European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday january 20, 1907 the stars and stripes Page 5 Utah Only state without a porno theater Salt Lake City a Wilh the closure of Salt Lake City s last two a Ralpd Heaters recently Utah became the Only stale without an adults Only movie House. Right now the whole country is interested in try ing to gel rid of pornography said Bill Swindell president of citizens for decency through Law in Phoenix Ariz. What Utah has done gives a lot of Hope to other Stales. To show that a whole stale can do it Means that this Bailie can be won and obscenity can be dealt with with out threatening the first amendment he said. Attorney Jerome Mooney who represented Iqba Sial owner of the two theater that were close through a plea bargain in a tax evasion Case said they might have been closed without Legal action because of a change in the adult Market place nationwide the whole medium is changing to videotape. You re seeing a decline in the number of adult Heaters he said. Four Salt Lake City a Ralpd Heaters were close earlier three through prosecution and a fourth after its owner Cornflower entertainment inc., was fined $50,000 on slate racketeering charges. The last exclusively pornographic Book store insult Lake City closed to or 12 years ago although separate adult sections remain in a few took stores said City attorney Roger Cutler. He praised . Attorney Brent Ward for helping shut the last two a rated Heaters through a Federal tax evasion investigation. Government investigators said Sial had skimmed $100,000 from 1981 to 19s4, roughly 25 percent of his two Heaters earnings. We decided to try to use the lax investigation As leverage to gain some agreement on the operations Ward said. Prior to that Federal attorneys had considered seizing some films from the Heaters and pursuing obscenity Charger Sia eventually agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony tax evasion and has paid about $100,000 of what is expected to be $200,000 in Back taxes and penalties. Ward said. The plea bargain also required Sial to close the Heaters surrender his business License and refrain from leasing his buildings to anyone who would use them to show sexually Onen led material. Mooney said the likelihood of another adult Thea Ter opening in Utah is slim but he said that is due More to the rising popularity of a rated videotape than to prosecution. We anticipate a Federal indictment against a company that mail orders videotapes he said. Ward confirmed there was a very Good possibility of an indictment in Utah of a mail order vide company saying several such operations Are under investigation. Transit of damaged nuclear fuel arouses Public Washington a shipments of 300,000 pounds of damaged radioactive fuel from the three mile Island nuclear Plant Are stirring controversy along the 10-Slbtc rail journey to Idaho. Two Public meetings have been Hel to defuse tensions in a Small Indiana Community. Two Missouri congressmen say Federal authorities Haven t done enough to ensure Public safely and environmental Protection along the route. Tha department of Energy is six months into a program to haul the radioactive fuel by train from the crippled three mile Island unit 2 reactor in Middletown. Pa., to a Federal Laboratory i Idaho Falls. Along the Way the fuel passes through Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri Kan sat Nebraska Colorado and the lab the material is Analysed by egg Idaho an Energy department contractor hoping to learn More about the nation s worst commercial nuclear Accident. Three trips each taking about five Daw have been completed by the con Rau and Union Pacific railroads. There will be perhaps three dozen More in the next two years according Long a spokesman Terry Smith. Toe fuel along with Metal debris from the Plant is in canisters secured in Lay ered stainless steel and Lead casks de signed to withstand accidents. The cargo attracted special attention in Avon ind on the outskirts of Indi Anapolis. Residents became alarmed when they Learned last summer that the freight would pass within several Bun dred Yards of 3,000 pupils at four schools the department of Energy made an error by just having the thing burst like Bubble on the Indianapolis area Wilh very Tittle explanation As to How or Why said Thomas Terry superintendent of schools. The Public got into a Little bit of an two Public meetings were held and the department has delivered reams of explanatory literature. It does now seem that just about every reasonable precaution is being taken Terry said. But As the clamor was dying Down Inavon reps. Richard Gephardt and Wil Liam Clay both Missouri democrats charged on Jan. 8 that the Energy department failed to address the Environ mental and health implications of the shipments. In a letter to Energy Secretary John Herrington Gephardt and Clay said the environmental Impact statements filed by the department Are outdated. Thay cued Federal guidelines that statements More than five years old be re evaluated. The shipment of Core material through St. Louis has raised much con Cern Gephardt said. Because there Are potentially significant differences be tween what was studied years ago by the department of Energy and the ship ments that Are now going through our cities these differences need to be sex the first Impact statement upon which the department relies was filed i december �977, before the March 1979 Accident. It addresses the general transportation of radioactive materials. The second report filed in March 1981, specifically addresses Tim decontamination and waste shipment. But it focuses More on truck travel than on Nicaragua archbishop robbed in Miami Miami a the archbishop of the roman Catholic Church in Nicaragua was tied up robbed and threatened by three gunmen while in the Miami area on Church business police said. Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo archbishop of Managua was at the Home of a Friend in Kendall on saturday when the gunmen forced their Way in tied up the archbishop and six others and robbed them said metro Dade police spokeswoman Lucy Fitz. A spokesman for the archbishop said eight people herein the House. Obando y Bravo also was pushed by one of the gunmen when he refused to lie still. The Cardinal was Hurt in the Arm and the Chest. Not bad one victim a rela Tive of the Homeowner Roberto Rivos said at the site of the robbery at one Lime the gunmen threatened them saying Don t move or Well kill you the victim said. Obando y Bravo who was in the Miami area to attend a religious meeting was robbed of his Driver s License Church papers and Money monsignor Bismarck Carballo a spokesman for the archbishop said from Hyrtl Vitle my. Money and jewelry were taken from the other victims said police. Rivas told a Tele vision station that the gunmen showed no interest in papers held by the other victims. Rivas said the robbers seemed not to know that Obando y Bravo who was i civilian clothes was a High chinch official. Top s Kemp seeks presidential nomination Buffalo . A rep. Jack Kemp will declare his candidacy for the 1988 Republican presidential Nomi nation on april 6, according to his spokesman John Buckley. Kemp will formally open his Campaign on that Day with press conferences i Washington in his District Here and in new Hampshire and Iowa where gop convention delegates will be chosen Early next year Buckley said saturday. He said Kemp will relinquish the chairmanship of the House Republican caucus the third ranking gop leadership Post after he makes the declaration. Kemp 31, announced Friday Hal he is giving up his assignment As ranking Republican on the House appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. A former quarterback Wilh the Buffal Bills in the american football league he was first elected to Congress in 1970 from a District comprised of five Rural and suburban counties in Western Newyork. He quickly Rose to National prominence backing Many of the Supply Side economic theories the Reagan administration has adopted. Trains mapping out a route to Idaho along interstate highways. Federal regulations require agencies Lopre pare supplements to Impact statements if there Are significant new circumstances or information relevant to environmental concerns. The Council an environmental Quality part of the president s executive office interpreted those regulations in 1981 and said statements older than five years should be carefully Energy department spokesman Dan Butler referred Calls to egg s Smith who cited a department position paper last August saying a new environmental statement was unnecessary because the matter of nuclear fuel transportation Hod been addressed. Quoting from the paper. Smith said that in reaching its conclusion the department considered previous analyses for irradiated fuel shipment routinely transported by the Doe by various transportation the department has refused to release rail shipment schedules citing Security and safety. The shipments Are pan of the Overall $1 billion cleanup of the Tim reactor. It was crippled and contaminated when portions of its Core were left uncovered by vital Cooling water. Some material in the Core partially melted. The cleanup i scheduled for completion in 19ss. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today,., Jan. 20, 1947 at least 300 of 680 people aboard the greek passenger ship Chimaera were believed drowned after their vessel struck a mine 15 Miles from Athens. 30 years ago today. Jan. 20, 1957 Monaco Wanned up its cannons Tor the traditional Foi gun Salute upon the birth of an heir and realized if a male were born to Princess Grace and Prince re tier the protocol would use up the Community s 1937, 1958, and 1959 ammo Supply. A female birth required Only 21 guns. 20 years ago today Jan. 20, 1967 defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara announced a base closing and reduction plan that would save $47 million a year. 70 years ago today. Jan. 20, 1977 after two Days of rioting by thousands of students and workers Over food prices in Cairo and Alexandria egyptian government officials rescinded Price increases and imposed a curfew ordering police to shoot rioters on sight
