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The Post Amerikan· is an independent community newspaper providing infor-.< In this issue mation and analysis that is screened out of or downplayed by establishment news sources. We are a non-profit, worker-run collective that exists as Page an alternative to the corporate media. Decisions are made collectively by 3 READING SKILLS DISCONNECTED AT GEN TEL ·staff members at our regular meetings. More phone problems for Phoebe We.put out ten issues a year. Staff 4-6 COURT'S RULING MEANS BIG CHANGES FOR BLOOMINGTON POLICE Cops must learn to hold their fire; plus a history members take turns as "coordinator." of shootings by Bloomington cops All writing, typing, editing, photo­ graphy, graphics, paste-up, and dis­ 7 GAYS CONVENE IN MADISON tribution are done on a volunteer "Strengthening our ties" theme of gay student gathering basis. You are invited to volunteer your talents. 8-9 MUSIC REVIEWS Shockabilly coming to town; plus That Hope review and more Most of our material .and inspiration 10-11 TO BE OR NOT TO BE: DON'T LOSE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE for material comes from the community •. Interviews with five women who faced problem pregnancies The Post Amerikan welcomes stories, and survived graphics, photos, and news tips from our readers. If you'd like to join us 12 ABORTION TERRORISM call 828-7232 and leave a message on Two wrongs don't make a right to life our answering machine. We will get back to you as soon as we can. 13 ART AND MUSIC FOR THE RAPE CRISIS CENTER Jazz and lithographs help support RCC W7 ~ike to print your letters. Try to ·l~m~t yourself to the equivalent of 14-15 LIFE IN THE ELECTRONIC FACTORY A look at the Pantagraph classified's sweat shop two double-spaced typewritten pages. If you write a short, abusive letter, 16-17 MISCELLANEOUS OUTRAGES it's likely to get in print. Long, abusive letters, however are not 18-19 WHEN THE FALCON FLEH, THE FUZZ FLOUNDERED likely to get printed. ~ong, bril­ What happened to the Falcon after the movie ended liantly written, non-abusive letters may, if we see fit, be printed as 20 MY SISTER, THE PUNK ROCKER articles. Be sure to ·tell us if you Letters . • •..• p. 19 Community Ne\..rs . . ••.. p. 14 don't want your letters printed.

~ ~lternative newspaper depends very d~rectly on a community of concerned ~eo~le for existence. We believe that ~t ~s very important to keep a paper like this around. If you think so too~ then support us through contri­ Post Sellers but~ons and by letting our advertisers Good numbers know you saw their ads in the Post BLOOMINGTON Amerikan. -- Amtrack station, 1200 Front Alcoholics Anonymous .•.••.••••• 828-5049 w. The deadline for submitting material The Back Porch, 402~ N. Main American Civil Liberties Union.454-1787 for the next issue is March 29. Biasi's Drugstore, 217 N. Main Clare House (Catholic Workers).828-4035 Bloomington Public Library (in front) Community for Social Action •••• 452-4867 Bus Depot, 533 N. East Connection House •...•.•.••••.•• 829-5711 Common Ground, 516 N. Main Countering Domestic Violence ••• 827-4005 D. J.'s Variety, 297 N. Main Dept. Children/Family Services.828-0022 Thanks. This issue in your hands is thanks to Front and Center Building Draft Counseling •.•.•..•..••••• 452-5046 Gay/Lesbian Info. Line ••••••••• 829-2719 Diana, Chris, Susie, Mark, J.T., X, Law and Justice Center, w. Front Bumper, Ralph, Melissa, Sue, Deborah, Lee Street (100 N.) HELP (transportation for senior Laurie H., Laurie D., Rich, N~dene, Main and Miller streets citizens, handicapped) ...•••. 828-8301 Ill. Dept. of Public Aid •.••• ~ .827-4621 Susan, Have, Gil, Kathy, Dave Medusa's Adult World, 420 N. Madison (coordinator), and probably others we Mike's Market, 1013 N. Park Ill~ Lawyer Referral ••••••• 800-252-8916 forgot to mention. Mr. Donut, 1310 E. Empire Kaleidoscope ••••••••••••••.•••• 828-7346 Nierstheimer Drugs, 1302 N. Main Metropolitan Comm. Church •••••• 829-2719 McLean Co. Health Dept ••••••••• 454-1161 Special thanks to those of you who Pantagraph (front of building), responded to our plea for funds with 301 w. Washington Mid Central Community Action •.• 829-0p9l Mobile Meals •••••.•••••••••••.• 628-8301 your generous donations and letters The Park Store, Wood & Allin of support. People's Drugs, Oakland & Morrisey McLean Co. Center for Human Red Fox, 918 w. Market Services •••••••••••••••••••• 827-5351 ··~ Susie's Cafe, 602 N. Main National Health Care. Services ...... u.s. Post Office, 1511 E. Empire (abortion assistance,Peoria}691-9073 (at exit) Nuclear Freeze Coalition ••••••• 828-4195 u.s. Post Office, Center & Monroe Occupational Pevelopment Center828-7324 Moving? Wash House, 609 N. Clinton Operation Recycle •••••••••••••• 829-0691 When you move, be sure to send us your Washington and Clinton streets Parents Anonymous •••••••••••••• 827-4005 PATH (Personal Assistance Telephone new address so your subscription gets Help) •••••••••••••.•••••.••. 827-4005 .to you. Your Post Amerikan will not NORMAL Or •••••••• ~ ••••••••••.•• B00-322-5015 be forwarded (it's like junk mail--no Alamo II, 319 North St. (in front) Phone Friends •••••••••••••••••• 827-4008 kidding!). Fill out this handy form Blue Dahlia Bookstore, 124 E. Beaufort Planned Parenthood ••••• medical.827-4014 with your new address and return it ISU University Union, 2nd floor bus/couns/educ •••••.•••••• 827-4368 to us, P. o. Box 3452, Bloomington, ISU University Union, parking lot Post Amerikan •••••••••••••••••• 828-7232 IL 61702. entrance Prairie State Legal Service •••• B27-5021 Name The Galery, 111 E. Beaufort (in front) Prairie· Alliance ••••••••••••••• 828-8249 ------Midstate Truck Plaza, u.s. 51 north Project Oz ••••••••••••••••••••• B27-0377 Street Mother Murphy's, 111~ North St. Rape Crisis Center ••••••••••••• 827-4005 ~------North & Broadway, southeast corner Sunnyside Neighborhood Center •• B27-5428 City/state/zip Record Service, Watterson Place TeleCare (senior citizens) ••••• 828-8301·· ------Redbird IGA, 310 Main s. Uneaplqyment ~omp/job aervice •• 827-6237 Upper Cut, 318 Kingsley United Farmworkera support ••••• 452-5046 White Hen Pantry, 207 Broadway UPIC ••••••••••••••••••••••.•••• 827-4026 (in front) ·····-····· .. April 1985 Post-Amerikan Page 3 Phoebe and the phone Reading skills disconnected at Gen Tel

One month recently I had a mysterious long distance call from Joan at Gen "The 2/4 payment is the January charge of some weird figure like Tel in Ohio or wherever. payment," I said, "isn't th~re also a $63.03 appear on my phone bill. 2/27 payment listed?" Thinking it a leftover from the last "I have the note that you sent here," month, a payment that hadn't caught up she announced. "What seems to be the This obscure innuendo was beyond her. with itself yet, I simply deducted it problem?" She had no idea why I would talk· about and paid the current bill. the 2/27 payment. She tried to tell "Um ... you have my note there?" I me that the 2/4 payment was for my The next month, the $63.03 still asked. service in February. I pointed out appeared on my bill, along with the that the phone company really doesn't legitimate (hah) month's charges. I "Yes, I do." bill you for four days of service. decided to go through my old bills and check stubs, find the date and payment "Well .•. ! think that explains it Still not understanding, she sighed, figures, and send a note along with my pretty well," I ventured. "Well, let me call your record up on bill saying that I had indeed already the computer terminal." paid that and please take it off my "Hm .•. well •.. let me read it," she said bills (which are close to huffily. Click, click, click. More silence. incomprehensible now anyway, as you've probably noticed from your own with As I sat and waited for her to read my She said, "Now, this matter must have its scrawny little letters and note over long distance, I thought already been resolved, because your overload of stubs to tear off) . about the phone company. I thought current account shows clear and paid about how they charge us when we won't up. n To my surprise, the problem was deeper look up telephone numbers in print. than I thought. I found all my bills How they make us feel guilty for tying Stupidly, I said, "Huh. I wonder what and check stubs for about eight months up lines when we're too lazy to use happened." back, and none of them were for the the phone book. How she could've read mystery figure. my note first and let me snicker over "Obviously, one of your payments my vicious-remarks to Montgomery Wards lagged behind in being credited to It was paranoid to think that the a bit longer. your account," she said. phone company was getting back at me for my constant and well-publicized "Everything seems to be in order With the numbed weariness that my complaints. Wasn't it? here," she said. interactions with Gen Tel inevitably engender, I gave up. I even believe I Just in case, I wrote a very polite "Yes, well, except that I have that said thank you. and charming note (gag) carefully $63.03 charge on my last two bills, describing the problem and recording and I don't know where it came from, The moral of the story is, if you have the dates and amounts of my payments because all the last six months' a problem with your bill, don't writ€ for the previous six months. Even payments are covered, as you can see an explanatory note about it, no though the mystery figure had only from my list." matter how clear, coherent, and appeared for the last two months, I convenien~ that may be. Remember, wanted to present myself as a A lengthy silence ensued, as no doubt they don't have to read: they're the confirmed and responsible bill-payer. she tried to read my note again. phone company:- Simply enclose a note that says, "Call me." Three weeks later, as I sat at my "No," she said, "there is a payment kitchen table sealing up a biting listed here on 12/28 and then one on --Phoebe Caulfield recriminatory letter to Montgomery 2/4, so there is a January payment Wards and feeling quite good, I got a missing."

Blind Vision: How the Pantagraph helped solicit prostitutes

Have you ever answered one of those It is difficult enough for single or blind employment ads--the ones that divorced women in our community to require you to send a letter and/or avoid harassment, especially difficult resume to a Pantagraph box number, not when seeking employment while trying specifying the address, phone number, to maintain some privacy. Does the or sometimes even the exact name of Pantagraph care more about protecting the business you're applying to? its advertisers than its women readers? Have you ever had your Carefully protecting the picture in the paper for a promotion, confidentiality of the classified prize, or announcement and requested advertiser, the Pantagraph has a NOT to have your address listed? Were system that keeps information about you laughed at and called paranoid? who's really advertising locked up and &IRLS! GIRLS! GIBSf Is the Pantagraph aware that even in in a separate department, so most Mayberry RFD they don't publish classified staffers don't know the ladies' addresses? advertiser's identity. If employers have job openings, why Most businesses who use these blind not be open about it? If our economy ads are motivated by the time they here is so good, then they won't be save by publicizing their positions swamped with job seekers. If they this way. They can keep applicants' are, they can use the free Job Service to sort applicants for them. mail sepa~te from other mail, and requirements. After laughing at the they won't have eager job-seekers company's suggestive name among the calling them up or showing up at the But the Pantagraph makes money pages of the Pantagraph, a "family door. assuring their confidentiality, even newspaper," one jobseeker sent along though their classified department is her resume to the box number. More subtly, the system requires that already getting rich from all those applicants be able and confident farmers going under selling their land A man then called her, identifying enough to write a letter and resume, and equipment. himself as from S & M Building, and address it, stamp it, and mail it--in asked her if she would like to make short, it screens for a certain level So, while the second oldest more money than a secretarial job profession, agriculture, may be in of middle-classness. (If you can't would pay. He invited her into the imagine someone being scared off by trouble in Central Illinois, the the prospect of producing these exciting world of prostitution. world's oldest, prostitution, seems to documents, you are hopelessly middle be thriving. class yourself.) Hanging up, the woman called the Pantagraph classified department, Isn't it nice to know this family A company called "S & M Building" which took the news calmly. They said newspaper is doing its part to serve placed a blind ad in the Pantagraph, , that her experience was "i~possible" the needs of its readers? advertising for a secretary and and that it was "all your listing the usual typing and shorthand imagination." --Jane M. Glize Page 4 Post-Amerikan April1985 Cop shooting Court's chronology changes At least four shootings by Bloomington Some highlights of the Bloomington Police Department's recent police since 1980 would not have history regarding the use of deadly force: occurred if officers had conducted themselves according to the ruling on deadly force handed down by the Supreme Court March 27. mid-1970's Chief of Police Harold Bosshardt issues General Order #11, which prohibits officers from firing warning Illinois law and BloomingtoQ police shots and firing into crowds and limits the department policy has permitted circumstances when police may fire at fleeing vehicles. officers to shoot certain unarmed suspects who are fleeing from police, April, 1978 Bloomington Police initiate shoot-out with fugitive sucb as burglars and robbers. Jimmie Barker in crowded Sunnyside playground. Under the new ruling, police can shoot April, 1978 Lewis DeVault, Assistant Chief, tells Pantagraph that only if the suspect has committed a BPD has no written use of deadly force guidelines, violent crime and will pose a threat and that there "isn't much point" in having them. of great physical harm to others if escaping, and if shooting is the only June, 1980 Bosshardt retiresr Lewis DeVault becomes Acting Chief. way to prevent the suspect's escape.

August, 1980 Patrolman Tom Sanders shoots innocent, unarmed man at No matter what crime the suspect has Regal 8 Motel, causing permanent brain damage. allegedly committed, police can still shoot if their lives or the lives of August, 1980 Lewis DeVault says Sanders was "totally justified" in others are in imminent danger. Regal 8 shooting. DeVault said he "felt comfortable right from the beginning." In the case before the Supreme Court, a Memphis police officer shot and September, 1980 State's Attorney Dozier says Sanders was "legally killed a 15-year-old who was running justified," but he "questioned" Sanders' judgment. away after stealing a purse. Pantagraph misleading December, 1980 Donald Story becomes Chief of Police. The day after the court's ruling, the January, 1981 Patrolman Ogg shoots unarmed fleeing burglar. Pantagraph printed a very misleading front-page article about the local February, 1981 Pantagraph reports that Chief Story is circulating a effects of the court's decision. draft of a new deadly force policy, which would rule out shooting at unarmed burglars. The story was headlined "Area police say ruling consistent with current August, 1981 Chief Story issues a watered-down version of February policy." draft. Shooting at unarmed suspects is still permitted, but officers must balance the force used against the Actually, the ruling will be a big law enforcement purpose to be served, and cannot shoot change for Bloomington police. if there's a risk of endangering innocent bystanders. The Pantagraph wrote "Department March, 1983 Detective Crowe shoots unarmed swindler at Eastland Mall. policy was revised in 1981, partly because a Bloomington patrolman shot a March, 1983 State's Attorney Dozier admits that Crowe's shooting was burglary suspect in January of that illegal, but declines to prosecute. year while the suspect was running fro~ the scene of the reported crime." March, 1983 Chief Story files charges against Detective Crowe with the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners. (That officer, David Og~, was recently sued for police brutality in an April, 1983 Chief Story asked to resignr DeVault becomes Chief. iunrelated case.)

May, 1983 Chief DeVault imposes 3-day suspension on Crowe and asks But the Pantagraph is wrong. Police and Fire Commissioners to drop the case. Department policy was not substantially changed after Officer May, .1983 Chief DeVault announces that there was "no violation Ogg shot the burglar. of the rules" when Officers Barkes and Cox fired at a fleeing burglar. Changes not adopted Chief Donald Story did propose a significant change in the department's .~ .,-. policy on deadly force. Story's .. Jterbs · 5_yices ·Yruits · Vegetalies .. J)uts proposed change, which reflected a standard adopted by the International - _.,. Associations of Chiefs of Police, ( would not have permitted shooting \ !unarmed burglars. The Pantagraph • printed an article about the proposed change in February 1981.

But the change was never adopted.

Instead, Chief Story issued General Order 37-81 in August, 1981.

This order merely summarized Illinois law, re-confirmed and restated previous policy, and added two new NATURAL FOODS- guidelines:

First, Story ordered that use of .516 N. MaiD St. firearms was to be considered a last resort. ·BioominKton, DL. 61701 ~<::) Second, Story also added that officers were not to shoot, even when legally Common Ground has a wide selection of wholesome foods, justified, if there was "a likelihood E& natural body.care products, vitamin and mineral sup­ of serious injury to innocent persons • plements, and books for organic cooking and healthy or if the use of such force would living. likely outweigh the police purpose served." ·,~ By selling many foods in bulk, Common Ground reduces ~ your costs on nuts, flours, spices, grains, snack (This last guideline was probably ~ , mixes and many other items. You may also purchase written with Patrolman Tom Sanders in ' \1 just the amount you need! Come see the gourmet mind. A year earlier, in August, • coffee beans and fresh produce section as well. 1980, Sanders shot an innocent man in Experience a new and healthier way of life! the parking lot of the Regal 8 Motel.) .,.,.~..-.~~·or an additional savings of 10% on all purchases, What's forcible felony? you may purchase a discount card for an annual fee 1 of $10.00. ' ~ ~ As Story's order pointed out, Illinois 1 law allows officers to shoot fleeing suspects if shooting is the only way t• ~ • sood1.f.COY~ .. SJnO),£ ~ SU]V..A-5. SU}VU'V~}(\. .. ,--....._, . to prevent their escape and if they April 1985 Post-Amerikan Page 5 shooting ruling means b lg• a!~n~fter~t~n~omington police "forcible felony." must be used legally, in this case against a fleeing man, armed and Illinois law defines the term charged with a felony. "forcible felony" to include a number of crimes which can be committed "DeVault said 'there isn't much point' without the use of weapons or without in having a general pol~cy, since 'you serious physical harm occurring to very seldom have situations in which anyone. the circumstances are identical.'.

Forcible felonies, in Illinois, "'All our men are quite aware of the include burglary and robbery. law and what it says about the use of They also include arson, treason, and justifiable force.'" aggravated battery. Wrong again Simple battery (a shove or a slap in DeVault's men may have known the law, the face) becomes aggravated battery-­ (which, remember, permitted them to a forcible felony--if the victim is a shoot at someone who was running away teacher, police officer, prison guard, after slapping their social worker), firefishter, park district employee, but DeVault didn't even know his own taxi driver, bus driver, or public aid department's written guidelines. caseworker. Whether DeVault thought it "made In addition, according to Illinois law, simple battery becomes aggravated sense" or not, the Bloomington Police Department did have a written policy battery if the offense occurs on public property or on a public right at that time on officers' use of deadly force. of way.

Under the technicalities of Illinois General Order #11, issued by Chief law, police could shoot a man seen Harold Bosshardt long before the shoving another on the public sidewalk Barker shoot-out, states that the Bloomington Police Department if the man started running from "Well, I'll be darned ... I guess he does have police. a license to do that:' prohibits: Chief Story's 1981 General Order at 1. Firing any weapon into a crowd of least required police officers to people. ~ould have escaped." balance the need for shooting to hadn't fire d , he w effect a capture against "the law 2. Firing any weapon over the heads of a crowd of people. enforcement purpose which would be Chief DeVault doesn't have much use served" by the use of deadly force. for guidelines and policies on police 3. Firing at a fleeing vehicle except But, contrary to the information use of guns anyway. printed in the Pantagraph, Chief that in which a person or persons is known to have committed a forcible Story's 1981 guidelines still In 1978, police reported that a shoot­ felony. permitted Bloomingt~n officers to out with Jimmie Barker at Sunnyside shoot at unarmed fleeing burglars. playground area began when Barker, a 4. Firing any warning shots where the Burglar shot at again fugitive wanted for attempted murder, use of deadly force is not permitted. opened fire on police. A few days Even when deadly force is permitted, And that's just what two Bloomington later, the truth came out--police warning shots will not be fired as officers did in May 1983. According to fired first. they are likely to injure persons a Pantagraph article, Richard Barkes other than those against whom deadly and James Cox fired three shots while In an April 29, 1978 article on that force is authorized. chasing burglary suspect Paul Zeter. shoot-out, the Pantagraph reported these comments from DeVault, who was 5. Firing into buildings or through "There was no violation of the rules," then Asst. Chief: doors when the person or persons fired Lewis DeVault, who had just become the at is not clearly visible. new Chief of Police, told the "Lewis DeVault ... said the department Pantagraph at the time. "And if they has no written policy on the use of At the time the police opened fire on handguns by officers, except that they Barker, according to a Pantagraph article, the playground was filled with neighborhood children. Fortunately, none were hit. Shooting in malls One of Lewis DeVault's first acts after resuming the powers of Chief of EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Police in April 1983 served to demonstrate how seriously he viewed infractions of the guidelines and laws IN HOUSING governing police shooting suspects. He let Charlie Crowe off with an affectionate pat on the wrist. In March 1983, Charlie Crowe, a IS YOUR RIGHT! plainclothes detective, shot a suspect at Eastland Mall. Even if there's no big sales going on, Eastland Mall If you feel you have "been denied housing or treated isn't the best place to shoot a suspect if you're trying to make sure unfairly because. of your race, ·color, religion, sex, that innocent bystanders are free from national origin, ancestry or physical or mental danger. Crowe didn't shoot an armed suspect. handicap, contact the · He didn't even shoot someone who was fleeing after committing a forcible ~elony. He shot a man who was going to be Bloomington Human charged with trying to sell some railroad ties that didn't belong to Relations Commission him. Crowe's mall shooting wasn't just a violation of Bloomington police at department policy--it was a violation of Illinois law. 828-7361, Ext~ 21:·81219 But State's Attorney Ron Dozier declined to prosecute. "Anyone who The Bloomington Human Relations· Commission is knows Charlie Crowe knows that he is . here to assist 'and to help. Continued on next page Page 6 Post-Amerikan April1985 Continued from previous page Court's shooting ruling Oh, Brad! Now that our genes are spliced ... I think I'm finally ready means big changes for to tie the knot! Bloomington police

not a criminal," Dozier told the Post­ Amerikan. driver, who had had nothing to do with the non-existent kidnapping anyway.

Donald Story was still Chief of Police While State's Attorney Dozier said when Crowe shot the swindling suspect at Eastland. Story viewed the that Sanders was "legally justified" in the shooting, he also said that he shooting as serious. Story could have questioned the officer's judgment, and imposed as much as three days intended to discuss the matter with suspension himself. But instead, he Lewis DeVault, who was acting Chief of asked the Board of Fire and Police Police at the time. - Commissioners--which has power to impose more severe sanctions--to DeVault had previously stated that he consider disciplinary action. would have no comment until the Before that hearing occurred, Story Division of Criminal Investigation resigned under pressure. Lewis (DCI) completed ita routine Couple DeVault became Chief. investigation of the shooting. But DeVault couldn't resist heaping DeVault asked the Fire and Police praise on his impulsive officer. Commissioners to drop the case against Several weeks before the DCI report ousted-for Crowe. DeVault handed Crowe a token 3- day suspension, and everything was was finished, DeVault told the forgotten. Pantagraph that Tom Sanders was • • "totally justified" in shooting Shooting 'totally justified' Charles Vasquez. "I felt comfortable living 1n s1n with it right from the beginning," Letting Crowe off wasn't the first DeVault reportedly said. "God comes in like a landlord time Lewis DeVault has backed up a cop and flashes on his brassy lamp." involved in a questionable shooting. The City of Bloomington's insurance :..-Anne Sexton company wasn't so comfortable. They On August 23, 1980, Patrolman Tom settled the subsequent lawsuit for Or is it the other way around? Sanders fired two shotgun blasts at a over $600,000, a rather steep sum to fleeing car in the parking lot of the pay if the officer had really done Brenda rented an upstairs apartment Regal 8 Motel. An innocent man, r10thing wrong. from landlord Charles Nichols for 2! Charles Vasquez, was left with years. The last 15 months of that permanent brain damage. The van of a * * * * * * * * * time, from fall 198) till winter 1984, passer-by on Washington St. was her boyfriend Michael lived there too. sprayed with shotgun pellets. The 1978 shoot-out at Sunnyside may have occurred even if police followed Most of that period, Nichols lived in . State's Attorney Ron Dozier said the rec~nt Supreme Court rulings on Arkansas. He moved back to Blooming­ Sanders was "legally justified" in the use of weapons. ton in fall 1984 and took up residence shooting, because Sanders thought he in the apartment below Brenda and was shooting at an armed man fleeing But the new ruling would have Michael's. after committing kidnapping, a prevented police from firing in all of "We were good tenants," Michael says, forcible felony. the other four incidents. "polite, quiet, accommodating ••• no wild parties • , , paid our rent No guns were ever found. No forcible Rul~s are one thing. Day-to-day every two weeks." felony had been committed. There was practice is another. A change in the no kidnapping. rules means nothing unless the rules Three days before Christmas, Nichols are enforced. confronted Brenda in the hall, making In what State's Attorney Ron Dozier some noises about how she had to start described as a "lover's quarrel," a When Charley Crowe shot an unarmed con paying rent a month in advance. When woman and her child had been held man at a shopping mall, he was she said she guessed she could handle - briefly against her will (the man had violating both department policy and that, he said, "It would be best if grabed her car keys). By the time Illinois law. you found another place." ·sanders arrived on the scene, the woman, car keys in hand, was walking But Chief DeVault thought the incident When pressed, he said that his away with her child. merited only a mild 3-day suspension. "conscience just can't handle you living together over my head." The The incident would have been over, but If the Supreme Court ruling is to make fact that Brenda and Michael hadn't the man ran when officer Sanders a real difference, Chief DeVault will invited the state into their private approached. The man jumped into a car have to show that he takes illegal lives was too radical for him. driven by Charles Vasquez. shootings by police more seriously than he has in the past. They immediately looked for a new Sanders shot twice at the fleeing car, place. Nichols told Brenda that she permanently ruining the life of the --Mark Silverstein didn't have to move, only Michael-.-­ She was offended at the su~gestion, and Nichols said, "Why don t you just get married?"

"As though either of us would want to rent from him under any circum­ stances," both members of the couple asserted.

They found a nearby place and moved out in January. Both fantasize about Nichols' renting their old apartment to a nice married couple who have knock-down-drag--out brawls and drunken parties. As they moved, Brenda played with the idea of whispering to Nichols, "You know, we're still going to be Doing It, just down the street." tJ She didn't. She did notice that ~ t;l Nichols threw away the bed they had ~· slept in. She saw it on the curb. Q- . ·~. --Phoebe Caulfield ~ ~ I;} ~

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Last month, members of ISU's Gay T~e members of the Gay People's Union People's Alliance were among the 120 at the University of Iowa offered to people attending a conference for gay/ take on the responsibility of next lesbian student organizations at the year's conference. The name "Midwest University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Lambda Student Network" \vas chosen for first of its kind in the midwest, the the umbrella organization of confer­ conference was attended by represen­ ence attenders and planners. A quar­ tatives from twelve organizations and terly newsletter was arranged to keep seven states. ties together, dealing with racism, interested organizations informed of and slowing turnover within the org­ the planning, and workshop topics for An ambitious effort on the part of future conferences were discussed, the 10% Society (UW-M's gay/lesbian anizations. Several people stressed the importance of working with other including fundraising, parenting, men­ organization), the conference provided tal health, and bisexuality. room and board for the weekend for groups on human issues and of avoiding all the attendees, at a fee of $10-15 reverse bigotry. --Pollyanna per person. The 10% Society received funding from the Chicago Resource Center, the Cream City Foundation in Milwaukee,. and the UW student govern­ ment to cover the remaining $2400 or Badgers and faggots and dykes so they needed to finance the confer­ ence. --Oh my! Serious planning began in June, 1984, when a theme for the conference was Saturday night, just as we were to) drowned out the unnamed decided ("Strengthening Onr Ties"), getting ready to caucus (and thinking missionary. He surrendered, and left. and the funding search began. After more about dinner and the following sending questionnaires to 44 organi­ dance than politics, if truth be Sigh. zations, and receiving responses from known), a campus evangelist, soul kin to Brothe.r Jed and Sister Chrissie, Most of us didn't touch the ground for 16, the 10% Society decided on 8 work­ established himself outside the main hours afterward. shops: AIDS and Men's Health, Lesbian door of the University of Wisconsin Health Issues, Coalition Building, Student Center. Students gathered, Now I know full well that as soon as Racism, Separatism, Alcoholism, Re­ like they always do (mostly to giggle we left, he came back. That's OK. cruitment and Retention, and Organi­ and heckle), when he began to rant a And I know many of you will think the zing for Lesbian/Gay Rights Legisla­ about the qee-prav- itee and per-ver­ whole thing is pretty sappy and tion. sitee of those dreaded ho-mo-sex-yoo­ sentimental. That's OK, too. als. Nancy Roth, executive director of the Because he knows we'll come back, Gay Rights National Lobby, gave the We were appalled--and delighted. We too, and-rt seems~e that that's keynote address at the luncheon on had been talking and talking all day what it was abo.ut. Saturday, as well as presenting the --now here was something we could do! hbout ~f us hurr1ed out, and, -- legislation workshop. She stressed sitting crosslegged on the cement in And sure, it's sentimental, but I the importance of continuing legis­ concentric circles, we sang. Arms tell you thisa we all do what we lative efforts, despite the conser­ around each other, and on the verge have to, to keep working, and if a vative political climate. Roth said of tears, we sang.. "Singing for Our little sentiment, and one small she did not see that conservatism as Lives" and "We Shall Overcome" (which moral victory, will keep the singers interfering with gay rights, which we were most embarrassed to discover and the watchers working, then thank she sees as a human issue and not a almost no one knew the melody line the goddess for sentiment. liberal issue. --Pollyanna The conference guests met on Sunday to further discuss areas in which the organizations might be effective and to plan a similar conference for next year. The group shared methods of tying the women's and men's communi- Diesel Dick's • * * * * * * • * * * * * * * * COMPLETE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AUTOMOTIVE WE SPECIALIZE ~ TRUCK IN GM DIESEL SERVICE CAR REPAIR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FOREIGN ~ DOMESTIC ****************** GAS and DIESEL

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FINE GAY ENTERTAINMEN If you want to talk to one of us lN CENTRAL ILLINOIS Call PATH 827·4005 and ask for the OPEN NIGHTLY 'TIL 4AM. PRESENT THIS AD AT THE BAR FOR A DRINK. LIMIT ONf PER Ra e Crisis Center CUSTOMER PER NIGHT Shockabill stretches it Be forewarned. Shockabilly knows who When asked to conform the tin~est bit, and what they are. Bartok begs to Chadbourne retaliates with a bee-line ie and the shrimp have learned to move in the opposite direction. Re­ stle. • • "Psychedelia,. C & W,. Heavy actionary? Maybe, but he would rather al, Art-Rock, Free Jazz and Gnar­ drive blind through the thickets of ling Hardcore. But all in the same creation than listen to one more read­ Shockabilly is all things. ing of the DOPEY RIOT ACT. "Iran into Tulsa" sends up flares tening to a Shockabilly record is and drops bombs alongside of taped something of a tour through the short­ strangeness and religious-like chants. radio bands, snatching up both Then there's the viscious treatment noise and the culture from around of John Lee Hooker's "Vietnam" that globe, while the television Jimi Hendrix would have liked to in­ from an adjoining apartment. clude on "Electric Ladyland" right is there all at once, under­ down to the leslie-fueled organ tated, tongue-in-cheek, truthful, and squalls. Voodoo children indeed. tlandish, all dragged through rhythms, howling drones, It continues with "Flying," a floating L~rwttuling voices, tape loops, and dreamscape where Kramer's melodic ic slide guitar explosions. Like organ chintz sets the scene and heyday of be-bop, all notes work, Chadbourne's guitar fill skitters like change dangerously, and the outer a flock of birds testing their wings limits are touched. Sooner or later in spring. Behind these aural pic­ the music will find its way back (or tures is the familiar voice of Mister forward) to some secure (or obscure?) early Velvet underground sound where Rogers asking coyly "Have you ever reference point. dirge and drone loom ominous over looked into someone's eye ••• and seen much of the proceedings. David Licht sparkles?" Whew! Rogers and Hendrix For Shockabilly, the finite is no is symphony kettlist gone hardcore on the same plane and Shockabilly longer, and the lengths to which some­ then jazz (repeat). Sheer bombast knows it. "Have you ever been ex­ thing can go have been stretched~ how­ gives way to utter taste and split perienced?" Have you ever pulled down ever, within these ranks, "Stretching second timing. Dynamics be his moni­ your pants and yodeled to greet the it" is not a musical misdemeanor, but ker, madness be.his method. dawn? rather a new frontier meant to be Chadbourne's Shocko owes as much to traversed. Ralph J. Gleason once said Harry Partch and John Cage as it does Eugene Chadbourne is 31. Had he been born in another time and another place in reference to Miles Davis that when to Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys~ the rules are mastered and understood as much to Thelonius Monk as it does he might have replaced Zoot Horn Rollo then these same rules are ready to be to the F ab Four. Open the door and or Antennae Jimmy Semens in Beefheart's broken and treated with disregard. the influx of influence screams from a band and the Magic would have been desolate curb like some drugged-up theirs to share. Says Eugene, "Maybe Chadbourne and Shocko break the ·rules Elvis from Hell howling "Winchester in the Sixties a guy like me could with abandon, glee, irreverence, and Cathedral." Strange, alien, yet have gotten famous, but nowadays, piss confidence, to produce some of the hauntingly familiar. up a rope." Well, piss away with ven­ most refreshing, musical, and enter­ geance, I say. Just give 'em enough rope. taining sounds to date. Unabashed, Listen to "Born on the Bayou" from the unfraid, and unconventional, Shock­ Vietnam record and hear Chadbourne Critics claim Chadbourne is insane, a abilly happily hounds the senses and whine with all the panache of a de­ nut with a guitar and music in his sensibilities of their listeners. capitated chicken hooked on Tremolo. Chadbourne's guitar reeks of Blue­ head screaming to get out. And get Then there is the demented sneer of out it does. · Through countless re-­ grass, c & w, and 'Mountain Music as "Your USA and My Face" with Chad­ cordings and tours of North America, well as Rock and Roll Radio a la 1967, bourne as Neil Cassidy speaking to while hard-bop-cum acid seems to have Japan, and Europe, the music gets out. those who might scoff at his approach Insane? Out of touch? Hardly. gotten the best of him. Swallow to life (and music) in America. "If equal parts of Chet Atkins and Jimi you were driving my brain you would Shockabilly is in touch with those Hendrix and chase with a jigger of wanna change lanes, but I want to things that only cats and babies see, Dead Kennedys. Kramer's bass and drive ••. right off the highway." organ-isms are akin to John Cales' dogs can hear, and jelly fish can feel. We will teach our senses to en­ joy such lunacy. When Chadbourne sings "Lucifer Sam," madcap Syd Barrett's own loon toon, he brings to it the heartfelt knowlege that weird ROME RECORDINGS is wonderful. Shockabilly's manic version of the Doors "People are Bloomington Normal's Only Alternative Music Label Strange" is further reckoning with music and the mind that makes such things. I'm fond of the notion' if I know that I am insane, then I Cassetta Tapas Available at must be all right. Shockabilly knows APPLETREE RECORDS who and what they are. Be forewarned. --Michael Goodrich Shockabilly • to play here Shockabilly, Eugene Chadbourne's baby, is coming to The Galery on April 6th. , •• Shockabilly All I can say is, "Don't miss it!" This is a special evening with unique talent, a rare experience for those For Tha Most Fun a va r to ~~ass with open ears. Bloomington/Normal's underground scene is getting inter­ Thru Town national recognition. This town was recommended to Shockabilly by Skel Crew aka Fred Firth and Tom Cora. What a privilege! Please keep the ball rolling and see Shockabilly with Nameless Dread at the Galery on April 6th. Tickets are available at Appletree Records for $3 in advance; they'll be $4 at the door. The show begins at 10 pm. Do not·miss this show. --Have

.. Page's Post-Amerikan April1985 April1985 Post-Amerikan Page 9 Local music tapes graded C, B,A The Sediments Pink Bob "The Light at the End of the failing: As a musical comedy group, Tunnel" they're best appreciated live, and on The Bob and Jeff Show "Welcome to Our tape, the spirit of hilarity which House" they try to create just doesn't come across. What we have here are three more tapes offered by the nutty laboratory of Bloomington's basement tapes, Home Pink Bob suffers from a different Recordings. In case you've missed the problem--he's 10~/o Pink Bob without last six issues of the Post Amerikan, any modifiers and stabilizers thrown in which I discuss just who these in. I think Pink Bob is an oddly people are and what they are trying to brilliant guy, but he works best with input from other people. do, let me reiterate: They are a bunch of crazy musical groups who share a certain fascination with off­ So it isn't any surprise that my per­ sonal favorite of the month is the beat humor and anti-mainstream music Sediments, which is a collaboration who have all been lured under the An unusual event coming up at the between Pink Bob and Brian Keyes. banner of Home Recordings to make ~ Galery April 23rd: Soiree Da Da Da, They make a gr-r-r-eat team who make their music available to you, the a showcase for experimental fine and music really rich in wit, ability, and liberal arts. Features include drama, consumer. • kooky style. "Perverse Waltz" is film, performance art, poetry, music, These groups have a homogeneity in stupidly haunting and wonderful. "The and other absurdities. There is still their diversity and their music Answering Machine Messages" #1 and #2 room for additional artists. For in­ typically ranges from terribly clever are witty in a Laurie Anderson kind of formation, call 828-5706 or 828-7292. and absorbing to inbred and self-in­ way. "The Morning After a Night in dulgent. The Sediments, Pink Bob, and the Life" could become a Saturday mor­ The Bob and Jeff Show share the same ning anthem for the heavy drinkers strengths and weaknesses. among us. All in all, a very amusing The Bob and Jeff Show has a particular and listenable tape. --LVD That Hope: Fun ~nd daring mixture The music scene in Normal is varied, One can observe these young musicians from folk to progressive. The Galery, and detect the charisma of a success- Indeed, 'l'hat Hope is a pleasurable and sensible experience. These fine being an accessible showcase for ful combinat~on. Their p:ogressions musical expressionists have \-lhetted live music, provides this array. are made comfo~table o~ ~1ght.even the curiosity of many and have With niqhtlv live entertainment one . for ~n entrenc~ed trad1t1onal1st. . attracted the serious as well as the is able to witness various degrees of jChar1sma and cnar~ a:e ol~ tags.wh1ch talent, and often, no matter what· are, as of late, avo1.ded_1n _rev1ew detached listener. When albums are available for collection, ·Which style of music is performed, talent rhetoric. '!'hat Hope. seems ~o rede- my is evident. fine charm through J?rogressJ.on, will most likely mean t.he band's making the step a l1ttle less than success, I will be satisfied to Of all the offerings which show steep for those who are unfamiliar have known it froro the start. potential, the band That H~pe gives and reluctant. One is not frightened Just when I thought I would not more than a hint, as a ser1.ous but away by over-serious intensities or readily accept what I was hearing, less than pretentious sound and a non-comprehensible products. The another notion or texture would be thought provoking yet fun band. music and performance suggest a included into the whole and simplv Separate members on their ow~ would handshake between intricate talent round everything off with quality. provide for a serious study J.n ex­ I cull reluctant to compare 'i'hat Hope and loose fun. That Hope is serious to popular recording artists because perimentation, but in the context behind the face of entertainment. of an ensemble th7y. are straight- they have captured--or better, created --a realm of their own, definable t;w•r;~::... 1nwg. $ only through the experience of "r- •••~ hearing and seeing them. They do not l pretend to be a music-for music's­ ~iJiS'5 •••• sake art combo or middle-of-the- a •••• road progressive popsters, yet they have integrated the foremost qual­ ities of each. Page 10 Post-Ame1 To be or not to be: Don'1

that there's no way out was an incredibly horrible feeling unlike anything I'd experienced before or since.

There was a lot of home abortion activity, but none of it worked. I had a roommate who sat in a boiling hot bathtub of water that was full of ten boxes of Durkee's dry mustard and then powered down two bottles of gin at the same time, trying to abort. She puked her guts out and felt like shit and eight months later gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby boy.

The abortions that were most closely available to us \ffire in St. Louis and Iowa City. The one in St. Louis cost $550, and there they inserted a straw into the cervix and blew carbon dioxide into the uterus. until you aborted.

The other one in Iowa City cost $700, and what they did was pack your uterus with cotton batting ... both of these were done under very sleazy 1953: Illegal abortion circumstances ..• you'd be blindfolded and driven to a motel. They would do It was probably early fifties ... I had the procedure until you began to two children, one about three years miscarry, and then they would leave, old and one just about a year old-­ and you would have to call a hospital just learning to walk--a real handful, emergency room yourself. You weren't \ and I certainly didn't want any more. allowed to bring anybody with you. A real problem was trying to find out how one could get an abortion. You'd Anybody who wanted to get one of those always known that people could get illegal abortions could get · ' them, but if you're middle class and one ... people knew who to call. But I \~' don't have any idea and had never met was too chicken, and I didn't admit to ~'h~ anybody who's had one, what do you do? myself that I was pregnant until it : · was too late to have one of those kind At first I asked my gynecologist ... but anyway. So then the possibilities ' his answer was unequivocally no; in were to keep the baby yourself (the fact, he didn't even want me to have fathers, of course, didn't stick the surgery on my legs (for varicose around too long, once you told them veins) because he said, "You'll be you were pregnant), or go to a home wanting more children." And I said, for unwed mothers and leave the baby "Oh no, I'm quite sure I won't be there for adoption, or stay in town wanting any more children." But they and have the baby and give it away for always act as if they know better than adoption, which is what I decided to you. do. Anyhow, this surgeon did write down the name of a doctor with offices Of course, people who saw that you downtown ..• The first thing I noticed were pregnant were always asking you when I went into his office was that about your husband, and it was it wasn't all shiny and sparkling and embarrassing to admit that you didn't clean ... but it certainly was safe--it have one. It was really hard on us, was expensive; it cost $500 and that's it was hard on our parents. There probably the one thing that's gone were 24 obstetricians in the phone down in price since the fifties. book and I called all of them. Only one would take me--because I was And he did have a nurse who was unmarried. supportive, I remember she held my hand and kept telling me I was not Of the five or six girls that I knew allowed to scream ... there were at the time who were pregnant, we probably people working in the next would have all had abortions gladly, suite of offices; it was just if we would have been able to have understood from the beginning that I them. We would have scraped up the was not to make any noise. What it money and had them, and dealt with our amounted to was a D and C but without consciences later. It was so bad a general anesthetic ... it was theR, to be a pregnant girl. extremely painful and I remember the relief with which I felt the warm liquid flowing out of me ... I thought, "It must be about over, then." 1975: Teenage abortion

But the worst part was having to go Without intending to belittle the through the whole thing all by myself. anxiety felt by SOme 1110men \lhO ChOOSe abortion, I think it is important to All in all, I considered it a po1nt out that abortion does not blessing--it was in no way the trauma necessar11y ru1n your 11xe, nor snou1d for me the v1ay it apparently is for it disrupt your life any more than any some people. I never thought of it as type of minor surgery. But for years a life I was taking; I just saw it as I've noticed an anti-abortion bias in getting myself out of a terrible, television where writers have terrible mess. recognized the dramatic potential of abortion and have exploited it. appreciably.

1968: Giving the baby Some specific culprits are the soap writers, who know that they can get up for adoption more mileage out of a negative abortion experience than a positive It was 1968, and abortion was one. Rarely will a "good" woman on illegal ... people nowadays don't have the soaps choose an abortion; usually any idea what it was like to ce she makes it as far as the clinic pregnant before abortion was a real before she admits that she couldn't do possibility. At this time if you that to her innocent baby, husband, wanted to have an abortion, you had to boyfriend, etc. etc. Of course, the have an illegal abortion, and they "bad" woman will choose abortion were extremely gruesome, dangerous, because she's really selfish at heart, expensive, and not always effective. but we all know that she'll end up Finding out that you're pregnant and paying for it with years of guilt, Page 11 lose the right to choose

bitterness and catastrophic love had a friend drive me to Champaign. I affairs. And then one day, when she was reading those stupid magazines finally straightens out and settles that they have in doctors' offices down, she'll decide she wants a baby while I was waiting and the first more than anything. Well, you know thing I happened to turn to was this what happens ... she finds out that article "Abortion: Pro or Con? On one she's sterile from having that damned side of the page were all these abortion! interviews with women who had positive experiences with abortion, and on the This kind of coverage in the media other side of the page were all women isn't helping the reputation of who had had negative experiences with abortion. But I am living proof that abortion. So I read all the positive the belief in abortion as an ones and skipped the negative ones. invitation to grief and remorse for the rest of your life--is a myth. I It didn't last very long, but the pain was seventeen when I got pregnant. T was so bad at the time that it felt . lived in a small farming cornn;unity like a million years. After it was where the only types of birth control over, I was in a drugged stupor for a available to teenagers were barrier while. Then I went to the recovery methods (condoms and foam) and these room and sat in this reclining chair were literally behind a barrier at the next to another woman who had just counter of the only pharmacy in come out of the surgery, too. town ... so I crossed my fingers and did it anyway. She was about thirty, and had a When I found out that I was pregnant, husband and a kid, but didn't want to "But Cindy and Cathy and Sus e and I drove sixty·miles to a clinic in have another baby. Then something Linda and Laurie and Marsha will love another state (boy, was I scared of my kind of strange happened. Her parents to have a new baby brother!" parents!) to arrange an abortlon. came in and started giving her all However, since I was a minor, I needed kinds of shit about how she wasn't my parents' consent to have the pleasing her husband; you know, really abortion. Even now, ten years after­ laying into her, and she was acting the fact, I have trouble finding the like she had a right to get an words to describe their reaction--but abortion if she wanted one. words like disgust, horror, and shame \ begin to express it. They thought I I would never not use birth control \ had committed treason upon the family again. It makes-me mad when I hear and that I was soiled merchandise ... a people tctlk about women who have \ rotten tomato. The abortion itself · abortions, like they are completely at was like Sunday in the country fau"l t for getting pregnant. in the compared to the guilt and humiliation first. place, and deserve to be that I suffered over being in the punished by the pregnancy. Even shoes of a "bad" girl who got caught. though I'm using birth control, I don't. feel confident that it will But that lousy cloud had a silver never happen t.o.me again. It. still lining ... the experience changed my could happen again. I think about. it life in a positive way. My decision a lot, and how I would hate to have to to have the abortion was the first do it again. decision of self-determination which I had ever made. (The decision to have sex in the first place was in itself a powerful one, but hardly one that I ' made alone.) Knowing that I had 1982: Keeping the baby turned a bad situation around gave me the confidence to take control of my I was married--but not very well, and life in~many other ways. I knew I wouldn't be married very much longer. And so my decision was not only whether or not to have a baby, but whether I wanted to be a single parent. If I had had a good 1978: Legal abortion relationship with a man when I got pregnant, I wouldn't have given This was about six years ago, and I abortion a thought, but I knew how was going to study in Europe for the hard it would be to raise a child summer ,and the same day that I found alone. I knew that if I was going to out that I got accepted to go to get a divorce, that it would be nice Europe on this trip, I found out I was to be out and single and free and pregnant about fifteen minutes later, start a whole new life the way I when I picked up the results of my wanted to do it ... and a baby would test. So it was very disturbing. really get in the way.

I never thought seriously about having My first reaction when I found out the baby ... ! mean I felt sort of that I was pregnant was that there was remorseful about it, because I knew it a real baby inside me, and so from an would be unpleasant to have an abortion point of view, it didn't seem abortion, but I never really thought right--it wasn't a zygote or little about not doing it. But I never mass of dividing cells--it was a baby. regretted it for a minute. I didn't I still believe in freedom of ch~ice, even tell the father about it--he was but my choice was to qo ahead and have just a jerk that I went out with a the baby. I felt right away that it couple of times. It was a drunken was a girl. boo-boo--! had a diaphragm which I'd never used and felt uncertain about-­ I felt really isolated. My marriage and it was an accident, and I only did was definitely breaking up; I wasn't it once. gettlng much support from the people around me--the doctor wasn't It was at Rachel-Cooper that I had the supportive, my friends without test, and I wanted them to tell me children didn't understand why I where I could get an abortion, but wanted to have it, and all the people they wouldn't tell me--they said I had who had kids and were raising them in to go to Planned Parenthood to get the way I wanted to were married and counseling and I said, "I don't want didn't really have time for me--I felt counseling, I just want an abortion." kind of lost. But I had really high I was already upset enough about it; I standards for myself as a parent, and didn't want to have to talk to some I felt that if I couldn't live up to stranger about it. But they insisted them, then I didn't want the kid. that they didn't have any names of That's what I was thinking for the first three months. abortion clinics, and wouldn't give me any names, so I ended up at Planned Parenthood, and I had to see_a I have the same regrets that any other counselor and pay for it, but I was parent would, because a young child is very broke at the time. intense, but I have never felt that it was a mistake. I still think that ! felt stupid explaining myself to abortion should be the decision of the some total stranger, but it wasn't too woman. But just as a woman should not "Yes, I'd make a goo bad. Finally I got the names of be chastised for choosing abortion, also an excellent brain surgeon clinics in Peoria and Champaign. So I neither should a woman be chastised trial lawyer ... kinda busy ... " for choosing to have the child. Page 12 Post-Amerikan April1985 Abortion terrorism

"The recent rash of terrorist bombings is more - far more - than terrorism aimed Urban and suburban terrorism is once again on the rise in Amerika. But at buildings. It is nothing less than terrorism against women." this time around, it is not the - Judy Goldsmith, NOW president Weathermen, the SLA or some miscellaneous international terrorist Reagan also assured Right-to-Lifers One young couple, frightened by organization which is taking credit rallying in Washington of his "great picketers at their local clinic, for at least 30 abortion-related solidarity" with their cause.) attempted--and botched--an abortion firebombings and arsons which have The government denies a conspiracy, themselves. The girl, only seventeen, occurred in the last year. All of the underwent an emergency hysterectomy. credit for this string of terrorism and the mainstream media perpetrate goes to members of the Moral Majority­ that denial--Time, in a Jan. 14 story on clinic bombings, said unequivocally backed Right to Life Movement who call Staff members are the victims of themselves the "Army of God." and without any stated evidence to support its claim, "Of course, such vandalism and threats, both at work terrorist violence is totally and in their homes, and live in "It was a gift for Jesus on his birthday." constant fear of what migh't happen - Karen Wiggins, arrested for 3 Florida clinic bombings on Christmas Day, 1984 next. Of course it is no picnic for the other side, either. Quoted in ~N~e~w~s7~~e~e~k (Jan. 14), William Price, (The Army of God made its first major unconnected to the mainstrean right-to pres~dent of the Greater Dallas Right impact in 1982, when it kidnapped an life cause [emphasis added]." But to Llf~,.said, "you should see the way Illinois doctor and threatened to kill these denials cannot obscure the fact the cl1n1c people treat the right to his wife for abortion crimes.) that an organized movement of life peo~le. At the very least, they increasingly more desperate and daring are curs1ng you .•• at the worst, This wave of violence against abortion reactionary anti-abortionists are they are shoving you around." How and family planning facilities, the terrorizing a nation of women who have people who run them, and the patients a constitutional right to govern their who use them, has accelerated at an alarming rate over the past year--the It is a crime for 2 or more people to "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or list of bombings accompanying this intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege article is up from only a handful the year before. FBI Director W~lliam secured to him by the Constitution of the United States." Webster denies that the bombings are a - Sec. 241 of the Federal Criminal Code which the Justice Dept. claims does conspiracy (although some of the Right-to-Lifers have been arrested for Aot apply to abortion clinic terrorism. picketing facilities in several different parts of the country, own bodies. Though no one has yet rude. But then again, the clinic according to the National Women's been killed or seriously injured, if people could argue, "at the very Health Organization) and therefore things continue to escalate at this least, they are calling you a not true political terrorism, pace, it can only be a matter of time murderer ••• at the worst, they are prohibiting a full-scale FBI before someone is harmed, intentionally trying to murder you." investigation. or unintentionally. Perhaps the most blatant act of "Death------~~~------stalks at your Job, you murderous bitch." political terrorism by the anti-choide - anonymous Pro-LHe message to a San Diego clinic director fanatics was the recent attempt on the life of Supreme Court Justice Under pressure, Ronald Reagan finally Blackmun, author of the historic Roe Anti-choice terrorists are also ~aging vs. Wade decision. A shot was fired issued a press statement condemning an effective psychological campa1gn "in the strongest possible terms those through a window of the Justice's against the staffs and patients of home,.into a room occupied by Blackmun individuals who perpetrate these and abortion and family planning all such violent, anarchist and his wife. No one was hit, and no faci)ities. From personally group or i~dividual has taken credit activities," ordering the Attorney harrassing 'women as they enter and General William French Smith to ensure for the attempt though the Justice has leave clinics·, to tossing red paint long been the object of threats the cooperation of all federal and blood, ·Snd, in one case, flinging agencies to investigate and prosecute stemming from his role in that an .actual fetus at a woman, the mental historic decision. Coincidentally, the crimes. (On January 22, the 12th anguish is inestimable. anniversary of the Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion "If someone wants to call this a terrorist act In 1984/1985 attacks on abortion clinics a semantical term, I'm not going to argue with them." W"lli W b · March 4--Anonymous facility, Bellingham, WA .. Fire-bombing. - 1 am e ster, director of the FBI '

March 16--Ladies Choice Clinic, St. Petersburg, FLA. Explosives. six Supreme Court Justices, including March 26--Everett Feminist Women's Health Center, Everett, WA. Arson. Blackmun, recently reiterated their support for the Roe vs. Wade opinion. April 19--Everett Feminist Women's Health Center, Everett, WA. Arson. The judicial system, in general, has May 12--Bours Birth & Surgery Center, Forest Grove, OR. Two arson attempts. been far less tolerant than the President and the FBI on the subject June 25--Ladies Center, Pensacola, FLA. Dynamite. of abortion-related terrorism. The courts aren't buying defendants' July 4--National Abortion Federation, Washington, D.C. Bombing. arguments that they are only causing property damage, and are handing down July ?--Planned Parenthood, Annapolis, MD. Bombing. fines and prison sentences consistent with the true nature of the crimes. August 20--Cy Fair Clinic, Houston, TX. Molotov cocktail. Several men convicted of bombings in the state of Washington were sentenced Sept. 7--West Loop Clinic, Houston, TX. Molotov cocktail. to twenty years, several others in Florida were given thirty--hopefully, Sept. 9--Clear Lake Women's Center, Webster, TX. Torched. a message to hypocritical government officials who ignore terrorism in Sept. 13--Birth Control Institute, San piego, CA. Fire-bombing. their own streets while condemning it in other countries, and to the Sept. 13--North Side Family Planning Clinic, Atlanta, GA. Fire-bombing. extremists who turn to violence to impose their own beliefs on others, Sept. 20--Planned Parenthood Clinic, Marietta, GA. Fire-bombing. and whose concern for life ends at the moment of birth. Nov. 11--Anonymous doctor's office (at which abortions are performed), Houston, TX. Arson. Sources: Ms., March 1985~ Newsweek; Feb. 4, 1985, Jan. 14, 1985~ Time, Nov. 19--Metropolitan Medical & Women's Center, Wheaton, MD. Bombing. Ja·n. 14, 1985~ The Nation, Fe~, 1985~ and the NationalOrganization for Nov. 19--Randolph Medical Clinic, Rockville, MD. Bombing. Women.

Dec. 25--Ladies Clinic, Pensacola, FLA. Bombing. --LH Dec. 25--Dr. Permenter's office, Pensacola, FLA. Bombing ..

Dec •. 25--Dr~ Bo Bagep.holm's office, Pensacola, FLA. Bombing.

Jan. 1--Hillcrest Women's Surgi-center, Washington, D.C.· Bombing. · "Can a mother to,f,et her-Infant~ be ·without . · , tenderness tor the child of her womb?~· Jan. 14--Repro Care Center, Dover, DEL. Arson. ' . . . -: tombsto,w for t.~nbom fetuseS.·in Dallas •·. ·.. Feb. 17~Hillcrest Clinic,'Norfolk, VA. Attempted fire-bombing. ------~------~-----~~~., Feb. 28--Prince George Cou)1tY .Reproductive Health Service, College Park, ·.Mp. Fire•bombin'g • April 1985 Post-Amerikan Page 13 Art and music for the Rape Crisis Center

The Rape Crisis Center of McLean County Those attending the concert will be will be sponsoring its annual fund­ asked to donate $3.00 or more (less for raising event from now until April 28. anyone who can't afford $3.00). Tickets will be available at the door, This year's fund-raiser includes the at the ISU Music Department Off ice public offering of a signed, limited (room 230, Centennial East), and by edition lithograph by nationally-known mail. artist, Harold Gregor, and a jazz concert on April 28, at the Miller Park Pavilion, featuring James Boitos and The Rape Crisis Center the ISU Jazz Ensemble, playing contemp­ orary Big Band numbers and Old Swing The RCC is an all-volunteer agency, hits. consisting of about 20 people, female The art and male. It is incorporated as a not­ for-profit agency under the laws of the State of Illinois. It has been The artwork this year was donated by serving victims of rape and sexual ISU Professor of Art, Harold Gregor. The music assault, their families, and friends Copies of the print, entitled "Land­ in the community for over 10 years. scape V," will be given to the first The music is being donated by James 30 members of the community who donate Boitos and the 20-piece Jazz Ensemble. $150 or more to the Rape Crisis Center. The concert, "Jazz in the Park," will It serves 800-900 clients (victims, be held on Sunday, April 28, from families, and friends) annually on a The print is a 15 x 20-inch, 5-color, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m., in the main floor of budget of some $2000 (all from community donations) supplemented by blend-roll lithograph, featuring a the Pavilion in Bloomington's Miller more than 50,000 volunteer hours of representative Central Illinois rural Park. There will be room for dancing, work a year. It also reaches 700-800 scene with croplands, trees, and farm and at the intermission, a drawing : people in the community a year through buildings. A copy is on display in will be held in which some of the lucky speaking engagements, workshops, the case outside room 128 in the Center ticket-holders will win copies of the training sessions, and other for the Visual Arts on the ISU campus. Gregor print. , educational programs. This event is the RCC's major fund-raiser for the year.

Send doriations--for the print or for tiqkets--to the Rape Crisis Center, P.O. Box 995, Bloomington, IL 61702. For concert tickets please send a· stamped, self-addressed envelope.

. If you have questions, call PATH at 827-4005 and ask for the Rape Crisis Center.

--Bill, for the RCC

Help send a feminist to Nairobi In July 1985, Reagan apointees will be representing you to the women of the world at the United Nation's Women's Conference in Nairobi. Your tax dollars will purchase airplane tickets and hotel rooms for these men and . women--people who argue that abortion is murder, lesbians are perverts, and women should be house-bound.

They will praise the Amerikan corpora­ tions that give women starvation wages. APRIL li�� They will glorify the US military for making the world safe for democracy.

The Reagan administration is banking on the steep cost of the trip to i����v Nairobi to keep away "trouble­ New Talent makers." But they underestimate the determination of women. CoJl Spike i-52-qlqz 111 We will be there. We will talk. And we will listen. The cost, $2,800, can be managed if we all pitch in. Your donation of $50, 25, or 10 can make this possible.

You deserve a better representative in Nairobi than Reagan's going to provide. Send someone like yourself, send a feminist.

SEND A RADICAL FEMINIST TO THE UN CONFERENCE. DON'T LET JUST THE REAGAN ROBOTS SPEAK FOR THE USA. ·--·------�---­ I

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Clnnounc.td Make check.nut to: .,of.f. our -backs .,,� -··send ·· to :''"ti tt··ou r back§/''Rn\: · zr 2; ·. l '8'41 · · • · · 'I.;;;;;;;::;:;:::;:;:;::;::=;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;:;:;;;:;;:;;;;;;;;;;:;;:;·-;;;;:;:;:;;;:;:;:;-;-;;� Columbia Road NW, Washington rx:: 20009 Page 14 Post-Amerikan April1985 Chain gang clericals in classifieds Life in the electronic factory The computer is rapidly changing or find their car in the parking lot supervisor is dedicated to his long office life in Bloomington-Normal. after working overtime. lunches. For many women it has meant increased workloads and new stresses for the Experts in medical problems of CRT Clerical chains same old low pay while juggling child operators recommend a fifteen minute care and housework. You can count on break every four hours. In many word Chain gangers are not so lucky. One conglomerates like State Farm to hire processing centers where workers woman alone prepares the valuable an increasing number of women pro­ seldom answer telephones, these breaks real estate supplement, The Home­ grammers, and eventually de-skill are scheduled, and the paper assembly Market. She deals in thousands of this job to the level of typist, while line shuts down. dollars' worth of real estate listings protecting its white male management. every week. There was no backup and, "Like a family" yes, she had not been feeling well Unless women office workers organize lately. across the board locally, they will But not herel There are a whole room­ find themselves chained to dead-end, ful of workers, but the Supervisor Deep Ad was assigned as the new back­ low paid jobs controlled by outside does not see fit to give the workers a up. She had always wanted her own companies. As the service industry rest. Chain gangers don't ask either newspaper. Doesn't everybody? But grows, our paychecks may get smaller. because they are "like a family,." one this was too much. She recommended But not the profits. of the most effectiv~ oppressors of Bill Flick for the job. He could give women ever invented. They do,. how­ the Home Market supplement the flair The pillars of the community say they ever, get time off to go to the doctor it so desparately needed. On deadline know what's best for us: long hours for their headaches, backaches, eye­ day the real estate chain ganger with no overtime, odd part-time hours, strain, and even pregnancy-related looked feverish. health insurance which doesn't work disorders. After all, these women are when you get sick, no breaks, getting sitting in front of a machine which "I just wanna run outta here!" wailed fired without explanation or a griev­ emits radiation. It is not uncommon the Home Market editor. ance hearing, and pay cuts. Some of to work on the CRT for ten hours with these pillars seem stuck in the only a lunch break. "I know what you mean,." said Deep Ad, Fifties. In the case of The Panta­ untwisting her chains. ~. the 1850s. If the weather is bad, chain gangers get to line up at the vending machines Will this chain gang break their in the cafeteria or fight for the clerical chains? Deep ad becomes chained to classified microwave. The room is decorated in Early Bus Station. On the walls are They could by walking off the job, to Recently, a Post staffer, "Deep Ad," facsimiles of famous Pantagraph head­ leave the supervisor taking all those infiltrated this Owens-Nursery-With­ lines featuring The Great Stories of ads, over the many telephones, type out-Shrubs to see if The Pantagraph Our Time: Lincoln, FDR, JFK, David · the codes into the computer, helping reputation as one of Bloomington­ Hendricks. Workers eat quickly as if the public compose their ads, and Normal's Worst Employers still holds they may miss the bus to this ~ig most of all, keeping those valuable up. While there are many award win­ Time. They all have the look of advertising dollars rolling in. ning departments, Classified Adverti­ convicts plotting to escape. Where would they quickly find sub­ sing shows unusual promise. stitutes with Classified Advertising experience? There are many details According to our source, chain gang these women must have at their finger­ clericals who work on the Ad Super­ tips. And they do. Collectively, the market must be adept at handling the they have the power to shut down the public over the telephone and in per­ life-blood of the smug Pantagraph. son--sometimes at the same time--if they are lucky enough to work the And what a story that would make! counter. They must know all the dif­ ferent kinds of farm machinery, live­ But don't count on reading it in The stock, cars, trucks, antiques, motor­ Pantagraphl cycles, real estate, and employment classifications. There are lists, of --Jane M. Glize course, but when the phone is madly ringing, there is no time for looking things up. Cans as good as cash at For even more fun, chain gangers must Bloomington Library type the ads into a computer system In honor of National Library week, which "goes down" so often they have And some do. There is a reason Per­ your cans are as good as cash at threatened to do the ads in crayon. sonnel interviews applicants in the Bloomington Public Library during the For those who relish hours of tedious lobby with their coats on. Some newly entire month of April. The CANS typing on a CRT, there are the Lsgal hired never take their coats off to GOOD AS CASH program offers the Notices and Auctions. While most guarantee a fast getaway. Maybe they opportunity for library users with chain gang clericals have eyes-of­ go to Owens Nursery to find better overdue library materials to help iron (they test this at State Farm to working conditions? their needy neighbors by returning weed out "non-clerical vision"), most a can of food with their overdue books to the library or bookmobile instead complain about eyestrain so But not all want to escape. Yes, there of paying the usual overdue fine. they are unable to read The ~~~~~ is dedication at The Pantagraph However, the program is not restricted to those with overdue books. All who visit the library are encouraged to participate.

Call 829-0691: All cann~d goods collected will be donated to Clare House, Home Sweet Find out how easy its is to Home Mission, and the Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen. The agencies recycle now serve over 500 meals each week to McLean County's hungry.

Last year Bloomington Library patrons donated almost 1,000 food items during April. Unfortunately; Operation Recycle now accepts: *Container glass *Tin cans the need still exists. Our goal this year is to be able to distri­ *Newspapers *Aluminum cans *Corrugated cardboard bute 2,000 food items.

*White and colored *Aluminum foil, Clare House distributes food from their "pantry" to 30-40 families non-glossy paper pie plates, etc. daily. The Mission will distribute food baskets at Easter as well as *Bi-metal cans meet the needs of those who come to them for help. Loaves and Fishes § · •Grocery sacks Soup Kitchen provides hot meals to almost 100 people twice a week.

For more information about CANS GOOD . OPERATION RECYCLE •11oow.MarketSt.. lloomlngton.ll.617o1 AS CASH and other National Library Week Events, call 828-6091. ---Community News---April1985 Post-Amerikan Page 15 Local citizens p·ledge resistance to Central American war

Within the last month, a plan for The Witness for Peace Pledge also involve a larger and wider spectrum mobilization against a u.s. invasion describes contact with sympathizers of people. These options will also of Nicaragua has begun to form in in Nicaragua and subsequent actions allow people to make decisions about Bloomington-Normal. Representatives there. A network of contacts has their own participation based on the from many local solidarity groups, been established to send out a call gravity of the situation. For example, including CISPES, Witness for Peace, for action to all of the groups, chap­ increased military aid to the Contras Peace and Justice Coalition, and ters, organizations, and churches in­ may not call for mass civil disob~­ various local church groups have volved, at predetermined meeting dience, but could be the cause for joined together to form a Bloomington­ places. letter writing, phone calls to repre­ Normal Pledge of Resistance group. sentatives, and marches. The Bloomington/Normal Pledge of Re­ This group, although still in the sistance group is planning on drawing After the pledges have been distri­ formative stage, hopes to model its up its own pledge in the form of a buted and returned, group members plan from both the National Pledge brochure which will be distributed will assess the information received of Resistance and local sources, such to contacts and supporters of Peace in order to determine the strength as the brochure distributed by the in Central America as well as various of the various levels of participa- Peace Initiative in Champaign. local organizations and church groups. tion, and can then begin to formulate The body of this brochure will be the a specific plan of action for the The National Pledge of Resistance pledge itself. The pledge as is now Bloomington-Normal area. vle hope describes a structured set of pro­ stands gives a person a variety of there will be a strong showing of cedures in the event of a u.s. options to commit her/himself to, support and commitment. invasion of Nicaragua, a U.S. naval ranging from willingness to support blockade of Nicaraguan harbors, air the pledge to willingness to receive Copies of the B/N Pledge of Resis­ bombing in Nicaragua, and/or invasion training to participate in non-violent tanc·e are available at the Newman by proxy forces. These procedures in­ civil disobedience. Center, 501 s. Main Street, Normal. clude vigils, marches, peaceful occu­ pation of senate and representative It is hoped that by providing several Diane Perris offices, and mass civil disobedience, possibilities for levels of participa­ at local, state, and national levels. tion, the pledge will reach out and Operation Recycle looking for office paper

One person's junk mail is Operation The recycling center no longer needs will.go toward funding Operation Re­ Recycle's treasure, according to Myra recyclers to sort the paper by colors. cycle. Gordon, Recycling coordinator. The Office paper will be accepted at the community recycling center is now able recycle drives, starting with the next For more info~ation, contact Opera­ to recycle larger quantities of white drive on April 13. It may be left in tion Recycle at 829-0691. and colored office papers. any of OR's drop boxes or brought to the OR warehouse at 1100 w. Market. This kind of paper includes everything April 13-Recycling drive at Sears, except glossy or coated papers, com­ To promote the use of recycled paper, Eastland and ISU Turner Hall puter paper and construction paper. Operation Recycle will be selling lots from 9arn-3pm. All re­ Newspapers must be kept in separate recycled stationery at,a.displa.y at cyclables accepted. sacks from the office paper~ as the College Hills Mall April 27-28 during April 22-28-State of Illinois Recyc­ two go to different ·markets. Enve­ recycling week. Twenty kinds of ling Week. lopes may be left in with the office stationery featuring peace symbols, April 27-28-0peration Recycle booth at paper as long as they do not have nature, low technology symbols, and College Hills Mall. Sale cellophane windows. so on, will be for sale. Proceeds of recycled stationery. Aluminum can buyback machine demonstration. So, you think you're funny?! Operation Recycle buyback open every Now's your chance to prove it when All contestants receive a Miller Wednesday and Saturday 9arn-12noon. ISU's Student Center Board presents t-shirt or hat. You can sign up the Lite Beer Comedy Challenge. until April lOth in the administra- Stand-ups or groups are welcome to . tive office on the first floor of try their material in hopes of win­ Bone Student Center (across from Senior health screening ning the $125 grand prize and a book­ Crock n' Roll). The show will be ing at a future show. $60 will be held Thursday, April llth at 8:00 The McLean County Health Department awarded to second place, $30 to p.m. in the Prairie Room. Admission will be conducting a health screening third place, $20 to fourth place, and is free. For more information clinic for senior citizens at the and $9.98 to fifth place. call 438-5411. Get your act together LeRoy Community Building, 201 S. East and take the comedy challenge! St., LeRoy, Illinois, on Friday, April 19th from 10:30 A.M. to 12:00 noon. Blood pressure, urine, hema­ tocrit and glucose tests will be pro­ vided to senior citizens sixty years of age or older.

Senior Citizens Health Check is a GPA schedule program provided by the McLean County Health Department through partial support of the-East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging.

No appointment is necessary. Dona­ tions are accepted. For more in­ ISU's Gay People's Alliance has the Saturday April 20: First Annual Big formation, call the Health Department foliowing schedule for the rest of GPA Picnic. B.Y.O. whatever. at 454-1161. the spring semester: Noonish Ashe Park. Additional clinics: Wednesday April 3: Guided discussion Wednesday April 24: Literature on Lesbian separatism. 8:00 p.m. presentation. _8:00 p.m. Bloomington--May 3, 9am-ll:30am, 112 Fairchild. 112 Fairchild. Miller Park Pavillion

Wednesday April 10: Bowling. 6:30p.m. Wednesday May 1: Social. 8:00p.m. Colfax--May lst, l2:30pm-2pm, Bowling and Billiards Center. 112 Fairchild. American Legion Hall Wednesday April 17: Gary Link, speaking about his gay counseling For more information, see the Today program at Peoria's Human Services section of the Vidette, or stop by c Center. 8:00 p.m. 112 Fairchild: during on~ of the meetings.

A reunion will be held in St. Louis Shipmates on October 24-26, 1985 for survivors of the USS St. Lo, CVE 63. Please Childbirth and parenting information contact John Ibe, 1477 Lakeridge exchange garage sale. 2908 Grandview s~~ght Lane, El Cajon, California 92020 Bloomington. Saturday, April 27th, or phone his office (619) 458-9822. R-4. Page 16 Post-Amerikan Apri11985 Miscellaneous outra es Pantagraph ignores black mortality Ethnic

On March 23, the Pantagraph printed a latest budget shows that Reagan is glowing report--complete with a 3- planning to kill more babies. background color chart--on the state of Americans' health. If the Pantagraph could restrain its editing, maybe even make a few brings theft The story was based on the annual connections between social policies report of the U.S. Department of and their effects, maybe some of our Health and Human Services, which community's self-appointed champions reported that deaths from heart of.children would be inspired to suspects disease and stroke have declined, agitate in a useful direction. · while life expectancy has increased. $100,000 b~il "Among other health standards," the Pantagraph reported, "infant mortality Three foreign-speaking suspects continued to decline, though at a Why wait for arrested for theft over $150 in early slowing pace that worries some." March were held on $100,000 bail each, according to a March 2 Pantagraph That's all the Pantagraph had to say public input? article. about infant mortality. E_very few years lately, the Illinois The unusually high bail was set for The Pantagraph completely iqnored one Commerce Commission holds public only one reason: the suspects are of the report's most alarming hearings to gather the public's gypsies. statistics: that infant mortality for opinions on Illinois Power Company's U.S. blacks is on the increase. latest request for a rate hike. State's Attorney Ron Dozier told the Pantagraph he was pleased the Several national radio broadcasts After studying the power company's prohibitively high bail was approved. carried the news about blacks. I proposal, hearing arguments, and assume the AP wire also carried it. gathering public input, the ICC staff "We don't know i~ they are Polish," makes a recommendation to the full the Pantagraph quoted Dozier. "We The information's absence from the commission. don't know if they are who they say Pantagraph may reflect the priorities they are. We do know they are of Pantagraph editors who condense Most of the public don't really. gypsies." wire service stories. believe their opinions matter. But the ICC staff continues the charade, The Constitution, which applies to And the statistic's very .existence and a few hundred citizens voice their both citizens and non-citizens, states also reflects some priorities-­ objections each time an increase is that people charged with criminal Reagan's. Malnutrition and inadequate proposed. offenses are entitled to bail that is health care--the results of Reagan's reasonable. social service cutbacks--are taking This year in Bloomington, the ICC their heaviest toll on poor black staff messed up its timing a bit. 'But Ron Dozier explained to Pantagraph women and their children. readers why the Constitution shouldn't Just one day before the public hearing apply to members of certain ethnic As Alexander Cockburn said in The in Bloomington, the Pantagraph groups. Nation, "That's Reaganism for you; let reported that the ICC Commission staff the embryo come to term and then allow had recommended that IPC get a 14.4% Dozier made a distinction between the magic of the free market to do it increase. (The power company had "good gypsies" and the ones "who come in with a supply-side postpartum asked for 19.3%.) throug~ and make long hauls" of stolen abortion." goods, use (ake names, and are "non­ Well, they knew what the public would existent no-shows" for court Reagan policies kill babies. The say anyhow. appearance if they get out on bail. Mirror, mirror, on the ·wall ... 'l.'his morning, after just

Back to that gruesome thing in the mirror. I sure hope nobody tries to guess my age today. I'm aware how many years older I look when I had one-too-many drinks and not enough sleep the night before. I guess I should slow this fast life down a little I'll start tomorrow.

I escape from the full length and retire to the security of the bath­ r~om. And it's now, seated on my private throne, that I can relate to the COMPANY PRESIDENT, who is in Spring doing the same thing at about the same time. Looking down I notice 105 Broadway • Normal how badly my toenails need cutting I'll do it tomorrow.

There are two kinds of sho11ers: the @PITAR one you take when you ;Jlan to he ini:.i­ We teach you to play, mate with snmeone, Pnd the good ole, [!!_ORLD fast, work shower. I'n out i~ one then sell you the right guitar. April1985 Post-Amerikan Page 17 ouma have missed,co~iled by Mark Silverstein Pantag'raph reinforces anti-woman stereotypes

Police beat reporter Scott Richardson putting the glass in the bar herself, each filed charges.against two is at it again. police said." separate women for falsely reporting two separate incidents? Last year, Richardson's overblown I have urged before, in print, that stories about the so-called "gay sex Richardson attempt to learn pattern Can you think of any stereotypes he ring" served to reinforce hysterical recognition. I was irritated, for might be trying to reinforce? anti-gay attitudes. example, when a story relating a Last fall, the Post criticized citizen complaint about Patrolman Tom Richardson's uncritical acceptance of Sanders' alleqed police brutality Tenants won't get police drug misinformation, in a stor} failed to make use of the Pantagraph's which served to reinforce hysterical clipping file on the officer. That attitudes about the dangers of file would have revealed that Tom notice of inspections experimenting with substances other Sanders had previously shot an Bloomington's urban renewal department than alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. innocent person and that a Bloomington plans to begin inspections of a large woman was acquitted of an aggravated number of west-side homes June 1. In a March 15 story, Richardson went battery charge after Judge Knecht out of his way to reinforce hysterical ruled that Sanders had used excessive Inspectors are looking for housing anti-woman attitudes. ·force. code violations.

Richardson was writing about McLean It took several complaints, several Urban renewal head Don Tjaden says County police filing a disorderly investigations, and even a couple that property owners will receive conduct charge against a woman from lawsuits before Pantagraph articles notice from the City before an Kempton. She was charged with filing took note of the violent pattern in inspection is to begin. a false police report. · Tom Sanders' conduct. But tenants will get no such notice. She was charged with falsely reporting Now that Scott Richardson is noticing earlier in the week that she had been a pattern, I should be pleased with Why? beaten, abducted, and threatened with his progress. But reporters are rape in rural McLean County. supposed to note significant patterns. The City has "no way" to notify They are not supposed to take note tenants, Tjaden told the Post-Amerikan That's what the news story was about. every time two separate incidents last month. have one or two things in common. But Scott Richardson added these two Now I would think that if the paragraphs: For example, reporters don't say "It inspectors knew the address of the was the second time this month that a building they were going to inspect, "She was the second woman charged with traffic accident occurred on a sunny then they would also know how to put filing a false police report in the day." that same address on an envelope. county this month." Scott Richardson chooses which Perhaps someone should let Don Tjaden "A Bloomington woman who first patterns to recognize and mention in know about the U.S. Postal Service. reported she was hospitalized after print and which ones to ignore. So eating glass bits in a granola bar was why did he choose to notice that two charged after she later admitted separate local police agencies had O.nly with your consent

When city inspectors want to get into your house, you don't have to let them in. If they don't have your consent, r------SPRrNG-~~~~ they have to get a warrant. (They will be able to get such a warrant, for the limited purpose of inspecting for code violations.) Even if your landlord says the inspectors can come t t in, you still don't have to let them in unless they hav€ a warrant. Gordon Ropp oinks again

State representative Gordon Ropp must be spending too much time at his farm outside of Normal. His legislative proposals are beginning to sound no better than the squeals, grunts and oinks of certain domesticated animals. For example, consider Ropp's bill to force the Department of Corrections to maintain only one centralized law library for its 17 separate institutions.

According to a Pantagraph article, Ropp wants a centralized systen "rather than allow such a small percentage of these inmates who can even read to have that much money tied up in the system."

Ropp, who is free to walk into any library in the state during any of its open hours, added that prisoners "have a greater access to law libraries than you and I."

Ropp, of course, doesn'.t need a law library. He can hire any lawyers he needs. Most prisoners can't. And even with a small law library in each prison, security procedures limit prisoners' access to already limited materials, straining prisoners' Merrill FADE l abilities to comply with deadlines for t 6 : 00 p.m. Cha.ndler/ Iscw.c Do.rrell Ovido. Allison v;nce Beryle their appeals. q:QOp.m. Fnnier Powell Dyer Keyes Akers Ro.ndo.ll Ropp probably thinks that prisoners t ~~~ton BL~~K t shouldn't be allowed to waste the courts' time with appeals anyway. (,.,y J"i m i'l••smt Jeff Fortunately, he can't introduce bills t q:~~P·" Chris Cnthy Vic p *A t in the state legislature to do away Voss Pricho.rd Gvngor' Hirsc.hber.9 with that right. (The Supreme Court '12:00o..m. Kennedy 'vlo.sner Solber \ ' gets to squelch that one.) ·~~ .. ---~-..~~~~~~~~~a.~~·~~ Page 18 Post-Amerikan Apri11985 I r PLEAS£ t\\R . .tl Making sex/ {)OS{MAN, LOOK AND SEE/ IF ~l-l£'R.E 1.5 A making babies L £:'f'(£R l N Dear Post staff, youR_ but more than that, ,Post readers-- l3AG toR-. Me... I'm not sure if this is a letter to the editor or a short "article," but here goes. I WISH you'D Vasectomy. I've had mine too.

S{OP AND 1'\A KIZ I must have had the same doctor that M£" f~E"L Bt::{{E:"Rj Bill had (look out for a guy with a lot of Germanic names). My lover was By ]RING I ,.. ,r Mt: living out of town at the time, so I didn't have to put up with the "little A CARD oR A woman" bullsh*t (and neither did she), Lt'f1'£"R .. but I did find him amazingly unsubtle and insensitive.

At the hospital, as he was washing me Dear Post, up in preparation for the surgery, I protested (mildly) that he was being Bravo! As an avid fan of both the a bit rough, and he answered, "Oh, I don't think so." "Whose balls are Post Amerikan and the Daily Pantagraph those anyway?" I blurted out--just as Pantagraph, I was thrilled to see the the valium took effect and I began to story on the YWCA in the March 7 issue Thanks, Post of the Daily Pantagraph giving doze out. My last fully-conscious recognition to the Post, even though thought was "Real smart--make the guy with the knife mad just as you're Dear ~ Amerikan, i~ took them eleven paragraphs to do so. going under." Anyhow, it was OK, and Thank you for sending me the subscrip­ I'm glad I did it. tion ordering form to where I can It's about time the citizens of these continue receiving the paper. beautiful twin cities became aware of, Which brings me to reasons. The angle as the Pantagraph so appropriately put on vasectomy in the Februar~ issue It's a very interesting paper, and it, the other "Twin Cities (the cover and the articles) worries thank you for your printing the publication." As I said, I enjoy both me. Seems to me that having the truthful matters of Bloomington and newspapers. The big difference I seem surgery for somebody else, even some­ Normal. to make between them is the fact that body you love, is a false reason, a I scan the Daily Pantagraph, from self-deception, and dangerous. Hopefully, within the next couple of cover to cover, but I read the Post months I'll be able to send you a Amerikan from cover to-coYer. Isn't the question whether or not you donation. want to be fertile? It was for me At any rate, you should all be proud anyhow--and I didn't, so I had the Respectfully, of the quality work you do, with or operation. without the Daily Pantagraph's --John Woodruff A-57811 approval. Keep up the good work! Then the next question is why don't you want to be fertile? Well, again, Box 99 Pontiac, IL 61764 it's nice if it is good for somebody --Jim Rednour else (turns out mine was that too-­ that was a bonus, however, not a reason), but I didn't want to be That certain fertile because (1) I didn't want to Post Note: If you notice the Post have any more children, and (2) I Amerikan staff frisking about with un­ "je-ne-sais-quoi ... " wanted making sex and making babies lined brows and blissful smiles, the to-be separate activities. cause is not just spring. It's Dear Lovable Lefties: partly relief, because our direct mail Think about that for a minute. If fund drive has been so successful. The $30 you request is, alas, a bit making sex and making babies are Here are some notes we've received separate, sex gets a chance to be along with the many generous contri­ stiff for a student budget. I too live on Blatz beer (though not on something it can't be otherwise. It's butions. sprouts). I hope the enclosed smaller only a chance, not a certainty, but it sum can do you some good; no doubt is a chance. And if we get away from you can find a use for it. At any the tyrannical idea of what consti­ Great work rate, please accept this lousy ten tutes "real sex" i.e. heterosexual bucks as a token of gratitude and intercourse to orgasm--the whole idea Dear Post staff: of sex opens up. commendation for your efforts to date, and keep the good t,o70rk coming. Enclosed is a contribution in ap~reci­ Think about what it would do to our ation for your great t,oTOrk in exposing The Post helps to endow Bloomington nation's homophobia, for example, if the abuses of the local police. .,.,i th its own ~eculiar charm. But we could see our way clear to make perhaps.you are not willing to con­ that distinction--if we weren't cede to Bloomington the possession --G.'!"' • committed to the idea of coitus as of any such "je-ne-sais-quoi"? If "real sex," the rest of it being not, you haven't lived in Champaign. "foreplay" or something else. --M.A. Anyhow, my big thing in this piece is No greater freedom that the question for a man ought to be "Do I want to be fertile?" If so, why? If not, why not? Dear Post Amerikan: Charge more! Dear I'ost: Seems to me it's ultimately Hould that I could claim this was a Enclosed is a check in the amount of patronizing (a way of treating your wild, impulsive gift prompted by the lover as "the little woman" just $10. Sorry it can't be the $30 reques­ clever direct-market appeal that in­ like the Doctor ordered) to have a cluded a self-addressed envelope. ted, but money is tight everY'vhere. I vasectomy in order to "help out with hut no, my impulsiveness is oftentimes have been subscribing for about 12 the fertility problem"--like helping checked by the absence of free postage years. I did not particularly enjoy out with the dishes, the child care, on such envelopes. ·when you concentrated on drugs and MEG, etc., as if they were really women's nor gay rights as you do no.,.,, as it problems and not men's. -My kids are Al~\"', I must admit to a purely gets boring after a while. I do like mine too, and so are the dirty dishes rational motive in responding to your to read about the downtrodden in Bloom­ mine too--and so's my in/fertility. collective call. ?here is no greater ington/Normal, health, and the landlord freedom we have than free speech; no abuse stories. Think about it. truer manifestation of that than the free press; and no finer example of I think the purpose of an alte.rnative --Gabriel ~Oak- the press than opportunities for the newspaper is to dig up the little known average guy to contribute freely to accounts of people being run over by the general discourse. Take this from the system ..• to give a fair accounting one who, as you knm~, makes his living of both sides ... and not to lean so in this very fiela. For an heavily on one side so as to give a underground paper to last as long as biased accounting (something for which the Post, through volunteer energy and you criticize the Pantagraph). coMmitment is laudable; to continue in this age of self-centered conserv­ You have a good newspaper. Part of atism is no less than remarkable. your financial problem is that you do not charge enough for it, and perhaps Advocacy journal~sm from the point of you need to get more advertisers. You view of the little guy (gender-neutral publish 10 issues a year. Each issue term) is a sorely. needed commodity. is worth at least 75¢. Make the sub­ Keep up the energy . . scription price $7.50. Inflation hits everyt:·J.ing. No one should kick about Love, peac~ & change, paying 75¢ an issue.

--T.L. --C.H. When the falcon flew, April 1985 Post-Amerikan Page 19 the fuzz In the meantime, the newsman, who didn't know Lynch/Harmon was in Costa Rica leading federal agents into the jungle, began to get suspicious about meeting the Boyce connection. So he floundered located someone who knew Lynch/Harmon Those of you who were intrigued by The in San Jose, a man named Carlos who Falcon and the Snowman, the book and · .told the newsman a curious story. It recent movie about the two California seemed that Lynch/Harmon, a few months middle class youths, Christopher Boyce before all this was happening in Costa (the Falcon) and Andrew Lee (the 'Rica, had called Carlos and asked him Snowman), who drifted into espionage, ·to send a telegram which read: "Cancel will want to read the followup that meeting in Mexico City. Change to San traces the falcon's flight from prison Jose, Costa Rica. Must see yOU." in January of 1980 and his eventual Carlos couldn't remember why Lynch/ apprehension in August of 1981. Harmon wanted the telegram sent, but he did remember one more detail: "He a The story of Christopher Boyce's asked me to sign it 'C.B.'" The news­ escape contains an improbable and man left San Jose .a few days later. daring break-out, an incredible series of inept efforts by two law-enforce­ Not in touch with the newsman, the u.s. ment agencies (the u.s. Marshals Se~ agents stayed on in Costa Rica for vice and the FBI) to track the lone several more weeks. It was March, and inexperienced fugitive, and the 1981, more than a year since Boyce had surprisingly simple capture of escaped. Lynch/Harmon kept assuring "America's most-wanted spy." The Some reviewers have criticized Lindsey them Boyce would show. He didn't. Flight of the Falcon by Robert Lindsey for devoting two-thirds of this book Finally the Marshals reluctantly con­ details just how easily Boyce was able to the unsuccessful attempts of law­ cluded that Lynch/Harmon was a liar to elude the massed forces of law and enforcement to find Boyce. But I and a hoaxer. No closer to the Falcon order for almost two years. While the think these accounts are very reveal­ than they were 14 months before, the hunt ranged as far afield as Costa ing. The u.s. Marshals Service was federal agents flew back to California. Rica, South Africa, southern Califor­ competing with the FBI and was so And so did Tommy Lynch/Harmon, using a nia, New Jersey, Australia, and Mexico, eager to find Boyce--and save their ticket paid for by the u.s. govern­ Boyce was holed up in a hideout of a agency from being disbanded--that they m~.nt. frontierswoman in the Idaho mountains. were willing to run down any lead, no matter how harebrained or preposterous Later he moved on to the Seattle, A loony world Washington, area, where he lived well it was. as a bank robber and quite openly The Costa Rica hunt was not the only under aliases. Costa Rica wild goose-chase the u.s. Marshals went on in their pursuit of Boyce. An Boyce escaped from the Lompoc Federal For example, there was the Costa Rica ex-mercenary named Riley staged an Correctional Institution, a maximum­ fiasco. The Marshals heard about this elaborate ruse that diverted the hunt security prison about 175 miles north lead from watching tv: a newscaster to South Africa and san Fransisco. of Los Angeles. He literally lived had dug up an informant by the name of (Riley was,later judged to be mentally off the land, eating berries and in­ Tommy Roger Harmon, an American Viet ill and a danger to society.) Acting sects and wandering the hills around Nam veteran who claimed to have seen on tips from inmates, ex-cons, and Lompoc before making his way north to Boyce in Mexico City. Harmon also other informers, the searchers weren't Monterey and then to Idaho. Until claimed that Boyce was smuggling guns outsmarted by Boyce--he did almost 1980, federal officials thought that into Central America with the finan­ nothing to mislead his pursuers--but the fugitives had probably perished in cial backing of Cuba. This outlandish by their own inability to distinguish the wilderness surrounding the prison tale fit so well with the agents' own between worthwhile leads and phony or had fled to a foriegn country with view of Boyce as a sinister Commie spy ones. In the loony world of spies and the help of the KGB. that they lapped up all the bait counterspies, it's apparently not Harmon threw out. possible to tell the difference bet­ ween the loonies and the CIA opera­ Two Marshals tailed the newsman to tives whose definition of "the truth" Costa Rica, where they all sat for a . is something they don't tell the GEORGE F. TASE FF week. It turned out that the newsman public. was waiting for Harmon to show up, but ATTORNEY AT LA'W Harmon was detained by the U.s. Mar­ The Flight of the Falcon doesn't con­ shals Service who had taken him to centrate on Boyce's experiences while ~ M7 eJW.1 p.JIJLclJ.,c.e ~ Washington, D.C., for lie detector on the lam, and what it does reveal tests. Harmon supposedly "passed" about this fascinating side of the e/ffl pkM u ffl7 0t.iJrfl ifr!al ~ three sue~ tests and then proceeded to story makes us wish Lindsey had told aJ71&CANii'RjjJ.P!M Cost Rica, where he said he would lead us more. But the author does a real the federal agents to Boyce. service by exposing how much time and 503 E. Empire, Bloomington, IL 61701, B27-6528 energy our law enforcement agencies Harmon, whose real name was Lynch, waste in playing their cloak-and-dag­ claimed he had agreed to go into the ger games. gun-running business with Boyce and that he was to have another meeting to The final irony of the book comes Business card size ads make the final arrangements. He even after.the Marshals finally run Boyce $6 for individuals,. showed the Marshals a telegram he down. America's "most wanted spy" was captured because he revealed his iden­ (businesses slightly higher) allegedly received from Boyce before changing the meeting place £rom tity to a fellow bank robber who Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica. snitched on him. Although the federal A Great Deal! agents almost didn't follow the·tip (they had been burned so often in the Call 828-7232 last year and a half), they wasted no or write P.O. Box 3452, Bloomington Waiting for Boyce time in patting themselves on the back for their "investigative" work. Less Lynch/Harmon and the agents (five of than a month after Boyce's apprehen­ them by this time) waited in San Jose sion, the director of the u.s. Mar~ for Boyce to show up at a bar that shals Service gave the Distinguished Lynch/Harmon claimed the spy visited Service Award to the man who led the at least once a week. Boyce didn't hunt and Special Acheivement Awards to 'A hilarious cartoon histol) show. So Lynch/Harmon took the U.S. nine agents involved in the search for ; of the good old U.S.A. agents and three Costa Rica police on Boyce. The Attorney General, the head By Estelle Caroi,Rhoda Grossman and Bub Simpson a four-hour trip into the jungle to of the CIA, and various congressguys , find Boyce's hideout. Lynch/Harmon sent letters of congratulation. $6.95 ~ sk for it at your locaJ Bookstou .'couldn't find it. So they waited or onkr from­ ·again in san Jose, at the bar. Two Nobody figured out how much money the Aiyson Pub[i,·ations PO Box 2783 D•·pt. B-1 more weeks went by, several agents capture of Boyce cost the taxpayers. ;;,.,•ston, .\lassat.:hus~ttl (l22U8 $7.50 postpaid returned to the u.s., Boyce didn't l e:luced rates for multiple copies) ..._..._.._.....=..~ show. --Ferdydurke OH 1 FoR CFW1N' our- Lt'>vD' IIERE: Lvt G-O A6AIN.' L '.M. GoNNA 6tTE YEAH, THE.Y SAY tHAT TIIAT JERK owNEF(. oF M fNE /IV 71/E 1"\lXING- 'Tf(E f3fuRTH -roof( Lt TTLE aow­ LE66ED MUTT.' 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