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ÍPORTMND OBSERVER
Volume XIII, Number 36
June 22, 1983
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Prostitutes, 'johns
face mandatory fine, jail
Commissioner M ildred Schwab
and Police Chief Ron Still will re
quest City Council approval Thurs
day, June 23rd, o f an ordinance that
will make prostitution a criminal of-
lense and set mandatory sentences
tor prostitution.
I f adopted, the ordinance will re
quire a $300 fine for the first viola
tion in any 24-month period; not
less than 7 days in jail and a $500
fine o f $500 and 30 days imprison
ment for third and subsequent viola
tions. The penalties apply to prosti
tutes and their customers.
At a later date, the C ity Council
SUMMER IN THE PARK
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
Pickets hit 'Portland connection'
by Rich Lochner
Nuclear weapons parts manufac
ture should not be allowed in Port
land any more than making torture
equipment, said anti-nuclear activist
and author Norm an Solomon at a
City H all picket June 18. New Clear
Vision, a new local disarmament
group, organized the rally to urge
City Commissioners to pass an ordi
nance for a nuclear-free Portland.
The event drew 50 participants.
Precision Castparts, a Portland
firm which makes housings for the
cruise missile, was picketed by 30 on
June 20. "Corporations have a
moral responsibility to draw the line
at nuclear weapons w o rk ," said
picket spokesperson Jim Cook,
from Northwest Action for Dis
armament.
Cruise missile production will
make arms control more difficult,
and nuclear war more thinkable,
Cook says. The highly accurate and
maneuverable cruise could knock
out Soviet missile silos, encouraging
them to launch first and ask ques
tions later. The air-launched cruise
is small, and easily moved and con
cealed, making it much harder for
the Soviets to verify a nuclear freeze.
Cook says.
Defense spending doesn't create
jobs overall, says Rick Ball o f New
Clear Vision, because so much
defense money goes for high-tech
wizardry and salaries. Blacks lost
109,000 jobs net each year in the
'70s due to military spending, ac
cording to a study by Operation
P U S H in Chicago.
Tektronix, Precision Castparts,
Portland State University, and
Bingham -Willamette are the largest
local nuclear weapons contractors.
Ball says.
Castparts could make up for de
fense losses by selling more o f its
artificial limb products if govern
ment funds were switched from de
fense to health care, according to
leaflets passed out by picketers.
When peace activists met Cast-
parts vice-president Roy M arvin,
however. Cook says he told them
the company has a legal contract
with Boeing to make the missile
parts, and it can’t be broken. Cook
says M arvin declined legal help in
the matter. M r. M arvin was unavail
able for direct comment.
City Hall rally
M any rally participants at City
H all said they came to find out more
about the Portland-nuclear weapons
connection. An unemployed pre
school teacher whose boyfriend
works at Precision Castparts said
that even though "m ilita ry con
tracts are bread-and-butter to us,"
they oppose the work, and feel there
must be something better the com
pany could make.
PSU student Steve Engelman says
he's concerned about the future
when over half the budget goes to
the military, which he believes is due
to "b ig profits and Cold War
paranoia."
Connections
between
nuclear
weapons and uranium mining on
Indian land were drawn by Native
American activist Barbara Aehle.
She said reservations contain 90*«
o f U .S. uranium ore, and many
Native American miners and resi
dents have died due to exposure to
radioactivity.
The protest grew from door-to-
door canvassing New Clear Vision
has done almost daily since its
founding last September. Through
this new approach, canvassers have
signed 1200 members, many of
whom have never been politically
involved before.
The rally and the picket are signs
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will be asked to adopt an ordinance
prohibiting "loitering to solicit
prostitution'' which will apply to
customers. An existing law makes
loitering to engage in prostitution
(by the prostitute) illegal.
A third ordinance defines prosti
tution and makes it illegal to "e n
gage in, or offer or agree to engage
in, sexual conduct or sexual contact
in return for a fee,” or to "p ay, or
offer or agree to pay, a fee to engage
ir sexual conduct or sexual contact."
The Council is asked to declare an
emergency so the ordinances can go
into effect upon passage.
The residents of North and North
east Portland have sought a solution
to the highly visible prostitution on
the major thoroughfares and out of
the neighborhoods, however, con
cerns have been expressed over this
ordinance.
The neighborhood organizations
and concerned groups were not
notified about the proposed ordi
nance until M onday, which did not
give them an opportunity to make a
reasonable response to the Thursday
hearing.
Although the stated target o f the
ordinances is the customer, the bur
den will fall on the prostitute. The
ordinance is not coupled with diver
sion programs to assist those women
who would like to leave prostitution
and the funds raised are not ear
marked for this use.
The ordinance does not deal with
young prostitutes who cannot be
sentenced to ja il and who should be
provided alternatives.
The police and other members o f
the criminal justice system have
continuously said that there is no
jail space for prostitutes. Some
community members fear that the
real purpose o f this ordinance might
be to help M ayor Frank Ivancie get
his new jail.
The speed with which the ordi
nance will hit the City Council is
also a concern. W ith no advance
the ordinance to intervene.
Is the purpose o f the rapid time
. COMMISSIONER SCHWAB
publicity, there is no opportunity
for those who oppose or question
frame to avoid public opposition so
the ordinances can be adopted and
challenges will have to be through
the courts? This would give the
police the opportunity to use the
potentially unconstitutional ordi
nances while appeals and challenges
arc winding their way through the
court system.
Even those who favor the intent
o f the ordinances prefer a public de
bate that would allow the problems
to be aired and solved. There
appears to be justification, (hey say,
for the rush.
Ghana coup: Roots in CIA
Three weeks ago the government
o f Ghana charged that the U.S. in
telligence services and U.S. Ambas
sador Thomas Smith are trying to
provoke turmoil and bring about
outside intervention in order to
overthrow the Ghaman govern
ment.
Last weekend the government put
down an attempted coup. Whether
this attempt will be traced to the
C IA is yet to be seen.
According to the People's Daily
Graphic, the U.S. embassy has
become " a nest o f spies." There has
been a large increase in its staff,
which now includes experienced in
telligence people. The chief of the
station is G. Shaughnessy.
C IA agents seek recruits in reac
tionary labor and religious organi
zations and efforts are made to win
over top political officials, military
officers, scientists, journalists and
businessmen.
They
use
local
reactionaries to organize anti-gov
ernment demonstrations.
The newspaper charges that D.
O ’ Laflin, representative in Ghana
o f the A fro-A m erican labor organi
zation, the Peace Corps, and some
multi-national corporations are also
involved.
The People's D aily Graphic
charges that there are armed groups
on the border, organized by the C IA
with the help o f Israeli intelligence
services. Hundreds o f mercenaries
are being trained in neighboring
countries, according to Kodijo
Tsikada, special advisor to G hana’s
Provisional
National
Defense
Council.
A few days before the coup at
tempt, Richard Cohen Associates, a
public relations agency in New
Y o rk, announced the form ation o f a
"united fro n t” o f groups in the
United States and Canada who have
joined to seek the overthrow of
G hana’s government. Reminiscent
o f the U .S. backed "B ay of Pigs"
fiasco and current U .S. involvement
in Nicaragua is the Ghana Congress
o f the U .S .A .
and Canada's
intention to develop a "M anifesto
for Change in G h a n a—a major
declaration
of
policies
and
principles
for
adoption
by a
successor
government
to
the
Rawlings dictatorship." It also call
ed on the international community
" to refraing from any actions that
either support the Rawlings u s u rp
ation or prolong the horrendous and
inhumane
suffering
of
G hanians"— a call for economic
sactions that could lead to political
and economic stability.
Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings recently
blamed Ghana's economic problems
on several years of mismanagement,
corruption, neglect and dissipation
o f public funds in addition to wide
fluctuation in the price o f exports,
which makes meaningful economic-
planning impossible.
Rawlings assured Ghana's private
business people that he has no
intention of dismantling the private
sector but hopes they will join with
the government in "waging the
economic war it has declared."
Communications: The weapons systems nobody is talking about
by Lenny Siegel
M O U N T A IN VIEW . CA — Moat
proposals for limiting the arms race,
from governments and peace acti
vists alike, focus on warheads and
strategic delivery systems — missiles
and aircraft.
But neither a nuclear freeze nor a
U.S.-Soviet arms control agreement
will affect some o f the most sophis
ticated weapons now under con
struction here in the Silicon Valley,
and elsewhere in both the United
States and the Soviet Union.
Electronic communications and
surveillance technologies are still
considered non-lethal by public o f
ficials, the press and the peace
movement. Yet these systems are
critical elements in strategies for a
first strike, as well as scenarios for
protracted nuclear warfare:
During the Falklands W ar in
1982, British aircraft refueled at a
little-known U .S. base on Ascension
Island, a mere speck on the map of
the equatorial Atlantic. Like remote
U .S. naval air stations all over the
globe,
Ascension
hosts
P-3C
" O rio n "
anti-submarine
patrol
planes. Orions constantly scan the
oceans, using sonar, radar and mag
netic detection to track Russian sub
marines. The planes, which carry
sophisticated signal-processing com
puters, are linked to undersea sensor
fields and land-based computer cen
ters.
The Navy plans to spend about
$16 billion on anti-submarine intelli
gence systems over the five years
ending in 1986. M a jo r programs
include the Lockheed-built Orion,
IB M ’s "Advanced Signal Proces
sor”
airborne
computer
and
"Caesar,” a system o f underwater
sonar detectors linked to onshore
computers. Caesar fields are located
o ff the U.S. coasts and at naval
"choke points” such as the Iceland
Gaps, areas near the Azores, and in
the Straits o f Japan.
Anti-submarine warfare (A S W )
has the appearance o f a defensive
program, but in the topsy-turvy
world o f nuclear strategy, it is the
system most likely to make a first
strike possible. As presently config
ured, the fleet o f ballistic missile
submarines o f the United States and
the Soviet Union are retaliatory
weapons, more secure from preemp
tive first strike than bombers or
land-based missiles.
But as the prestigious Stockholm
International Peace Research Insti
tute concluded in 1979, " I f the
United States achieves a first-strike
capability against Soviet IC B M s, as
appears to be one o f the objectives
o f the M X program, and if this is
coupled with maintenance of the
present lead in A S W , there are
serious grounds to fear that the
concept o f mutual assured destruc
tion, with all its faults, will be aban
doned in favor o f a war-fighting and
war-winning strategy."
In the United States, conservative
legislators inserted into the House
Nuclear Freeze Resolution a para
graph calling for a freeze on A SW ,
but their move did not represent
serious consideration o f ways to three-tenths o f one foot per second,
limit ASW advances. In fact, these and to record the time to within one-
legislators* goal was to signal their millionth o f a second.
support for preserving the present,
The U .S . A ir Force recently
widely acknowledged U .S. lead in awarded Rockwell International a
A SW at the arms-control negotia $1.21 billion, multi-year contract to
tions table.
provide
NAVSTAR
spacecraft.
While astronomers and astrologers When N A V S T A R is fully opera
continue gazing at the stars, future tional — the A ir Force hopes by
navigators will look to man-made 1988 — the system will cost at least
objects: the U.S.
"N A V S TA R
$3.9 billion.
Global Positioning System," and
Less is known publicly about
the Soviets’ " G L O N A S S .”
G L O N A S S , but the Soviets have an
N A V S T A R , as presently planned, nounced that it will consist o f nine
will consist o f 18 satellites orbiting to 12 satellites circling the earth in
the earth on six different 12-hour three orbital paths.
paths. Ships, planes and missiles
Both systems will be available in
carrying N A V S T A R terminals will less sophisticated forms to interna
be able to compute their positions to tional civilian users. And conven
within 50 feet o f three dimensions, tional U .S. and Soviet military
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