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Volume 3, Number 11
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Page 3--- MEG Allianc e with ISU? Normal Kops Lose Their Pants Pages 4 and 5--- Twin-City Unemployment· How to Lie w/ Statistic s Pages 6 a nd 7--- R udnicki , Abortion Page 8--- Letters Page 9--- State Investigation and Builders Page 10--- Bicentenniel page Pages 11-14--- MEG exposed Page 15--- Movie Review Page 16--- Lesbian Nation Rap Page 17--- Cystitis Exposed Page 18--- Pregnancy Journal Page 19--- What about the Water? Pages 20 and 21--- Fixing Cars Page 22--- Vegetarianism Page 23- -- Classy Fried Ads
about telecable Those of us who have paid for l him what you Telecable for the purposes of to an swer your call, and if you're Call him up and tei calling on a weekend, you're watching Chicago television must feel ab out Telecable's rec ord of be feeling pretty annoyed now- liable to waste your time talking ruined transmissions. what with local Tel ecable's to the company's an sw ering service Better yet , tell him you endorse seeming inability to broadcast anyway . a program wherein all sub scribers . either Channel nine or forty-four We at the Post-Amerikan believe in are refunded part of their bill for1 without some interference or ' the individual s r ight to complain each program that is ruined for malfunctioning totally destroying ab out corporate fuck-ups. As a them by sudden interference. tran smission of a movie or sports service to our readers, we are (It's a real drag to have to event. printing the numb er of the local have a Sherlock Holmes my stery ble manager, Ray Kolbus. movie chopped off in the last Calling Telecable whenever some Teleca fifteen minutes by some mal foul-up occurs seems to be ber is1 662-1591. function.) hopeless; they're always too busy His num Posr-AMERIKAN 3 MARC 1975
MEG WANTS ALLIANCE W ITH ISU At its executive board meeting in late l�U officials are being non-committal January , MEG decided to ask Illinois about whether they intend to ally with State Un iversity to contribute money the MEG squad. ISU President Gen e . or manpower to the undercover spy Budig has left himself open to com SAM FfNK,. group . munity pressure to combat the "drug problem" ever since his press release "We spend a lot of time there, and after the December drug raids at ISU. they haven 't contributed much to the Remarkable for its compelling naivete , MEG uni t," Jerry 'Superspy ' LaGrow Budig's statement said somethin� like was quoted in the Peoria paper. "Gee, I didn 't realize there were drugs at ISU." The ISU Vi dette picked up on the story, and ISU students react ed quickly to Being a man known for taking firm ac the prospect o f University officials tion when necessary , Budig formed a actively enc ouraging narcs on campus. commi ttee to study drugs on campus . Whether ISU's annual Rites of Spring A petiti on circulated only haphazardly r.ock festival will be held this year on campus quickly netted more than 600 is now in doubt, because people smoke signatures opposing ISU c oop eration pot at rock festivals . with the narcs. Bruce Amsbury, peti tion author , said that the petition 's circulation was restricted mainly to Since the ISU President took the posi one dorm. There wasn't time to or tion that he didn't realize there were ganiz e a campus-wi de solicitation of drugs at ISU, he may now be forced to signatures , Amsbury indicated. take the position "Now that I know there 's a problem , I will take action The question of MEG agents on the ISU on it ," That act ion could take the campus has even become an issue in form of joining the MEG unit, Time the s tudent government election cam w ill tell , paign this spring .
Act Hyped Over Drugs "Insufficient" or "Suppressed"Kops least get a license number, but to friend's damaged car. The officer in ba - Evidence---How These Terms Affect no avail. the ck up car asked Gorrell, "Would you get out and come to the Drug and Other Charges1 Uncertain about what they should do, back of the car, please?" Gorrell Anyone leafing through a copy of Gorrell and his friend locat ed an did s o, was searched, and placed the Daily Pantagraph i s likely t o ISU Security patrol car at Redbird under arrest. stumble across an article which IGA. The !SU policeman explained to lists what specific criminal Gorrell's friend that ISU Security had When the matter was brought in charges against individuals have no jurisdiction in the matter and court, Gorrell's counsel asked been dropped for either insufficient radioed a Normal policeman t o take Churchill to differentiate the smells of t bacco and marijuana or suppressed evidence. But, to the the complaint. o smoke, especially in a windy, rainy average reader, what do these terms Officer Churchill of the N or al mean? They can mean that the m P.D. soon arrived at the Redbird IGA and criminal ju stice system in McLean asked Gorrell's friend to environment. Churchill could County, which requires an air-ti h sit in the g t not make distinction, case for prosecution, has a big hole squad car to describe what happened. the and the Suddenly Churchill's probabl� cause for the arrest, liter in it . trusty olfactory nerve detected something was wrong. ally, went up in St)'lOke. I nstea d of functi oning in their roles of peace Specifically, take a look in a back officers, Churchill issue of the Pantagraph, Say, the He asked Gorrell's friend to close and the other officer served as Wednesday, February 19 issue, evening his eyes and shined his flashlight at agents for harassing edition. Under the headline the friend's eyes to see if he was people. "Theft, drug charges dropped" was a under the influence of marijuana. Gorrell mentioned that list of seven different cases. The Churchill, apparently satisfied, he appreciated the help given him Post-Amerikan decided to check two called in a back-up unit. by ISU Legal ervices of the cases in which evidence was S . suppressed. When the back-up unit arrived, Gorrell was s till sitting in his Jeremy Timmens The first one we checked involved Mark Fabry and Roger C�eng. Both men were sitting at Cheng's home in Normal last August, listening t o music, but apparently the music was too loud. Normal police officer Keim Butler arrived at Cheng's home, �hich had an enclosed porch, t o tell them that N.P.D. had rece ived a com plaint about the music.
:Sutler, apparently without knocking, went through the closed porch door, s tuck his head through the main door which was partially open, and shined his flashlight into the front room. He informed Cheng and Fabry that a complaint was receiv ed about the loud music. Then he spied a bag of ma rij uana on a table. Cheng and Fabry were given their "rights" and placed under arrest.
Cheng and Fabry had given ufficer on: Radical PolificsJ Economics, Butler no probabl� cause to look 130'4rrent0l'iS EdLtcQtion, ; Coo ki n9, around Cheng's home. Under any other C Events, HeQ Ith circumstances, Butler would con Ecolo�y, Gardenin Sociolo�y> Women> Gay er playin music too , front whoev was g 9 loud with a warning that the music LiberQlion, Psycholo_Cfy,.tLitcrcttu re, Science was to be played softer. He Fiction, DrQrnQ, and' t"oetry. . would never be given a chance to in vite himself in. Illegal entry, search and confiscation without a warrant on Butler' s part were the reasons Cheng and Fabry won dismissal of thei� charges. Wost 11s(� 13ooks 25 f The second case we checked involved Bill Gorrell, who was arrested by ours Normal Police last September on a l charge of possession of between 2.5 Trabe of yours for 1 of and 10 grams of pot.
Gorrell was a passenger in a friend ' s car when the car was struck from behind by another vehicle at Beaufort at t n £ill VODlfS and Main . Gorrell's friend tried to to at c hase the affending vehicle 10 t =:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::�::::::::::::::::=��=�=�::::::�:8::::::::��==:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::�::::::::�::::::::::::::::::::::�::::::::�===�::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::�:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::�::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::�::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::�::::::�::::::�::::::�::::::::� Posr-AMERIKAN 4 MARCH, 1975 Probing for the Truth Behind the Statistics
THE TWIN-CITIES AND THE RECESSION
Beginning in Nov. 19?4, Bloomington- For example, see the area on the map What is the most discouraging fact is Normal felt the effects of the u.s.•s designated by Tracts 5, 12, 18, and that when area employers are looking most perplexing condition--unemployment 19. These tracts are inhabited by a for help in an economic squeeze, those 1975 and continued inflation. January white, fully-employed, middle-to- with less educational background are marked the period for the most drama- upper class population. quietly filtered out of the job mar tic changes: the overall unemployment ket , even if t ey can do the work the rate tor the Twin Cities jumped 2 per- In all ot these areas, the unemploy- job requires. hThere is a program cent and the consumer price ind.ax ment rates barely approached the 1970 called CETA which can provide some jumped .6 percent. overall rate of J.5%. jobs for young people; unfortunately, its scope is too limited to provide Presently, the unemployment rate tor But when you examine the realities tor much hope for many young tolks in Bloomington-Normal is 5.5 percent. the west side or Bloomington (west the Twin Cities who need work. The Pantagraph, always trying to look or the Illinois Central Railroad on the brighter side or chaos, spelled tracks) , a different sort of picture 14, 15, 16, 17, In an interview with Marvin Thomas, out three reasons for the 1 low unem- emerges. Tracts and ployment• rate in Bloomington-Normal: 20 reveal a higher-than-average un- Police-Community Relations, the 85� ot the county's work force is employment rate. In fact, tract 16, Post-Amerikan learned that true employed in non-manufacturing-type which is bounded by Locust, Mason, statistics on black unemployment jobs; government employs (only) 1/4% McLean, and O�land Streets, revealed may be somewhat difficult to find. of area workers; and 22% or the work a staggering rate of 8.5% umemploy- He mentioned that there may be more force is employed by retail concerns. ment at a. time of relatively low unemployed blacks in the Twin Cities area unemployment. than census figures revealed. Nevertheless, there are 3200 workers ,_.------'----- Thomas also mentioned that efforts who are presently out of jobs, and the to improve the chances for blacks number may continue to climb. Eureka and other minorities for finding jobs had laid oft one-third ot· its 1800 '-: were set back severely in 1972 when employees, General Electric has laid the Nixon Administration killed all 0PP- ott 155 workers, and Owens-Corning funds for the Office or Economic Fiberglass, Paul Beich Candy, General ortunity. The funds requested by so laid Normal Twp the area Minority Community Workshop Box, and Modine ' s have al peopl.e off. And all the excitement 1 merely sat on a desk in Springfield, about federal funds coming in to save and no tollwup seemed possible. the day turned out to be a sham-- �11-1 ten new jobs were created. ,J 1 When asked about discrimination in r----· '-:� ·-1 hiring, Thomas suggested that the ! rv··1 l figures seem to speak for them- '! Ji.!' j selves. For instance, out of 341 [-··· D !-- full-time employees for the City i ci : of Bloomington, 8 are racial or i _____ ; " -- ·------Other :--··----··· , ; : 5 ethnic minorities. Out of t e 100 1 h Realities r----1 part-time employees for the City of Blooming on, only 2 are non-whites. Otten, whenever the Pantagraph feeds ! :-�·!------;.:i------1 t us information about unemployment ! As for other area employers Th9mas t h , rates, the statistics tell us onl1 �------1 h first about the general picture. The Feb i s • l ! L_1' ���!�" :! ! � !:�f �� : • 3 ruary 17 Newsweek broke down unem ! ,n j - __,ic,._, -----""""-' ployment into special categories: r-- ; r'.. L.J ! nt \ .. : : ! ' household heads; young people; blacks _ n:::::;:�.-73C I ·----r--·· and non-whites; and blue-collar �--• �:::_ ) ..;.....p.:i=.-�_J-12 workers. For Jan. 1975, these groups i ISU--What 13 suffered the following rates of unem for ployment .• : �!L--__,.�r---=11M'1 t .J ----Household heads 5.2% ILOOMINGTON .£ ! Hope Grads? dr-----· ----Young people (16-19) 20.8% 16 � 17 18 · : When the Post-Amerikan interviewed · ' � -·· --·------Blacks and non-whites lJ.4% Parker Lawlis , director of the ISU :;. '/2!!:.�!.1--..!.�L--i°""""'"""""'---...,._, ,,-:.t!!,-::.· .:::i,.,_ ____ ob Placement Service, all ·we got is ----Blue-collar workers 11.0� .... J J -; I more gloom. Lawlis indicated that by 14 198), But even these statistics can be mis 20 i\!\ �--;: 19 r---.1/,·-'-·-, 1 ··_J! there will be 15,000 fewer teaching jobs in Illinois, due largely leading;; see the adjoining article on hr� i�j L ..;;1 �-.,, / · " ....,l ( r·---r-;:.;�·· formulation ot unemployment statistics. to a declining birthrate. Only l/J t; --· .. it�_:_T.i 11 to 1/4 of the students in social sci What may give us a more accurate under ences will find teaching jobs this standing ot the neighborhoods that feel year. the pinch of an ever-worsening national economic situation is some information Lawlis suggested that graduates who collected from u.s. Census Tracts for enter the job market will have to Bloomington Twp take "lesser• jobs until openings in McLean County by Dr •. Vernon Pohlman at Illinois State University. their desired fields materialize. He hinted that •it may be as much as a 21 In any use or statistics, averages are year• before such openings exist. As used to explain the total situation for his suggestions to 1975 ISU grad Given statistics of a 5. 5% unemploym. ent uates who enter the job market, rate tor the Twin Cities, some areas Lawlis maintained that students must ot town will be approaching zero unem •be mobile, know what they wan�, and ployment while other areas have a Sell themselves.• But with Jobs as high incidence of jobless people. trght as they are in the Twin Cities even a slave market may fail. ,
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE --- Jeremy Timmens BUREAll OF THE CENSUS
Employment: Blacks and Young People
For Census Tracts 14, 15, 16, 17, and 20, another statistic about the poten tial tor unemployment surfaced. In all of these neighborhoods, the per centage of young people (lo-21) who are not nigh school graduates or enrolled in school takes a dramatic leap. The 1970 figures indicated the following: Tract 14---15.1% Tract 15---11.7% Tract 16---17.8% Tract 17---11.7% Tract 20--- 8.2% ------
Posr-AMERIKAN 5 MARCH� 1975
In Early January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemploy UNEMPLOYMENT: THE ment rate for December had risen sharP ly to 7.1%, up from 6.5% i n November. This.rise meant that more than 800,000 TRUTH IS TWICE AS BAD additional workers were without jobs- or a little less than the population of Dallas, Texas.
Even this dramatically high figure grossly understates the true extent of unemployment in America. The official statistic ****ignores workers who have given up looking for jobs; ****treats part time workers, even those who would like to be working full time, as though they were fully employed; ****ignores the "sub-employment11 of people who are forced into working at jobs not requiring the skills they have (and not paying the salaries they are accustomed to).
Adjusting the unemployment rate to The govt's Dec. '74 take into account only the first two unemployment rate: of these factors, the discouraged and part time workers, would more Adding their low estimate of peo- · than double the reported rate of un ple not counted because they've employment, even using the downward given up looking for work: 8• 0%0 ly biased government figures.
But realistic a more estimate of discouraged The unemployment rate measure the num would raise the figure further still, :r�� • /o ber of unemployed indi vi duals O 6t>f as a percentage of the labor force. J Official statistics are misleading, And a corrE>ction for involuntary part time workers however, because of the way they de who the government counts fully employed would as fine "labor force• and •unemployed. • leave with a December unemployment rate of: us A person is counted by the gov
apf ernment as " in the labor force" if she or he is either working or is actively looking for work. A person is counted as •unemployed• if she or he has no job and has actively looked for work at any time during the four previous weeks. If a person 5 Strini Bll1jJ Lessons has no job and has given up looking, that person does not show in the statistics. She or he is ·&Guitar not recorded in the labor force. New&Used IT"S WORSE THAN THAT A person might say, "I couldn't & find a job so I went back to school," asters, or "There aren•t any jobs for FenderTele Stratoc secretaries, so I'm keeping house Gibson now.• Such people are counted by Basses. LesPauls� the government as not working be and Electric Pianos cause of school or family responsi bilities. They are not counted as unemployed. New Song Books But, even accepting the government's Eagles definition of who is "discouraged," and then adjusting the unemployment Loggins-Messina rate to include d�scouraged workers would raise the figure from 7.1% to Cat Stevens 8.0%. Harry Chapin 452-6412 A better method of measuring the number of discouraged workers is to compare •participation rates" over time between different groups. This rate is the percentage of •. , people in a particular category who ANY participate in the labor force. NAlt TALSS?0 For example, the participation rate for black men aged 55 to 64 is lower than for comparable whites. It is safe to assume that the diffe EM TlJ rence is largely explained by un SUBMIT equal job possibilities. TH t: O� PD s T-RNI •1 By looking at several categories in this detailed way, a revision of the unemployment rate--not without its problems, but better than the gov ernment• s--can be obtained.
One study, for example, has conserv atively estimated that the correc tion for discouraged workers would Tl-IAT'S "RIGHT.' 111&" PoST-AMcRIKAN raise the unemployment rate by JS C. RYING-- about one half, or from the official JUST FOR "'G-OOD11 NA'RC 7.1% to about 10.6%. Slc!JRjES To PRE:Sf"NT IN VISVA L PART TIME IS FULL fO�M ! you CAN H� LP TWO (1) TIME WAYS: 'BY �ct-IDJNG- JDEAs oR ST0R1es Taking into account December's J.4 million involuntary part time TO ge lJSEJJ IN THe �AM FINK workers would raise the unemployment SERIES OR "RY DRAWIN4- YouR oww rate by J.7%, more than one half of the official rate. >'A-M Fll\lkSTo1''( ANP S�NptNC;r IT Thus, correcting for bothe discouraged ..1 TO U5 FoR 'PvRLIC.flTION WRITTE-t( workers and involuntary part time workers >ToRIE� WlLi Be 'READ AND (�ope- yields an unemployment figure of about 14.3%, slightly more than _FUL.LY) lLLUSTRATEP JV ON� OF twice the--o7f'icial figure. Ou'R LA-2Y !H(TlSTS /2ofl. Jt ForuRE IS5UE/ Posr-1\MERI! ••• Remember 1971? A lot of things have ThurschQ' morning a nurse's aide gave changed since then. but BloomingtonRUDNICKI Sue an enema which also proved to be AND gynecologist Richard Rudnicki seems the first of a series. This was 1n to be doing the same old things. preparation tor a test Sue remembers as a barium enema x-ray. What she Early Friday morning a nurse ' s aide In Rove11ber ot that 7ear, a 2) 7ear remembers much more vividly than its told Sue she was going to take another old woman named Sue was, not extra name is the test itself. Perhaps a enema. Sue said no. They hassled tor untaailiar ord.1nar1l7, having an brief description will show why. a whil e, and tinall7 Sue gave in. vaginal which she su pected discharge s Then the previous routine started to be an intect1on. A male friend who At ten that morning, after Sue's again. No breakfast, down to x-ray worked at McLean Count7 Health s7stem was sufficiently flushed out between 9:)0 and 10:00. Services recommended-Dr. Rudnicki. (no break1'ast, of course), she was He alled Rudnicki'• office tor her c taken down to x-ray. No one had and was able to arrange an appoint told her what would happen to her But this time Sue had to sit and wait ment that same afternoon ( a wednesda7, there. But this is what did: for a few minutes. She knew that · b7 the way--the point becomes import kidne7 x-rays were going to be taken, ant later on. ) and that's all. She didn.1 t know what test new horrors this next test would bring, Rudnicki talked with Sue tor quite a . she didn''t know why she was being while before he examined her. He Someone took a bag holding at least tested, and she wanted to leave the asked her s veral non-routine three quarts of an unidentified e hospital. She felt physicall7 weak. questions. Sue thick white liquid which looked like 'J!wo that remembers She was upset and crying. were,•How often do 7011 have sex?W the liquid taken before stomach x-rqs, a Sue lay on and, •aow often do ;rou douche?- When and, s the x-ray Sue aaid she douched ever;r da7, Rwl table. all the liquid was shot into nicki began abruptl;r scolding her. her anus . She said this bloated her ... and test again Sue managed to interrupt and explain .stomach •from flat to five months that she used onl7 water which calmed pregnant.• While one or two male While one of the three x-ray tech him down. doctors and three women x-ray tech nicians was trying to comtort her, nicians stood behind a metal, win she looked up and saw a doctor in dowed c en business u her. Rudnicki then gave Sue a pe lvic exam. s re taking x-rays as the a s it coming toward He took a Pap smear, but no other liquid went through her system (a He held a frighteningly large swabs. After the exam, he asked her five m1nu.te procedure). Sue was in syringe full of a special fluid that more questions and conf'irmed her structed to remain perfectl7 still. travels ver;r quickl7 through the suspicion that she had an inf'ection, The whole test was extremely uncom bloodstream directly to the kidneys. although he didn't tell her what it fortable and unpleasant. Sue said that to report that the shot was exactl7. He said the inf'ection . I in the arm she was then given was When it over, Sue was told to get VERY painful would be gross under was not serious , but that Su should wa8 and walk to the bathroom. which was atemen As check into the hospital tor teats. up st t . she felt the liquid our e Rudnicki didn't tell her which teats at least twent;r feet awq. or c s . burning through her arm, someone she unable to hold in all that oul feel would be done or even what he was was asked her it she c d it. l f a behind looking for. But this is Allerika liquid. and e t trail of it After Sue said 7es, the technicians , her. p on top 19?1, reaember? Your doctor tells Elllba.rrassment was iled and a fourth person, a myster;r man in ot her feelings of physical discomfort. ;rou to go to the hospital tor teats, white, waited three or four minutes woman friend 1n the medical prof es and especiall7 if 7ou•re a woll&D, A for the liquid to reach the kidneys. sion later d Sue r e ;rou go to the hospital tor teats. tol that people ar l7 The7 then went behind the x-rq screen make 1t without mishap to the John, and started taking pictures. When but that was no com.tort at the. time they were done, Sue returned to· her So Rudnicki call ed st. Joseph's, it happened.. room. and then told Sue to get some things together and go directl;r to the hos• Although Sue was never told , it Rudnicki came in again ia er that day. pital (Do not pass Go. Do-not seemed to her that the7 were x-raying t . He did no.t mention the tests or their collect, etc. ) her colon and intestines. For a ..agiDal.intection? results. Sue told him that she didn't understand the reasons for her pro tracted stay at the hospital, that she wanted to leave imediatel7, and that she absol utely D111st leave by Sunc181'. Rudnicki paid no attention tQ._ her, and left. That night Sue called the friend who had recommended Rudnicki to her, tell ing him that she was dissatistied with Rudnicki and wanted to leave the hospital. Her triend said there was nothing he could do. After Sue arrived late that Wednesda7 Sue went back to her room, feeling afternoon, a nurse's aide took swabs nauseous. Later that afternoon, three from her rectum, vagina, and uretha. swabs were taken again, this time by escape! That night she was given a bland an R.N. Rudnicki stopped by that day supper, nothing except water (and and talked to both Sue and the woman Saturday morning R dni c i visited Sue that only until midnight) after next to her. who was also under his u k r t that supper, and the first in a series of •care.• He told Sue that he was go again. She epea ed she wanted ng to to leave lµld. Rudnicki answered that laxatives. During her entire.hospital i run more tests on her. He he wanted more tests wouldn't stay, from Wednesday until Saturday, gave her no informati on , and didn't and Sue was not given any medication, oral say that anything was wrong with her. dismiss her. She told him, •Either or suppositories, That night Sue was given more of dismiss me or send me upstairs to for her vaginal in the 1 fection. The discharge disappeared same laxative, and followed the same the 'psycho ward. --that's how t-!i.d it's while she was in the hospital. diet as the night before. getting." Rudnicki sai d that if she wanted to leave, she must sign a paper dis missing him from further responsibil ity before he would release her. His attitude was condescending , and he still did not explain what medical problems he was having her test ed for. He had never asked Sue about her kidneys or intestines, and hadn't asked her if she had a regular phy ensation from her emp In October 1974, the Post-Amerikan information sician, which she did. loyers. A $1500 settlement was award reported two different incidents in which workers were injured on the ed Carl Earheart, who worked at Bloom About an hour after Rudnicki left, an iifton Provision Co. Carl also sus RN job.at Pantagraph Printing and Sta : brought in the forms .Rudnicki had whire on the job. tionary and Bloomington Provision. t�ned back injuries mentioned. Sue signed them and left Despite the fact that his supervisor the hospital. In both cases the w orkers won set tlements. had misrepresented facts on insurance forms, and employer records, Carl's Sue never went back to Rudnicki.•. Her at rn These facts insur The case involving Pantagraph Print to ey took the case. ance paid only part of her in for the costly ing and Stationary was resolved with were used Carl's favor hospital and doctor bills, a.lid e tleme nt. a collection agency is i a $600 settlement in favor of Cathy eventual s t st l l trying unsucce Jan. ssfully to get the rest. Hutson. on 19. Cathy was in If you have an employer that you jured on the job when she was forced, think is in violation of Employee S ue's kidneys and digestive trac t as a part of the work routine, .to Health and Safety Standards or Work , lift stacks of books which were too by the way, are in excellent shape, men's Compensation Laws, and you would always have been. The untreated heavy. She sustained back and ab and · like to share your experience with vaginal infection, however, came back domina� i i a great njur es , and had deal others, call or write the Post-Ameri and was successfully treated by of difficulty securing Workmen's Comp- u _ kan, 108 E. Bea fort, Normal, Illinois. another doctor. Hospitalization was 452-9221. not necessar;r. Posr-AMERIKAN 7 MARCHJ 1975 abortion can sometimes be An After having our vital signs" easier andNOT l ess expensive than SO RUDE" 'N' ICKY and urine checked, we gathered in tr m n for a m or eat e t in vaginal a small, brightly decorated room for infection. This was the case for pre-counseling. Both Sue and I had Sue, the woman in the adjoining the male counselor, Chuck, whose story. "real job• is that of music teacher. After we filled out-forms which as Both Sue and I have recently had sured everyone that we knew what we abortions at the National Health were doing, Chuck carefully explain Care Services clinic in Peoria. ed to us the details of the actual ovem er Sue's was in N b , mine in Dec operation. He asked us if we had ember; Sue's was her second abortio� any ques tions, sat and made small mine my first r o first. Sue's abo ti n. ta lk with us for a few minutes, and performed in New �ork before nation then left us to get our gowns (those a l i a io , l egal z t n was emotionally unglamorous paper throwaways). traumatic though physically easy and Woman: A Journal of Liberation/cpf uncomplicated But both of us . This is where Sue and I had exper HELD HAND. This not only had emerged from our experiences in MY iences which temporarily diverged. emotional value, but also physical Peoria relieved, physically and men Unfortunatel y, the day I had my value, as I could rel ax below the tally fine, and surprised at the abortion, Doctor Watson was an hour waist more easily while grippi ng personal, considerate treatment of late because of emergency surgery something strongly with my hand. the Peoria s taff. Chuck had explained about breathing in the mo rning. The schedule upset deeply at pre-counseling, and he Not at al l an sse a mbly line affair, was further complicated because two reminded me of it as the procedure the Peoria clinic usually does only women who were supposed to come in o or two groups of to seven started. Chuck and Dr. watson in ne four for their post-abortion check-ups abortions twice a week, Wednes volved me in a humorous running on had come in that morning instead, days and rda conversat ion about drinking martinis Satu ys . You can call and been treated. So the four women them either directly (682-4996) or or some such nonsense, in between in my group sat figiting for forty through Planned Parenthood (827- the doctor's reassuring explanations or fifty minutes until Chuck came 8025). They do only aspiration, of exactly what he was going to be back and a�loget ically explained. or vacuum, abortions, so they can doing next . only handle pregnancies up to By the n, though, we were already pretty irritated and beginning to The local anesthet ic consisted of 12-14 weeks . I called on a Tuesday morning and was scheduled for the get nervous. Armed with the grue four shots directly on the cervix. fo llowing morning, and there is some information about the operatioq Two of those shots were the only typical ly little or no delay in we'd had plenty to think about while truly painful part of the whole op setting up an appointment. Chuck was gone. eration, and the pain lasted only the few seconds of the actual in The NHCS clinic charges fl75, which jection . The pain involved in the We were shuffl ed to another room abor� ion was less than the pain of includes brief b ut very helpful pre t where we dressed in our gowns and post-counseling on the same day ana even moderate menstrual cramps, and, waited for at least another hour. of the abortion and any anesthetic of course, they were of briefer necessary (usually local, sometimes Now, however, staff people drifted duration. and sup plemented by dramamine for in out, chatting soothingly. After the abortion itself, both Dr. Watson and Chuck told me that I'd been a "good patient. • Knowing that this is a standard line of theirs detracts not at all from the self-congratulatory feeling it gave me. After Chuck and the doctor left the room, a nurse came in to •clean me up• and help me get up, making sure I wasn't woozy or wobbly or unsteady. This was probably the gentlest and apf most helpful attention I got all the in that day, al though I s pent less time nausea) . The fee also covers a The delay was not fun, but s with that nurse than anyone else I p e a io n shot if have convenience wa little enough to f>8Y r c ut ary you RH encountered at the clinic. negative blood and a post-abortion for the personal, casual atmosphere of the clinic Also, it gave us checkup three weeks later. . four women a chance to get to know Next was the recovery room, where we each other and exchange a shared were all fed seven-up and cookies gripe, a more trivial and approach by another wonderful nurse, who I drove to �eoria on Wednesday able problem than the one that amused us with hilarious anecdotes morning wi�h two fr iends, all of us original ly brought us to the clinic. and then mock-seriously hollered at trying hard not to look or be scare� And so we developed a measure of us for laughing, since we were sup But all us were, a little bit, to re ng When our i of unity that was comforting. posed be st i . v tal anyway. The wait�ng room there is signs were back to normal, we dres comfor table, which is good, because After the pre-counseling (and, for sed and gathered in the pos t-counse� I had to endure the half-hour wait ing room. my group, a delay ) , we went in, one that seems mandatory in doctors' after another, for our abortions. offices before I was called in to p n d the various I had told myself that it wasn' t Chuck then ex lai e pay the fee and have my routine lab any big deal, but it proved to be methods of birth control to us and tests. The staff, all women except far less of a big deal physically admo nished us to try to stay un the doctor (of course) and one of than I'd dared to hope. The whole pregnant . He handed out a li st of the counselors, was without excep� thing took only about ten minutes post-operative instructions and a tion fr iendly, relaxed, and expert for me (I guess the usual time is questionnaire, which asked us to evaluate our care at the clinic. at putting me and the three other 10-15 minutes). I freaked out with We tucked away instructi o s and women in my group at ease. delighted amazement when Chuck came the n our medication, filled out the in with the doctor and actually questionaire,and went home. NATIONAL 'GUARD PREPARES FOR FOOD RIOT The worsening economic situation has A guard member back from his monthly prompted government s art But they spen•t much of the weekend officials to t ·weekend told a Post reporter in planning for the time when peop e outdoors, divided into two groups: l February that his guard unit had just have had enough (of nothing.) •dissidents• and •guardsmen.• The spent a weekend in riot training. dissidents stormed a building, and Whil e the mayor of Los Angeles has the guardsmen tried to disperse them. been urging his city police to start It was zero degree weather, and the planning for food riots, the I llinois guard member said it was very unusual Guard officials' designation of the National Guard has already been train for guard members to spend a lot of bui ldi ng : a food stamp distribution ing for them. time outdoors in such cold. center. Posr-AMER IKAN 8 MARCH,, 1975 � lr ltit()lf � Thi s is the sort of conflicting and Vegetarian Reader confusing stutt that abounds when Reader Responds to people talk about food and the only way to counter it and real ly convince anyone that they should try to im prove the way they eat is to very Ho1nophobia simply, slowly, and calml y present Responds small bits of as well documented as po ssible information at a time . Af On February 10 I attended the Best of AS a vegetarian and someone con ter all, what exactly is an emul si the New York Erotic Film Festival . cerned about the low and deterior fier? What kind of doublespeak is I was appal led, not by anything I saw ating qual ity of food in this coun 'anti -vegetarian' ? What does •queen on the screen, but by the immature , icle try , I was dis turbed by the art of hormones ' mean? There is enough hetereo-sexist response of the •vegetarianism and Health" in the solid information about the dan�ers audience . last Post {III, 10) . Food has be of the American diet that we don't come a big issue in the last few need to rant , harangue , stretch the As a woman , I was pleased to see the years and everyone seems to be jwnp truth, or do anything but present emphas is in most of the films on the ing on some sort of bandwagon about the facts . If folks are continually clitoris as the center of female it. The FDA and the food and chem hi t with confusing information and sexual excitement . I was amazed at ical industries rant about health emotionally charged statements , they the discomfort this aroused in the food nu ts, faddi sts, quacks , etc. are likel y to throw up their hands men in the audience. Any sexual while Organic Gardening Magazine , and go back to MacDonald 's. activity no t involving direct penis/ Adelle Davi s {god rest her meat vagina contact was booed . Non- eating soul) , Beatrice Trwn Hunter, --John Coul ter geni tal caressing caused a great and the Vegetarian F�minists rant ...... deal of impati ence , and the audience about poison sprays , curing agents, encouraged the actors on the screen artificial flavoring, tenderizers , to ,•Get on with it, • •oo it, • and emulsifiers , surfactants , stabili •Hurry up! • zers , tranquilizers , fungi cides , herbicides , insecticides or any of The two films depicting exclusive the other several thousand exotic homosexual lovemaking were accom- ly Recognized As chemicals General _ panied by imitati ons of vomi ting Safe to be added to the food we eat . and boisterous protests . As a I was bothered to see Janet's arti Lesbian I was delighted to be able cle fall into this latter category to view these well-photographed , and thought its effectiveness re sensitively produced films showing du ced by her scattergun approach. same-sex interaction, but I was My biggest objection is "Where did oppressed by the homophobic hys teria all this come from? Who says?0 that pervaded the theater as I tried With the barrage of information and to watch my Gay sisters and brothers mis information about food going express themselves sexually on the around , it seems important to me to screen. know where that information came from so I can decide whether I think JulT CO 'Z. To me , Gay love is heal thy and beauti those r,eople know what they 're talk ful , not "si ck• or •perverted. • My ing about . I'M oRllN G-G' brothers and sisters are Gay people, homosexuals, or Lesbians , not •homos, • The arteriosclerosis thing is a case Al+IV A •perverts•, or •queers .• I was in point . Several years ago some offended when the people in the scientists 'discovered ' that eating �F TH IMk'S audience shouted these obscenities, saturated fats {most animal fats are making it impossible for me to saturated fats) might lead to arter cAtJ enjoy the films . iosclerosis, the deposition of cho lesterol on blood vessel wall s. THf: R.ActST I feel many of the disruptive comments This caused a great hue and cry and during the festival were made by started the polyunsaturated madness, flG-/ people trying to assert their sexual lead to the near di sappearance or conformity . The less secure people butter, and resul ted in folks being feel about themselves as sexual wary of all sorts of foods like eggs beings , the louder they have to and milk which they had previously thought of as high qual ity foods . shout to assert themselves in front Adelle Davis issued all sorts of of their friends . warnings about saturated fats in I � Eat Right IQ. Keep ill but al so It was obvious from the title of the said that if you eat enough lecithin festival , the X rating, and the ef {a vegetable product occuring natur fort to limit the films to ISU stu al ly in whole grains ), it will prob dents , that the films would show ably di s solve al l the vicious choles Note s This cartoon was done not expl icit sexuality. It seems to me terol clogging your veins . Then, in an attempt to trivialize the that if students cannot handle not long ago some other scientists very real problems of racism, but watching a presentation of realistic came out with a study that •proved ' to protest a sort of sexism found ed sex, they should no t attend an erotic that there is no connection whatso in mysticism, vis-a-vis the asser film festival . Those people who ever between saturated fat intake tion that any meat-eat er is choose to attend should not allow and increased blood cholesterol level . a sexist or dupe of sexist their own sexual phobias and inse So , unless you have some way to judge society •••Si gned, the cartoonist curities to interfere with others ' the val idity of those studies, there 's enjoyment of the films . no way to make any intelligent deci sion or comment on the matter. Jerusha w. Brown �� �� �cmizsfic 'vl1nv.s l 111 pcrtrzd 'v/ir.ri.s [a(J Brzizr IU � ll V I� 11:2 i11 lr "1 lciz [u�rzs S11<1cks 706 'W. B.2<1ufal"t O�EN Posr-f\MER IKAN 9 MARCHJ 1975 State Investigation Follows POST Expose owners whose Pos e i explained how Tw1 A state investigation of Twin City cons truction company The t -Am r kan n the market was City home building was dominated by home building and sales of retai l monopoly control of and wholesale building materials is explored in the January 1974 �Post both classic forms of monopoly con so idati vertical and horizontal under way , the Pantagra@ revealed Amerikan. l on : �- February 1.5. 1ntegration. Headl ined •Monopoly Control ttelps The investigation involves pos sible Explain High Housing Costs, • the Post-Amer1kan story explained that anti - trust violations , and investi Vertical integration is exemplified most City lumberyards are gators came to Bloomington seeking Twin by a corporation which sells the connected by interlocking director informati on on several subdivis i ons subdivision lot, owns the construction ates. The large subdivisions are and the men behind them . company which builds the hous e, and developed by corporations whose owns the lumberyard which sell s directors are the same men who material s for building the home . control the lumberyards . the And This is the case in much Twin- City The men being investigated were key subdivision homes are built by · subdivision development . links in a consortium of Twin City construction companies owned by lumberyard owners/land developers/ these same men . Hori zontal integration exists in the bu ... ilding material and land ownership ...... _. stages of subdivision development in .town . A large proportion of the lumberyards are united in controlling The book's high point belong s to the sale of building materials. Michael a depiction of porpoise J. , Lumberyard owners pool together to life that is a marvel of inventive form corporations which own the comic art , intensifying the sub se subdivis ion land. quent presentation of wholesale slaugh= ter. These are some beautiful , noble The key men involved in the local creatures we're killing . subdivision racket are Vernon Premzler, the Hundmans , the Schwulsts A further frightening note s the tuna and the Baumgarts. Each have or have companies are currently lobbying right had their own lumber yard . In addit now for a permit to be e c lude d from x ion they together Lumbe Land, a Prote ction Act. run r the Marine Mamm als large wholesale lumberyard. The auth ors of Net Profit and Pro ject recommend--a-boycott of tuna . Jonah These four men joined with John (Me too. ) interroth , West Side Lumber president , to devel op the huge Pleasant Hill East subdivi sion . There 's more info in the 32 page c omic , NET PROFIT COMIX including furtbr suggestions for Names of these five men appear fre action . I recommend the book he artily . quently in 11sts of directors of Check out a copy at your local head development corporations which own shop or send a dollar for a copy to s subdivision land. These men also Pro ject Jonah, Box 476 , Bolinas , Oa. control construction compani es which . bu ld on their own land , using mater- The front and back covers of Net Pro 4. i 9492 1als bought from their own lumber fit tell it all . On the front is a yards. brightly colored illustration of por (Next s I intend to look at some of poises playing , a fishing ship off in the recent developments in the world These bus iness arrangements form a the distance belching smoke . On the of comix, including the publication pattern of monopoly control . back cover , the smoke from the fi sh of Comi� L�� and Funny Pa rs, new Whether they are also violations of ing ship dominates the seascape , and mass-produced peri odicals. ye ant i-trust law s, the state will porpoises are lying dead and maimed dete ine. in the sea water. --- Carl Barx rm Net Profit is the first in a series of ecology comix. This one was drawn and planned in conjunction with Pro ject Jonah , a non -profit international effort to save the whales and dolphins. The story it has to tell i s a grim one. B ri efly , the situation is thi s. Por poises are being killed off-- by tuna fisherman . Yellowfin tuna follow por poise schools for thei r leftover food . Tuna fishing ships follow porpoises for the yellowfin tuna . In the process of netting tuna , fish ermen often capture the entire porpoise school. As Net Profit depicts, several hundred porpoises can be caught and killed with every haul . Most are dump ed back into the sea for sharks to eat (killing porpoises is a violation of the Marine Mammals Protection Act , and the tuna companies ·don't like being caught at it•'> All· a�idi this is a pret horrible instance of Ot,lr corporate country 's disrespect f�r lif e. . · Net Profit• s artists Miphae l J. and . � in<:-ludin9 -wa.f"erb1ids � · · and · Shelby should, be familiar to tho se u··<:t .. 01 eW .I d. e, l ?). e,. Fr ye , Boot.s who 'follow underground comix. Shelby · ·s has appeared in Wimmen's Comix and Manhunt ; Michael J. has appeared in a host of titles , the best being bloomingl'on Soft Core . Of the two Michael J. is l-Jls' N. r1ai n., the""mor;-"polished comic artist by �e carry . �e0e�5ifie5 nature of his being at it longer. 1T\incl f Boqy�: =i���J (Certain panels in Shelby 's "Some thing Fishy" ar e a bit needlessly confusing r still she has an elegant style suited to the subject s a conversation with a mermaid.) Posr-AMER IKAN 10 MARCH� 1975 The ·Bicentennial of what ? A REVOLUTION ! WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness-That to secure these Rig hts, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles� and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. From the PREAMBLE to the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1776 TheVo ice of AmericanPatriot s •� THOMAS JEFFERSON : "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations , which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defianc e to c ALEN DAR the laws of our country ." "Experience declares that is the only animal which March man devours his own kind , for I can apply no milder term ••• to March 1, 1700. Pennsylvania Assembly passed the general prey of the rich on the poor ." (1787) an ac t for the emanc ipation of slaves in "Those who have once go t an ascendancy and possessed that state , the first such lcgis- lative r.1easure themselves of all the resources of the nations ••• have in America. immense means for retaining their advantage ." !·:arch Lf , 1913. In Washington , D.C. , 5,000 women marc h to demand the right to "I sinc erely believe , with you , that banking establish vote . (They didn't get it till 1920 ) ments are more dangerous than standing armies." March 5, 1770 . Boston hassacre . Cr i spus "Only lay down true princ iples and adhere to them inflex Attucks , a Black sailor, becomes the ibly . Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms first person to die in the American of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendancy struggle against British despoti sm . of the people ." Colonists had been heckling Redcoat occupation troops when the soldiers opene d fire on the unarmed crowd . 1932 . lfarch 7 , Dearborn Hunger Harc h . Eight unemployed workers killed when GIOC>RGE WASHINGTON : o p li c e fire on mar c h at Ford plant , "Guard against the postures of pretended patriotism." where 85,000 workers had been laid off. 11Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite , are liable to become suspected and odious ; while Harch 8 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN 'S .DAY ( est. 1910) its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of March 8, 177Lt. Thomas published his the people , to surrender their interest ." Paine· first article , "African Slavery in "(In government ) The spirit of encroachment tends to America," which called for abolition consolidate the powers of all the departments in one , and of slavery in the colonies. thus to create , whatever the form of government , a real March ·l3, Jean 3aptiste Pointe de Sable , despotism." 1773 . Black pioneer , founded the small se t t le- "It is substantially true , that virtue or morality is ment of Chicago . a nece ssary spring of popular government • ••• Who that is March .i!:li iVh itney patented the c o tton a sinc ere friend to it can look with indifference upon 14 , 1794. gin based on ideas and sketches of a attempts .to shake the foundation of the fabric?" Black slave . , ; __Henc e likewise- (the people ) will avoi the neces d March New York State Legislature sity of those overgrown military establishments , which 28 , 1799. abolished slavery . under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty , and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to March 29, 1974. Duke 1.;i::.:'. ngton, j3.ZZ music ian , Republican Liberty." (1796 ) di ed. Posr-AMERIKAN 11 MARCH� 1975 a special pull-out IAltt�S: supplement section THE BUSTING �JEG/NARCS ... OF A COUNTE:R an CULTUR E introduction A drug raid in November. 22 suppressed in:lictments in ear4' December. :;;i,n@w @tr 38 more warrants in mid-December . More in:lictments in January. Under cover narcotics gents res ible tor these roum-ups in in town. : �@$.$@ a were pons a huge drug raid based on suppressed in S>&Jf� @{f In mid-December Peoria saw 40 dictments . cc�rrurrun&� g, @rr Rural areas in surrounding counties have also played host to drug raids , raids based work of urdercover agents . in recent months on the 6J{f SSff® ® J work rests on multi-county $ Responsibility tor much ot the undercover the C¥1riildI rr@VK rr@�@rMI narcotics unit , alias MEG (multi-county Enforcement Group}, alias NARC:S (Narcotics Activity Regional Control Squad). @ir 4'fhu 3 First formed as NARCS in the spring ot 1974, the unit now prefers the fiiJ@WY$}f<®jf@ rt name MEG. It is a cooperative venture of six counties and six cities . F.ach county and city contributes either money or personnel or both. In @£? addition, the unit works on a grant fr0111 the nlinois Law Enforce•nt 11@@&$ Commission. McLean, Tazewell , Peoria, F'Qlton, Warren, and ICnait counties joined up . of BloOlllington, Peoria , Pekin, l sburg, East Peoria So did the cities Ga e and Peoria Heights . Once becoming part ot MEG, former city and county cops become undercover narcotics , agents . They grow long hair and beards , learn to talk dope slang, get faded blue jeans , cowboy hats , and sunglasses. Then they go out and get trie11d4' with "sus pected drug users ." After getting frie11d4', they buy some dope. Then they try to bu;y larger quantities ot dope , sometimes talking (309) people into making bigger deal than Phone MEG: 673-3465; a tar they ever would have done without the narc 'a pressure. When the naros have bought the r largest quantity they think possible from rap to Jer y "Superspy" LaGrow their new "friends ," they go to the grand and tell what they bought . Would you like some input into MEG's jury The grand ' issues in:lictments , and operations? Like to tell the narcs LaGrow entered subject•s residence at jury the drug :raid i what you think of them? Now that's 1930 hours ." Could "S/A " stand for s on. all possi ble. Just "secret agent"? dial (309) 673-3465 The trequenoy and size recent drug and ask for superspy LaGrow , the di ot :raids has broutht issue erc spies to re c tor of the mult i -county dr ug un it. MEG reports found in court f iles some the ot und over public attention. order o times list serial numbers of b ills used In t help public discussion subject, Post-Amerikan The phone number is supposed to be a for drug buys. MEG agents scrupulously on the the is presenting these articles on unit. big secret , an other part of superspy 's record these numbers and the bill de the MEG om at o secret agent game ; The secretary does n in i ns , s omet imes f ill ing a whole Just who are these narcs7 What are they do "Hello , page w i h k l not even an swer the phone with th t is picture of s i l ed , ef ing ? How do they operate ? What are they up fic ient underc over wo rk. multi-county drug sq uad. " No, the sec But MEG's to? As more governmental units , especial4' method of o t retary says "3465." That's Jerry su pera ion prevents these ISU and the town ot Normal, are current4' serial numb perspy 's way of pr otecting his opera ers from ever bein� used as feeling pressure to join MEG, public clari tion's cover. If anyone accidently court evidence. MEG often waits months fication ot just what the unit -does and -is dials 673-3465, they will never know after a drug buy before making an ar is essential. they had reached MEG's secret office , rest, so as to preserve the agents ' hidden deep in a building honeyc ombed cover un t il a whole series of purchases with hundreds of passages and door can be completed . No one expects a ways & Room 23, Peoria County Court drug dealer , a f ter s e lling to a MEG house. agent , to carefully store and label the MEG money until-agents get around Anyone in Peoria trying to get MEG's to coming by with a warrant a:1d seiz secret phone number through ordinary ing the marked bills as evidence . channels will be frustrated. Direc With MEG's operational method , junior tory Assistanc e tried a dozen differ G-man record ing of money serial numbers "This is a covert operation , and my ent possible listings without success. is a complete waste of time . Maybe agents are c overt operatives," LaGrow The courthouse sw itchboard operator proclaimed . i they saw it in a movie somewhere . " I don't need any publ cannot conn ect a caller with MEG . The c ity ," Superspy went on. Peoria Sheriff's office, when asked A Post reporter , anxious to test MEG's for MEG's phone number , would not give secret phone number , spoke with La "John Temple" explained that he only it out . Callers are supposed to leave Grow. "Superspy 's" junior CIA con wanted to read publicity that MEG had name and number at the Sheriff 's of ciousness was very evident . already received in the Peoria paper . fice r MEG returns the call . "We can not give out MEG's number," the Sher When the secretary answere d the phone "Information about my un it is not for iff's secre tary said , "It's secret." " 34 5 " 6 , our reporter asked "Is this public dissemination ," LaGrow said. the multi - c ounty drug unit?" Silence . "This is a covert ope ration , " he re The secret phone number trip under "Well ••• yes ," she said finally , "What pe at e d . scores J erry "supe r spy " LaGrow 's whole do you want?" act s the secret agent game . LaGrow "John Temple" pointed out that th e thinks h e is j un i or CIA. He probab ly Our reporter made an innocent req uest . information h e was s eeking had al goes in disguise to spy movies. He said he was do ing research on drug s ready been printed in the paper , and in Peoria and wanted to read the news had already been disseminated to a When LaGrow consented to a televised paper stories about any large drug h undre d th ousand peopl e. interview on channel 19 , it was with raids MEG may have executed in Peoria. the stipulation that his face would He asked only for the approximate dates LaGrow then claimed that he never o not be photographed. Viewers g t to of those raids , so he cou�d flip talked to newspapers--that reporters see the back of this clown 's head as got all the ir information from the through newspapers of the period. ( He he talked about runn ing a "covert op S h er iff's office . eration. " Having his face photographed said he didn't want to have to pore would put his life in danger, LaGrow through months of papers if he c o uld ( Of course , this is a blatant lie. vo said. What a brave man s risk ing his a i d it . ) LaGrow has often been quoted in the life to buy d iet pills from dangero us, Pantagraph , not just about drug raids , to desperate , hardened t e a c l 1 Jumping conclusions , the secre but also about Judge Heiple 's criti e n- ge rimina s. tary asked for our reporter 's name and cism of MEG , the Pekin High School h o t o s c h o ol . He said he was J ohn Temple , ( A igh pr por i on f MEG's cel e brated incident , and the subject of drugs in from raids brin teenagers to court. ISU . c G g ) g eneral . I n fa t , La r w's talki g - o � MEG's overdone superspy conc iousness is Soon a man came onto the phone , He too much to newspapers brought on a . See adjoin -also evidenc ed in their "confidential " was Jerry LaGrow , j uni or G-man super $?t million libel suit internal reports whi c h defense lawyers spy, and director of MEG . First , La ing stories. ) have often forced MEG to plac e in court Grow said he would not r.now when MEG files. had done any drug raids. Then he sa id · Superspy s eemed pretty upset that some he m ight remember approximate dates, one he didn't know had obtained MEG's ber. It's possible Some of the reports recount MEG agents • but said he didn't understand what it secret phone num h t l t c hanged , in accounts of drug buys. A gents • names meant to want to read newspaper stories t a he 's a ready had i , to "protect" h is " c over . " are often preceded by "S/A," as in "S/A about drugs. order Posr-AMER IKAN 12 MARCH� 1975 Meet your friendly neighborhood Narcs, especially MEG agents , are sup in Pekin . His phone number , directory Dennis Garrett was exposed as a MEG agent posed to be friendly folks . They like assistance said, is (309) 347-2294. in the December Post-Amerikan . We are to get out and mee t people. re-printing his photo here . Garett lived 336 Charles Schofield, according to McLean then at Avenue F, Hilltop Trailer Court, south of Bloomington. When we They unfortunately have a nasty habit of County court records , made only a few betraying the people they befriend. undercover buys in the Twin Cities. He took his photo , there were two cars in People getting friendly with these narcs has busted several people in Pe oria , his driveway s a rust-colored Vega and should be careful. though . The 1974 Pe oria City Directory a blue Chevelle with white top. His lists a Charles S hofield as a Deputy phone number , which we published in De c cember , must now be changed. His old To help folks know just � th�y should County Sheriff , living at Rt. 3 in be careful of , Post-Amerikan reporters Chillicothe . Directory Assistance says number is listed in the new phone book, but Directory Assistance says Garrett have done some research on just who the there is a Charles Schofield with a MEG agents are in Central Illinois. Chillicothe phone , but it's unlisted. has an unpublished number. Garrett has Where possible , we are supplying addreses made dope buys in Bloomington , according and phone numbers. to court records . Robert J. Edwards has worked for MEG Readers should be warned that most of both in Bloomington and Peoria, and he these narcs don't use their real names could be the same Robert J. Edwards who when looking for victims . was a Peoria cop , according to the 1974 Peoria City Directory . He lived then Sources for this story are do zens of at 127 E. H ines Place , Apt . B-3. A court records in McLean and Peoria Post reporter calling Peoria police counties , newspaper articles, phone books found that Robert J. Edwards is no and city directories for several Central longer a city cop . Illinois towns . The people listed below are all undercover operatives for the John w. Stephens is the Bloomington multi-county drug unit . police department's contribution to MEG , Once an ordinary cop , Stephens is now a Christine Schaefer has made several un full-time secret agent. The Pantagraph dercover buys in Bloomington-Normal, and even announced it last spring . Stephens is responsible for several local busts. is another of the two MEG agents blasted Listed in court records as Chris , Christy by a Pekin judge for possibly making· up or Christine , she may be the Chris courtroom testimony . Examination of Schaefer listed as a Tazewell County Jail court records indicates that Stephens is matron in the 1974 Pekin City Directory . one of MEG 's more active a�ents , making A 1973 Pekin City Directory shows her several buys in both Bloomington and married to Pekin cop Gregory Schaefer, Peoria. We don't have Stephens ' address , and living at Herman st. , Apt . 16 as he moved out of his trailer one day Dale Oltma 404 after the MEG unit officially began op n is a Pekin cop working un in Pekin. A call to th& Tazewell County dercover erations last July first. His phone for MEG . He has made some buys Jail established that Schaefer is no in Peoria , and lives at 2301 Cherry Lane longer working as a matron. number is not to be given out, according in Pekin , according 1975 to Directory Assistance. Stephens is to the Pekin City Direct (309 ) also the MEG agent who allegedly ob ory . Oltman 's phone is Eugene Maxwell , too , has made a lot of 346-9506, according to Directory Assis tained an illegal falsified BHS trans tance . undercover drug buys , both in Bloomington cript to place an undercover informer and Peoria. He was one of the two MEG in Pekin High school . (See other story. ) agents who, acc ording to the implication Jo Vice , another of MEG 's female agents ' of the presiding judge at the Ed Cotton ha s made drug buys in both Peoria and Bloomi trial (see adjoining story) , "concocted" Walter He tman is the McLean County cops ' ngton. She was a radio operator . his testimony . There are several persons contribution to the MEG force , according for the Creve Coeur police , according to to a Pantagraph story last spring. Des �he 1974 P�oria City Directory, and lived named Eugene Maxwell in MEG 's operating 1974 area , but the most pite the public announcement of Hetman 's in Morton . The Morton City Direc likely one lives in tory lists a Pekin , according to the 1975 Pekin City being a narc , he still has succeeded in Ronald Vice , married to Jo completing several undercover buys . Vice , living at 108 Wh ite Oak Drive . �irec�ory. That directory lists a There 's a Walter Hetman living at 201 s. Directory Assistance has no listing for Eugene L . Maxwell as a Tazewell County Second street in Chenoa. His phone Ronald Vice , but says there is .a non Deputy living at 1729 Valle Vista Blvd. is (815) 945-7143. published number for Jo Vice in Morton . HOW THEY PULL IT OFF: With huge numbers busted in recent drug intended to ge t it by de aling drugs . �� raids , people must be wondering how the ' The agent 's victim-to-be agreed to get narcs can gain the confidence of so many there , too. The informer was to work unsuspecting drug dealers. some dope so the agent could make money under a Pekin physician who suggeste d to pay relatives' hospital bills . writing a prescription so the informant People who en�age in illegal activities , could gain students' confidence by giv When narcotics agents pull off a big even if it's JUSt smoking pot, are usu ing out pills. The plan was allegedly raid , they tell the press how all . the ally careful about who they do it in vetoed before it was put into action . people arrested were "peddlers." But front of . · (That 's what John Mitchell said about if the defendants sell to agents on the the Watergate bugging plan , too . ) As a Pekin judge thought it hard to be basis of a sympathy plea about hospital lieve that the accused had sold a bottle ized relatives, how do we know that regular suppliers are being arrested? of LSD in front of a lighted picture win One defendant busted by MEG related the dow in full view of the narcs outside , sob story the agent told when arranging the first drug buy . The agent had rela Agents • press statements also try to im so it is hard to believe that all these alleged drug dealers in Central Illinois tives in the hospital s the condition press the public with the size of their sell to just anyone who walks in off the was serious. So were the hospital bills. dope buys . Busting someone' for selling street. The agent needed a lot of money , and $500 worth of dope is better (in the The narcs must do something convincing. Wo htes in Sheepskin C.ooi"s Reports from some people arrested in re cent drug raids indicate that the narcs we ·· do things that are extremely c onvincing • they , too , partic ipate in illegal activi SMoked ties. ' lh4y l>e The ISU Vidette reported that narcotics 9crl- me s ome agents working at !SU had distributed or Q. barbituatea to galn students ' confi dence. One narc smoked hash ish with his smCk.k . victims-to-be ,· reportedly getting so atoned he c ouldn ' t move, the Vidette said. The myth prevalent in drug circles that a narc is not allowed to take drugs , and that anyone taking drugs can't be an of .. ficial agent , has apparently led the myth 's believers to jail. Newspaper reports of MEG 's plac ing an informer in Pekin High School reveal of ficial plans for illegal narc activity - ��- narcs AND 'W� IL6" 'l'OU'et: Robert D, Miller Jr, has made quite a OW CftM1>US > SA-M few MEG busts in the Peoria area, He l Jerry "superspy" LaGrow is MEG's direc tor and an undercover agent for MEG . He als o does their official mouthing off after a raid, Court records mention A sordid story of illegal and unethical Chairman as "evidence," 8 M!2 both a Jerry and a Walter LaGrow , We narc activities emerged from days of don't know if they are the same person testimony about MEG's secretly plac ing The ex-�2ug informant in Pekin testi or not, Anyone w is hing to ask Superspy a paid undercover informant in Pekin fied th� a Pekin phys ician , Dr . Wm, if they are the same person can reac h H igh School. Fraley, ,was involved in supervision of the MEG head at the secret MEG office her undercover activities , She once met 309 ) Testimony took place at a January Pekin with other l aw enforcement officials in with this secret phone number 1 ( 6?3-3465. School Board special hea r ing about the the doctor 's office, Gidner testified firing of Pekin High School pri ncipal that the doctor had suggested writing Ray Morelli . Morell i had been fired in her a prescription so she could give out Jeff Sielaff , if he really is a MEG December for h is role in recruiting and pills to gain students• confidence, agent , has good cover, Post reporters placing the high school spy , and for Gidner said a Tazewell County official found one indictment in Bloomington keeping her existenc e a secret from his vetoed the plan , charging a man with delivering drugs to superiors , Sielaff, The list of witnesses the Gidner said that she quit working as an prosecution intended to call were all Newspaper stories of the accusations and informant after a few weeks because of MEG agents , However , no other MEG denials in the school board testimony pressure to make drug buys, S he said cases checked by Post reporters in present a picture of an already filthy she was supposed to make the buys with Blo omington and Peoria mentioned Sie business ( spy ing on peers) gone even MEG money, Several officials denied laff , None of the ma jor cities in the dirtier, MEG , the people M�G trusts , this, 6-county MEG area list a Jeff Sielaff law enforcement officials , the inform in the City Directory , It is possible ant , and the whole concept of under What was never denied was that Gidner that MEG agents are merely c laiming to cover police work all come out looking enrolled at Pekin High with a fals ifi eQ hav e witnessed a delivery to an ordi bad . transcript from Bloomington High Sc hool. nary person (rather than an agent) named Sielaff , It is also possible Susan Ellen Gidner testified openly of Gidner testified that when MEG agent that Sielaff is an agent new to Central her role as a secret informant placed John Stephens gave her the bogus BHS Illinois , arid hasn 't had time to be by MEG to spy on both teachers and transcript , he told her it was a f ed listed in local directories , students, eral offense. No newspaper stories on the Pekin High hear ing report anyone de Gidner said she was first contacted by nying that a MEG agent supplied the il- Jerry LaGrow , head of the MEG un it. He . legal transcript to Gidner, who testi res wanted her to work und ercover in Pekin fied that Stephens obtained the docu take High . LaGrow put her in contac t with ment from some one at Bloomington High Sgt, Biswell of the Pekin Police, who S c hool, later guided her into a meeting with informant first Pekin High West C ampus princ ipal Mor When MEG's placing of the ugs too licly in December , MEG head elli , Biswell, and a school board mem surfac ed pub ber. J erry LaGrow claimed that MEG had no in agents ' minds ) than busting someone for n supplying the infor $10 $500 volvement other tha a buy , The pers on selling If At that meeting , Gidner said , she was mant 's name to other authorities. worth must be a "major" supplier , the t t was a ME ar to teachers ha was true , why G agent n arc s say , ld to watch specific arid students for drug use , She said she ranging for production and transfer .of the illegal transcript which gave the The MEG squad has $30 ,000 budget e d for 'was told to watch spe c i f ic teachers , and would be assigned to their classes informant her fake name and fake high "buy money" this year, They could tempt school record? a small-time two-bit dealer who ordinar as a "student," ily sells to his friends , With a few 8 Gidner said whe was also told to take Throughout the days of testimony at thousand dollars , MEG agents could tempt the hearing Gidner's all�gations were this small-timer into seeing if he or note s and submit reports on any teachers teaching about lef denied by a succession of witnesses de she could arrange a huge big-money t-w ing politics, com munism , or "deviate" sexual behavior,· fending the fired principla, But one of deal, The narcs wo•ld then have turned the last defense witnesses , a man who a two-bit dealer into a "major supplier" dated Gidner while she was a "student ," all by themselves, (ReQuttal testimony contradicted Gidner on just which official from which agency inadvertently raisea questions about said what, However, no ·reports printed whether Pekin, Tazewell, and MEG au A N ewsweek report of Idaho 's undercover in either the Peoria or Bloomington news thoriti e s were doing a cover-up , narc experience is relevant here , Con paper contain any witness ' s denial that cerned about its drug "problem ," frantic . the sub je t of reporting on lass con Gidner 's boyfriend was called to im Idah o legi lators set up narc squad c c s a tent came up , And there were no news peach her character , and thus her credi-· with a whopping budget, Eventually Idaho paper reports any official claiming bility. He testi f ied that he saw her b9eame saturated with fat�walleted nar-· of to have ve to ed the idea of a paid drug taking drugs almost every night while .acrtics agents trying to buy dope . Local informant spying on teacher s ideolo she worked as an informer . dealers could not me et the increased de ' gies. ) ll&Dd for dope , More dealers mov ed to On cross-examination, hoWever , it Jdaho, attracted by the huge amount of e s nd had Drug polic e being interested in sub jects • turned out ' that Gil'ln r • boyfriti · money av ailable fo drug purchases r . possible l·eftist views is not really new . been intimidated by IBI' and police When Post-Amerikan wo ker Mark Silverp agents . He had originally intended to J!Wentually , Newpeek . reported, narcs r stein was busted for mari j uana posses work with the prosecution aide of the -.re winding up arranging buys from sion in 1969 , police and coti sch ool board hearing. But after contact O'ther undercover narcs , nar cs agents seized a copy of Quotations From with police agents, and after he found that there was a.case building against SD•ehow the narcs wound up also pur him, he decided to •come voluntarily and chasing ille�al firearms . Increased tell the truth ," damand for gans exceeded the supply, and gun store burglaries began increas ing . MEG has $30,000 for "buy money,• IBI and federal narcotics agents operating in C entral Illinois also have a lot of money for dope purchases, How much MEG seeks ISU Tie will these undercover operations increase local drug traffic? see page 3 .Posr-1\MER IKAN 14 MARCH� 1975 Not long after MEG director Jerry a statement , and that LaGrow 's public "superspy" LaGrow opened his mouth comments were "false, malicious, and once too often, he got his whole leg defamatory .•• crammed up it. LaGrow also announc ed to the Galesburg In early February , LaGrow , MEG , and paper that "Cotton felt safe selling the government bodies responsible for to a 17-year-old because he knew he the multi-county drug unit were sued couldn't be a narcotics agent ." That , for a cool $71 million , all because too, Cotton's suit charges , is false Jerry LaGrow, who claims he doesn't malicious and defamatory. talk to newspapers (see adjoining story) can't keep his mouth shut . LaGrow didn't like losing the Cotton case in court--it was the MEG unit's Suit was filed by Ed Cotton , now a first such loss. In an interview on Bloomington res ident. Cotton was a channel 19 , LaGrow said the Cotton junior high teacher until MEG arrested case couldn't even be considered a him on a drug charge that the judge loss "because it was a dismissal." had to throw out of court before it In legal terms , however , it was worse even reached the jury . than the jury weighing the evidence and deciding against the state . In Even though Cotton was found inno the Cotton case. there wasn't even cent , his school board would not let enough evidence p resented for the him keep teaching. LOCAL MAN judge to � the jury to decide. And MEG head Lerry LaGrow had done all LaGrow is not one to really endorse, he could to keep Cotton from continu though , the legal rights accorded to ing teaching. citizens. Last fall LaFrow stated in the Pantagraph that police have been SUES PANTS N ot satisfied that a court could de hampered in stopping drugs by cide the matter, LaGro publicly pro "restric w tive search laws. " nounced Cotton guilty of drug dealing .after a Pekin judge had thrown the Why do six c ounties and six cities al out of court . LaGrow publicly � low their cooperative agency to be run offered to send some MEG agents to OFF NARCS by a man who speaks so contemptuously C otton's school board , so they could of citizens • rights to be free from tell the school board that Cotton unreasonable search and s e izure? What reall y was guilty�and shouldn't be does LaGrow think of the rec en Col allowed t to teach. And this was after l ins ille inci dent , where narcotics the judge had v thrown LaGrow 's case agents burst into the wrong house and out of court . terrorized an �nnocent family? What does LaGrow th ink of the recent scan Judge James Heiple , who presided over dal over the IBI's illegal wiretaps? Cotton's trial in Pekin, was so out raged at the "poor polic e work" MEG If Cotton wins his suit, it could be had done that he issued a 5-page press a sign of the end of multi-county drug release on hy he threw the case out. units like MEG . The six counties and (S t ee ad join ng story. ) six cities being sued are not likely t o be pleased about being financially After the directed verdict of ac- responsible for the remarks of an ass q uital , Cotton's suit charges, MEG like LaFrow . That effect of the suit head LaGrcw told the Galesburg news has not yet shown up in McLean county . paper of a statement Cotton had sup On Feb. 19 the county board 's law and posedly made to MEG agents. In his justice committee reaffirmed its com suit, Cotton said he never made such mitment to MEG. guilty , he is to be considered inno The MEG unit miserably flunked an ear cent. He is not found innocent r he is ly test of its ability to carry out real drug dealer would pass a bottle still innocent. Though we all know u that could ndercover police work of LSD in fr ont of a lighted picture 't'h'ii:t°judges, police, state 's attorneys The test came in stand up in court. window , in plain view of anyone who and narcotics agents don't really be tton, the January trial of Edward Co happend to be outside looking in. lieve this legal theory , judges are LSD to MEG charged with delivering supposed to act like they believe it, Stephens and Eugene Max� agents John "Is it more likely that an overzealou.s especially in their public statements . well. narcotic s agent might concoct such a re story?" Heiple asked in his press The basic tone of Heiple 's comments Heiple threw the Presiding judge James l ease . said that a probably guilty person t ore the defense case ou t of cour bef went free because of poor police work. case. MEG's failure even had a chanc e to present its Heiple also criticized The judge reflected the bias that to acc ount for the "buy money" in many are prey to 1 that police and itself so bad at police And MEG proved court. This reporter , having examined narcs and state ' s attorneys would a 5-page w ork that the judge issued court records of dozens of MEG cases , never prosecute someone unless he de per press release criticizing MEG's has noticed MEG's curious fastidious served it. formance. The judge also o rdered a ness in recording the serial numbers ent to trial transcript prepared and s of eve ry bill supposedly used to buy Heiple 's press re lease also reflected narcs coul MEG , presumably so the d d ope . Yet, since MEG usually waits what must have been political pressure . study their mistakes months after buying before arresting . , Three full days passed after the di they seldom recover any of the "marked" . rected verdict before Heiple delivered reports According to early Pantagraph bills. Why do they even bother re his "explanation" to the jury . And of the narcotics unit's formation, cording the serial numbers of their Heiple made agents were to spend four weeks in "buy money " if they don't even attempt sure that all the news papers were present to hear h si training . Elementary n�rc training , to use it as evidence? one would presume , would emphasize "explanation to the jury." He must giv ing non-contradictory testimony . While Heiple 's criticism of MEG , e s have received a lot of phone com Usually when police lie on the witness pecially the criticism of agents ' plaints from callers who thought he stand , they have their stories to possibly concoc ted testimony , is to be had released a nefarious drug dealer. gether. applauded, readers should not think of Heiple as a stalwart defender of civil While Judge Heiple 's public comments The MEG agents didn't. liberties. On the contrary , Heiple 's on the Cotton case were car�fully entire "explanation" of why he threw worded to avoid actually saying Cot Referring to agents Stephens and Max the Cotton case out of court reads like ton was really guilty , MEG director well's testimony , Judge Heiple said an apology for letting a guilty person Jerry LaGrow 's public comments were "Their testimony is not only suspect go free. far less cautious . They were so and questionable , but the two agents careless that LaGrow is now a defen contradicted each other in several "The directed verdict of not guilty dant in a $7! million libel suit major respects." was not a finding of innocence," the filed by Cotton. (See ad joining Pantagraph quoted Heiple . article .) The narcs had testified that they watched Cotton's supposed dope de Of course it wasn 't. People familiar Heiple has recently be en awarded re livery from outside, through a win with law know that there is never a cognition by the Freedom Foundation, dow. finding of innocence. People are sup an infamous right-wing organization posed to be innocent until proven engaged in rewarding and reinforcing Judge He!�l� said he doubted that a guilty . Since Cotton was not found backWard thinking. Po r-AMER 1 KAN 15 B urt Reyn old s ' chest stars in the op _enil}g scene o f the Longest Yard , an d THE LONGEST Y-A-A-W N (Whew!) rightly so , since it is the most ex cps pre ssive part of his anatomy , as you whole people. In both mov ies, dignity find out later in the movie. and freedom are linguistically equated with "manhood," "being a man," an d Beg inning at the beg inning , you see "hav ing balls, " as though the desire a beautiful woman and ·B urt Reynolds ' for dignity and freedom were an exclu chest lying in bed, 3urt Reyn o lds ' sively male characteristic. head is somewhere wat ching a footb all · game , Then you get to see the beau In The Longest Yard , all tw o of the tiful woman ' s chest too , which is al so women are made to look ridiculous ; expressive , as sh e screams at Burt one because of her shrewishness an d Reynolds for refusing to screw her. one because of her grotesquely un fashionable appearance . And of c ourse , You never do get to find out why he -��ar if he were trying to figure out both of them are horny , a concession refuse� but I think it 's to give the how many times tw enty-four goes into to someone 's male fantasies. v a hundr mo ie a touch of tra�edy--the gods ed and eight , but in context , are against the meeting of the it 's pretty clear. se In ·,v alking Tall, th e female lead is tw o lovely expressive chests . not so much sex ob ject stereotype as the pri OK , soners beat the pigs. The Earth Mother stereotype , supporting Anyway , then you get to see Burt guards are an gry. The prisoners are her �� an emotionally , rai sing children , Reynolds get dressed in a very chic happy , The wa rden goes bananas , The worrying about her Ma n, . and seri ing as.· outfit . This scene features Burt au dience is satisfied. Does this vic an innocent Victim. R�y� oJAs' supposed balls bulging tory of the powerless over the power xist v1r1lely beneath the crotch of his ful ,. again st the odds, make the Long As usual , The Longest Yard is s � chic pants-- but this is only con est Yard a revolutionary movie? No in more ways than one . One must at a jecture , since he had his hand over way. l e as t excuse the l ck o f female ch�rac them in the Cosmo foldout , ters when a movie take s place in a It's got some of the sa me faults as :•1en's prison. But on e doesn't have excuse, and shouldn't, the casting Then he acts tough as he bums the did 'i! alking Tall, an other potentially You can tell because he meets up right away with this brutal high -level pri son guard who's got a character even ugl ier than '.: u rt Reynolds ', an d thi s guard hits l:iurt Reynolds with a nasty big stic k when bUrt Reyn olds can't defend himself, and you know from watc h ing modern movies that when you see a guy get hit w i th a big nasty stick when he can't d e f e n d himself , he 's the hero . This idea is a little easier to swal low once .Jurt Reynolds is inside the jail , since there are no women avail �tte · Zak*1Nllh ab le for him to ki ck ar ound and since the sexist remarks of the convi ct·s could pass for realism. tn�tf� tNas Reynolds , an ex-pr o quarterback is recruited the football fanatic t11u'Wtn9 by warden to organize a team of convicts to play against the already- organized semi-pro team of guards. The warden is passing this off as a progressive rehab ilitation technique , while it 's $��mugs f really a chance for the guards to kick the shit out of the prisoners an d show them who's boss for once and for all . SzlH,,xreend i:-� And of course the prisoners s� � it as a chance to kick the shit out of the lJooJleArc guards and establish a certain am ount of dignity , cbrelry Finally , you come to the footb all game, an d things change, The game is every Slal1011erg thing you could desire in the way of action, ex n c itement ,' and ten s io . It's filmed well , and the emotional build ZJilllpl ill[ll�poK.ers I up to the final victory of the prison ers ' team is great . Spec lil�!farrtkan6l f � Ch yes , somewhere in there Burt Rey:� plonla:s nolds has a couple crises of faith Jlanging ab out whether to sell out to the ,, . warden in exchang e for a time cut by And more .. making hi s own team lose. You can tell \ when he 's having a crisis of faith because he wrinkles up his forehead ar. d gets this glassy stare in hi s q:30��:00 eyes. Now, this expression could also mon.� sat. Posr-AMER IKAN 16 MARCH� 1975 TO ANYBODY DYING OF LOVE. LESBIAN NATION RAP S: Yeah . She says herself that her G: Bu t think that a lot would This is the second of three parts I whole early life was a thing of depend on your political position. of a dialogue about Jill Johns ton's jus t seeking attention • It seems Lesbian Nation. Thi s part continue s like women who would tend to b a di scussion about women 's reactions e political radi cals instead G: Do ing bizarre things. to lesbianism, al so touching on of pol itical liberals would also maybe have a tendency to be less Johns ton's style some of her S: For the sake of people looking , and schizy , or less afraid of, the thoughts about our biology . In and for having an identity ' I whole concept of lesbiani sm. next month 's Post, the last part of think . the discussion will include these S: Yeah , I think that 's pr babl subjects and the relationship be o y JJ : "If anyone should think my real true . Though think there tween myth and history . I exhibit ionism is a symptom of my are a lot of problems with def neglect as a wri t er they 're wrong initions . Jill Johnston: "The problem now for because this behavior is an art iorm s trictly heterosexually condition derived from my early years with - G:Well, I think it would be a ed women is how to obtain the sex- very my mother and my grandmo ther who interesting book for woman who ual gratification they think they any encouraged my efforts to please them considered herself a femini st to need from the sex who remains their b� _laughing at me and applauding read , because I think it do es po se institutional oppressor. Many fem all my inventions even tne pnony a lot of questions . It isn't for inists are now stranded between grimaces. And from my slightly la me anyway , a controversial book. their persmnal needs and their ter years in boarding school where I can see that it might be for som� political persuasions .• (p. 275) I refined my performances somewhat people . She doesn ' make bones t any to suit a new environment of spin about the stuff that she's saying . Gs I really think that's true that ster teachers and epis copal nuns and She's saying , "If this, then how for a lot of women who are into fem beautiful competitive femal e about that inism that's just something that soon ? " schoolmates. " (p. 15) er or later ari ses naturally . You JJ : "Proceeding from the premise spend enough time being with women G: Yeah, and I could see that people that women are oppressed by the and di scovering women and pretty could still accuse her of that even heterosexual institution, that soon that 's just something you through this book , the way she comes women are an class, that think about . If you re going to be oppressed off through this book . ' from this po int of view the man with women, why not be with women ? has become (if he was not always) S: I can see it, but for me that was the natural enemy of women, it S: I don't know if my own experience one of the things I liked the best. follows that the continued collusion just hasn't been over as long a per The thing about parthenogenesis of any woman with any man is an iod of time or has been with diff really fascinates me a whole lot just event that retards the progress of erent peopl e or what , maybe the de because it ge t s into a whole thing woman suprem�cy ." gree and length of commitment in of where are we . going pol itical ly . the people I'm talking to is no t the And I think those are the most G: You pretty much have to stop same as women who 've been in the and probably unanswerable questions think about where you're at when movement a long time . But I of al l. But , I just really find still find that most of the people I talk to don't want to talk about H•Y, pconE, fr& r;or BO'IS, JF YOIJ'i-t. lesbiani sm at al l in terms of AN !Pf-fl / t-&r's Fl/VP EXCV.5e /IS, 7HC ourWHAT VDU 11U- G!Rt S flllP I H//Ve themselves . Period. And I wi ll I Wf?NT TO 8& Wlf&ll ; YOIJ /0 Hfl!IF:\ 11 Wrrt-E � find people on one instance agree 6ROW IJPI CNRT. , F11 Instead of politi cal . S: Is there any thing that you think G: JJ : "The axis of gay revolution is is real off-the-wall? the shift from apology to affirma S: Yeah . And as a personal thing tion and from affi rmat ion to it's something that either canno t G: I don ' t remember any thing that aggressive redefini tion. The aim or does not need to be changed. she said that I s eriously di sagreed is an end to the organi zation of It's just something that every with . I can s ee that her personal so ci ety around the sexual polarities body decides for herself. and al s o her l i t erary style style of "male" and "female. " An end, might put some peopl e off. rt in other . words , to sexual dual ity G: I seems goofy in a way . It seems like Well , suppose that I'm talking or the two sex system and a gradual ••• pretty much about women that she ' s kidding around , in a rea I l evolutionary movement through the encounter in the circle of people ; massi ve liberation of homosexual ity S: In re I hang around with. I wouldn 't a al machin - gun s tyle kidd e . ' � back to the true parthenogenetic w reads ing around say that every woman ho . species . All men start off as women Ms . magazine--this is a bad example and that 's the way they 'll end up --is seriously considering lesbian Yeah . And also it seems to me G: if they don't des troy us all first. a ism. like s ometime s the style 's a little (p. heavy to the point where I would 189) S: I i her of deciding (laughter ) th nk I'd agree w ith maybe want to accuse All quotes from Jill Johnston ap�ear you . crazy , a nut , · that she's go ing to be in her b�ok Lesbian Nation, e i g out doing it. �d . th �go n and ����������� � \NHEN YOU '\JE C\)�N\ GOT THE 61.AHS...... �'for the unique SPEND SOME . in contemporary .TlME \NllR USH!\.. crofts" · 101 * *Buckles Turquoise � * 61t-!1 J 0 --Kay c.ould become .irritated by a b low At this point you may be wondering the to thecy stomach ,st1 a fall , ort1s fast , if the cure for cystitis is celibacy . sex. .. During intercourse , your Cystitis. If �ou are a woman and Let me reassure you that is not · the hard bladder .can take a real pounding , have never had thi s disease , con case , though your doctor might try may feel. th e symptoms of cys- sider yourself .lucky . But any day to convince you that it is. {I had You titis for .as long as a day or two your luck may run out r women get one doctor tell me • "Some women are if it was a really vigorous night . cystitis frequently , much more often just more prone to this kind of in then men . The maj or suffering con fec'tion. For you , s ex once a week The easiest way to treat .thi s is to nected with thi s ailment is, unfor or 1..ess is enough. ") Don ' t you drink a lot of water and urinate a tunately , cauaed by the failure of believe it. lot . If you go to a doctor and most doctors to tell women anything have only an irritation , not an helpful ab out it. Cystitis can be When you have a bladder infection , infection, you may have to spend successfully treated and fairly though, you are almost willing to a lot of money for drugs and the effectively prevented, but if you give up sex, or breathing , if that doctor's time unnecessarily . I rely on your friendly general prac will help, because the main symp don't mean that if you are in agony titioner to tell you how, you may tom of cy stitis is that you have you should suffer in silence . But never get well. I had recurring to urinate. All the time . Urgently . if you have reason to believe that b outs of cystitis for almo st tw o You get up and run for the john your bladder is just irritated, try years , and I am writing this so ten seconds after leaving it, to treat yourself at once by pumping that other can avoid that kn owing full well that your bladder women as much water as you can through kind of suffering . If doctors is totally empty . your system , If you do hav e severe won't help us, we 'll have to help pain or start passing blood in your ourselves. . When you do urinate , you may have a severe burning sensation . You urine , get to a doctor at once, (Note--if you do have to see a Before beginning , I should say thiss may have a nagging pain in your doctor , I recommend a urologist the Post may get letters from doc lower back as well . But mostly rather th an a g .. p. Urologists are tors after this article appears com you just have &2• except you ,l2 specialists, will prob ab ly know plaining that I have the medical don't. The agony here is intensi more and usually will be no more facts wrong . If so , I can only say fie�bl the terror , in�tilled early expen Sive .) two things1 1) The preventative in most of us, of Wetting Your measures I menti on have worked for Pants, Aaaaghl So you take no Now that you know what causes the me and other women I know . The chances, and you can relax only infection, you can start trying to doctors' methods didn't. If I 2) while sitt ing on the toilet. prevent it without giving up your am ignorant , it is because the tw o {Once , out of fear that I'd.wet sex life . There are tw o very simple g.p. 's, one urologist , and four the bed, I even slept on the things you can do to av oid the whole emergency-room doctors who treated toilet ; it was the only way I mess. One is to drink plenty of me at various times all failed to could relax enough to fall asleep. ) water every day and urinate often . give me specific, coherent As you can see , it' s no picni c. Most people don't drink enough water information ab out what ailed me . and apparently many women pride is The treatment for the infection themselves on being ab le to wait as The medical profession appears to e. Many fairly simple , on the surfac long as possible before going to the have a vested interest in keeping will antibiotics are available which bathroom . people ignorant . My experience kill the infection . The doctor can explains this easily 1 before I d.o an analysis of your urine , deter Being "super-kidney" may save you understood the causes of cystitis · mine the exact type of the infection, the "emb arrassment" of hav ing to I spent a�proximately on doc $200 and prescribe the proper antibiotic. ask where the "little girls' room" tors and $150 on drugs. Since I But there are complications. For is or of having to leave the movie learned ab out the di sease , I have one thin if ou don�t take the """"1'WAS � A"°'1T lllAL-rll CAU WAS 1'Rl.TIY MIKI& Sll4RCD llltlDllGHOl.(T "Tiit. LA �111.l 1 IOW. '&f.lT )��*''"•·· CAPIT'ALISI'\ UID "'61llltl »;;;;·.-'"' , .. f'\l.D1C 1all. M"OI IT lbS.$181.l fel� �ICll J'Stl 1b �R.D KMWlall&l. THlY llllt flESNart.u: . QLU.t> "D�" CPF in the second ree , ut t will spent nothing . Does thi s explain drugs for a long enough time , the al so put a strain on your bladder the doctor s' reluctance to give me infection will simply go under and make you more vulnerable to the facts I needed? ground , Your symptoms will dis cystitis. An Empty Bladder is a appear and you'll think you're · Happy Bladder. cured, but in a week or so yo't' 11 Much of the information included here be back to running to the john, comes from an article printed in The other thing you can do is to Cosmopolitan magaz ine about two years urinate before and after sex• before If this happens too often , the ag o. (I know many women find Cosmo b ecause if your bladder is going to infection may become resistant offensive , ·and sometimes it is-;--'6\it take a pounding it 's better ab le to to the drug , and you'll have to thi s particular article was extremely recover if it's empty ; and after, start all over ag ain with a dif helpful .) because that way any nasty germs ferent drug , If you do have to be that got pushed up the urethra will The first step in preventing cys treated by drug s, then be sure you get washed right out before they can titis is to understand exactly what take them for as long as the doc tor do any damage . Some women complain it is an d what causes it. Tech says, even though you feel better that jumping up right after sex to nically , it is simply an infection right away . And be sure the doctor go to the bathroom ruins the after of the bladder . The anatomical doesn't take you off the drug until glow . Well, believe me , cystitis reason why women get this infection he has checked your urine ag ain at ruins the after-b efore-and-during more often than men is that in least once , usually ab out a week glow. Urinating right after sex is after beginning the medicine . Many women , the urethra (the tube that the sing le best way to avoid cys connects the bladder to the outside doctors are careless ab out thi s. titis, so do it. world ) is ab out one-quarter inch long. you know any thing about · Another thing doctors are careless tr . According to Cosmo , one woman in male anatomy , you figure out ab out is explaining what caused the can the three has a serious case of cystitis length of a man 's urethra- -it's infection in the first place and how some time in her life , If it's not inside his peni s. In most men thi s you can keep it from returning . cured, it can become chronic--a is longer than a quarter of an inch . (One doctor told me it was caused truly dreadful fate . It's not as by "improper sex," and when I asked dramatic as cancer, but it can The urethra is al so in a bad loca him what that meant , he clammed up. b � come a nightmare of pain , futile tion , right in the middle of what This so�t of respon se is not too visits to the doctor , expensive ever sexual activity a woman under helpful .) drugs, frantic trips to the emer takes, (Mayb e thi s is another gency room , and more pain . And it reason doctors don't like to talk Doctors also don't tell you that can be prevented most of the time . to women about cystitiss it's con you can get a sort of imitation nected with s- e-x. ) Whenev er a cystitis which you can treat your So, drink a lot (water , that is) , woman has sex, she runs the risk of self . This results from an irri pee a lot , and get up out of your getting some bacteria pushed up the tation of the bladder , which cau ses afterg low for a fast trip to the into her bladder, where an symptoms like cys titis for awhile, urethra john, All this may sound too sim but since no germs are pre sent . no infection can then begin. ple a cure for such a nasty disease , drug s are needed. Your bladder but it really work s and can save ou mone and lots of suff eri PosI-1\MER l!(AN 18 MARCH� 1975 pushing contrac tions were e e n •-•�!� h �-�;a�i i �� m; �e ��- N were prob&"Dly the hardest. The con other end , laying on the bed between tractions lasted about 45 seconds my legs. to one minute or longer. But I didn't care about her seein� Then suddenly the contractions it. I didn't feel cooperative--I Just PEQJLES FOOD changed in the way I felt them. Now wanted to rest and be warm and relax I could feel my uterus pushing ed. I didn ' t even care about the baby . There is a People 's Food distrib down very hard . Instead of the I knew they were taking care of her, ution site on w. Washington. You general pressure all over the abdomen , and I just wanted to be not bothered. get your food by phoning an order there was a direct heavy pressure in by Wednesday and picking it up down toward the vaginal opening . Well . after 45 minutes, the contrac Friday or Saturday. Order forms This felt more like menstrual cramps, tions started to push out the plac can be gotten these days either like a heavy bloated feeling only enta. These contractions hurt like at the site , over on 1004 w. Wash with hard pushing also. It feels the others , and I wanted to push it ington , or in any of the Normal like you're straining muc h too hard out and get it over with , but I had Student Stores . for a bowel movement . It pushes the to wait because they had to cut the air out of you , and makes you grunt. cord and get Augie out of the way . Phone in your orders a pay when you Your f_ace turns red from pushing , and pick up . The ordering phone is if there are an,y feces 1Jl the rectal So then the placenta popped out like 452-9221 1 the store phone is 828- c anal it will be forced out . This is the body did, and a whole lot of 392.2 . Distribution takes place at why they give enemas before birth . dark red blood with it. When it was the site on Fridays between 12 and I did not have an enema , but I would out , I knew it was really over ·and 6100 PM and Saturdays between 10 have one next time because I think I was happy . and 5100 PM. The market run this it would make more room for the baby Thursday still has to be arranged. coming down , therefore it would be We re sted about an hour , then C athy Call the ordering phone or sign more comfortable . and Ann helped me wash up . up at People's Food . You push so hard (uncontrollably) I chose to become pregnant and to People take turns doing things at that one woman I know popped blood .give1i'frth at home with my real People 's Food. Food is for people , vessels in her face from it. These friends . I asked Ann to do the not for profit. All of us , except birth with me becaus e I wanted a the children, the powers-that-be , woman fri end there to help protect and other individuals admit that my interests as a woman . It is natural food is a weapon and that food Why boycott and politicail ly necessary for women to learn the skills to help each other i distribution based on profit is a Gallo Wines? main mechanism of our oppression. thus to help themselves. Because Gallo is trying to destroy the union its workers built. Ualtetl l'um Worken ol America (Al'L-CIO) P.O. Box 62 Keene, Ca. 93531 Posr-AMER l!(AN 19 MARCH1 1975 You probably think your water tastes ...·" OK". And, like most Americans, you think it's safe to dri�. That's only because you can't remember when you last tasted really clean, purified water ...free from the chlorine, coliform bacteria, pesticides, algae, rust, and other pollutants that contaminate our water supply. Imagine how good your morning coffee, and everything else you have been making with sink water, would taste with purified water . . . while you're protecting your family's health! Six tons . . . 1500 gallons . ..o f pur ified , sparkling water for 3¢ a gal lon. C..o mpare that to bottled water at 70; a gallon. As� for the PCP Water Purifier . . . a smart buy. $39.95. irt() t()fl21()�12: Jf 1��() IJ19t!.9tdi l�AClti T f) WAT ER BOX S BLOOMINGTO N, ILLINO IS 61701 (309)828-3232 0,_ A CONSOLIDATED FOODSCO MPANY � RESPONSIVE TO CONSUMER NEEDS ��I�!� !Jwate r purifier Posr-J\MERIKAN 20 r1ARCHJ 1975 Add Miss Sibyl Father Life grown so thin (This ar ticle is the first in a add Miss Sibyl now within series of reprints from the book Fixing £!!:.! : A People 's Primer by Mother Moon darkest phase Hick Greens pan , Lowell Turner , Kiss with trembling lips Sun's rays Ann wagner , Helen Wickes , and John Spitzer. Alway s Sea death so near take My Shell without fear Sister Morn gods all gone golden comes tomorrow 's dawn --gp THE ENGINE BLOC K INTRODUCTION Some people grew up knowing about cars ; many of us didn't. We pictured elves working diligently under the hood secretly runningthe car. The elves didn't always do what we wanted and sometimes refused to do anything at all. When that happened, we took the car to the comer magician, who opened the hood and raised hell with wrenches, hammers and magic spells. He gave us back a well-behavedcar and an enormous bill, and we wete back on the road again. This happened again and again, until finally the magician told us that the elves were too old to work anymore. We had toget a new car. One day we just couldn't afford a new car. We decided we'd better learn the magic for ourselves. We learned that the magic has two parts: knowing how a car works, and getting a few hints on how to fix it. The more we learned about how something CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE in a car worked, the easier it was to learn all the littletricks that were necessary to repair it. A car is made up of different systems. The steering system lets you tum it in one direction or another; the braking system lets you stop it ; the engine gives your car the power it takes to propel a ton of metal down the road. This chapter is AMERIKAN CLUNKER OR LOAD ... meant to explain the workings of a car, system by FOREIGN system. _T he main thing to keep in mind as you read this your car or tr11cH chapter is that all its information is simple and We will fixor accessible. You don't have to use a slide rule or 1.,.1111worA with you know advanced physics or drive a hot rod. You can actually see how things work by common-sense principles. As you learn, try to keep an overview of the car as a whole machine with interrelated systems. Try to step back and think about how each system fits into the whole car. When one goes wrong, other systems are often affected, just 4tloal, city like a living organism. Gi-ea:. Betterfigure on reading this chapter a little at a timeand more than once. It's got a lot of informa ,· ·tion. It can be used as a reference for specific jobs - echvsts'f51atl well as a basis for further reading and study. 6ra\iejd» as Taite it slow and easy. If you come to a part you don't understand, find someone to explain it to '" Io; I 1 you. i· " . clt°'"Se THE ENGINE BLOCK "'-'�·"f'· Before \Ve describe in detail the workings of an engine, we're going to talk about the main parts of . the engine from bottom up and how they're con nected to each other. The crankshaft, a heavy steel shaft, is the back bone of the engine. It has a series of offset cranks which act like handles and enable the engine to REASONABLE HOURLY . RATE S; push and pull the whole shaft around. The com bined function of all the different parts of the ·No RIP-OFFS; WHOLESALE- PARTS engine is to tum the crankshaft. When you "crank a car over," you are setting the crankshaft in motion. A car goes "cranking down the road" worlt don • on a persons/ when the crankshaft provides power for the II// D14is wheels. The crankshaft is mounted to the bottom of the engine block, a big piece of cast iron (or some· Call 828-6677 or 829-8146 times aluminum) which contains the moving parts Leave a message for Gary, Skip, or Al Posr-AMERIKAN 21 MARCH., 1975 CRANKSHAFT A Very NaturalTh ing The little group ge ts stepped on again by big business . GPA , Gay Peoples All iance at ISU , was all prepared to sponsor the movie A Very Natural Thing. Posters and leaflets were spread all over cam pus , paid ads were in the Vidette daily for a week ahead of time , arrangements were made for a trail er to be shown at the Capen movie and announcements were taken to gay bars and centers all ov er Ill inois. This was to be the midwest premier for the beautiful , senti mental gay love story. Unfortunately, two days before the of the engine. Main bearing caps hold the crank does in a bicycle pump. A piston pin connects the date advertised, the movie magnate, shaftup against the block. Main bearings cushion piston to a connecting rod . Each rod attaches to an George Kerasotes , put pressure on the turningcrankshaft between the block and the offset crank on the crankshaft. The ;od can swing the New Line Cinema , distributors mainbearing ca ps. These bearings are half circles back and forth on the piston as it follows the circu of the film , and hinted that he of soft metal. They allow the crankshaft to be lar motion of the crank. This motion is like riding a would boycott the struggling new mounted rigidly to the block and still tum freely. bicycle-your knees go up and down but your feet company if they did not show it In the engine block and above the crankshaft ride the pedals in a circular motion. As the crank first at one of his theaters in shaft swings around, it brings each •Jf the pistons are several cylinders. They are hollow spaces Chicago. An attempt was made by where the real action takes place. A piston rides back up for another stroke. GPA members to call George at his up and down in each cylinder, much like a plunger home in Springfield. No one an swered. Another call sou�ht him at his San Franc isco mansion and still no one was available. When New Line Cinema was called in New York , the shuffle was inc redi ble. No one thereknew anything ex cept the movie would not be sent , no vice president or major decision maker was av ailable; no assistanc e was given. After GPA consulted leg al advisors they were told a suit could be fil ed on breach of contract and re straint of trade laws; however, that won't get the movie here in time for its publicized show date. Drop- in Two sentiments go ou� from �he GPA members to the many people who were counting on seeing A McLean County has a large population The DROP-IN CENTER for Jr. High folks Very Natural Thing s our apologies of adolesc ent. lonely, undirected will open Monday March ) at 7a00 P . M . and a plea for you to join, us in young adults who lack the interest, The center will be open ?100 to lOaOO a struggle that will eventually modeling , un derstanding , discipline , PM Mondays and Thursdays from the )rd prevent this kind of "natural and companiionships of grown men of March on . thing" from occurring again. and women to assist them in their prope.r gr owth and development. Play pool , rap to folks , and. s ee the Jack Willie movies which will be shown· at leas t Project Oz is here to try and meet one night a month. the needs of some of these young The DR OP-IN Center is at 404 E. W�shington. adults . The young adults Oz serves ' \ I \1 are cases of the Department of Chil ' dren and Family Services. This is ac TO THE BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL COMMUNITY1 complished through the use of ad vo cate�. An advocate is a caring per son who can develop a friendship Let us remember that our bonds of love and with a young adult. friendship'•xiat for only one reason-- to seek liberation. The community of love If this sounds like something you seems to change faster than some of us would like to do call a are able , but we must keep trying. We need each other. 827-6?14 an.d ask ' :f'or Pete. Now 19yrs and ver Wel AT I • • � Wo rld > Medusa's Book ... .\ 109 W. FRONT '. J � BLOOMINGTON . 8 A\\ Color Movie Rooms Adult f\a.9azines, Novels> { Novelties Also Pa rty Games Posr-AMER il{AN 22 MARCH� 1975 ETARI ANISM Health and Dairy Products This is the third article in a series Parts of the following are direct Before lactose can be metabolized, it on Femini s t Vegetariani sm . This part quotes from •Animals are Slave s must be converted to a simple sugar . deal s with the health aspects of for Unneces sary Unhealthy Dairy con The enzyme lactase performs this. vegetarianism, both non-meat and non swnption and Indus try , • by Karen During infancey , adequate lactase le dairy product vegetarianism. I Messer . vels are maintained until weaning , wanted to find a nifty quote f'rom EGGS but it has been found that lactase a prominent revolutionary telling production declines or ceases alto •bl' revolutionaries should maintain Chicken's eggs are the female cell gether among juveni les and adul ts. a healthy state ; however, there seems of ovum, the substance of the hen's to be a decided lack of' quo tations menstrual cycle. Battery production Exceptions to this deficiency are the dealing with that aubJect. That does of eggs involves automated forcefeed- "lactophilic• populations of Europe not mean it's not important though- ing of hens , controlled l ighting, and America. I t i s generally ac it just means people have not been heat , and humidity , ant ibiotics in cepted amongst many bio logists that suff'ioiently aware of' their bodies. the hen's feed , methedrine , and o ther at one time all human populations A healthy body means a healthy mind- drugs to speed up and force the aber were �r iginal ly lactas e def icient . the mental and physical condition rant production of eggs . Hens are necessary to s truggl e on. And we kept in slanted cages, one to two If Asia were to suddenly demand that all know the importance of s truggl ing feet long. the woman there stop f�eding her baby on. Therefore--read on . at her breast, 116 ,ooo·� ooo cows would The cages are slanted to facilitate be put into slavery as we put them . ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** the collection of eggs . The years A chi ld who is nursed for the first of standing on wire deforms hens ' two years receives an average or J96 People have survi ved and remained feet and chi ckens are debeaked to quarts of milk, the nutri tutional equal 6 heal thy on dairy products for many prevent cannibalism. Chickens are of 4 1 quarts of cow's milk, co s ting thousands of years ; as a matter of fed waste from meat processing $65 . A replacement for human milk, fact, peopl e have remained healthy plants, waste from vegetable o i l packaged formulas , are becoming in ea g po u ar in •undevelo e • on meat . Eskimos are very heal thy pro ces s ing plants , meat and f i sh cr sin ly p l p d meat-eating people , but they eat much meal and cottonseed . countries, costing $140. raw and .l ightly cooked meat and fi sh . They live in an arctic cl imate, When chickens are s ick or cancerous , On Sept . 18, 19?J, the NY Times re commands a eed for much fat . ported a Consumers ' Union Report char which n they are sold to soup compani es . They also have a shorter life span Eggs are no t only eaten whole but ging that tes ts showed 6 ma jor brands than Jll8ll1' other groups of people. used in varni shes , baby foods , paints, of evaporated milk to be contaminated They al so don' t have much cho i ce vaccines, soap , pr inter 's ink , sham with im ermi ssably high concentrations . p Their environment contains little poo , salad dressing , and leavening. of lead. This milk is widely used in else but animals and undigestible infant 's formulas . One billion cans lants Eg s are c m osed of 87% wate and of this milk are sold every year in p . g o p r protein. They are hi gh in the us . The can producers are taking int is that you don' t need meat 12� My po cholesterol mucous ; they contain new measures to reduce the lead weld or dairy products ; you can do much animal fat , drug, antibio tic, and ing on the seams inside of the cans . be tter wi thout them ( providing , of pes ticide re sidues . Al so , our course, that you have a suffi ci ent blood carries oxygen to all par ts of Is that enough? Recent reports from diet) even if you can survive wi th our bodi es . The excess nitrogen in the US Public Health Service say that them . eggs , milk and meat leads to cancer, milk has caused 988 epidemics in 20 TB , and kidney and liver di seases . years accounting for 804 deaths . Dairy products contain many of the , The fol lowing rap is from the same same hazards as meat . They contain Mothers , if you can 't breast feed , use animal t which causes heart article , but the author is fa and c. soy or nut milk. Simply mix in a blen coronary diso e s You've heard Sal,amone . rd r . der with water. If you are breast or cholesterol--that 's caused by feeding and taking in dairy product s , rodu ts are acid- WOMEN AND MILK animal fat . Milk p c mythical ly thinking that indi rectly fo i (upsetting the body's nat ;r rm ng �n1m�l mil� was pu t on the earth for ural balance) mucous-forming. Vast numbers of peopl e in Asia, and your baby and no t the ·calf, stop and Mucous is the medium in which all Africa, and South America regard think again. Think of the poi sons food unfit for co germs grow , and so overab�e milk as a nsump that nave been invested into that milk leads to increasing disease and tion in ul t . The Chinese, for ad s once it leaves that mother cow's teat . clogs up the body , inter ly example , regard a glass of milk nal and Minimize your DDT intake and other exter ly. as we in the West would regard a glas s nal poisons when you feed your baby . of blood. We spurn the l ife givin - g Pregnant women should abstain from all One particular study traced •summer product of the human mammary glands dairy products ; the La Maze birth for that of the �ow , Adu lt colds • of children to ice cream method recommends this. Dai ry causes mammal s don't drink milk ; mos t eating . Most of these •summer colds " unnecessary mucous in the re spiratory adult mammals have trouble drinking are actually the beginning or TB . tract of the newborn infant . The body i s very strong and can ward milk. Milk presents a problem J:>e�ause its only s i i fi cant carbo off a large percentage or the disease . gn ---Janet TB frequency annually increases in hydrate and its predominant solid, as July and August (ice cream time ) . is a complex sugar known lactose . When ice cream was removed f'rom the children 's diet , the TB and summer cold rate dropped. **Everyone needs to be abl e to re IT DOES BY ALL MEANS TAKE MORE THAN lieve frustrations , which includes TRADITIONAL "MANHOOD• TO CHALLENGE crying at times . CULTURAL STEREOTYPES . THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU . **Not all men are physical ly or men Mark It's time for men to change . The tally the same . year is 1975 , not 1875 , and it is now that all men should stop living **Women are human beings and they by destructive stereotypes. Men will no longer submit to being op need to real ize that their lives are pressed any more than the blacks or A Jazz Message their own and not the property of any other groups . peer groups and soci ety , looking in to themse lves to ask who they are , **Men need to be able to relate to People need to know that the way things are can mor be changed . Rudeness , men/woman, police/people , and, e importantly , how they go t thems elves and other men NON-compet there . We should all real ize that i tively. Men are always going to parent/child divisions , local corruption et al we are human be ngs firs t d d are related . They happen because food and other i , in ivi have personal and sexual probl ems l e e resources come to us from far away . What hap ua s s cond , and m mbers of a sex that need to be talked over with third . Thi s is not an easy exper others . pens in between there and here is determined by ience , but then jus t how easy is individuals in a world where you can't buy a job. life today? **Men have to learn to bui ld their Everything is related to everything else. egos more constructi vely because Males have been conditioned to a when men belittle women, blacks , An individual can't know enough about what 's involved to make good decisions . There needs very fixed stereotype . We are gays , less talented people and minor to be free information between people and dec taught not to release emotions con ity groups , they should be aware that structively because it's a weakness , all of these, joined toge ther , are isions have to be made another way from the old be h si l and nt l ly strong way . to p y cal y me a the MAJORITY that will no longer sub at al l times. We are taught to un mi t to oppression. consciously suppress women into sub How we get things done should be made import There is no inherent qual ity in men servient identities, and to relate ant and we should do the things that have to that protects them from rai sing t etitive re be done for peoples good , not using energy in 6 other men only in comp children, seeing tendencies within lat ionshi s . And we are taught to ways that work against us . p themselves that soc i ety may deem as build our own egos by any means pos feminine , and just deal ing with sible , including the belit tl ing of A good trick we can use to help us do 'ths:t is l i fe ' s everyday hang-ups . others. 'The list i s endl ess . that as we decide how to do things , we think ot people as being everyone . This would el If you ' ll think about what I have The problem wi th our culture is that wr tten yo see that the life iminate arguing and allow us to get the things it just isn't going to work more, i , u may any you have been living is no t your own, we want to do done. Bob Thiel tor several reasons : but someone else's idea of a 11man1s• life . Posr-AMER IKAN 23 MARCH� 1975 ;· Classy Fried Ads Wanted one .female Kitty, 6 to 8 weeks old , preferably one color. -xl YE Leave message With 4'nf'ered at . . a2e -1oas . 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I am empty Hiding our bodies from the world out words spoken too many times side How does it feel to chase time? have drained me of everything Shutting our minds to the unc ertainty How does it feel to want something except for my need for you . outside .But wanting it now? Hiding our emotions so people won't the poems I used to write see our true selves How does it feel to chase time? said I hate Amerika I hate Amerika How does it feel to search for answers now We build the doors But wanting them instantly? I hate you- We close the doors oh please hold me ti·ght let me It's up to us to open the doors Tomorrow will eventually come cry on your shoulder stay warm Yesterday will always be with us give me love don' t fall asleep G.A.M. You may eventually get what you want no t yet . 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