European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday july 10.1986 study links sex crimes to pornography Washington apr attorney general Edwin me Csc s commission on pornography issuing its final report aftera yearlong study said wednesday thai we crimes can be linked to hard Cor pornography. The panel ailed Tor a Law enforce ment and citizen Campaign of unprecedented scope against the s8 billion a year porn Industry despite the sweeping nature of the study s recommendations for controlling the spread of pornography panel chairman Henry Hudson a . Attorney who first won a reputation As a Pom fighting county prosecutor in Virginia said the pane should have taken even More drastic Steps. Ideally j would have preferred that our condemnation of materials directly affecting behaviour be couched in More forceful language and that our recommendations for enhanced Law enforce ment particularly with respect to violent and degrading materials be likewise More pronounced Hudson mid in statement in the report. Hudson also said that sexually explicit material that does not depict violence toward or degradation of women nonetheless appears to Impact adversely on the family concept and its value to society. All materials within the Legal definition of obscenity As established by the standards of thai Community should be prosecuted upon  with two of the panel s 11 member disagreeing the commission concluded that substantial exposure to sexually violent materials bean causal relationship to anti social acts of sexual violence an possibly to unlawful acis of sexual Vio  the commission also endorsed the View thai substantial exposure to porn which depicts scenes that Are degrading toward women bean some causal relationship to unwanted sexual aggression even before wednesday s presenta Tion to Meuse the commission s 2,000 Page report which has been available to inspection for iwo months was condemned by civil liberties groups As above toward censorship. It was praised by Ami pornography crusaders who see to eliminate sexually explicit material from american life. The work of the commission has been under amuck by liberals some scientific researchers and two of the panel s 11members. The conclusion of the panel s Survey budget outsells porn report Washington Orpi first Day sates wednesday indicated Washington ii far More Iii ruled by the president Federal budget report than the findings of the attorney general s commission on pornography sales Are extremely Tow extremely Tow manager . Pearson said at the government printing office Bookstore afew blocks North of the Capitol la is Way below the president budget  Pearson said he had sold Between 75and 100 copies of the newly released s35, iwo volume 2,000 Page report i three hours and never had a wailing line of More than nine people. He said he would have sold 200 copies of the presi Dent s annual budget report for every Seton the pornography commission s Book in thai time. Willette Johnson manager of the government printing office Bookstore a few blocks from the White House mid she had sold Only 30 copies of the report in three hours. We thought we would have a lot of sales because of people calling in in Quiring when it would be  she said. It did not turn out As  the report contain graphic descriptions of hours of testimony and observations of pornography by the commis Sion appointed by attorney general Edwin Meese. Of pornography in America Are the oppo site of the finding sofa government com Mission in 1970. That commission found no evidence of harm from pornography and recommended the repeal of All Lawi restricting pornography for adult con Sumers. The Meuse report contains 93 recommendations intended to serve As a guide for Federal stale and local governments to conduct a massive Law enforcement crackdown on pornography in the untied  commissioners who dissented from the report s Central finding Wom an s Day editor Ellen Levine and co Lumbia University psychologist Judit Becker said the examples of Pomor. Phy presented to the commission were skewed to the very violent and extremely  said efforts to tease the current data into proof of a causal relationship link Between exposure to pornography and committing sex crimes cannot be  commission s report launches a National crusade against dirty pictures to if they had some mystical Power Loleada men to violence an obliterate the values taught by other institutions in our culture said Barry Lynn legislative counsel for the american civil liberties Union and a persistent critic of the com Mission. Rules will ban use of sulfite of salad bars Washington the food and drug administration issued regulations wednesday Banning the use of sul fue preservatives on fresh fruits and vegetables in restaurant salad bars. The regulations which take effect in30 Days remove six types of sulfite preservatives suspected in at least 13 death nationwide from the Fra s list of food additives generally recognized As Safe. Adoption of the rules follows nearly two years of debate in Congress an within the Fra and the scientific com manily on the possible dangers from us Fite preservatives particularly those used on restaurant salad ban. Sulfite have Long been used to make fresh fruits and vegetables look More at Tractive sul files keep lettuce from Wilt ing for example and prevent Apple slices from turning Brown. They Are harmless for most people but not to an estimated 500,000 sensitive people mostly asthmatics who can suf Fer an allergic reaction to the substances. Most reactions Are mild resulting on Yin nausea hives diarrhoea or shortness of breath. But severe reactions can Send person into Shock and constrict the air passages causing suffocation. The National restaurant association and the produce marketing association in endorsing the proposal for a ban Las year said most restaurants have stopped using the preservatives because of the Hazard. Salad bus have been associated wit most of the serious problems and the idea of posting signs in restaurants when sulfite have been added has not been universally accepted Fra commissioner Frank e. Young said , we believe we must ban the us files in this  the Agency said the regulation was based in part on studies conducted by a Independent scientific panel on sulfite hazards which recommended a ban Aswell As on its own studies of 500 reports of reactions filed since 1983, including13 deaths. Bui the Fra also was under heavy pressure from Congress. A hearing on the Issue last year featured emotional Testi Mony by the parents of a 10-year-Oldoregon girl who died after eating Guaca mole with sulfite in a restaurant and who accused the Fra of inaction. The Fra regulation published i wednesday s Federal Register affects six sulfite preservatives Fulfur dioxide sodium sulfite sodium and potassium Bisel Fite and sodium and potassium mesabi sulfite. In addition the Fra ordered a new disclosure requirement for some pack aged foods to take effect in six months. Disclosure labels already Are required director Coppola s son intoxicated when killed when sulfite Are added As preservatives in Many packaged foods such As dried fruit Lemon juice Maraschino cherries and some canned soups. The new requirement orders labels for smaller amounts of sulfa is used in Bik ing and other processes if any sulfite Are delectable in the final product. The Agency said Oiher non packaged foods used in restaurants such Wjk Pota toes and seafood will be covered by late regulations. Milch Zeller of the Center for science in the Public interest which has actively pursued the Lul file Issue called the ban a step in the right direction but Laid the Fra should go further in moving against the preservatives. Zeller also said the Fra has missed a june 1 congressional deadline for regu lating All uses of sulfite preservatives. Baltimore up Gian Carlo Coppola son of film director Francis Ford Coppola was intoxicated when he was killed in a Freak boating Accident in May an autopsy report showed wednesday. Or. Ann Dixon an assistant stat medical examiner said Coppola s blood alcohol level was 0.15 percent two Point above the Legal limit in Maryland. For a person of Coppola s weight about 125 pounds a blood alcohol Coo tent of 0,15 percent indicates a Personas consumed five drinks in an hour said Jim William a spokesman for the slate police alcohol unit Coppola 22, was killed May 26 on the South River off the Chesapeake Bay when the boat he and Griffin o Neal 21, son of actor Ryan o Neal were Riding in Cut Between two Power boats and struck a Tow  Nylon line slammed Coppola to the boat s floor and the medical examiner report said he died of massive head injuries Anne Arundel county Deputy slate attorney Gerald Anders who is heading a grand jury investigation into the Acci Dent said there were conflicting reports concerning whether Coppola or o Neal was driving the boat. O Neal told police at the scene that Coppola was driving the boat but wit Nesses testified the Driver had Short blonde hair. Coppola had Long dark hair. John Talbot skipper of the boat being towed said the boat carrying the two Young men was travelling at an excessive Speed when it hit the Tow line he the Driver was crouched behind the wheel just As if he was trying to get every ounce of Speed he could out of that boat it was like be was in some kind of a trance or something fascinated wit the Speed Talbot said. Rob Cecil a spokesman for the Ann Arundel county state s attorney said the grand jury is expected to return with it findings in about two weeks. Coppola and o Neal were in the Washington. , area for the shooting of the fun gardens of Stone produced by Coppola s Tulbert. Senate pane subpoenas former pow to testify Washington up a for Mer prisoner of War who refused to testify before a Senate committee about missing american servicemen in Southeast Asia has been subpoenaed to appear next week. Maj. Mark Smith a retired army Green Beret had been scheduled to testify before the Senate veterans affairs committee on june 25 but backed out 15 minutes before the hearing opened. He was subpoenaed to appear on july 16. Smith also was to testily about videotape he said he had seen about some american prisoners in South East Asia. The chairman of the committee. Sen. Frank Mui Kowoski a Ala Kati Aid. Maj. Smith agreed to  on june 25, and when be elected not totes thy. The committee was left with no other Choice than to have the subpoena served a similar order was served in fact Terdle n.c., on retired sgt Mema Mclntyre who also testified in january and who served in Southeast Asia Wilk Smith in a special forces Intel licence unit thai my trying to track Down information about americans still listed at missing in action. Both Smith and Mclntyre have brought suit against the . Jovern melt alleging they were wrongly forced to retire from us army be cause they attempted to go outside formal channels for information about the missing americans. The former Green berets testified under oath they had seen evidence of americans and they were prevented by their commanding officers from passing it on. Their former command in testified this was not True and a attempt to Iron out the truth m a confrontation before the committee could not take place became of Smith a refusal to testily