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Video boom is pinball's doom
NEW YORK (AP) The pinball machine and the jukebox, two of America’s longtime favorite pastimes, are vanishing from bars, restaurants and amusement arcades across the country. They’re victims of the electronic age. ‘Kids don’t want to play pinball any more,” said Harry Soulette, operator of a penny arcade in Brooklyn. ‘‘They walked away from the pinball machine to play Pac-Man and Star Wars in late 1979, when the video boom began, and they have never looked back since.” Nor do they want to listen or dance to music played on old-style jukeboxes, not even to songs at the top of the charts. “They would rather tune in to the all-music channel on TV or play video disc players to watch images on the screen and listen to the music at the same time,” Soulette said. Others in the industry insist that the pinball machine and jukebox are not dead, yet. In fact, they say, there are signs the two old standbys are making a modest comeback. But there is no denying the impact of the current craze for electronic excitement, the backbone of today’s amusement industry, they add. “Business has been terrible,” said Gurney Rogers, president of Novel Pinball Machine Co., who has been selling and leasing pinball machines nationwide from New York for the last 14 years. “We haven’t sold a
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single machine in three years.” Pointing to three pinball machines standing in a corner of a showroom packed with video games, Rogers added: “These machines cost $2,000 each only three years ago, but now no one would take one even if I offered them for SSOO apiece.” Tom Nieman of Bally Corp. in Chicago, one of the nation’s three major manufacturers of pinball machines, is more optimistic. “We hit the bottom last year when nobody sold anything,” Nieman said. “But things are looking up. “I think many young people are rediscovering the 50-year-old game as their interests in electronic games burns out,” Nieman said. “And we’re trying to give them a taste of the good, old pinball by offering a two-tier machine that combines a video game and pinball.” Rock-Ola Co. of Chicago, the largest and oldest jukebox producer, acknowledged that the number of
Broader school disciplinary powers urged
c. 1984 The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON The Reagan administration, arguing that disciplinary problems in schooi have become an “epidemic,” urged the Supreme Court yesterday to give school officials broad new powers over students. School officials, the administration said, should be allowed to search students, their personal belongings and their lockers for drugs, alcohol and weapons - even if there is no solid proof that a crime has been committed. “Reasonable suspicion” that a specific student is violating school rules or the law should be enough to justify a complete search of that student, U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee told the court. In a footnote, Mr. Lee suggested that it might even be enough, in some circumstances, for school officials to make a
working jukeboxes around the country has declined to 30,000 today from 50,000 in their heyday in the 19605. But it insisted that “we are still selling quite a good number of latest models, some of them with 100 discs, which means a choice of 200 songs in a box.” Despite such optimism, many operators and distributors don’t believe there will be a renaissance of the pinball machine or jukebox. “It’s wishful thinking on their part,” said Steve Hoehman, owner of Crown Vending Co., an operator in Queens. “As far as I can see, there is no going back for these kids who grew up in a fast-paced world. They all find the pinball machine boring. “The video games are a logical extensionsi of their childhood, which was spent in front of TV sets most of the time,” Hockman said. “That rectangular, brown screen is probably one of the most familiar objects in their life and they are going to stick to it.” -
search in response to rumors of possible disorder. The government proposal would create a new exception to the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, requiring that searches for evidence of crime may not be done without a warrant, or at least without some proof that a crime has been or will be committed. Without being asked by the court to do so, the government stepped into a major test case over students’ rights so that it could volunteer its views on a constitutional controversy that has been developing over the last 15 years. The controversy pits claims of students’ rights of privacy against school officials’ claims that they must have flexibility to keep order in schools. The government, volunteering its views in a “friend of the court” brief, painted a
Pro-Khomeini faction claims hijacking responsibility
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) A commandeered Air France jet with 63 people aboard landed today in Tehran after the hijackers reportedly threatened to blow it up if the Iranian government refused to allow an emergency landing. Five hours after the landing, an anonymous telephone caller claimed responsibility for the hijacking on behalf of group loyal to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and demanded the release of five people held in French jails. The call was received by the French news agency Agence France-Presse at its office in Tehran. State-run Tehran radio said Iranian Foreign Ministry officials and other gover-
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grim picture of problems inside the nation’s schools. “The sad truth,” it said, “is that many classrooms across the country are not temples of learning teaching the lessons of good will, civility, and wisdom that are central to the fabric of American life. “To the contrary, many schools are in such a state of disorder that not only is the educational atmosphere polluted, but the very safety of students and teachers is imperiled.” It cited five-year-old statistics showing that every month 282,000 students and 1,000 teachers are attacked physically and 112,000 students and 6,000 teachers are robbed. It also said that almost 8 percent of junior and senior high school students in urban areas miss at least one day of school per month because they are afraid to go to school.
nment representatives went to Mehrabad Airport after the landing, presumably for negotiations. But the radio said neither the hijackers’ identities nor the nature of their demands were known. The Iranian capital was the Boeing 737’s fourth stop since hijackers took over the plane Tuesday afternoon during a scheduled flight from Frankfurt, West Germany, to Paris and demanded it be flown to Tehran. Earlier stops were in Geneva, Switzerland; Beirut, Lebanon; and Larnaca, Cyprus. Hours after the landing in Tehran no negotiations had begun and Iranian security forces surrounded the aircraft, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News
eluded her historic walk in space, a first for female astronauts. She also became the first woman to make two trips into space. (AP Wirephoto).
“School searches conducted in a prompt and informal way are a vital means of protecting students and teachers from weapons and drugs and enforcing school disciplinary rules ” Allowing school officials to conduct searches “in a prompt and informal way,” the administration brief contended, would be “a vital means of protecting students and teachers from weapons and drugs and enforcing school disciplinary rules.” The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled last year that the so-called exclusionary rule, created by the nation’s highest court in 1914 to deter illegal police conduct, applies to searches in public schools by administrators and teachers. The Supreme Court, however, on July 5 voted 5-4 to put the case off until next fall for a new hearing.
Agency said. IRNA said the plane’s engines were kept running and it cited unconfirmed reports indicating the hijackers planned to leave Tehran for an unknown destination. One of the plane’s stewards escaped from the craft Tuesday evening while it was being refueled at Larnaca, and Air France headquarters in Paris identified him as Deniel Egea, about 30. In a telephone interview in Cyprus with a French reporter, Egea said he believed there were three hijackers. Iran’s revolutionary Islamic government had said upon word of the hijacking that the plane would not be allowed to land in Tehran. However, Tehran radio said
Mondale, Ferraro kicking off South campaign swing
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro were kicking off a campaign through the South today, touting “a better future” with a drumbeat of patriotism, family values and equal opportunity. In stop after stop, Mondale, the Democratic presidential nominee, points to his running mate, Ms. Ferraro, as evidence of how those qualities can add up to the American dream. The pair planned appearances today at a cotton and soybean farm near Jackson, Miss., and the governor’s mansion in Jackson before flying on to campaign in Texas through Thursday. Mondale has indicated he considers the South so critical to his effort to win the White House that he is billing the stops in Mississippi and Texas as the kickoff of the campaign. “We’re trying to tell the South they’re important,” said Maxine Isaacs, Mondale’s spokeswoman. In 1980, Ronald Reagan won Mississippi with 49.4 percent of the popular vote to Jimmy Carter’s 48.1 percent. In Texas, Reagan’s margin over Carter was 55.3 percent to 41.4 percent. Mondale and Ms. Ferraro opened their first swing since the Democratic National Convention nominated them with a rally of about 4,000 people Tuesday in Ms.
Anti-Burford vote 363-51 in House c. 1984 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON The House of Representatives Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution urging President Reagan to withdraw his appointment of Anne McGill Burford as chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and the Atmosphere. The vote was 363-51. A White House press spokesman, Peter Roussel, said there would be no comment on the vote but added that Mrs. Burford was scheduled to be sworn in Thursday. Reagan has indicated he would not withdraw his nomination of Mrs. Burford, who was forced to resign in March 1983 as administrator of the Environmental Protec tion Agency amid congressional investigations into charges of political favoritism and mismanagement in the agency’s administration of toxic-waste laws. Last Tuesday the Senate, by a vote of 74 19, adopted the same resolution disap proving of Mrs. Burford’s appointment tc the committee, which advises the Com merce Department on issues pertaining tc oceans and air. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who led the effort to defeat the resolution, called the condemnation of Mrs. Burford “a Democratic football brought to this floor for political reasons.” But 109 Republicans joined 254 Democrats in voting for the resolution. Two Democrats and 49 Republicans voted against it. The president’s appointment of Mrs. Burford to the new environmental post has, however, rekindled the political attacks on the administration’s record on environmental and natural resources issues. Rep. Norman E. D’Amours, D-N.H., who introduced the resolution, called the appointment of Mrs. Burford a “slap in the face to the American people.” D’Amours said that Mrs. Burford’s tenure at the EPA had shown her to be “anti-environmental” and unqualified to fill the oceans and atmosphere advisory position. He said that Mrs. Burford’s 22 months at the agency “was marked by controversy, ineptitude and scandal. ” The congressman, and several others who spoke in favor of the resolution, said that remarks made by Mrs. Burford last week in a speech to wool growers in Colorado showed that she had “contempt” for the position she was being asked to fill. According to published accounts of that speech, she called her appointment to the advisory group a "nothingburger .” Of the committee she reportedly said: “They meet three times a year. They don’t do anything. It’s a joke. ”
that despite repeated warnings by the Iranian air force and civil aviation authorities, the airliner entered Iranian airspace early today intending to land at the airport in Tabrcz. But the Tabriz airport was closed, forcing the plane to continue to Tehran, the radio said. The pilot then contacted the Tehran air traffic control tower and appealed for emergency landing rights, saying the hijackers had threatened to blow up the aircraft if permission was again denied, the radio said. “The Iranian authorities, concerned about saving the lives of the passengers, allowed the aircraft to land and the aircraft landed,” the radio reported.
Ferraro’s New York congressional district of urban Queens. Addresses to about 1,500 at the National Urban League’s annual meeting in Cleveland followed. Mondale told the Urban League that the Democrats “have one national message to take everywhere, a message of hope, of opportunity, of opening doors.” In New York, Mondale ticked off Ms. Ferraro’s rise from being the daughter of Italian immigrants, to becoming a pgosecutor, to Congress. “I’m not asking the American people to support us because there’s a woman on the ticket,” Mondale said. “I want your support because Geraldine Ferraro is on the ticket and deserves to be vice president of the United States.” In Cleveland, Ms. Ferraro said, “As a woman, I am honored that Fritz Mondale has chosen me to make history. But I also know something else. Until every American can dream of growing up to be president, the American dream will not be fulfilled for any of us.” Pollster Louis Harris, meanwhile, said Tuesday his latest survey indicated that the selection of Ms. Ferraro helped Mondale pull within two points of Reagan. The survey found Reagan ahead 51-46 when people were asked about the presidential contenders alone.