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- Cathi@lbNews December 4, 1985

ACTIVISTS
‘PROTEST
WAR TOYS

By The Associated Press
Military toys came under attack by anti-war activists
over the d at shopping centres in
C Seattle and while of one
toymaker's plans to market a Rambo doll marched outside
company headquarters. ie

A dozen anti-war activists picketed in West Hartford,
Conn., home of Coleco Industries Inc., which distributes
Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. The marchers, members of the
War Resisters League which regularly protests nuclear
submarine launches in nearby Groton, object to Coleco's
plans to bring out a toy modelled on Rambo, a fictitious
-gun-packing Vietnam veteran.

The character was created by actor Sylvester Stallone
in the movies First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II.

The group said its protest was part of the International
Day Against War Toys:

“The War Resisters League feels very strongly that we
need to be opposed to war and the cause of war, and one
cause is the acceptance by society of the military culture,”
league spokesman Joanne Sheehan said. “War toys is a
militarization of youth, and it has produced a situation where
it is hard to find other creative toys on toy shelves.”

WAR TOYS SELL

She noted that five of the current-top six best-selling
toys are “war toyS,” citing Transformers, Masters of The
Universe, Gobots, Voltron and GI Joe.

“The (Rambo) doll is patterned after a horrendous,
violent movie character,” she said. “The character of Rambo
makes war and killing exciting to kids.”

She said of her
meeting with Coleco officials to discuss the doll, but
company officials rejected the idea.

“They felt ‘we had no right to protest something that
was not on market yet,” Sheehan said.

In Milwaukee, members of the local. chapter of
Mobilization for Survival. distributed leaflets at the
downtown Grand Avenue shopping centre opposing toys the
group considers too violent.

Barb Peterson, a spokesman for the group, said such
toys include ones that convert into robots ‘and those that
have a theme of military warfare.

AFFECT BEHAVIOR

The leaflets quote studies finding that militaristic and

violent toys prompt children to show selfish and agg

Snuggles to raise money

ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. (CP)
— The baby whitecoat seal's
‘wide-eyed, innocent appeal —
which played a major role in
the European Community's
ban on seal imports — now is
being used to raise money for

the Humane Society of Amer-,

ica.

Mattel Toys is marketing a
white, plush doll in. the
United States called Snug-
gles the Seal. The doll, which
sells for between $10 and $15,
has a tag that says the
conipany will donate $1 to the
Humane Society for every’
tag returned to Mattel.

However, in a telephone
interview, a Mattel official at
company headquarters. in
Hawthorne, Calif., would not
confirm reports that the tag
also carries words to the ef-
fect “do you know what

PCB
levels
too high

TORONTO (CP) — Chil-
dren eating a normal diet are
consuming far higher levels
of PCBs than the federal
government considers safe,
an Environment Canada
study indicates.

The findings raise grave
questions about the possible
unseen effect the chemicals
are having on children's de-
velopment as well as on their
long-term health, says Doug
Hallet, senior scientific ad-
visor for Envi Can-

behavior.

At ‘Mall in.C Ohio, b of the
Gray Panthers: a senior citizens group, handed out
ing violent toys. Fifteen
people iene in age from a five-year-old girl to
grandparents joined in the demonstration.

In downtown Seattle, leaflets urging shoppers to favor
books, games and art supplies over military toys were
handed out by five members of Families for Peace, an
organization of parents disturbed by what they say is the
glorification of violence in toys and television programming:

“Kids are being taught that the only way to solve
conflict is with a weapon,” said Dianne Hulscher who has
three grown daughters and a five-year-old son.

But not everyone agreed with the protesters. In one
Milwaukee area toy store, the hottest items were robots,
monsters and soldier replicas, along with toy guns and
swords.

Terry Trueden of Milwaukee said he doubts that
military toys cause violent behavior.

“When Igrewup it was cowboys and Indians; now it's GI

” he said.
se Annther parent,

Theodora Ciezka of " Milwaukee,
ay i
“The Violence is in the minds of the adults,” she said.
“To them (children) it's just playing.”

Quaint image
fades in cold

ada’s Ontario region.

“The most sensitive spe-
cies going right now is chil-
dren — human children,”,
Hallet said. “That's how I got
upset about this — through
my own children.

“As a parent of a one-year-
old and a three-year-old, I am
tremendously concerned
about their health. I'm very
upset that they are exposed.”

The study, completed ear-
lier this year, notes food
available in southern Ontario
— including such dietary sta-
ples as fruits, vegetables,
grains, dairy products, poul-
try and'meat — contain resi-
dues of polychlorinated bi-
phenyls, a chemical linked to
many health problems in hu-
mans and cancer in -labora-
tory animals.

By analyzing a typical diet,
Hallet and three other sci-
entists concluded that the
average southern Ontario
adult's daily intake of PCBs is
close to the maximum level
recommended by the federal
government.

This means that children —
who eat almost as much as
adults but do not weigh as

they're doing to my brothers
and sisters to the north?”
Mattel has received letters
both condemning and sup-
porting the doll, said Spencer

the product and instead of
sending a donation to the
Humane Society they should
give $1 to the Canadian Seal-
ers Association to assist in

Boise, the "s  vice-
president of corporate af-
fairs.

“I have a very good, idea
(how many letters Mattel has
received) but that’s not a
public number,” said Boise.

Snuggles has been on the
U.S. market for about six
months, but he couldn't say
how many have been made or
sold, nor would he say if it’
will be sold in Canada.
DISLIKES IMPLICATION

Garfield Warren, a Conser-
vative member of the legis-
lature, said the toys ‘imply
Newfoundlanders are barbar-
ians.

He said if Snuggles comes
to Atlantic Canada, New-
foundlanders should boycott

ion of the
cial seal fishery.

There has been no offshore
seal hunt in Newfoundland
since 1983, when the Euro-
pean Community imposed a
two-year ban on the impor-
tation of whitecoat and blue-
back seal products. The ban
dried up the traditional mar-
ket for seal pelts.

‘Boise said Mattel entered
into the project with the Hu-
mane Society because it was
“looking for an opportunity
to support organizations that
were interested in the pre-
servation_of animals.”

When asked why a. baby
seal was chosen for the proj-
ect, he replied:

“It's one of those animals.”

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FOX LAKE, ALTA. (CP)
— Children in this remote
“northern Alberta community
go to and from school in
horse-drawn covered wagons
heated by wood. stoves.

The image may bé quaint
to those who live in -cities,
but; for the 243 children who
travel in the 14 wagons, the
charm fades considerably
when the temperature is be-

epagaham. He said the com-
munity has sought buses for
15 years.

Sewepagaham said the
tribe inherited several prob-
lems — _ transportation,
crowded classrooms, stu-
dents promoted without com-
pleting the curriculum, tru-
ancy — when it took control
of education from the North-
lands school division last

much — probably
ceeding the guidelines, Hallet
said.

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are exposed at extremely
high levels,” he said.

“They take in a lot of
energy (in food). You feed a
kid high-energy food — milk
and meat and more milk and
grains. You don't develop
strong healthy babies on junk

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Chief Johnson Sewepagaham created more interest in edu- and they're loaded up (with

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“We've approached the De-
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Thursday, December 12

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