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Nation L\ WASHINGTON — As purveyors of violence, “Buck
;ers” and “The Dukes of Hazzard" run a poor second
third to television’s clear leader in the use of hostile
!e, “The Bugs Bunny-Roadrunner Show.”
e National Coalition on Television Violence, a
iup formed to work for the reduction of TV violence,
despite efforts, there has been no major decrease in
ivision violence the in past three years,
a study, the group said NBC is the No. 1 network
wk outfit |j| prime time violence this year, averaging 7.5 violent
s student ns per hour. ABC was second with 5.1 violent acts per
lourand CBS was third with 4.9.
tfhe average prime time program had six violent acts
agreed. In» hour.
juncilsare k violent action was defined in the study as “deliber-
I and hostile use of overt force by one individual
ents is for prist another.”
pBC’s “Buck Rogers” is the most violent prime time
favor tit jehes, averaging 26 violent acts per hour, and CBS’
ers. she Dukes of Hazzard” is ranked second with 17 per
iated wilt, jour, the group said.
.'ouncils r put on Saturdays, “The Bugs Bunny-Roadrunner
iw” on CBS averaged 50 violent acts per hour, more
twice the overall Saturday morning average of 24, it
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he group found four times as much violence on
lldren’s programming as in prime time. Subtracting
12 minutes for commercials, “The Bugs Bunny-
Roadrunner Show” averaged more than one violent act
per minute, it said.
All three networks had massive amounts of cartoon
violence, with CBS highest at 31 acts per hour, followed
by ABC at 21 and NBC with 19.
American Cynamid Co., maker of Breck, Pine-Sol
and Old Spice, was listed as sponsor of the most violent
prime time shows, with 63 percent of its ads on high-
violence programs. General Mills sponsors the most
violence on Saturday mornings, with 78 percent of its
ads on high-violence programs, the group said.
Video violence hit a high during 1975-76, and press
ure from Parent-Teachers Association groups, churches
and schools forced some reduction in 1977, earlier stu
dies showed.
But coalition spokeswoman Sally Steenland said de
spite continued efforts there has been no major decrease
in television violence since then, and that is the reason
for creation of the new group.
“Americans experience at least 100 times more vio
lence on TV than they experience in real life,” said
Thomas Radecki, a psychiatrist who chairs the coalition.
“The immediate and cumulative effects of watching so
much violence on television have proven quite damag
ing. The American public has the right to know who is
presenting this violence and on which programs.”
ercy says SALT II is dead
United Press International
ASHINGTON — Sen. Charles
y, R-Ill., says he may have saved
ths of needless discussions by
plaining to Soviet leaders that
iALT II is dead, and by urging both
ides to begin new treaty negotia-
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loseoftkiSercy, incoming chairman of the
ExhibifaBate Foreign Relations Commit-
Tbe ee, met with Soviet President
mid Brezhnev, Foreign Minister
rei Gromyko and other Russian
ers in three days of talks last
k in Moscow.
|n his return, Percy told repor-
Sunday he telephoned Presi-
|t-elect Ronald Reagan Saturday
Brussels to tell him of the dis-
ng mostpfflions and urged he move ahead
iver neveipi new negotiations,
lewasintn® gave him a rundown about the
unprepaisftd, feelings and personalities,”
s. ||cy said, “and I strongly recom-
; Steer «f|fcided that we begin at the earliest
press disps ne discussions” about a new strate-
in deluges jparms limitation treaty,
of the leal Percy also confirmed he is
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opposed to lifting the embargo on
grain shipments to the Soviet Union
and said Reagan is re-assessing his
intention of lifting the embargo.
“I hope I have saved many many
weeks and perhaps months of need
less discussion,” Percy said, by ex
plaining “that the Senate of the Un
ited States feels SALT II is dead and
it would be fruitless to talk about
that. ”
Percy said he tried to convince the
Russians that “they need to be ready
to start talks for a new treaty and a
better treaty.”
Stressing he made the Kremlin
visit as a senator and not a Reagan
emissary, Percy said, “I do see them
as really wanting to reach out and
work with us.”
He said the Soviet leaders were
curious about Reagan and “wanted to
know as much about him as pos
sible.”
Percy said, “I assured them that
despite campaign rhetoric he is not a
warmonger and is a man who deeply
wants peace.”
The senator met Monday with
Richard Allen, Reagan’s foreign
affairs adviser, and said he is willing
to see President Carter to tell him
about his trip if the president de
sired.
Percy said there was no mention
during his visit of the grain embargo
imposed by the United States in re
taliation for the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan but said the measure
was apparently taking its toll.
Percy said although Reagan dur
ing his campaign favored lifting the
embargo, the President-elect told
him he was re-assessing his position
and that “reconsideration will be
done carefully.”
In an interview with Newsweek
magazine published Sunday, Percy
said the embargo has had a “severe
effect” on the Soviets and it should
be used as a bargaining chip.
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p Streetli ickCongress, now in its final week,
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rams, and choose the leaders of
;t year’s Republican Senate,
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$500 andi^ series of minor bills also is on tap
re Congress adjourns Friday,
the Senate, the only major bill
I ected to reach the floor is the $6.9
ion revenue sharing bill passed
ier by the House,
he House is expected to begin
week with a flurry of minor mat-
1, followed by the Surface Trans
lation Act that provides for high-
i improvements. The major
i ney bills not yet passed are those
I ering the Departments of State,
asury, Agriculture, Labor, De-
se and Health and Human Ser-
:s for the fiscal year that started
. 1. If these are not passed, feder-
E | pending is expected to go forward
I ier a continuing resolution.
* lepublicans, who will be in
rge of the Senate for the first time
hyears next January, decided not
wait for the opening of the 97th
ngress to organize themselves.
:y will elect their new leadership
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Shot from grassy knoll unlikely
FBI says one sniper shot JFK
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The FBI
Monday rejected as “invalid” the
House assassination committee’s
finding, based on a Dallas police
tape recording, that a second
gunman probably aided in the
assassination of President John F.
Kennedy.
Bureau laboratory experts said
the 1963 recording from an open
police motorcycle transmitter
failed to prove a fourth gunshot
was fired at Kennedy from a gras
sy knoll in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza.
The FBI report instead found
some of the “impulsive sounds”
on the recording may not have
even come from the vicinity of
Dealey Plaza, and there was no
evidence the impulses repre
sented four separate shots.
The bureau reiterated its ear
lier conclusion, accepted by the
Warren Commission, that Lee
Harvey Oswald acted alone in
killing the president on Nov. 22,
1963, and only three shots were
fired.
In a divided vote that provoked
a major controversy 16 months
ago, the House committee, which
spent $5.5 million in its study of
the assassination, concluded last-
minute findings of a group of pri
vate consultants showed there
was a “95 percent probability” a
second gunman fired at Kennedy.
The FBI, in a report to the Jus
tice Department, rejected the
analyses, saying the private ex
perts “did not scientifically prove
that a gunshot was fired by a
second gunman from the grassy
knoll area of Dealey Plaza. ”
It said the consultants “neither
proved that the impulses on the
Dallas Police Department’s re
cording were generated within
Dealey Plaza nor that they were
the sounds of gunshots.
“Therefore, the House Select
Committee on Assassinations’
finding that scientific acoustical
evidence establishes a high prob
ability that two gunmen fired at
President John F. Kennedy’ is in
valid,” the FBI said in a 22-page
report.
The National Academy of Sci
ences is conducting its own study,
funded by the Justice Depart
ment and administered by the
National Science Foundation, of
the acoustical evidence.
The bureau said it has the ex
pertise to conduct a full-scale re
view of the acoustical evidence in
Dealey Plaza. But it recom
mended no such testing be con
ducted because it would cost
more than $1 million, require 10-
to 12-man years of work and have
only a “remote possibility” of pro
ducing valid results.
The acoustical study was con
ducted for the House committee
by Bolt Beranek and Newman
Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., which
staged a reconstruction of the
assassination in Dealey Plaza on
Aug. 20, 1978.
The committee, on a recom
mendation of the Acoustical Soci
ety of America, had Mark Weiss,
professor at Queens College of
City University of New York and
his research associate Ernest
Aschkenasy review the findings.
Poll: Americans
oppose tax cut
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Pollster Louis
Harris says his latest survey shows a
clear majority of people oppose a cut
in federal income taxes — the top
domestic priority of President-elect
Ronald Reagan.
Harris said his poll, done in
cooperation with ABC News and
published in Monday’s Washington
Post, showed that 55 percent of those
surveyed opposed such a cut, while
41 percent favored it.
He said the public thought such a
cut would be inflationary.
During the campaign, President
Carter claimed a tax cut of the size
that Reagan was proposing—30 per
cent over three years — would be
inflationary.
Harris’ poll also showed that by a
63-29 margin Americans favor
“allowing business to claim deprecia
tion on investments made in new
plants and other expansion more
quickly.”
A cut in business taxes was a staple
of both Reagan’s and independent
candidate John Anderson’s presiden
tial campaigns.
The poll also showed a 2-1 major
ity of the public opposes “a cut in
Social Security taxes.”
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