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VII ‘COLUMNS Page3 CASTING EACH IssUE IN GoLD Page 11 Whar Your Doctor Hibes From You by Sidney Wolfe, M.D. ge 13 ‘Two Boras, Neeps WoRK, ‘Onty $300,000 by Richard Parker Page 1d ELAINE Noate: Win, PLACE OR SHOW? by Laura Shapiro Page 19, BRITAIN's PUNKs Go Fascist by Christopher Hitchens FRONTLINES Page7 NewS: Custers of the "70s—the new anti- Indian lobby; the Golden Goat that lunches on aluminum; the country that banned nuclear power; Flvis and Tricky Dick; overkill at the x-ray machine. ) Hf Page7 POETRY by Anme Greene (page 20), by Mbembe ‘Milton Smith (page 58) ‘Cover by Charles Shields. / ing fit when playing in the yard. The cor- porate response: anti-regulatory lobbying. {in Washington and radio commercials in ‘Cancer Valley. Page 50 ‘Tus TEN Most Useuess PRODUCTS by Art Levine ‘Step right up, folks, step right up, and get ready to plunk your money down for... a penis enlarger, 20-minute frozen scrambled eggs, a quick-slimming device that hooks up to your vacuum cleaner, the ‘Yoga Health Wheel, a pocket calculator that does your dieting for you and lots, lots more. ‘CoNFESS To YOUR CORPORATE FATHER by Peter Schrag ‘Why is he asking you things like: “If you knew a member of your family was steal- ing from a place where he works, would you report him?" FEATURES Page 21 For Hir Own Goop by Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich jThe battles we're fighting didn’t begin yesterday. Here are two of them they've {kept out of our history books. A century anda half ago, the United States was swept bby a popular movement for a health-food oriented, anti-doctor, self-reliant holistic ‘medicine. Authors English and Ehren- reich detail its rise and sudden fall. And ‘thenmove onto tell thestory of how “mod- em” medicine stamped out midwives. Page 39 Cancm VALLEY by Jean Callahan I's home to 150,000 people and a dozen hhuge chemical plants. And its air is filled with what may be the most potent alphabet soup of carcinogens anywhere in the coun- try. Small wonder kids get sudden cough- THE ARTS age 33, LIVING AT THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA by Jim Goldberg Goldberg made these stunning photo- ‘graphs of people who live in two San Francisco residence hotels. Then he went back and asked the people he photo- graphed to write their own commentaries oon the pictures. Fase 33 Page 62 IEHIND “THE BiG Fix” by Karen Stabiner ‘Moses Wine, the ex-radical private eye whom Roger Simon writes novels about, interviews his creator for Mother Jones. Se rye romance sere ie Fonction ert Fase 90 Fe ee civelopes wl ot be eutned No poety tan: ‘ieper ml egoneres aa t Sree otha yu, Fite athe USK MGTHIER IQNES assed fn Abselou of Pops Cure, the Altova Pes Inds, Woman Sates Abaca oad Pub Ai nfrmaton Seis ABC au apple Tor, Much 1978One Cure Cancer kills about one thousand ‘Americans a day, almost 400,000 a year. To combat this killer, thousands of scientists are working hard to un- derstand the exact mechanism of cancer and develop Laboratory research 1s vital, but we must fight cancer on other fronts, as well. After all, many causes of cancer are well known: cigarettes, air and ‘water pollutants, radioactive materials, certain food additives. In these cases, the cancer battle is really a political ‘one, one of regulating industries that market hazardous products (and that have great political influence). ‘The ultimate cure for our cancer problem is to prevent cancer from de- veloping, rather than curing it after it has found a victim. Considering the size and power of the cancer-promot- {ng industries, prevention is certain to bbe as much a political effort as a scientific one. Son of Red 2 When the FDA outlawed Red dye No. 2 two years ago, companies turned to another coal tar dye, Red No. 40. The new dye is used in soda pop, gel- atin desserts, candy, and most other artificially colored red and orange foods. We (and our pets) eat over one million pounds of this synthetic dye every year. Unfortunately, Red No. 40 was not adequately tested when it was ap- proved by FDA in 1971. Because it doin C.S.P.1. was so poorly tested, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) asked FDA in 1976 to ban the dye until it was proven safe. Since then, two tests on mice indicate that the dye promotes cancer. ‘One FDA pathologist has concluded, according to an internal FDA memo, that “Red No. 40 has behaved as a carcinogen.” But higher-ups at FDA. are maintaining that the dye is safe. Until it is banned, consumers should make a special effort to avoid red and orange dyed foods. Red No. 40 is a classic example of FDA approving a poorly tested chem- ical, then permitting its continued use even after tests indicate a risk. One cure for Red No. 40 and other cancer- promoting additives is strong citizens’ ‘groups, which can awaken the bureau- rats and stand up to industry. Fat, Too? Steak, bacon, butter, and other foods that are rich in saturated fat hhave been known for years to contri- bute to heart disease. The latest new studies indicate that a diet rich in fat any kind of fat) also increases the risk of bowel and breast cancer, two of the three major cancers. The American diet is one of the fattiest in the world. Judging from the past, we can safely predict that the meat, dairy, and vege- table oil industries will never admit the fat-cancer link, but will demand more and more studies . . . as the tobacco industry has done with lung disease. When profits are at stake, there is never enough evidence. Concerned citizens can improve their health by eating a diet low in fat. CSPI will help by arming people with information and by pressing the government to require more inform. ative food labels and ads to make the shopper's job easier. Does Everything Cause Cancer? What with DDT, Red No. 2, PCB: asbestos, and other widely used chem- icals having been found to cause cancer, it ‘sometimes seems that everything causes cancer. In fact, though, most chemicals do not cause cancer. You can feed enor- mous amounts of most chemicals to animals and they will not develop can- cer. This even includes most pesticides and food additives. Industry has marketed thousands of new chemicals in recent decades. Most of the chemicals are safe. However, a number of cancer-causing products are widely used. The task now belore soci- ety is to restrict the use of these pro- ducts and prevent new carcinogens from being marketed. Alarms about newly identified carcinogens should be ‘cause for hope and optimism, not helpless despair, because they indicate that private watchdog groups and gov- ‘ernment agencies are finally tracking down the culprits. One Cure... CSPI ‘The non-profit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI is fighting cancer, heart disease, and other health problems, as well as irresponsi bility in government. In recent months, CSPI's scientific and legal experts have urged the FDA to ban Red No. 40 dye and other un- safe additives . . . petitioned the FTC to ban ads for sugary foods on child- ren’s TV . . . pressed FDA to inform pregnant women that caffeine may cause miscarriages or birth defect ‘and pushed for food labeling that says how much fat and sugar are actually in the food. CSPI publishes factual, at- tractive books, posters, and a maga- zine about food, the food industry, and the government regulation of food. CSPI also originated and sponsored National Food Day for three years and disclosed links between nutrition pro- fessors and the food industry. Ifyou are tired of having your stomach and your government con- trolled by the giant foodmakers, won't you join our fight to build better food and health policies?MOTHER JONES HURSDAY, MAY 18, 9:00 | sm.: a messenger ped- als ‘under a freeway, across some railroad tracks and up to the door of a long building whose basement is a wine warehouse. He hands an envelope to Othmar “Pete” Peters, a tall, tanned man of $3, ‘who speaks with the accent of his native Switzerland. Pete ‘walks to the back room of the cavernous brick-walled shop, which he owns, seats himself at 2 machine that has six type- writer-like keyboards fastened together and pulls a manu script from the envelope. Type- setting on the August issue of ‘Mother Jones has begun. ‘As Pete works, compressed air hisses up through a hose from the floor to drive his ma- chine. Each time he touches key thereis sound likea small ‘gunshot as the air drives a ‘metal spike through an unroll- ing paper tape. These are Monotype machines, and ‘working one of them is a like typing in the dark: no vis- ible words emerge, only the pattern of punched holes. Pete finishes, wraps a rub- ber band around the roll of paper and slips in a ticket that says""MJ CANCER VALLEY 10/11 TR x 13,9 GALLEY 1.” He pushes tthrougha window into the back of the shop. ‘There, Lew Mitchell inserts fone end of the paper into a {ype-casting machine, a chest- high conglomeration of whirl- ing and oscillating oil-black metal, Slowly, amid the roar of a gas burner that keeps the ‘machine's vatofleadata liquid ‘900° F., Jezn Callahan's story “Cancer Valley" (see p. 39) ‘begins to emerge from the ma- chine, upside down and back- ‘wards on a long tray, the lead ‘ype still warm fo the touch, Mitchell wears a gray jump- suit to protect him from any stray splattering of molten lead, Heand hisassistant, Tom Burey, a small ing cotton in his ears against noise Jevel like that of 20 riveters on a tin roof, fit back and forth among the ten cast- ing machines in their care, ‘checking the type for a Friends Backstage CASTING EACH ISSUE eT Pete: one character among many. Phot by Leo Holub of the Earth book emerging | likePete'sareincreasingly are. from one, oiling another, | Everywhere they have been re- changing @ defective part on | placed by “cold type,” a com- «third, Finally Mitchell re- | puterized process so called be- | moves the “Cancer Valley” | cause it uses no molten lead. story and puts iton a counter- | But the once-dominant. hot top that forms the border to | type still has a mystique about thirdsectionoftheshop. | it, like the steam locomotive There, Pete Stoel, an af- | Graphic designers wax elo- fable, round-faced man with | quent in its praise. As soon as ink-stained fingers known | she started 10 design Mother around the shop as The Other | Jones, Art Director Louise Peteor RePete,takesthegalley | Kollentaum was determined of type and lays it on a small | to use it. “One advantage is fiatbed press. Later that after- | that you have a human being noon, the messenger will bi- | making the decisions on where excl a bundle of proofs back | to hyphenate words atthe end to MJ proofreader Ina Louey. | of a line,” says Pete, “not She will mark corrections and | computer's ‘idiot tape.’ ” cuts thenreturn themtoPetes | There are other advantages, shop to be made ino the final | too: look atthe letters on this 5" of which the | pageunder a magnifying glas, readingisa photo- | and notice the flecks and pits sxaphic reproduction and ragged edges—the result oe. ‘of impurities in the lead they Seventy years ago every | arecastfrom. Compare theap- magazine and newspaper was | pearance of this page with the setinhot type, but today hops | flatter, less distinctive look of, AUGUST 1978 3 « page froma cold-type maga- ine, ike any of those put out by the airlines, for example. In some ways the biggest ap- peal of hot type is that itis a highly skilled craft with roots centuries old. When RePete ‘makes galley-proof corrections by hand, the loose type in his box is compartmentalized in the same pattern that Ben Franklin used. And some of the casting machines Lew Mitchell tends arrived in San Francisco for the Panama Pa- cific Exposition of 1915. "They were built to last then,” says Pete. “Perfectly adjusted, Ev ery stroke is softened by a spring. All the shocks are ab- sorbed. They don’t make things like that now." ‘What they do makenow you ccan see a few blocks away at the San Francisco Chronicle building, The newspaper—like dozens of others—is installing Video Display Terminals, the Concordeofcold-typesystems. A reporter types a story at a computer terminal and the words appear on a TV screen; a touch of a bution brings the story to the editor's desk; a touch of another button takes it to the copy editor's TV screen. There, a command 0 the computer releases the edited story onto film, which is then pasted up and converted intoa printing plate. Dozensof typographers working virtu- ally around the clock have bbeen replaced by a handful of technicians, ‘Noon. The Monotype key- boards’ ‘lacking ceases, and the half-dozen men of the shop gather for @ brown bag lunch. They sit in an alcove sur- rounded by shelves of smalt packages of loose type, all la- beled: 14 Pt, Bembo, Gara- mond Bold, Lithuanian Ac- ‘cent Marks. The type is made here out of a mixture of lead, ‘antimony, tin and other metals land sold by mailto those scat- tered printers all over North ‘America who still set type by hhand, What's the formula for the type? “A trade secret,” says Pete “Forty percent gold,” says RePete, Adam HochschildAtthere est of Congress- the Institute for Policy Studies has examined the Federal Budget; they’ve rejected it, and written a new one. THE FEDERAL BUDGET & SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION sets new priorities for government spending and presents alternative policies for de- fense, energy, health, and taxation. Emphasizing the need to democratize the budget-making system, it identifies the methods by which Americans can control basic economic decisions. THE IPS STUDY— + Challenges conventional ap- proaches to economic policy that result in the continued inequitable distribution of wealth. + Argues for a non-interventionist foreign policy that could cut defense spending by half without sacrificing national security. + Examines the problem of unem- ployment and proposes a full employ- ment policy. * Advocates public ownership of certain multi-national corporations. * Calls for citizens to organize budget hearings on the local, state and national levels. If you think the rich get richer and the poor get poorer—you're right. If you think it always has to be this way—you might want to read this study—things may be changing! Institute for Policy Studies Tam enclosing $__________ for Name. _—— copies of THE FEDERAL BUDGET ‘Street & SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION (full analysis of the budget) 498 pages—$7.95 +75C postage —— YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE (condensed version) 54 pages—$1.95 + 50¢ postage Organizational discounts upon request. City State, Zip Mail to: Institute for Policy Studies 1901 Que Street, N.W. Rm. 402 Washington, D.C. 20009MOTHER JONES FED UP Dear Mother: So Amanda Spake changed the price tags at thesupermarket—and got charged different prices (‘Supermarket Sweep- stakes,” MJ, June °78)! The “straight” media ig- nored this? Isn'tittime we got some articles with a bit more substance than “aren't the corporations nasty and, boy, they can't fool us"? Peter Kron Seatite, Washington Dear Mother: ‘Many thanks to Amanda Spake for her story about the Universal Product Code and all its horrors: store workers’ Jobs’ being devoured by automation, the potential for increased surveillance over our buying habits, the driving of small businesses from the market. How- ever, there is a successful alternative people need to know about: the food- buying cooperative. There are several food co-ops in my city, and all are democratic organiza~ tions. The folks who buy at the co-op or belong to it determine how work is distributed, what products are sold, how much mark-up on food there need bbe and which foods to carry. Food co- cops-can often sell food at cheaper prices than regular grocery stores can because members do lot of the work themselves and/or because the extraordinary profit margin is eliminated, If you want to avoid the prolifera tion of certain junk foods, or boycott certain products, then the choice is yours as a co-op member. If you don’t ‘want the Universal Product Code to be- ‘come a part of your life, then join a co-op and organize against it. If you want to see that you and members of your family eat foods that aren't loaded with chemicals, start a food co-op in ‘your town and contract with local farm- ers who grow produce without pesti- cides. You'll feel better having a little more control over your life. And youll probably eat better, too. Mary Forrest Member of Common Market, Ltd. Madison, Wisconsin © 6. bon 19 PICK A NUMBER Dear Mother: Twas incensed to read about the Med- ical Insurance Bank (Frontlines, MJ, June °78), It is just another of the many reasons I refuse to list my Social Secur~ ity number on the numerous forms we are constantly expected to complete. It is missing from my doctor's question naire, and I would glibly give a fictitious number without batting an eye should I ever be hospitalized. (Fortunately, Lam under Medicare age.) It is not listed on my bank aceount or my bonds, and it is especially deleted from my driver's license. I am fully aware that there are some oceasions when I'm overruled, but by God, T go down kicking and sereaming. There simply is no need for your lifetime number on a grocery ‘check-okay application, Personal-privacy crusaders, FIGHT BACK, Don’t be intimidated! 3.T.G, (1234567890) Van Nuys, California OFF AND ON Dear Mother: Tam afraid your commitment to con- troversy has outstripped your expertise. In social and political affairs your ar ticles are provocative and timely, but in science... Your recentarticle on John Ott("They Blight Up Your Life,” MJ, June °78) leads many readers to excessive and paranoid conclusions concerning the effects of artificial light, The “harmful” effects of various visible spectral distri butionsis mainly aesthetic—not physio- AUGUST 1978 3 opine thm Tiny Foote wth peeision fom logical, as implied. The lead used to shield the ends of fluorescent tubes ‘would be more effectively applied to a helmet for the over-sensitized author to protect him from a probably more deadly form of radiation—cos- mic rays—although hu- manity has been able to survive them, too, so far. James N. Lange Stillwater, Oklahoma Dear Mother: Thanks for being out front again, John Roth- child's article on John Ott was excellent. I'm especially pleased since I've read all of Ott's works, have bought at least eight copies of Health and Lights gifts, study at my desk under Luxor full-spectrum fluorescents. and wear my glasses less and less. I admire OU’s intuitive and stick-tuitive ap- roach to the validity of his own obser- vations. Perfect serendipity. H. Winfield Shaffer Aberdeen, Washington MOTHER'S HEALER Dear Mother: ‘Asa DES daughter and an active par- ticipant in the New York-based organi- zation DES-Action, I was very happy to see Dr. Wolfe’s medical column on the problems of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (MJ, May 1978). How= ever, [feel the need to make a few cor- rections and additions. You noted that DES was still being prescribed as a miscarriage preventative by doctors “well into the 1960s, by some even into the carly 1970s.” ‘The sad truth is that DES is still being prescribed by some doctors—25 years after tests proved it ineffective. ‘You discussed the link between DES and cases of cancer in young women. However, the number of cases is double that mentioned in the article—closer to 400—and the number of deaths re- ported far surpasses ten. Furthermore, up to 90 percent of DES daughters have an “abnormal-benign” condition known as vaginal adenosis, or some other irregularity of the reproductive ‘tract. Approximately six million womenMOTHER JONES MOTHER JONES Mary Harts ive in every mover ‘ment for justice of her day. ‘Adam Hochschild, Joey Klein Louise Kellenbaum, Amanda Spake Ealoral stat: Zina Klapper, Ina Lovey, Lyle York ‘Ait Louise Kollenbaum (Directo), Martha Geering, Dian-Aziza Ooka (Designers) Contributing editors: Paul Solman (East Coss), Ron Chernov, ria Dompka, Tom Friedman, Laura ‘Shapiro, Karen Stabinet Poetry editor: Denise Levertow ‘osiness and Circulation: Richard Parker Publisher), Deborah Beg, im_ Dodd. (Circulation/Membership, bin Evans, Ruth Henrich, David Leis ‘man, Chest Morley, George Stephen Parker, Sudlih Pollock (Aavertsing Diector, Rich: ard Reynolds (Reprints & Permisions), Ron Taft (Newsstand) ‘Advertsing representatives: william P. Cooley & Associates 160 Blocker St, Suite 1ODE. "New York, NY 10012 (212) 260.7520, Lowell Fox & Associates 16033 Ventura Bvd. Encino, CA 91436 (213) 99042950, ‘Consitans: George Carleton, John Klings! Foundation for Netional Progres Pretram diet: Peter Maron, Deborah Bee ‘Ada Hosts, Jey Keln David Oem, Richard Pater, Amand Spake | Resin: Mack Doris, David. Oben, Richa Furker, anwctae! Fee Barnes, Ped reir, Mars Beeler, Tom Camplin Plural, Dick Fk, john Gtierloom, Todd Gite Jans| Cimpbel, Dik Liman, Asn Tarps, Lee | Webel: Tandon, Jota ina | Hoy Semi were given DES during pregnancy, so the number of DES daughters is esti- mated at approximately half that num- ber. Since the oldest DES daughters are in their 30s, itis impossible to predict the outcome of these women's presently benign condition. ‘You also failed tonote the many other present uses of DES. Not only is it still prescribed as a preventative of miscar- riage, butitis also used as the “morning- after pill” that many hospitals give to rape victims (59,000 prescriptions of pills containing DES were written be- tween July 1976 and June 1977); as a lactation suppressor for women who do not wish to breast-feed (286,000 pre- scriptions were written for the same time period); for mental-disorder treatments (133,000 prescriptions) and for treat- ment of acne. DES is used as a supple- ‘ment to cattle feed (80 percent of U.S. cattle are given feed with DES addi- tives). ‘Many other questions about DES re~ main, Who, for instance, is to pay for the twice-a-year colposcopic exams, which can run anywhere from $35 to $150, necessary for most DES daugh- ters? Many cannot afford these tests. Others have not been given money, or hhave been dropped by insurance com- panics, because such treatment is con- sidered “preventative” medicine. ‘Any woman who suspects that her mother was given DES, or who simply wants peace of mind, should see a DES- knowledgeable gynecologist and have a Schiller test (iodine staining) to deter- mine if she has vaginal adenosis, Fur- ther information can be obtained from DES-Action, c/o Long Island Jewish Hospital, Queens, New York, Margot Gramer New York, New York Sidney Wolfe replies: Thank you for the additional information about DES, which I did not have room to mention. (You are right; the deaths should have been ten percent of cases, not ten deaths—a typo- ‘graphical error.) The numbers of prescriptions last year ‘for morning-after pills, for treatment of ‘acne and mental disorders and for sup- pression of lactation after delivery are {for all estrogens, not just DES. Unfortu- nately, DES—a synthetic estrogen—is nnot unique in its cancer-causing proper- ties, All estrogens can cause cancer in AUGUST 1978 The recent large setilement by a DES manufacturer of a lawsuit brought by a DES daughter with cancer begins to an- ‘swer your question of who should pay for the damage. If drug companies had to pay {filly for the damages they cause, many would be out of Business and we would all be healthier. Real changes will come only from col- lective action by organizations such as DES-Action and other health groups. Dear Mother: There is very little discussion of the use of DES for stunting growth in girls. Very few people even know that this type of barbarism is practiced. Thou- sands and maybe tens of thousands of ‘women have had this done to them, and still being done. When I was 12, [ was given ten mg. of DES a day for i1 months; instead of being my projected height of 6” or 6” Tam 5/9". My doctor subsequently as- sured me that there are no long-term side effects. Her oldest patient is about 35, so the long-term effects may not show up for another ten years. My doc- tor would not let me talk to any of her patients, present or past, with whom I ‘wanted to share my feelings and experi- ences. ‘Now I want children and have been ‘unsuccessful for more than two years. T have had one miscarriage and two other possible miscarriages. I took high- ‘estrogen contraceptive pills for five years (stopping six years ago). I wonder if all the estrogen in my system has inter- fered in some way with my fertility. As for the likelihood of my getting cancer, Thave resigned myself to this fate. Power to you and your work. Sheila Foster Ashby, Massachusetts Sidney Wolfe replies: The use of estro- gens for growth retardation in young women has been contraindicated for at least ten years, but we are told some doc- tors still prescribe it. For all the years be- ‘fore, evidence of the cancer-causing prop- erties of estrogens was withheld from women and their families. Write your Mother: c/o Letters Editor, Mother Jones, 607 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105. Readers with medical questions should write to Dr. Sidney Wolfe, c/o Mother’s Healer, Mother Jones, same address, aMOTHER JONES Frontlines ‘This month, the largest gath- ering of Native Americans in a century is converging on the Capitol. About 1,000 activists have walked and caravaned there. Along the way, they've presented educational wotk- shops at universities, churches and union halls. Last February, 300 Indian walkers gathered at Alcatraz Island off San Francisco to witness the lighting of sacred pipe before beginning the 3,000-mile journey—"The Since 1969, traz and attempted to trans- form the former prison into a cultural oasis, the island has symbolized Indian sovercignty and unity. The pipe lit there preceded a swelling tide of In- dian people as they crossed the country on their way to Wash- ington to call the public's at- tention to 11 pieces of anti- Indian legislation pending in Congress, Native Americans are hoping to convince Con- ‘ress it should let the legisla tion dieand persuade Carter to show real commitment to hu- ‘man rights. Leaders of the Native Amer- ican movement point out that ‘now, as in the past, oppression of the Indians is key to the growth of American capital- ism, For example, 80 percent of the uranium in this country is on reservations. From the Penobscots and Passamaquod- dies, who are suing for half of | Maine, to the Navajos in the Southwest, now in court to fight for increased power to tax non-Indian mining, oiland energy operations on their land, Indians are asserting rights long denied them. This offensive has aroused resentment among some non- Indians, who see themselves as victims of a latter-day Indian raid, Some of these self-pro- claimed victims are merely circling their wagons to defend themselves; others have be- come aggressive enough to carn the title of “modern-day Indian fighters. ‘The most vocal of the new Indian fighters is Congress | ‘events that threatened their THEINDIAN 3s The Walk is also a memorial NATION RISES 9 22a member Jack Cunningham of Washington. Cunningham, & raster of irony, has drain up a bill that would break every treaty ever made with Indians and dubbed it “The Native American Equal Opportunity Act.” A champion of the melt- ing-pot view of American soci- fy, he insists that treaties give Indians ‘unwarranted special sights. Objibua Dennis Banks sees things diferetly: “There is nothing special about facing Alife expectancy of $0 years, about having your land raped | ty coal companies; there #8 nothing special ebout having | the worst education in the country.” Banks, wanted in South Da- kota for his role in the 1973 Wounded "Knee occupation, teaches at D-Q University, a small Indian-Chicano college AUGUST 1978 ? Forced walks westwardbrought AND WALKS ‘Ao of 189. During te re ‘moval period, the U.S. Cavalry was called in'to clear Eastern land of Indians. Today Indians are besieged by a new force, the Interstate ‘Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities. “They're cat- tlemen, conservationists, white vigilantes, John Birchers — anyone who feels threatened by Indian people,” says Suzan Harjo, an Indian official at the Interior Department, In two years, ICERR has demon- strated considerable sophist cation asa national lobby. The group has met with members of Congress, White House aides and Interior and Justice Department officials; and it has amassed a “war chest” of $6 million. One member re- cently boasted that the group contributed $420,000 to Con- | gress member Cunningham's election—although ICERR denies making the gift. ‘The national media have indicated to Indian activists ‘that the Walk was insignificant in northern California. From | because so few members of D-Qhe and other activists or- | Congress take the bills se ganized The Longest Walk. | ously. “But,” notes Dennis “The Walk has unified In- | Banks, “they didn’t think dian people,” explains an or- | President Jackson would sign ‘ganizer. “Historically the 300 | the Removal Act, either.” tribes have been unable to pre- Jack Hayes and sent a unified front to oppose Regina White L Congress’s New Indian War Here’ bef explanation ofthe 11 bil Indians oppose Some conservstionnts may be endorsing certain sections of the leisation, but te trast ofthe package of bills i over- ‘whelmingly antcndian, Even if you cat join the demon- Sirator, you may want to write your representatives to pro- test H.R" 9054 he big ones abrogates all Inan trates In the United Sint. H.R. 9950 and arts of SB. 1337 (the tenrite of SB, 1) ext back tribal governing power and juris diclon over crimes on reservations; H.R. 4109, §B 842 and HLR. Shbextinguish Indian claims olandin Maineand Nev | ‘York; H.R. 9951 cuts back Indians water ight on eeserva: | tions} and HJR. Iy HJR, 206, H.R. 9175 and H.R. 9736 | tat back or extinguish indian hunting and fishing privileges intheentire US. wth special implications forthe Northwest. | Thie one IM NPAS-EZ5-P2TC.MOTHER JONES Physician, X-Ray Thyself Don't stick your head in the sand yet, but there's a new re- port out warning that a large percentage ofthe nation’s den- tists, chiropractors and phy- sicians are needlessly exposing their patients to x-ray hazards that have been preventable for years. ‘The report, by Professor John R. Cameron, a Universit ‘of Wisconsin medical physi- cist, claims that thousands of people are receiving unneces- sary radiation from medical xrays because of excessively high exposure levels and poor ‘maintenance of equipment. Cameron, who heads one of six federally funded centers checking on patients’ exposure to radiation, found that the average chiropractor uses an scray beam ofa size 40 percent Jarger than needed, the average general practitioner uses a beam three times as large as needed for chest x-rays and a third of all dentists probably ‘expose their patients to twice ‘as much radiation as required to makea satisfactory x-ray, ‘The reason, according to ‘Cameron, is that the majority Of xay-machine operators do rot know how much radiation ‘they are actually using on pa- tients. The chances that a den- tist, for example, knows the amount of radiation a patient International Enemy No. 2 High Times magazine reports that more than 200 marijuana smokers who have been arrested in South Korea since 1976 hhave been sent to an insane asylum, where their behavior and Drain function are being studied. According to the magazine, government doctors at the Huang Asylum, on the outskirts of Seoul, are attempting to demonstrate that pot smoking in Korea is associated with a pro-Communist cult. Prisoners at the institution are asked such questions asi “Are you a pot-smoking Communist | | agent?" “Why do you rock and roll?" and “Are you able to | describe the sensation of rotting brain cells?” | South Korea's President Park Chung Hee is reported to have linked the fall of Southeast Asia to marijuana use is receiving are “probably | theactual amount of radiation fewer than oneina thousand,” | a patient is likely to receive, Cameronestimates."*Evenma- | and that malfunctioning equip- chine operators in large hospi- | ment, when discovered, may tals don’t have that informa- | remain uncorrected for years tion, and Ifind that shocking.” | without subsequent govern ‘Cameron also worries that | ment action. He noted that a regular inspections of x-ray | federal study of 75,000 chest ‘machines seldom determine | x-rays of coal miners showed were of poor quality—and four percent were totally useless— fas a consequence of either hu- ‘man or mechanical failure. ‘Cameron thinks the ultimate solution is education. Richard Mahler, Wisconsin Vet Attacks The Problem Protesting women in the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and England are rallying under the motto, “Don't rape a woman, she could be a veteri- narian’"—inspired by the con- Viction in the Czechoslovakian city of Brno of Alena Boro- nova, who was sentenced to seven years in prison. Boro- nova was raped by two men, She later invited the attackers to her home, served them rinks spiked’ with sleeping pills and castrated them. She then called an ambulance. The Amsterdam newspaper Volkskrant reports that Eng- lish feminists, as well as Beno women and other workers, have demonstrated against Bo- ronova's severe sentence. Dutch feminists presented a thousand-signature petition 0 the Czechoslovakian ambassa- dorin Holland demanding that rape reports be hanged exclu- sively by female police olicers, —Barb Trask and Ger Van Den Eng, The Netherlands ‘now plans to expand nati Eating Junk Pays Off ‘Always on the lookout for the latest innovation, we would like to acquaint you with Miller’s Golden Goat, It seems that Tike Miller of Scottsdale, Arizona, recognizing the boom in ecological right-mindedness, has combined it with entrepreneurial zeal to produce the Golden Goat, a large ‘though harmless-looking machine that will dispense pennies and dimes in return for aluminum cans. ‘The machine can distinguish aluminum from steel, glass and more conventional garbage; and, in an hour, it consumes up to 660 pounds of aluminum cans. Occupying the same space ‘asa Cadillac, Miller's invention was stationed ata supermarket, in Scottsdale and proceeded to Scoop up 4,500 pounds of alu- ‘minum its first week, paying out 12¢ per pound. The company wide and is willing to discuss leas- ing arrangements with inquiring eco-entrepreneurs. that 33 percent of the images —Bruce Mothes, Arizona AUGUST 1978 8MOTHER JONES Frontlines Big Business | [i255 iryottkoxton © | Knows Best _| *rercentofthebisgest PACS. Sun (oil) Company has gone a | Corporations are now pur- | step further, authorizing de- chasing candidates—and their | Guctions from stockholders" employees are picking up the | dividends. tab, AUS. Chamber of Com Through the latest corpo- | merce director offers busi- rate scam, called a Political | nesses some collection-tech- Action Committee (PAC), a | nique advice, reports Dun's ‘company contributes money | Review: Don't try to get them ‘o the candidate of its choice, | to rally to the cause of free soliciting the funds romstock- | enterprise. Talk to them about holders, employees and their | ... jobs and paychecks.” families. ‘Total contributions of PACs Back when corporations | to corporate candidates are were under attack for illegal | expected to top $15. mi contributions, the fledgling | this year.—Bethany Weidner, PACS tread softly. Now, em- Washington, D.C. Can The GOP Save Them? Southwestern folklore mas- | Defense Council, among oth- cot Briahty the Burrois caught | ers, to wage a national “Bring | in the middle. Animal defense | Back Brighty” campaign, Tt | groups are protesting wild- | claims that Stitt’s plans, in- | burro-management plans pro- | cluding his “capricious and | posed by Grand Canyon Na. | paranoid” removal of the lf tional Park Superintendent | size statue of Brighty from the ‘Merle E. Stitt, while conserva- | park, “indicate a loss of touch | tions side with park officals, | with realty.” Suit replaced the who claim that the only solu- | 600-pound statue with an ex- tion's the final solution. | hibit that explains the, prob- ‘Why do conservationists en- | lems eaused by feral bucos, dorse Park Department plans for shooting the burros? “It's * <2 1 et he delat se DES Strikes | system,” a spokesperson for Punks Sit On Pins And... || the sierra hb explains, Bur Sons, Too Where do weary punk-ockers ret thie tootsie tera | £8,5,20% fale te fbwt "| DES, the yn etrogen rough night? On thet safety-pin amoeba, of course sion they were itroduesd OY | hat has ben linked to vaginal ‘New York designer Richard Mauro has come out witn | | Prosectorsinthe 1880s. Other | cancer among the daughters of what's being called New Wave furniture. His callction ine | | SUgPOre of Sits Plan cite | women who took the drug ludes, for example an Army blanket covered with 1,000 | | fon ed competites wit ax, | Wiile eanant, now has been safety pins and stuffed with “garbage” (textile waste). Mauro | | tive bighorn sheep for food, | liked to testicular cancer calls tan amoeba, and claims Liza Minnelli expressed iner- | | Sasing’ther theres eve oo | 808 DES user’ sons. Gstin using tas an ottoman, adding that buss have no |" "Dr.esieban Cithovica the ‘Then there's the baby-bottl-nipples floor mat, al the || to contol their population,” | Slo8a-Kettering Cancer Insti- char staffed with pees of broken dishes, "You do crumble || ‘© soo! Wet Population. | tute has now documented this the plates when you sit init,” said Mauro, but he assured us | | .SspoKespersonfor the park | cancer risk, using studies he thatitenotuncomforabl1fsamult-scnsal perception” | | 4 thaotber tempts "| began in 17S. An estimated There's also a chair made of 150-yard industial zippers | | MOVE the burros were unsve~ | ¢wo milion men between the sewn in concentric circles, which can be unzipped to reveal | | ¢SSfl.“We tried hiring cow- | ages of 15 and 34 have been more zippers, which were used as stuffing. “I capped it | | PO¥S rom New, Mevico to | prenatally exposed to DES. with soft Italian glove leather,” Mauro explains, “so that || Saye. char He S00 eta: | Coeetia soroemmends that you'd have some place to sit" It goes for $2,500, availabe | | UOY®, charging | DES-exposed men consult a : re able to herd only the 12 ‘only on commission. ere urologist, have a Pap cancer- ‘Mauro says that the seminal influences for his creations | | ™@staeeessbleburros. | screening test and learn self- ‘were Patti Smith, Salvador Dali and the statement by a mem- | | , The Wild Burro Protection / examination for early detec- ber of punk group Blondie: “Punk is ime signature.” Association, meanwhile, has | tion of lumps that might be teamed up ‘with the Animal | cancerous. AUGUST 1978MOTHER JONES Frontlines The Too-Odd Couple A former aide to Elvis Presley claims that the late rock | singer wanted to work as an undercover narcotics agent for the government, and that he even discussed the matir with former President Nion during a White Howse vist Marty Lacker ia long-time Presley friend who has writen 1 new book on him, He says that Presley made an unpubl tized vist to the White House in 1970, for which he arrived dressed in black and wearing «flowing cape, This outfit reportedly prompted Nixon to remark: “Boy, you sure do dress kind of wild.” Lacker says Presley replied: “Mr. President, you've got your show to run, and I've got mine.” The former aide sys that although Nixon and Presley “hit it off," nothing ever tame of Ev ofer to become a drug informer. | Mob Versus Reds: Who Won? Newly released Central In- telligence Agency documents indicate that the head of the Chicago Police's “Red Squad” was demoted because, alleg- edly, he wanted to devote more time to fighting organized crime than to keeping tabs on suspected subversives. One CIA memorandum states that Captain William Dulfy—apparently more inter- ested infighting the Mafia than in spying on alleged radicals— ‘was removed as commander of the Red Squad after a 1967 meeting between CIA officials and Chicago police honchos. ‘Another memo indicates that former CIA Director Richard Helms approved a plan to send experts in spying to evaluate the Police Depart- ment's intelligence-gathering, machinery and to assist in im- proving its surveillance opera- tions. ‘The documents have been released by a group called the Alliance To End Repression as part of their lawsuit against the Chicago Police Depart- ‘ment. According to the Alli- ance, they now have proof that the Red Squad eventually com- piled extensive dossiers on ‘more than 200,000 suspected subversive. PO Still Open After Bomb ‘A. memo recently distrib uted to Department ofthe In? terior employees just came our way and, struck by the urgency ofthis very important informa tion, we want to pass it along. “A strong, united America fs one of our greatest assur- ances for maintaining peace and deterring aggressive forces," reads the "Post-At- tack Registration Annual Re- minder.” It goes on to outline proper” post holocaust. beha- Yor for Civil Service employ- cs. “Ifyouare prevented from foing to your regular place of Wwork or prevented from re- Porting to an emergency loca- tion because of tn-enemy at- tack,” it instructs, “go to the nearest Post Office, ask for a Federal Employee Emergency Registration Card (CSC Form 60), fillit out and mat “The Postal Service will at tempt to deliver the registra: tion card to us,” it continues optimistically. “If itis unde~ liverable, the Postal Service will forvard the card to the vice Commission atea office maintaining the registra- tion fle for your area.” The department shows an coterie. brand. of foresight, concerning self wit theprob- lemof employee mobiliy after ‘the bomb rather than morbidly diveling on the potential loss of it: "You should obtain and complete the registration card as soon after enemy atack as | possible, but not until you are Feasonably sure where you will be staying for a few days. If you change your address after you have sent in a card, get a new one and send i in." “The memo ends with a cal- istic admission of the inevi- table result of muclear attack slow-moving red tape. Even if you complete CSC Form 600 promptly, the feds ac- knowledge soberly, it may be | “a while" before you are put back to work. —Marthew Larsen and Devin Thor, California (Erouphtomake aki sing! Nukes News Seabrookers, and others op- posed to nuclear power, take heart. In one country, at least, they've banned it Led by the small but bur- geoning Values Party, anti- ‘nuclear groupsin New Zealand ‘have won—using sit-ins, public hearings and a petition. The ‘groups forced the ruling Labor arty to abandon its two-year~ ‘old plan to use the nationalized lectric-utilty authority to in- ‘roduce nuclear energy, ac cording to the Washington, D.C, energy journal The Ele: ‘ments. Margaret Crozier, deputy leader of tho Values Party, noted one reason for het party's success: “Because it was the first plant, there was no entrenched nuclear vested interest in New Zealand.” Even so, the government put up a heady fight. At one point carly in the campaign, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon told an audience, “I don't care if (In New Zealand, that would constitute more then half the clectorate.) When the Values arty hit 300,000, government support folded. The government has for- mally announced a ten-year “postponement” ofits decision con nuclear power. With thanks 10 Pacific News Service and Michael Castle- ‘man, Zodiac News Service, the Wisconsin State Journal, Lori Onstenk and Doug Zwick. We'll pay 85 for accepted short items; address 10 Frontlines, MJ,607 Marker St., San Fran: cisco, California 94105. AUGUST 1978 ioMOTHER JONES ‘on Mosr of us, itis much ‘easier to get our CIA or FBI files than to get our ‘medical records. Even though Americans will spend about 5160 billion this year on health, care, all weave to show for it are bills and, in at least some cases, an improvement in health. The records of why we went to the doctors or hospi tals, what they found abnor- mal (or normal) with us, what diagnoses they made, what respectability than any of refugees from Amin's Uganda | Front organizer says, “There’salot | if‘gang could ever have tndavunning susshow stout | -you can dowith a football hooligan.” | sreaneast the alleged inerease in. West | 7 ee enn nem me ce eae | The Front itself can never IndianerimeinSouthLondon. | the cat keeps leaping and | porary alien workers—is one | hope for power. Its too much Hereistheend ofaspeech that | squalling out of the bag. On | of the largest policy choices | associated with violence in the brought a standing ovation at | sale at the meeting, as always, | made since the wat. Tt was | public mind, it has committed one of the party rallies. I¢was | were pamphlets proving that | taken without a vote and.was | the needless error of antic made by 2 “moderate” who | blacks are genetically inferior; | championedby theliberal elite, | Semitism (hardly a runner in Tater left in protest against | another choice little number, | so there is some scope forthe | Britain, itis badly led by men fascist influence! entitled “Did Six Million | populistprotest the NFhas di- | whose energy is purely: neu “The territory and soil of | Really Die?" set out to ds- | rected aguinsti Totic, But it has succeeded in Britain, defended by the blood | prove the Hoiocaust. Stil, the | " TheNFwasrewardedearlier | poisoning the political well and ofourancestors—andourcon- | voters mostly don’t read this | this year, when Conservative | panicking the Establishment | temporaries—and moistened | ltersture,andthegloomyhope | Party leader Margaret | into fruitless concessions, | by the sweat from the brows | must be that they vote forthe | Thatcher called for a tougher | ————————— of countless thousands of our | NF just as a protest party. | policy againat immigrants, in- | Christopher Hitchens ison the | people who have labored to | Certainly, the fact that the | voking the coarse idea of a na- | staffof The New Statesman, ‘THE SUPERMARKET POEM Damnable supermarket on @ Saturday morning fatigue and weariness of the week embodied in carts crashing bashing into each other smell of meat of eges of onions more protein for my childcen more iron for my strength ‘which one, which one blinded by tears of helplessness and boredom trying to choose a simple package of raisins. Noisy foreigners argue and yell in front of the cans of beans and i'm so ashamed of myself for having that contempt and because i can't understand it’s just voice, a rush, i looks like they should be speaking Spanish (My God, must all dark people be Latins?) but t's strange like Lithuanian or Egyptian (Do people speak Egyptian?) and all the spectacles of pity a woman leads her faltering husband past the eg, softly past the cheese, | never a word, no contempt. i hate them all. hate thei family lifeand their kitchens hate my family life and my'kitchen i hate the food and that i have to choose it and cook it and serve it andi can’t choose the hysteria-boredom-hatred-anger of my life makes me indecisive tunable to choose a simple can of pineapple Retarded children cross-eyed inthe aisles with mothers who are calm and patient old people consult in Swedish about lettuce and potatoes oh and there they all go, the man with 15 bags of white bread in his shopping cart he doesn’t worry about protein-vitamin-rip-off, bleached preserved flour or the prisons or the war ‘ordetergent shall pollute, shan'ti pollute, are paper towels really necessary’? | ‘Large questions loom by small ars of peanut butter and small questions | which kind, which kind, what will we eat on Wednesday lurch along beside the big problems i can’t control because i can't control my own tears, tearing past packages | of seeds (what's wrong with me, why don't i have a garden?) past bottles of wine (why shouldn't i drink?) sort, sort the items food, non-food, imported, | will you cash a check, yes ihave food stamps the checker has had a busy day tnd so havei i've only been up for 2 hours, but it seems like 7,000 the laundromat, the car, the damp clothes, the steet, the streets, the cars like carts, just missing, just barely missing. Anne Greene AUGUST 1978 20