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Leopold Tyrmand Rockford...
Even worse, some parents are volunteering their own children to pornographers, or producing the sex pictures themselves. Last year a Rockford, Ill., social worker was sent to jail for allowing his three foster sons to perform sex acts before a camera for $150 each. In January, a couple in Security, Colo., was charged with selling their twelve-year-old son for sexual purposes to a Texas...
Margie Thompson Rockford...
...Randy Roguski, 16, a senior at West High School in Rockford, Ill., summer vacation meant a chance to give campaigning a whirl. Not for Jerry or Jimmy but for himself and the 39,000 other students in his school district. What Randy was working for was an increase in the tax levy, which would have brought in $6 million more a year. He lost. In a heavy turnout, the voters rejected the measure 2 to 1. Even his parents were unpersuaded by his efforts. "They just believed the money was there," he explains. But it was not. Thus the Rockford...
OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT. "As the presumed watchdog of democracy, the press must watch over the judicial system too," says Henry F. Schulte, dean of Syracuse University's journalism school. "Gag laws could cut into that function." After the Rockford Star in Illinois ran stories on patronage abuse in local courts, an alleged political appointee sued for libel. Citing the need to preserve a fair trial, a judge then ordered the Star not to write editorials about the issues, namely the worth of local courts. The Star violated the judge's gag and later got it thrown out on appeal...