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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1979 ^^MMANOR EAST MANOR EAST MALL M- Jf 3^ * 3f 3f if Jf 3f 3f 3f Jf if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if ‘YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE IT. THE AUDIENCE LAUGHED LIKE MAD. A FUNNY AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING MOVIE.” - Richard Grenier, Cosmopolitan IT’S WONDERFUL! ONE OF THE MOST BEGUILING ROMANTIC COMEDIES IN YEARS. DON’T MISS STARTING OVER’!’’ - Liz Smith. SYNDICATED COLUMNIST 7:15 9:35 (5)3117 Hwmn mk aaMW an in ikwjmii *»w iwinrcmi unimmisoi SUM B JIBS I K HSIlllllijfWIIIISJIIIiSinS nilUJH 55-^—, m t Consumer group names ‘trash box toys INGENIOUS^,/ UR TIME. PCTPARENTArGUIDANCE SUGGESTED A WARNER BROS./OXiOfl PICTURES RELEASE not Bc iuiTABLE for cmildrfnI thru WARNER BROS. O ATOSW'W'StEta STAR TREK.—THE MOTION PICTURE Screenolay by HAROLD LIVINGSTON Story by ALAN DEAN FOSTER FVoduced by GENE ROOOENBERRY Directed by ROBERT WISE Copyright © MCML X XIX by Paramount Pictures Corporation All Rights Reserved ™ A Paramount Picture 2:30 iiooi DOLBY STEREO \ i :<3S i* + * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * m * * M ■K * ■K * -K -K •K m ¥■ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ United Press International WASHINGTON — Green slime in a Christmas toy called the “Ork Egg” can damage furniture, clothes and hair, while another toy called “Baby Grows Up” looks like a de formed child, a consumer group re ports. Those toys and a dozen others be long to the Christmas trash box rather than toy chests, the Consum er Affairs Committee of Americans for Democratic Action said Wednesday. “My Dog has Fleas” was labeled the year’s dumbest toy. The object is if ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★ *- if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if * if * if if if if if if if if if if if MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES $ MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 if THE SUMMER’S BEST MOVIE IS NOW THE FALL’S BEST J MIDNIGHT MOVIE. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT MID- J NIGHT IN DOLBY STEREO. to keep fleas on the dog and away from the child. But the group recommended eight toys as good buys this year: “Skedoodle,” used for drawing patterns and pictures; the “Atomic Arcade,” a table-top pinball game; "Electronic Baseball 2,” a hand-held game; “Speak and Tell,” which has a 236-word spelling vocabulary; the Fisher-Price “Kitchen Set;” “Wood- sey’s,” a group of fuzzy dolls in a log house; “Giant Pre-School Loc Blocs 100 piece set,” and the doll “Baby Little Love.” The group, which has been sur veying Christmas season toys for eight years, reviews heavily prom oted items for safety, durability, play value and how they compare to the way they were advertised. Mattel’s $2 “Ork Egg,” a spinoff from the TV show “Mork and Min dy,” was named “potentially the most destructive” toy. The group said when a child pulls apart a white plastic egg shell, he finds a fetus-like object surrounded by green slime. The problem is the slime can dam age “your floors, your furniture, your hair, ” and you can only remove it by following special cleanup in structions that come with the package. The “worst toy” designation went to Mattel’s “Baby Grows Up,” a doll that inflates when a bottle is squeezed in its mouth. Instead of looking like a little girl flated, the group said, the Is like a deformed child witliji limbs. Other “trash box” toys imj “Space Creatures Ful Mask,” which uses flam ml ment; “Suckernian,” a plaj with suction cups thatdonoti most surfaces; “Raceway ft 812,” which has too mam together parts; “Zodiac,’’aji computer for charting hons “Gobbles, the Crazy Eating which cats an endlesssupplyi tic garbage; “Zap-Zap Ra«t which has cars that can ji track and hit a child intheli Woman’s battle with FBI alters screening practices MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES 823-8300 MANOR EAST MALL THE MANOR EAST 3 IS PROUD TO PRESENT STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE IN DOLBY STEREO STARTING FRIDAY DE CEMBER 7 AT 7:30 & 9:55, SAT. & SUN. AT2:30,4:55,7:30, 9:55. CAMPUS ^MMMF*** 210 University Dr. 846-6512 United Press International NEWARK, N.J.- Lori Baton says she has no re grets about her role in a 6 -year court battle that forced the FBI to alter its practice of screening letters addressed to targeted political groups. Baton, now a 23-year-old resident of Dallas, began her battle with the FBI as a 16-year-old high school student. While researching a term paper, she wrote to the Socialist Workers Barty — and became the target of an FBI investigation to determine if she was involved in subversive activities. “The hardest part was when I was back in high school,” she said hours after a U.S. District Court judge in Newark disclosed Wednesday he had ended the long struggle by signing a two-page order award ing her $1 in damages. “A lot of the kids thought I was subversive or anti-American or something, ” Baton said. “But then I realized that this was a big deal and these little high school spats were not really important.” The American Civil Liberties Union sued the gov ernment on behalf of Baton in 1973 after she became the target of the FBI investigation. Baton’s letter to the SWB was flagged by a U.S. Bostal Service “mail cover,” a practice of recording addresses and other information on the cover of let ters sent to organizations viewed as national security threats. “At the beginning, we were all pretty naive about the whole process,” recalled Baton, who is now an assistant buyer for the Neiman-Marcus department store chain in Dallas. “After a couple ofya began to wonder when it would all end.” The suit dragged on, through Patou’s college at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville two appearances before congressional conn investigating alleged FBI improprieties, before District Court Judge Lawrence Whippii the use of mail covers unconstitutionally vagi) November 1978. In May, he ruled the FBI had violated! constitutional rights by conducting an illegalji and opening a file on her. As a result of the action, new surveillancen tions were drawn up limiting the use ofmailcovd suspected cases of terrorism, sabotage < espionage. The case has had some effect on Paton’s pn life. “From time to time, I’ll run into lawstudenS friends of mine who are lawyers, and they’ll ‘Hey, you’re the girl who sued the govemme'j l read that case in class,” she said. “Then there all the calls from reporters. Every time wem J move, the phone would start ringing.’ fCrOVC Baton was asked if she would encourage an; Linda doing 16-year-old high school girl with another complj about the way the government operates to take* matter to court. “I suppose, if she really felt she was ri| should do it, ” she said slowly. “If she really in it, yes, I think it’s worth it. ” 4- Paramount Pictures Presents A GENE ROOOENBERRY Production A ROBERT WISE Film STAR TREK -THE MOTION PICTURE * Screenplay by HAROLD LIVINGSTON Story by ALAN DEAN FOSTER Produced by GENE ROOOENBERRY Directed by ROBERT WISE Copyright © MCMLXXIX by Paramount Pictures Corporation All Rights Reserved □□ DOLBY STEREO ™ A Paramount Piclure Space shuttle may take off in late 1980 United Press International CABE CANAVERAL, Fla. — If there are no major new prob lems, there is an even chance the oft-delayed space shuttle Col umbia will make its maiden voyage in September 1980 — nearly two years past its original target date, a space agency official says. “All the dates on the working schedule are success oriented, but we don’t know what is ahead of us in new problems,’’saidji Yardley, associate administi for Space Transportation Syi Acquisition at NASA. “Given the normal amount; new problems the date prol would he in September, Y< told a news conference at fe nedy Space Center Wednesdkj “I think there is a 50-50chance; that month and only a20pei chance of the launch slippingiit 1981.” Ur LOS A Clem Purmoil ir to the Un conti Nation tal pendence Clemei elected c f vl Corviy remarks i annual w V THE ONION FIELD A True Story ^7AVCO EMBASSY RICTUSES Release *****SKYWAY TWIN***** 2000 E. 29th 822-3300 7:15 West 11:00 Also at 9:25 HOUSE BY THE LAKE 7:15 East EYEBALL 10 4 ° ¥ Also at 8:30 J SUSPIRIA ¥ PLITT Southern Sun Theatres UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 & 846-1151 Befone middle eaKtb Before TrcxJo Befbrze tfaerze coas a stiirze Beforze gandalT Befbrze the gnecft coon oFthe Rings ’Cteetze coeRe...cofzaRDs 20TH CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS A RALPH BAKSHI FILM waves |PO| Color by DeLuxe® © 1979 20TH CENTunY-FOX Friday & Saturday ' Midnight iiiiiiiiirmiignTiirro 333 University 846- The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week 40 a.m.-2 a.m. Sim.-Ttivns. 10 a.m -3 a.***, Fri.-Sat. 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