i 1 Pa 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 2, 1984 IProstitution study is revealing SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A criminologist who sur- Almost all of the subjects were minors when they the $74,000 figures seems high. "Our experience is veyed 100 prostitutes working the economically started hooking, Martinelli reported, and 81 percent that prostitutes make $15,000 to $20,000," she said. booming peninsula that houses Silicon Valley reports said they got into it as a way to make a lot of money But, she added, the larger figure might be true for they earn an average of $74,000 a year, enjoy their easily. Another 21 percent said they got involved "for prostitutes working near Silicon Valley, a center of work and don't worry about getting caught. excitement and to meet interesting people." high-technology industry where income levels are The typical hooker on the pleninsula between San ONLY 5 percent said they became prostitutes to generally high. Francisco and San Jose "enjoys life in the fast lane," traveling often to spots such as Hong Kong, Brazil and Hawaii, said Ronald Martinelli, a San Jose police officer with a master's degree in criminology who spent a year conducting the survey. THE SURVEY reported that 48 percent introduced themselves to prostitution, and 38 percent were in- troduced by another prostitute. The study also reported that 71 percent of the women surveyed said they liked their work. support a drug habit, although most said they have since turned to narcotics because of the easy availability and to help reduce the stress of their work. About half of the interview subjects, who were bet- ween ages 16 and 24, did not finish high school. Ninety-three percent said current sanctions did not deter them from prostitution, but 69 percent said tougher jail sentences would. Priscilla Alexander, action coordinator for the National Organization for Women in California, said Jeff Brown, the San Francisco public defender, said his office represents about 2,000 prostitutes a year and his experience agrees with Martinelli's findings. But, he added, prostitution has "tremendous down- side risks." "It's a hard life. You're out between 5 p.m. until af- ter midnight turning maybe 10 tricks a night. "You're not going to be cute forever," he added. "Very few come out of it in good shape," after years of drugs and illnesses that are often ignored. Poison murderer is ffirst woman executed since '62 V RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Velma Bar- field, rejected by court after court, dropped her appeals and awaited a 2 a.m. execution this morning for poisoning her boyfriend that would make her the first woman put to death in the United States since 1962. Mrs. Barfield, 52, told prison officials she would exchange her brown prison dress for her own pink cotton pajamas shortly before she was wheeled on a gurney into the death chamber to receive a lethal injection. Defense attorney Jimmy Little said Mrs. Barfield had made a "very clear- headed" decision not to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court, where she has been rejected three times in the past. Little visited Mrs. Barfield at Central Prison after her case was rejected earlier in the day by a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va. MRS. BARFIELD was waiting in a holding cell 18 steps from the death chamber, reading a newspaper and religious literature - some sent by Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham. Before talking to her attor- ney, Mrs. Barfield had communion with prison chaplain Luther Pike and the Rev. Hugh Hoyle, her former chaplain. Little said she agreed to donate all usable organs for transplant. "As the state prepares to take her life, she is giving life to others," he said. Sixteen people were to witness the execution, including Ann Lotz, Graham's daughter, said prison spokeswoman Patty McQuillan. Gov. Jim Hunt, who has rejected Mrs. Bar- field's plea for clemency, stopped his Senate campaign against Republican Sen. Jesse Helms to return to Raleigh in case he was needed, Hunt aide Don Hobart said. MRS. BARFIELD made no special requests for a last meal, and prison of- ficials said she would be served fried chicken livers, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, beans, bread, sheet cake with peanut butter icing and a beverage - the same meal given to all prisoners. Under the procedures outlined by of- ficials, at 1:30 a.m., the condemned prisoner walks from her cell to a preparation room outside the death chamber. There, she is strapped to a gurney, and intravenous injections of saline solution are to be started in both arms. Leads for a cardiac monitor and stethoscope are attached to her chest. She is covered with a green sheet before being wheeled into the death chamber at 1:5 a.m. A corrections of- ficer closes a curtain behind the gurney to screen the three prison officials who will act as executioners. Carl Levin understands that a IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Reagan OKs African food aid WASHINGTON-Yesterday President Reagan approved $45.1 million worth of food shipments to three drought-stricken African countries and also authorized the chartering of two cargo planes to help speed food supplies to drought victims in Ethiopia. The approval of new food aid for Kenya, Mozambique and Mali raised the total of emergency U.S. food assistance for Africa to $131 million in the last month alone, compared with $173 million for the preceding 12 months. Meanwhile, the head of Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, Dawit Walde Giorgis, met with U.S. officials yesterday to discuss ways of expanding American assistance to that country. M. Peter McPherson, ad- ministrator of the Agency for International Development, called the meeting "very productive" but withheld details until after Dawit concludes his disucssions today. On Tuesday, the White House accused Ethiopia of ignoring the needs of its estimated 6 million hungry while spending lavish sums for a celebration in September commemorating the 10th anniversary of Marxist rule. McPherson told a news conference that since the anniversary, Ethiopia has focused "substantially more attention" on the hunger problem. KKK membership declining DENVER-Ku Klux Klan membership has dropped by about one-third in the past two years, but the decline in the organization's strength might lead frustrated Klansmen to consider waging their own "campaign of terror,"' the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said yesterday. KKK membership has declined by about 35 percent since 1982, when the Klan had 8,000 to 10,000 members, the league said. The league said Klan membership recently has ranged from about 5,000 members in 1973 to a peak, of 9,700 to 11,500 members in 1981. The league attributed the decline partly to the Klan's failure to achieve segregation, but warned the KKK is not "about to expire." "The Ku Klux Klan is weaker and more isolated and fragmented then it was two years ago," the last time the league analyzed Klan activity, accor' ding to the ADL report, covering the status of the Klan and U.S. neo-Nazi groups. The report was issued at the league's national executive committee meering here. Baboon heart transplant patient offers clues to various diseases LOMA LINDA, CALIF.-The longer Baby Fae stays alive with her tran- splanted baboon heart, the more clues she can offer to the deadly puzzles of cancer, AIDS and other diseases, doctors said yesterday. The 4.6 pound, 20-day-old infant known only as Baby Fae, the longest sur- vivor of an animal heart transplant, can give scientists a lesson in the com- plex workings of the human immune system, researchers said. "We've been making rapid progress in our understanding of the immune system, an essential key to unraveling the mysteries of cancer, rheumatoid , arthritis... and acquired immune deficiency syndrome," said Dr. Theodore Mackett, chairman of transplant services at Loma Linda University Medical Center.a "In trying to prevent rejection of the baboon heart by the immune system of Baby Fae, the first infant to undergo an animal heart transplant, we can learn a lot about the immunse system," he said. Poles protest priest's murder WARSAW, POLAND-Millions of Poles marked All Saints Day yesterday by offering prayers for a pro-Solidarity priest murdered by secret police as the I head of Poland's Catholic Church condemned the killers for "combatting God." Six former leaders of the banned Solidarity union called a one-hour strike in the port city of Goansk to coincide with tommorow's funeral of Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, whose body was found Tuesday in a reservoir. a The abduction and murder of the 37-year-old Popieluszko, known for his fiery anti-state sermons, has outraged the nation and sparked a crisis in relations between the powerful Catholic Church and the communist gover- nment. Three Interior Ministry employees confessed to kidnapping the priest Oct. 19 as he was being driven to the town of Torun in northern Poland and killing him. The three were taken into custody. Halloween riots prompt curfew FRANKLIN, TENN.-A dusk-to-dawn curfew was in effect last night after Halloween night racial violence left at least nine people injured, including one critically beaten, officials said. "People were just wild," said Franklin police officer Barbara Derricks. "Then, boom, boom. Someone starts shooting and people start falling." Authorities said two white youths allegedly fired a shotgun and struck four black men after their car window was smashed byt a rock. The shooting: triggered a series of other violent incidents in the city, 30 miles south of; Nashville, that left three whites beaten and two with minor shotgun wounds. The wounded blacks, Willis Harrison Jr., 16, Phillip Scruggs, 22, James: Taylor, 21, and Johnny Christman, 21, were treated and released at William- son County Hospital. Also treated and released were two white teenagers, Timothy Galavin and, Richard Tidwell, who were wounded later by shotgun fire in separate in- cidents. 1 , 1 healthy environment is basic to a healtIhyeonmy "Protecting the environment while maintaining an industrial economy has always been a major challenge in Michigan. We've learned the hard way that economic development which of Michigan's water, air and land is'nt a b endangers argain." the quality Carl Levin is one of the environmental policy. His senate's strongest fighters for sound leadersh ip has earned him the Sierra Club endorsement and a 93% positive rating by the League of Conservation Voters. Here's what Cart Levin the environment: Hazardous Waste: "I've seen my role in Washington as supporting and prodding the Environmental Protection Agency to work with Michigan officials on pressing problems like the Berlin Ferro dump site, the Shelby Township Land Fill and dioxin pollution of Michigan streams. Watchdogging the EPA includes keeping it vigilant in administering environmental legislation and also keeping its programs adequately funded. Because we've learned some tough environmental lessons in Michigan, I know that in the Senate this watchdog function includes fighting to protect the country's vast natural resources too." has to say about his record on Park & Wilderness: "I sought additional funds for the National Park Service to acquire the last remaining parcels within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park. I introduced S.620 to require the development of a local land use plan and zoning regulations for the inland buffer zone of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. I worked to get funds in the Interior Appropriations Bill for the purchase of the Walkinshaw Wetlands and Harbor Island in Michigan." Wildlife: "I have also worked with a group of senators to ensure that the oil and gas exploration in Alaska does not damage the Arctic national wildlife area and convinced the floor managers of the Interior Appropriation Bill to include language directing the Secretary of Interior to review his proposed regulations for energy exploration to assure that they were meeting the legislative intent." Great Lakes: "1 cosponsored S.2026 which would prohibit diversions of Great Lakes water for use outside of a Great Lakes State, except as approved by all of the Great Lakes states and the International Joint Commission. I worked with the state of Michigan and environmentalists to assure that Michigan be an equal partner in Coastal Zone Management programs." James Watt: "I was one of a few senators who voted against confirmation of James Watt to be the Secretary of Interior. I also voted against confirmation of William Clark as Secretary of the Interior - in protest of Clark's intent to continue Watt's policies." A proven A proven Energy: "As a member of the Committee on Government Affairs Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Governmental Processes, I have consistently pressed for adequate funding for conservation and renewable energy research and development, and a tougher policy to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology." Vol. XCV - No.50 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the: Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: September through April - $16.50 in Ann Arbor; $29.00: outside the city ; May through August - $4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second-class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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