norma l City to wa lk her to Wa tterson Towers , where 's evidence . After hearing Ha ll. four defense she lived . That meant wa lking through witnesses , DeCardy acquitted Kreutz the police "line." of resisting a peace When mo st of the crowd went home , so officer. did the news reporters . Kreutz said everything was "settled "This trial down " as he and Jamie started to should never have taken TV cameramen weren 't place at all ," around any more leave . Neither the cops nor the defense attorney George when small gr Taseff said . oups of students began to students were moving in any particular "The po lice are the ones re-group around 2 a.m. who should have But Norma l direction . been put on trial ." police were gathering reinforcements . They were also ready And that just might happen . Taseff for revenge . Kreutz and Jamie walked together said he might file a suit jn federal toward a large gap in the po lice Ac court , charg cording to testimony at the trial , "line." Jamie told one cop that Steve ing the arresting officers Normal with brutalit po lice were assisted by wa s going to wa lk her home . That cop y and violation of reinforcements from Stephen Kreu tz 's ISU Security , made no response . constitutional Bloomington po lice , McLean County rights . Sheriff 's Departm ent , and the Illinois But another cop ran up and hit Steve State Police . in the chest with a riot baton . Jamie --Mark Silverstein backed up a bit from the impact . City pays_ out $15,000 fo r. illegal p_o·lice s_hooting neighbor 's La brador retriever . He got In March , 1983 Bloomington police for selling railroad ties that didn't a 30-day suspension . Shooting an detective Char�li e Crowe shot an be l ong to him. Ator got four years innocent Labrador retriever is much unarmed fleeing suspect at Eastland and a shattered heel. Now , he 'll get more serious than shooting a Mal l. $15 , 000 to drop his lawsuit. criminal.) The shooting was a violation of Crowe got a three-day suspension . The $15,000 settlement seems to b� a Illinois law. (In 1977, Bloomington patrolman good deal for the City of Bloomington . Crowe shot David Ator , who was wanted Wi lliam Rusk shot his next-door The last time the City had to buy off a lawsuit stemming from an un justified police shooting , Bloomington ha d to shell out over $600,000. That paid for Patrolman Tom Sanders shooting .,,- . . . Charles Va squez at the Regal 8 Motel • JferGs • syu.es vegetafies• in 1980. Sanders didn 't get any Yr'ults jJurs disciplinary action , but the City probably had to pay so much money ( because the man Sanders shot was innocent and because he suffers permanent brain damage . Although Charlie Crowe could have been charged with attempted murder for shooting David Ator , at least Crowe had the sense to shoot at a criminal . That saved the City some money, and :an saved Crowe from suffering any serious repercussions . FOODS - As State 's Attorney Ron Do zier said when he decl ined to prosecute Crowe , NAnJRAL "David Ator is the crimina l here , not Officer Crowe ." 516 N. Main St. --Mark Silverstein IIL 61701 TR'I IN[; To MtT M'-1 Bloomington, FACE Common Ground has a wide selection of wholesome foods, FIST W:JTH YE� natural body care products, vitamin and mineral sup E'H? THAT'� ffGGRAV- plements, and books for organic cooking and hea lthy A'TE]) • v �A�TERY, ing many foods in bulk, Common Ground reduces '1''l .. Bloom:lOgton pays out $4500 for police brutallty LEFT : Six months after police yanked out a clump of his hair, Rick Mann still had a bald spot . (198J phot ) o In 1977 , Ru sk got angry because hi s The City of Bloomington has ag�eed to · also served as the fami ly puppies ' toy pood le had been kil led by his next a $4500 out-of-court settlemerit of a bathroom . door neighbor 's Labrador retriever . two-year-old civi l rig�ts sui� . Ricky Mann and both cops _were covered Ru�k retaliated . He went into the neighbor 's yaDd and shot .the Labrador .:' The suit, filed by Ricky Mann , charged with dogsh*t . as it sat on a second floor bal cony that Bloomington po lice officers just outs ide the neighbor 's bedroom . ;'. William .Ru sk and Michae l Fazio The dogsh*t made the cops even The bullet trave led inside the bedroom . violated Mann 's constitutional rights angrier . They took it out on Ricky Mann . and lodged in a chair . Rusk •s angry - �hen �hey arrested him in January , By the time the scuffle with impulsive shooting could have got . ,1983 at his Bloomington h.ome . po lice wa s over , Ricky Mann had · lost a someone kil led tooth . He 'd been choked , kicked , and / 1,Pol ice charged Mann with aggravated had a clump of hair yanked out �f h. is Rusk received a 30�day suspen sion for �battery and resisting a peace .officer , h�ad . shooting the dog . (That 's 10 times as f.�but he was found riot guilty in .a jury w long as the 3-day suspension Officer - :• r ,. , �t}!JiJ -';; ;· C,- .; ···;c .. :-;·s�'.; i"<";.·�·;;,,; i•·nc•C"l+l.i"'•·•.-l'lCl-'7Cl"l'• l -�· :er owe received for shoot±rrg an· unarmed · ·-.· , ·'su spect i,n 1983. at Eastrand Mall �- But {,For; full . accqun-i:: of the incfd.ent, ; spent over a. month iri jail because he' a . �� a Labrador is a pre�ty valuable dog.) $ee /' <::ops punc'n , choke , kick Ricky _c��oul�r'�dn��f�'t apo ��sti��, ba��il ;�. ����1For :�the�'� first few '.; f>'rann ," i_n the August 1983 issue of the days in jail� pol i�� wouldn 't give :Post-Amerikan .) Mann a change of clothes . They wanted . Frivolous lawsuit? him to �ear th,- e dogsh*t covered Police were originally called to clothes . Mann 's home by Brenda Kirkwood , who Med ia ieports of the settlement 'Shoot next time'-· Rusk lived with Man�. She wanted him obt , . conveyed the notion that Ricky Mann 's but police couldn 't help -her--it was lawsuit was frivolou�. These reports quoted Bloomihgton Corporation Coun�el ' his house too� Then police discovered The cop� - had some minor injuries , too , an old warrant (for a Peoria· The injury report fil le.d out by David Stanczak , who claimed that the misdemeanor wh ich had been forgotten) Officer Bill Rusk reveal s some of the $4500 represented on ly the lawsuit's "nuisance value ." In other words , and used it as an excuse to remove officer 's attitude about the incident . Stanczak was claiming that charges Mann from.the house. A section of the on-the-job injury against the police officer didn' t ·really .have any merit,, )Jut that paying Brenda didn 't want Ricky arr'ested�- she report asks the officers what steps out $4500' was cheaper than taking the just wanted him out . She beg'an could be taken to prevent a re occurrence of the injury. case to court . arguing with the po lice . The poi ice , · who 'd been there to help Brendi=!_, got Here 's what the reporters didn 't frustrated . Then th�y got angry . Rusk wrot� "shoot ." mention : 'Bitch' Officer Rusk 's proposal for how to .hand le similar situations in the In June , 1983 , a McLean County jury, heard both police officers te�tify. According to Ricky Mann , Officer Rusk future should have raised the eyebrows They· also heard Ricky Mann 's ca lled Brenda a "bitch ." Ricky , who of supervisory .officers . (But probably didn't�) testimony: . says he was already cuffed , turned · around angrily in response . At that The jury believed Ricky Mann . He was point, Ricky said , Officer Rusk Rusk 's suggestion that he shou ld shoot acquitted of aggravated battery . The punched him in the mouth . next ti�e was probably riot a serious proposal--just an expression of his State 's Attorney dropped the resisting anger' at the moment . But Rusk has had arrest charge . (The Peoria , as the Everything went out of control previous trouble for. acting on an misdemeanor , which produced the argument escalated into physical . 'angry impul se to shoot his gun . outdated warrant which was the struggle. Most of the scuffle took supposed "reason" for Mann 's arrest, plac� on a small enclosed porch which had been dropped long before .) A jury acquitted .Ma·nn . That means a McLean County jury thought there was no reason for Ricky Mann to have spent over a month in jail. There was no reason for him to have lost a ,tooth , to have a permanent bald spot , to have .a messed-up back. There was no reason for him to have suffered the indignity of sitting in jail for days in clothes \steamy covered with dogsh*t . C�ps to wallow4 in A McLean County jury be·J. ieved the word mucky beds of sl,ippery sludge of a black man instead of the testimony of two white police According to an April 24 article in A Sanitary District official , quoted officers. Why didn 't the Pantagraph the Pantagraph , the Bloomington Pol ice in the Pantagraph , said "I'd hate to and WJBC include this in their reports Department wants _to use some of the be an officer ih the middle of August on the suit 's settlement� instead of Sanitary District 's sludge-drying beds shooting a .38 in a sludge field ." givlng David Stansczak a publ•ic forum as a shooting range . imate criticisms Bloomington Pol ice Chief Lewis Devault to be little the legit lawsuit raises about the conduct The sludge--wh,ich is the material said that some changes could be made the Bloomington police force? remaining after raw sewage is treated to the drying sludg� beds "to avoid of the and dried--winds up as fertilizer� unpleasant odors as much as possible." . l ' --Mark Silverstein . I . WCi!y, Sti"d8s I In March , the Post Am rikan published excerpted from th� au1 dit itself, bona fide director actually several articles expo�sing some shoddy listing allby of the people the is specifi9ally hired for the job, left Y TowY nship board administrative practices at the YWCA , � laiming were directors of CDSV , in November , Rhonda Phipps again took parent agency to CDSV (Countering suppo�ted by the audit's checking of over . Once again there wa s an Domestic and Sexual Vio'lence). files . So far as the Post could overlap, this time of four days , even determine , none of these women were _though pr�sumab ly Phipps was already The allegations inc luded asked if they were aware of having trained in the position . / misappropriation of funds , centering been director . on the director 's position at CDSV , The audit further states that Rhonda which is funded by rev�nue-sharing Discre pancies Phippi' duties changed noticeably when mo�ey from Bloomington Township. she started her position of client Look closely. You will see that Sara services coordinator and left her After Mary Kay Ward , director of CDSV Crew wa s director for one day in May , acting director position in September . until July, 1984 , vacated the and four hours in June . How�ver , the auditdrs "did not observe position , the organization went a noticeab le change back to her thr-ough a series of part-time , .so-. Four hours? You can 't even direct previous duties during November when ca lled directors, supervised by traffic in only four hours, Ms . ·Phipps tem pqrarily served again as Jackie Macy , director of the YWCA , and Supervise , yes . Direct , no . acting director ." her assistant, Pam Schubach . . According. to several staffers, Pam A li ttle work on our ca lculator and. we Power· behind the throne Schubach was running CDSV during this see that all of the people who se time , although she wa s receiving a actua l hours were listed received · only According to Eve Reedy-Andres , a full salary for her YWCA position . $4.00 an hour base pay . No wonder former empl oyee of CDSV , she received they couldn.' t find �r keep a a written memo from Pam Schubach in CDSV staffers also reported the consistent director . August statirig that Schubach was now openinq of client, mail , underpaying in charge of running CDSV . staff and break i i According to the audit , Rhonda ing confident a i ty; . they blamed these practices on Jack ie Phipps ' first two weeks as director Now , though , despite the memo Eve Macy and Pam Schubach . overlap Donna Charry 's last two weeks received and the statements of former as director (7/16-7/31) . Both women staff , Pam Schubach se�ms to have had In vestigation or dered were paid from the money al lotted. to nothing to do with CDSV , at least the director 's position r khonda w�s according to the. audit. Schubacih is Township Maxine Schultz , Bloomington. present for al l her work days , and listed as � sub for the senior � Supervisor , ordered an inve tigation Donna worked 75 .75 hours during those services position and as sub for the into the whereabouts of the money fifteen days . Advocacy director , both also · Township was giving to the Y for the inappropriate funding moves , but she CDSV position and two others (in the The Y needed this time to make an is not , ·in the audit, connected with i Senior Service Program) . The YWCA effective transition , according to the CDSV . Instead , there is the list of appeared to have fa lsely claimed audit. However , when Lori Lubbs , a part-time short term so-called people as direcor and included parts of Pam Schubach '$ salary in accounting for the funds for several positions , including, at one time , the director of CDSV . The resulti ng .�udit is in , �nd it deals Diesel' Dick's with exactly two of th� pertinent * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * issues mentioned. above ; It does not COMPLETE deal with or even mention the other AUTOMO TIVE problems , such as the poor treatment ··� * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * of volunteers , the resulting lack of . trained vo luntee� s, the number of 8f' WE SPECIALIZE . people .with access to the shelter , the TRUCK difficulties workers .had wi th Y staff , SER VICE and the inadequate treatment of IN GM DIESEL clients . The investigation wa s not ***************** an open investigation but· an audit for the specific purpose of determining CAR REPAIR FOREIGN how the Y spent revenue sharing -funds . * * * * * * * * * * * * .• * * * * 8f' DOMES TIC CDSV has not had a lasting director since Mary Kay Ward left last summer , **************•*** so the auditors had to find a way to DIESEL de'termine wh ich of th_e employees was GAS and "director" and when . So , they compated the log of activities each t * * * * * * * * * * * *· * * * * * * employee had fi l led out for each day and compared those activities with the duties in the director 's job 508 N. MADISON 9:00-5:30 828-1714 description . The accompanying box is CHS runni ng �/ -EQUAL CDSV pagers One resul t_of the CDSV/YWCA inve·s"" OPPORTUNITY tigation is that CDSV no longer has its own 24 hour pager system. . According to Alan Spear, director of Center for Human Services, PATH had lost confidence in their ability to IN·HOUSING reach CDSV people consistently. After talking to . Jackie Macy about priorities for cnsv , the lack of volunteers , and the difficulty of . training new ones in the middle of you feel1s "you·· vohave ·beenuR RIGhousHTing ! treated the crisis, Alan offered to plug or CDSV 's 24 hour emergency response fairly because . of your radece,nied 'Co lor, rel igion, sex, into CHS 's exi sting emergency res unIf ponse , the Emergency Crisis Inter in, ancestry or mental vention team. nationa l orig ·•. qr handicap, contact the physic:a1 Spear says that the crisis team will not presume that CDSV clients have mental health problems , and that it was too expensive to maintain CDSV 's ·.,. pager system wheri it could be incor Bloomington Human porated into the crisis team. The crisis team will , says Spear , refer CDSV clients either to the shelter or a volunteer as soon as they Relations Com-mission ascertain which is more appropriate.· Former staffers, of CDSV have ex� , at pressed concern that crisis team personnel , trained to deal with the . · suicidal , homocidal , or psychotic . ·· 736.1, -- ·21:ai: person, might not deal appropriately. 828· Ext·� 2·t;I with victims of battery and abuse . . Alan Spear seemed to feel that would. Human is� no t be a problem. Th e 8/(:>omlngton Relations·,Co mmission tq assist to help. "� '--Chris M. . here 'and Post-Amerikan June-July, 19.85 page 21 _ CDSV Director Mary Kay Ward 7/ 1/83 - 5/23/84 $12, 554.38 $1,4 ; 431 . 660..) Sara Crew Paperwork •· 5/28 ..,. 10.5 hr 42.oo 47.59 I.ori Arnold * Jme(var) - 34.5 hr 139.0Q 157.49 carolyn Briggs * June(var)- 65.2 5.hr .261.00 295.71 taThe invekistinggation intopr CDSioV'srit y D'.:ntla Ciarry * June (var ) - 47 hr 188.00 213.01 Sara Crew mismanagement centers on ly on t.h e * June-(var) - 4 hr. 16.00 18.14 financial aspects , which .is $13, 200.38 $1 5, 163.60 unfortunate , since financial juggling seems to,be the lea�t of�the agenc y 's problems. The very fact that YWCA CDSV Program Director director Jackie Macy can '.t keep a director CDSV I:ama Ciarry * 7/2 - 7/31/84 - 131 hr 524.00 593.68 in the po sition� the extreme attrit ROOnda Rtlpps 7/16 - 9/15/84 1, 551.30 1, 764.65. icin .rate in the volunteer ranks, I.ori Lubbs 9/16 - 11/21/84 2, 548.72 2, 897.08 and the fact that so ROOnda Rtli;ips 11/16 - 11/30/84 41 6.6 7 474.42 many st�ffers and clients had serious comp Ih>nda Ihipps 12/1 - 12/15/84 416.67 474.44 laints about lack of confidenti Jaime Foley Dec - 6 days 276.96 31 6.1 5 ality, mismanagement, and poor :Rhonda Ihipps 12/16 - 12/31/84 400.50 453.79 treatment of sta ff, voiun teers Jaime Foley 1/1 - 1/31/85 907.68 1, 022.12 and clients indicates ciearly that CDSV :Eh>nda Ihipps 1/22, 23 76.92 88.76 -has some major difficulties providing services . Jaim� Foley 2/1 2/28/85 (3) 1, 184. 64 1, 335.63 :Eh>nda Ihi pps 3/1 - 3/31/85 87 6.94 987.58 � In the light of these problems , an $ 9, 181.00 $1 0, 408.30 audit instead of an open investigaticm seems inappropriate . Somehow , the paperwork has become mcire important than the client . Even the possible directors. funds unspent . Maxine Schultz .solutions have been expressed in terms recommended to the Township Board that of the money involved : Alan Spear , Cover ed tracks the YWCA not be allowed to claim parts director of the Center of Human of Pam Schubach 's salary as being Services (CHS) ship t suggested they According to information from �own township funded , and that the agency increase the salary of the director 's supervisor Maxine Schult_?, Y direc;: tor be al lowed to keep the excess fund s position to attract more �ualified Jackie Macy claimed that Carol Bri�gs but that those funds be deducted from personnel. CHS is now running received the director 's salary during the th� amount of next year 's funding . CDSV pager program to save the fi�st two weeks of July, 1984. money and time . The Township Board gave Macy But Carol Briggs to ld the Post si ons? . R�percus her regular funding plus the Amerikan that she frad never been paid excess money she hadn 't spent this the �irector 's salary, and that she year, 'l' he board didn 't even go that fa.r . evidently omington so she can use this extra hadn 't even been livi:qg in Bl They all owed the Yto include Pam money to fix the mess the scandal Norma l after July 1, 1984. Schubach 's money (saying , "now , don't caused and buy herself a new director . do it. againi ") , allowed the Y to keep According to the audit , however , Carol the excess funds , and gave the y their Now , money is great , and Bri gs was director in June , not July . I won 't argue g fu 11. funding for the next·· year . that everyone surely need� Evidently it occurred to Macy to make some in this society , but it won 't do sure the people she had l{sted were in Now , even tbis audit that 's attempting everithing . It won 't close il town on the specified dates . legally to pass for a full investigation .,opened mail, it won 't bring back (unsuccessful ly, I· might add) shows· alienated volunteers ,· It aid not , however , occur to the it won 't bµilc;l . enough "inappropriate" and even the trust of the shelter res auditors to ca ll Ca rol Briggs, or , so idents, "illegal" (to quote Mayor Jesse Smart) and it won 't calm a woman who f.a r as we know , any of the .ot,her has been , actions to merit some repercussions . systematically beaten former sta ff listed as di rec:tor•, anu by her husband� Instead , the boar� took no action on ask them if they had received the this evidence and ignored complete ly People are what social services are director 's salary on the dates listed . other crucial matters concerning the about , and there 's something very agency 's conduct. Jackie Macy didn 't wrong when mismanagement of funds is The final result of this all even g�t het wrist �lapped . more important than mal treatment of maneuvering is that the Y managed �o the people the agency i� . supposed to · have nearly $2, 000 of revenue-sharing --Chris M. be hel ping . Ii·��> � ?n� t;/�cvncf� d1'l. _,(p..hq- w¢f.A.. � t.(/ 11.AJ.� .. •• • '/E S 'Lw€NT To 13E {)JITH THUYJ_...,.ALL EJG. HTEEN OF !HEIYI AN O £Vf_NTH E TE.t!IY) /YlA5CoT WAS I (YlORE OF A /YIAN THAN '°"\ page 22 Comix Post-Amerikan June-July, . 1985 Cable --SNIFF!-- Twrs CA.�E SMELLS WDRSE.--5N IFF!-- TH AN A [DkE)>·\JP GR122LV AbAM�! on TV Gay s. ' "Silent Pionee�s" is an outstanding PBS donothcumentary on oldeerr lesbia ·sn and uperb . gay folks . It will be presented ga· y c.. u·m· .e· · n·· tary nationally in late June. .· d·o· In direct, warm, .and revealing profiles, "Silent Pioneers "· treats the executive producer , to Harvey its audience to the interviewees ' own There are al so the more conventional tales: Gean Harwood and Bruhs Mero Marks, who was producing "The AIDS stories, confirming a lot of those Show" in New York. long-standing "suspicions " a.bout tell about their life together for the affection bachelor uncles and old-maid aunt s we 54 years , snowing all and irritation of any old married all know. They were getting together, Intere couple who has been li�ing together stingly, Marks says "Silent all right , although .some were also Pioneers " did no t have as hard a time · that long . battling for self•esteem, usually in getting funded as did mo st other gay isolation. The chief emphasis of the "Silent Pioneers" was first and political do cumentaries (although documentary, however, is on their all independent films are difficult We learn they lead conceived by a riongay woman , Pat lives today. to fund ). In their 2-b-year quest to fulfilling and complex lives, just Snyder .of WNET in Ne':" York Sh� approached SAGE (Senior Action in get the film made , the filmmakers like other real human beings •. a 'Gay Environment), which stipulated found that people generally don't •. that a gay production team be perceive the elderly as either sexual Well , not quite like everybody else: · o� ed. For her director, Snyder political--thus , po tential backers we get the sense of a renegade spirit involv did had done not regard senior gays as a stirring within these lovable souls, turned to Lucy Winer (who D.G. " threatening film .. topic . But the men an itch that caused several of them, "Greetings from Washington, , the documentary about · th.e March on '. and women in this film are both late in life , to come to terms with · · Washington several years . ago ) .and fo·r pol�tical and sexual , tho�h in less their sexual identity come hell or q_bvious ways . high water. For instanc e, there 's a robust 84-:'year-old cowboy trooping Compared with the immensely enter around his Tucson ranch , telling us taining ''Before Stonewall "--a An swers -puzzle, p. how he came out at the age of 72 .and to 24 documentary wh ich covers some .of .the sharing his enthusiasm at this same ground-- "Silent Pioneers" takes . blessed realization. a mo re· individual approach . "Before Stonewall " presents rare footage of the early gay-rights movement ; "Silent Pioneers" offers fascinating profiles of individuals who lived their lives as lesbians and_ gay men. 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LIM IT ON£ PER CUSTOMER PER NIGHT Fri. 14- -ODD MAN OUT Fri. 28 SERVICE Sat 2 9 OLD \JAVE Post-Amerika·n June-July, 1985 page 23 Onward Christian Soldiers or, If I had a hammer, I'd hammer. the west side · Beware westsiders--the good eastside Century 21 real estate office and westside down while pumping away at Christians are on the rampage, and may Habitat 's "site selection" chair , new development on the east . And be invading your neighborhood soon. asked the City to pay for water and maybe those good Christians wo Uld have sewer connections to the vacant lots, to look at their own emp loyers, A few months ago , a group of' the and to remove the fo undation and fill businesses, and methods of operating , Jewish carpenter's followers were in the hole on Magoun after Habitat to see if their Monday-Friday inspired by an idea right out of' the moves their new house away . activities are the reason why they Georgia bible belt, "Habitat for have to come do Sunday work on th-e Humanity, " in wh ich the white middle In their memo approving the action, westside. class, armed with the Protestant work the City Manager noted that both lots ethic, go es to the poor , and builds and the house have been on the market -at a fair pr ice, and- at that rate, no · them a new house. Sounds· like heaven , right? one wanted them--including Habitat . 0 Habitat ' s letter to the City calleq ..:;;:. � Now it' s not easy writing an article CJ:;;::� attacking a wonderful idea like this , . on them to "provide ·a decent house in a decent community for God 's people I but I have a few problems with th e c:J�;;:::!!:=;;="'=� way "habitat" is operating . in need. " If' next month the Nation 01--�=� of' Islam appears before the City c:J� First, they don 't really seem too Council , asking for vacant houses at OU concerned about the people that they $1 a head to "provide decent houses o==1'....., want to build houses for. They in a decent community for Allah ' s haven •,t come to the westside and gone people in heed, " will Bloomington's door to door, asking people "what do City Council be so generous? · you need?" Good housing might be one Or if' your average low-income west response, but jobs and other sider walks into City Hall, showing priorities might be others . the necessary financial backing to The habitat folks, though , are no t rehab or build a home , will the . talkers , they 're do ers. And ever City sell that individual vacant property for a measly buck? since this idea has seized them, Plus westsiders should have some they 0ve been determined to build a control Now if' this sal e signals a over this process taking place house, regardl ess of' the consequences. $1 compl ete change of' heart and head in their neighborhood. Why should in the City' s Urban Development Century 21 and David Ashbrook be The mo st upsetting tactic they 've used . Department , three cheers for Habitat deciding the "site" for this is involving yo ur tax dollars to development, why no t the folks who But if' it's just ano ther exampl e of •. complete their Christian charity . F or influential east-side churchgo ers might be living in it, and the they want you--the taxpayers--to foot · ' being able to wield their power at . neighbors around them? That s the bill for the. property they 're dan erous City Hall, all for the good intention 9 though , because they might' acquiring . of' inflicting their charity on the decide they0d like to live next to westside, then it's just plain ol ' David Ashbrook instead of at the On Tuesday night , May 28, the Bl oom Christian hypo crisy . corner of Euclid and Weldon, and then ington City Counc il "sold" habitat two 1 • we 0d really have a mess.• , lots and a -vacant house, for the high It will be nice if' the Habitat folks price of' Habitat might a go od idea9 but $1 . · can build someone a home, or fix up be an abandoned one . But it would .be let's not get caught into false The house, at 128 Magoun, will have to even better if' they would spend a mystical ·images that "all god 's be moved to . make way for the. new west children are going to be one." They ·Oakland bridge.. The two lots,. onE! on little more . time finding out why one hal f of town needs housing, while won 't be , at least not while one Euclid , the other on Weldon; are half is presently vacant . "housing needs" on the .. other side of of town rich eno ugh to be able to town means .not enough available homes "do charity" on· the other · This is much less than Habitat in .the category . half. 1 $100, 000+ originally asked fo r. In their If they took � little time to look at original proposal to City Hall, David how real estate markets, landlords, --a buddhist for allah Ashbrook, local operator of' the _banks, and other interests keep the • • guerilla 1 n ElOn Ap ri l 6th,Sa Dr . Guillelvadorno Ungo of accer pts the idea of a national.ized intensifiChed war efifocart which gocould the FMLN-FDR addressed a Round Table conflict, but wants international include u.s. ground troops . Conference of CISPES members in observers as well as a. moratorium Chicago . His presentation focused on arms flow from the U.S. The The focus of the Reagan Administra on the negotiations between President FMLN-FDR also supports the Contadora tion has been Nicaragua. President Du�te ahd the FMLN-FDR . Humaniza...., peace process {this is a group of Reagan places the responsibility for tion and nationalization of the con countries in the region who have that war in El Salvador on the flict, the status of the civil war , joined togethe;r to act as intermedi Sandinistas. During his campaign , i the U.S. strategy and the recent aries. for a neg.otiated settlement in . President Reagan pra sed the talks El Salvadoran elections were among El Salvador and Nicaragua.) Dr . Ungo .between Duarte and the FMLN-FDR in the top ics he covered. thinks the ;Like.lihood of a national La Palma. The State Dept ., however, ized .conflict very slim; as the aid opposed the talks. Duarte informed · .According to Dr. Ungo , the position proposal now pending in Congress the State Dept. of his decision to of the FMLN-FDR regarding the talks could escalate u.s. aid to $2 billion. hold the La Palma talks just days before his speech to the is to achieve results through negotia · United Dr . Ungo stated that El Salvador 's Nations . .tions · and to re ach a conunon ground . Present Duarte , however, refers to army is making progress in the rural El Salvador as a "working democracy" areas primarily due to the intensified During the question and answer period, in which substa ntial progress has training by u.s. advisors. However, Dr . Ungo addressed the question of e been made towards an end to the con th FMLN-FDR is making progress in the FMLN-FDR 's position on the elec flict. Du arte , there.fore, does not the .urban ' areas "The trade unions tions, but we could not reach a pursue the cllegotiations as seriously are l:)ecominS( more•. committed , " he said. consensus. "We did see the. low turn as the FMLN-FDR . The ·FMLNis · still keep ing the army on out as a victory1" ,he ;said. Of the the defensiv� and the. casualities El Salvadoran gove� nt 's claim of are rising on both sides. The army hn,ie Duarte is calling for a humanization 2. 7 million poss:f.bJ_e vote;rs., only 1 of the war which would include app ly has new problems . There are rumors million went to the pplls. "The ing the Geneva Convention 's rules that El - Salvador has begun a COlllJ?Ul : �gpulation in El salva,�or, " said Ungo , a . on . warfare . He proposes an end to sory draft th t is af:.Eecting the upper l.S over 5 million. " · sabotage and kidnapping. The FMLN class families . It was obvious to Dr. , t t FDR agree to .'this, provided that they Ungo ha American intervention, :. To conclude , n;- ;, Ungo �b�t�d the ; that traininc;r. and supplies. make .short-term o:Verall ob ject �e s of the\��N-FDR achieve formal recogn;i.tion � ' f victory fo;r . t.he the aj:e to fight i tervention d to use there is an exchange o prisoners; . ' · FMLN out .of i . · e # � and that there are guarantees of ·quest on m ans such as:talks and negC>..tiations o safety for civilian, hospital and t end the Co nflict. ungo �b;anked o f: e:" refugee areas . The problems the Salvad ran army is th� . m� :r:;s g . C:CSI>ES. fgr . t,h ir help urt enco teringintre waX' are ht.iman, and; contribution . to th� .. struggle 'a:nd Dr . Ungo explained that Du arte .calls not technical;. El. Salvador has asked .that . meI!lbers continue to r for a national ization of the conflic t p obably the ·mc>st up-to-date equip oppose .TJ.s. intervention in El to prevent it from becoming an East ment in Latin America, but cannot Sa,lvador·. - defeat the FMLN . ,Dr . Ungo. stressed · West conflict. However, Duarte uses this position to. reject inte:i;-na:.. that the over· all strategy of the --Pat Campbell & Jim PancraZio ·tional observers. The FMLN;...FDR Reagan Administration calls for an , @• �•@•@•� 9• � �. -.. �· �·� �· "' , 0 . . ti! . . . . . ··.· rt 1 ·. . c.. ' ;i..1 •© OkaJ1 Darit s ha.r78. e 9aur eraccwar56. Signald .pforuz hezlelp. (1) Across Valley . talk "most" . ti 80. ·Musical notef;;�. sa. What Jackie. Macy was in after I-'· sh� read the Post' s,article . � • 81. Professional Golfers ' Asso- · Ill @ . ciation . 59 � The size of Reagiin 's brain ::i · · 60. Trust your analyst (initials). 83. Wha t the sign on the restroom • 61. 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