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Prof part of convention action
By JEFF DANIELS
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A University assistant professor of sociology was one of
almost 4.000 delegates who worked, played and cast votes at
the Democratic National Convention last week in San
Francisco
Phyllis Barrow, who has taught a Contemporary Georgia
History class here since 1004, participated in the activities
that saw the Democratic Party united at the end of the
convention with Walter Mondale and his nominee for vice
president. Rep Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., at the top of the
ticket
Barrow said she was pleased with Mondale's selection
"Geraldine Ferraro will lie a very effective campaigner
for the Democratic Party," she said "She is knowledgeable,
articulate and also has a very attractive personality She
never seems to come across ugly "
Barrow said she was glad Mondale chose a woman after he
interviewed both women and minorities extensively for the
post
"The naming of Mrs Ferraro should put an end to the
‘Geraldine Ferraro will be a very
effective campaigner for the
Democratic Party.’
— Phyllis Barrow
criticism of Mondale that he was not seriously considering
for the vice presidency anything but a white male." Barrow
said
Barrow said one of the highlights of the convention was
being invited, along with other members of the southern
delegation, to a Breakfast with Ferraro last Tuesday
morning
Because the delegation was not fully assembled and
prepared for the vote on Wednesday night. Georgia chose not
to vote on the opening ballot, Barrow said
“We have always worked very hard to be honest and
above-board in our voting and that is why we chose to pass on
the first ballot," she said
Barrow was attending tier second Democratic Convention
— the first was in New York City's Madison Square Garden in
1880 There Jimmy Carter defeated Ted Kennedy, who
challenged Carter's nomination to the very end
This time, however, the mood was less competitive among
the front runners, she said
"The attitude was not abrasive or befrending at all among
the Jackson. Hart and Mondale camps, no matter what Ed
Bradley and Harold Washington might have said," Barrow
said
All three candidates in their speeches to the delegates, as
well as a national television audience, emphasized that party
unity is a key ingredient to unseating President Reagan from
the White House chair in November, Barrow said
Barrow said she has always been interested in politics A
native of Athens, she has been involved with the Demnrrafic
Party for more than 30 years She is a member of the Clarke
County Democratic Committee and is the founder and
president of the Clarke County Democratic Women's Party
O’Neill contradicts Reagan
Taxes will rise, speaker says
WASHINGTON (API -
Congressional Democrats,
reacting to President
Reagan's assertion that he
has "no plans" to raise taxes
in IMS. said Wednesday that
While House aides have
confided for months that one
is Inevitable
"There's no question we're
S uing to have to have a tax
ill. and he (Reagan I knows
It as well as everyone else,”
House Speaker Thomas P
O'Neill. D-Mass , told a news
conference
The speaker, who accused
Reagan of telling "tall
stories" by saying his
policies have not hurt the
nation's needy, said a broad-
based tax hike Is needed
because the government
spends (800 million more
each day than it takes in
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House has been saying, after
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straighten it out." O’Neill
said, less than a day after
the president told a
nationally broadcast news
conference that "I have no
plans for a tax increase" to
attack the budget deficit
Reagan. however,
seemingly left the door open
when he added that “you
would have to look at the tax
structure" if a substantial
deficit remained after all
spending cuts were carried
out
This brought a sharp
rebuttal from Democratic
presidential candidate
Walter Mondale, who has
pledged both to raise taxes
and rut spending in order to
cut the deficit by two-thirds
in his first term
"I've been hearing fish
stones all week, but tonight
Mr Reagan told a big one,"
Mondale said in a statement
from northern Minnesota,
where he is on a fishing trip
O’Neill did not identify the
White House aides who have
been talking new taxes, but
House Majority Leader Jim
Wright, D-Texas, supported
the speaker's contention
"They’ve been saying it all
year,” Wright said in an
interview “I'm not going to
quote anybody who's talked
to me in private, but the
administration knows fully
well they cannot make
substantial reductions in the
deficit without substantial
cuts in military growth and
substantial increases in
revenues "
Reagan said Tuesday
night that "the only way" he
could see a tax increase is
for government spending,
even after budget reduc
lions, to be taking a greater
share of the gross national
product than that raised by
the current tax structure.
Reagan knows better, O’Neill says
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ATLANTA IAP) - Postal
and customs officials are
stepping up forfeitures of
child pornography coming
into the Southeast, but there
haven't been any
prosecutions in Atlanta
under a new law that went
into effect in May
Prosecutors say it is
comparatively easy to seize
the materials, but proving
the offense can be difficult
U.S. Customs Port
Director John Deegan said
288 packets of child por
nography mailed into the
Southeast have been con
fiscated at Hartsfield
Atlanta International Air
port since October —
compared wilh 30 seizures in
the same period a year
earlier
A law signed by President
Reagan in May makes the
ordering of child por
nography by mall a federal
felony
The law, prosecutors say,
is an attempt to attack
several unique features of
Ihe kiddie porn industry —
its sexual abuse of children,
its heavy reliance on foreign
produced films, and an
underground, word-of-mouth
distribution network that
shies away from the large
distributorships that
characterize the adult
pornography trade
"People who buy and sell
child pornography really
operate like snakes." said
Leo Shatzel, chief inspector
of the Atlanta office of the
U.S. Postal Service
“They're very difficult to
ferret out They go to great
lengths to determine who
they're dealing with." The
law's provisions included:
• liaising from 16 to 18 Ihe
age of children protected
a Distinguishing child
pornography from the adult
variety by eliminating the
stringent legal requirement
that prosecutors demon
strate that the material is
“obscene Under Ihe new
law. any "visual depiction"
of sexually explicit behavior
involving children is
automatically banned
• Authorizing prosecutors
to use wiretapping to crack
child pornography rings
a Making it a crime to
subscribe to child por
nography. even privately, or
to reproduce child por
nography for distribution.
even if it is not for profit
a Raising the fines upon
conviction from (10.000 to
(100.000
US Attorney Larry
Thompson promised that
(here will be "aggressive"
prosecutions of violators of
the new law
But none has been initiated
in Atlanta so far, despite an
increasing number of civil
forfeitures — legal
proceedings in which por
nographic mail intercepted
by Customs is confiscated by
the court — filed in federal
court in Atlanta
Agency officials say wronged
consumers should go to source
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other business have the ears
of several state agencies
ready to listen to their
problems
But before any action is
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mission, receives about 8.000
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Grant said that before the
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complaint, officials will try
to make sure the customer
has tried to settle the
problem with the utility
The division's role is that
of an "unofficial mediator,"
said Grant, and its recom
mendations to utilities do not
carry the force of law “Bui
they understand it is acting
on behalf of the com
missioners ”
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not rectified, or if a rash of
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Baby found in box
ATLANTA - A newborn boy was found Wednesday
wrapped in a blanket and left in a cardboard box at the
back door of Atlanta's First Presbyterian Church
The child was left with a note which read: “Please find
a home for my baby — I can’t keep him. Don't tell the
news - I don't think I could take hearing about him
again"
Atlanta police rushed the child to Gradv Memorial
Hospital. Officers said the baby appeared to be unhurt
except for a small bruise on his head, and he still had the
umbilical cord attached to his belly
Task force seizes pot
LAGRANGE - The Governor's Task Force for Drug
Suppression has located and seized a large crop of
marijuana inTroupCounty
Bob Harden of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said
about 8.000 plants ranging in height from 3 inches to 15
inches have been harvested The find is estimated to be
worth $13 million, he said
Harden says the Troup County crop was of an expensive
The task force is comprised of state and local officials
GBI agent Walt Davis said, ’ We re flying the entire
state We have two divisions, one in north Georgia and one
in South Georgia We re with the South Georgia division
We've flown most of the Florida line and have progressed
up
“We ll be in this area, in and out. through the rest of this
marijuana season ”
Police may use ‘stun gun ’
DECATUR - DeKalb County officials are considering
equipping paramedics and police who have to deal with
disagreeable or violent people with electronic “stun
gun*.”
The stun gun is a small, plastic device the size of a TV
remote control, powered by a 9-volt battery The device's
microchip wizardry generates a 47,000-volt charge that
causes no permanent damage but temporarily renders a
person helpless
Public Safety Director Dick Hand said his department
will begin testing the $70 devices this summer by
assigning them to police officers If the test proves sue
cessful. the stun guns will be issued within six months to
DeKalb s 320 uniformed officers and probably to its 120
paramedics
Molestation conviction
SPRINGFIELD — A Rincon man convicted on four
counts of child molestation involving an 11-year-old girl
has been sentenced to four years probation. 1.920 hours of
community service and a $10,000 fine
James Paul Smith, 49, was convicted Saturday on four
counts of a six-count indictment in Effingham County
Superior Court He was sentenced Tuesday by Judge
Joseph Neville
.Smith faced a maximum 20 years in prison on each
count In addition to his weekend community service.
Smith also was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment
for four years
Chemical causes disorder
BOSTON — People who suffer the mood swings of manic
depressive disorder have an inherited abnormality in the
way their bodies use a common chemical, and a simple
lest may help doctors spot youngsters who risk getting
this mental illness, researchers say
The discovery may also provide clues about the defect
that underlies depression and mama and point doctors
toward better treatment of the illness
Manic-depressive disorder runs in families, and
scientists have long believed il is inherited However
knowledge about the specific chemical abnormalities in
the brain that cause the disease is sketchy
People with manic-depressive disorder have wide
swings of inappropriate moods Intense sadness and
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