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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. November 15, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 7 tinted maltese Falcon has filmmaker seeing red Appiott John Huston ill Booth tiling Tat nine u oxygen tank Speaks sharply against car inuit of him. Los Angeles a director John Huston whose color enhanced Vintage film the maltese fal con was shown on stateside Cable television this week said thursday i Black and White classic had been made the victim of mindless  the 80-year-old director vocally vigorous though Ina wheelchair and breathing from an oxygen Lank be Caw of emphysema said he stopped watching Thelin led version of the Mallesch Falcon after about seven minutes. The movie was shown on Ted Turner s webs Sta Tion wednesday night. Isl night i looked for As Long As i could Bear it at a colonized print of the maltese Falcon " the facade my award winning director said in an appearance wit fellow filmmaker Ai the director Guild of America. I used myself if such an example of mindless in Sipi Dity is worthy of our attention in this threatened world. In response to reporters questions Huston said that he considered the colonizing like a child s Lints add ing. It s not color it s like pouring 40 Tablespoons of sugar water Over a  the filmmaker remarked that films in color have become an Art Only in recent years citing his own Moulin Rouge As a Milestone and an example of How color could be employed to enhance a film. Webs spokeswoman Piper Parry said . Nielsen co. Ratings for the maltese Falcon in color were 58percent higher than average for the 8 05 . Est to 10 50 . Wednesday Lime period on webs in octo Ber. She said the rating was 3.8. Or 1.4 million House holds with television and the share of the audience watching television was 5.5 percent. Huston suggested the Only Way to combat colonizing was if Consumers refuse to buy the sponsors products advertised in commercials during the broadcast. Huston said he opposed anything that smacks of censorship saying but Freedom docs not entitle peo ple Loas the cliche goes hand lint drawings by Leon Ardo a  the maltese  the detective classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Aslor was the first film directed by Huston. He has had a distinguished career and his other films including the Academy award winning the treasure of the Sierra Madre the Asphalt Jungle key Largo the african Queen and Tail year s prizzi  Huston s criticism of the controversial computer color process comes a Day after the screen actor Guild Western regional Board voted 36-0 to oppose the computer colouring of Black and White films. The vote in which three Board members abstained has put the Board in line with other entertainment unions including the director Guild of America Andice writers Guild of America West and the american film Institute. Police say Vega woman assumed Onassis name conned Rich businessmen Hackensack , a a woman who told authorities she was Aristotle Onassis sister reportedly floated at least $ 1 million in worthless checks while being wooed by executives real estate agents and Bankers a published report said thursday. Police do not know the True identity of the woman who authorities say has a regal and aristocratic bearing according to a Story in thursday s editions of the record of Hackensack. She was being held in the Berge county jail Here in lieu of $10,000 bail after being arraigned wednesday night in nearby Englewood on charges of theft by deception authorities said. Police said the woman apparently bilked her victims out of thousands of dollars in designer clothes hotel suites lavish dinners airline tickets and luxury limousine service. The woman who it about 60 Yea sold. Said she is a sister of Onassis not his Well known daughter. Detective Donald Sliker said the greek consulate in new York told police that Onassis had three Sisters but All of them were bom before 1910, and none was named Christina. Police Aid the events began in Houston on oct. 24, where the woman gave a real estate agent a $20,000 Check As a gratuity after promising to buy a $l.5-Mulion  the agent she was in town to handle her family s shipping interests in Galve flon Ibe woman asked to be taken to new  agent accompanied the woman on a fim Dau flight and put her up Ashe new York Huton where she ran up $2, in various expenses when the agent said he was going to Check in Wilh his Texas office. The woman slipped away stealing then a a netbook and credit car the agent s Telephone Call re d let the $20,000 Check had bounced put a police picture of woman involved id while in the hotel lobby in woman noticed that a wealthy new Jersey executive and his wife we repaying a 16,000 hotel Bill and quickly gained the couple s Confidence police said. After telling them she was Christina Onassis police said she gave theman a ii million Check made out on a Check starter kit stolen from Houston Bank then obtained More than $2,000 in goods and services atthe executive s expense in the next few Days. The new Jersey executive paid former lodging at a new York Sheraton and at hotels in Passaic and Berge counties and took her on a spending spree at Garden state Plaza in Par Araus where she bought hundreds of dollars Worth of lingerie. Deaths injuries illnesses take larger on the Job toll Washington a working in the mines is not As dangerous As it Usedalo be but on the Job hazards have in creased in hospitals restaurants and holds according to government figures on occupational injuries and illnesses. The number of work related injuries Rose by 86,900 from 1984 to nearly 5.3 million in 1985 and Job caused illnesses Rose by 800 to 125,600, the Bureau of labor statistics reported thursday. Work related deaths in 1985 totaled3,750, two thirds of them in the construction manufacturing transportation and Public utilities industries. The total is 10 More deaths than in 1984. As in previous years the lending Caus of deals was motor vehicle accidents accounting for nearly one third of the fatalities the Bureau said. Because of a 2 million increase in Ihen umber of americans working full time the rate of Job related injuries and ill Nesses fell from 8.0 to 7.9 per every 100workers, the Bureau said. The rate of injuries and illnesses had increased sharply in 1984, from a record Low of 7.6 per 100 workers m 1983. This strengthens our belief Ihal we Are making Progress because additional workers and longer hours often Are associated Wilh greater rather than fewer Job related injuries and illnesses said John Pendergrass the director of the fed eral occupational safety and health administration. The Overall figures masked dramatic declines in some traditionally hazardous occupations. Injury rates Feu from 13.5to iu6 per 100 workers among foresters from 9.5 10 8.3 among miners and from15.4 to 15.0 in construction but the injury rate increased from 6.0to 6.6 per 100 employees among health care workers from 7.7 to 8.1 among restaurant employees and from 9,7 to 9.9 among hotel workers in an unusual disclaimer on the cover of the report which was released thurs Day bus commissioner Janet l. Nor Wood expressed concern about the completeness of the record keeping upon which the Survey ii  the data is compiled from a bus sur vey of Osha required injury and Illets logs from 280,000 of the nation s 5 Mil lion work places employing 11 or More full time  said her Agency is taking several Steps to address what Bureau officials acknowledged May be problems with the  problems have been highlighted in recent months by fines totaling$1,184,000 against the Chrysler corp., Union Carbide corp. And Fina corp. Founder reporting injuries and illnesses on docs used by Osha to enforce health an safety Laws by the bus to track trends in the area. We Don t have any direct evidence of under reporting associate bus com missioner William Eisenberg said thurs Day. But there have been Tome recent cases where the labor department has l actions against a few firms Andare making allegations thai the Aren t accuraus1jniona claim the record problem began in 1981 when the Reagan and Minn traction abandoned a previous Osha pol icy of trying to inspect ill work placet i hazardous industries and instead said it would inspect Only those with higher our avenge injury and illness rates based on their logs  
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