European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns Carl Rowan Reagan int doing a favor by not raising faxes Chicago people Here in mid America say they cant believe that republicans in the Senate arc so openly critical of president Reagan for obstructing their efforts to produce a budget that would re Duce the is Bob Dole just setting himself up to run for president in 1988 asked one Delegate at the convention of the american Hospital is Slade Gorton just worried about being reelected asked another about the senator from Washington who remarked Angri i regret to say that the president has sold us Down the River i replied that Dole obviously has presidential but int naive enough to think that publicity Baring his anger with Reagan now will win him any convention votes in i pointed out that Gorton and Dole Are among 22 gop senators who do come up for reelection next under circumstances where the republicans could easily lose control of the so part of their anger surely arises from the arrogant ways in which the White House keeps pulling the Rug out from under rendering them naked to potential but Senate budget committee chairman Pete Dominici of new Mexico Doest face reelection until and Hes As angry at Reagan and his while House advisers As any of the 22 vulnerable the evidence is overriding political fortunes these republicans believe that reagans  posture regarding taxes and adjustments in Cost of living allowances arc doing the nation great harm and will cause millions of americans severe these republicans know that the Colos Sal deficits exist in part because of Rea Gans opposition to taxes on in 1981 he almost abolished such creating a situation where in Boe general do Mobil and could amass total prof its of billion and none of them paid any income they know that Reagan believes that the Way to enrich America is to let Rich people pay less in so in 1981 James Kilpatrick 60 youre to by that he got Congress to give huge tax cuts to the but angry republicans now see that while the United states had a foreign Trade surplus of billion in it suffered a Trade deficit of billion in that translated into million americans holding jobs in 1980 because of our Trade and million jobs flowing away from americans in 1984 because of the Trade during those four years the Federal budget deficit had climbed from billion to the Dollar had become grossly overvalued and any american trying to sell things abroad was in far worse Days Are coming if those budget deficits Are not the Commerce department reported recently that the Trade deficit in june was the second highest for any month in and indicated that the Trade Gap this year might come to that would mean the loss of perhaps another million millions of naive americans think Rea Gan is doing them a favor by not raising by not moving this country to something remotely resembling pay As you blinded by their distaste for millions of americans cannot see that these deficits could soon wipe out in inflation what we save in and they refuse to see that we May soon be in the grips of another grave recession in which millions will pay in suffering As they again Parade to the soup one Man Here asked me if i honestly wanted to pay More i dont want i but i know i ought most of the people at this convention could pay their share of what is needed to reduce the deficits drastically and not change their lifestyles one that is infinitely preferable to dumping a colossal debt on our it is As though we Are buying them a mansion with super easy payments for a few and then a huge balloon when that balloon it will blow our Chil Dren away a balloon Day of reckoning is coming with regard to the National angry Republican senators know and they have a right to be even info that they cant make the president c news America Syndicate Anoff Ier plunge into the murky Waters of during this past term the supreme court wrestled one More time with the problem of defining por the court it was not its finest the Case was Brocket Spokane decided june the opinion provides fresh confirmation of a View i Nave often expressed that the Way to get at the evils of pornography is not through Laws that punish livery attempt to define and to Pun ish obscenity results in a March into the murky swamps of the first Amend so it was in the Case at in 1982 the state of Washington adopted a moral nuisance the act undertakes to punish the Sale or exhibition of lewd the stat Ute says that lewd matter is synonymous with obscene and it de fines obscene matter As matter on the appeals to a prurient in Terest in sexual the act defines prurient matter As that which incites lasciviousness or note the or four Days after the statute became a group of dealers in rated stuff brought suit in a District court to enjoin the Case wound up in the ninth circuit court of where the statute was found unconstitutionally Over the courts reasoning was that the word lust could have two there is the bad kind of which arouses shameful or morbid but there is also healthy material that merely arouses a human re action is protected by the first after the circuit court of if everything that aroused merely Normal lust were declared Ille the next step would be to prosecute dress perfumers and manufacturers of soft soap suds and by defining prurient in terms of lasciviousness or the Washington legislature had fatally the whole statute was thrown the supreme court speaking through Justice six members of the court agreed that the statute could be preserved simply by excising that troublesome word state authorities May now if they to prosecute under their moral nuisance the statute continues to speak in such terms As average contemporary Community Stan prurient patently Offen Normal sexual lewd exhibit and serious or scientific every one of those terms positively invites constitutional consider the different approach now being tested in at the in stance of David president pro Tern of the state the legis lature in 1982 enacted a Law that Man dates a three year prison sentence for hiring people to perform sex in a controversial test a Van Guys jury recently convicted Harold producer of a 90minute movie called caught from part the defendant acknowledged that he had produced that film and that the women who participated were paid from to a Day for their serv nevertheless he contended that they were actresses expressing their and As such were entitled to constitutional Protection under the first the trial court rejected that the women who appear in sexually explicit rated films Are not actresses by any stretch of the image in that Fine old biblical they Are it is not their hearts and minds that Are but parts of the Anatomy a bit farther to prosecute their employer As a Pimp involves no interpretation of subjective words and did this Man hire these women to perform these acts guilty or not guilty pornography is a big Esti mated by the los Angeles times to produce outlays of million a year in los Angeles there is no Way that these films can be defended in the name of their literary or artistic for they have they tend to rot the social As the supreme court said some years and society is not compelled by the Constitution to Toler ate in carrying an attack against the californian approach beats Washington by a c Universal press Syndicate