European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday novembers 1987 the stars and stripes anti porn drive launched in Kansas City Kansas City to. A the opening shots in a War against hard Core pornography a j 300,000 Campaign including billboards a newspaper insert and a to program have been fired in Kansas City by activists who say i hair target is dehumanizing and dangerous. Their critics however say the group is using scare ladies and exaggerating the problem to stir up the Public and they raise the Specter of censorship Down the Road. The anti porn drive was a Tysl organizers said a National group May take the Campaign throughout the country depending on its evaluation of she Kansas City Effort. The Campaign by the National coalition against pornography and its local affiliate urged people to stand together opposing pornography or Stop. It featured 80 billboards a two hour television program direct mail pleas a 12-Page newspaper insert and a phone Bank to Lake Calls from financial contributors. If enough of us stand together we can provide the support our Public officials need to take on the por Riog. Raphers and prosecute them for Selling illegal Materi als said on advertisement. The last sunday in september thousands of petitions were circulated at churches asking Public officials to enforce obscenity Laws. It is designed to communicate with virtually every adult in the Kansas City area said Chris Cooper director of the coalition s Kansas City Branch. He called the group s fund raising efforts during very Cooper said grass room support was one reason Kansas City was chosen for Stop s debut. He also said coalition officials believed a Large amount of obscene material is distributed Here though he said the level May be typical fora City of a half million people. The Leader of the National organization presbyterian minister Jerry Kirk of Cincinnati said the Kansa City results will be evaluated before other cities at tempt a similar Effort to depict pornography As not just offensive but dangerous. Bui the Campaign has drawn criticism for statements such As one that Kansas City faces an epidemic of pornography. An editorial in the Kansas cily times suggested that it was exploiting contributors by using scare tactics and advocating censorship. We were surprised frankly by the editorial be cause our position is clearly against Coop or said. We arc Only against that material that is not protected by the first the . Supreme court has repeatedly ruled that obscenity is not protected by first amendment rights of tree speech. The difficulty is in legislative and Judi Cial interpretations of what constitutes obscenity. Poll shows Iowa voters More Liberal on issues new York a voters in Iowa inc site of the nation s Lead off presiden tial caucuses arc More Liberal than other americans on several Campaign issues according to a new York times lbs news poll released saturday. The poll also showed that president Reagan is less popular among Livans than he is nationwide. About one fifth of the slate s registered voters Are expected to cast ballots in the nominating caucuses feb. S. Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois was the Choice of 16 percent of the Iowa demo Era is polled followed by Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis with 14 percent Missouri . Richard Gephardt with 13 and Jesse Jackson with to. Among Iowa republicans vice presi Dent George Bush held a 41 percent to .52 percent Lead Over gop rival sen. Bob Dole of Kansas. Asked if they approved of Reagan Shandling of his Job 42 percent of Lowans said they approved and 48 percent disapproved. Nationwide 52 percent approved and 38 percent disapproved. On military spending s3 percent of Iowa democrats favored cuts in military spending compared with 37 percent nationwide. Among republicans 29 per cent of Lowans favored cuts while 17 per cent nationwide did. On Aid to the Nicaragua contras 74 percent of Iowa democrats were opposed with 60 percent opposed nation wide. Among Iowa republicans so per cent were opposed and 38 percent herein favor compared with nationwide re sults showing id percent favouring Aid and 40 percent opposing it. Asked about spending on farm pro Grams 38 percent of Lowans favored an increase while 55 percent of americans Overall favored an increase. Thirty five percent of All Lowans said it would be a Good idea to abolish All farm subsidies Over a five year period while 49 percent opposed that idea. Nationwide 43 percent of democrats i populate of 2.91 is Foo minion 600,843 republicans 663,724 democrats. 619,431 no party major Inck trim manufacturing apiculture major tires farm Mac Mmry electronic products up ponces major crop com soybeans i u in int 6.8% t�uly.1f--. Average Mem pay $16,087 off Coo Tuttan wrap he sorrow 9tm� Ollow. Wald Bart tact museum has no takers for free Boeing jetliner Philadelphia a a science museum wants to give away one of its prize exhibits a 70-ton Boeing 707 Jet liner but so far has found no taken. Air enthusiasts arc Balking at the towing fee which officials say is Likely to reach s250,000. The 52-foot freshly painted Jet flew51,17,5 hours and once carried Queen Elizabeth ii. British airways gave it to the Franklin inst Lute in 1975. It would make one neck of a Hood ornament said John Mcdevitt he Institute s director of opera ions. The jetliner must be moved by Jan uary when inc museum will begin construction of a 141 million Addi Tion where it is now parked. Finding a Home for the Boeing 707 has been the most challenging task i be faced in my eight years at the Institute Mcdevitt said. It s been extremely Tough everyone says they would love to have the air plane. But nobody has been Able to come up with inc Money of move stranded whale freed from Virginia Sandbar said they wanted their party to nominate someone not now running. Among Iowa democrats 38 percent said they wanted somebody not in the Field to be nominated. The Telephone poll of 1,283 Lowans was taken from oct. 21 to 27. The poll of 1,326 adults nationwide was taken from oct. 18 to 22. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage Points. N Export news is. A a Large whale was freed from a Sandbar at the Mouth of the James River on sunday and began heading out 10 sea the coast guard said. Rescuers fighting to save the animal s life lied ropes to the giant mammal an managed to pull it off the Sandbar a t h High tide sunday afternoon said coast guard Petty officer . Snyder. Snyder said the whale became disoriented after being freed and headed to Ward the Elizabeth River but rescuers were Able log to it turned around. By evening it was seen in the lower Bay swimming toward the Atlantic Ocean said coast guard it. . Hunnings. The animal believed to be a Sinback whale and estimated at 55 to 60 feet Long May have run aground saturday night coast guard officials said. It was sighted sunday morning about 300 feel offshore. Curious motorists hoping for a glimpse of the whale tied up traffic along the City s waterfront streets police said. The whale could be seen from inc Roadway rescuers had said the animal chances of survival were grim and used fire hoses from a coast guard patrol boat to keep it wet. One of the problems is that its skin is starting to dry out Petty officer Rick Barrett said biologists from the Virginia Institute of Marine science and the National Marine fisheries division look blood Sam Ples and monitored the whale s vital sign while it was stranded. They said the animal did nol appear to be biologists tried to determine Why the huge mammal was so close to Shore. This is somewhat unusual be cause it s nol a Small Pilot whale bar Rcpt said. It s a 55-to 60-foot whale believed to be a James Mead curator of the smithsonian institution s Marine mammal division said he believes it was the fourth Sinback found stranded along the East coast since the Start of summer. They be had a Zero survival rate so far he said. Violent crimes Down Justice department says Washington a America s rate of violent crime declined Overall from 1981 to 1985, despite an increase in the rate of violence among relatives the Justice department said sunday. Thirty seven percent of the violent crimes by Strang ers in 1985 involved weapons compared with 42 per cent in 1973, the department s Bureau of Justice statistics reported. The Bureau which based its findings on Semi an Nual interviews with some 128,000 people 12 years old and older said the amount of gratuitous violence in crimes by strangers declined since the mid-1970s. The Agency said it is difficult to measure gratuitous violence in which the victim does not resist Bui is injured anyway because the circumstances surround ing the attack vary from Case to Case. Nevertheless inferences can be drawn by examining the percentage of crimes in which the victim was injured but did not try to defend h
