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People in the news No free ride for Julia Roberts STOWE, Vl (AP) A city official here may be one of the few men in America who doesn’t know who Julia Roberts is but he doesn’t believe it’s the Police Department’s job to chauffeur the actress around. Herb O’Brien, chairman of the town Board of Selectmen, became irate after learning that Stowe police drove to Burlington, about 45 minutes away, to pick up Roberts. The 24-year-old star of “Pretty Woman” and “Steel Magnolias” is vacationing here with boyfriend Jason Patrie, said her Los Angeles agent, Nancy Seltzer. “Town police have been chauffeuring this movie star I don’t know who she is, Julia Roberts and her entourage in a town of Stowe police car,” O’Brien said. Police Chief Kenneth Libby could not immediately be reached for comment Friday. Libby’s wife, reached at the couple’s home, said the chief was out for the evening. • NEW DELHI, India (AP) The Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Prize for peace for his nonviolent efforts to end Chinese occupation of his native Tibet, says he believes China will go the way of the former Soviet Union. “It is only a question of time when the communist regime in China, based by military power, will collapse,” the 56-year-old monk told exiled Tibetans on Friday. “Tibetan people inside Tibet are still struggling for freedom, there is a constant violation of human rights and we, outside Tibet, have the right to protest,” he said. • NORMAN, Okla. (AP) A national television audience finally got to see law professor Anita Hill in an ad for the University of Oklahoma, which deleted her image amid the uproar over her sexual harassment charges. The university cut out Hill’s two-second appearance in its promotional spot following her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was sexually harassed by thcn-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Thomas, who denied Hill’s allegations, was confirmed to the high court. The commercial, minus Hill, ran on ABC in October. The restored version was broadcast on the TBS cable network when the Sooncrs met the University of Virginia in Sunday’s Gator Bowl. Catherine Bishop, university director of media services, said Friday the original spot was restored after the campus returned to normal. The school initially said it deleted Hill because she would have overshadowed the film’s recruiting message. Hill declined to comment about the ad.

Dear Abby Dictionary aimed in abortion’s war of words

DEAR ABBY: The continuing abortion controversy is not about killing babies, but about preventing them. People opposed to the procedure have been twisting semantics to promote their side of the issue. The dictionaries will prove my point, because this is where the meaning of words in the English language is explained for everyone to read and understand. Webster’s describes a baby as “newborn,” period! Consequently, the abortion procedure should more realistically be referred to as preventing a baby. The people who project those horrible baby-killing images during a woman’s early months of pregnancy are trying to characterize women as murderers. These same people claim they are fighting for the “rights of the unborn.” Webster’s also states there is no fetus until after the third month of pregnancy. Women get fearfully nervous after missing a period for several weeks if they aren’t planning a family. If abortion is readily available by competent doctors at a reasonable price, the chances are much better the procedure will be performed during a rudimentary

THE FAMILY CIRCUS® By Bil Keane

“You’ve been overdoing it. Take it easy and slow down a bit.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Film director John Landis has signed an exclusive production contract with Universal Television. Under the contract, St Clare Entertainment which includes Landis, Robert K. Weiss and Leslie Belzberg will produce an undisclosed number of programs beginning this year, Universal spokesman Bob Crutchfield said Friday. Specific projects and air dates have not been decided. Landis’ films include “Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers” and “Twilight Zone - The Movie.” He also produces the comedy “Dream On” for Home Box Office and has signed with CBS to make a pilot series based on the Thome Smith novel “Topper.” The novel, about a pair of mischievous ghosts, was the basis of the 1950 s television series of the same name starring Leo G. Carroll. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country music star Hank Williams Jr. has announced he’s signing with recently rejuvenated Capricorn Records in another boost for the label that was once home to the Allman Brothers. Landing Williams is something of a coup for Capricorn head Phil Walden, who revived the label last spring after a hiatus of 12 years. The label became known in the 1970 s for producing records by such artists as the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band, the Dixie Dregs and Delbert McClinton. Williams’ recent hits for Wamcr-Curb include “Good Friends, Good Whiskey, Good Lovin” and “The South Shoulda Won.” NEW YORK (AP) The Film Society of Lincoln Center will present the series “It Can’t Happen Here: Films of the Great Depression,” from Jan. 10-Fcb. 19 at the new Walter Reade Theater. The 30 films in the six-week series look at this critical, historical era from its historical implications to its social and cultural impacts. Examples of dominant fictional genres, such as the gangster film and the musical, plus documentaries, newsreels, cartoons, period and contemporary films, will be presented to provide the broadest overview of themes and attitudes generated by and associated with the Depression. Movies in the series include the British domestic drama “Love on the Dole” (1941, directed by John Baxter) and the Busby Berkeley dance outing “The Gold Diggers of 1933” (directed by Mervyn Lcßoy).

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stage of development when there is no fetus only an undeveloped fertilized egg. No one has ever suggested a compromise in the abortion issue. If the procedure were declared legal only during the first three months of pregnancy, possibly the pro-life crowd would more willingly accept it. An undeveloped fertilized egg doesn’t describe a baby any more than a seed describes a rose bush. Using the pro-life logic, one could say a vehicle was in existence after a nut and bolt were joined at the beginning of an automobile assembly line.

REAL LIFE ADVENTURES by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich

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JULIA ROBERTS Caught in cop car

What rights does a rudimentary ovum or sperm have over a complex, grown woman who has managed to survive in this frenzied and tumultuous world? Some people would treat pregnant women no differently than pregnant cows in the pasture, being concerned only with their potential offspring. Women who elect to have an abortion only want to take charge of their own lives. What woman in this world wants to kill babies, particularly her own? Not one, unless you, too, fall prey to this continuing semantic malarkey. WILLIAM W. BLISS, SEDONA, ARIZ. DEAR MR. BLISS: I couldn’t agree more. But it is a mistake to buy the line that many abortions are performed in the middle or later stages of pregnancy. According to Dr. Joan Griggs Babbott, executive director of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, more than 90 percent of all abortions are performed during the first trimester. After 12 weeks, it becomes increasingly dangerous for a woman to terminate her pregnancy.

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