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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Federaf Communications Com
mission Wednesday abruptly
postponed discussion of a con
troversial license renewal Fight
involving a Dodge City, Kan.,
FM radio station that broadcast
calls to violence and racial slurs.
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Although FCC top officials
would only say the nearly year-
old issue was withdrawn with
out comment from a lengthy
agenda, a press aide said more
work was needed before the
commissioners finally discuss
one of the most controversial
FM license renewal requests in
recent memory.
“Some of the commissioners
apparently felt the item wasn’t
fleshed out enough,” said Sally
Lawrence, an FCC spokeswo
man. “More work is needed by
the staff. Theyjust pulled it this
morning.”
There were indications the
abrupt withdrawal stemmed
from internal FCC dissension
over several of the issues, in
cluding First Amendment ques
tions, raised by opponents to
the renewal of the FM license
held by Charles and Nellie
Babbs as Cattle County Broad
casting Inc.
The 100,000-watt country
music station heard in south
western Kansas and eastern
Colorado gained national atten
tion with its now-ended broad
casts containing slurs and calls
to violence by a paramilitary
group of tax protesters called
Posse Comitatus.
mal objection to the license re
newal was filed.
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of the Posse Comitatus,
Lawerence said she did not
know if the item would be on
the agenda of the FCC’s next
regular meeting April 24 but
one official said it probably
would not be considered until
May — a year after the first for-
“The commission will make a
decision on whether the issues
raised by the petitioners regard
ing the qualifications of the li
censee of KTTL warrant desig
nation for hearing, some lesser
sanction or no hearing at all,”
said FCC spokesman Rod Por
ter.
The broadcasts atii
Jews, blacks, Asians, Hispi
Catholics and governmem
cials. Excerpts containsuti
sages as “Jews are the
of the devil” and “nip
long swinging from them
bongo-bongo land.”
Community Service Broad
casting Inc., a group of 14
Dodge City citizens who incor
porated to try to take over the
station’s license, said KTTL
broadcast 264 hours of "the vile
Van Smith, a Garden
Kan., attorney, said tit
signed a contract to buvtli
lion for $350,000 once
cense problems are resolve
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United Press International
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supporters of an ordinance
banning discrimination against
homosexuals are confident the
city Thursday will become one
of the first in the Deep South to
pass such a law.
The proposed ordinance
would outlaw discrimination in
housing, employment and use
the fa
of such public facilities as mo
tels, restaurants and theaters,
an attorney said Wednesday.
“I don’t pretend this is going
to eliminate all the problems,”
said Jim Kellogg, who rep
resents a coalition of gay
groups. “It will eliminate the cli
mate of fear that many people
have on their jobs and in hous
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The Catholic Archdiocese of
New Orleans opposes the ordi
nance, claiming it would tie the
hands of educators, business
owners and landlords, and
could force the church to hire
gays as teachers of “young, im
pressionable children."
Kellogg predicts passage of
the controversial law. He said
gays, who he estimates comprise
15 percent of the New Orleans
population, would gain some
recognition that they are whole
human beings if it is approved.
Edgar Homrighausen, pastor
of the Gloria Dei Lutheran
Church, said the church would
like to reserve the right to hire
people as it sees fit.
“The church feels this is a
sin,” he said. “It presents*
special problem. The d
feels that this is sonu
against what the Lord sett
Scripture.”
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delphia and Detroit tosn
lege towns as Austin, and
Lansing, Mich. — have
banning discrimination
homosexuals.
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