European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday june 2, 1977 Carter oks latin rights convention Washington up building on a Cornerstone of his foreign policy presi Dent Carter wednesday signed an 8-year old agreement aimed at increasing human rights in latin America. The Senate still must ratify the 1969 inter american human rights Conven Tion. And although a dozen latin american nations have also signed the agreement 10 have not added official ratification. In a ceremony at the organization of american states Headquarters seeking to dramatize is concern Over the human rights situation in much of latin America Carter made Good an earlier pledge to follow the rights convention. Signed by 12 countries the convention also known As the pact of san Jose was negotiated in Costa Vicain 1969 and signed by 12 countries. Only Costa Rica and Colombia added official ratification. It sets out a series of political and social rights of individuals including Freedom from slavery and inhumane treatment. The convention also cites potential grounds for suspension of individual rights and provides for an inter american court of human rights to arbitrate disagree ments. The 10 countries which have signed but not ratified Are Ecuador Uruguay. Panama Venezuela Honduras Paraguay Nicaragua Al Salvador Guatemala and Chile. Ilion signers nations not signing Are Argentina. Bar Bados Bolivia Brazil Grenada. Haiti Jamaica. Mexico. Peru the dominican Republic and Trinidad Tobago. Our own concern for human rights will naturally influence our relations with the countries of this Carter told latin american diplomats april 14. You will find the United states eager to stand beside those nations which respect human rights and which promote demo cratic j House debates Bill the tuna Dolphin fight Washington a it House Grap pled on wednesday with the Issue of How Many porpoises tuna fishermen should be allowed to kill in their nets. Some lawmakers warned that consumer prices for tuna will soar unless current restrictions on porpoise deaths Are eased. The Bill being debated on the House floor would increase the number of Marine mammals that the tuna fishermen could kill. But several congressmen were offer ing amendments designed to provide More Protection for porpoises. At a news conference preceding the House session speaker Thomas p. O Neill called it the fight Between the Tunas and the dolphins a Dolphin is a variety of porpoise. Present limit the Senate which does not meet this week has not yet acted on the Issue. The present annual limit is 59,050 porpoises killed. Under the Bill introduced Byre. John m. Murphy. . This quota would be increased to 78,900. A key amendment authored by Mccloskey a Calif. Would set the limit at 68,910 and require Sharp reductions in the future aimed at reducing por. Poise deaths to Zero. But several lawmakers have charged that unless the restrictions on porpoise deaths Are eased Consumers will face Price increases of 20 to so per cent for tuna. The american Pacific tuna Fleet kept its boats in port for three months this year to protest the present limit. Using a technique pioneered by the . Fleet fishermen catch yellow Fin tuna by finding them swimming beneath schools of porpoises which Are easily visible As they Dart and Bob among the Waves. It is not known Why the tuna and porpoises Are attracted to each other. The main boat dispatches speedboats to encircle the fish with nets that Are 4,000 feet Long and 360 feet deep. Unless the porpoises slip Over the nets these air breath ing mammals can be trapped underwater with the tuna and drown. The practice has increased the . Tuna catch but brought criticism from Environ mentalists. Present regulations totally prohibit fish Ermen from intentionally trying to catch tuna by using schools of porpoises that con Tain Eastern spinner dolphins a species which is classified As depleted. Murphy said the use of the Eastern spinner is Vita to the economic Well being of the Ameri can Fleet and proposed an allowable kill of 6,500. We would All like to get the Dolphin quota Down to Zero but this is simply no possible to do overnight without putting the american tuna Fleet out of business Murphy told the House. Murphy said the american Fleet had shown its concern for dolphins by adopting measures designed to reduce the number of deaths but the foreign tuna Fleet has not done fishermen Are estimated to Mil 2v, times. The number of dolphins taken by american fishermen each time they cast their nets he the . Fleet cannot fish because at the regulations you can be sure that the foreigners will. As the foreign share of the tuna catch increases Dolphin mortality will inevitably . Child pornography termed social cancer1 new York up the social cancer of child pornography fed by a steady Supply of Young runaways flourishes under the protective Guise of the first amendment witnesses told House investigators tuesday. Testifying just two blocks from times Square a pornography Mecca of a rated movies and Massage Parlours legislators priests and City officials urged the House select education subcommittee to take action against the nation s smut paddlers. Under the Protection of the first amendment we Are witnessing an almost anything goes explosion of exploitation and abuse that is destroying thousands of Young people every year testified father Bruce Hitler founder of under 21." a times Square Haven for runaway youths. The subcommittee has been holding hearings in cities on the proposed child exploitation act. A Bill that would make interstate transportation of child pornography a Federal crime punishable by up to 20 years in jail and 150,000 in fines. Subcommittee chairman Mario Biaggi they warned the Driver if you re late it s not a bus riddled by riders As it arrives late once too often. The Well Venu lated coach is part of a scene in Thebo enl ariz., filming of the Clint s2,tw�?d Ovle a nil nearly 200 local policemen participated. A d-., estimated "300,000 children nationally have fallen prey to a highly sophisticated and organized Multi nillion Dollar pornography hitter cited Case after Case of youths recruited for pornography a 15-year-old boy from Connecticut was approached in the City s bus terminal and offered Money to Star in an orgy a 17-year-old go go boy who accepted 5 Bills from customers who slipped the Bills into his briefs during the performances a 14-year-old runaway girl seduced raped and held prisoner by a Friendly couple who got her a Job As a stripper. Mayor Abraham d. Beame promised the subcommittee members the City s sup port for All legislation aimed at wiping out child pornography. The use of children for sexual exploitation is a sickness in our society that must be healed a social cancer that must be Cut out he said. Some people think of the fight against pornography As being an attack against the first amendment he said. It s not it s basically a fight against Farrah bows out of role in to s Charlie s Angels Hollywood up Farrah Fawcett majors the nation s no. 1 Glamor girl failed to appear for the Start of next sea son s Charlie s Angels television series and was replaced by another blonde the show s producers said wednesday. The actress who has sold More posters and appeared on More Magazine coven than any Star since Marilyn Monroe has no intention of continuing in the highly rated series in the future a spokesman said. Farrah has t changed her mind since announcing she would t be Back several months ago. She feels she Doest have a contract with the production company and she won t return to the series said Jay Bernstein her press representative. She is pursuing other things and sort ing out movie offers. There s no malice involved and it s not an attempt to get More Money. Farrah has simply never signed r Bret Garwood executive coordinator of the spelling Goldberg production company said the current episode is continuing with Fawcett majors costers. Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson we be added Cheryl Ladd to the cast Mirwood said. Of course we d like to have Fairah come Back to work but it in t the end of the world "
