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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, October 16, 1985

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 16. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Disney s audience included Fri reviewers Pii Olney an m dear Homer Kepi use  in i-i.-m-. Nude in the   Dune to make sure inc did t dem i i agents .1-. Fetish Mil the Bureau  i r a i make june in the movies   ill  darn   to a report   Homer considered Disney a Friend and .1 Nantau. Hut fell Cir cd when bumbling characters in Moon  a l tf-0 film. Were referred to As i by agents a movie reviewer according to the Ari Ona Republic the newspaper tiled an Fri file it obtained through a i rec Dom of information act request Moon Pilot included scenes of incompetent Fri agents losing surveillance on an air Force Pilot chosen to ride in a rocket to the Moon the file stated. After receiving a summary of tie script Louverdi rented agents to Tell Disney the Bureau will strongly object to any portrayal of the Fri in   Disney bowed to the Bureau s wishes and said he would change the bumbling officials to Federal Security agents Noi i by agents in the film although he thought the change would be unrealistic according to a memo in the file he stated that he would never portray the i i other  in a favourable Light due m his esteem for the rec Tor and the  according to the memo set.1 m h ver Fri in of i of  Moon Pilot and the that darn  made in l f 4. Were the subject of numerous Bureau memos my letters the paper said agents to talked with Disney or with makers of his movies were instructed incite Public Law 670, prohibit ing the use of the initials i by or the full name of the Bureau in such a Way Aslo make it appear the i by endorsed the film the Republic said. When the studio announced plans to produce that darn cat Disney notified the Bureau that he intended to make the movie from the Book. Undercover cat which was written by former Fri agent Gordon Gordon and his wife Mildred the movie revolved around the Story of a Large cat enlisted by the i by to solve a Bank robbery and Kidnap Ping of a Teller. An August 9fi.l memo in the Fri file complained about the potential uncomplimentary treatment of the Fri and Gordon s Wip Itali ing on his former affiliation to further his own personal motives. In August 1964, a memo from the los Angeles office to Hoover quoted an established source at he Disney studios who said the screenplay for the movie would depict the 1 i in a must complimentary manner Hoover sent Disney a number of Friend a letters Dur ing his lifetime and a Telegram of condolence was sent when Disney died in in the newspaper said Hoover sent Disney a Persona note of congratulations nov. 9, l �5h. When Disney received the Milestone award of the screen producers Guild a note on a copy of the letter in the file said. " the Bureau has had cordial relations with Disney who is a Sac special agent in charge Contact of the los an Geles office " however one memo identified a Wall Disney among the sponsors of a tribute to a cartoonist in new York City in the 1940s. Other sponsors included new masses a weekly journal of the communist party the memo indicated that the Fri did not investigate inc incident further however. Nothing in the file indicated thai Fri officials were concerned about the information and later memos said that no derogatory information about Disney appeared in the Fri files the Republic reported. Denver s color coded jail uniforms assailed by Gays  a prisoners in the Den ver county jail Wear Green if they re await ing trial on Felon charges and Blue if they re accused of misdemeanours. Homosexuals in a policy assailed by Gay activists As repulsive Wear Gray. The Gray uniforms also arc issued to prisoners who have histories of violence or psychological problems officials Sav adding that he color coding allows guards to identify inmates in the wrong place. In addition according to the director of inc inmate service program Ted Peak the uniforms help guards protect homosexuals. He said Gays should be separate from other prisoners to prevent assaults the prisoners Grapevine is much stronger than our formal system of identification Peak said. If someone is an Active homosexual it does t take Long for inc rest of the jail to find  normally about 5 percent of the 1.000 prisoners Wear Grav officials said. Gay rights groups have assailed the policy which has been in effect More than a year. They say in unfairly singles out Gay in mates and could create More tension in an already rough environment. It s a repulsive  said Brill Al Kire. A member of the Board of directors of the Gay rights National lobby. Anyone with a sense of history would be reminded of a period under a fascist  officials at the National Institute of c or r Cliotis a Federal Agency offering advice to the nation s 3.000 jails said they be never heard of a similar policy. I Don t think it s a Good  said Sci Worley program administrator for the stale department of corrections. In might be infringing on the Riglis of some inmates ii would be blatantly telling the whole world thai they re  plan would offer la. Students pamphlets on aids los  up the Board of education Reading to nationwide concern Over the spreading aids epidemic has been presented with a proposal to distribute pamphlets teaching the abcs of the disease to students. The proposal came in response to a City Council Resolution calling on the school District to initiate a program of its own to Edu Cate students on the dangers of aids and precautions to avoid contracting the  under the proposal the pamphlets on How to avoid acquiring aids and other diseases which can be sexually or intravenously transmitted arc to be distributed in the City s schools by january w86. The Board said to would also review its policy regarding the enrolment of students infected with acquired immune deficiency syndrome a fatal and incurable disease that strikes mainly homosexual men. But can be transmitted by the use of injected drugs or blood transfusions. Although non of the District s 565,000 students has been reported infected with the disease the Board nevertheless is taking action in anticipation of the disease filtering Down to school age children. Los Angeles county has the third largest number of aids cases in the nation behind new York and san Francisco. Last week the City Council proclaimed october aids awareness month. School Board member Roberta Weintraub. Co author of the proposal said special instruction is important to bring the school District oui of the 19ih  a sign of Hope Harold and Sheila Maccray of Allen Lown. Pa., stand in front of a billboard bearing the picture of their 8-year-old son Louis to has been missing since june 7, 1984. Billboard companies. At to and Quality motor inns arc cooperating to publicize cases of miss ing children establish a hot line for tips and pleas for help and offer Refuge and assistance to victimized youngsters. Webb criticizes Media in Book on Dotson Case Chicago a Cathleen Crowell Webb says in a new Book that she was hounded by reporters who portrayed her As an emotionally unstable cult member and who made slanderous statements As she tried to Clear Gary Dotson s name. Webb wrote about her efforts to free the Man she had accused of rape to demonstrate How destructive lies can be to the innocent and also to the liar she says in the Book forgive me which Penl on Sale tuesday. Webb told authorities earlier this year that she lied in 1977 when she told police she was raped and again in the 1979 trial when her testimony helped Send Dotson to prison on a 25 to 50-year term. In inc weeks immediately after she came Forward one  printed false in formation. Calling me a member of a cult emotionally unstable  Webb said in the Book co written with Marie Chapian. We Felt there was a need to answer these scandalous statements about my  she said in explaining Why she agreed to Dis cuss the Case further with reporters. But during a trip to new York for appearances on National television it seemed As if reporters were pouring Oul of every crack in the sidewalk. What i had hoped would be a quiet Low profile procedure to free Gary Dolson Hud become a Media  Webb s Book with an initial press run of Mere than 65,000 copies is published by Fleming ii. Re Voll co. A new Jersey pub Lisher special ing in religious and inspirational publications. Gary Sledge editor in chief said Mon Day he understood Money from the Book was going into some kind of a fund for Gary  in May guv. James Thompson and the state prisoner review Hoard held a three Day hearing on the Ca e. The hearings were televised for All the world to see Webb said. Why. I still can t  Thompson commuted Dot son s sentence to time served. The governor said he did nol believe Webb s recantation but fell he had been adequately punished. Webb said her new found religious Faith prompted her efforts to Clear Dolson. She said the Rev. Carl Nannini minister of a Small Christian Seel in her Hometown of Jaffrey. N.h., helped her make the decision and follow it. Dolson of suburban country club Hills also plans a Book. In August. Thompson signed a Bill thai would bar Dolson from profiling from books or movies about the Case. Dotson s attorney has Suid he will Challenge the Law. Said Webb of the experience. No Mai Ler what the Media did to me Gary Dot son s Freedom was Worth   
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