European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 the stars and stripes tuesday june 7,19sb censorship increasing writers group reports stateside new York not a report on censorship commissioned by an International organization or writers sounds the alarm against what it says is an increasing number of first amendment violations and other forms of censorship in the United  the report titled Liberty denied the current Rise of censorship is written by Donna a. Demac a lawyer and professor of communications at new Yor University. The report was commissioned by the american Center of pen the International Organiza Tion of poets essayists editors and novelists. It Eil examples some reported in the press and adjudicated in the courts of interference with Freedom to write publish Leach and travel and to obtain material from the government without harassment under the Freedom conformation act. Whether private persons or government feels of fended the problem is the same namely How to pre vent those who would write Nasty or disco fiting things from doing so slates the playwright Arthur Miller a former International president open in a preface. The consequences for the very fabric of a society Are grave and at the present Lime Are not at All settled in either Liberal or responsible conservative  the report includes a list called the dirty dozen inc books most frequently challenged in schools and libraries on religious language or moral grounds. The. Jackson Kin held Noah Robinson half brother of democratic pro Iden tul hopeful Jesse Jackson Lowers us Hod As he s led to holding All at the Greenville detention Center in Greenville  sunday morning. Robinson has been charged with being an acres sary in the assault of a government witness in a murder trial. Books drawn from a Survey to be published this sum Merb a Lee Burress of the University of Wisconsin Are the Catcher in the Rye by j. D. Salinger the grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck of mice and men John Steinbeck go ask Alice Anonymous "forever.," Judy Blume our bodies ourselves Boston women s health collective the adventures of Huckleberry finn Mark Twain the learning tree Gordon Parks my Darling my hamburger Paul Zindel "1984." George Orwell Black boy Richard Wright and the Canterbury tales Geof Frey Chaucer. Among the lawyers whose writings Are Osco As Chi Dence in the report Are Martin Garbus. Author of traitors and heroes and Floyd Abrams. Abrams is quoted As saying that the Reagan administration has trumped the first amendment explaining that whatever it chose to do on the pretext of National Security took precedence Over competing Constitution Al  after declaring that censorship has increased during the Reagan administration the report concludes today the United states faces the significant Chal Lenge of restoring the traditions of free speech and diversity of information that have been eroded in the 1930s. It would be a. Tragic mistake to think that censorship in the country will automatically fade away with the next presidential  bulb firm probes cancer flare up Danvers mass. Up a rash of cancer cases among workers at the get Sylvania Plant prompted company officials to launch a state and Federal health review of the Plant the Boston Herald reported Mon Day. Get managers asked the National Institute of occupational safety and health and the state Public health department to determine whether chemicals used to manufacture fluorescent Light bulbs at the Plant contributed to a number of cancer cases among workers there. Six employees of the facility have died of cancer in the last six months including five who worked on the same floor and about 10 cases have been diagnosed Union representatives told the Herald. A Large number of retired get employees have also died or have been diagnosed with cancer in the past five years Union representatives said. Get spokesman Vincent d Alessandro said the firm asked health officials 10 conduct a statistical anal Ysis of the Plant s 800 workers la determine if there is a link Between the cancer cases and the chemicals used to manufacture the bulbs. Plant workers said the firm uses hundreds of Chemi cals in the manufacturing process and has data sheets detailing the effects of each chemical available for inspection by employees. The company also provides workers with special protective equipment such As gloves and in some cases respirators the Herald report said. Lauren Putnam worked at inc get Plant for 17years before being diagnosed with liver cancer in april. Less than six weeks later she was dead at age 3s, i m angry her sister Carol Emmett told Hie her Ald. I Don t want anyone else to lose a sister like i  my mull ". Turtles get Snappy look at . Sewage Plant new York Jupi three giant snapping turtles each weighing More than 50 pounds turned up inside a sewage treatment Plant the new York daily news reported sunday. Workers found three of the giant reptiles last month at the Bronx Grid chamber a sewage treatment facility the newspaper reported. Plant worker Joseph Mancino who works the night shift said he heard sounds coming from giant screening machine which uses mechanical rakes to separate papers cans and other floating items from sewage before it is treated. Mancino walked Over to the machine and spotted one of the turtles. Jeffrey Hon a spokesman for the american society for the prevention of cruelty to Ani Mals said the giant snappers can get into sewers during heavy Spring rams when floodgates that normally keep River water out Are opened be cause of the heavy flow. The turtles were turned Over to lifeline for wildlife a conservation group which released them upstate. More than 120 trapped by mud slide in Oregon Portland Ore. Up1 a Wall of mudslide Down a Hillside and blocked the Only Road into a Park East of Portland sunday trapping More than i 20 campers. There were no casual ties. The Wall of mud and debris Between 100 and 15d feel wide and 20 to 23 feet High oozed Down a Hillside onto the Roadway shortly after 3 a.m.,blocking the Road to Oxbow Park authorities said. The slide occurred in the Camp Collins area of the Park trapping 123 visitors. Rangers con firmed that inc 123 people registered to Cam overnight had been accounted for. It was unclear if Here were other unregistered visitors in the area. Earth moving machinery and other equip ment were brought in to remove the debris. Officials said they did not expect to reopen inc Road until late in inc Day. Animal rights group denies setting fire at meat Plant san Jose Calif. Up a spokeswoman for inc militant animal liberation front sunday denied that members of the group were responsible for an arson fire that caused $300,000 in damage to a san Jose meatpacking Plant. The shadowy group commonly known As Alf did however admit to vandalizing the Sun Val Ley meal co and four Butcher shops during sat urday morning raids. Margo Tannenbaum of action for animals who acts As spokeswoman for the underground Alf said raiding parties limited their actions to spraying slogans on Walls damaging windows with Glass etching fluids and jamming locks with steel glue. The fire which investigators said was deliberately set caused More than s300.000 in damage at Sun Valley and three of the company s four Del Ivory trucks were destroyed. Wildfires Char areas of Southern California by the associated press a wildfire fanned by Gusty winds burned out of control monday in South Ern California while firefighters mopped up two others that destroyed six Homes triggered evacuations and charred More than 2,000 acres. The fire in the Covey Meadow area of the san Bernardino National Forest near Hesperia in san Bernardino county was 60 percent contained at 2 30 a.m., but control was at the Mere of the weather said Gail Nerseth an Ime Agency Dis Patcher with the . Forest service. The fire 90 Miles Northeast of los Angeles had burned 220 acres but destroyed Only one Small mining Shack she said. Several mining Cabin and some electronic Sites were threatened however she said. We be got hot and flashy fuels and Gusty erratic winds. Control time is still a question depending on the weather she said. Six Homes were destroyed and another was damaged and some residential evacuations were ordered near the Riverside county Community of desert hot Springs when fire scorched 1.800 acres there sunday said county fire depart ment spokeswoman Joanne Evans. Erratic winds fanned the flank of the fire toward desert hot Springs which has a population of 6,000, in the desert to Miles East of los Angeles but by Early monday morning firefighters re ported 95 percent containment meaning the Blaze was t expanding beyond the fire perimeter she said. More than 200 firefighters manned fire lines. California Highway 62 and several other roads in the area were closed. Authorities said they did not know what caused the tires. In Orange county firefighters contained a 170-acre Blaze near the Eltoro Marine corps As 45 Miles Southeast of los Angeles. Three boys were questioned about the fire which witnesses said started sunday As the boys played with a. Toy rocket said Patti Range a spokeswoman for the Orange county fire department. No one was injured and no structures were damaged Range said