Official wants more auto ratings
WASHINGTON (AP)—The government should rate the reliability and durability of new cars just as it now rates them for gasoline. The government's Federal Trade Commission said yesterday.
"If the consumer knows not only the price, but the average repair cost for a car, he's going to have another important factor to take into account in deciding whether to buy that car," Michael Pertschuk, chairman of the FTC, told a Senate panel.
The only widely known information now available to consumers on all new cars is the gasoline mileage ratings provided by the Environmental Protection Agency, he said. Pertschuk called this program mostly generally successful.
"SHOULDn't OTHER basic information concerning equally important matters—reliability, durability—also be made available?" he asked.
Such a system to rate new car models would not only help buyers but also would provide a stimulus to manufacturers to design and build better cars, he said.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has focused on vehicle defects, could test an automobile durability reporting system, Pertachuk said.
Pertschuk also said the FTC found in a survey that almost 30 percent of new vehicles had some problem covered by warranty. But, he told the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumers, only 7 percent of all other products with some form of warranty needed a warranty-covered repair.
The survey also found that 25 percent of those who had warranty problems with motor vehicles were disaffected with the final result, compared with only 8 percent who were disaffected with the warranty repairs made on all other products.
He recommended that consumers be allowed to sue to make a company buy back a car with constant repair problems. He said consumers ought to be allowed to keep cars in service, and that which was resolved, which is not permitted now. Such court cases could last several years.
Oil pollution worsens off France
BREST, France (AP)—Oil from the wrecked American supertanker Amoco Cadiz reached a major island bird sanctuary 70 miles northeast of here yesterday, becoming a menace to penguins, gulls and rare birds.
Oil sticks washed the shores of the Sept. Iles - Seven Islands - sanctuary, where the birdlife is only new building after 80 percent was wiped out by oil spills across the English Channel from the Torrey Canyon disaster 11 years ago.
A Navy spokesman at Brest said the vessel, already causing the world's worst recorded oil spill, would dump its remaining cargo into the sea in peak tides by next weekend if predicted bad weather continues.
Thursday, March 23, 1978
"The situation is desperate," one Anmoco official said.
OFFICIALLY, attempts continued to set up an operation to pump out the 13 million to 18 million gallons still in the vessel's 15 tanks, all open now to the sea.
But there was an air of quiet desperation among officials in Breest.
Since running aground on rocks a mile of Portsail harbor March 16, the Amoco Cadiz has spilled it over 44 million gallons. It is one of those that lay near 70 miles along the north Brittany shore.
The spill is at least 15 million gallons more than the Torrey canyon spill.
The French cabinet opened a $1 million credit as a preliminary indemnity to aid
thousands of fisherman and others along the polluted coastline. The government said more funds would be offered as damage assessment continued.
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UK TVListings
Thursday
P. M.
6:30 Hollywood Squares 4
Sha Na Nape 5
$200,000 Diamond 9
Peter and the Wolf (Captioned) 11
Odd Couple 13
Macheul/Louer Report 19
Filippe Launar Church Special 27
Newlywed Game 41
7:00 Happy Days 9
CHiPs 4, 27
Watons 10
Melissa Anna Doone (Part 4)" starring John Sommerville 11
Forsyte Saga 19
Joker's Wild 41
7:30 Fish9
7:30 Fish 9
MacNeil/Lehrer Report 11
Hollywood Connection 41
8:00 Barney Miller 9
Black Sheep Squadron 4, 27
Hawaii Five-O, 13
Cuba, Sport and Revolution
Documentary, 11, 19
Movie—"The Court Jester" starring
Danny Kaye 41
8:30 A.E.S. Hudson Street 9
9:00 Barrett 9
    Police woman 4, 27
    Barnaby jones 5, 13
    Movie — "Ama Karenen (Part 7)" 11,
11
10:00 News 4, 5, 6, 13, 17
Classic Glacier of Gulliformo Fierens
11
Dick Cavett 19
Star Trek 41
11:00 Odd Couple 9
Starsky & Hutch 41
11:30 Untouchables 5
Forever Fernwood 9
10:30 Johnny Carson 4.27
Medical Center 5
Miami Vice 9
ABC Captioned News 11, 19
Movie - Kelly's All Star Training
10:45 Kelly's Cailva Salades 13
A.M.
12:00 Tomorrow 4, 27
Merv Griffin 9
12:30 Movie—"Hell on Frisco Bay"
starring Alan Ladd, Edward G.
Robinson 5
12:10 Toma41
1:20 Movie—"The Court Jester" starring Danny Kaye 41
1:00 News 4
3:00 Art Linkletter 5 Dick Van Dyke 41
2:50 Love, American Style 41
3:30 Night Gallery 41
4:00 Thriller 41
5:00 Untamed World 41
Tonight's Highlights
On television tonight:
5:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre 41
A documentary, "Cuba, Sport and Revolution," plays at 8 p.m.on channels 11 and 19. This program recruits a 1975 visit to Cuba by British sportscarer Ron Pickering and pro-team champion boxer and a track star.
"The Court Jester," a comedy film about a lawyer, Kate, also plays at 8 p.m. on channel 41. The movie, set in medieval England, is about a crown-crown town where people are involved with and trying to overthrow the king. Channel 41 also broadcasts the movie at 1:20
A comedy series premieres tonight
at 8:30 p.m. on channel 9. The series, a A.E.S. HUDSON Street," is a satire of TV medical shows. Offbeat patients make life jump for Dr. Tony Menzies (played by Gregory Sierra) and his wife financially stricken New York hospital.
Part seven of the movie "Anna Karinena" appears at the 9 p.m. on Channel 11 and 19. It is based on Leo Cullum's book "The Unknown Mance in the Russian imperial court."
10:30 p.m. Clint Eastwood and Telly Savals play in a 1970 movie on channel 13. The movie, "Kelly's Heroes," is about American soldiers brave through German lines to grab an artifact in gold from a French bank.
Energy bill moves past stalemate
University Daily Kansan
WASHINGTON (AP)—House-Senate energy conferences agreed yesterday to support a compromise with President Jimmy Carter's energy plan. The compromise would lift price controls from natural gas in 1985.
Breaking a stalemate that has existed since before Christmas, Senate conferences, on a 10-7 vote, formally approved a compromise plan that discovered natural gas after Jan. 1, 1985.
House conferees, in turn, agreed to accept the basic approach of the Senate proposal.
The House proposal calls for deregulation by July 1, 1985.
BESIDES LIFTING price controls later, the House proposal would allow the president or Congress to reimpose price limits on gasoline and diesel. These quantities of gas available for deregulation.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., leader of the Senate conferences, said the Senate proposed a new tax.
The Senate conferees' inability to agree among themselves earlier on deregulation is the main reason that Carter's energy bill has been stalled for several months.
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