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10A THE DFS MOINES RECISTER Wed Jan. 4, 1984 JD3 CTDdSII ummmmi SALE ENDS Author cites 'women's pornography' Continued from Page One She said of Carter's criticism, find it somewhat irritating," and she noted that only a small percentage of tax dollars winds up paying for religious programming. KUCB, a station aimed at the minority community, requested the money for relocation of the station from a condemned site to the southwest corner of University Avenue and Fourteenth Street Place. Councilman Archie Brooks voted against granting the funds. The council also heard a request for up to $2 million for an automated circulation system at the Des Moines Public Library.

Library Director Elaine Estes said such automation would allow the library system to put "all our materials in one central data base." For library users, the system would mean tint "instead of a card catalog, you would look at a computer terminal" to find out what library materials are available. The council referred the request to City Manager Richard Wilkey. enjoy rape fantasies. Ryan said the many women buyers of novels featuring rapes help prove her point "Romance novels are women's pornography, and you'd have to prohibit them, too, because they cast men in a bad light" she asserted. On another matter, the council voted to grant $20,000 to radio station KUCB, despite objections from atheist activist Larry H.

Carter, who argued that government funds should not be turned over to the station because it broadcasts too much religious programming. Gospel Music "In the shattered wall of separation between state and church," Carter said later, "another brick was turned to gravel by the conspiracy concluded here tonight. Tax money to religious radio stations is poison to underfunded science and human endeavors." Ann Kelly, a KUCB volunteer and occasional spokeswoman, said, 'The radio station was built for the community, and part of the black community is religion and gospel music." Ca)rR OFF fSSb OUR REGULAR LOW PRICE jmSPllC I Vi ofo UN-FINISHED FURNITURE SSK jSSSjeSr FumHur Com INTo-HnMy it must do what is in the best interest of the majority." The Minneapolis law, narrowly approved by the City Council there on Dec. SO, becomes final Friday unless Mayor Donald Fraser vetoes it However, the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union has called the ordinance unconstitutional and said it would bring a lawsuit if someone asked for it The law defines pornography as the "sexually explicit subordination of women, graphically depicted, whether in pictures or words." It outlines nine ways women might be subordinated, including being portrayed as sexual objects or commodities, as enjoying pain or humiliation, as experiencing pleasure in being raped, as tied up or being hurt, in "postures of sexual submission," as reduced to no more than parts of the body, as prostitutes, as having sex with animals or in scenes of degradation or injury. Minneapolis council member Char-lee Hoyt the sponsor of the ordinance, said in an interview Tuesday night that the proposed law "is a good base start" toward "halting discrimination against women as a systematic practice of exploitation and subordination based on sex." Author Disagrees That view was disputed by noted Iowa author Helen Ryan of Iowa City, head of the serials department at the University of Iowa Libraries.

She said in a telephone interview Tuesday night, "Pornography, insofar as it is in the imagination of men, cannot be viewed as wrong How can we, as women, declare that pornography ought to be outlawed when we consume it by the hundreds of thousands in these rape fantasy books?" Ryan, under the pen name Helen Hazen, wrote "Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance and the Female Imagination." The 1983 book suggests that, contrary to current hard-line feminist doctrine, women have and Mondale counters jab on 'special interests' Continued from Page One commitment" could have in advancing peace in the Middle East. Then, citing the eight men who have filled the jobs of secretary of state, national security affairs adviser and Middle East envoy for Reagan, Mondale said, "In 'the past three years, we have had as many Middle East policies as we have had staff turnovers. "A president cannot ad lib foreign policy," he said, "or delegate the question of war and peace, or turn strategy over to his staff. "He cannot ask Americans to risk lowans are interesting! Read the Iowa News section in the Des Moines Sunday Register. 198 Co Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health.

mt" Mm! -Iff I i H' t1--i' I their lives for a policy no one is in charge of and no one understands." On the issue of arms control, Mondale accused Reagan of opposing "every effort by every president of both parties for the past two generations" to reduce the threat of nuclear war. "In the past three years," he said, "we have not had one single advance. Instead, we have had an escalating arms race." Mondale then ticked off a dozen steps he said he would take as president to advance arms control. Among them were annual summit meetings, negotiations for a nuclear freeze, a universal test-ban treaty, an "updated" SALT II agreement, a European missile pact and a ban on anti-satellite weapons, stronger steps to enforce the agreements on anti-ballistic missiles and nuclear non-proliferation, new measures to curb hasty or erroneous retaliatory steps by the United States or the Soviet Union, a cutoff of nerve gas weapon production and termination of the MX program in favor of smaller, single-warhead "Midgetman" missiles. While repeatedly stressing his support for a "strong defense," Mondale said he would be more selective in weapons than Reagan has been.

"I will not endorse Mr. Reagan's incoherent strategy or Mr. Weinberger's blank check," he said, referring to Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger. Leading in the year-end polls for the nomination, Mondale outlined what he said he hopes will be the themes and issues of his campaign.

"A more competitive economy, a more just society and a safer world" are the promises he would make, he said, summarizing the platform in three words: "Growth, fairness and hope." Asked in the question period whether there was "any interest group other than the Republicans where you have not sought support" Mondale counterattacked on the issue that Senator John Glenn Ohio) and other Democrats have portrayed as his main vulnerability. He said he wanted jobs for the unemployed, good schools for the young, an end to discrimination, strict enforcement of environmental safeguards, food for the hungry and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. "If those are special interests," he said, "count me in. I'm proud of every one of them." Pastor says God saved him CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS (AP) A Seventh-day Adventist pastor held hostage by a gunman who later killed himself says he was taken captive after refusing the man's request to order his girlfriend to marry him. Pastor George Morales said God saved him and his family Sunday from the assailant who later tried to shoot the minister before committing suicide.

"The only thing that saved me was God," the Spanish-speaking Morales said Monday through a translator. "I was praying to God." The gunman, identified as Amado Cadena, shot himself in the head in the kitchen of the pastor's home Sunday evening. Investigators said the man wanted Morales to order the unidentified girlfriend to marry him, but the minister refused. Cadena, believed to be about 32, went to the pastor's home about 7 p.m. Sunday.

When Morales refused to order the marriage, Cadena pulled a revolver and held the family hostage, investigators say. Police Capt Sonny Crisp said Morales' wife and her three children jumped out a window and fled to a neighbor's home, where they called police. Morales said Cadena then aimed his revolver at him and pulled the trigger twice, but the gun did not discharge. Police surrounded the house and were spotted by Cadena, who put the gun to his head and fired twice. It discharged the second time, Crisp said, and Cadena died at 2:17 a.m.

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