NO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Hold the Fireworks From the Fellowship of Reconciliation Newsletter: FOR opposes 'honor' for Martin Luther King. "Did you ever think you'd come to see such a headline? But the 'honor'...
...A book...
...T-shirts...
...For King, the FOR member described on a postage stamp as Apostle of Nonviolence...
...Both must pay $2,870 in restitution to Raymond Ellis, twenty-three, whose truck they shot up...
...Harvey and his wife own Anecdote Productions in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...An animal activist objected to the event, saying the pigs become stressed...
...when Ellis passed them, Terry said, 'Let's kill that son-of-a-bitch nigger.' . . . Bishop said...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...The garish garb is to elicit heckling from inmates and shame offenders into behaving...
...Albert said he filed the complaint because he felt parishioners were ignoring pleas from his group, Christians Helping Animals and People...
...Ellis, a Virginia Tech student, was on his way to a mountain-bike race course in the forest when he passed [Carlos] Bishop and [Lewis] Terry's car...
...What if someone wants to compete in the Miss America pageant who's in a wheelchair...
...District Court in Roanoke...
...a picture of them and told them we were going to send it to their mothers...
...Let Your Fingers Do the Walking Two public-service ads printed side-by-side in the Ameritech Yellow Pages: "If you feel fortunate your child just smokes marijuana, then you should know more about marijuana," and, "Save time: find a dealer in your area by looking in the Yellow Pages...
...For King, who described the human choice as 'nonviolence or non-existence.'" Naked Ambition I From the "Snoop" column of the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison: "Harvey promises there will be 'actual nude people' all over our city this week...
...Alcohol, not race, was a key factor in the incident...
...Public Relations Coup From the Chicago Tribune: "Convicted Watergate coconspirator and talk-show host G. Gordon Liddy has pledged a $30,000 donation to the fund for victims of the Oklahoma City bombing...
...But the 'honor' proposed was to name an aircraft carrier for him...
...Patrick Catholic Church Roundup in Stephensville, but no more...
...We've even taken...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...The photo will be totally normal looking except there'll be a nude person in it.' What's this all about...
...Frontiers of Corrections An item in USA Today: "Alabama, which two weeks ago brought back prison chain gangs, will begin putting hot-pink uniforms on inmates who habitually masturbate in front of female guards...
...You can send that message along through the mail service...
...They know I've had a few problems, [but] they know I love this town.' " Arm's Length, and Then Some White House spokesman Mike McCurry, explaining to reporters why federal security guards wearing rubber gloves greeted gay and lesbian politicians at a recent White House meeting that President Bill Clinton declined to attend: "It was an error in judgment, apparently...
...He and his wife, Rebecca, blew into town last week looking for local folks willing to disrobe quickly and on cue in public places...
...Nothing has deterred the men, says prison spokesman Charlie Bodiford...
...They're in the fourth month of a 'nationwide search for nude people.'" Naked Ambition II Mayor Spencer Schlosnagel of Friendsville, Maryland, quoted in the Chicago Tribune "on why he refuses to resign despite repeated convictions for indecent exposure: 'The people here have known me all my life...
...Bishop's attorney said...
...He suggested cow-chip throwing as an alternative...
...This sounds so bad, but I worked very hard...
...When he waved to them and they realized he was black, they gave chase...
...Greeting cards...
...And, you know, it just seemed like the thing to do at the time.' " Nixon in Postal Prison Reader comment from the "Sound Off" column of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin: "I suggest when we use the Nixon stamp we turn it ninety degrees clockwise, thereby when the stamp is run through the stamper you'll have Richard Nixon behind bars...
...For King, who repeatedly linked racism, poverty, and militarism...
...from sales of 'Packed and Stacked,' his 1994 calendar that featured 'young women in their scantiest underwear holding high-powered weapons.'" Angry White Female Gullen Johnson, last year's Miss Virginia and the first runner-up in the 1994 Miss America beauty pageant, quoted in One Step Ahead, a newsletter by and for people with disabilities, complaining that she lost to her competitor Heather Whitestone because White-stone is deaf...
...Posters...
...Joan Deal, who has given pony rides at the church fair for several years, said residents and parishioners were shocked to learn pigs would no longer wrestle...
...We are taking photographs of your famous landmarks with a nude person in the picture...
...They don't care.' " No Racists Here From an article in the Roanoke Times & World News: "Two white hunting buddies who shot at a black motorist while chasing him along a forest road in April 1994 were sentenced in U.S...
...Party Animals From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "For twenty-five years, pig wrestling has been the featured attraction at the annual St...
Vol. 59 • August 1995 • No. 8