Page 10-Thursday, July 29, 1982-The Michigan Daily
'I HA TE SAN FRANCISCO' CAMPAIGN PROTESTS NEW LAW
Frisco handgun ban begins
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)- One of the
nation's strictest handgun bans took ef-
fect here yesterday, amid lawsuits and
an "I Hate San Francisco" campaign
organized by opponents.
Residents have 90 days to hand in
their pistols or face a six-month jail
term. However, District Attorney Arlo
Smith has said he won't prosecute
anyone until the state appeal court
decides whether the ordinance is con-
stitutional, and police have no plans to
go door-to-door looking for guns.
THE CITY plans to grant exemptions
for merchants, security guards and
other citizens who can demonstrate a
need to own a gun. Rifles and shotguns
will still be legal, and residents will not
needa permit to own such weapons.
The ban squeaked past the city-
county Board of Supervisors on a 6-5
vote June 30 and has been the subject of
widespread debate in this city, where
Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor
Harvey Milk were killed with a han-
dgun at City Hall in November 1978.
Opposition organized quickly and
loudly after the ban was first proposed
this spring by Moscone's successor,
Mayor Dianne Feinstein. The mayor,
who was given a gun when she suc-
ceeded Moscone, has been a proponent
of gun control and said her proposal
was spurred by a similar ban enacted in
Morton Grove, Ill., last year.
IN BELLEVUE, Wash., the Citizens
Committee to Keep and Bear Arms
began an "I Hate San Francisco" cam-
paign, featuring bumper stickers with a
black slash over a bright red heart.
According to Mike Kenyon, executive
director for the group, the campaign is
a two-pronged effort tht will urge con-
ventions and tourists to stay away from
the city by the bay. The group is also
raising funds to defet supervisors who
favor the ban.
"We fell it's an unnecessary in-
fringement on the civil rights fo the
people of San Francisco," Kenyon said
Tuesday.
THE NATIONAL Rifle Association
has filed a lawsuit to stop the ban,
claiming that state law pre-empts cities
in the area of gun control.
"We don't hate San Francisco," said
NRA spokesman John Atkins.
"But we certainly are at odds with
Dianne Feinstein and the other super-
visors who voted for the ban.
"WE FIND IT very doubtful that
very many San Franciscans are going to
turn in their handguns . . . certainly
nobody expects the criminal element to
suddenly come up to City Hall and say
'OK, Dianne, here's my gun," he said.
Atkins says the new law wouldn't
have kept a gun out of the hands of Dan
White, the former supervisor who gun-
ned down Moscone and Milk. White, he
noted, is a former police officer and
probably would have gotten an exem-
ption. White is serving a seven-year,
eight-month sentence for manslaughter
in the Moscone-Milk slayings.
Only 15 handguns have been surren-
dered to police since an "advance turn-
in" program began after the measure
was signed into law 30 days ago.
Lawmakers eat trash
to show food surplus
'Whorehouse' can't.
rise above mediocrity
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his career.
Will Sheriff Dodd be forced to close
the Chicken Ranch? Or will he punch
Thorpe in the face again? And what of
the clandestine love-affair twixt Dodd
and Miss Mona? It's all pretty tame
stuff as directed by Colin Higgins, the
man who wrote Harold and Maude and
directed Foul Play and Nine to Five.
Higgins' direction has always had the
same washed-out look, in Whorehouse
that effect simply underscores the
charade of this musical. Except for
the chorus there's almost no one in the
film who is capable of singing and dan-
cing: not Dolly Parton, not Burt
Reynolds; and certainly not Dom
DeLuise.
The one exception to this is Charles
Durning as the fast-talking Governor of
Texas who sings a delightful song of
praise to political double-talk. It's the
kind of bit-part that is perfect for
Durning; he turns it into the most
charismatic moment in a film that
should be full of them.
Besides Durning there's not too much
that is memorable in this bland little
film. There's nothing even approaching
a show-stopping number. Though Par-
ton apparently wrote certain songs her-
self, they are certainly no improvement
over the original music.
On the other hand, there is nothing
too embarrassing in Whorehouse. Most
of the cast acquits themselves
adequately, but musicals have to be
much more than adequate to work. Silly
musicals need good songs and strong
performances all around; Whorehouse
is a little weak all over.
WASHINGTON (AP)- Sen. Edward
Kennedy and five House members lun-
ched yesterday on quiche, fruit salad
and assorted other foods that had been
scrounged from trashcans of food
wholesalers and supermarkets.
"Very good," said Kennedy, a
Massachesetts Democrat, adding that
the luncheon demonstrates the "enor-
mous waste" of food in this country
while thousands of people go hungry..
The event was designed to promote a
House measure urging federal agencies
to share surplus food with the needy.
THE LUNCHEON was delayed more
than half an hour by a bomb scare.
Four Democratic congressmen-
Reps. Tony Hall, Douglas Applegate
and Dennis Eckart, all of Ohio; and
Pete Stark of California-had gathered
behind a display table laden with food
gathered from trash containers when
policemen announced the bomb threat
and cleared the room for a search.
No bomb was found, but as a
precaution the food was moved to
another room across the hall in the:
Rayburn office building.
THERE, HALL Eckart and Stark
were joined for lunch by Kennedy and
two other Democratic representatives,
Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut and
Charles Schumer of New York. Ap-
plegate had to leave to keep another
appointment.
"Good," said Eckart of his lunch of
mushroom quiche, cheese, beans and
potatoes au gratin.
"It underscores the point that there is
a terrible over-concern about the ap-
pearance of food (in stores). Some of
this food was ready for destruction just
because the package was damaged."
HALL AND Rep: Mary Rose Oakar
(D-Ohio) organized the luncheon to
promote a House resolution calling on
federal agencies to distribute surplus
food and urging local governments to
encourage steps to recover and use un-
spoiled foods discarded by dealers.
The Washington-based Community-
for Creative Nonviolence, which
prepared the luncheon, says its volun-
teers feed 750 to 1,000 needy people a
day with food that is discarded by
supermarkets and food wholesalers
because it is slightly damaged.
The group massed hundreds of poun-
ds of food for television and cameras-
huge baskets of rolls, piles of cold cuts
and cheese, boxes of eggplant and other
fresh produce.
MITCH SNYDER, one of 20 members
of the volunteer group, said they use a
local church kitchen four days a week
to prepare soup-kitchen meals. On
other days, they cook on a stove in their
12-room inner city apartment.
Gandhi aims
to improve
U.S.-India
relations
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relationship with the Soviets. They
have also been irritated over India's
refusal to sign the nuclear non-
proliferation treaty or to place all its
nuclear facilities under international
safeguards.
India always has been officially non-
aligned. But many U.S. officials, citing
the treaty ties between Moscow and
New Delhi and the extensive Soviet
military equipment India has received,
believe there is a strong pro-Soviet tilt.
Gandhi denies this, saying that at no
stage has India been in the Soviet
camp.
PRIVATE analysts of Indian affairs
note that New Delhi's relationship with
Moscow has been extensive and will not'
be ended soon.
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