n--- r--_ Page Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, May 28, 1977 Orgarnized crime moves into child porn ,LOS ANG ELES ( - The ex- plicit depiction in movies, books and magazines of children en- gaged in sex acts is a big busi- ness venture involving organized crime and as many as 30,000 children in this city alone, wit- nesses told a congressional com- mittee yesterday. Darvl Gates, deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Depart- ment, told the House Select ComnIit'ee on Education and La- bor that "intelligence has shown that organized crime has rapidly moved into the area of child pornography" in California. THIS STATE has emerged as the world's film capital of "Kid- die Porn," as it has come to be known. Rep. James Jeffords (R-Vt.) asked Gates about the validity of reports that 30,000 children were involved in Los Angeles alone. "That prahably is a very con- servative figure," Gates said. THE HOUSE is considering testimony concerning HR 4572, a bill prohiibting the transporta- tion of pornographic material in- volving children across state lines. Gates said the bill would help local authorities but said Kiddie Porn was so pervasive that "the laws will not solve the problem." Los Angeles police investiga- tor Lloyd Martin, asking the committee members to "close your eyes if you are offended," displayed magazines showing boys and girls, mostly young teen-agers but some as young aa 6 years old, posing in various sexual positions. MARTIN SAID that children involved in pornography are re- cruited from a vast army of run- aways 'Who quickly learn: "You survive by polling up your dress or pulling down your pants." Robin Lloyd, a local newsman who wrote a book. on boy pros- titution, told the committee of several recruitment ploys used by pornographers "including the founding of a Boy Scout troop for the purpose of making sex films. Lloyd told of a recent case in Texas in which a "recruiting of- ficer" allegedly abducted an 11- year-old boy and took him to Mexico to star in a pornographic film. The alleged recruiter had been heard boasting that a Mex- ican porno producer paid $25,000 for each fair-skinned Anglo child delivered. ONE MAN who was not allow- ed to speak before the comnait. tee was Tim O'Hara of the Coy on Society, agroup whose motto is "Sex Before 8 Or Then acs Too Late." "This is body guilt legisla. tion," O'Hara told a reporter. lie said there is no such thing as pornography, that he pre- fers to refer to such films as "child sex films." Most child pornography is cur- rently prosecuted under obscen- ity statutes, but police say Inc. cessful prosecution is difficult. "You have to show that the film is obscene by taking it to a magistrate, who views the film and gives you a yes or nay," Lt, Don La Guardia of the Los An- geles Police Department's child sexual exploitation unit said An an interview. ANN ALUMI F1l A0CC-CL Saturday, May 28 BLAZING SADDLES (Mel Brooks 1974) 7, 8:45, 10:30-MLB 3 Mel Brooks' couvulingl hilarious burlesque of the Old West is perhaps the last word in Western parodies. The lewd, vulgar, and wacky plot revolves around a black sheriff in an asi-white town. Marvelously comic performances by Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Alex Karras. and Madeline Kahn. THE WILD ANGELS (Roger Cormon, 1966) 7:00 only-MLB 4 Corman's examination of society's ultimate drop-outs was chosen to open the venice Film Festival and hailed by one critic as "The most important American film of the last ten years." An outlaw ceub sets out to reclaim a bike stolen by another gang only to run afoul of the law. When one of the group is shot and later dies for lack of medical care, the subsequent funeral service turns into a "brawl unprecedented in human misconduct." Corman's tough, elaborate visual style is seen to good effect, as is the second unit work shot by Peter Bogdanovich. Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Deen, Disa Ldd, Miha el J. ollard, and members of the Hell's Angels, Vnice, Califoria. GAS-S-S-S-ST (Roer Cormon, 1970) 8:45 only-MLB 4 This film was premiered at the Edingburgh Film Festival and inspired a wild standiqjg ovation. A mad cross between WILD ANGELS and THE TRIP. A defense plant leak unleashes a gas un- dergoing study by the military. The gas speeds up the aging process -in everybody over 25. pushing them past the brink of death. The young survivors are fared with building a world, and frustrations take every turn-from vicious gangs who wreak havoc to bizarre rituals in the street. . fascinating as an indication of how politically and socially conscious the B-movie has become over the past few years . .defty satiric scenes."-Judith Crist. Bud Cor, Cindy Williams, Robert Corff, CountryJ.oe and the Fish. VON RICHTHOFEN AND BROWN (Rooer Cormon, 1971) 10:30 only-MLB 4 The last film Corman directed before going an to create the New World Pictures Studio. A World War I film that flies rings around THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER, vON RICHTHOFEN is more about the end of the chivalry than the mechanics of war. Corman sees von Rlchthofen as the last knight, gnned down by a machine-like "team-man" product of the U.S. war machine. Great aerial photog- raphy highlights this sadly underseen and underrated film. Ann ArborPremiere. John Phillip Law Don stroud,lBarry Primus. " Sunday, May 29 -UNDER CAPRICORN (Alfred Hitchcock, 1949) 7:00 only-MLB 3 One of Hitchock's rare costume epics, the film nevertheless con- tains many of the director's classic themes, including' the person wrongfully accused. Much admired by Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer, WNDER CAPRICORN concerns analcoholic woman,' her convict husband, and an evil housekeeper. Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, and Cecil Parker. Music by Richard ("Warsaw Concerto) Addinsell. SPELLBOUND (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) 9:00 only-MLB 3 In this Hitchcock mystery, an analyst (Ingrid Bergman) attempts to cure an amnesiac (Gregory Peck) and clear him of murder. Salvador Dali designed the fantastic dream sequence and Miklos Roe's innovative use of electronic music won an Oscar. Monday, May 30 B NIGHT Some of the best films of recent years have been made under the banner of "B films." Tonight we are showing three seldom seen genre classics-unpretentious, fast-moving and fun. Don't blow it' BIG COMBO (Joseph Lewis, 1955) 7:00 only-MLB 3 The massive talents of scenarist Philip Yordan (JOHNNY GUITAR). cinematographer John Alton, and director Joseph Lewis (GUN CRAZY) are sensationally combined here to produce the grittiest, kinkiest movie in all film noir. An obsessive cop. motivated by revenge, relentlessly hunts down the syndicate men responsible for his girlfriend's brutal, senseless murder. This film's unflinching mix- ture of sexual tension, violent confrontation, and perverted American ideals prompted Time to label it "cooly calculated rough stuff for those who can take it." Cornell Wilde, Richard ContE; susan Lowell. BLOODY MAMA (Roger Cormon, 1970) 8:45 onl-MLB 3 This brutal, bloody, and horrifying tale about the exploits of one o America's most vicious criminal families, Kate Barker and he brood 'of wild, sadistic sons, is riddled with action, penetrating charactermations and a story that wit ite long in the annals of America's most desperate, unsettling decae, the 1930's, Robert DeNiro (TAXI DRIVER) plays one of her sons. Pat Hurgle, Diane Varsi, Bruce Dern THUNDER ROAD (Arthur Ripley, 1958) 10:30 only-MLB 3 Robert Mitchum Is a Korean War veteran who runs superstocks filled with corn whiskey down the mountains and into the city. He's got big trouble, though: the syndicate wants a piece of the action and the revenuers want to shut him down completely. But they have to catch him first, and what develops is probably one of the most hauntingly genuine evorations of that mysterious experi- enee known as Amercan night-driving ever seen on film . Police focus on teachers, train after kids released (Cntinued from Page 1) his town. "Look at what the Moluccans have done to this village. I don't think you outsiders un- derstand why we fear them." "This can't go on, but we don't know how to stop it,"Jan- TONIGHT At SECOND CHANCE PHOENIX 994-s350 sen said with tears in his eyes. "We could ask the government to move the Moluccans away from here, but that would only dump the problem on somebody else, solving nothing." ABOUT HALF of Bovensmil- des 3,000 inhabitants are South Moluccans, part, of the 40,000 strong Moluccan community in Holland. Many are descend- ants-of soldiers who fought on the Dutch side in the Indones- ian fight for independence in the late 1940s. They hold onto their dream of a separate 231-.south Stafe 2nd H tT W EEK SHOWS TODAY & SUNDAY AT 1-3-5-7-9 The atre 'Pho'ni 662-6264 OPEN 12:45 TO BE BELIEVED, I MUST BE SEEN I'M THE BADDEST ACTOR SINCE JAMES DEAN' LOW --Ee MA.X.A COLUMBIA/EMI Festuro r." c edr itl u es s Nrpstes IcW 7 ! I t TODAY & SUNDAY AT TODAY & SUNDAY AT 1-3-5-7-9 OPEN 12:45 1-3-5-7-9 OPEN 12:45- NOMINATED' FOR 3 ACADEMY' AWARDS! '"Islands in the homeland. Doctors continued to hold 26 children in a hospital but un- confirmed reports said they were "reasonably well." They had suffered from vomiting and diarrhea before their release. A Justice Ministry official de- nied food sent into the school had been deliberately poisoned to force the release. Parents shed more tears than children at their reunions in a Red Cross shelter in the village. Many of the youngsters reacted shyly to public tears, hugs and kisses.tOne girl said, "Mummy, I left my coat in the school." But during their captivity there had been many tears. "A lot of children cried during the day, much more at night," said one girl interviewed by Dutch radio. She told of playing games sent in from outside, listening to books read by one of the two women teachers still in captiv- ity. Another girl said she and her schoolmates were never threat- ened by the extremists but were restricted in their movements and had trouble sleeping at night on the cold floors. She said the children also spent their time watching television. Survivors DALLAS (AP) - Years from now, when no' survivors of Pearl Harbor are left, scholars will be able to hear the voices of more than 100 Texans who were eyewitnesses to what hap- pened December 7, 1941. Dr. Ron Marcello of North Texas State University, coor- dinator of the university's oral history collection and executive secretary of the National Oral History Association, based at NTSU, recently interviewed yet another Pearl Harbor survivor here. Merle Newbauer, subject of the interview, was on the bat- tIleship Maryland on the historic day. A seaman 1.C. then, he finished as a chief petty officer, and helped organize the Associa- tion of Pearl Harbor Survivors in Texas. "I've visited all five Texas chapters of the association, and found nearly all my inter- viewees there," said Dr. Mar- cello. 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