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GLENN TO GAYS: DROP DEAD Amtrak station, 1200 w. Front Sen. Glenn says he won't support gay rights .•...•••.•....•..•.....••• 3 Ault Pharmacy, 1102 s. Main The Back Porch, 402~ N. Main BILLBOARD GUERILLAS LIBERATE AD GAME California activists steal ad space for their causes ••••••••••••••••• 6 Biasi's Drugstone, 217 N. Main Bus Depot, 523 N. East A FEW DAYS AFTER 'THE DAY AFTER'; NUCLEAR BOMBS ON TV; TOO LATE FOR The Coffee Shop, s. Main 'THE DAY AFTER': Post staffers comment on the recent tv show ••••••••• 8-9 Common Ground, 516 N. Main Fr?nt and Center Bldg. WITH ENOUGH SHOVELS THEY'LL BURY US Haag Drugstore, $09 w. Washington The Reagan administration believes nuke war is winnable ••••••••••••• lO Haag Drugstore, 1110 E. Oakland SORRY LADY, YOU NEED A PENIS TO FIX THIS ZENITH Law & Justice Center, W. Front Girls can, too, fix their own tv sets •••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••• ll Medusa's Adult World, 420 N. Madison Mel-0-Cream Doughnuts, 901 N.·.Main REAGAN LIES ABOUT REASONS FOR GRENADA INVASION Mike's Market, 1013 N. Park The three justifications for invading Grenada are bogus •••••••••• l2-13 Mr. Donut, 1310 E. Empire Nierstheimer Drugs, 1302 N. Main GRENADA DOCUMENTS DON'T SHOW WHAT REAGAN CLAIMS Pantagraph (in front of ouilding), Grenada was not the Cuban-Soviet colony Ron wanted it to be •••••• l4-15 301 w. Washington QUALITY CARE CUTBACK AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL The Park Store, Wood & Allin Another local medical corp. shortchanges its patients ••••••••••••••. l6 Red Fox, 918 w. Market Small Changes Bookstore, 409A Main BENDECTIN: THE DRUG THAT DEFORMED Susie's Cafe, 602 N. Main Drug company lies about withdrawing their monster-maker •••••••.••... l7 U.S. Post Office, 1511 E. Empire (at exit) LET'S STOP FIGHTING ABOUT GUN CONTROL Gun fovers, gun haters, and the middle of the road •••••••••••••••••. l8 u.s. Post Office, Center & Monroe Wash House, 609 N. Clinton THE WHOLE WORLD IS WAITING Washington St., across f"rom -courthous• Recent protest wasn't as loud as it needed to be .••..•••••••••••.•.• l9 w.w. Bake Shop, 801 E. Washington

MOM, APPLE PIE, AND BOOK BURNING NORMAL Survey of recent efforts at censorship in Amerika •••••.•..•••••..... 20 Alamo II, 319 North (in front) YEAR OF THE BIBLE Blue Dahlia, 121 E. Beaufort Public Law 97-280 threatens freedom of thought ..•.•.•••••••••••••••. 21 ISU University Union, 2nd floor APARTHEID REMAINS IN PLACE ISU University Union, parking lot Recent elections in South Africa were a sham •..•..••••••.•••..•.•••• 22 _ entrance ISU Milner Library (entrance) Community News ••.•• 4-5 Letters ••••••••.•.•••..••••••• 11 Fink's, 111 E. Beaufort (in front) Cable Comix •...... ••• 6 Amerikan Almanak ••••.••.•••••. 18 Midstate Truck Plaza, u.s. 51 north News Griefs •••...••.• 7 My Sister, the Punk Rocker .... 24 Mother Murphy's, 111~ North St. North & Broadway, southeast corner Old Main Bookstore, 207 s. Main Record Service, Watterson Place Redbird lGA, 310 S. 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It pains me to write this, but I'm Members of the gay press have tried publicly renouncing Donna Summers. to contact Summers to confirm the Usually I like to renounce someone validity of these reports. You'd before he/she renounces me, but I think she'd be eager to communicate didn't hear about Summer's dumb with her gay ~udience and address this anti-gay remarks until a few days issue. Although her manager has ago. denied that the singer made these remarks, Summers herself isn't I knew that Summers had been re-born talking. And the manager has awhile back, but I had the impression stopped returning reporters' phone her commercial ambitions had conqu.cred calls. her twice-born conscience. She was making disco hits again, after all. Well, that's it. I'm fed up. Donna: your show biz career would Yes, I did see her (briefly) on "the 700 Club" and heard her trade inane comments with slimey Pat Robertson about the negative influence of popular music on today's youth. (It drowns out the still small voice in the soul. . or some such garbage.) And yes, I did think she was being an A-1 hypocrite for making these cockamamie statements. If Donna Summers really thought pop music was spiritually detrimental, then she not exist if it weren't for the should stop recording and promoting rabid support of gay men. If there Oo~nstate gays it. (She'd also stop making millions wc,~ any justice in this world, you of dollars--and Pat Robertson never would be donating 10% of your advises christians to stop making­ income to AIDS research instead of top -priority money. spouting such hypocritical malice. Well, I should have known that her You're not "Hot Stuff" in my book The Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task religious schizophrenia would get the anymore. I think you're a "Bad Force is pleased to announce the best of her. Last July, while -:'irl," and I've danced my "Last appointment of Art Schenck as touring to promote her latest album, Dance" to your music and listened chairperson of the Statewide Co­ Summers began to regale her audiences the last time to you "On the Radio." ordinating Committee. with a sanctimonious born-again rap. The Statewide Coordinating Committee And, according to several of her gay No more cruising "MacArthur Park" is responsible for lobbying state leg­ fans, during her concert at the with you. Love is definitely not islators, building a statewide consti­ Holiday Star Theater in Merrillville, in control, and since I work hard .tuent network and working with other Indiana, Summers said that she loves for my money, I won't be spending it gay/lesbian groups and individuals homosexuals but hates homosexuality on your records. throughout the state. and that ·~IDS has been sent by God to punish homosexuals." --Ferdydurke "My highest proprity .is reaching out to lesbians and gay men who live outside of Chicago," Schenck said. "The Statewide Coordinating Committee The wrong stuff is specifically set up to coordinate the efforts of the Task Force through­ out the state. I intend to see that Glenn to· gays: it does just that." Those interested in tqe Statewide Co­ ordinating Committee, or in the Task Force, should write to Art Schenck c/o IGLTF, 615 W. Wellington, Drop dead Chicago, IL 61657, or call 312/ 975-0707.

Sen. John Glenn., speaking at a New Candidates Ernest Hollings, Walter York forum soonsored J:.v the Americans Mondale, Alan Cranston, and Jesse for Democratic Action ~n November 3, Jackson have all made soecific en­ said that "it is not the government's dorsements of gay rights, according job to endorse personal sexual pre­ to the Gay Rights National Lobby. ference."

Glenn's recent remarks contradict Glenn repeated and expanded this his seemingly pro-gay stand made in position in an official statement, 1981. A National Gay Task Force which read, in part: "I would not pamphlet from that year quotes Glenn advocate or promote homosexuality .. as supporting legal protection of Americans' beliefs about the accept­ sexual preference. The booklet, ability of sexual preference or life­ "Who's Behind the Gay Rights Hovement," style reflect their personal values quotes a statement by Glenn about and convictions. I do not feel that la.,,s that protect against discrimi­ it is appropriate for the federal nation: "Although the homosexual government to extend the reach of lifestyle is beyond the mainstream Title VII of the Civil Rights .Z\ct of American Society, we cannot deny into areas of personal beh~vior." homosexuals access to the pursuits guaranteed to all. The quality of our la¥s, if not our actions at times, Glenn said he continues to endorse is the accommodation they have for the Equal Rights Amendment because each of society's various elements." a person's sex is a "genetic attribute." The senator did not indicate that he .,10uld withdraw his support of the part of the Civil Rights Act that provides protections 'for religious belief, which is not a "genetic ~ttribute~" We qan assume, I think, that Glenn's distinction between the genetic and the non­ That wasn't exactly a resounding genetic is a bogus cover for his own endorsement of gay rights. Is it so homophobia or the homophobia he surprising that it disi~grated into perceives in the Amerikan electorate. further equivocation? The closer Glenn gets to the Presidency, the more he sounds like the President Glenn's statement makes his the (especially the current model). second Democratic candidate to endorse But isn't that what usually happens? women's but not necessarily gay rights. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado told last month's National Organiza­ And who do you want in the White ljl;;lu~.GAY ENTERTAINMENT tion for Women convention that he House? A grade B actor or a space would not join co-sponsors of the cadet? IN CENTRAL.Il.LINOIS federal lesbian and gay rights bill, although Hart was a featured speaker --Ferdydurke OPEN NIGHTLV, 'TIL 4 A.M. at last April's banquet of the PRE~ENT THIS AD AT THE BAR Municipal Elections Coffil'1.i ttee of Los ·.JtOR A DRINK. ·LIMIT ONE PER Angeles, the country's largest local Source: '_T'he Nevl York Native, Nov. ~ , . CUSTOMER P.ER gay political action committee. 21-Dec. 1983.--- ~ommunifJ! Nems

Health screening for seniors The McLean County Health Department will be conducting a health screening clinic for senior citizens at the Miller Park Pavilion on Thursday, December 15th from 9:00 to 11:30 A.M. and again from 1:00 to 2:00 P.M. Blood pressure, anemia, glucose, urine and glaucoma screening will be provided to senior citizens 60 years of age or older. Phone 454-1161 for \II an appointment. I \~\\l.i~ """~' Senior Citizens Health Check is a program provided by the McLean County . Health Department through partial '\­ support of the East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging. New film reflects women's work "I·Jhat You Take for Granted," a film situations and-relationships repre­ newly acquired by the Iris Film Col­ ~ent a broad spectrum. The script lective for distribution, presents an lS based on interviews with 100 women Ne_ed help unusual, intimate, and moving explor­ who work in non-traditional jobs. ation of women's experiences in non­ traditional occupations. Written and "What You Take for Granted" is an with heat bills? directed by Michelle Citron, this 75- excellent film for both traditional minute color film breaks our illusions and non-traditional workers; for With the winter months quickly labor, women's and progressive approaching, MCEOC is happy to about the romance of non-traditional jobs for women, but also leaves us groups and classes; for high school, announce an early start-up date for college, and trade school audiences; assistance in paying heat bills. better prepared to cope with and The Illinois Home Energy Assistance succeed in these fields. It also and for professionals who,do or will provides important insights for those interact with women in non-traditional Program began providing assistance jobs. to low-income households in McLean of us not in non-traditional work. and Livingston Counties on December 1. Applicants must have an appoint­ Citron intercuts interviews. with 6 "What You Take for Granted" is essen­ ment before applying and will be non-traditionally employed women with tial for any library that includes helped on a first-come, first served a dramatic sequence that traces the films on labor, women, history, basis. An overdue bill or cut-off growth of a friendship between 2 of psychology, sociology, and on social notice is not required. Persons who these women. The interviewees work in and cultural studies. do not pay their own heat may also be both blue collar and professional eligible. jobs. They come from different ethnic For more information, contact Iris and class backgrounds and their living films, P. O. Box 5353, Berkeley, CA W~en you apply for assistance, bring 19705; ( 415) 549-3192. Wlth you: Proof of gross income from all household members 90 days prior Job training programs start to application date, a copy o!· your current energy bill, and social secur­ Eight new employment and training p~aces high school seniors in part­ ity numbers of everyone 18 years of programs are aimed at helping the time postitions with local businesses. age and over in the household. unemployed in Fulton, Mason, t·1cLean, The Urban League will also offer Out­ and Tazewell counties. of-School Skill Training for drop­ The amount of assistance depends on outs and Job Readiness/Vocitional the type of fuel used, income and UPIC has awarded subgrants to six Exploration courses to help high the number of persons in the house­ area organizations to implement pro­ school students determine Potential hold. One-time payments range from grams for clerical training, youth careers and seek training.- $105 to $395· To qualify for heat employment, and General Education assistance your income must fall Development (GED). Intake workers The Pekin Area Vocational Center will within the following guidelines: are screening applicants for these operate a similar Youth Emplovment programs, from 8 a.m. toll a.m., Training Program, which provides Size of 90 day Monday through Thursday, at all Pri­ hands-on vocational training. Under Household gross income vate Industry Council offices. a contract with Bloomington-Normal 1 $ 1519 Adult Education, drop-outs, h3ndi­ 2 2044 Clerical The Pekin Area Vocational capped persons, and economically dis­ 2439 Center, the Bloomington-Normal Adult advantaged students will be assisted a 2970 Education, and the Canton Union through the Training for Job 5 3276 ~c~ool District #66 will train qual­ Acquisition Project. 6 3582 lfled applicants for entry-level positions in the clerical field. A The Bloomington School District j87 7 3768 will administer the Handicapped 8 3966 comprehensive curriculum will focus on word processing, business English Employability Training Program aimed at aiding the handicapped make the For an appointment in McLean County, a~d math, b?okkeeping, data entry, call (309) 829-0691 and in Livingston m1crocomput1ng, and other basic transition into the job market. office skills. County call (815) 844-3201. GED Books and tuition will be paid Applications will be taken at rural Youth The Tri-County Urban League for those unemployed who wish to sites through the month of December. has been granted funds for the Youth receive their General Education Call MCEOC for times and dates. Try-out Employment Program, which Development (GED) high school diploma. Classes will be held at Illinois · Central College and the Bloomington­ Normal Adult Education Center.

In addition to these programs, the UPIC also offers On-the-Job Training with private business and Job Club Rape Crisis Center assistance, which helps place enroll­ ees in full-time jobs. of Mclean County To qualify for UPIC programs, appli­ cants must meet eligibility guidelines and can receive screening on a walk­ WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE~IN PURPOSE IS TO in basis at the following UPIC OFFER ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT offices. AND THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES. FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE McLEAN COUNTY 201 E. Grove St., VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION Bloomington 309-827-4026 AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. FULTON COUNTY lll N. Avenue A, If you want to talk to one of us Canton 309-647-5680 MASON COUNTY ll8 W. Market St., Call PATH 827-4005 Havana 309-543-6393 and ask for the TAZEWELL COUNTY 15-17 S. Capitol St., Pekin 309-353-4475 .Ra e Crisis Center Dec. l9B3-Jan. l9B4 Page 4 Rent and housing Page 5 assistance This sleazy Santa was ugly as you­ Mid Central Economic Opportunity know-what in 1979, when this photo Corporation (HCE0C) 0:::-ovides assis­ was taken. Now it's sad and be­ tance to individuals-in life- or draggled as well. heal til-threatening situations.

The Crisis Intervention Program provides one-time assistance for rent Exhaustion hits (where an eviction notice has been received), food, and prescriptions. downtown decor In all situations, MCEOC must be the "I've ridiculed that fool snowman last resource in the community. and Sa~a for the last two Christ­ mases," I complained to a friend, In 1983 MCEOC assisted twice as many "and here they are again, uglier households as in 1982 through funds than ever, and I just can't let obtained from a Community Services them go without some kind of rant'n' Block Grant. rave, but what can I say?"

This Block Grant also provides funds "Well, make it a tired rant'n'rave," fo~ MCEOC's Housing Referral Program. he said. This program assists people in locat­ ing adequate housing which is afford­ Perfect. When Bloomington first able. To obtain assistance, the spent $1500 on these grotesque household income must be at or below polyethelene bimoos, they posi­ 125% of the poverty level. tively sparkled with slick bad taste. This year the slick and For further information on any of sparkle have given way to drab, MCEOC's programs, phone (309) 829-0691 drooping tatters. They're tired. in McLean County or (815) 844-2301 in Livingston County. To add to the pathos, the sullied snowman squats at the corner of Washington and East, where the beautiful old Withers Library stood Chr*stmas party until the bank took 9ver the site. Sunnyside The scene reminds me of Christmas. --Phoebe Ca0lf1e~c -,-l::=> , lJer:err:- ::JD p.m .. icc . Aging sem1nar 1- -~.: rJia~ must accompiny 1 childr-en 5 and under. 'i hC' t--·lcLc::z-tn Count:-y' Health Dcp2..rtn1cnt will present a pruqram on the Physical h penny carnival, relays, arts & /\Spects o'C 1--..q_in---~ on l'J~-::dncsr1c:_y, crafts, and fun with pinatas are December 14th, l:lO- 3:00 P.ll. at Health care for among the activities planned. Santa the McLean County Health Department, Claus will be on the scene with ~ifts 905 N. Main St., Normal~ This session 0 the unemployed and treats for everyone! will be of interest to older adults, families, and caregivers of older In Novenber, the McLean County Health Transportation will be provided at adults. Depa~tmen~ beqan operatinq the the Wood Hill, Evergreen and Holton ~rimary Health Care for the Unemployed Homes housing sites. For ~ore information contact Ann Program. Through a federal grant Charleston, R.N. 454-1161 or Karen ad~inistered regionally, the Heal~h For more information, please call Reeter, Social Worker, St. Joseph's Gepartment is able to provide finan­ Sunnyside Center at 827-5428. Hospital 662-3311, ext. ~21. - ~ial assistance to unemployed families ln need of health care. Primary care is provided by local physicians~ laboratories, and pharmacies that are under contract with the Health Department.

To ~e.elisible for the program, fam1l1es must reside in McLean County and confirm in writing that no member Bacon bits: Sugar Creek of the family is employed. Families covered by public aid medical assis­ tance or Private insurance are not workers still locked out eligible.· 'rhe employees of Sugar Creek Meat lock-out pay and lots of guts. Packing Company are still locked out, but organized labor in Central If the management of Sugar Creek Meat Primary Health Care for lhe Unemplo~ed Illinois has rallied behind the 67 Packing Company can get away with this cov2rs basic health services: nre­ members of Local 54J, United Food and flagrant union busting, who will be natal.care, l~horatory tests, f~mily Commercial Workers. A benefit for next? Is negotiation by starvation plann1ng serv1ces, physical examina­ them was held last month at the Car­ (with help from state agencies like tions, treatment of childhood ill­ penter Hall. Over $2,000 was raised the Illinois Unemployment Bureau) the nesses, care of chronic diseases, and for the locked out workers who are wave of the future? Will we allow provision of nrescription medicine. still not receiving unemployment bene­ our fellow workers and neighbors to Hospitaliza~ion and surgerv are not fits (supervisors are receiving bene­ be ground into Bacon Bits while capi­ covered undr~;-:- this program·. fits because they are not covered by talists ·eat steak and make us "nego­ the contract). A food bank has been tiate" for the scraps? Families se~~ina in~ormation on set up in Springfield. The union eligibility should call the McLean members are getting bv on $40 per week --Jane G. County Health Department at 454-1161. Thanks 1 This issue is in your hands thanx to: OPERATION 829-0691 Danny, Deborah, Drew, Mark, Susie, Dave, Drue, Melissa, Nadene, Laurie S., We accept newspapers, tin cans, Laurie D., Kathy, Bill, Sue F., Ralph, RECYCLE glass containers, aluminum, J.T., Terry, Imogene, Robin, Jeff, corrugated cardboard and office Diana, Michael, Bumper, Holly, Bobby, paper. and Sue L. (coordinator)--and others we probably forgot to mention. McLean County's only community not-for-profit recycling center WAREHOUSE WILL BE CLOSED CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S Vacation time WEEKENDS. It's vacation time again. As you know, twice a year the Post staff calls it * At our 24 hour drop boxes quits for a couple of weeks and tries B .. ., bar. k prices: to remember what it's like to have a 1100 W. Market Aluminum 24c/lb. regular life. So you should read 501 E. Stewart this paper very slowly, 'cause you Glass 1/2 c ib won't be getting another until the end * At our warehouse every Sat. 9-12 of January. Don't panic--we're not quitting for good. We promise. 1100 vJ. Market We will still be filling machines, * At recycle drives Jan. 14 collecting the mail, and fiddling with !the answering machine, so feel free Sears, Eastland parking lot to write or call us. Try to survive ISU, Turner Hall lot the holidays and you'll be hearing from us next year. ~liCB::\BRBR::::::B:::B::::Billboard guerillas liberate ad aea&s&&BHHB a A gray Corvette driving along letter;,: l!. 2. Co'Jernment:. Reports: Interstate-SO near Davis, California, Carlton Ts Lrwest. That night, he braked suddenly and ~ulled off to the bought hot-pink paint and white shoulder of the busy highway. A adhesive tape, and bv rnornino the roan stepped from the car and gaped sign read: -u.s. Go~~rnment ~~ports: at the luminous, 40-foot billboard Capi ta1isro Is Lm;est. - t~llat had caught his eye: Buy War Bonds: Helu Support The U.S. "I'm willing to infringe on their Invasion Of Nicaragua. propert~ rights because they infringe on my rlghts all the time," Charles The driver had witnessed one exam- sayE'. ple of a new kind of political expres­ sion sprouting on highways in "vle don't hit any old bil~oard," e~uipped with house paint, 5 gallons California. Groups of nocturnal explains one of his colleagues. "He of flour paste, a few paint rollers, political activists known as the try to target the ads for major cor­ butcher ~aper, and long-handled "billboard guerrillas" have been poratlons or the ones that are brushes. "One person rolls paste on pasting over such existing signs as particularly obnoxious·or sexist. the existing sign, another drops the Corne to Marlboro Country with profes- But sone of these billboards are just first strip down, and anothe~ uses sional-looking--and free--radical crying out to be liberated." the dry roller to make the strip advertisenents. stick," says Charles. "Then you just A~icen, also a pseudonym for a gue­ line the rest up and repeat the same The guerrilla ads often remain in rllla, has helped to organize numerous thing until you're done." "billboard raids" since moving to place for sever~l weeks because they northern California two years ago. An advertisement that would cost are as polished as t~~ir commercial Her portfolio boasts such works as: upwards of $1,000 if it were designed, hosL~. ~hev typically publicize an El Salvador: Don't Pay Reagan's painted, and posted by a professional upccE.:~ 1c: event or make CJ. general billboard agency sets the guerrillas poliLL::c-;.l stater1ent. '!:'he roadside Blood '1oney. Alicen even has her back about $15. ads ha>re aoneared in or near many own 20~ling card--Fly by Nioht major cities, with the heaviest Advertisers. concsntratj_on around San Francisco, On a -r=.:3'11 occasions, reneaade bill­ Sac~~nento, and Los Angeles. "We're trying to shock people," she h0<1rrl2rs have been caught in the act says. "We're trying to wake thc,-1 up by uclice or California Highway "I cJ,)n't ::=eel guilty about it," says from the traditional advertisir:(J that Patrol officers. Although the guer­ Charl0~ (not his real name), a dulls ~nero. We don't have th~ re­ rillas could face charges of tres­ graphic artist who is one of the sources to reach peopl.e like the large nas~ing or defacing private property, guerrillas. "I guess you,could say corporations do, so we organize it offlcers have, in some instances, 1 I'm guilty ~Fa small crine for at a g:c'lss-roots level. I th: ilk It's Joo ~ed the other way. Said one artist attempting to stop a larger crime, appeali:1q to do a sort of gue::d_lla ,,,-,o was discovered "liberating" a hut I don't respect._i5iii1'L':Jard adver­ act ond know it's not going to b~ ~~cramento billboard late one night: tisers enough to feel remorse at hurti1;;I ar.y people or dar-1aging an•.' "When we explained to them what we covering their ads." propert~ in a seriou~ way." we~e doing, thev just lauahed and asked us to go ~o it some~here Charles began moonlighting as a Los '1ost bi:l_lhoard groups have 4 or 5 where we wouldn't get cau0ht." Angeles billboard bandit after spot­ me~bers, who asse~ble in dark clothes ting, on Olyrnpi.c Boulevard, a cigar­ when they prepare to go to work. --Melinda Wei~~' rep~intert from The ette ad that boasted in hu9e, hot-pink They scale the billboard structures ' Pro~essive, Dec. 1983. · .. · · · · .. · 1Help end child labor·· skiP the soup~-...... ,.· Child labor has plagued farm work in the United States for decades. In By working in the fields, farm worker Ohio, as in California, farm workers children are denied a~ ~ducatiori and Stop this are organizing to stop the abuse of the opportunities enjoyed by most cyCle. or_· children in Arnerika's fields.· But this children. 80% of migrant chiidren often overlooked tragedy can on],y be_ will not graduate from high sch~ol. human abuse! erid'~d through public awarenes§ rand' - Over 20 years of organ.iz.i-ng in '". support. ·-. We "ask that you ieave all California have shown us that the only Campbell Soup Products standing The Farm Labor Organizing Committee way to protect the rights of farm on your grocer's shelf as a reminder (FLOC), representing over 2,000 Ohio worker children is through a union of this gross injustice. farm workers on strike in the fields contract, and the boycott has been the contracted to the Campbell Soup farm workers' most powerful tool in Company, wants to alert the Arnerikan winning contracts. The Farm Labor Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 public to the extent of child labor in Organizing Committee does not want to Ohio's tomato and pickle fields. An ask the taxpayer for health and adult field worker in Ohio earns an welfare assistance--they want a Page 6 average hourly wage one dollar below contract with Campbell Soup. the national minimum. To help support their families, thousands of small For five years, FLOC has sought a children each year are forced into contract which would provide wages A hilarious cartoon history hazardous work. high enough to end the poverty which necessitates child labor. Campbell of the good old U.S.A. By Estelle Carol, Rhoda Grossman Soup has continued to deny the farm Long ~ours in the hot sun, use of he and Bob Simpson workers union recognition; now, FLOC heavy machinery, and exposure to $6.95 seeks support·for their non-violent dangerous chemicals make agricultural Ask for it at your local Bookstor~ struggle through a consumer boycott or ord~r from· work one of the three most hazardous .:Hyson Publications of Campbell products. PO Box 2783 Dept. B-1 occupations, according to the Depart­ Boston, .\fassachusetts 02208 ment of Labor. The unhealthy $7.50 postpaid (reduced rates for multiple copies) conditions and difficult life are --FLOC reflected in an infant mortality rate 7J4~ S. 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God's censors at work again According to the latest issue of The Progressive, the distinguished publishing firm of Dodd, Mead, and Co. has 1l4;!en bought by the Tennessee Bible ::::: : :::: ::~:~::::: : :::::::=:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::: P\lb~isher Thomas Nelson, lnc_., and Urin~ for it now, kids .censo~ship has become the order of_ the 'Pay·~-,-. OK, Mom and Dad, a scientist has come '' up with the perfect holiday gif~ for Apparently two novels and a book of you. Now·you can get home urine test \verse have already been rejected.,...~n.ot kits to see if your kids: are on drugs. e"fted~. :rejected~- for profanity. Isn't that great? .Supposedly the kit ~·f'uck'' -b now an absolute no... can-do, can detect all the major street -as. ~~·H\ as any-__ lesser ·profanity used poisons, so you'll be able.to.crack in' C:6rirtec'tion- wit-h ·religious . down on Dick and Jane.· Life's l.ooki~g ·terminology~- up: now you can control your kid's ..• - - drug habits, . abortions, birth control Th~s l.s pretty ~rrogant 'behavior from • practically everything they do. -. the publf~h~rs of-. one of the truly obscene .works of all ti~e. Presumably And thirik what fun you'll have lying News-Griefs . books. dep~cting religious persecution, to them about why you need a urine · compiled by scaramouche ·slavery, genociqe~ incest, rape, and· sample! What a great way to increase wars; .of invasion--as·does the Bible-- , family harmony, huh? ~re~ll right, as long a~ it's d~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "-- "tast;.efully." -Give' lll-e a break. Bett•r late than It appears the Russians weren't doubling their.military spendingin the last few years.· Acc.o-rding to a new.CIA report, they were-just piddling along. · - · ···

This is, . of cours.e, .the exact opposite of the lies the Reagan admin- ·istration has been feeding us to justify its immense arms: build-up. Now that_it has_succeeded in getting its first-s.trike ca,pab'ir'ity ;~ dong comes the truth--too. late. The Soviet build-up was overestimated by about 100%.·

Grovei Oklahoma Board of Educa;.. We .t•ach. you -to play, t:ion actually did it. They .fired Russell Turl~y for-refusing to sign an __ -th ..:n :sell .you the right guitar. oath ,of loya:lf:.Y to ·Alnerika...;.~and to Okla,homa '(long may it wave) .

In the Asso¢iated Press stories Turley come_s off as any.thing bu~ a firebrand radical. He just seems .to think the-- oath is unnecessary and "anachronistic." He • s taught fifth grade for four years without swearing fealty to the. system. . Why should he. suck up to it now?

We specialize­ .TRUCKS & Wel.l, he sho,ulCin' t. What. does the CARS oath actually accomplish? Nothing. Lo~al ty to .. the country-"-basic loyalty , in di.esel ear r * * * * *. * -. * '* * * * --1.s mandated by law for all citizens, and signing _a piece of paper makes you repair FOREIGN& no more liable to prosecution for DOMESTIC disloyalty. rt;s certainly no ******************** guarantee that he' 11 be .a ·better teacher •.More likely it's just one more hook for the a(lministration to keep in its employees--the oath is so vague that practically anything coU--ld be construe(~, as a violation by a vindictive ~chool board.,. After PATCO, 508N. MADISON ST. 9:00-5:30 everybody's jumping.on ·the screw-the-

1 11:: I Ill .------TV review------. A few days after 'The Day After' I very rarely plan my life around the discussion that would follow cries echoed around them. There were television. I watch a lot of tv, but the movie. I knew that Falwell was the necessary "Animal within us all" only occasionally do I pre-empt every­ demanding equal time under rh~ Frtir scenes, as troops shot oeoole for thing in favor of a tv shoH. Sunday, Practices Act to give his view of looting and someone shot a-man for Nov. 20 was one of those occasions. thermonuclear war. I knew that the wanting his land back, but basically Like almost everyone I know, I sat Freeze people were calling "The Day everyone was civilized and amiable. down to watch tv that night. So did After" a victory. millions of other people in this There were a fe\·1 good scenes: the country. I am not sure I saw the same film. president telling the peoole that everything was under cont~ol (which Titillated by the advertising, seduced "The Day After" that I saw was an sounded so much like Reagan's telling by the controversy, Amerika shifted adequately acted and directed made­ us about Grenada that it was terrify­ from football to thermonuclear war in for-tv disaster movie, better than ing) ; the Air Force man telling his a matter of minutes. There was just some, worse than others. It made one comrades that he wasn't going to die enough time to grab a quick snack clear statement: Global thermonuclear in the air raid shelter and they'd between the end of the fourth auarter war is a bummer. Now there's news. have to shoot him if they wanted to and the beginning of the end. ~ stop him from trying to find his It's a safe, typical television state­ wife; and the extension officer ?

In the event of an actual nuclear war a peace satellite would be automati- ' c~lly launched with the missiles, a k1nd of "Pershing for Peace." It would contain all the names of peoule (we are all on a super microchip a~y­ wa~) from every land. There would be th1s taped message sung by Godot, the Last Punk Rocker on Earth:

"See the people of the nlanet Earth Man, they got tired, waltin' for me: They done blowed up. Then I showed up. They was a smash, till they turned to ash. · Kansas called, but I said you wa0 out-- like a light. ~ Heh, ABC, you ain't nukin' me. I ain't waitin' I'm celebratin' The baddest bash ever will never end!" At least (hie!) we agree on one thing --Beulah Bloomington-Normal ... a nuclear war IS suNivable ! Post-Amerikan Page 8 Unhappy Page 9 Days Nuclear war bombs on TV "Bob," William F. Buckley arched Megatons of hype! Norman Rock­ his eyebrows and called the movie how can you nuke somebody if well-Land wiped out! Mom, we "doomsday." they're invisible? Leave the deci­ won't have time to pose with sions up to the Big Boys. They our pitchforks! One-hundred mil­ For Carl Sagan, intoning from can handle it 'cause they went to lion destroyed! (By heartburn the Cosmos, it wasn't doomsday enough. "We're talking about the Harvard. Remember what a oood job during commercials, as we contem­ they did in Vietnam? Phyllis plate the Last Pizza on Earth.) end of the human species," he said. Philospher-pundit, Elie Schlafly knows real men don't eat Wiesel, whose face looked gaunt Peace, they just gorge themselves Unless you just breezed irito town on defense dollars and are still from another planet (where nuclear with the fatigue of contemplat- hungry an hour later. war has been eliminated like ing the Holocaust for thirty years, said he was "scared." Perhaps the other quaint customs) • You know As for the movie itself, it was I'm referring to that audience philosopher was scared at the expensive dramatic absurdity, grabber of angst, "The Day After." prospect of sitting next to Henry which gave us an excuse to dis­ ABC nuked its rivals with a 62% Kissinger, who appeared fearless tance our emotions. It trivia­ share of the audience. Cynics in the wake of nuclear destruction. lized the terror with hokey special were dubbing the show, "Unhappy His jowls seemed to harden at the effects and cardboard characters. Days" (will the Fonz become Presi­ thought of some pansy philosopher The Midwest was nuked twice. First dent and save the world for running things. There was even a by the fictional bomb and then by eternal hair combing?) Before War Game and an appearance by the the screenwriter. Why don't these real Secretary of State, who only the movi~ parents were warned of Hollywood types write about what the psychological damage of proved that Bonzo and his circus they know? Nuclear war in Beverly watching the Big Blast. Or was in Washington should be sent back Hills would mean cocaine clouds it bombast? I wanted to build a to Clown School as their nuclear for days, and no one available to bomb shelter myself after listen­ juggling is no longer enter­ do their hair in the fallout ing to the verbal fallout from taining. shelter. Phyllis Schlafly and Jerry Falwell. Being a Pundit is a job reserved Is nuclear war beyond drama? Yes, there were pundits everywhere, for the white ma~e establishment. Perhaps not if it was written by and they were warning us about Is Phyllis Schlafly the best the~ Samuel Beckett and Walt Disney. everything. "Don't let a child could come up with? Look where it's Evil Mr. Magoo in the Kremlin under ten watch this movie!" (But gotten us. nukes Epcot Center. Will Bonzo it's okay for him to write the retaliate from Disney World in script.) After the movie more But what does it matter. Women, Californina? Can Kissinger save pundits get us back to unreality blacks, and poor people have already us this time or will Bugs Bunny by telling us what can't be done. been nuked by Bonzo's repressive be the last one on Earth? "That's "Bob" and "Henry" (McNamara and economic policies. Why bother with all, folks!" At least the end Kissinger) traded nuclear gossip. a nuclear freeze when you're will be perl,cy. No, there wasn't a launch-on­ going to freeze to death because warning policy in Camelot, sniffed you couldn't pay your gas bill? --Jane Gleisner Tpe mess9ge of the media was plain:

of onep but then again, not even video cameras can film in total The generation of Amerikans that I'm offered us instant escape into darkness. As for the rather a part of (those 19-25) is unique. Sit-cornland (whenever families confused and incomplete plot, the We were the very first to emerge began to offend) or Melodrama- original "Day After" ran an from Mama's womb and find ourselves land (when homework was put aside). additional two hours, but had to warmly eveloped in the happy world It was it--all the perfections the be edited severely for economic of around-the-clock, nurturing Tv. u.s.A. was capable of. reasons (no sponsors really wanted At no time previous to. ours Jn :. their breakfast cereal associated Amerikan histo:cy-· could a. 9hild j:ump So to me, and to others in my age with the end of civilization). out of bed at 6 a.m~ and ~h~re hisl group, ABC's much-hyped "The Day The scarcity of advertisers for her breakfast with a beneficent, After" was powerful, true-seeming the program is a fact which serves ~pmming box. It spoke to us like stuff, without precedent in our as ironic testimony to what the collective video past, And I adults, showed us amusements, and show must ~ave represented to the depicted the entire world for us in would suggest that the great corporate world: Capitalism at real photo images--all at the mere fervor for deriding the presen­ a self-reflective impasse, the touch of a switch. tation, in rightist circles, on shadow of its commercial smile-­ the grounds of its lack of twin mushroom clouds. The screen became our nanny (black, authenticity, or because of its white, or colored), and we came to patchwork dramatic plot, reve&ls But TV has also taught my genera­ trust its tales and portrayals of that the impact was just as great tier. to be cynical. And so, when actuality--as much or more than we on those who derided. hopeful "freezeniks" talk about trusted our comrades at school, and all the beneficial debate that Sure, i+'E -t.cue that the nuclear certainly more than we trusted our will be prompted from coast to teachers or parents. TV was our holocaust was not sufficiently coast by the show and inspire authentic, faithful to the reality un-.failing, always-able friend, who a yearning for peace, we say, "bullshit." We are not fatalists to think this, but rather realists. The genie, after all, has been out of the bottle for quite awhile.

The game of nuke-war is simply too far along, and has too much at stake, for even a clear majority of expendible tokens (that's you and me) to rise up en masse and actually change the atomic scheme of things. ommqn. It could never succeed. Actually, I should amend that. If a populist socialist revolution rounll (that's you and me) were to somehow occur in this land and do the impossible--overthrow its exploita­ NATURAL FOODS tive and inherently militaristic capitalist system--then, perhaps Come visit our newly remodeled store. (supposing more quixotically that We have more of everything, including a simultaneous and real socialist 516 N. Main St. an expanded produce section, to serve revolution were to happen in the you better. Soviet Union) there would be a real, Bloomington, Ill. 61701 partial progress made in diminishing the nuclear threat.

COMMON GROUND now offers you the opportunity to cut food In the meantime, in-between times, and vitamin costs by 10%. You may obtain your 10% discount I urge all "right-thinking, club card in the following two ways: · freedom-loving Amerikans" to go (1) You may purchase a discount card for a yearly fee of $10. out and buy the nicest auto­ (2) You may earn a free discount card by accumulating $50 matic rifle you can afford, and worth of COMMON GROUND sales receipts. Simply save your then get training in marksman­ receipts until you have a total of $50, at which time we will ship. That way, if revolution present you with a FREE 10% discount card good for one year. someday comes, you can jump equipped onto the new anarchist Once you have your discount card, simply present it at the bandwagon (before a bloody clampdown rebounds). checkout counter for a 10% discount ~n every purchase. And if the revolution does not come, . Cut w;cfe Baleation ~f vhol~oma~· (provided "The Day After" finds yo~ still standing), you'll have a 11/ footfs TI011 inc~-t' stourmet o:>~fee .beaJl$ 1 sllghtly better chance of malingering ~ C----.._) "' -- -.,:: rresh produce__.r; a bit longer with a loaded M-16. --Archibald Ma Page 10 With enough shovels, Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #8 they'll bury us Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, post-war, world." And T.K. Jones, a lobby group committed to abandoning and Nuclear War by Robert Scheer, in charge of Research and Engineer­ arms control, rearming and, if pos­ Random House: New York, 1982. ing for Strategic and Theatre Nuclear sible, nuking Russia back to the Stone 285 pages, $14.95. Forces, talking about digging holes Age. Scheer's list of high Reagan in the ground to hide from 100-meg­ officials from this group is terrifv­ Forget The Day After. Forget Fail­ aton warheads: "If there are enough ing: Reagan himself, Kenneth Adel­ Safe. Forget Alas, Babylon. Forget shovels to go around, everybody's man, William Casey, William Graham all those Twilight Zone episodes. going to make it." (Jones is the (Chairman, General Advisory Commitee This is what you should be paying acknowledged James Watt of nuke on Arms Control and Disarmament), attention to, and it's a hell of a war). most of the GACACD, Fred Ikle (Under­ lot more terrifying because it's secretary of Defense of Policy), true. Scheer reveals that the Reagan Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Paul Ni~ze (our administration is building up a huge chief arms control negotiator~). Scheer is a pro journalist, currently stockpile of nuclear weapons based Michael Novak (our representative on with the L.A. Times, and his facts on a report of Soviet strength which the U.N. Human Rights Commission), are absolutely indisputable, coming George Bush personally inflated as Eugene Rostow (Director of the Arms from taped interviews with Ronald head of the CIA. He also shows that Control & Disarmament Agency), Reagan and all of his top aides. the "massive civil defense program" George Schultz, Edward Teller His message is this: the Reagan Reagan points to as evidence that (father of the H-bomb~). There are Administration sincerely believes a the Russians are preparing for war dozens more. nuclear war is winnable, inevitable, is also a lie. It consists of and really not such an awful thing at digging holes like T.K. Jones'. The most telling evidence of Reagan's all. What's more, no one connected real feelings toward nuclear war can with Reagan has the s~ightest interest First strikes against the Soviet be found in the words of the mili­ in arms control or treaties with the Union are now considered a part of tarists he's appointed to "negotiate" Russians. I'm scared to death. U.S. Policy. Reagan publicly arms control with the Russian3. refuses to rule them out. His Eugene Rostow believes that nuclear This all comes straight from their appointee to the Arms Control & war would be preferable to a break­ mouths. The book is simple, straight­ Disarmament Agency, Colin Gray up of NATO. Paul Nitze has been forward reporting, and some of the publicly advocates them. ' speaking against arms control since things these people say will leave 1949, and yet he's our chief nego­ you reeling. For instance, Eugene Gray, and practically every other ~iator for arms control. H~ says Rostow, head of the so-called Arms official Reagan has put in charge ln the book: "There could be serious Control and Disarmament Agency: of nuclear warfare, is a member of arms control negotiations, but only "We are living in a pre-war, not a the Committee on the Present Danger, after we've built up our forces--in ten years_." A telling quote from the Washington Post about Nitze says: ... AND \AIUEN WE RETURN WE "Ll ·"(He) took a cynical view of arms HAVE ntE RESULTSOFOLJR control negotiations. To rally ABC-NIGUTLIAIE POLL ON . public support for rearmament, (he) PRESIDENT REAGAN·s recommended that U.S. leaders con­ s~antly put forth reasonable-sounding 1NVASION OF TilE" / dlsarmament proposals which the SOVIET UNION Soviets were unlikely to accept. Of course, should the Soviets show unex­ pected flexibility, we would have to consider very seriously whether we would accept such agreements." Does this sound familiar? It is actually referring to Nitze's attitude in 1950. The ultimate insult to peace activists co~es from Richard Perle, Under-Secre­ tary of Defense for International Security Policy, who tells Scheer that the huge European peace move­ ment is just a ploy by Protestant l~aders to boost church membership, a~ded by "indigenous Communist invol­ vement."

Read the book. Pass it around. Be scared--you should be. --Scaramouche Dollars and ~The Day After' 11 The advertisers who bought cheap time 1 LOSi ~ \.~'5 Perhaps the significance of "The Day for "The Day After" did so knowing the ... a"d sornt­ After" is not what was shown {your they faced censure from the right. average, boring, made-for-tv movie is Whether their ads were a political na1r .... " rarely significant) but that it was statement (doubtful, I agree) or just shown at all. Jerry Falwell, Phyllis an opportunity-for cheap time (more Schlafly, and most of the rest of the likely, probably), the commercials new right threatened ABC and the major were still run with the knowledge that tv advertisers right where it hurts-­ the products would be boycotted and in the pocket book--if ABC insisted on the companies harassed by the new airing this wildly political, anti­ right. Amerikan, totally leftist movie. The national spots during "The Day ABC, and the other two major networks, After" {for those of you who did not have ~ften. lis.tened to thre.ats from keep a running total) were for these the right about their programming. products: Sometimes the networks ignore the -Comnodore Computers economic threats of product boycotts -C~rts Breath Mints the new right is so fond of. "The Day -Hinolta Cameras After" was one of those times. -Duration Nasal Snray -The National Coffee Growers The major tv advertisers were not so -Soloflex Excercise Machines brave. Nowhere did we see Coca-Cola, -Orville Redenbacker Gourmet Popcorn -Dollar Rent-A-Car Lite Beer, or Kool-Aid. Gone were -English Leather Cologne Snickers, Cheerios, and Campbell Soup. -Christine, the movie Obviously absent were ring-around-the­ -Slip Fast Diet Drink collar, l-ean-see-myself-in-this-plate, -K-Tel Records and reach-out-and-touch-someone. ABC -Arm & HaQfler Carpet and Room offered air time at a reduced rate and Deodorizer -Never Say Never Again, tile movie still the major advertisers stayed -Haybe1.line Dial-A-Lash Mascara away. Spokespersons for ABC said, on -Dexatrim Diet Pills .. CBS' 60 Minutes, that they would air -Mr. Coffee Coffee Maker "The Day After" at a loss if they had -Magnavox Television to, but they would air it. It is doubtful that ABC lost money. But the --Deborah movie did lose advertisers. Post-Arnerikan Vol. 12, #8 Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 Page 11 Sorry lady, you need a penis to ·fix this Zenith Ok, ok, I admit it. I had a chip "Naw, this here's an old tv. on my shoulder the moment I walked 'S got tubes," he assured me, in the place. It had been coming biting his cigar. "95% of the on for months--the impossible hori­ time it's not tubes anyway. It's zontal line, the ceaseless rolling just not that simple." He picture until the set warmed up-­ lugged the hulk out of my trunk. first it was five, then ten, now twenty minutes! I grudgingly Back in the shop I muttered, broke down and decided to take "Well, jeez, I'm gonna be pissed my tv in to the repair shop. And if it's only some tube that needs I hurt my shoulder carrying the replacing and I could have done it damn thing down the stairs. myself."

So I was already pissed when I Plugging the set in, he turned to walked into Fey's Electronics me with that 'I'm-only-gonna-tell­ on s. Main. What should I expect? you-this-once-more' look and said, This was my first sick tv ... "Listen, if they made tvs easy surely it couldn't be too expensive. enough for GIRLS to fix, we wouldn't It didn't seem to be a major thing, be here." I could feel the rest ju\:lt your basic warm-up problems. of the men in the room chuckling. I was on low heat before, but I entered a smoky room filled I was boiling now. He continued. with decaying television carcasses. "You start taking tubes out, and Several men were standing around first thing you know, you make things with cigarettes and screwdrivers. worse and it ends up costing you One of them was pounding the side more money. You wouldn't try to fix your car, would you?" of a tv with his fist. Was this have that kind of money right the kind of place to which I wanted now," and he icily put the tv to relinquish my precious tube? "Yes, I would and I do," I replied, silently cringing, knowing that back in my trunk. the last time I cross-threaded And then I saw it! Posted una­ a sparkplug and set the timing the I'd love to hear the conversation bashedly inside the door--"LABOR opposite of what it should have that went on in the shop the minute RATES-COLOR-MINIMUM CHARGE $54.50 been. I left ... something like, "Get a without parts. ESTIMATES, $24.50." load of that dumb broad who thinks I swallowed. "God!" I said to By now, the set was plugged in she's gonna fix her own TV set. no one in particular. "Fifty­ and up to its usual tricks. "Well, Let her try! She'll break a ~ive bucks? Isn't that kind of I can tell you right now, you're fingernail and be back here in a expensive?" gonna need a new cord. And this minute!" channel mechanism's shot. Right "Naw, it's not expensive," said off the bat, it's gonna run you And here's the best part of the t~e cigar-smoking gent who was over a hundred bucks." story. I finally located a dispatched to my service by the U-Test-M tube tester (Stiles Ace proprietor. F~rget that shit! Now he was Hardware, Towanda Ave.). My set had laying it on. I knew that had four bad tubes totaling less than "Well, someone told me my t1.· nothing to do with horizontal $25 I .replaced them myself, and now doe8n't have tubes, otherwise I'd hold. My mind was made up. I my television works like a dream! So try to fix it myself," I said said, "Sorry for putting you there! wistfully. through the trouble, but I don't --LVD I etters .. letters ... Signs OK Author replies •~··•••••••••••_41.•••••• Ferdydurke responds: I wrote the cut­ That's why I write for the Post­ with reader line/article for the photos on the Arnerikan. I'm also a chronic skeptic, back page of last issue. My name was Dear Good People, and I doubt that the system of left off the article through an over­ International s·ymbols was designed sight--nothing more: the article was with the underprivileged in mind, as written and laid out in a hurry at the Please allow me a little space to R. Jay's letter seems to suggest. end of a long and tiring lay-out comment on the story--???($)*/o?-- weekend. on the back of your last issue. No one seemed to w~nt to take cuedit for I feel R. Jay misunderstands the main Hostages want having put that article in print. point of the comments: these signs are no good to anybody, literate or not, correspondents The author complained about the new because they try to represent their street signs on West Market and messages in a clumsy and improbable Two prisoners in Menard wrote to the Madison Streets. I suspect this way.· The front end of an oncoming bus Post this month asking for letters person is a chronic complainer. In or locomotive is not a view that most from earth. They are: the story it is pointed out that these people would readily recognize, in my are "international symbols" and in opinion. The pictures don't convey a Rickey Dukes closing suggested just heading on to clear message; they just look weird. W30774 the library to get something t-o read. Whether someone can read or not is P.O. Box 711 beside the point. (And why couldn't Menard IL 62259 these signs have both pictures and The writer may not appreciate how words?) J. R. Hofstetter fortunate he/she is to be literate. A-87767 Thousands and thousands of folks, It is true that my sniping tone may P.O. Box 711 sadly, cannot read. International have been insensitive to those who Menard IL 62259 visitors may not flock to the west can't read. I, too, am sad that side of Bloomington, Illinois but thousands and thousands of people residents of international cities such cannot read. I don't know all the as New York, New Orleans, and San causes of illiteracy, but I suspect Note on Gen Tel's Francisco share their streets with that most people who can't read are tourists from all over the world and the victims of poverty, racism, and are only too happy to learn these very other forms of oppression. difficult and confusing picture signs. Phone Service A few signs without words will do little to help these people (especially if the graphics in the Sometimes it's not enough to call If the writer·of that story ever some­ repair service when your telephone signs are as puzzling as a few simple isn't working up to snuff. how gets away f~om the soy bean and words would be). Instead of making corn fields of central Illinois, she/he non-verbal signs, the government If you want to get in touch with might be grateful for these signs should spend its time and money to a supervisor on repair problems, while motoring through Paris, Mexico eradicate poverty and provide quality call 827-1294. . City, or Kyoto. education for everybody, regardless of For problems with new installa­ race or class. tions call 827-1553· --R. Jay G. Yes, I am a chronic complainer. Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #8 Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 Page 12 Reagan lies about reasons The Reagan administration has offered safety from Grenada's leaders. During at least three major justifications the five-day curfew, Bourne told the for its Oct. 25 invasion of Grenada. Village voice, Deputy Prime Minister They are all phoney. Bernard Coard (who had ousted Maurice Bishop) provided a vehicle to trans­ The first two justifications were port students from one campus to offered by President Reagan and another to insure their safety. Secretary of State George Shultz in Bourne said he received the same Oct. 25 statements. assurances from General Hudson Austin, when his Military council assumed The first and most often repeated control. Hudson reportedly gave Dr. reason for the invasion was, in Bourne his home telephone number in Reagan's words, "to protect innocent case of emergency. lives, including up to 1000 Americans." Reagan and Shultz empha­ Gary Solin, the medical school's sized the threat posed to 650 medical bursar, said "We were used as an students in Grenada at St. George's excuse by the government to invade School of Medicine. The administration Grenada." claimed to fear "another Iran" where Americans might be held hostage by a A week before its action, searching government hostile to the U.S. for a pretext to invade, the U.S. government unsuccessfully tried to get The second reason was a formal request medical school officials to publicly by four of seven nations in the Organi­ declare that the students were in zation of Eastern Caribbean States danger, according to the Village Voice. (OECS) that the U.S. join an invasion force. Six full days before the invasion, Dr. Charles Modica, the medical school's In his October 27 speech, Reagan medical students in danger? And deputy director, was telephoned by offered a new justification--not cited second, if they were in danger, was an Maylan Bish, the u.s. Ambassador to in his earlier statements, but hinted invasion necessary to remove them? Barbados and the eastern Caribbean. at by senior State Department and Bish asked Modica to come to Barbados Defense Department officials. This Although several students said upon to publicly ask the U.S. to intervene was that Grenada "was a Soviet-Cuban returning to the U.S. that they felt .to protect the medical school students. colony being readied as a major themselves in danger and we+e grateful Modica refused. military bastion to export terror and to have been rescued, other students. undermine democracy." and medical school officials strongly Conservative Republican trustees of disagreed. the medical school were reportedly Each of these rationales withers under receiving calls from Reagan people, scrutiny. The medical school's vice chancellor, asking ·the trustees to declare that Dr. Geoffrey Bourne and its bursar, the students in Grenada were in Gary Solin, said the ·students were in danger. Medical students no danger. The questions of the medical students' During the turmoil before the u.s. On Sunday Oct. 23, two days before safety must be broken down into two invasion, Dr. Bourne said he received the invasion, U.S. Embassy counselor separate questions: first, were the personal assurance of the students' Ken'·Kurze had lunch with Leon GOD! I FORGOT TO RENEW MY SUBSCRIPTION TO THE POST-AMERIKAN

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••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I remembered to take out the garbage, leave food for the cat, turn off the air conditioner, pay the telephone billt and water the philodendron. But all of that means nothing, without a Post-Amerikan subscription. My life is empty ••• I desperately seek thrills and f1nd them all sordid and meaningless ••• Don't let it happen to you. For the next 12 issues, .send $4 to ~-Amerikan, PO Box )452, Bloomington, IL 61702 Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #8 Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 Page 13 for Grenada invasion Cornwall, a Grenadian government began to unravel. leader. Afterward, Kurze told reporters that "we have not It put up two kinds of evidence for recommended (to U.S. citizens) that this conclusion. they leave--or that they leave at any particular time." The first is a narrative of events in Grenada that claims Maurice Bishop's Evacuation murder was part of an attempt to make Grenada more receptive to Cuban and But assuming that the students were Soviet dominance. (For a refutation in danger, could they have been of this story, see the adjoining evacu~ted without an invasion? After article.) the invasion, Reagan administration spokesperson Larry Speakes claimed The second is a variety of physical that the Grenadian airport had been evidence on the island, including the closed on October 24, which prevented alleged presence of 1100 Cuban soldiers any Americans from leaving. (doubling as construction workers), sufficient arms, in Reagan's words, But reporters learned later that at "to export terror" and an airstrip least four charter planes took off under construction by the Cubans from the Grenadian airport that day, which Reagan claims is planned for including one carrying the former military rather than civilian use. director of the Reagan administra­ tion's National Commission on Social The U.S. grossly exaggerated evidence Security, Robert J. Myer. of a Soviet-Cuban military presence in Grenada. According to Reagan, U.S. Both Canada and Great Britain had military forces were "staggered by the arranged f9r commercial planes to depth and strength of the Cuban evacuate any of their citizens who military presence on the island." wanted to leave Grenada. A spokes­ Reagan asserted that instead of the person for LIAT Airlines, the only But the OECS treaty, which provides 800 construction workers Cuba admitted commercial airline serving Grenada, for collective protection against having on Grenada, there were close said its plans to land on Grenada _external aggression, could have to 1200 Cubans (some estimates went were not blocked by Grenada but by its justified military action only if vaguely higher), most .of whom were neighbors, who were already planning to Grenada was about to launch an inva­ "professional soldiers" constituting a to invade. sion of another island, a difficult "mil~tary force." feat for a turmoil-racked nation with U.S. was invited .no navy and no air force. The Defense Department has now admit­ ted that it "does not dispute" The administration's second reason-­ In addition, the treaty provides that such decisions must be unanimous. But Havana's figure.of 784 Cuban that, in Reagan's words tht! "small nationals, and no more than 2~~ of peaceful nations" of the Organization only four of the seven signatory countries supported the Grenada them could be characterized as of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) military personnel. "needed our help"--is a fraud and a invasion. The dissenting OECS coun­ lie. tries noted that the treaty called on members to protect each other in times In his October 27 speech, Reagan of crisis, and was never intended to claimed that American forces had Although the invasion of Grenada was uncovered three warehouses of illegal under the United Nations and overrule the terms of the UN or OAS charters. weapons "stacked almost to the Organization of American States ceiling" with weapons and ammunition, charters, Reagan claimed that the The Reagan administration has also "enough to supply thousands of "invitation" from OECS countries terrorists." legalized the action under the OECS tried to claim legitimacy for the treaty. invasion by saying that Grenada Governor General Sir Paul Scoon "We got there just in time," Reagan said. We now know that the Caribbean requested u.s. intervention. As the representative of the British Queen on nations' supposed "invitation" was But when reporters visited the ware­ issued at the initiation of the u.s. Grenada, Scoon's position was merely ceremonial. He had no power to request house the next day, they found that The actual text was drafted in it was about a quarter full, with 190 Washington at the State Department, foreign military intervention, and any such request had no legal weight. crates of guns. So~e were modern and rushed down to the relevant rifles, but others dated back to the Caribbean islands. Reason for' this 19th century. Heavy equipment con­ procedure, according to the New York Soviet-Cuban colony sisted of a mere four mortars. Times, was that the administration ~he Reagan administration introduced wanted to "show proof that it had been For several years, Reagan has main­ requested to act under the terms of the specter of Grenada becoming a the OECS treaty." "Soviet-Cuban colony" only after its (Please turn to page 15.) first justifications for invasion Restoring c;lemocracy in Grenada In explaining the American mission Bishop's deposed predecessor, Sir Gairy's political police force, known in Grenada, Reagan has piously Eric Gairy, may have been voted into as the "mongoose Gang," terrorized the intoned the goal of "restoring office in 197b, but for that matter, island. Maurice Bishop's father was democracy." Let's take a look at so was Hitler in 19JJ. The 1976 among those who died when Gairy · how he's doing, and what sort of elections were conducted under such bloodily suppressed demonstrations democracy he wants "restored." conditions of political duress that against his regime. they can hardly be counted as valid. Although Maurice Bishop was a popular But Gairy's corrupt rule was not big leader whose New Jewel Movement Eric Gairy was a Third World news. No reporters for big news­ built social services, cut unemploy­ despot in the classic loony mold papers wrote articles about deteriora­ ment from 50% to 18%, and built an of Papa Doc Duvalier and Idi Amin. ting political conditions. No economy growing at a J% annual rate Gairy reportedly executed political political leaders raised a peep of even in the midst of global recession opponents and forced women to have protest. As long as Grenada was in especially for poor countries), sexual relations in order to obtain the grips of a right-wing lunatic Reagan does not want any sort of jobs. His long-standing passion who faithfully supported American return to a Bishop-style regime. was for flying saucers and he would interests, Washington's attitude was sometimes travel to New York to decidedly laissez-faire. Only when "Maurice Bishop staged a military lecture on them at the U.N. He Grenada veered sharply to the left coup and overthrew the government 'was a nightclub owner who had been was there suddenly a lot of hand­ which had been elected under the dismissed by the British in 1961 for wringing over the lack of demo- constitution left to the people misuse of funds. He believed he was cracy. by the British," Reagan told a chosen by God to rule. television audience. (Please turn the pag·e.) Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #8 Dec. ·1983-Jan. 1984 Page 14 Grenadian documents don't

On November 4, the State Department Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam Information, I pieced together an released copies of documents that (it said that the documents proved that estimate of the amount of weapons and said) American forces had found in Grenada "would have become a fortified their possible use. Grenada. These documents included Soviet military outpost." arms pacts between Grenada and the The weapons to be sent consisted Soviet Union, Cuba, and North Korea and The documents do not show what the entirely of small arms and artillery minutes of Grenadian Central Committee State Department claims. and of vehicles and equipment that meetings held during September and would be used by an army carrying October. The pacts with the Soviet Union, Cuba, rifles. Some of the weapons to be and North Korea for military aid sent were antiques. Fo~ instance, of According to the State Department, indicate that the Grenadian government the 6500 rifles, 2500 were carbines these documents showed that Grenada _wanted to equip an army of about 2,000 that were used by second-line Soviet was, in Reagan's words, a "Soviet­ and a militia of about twice this size troops during WWII. "They're suitable Cuban colony" whose purpose was to with weapons whose function was for a militia or for gun collectors," "export terror" in the Caribbean and defensive rather than offensive. Mathews said. elsewhere. The central Committee meetings show The' prevalence of small arms suggests that the Grenadian regime was that the weapons were meant only for seriously adrift in the murky waters defense. Mathews estimated that the of Marxism-Leninism and might have run weapons would equip two infantry aground on its own had the u.s. not batallions--about 2000 soldiers--and invaded. a militia of about 4000. "We're looking at a rifle-toting force," he But they do not reveal the slightest said. "Unless they're going to invade hint of a colonial relationship St. Kitts, they're not going anywhere." between the Grenadian government and either Cuba or the Soviet Union. The following are other tell-tale signs that the arms were not meant to Defensive equipment "export terror."

The arms supply agreements are There are heavy but not light machine difficult to decipher, even in English. guns included in the weapons. According to Mathews, light machine 527 N. MAIN But with the help of Douglas T. Mathew~ of the Center for Defense guns are used by an advancing strike BLOOMINGTON 829-7760 DECEMBER 1983 Restoring democracy TllES -5¢ BECK's 7 ALL NIGHT in Grenada (Continued from page 13.) WED 8 If, after democracy is "restored," governn:cnt. Grenadians turn again to the THURS Marxist New Jewel Movement for Kenneth Radix, a prominent Grenadian 9 leadership, will that be all right lawyer and a former Attorney General "WRBA 's NEW WAVELENGTH WELCOMES" with Washington? No. When voters in the Bishop government, was arrested in Chile elected the Marxist for "spreading ill will" against the Salvador Allende, the United States new government. i~I viol

force, while heavy machine guns are The documents show no sign of a defensive. There are not enough heavy colonial relationship between Grenada mortars for an attack unit. and the Soviet Union or Cuba. There are also 30 signalling pistols Grenada's Caribbean neighbors included--not enough for an invading justified their call for invasion on force. There are only 22,000 the grounds that Bishop's October 19 magazines for the 4000 AK-47 rifles. murder was part of a Cuban-Soviet plot This amounts to about six magazines to tie Grenada closer to the Soviet per rifle, which is the peacetime bloc. But the documents contain ~n allotment of the American infantry. unsigned memorandum, dated Oct. 21, on And there is a lack of training rounds Cuba's response to Bishop's murder. and of spare parts. From the document, it is clear that Cuba meant what it said when it Cuban advisors denounced the killing.

The documents do not bear out admini­ The memorandum complains that Fidel stration claims that massive numbers of Castro's friendship with Bishop caused Cuban military advisers were about to the Cubans "to take a personal and not land in Grenada. a class approach to the developments in Grenada." It warned that Cuba's In a press conference, Admiral Wesley rebuke "creates an atmosphere for McDonald said that the documents speeding imperialist intervention." revealed a "long-range plan for Cuban intervention." McDonald claimed that The documents do show that Grenada was the Cubans planned to station 4341 In these military exercises; American aligned with the Soviet Union and Cuba troops and military advisers in forces invaded an island--labled --it did see itself as part of the Grenada. "Amber" in the exercise--that was "Socialist bloc" of countries. But the documents show that the Cubans supposed to be allied to Cuba and the planned to station only 27 permanent Eastern bloc. Grenadians believed the Grenadian leaders constantly referred and 12 or 13 temporary military invasion was a rehearsal for an to Cuban, Soviet, and Nicaraguan specialists in Grenada. They planned invasion of their island. practices in their discussion of what to send 12 or 13 additional special­ should be done in Grenada. But Cuba ists over two-to-four month periods. In the minutes of the September 14 and the Soviet Union influenced, but According to the secret protocol Central Committee meeting, Ewart.Layne did not control Grenada. Neither between Grenada and Cuba, these outlined the government's military .country was committed to Grenada's specialists were to assist in "the tasks as organizing "the defense of defense. elaboration of the operative and the revolution in the face of a mobilized plans for the defense of the qualitatively stepped-up aggression Grenada's relationship to Cuba and country." from imperialism who for years has the Soviet Union was not as close in attempted to carry out its policy of these respects as the relationship of Grenada feared invasion becoming more and more into a 'gun Guatemala or Honduras to the U.S. One boat' policy." would be far more justified calling The size of Grenada's planned defen­ these countries American colonies than sive force was unusually large for an Not a colony in calling Grenada a Soviet or Cuban island of only 100,000. But its size colony. , was the result of the government's Extensive minutes handed out by the fear that Grenada would be invaded by State Department cover the climactic --John Judis, In ------These Times a u.s.-sponsored invasion. meetings of September and October in which Prime Minister Maurice Bishop's Grenadian fears of invasion date back leadership was challenged by a at least to the summer of 1981, when majority of the Central Committee of the u.s. staged "Ocean Venture" in the the New Jewel Movement, the group Caribbean. controlling the Grenadian government. Reagan lies (Continued from page 13.) tained that Grenada's Cuban-built air­ strip is so ~ong that its only purpose was to serve "Soviet-built long-range bombers." But the airport project, viewed favorably by the World Bank, has been financed by the British and the European Economic Community, as well as by the Cubans. The British contractor, Plessey Airports, told reporters Oct. 30 that five other Caribbean nations have civilian air­ strips of equal length, which are necessary to land long-range jets carrying tourists on non-stop flights.

The Plessy spokesperson told reporters that the Grenada airstrip was being built purely to civilian specifications. Military airfields require bomb-resistant underground fuel tanks, sheltering bays for parked aircraft and fortified control towers. The Grenada project has none of these.

Reagan claimed that documents taken in the invasion, including arms supply agreements with several socialist countries, proved his claim that Grenada was to become a Soviet-Cuban ·base for "exporting terror." An adjoining article, examining those arms agreements in detail, refutes Reagan's claims.

--compiled from material published in In These Times, the Guardian, the Village Voice, the New York Times, the Progressive and The Nation. uality care cutback at Fairbury Hospital You know the Post Arnerikan's sub­ Hable, a popular and well-respected hour to air their views, they were scription pit~"Looks like a sleepy family physician who operates the first confronted by the entire medica little community"? Well, an even hospital's satellite clinic in Chenoa. and administrative staff, and then sleepier little community not far from He is personal physician to app~oxi­ allowed only a half-hour to give just Bloomington-Normal has suddenly found rnately half of the nursing staff at 2 of the 7 points they had hoped to itself in the middle of a not-so­ Fairbury, and it is his very loyal make. sleepy controversy centered around clientele that have been active in its 68-bed hospital. forming the Citizens for Quality Care. Board members also called the police Hable has had offers from 11 hospitals Fairbury Hospital, located in Fairbury, to clear out the other members of CQC for staff positions already, but may who had gathered in the hallway out­ Illinois, a township of about 2500 attempt to buy the satellite clinic people approximately 35 miles north­ side the meeting room to lend their in Chenoa, where it is a possibility support. Nothing carne of the meeting east of Bloomington, is a casualty of that he and Kreutzer could go into except to pinpoint which st~ff members a nationwide "empty-bed epidemic," practice together. along with Brokaw, Mennonite, and stood where on the issues--mostly, the doctors with the board, and the many other hospitals. With patient Hable is al.so the only doctor on staff rest of the staff against them. census down, many hospitals are being at Fairbury who is willing to supervise forced to make cutbacks, or find birth deliveries, believing that people Until that meeting, the hospital had other means to deal with the problem. should have the kind of medical care instituted a news balckout, refusing Brokaw and Mennonite are planning to they want; and he has also been re­ to send press releases to any media consolidate. There are rumors that sponsible for treating high-risk but the local paper, The Fairbury St. Joseph's in Bloomington and Carle babies at Fairbury, when normally they Blade, which in turn has refused to Hospital in Urbana are working on a would have been sent to another hos­ deal. print any letters or articles which pitals in Peoria or Bloomington. He go against the board's side. In an has otfice hours until 10 p.m. and In Fairbury, the solution was to make on Saturdays. editorial, editor Jim Roberts accused a $230,000 budget cut which included the termination of the hospital's full-time pathologist and his assis­ tant, and a reduction ~n hours for other members of the staff, including nurses and aides.

These cutbacks have triggered the formation of Citizens for Quality Care, a group of concerned community and staff members who believe that the cutbacks will be extremely detri­ mental to the levelof care offered at Fairbury.

Pathology work will now be farmed out to out-of-town labs, probably in Peoria or Bloomington, and the hospi­ tal isn't saying what the cost of that practice is going to be. The fired pathologist, Dr. Don Kreutzer, offered )T------~---- to take a $25,000 cut in salary (from 1 ~ $75,000) in order to stay on the staff, ~ but the hospital board refused his ·offer.

Shortly after he ~as hired. at Fair­ b~ry, Dr. Kreutzer became nationally known when he was involved in a libel suit concerning a hospital he worked · As a private institution, the hospi­ the Pantagraph and the Pontiac Leade~ at in Arkansas and the ABC television tal board doesn't have to answer for of National Enquirer-like journalism, program "20/20." ABC won the suit, ,its actions--except, eventually, to its apparently for attempting to tell which involved hreutzer's accusations its patients. Hable has said he both sides of the issue. Roberts about unnecessary surgery at the doesn't believe quality care is will talk only to the board or ad­ hospital. It seems like no small co­ possible at Fairbury now, as a result ministration, and the favor is re­ incidence that he was fired from Fair­ of the cutbacks. The nursing staff turned. His newspaper chain serves bury only a few months later. has been cut from 40% to 20% in hours, most of the same 7 or 8 small communi­ and the in-service director, who was in ties that the hospital does. Leaving Fairbury with Kreutzer will charge of teaching new techniques to be the quality control check which the nurses and keeping them otherwise A staff member admits that, for the cannot be performed without an in­ up-to-date, has been let go. most part, the battle with an admini­ house pathologist. Infection control stration which makes its cuts from (which involves keeping records of all As a result of these and other cuts, the bottom up has been lost, and infections patients develop while in says one staff member, morale is the patients are the ones who have the hospital and studying and dis­ extremely low these days, and resent­ lost the most. covering which are care-related and ment of the recent public nature of can be done away with) and the tissue these problems is extremely high -L.H. committee (which has the las t word on among the other doctors on the staff. whether or not surgery is necessary) will no longer be major concerns of . At the November 23 meeting of the hos­ the medical staff. pital bbard, 5 members of Citizens for Quality Control were allowed to Post-Arnerikan Vol. 12, #8 Also leaving Fairbury in protest of attend the otherwise closed-door Kreutzer's firing is Dr. Orville affair. Told they would have an Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 Page 16. 1 s used fatnilW'e &appliances

_,,8,10S.~St. . B\oorn\ne:ton .(otntr lee ! Ookla"d Bendectin: Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #8 Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 Page 17 The drug that deformed Just like Thalidomide before it, Bendectin (commonly prescribed for vomiting of pregnancy. It may be that "morning sickness" or nausea and our action will highlight once again vomiting in pregnancy) has been the need for society to reflect upon finally revealed as linked to birth the effect our nation's attitude to­ defects. Bendectin hasn't produced ward litigation is having upon the deformities at as high a rate as did health care community." (Mailgram -;UG +- , Thalidomide. But try comforting a communication, June 9, 1983; from mother of a damaged baby with that David B. Sharrock, Pres., Merrell- lJtFORMlt'l .. fact! Dow Pharmaceuticals). Fortunately, Merrell-Dow will probably not re­ LlNK'E..D ... The sale of Thalidomide was stopped start making this particular drug in the 1960's, but until recently Ben­ because of all the lawsuits and dectin was still being used. The the loss of public confidence. Women's groups such as the Women's ? manufacturer--after increasing dis­ closure of a cover-up on its part, National Health Network has lobbied • several research studies linking and testified against the drug the drug to deformities, and lawsuits intensively. Of course pharmaceuti­ against the company bringing more cal companies hate a market vacuum-­ and more bad publicity--finally in it is up to us women to tell one June, 1983, began a voluntary recall another about natural. safer alter­ from drugstores and stopped worldwide native remedies and help assure production. Even then the remaining that drug companies in general stop stock was still sought out by druggists pushing dangerous drugs for preg- because it was recommended by MD's nant women and the unborn. and then taken by women who likely didn't know the danger. Oh, yes, Thalidomide? While it was never approved for sale in the US, It is probable that few women have samples were given to MD's who gave read the excellent Mother Jones ex­ them to women. Then, of course, the pose, "The Bendectin Cover-up, " Nov. horrible news from Europe and here 1980. It tells what the more likely started being openly known. The com­ sources of drug information leave pany that got the US marketing rights out or don't know. The MD she con­ and gave out the samples? Richardson­ sults very likely relies almost ex­ Merrell! clusively on drug salespeople and drug company-influenced medical jour If damage has been done nals, continuing education and confer­ ences. According to the Women's National Health Network (Network News, July/ If a woman receives the package infor­ Aug. 1983), Bendectin-linked defects mation insert for the patient and/or have included: missing fingers, arms the MD's copy of the professional or legs; facial and brain damage; py­ package insert, she will only again loric stenosis; heart valve defects; 4. Some women have found B-complex get the company's laundered version genital or urinary deformities. vitamins help. of Bendectin's record. Literature sources, such as Physicians• Desk For anyone whose child has a suspected 5. Valerie Hobbs, in the excellent Reference, also reflect the compa-ny's Benedectin-related problem the WNHN has a registry1 Herbs for Women: A Guide for~ cover-up. They describe studies on Midwives, says a half a lime squeezed Bendect~n and birth defects as clear­ Women's National Health in water and taken upon rising will ing Bendectin of guilt, or reaching Network Bendectin Xegiotry no conclusion, or needing further Box 5055 help secrete bile and so help mini­ study. F!>R Station mize mcrnin~ sickness. Her recipe for a sooth1ng anti-nau~~a tea is one New York, NY 10150 many generations of women have.tisGd In actuality as the Mother Jones arti­ The Mother Jones article also gave as a remedy. Steep 1 ounce peppermint cle notes, the cover-up was very ef­ this address: leaves and 2 ounces wild yam. Boil fectively engineered by the manufac­ Association of Bendectin in 3t pints water for 20 min. Take 1 turer ... until this year, when even Children teaspoon in water 3-4 times daily. the FDA finally was going to force 3201 East Central Lake Ave. them to reveal studies linking the Orlando, Fla. 32806 6. Loving support by friends and drug to pyloric stenosis (a condi­ family can help. Gently remind the tion where the stomach outlet is Alternative remedies woman, too, that most morning sick­ constricted). ness disappears by the end of the fourth month of pregnancy. Even then, after all the evidence Women have successfully alleviated had finally come out publically, morning sickness symptoms by trying these safer, more natural alternatives 7. Other sources to consult for the manufacturer insisted that they to drugs: ideas: Tom Brewer. What Every were victimized, that "bendect~n was essentially the victim of these litig­ Pregnant Woman Should Know. uous times!" Worse than that, they 1. Eating small meals throughout the Coalition for Medical Rights of day, about every 2-3 hours, especially Women. Safe Natural Remedies for continue, "despite our decision to before bed and when getting up in the Discomforts of Pregnancy. (This cease production of Bendectin world­ morning. Some women even wake up in can be ordered for $1.75 from them wide, we are attempting to assure the middle of the night for a snack at 1638 B. Haight St., San Francisco, that supplies of Bendectin in the if nausea gets especially bad. Ca. 94117.) marketplace are sufficient to fill the needs of patients currently complet­ 2. Concentrating on getting protein­ --S.F. ing therapy. There is no reason for rich and easily digestible foods • e e e • • • • e o o o o • o , o o • o o o o o e e e o o c these patients to stop medication (avoiding greasy, fatty, over-spiced . · . . Unavoidably, our decision foods) at each small meal . w~ll create a significant therapeu­ tlc gap_by the loss of this drug, long J. Drinking plenty of water (this valued 1n the treatment of nausea and · helps counteract dehydration from the vomiting, too).

STOVES * REFRIGERATORS * COUCHES * DINETTE SETS en ... Ill -< ::::» Buy- Sell- Trade New and Used , G m ... ~ -z 4 :D <1: f(: IU ~~II~ f(; lti A\~, ~ i -m... • :a en en z ~\IIILILII f() ~ • 0 lllrl~~\i en- en -> 801 W. Market m... Ill.... :a Ill Bloomington, IL 61701 m ... Ph. 829·5382 0en S~:IS INOOHG:IB · 5100~ • SH:INI1:):1H · AH:INIH:)YIN prohibitionanyway, however. desirable that may seem. fi tin We can argue that_guns kill people, or that people kill people, but the bald tru~h is that bullets kill people. Let's put aside the . statistics, t-he rhetoric and the tr I trite_slogans. In a democratic society~ people must respect each other's wishes as long as they do 1t is a disturbing by--product of In the other corner, we have the not threaten the general welfare. Western culture, this tendency to gun haters. They can't seem to get consider complex questions in simple ~nough of baiting the h~nters into The hunters and collectors want dichotomie~. You knovv what they ar·e pure hatre while appealing to the (or should want) assurance 'that they and we all employ them: yes or no; Bambi sentiments of the populace. can do their thing without the East or We::;t; right or .left; · What a terrible tragedy it is ~o threat of it being legislated away. capitalism or communism; etc. kill poor defenseless animals--those They are generally responsibl~ cuddly creatures we put in jails folks. Hunters don't shoot ducks F~-_::se'et;nd--~f!lendment : nature's own predatory·instincts it would provid;e the. basis for -. "A__ w:e=rr re.gulated Mili tJ.a beJ.ng · seems a bit unfair• Responsible cooperation in forming a . coherent · :necessary to .the security-of a free hunters, however,. can m.ake a ... •and safe .. public policy. · State, the right of. the people to compelling case tha.t they do won­ keep and bear Arms shall not be derfuL things to maintain that Only when these combatants join infringed.·~ balance. ·Ducks Unlimited seems forces can we all sit down at to oe a fine example·. -. Thanksgiving.dinners and give thanks - . . ' A simple , and ne ces sari ly ·- narrow, that we'are relatively safe without reading must recognize the first ·The ·middle ground denying ·,legitimate hobbies. clause as the operative one. Allowing for nearly 200 years in · Apart from that, what 1s missing in You eat your turkey or ham; you which the free state has developed this endless . two -sided .debate Z .As . eat your bean curd_ or saladJ and since then, we· should substitute for always, the nii(idle ground. And that you eat your fish. the word militia "military," "national is what the mE!,jority.on both sides. g)lard," "police," and maybe even a: woui-li really like to reach, I . What about fish?. Are they any few others.that f:lscape me. believe. · . . . safer than birds or deer cir cows or pigs? Are they any safer than me But_ no reasonable interpre.tation The 'is.sue is handguns, and sensible walking down the street? • can hold that just ~-.nybody walking · cont:tols .tha.t establish who.. has thein the streets with a .. 22-caliber pistol and h,ow they get the.m. · ·r don't think ~-Murray Poppins stuck inhis,bf:llt qualifies as we are seriously talking about to.tal "a well· reg)lla ted militia. "._ . ' -.·, ·.. ·---- . \.

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. ing of the' of gay Mon. December 5 :literature "Alive and Pickin" 2rid_Annual "The Death of Bessie Smith'_' and "The Chr*stmas concert, 7:15 p.m. ISU' s Kemp ,:Recital Hall. Maids·" ISU' s Allen Theatre_, 8 p.m. ;t:>ciatribe.--New Wave tunes at M,is~e~' s

Tues • •, Dece!!!her 6 · Thurs.,'DE!celnbei:·s .".Reading- the: Winter Landscape," "The Death of Bessie Smith,"· and ·;'The ;'The Death of Bessie Smith"' and ''The Winter ria.ture walk. 2 ·.p.m. Maids" IS(J's Allen • Theatre; 8 p.m. M-aids" ISU' s Allen Theatre, .8 p.m. Comlara Park's Shady Hollow Nature· · Ticket prices vary. Trail. Fri. , December 9 Film: "Diva" ISU's Bone Center "Nutcracker Ballet" ISU ' s B.raden Wed., .December 14 Ballroom~ ~6 & 8 ~.m. $1.00 Auditorium, 8 p.m. Ticekts at · McLean courity Health Dept. program Union box office. on the "Physical Aspects of Aging," Wed., December 7 1:30 - 3 p.m. McLean County Healt:h Sat., December 10 Dept.,_ 905 N. Main, Normal. "The Death of Bessie Smith" and ''The ;"·Nutcracker Ballet,"· ISU' s Brad.en Maids" ISU' s Allen Theatre,. 8 p.m. ~uditorium, ·a p.m. Ticket prices vary. Thurs., December 15 _'sun., December 11 Gay People's .Ailiance meeting. 8 p.m. Health screening for ·senior citizen's ISU~s Braden llZ Fairchild Hall, IS.U: last meet.- '"Nutcracker Baiiet," at Miller Park Pavilion, 9 to 10:.30. ·· i, \ A~1ditQE:i~_. a P .~~ .... :a.m •. and ·1 to 2 .p~m~ National protest against U.S. policy must be louder The whole world is waiting I was accidentally caught between the showed up for part of the all-day front rank of protestors and a line of event, figured they had done their riot police standing before the White time, then went home. House in Washington, D.C., when I ran out of film. The painful smallness of the current u.s. dissent movement corresponds no I felt that same rush of excitement I doubt with the hopes of the rest of used to get at demonstrations in the world that they won't get blown college confrontations with police and away by one of the superpowers. other authority figures when the mood began to get ugly. "The whole world is watching," one speaker shouted. Despite its aptnes~, I reminded myself that this is the 80s the slogan didn't catch fire in the and the march is guarded by trained crowd. peacekeeping demonstrators. There was no place for violence in a sophisti­ The world is watching this tiny move­ cated movement like this one. ment inside one of the most aggressive and greedy nations on the earth, the • only giant that rubber stamps the ,_ Large protest~ can make changes, like during Vietnam, but not until the right to freedom of speech: a.movement public is faced with violence at home. so small it has to mean somethlng.

A mass demonstration to protest the Not enough .D-~•'1' U.S. invasion of Grenada was planned for November 12 in Washington, D.C., The November 12 coalition is people often looks to Europe for cultural by a coalition of splintered political like you and me, except that for them inspiration. The demonstrations groups. the "movement" is a full-time job. there, in the hundreds of thousands, They worked very hard to provide a have not stopped the governments of meaningful experience. They brought Things went smoothly but demonstration West Germany, England, and Italy from in Jesse Jackson. (I didn't know organi~ers were disappointed when only voting to deploy U.S. missiles. 35,000 people showed up. Though the Jackson was so much a candidate of the left. "He's not," I was informed. march caught the attention of the New So what will ~t take to ar6use the "That was a slick move on his part.") York Times, the Washington Post, and sensibilities of people if they are They brought in Holly Near, Peter, NBC news, the organizers had hoped for not moved by nuclear horror shows on at least 100,000 people. Paul and Mary, Bernice Reagan, and an TV? exiled musical group from Chile. But Originally orgafi'iz~'a fo protedt u.s. for the participants it wasn't enough. At the very least we'll need more presence in Central America, the Their role was too passive. planned actions such as the body coalition figured the Grenada invasion 'blockade of production at the bomb would·be.the spark that would turn the Not to say that every person voting plant in Savannah River, S.C., and march into a national conflagration. with their feet and bodies in Washing­ women's peace encampment at Seneca ton (and L.A., Seattle, Portland, and However, by the end of the~ da1 "WOrcL Falls, N.Y. More arrests in the loca chicago) November 12 wasn't doing among the cynical was that the Grenada paper of people \olho used no violence, som~thing significant. They were. invasion clouded ~he issue and kept broke no laws, but merely expressed people away. But it's going to tq.ke a· lot mo,re. · If what they thought on "public" you lived in D.C., you went to the property. And if we get media atten­ march. But if you lived anywhere else, Protest by 35,000 probably didn' ~ quite tion for pe·rsonal expression in convince Reagan to withdraw U.S. you should have been organizing your decentralized actions we won't have troops from the southern hemisphere. own. so far to drive. His mind was probably set at rest by we need commitment from everybody who the idea that only commie-pinko Weekend protests are becoming quite extremists were at all upset. believes in self-determination for all the thing among the affluent yet existing nations in this hemisphere .. responsible white young middle class. The Nov. 12 rally has to be one step ln Sparse showing It's the self-conscious middle class a rise of protest that will eventually several factors contributed to the (a camera per demonstrator to record be hear.:d:..;·------those great moments in history) that sparse showing. There had recently been a large (300,000) march in August New tactics has the money, time, and education to lean on the Big Guys. for "peace, jobs, and freedom." November 12 was freezing. People We need new tactics. The U.S. too But as things get worse under Reagan, perhaps more people will join us.

Without numbers, we shall be voiceless

--Imogene Blackstone

Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #8

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,, . The first thing the pilgrims did when they got to Amerika was to thank theit god for finally giving them and banning books ~ religious freedom. The second t'hing they diawas to ban all reading mater­ ExPlained the director of elementary high schools after a parent complained ial but the bible. ed~cation: "We felt it was a good that the book was."profane, vulgar, story but as far as nudity is 6on­ and obscene." The president of the Yes, censorship ii ; ti~e-honored cerned I auess I'm an old fogey, I school board said that the U.S. was Amerikan. tradition. And, as you think it ~hould be covered." "going pell mel)- downhill" morally might have guessed, .the advent of and that Kanawha was reversing the Wrinkles Reagan and his lovely vlj fe The school board of Cobh County, trend by banning the book. ~1rs. Reagan in the 'VJhi te House has Georgia, in 1977, banned Richard '3.dded new fuel to the book-burning Dorson's American in Le('!'end from Words, words, words fires~ According to Judith Krug, school libraries~ saying the book director of the Jl_merican Library "is terrihle for chilaren." They The American Heritage Dictionary has Asso6iations' Office for Intell~ctual also charged that the book "condones been removed ·twice from high school Freedom, censorship reports have draft dodging" and includes stanzas libraries--once in 1976 in.Cedar tripled since the 1980 cl~ctipns. from "Casev Jones" that refer to the Lake,· Indiana, and once in 1977 in Some of the complaints come from the legendary ~era's sexual prrn~ss. Eldon, Missouri. In both cases political left, but. most of the parents singled out at least 80 ·def­ attempts to censor are the wor-k of Death of a classic initions that they found "offensive." .those busy little minds on the. (new) Entries they criticized included' . right. In 1981 th~ Principal of Sprin~s those for "bed," "shack," "rubber," Valley High ~chool in French Lick, "hot," "horny~" and "slut." Said A recent. school library survey re­ Indiana, stopped the reading of one Eldon pa~ent: "If people le2rn ported253 booksunder attack, most Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller) Hords like that, i.t ought to be. where of them dealing with--gasp! horror!;­ in an English class after some you and I learned it--in the street birth and sex. Here are some of the ministers complained that the play and in the gutter.", more outrageous cases in recent hi:story: l:'hnn now, read later

In i973 the public schools in Drake, South Dakota, removed Slaughterhous~ Five b; KUrt Vonn~gut, Jr., and Deliverance bv James Dickey because the novels allegedly contained pro­ f~nitv. All 32 copies of the Vonne~ut hook were put in a school furnace. Not ohe of the 5 school 'hoard members who voted for the ban had read either novel.

The school board of Warsaw, Indiana, in 19 7 7 banned Sy 1 via Plat~ s ':'he Bell Jar along with several other books-;-lncluding The Stepford Wives and Go Ask Alice.-:Members of the vJarsa'" Senior Citizens Club praised the board's decision to rid the high school of such "filth" and took charge of the burning. Anti -white,· too? included the words "bastard," If a dictionary can offend,' it's .no In 1976'the Island Trees Uhiori Free hgoddamn," and "son-of-a-bitch." wonder that the women's health book Students bacame so curious about th~ Our Bodies, Ourselves was permanently School District in Nassau County, work that they quickly checked out New York, banned The Best Short removed from school libraries in all the local public library's Helena,· 11onta·na, in 1978. '!'he action Stories by Negro WrTt~ edited by copies. LangstonHughes, along.with 10 other was taken after Hare Racicot, a "objectionable" books (including '~he member of the state attorney general's The school board of Issaqah, Naked Ape by Desmond Morris and - staff, informed the school board that Bernard Halamud's The Fixer). A Washington, voted, in 1978, to .remove ~any person distributing it to a J.D, Salinger's calssic Catcher in parents group had complained that child under the age of 16 could be the Rye from the optional· reao.ing subject to criminal charges.·" these books were "anti-American, list of a high schoo-l literature anti-Christian, anti~Semitic, and course, followino the complaint of a just plain filthy." The Helena chapter of the Eagle citizen who clai~ed the b~ok "brain­ Forum had first brought the book to washes studei>.rs" and represents "part Racicot's att~ntion~ they felt, and The superintendent of schoo.ls in. of an overall Communist plot." She Oakland, California, removed Daddy he agreed, that the book by the testified that the book·containe~- Boston Women's Health Collective Was a Nu~ers Runner (by Louise ,222 hells, 27 Chrissakes, and 7 Heriwether) from junior high library "assists, promotes, and encourages ho~neys. shelves after a black .father com­ the reader to engage in sexual con­ plained about the book. This highly duct." acclaimed autobiographical novel Poor John Steinbeck describes the growing up of a youn9 Racicot made a comment to the press In 1977 the school board in Qil City, at the time that seems to sum ~P a girl in a Harlem tenement. ':'h.e -Pennsylvania, removed copies of school superintendent who issued lot of the book-banners' attitudes Steinbeck's Of rlliee and Hen from about their incendiary efforts: the 1977 ban was a former dire~tor the school library and·had the books for the National Right to Read ·"I'm sick and tired of hearing the burned. The action vJas prompted by program. cry of censorship. \!Je 've genuflected parental contentions that the novel at the altar of free speech far too "uses the Lord's name in·vain, l·ong." Praise the lord and pass the Havepen, will doctor refers to Prostitution, and'takes a Bics. 'retarded person and makes a big In 1977 school officials in Spr{ng­ issue of it." field, ~1issouri, teak a felt-tip --Ferdydurke pen to the illustrations of In The . Night Kitchen, a storybook by Maur1.ce Then in 1980 Steinbeck's The Grapes Sources: American Library Assn. of Wrath was banished from sophomore report on censorship;. Richard Turbo, Send~k. A pair Of shorts was placed English classes at two Kanawha, Iowa, on the'drawing of a naked bo~. The People's Book of Lists, 3.

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a law to this effect makes a travesty I'm not overreacting. Listen to what of the First Amendment. Pastor Sheldon Emry has been mailing all over the country: "Under Public The early settlement of our nation Law 97-280 a study of the Holy Scrip­ had precious little to do with ture should now be made a part of "deeply-held religious convictions" every public and private schoo~ cur­ and a great deal to do with getting riculum. . . . Anyone attempting in rich quick. Not that the two aren't any way to prevent any American cit- usually opposite sides of the same izen from acquiring knowledge and coin. faith in God through Holy Scripture is attempting to weaken America. I have no idea what "concepts of civil Individuals and organizations who ad­ government" we use from the Bible. vocate the banning of the Bible from The consitiution is a thoroughly secu­ public scho~ls . .would be guilty lar document. Besides, there isn't of violatirg this law and probably much in the Bible worth using as law. guilty of sedition against the United Read Leviticus sometime (but not on States of America. . . Copies of a full stomach) . Public Law 97-280 should be given to friends, neighbors, and expecially Of the four national leaders mentioned to public servants who can then take as great Christians: Washington was a whatever action is necess~~­ The other day I was listening to the Deist who had no use for the Bible, form." Illinois-Northwestern football game. only a non-interfering Nature.Go?; Just before it began there was a mo­ Lincoln was an avowed non-Chr1st1an; ment of silence in honor of 1983 Wilson said, "it is a futile hope that officially being the "year of the the world can ever be converted to Bible." Christianity by knowledge"; and Jack­ son refused to enforce Supreme Court You may not have heard about this rulings (what a great role model:). outrage. It has me near apoplexy. On October 4, 1982, the otherw~se If the history of our nation illus­ do-nothing Congress dame out w1th a trates the value of voluntarily Public Law 97-280: a joint resolution applying the teachings of the Scrip­ "authorizing and requesting the Pres­ tures (such as the words of Jesus: ident to proclaim 1983 as the 'year of the Bible.'" A page-long procla­ mation which breaks the lst Amend­ ~i;;RIOU~ ment at least a dozen times, is the body of thfs law. "I come not to bring peace, but a sword"), then why do we need Public Can you believe this? It sends Law 97-280? chills qown my spine. Luckily, I'm Remember that this is a law--Public not alone. The Freedom from Reli­ Law 97-280. That's the key word. gion Foundation brought suit in Now read the lst Amendment: "Congress U.S. Federal Court in Madison, shall make no law respecting an es­ It is clear that this is an illegal law. If it weren't so dangerous it Wisconsin, to stop the law. That tablishmentot·-religion. . . " It's was a year ago, in November of 1982. that simple. would be funny. I'm not laughing. I'm tired of this Administration The injunction was denied by Judge Ames Doyle, even though he admitted In case you think this is some minor bending and breaking the Constitu­ tion in order to create its vision there was probably a violation of violation of our rights, here is the the lst Amendment, on the incredible text of the law, which illustrates of an ideal government, which is ob­ viously a harsh theocracy bent on grounds that Doyle felt he did not that the law is not only clearly have the power to intervene "in ad­ illegal, but factually incorrect: mind control and military conquests. As far as ''m concerned, the passage vance of any act contemplated by the President." "Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, of Public Law 97-280 is an impeachable has made a unique contribution in offense for the President and for shaping the United States as a dis­ every member of Congress who voted tinctive and blessed nation and for it. Well, if a Federal judge doesn't have people; whereas deeply-held religious the power, who does? Anyway, the in­ convictions springing from the Holy junction was denied, and Doyle has Scriptures led to the early settlement ~to rule on the constitutionality of our nation; whereas Biblical teach­ of the law. I feel safe in saying ings inspired concepts of civil govern­ that he'll let it sit till Jan. l, ment that are contained in our Decla­ 1984, and then declare that the ques­ ration of Independence and the Consti­ tion is moot. tution of the United States; whereas many of our great national leaders-­ The question is not moot. A sick and among them Washington, Jackson, dangerous precedent will have been Lincoln, and Wilson--paid tribute to set if this law isn't flushed down the surpassing influence of the Bible the toilet and its authors removed in our country's development, as in , from orr1ce. ~ven if it takes ten the words of President Jackson that years . .or twenty. the Bible is 'the rock on which our --Scaramouche Republic rests'; whereas the history of our nation clearly illustrates the value of voluntarily applying the teachings of the Scriptures in the lives of individuals, families, and societies; whereas this nation now faces great challenges that will test this nation as it has never been tested before; and whereas that AWinning Experience renewing our knowledge of and faith in God through Holy Scripture can Capture the feel of competitive cycling with strengthen us as a nation and a the Peugeot racing cycle. people: Now, therefore, be it resolved ~------~ The quality and craftsmanship of by the Senate and the House ~f Rep­ Cycles Peugeot is in evidence resentatives of the United States of ~ ~ America in Congress assembled, from the polished alloy that the President is authorized . -~~;"1~~\ handlebars down to the Michelin and requested to designate 1983 whitewall tires. We offer the J ,r; . ,__ as a nation 'year of the Bible,' . --- amateur bike rider the same ... , in recognition of both the formative lightweight and durable frames . . ,. ·.··· •.. influence the Bible has been for our . . available to the professional nation, and our national need to racer. Alloy side-pull brakes. study and apply the teachings of the ?:M.I/~0...------Cotterless crankset. Simplex alloy Holy Scriptures." WILSON'S derailleurs. ------'---CYCLE SALES & SERVICE Come in and experience a proven ••••••••••••••••• 919 w. Market St. Bloomington 829-6824 winner today . Where do I start? Well, right off the bat the law calls the Bible the . tf(\aS 10Dio DISCOUNT ON BICYCLES "word of God" and makes large por­ ChflS 20Dio ON PARTS & ACCESSORIES tions of our population outlaws. fhrtl Hindus Buddhists, Moslems, atheists, Hours 10-6 Mon. and anyone else who rejects divine CYCLES inspiration of the Bible are in trouble already. And of course making PEUc:iEOT Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #B Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 Page 22 ''Homelands'': Abolishing blacks 1n• South Africa The new constitutional "reforms" in "homeland" until the white government South Afri9a have been criticized for told them about it. It's a little "leaving out" blacks. But that like being moved back to New Jersey misses the point. Blacks haven't because maybe your grandparents lived been "left out"--they have been delib­ there, or stopped once at a gas sta­ erately placed outside the system. tion outside Newark. Letting in 900,000 Indians and 2.5 As you may have guessed, the "home­ million "coloreds" still leaves 4.5 lands" don't exactly resembl~ Palm million whites in control. But ad­ Springs or Key West. They are over­ mitting 22 million blacks would not. crowded, arid, poverty-stricken regions that provide little employment and Wishful thinking in Washington sees pitiful living conditions. Of the the recent vote in South Africa as 7.8 million people who lost their "a step in the right direction." South African citizenship when the 4 But that view is based on the mis­ "homelands" became . "independent, " conception that the South African more than J.J million do not actually government doesn't have a political live in them. They have passes to policy for blacks. President. live and work in the 86% of South Reagan and others who support "con­ Africa that is officially desig­ struction engagement" with South natied &s "white." Africa also apparently believe that the matter is still open for debate. But as far as their political rights It is not. and citizenship status are concerned, this situation makes no difference. The government of South Africa has In the eyes of the government, they a very clearly defined policy on are foreigners and have no claim to black political rights and has been South African political rights in the implementing it ever since 1959. It "white" areas. is called the "homelands" policy and depriving blacks of their South African consists, quite simply, of denying citizenship takes place automatically It is the government's intention that citizenship to blacks and removing when the "homeland"--with which the· all the other 6 "homelands" will also them to dumping grounds in the rural blacks are linked by some supposed become "independent." Simple arith­ reserves, euphemistically called historical tribal affiliation--becomes metic will tell you that if one third "homelands" by the government. a constitutional state separate from of all the blacks in South Africa have South Africa. been denationalized by the creation of To date; 7.8 million black South .4 "homelands, " then 6 more "homelands" Africans--more than a third oJ the Of the 10 so-called "homelands," should just about do the trick. The 22 million total--have been 4 have so far been declared consti­ result will be that there will not be denationalized and turned into tutionally "independent." Of course, one single black person in South Africa foreigners under this system. not one of these fake countries has with South African citizenship. achieved any international recognition The "homelands" policy began in 1959 at all. with the proposal of the Bantu Self­ --Ferdydurke Government Act, a piece of legisla­ tion that began to identify each It is also true that most of the people Sources: New Statesman, 12 Nov. 1982, black "ethnic" group with an alleged shipped to the "homelan'Cl.s" were not 18 Feb. 1983; report of South Africa "homeland" somewhere in the hinter­ born there, never lived there, and Project of the Lawyers' Committee lands of South Africa. The act of possibly never even heard of their for Civil Rights Under Law (l98J). U.S. business aids apartheid It sounds so reasonable: U.S.cor~or­ effect of u.s. bank loans and corpor­ this a\Iful system? Easy. Amerikan ations investing in South Africa tell ate investment in South Africa has banks loan hundreds of millions of us that they are deeply ooposed to been to strengthen apartheid and dollars to South Africa to finance racism and that their investments maintain the white supremacist system ~ublic projects, and the government provide jobs for black employees and that discriminates against the black uses the money to finance its growing act as a catalyst for change. majority in virtually every aspect !'lilitary budget. of their lives. But the ovenvhelming evidence points u.s. corporations end up supporting in the opposite direction. The net How do u.s. banks and companies back the police and militarv, too: IBH and Control Data computers are found in many government installations; GH and Ford products are sold to the police and military; Mobil, Texaco 319 N. Main St. and Standard Oil of California assist South Africa in its strategic oil Bloomington industry; Westinghouse has recently decided to helP build a nuclear in- dustry. -

When U.S. shareholders urged Mobil to end all sales to the repressive police and military, the company pub­ • licly responded that it was obligated to continue these sales--and, besides, wo 18 alan's the police and military protect people of all races, don't they?

Texaco revealed that it had been served with a legal order requiring continuation of sales to the police friend)~ futons and the military. The result is a hostage situation, with U.S. oil companies--and many others--in a "forced" partnership s)tZ.ee .. . with the government of South Africa. Companies doing business in South Africa provide blacks with oitifullv .fe\v jobs. And no amount o{ inprove:. ment in employment could offset the massive assistance that U.S. corpor­ ations and banks give to the VJhite so)e ... power structure in this country. The only "reasonable" approach to apartheid is to quit supporting it. rwln $54 Amerikan investors in South Africa should simply head for the exits. f

Since 1963, at least 60 persons In 1982 the Detainee's Parents maltreatment are denied by the known or believed to have been Support Committe submitted to the security police. held under various South African Mininster of Law and Order more security laws have died in deten­ than 70 statements from ex-detain­ --Ferdydurke tion. ees, in which various forms of tor­ ture, intimidation, and pressure Source: report of the South After the 1977 inquest into the are alleged. Africa Project of the Lawers' death of Steve Biko, internation­ Committe for Civil Rights Under ally known leader of the Black Con­ All allegations of torture and Law (1983). sciousness Movement, deaths in detention in South Africa appeared to decrease. But the recent deaths of 6 key black leaders suggest that secur~ty police have once again PLRNNI;;D PRRI;;NTI-IOOD stepped up their brutal methods of interrogation. of Mid-Central llllnol& These deaths in detention are widely accedpted as the result of police torture. But the most com­ mon official explanation of cause of death has been suicide. Holiday Schedule The South African government alleges that 20 of the deceased hanged themselves in their cells using items of clothing or bedding, We will be 5 jumped or fell out of windows in tall buildings, 2 jumped or fell down stairwells, 2 committed sui­ cide in an undisclosed manner, and CLOSED one committed "suicide by strangu­ lation." One death was attributed to "death by hanging." Allegations of maltreatment and Friday, Dec. 23 PM. torture of political detainees have Friday, Dec. 30 become commonplace in South Africa. Various methods of torture have been described, including electric Monday,-Dec. 26 Monday, Jan. 2 shocks, being made to assume a sitting position without the sup­ port of a chair ("the invisible We'll be open as usual for contraceptive supply pick-up hours chair"), wearing shoes filled on Thursday, December 22 and December 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. with small stones, driving nails through the genitals, prolonged interrogation, choking and ardous physical exercise, slapping, l-lave a l-lappy l-loliday 6ea&on. kicking, beatings with hosepipes and sticks, crushing of toes, banging detainee's heads on walls and tables. 201 I;;. Grove f>loomlnqton 627-6025 Post-Amerikan Vol. 12, #8 Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 Page 24 The All·new My Sister, the Punk Rocker Buy it, T·shirt '.:, . -* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *** . ear \t.-.. ... I need a My Sister the Punk Rocker T-shirt. * _ i' Here's my $6. * i'Name · i'Address * s ~ City, Zip___ _ * ~~-~ on_..•. ,. ;~~~=·s m~ ge~ero~s d~~ation of * ·- · - __ · 'J't';Proceeds go to the Post. *· . - ·-----.,.___ __ ' ¥¥ •• ¥1f!f;...4-... ¥-f: ... -••••• *' . t c. a···,,.- you. na.mes--- ~~!! :~rikan . ~ P.O.Box3452 · . I · ____ ------Bloomington, IL 61702'

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