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By The Associated Press
The sexually explict "Nasty As They Wanna Be"
album by fhunchy rap group 2 Live Crew was declared
obscene Monday by the local prosecutor, whc
banned the sale of the recording in Pickens and
Greenville counties.
Record stores will be mailed letters outlining the
ruling, and must clear the album from their shelves by
June 26 or risk arrest, solicitor Joseph J. Watson said.
'The whole purpose of the lyrics is to appeal to the
prurient interest of sex. They are patently offensive,
and they are utterly without any serious artistic or
" Cflirl Watsnn snmmine ud the state
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law's three-part test of obscenity. "It's filth."
Sale of the album is now banned in communities
that comprise one-fifth of the state's residents. On
Thursday, the album was declared obscene by solicitoi
James Anders and its sale prohibited in Richland
County.
Anyone found guilty of selling obscene material tc
a minor faces a maximum of five years in prison anc
$5,000 fine, and three years in prison and a $3,00C
Gorbachev end
By The Associated Press control of the
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gor- f?un(iing coi
bachev today endorsed the forma- ?Pen? 0 ay
tion of a Russian Communist Party as a e
within the national party, but 28th Congress <
warned that friction between Rus- ums y'
sian and central leaders could destabilize
the nation. The Soviet
"I view ... the Russian Com- defended his i
munist Party as part of the Soviet 311(1 political re
Communist Party. And I sharply efforts by radic
disagree with those seek the salva- on Russian sow
tinn r>f Russia in withdrawing from Gorbachev i
the Soviet Union," Gorbachev said the conference
in a Kremlin address. between radic
Gorbachev appeared firmly in hasten steps to
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t Decisions to review an album, book
based on complaints from citizens, Wa
> ding he reviewed the 2 Live Crew albui
[ ing a complaint about its contents Thursi
) Watson said after he found three so
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iference, which to slow the reforms.
. The meeting is At the opening <
Ilwether of the key nearly 2,700 Russia
of the Soviet Com- approved an agendt
lue to start on July re-establishing the
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national party several months berepublics,
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ause Russians ^ sovjet Union.
5 national party
f the other 14 This conference comes a week
after the Russian republic's parlia'tor
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by the center's chair of John Edward Swindler for
the murder of a policeman during
11 business per- a robbery will not end the anguish
Taolina, 98 per- suffered by the family of another
nesses, and we one of his victims,
tany as possible "I guess it will all be over for
John Swindler, but it won't be
msible for coor- over for us," said Betty Becknell,
1- and medium- whose son, Greg, was shot in the
Hinting, market- head by Swindler, a self-professed
Satan worshipper. "It will never be
Dtors of the reg- over for us."
)ls that compose Swindler was electrocuted Monad
organizations day night in Varner, Ark., for the
Hit, to develop 1976 slaying of Fort Smith, Ark.,
nts. police officer Randy Basnett.
implemented an Swindler also had been sentenced
businesses with to life terms for the kidnapping
goods and ser- and murders in South Carolina of
i services to in- Greg Becknell, 19, and Dorothy
tion on patents, Rhodes, 18, both of Columbia,
ag them how to "It bothers me that a human being
is being put to death," Mrs.
d earned a mas- Becknell said shortly before
i from Fairleigh Swindler went to the electric chdir.
jars in the U.S. "Then I think about how he hurt
xnti has served other people, so many other peo,eo
College and pie, and I think about my son. I
think about Greg, and it doesn't
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for further legislation to declai
that Russian laws supersede Sovii
laws on Russian territory.
The resolution, which did n<
carry the force of law, opened tf
door for the Russian parliament I
pass legislation transferring mo:
political and economic decisior
making power from central to r<
public authorities.
The champion of that moveme
is the newly elected president i
Russia, Boris N. Yeltsin, who s
near Gorbachev on the dais today
ecution is
of his Colum
bother me anymore."
Greg Becknell was a strappir
broad-shouldered, 6-foot gradua
of Columbia High School wl
nlannerl fr> at tend a technic
school to become a diesel m
chanic. At the time of his death
was delivering surgical supplies
earn money for school.
"He never caused us one mini
of trouble," said his father, John.
When Greg was alive, the Bee
nell house was full of teen-agers.
"He ha$ so many friends," M
Becknell said. "He was goo
hearted and kind. Never had
harsh word for anybody. Thai
why everyone liked him so muc
If any of his friends would be ha
ing a hard time, Greg would ;
ways be there for them. He'd ha
a hug or an encouraging word."
She added, "We don't have ai
bad memories of him. I've hea
people say when someone die
you forget the bad and rememfc
only the good. But Greg was
good boy. There's nothing bad a
out his life to remember."
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e Russian party comes in response to
it' two otherwise antagonistic political
movements.
)t Radicals, including Yeltsin,
ie view formation of the party a
o means of weakening central aust
thority and hastening the reforms.
i_ Conservatives, especially nationalists,
see a Russian party as a vehicle
of preserving political and cultural
traditions.
nt
Df Several hours into the conferat
ence, it was not clear which course
the delegates might choose.
Ie comfort
bia victims
did not come home, and the bad
ig, memories began,
ite The Becknells would learn later
10 their son had been abducted from a
al restaurant, where he was having
e- lunch with Miss Rhodes,
he
to Their bodies were found three
days later in a wooded area near
ite Columbia Bible College; both had
been shot in the head. Becknell
k- also had been assaulted.
rs. Miss Rhodes, who had grad
duated from high school with
a Becknell, had started her freshman
t's year at Columbia College and
:h. worked part time at a dance studio,
iv- Her father, Jerry Rhodes, said
il- Monday he did not want to talk
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he said.
ny He and his family were waiting
r(j to hear that Swindler was dead and
>s said they didn't want to be contacted
afterward.
a "We'll be glad when it's over,
b- We want it behind us," Rhodes
said. "We've lost so much ? been
3n through so much. It's difficult."
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