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Mike Schulz, a Texas A&M student, joins other members of
Citizens for Decency in nationwide protest against 7-Eleven’s
sale of “pornographic” magazines. This group was protest
ing at the 7-Eleven store on Jersey near Northgate Monday.
Anti-porn group
pickets 7-Elevens
United Press International
DALLAS — Picketing of 400 7-
Eleven stores Monday by an organi
zation protesting sales of Playboy
and Penthouse magazines may be
the largest such action ever staged,
but bigger things are on the way, the
organization’s leader has promised.
The Rev. Don Wildmon, speaking
from the Tupelo, Miss., headquar
ters of the National Federation for
Decency, said the protest against the
sale of Playboy and Penthouse mag
azines is scheduled for only one day.
“However, I want to say we’re not
firing all of our ammunition at one
time. We have something else in
mind and planned. We don’t want to
go public with it now, but it will be
much larger than this, I can assure
you,” he said.
The Southland Corp., which op
erates and franchises 7,300 7-11
stores, said the pickets will not stpp
the company from selling the mag
azines.
“It will be business as usual,”
spokeswoman Alisa Martin said.
Wildmon said the pickets also
were operating under strict
guidelines. In Dallas, home base of
the convenience store chain, a bro
chure explaining the action will be
handed to customers. In other
places, he said, pickets are not to
hand out any type of material.
Wildmon explained, “We’re not
saying to 7-Eleven ‘You can’t sell
these magazines.’ What we re saing is
‘As long as you sell these magazines
we will not do business with you, and
we will encourge others not to do
business with you.’”
Martin said Southland’s policy, af
fecting company-owned /-Elevens,
is that only three magazines featur
ing pictures of nudes are sold: Play
boy, Penthouse, and Forum. She
said the magazines are kept behind
the counters and not in self-service
areas. They are sold only to adults
and by request only, she said.
Wildmon said he had met three
times with Southland representa
tives.
“They said two things. The First is
that ‘we have the best policy’ on porn
of any retailer in the country. They
don’t call it porn, of course, they call
them ‘sophisticated magazines,”’ he
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De Lorean trial starts to end
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — John De Lo
rean “designed his own disgrace” by
plunging into the grimy world of
narcotics in a desperate attempt to
save his failing sports car firm, a
prosecutor told jurors Monday.
“He saw the opportunity and he
accepted the risks,” Assistant U.S.
Attorney Robert Perry said in begin
ning the first of two days of closing
arguments.
The jury is expected to begin de
liberations late Tuesday or Wednes
day after opposing lawyers take
turns summing up their cases.
Perry painted an ugly portrait of
De Lorean as a man driven by ego
and greed, “a user of other people’s
money” and a braggart. The pros
ecutor interspersed his presentation
with snippets of secretely-recorded
surveillance tapes showing De Lo
rean discussing narcotics with un
dercover agents posing as under
world thugs.
“He designed his own disgrace.
He and he alone is the architect of
his own destruction,” Perry said.
tionally renowned businessman
whose decisions affected thousands”
— expended to meet with under
cover agents during their four-
month probe.
Second
panda
cub dies
The prosecutor said evidence pre
sented during 21 weeks of testimony
proved the ex-automaker’s guilt “be
yond a reasonable doubt” and urged
the six-man, six-woman jury to
“have the courage to look John De
Lorean in the eye” and come back
with a guilty verdict.
De Lorean, 59, is charged with
putting up $2 million to finance im
portation of 220 pounds of cocaine
in hopes resale of the narcotics
would raise $40-$60 million to bail
his Northern Ireland car company
out of receivership.
“Oh, how he chased this deal,” the
prosecutor said, citing the time and
money De Lorean — “an interna-
The defense claims De Lorean
was framed by overzealous agents
and undercover informant James
Hoffman, a cocaine smuggler-
turned-informant who allegedly ex
pected a big payoff for his work on
the case.
Subcommittee hears horror stories
‘Thrill ride’ safety urged
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A
House subcommittee heard horror
stories Monday about amusement
park ride accidents, including a de
scription from a man who watched a
wrenching jerk on a Missouri “thrill
ride” hurtle his wife to her death.
The House health and environ
ment subcommittee took testimony
on legislation introduced by Rep.
Paul Simon, D-Ill., that would ex
pand the powers of the Consumer
Products Safety Commission to in
spect amusement park rides in states
that do not conduct inspections.
Simon said federal intervention is
needed because half the states have
no inspection programs, even
though amusement park rides have
claimed at least 10 lives so far this
year and cause an estimated 6,000
injures annually.
Carl Holcomb of Indianapolis tes
tified his wife, Stella, died July 7 be
cause of inadequate seat restraints
on the “Rail Blazer” ride at the Six
Flags over America park at Eureka,
Mo.
“We had just a terrible whip, and
at that point, she was gone,” said
Holcomb, who was riding with his
wife, an avid roller coaster rider.
“I heard that other people the
same size as my wife had trouble be
ing locked in securely,” he said. “I
feel if there had been more security,
I would have my wife sitting here
with me.”
Simon said the safety commission
regulates traveling carnivals, but due
to a 1981 change in law obtained by
the amusement park industry it has
no jurisdiction over the nation’s 520
permanent amusement parks.
“When we as parents take our
children to these amusement parks,
we are invited to check our worries
at the gate,” Simon said. “But it’s
hard to be carefree when there is
mayhem on the midway that no
agency is responsible for correct-
ing.”
Rep. Frank Guarini, D-N.J., called
for even broader legislation, saying
the consumer safety commission
should inspect not only rides, but
also “amusement facilities” such as
the haunted house at a Great Adven
ture amusement park in Jackson,
New Jersey.
United Press International
WASHINGTON - Linglj
suffering the third tragedyofj
life, delivered a stillborn m!)(
cradled the tiny creature Mo
National Zoo scientists vowedloif
tinue their decade-old struggltl
produce a baby giant panda.
The tiny, white male
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a year after the fury,
white Ling-Ling — and hen
Hsing-Hsing — lost Amelia's9
giant panda cub, also
pneumonia.
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apples alter vetct inarians
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dead cub, which she gently I
and cradled through thenigk
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We’re all very disappointed,"tool
rector Dr. Michael Robinson lol|
news conference. “Evervti
looked good until we realdl
wasn’t making any noise; it wq
moving.”
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of the first cub, and a third trap
in Ling-Ling’s life — thekidnejj
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gift from China during thewintetI
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conditioned den. After about D
hours of labor, she skillfully nuiilf
the infant’s five-ounce body ail
emerged from t he birth canal, h
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