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THE BATTALION Page 3B TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1981 3as( !gan reading a 1(4 as she read fro; d, “There’s ie situation wii S DO Hfj|' said. ite Departmenli aed of the nep 'erybody thinki 'the progress, li lie sister oflioJij them go from In i warned not top m Washingtoa,! jn they let tbi r, ” : “My heartisn L‘d. They havefe s going tohappei id attitude,” d, “It’swondeii hy couldn’t it kf Haven ' votei ■ texM ■tions cheaper cable alternative United Press International NEW YORK — The scramble for expensive cable television rights going on across the country has obscured the fact that, for 10 years now, a cheaper alternative has been available. It is the multi-point distribu tion service, a super-high- frequency, line-of-sight micro- wave signal authorized by the Federal Communications Com mission a decade ago but little used up to now. In its present application through local systems set up in about 50 cities, it delivers various types of pay TV programs over the air instead of by cable. But it is different from conventional over-the-air pay TV, which uses the broadcast band. Equipment for MDS is made by several companies, including Electronics, Missiles Ik Com munications, Inc., of White Pa. President Frank Missoof EMC says MDS is a lot less expensive way of transmitting pay TV prog rams than cable in the long run. The local purveyor of pay TV' programs by MDS makes a one time investment of $500,000 to $ 1 million in equipment, which he rents out to the users, collecting fees for the use and fees for the programs. The programs are distributed locally at the relatively modest transmission cost of microwave compared with $14,000 to $25,000 a mile for cable TV trans mission. This can run to $20 mil lion or more in many .communi ties and an estimate of wiring Washington, D.C., for cable TV ran to $70 million. So far, MDS has not resulted in any significant new program ming, according to Don Franco, head of Microband Corp. of America, New York, which has built up a series of franchised MDS systems in 50 cities. Franco said these systems are common carriers providing sup plemental and alternative deliv ery of programs from such estab lished pay 'TV program producing and distribution firms as Home Box Office, Showtime and others. The system makes use of satel lite ground stations and other facilities to take the programs from the conventional distribu tion channels for local delivery over the air by the super micro- wave hand. Franco said most of the con suming customers are homeow ners in areas where there is no cable TV or where cable service is not well developed. The home owner pays an installation fee of $100 and a monthly fee of $13.50 to $15 for service. The program packages are the same as those delivered on the more compre hensive cable systems. The most important piece of equipment the homeowner must rent is a special antenna. Conven tional broadcast TV antennas won’t pick up the signal. Master antenna systems for a hotel or apartment complex are possible. But MDS and Microband have started to develop new uses for the system. In addition to picking up conventional pay TV prog rams, the local MDS studio can originate special programs by means of prerecorded tapes or films or even from an electronc data processing terminal in the case of business information. Among the special types of programs being broadcast via MDS are off-track betting prices, commodity and securities market prices and the latest news on local airport schedules and current operations. Franco foresees a steady but not necessarily rapid prolifera tion of special information prog rams via the MDS microband. ss International City officials i >f a charter aa severe propertf more of a setu >te of confident: itizens of Dallas, gement of Dal Councilman Ifc 1 Sunday of lit at that defeateds sure 2-to-l. >n was place >etitions spons® 8 million television epic lighlights Peter and Paul nation. ■m caused at tax burden, United Press International ATHENS, Greece — Greece is the setting of a new iible epic for American television based on the life and vork of two early Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul. “I was curious about what happened to the 11 men ity Act (TEAT'' eft behind after Jesus’ crucifixion, and how they they “d homeownera nanaged to make the new faith take root, ” said producer assessment sysii Kan Hough. “I read the Book of Acts and that became ixes 12 to 200f( ke basis for a script. It’s a tremendous story and it make up fonJ evolves around Peter, the blunt fisherman from Galilee tnd Paul, the thinker. ” “Peter and Paul,” a Universal Pictures-CBS televi- n production with an $8 million budget, will be ng required top creened during Easter week next year in two parts of 3 million plus* »o hours each. It traces Christianity’s first 30 years, when the disci- les preached Jesus’ word around the Mediterranean, the resignatic® ring often-hostile mobs and puzzled Roman adminis- Noller andhisi fjt ors divert, were'W ■itizens the tail be improved ] George Schnl s not one ofc® but a vote e TEA Party pi las voters’ sea* ity” led to ns that have I* ■r cities, inalystssaytlie ■cause fear of es outweighed higher Party pro percent or mon 1 northeast Da irdest hit by p« We decided to shoot in Greece because much of the itory happens here. Paul’s journeys to the Greek cities nake up a large part of the film,’’ Hough said. He and screenwriter Christopher Knopf took advice ■ in the script from .senior rabbis and academic theofo- “ the Vatican and the Greek Orthodox Church. Search for dller ontinues sident Ed Ski# ■oters suppoi isition, but did Party’s sew iform. sedWith ting Foods js Tax. o7:00Pl ESDAY SPECIAL Tied Steak n Gravy otatoes and one other ftable ■ead and 61# iorTea Robert Foxworth as Peter and Anthony Hopkins as Paul head a cast of American, British and Greek actors with a background of classical stage acting. “Growing up in Houston I didn’t have a lot of religious background, and this is the first time I’ve played a biblical part, so I did a lot of reading, ” Foxworth said. “What impressed me was the power of those ideas and the struggle in the relationship between Peter and Paul.” Welshman Anthony Hopkins’ most recent role was Adolf Hitler in another CBS-TV special. He said he always wanted to play a biblical role. Except for the scene of Paul’s conversion on the de sert road to Damascus, locations for “Peter and Paul” are in Attica and the island of Rhodes, where the medieval city of knights appears as Jerusalem in the first centurv A.D. “We re trying to make this story as direct and natural as we can,” said director Robert Day, who was pilot director for the “Dallas” series. “There are no Cecil B. de Mille booming voices from Heaven or dramatic mira cles. .The grqat adyaqtage of doing a four-hour film is in the opportunity we have for developing characters across a broad time span. We finish with ‘Peter’s cfuci- fixation outside Rome in 64 A.D.” United Press International ANTONIO — Chilling rain irtd anting in from the north and tem- iratures dipping into the 30s failed tsterday to drive a 29-year-old mur- er suspect from the bush country >uth of San Antonio. There’s been no sign of him yet, ” exar County Sheriffs Department apt. Alfred Carreon said of the ardpd suspect, who fled into the nigh country Jan. 5 after Mrs. Nor- Logan, 77, was found stabbed to cath inside her rural home. Carreon led a stepped-up search aring the weekend that involved Vo helicopters and sheriffs de aries on horseback and in land avers. A man believed to be the fugitive lined up Saturday at a drive-in tocery store in the area. He bought soft drink but became nervous, topped the bottle on the floor and again toward the brush. SPECIAL EVENING (EYDINNEI jwith y Sauce Dressing -ead - 0 u ^ f >rTea 3ravy oice of any jetable LEARN SELF-DEFENSE ; V An invigorating program based on holistic principles that offer a way to self-discipline. (Budo) and total health by inner harmony [Tai Chi). Demonstration & Registration Jan. 19, 20, 21, 22 Kyle Field Expansion Room 267 6-7 p.m. Sensei Jerry Mcglade 3rd degree Kung-fu Instructors Phillip Long 2nd degree Hapkido and Doctor Eric Deudon 1st degree jiu Jutsu The way of heaven does not contend; but it surely wins the victory. Students & Faculty Welcome! Applications for HOSTS & HOSTESSES for the 26th STUDENT CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL AFFAIRS Feb. 11-14 may be PICKED UP IN THE SPO Rm. 216 MSC INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD ON JAN. 27-29. Plans for Oswald’s burial kept secret United Press International FORT WORTH — A curtain of secrecy has been drawn on funeral arrangements for Marguerite Oswald, who requested to be buried next to her son, Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. A spokesman for Baumgardner’s Funeral Home said Sunday that members of the Oswald family requested no details be made public about services. He said Oswald’s son, Robert, the only person to view the elderly woman’s body, made arrangements for the burial and then returned to his Wichita Falls home. The spokesman said services for Oswald, 73, would be private but that she would be buried in Fort Worth. He declined to reveal when funeral services would occur. Oswald died Saturday morning of cancer. Her physician, Dr. John Johnson, said she had been in and out of Harris Hospital for more than a year for cancer treatments. He de clined to reveal what type of cancer Oswald suftered from. Her hospita lization had been kept secret even from hospital personnel. Oswald was hospitalized for the last time Nov. 21, one day before the 17th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination. “She was alone and estranged from her family and had to make all the decisions concerning her own care and welfare,” her doctor said. Johnson said one of the woman’s last requests was to be buried next to Lee Harvey Oswald in Rose Hill cemetery. 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