European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday january 27,1990 Cable to execs dispute ads saying free to could fade Washington a Cable to executives arc seeing red Over a promotional Campaign that tells viewers free to May one Day be a thing of the past. The executives arc asking the better business Bureau 10 look into the series of 30-Sccond ads running this month on television stations nationwide. The ads show future generations of youngsters expressing amazement that to programs once were available without a subscription fee. A Cable to official said wednesday. In one and. A Little girl stands next to a Blank to screen at her grandmother s House turning the knobs in a vain attempt to get the set to work. Grandma How come we can t watch to at your House the girl finally says As the message sometime in the future slips onto the screen. Honey. I just can t afford the  her grandmother answers. Dad said when he was a Little boy. To was free. Is that True it sure was. Back in the 1990s we watched free to All the  in another of the ads. Which arc being produced and distributed to to stations by the National association of broadcasters a Little girl and her Grandfather discuss a Rabbit cars to Antenna shown in a Vintage 1990 picture in an old photo album. Rabbit cars she asks. Yeah. To was free then. Me and your dad watched movies local news the super bowl right off the air the Grandfather says. An announcer ends the segment with free to should never be just a memory. Call this station for awaiting trial financier Adnan Khz Scoggi moves though a new York subway turnstile thursday after a court hearing and meeting with pretrial sen ices where he reports twice a week As a condition of his bail. Khash Oggi is free pending his March 14 trial in Federal court for financial w feelings and dealings. More  Cable to executives say viewers arc being duped. Broadcast television is not free they argue claiming that Consumers eventually get soaked for the $27 billion that . Businesses spend on to advertising each  s a Little bit like telling people that All the rides at Disneyland arc free " Community Antenna television association president Stephen Effros said this week in letter of complaint to the better business Bureau. The rides May be free but you have to pay to get into the  Effros in his letter to Ronald Smithies vice presi Dent of the Bureau s National advertising division in new York said the ads arc false and misleading. He said they arc attempting to Lull american Consumers into the belief that they Don t pay a dime for All of those free programs on their television  he said the Cost of to advertising simply is passed on to Consumers to the tune of about $298 per to household whether we watch free to or  Nab spokesman Walt Wurfel on wednesday said Effros was ignoring a number of studies Over the years that make it Clear that advertising is a sen ice to Consumers that adds Competition and helps the make the Wisest buy and lends to hold costs  Smithies said his office if it determines that the Cable group is raising a legitimate truth and accuracy question will Contact Nab officials and ask them to substantiate their free to Campaign claims. Negotiations then would take place he said in Hopes that either the Cable group would accept the ads As truthful or the broadcasters would change the  bbb which published the conclusions of its investigations has no Legal enforcement Power. Smithies said. Drug link probed in israeli s death Miami a Ducc tics were saying Little about the killing of an israeli businessman linked to training of my Dullin drug Cartel gunmen. The victim s body was found stuffed in a car trunk Al an Airport parking garage. Homicide is keeping mum about the whole thing detective George Reyes of metro dad police said late thursday. Apparently this is kind of baffling for them. They re still collecting information. They re getting Calls from overseas from folks in  police were awaiting an autopsy scheduled for Fri Day on the body of Arik Fack. Investigators declined to. Reveal whether the body had any Marks or wounds but the slaying was believed 19 be a homicide said police spokeswoman Lizelle  body was found wednesday in the trunk of a car at Miami International Airport after police received complaints of an offensive odor coming from the car. Williams said she had no information on the car s  year colombian authorities accused Fack of helping Reserve Sincli army it. Col. Yair Klein escape from Colombia Umid reports he was training the guards of drug lords there. Klein later said he thought he was training a Mars to fight guerrillas. In september colombian authorities issued War rants for both Klein and Fack. The two men w re believed to have entered Colombia in August 1988 and to have left in mid-1989 after reports surfaced indicating that foreign mercenaries were training hit squads for the Medellin and Cali drug cartels. Reached later in Tel Aviv Klein said he did not flee Colombia but exiled normally and showed reporters a passport stamp. Israel has refused to extradite Klein saying the charges were not covered by extradition  television claimed thursday that Afek was being investigated by the Cia which had Given him a . Passport in return for information on israeli activity in Colombia. Stateside tetanus now afflicts Only 50 in . A year Atlanta a . Health researchers Sav the nation s tetanus rate has dropped Twenty fold in four decades to the Point where the Dis ease now strikes Only about 50 americans a year. Fifty three tetanus cases were reported in 1988, five More than in 1987, the centers for disease control reported thursday. The unofficial total for 1989 was 47 cases. The nation s tetanus rate 39 cases per million people when tetanus records began in 1947, was 2 per million by 1988, the cd said. The de Cline in tetanus has resulted from the wide spread use of tetanus toxoid since the mid 19405, coupled with improved techniques for treating wounds cd researchers said. Neighbourhood evacuated after part of Street sinks Gary ind. A a neighbourhood was evacuated As a precaution thursday after portions of a Street collapsed swallowing a car and threatening a natural Gas line. One Man was injured wednesday night when his car fell into the sinkhole police Cpl. William Burns. Brian Simmons 23, of Gary was treated for minor injuries at methodist Hospital and released. Burns said the area was evacuated but he did not know How Many residents were involved. Early thursday the sinkhole expanded to 10 feel deep and 20 feet wide. Burns said falling Concrete threatened a Northern Indiana Public service co. Gas line. Aeroflot buys 5 jetliners from european consortium new York not in its first order for Western aircraft Aeroflot the soviet airline bought five a310 airliners from Airbus Indus Trie the european consortium has said. The Purchase which had been expected for several months May pave the Way for a Sale of american jets to the soviet Union analysts said. Officials of the Boeing co. And the Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Arc holding talks with Aeroflot. Airbus which is owned by Britain Spain. West Germany and France declined to disclose the value of the order. Industry analysis said the contract was Worth about s310 million. Mom sues after school locks son in closet for Days Elmore City okla a a woman is suing a school District for Locking her 13-year-old son in a cafeteria closet for three school Days to punish him for fighting. Frances Allison said her son Gary Dewayne Morris has nightmares and refuses to sleep without a Light since the incident last March. She is suing the Elm orc City school District and a former principal for $100,000. The lawsuit filed in december says the boy was kept in the 4-by-5-foot closet from 8 25 . To 2 45 p.m., that meals were served to him and that he had to urinate in a bottle. Delbert Handke District superintendent said Friday that the boy was allowed out to use the bathroom. He said the incident occurred before he became superintendent. The school District said the Mother had consented to an in House suspension. Allison said the principal told her such a suspension would occur in a classroom away from other student Sand would be supervised by a teacher. Fri hid information helping spy witness says los Angeles a the key wit Ness against Richard Miller the Only Fri agent convicted of spying alleged that the Agency May have covered up information that would have helped Miller s defense court papers show. Retired Fri agent John Hunt also said in documents filed thursday that the Agency knew Miller was t the Only Fri agent sexually involved with soviet informant a Villana Ogorodnikova. Miller a 20-year Fri Veteran was convicted of passing classified documents to Ogorodnikova with whom he was having an affair. His conviction was overturned by a Federal appeals court last year based on the admission of lie Detector evidence at his trial. He is free on bail awaiting his third trial expected to begin this Spring. Hum s allegations in a letter to Fri director William sessions last summer were among volumes of documents filed by Miller s lawyers thursday As part of a motion to dismiss the charges against Miller. Hunt was a key witness in the 1985 and 1986 trials. Miller s first jury dead locked the second convicted him. In his 10-Page letter Hunt alleged the Bureau covered up in order to divert Public and congressional attention away from the Fri s own administrative mis handling of Miller prior to his  at his trials Miller was portrayed As an overweight inept Fri misfit who turned to spying out of vengeance. But he maintained he was trying to redeem a lacklustre career by recruiting Ogorodny Kov As a double agent and infiltrating the soviet spy network