Child porn kindles
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Allegations
that child pornography is flowing into the United
J Sites from Scandinavia and the Netherlands have
rekindled debate here on how to control pornography.
Officials in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands
acknowledged that charges made by the U.S. Senate
and the media on imported child pornography con-
tain a grain of truth. But some authorities questioned
the original source of the material and argued that
the U.S. market for child porn is a big part of the
problem.
ONE SPARK to the northern European debate on
child pornography was the NBC program "Silent
Shame," a documentary on child abuse and por-
nography shown on U.S. television in August.
-The broadcast said Denmark is the center for
City voters to
commercial production and wholesale distribution of
the material, while the Netherlands is the center for
mail order and retail sales, aimed at billion-dollar
market in the United States.
Danish newscasts showed parts of the program,
and the resulting uproar prompted Danish officials
including Prime Minister Poul Schleuter to make
pronouncements that these charges must be in-
vestigated and laws tightened.
One Danish expert disputed the broadcast.
"I WON'T SAY the broadcast was all a pack of lies,
but when it is said that huge amounts of child por-
nography are pouring into the United States, the first
question is: Who is buying it? Child porn has largely
disappeared from Denmark," said Berl Kutchinsky,
a University of Copenhagen criminologist who helped
debate
write Denmark's 1980 ban on child porn.
"Police have not come across it, and there have
been no reports here of its production or sale," Kut-
chinsky said.
Police subsequently searched two premises and
charged four Danes with violating the 1980 ban. But
officers insist they always have enforced that law
which provides jail terms for producing it and fines
for distributing.
SCANDINAVIAN officials also reacted to a series
of hearings on child porn in the U.S. Senate's juvenile
justice subcommittee. In testimony Wednesday, two
experts stated that Scandinavia and Southeast Asia
were the heart of a worldwide distribution system of
child pornography.
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settle nuclear freeze question
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where military research is actually
conducted to have such a ban.
BUT YESTERDAY, attorneys from
the two companies attempted to make
sure that doesn't happen.
. , ERIM attorney W. Gerald Warren
argued that because the issue is a
Zoning issue, putting it on the ballot
through voter initiative constitutes im-
proper procedure.
"They may not be wrong in what
they're trying to do, but how they're
trying to do it," Warren said.
"YOU CAN'T step aside from these
procedural steps," Warren said, adding
that the ballot proposal will have a
"chilling effect" on ERIM's "legitimate
business." He said that companies like
ERIM would stand to lose contracts
just by putting the proposal on the
ballot because uncertainties over which
types of research can and cannot be
done could cause organizations like the
defense department not to allow them
to bid on contracts..
ERIM currently has about 100 gover-
nment contracts, Warren said.
Laurence Schultz, ADI's attorney
echoed Warren's remarks.
"ADI IS IN exactly the same position
as ERIM," he said. "We believe that
this proposal on its face is invalid,"
because improper procedures got it on
the ballot, he added. "We believe the
court must take action to remove it
from the ballot."
According to Schultz, the city is inter-
fering with the United State's right to
provide for the common defense by
allowing such an issue to be kept on the
ballot.
He also blasted nuclear free activists
for their role in getting the proposal on
the ballot. Schultz accused members of
the Campaign for a Nuclear Free Ann
Arbor of using the proposal as "a
political tool to gain nothing for their
cause except notoriety and publicity for
their issue. The objective here is stric-
tly publicity," he said.
CITY ATTORNEY R. Bruce Laidlaw
responded to the companys' claims that
the issue was a zoning ordinance with
good humor. "When I first heard (that
argument), I thought maybe they were
pulling my leg," he said, adding that it
was "ludicrous"to even suggest that
such a referendum was a zoning or-
dinance.
Even though Campbell ruled against
ERIM and ADI, Schultz said he was
"not too surprised" that he lost the
case.
Neither he nor Warren would say
whether they would appeal. "That's
still something we're going to have to
consider," Warren said.
Marvin Holter, ERIM executive vice
president said he was "disappointed of
course," but would not say whether his
company would appeal. -
A similar freeze proposal failed by a
margin of 60-40 in Cambridge, Mass. in
1983.
Freeze advocate Michael said the
group will now begin canvassing the
city to gain support for the proposal.
Child psychiatrist BenjaminmSpock
M.D. will be in town late this month to
push the freeze, she said.
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