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~iJse of unscramblers worries S, I 5 pay-television corporations Bleaching dries skin United Press International NEW YORK — Someone who uses over-the-counter bleaching creams may be trading freckles or age spots for new skin problems, says Dr. Fredric Haberman, a dermato logist. Haberman says the use of such preparations exposes the skin to se vere sun damage and untimely dry ness. To prevent such damage, he re commends the use of sunscreens when you’re going skiing or to the beach. d in inodenffi a. United Press International was not rige: NEW YORK — The pay television ;cused Muga: : business has run into a piracy he front-run problem. responsible!/ So far, it’s small potatoes — even that has mansjad [stuff. black candidiil Nobody is stealing programs and said Mugabt seeking to resell them the way popu- ed from thet ar phonograph records and tapes are ®ted and marketed by the mil- ions. Nor does the theft of the large- _^y satellite-transmitted pay televi- I % ion shows come anywhere near the v blue-box” piracy of long-distance Hsmission time that cost the tele- • ihone companies real money some years ago. But the theft of pay-TV off the air by means of homemade unscramb ling devices is big enough to worry companies like Home Box Office, Startime and Viacom, which market the programs, and the local televi sion stations, through which they reach the public. The industry has quietly taken its troubles to the manufacturers of scrambling devices for a solution, according to Frank Misso, chairman of Electronics, Missiles & Com munications, Inc., of White Haven, Pa. Misso said stations in areas as far apart as Texas and New England re cently have installed new “piracy protection” equipment. He said the companies’ concern helped boost sales of his firm’s newer scrambling transmitters twofold to threefold over the past year. He said other makers of the devices also are receiving big orders. Misso said estimates vary as to the value of the programs stolen, but he believes $3 million a year would not be an unreasonable estimate. Some in the industry, he said, be lieve at elast 25,000 homemade un- ieS Charges filed to •riticism, officer ie world’' mis to exami® said. aid these tn^— >ver forged!;;^ e National GilH hrist ChurcbG idscape,” uni of Titian’s moil x*s and purclus Metropolitan ii ;d to be a forger i art magazine I ■r believes tbe! ork of a 16tbo : Venetian pri to the wooden! in’s prints. ort United Press Internationa] ABILENE — A female officer at )yess Air Force Base will undergo n investigative hearing to deter- tine whether she ultimately may ice a court-martial for failing to but- m her topcoat on three occasions ist month. But Capt. Rina Kelley called to- ay’s hearing a subterfuge to cover p;an attempt by her superiors to rive her out of the Air Force. The 34-year-old officer, who ined the Air Force in 1971, said she ive names in her past criticism of a lobility program and now is suffer- ig the consequences. In recent onths, she claimed, she has been rgeted for harassment because of ■embarrassment she caused her 'yess Air Force Base superiors. Now, she said, “They are main- ining this discipline guise to kill my career. The Air Force is expected to begin the hearing today to determine whether she should face either a spe cial or general court-martial or none at all. Complaints signed by three different witnesses allege she failed to keep her topcoat buttoned on Jan. 24, 25 and 28, in violation of Air Force regulations. Kelley, who has never admitted her coat was unbuttoned, said Tues day such violations by male officers commonly are ignored at Dyess and other bases. An “Article 32” investigative hear ing, as it is known in the military, is roughly equivalent to a civilian grand jury proceeding, said Maj. Arthur Swerdlove, one of two military attor neys representing Kelley. Swerdlove, who said Kelley would not face any court-martial before avenge says March at the earliest, said the com plaint could be thrown out. The deci sion on whether to proceed lies with the investigating officer, who is sta tioned elsewhere and must come to Abilene for the hearing, Swerdlove said. Kelley, who speaks French, Span ish and Italian and began her Air Force career as an interpreter, has talked candidly about previous dis putes with superiors at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. On two occasions she was ordered to undergo psychiatric examinations, both of which, she said, ended with her prompt release. Kelley said she received a letter of reprimand, later dropped, at Dyess last October for missing two combat drills, one after she had been in an automobile accident and the other after she fractured her toe. scrambling devices have been turned out by amateur electronics enthusiasts. Since the subscription fees for pay-TV programs run from a flat $10 a month to $4 or more per program, the piracy could amount to real money if the practice became widespread. “As a group,” Misso said, “the so- called pirates appear to be electro nics buffs to whom the challenge to beat the system’ appeals as much as the prospect of not paying to watch premium programs.” Nevertheless, telecasters fear a trend toward more widespread pira cy could be developing and for that reason, Misso said, they are quietly pressing the Federal Communica tions Commission to consider ways of stamping it out. The pay-TV industry people say their only real defense lies in better scrambling transmitters because, even though there are laws on the books against piracy, it’s a legal gray area. Misso said, “The airways are free and the mere act of picking a televi sion signal off the air is not illegal. The courts decided against the broadcasters and program producers who sued makers of video recorders in an attempt to keep people from taking programs off the air for their own use. It’s quite different from stealing long-distance telephone time or even from tapping illegally into a cable television system which charges for its transmission facilities rather than for its programs. The problem for the pay-TV peo ple and the broadcasters is compli cated, Misso said, by the fact that electronics magazines sometimes publish articles detailing devices to break the scrambling code of a pay TV system. Some electronics manu facturers even make the unscramb ling devices available in kit form. 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They fol- wed us around. is of the peace Is it ec .se said the Navy could have of ainbassadorsffi; SCUe d the hostages from Iran if onth after Israel||^ lack from two-ife** 1 given the opportunity. “Our government lacks leader ship,” Reese said. An aviation crewman, Jack Althaus, expressed similar,- .septf- ments. “We were frustrated they didn’t let us go into Iran and get the hos tages out,” he said. “Our hands were tied. We felt helpless.” Weather conditions force newspaper to delete ads United Press International PHOENIX, Ariz. — For the first time since World War II The Arizona Republic published without adver tising Tuesday. Arizona’s largest morning news paper appeared as a single 20-page section encompassing national and local news, sports, human interest and entertainment pages. 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