2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, February 16, 1988
Pol shows Dmkakis, Dole in
By CHRIS SONTCHI
Staff Writer
As voters go to the primaries in
New Hampshire today, Mass. Gov.
Michael Dukakis is the Democratic
front-runner and Republicans
George Bush and Robert Dole are
neck-and-neck.
The latest Gallup poll, which has
a 5 percent margin of error, shows
Sen. Dole leading Vice President
Bush 36 to 28 percent. Rep. Jack
Kemp and former televangelist Pat
Robertson are tied for third with 12
percent, and former Gov. Pete du
Pont is last with 7 percent.
Among the Democrats, Dukakis
has a large lead with 39 percent. Rep.
Richard Gephardt and Sen. Paul
Simon are virtually tied for second
place at 18 and 16 percent, respec
tively. Former Gov. Bruce Babbitt,
Sen. Albert Gore Jr. and the Rev.
Jesse Jackson each have less than 10
National coalition fights violence in films
By HELLE NIELSEN
Staff Writer
The National Coalition on Televi
sion Violence will step up its work
against violence in Hollywood movies
because 59 percent of 1987 movies
it surveyed contained high levels of
violence, NCTV officials said
Monday.
"Forty percent of television vio
lence comes from film entertain
ment," said Thomas Radecki,
research director for NCTV. "The
most intense, sadistic and gruesome
violence on TV has skyrocketed with
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Bush is rebounding from his third
place finish in Iowa, and money
continues to come in, said Dan
Chnur, Bush's assistant press
secretary.
"The money is excellent we're
allowed to raise $23.9 million and
weVe already raised over $20 mil
lion," he said.
After Iowa, Bush changed his
campaign style, Chnur said. "His
campaigning has been a lot more
personal. One of the hazards of being
vice president is that this style of
campaigning is more difficult due to
the Secret Service protection and the
extensive media.
"A loss (in New Hampshire) would
make it wide open; a win puts us back
in the driver's seat," he said.
Susan Williams, assistant press
the advent of cable and videocassette
rentals, and it has been reaching
younger ages."
NCTV surveyed 133 movies
released in 1987 and 59 percent of
these contained violence "likely to
have some harmful unconscious
effects on normal children and
adults," said a coalition press release.
The coalition found 18 percent of the
movies to be "unfit for human
consumption."
Radecki said "The Running Man"
was an example of such a movie.
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secretary for the du Pont campaign,
said, "we're neck-and-neck with
Kemp and Robertson. We want to
be the alternative to the front
runner." Although du Pont fared poorly in
Iowa and is trailing in New Hamp
shire, Williams said the campaign has
enough money to continue.
On the Democratic side, the con
test is focused on second place.
David Carle, Simon's national
press secretary, said, "trends are
favoring Simon's candidacy: Simon
is going up, Gephardt is going down.
This is clearly a contest for second
place."
Greg Mermelstein, issues director
for the Gephardt campaign, said
Gephardt would not make predic
tions about the primary, but his
support had tripled since the Iowa
caucuses.
violence per hour, including a char
acter's head being blown apart and
a chainsaw death, along with stab
bings, beatings and shootings, he
said. The "bad guys" were portrayed
so that audiences derive pleasure
from seeing them murdered, Radecki
said.
Radecki said this entertainment
desensitizes viewers, causing violent
and anti-social behavior.
"We estimate that violent enter
tainment accounts for between 25 and
50 percent'of anger and violence, by
establishing and reinforcing a subcul
ture of violence on a daily basis," he
said.
NCTV researcher Carole Lieber
man said movies have a profound
effect, because they tend to glamorize
violence.
"The image on the screen is so
much more powerful than what you
read," Lieberman said.
Eli Rubinstein, an adjunct profes
sor in mass communications research
at the UNC journalism school, said
that while it is impossible to measure
in numbers the harm caused by
television violence, TV violence does
affect viewers.
"You cannot put figures on it or
say that any one individual was
caused to commit violence by watch
ing violence on television," Rubin
stein said. "But it does have an effect."
Rubinstein served on a 1972 task
force set up by the U.S. Surgeon
General to study TV violence and
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The Gephardt campaign is running
the same ads as in Iowa, he said. "It
isnt (Gephardt's) plan to do attacks,
but to stand on the record."
Carle said the more hostile tone of
recent days is "because the field has
largely narrowed to three candidates
(Simon, Dukakis and Gephardt). As
the primary season progresses it's
natural for the candidates and the
media to make distinctions."
Simon's financial situation is solid,
Carle said. "WeVe had our strongest
two-week fund-raising period of our
campaign $500,000. Our situation
may be stronger than Gephardt's; we
have less loans," he said.
Vada Manager, a representative of
the Babbitt campaign, said it's "hard
to say how well do. The money isn't
coming at the rate it once did. In New
Hampshire we're not using any pay
television advertising. We're using the
free media of debates."
social behavior, which found that
children who watch four or more
hours of television each day are more
likely to show aggression than child
ren who watch less television, he said.
An update study in 1982 confirmed
the 1972 findings, he said.
However, Rubinstein said, movies
are less likely to be as pervasive as
television, because people do not
watch movies as often as they do
television.
Some researchers dispute the
research linking violent behavior to
television and movie violence, argu
ing the research isn't good enough,
Rubinstein said. But while they are
reputable researchers, they are a
minority, he said.
Both Radecki and Rubinstein cited
a study which has followed a group
of 800 people for 22 years as evidence
that large consumption of television
violence causes violent behavior.
The subjects who watched the most
television violence clearly showed
increased aggressive behavior,
Rubinstein said.
Radecki said the NCTV supports
legislation presented by Sen. Paul
Simon, D-Ill., which would give the
TV and cable industries a three-year
exemption from anti-trust laws,
allowing them to join efforts on the
problem.
But the NCTV would prefer leg
islation requiring television stations
to do public service announcements
warning against the harmful effects,
Radecki said.
"I don't see a necessity for congres
sional censorship," he said. "Educat
ing people is a better approach."
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Collision of U.S., Soviet ships
won't affect summit, aide says
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON The Rea
gan administration's policy of
keeping military and espionage
blow-ups with the Soviet Union
from slowing a drive for better
overall relations is back in oper
ation following the collision of
U.S. and Soviet warships in the
Black Sea.
The United States complained
about Soviet actions in last Fri
day's incident by summoning
Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin
to a 20-minute protest meeting
with the State Department's third
ranking officer.
The department issued a public
condemnation.
Yet Secretary of State George
Shultz has no plan to dwell on the
incident when he goes to Moscow
next week to discuss arms control,
regional issues like Afghanistan
and the superpower summit envi
sioned for the spring, according to
an aide who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
How much damage will the
Black Sea incident do to the broad
range of U.S.-Soviet relations?
"Not much," the aide said.
Indeed, the State Department's
on-the-record reaction to what
Navy officers called the deliberate
and dangerous Soviet bumping of
American warships operating
innocently in the Black Sea
included comments that conveyed
more exasperation than outrage.
Soviets stage rally
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. Soviet
authorities staged an outdoor rally
to protest alleged U.S. interference
in Baltic affairs Monday, and
officials cracked down on
nationalists to prevent protests
marking Lithuania's short-lived
independence.
Tuesday marks the 70th anni
versary of Lithuania's declaration
of independence on Feb. 16, 1918,
only months after the Bolshevik
revolution brought Communists
to power in Russia.
Lithuania, along with the neigh
boring Baltic states of Estonia and
Latvia, was absorbed by the Soviet
Union in 1940, a year after the
Flier
Poston said the sentence was
clearly worded.
"David Maynard has not said he
would veto the budget," he said.
Kevin Martin and Bill Yelverton,
also student body president candi
dates, also said Monday they were
quoted out of context in the filer.
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3.6 million people are of Lithua
nian descent, the highest percen
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of the Baltic republics.
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wouldn't tolerate any show of
nationalist sentiment Tuesday.
The United States never recog
nized the incorporation of the
Baltic states by the Soviet Union,
and U.S. politicians still speak out
in support of Baltic nationalists.
Iran to face power struggle
TEHRAN, Iran Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini's regime is in
firm control as his fundamentalist
Islamic revolution begins its 10th
year, but a power struggle looms
when the 87-year-old patriarch
dies.
His lieutenants appear to be
preparing for Khomeini's death,
which will be a major test for the
revolution at the time of war,
economic hardship and increasing
international isolation.
Khomeini is reported in poor
health and has sought recently,
after years of reluctance, to elim
inate obstacles to economic and
social reform.
He remains the revered Imam,
symbol of an Islamic resurgence
that toppled the late Shah
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brought Khomeini home in tri
umph Feb. 1, 1979, after 15 years
in exile.
The old man's messianic char
isma and authority have held the
revolution together through the
long war with Iraq, and Iran's
other pressing international and
domestic problems.
Jockeying for position in the
misty world of Iranian politics has
intensified because of elections for
the 270-seat Majlis, or parliament,
scheduled for April 8.
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Kevin Martin and Bill Yelverton
promised to veto the budget if
Student Congress did not give the
CGLA funding, regardless of how the
vote on the referendum goes!"
Charles Balan, an Association of
International Students member
whose organization sponsored the
forum in which the CGLA issue was
debated at length, said the flier
quoted Martin and Yelverton
accurately.
Maynard and Poston were the only
candidates who said they would veto
a funding bill that included CGLA
funding, Balan said.
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