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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday August 14,1988 Falwell pushes comic Book sharply attacking Dukakis stateside new Orleans a the Rev. Jerry Falwell is urging his followers to distribute 10 million copies of comic Book attacking democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis As a supporter of witchcraft and bestiality and portraying him wearing a dress wig and  for the american Way a Liberal activist group on Friday urged the Republican party and nominee to be George Bush to repudiate the 30-Page Book titled magical Mike the real Story of Mike  last thing the Bush Campaign the Republican party and the presidential Campaign need is the distribution of 10 million copies of a comic Book that s chock full of enough intolerance to offend just about everyone except Jerry Falwell said John Buchanan chairman of people for the american Way. In the comic Book which uses quotes taken from new articles and editorials and features drawings of Dukakis answering questions from a voter the Massachusetts governor is called sheriff Pansy for his crime fighting re Cord especially the state s prison furlough  Book suggests that Dukakis would ruin the nation s defense system and describes him As an enemy of babies for his stand in favor of women being Al Lowed to have abortions. In one drawing. Dukakis i dressed in doctor s garb holding a vacuum s Hose. Falwell. Founder of the conservative moral majority introduced the Book thursday night at a rally in Advance of the monday Start of the Republican National  of the Booklet had been passed out before Falwell spoke and he subsequent exp Nevi that head been impressed with the artist who dry the comic Book and had purchased several thousand co p is to bring with him to new  urged the audience to buy some on their a out of the meeting and distribute them to everyone they knew."1 want to shoot the Guy s legs out from under  Falwell said of Dukakis. I want to expose him. This Manis to the left of Walter Mondale George Mcgovey and maybe to the left of soviet Leader  Page in the comic Book lists what it describes As Bills Dukakis filed in 1970 As a state representative including measures repealing a Law punishing Blashe Niy. The Law against fornication and the Law prohibit ing the crime against nature either with Mankind or with beast the Book says Dukakis appointed a priestess of witchcraft As the official Witch of Salem Over the objections of the Salem City Council and questions whether the greek orthodox Church is aware of this. The Book also suggests that Dukakis panders to Spe Cial interests. At one Point it shows him dressed As a woman with a wig dress and strand of pearls. At an other it has him ending the shoulders of Jesse Jackson. With you in the White House the Book says Al the far left groupies like Mcgovern Mondale Abzug Etc. Will be Back Manning the Federal battering ram the heal Story of Mike Dukakis. A a cover of Falwell backed inflammatory comic Book. Against the freedoms of the  the Book also attacks Dukakis wife Kitty greek orthodox archbishop Jakovos and members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation including for Mer rep. Thomas p. Tip o Neill sen. Edward Ken Nedy and reps. Barney Frank and Gerry Studds. This is a state that has consistently sent two admitted homosexuals. Along with Ted Kennedy and tip o Neill the voters have the right to vote for whoever they want. But these kind of Folk Don t remotely represent the thinking of most respectable americans the Book says. Frank and Studds have said they Are homosexual. The Book encourages people to get Dukakis Signa Ture on it to make it a collector s item. Random stops of blocks by police in Toledo offensive suit says Toledo Ohio a a Federal civil rights suit was filed Friday seeking an end to a patently Offen Sive new police department policy of randomly Stop Ping and questioning Black teen agers in a racially mixed neighbourhood. The suit was filed by a Black lawyers group the Thurgood Marshall Law association on behalf of Wal Ter Wade jr., 19. The Black teen Ager was followed and then stopped by police in front of his House wednesday but was not charged with any offence the suit said. The suit claims Wade was a victim of a policy which was patently offensive on its face and lacked any constitutional guarantees of Protection from undue police harassment interference of invasion of privacy Freedom of association and to be free from undue and illegal search and  . District judge John Potter set a monday hear ing on the suit which names As defendants police chief Martin Felker mayor Donna Owens City Man Ager Philip Hawkey and the City of Toledo. City officials did not immediately answer Telephone messages seeking comment however Felker has defended the policy As necessary to Stop violence in the neighbor Hood Owens and Yawkey also have supported it the suit seeks a temporary restraining order to keep officers from carry ing out Felker s july 8 directive which Calls for random stopping of Black teen agers in the old West end neighbourhood. The order followed complaints by residents who had reported three Vio Lent incidents involving Black youngsters. Wade s lawyers also seek $1 million in punitive an compensatory damages. The suit contends the City s policy violates Federal civil rights Law and the first amendment and the fourth amendment to the Constitution which pro vide for Freedom of association and Freedom from unlawful search and seizure. About 17 percent of Toledo s 340,000 residents Are Lack and the City has experienced racial friction recently. The interdenominational ministerial Alliance which includes ministers from a variety of Church congregations Here recently asked the Justice department to investigate what the ministers called a conspiracy against Black officials in Toledo. The group contends that local Media and official shave conspired to treat Blacks differently from Whites most notably by firing one City employee and disciplining two others for alleged mismanagement of City housing programs. A civil rights group also has been threatening to Boycott businesses that do not hire and promote Blacks As a Way of ending what it Calls economic injustice in Toledo. Post office raises Church from rubble for stamp new York a the . Postal service has done what revolutionary War Era Carpen ters could not rebuild Trinity Church by july 26 1788the historic Church on Wall Street in Tower Man Hattan burned Down in 1776. Construction on the second Trinity began in August 1788 but on Stamps issued july 27 in new York City the Church s spire stands tall above the Date july 26,1 egg when the building regained in ruins. The postal service has an obligation to posterity to depict the facts As they Are complained historian John Tauranac in a letter to postmaster general Anthony m. Frank. His letter failed to move postal officials who issued the stamp to Mark the anniversary of new York s ratification of the . Constitution an event that actually took place in Poughkeepsie anyway. Financier agrees to return 13 Rockwell paintings Farrell a. A an attorney for Miami Beach financier Victor Posner says he has agreed to return 13 Norman Rockwell paint Ings he took from Sharon steel corp. After he bought the company in 1969.the announcement in . Bankruptcy judge Warren Bentz s courtroom thursday by attorney Robert Cindrich was the company chairman s first response to a lawsuit filed Over the  w. Toren a trustee appointed by the court to run Sharon steel during its chapter 11 reorganization sued for the return of the Art in  paintings have Hung in Posner s Florida office for nearly 20  said Posner does not have a 14th paint ing mentioned in Toren s lawsuit. Russell Ober jr., an attorney for the trustee said he will file a claim holding Posner responsible for that  of the attorneys could estimate the value of the paintings for which Sharon steel paid Rockwell $50,000 in 1966. Man who helped Houdini develop tricks Dies at 94 san Jose Calif. A Fred Paul Faltersack a sleight of hand expert who helped Houdini develop some of his illusions has died at age 94.Faltersack died of congestive heart failure sunday at o Connor Hospital in san  Faltersack spent much of his life As an Industrial arts and mechanical engineering teacher including positions at California poly technic and Santa Clara University magic was always his  met Harry Houdini when the magician appeared at a theater while Faltersack was work ing his Way through san Jose state University. In a 1982 interview Faltersack recalled that he was the first one up there on stage when Houdini asked for volunteers from the audience to help him with his  then took Houdini to see the win Chester mystery House a tourist attraction with optical illusions and other amusements where Faltersack worked As a tour guide. In later years he helped Houdini build some of his illusions. Computer program prints musical compositions Boston a programmers Hope a new software program that can print out music As it splayed will score a hit with composers. You play it prints. It s a speeding up of the whole process said John Borowicz a co creator of the program. It understands everything about Standard music notation and it can accurately transcribe what you  the program called finale by Coda music software of Bloomington minn., was unveiled thursday at the Mac world expo Boston 88. The program can translate information from a key Board guitar or wind , a composer and computer scientist said he and his partner Phil Farrand worked unmusical transcription software for about five years before producing the program. The soft Ware he said costs $1,000 and is aimed at the professional level or the intense   
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