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Volume 12, Number 9
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DAN WHITE IS OUT AND NOT SORRY ~Jtrak station, 1200 w. Front Twinkie killer gets released after just 5 years .••.••.•••.••••.•••• S Ault Pharmacy, 1102 s. Main The Back Porch, 402~ N. Main LIQUOR COMMISSION SHOW THEIR CLASS_ ~iasi's Drugstone, 217 N. Main New license decisions smack of discrimin~tion •.•••••.•.••...•••.••• 8 Bus Depot, 523 N. East The Coffee Shop, s. Main TOUGHER LAWS FOR DRUNK DRIVING Common Ground, 516 N. Main Better be aware of the increased penalties •••••.••..•••••••••.•..•. 9 Front and Center Bldg. Haag Drugstore, ~9 w. Washington HENDRICKS CASE REVELATIONS UPSET DOZIER Haag Drugstore, 1110 E. Oakland State's Attorney flaps his lip again •••••••••.••••.••.•••••••..••• lO Law & Justice Center, w. Front Medusa's Adult World, 420 N. Madison COMPUTER PREDICTS DANGERS IN NUKE LAUNCH POLICY Mel-0-Cream Doughnuts, 901 N~ Main We may have just three days till the holocaust ••.••••.•••••..••••. ll Mike's Market, 1013 N. Park Mr. Donut, 1310 E. Empire NEW COVERT NARC FORCE BEGINS LOCAL ROUND UPS Nierstheimer Drugs, 1302 N. Main Zone 6 Major Crimes Task Force sets up shop in B-N ••••••••••••. l2-13 Pantagraph (in front of building), 301 W. Washington 1984 THEME OF IWU ART SHOW The Park Store, Wood & Allin Is technology the new religion of the 80s? •••.••...•••••• ·.••••••.• l4 Red Fox, 918 w. Market Small Changes Bookstore, 409A Main HOLY SEE-SAW Susie's Cafe, 602 N. Main Recognizing the Vatican may cause Reagan headaches •••••.••••...•• l6 U.S. Post Office, 1511 E. Empire (at exit) HI-TECH BABIES IN BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL U.S. Post Office, Center & Monroe Is hospital birthing necessary? •.••••••....••••••••.•.•..••..•.•. l7 Wash House, 609 N. Clinton Washington St., across from-courthouse 'SOMETHING ABOUT AMELIA' OPENS DISCUSSION w.w. Bake Shop, 801 E. Washington . TV movie handles tough subject effectively ••••••••••••••••••••••• l8 NORMAL PROTECT NEIGHBORHOOD STORES--BOYCOTT CUB FOODS Don't patronize non-union, east-side store ••••••••.•••••••••••••. 21 Alamo II, 319 North (in front} Blue Dahlia, 121 E. Beaufort TROOPS INVADE ANGEL ISLAND ISU University Union, 2nd floor Grunts win another one for the Gipper ••••••••••••••••••••.••••••• 22 iSU University Union, parking lot __ entrance WATER DEPARTMENT ENTERS BLOOMINGTON HOMES UNASKED ISU Milner Library (entrance) Another reason to lock your door •••••••••••.•••••.••••••••.•••• ~.23 Fink's, 111 E. Beaufort (in front) Midstate Truck Plaza, u.s. §1 north LOCKED IN THE ELECTRIC SWEATSHOP Mother Murphy's, 111~ North st. VDT operators no better than old time factory workers •••••••.•.•. 24 North & Broadway, southeast corner Old Main Bookstore, 207 s. Main Miscellaneous outrages ..••• 6 Letters •••..•. 20 Record Service, Watterson Place My Sister, the Punk Rocker ...• ? Community news •••• 20 Redbird IGA, 310 S. Main Amerikan Almanak •••••.•••••.•..• l9 Classy-fried ads .•••. 20 Upper Cut, 318 Kingsley ·, White Hen Pantry, 207 Broadway (in front) Post Amerikan Volume 12, Number 9 Member, Alternative Urbana, Horizon Bookstore, 517 s. BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL'~ ALTERNATIVE SINCE 1972 Press Syndicate Goodwin Blackburn College Bookstore, The Post 1\Inerikan is an independent Carlinville, Illinois community newspaper providing infor W~ ~ike to print your letters. Try to mation and analysis that is screened l1m1t yourself to the equivalent of out of or downplayed by establishment two double-spaced typewritten pages. news sources. We are a non-profit, If you write a short, aLusive letter worker-run collective that exists as it's likely to get in print. Long, ' good n~mbers an alternative·to the corporate media. aLusive letters, however, are not Alcoholics Anonymous ••••••••••• 828-5049 Decisions are made collectively by likely to get printed. 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checked out the book. Arndus'.y ac- Did Jodi Foster and Taxi Driver in knowledged that the names of several spire John Hinkley to shoot Presi people came to the police's attention. dent Reagan? Did Twinkies and Coca Cola drive Dan White to gun down the Mayor of San Francisco? It appeared to the Post reporter who interviewed Dozier that the State's Did David Hendricks, the Bloomington Attorney was willing to change the man charged in the ax murders of his request so that it asked only for the wife and children, get some ideas records of a specific person. Amdur for the crime from a book he checked sky confirmed that the library made out of the library? Apparently the_ no effort to negotiate, even informally, Bloomington police thought it was about the terms of the subpoena. The possible. The Post Amerikan has director said he talked to the law learned that during the investigation yers--who represent the State and of the Hendricks' case the police the City, not the library board--and subpoenaed circulation records from found out that "the requestinq author the Bloomington Public Library to ities were within the law." And that determine if Hendricks had read a was that. fact raises the most serious objection book called Fatal Vision. to the whole business of searching Although Amdursky said "We were not library records: it's bogus. What According to Saul Amdursky, director going to release records if we did a person checks out of a library is of the Bloomington library, the police not have to," he also admitted that nobody else's business and it doesn't presented him with "a properly secured the attorneys he consulted advised prove a thing about the person's subpoena" and he turned over the against fighting the subpoena in character, behavior, or anything else. circulation records requested, after court. It doesn't even prove that the talking with the State Library in person has read the book. Springfield (which is under the Secre Second, it became clear to the Post tary of State's Office) and the City Amerikan reporters who investigated Director Amdursky told the Post that Attorney. the incident that the library could his library keeps circulation records have objected to the broad nature of aQOUt 15 months. An informed source Director Amdursky confirmed that the the request--but didn't. State's told us that the Normal Public Library book police were interested in was Attorney Ron Dozier told the Post, keeps its records for several years. Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss. Amdur "They can move to quash the subpoena But once a book has been returned, sky also confirmed that the police if they think it's too broad." Dozier why keep the records at all? asked for a list of everyone who had didn't even know that the library had Amdursky indicated that when the checked out the book. complied. compertization of the circulation process is complete no one will know Fatal Vision is the nonfiction account who checked out a book once it has of the case of Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, been returned. the ex-Green Beret who was arrested No effort and convicted of the brutal slayings of his wife and two young daughters-- Saul Amdursky said that he has heard 9 years after the murders were comit of other cases of police checking ted. The book came out in the fall library records. The FBI got records of 1983, not too much befcre the Tom Eimermann of the American Civil from John Hinkley's hometown library Hendricks killings occurred on Bloom Liberties Union said he wished that in Colorado, for instance. In an ington's east side. the library had moved to quash the other case the Post has heard about, subpoena. Eimermann pointed out that the police decided that a crime they "searches" like this one raise impor were investigating had something to do tant civil liberties questions that with witchcraft or the occult, so they Striking parallels need to be decided in court. went to the local library to see who had recently checked out books on the An Illinois law which became effective subject of witchcraft.· The parallels between the McDonald Jan. 1, 1984, requires that the in case and the Hendricks case are formation contained in the registra You can see how dangerous this striking, especially if you want to tion and circulation records of approach to criminal investigation believe that David Hendricks is libraries be kept confidential. But is: people are incriminated by guilty of killing his wife and kids. the new law (Public Act 83-179) con what they read (or check out). Librarian Amdursky refused to confirm tains an exception "pursuant to a that the police discovered what they court order." It's good to have a Police should be discouraged from were looking for--presumably, whether law like this one on the books; but using this meaningless procedure. David Hendricks had checked out Fatal if libraries don't fight subpoenas It is a clear threat to privacy and Vision. that are too broad or otherwise un individual liberty. Librarians, reasonable, the legislation doesn't library boards, library associations, Several disturbing points surfaced in provide much protection for a citi and the ACLU should take a strong the Post's probe of this matter. zen's private reading tastes. stand that keeps the cops out of the libraries and preserves our First, the police did not confine It's bogus right to read what we want. their request to the records of specific individuals (Hendricks or --Ferdydurke, Mark Silverstein anyone else they may have suspected). The Hendricks case shows th~t police They went on a "fishing expedition" can find out who reads what just Ly for the names of anybody who had asking for the information. This
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Sister Boom-Boom also said out loud what many protestors were thinking: "Yesterday was the last day Dan White could spend knowing he would live through the day. Today Dan White begins a life sentence--and I'm sorry to say it won't be.· a very long one. " Sensing this mood of vengeance in the crowd, attorney Mary Dunlop, another rally speaker, warned the protestors: "We demean ourselves and we become our own enemies when we expect to avenge this wrong by killing the killer." FINES GAY ENTERTAINMEN Despite the angry tone of the midday protest, there were no confrontations IN CENTRAL \LLINOIS with the police. The evening rally OPEN NIGHTLY 'TIL +A.M. on Castro was lighter, with musicians and entertainers added to the roster PRESENT THIS AD AT THE BAR of speakers. FOR A DRINK. LIMIT ONE' PER CUSTOMER PER NIGHT Singer-songwriter Blackberri moved through the crowd with a number Miscellaneous outrages you may have missed compiled by Mark Silverstein Murdoch acquires Post·Amerikan
There'll be some changes in the for Hho's nuking who. Bland economic mat of this paper now that millionaire forecasts are as dead as last week's ------publisher Rupert Murdoch has bought marine. it for an undisclosed sum rumored to be as high as three figures. "Headlines ... you gotta grab the eye. You guys are way too downbeat. Murdoch himself could not be reached Look at this cover: nice graphic, because he was busy selecting the if you biz it up a bit with some "Babe of the Week" photo for the Times color, but the head is nowhere- of London, but a spokesperson for him "Revenge of the Cabbage Patch Kids." said that the Post Amerik~n needed a I mean, c'mon! For something like number of style changes. this you need what we call a nut grabber: "Tots Slash Dozens in Toy "First off," said the spokesperson, Orgy." See what I mean? Now that'll "more color. Lots more. Purple sell papers." lettering will really grab the eye. And pies, tons of pies. Something to Post Amerikan staffers Ferdydurke, County Board hold the interest. We plan to run a Phoebe Caufield, and Marshall Law, shot of a naked narc, full front, picketing outside the paper's main every month, plus a Ms. Demeanor on office, told this reporter that they muzzles public page 2. were considering founding a rival A new state law requires that county publication of their own. boards permit members of the public "And the format has got to change. to comment or ask questions at ~ounty No more of this wimpy cerebral junk. "We're not sure what to call it," board meetings. The law permits If you're gonna talk politics, go said Phoebe. "Maybe the Pre the county boards to restrict the for it! Print the ballsy stuff. Determined." public's right "subject to reasonable Believe me, economic forecasts Jon't constraints." go over. Dirt sells, man! Your "Or the Post Bail," said Ferdy. average Joe Liberal wants to know The McLean County Board spelled out --Scaramouche those "reasonable constraints" at its mid-January meeting.
Members of the public wishing to address the McLean County Board must submit a written request five days before a board meeting, according to the new policy.
This means members of the public must submit their requests to speak even before the agenda for the meeting has been published.
Former County Board member Wayne Holmes took issue with the board's decision. "You are in contempt, not in compliance of the new state law," he told the County Board, according to a Pantagraph article. Pantagraph gets high(er) ...... ------..... Group urges With a small two-column ad in its . . Life in the Sunday Jan. 15 edition, the Daily Pantagraph notified its readers that the price of home delivery would tips to police subsidized lane increase immediately from $2.75 to A local group is urging citizens $3.25 for each two-week period. to phone in anonymous tips to The opening of K's Merchandise police to report suspected drunken Mart in October drew a substantial To help gain acceptance of the drivers, according to a mid amount of additional traffic to price increase, the Pantagraph December Pantagraph article. the intersection of College ·continued its traditional. - · Avenue and Veteran's Parkway. manipulation of public sympathy Carroll Oien, President of the Accidents increased. for those young overworked news Alliance Against Intoxicated paper carriers. Motorists, said the police can Authorities took quick action. keep the source of their tips By early December, they agreed to "As a direct result of this rate anonymous. build a left-turn lane for Veteran's change the carrier delivering your Parkway. .Pantagraph ... will receive more "The ultimate objective," the profit," the announcement read. Pantagraph quoted Oien, "is to make The City of Normal will pay $10,000. it socially unacceptable to drink The Illinois Dept. of Transportation Somehow the paper forgot to and drive in McLean County." will pay $25,000. mention that the carriers will receive only 12¢ of the 50¢ The anonymous· ·tip set-up could tempt K's Merchandise Mart pays nothing. increase. potential saboteurs of the program to phone in "tips" on their favorite politicians or business executives as they leave evening meetings. (But who would ever suggest that?)
Oien believes that people drive while drunk or stoned simply because they are not afraid of getting caught. But some people drive because there aren't many transportation alterna tives to use while they're out partying.
The Bloomington City Council issues liquor licenses to outlying bars which require driving, while denying licenses tc neighborhood bars or downtown bars which would serve the social classes within walking dis 105 Broadway • Normal tance of downtown. Maybe Oien's group could push for late-night hus service to night spot @PITAR areas. With the savings in insurance pay-outs, reduced police and court time, and less strain on jail We teach. you· to .. play, ~lD facilities, a bussed drinker might the~ft ·sel-l _lou the right guitar. even be cheaper than a busted drinker. 7
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AND HE!( COLICkY COLLEiiG-Ve, Sf\/EEKtN(r SUE I KAr Afi/P Ffl.I+NKIE '5 CAS~ cAUG-HT ON L-(I IT! THAT'S I'M. HOLD IT RIG-HT IHROVG-H f'LA'f/NG- Tt-tERc FAT~olt } -. MR· NrC.£: G-UY! /fi£RE THAT WOMAN 15 5HE Is~ f:rETT/N' ALL AN IJ1f'DSTO~f! THE GLORY.f LAPPIN' IT UP WtTH A SPOON/ ACTIN' LIKf' SHetS THE ONE WHO -rHf(fW -rHAT J3RICK -rHROUfT-11 IHE BliNk WINDow! lAKIN' ALL THe CR£DJ-r ;4ND STAND/N' 1N THE f_IMf.lJ6-HT LIKE SHt:'S SOME 50t:r:l /~ PORTitiJT AND 61VIN' /HbS£ BULLS HIT {i:.I+PS TO IH£ fflESS f Wf:LL 1 T~AT'~ l T! T'IV\ 6-IV/N'TJ.IAT S /I.CH .JUST wHAT SHE" DESE~VESH Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 8 Liquor ,commission show their class A couple of recent actions by obvious "close association" with If that turns out to be the case, Bloomington's City Council and , Craig. would surely be the fault of the Liquor Commission provide further owners. City government watchers evidence of what ~eems a disturbing The commission made a feeble attempt know well that to play fast and trend of class discrimination in to justify its earlier inaction by loose.with the reactionary council applying the city codes. saying it had to wait until Craig's majority is political suicide. conviction exhausted appeals. The To begin with, the Liquor licenses of both Bacon and Casey Regardless of the council's mOtives Commission is now attempting- Jones--both owners of working-class with this license, the peculiar nearly one year after the fact--to taverns--were yanked even before condition that would not be applied undo the discrimination it was they had a chance to appeal. to an east-side business represents guilty of in cases involving a discriminatory law making. black, working-class tavern and a white, trendy one. --Holden Bernice Robert Bacon, owner of the defunct Ace High Lounge, and Michael Craig, managing partner of Shakey Jake's, were both arrested, convicted and sentenced for dealing cocaine around Christmas of 1982. Bacon is a black man who ran a multi colored club that catered primarily ' to blacks. Following his sentencing, the Liquor Commission revoked his license; the action was in accor dance with city codes prohibiting convicted felons from owning one. Craig's license was not immediately revoked. 527 N. MAIN The commission then placed an unpre BLOOMINGTON cedented four-month moratorium on 829-7760 any new license for that location. In the words of Assistant Corpora tion Counsel Paxton Bowers, the JANUARY intent was to "clear the place Wed. 25 $1.01 cover, pitchers, out." Should we suppose it is coincidence R,Abyr drinks. 7-9 p.m. that Shakey Jake's was a white KooL. Following that, Bacon's former upper-middle class place that common-law wife, Annabelle Grimm, catered chiefly to young pre~ Thur. 26 1440 Nuwavelength was refused a license to re-open the fessionals, lawyers and the like? welcomes "hard-core place because of her "close ~N£" power trash" cl.o.l... J:J. ..., 5 pe 't~j..be association with (Bacon)." Perhaps. But a review of any number of commission license hearing t/EfJ.IICllfFNf'S "!:;st. aio. The rationale is a weak one at will reveal the class consciousness best, for how much should one be at work. Time and again applicants Fri. 27 ,fllriE 1 ?'#E J/lfOKE~s responsible for the past sins of are asked what kind of clientele Sat. 28 one's pals? they will attract, including the AI<. occupations and INCOME brackets. Although the move seemed to violate 'FEBRUARY the civil rights of.Ms. Grimm, who The second case in point involves the incidentally had broken ties with application of Twyla's Rumor, Inc., Weq. 1 'UubfV,II( I(~ bar boogie for a license to operate the former Bacon, a case could be made for the Thur. 2 irtV'i~ible. commission's proper use of HiDeHo on North Main Street. licensing discretion. The record is also clear on the Fri. 3 ~J-IE J Frightened by the nuclear sword, or threatened with one, you are side, trying to find unregistered dangling a pushbutton away? Angry involved. If you've felt the cold voters and sign them up. a_bout your job that suddenly dis breath of the military draft or the appeared? Concerned because the scoc~ chilling numb of the nuclear threat, And on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 10 a.m. shovel and oil well artis~s have been you are involved. If you've worried to 2 p.m., both a county and a city let loose on the landscape? Worried that young Americans will soon be registrar will be available at the that next time you go to apply for food dodging bullets in Central America, Laborers' Hall, R.R. 3 (behind stamps, they really will ask for an you are involved. Howard Johnson's, on Cabintown Road). ounce of your flesh? Registering to vote is an easy process: All of the above can be ascribed to if you're downtown, from 8 a.m. to those fearless individuals in Wash 4:30 p.m. on any weekday, take five ington and Springfield that some of minutes and go to the County Court us entrust our lives, possible deaths house. Registration takes all of 5 .-·f and well-being with--politicians. minutes. If you're a Normal or a ~ McLean County resident, you go to ·~ Some of us, because only some of the County Clerk's office on the north us bother to registe~ and vote, ex- end of the lst floor; if you are a ~ i ercise the one group power we have Bloomington resident, you go to the over these well-oiled individuals. city election ~ommission on the 3rd ~ floor. .'tl ~~ ~ ~ ~, ~ So register and vote. If you've If you will be 18 by March 20, the moved in the past year, changed your day of the Illinois primary, you are name, or allowed your registration to eligible. The only other requirement lapse through inactivity, register is that you are an American citizen again. and have not been convicted of a major felony. Tuesday, Feb. 21, is the Don't sit on the sidelines in 1984. last day you can register before the Politics is going to be the biggest March 20th primary. Registration show'in town; it will beat the opens again on March 26 and will stay Olympics, movies, the World Series, open through October. or the Super Bowl. Politics is going to be everybody's topic. Be involved, McLean County Project Vote, a coali and be involved in your own future. tion of labor, social service, ,..10men's, and minority and senior Register and vote. organizations, will be conducting a door-to-door registration campaign on Bloomington's west side, beginning For more information on Project Vote, Feb. 4. Each weekend, volunteers call 828-4368. will sweep door to door on the west --MgM Four years ago, a has-been actor be came President of the United States, because barely 50% of the American Diesel DickS people bothered to go to the polls; the new President soon claimed an overwhelming mandate from about 26% of the American people--the majority having sat by the sidelines and let ******************** the parade pass them by. 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If you've been given a lay-off notice, Hendricks case revelations upset Dozier The famous loose lips belonging to By the time the grand jury indicted prosecutor's case look bad, which State's Attorney Ron Dozier started Hendricks in late December, the most might anger the State's Attorney, but flapping uncontrollably again in damaging evidence against Hendricks isn't grounds for a change of venue. late December. known to the public was only this: laboratory analyses of the children's There had been a Pantaqraph article stomach contents suggest they were which displeased the State's Attorney. killed at a time when, according to 0 His tongue gyrated wildly against his Hendricks' story, he was still at home. rl teeth, lips and upper palate. At the same time, his lungs expelled air, and Prosecutors and police had linked words spilled out. '<:!' their silence about the case to an co anticipated motion for a change of Apparently operating independently venue. Too much prejudicial publi rl"' of rational control, the State's city would give defendant David Attorney's mouth spluttered threats Hendricks grounds for getting the of reprisals against the Pantagraph. trial moved to another county. It mumbled vague hints of imaginary prosecutions. It uttered slanderous Krebs' article revealed that the characterizations of a Pantagraph grand jury vote to indict Hendricks reporter. It filled the airwaves had not been unanimous. Two grand (thanks to WJBC) with illogical, un jurors were quoted saying the state's supported statements. case was weak. Observers of Ron Dozier's years in Dozier was furious. public office have seen this wild mouth syndrome before. Some thought he was finally getting it under con Unwritten rules trol. This article would cost the taxpayers Second, Dozier later admitted to the money, Dozier fumed, because it would A relapse Post-Amerikan that the law is unclear make it more likely that the trial about whether grand jurors are bound would be moved. It was illegal for to silence even after the grand jury But Emile Krebs' Dec. 29 story about the grand jurors to talk about their has adjourned. He plans to write the Hendricks murder case triggered deliberations, Dozier declared, and the Attorney General for a legal Dozier's relapse. unethical for that "conniving" report opinion. er to ask them questions. Dozier de Krebs did something Dozier did not clared he would find out just how Third, the list of grand jurors' like. She interviewed some of the Krebs managed to get a list of the names is public record. grand jurors who had heard the evi grand jurors' names. The Pantagraph dence against David Hendricks. had violated "unwritten rules" Finally, any "unwritten rules" which governing relations with his office. exchange a certain level of Pantagraph From the time Hendricks' wife and Dozier threatened to stop cooperating self-censorship in return for the three children were found axed to with the Pantagraph, and said he would State's Attorney's cooperation (when death Nov. 8 in their affluent east talk to newpaper higher-ups about he wants to cooperate) deserve to be Bloomington home, investigating au Krebs' reporti 'lg. broken.· Emile Krebs and the Panta thorities have released very few graph deserve credit for breaking details. Police did not decide to First of all, trials are moved because them. arrest David Hendricks until a of publicity prejudicial to the de month later. fendant. 'hrebs' article made the By threatening to muzzle reporters with a private conference with Pan tag~aph higher-ups, by complaining about violations of these alleged tacit understandings, Dozier seems to be throwing his weight around, endangering press freedom. But a competent wielder of power would muzzle the press privately. By making these threats and charges [JJ]f?~~ § ~00000~ 'ij'C[p{P(i in public, Dozier is simply dis 'NELL, IT'S ALL O\I£R --Mark Silverstein Waiting for a sign What it didn't allow were signs expressing political opinions or Two Normal residents with the sup beliefs that are not the subject port of the American Civil Liber of an upcoming election. One of the ------ToP TEN~!! ties Union, recently won a suit residents, for instance, wanted to l.'R£GGAE against the town of Normal. Now put up signs supporting the nuclear ~Lf' they can put up whatever signs freeze.• l..PUN]( 81C\ they want in their front yards. '3. SI'Y.TIE~S ,,, Chief U.S. District Judge agreed ~- R~}(A'ilLl..Y {,G'\ Last year Normal instituted a with the plaintiffs that the Normal S. 'LOGAt.. MU'Z.lk E.l" Sign Code Ordinance, which sign code violated the First and limited the size, content, and Fourteenth amendments. In his "· SkA (")S EI\RLlER FO~I"1 Of' REGGJ\E) fJ13 duration of signs displayed in January 17 decision, he wrote that '1. Pos'! PuAJ)( Po$J1'I"E 5~S' the town. It permitted people to "Above all else, the First Amend & .FvtJI< ~12 put up temporary signs about ment protects expression on political candidates or issues which were C\. FR.oTo ~lc' COl..l> G-ARAG£ t.f\tJbS issues of the day." the subject of·a scheduled elec THE t..1\<'C) tion, and it allowed for rental, The Town of Normal may no longer en 10. ~"\IAN'r C'No~JOV$ }J'O!S£.''!!) sale, and holiday signs. force its Sign Code. --Phoebe Caulfield Post 1984 11 Amerikan U.N.·Amerikan activitiesFeb., on tall bridges. So now our dauntless leadership have decided to get out of UNESCO, taking Far from believing that the United 25% of the budget with them. They're Nations is a powerless puppet of the also screaming to get the U.N. out of err:erg ing nations, I vie•¥ it as the the U.S., and even that we shouldn't only hope of sanity in the world. It belong to it at all. it, is contrary to is currently fashionable to label this by Jeanne Kirkpatrick & Co. view "political naivete" or hatred This smacks of the kid who takes his ever happened to rolling up one's of warfare, etc. On the contrary, it football home because the other guys sleeves and getting to work on a is fairly sophisticated, if one takes are winning. Apparently the U.N. is problem? the broad view that if everyone is only a worthwhile organization as long ganging up on the U.S., then there as it does what it is told. There are I have more than a suspicion that our must be some reason. It's crazy to enough Third World nations now to respected President doesn't give a write off the rest of the world with form a solidly superior voting bloc damn what the rest of the world thinks. a gesture and a cry of "censure this, against the West's excesses, and the A near-unanimous General Assembly bozos!" Whenever the U.S.S.R. does present administration doesn't like censure for the rape of Grenada caused it, we jump on them with both f'eet. it one bit. Its answer is to quit, Reagan to say: "It didn't upset my Now that the shoe is on the proverbial to bail out. breakfast at all." He's so intent other foot, it's time to look inward. on his simple-minded crusade against The Reaganites have invested very "the focus of ultimate evil" (i.e., Maybe the Third World is mad as hell heavily in an image of old-style, Russia, if you haven't heard) that and doesn't want to take it anymore, macho, John \tlayne Amerika, an image he's forgotten about all the other so to speak. I can't think why. they're destroying with this U.N. countries of the world. We've made a habit of hypocrisy. We business. Things aren't going the way war on left-wing dictatorships while t:;ey' d like, so they want to cut and supporting right-wing fascists every run. Corruption is allegedly rampant The Third World of today is the breed bit as bad. We scream for free trade in UNESCO. Even assuming that it is, ing ground of tomorrow's major powers. while complaining about foreign com and that the power of the Third World Islam has been the ascendent culture petitors. We give lip service t~ isn't the real problem, why dump it? since the 7th century, and its momen human rights while giving arms to mass tum grows daily. Ignoring it--to say murderers. Maybe a little consis The preservation of a world-wide edu nothing of Africa--in favor ot con tency is all the world asks. All I cational, scientific, and cultural frontation with one nation and one ask is that we listen. organization is surely worthwhile. system is a suicidal policy. One Destroying it, instead of reforming track minds eventually derail, usually --Scaramouche Computer predicts dangers in nuke launch Surprisingly unpleasant results were recently obtained by students in an advanced computer simulation class at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, when they were asked in a take-home final examination to predict the most probable course of events following implementation of a "launch on-warning" policy by both the Soviets and the Americans. "Launch-on-warning" means that a re taliatory strike will be auto matically carried out if one side's computerized warning system decides that the other side is beg-inning a nuclear first strike. In other words, if one side is put into a "use them or lose them" situation, that side will "use them" rather than "lose them" to incoming missiles. Seniors and graduate students in ~·· Dr. -Brian Crissey's Discrete System launch-on-warning policy is 7 minutes, Simulation class (Applied Computer then we have no more than a 5% prob Science 344) put together the fre ability of surviving more than 5 days and that the mean time to resolve a without the onset of accidental quency of false alarms and the launch false alarm is 7 minutes. on-warning policy. The false alarm nuclear war. If the mean time to statistics carne from the North Ameri resolve false alarms is 1.5 minutes NORAD data sho~ors that false alarms can Air Defense System (NORAD). (admittedly optimistic considering are occurring at a rate of 239 per the data), then we have no more than year, and are increasing 32.4% Under a "launch-on-warning" policy, a 5% probability of surviving launch annually. With a confidence level of accidental nuclear war will begin on-warning more than 210 days before 95%, the students concluded that acci accidental nuclear war. when the time required to resolve a dental nuclear war can be expected false alarm exceeds the time needed within 3 days of the start of a for enemy missiles to strike their The inescapable conclusion is that launch-on-warning policy, given the there is no launch-on-warning policy targets. This is the "use them or assumptions. lose them" point. that can expect to avoid for more than a year self-activation of the Crissey also examined the effect of world'' s nuclear weapons syster~.. The Nine independent, correctly structured only one side using a launch-on-warn models were created, and a total of Soviet Union on ~1ay 17 announced that ing.policy, and found, as expected, it would adopt launch-on-warning 1212 simulations into the future were that it is more dangerous for both carried out. The assumptions were if the U.S. deployed Pershing II sides to use the policy than for missiles in Europe. The first that both sides use a "launch-on just one side. warning" policy, that missiles like Pershing II missiles are now oper ational in West Germany. the Pershing II arrive at their tar The results are these: If the mean gets in between 6 and 10 minutes, time to resolve false alarms under a --Brian Criss The All·new1My s~ister, · · , the Punk Rocker Buy it. · T·shirt ******************** a:t 1' I need a My Sister the Punk Rocker T-shirt. * 1'Here's my $6. '••ear,.. • . 1CName * 1'Addre;; * City, Zip______* 1t pi:re S M L XL * -0 n -it j(Here Is my generous donation of * - ~Proceeds go to the Post . . •• !f •• ~~-··-~ ...... • , call names ]~~~~ :~rikan yo_u IF. 0. Box 3452 . 'Bloomington, IL 61702 Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 12 New covert narc force A new. undercover narcotics enforcement clandestine photographers also took a Aper said his agents will be able to squad began making headlines--and toll on MEG's reputation. Director act on the Narcotics Profits Forfei arrests--in the last months of the Jerry LaGrow's fanatical passion for ture Act, which provides for confi year. secrecy verged on clinical paranoia: to scating a defendant's assets if agents thwart photographers, he ordered his can prove they came from drug-dealing The new narc unit is responsible for agents to wear ski masks while walking profits. Aper said his men have 12 arrests and "the seizure of a public streets. Yet despite MEG's additional training for gathering the large quantity of drugs, including 22 overdone precautions, photos of the sort of evidence required .. pounds of high-grade marijuana, valued unit's agents continued to show up in The MEG unit supposedly underwent that at $44,000 and cocaine and LSD valued the Post-Amerikan. The narc squad's together at more than $5,000," top informant--a veteran of five years sort of training in 1982, when the profits seizure law was passed. according to a Pantagraph article. with .MEG--turned double agent, feeding crucial information to the underground Although lawmakers envisioned millions of dollars pouring into the public The narc team, in operation since opposition. August, 1983, is called the Zone 6 treasury, the Peoria-based MEG unit has not initiated even one case under Major Crimes Task Force. It is run by the Illinois Department of Law the law, at least not in McLean Enforcement's Division of Criminal county. Investigation (DCI) and headquartered at the DCI office, 808 El Dorado Road Snitches in Bloomington. Like MEG, the DCI Task Force will depend on informers to introduce The DCI is the successor to the old agents into a drug-buying situation. Illinois Bureau of Investigation (IBI). The actions of these untrained non Many former IBI agents now work for police "special employees" was the DCI, which has always done some under source of much of the criticism cover narcotics investigations. But a leveled at MEG. Informers often con new era began in August, when the DCI tinued their illegal drug dealings incorporated full-time officers from while setting up people less active in other police agencies into this special the drug world. covert operations task force. Acting out of desperation, fear, greed The McLean County Sheriff's Department or anger, informers are often manipu- and both the Normal and Bloomington police departments contribute an The greatest blow to the narcs' officer to work full time in the new inflated sense of professional self unit. Bloomington withdrew from the importance came when a late-night raid controversial Peoria-based MEG of the agency's garbage yielded copies undercover narc squad in order to join of extremely sensitive files that the DCI. MEG no longer operates in Director LaGrow had neglected to run McLean County. through his shredding machine. The MEG unit became a laughingstock among law Different from MEG enforcement circles all over the state. The Peoria-based MEG unit had been So when I asked Floyd Aper, the new frequently criticized for its unethical DCI Task Force's Supervisor of Special and sometimes illegal tactics. Even Agents, if his group was going to be among law enforcement circles, MEG was different from MEG, he responded with sometimes looked down upon for its an emphatic "yes." concentration on buying only small quantities of illegal drugs (often Money merely marijuana) from young, small time dealers, many of whom were not The primary difference Aper cited was even profiteering. "We're going after the people with money. Our concern is the person Years of relentless attacks from Post making a profit, as opposed to the Amerikan investigative reporters and street level dealer." Drug defendants turn into snitches The new DCI Task Force has persuaded several of its investigative targets usual quantity purchased, plus names to "flip" -- give incriminating of six alleged regular cocaine buyers. statements against others. Some of McCuen has been promised that his coc DCI's defendants have agreed to provide aine sale charge will be lowered to court testimony against their former possession, and that he will get pro associates. Some have even become bation. official Confidential Sources (inform ers) who introduce DCI agents to Walter Neikirk, a Watterson Towers unsuspecting acquaintances. resident at the time of his cocaine delivery arrest, named the alleged DCI seems more succesful at "flipping" source of his supply, court records than the MEG unit which operated in say. McLean County in earlier years. Rodney Daugherty was nailed for selling Todd Ledbetter named two sources of ~ oz. of cocaine to the DCI, and he Here are some of the names of DCI drugs. He declined to provide further subsequently_became a Confidential information·, court files say, when DCI defendants who have cooperated in Source. one way or another. All information could not furnish an adequate guaran tee of Ledbetter's safety. comes from McLean County court files. Brad Roland and Greg McCuen, roommates at 210 s. State St., both named their John Meredith worked for DCI as a Court files also mention three more source to DCI agents after their Confidential Sources, identified only Confidential Source. He set up Dwight arrests. McCuen has already testified Hansen and Richard Wachholz, who were by their numbers. If anyone has before a grand jury. McCuen appar information on the identities of DCI's busted for selling_cocaine to the DCI. ently took his cooperation very Hansen and Wachholz in turn provided Confidential Sources, they should call seriously: he even provided the DCI the Post Amerikan. These bashful enough evidence to bust their own with a list of customers who allegedly source, John Brown. After his arrest, boosters of law enforcement deserve a made regular purchases at the State St. bit of public recognition. John Brown named his own cocaine house. The court file contains the source, his step-brother in Denver. names of a half dozen alleged regular M.S. But Brown was "reluctant to testify" marijuana customers, along with the against his step-brother, court files said. Feb., 1984 13 begins local roundups lative, unpredictable, untru-stworthy . ,Of the drug cases dismissed for entrap ~ent, most can be blamed on the actions of informers. In three separate cases in-the Bloomington area, angry MEG informants set up their former lovers for a drug bust. The Illinois Law Enforcement Commission (ILEC) was shocked at the indiscrimi nate use of in_formers in MEG's early years: ILEC drafted a set of guide lines designed to curb the worst abuses and forced MEG units to agree to abide by them. Though violations still occurred, the ILEC guidelines served as a model outlining what was OK and not OK.in a cpyert narc agency's use of snitches. ,No such guidelines bind the DCI Task Force, according to Agent Supervisor Aper. "We just evaluate everything on a case-py-case bas:ls," he said. Aper said he would not necessarily _rule out using a woman as a Confidential Source to set up her husband. Will obey law ABOVE: _'I'he DCI covert task force operates out of an office at 808 El Dorado. But Aper did say his agents will obey the law. "We will not use any drugs or make any deliveries I " he said .. "We fessional" than MEG~ I'll just say lifting lists of names .and telephone will comply with all Illinois statutes. they are more dangerous. 'numbers from houses they search. It is impermissible for an officer to break the law while working." Moving up the ladder The DCI task force so far seems to be much more persuasive than MEG in con such a policy, if actually put into The DCI task force seems more inter vincing defendants to "flip" --- name practice, will further differentiate ested in "moving up the ladder" of their sources and cooperate. the new task force from its pred drug distribution, investigating the ecessor. MEG sometimes enhanced a~ents source of the person they are b,uying The testimony of such cooperating _ their undercove~ identities by driving from, and then po::;sibly investigating former dealers, plus a few details of with open liquor and sampling drugs .. - that person's source. MEG's extra indirect circumstantial evidence, is Although no pro~ecutor ever took act1.onJ surveillance often involved merely enough to indict someone "higher up" MEG agents occa~ionally delivered small having a second agent observe the site on a drug conspiracy charge, even if quantities of drugs to,_preserve their of a drug purchase, noting the times the narcs do not have an actual hand "credibility" in a tight spot. the agent buying the drugs entered and to-hand drug delivery. left. In contrast, the task force After reading dourt files of all the surveillance has sometimes involved Some of the task force's defendants cases the new task force has initiated . following the drug seller both before who have chosen to assist in such so far I can see another significant and after the sale, thus obtaining drug conspiracy prosecutions are named differ~nce from the MEG.unit: the DCI circumstantial clues about where the in an adjoining article. task force is more thorough. People drugs came from and where the money who favor enforcing tf\.e. drug laws was taken. The DCI task force seems Mark Silverstein might call the task fqrce more "pro-· more interested in-writing down license numbers, tracing car-registra~ionsi and Beware nosy neighbors A mere telephone call from a nosy evidence for DCI to arrest the occu neighbor can get undercover narcotics pants of 210 S. State.. (Their arrest agents· spying on your house, accord occurred after an acquai~tance brought ing. to McLean County Court records. Special Agent Steve Evans into the The nosy neighbor may be transformed . house to buy cocaine.) - into a new c.ategory of law enforce:r, '-- But it is chilling to realize that the "citize.n informant." .~ having a lot of visitorswho don't Brad Roiand and Greg Mccuen, both of -- stay long is enough to bring surveil 210 s. State St., were busted by the lance by secret police agents DCI task force. in a late September furtively recording license plate - numbers. raid. DCI's interest in Roland and McCuen's One of my roommates was a low-level house first occurred on -August 25, supervisor during the 1980 census.• court records say, when a suspicious Each of the dozen or so door-to-door neighbor called police. workers under him-would have to make frequent visits to our house to pick Joe carroll, of 1125 E. Olive, told up or drop off forms. They never Next day, DCI files say, an agent was stayed long. police that he suspected drus dealing stationed in a parked car, watching \ was occurring _at the State St. house. the house. He claimed to see. someone He said that several different people If we'd had one of those Neighborhood exit, hand a clear plastic bag to Watch programs in operation at the would' frequently arrive around 4:30, someone waiting in· a car, then depart_ stay only a short time, and leave. time, I wonder if our census workers in another car. The license numbers would have wound up in government ·of the two cars and the names of the files as possible drug fiends? When DCI interviewed Carroll about h;i.s people .to whom they-are registered are observations, carroll invited DCI to in DCI files. cross the street to 1126 E. Olive, M.S. where he suggested the agents could get Neither Carroll's information nor the a better view of 210 S. State. outside surveillance provided enough Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 14 1984 theme of IWU art show' / The theme of technology and its growth similarity to the role of technology instead a depiction of a human quality. in society's consciousness to arr.almost today. Gary Justis uses large kinetic As the bow mechanism tries over and religious significance is the theme structures to depict classical themes, over to string the arrow, as is its which draws strikingly different works creating living, breathing pre£:!ences function, it is unable to reach it., together in a current IWU art show. with the most inorganic means As Orwell did in his novel of the same. imaginable. Even within the four works It is a quivering entity, frustrated name, the "19 8 4" shO\'! examines the in this show he has investigated at its own ineptitude. This piece powerful position that ultra-tech has different levels of these ·ideas. One, seeks more of the universal emotional in the subconsc,ious· .of modern humanity. Athena, depicts the figure and its quality of classical id~als than a These artists make individual statements fluttering heart. The complexity of direct narrative. about the juxtaposition of this, as well as the other works, is mechanization with humanity-. bo.th visual and intellectual, and the Unlike the other two sculptures, The premise of classism is es~ential to~ Gates of Hell is a very direct r.ein The artist whose work is least the understanding of it. Gary Justis terpretation of sculpture by Rodin. impressive is Janet Cooling, reputedly is sincere in his use of this ideology, In it Justis tries. to capture the a well-known artist in New York. although the· manner in which he uses it movement and formal quality of the Although some of her paintings deal would seem to violate every principle original Gates of Hell., using his with technological imagery, they are of the ancient Greek and Roman rules. vocabulary~plastic, metal, and not terribly fresh. I would, in fact, So, 'to come to terms with this appar lights.· This piece is the least speculate that they were chosen more ent contradiction, ·one must accept this successful of the four, not-carrying for their common size and ease of as ''updated" classicism and seek the beauty of essential form that.is present in these shiny, clattering, wire-propelled machines.~· Justis' personal background as a life long gadget-maker and present position as a technician and teacher at the Museum of Science and Industry have quite logically led him to appr~ciate the beauty of function. So it is fitting that he, a twentieth century technician/sculptor, establishes a link between the disciplines of classicism , and modern technology. In Athena, the suggestion of human form is reduced · to a few simplified shapes.· The human ppocess of identification by assoc iation clurifies the figurative con text of the machine, and the presence of the mavin~ object in the positio~ of the heart reinforces this. One aspec~ of the mechanization of these objects which . seems at;ypical is the nakedness of the motors and wires, which emphasizes their skeletal look. In Apollo: the Resurrection of Dionysos the figure of Apollo has become more a tnach.ine than a figurative suggestion and is contrasted with the twisted organic form that represents Dionysos. Thispiece involves the off the same level of complexity and shipping than for their appropriate~ viewer in the ra.ther unsettling pre-; seeming almost cluttered with non ness to this show: The idea of juxta sence of the foot pedal which one must functional wires. posing nature images .with ~ittle nuke muster the nerve to push. The plants is reminiscent of something resulting activity is equally unsettling, The figure in the upper portion, you'd see done photographically·for as the large machine bizarrely tickles derived from one of three in Rodin's the cover of Time or Life, or a Mobil the genitalia of this rather grot- version, reflects a light ·with his Chemical Ad. But the fact that some· esque little corpse. Justis described face, perhaps light from the fire of· are so much better than others suggests it. as Apollo saying, "Come on, let's the inferno. BUt there is no heavy that Cooling knows how to use. these party, " to the dead spirit of the party. presence to the structure or the devices more successfully; figure, and not enough going on to activate the whole thing. But, as a The two sculptors in the show., though, In another piece, ~ Bow, the reference seems to be to the ancient whole, what Justis has assembled here have delved more imaginatively into the are some of the more intriguing question of science as a social power. tradition of depicting warriors with spears qr bows. There isn't a sculptures to pass through Bloomington Both make the association with in quite a while. religion's role in the past and its definitive figurative reference, but In contrast to the large, almost threatening presences of Justis' work, the sculptures of Michael Greene are THE WORLD'S NATURAL RESOURCES small and toylike. This unthreatening, ARE LIMITED; SAVE THEM SO THAT familiar quality is a device used to FUTURE GENERATIONS WON'T GO TO point out the growing evidence of WAR OVER DWINDLING SUPPLIES. Orwell's prophecy as reality. To Michael Greene, science has grown to possess all the mystery and power that 0 PERAT 10 N superstition and religion once held for society. RE-CYCLE While Justis is a technician, producing large effects, Greene is a crafts McLean County's only not-for person,. creating neatly organized and profit full-service community untouchable "mini-towns." These towns, recycling center with their id,entical little houses, inevitably center on some object of 1100 W. Market technology. But the role these devices play in these towns is left ambiguous--are they controlled gods, ()R!GINAL ARTWORK SV NANCY GORRELL, 850 MENOOCJNO AVENUE, BE~KELEY CA 94707 829--0691 ·benevolent appliances, or Big Brother himself? START A PEACEFUL HABIT TODAY! We acceptnewspapers, tin cans; glass containers, aluminum, corrugated cardboard and office (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE) YCLE paper. Post-Amerikan Feb,, 1984 15- ·Owens, of course 1984 art (cont.) In one piece, El Dorado, the streets are paved with gold, yet they're hooked up to a big electrical switch. Back to the nursery The question is whether the switch is to protect the gold. for the people to enjoy, or to electrocute them, and who We've had the "electronic sweatshop" Employees are also not allowed to talk and the "bacon sweatshop" in our to e You can help this__ machine. Or you can turn the page. As you may have noticed, time has been hard on those once-bright, friendly red boxes that sell the Post Amerikan on street corners. 'People who lose their quarters are sometimes not kind, either. And winter cold adds another freezing blow to an already traumatized organism. For,just pennies a day, you can pro_. vide a machine with new plexiglass, sturdy legs, some much-needed nuts and bolts, and maybe even a little paint. Or you can let them rust. Think about it. --Sally Struthers .o Yes,. I" d like to adopt a ~ mach~ne. I'm sending $ to help pay for the bare necessities of life on the streets. Post-PJ!Ierikan Feb., 1984 16 Recognizing the Vatican Holy See·saw "their Catholic brethren," the At first glance the recent be certain the Catholics don't. The I Protestants haven't forgiven Rome action may get fast and furious, parti restoration of full d~plomatic for the Inquisition, the Thirty cularly since Reagan has nominated his relations with the Vatican seemed Years War, and all its other past old buddy William Wilson as ambassa to me to be an outrage. But the abuses. It wasn't so long ago that longer I think about it, the better dor. Wilson has been the unofficial representative to the Vatican since John Kennedy caught hell, if you'll I like it. pardon the expression, for supposedly 1981, but a California real estate planning to let the Vatican run the It is, of course, a stupefyingly developer is not my first choice for diplomatic service. Reagan seems country. People who think like gross violation of the church/state this now have great political power separation principle, despite what to enjoy making ambassadors out of the unqualified. I once watched under Reagan, and he may hear them the State Department says to the loud and clear in the near future. contrary: "For a long time we have John Gavin, ambassador to Mexico, recognized the Holy See as having an perform the entire first act of Equus with his fly open. Hard to All of this delights the liberal international personality separate atheist in me. Wi'th the Fundamental from the church." What papal bull! take such a man seriously for high office. But then, the man who ists seeing that Reagan is only a One hundred eight acres of downtown politician, not their personal savior, Rome does not a nation make. n?minated him has had his political and with some sniping between the z1.pper down for three years now. major religious orders, perhaps With such a premise as this we would prayer in schools and book banning be forced to recognize portions of The Protestant citizenry may turn up in force for the hearings, which and anti-abortion crusades will lose Constantinople, Jerusalem, Mecca, and a little steam. New Delhi as sovereign states, as brings me to my first point: the well as anyplace else with a church non-Catholic electorate, specifically the Fundamentalists. Reagan had So let's hear it for Ron Reagan- headquarters. Why don't we send an the best election-year weapon we Ambassador to Lynchburg, Virginia to them eating out of his hand before this, but now they may take a few liberals have. All we need is His Highness Jerry Falwell? Can you enough rope. see him there, surrounded by Swiss pecks at his exposed flesh as Guards, saying, "You may kiss the well. For all their talk about ring"·? --Scaramouche Diplomatic genuflecting to a religious "nation" misses the entire point of what makes a place and a people into a country. It isn't the tiny size in square miles and population that causes me to reject the Vatican's claim to statehood, but the fact that recognizing it constitutes a sort of double representation of worldwide Catholic interests. Who are John Paul's true subjects, the people he actually rules from the Holy See? Not the 5,000 syco phants surrounding him in Vatican City, but the millions of Roman Catholics in the other nations of the world are his constituents. They already have diplomatic ties with us through their civil governments, so they now have twice as much leverage for their interests as anyone else. This should not be construed as an indictment of John Paul II. He certainly has a better civil rights record than Reagan, who is only embracing him as a 1984 "elect-me" ploy and doesn't mind admitting it. JP's a little stiff on the moral issues, but he does bust his hot cross buns for the little people- as long as they're little Catholic people. You'd have a hard time finding a better-educated ruler, that's for sure. But let's face the facts: he doesn't operate a nation; he operates a church. And the U.S. shouldn't be sending ambassadors to a church. So why uid I say earlier that I've come to support this spectacularly unconstitutional move? Because I BE A STAR think it will eventually benefit liberals and cause Reagan more in your own Post-Amerikan T-shirt! problems than he's likely to solve. Anything a politician does solely to gather votes from one segment Turn heads of the electorate has two drawbacks: it's bound to irritate the opponents as you walk of that segment, and it's usually not as well-thought-out as it would down the street! be in a less pressure-filled year. Let's take the latter first. r-----CLIP-N-SEND•-----~ No doubt an appeal to millions of Catholic voters was hypnotically 1 YES, I crave the fame and glory 1 attractive to Reagan, but I'm not 1 a ~ost-Amerikan T-shirt will I sure he's considered all of the I ~r1.ng me! I can't live without I possible ramifications of this 1.t. In fact I'll just die if I' presumed easy fix. It will focus I can't have a Post T-shirt! I attention on controversial religious I -.:;:nclosed is my check for $6. 00, I issues, .which the Democrats will enjoy enjoy playing with, if they can get I Thank you. You've made my life I off one another's necks for ten 1 worth living again. 1 minutes. I Circle Size S M L XL I It may be beneficial to some degree I I in drawing attention away from other 1 Noome I aspects of Reagan's disastrous foreign policy, but the forum for 1 Address. I this attention will be the Senate, I I which has to confirm the ambassa I '\Jity, State, Zip I dorial appointment. The Republicans I Clip-n-send to Post-Amerikan, P.O. I may control the Senate, but you can I Box 3452, Bloomington, IL 61701. 1 ------· More poor kids, Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 17 more infant deaths The number of children living in nonwhite and low income groups. for every 1000 live births in 1981 poverty across Amerika has risen more to 9 in 1982. But for nonwhites, sharply than at any time since The CDF report says: "Of 33 states the rate rose from 17.3 in 1981 to statistics were collected, according reporting prenatal care data for 18.2 in 1982. to the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). all women, 26 states showed increased percentages of women receiving late About 3.1 million children have fallen Federal officials deny these findings, or no prenatal care in 1982 over into poverty since 1979--a 31% but the government does not have preceding years." Also, between increase. data by race on infant mortality 1981 and 1982, death rates for all for any year since 1980, when the Even among white families (three times infants increased in 11 states--for rate was 21.4 for blacks and 11 less likely to be poor than black white infants in 9 states and for for whites. The black rate was families), child poverty is higher nonwhite infants in 13 states. nearly double the white rate in than any time since 1965, said the In·a separate report, another non each year from 1977 to 1980. CDF report. profit advocacy group, the Food Copies of the Children's Defense The CDF blames the Reagan admini Research and Action Center, said Fund report are available from there appeared to be a growing stration's budget cuts and social the fund at 122 C Street Northwest, policies. Expenditures on social gap between the infant mortality Washington, D.C. 20001. The cost services for children declined at rates for blacks and whites. is $9.95. least 13% from 1981 to 1983--from $707.2 million to $618.4 million. In New York State, which leads the country in the percentage of non --Ferdydurke "America's children are in trouble," white women receiving late or no Scurces: USA Today, New York prenatal care, the rate had risen says the CDF. "American children ~imes, both Ja~, 1984. are more likely today to suffer death to 21.3%, nearly double the nat~onal average for nonwhite women. and sickness, hunger and cold, abuse and neglect ••• than three years ago." In Maryland, the white infant mortality rate declined from 10.6 Spokespeople for the Department of Health and Human Services have de~ clined comment on the Defense Fund report. According to the report: --One in five children--13.1 million --is poor. The poverty standard is an annual income of $9,900 for a family of four. --32 states provide child-care services to fewer children today than in 1981. --Some 2.4 million children live in families with yearly incomes under $3,000. The CDF also reports a marked decrease in early prenatal care for pregnant women over the last three years. This erosion of prenatal care is reflected in an increased infant mortality rate, especially among Hi·tech babies in Bloomington-Normal Women should know that local most births? As a respected lay only be hurt or hindered. Home has Caesarean rates are estimated midwife once said,"our bodies are always been the traditional, right (by several medical people) to made to give birth," We are the place for birth--and still is for be around 25% of total births. end result of millions of years of most of the world's people. The One obstetrician brags that his our ancestors' bodies giving birth earth's vast majority· have been rate is J5%· Those women who do successfully. Isn't it likely that birthed naturally at home, and pro manage not to have Caesarean opera our bodies, if fairly well cared for, bably with "t.radi tional birth atten tions will very likelya get episi are just as strong and capable of dants," who act as midwives .• otomies, have drugs to start and/or' gracefully and rightly birthing, speed up labor and birth, be re without a lot of extra help or anx In Bloomington-Normal, too, the home stricted in positions for labour ious monitoring? is much more likely to be the place and birth, receive little or no where women are freer to birth with nourishment except maybe intra Hospitals, birthing rooms, clinics, out a lot of interference to the venously, and have electric fetal birth centers, home--all have their natural process. Of course, a small monitors. place in the circle of resources number of women (most childbirth re women can call upon when birthing. formers say about 5%) do require close Are all these drugs, devices, and Ideally each has its own functions watching or very prudent intervention, doctors really necessary, or do and will not try to do what it which probably means using a doctor local women simply not see that doesn't really do well; for in such and hospital. Such institutions and minimal technology is best for misdirec.tion the birth process can their professionals can then use their emergency technology to relieve the dis-ease, and that is what they do best. What Can A Parent Do? t It is not good for them to approach Planned Parenthood of Mid Central Illinois' almost all births on this level however. Brokaw and St. Joe's should OK/NOT OK TOUCHES Program t look to home birth to learn much about has helped hundreds of parents and other 1 out of 4 girls and rehumanizing and detechnologizing adults protect the children they care about their way of birth for the many women 1 out of 6 boys will be from sexual abuse. t who still birth within their walls. ' Until local women more and more find sexually abused by the time ' confidence in their own bodies to they enter high school. Call 827-8025 now to register yourself give birth successfully without a and/or your children for the next session lot of interference, there will still 1 out of every 10 families on Feb. lst, 7-8:30 P.M. at be many who birth in their•"hi-tech" t way. is an incest family. Bloomington Public Library. Suggested Readinga Silent Knifea Featuring .in the young t Caesarean Prevention and Vaginal children's groups, Birth af~er Caesarean, Nancy Ori and Kon, t Wa~ner Cohen the OK BEARS. t --S.F. True Later, the three nuns and Jean are and didn't show it at all. It showed talking. Melissa's character sounds the women's ambulance being stopped confessions· as if she were almost grateful for the at the fatal roadblock. The four war when she came to El Salvador, turned with the same this-is-it look. because it gave her "so much to do." Melissa had a line of dialogue in spired no doubt by the presentiment too that she was shortly to become a But later, she says, she realized famous martyr. close that the value of the experience came from something a little closer Cut to the disinterment and the in to the nun's selfless commitment. for vestigation, interspersed with a The deaths of the four were handled series of vignettes in which each with amazing taste, for TV. I had of the four women appears and explains comfort hoped at least to be spared graphic or tries to explain, her particular mission. The younger the woman, the v~olence. But NBC went one better more esoteric the speech. Jean, as When I was four years old I almost the youngest, gives a hokey little drowned. I struggled, but I knew it sermon about the Lord, laughs crazily, would be all over soon. then looks embarrassed. She screws up, in fact, as one will on important When I was five, I told my grand occasions. Yet the sticky-sweetness parents I wanted to be a missionary. They informed me that savages cut of -her character is countered "by t:'le up missionaries and ate them. I balls of what th~ rea~ woMan did. cried and gave it up. The show's political potential was At six, I asked my mother why my watered to blandness. What marginal grandparents couldn't go to heaven statements it could have made about just because they weren't Catholic. the role of the U.S. in propagating She thought that was a good question. El Salvador's war were blurry to the point of complete obscurity. It was At 11, my father was driving me to the an opportunity ignored, to put it orthodontist and the car hit a patch kindly. Nevertheless, I think in the of ice on an overpass. My father fu~ure an onrush of girls and young - shouted "hang on!" as we started to women will line up to be martyrs, spin. I thought we were going to be especially if they can do so without killed. I closed my eyes, grabbed getting their hair messed up. Melissa a handle on the dash and felt ready. Gilbert as Jean Donovan will replace I was surprised when nothing happened. Nadia Commenici as the role model for 12-year-olds. At 23, I had a similar experience driving a friend on a narrow county What was NBC trying to do besides highway in the rain when the car jerk tears? We may never know. I slipped off the pavement. I fought really got the feeling that someone the wheel, lost control, and saw the ,remotely connected with reality was headlights of an oncoming car. I had a consultant On the script--at least a flash of recongition--"so this is we finally got a kick-ass TV heroine how it ends." who wore glasses. At 24 I saw myself in a mirror on TV. --Imogene Blackstone As a child I yearned for identity in TV. But they didn't make movies for pre-Feminist little girls, and cer tainly not about them. I quit TV almost completely in 1981. Yet I was a perfect mark for "Concerns of the Heart" which aired Dec. 4 on NBC, starring Melissa Gilbert of "Little House on the Prairie" fame. 'Something About Amelia' "Concerns" was about Jean Donovan, a opens discussion lay worker, who together with Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Maryknoll nuns, and ABC's airing of "Something about Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun, was Amelia," the made-for-tv movie about Some of these that bear emphasizing raped and murdered by soldiers in El father-daughter incest was both include the following: incest - Salvador Dec. 2, 1980. Five national well-intentioned and gutsy. Many occurs in all racial, ethnic, guardsmen charged with the murders portions of the film may have been socio-economic, and geographical still have not been brought to trial. less than honest--usually too pretty- groups; incest is far more complex but given what the run-of-the-mill than the sexual acts involved; The hack/genius network writers' por tv audience can realistically be incest is deeply tied to strong trayal of Donovan as a guilty, messed expected to handle and ABC's stated cultural norms and values; treating up rich kid was awe-inspiring. How goals of increasing public awareness incest is at least as hard as did they KNOW what she went through? and discussion about incest, this por getting people to believe that it The friend whose TV I commandeered trayal seemed justified to me. The could happen to them; it's so hard and I wondered, watching Melissa real picutre is often so unpretty not to be angry or sad or afraid. run here and there, comforting and that it would very probably salving the wounded civilians after contribute--even more than ignorance Some other issues I wish to add to battle. does--to the b~rying of heads and the the above list include: the keeping of this important subject out importance the reactions of those of day-to-day discussions. -around the child/victim play in the style and level of coping the The film has also provided an op child/victim can or will have; the portunity for experts and ordinary strong evidence of a circular folks to add their own comments relationship between the self-esteem to the discussion of the subject. of the abuser, the abused, and the victimization; and the existence of other than male-adult and female child incestuous dyads with some evidence that although the other three combinations are far less common, they have the potential to Rape Crisis Center be even more damaging due to socio-cultural norm; it's not necessary to get rid of all the of Mclean County anger, fear, and sadness to be able to help. WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO It is my strong hope that Amelia OFFER ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT will be a beginning. Consider this AND THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES. article my persona~ plea to all FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE POST readers to stand psycho VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION logically, and if you can, physically with others who are AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. working hard to help society face this wrenching problem. At the If you want to talk to one of us very least, learn how you can help those who you come in contact with Call PATH 827·4005 sexual abuse. Call the Rape Crisis Center (827-4005) or Planned Parent and ask for the hood (827-8025). ~~~>SSSS'SS!iR~oQe Crisis Center --Susan Strand send items to Amerikan Almanak, P.O. Box 3452, Bloomington. Compiled by Holly and friends. Mon. Jan. 23 * Lecture, "Science and the Bomb," first of a series of Preventing Nuclear Apocalypse~ Peoria's Post-Amerikan Bradley Univ., Jobst 102, 7:30pm., for info. call l-676-7611, ext. 564. Feb., 1984 19 Tues. Jan. 24 * Film, ''Rebecca," ISU' s Union Film Tues. Feb 14 Board, ISU's Student Center, 6 & * Film "West Side Story" ISU 8: 15 pm, $1. 00. Union Film Board $1, 6 & 8:15 p.m. Wed. Jan. 25 *Gay People's Alliance, 112 Fair Wed. Feb. 15 child Hall, ISU, 8 pm, Practice Speaker's Bureau. * Good day to send off for a sub * Music, Stevie Ray Vaughan scription to the Post-Amerikan. (former guitarist for David Keep warm, and improve cardio Bowie) and Double Trouble, pulminary response by jogging ISU Auditorium, for ticket daily to the mailbox awaiting info call ISU's auditorium box·office. your first issue. * Gay Peoples Alliance meeting, Thurs. Jan. 26 112 Fairchild Hall, ISU, 8 p.m. * Music, The Replacements, at Lesbian and feminist issues. Mosey's. Opening for them is the Feb 16 homegrown diaTribe. *Film "Mr. Mom" ISU's Capen * Film, "Cool Hand Luke," ISU' s Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50. Capen Theatre, 7 & 10 pm, $1.50. Fri. Jan. 27 *Deadline for next issue * Music, Art Thieme and Bruce of Post Amerikan. Keep Roper, local folk musicians, New those articles, checks, Friends of Old Time Music, ISU's and letters rolling in. Prairie Room, 8 pm, $1.00. * Film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sun Sat. Feb. 4 Fri. Feb. 17 dance Kid," ISU' s Capen Theatre, * Film, "Lady Sings the Blues" * Film "Mr. Mom" ISU' s Capen 7 & 10 pm, $1.50. ISU's Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50. $1.50. Sat. Jan. 28 * Operation Recycle warehouse Sat. Feb. 18 * Film, "Arthur," ISU' s Old Main open, 9 a.m.--12 noon to * Theatre, "The Dining Room" Room, 8:30 pm, FREE. bring aluminum and glass 8 p.m. Call IWU theatre box * Film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sun (other recyclables accep office for tickets. dance Kid," Capen, 7 & 10 pm, ted). * Film, "Trading Places" ISU' s $L50. Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50. * county and city registrar avail Sun. Feb. 5 able at Laborers' Hall, R.R. 3, * Nuclear Freeze coalition Meeting Sun. Feb. 19 Bloomington, for voter registra 8 p.m. All are welcome. * Theatre, "The Dining Room tion. 304 S. Evans, Bloomington. 8 p.m. Call IWU theatre box * "Lady Sings the Blues" ISU' s office for tickets. Sun. Jan. 29 Capen Cinema, 2 & 7 p.m. $1.50. * Film "Trading Places" ISU's *Music, ISU's Symphonic Band, ISU's Capen Cinema 2 & 7 p.m. $1.50. Braden Auditorium, 8 pm. Mon. Feb. 6 * Film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sun *Amnesty International Meeting, Tues. Feb. 21 dance Kid," Capen, 2 & 7 pm, 8 p.m. Seminar Room at ISU's *Film, "Duck Soup" ISU Union $1.50. Walker Hall. film board $1. * Last day to register to vote Mon. Jan. 30 Tues. Feb. 7 in Illinois primary. * Peace and Justice Coalition * Film "Rebel Without a Cause" Meeting, Newman Center, 8 pm. ISU's Film Board $1, 6 & 8:15 Wed. Feb. 22 * Lecture, "Doctrines of War and p.m. * Gay Peoples Alliance, Fair Peace," Preventing Nuclear child Hall, ISU, 8 p.m. Apocalypse series, Peoria's Wed~ Feb. 8 "Legal Rights of Gay People," Bradley Univ., Student Center * Music, ISU Symphony, 8 p.m. speakers from Criminal Justice Room 107, 7:30pm, for info. ISU's Braden Auditorium Department. call l-676-7611, ext. 564. * Gay Peoples Alliance meeting, 401 Stevenson Hall, ISU, 8 p.m. Thur. Feb. 23 Tues. Jan. 31 Discussion of relationships. * Film, "Body Heat" ISU' s Capen *Film, "Love and Death," ISU's Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50. Union Film Board, 6 & 8:15 pm, Thur. Feb 9 $1. 00. * "10", ISU' s Capen Cinema, 7 &. Fri. & Sat. Feb. 24 & 25. 10 p.m. $1.50. * Film, "American Gigolo," ISU's Wed. Feb. l Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50. * Gay People's Alliance, 112 Fri. Feb. 10 Fairchild Hall, 8 pm, Discussion * Film "Continental Divide" ISU's of "coming out." Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50. * Today is a great day to "Adopt a Congressperson." Why not write Sat. Feb. 11 to some of your favorite folks in * "Continental Divide" ISU's office and share some wisdom with Capen Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50. them'? * Operation Recycle warehouse, 1100 w. Market, open 9 a.m. Thur. Feb. 2 to noon. * Music, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Blues, 8 p.m. $2, ISU's Prairie Mon. Feb. 13 Room Room * Peace and Justice Coalition * Film, "Mohogany " ISU' s Capen 1 Meeting, 8 p.m. Newman Center. Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50 * Lecture "Arms Race and the Economy" Peoria's Bradley Fri. Feb. 3 University's Student Center, *Film, "Lady Sings the Blues" ISU's Room 107, 7:30p.m. For more Capen Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. information call 676-7611, $1.50. ext 564. Keep up the Rape Crisis great work Center Training The Rape Crisis Center of McLean Dear Post Amerikan: County will hold a training session for new volunteers on Saturday, I am writing to say keep up the great February 25 and Sunday, February 26. work. The location and times of the Post Amerikan Reader training will be announced later. The Rape Crisis Center is an all Support group visits volunteer organization of women and men who deal with the problems of rape and sexual assault in this gay prisoners Hostages need community through counseling the . Members of the Illinois Gay & victims and their families, speaking -Lesbian Task Force visited Divis correspondence about rape and sexual assault through ion V of the Cook County Jail, out the community, and providing in Chicago, on December 1.3, 198). information to any and all interested Cook County Jail is the only we got some much-appreciated suppor persons. correctional institution in the tive notes from Illinois prisoners State of Illinois that has a last month. They'd like to get some The training session is free of gay tier, and the committee was charge and is open to any interested able to speak to gay prisoners and letters from Post readers. Send women and men. For more information your priceless prose to: ask them about their specific call PATH at 827-4005 and ask for problems. the Rape Crisis Center. James DiGiacomo Superintendent Roy H. Patrick A-71417 told the members of the committee Box 711 that he would be willing for the Menard, IL 62259 team to help prison officials address the needs of the gay Walter Lamacki prisoners in his charge. N-20717 It is the aim of the IGLTF to Box 711 educate prison officials, the gay Menard, IL 62259 community, and others as to the special problems faced by gay and Gail Osmon lesbian prisoners in Illinois. The IGLTF committee will c~ntinue N-38057 to monitor conditions in Illinois centralia, IL 62801 prisons and jails, in conjunction with the John Howard Association and David Richards the Illinois Jails and Prison N-16254 Project. Box 711 Menard, IL 62259 Recycle dates set Dates for recycle drives have now been set through the summer. All recycle drives are held from 9 a.m. - .3 p.m. at the Sears Eastland Operation Recycle needs recyclers parking lot and the ISU Turner Hall lot. Newspapers, tin cans, glass Operation Recycle is looking for new for spring. and aluminum are collected. Dates recyclers. Many people don't recycle are: January 14, February 25, March because they believe one or more myths .3· "Saving glass is too complicated .31. May 12, June 2.3, August 4. about recycling. These myths are: because it must be color sorted and have labels removed." Operation Volunteers are used at each site. i. "My little bit of paper • glass, etc. • Recycle accepts mixed colors of Individuals and groups can call can't make much difference." The truth glass and labels do not have to be the recycle office to volunteer. is that a family or individual who removed. Only lids and metal rings Calls in advance of the drive are takes a daily paper can save a mature must be removed. appreciated. tree in a year. Each recycle drive nets enough paper to save 350-500 4. "Recycling takes too much time and Operation Recycle's warehouse is mature trees. effort." Dropping materials off at open Saturday mornings from 9 a.m.- a recycle drive or a drop box seldom 12 p.m. when they buy aluminum and 2. "Yes, but I don't have enough room takes more than 5 minutes. Once one glass (all other recyclables are to store all those things for 5-6 week gets into the recycling habit, saving accepted on Saturdays too). weeks." Operation Recycle now has two materials at home only takes minutes drop points where recyclers can leave a day. Brochures describing Operation Re materials anytime. The drop points cycle and how to prepare recycla are at 501 E. Stewart and 1100 w. Don't let recycling myths stop you from bles are available. Please contact Market. More drop points are planned becoming a recycler. Contact Operation Operation Recycle if you wish to Recycle at 829-0691 for more distribute somea information. Operation Recycle 1100 w. Market STOVES • REFRIGERATORS • ·coUCHES • DINETTE SETS 829-0691 en .... 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Instead, Cub, like most retailers, is The new warehouse store, which following the new plan in employee promises great savings, has been relations--short hours, no benefits. picketed 'round the clock by members Few Cub workers are getting 40 hours of the United Food and Commercial per week, most are between 20 and 30 Workers, protesting the store's non hours. This way, the company has union basis. And a handicapped fewer obligations, particularly in - individual also picketed because the the benefits area. But imagine store didn't have parking places for surviving on minimum wage working less the handicapped. than 30 hours per week, no longer eligible for food stamps or other This man, in a wheelchair, was treated assistance--a blueprint example of the quite rudely by the new store's Reagan recovery. security guards. Despite these protests, Cub with its Plus, if we all keep scrambling out promise of big savings has still drawn Veteran's Parkway to save that elusive crowds. dollar or two, there won't be anything else left of central area businesses. But any Bloomington resident, particularly a west-sider, wou~d do My grocery preference has always been better to stop and think twice before the Kroger store on North Main. The shopping Cub. The success of Cub store is union; the clerks are Foods is only going to accelerate friendly, relaxed, confident. The Bloomington's eastward drift, harming store is well-stocked, though without businesses that are accessible to the "boutique grocery" items--delis, west-siders. cosmetics, bakeries--that grace the fancy east-side stores. It's just The union members are picketing· your basic supermarket, and a good because clerks and employees at -cne place not only to buy food, but to new Cub store don't enjoy the benefit also see your friends and neighbors, of a union contract. Instead of and get to know the clerks by name and shopping at Cub, the UFCW members urge face. consumers to patronize Kroger stores, Eastgate IGA, and Eagle Foods, which The same is true with the Eisner store all display the union label. on South Main, and Stan's Super-Valu on South Main in Normal. All three For a worker, a union contract can of these stores are neighborhood mean a big difference. Everyone institutions. Because of their immediately thinks of higher wages, locations, they are accessible to low but there are other, perhaps more income, elderly west-side and central important benefits: area residents. For many people, these stores are accessible on foot. With a union contract, there is a grievance procedure--you are not Nothing on the east-side is accessible totally at the mercy of the boss. by foot. If you don't have bumpers, There's a seniority system, so that two headlights, and four tires, forget going anywhere. And even if you have East Empire. It seems the tension after you've put a few years in at the ~evel, like the income level, store, you can have better hours. And wheels, you are not going to have a relaxing trip to the store anytime you 1nc:eases from west to east, and there are protections like health, pol~te, easy-going drivers get welfare, and pension plans. · have to drive Veteran's Parkway or trampled over there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So help_kee~ some sense of neighbor . News flashes will undoubtedly appear t hood al1ve 1n Bloomington-Normal soon. For example, MORE BODIES FOUND-· t • • MASS SLAYING SUSPECTED and NUCLEAR Let's not get swallowed by the n~wness U p 1n L1ghts WAR DECLARED--OFFICIALS SAY DON'T f· and po~ished image of the look-a-like PANIC. east-s1de. Tt•s a hollow delusion, f the lobotomy McDonaldization of 6 su:ely ?ne of the most enlight one can only speculate on what Amerika that has already killed too ' en~ng s~gns of progress in the devastating effect. the ability f much of this country. community lately has been the to simultaneously broadcast the Pantagra~h's.lig~ted ~essage · latest figures on unemployment Sav~ at least a little corner of board, w~th ~ts ~mpos~ng view san~ty. You have to spend some t over Madison street. and corn prices will have on the t competition. dollars to survive, so spend them on t~e w~st-side, in the central business f Now it is possible, while A newspaper whose professed goal t d1st:1ct--and keep at least a human driving past at a high rate is to.give the readers what they marg~n to our lives in Reagan's of ~pee~p pursuing your many want can certainly use the cred Amer1ka. f obl~gat~ons, ·to catch the time ibility of self-pr0motion on f and temperature--information that the Bijou. probably at some point will take t precedence over the color of the t stop light at Washington. The tiJ:1e and temperature are 6 dispersed at carefully timed ' i~terva~s betwe~n messages about " i B1ll Fl~ck, rec~pes, and classifieds. ' ~urely such an "electronic newspaper" i ~s one of the most valuable--and ' ------telegant-~assets _of The Pantagraph. . NATURAL FOODS t Come visit our newly remodeled store . .516 N. 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Once you have _your discount card, simply present it at the checkout counter for a 10% discount ~n every purchase. r Cut w;~e 6aleal;·on of v'holeroma--=:::::;o. 10ocfs no\t tnc.~-~ stounJteti:Dffee .bew 1 ~-- if Jresh produQe--r-, Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 22 Reagan lied about Grenada invasion plan The Reagan administration has claimed that it did not contemplate its invasion of Grenada until Prime Minister Mauric8 Bishop was killed on October 19· But several weeks before Bishop's. murder, the Special Army Ranger Unit that parachuted into Point Salines airstrip on Grenada practiced by "assaulting" the airport of Ephrata, a remote farming community in eastern Washington State. Between September 2J and October 2, Port of Ephrata records show, three long runways at Ephrata Municipal Airport were reserved for use by the 2nd Batallion Rangers, 75th Infantry Division, one of the two elite Ranger units which played crucial roles in the October 25 invasion. Floyd Exeter, manager of the Port of Ephrata which runs the airport, says the Army told him that some personnel would be brought in as "aggressors." "They were also going to 'capture' a Don Beckley, former Port of Ephrata were clearing the runway in certain building at the airport manager, says Rangers have used the Grenada of oostructions so C-1JO's and possibly liberate some people airport only once beforea they could land," he says. "That was the inside. We turned all the lights off, practiced an assault on the runway same sort of thing they did in made it as dark as possible for them, after u.s. hostages were taken in Ephrata." and after these exercises there Iran. would be a lot of spent cartridges --People's World, and used smoke grenade canisters all Beckley says the pieces came to 12 Nov 198J (Thanx to Northwest over the place." gether for him "when I heard they Passage Troops invade Angel· Island on veteran's Day, November 11, about November 11 was a brilliantly sunny 100 people from various progressive day, sandwiched between two giant groups staged a guerrilla theater storms. We held a news conference at spectacle at San Francisco's Aquatic 10 a.m. and encouraged the media to Park: the invasion of an island in ask questions. To all of them we the center of San Francisco Bay. answered: "That's classified. Pub licity would endanger the safety of The event satirized the invasion of our troops." Grenada, the news blackout, and U.S. militarism in general. But we did offer some justification: --To protect Amerikan interests; We did a minor media blitz, so we had --The island occupies a strategic lo- tv and radio coverage, along with the cation on the sea-route to the Rich newspapers. Our press release read: mond oil refinery; "The invasion is being planned with --Reports indicate that Cuban troops the usual 'absence of intelligence,' have been sighted in the area--a mili according to a high-ranking official tary buildup? a terrorist training who wished to remain anonymous. Al- · base? Liberatipn forces pose, with colors though the press is encouraged to --We will defend the lives and honor flying high, beside landmark on cover this action, they. are advised of Amerikan deer; strategically critical Angel Island. that the military will retain com --Other Bay Area communities (Tiburon, Photo: Jack Davis plete control at all times." Sausalito, Oakland) informally re quested U.S. intervention in Angel Island. * * * "I assume you are all ~ out there. Win this one for the Gipper! Are you At 10:30 a.m. the troops marched you ready to die for freedom?" forward to be reviewed, whistling 11 Yes! 11 ''The Colonel Bogey March" (from The "Are you ready to go any place to die _ Bridge £!::!. the River Kwai). Enola no matter how small or insignificant?" Gay (an anti-nuclear faggot affinity 11 Yes! 11 group) were the cheerleaders with "Are you ready to die on Granola, er, ·lots of pompons; they sang cheers with Granada?" synchronized body movements: "Push "Yes!" ·'em back, push 'em back, waaaaay back." "Lebanon?" "Yes! 11 Rick Longinotti, the troop's command "Angel Island?" ing officer reviewed his soldiers, IIYes! ,, carrying a football. While he put them through their paces, they sang She worked the troops into a frenzy. responses to his song: I don't know but I've been told, Longinotti passed his football to 80- Co~unists should not grow old. year-old Walt Stack, a member of the we should kill them when they're Communist Party for 50 years. Walt led young; the charge, and the troops hit the That's how freedom can be won. beach while Valkyrie music from Apoca ~ Now blared from huge speakers. He urged his troops to sock it to the They paddled out in a flotilla of rafts quarterback in Moscow, then they sang to the fishing boat waiting to trans "Be all you can be/ You can be it in port them to the island, but after a the army." while they paddled back. Meanwhile protestors with signs and So the cheerleaders bearing a Faggot leaflets shouted from the sidelines, Liberation Army flag, along with a "U.S. out of Angel Island!" and "Stop newsperson and a few others, paddled Poofter in tutu masquerading as a man u.s. Intervention!" tries on life jacket before invading out to the boat, sailed to the island, Angel Island. completed the mission, and had a picnic. Dana Block, a woman in Four Star Photo: Jack Davis General drag, delivered an oration: --Robert Gluck When the door's open Post-American Feb., 1984 23 Water Department enters Bloomington homes unasked According to the policy of the Bloom card asking me to read the meter invasion of customers' privacy, the ington water department, meter readers myself. water department's entry policy is a will sometimes enter customers' homes also potentially dangerous to the without their consent or knowledge. But the Bloomington resident who meter readers. called the Post-Amerikan says he was Judy Whikehart, Supervisor of never told that he could keep the Even a meter reader yelling "Meter Accounting in the water collections water department out simply by asking. Reader!" at top volume would be department at city hall, confirmed "They just told me to lock my doors," unheard by someone taking a shower. that this is indeed water department What if a particularly nervous policy. • resident, stepping out of the shower, heard a complete stranger on the A Bloomington resident hadcontacted basement stair? Would some residents the Post-Amerikan after learning that reach for their handy shotguns? a water meter reader had entered his house when no one was at home. The "That's a pretty far-out instance," outraged customer had telephoned city Whikehart pooh-poohed. "We've still hall, only to learn that the water got the same three meter readers we've department had this policy: had for years. None of them has been , shot yet." A meter reader will knock first. If there is no answer, the meter reader will try the door. If it is unlocked, Police spying the meter reader is authorized to enter the premises and take a reading. he said. Although Section 43 doesn't say what Whikehart wants it to, it is still Whikehart claimed that the policy was somewhat bothersome. It says the authorized in the ordinance which Not in ordinance Water Director and his officers "shall governs operations of the water be qualified as Police Officers in department. She sent me a copy, with To back up her claim that the water department's entry policy is spelled accordance with the provision of this a letter pointing out the sections Code and other ordinances of the City." which supposedly authorize the meter out in a Bloomington ordinance, Ms. readers' entry. Whikehart even sent me a copy with a cover letter pointing out the relevant What does this mean if a water meter sections. reader sees evidence of a crime while However, Tom Eimermann of the American sneaking around someone's empty house? Civil Liberties Union strongly What if·a meter reader spotted disagreed with Whikehart's interpreta But no person even minimally literate tion. "There is absolutely nothing in the law could agree with her , there to provide a basis for city interpretation. employees to come walking in your house just because the door is For example, Whikehart's cover letter unlocked," Eimermann told the Post- to me says, "Section K indicates that Amerikan. ---- meters will be easily accessible to the Meter Reader, A door left unlocked by the owner is giving the Notification reader easy access to the meter." Unwanted entries by water meter readers are probably more common than Actually, Section K is part of a many realize, since most of the series of paragraphs laying out exact incidents go unnoticed. The person plumbing specifications for mains, who called the Post-Amerikan seems to taps, cocks, and their locations and scrutinize his water bill more spacing. Section K says, "All water closely, perhaps, than o~hers. He meters shall be so located that they noticed he was billed for an "actual" will be easily accessible to the Meter reading (instead of "estimated") on a Reader." The rest of Section K day he remembered he was not at home. details very specific requirements for outside meters. In a sleepy serene community like Bloomington, many residents leave their doors unlocked with little fear Section K is telling plumbers what to that unwanted strangers will be do with water meters. It means don't wandering in. Many would be outraged install the meter so the dial is to learn that they are monthly victims facing a brick wall; it means don't of city-sponsored trespassers. install a meter inside a staircase. evidence of marijuana smoking, a It is not authorization for meter "crime" almost half the population is readers to enter homes. regularly guilty of? Ms. Whikehart told the Post-Amerikan that people who don't want meter read In her letter to me, Whikehart also I'm not being quite as paranoid as it ers entering their unlocked homes can says that Section 43 of the ordinance seems. Undercover narcotics agents simply notify the water department. "addresses the police powers for the have already realized the valuable "Once, we write it on your meter card, Director of Water or any officer he intelligence gathering opportunities then they won't come in," she said. may designate for enforcing the in meter-reading. A particularly ordinances. The meter readers act as notorious narc squad in Madison, How do Bloomington residents even know officers designated by the Director Wisconsin, several years ago had one they have this option? of Water." of its operatives working as a meter reader for the gas company in order "When the meter readers come in and Big deal. Section 43 says the to gain access to people's houses. you call and complain, that's when you Director of Water shall enforce the find out," Whikehart explained. ordinance, and the water meter readers But even if water meter readers are can help. So if a meter reader spots just minding their own business, In other words, the city will enter an illegal connection, or finds a writing consumption figures in note your house every month when you are plumber using pipe that's not books, they still have no business standard, they can do something about being in someone's home without the it. It doesn't mean they can enter resident's consent ~r knowledge. homes without permission to read the meter, just as it doesn't mean they Anyone who doesn't want such entries can enter homes without permission to to continue should call 828-7361 and inspect the plumbing. ask for the water department. Tell not home until you happen to find out them you don't want anyone entering about it. Then if you get it together Tom Eimermann of the ACLU was sure your home, even if it is unlocked. to complain, they will stop. that the ordinance didn't say what Whikehart said it did. But, I asked If the water department insists on Maybe. Eimermann, what if the ordinance continuing their questionable entries, actually did say water meter readers they should at least send a letter to It did work for me. Shortly after I could enter if a door were unlocked? all Bloomington residents informing moved into my present home several Would that be constitutional? them that these uninvited entries are years ago, I caught a water meter taking place. reader entering my house through an Eimermann didn't have cases right at unlocked basement entrance. I didn't his fingertips, but he said his gut But you can bet that won't happen. realize at the time he was following reaction was no. He said he could not water department policy--I just imagine a court upholding the inter --Mark Silverstein thought the department must have had pretation that an unlocked door was a voluntary arrangement with the 'an open invitation to enter. previous resident. But after I raised hell, something must have been written Dangerous down, because it's never happened again. If I'm not home, they leave a In addition to being an unwarranted, unnecessary, and possibly illegal Locked 1n• the electronic sweatshop Is processing data as unhealthful as processing bacon? At Sugar Creek Packing Company you can lose a limb. At IAA, State Farm, Bloomington F~deral, ISU, you only lose your m~nd--for less money and no union protection. The automated office is the newest factory in town to use robots--the human kind. But unless women clerical employees organize and educate a basically male cor porate structure (hopefully this will change in the future) about the pro blem~ we face as VDT (Video Display Term~nal) operators, we will be toil ing i~ electronic sweatshops for lower pay and even less dignity than we had as simple secretaries. are told that if they can stay awake for 30 years at the terminal, they Luckily, there is a new book that can might make a living wage. Indeed, help. It is called 9 to 5: The Work State Farm has developed propaganda ing Woman's Guide to-Oifice Survival to an art form. If there were other As 9 to 5: The Working Woman's Guide (Penguin Books, $5~5) written by corporations in town that paid 1984 to Office Survival points out, scien Ellen Cassedy and Karen Nussbaum, (not 1954) competitive salaries for tific research on health hazards in founders of 9 to 5, the National office work, would State Farm look ·computer work is still not complete, Association of Working Women. so good to us? but there are some disturbing findings: Many of us who have worked in word When Hi-Tech does arrive in B/N it ----Reports of miscarriages by female processing centers have experienced may mean low pay for many women or VDT operators caused by the small severe eye strain and tremendous permanent unemployment as voice doses of radiation emitted by the stress. The authors point out that activated computers make data entry machine. according to a 1981 study by the or word processing obsolete. With ----A Canadian task force recommends National Institute for Occupation advances in software, future computer operators only work a total of Safety and Health (NIOSH) VDT oper programmers may have the same status five hours, with a fifteen minute ators have a stress level higher as typists. So, yes, a lucky few will break every two hours. than air traffic controllers. Is clean up the big bucks in the future. ----Check the ventilation system in ~his any wonder when your supervisor your office, the modern workplace ~s a c~mputer that's always watching, How long will working women in Bloom is filled with toxic fumes. rP-cord~ng how many lines or keystrokes ington/Normal, many of them supporting you produce. This, provides a wonder children and paying for day care out If you feel your office is becoming an electronic sweatshop. Talk to your f~l opportunity for the human super ~f their own pockets, sit passively v~sor to treat you more like a machine ~n front of a computer terminal making fellow workers and organize. Working than you already are, posting the less than $5 an hour wiile men are women have the right to a job with winner of the "Line Count Contest" promoted to Systems Analysts at dignity, respect, advancement oppor and doubling the workload so manage $50,000/year? A company like State tunities, and with adequate corporate ment will be impressed with the de Farm keeps a Kremilin-lik~ silence dav care. Because you wear 3 white partment's production. Guess who gets on salary differentials between collar, don't settle for less money· the raise when production goes up? men and women. They say they don't for new skills. Men wear white discriminate against women, but won't collars too, but they expect high pay Will you clean up learning word pro publish a simple list showing male and status as a reward for being a cessing? Yes, right after work. (If and female salaries to prove it. The professional. So should you. you can see the dust after typing all pictures of promoted executives and day.) You can clean up money-wise underwriters in the Pantagraph all --Jane Gleisner better at the vacuum cleaner factory tend to be white, middle-aged males. than the banking/insurance factory. It's hardly a scien~ific study, but Source: 9 to 5, National Associ the observance of everyday life has ation of Working Women While companies like State Farm suck taught women a lot about a Gender 1224 Huron Road in (excuse the pun) millions, female Gap that was here long before Reagan, Cleveland, OH 44115 clericals sweep up the crumbs. They especially in Bloomington/Normal. Phone: 216-566-9308 GOD! 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