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University Daily Kansan
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Monday, Feb. 10, 1986
Mardi Gras revelers gather for finale
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Thousands of revelers jostled for curbside positions yesterday to see 11 Carnival parades, featuring marching bands and ornamentally decorated floats, snake through the city as the climax of Mardi Gras drew near.
Sightseers flooded into the city for the festivities that end tomorrow on Mar迪 Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Mild weather swelled the audience to its biggest level since the start of the pre-Lent Carnival season in January.
While thousands of people lined parade routes, others stayed home putting the final touches on Mardi Gras costumes that will range from gorillas to guerrillas.
Yesterday's biggest perade was the celebration of Bacchus, with its 27 floats and reigning television personality, John Ritter. Another crowd favorite was Venus, an all-woman "krewe," that honored Jane Pierce, wife of President Franklin Pierce.
The Krewe of Mid-City went down Canal Street, making sure to live up to its French motto, "Pour la Joie de Vivre"," For the Joy of Living.
Even city buses got into the act.
A well-dressed, middle-aged man dropped to his knees at the corner of Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue and pleaded with riders in the Thoth Parade to toss him some trinkets.
flashing, "It's Carnival Time" on signs normally reserved for destinations such as Desire or Jackson streets.
"Look at that, will ya. The guy's on his knees begging. Don't that beat all," said a police officer, reaching up to snatch a plastic cup thrown by a masked woman.
Police said crowds had been
unusually well-behaved. They credited mild weather, saying cold weather often encouraged an increase in drinking.
But the final week of the Carnival was married by the stabbing death of a Houston man who had visited New Orleans for Mardi Gras every year since the early 1970s. Carl Schemnayder's body was found Friday in a pool of blood in his French Quarter hotel room, police said. He had been stabbed seven times in the chest and three times in the throat.
Police arrested two San Francisco men and charged them with murder.
Filmmakers' profit answers Soviet critics
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviets complain that Hollywood projects such as "Rambo" and "Rocky IV" are fostering anti-Soviet feelings. But as far as the entertainment industry and the U.S. government are concerned, that's show biz.
in the United States.
"The job of the filmmaker is to entertain audiences, not to be a political instrument," said Jack Valenti, president of the Washington-based Motion Picture Association. "They tell stories that they think people want to see. It has absolutely nothing to do with political propaganda."
Hollywood, too, has responded with barely a shrug since the Soviet government newspaper Isvestia lashed out last month against what it called "vituperative anti-Sovietism"
Isvestia said Hollywood fomented such attitudes by turning out such Anti-Soviet products as the movies "Rambo-First Blood Part II," in which a Vietnam veteran tries to rescue Americans in Indochina, and "Red Dawn," about a Soviet invasion of the United States.
The not-too-surprising reality, according to industry spokesmen, is that Hollywood revolves around what sells and entertains, not what a government finds offensive.
"People who are concerned about the Cold War want to cool it down and are upset (about such films). But it's unmistakable that it's profitable," said Harry Chotter, production executive at Filmvest Inc. in California.
Warner Brothers' motion picture division, said he found the anti-Soviet movies politically offensive but would defend anyone's right to make them.
"A corporate officer has a responsibility not only to himself or herself but to board members and stockholders to make movies that are profitable," he said.
Not everyone agrees with Hollywood's profits-first outlook.
Independent producer Mark Rosenberg, former president of
"I never thought I might think the Soviets had a point, but I think that Hollywood has never been long on a general sense of moral responsibility." said veteran Hollywood columnist Marilyn Beck.
Communist villains seem to be what's profitable now. "Rambo," grossing $150.4 million in box office receipts, was the No. 2 movie movie of 1985 "Rocky IV," the box office hit
about the legendary Philadelphia boxer's triumph over a bullying Russian rival, had grossed $119 million in its first nine weeks of release as of last weekend.
Sylvester Stallone starred in both of the "Rambo" movies and in "Rocky IV."
Irv Ivens, president of worldwide marketing for MGM-UA, noted that the entertainment business "usually picks up on what's self-evident" as a popular theme for a movie. MGM-UA produced "Rocky IV."
"I think we're selling, entertainment," Ivers said. "I don't think it's anything political at all."
Charles Z. Wick, director of the U.S. Information Agency, said he raised the Ivastia criticism when he met with Soviet officials last month to arrange the upcoming U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange.
Two LA policemen killed by pipe bomb
LOS ANGELES — Detectives launched an investigation yesterday into the explosion of a booby-trapped pipe bomb that killed two veterans of the Police Department's bomb squad as they tried to defuse it at a movie makeup artist's home.
Officers, in what police described as a sweeping investigation, returned to the residential neighborhood in North Hollywood and began collecting shrapnel and other evidence from Saturday's explosion.
Detective Arleigh McCree, 46, head of the department bomb squad and an international expert in explosives who helped investigate the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983, was killed instantly as he tried to defuse the powerful bomb.
The LAPD's Anti-terrorist Division, Criminal Conspiracy Section and Organized Crime and Intelligence Division also investigated the blast, which occurred several hours after officers entered the home of Donnell Morse, a Hollywood makeup artist and hairdresser. Morse was suspected in the Feb. 4 attempted murder of an entertainment industry union official.
United Press International
Morse was arrested Saturday morning in the union-related ambush and later was booked for the officers' deaths.
Ron Ball, 43, another bomb expert and a 17-year department veteran, was declared dead at the Center of North Hollywood.
Witnesses said the explosion blew a hole through the roof of the garage.
McCree and Ball were sent to Morse's home in the San Fernando Valley after police found two pipe bombs in a garage storage area while searching for the weapon believed used in the shooting of Howard Smit, a business agent for Local 706 of the Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Union.
Police Chief Daryl Gates said one of the officers apparently realized he might be confronting a booby trap just before one of the bombs blew up.
"One of the officers said just before the explosion that 'there seems to be trip devices,' '' the chief reported.
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Gates, on the verge of tears, said it was the first time in his memory that police bomb squad officers had been killed in the line of duty. He said McCree Knew what he was doing and was considered one of the best bomb squad technicians in the world.
Police said they did not know why Morse was keeping the bombs.
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