European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday March 3, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Meese has no quarrel with son porn Philadelphia up1 a red faced attorney general Edwin Meuse confronted with a Playboy Magazine Centrefold told a group of High school Stu dents sunday he had no quarrel with defenders or soft pornography the nude layout was flashed at Melesc sunday during his appearance at the Junior statesmen of America convention for a discussion of the Constitution before a group of about 500 High school Stu dents during a question and answer session Jared Scogna 16, held up the Centrefold and asked me Seif he thought it was pornographic then demanded Meese justify his self righteous crusade against pornography. I fail to see How this picture of this nude girl which could be considered Art by some could Lead to violence against women Scogna Laid. After the laughter and applause died Down a Visi Bly flustered Meese said he did not believe magazines such at Playboy fit the supreme court s definition of obscenity. "1 do not feel those kind of magazines should be subject to prosecution under the Law. So you and have no quarrel Meese said me Csc was widely Eri tried after the release Las year of a controversial report by the attorney Gener Al s commission on pornography. The report called for renewed efforts to prosecute purveyors of pornographic literature and films Cit ing what it said was a link Between pornography and sexual violence against women and children. Meese told the students he was not advocating be Sot value things that involve child pornography the exploitation of children. Things that involve Vio Lence against women and the degrading of women he said. Meese denied pressuring the Southland corp to drop sales of Playboy and Penthouse magazines first of All i have never put any pressure what Soever on Southland corp., he said. Those officials of the commission. Who did write a letter to the Southland corp., i Hove said that they were Penthouse and Playboy magazines claim they lost 15,000 to 20,000 retail outlets As a result of last year s letter. Stress age believed contributing to presidential lapses in memory Washington up old age stress and inattentiveness con All Adver sely affect memory a Complex human function that president Reagan says filled him at least in part in the Iran Contra affair. Reagan 76, the oldest president in . History says he is unable to recall with certainty if he approved in Advance the first .-approved arms shipment to Iran in the fall of 1985.memory experts say it is impossible to know with certainty what caused Rea Gan s professed memory lapse. But in general people at age to May begin to experience a deterioration in Short term memory such As the ability to memorize new Telephone numbers they said. And at any age and on any subject memory can be adversely affected by stress and depression illness and medi cation passage of time and Lack of concentration psychologists and psychiatrists say. In addition says or. Andrew Mon Jan an associate director at the National Institute on aging there is a tendency to remember things we want to remember and to target things we want to forget ask any teen Ager to do something and he says. Oops. I forgot.1 and he most Likely did said Mon Jan who declined to offer any assessment of the president. Or. James Fozard also an associate Nia director has done extensive re search on memory. He said it is plausible that Reagan cannot remember memory in t like flipping through a photo album from childhood and saying Roh yes i did this or i did that l he Laid. It is a Complex reconstructive pro Cess. There is a lol about memory that we still Don t fully understand experts estimate that the human brain can store about 100 trillion bits of information compared to a computer s Mere billions. The brain s hippocampus seems to process memories stored in the cortex and politicians have come to their own conclusions about Reagan stressing the object of his memory on Tobii Issue in t Telephone numbers but National preserving the mind a Oil Lino a roof two in a a emf a Trot of mat tit do Tutki we Uttof Pupu Kantt Wel trn Vout a i for Athow a Koan Donau Notton -5�f Louh Fatm ult of Louin Ikon ii a Many Eldir pnc4t to writ Olaf Young. _ a top of 65 do not my by in " when amp pm con Gnu to him madman baht Tor throughout if duct on Gnu rank i Ninny Ottar pm Oplius o�qoty�&vhik8ouw Wona toy Voln a pm president can t seem to keep his tale straight said Senate democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia. He can t remember what he said or when he said Reagan initially told the Tower com Mission which he established to investigate the Iran Contra affair that he approved the arms shipment in the fall of 1985, but then he changed his Story and said he had not. In a recent letter to the commission Reagan who in the past 18 months has undergone cancer and prostate operations wrote. The simple truth is Idon t remember period. The Tower commission last week criticized Reagan s hands off management style and characterized him As a detached and somewhat confused president ill served by runaway aides the Tower report says he was t completely on top of things or. Her Bert Weingartner chairman of the psychology department at George washing ton University. If that s the Case the representation of events in his memory weren t As Well etched As they May Hove been in general terms he said if you Are just half listening to what s going on around you you re not going to re member Ilas Well. Not because the Mem Ory is gone. It s just because you did store it in the first Reagan asked last week if he was upset with reports that his memory is faulty on such a major foreign policy Point responded to reporters i d like to ask one question of every body everybody that can remember what they were doing on aug. 8, 1935, raise your when no one did he said it s possible to Weingartner objected to the Reagan memory lest saying very few people can answer such a question what Ai you do on a particular Day that s not the fairest Way to ask if you could re member an event that occurred Weingartner said the Reagan stuff is very interesting. You have a whole Bunch of themes All potentially important these Are people that Are All functioning at relatively nigh Levels of stress in the Case of Reagan you have someone a bit on in years. Then you have How was he feeling and thinking at time he said. These things can All Bias How he searches his the White House last week administration spokesman Marlin Filz water dismissed As outrageous and non sense any suggestion that Reagan is los ing his memory. Five children left untended die in Blaze Wakpala . Apr a House fire that neighbors put out with pails of water and Snow killed five Brothers and Sisters ranging in age from i month to 4 years authorities said sunday. Corson county sheriff Alan Mcclain said the children who were alone Intlehouse probably died from inhaling smoke. He said the cause of the fire is not yet known. Stanley four dear who lives next tothe three room House and helped extinguish the fire said another neighbor do Novan Sam noticed the fire about 4 15 . He said he and Sam first threw Snow on the Blaze then located some pails and used them to carry water from a tire hydrant about 250 feet away. Once the fire was out the two men went into the Home and found the Chil Dren. Four Bear said the parents identified As Sylvan George Bald Eagle and resells horse were not at Home at the time of the fire and he did not know where they were. The victims have been identified As Sylvan Bald Eagle jr., i month Sandra Bald Eagle 1to wins Kara and Kristyl Tebaldi Eagle 2 a and Evan Bald Eagle 4. There have been four other fatalities in the same town in two separate fires inthe last two years Mcclain said. Harlan Cadotte who cares for the town s fire equipment said he saw Bird horse briefly about 9 . She really did t say Loo much just More or less crying he said. Cadotte said he did t know How the fire started and said the cause was not obvious from looking at the scene. Another neighbor Alice Duche Cux. Said there is no american legion or american red Cross Branch in the Community to help the parents but people help each other out. The fire will Start making people real ize and think she said. Wak Palit a Community of about 300 people is about 25 Miles South of the North Dakota Border. Undercover lawmaker investigates mental Hospital Newark . Up a lawmaker went under cover to investigate stale menu hospitals and was hired even though he adopted the name of a convicted sex offender and the social Security number of an armed robber. Marlboro psychiatric Hospital did not Check the references address or background of the person named on the application submitted by sen. Richard Codey a Essex before hiring the legislator at $5.95 an hour he said sunday. He said that during his Brief stint As a Hospital employee he went through a moronic orientation and spent two Days observing some of his fellow workers watching television and sleeping on the Job. Some employees also talked about having sex with patients and beating them Codey said. He saw one patient Given a cigarette butt to cat and another prodded with a blackboard Pointer. The people in my cottage were chronic Codey said. In was hard for them to have the ability to com Plain. They were unable to express themselves so there could be a lot of abuse that could go Codey plans to introduce legislation forcing stale institutions to lighten hiring procedures. He also wants Hospital employees to get a pay raise. It s almost like the word goes out Don t worry about your background you can always get a Job at Marlboro Codey said. The lawmaker said he went through several Days of orientation most of in in classroom sessions that were a waste of speakers referred to the patients As nuts and some employees did Job under Horren Dous conditions and despite the Low pay Codey said. I know i could t do it Day in and Day out he said. They should go right to
