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...calls and letters, and they have been running about 20-to-l against the movie. Upset about the response, some NBC affiliates went out of their way to chide the network. In Nashville, which takes justifiable pride in its sophistication, WSM-TV received 70 calls protesting the rape scene in the first hour after the show; this prompted one station official to tell a local reporter that NBC was solely to blame for the "filthy, disgusting, degrading" show. In fact, final decisions about running network shows always rest with the individual stations...
Minor Cuts. NBC shrugged off the criticism. The movie had been screened by the network's Standards and Practices Department, which ordered only two minor cuts in the rape scene. (After seeing the cut version, however, several sponsors withdrew from the show.) NBC executives say that all the affiliates saw Born Innocent well in advance. "TV's not all Make Room for Daddy now," says one network spokesman. "I'm sure we're going to be bothering those people in Nashville again...
...student volunteers, who have tried to improve and publicize their services. Seminars with officials from various Boston organizations are held every two weeks, to equip staff members with information on topics ranging from venereal disease to legal aid. One of the student staffers has had special training in rape counseling...
Kennedy Youth Center in Morgantown, there has not been a single case of homosexual rape reported in the three years since the prison became coed...
Last summer Miller announced that if the incidence of rape, robbery, burglary and auto theft dropped 3%, everyone on the force would get a 1% salary boost. A 6% reduction would translate into a 2% pay increase; after that, each 2% drop would earn a 1% bonus. The maximum increase the cops can get is 5%. "Currently, we're down 17% for those four crimes," says Police Chief Merrill Duncan. "The men are working harder and our crime-prevention program has greatly expanded." Felony arrests are up 40%, and police diligence has even extended to traffic, reducing accidents...