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AM-Power Out,130
    NEW YORK (AP) - The three big national television networks were
knocked off the air for about five minutes in much of the nation
Thursday night by a power failure at a main telephone switching
station in Chicago, a CBS spokesman said.
    The spokesman said the signal for all three networks, which is
relayed by cables and microwave transmitters handled by American
Telephone and Telegraph, was out for about five minutes beginning at
about 9:50 p.m. EDT - prime time.
    Spokesmen for AT&T were not immediately available for comment.
    In most areas, the interrupted network shows were ''Hawaii Five-O''
on CBS, ''Quincy'' on NBC and ''Soap'' on ABC,
    Reports of television blackouts were received from Illinois,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
    
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a302  2015  12 Oct 78
AM-Power Out, 1st Ld - Writethru, a292,270
Eds: updates with AT&T comment, switching problem, calls to networks.
    NEW YORK (AP) - The three big national television networks were
knocked off the air for up to 15 minutes in much of the nation
Thursday night by a power failure at a telephone switching station in
Chicago, a telephone spokesman said.
    Jack Shultz, spokesman for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Long
Lines operations in Bedminster, N.J., said the reason or extent of the
failure was not immediately known.
    An unidentified spokesman for Telco Plant in Chicago, an AT&T
switching control station, said the power failure occurred at 9:45
p.m. EDT - prime time - and lasted 15 minutes. The signal for all
three networks is relayed by cables and microwave transmitters handled
by AT&T.
    In most areas, the interrupted network shows were ''Hawaii Five-O''
on CBS, ''Quincy'' on NBC and ''Soap'' on ABC.
    A spokesman for Illinois Bell Telephone Co. in Chicago said the
trouble may have been related to a generator problem.
    Dick Gray, an Illinois Bell service supervisor, said that at 9:45,
employees working with equipment being powered by a backup diesel
generator switched from the backup to commercial power and didn't
realize until 9:58 p.m. that network transmissions had been blacked
out. They then switched back to the diesel generator, Gray said.
    Switchboard operators at the New York headquarters of the three
networks said they received many calls from affiliates and viewers
asking why their pictures had disappeared.
    Reports of television blackouts were received from Illinois,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska. Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Lousiana, Mississippi, Kentucky and Georgia.
    
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a310  2047  12 Oct 78
AM-Power Out, 2nd Ld, a302,210
Eds: Updates on cause and extent of outage. Picks up on 5th graf pvs.
    NEW YORK (AP) - The three big national television networks were
knocked off the air for almos  $1es in much of the nation
Thursday night by a power outage at a telephone switching station in
Chicago, a telephone spokesman said.
    Jack Shultz, spokesman for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Long
Lines operations in Bedminster, N.J., said the failure caused
''service to be lost to all three networks and caused service to more
than 300 stations to be interrupted'' west and south of Chicago.
    Shultz said the outage occurred twice during prime time, once at
9:45 p.m. EDT for 8 minutes, and again at 10:19 p.m. for six minutes.
    In most areas, the network shows interrupted the first time were
''Hawaii Five-O'' on CBS, ''Quincy'' on NBC and ''Soap'' on ABC. The
second time, the shows were ''Barnaby Jones'' on CBS, ''Weekend'' on
NBC and ''Family'' on CBS.
    The signal for all three networks is relayed by cables and microwave
transmitters handled by AT&T.
    Shultz said the problem occurred at a switching point in the TV
operating center of AT&T in Chicago, but it was not immediately known
what caused it.
    A spokesman, 5th graf
    
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a043  0309  13 Oct 78
PM-TV Power,410
    NEW YORK (AP) - Two power outages totaling 14 minutes at a Chicago
telephone switching station forced millions of viewers across the
country to miss parts of prime-time television shows.
    Jack Shultz, spokesman for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Long
Lines operations in Bedminster, N.J., said the failure Thursday caused
''service to be lost to all three networks and caused service to more
than 300 stations to be interrupted'' west and south of Chicago.
    The outage occurred twice, once at 9:45 p.m. EDT for 8 minutes ''at
which time we rerouted service by using other facilities and
bypassing Chicago,'' Shultz said.
    The second outage, at 10:20 p.m. EDT for six minutes, ''occurred
when the rerouting faulted,'' he added. Chicago stations continued to
experience intermittent outages, however, and service was not
restored there until 11:03 p.m. EDT.
    The signal for all three networks is relayed by cables and microwave
transmitters handled by AT&T.
    Shultz said the problem occurred at a switching point in the TV
operating center of AT&T in Chicago, which also houses Illinois Bell
Telephone Co.
    Roger Johnston, an Illinois Bell official, said the two failures
affected all CBS, NBC and ABC network stations in, and west of,
Chicago and some NBC and ABC stations in the East and South.
    Shultz said the outage occurred while AT&T employees were conducting
routine tests at the center's emergency diesel backup system. ''After
the test, when they tried to return to commerical power, a transfer
circuit failed, and they had to return to the backup system,'' Shultz
said. That caused the diesel generator to overheat, he added.
    Among the networks affected in the East and South were NBC stations
in New York and its affiliates in Louisville, Atlanta, and Washington
D.C., and ABC stations in New York and Washington which experienced
about a 10-minute blackout starting at 9:45 p.m. EDT, Shultz said.
    He said Thursday's problem was quite different from an outage in the
Midwest three weeks ago during which programs from one network were
mistakenly switched in transmission and appeared on other networks.
    The Chicago television operating center is one of six such
facilities in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington, and Dallas.
    In most areas, the network shows interrupted the first time were
''Hawaii Five-0'' on CBS, ''Quincy'' on NBC and ''Soap'' on ABC.
    The second time, the shows were ''Barnaby Jones'' on CBS,
''Weekend'' on NBC and ''Family'' on ABC.
    
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n999  0354  13 Oct 78
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BC-GREENE 2takes 10-13
The following Bob Greene column is copyrighted and for
use only by newspapers that have arranged for its publication
wth Field Newspaper Syndicate. Any other use is prohibited.
Release Wednesday, October 18
(Transmitted 10-13)
BOB GREENE: The Ultimate Owner's Manual
By Bob Greene
    The American consumer has so many new products available to
him these days: food processors, microwave ovens, calculators.
    And as more and more of these products come into our homes, we
are becoming increasingly familiar with a publication called
the ''owner's manual.''
 Owner's manuals come with everything from cars to
wristwatches. They are usually lavishly illustrated and
chock-full of  nstructions about the prodicts they 
epreset.
hurpose of the owner's manuals is twofold.
    On the one hand, they explain what the product is aneow it
w  ZSH    VE AS KIND TFAN INSTRUCTION GUIDE FOR THE USE
OF YOUR NEW ACQUISITION.
    But on a second level, the owner's manuals serve as a subtle
psychological tool, telling the consumer how lucky he is to own
this product, how proud he should be to have it in his home.
    Well . . . we now have what is probably the ultimate owner's
manual.
    It is a full-color, 16-page booklet published to accompany the
purchase of a true luxury product.
    The legend on its cover identifies it as ''The Grumman F-14
Tomcat Owner's Manual.''
    The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a deadly fighter plane produced by
the Grumman Aerospace Corp. And the new owner's manual is being
produced for distribution to the American people.
    As the manual puts it, ''You, the American people, have
acquired the world's foremost fighter 1/8interceptor -- the
Grumman F-14 Tomcat.''
    Or, as Robert P. Harwood, a spokesman for Grumman, put it:
    ''You, as the taxpayer, pay for it. You pay a heck of a lot of
tax money, and a heck of a lot of that tax money goes into
defense. We just want to tet you what you re getting.''
    The cover of the owner's manual shows a cross-sction of
Americans -- a child with a baseball bat, a nurse, a
cheerleader, a dancer, a woman with a tennis racket,
etc. -- posing (in full color) in a wheat field witt the
F-14 fighter plane.
    At the beginning of the owner's manual -- traditionally the
place wher manufacturers list the seltingnts of their
products -- the Grumman people write:
     'designed for the U.S. Navy as a long-range fleet dedens dlmsy F-14 hae  h-
asno equal as an ai
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the F-14 can spot and track the enemy far outside the
range of anyother fighter's ad.2at any tt (8hmissile, fighter, supersonic bombe-
r) from sea levet ui to
100,000 deet...send ssiles against six targets while
tracking 24 others at the same time9..and do it all in spite of
enemy electronic interference.
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a056  0333  14 Oct 78
PM-Soviet-U.S.,300
    MOSCOW (AP) - Pravda launched a blistering persopal attack on U.S.
Ambassador Malcolm Toon today, accusing him of slandering the Soviet
Union during his American speaking tour.
    The Communist Party newspaper took issue with remarks Toon made on
racism in Soviet society, microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy
and the ''panicked fear'' of the Soviet Union toward China.
    ''One thing is clear: diplomat Toon conducts himself extremely
undiplomatically,'' Pravda said. ''What he is doing is not to the
credit of this extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador.''
    It was the second denunciation of Toon in two months since he left
on the speaking tour aimed at selling the agreement for limiting
strategic arms to audiences in several American cities.
    Pravda charged Toon has ''taken upon himself the mission of a
traveling Sovietologist'' and that he has forgotten ''his official
functions'' as spelled out in a 1961 convention.
    The paper said ''it's not quite necessary that an ambassador must
like everything in a country in which he is accredited.''
    But it added: ''Neither in the convention nor in some other
international documents of course (and it cannot be) is there even
half a word that a diplomat is allowed to be busy with slandering the
state whose hospitality he uses and to publicly slander this state.''
    The newspaper called it ''a puzzle why Mr. Toon should knit together
absurdities about 'racism' in the U.S.S.R.
    ''The ambassador must be aware that in the Soviet Union all forms
and exposures of racism, racial discrimination and nationalistic
discords have been denounced as illegal and those responsible are
prosecuted in the strictest way.''
    The paper also said it was ''confused'' as to why Toon again put
before the public ''tales'' of covert Soviet microwave bombardment of
the U.S. Embassy - a sore point in U.S.-Soviet relations since it was
first disclosed in February 1976.
    ''Maybe he hasn't learned how to differentiate between his
microwaves and other ones,'' the newspaper said.
    
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a057  0343  14 Oct 78
PM-International Overview,490
    VATICAN CITY (AP) - Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church begin a
conclave today that will choose a new pope for the second time in less
than two months. Non-Europeans outnumber Europeans for the first time
ever, but the Italians still form the biggest national bloc.
    A total of 111 ''princes of the church'' are participating in the
secret, tightly-guarded gathering, the same number that elected Pope
John Paul I successor to Pope Paul VI in a 26-hour conclave just 50
days ago. John Paul died Sept. 28, only 34 days after his election.
    The only ''freshman'' elector is an American, Cardinal John Wright
who was bedridden in a Boston clinic for eye surgery when he missed
the August conclave. Another cardinal who missed the August conclave
because of sickness, Poland's Boleslaw Filipiak, died of a brain
hemorrhage at his home in Poznan Thursday.
    ---
    MOSCOW (AP) - Pravda launched a blistering personal attack on U.S.
Ambassador Malcolm Toon today, accusing him of slandering the Soviet
Union during his American speaking tour.
    The Communist Party newspaper took issue with remarks Toon made on
racism in Soviet society, microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy
and the ''panicked fear'' of the Soviet Union toward China.
    ''One thing is clear: diplomat Toon conducts himself extremely
undiplomatically,'' Pravda said. ''What he is doing is not to the
credit of this extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador.''
    ---
    WINDHOEK, South-West Africa (AP) - South-West Wfrica's sun-blistered
sandscape is populated with a dozen squabbling ethnic clans, but
underneath lies a treasure trove of mineral wealth that could make an
independent Namibia one of Africa's richest lands.
    Fears that the cornucopia of diamonds, uranium and silver will
remain in South Africa's colonial grasp or fall into communist hands
help explain why Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and the foreign
ministers of four other Western nations are flying here this weekend.
    Known to its black majority by the African name Namibia, this land
is still dominated by a stubborn white minority who know it as
South-West Africa - a former Germany colony put into South Africa's
care by the League of Nations after World War I.
    The United Nations terminated South Africa's mandate over the
territory in 1966 and has been trying unsuccessfully ever since to
push the South Africans out and get black majority rule.
    ---
    BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (AP) - Reeling from his third defeat in
four games, chess champion Anatoly Karpov postponed the 32nd game of
his world title match with Viktor Korchnoi today.
    Korchnoi crushed Karpov Friday night on the 71st move of their
resumed 31st game, when the champion resigned with only a rook and his
king left on the board.
    The Korchnoi victory threw the match into sudden death at five games
apiece, with each player needing one more victory for the title and
the record $350,000 first prize. The loser gets $200,000.
    
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n451  0524  16 Oct 78
 
BC-Labels 10-16
Attention: Financial editors
BY JEROME IDASZAK
(c) 1978 Chicago Sun-Times
    The companies that make appliances - from dishwashers to
freezers - are hoping that the federal government will
simplify proposed rules on energy labeling.
    The rules are intended to benefit consumers who want to buy
appliancs that use the least energy. The appliance
industry isn't fighting the rules, but does see some
problems.
    Hearings on the rules began last week and will continue through
Nov. 1 at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington. That
agency is responsible for developing appliance labeling, which was
ordered by Congress in 1975. As now proposed, an estimated
60 million product units have to carry labels.
    The energy act requires manufacturers to place ''an
estimated yearly operating cost'' label or tag on every new
refrigerator, freezer, heater, dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer,
room air conditioner, water heater, central air conditioning
system, furnance, TV set, kitchen range, oven, humidifier and
dehumidifier.
    One problem is how to compute the annual energy cost of each
appliance. ''The proposed energy label for central air
conditioners uses a 1,000-hours-of-operation figure to determine
the estimated yearly energy cost figure. In Seattle,
a 400-hour-operation figure is more realistic while in Miami,
a 2,800-hour-operation figure is applicable,'' said John
A. Kammerer, manager of planning for major appliances at Amana
Refrigeration Inc. of Amana, Iowa.
    A greater concern is that federal rules won't prevent states
from passing their own laws. That could cause chaos and
huge costs, according to Glenn S. Olinger, group
president of McGraw-Edison Co. in Elgin.
    Olinger said he expects the rules to take effect by mid-1979.
He thinks consumer will understand the labeling, but he doubts its
usefulness. ''I think everyone will be surprised after we
get done how little difference there will be between one
company's product and another's,'' he said.
    The Association is asking that clothes dryers, portable
electric heaters, microwave ovens, humidifiers and dehumidifiers
be excluded from the labeling because all of the products
have essentially the same efficiency. It also is asking to
put the label in prominent view, rather than, as proposed, that
each label be adhesive-backed (no tags) on the
front of the appliance.
    The manufacturers is to conduct tests to provide the information
on the labels. If the FTC or anyone else challenges the
results, then ''A reasonable number of covered products'' must
be shipped by the manufacturer for independent tests. Amana said
that could ''pose particular financial hardship for small
manufacturers.'' Kammerer said that Amana has 184 styles
and sizes of units to which the tests apply.
hb    (Endit Idaszak) 10-16
 
 
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