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Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1985
'Yabba-dabba-do Campaign advocates seat belts, child safety restraints
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WASHINGTON — The government, in a partnership with Fred Flintstone, kicked off a campaign yesterday with a "yabba-dabba-doo" to promote automobile seat belts and child safety restraints — devices that could save more than just make-believe lives.
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole helped begin the drive before a group of school children and others assembled on the Washington Mall. She sat, carefully buckled up, in a battery-powered replica of Fred and Wilma Flintstone's Stone Age vehicle, the Flintmobile.
Dole sat smiling and waving next to an actor dressed up in a Fred Flintstone costume who also was buckled up.
The "Fred Flintstone's All American Buckle Up" campaign marks an unusual partnership between the creators of the popular television cartoon characters and the Transportation Department. The American Automobile Association also pledged its services to educate the public.
The Stone Age vehicle will be featured in parades and other events nationwide next year to remind adults and children to buckle up for safety.
"Statistics indicate that as many as half of all motor vehicle fatalities and serious injuries could be prevented by safety belt use." Dole said.
According to federal statistics, traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for people ages 1 to 44. In fact, the government says more people up to the age of 50 die from auto accidents than heart disease, cancer or stroke.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a unit of the Transportation Department, estimates more than 8,000 lives could be saved annually with wider use of lap and shoulder belts.
Last year, 44,241 Americans were killed in motor vehicle accidents.
Every state and the District of Columbia have laws requiring that infants and toddlers be placed in child safety seats or buckled up. The government says child safety seat usage saves 160 lives each year but that with full and proper use thousands more injuries would be avoided.
Sixteen states already have adopted laws making the use of safety belts mandatory for front-seat passengers and drivers.
Iowa report disputes ruling on teachers
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DES MOINES, Iowa — A governor's task force, citing a need for diversity in education, recommended yesterday that the state eliminate mandatory certification of teachers in fundamentalist Christian and home schools.
The recommendation is at odds with a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling and a U.S. District Court ruling in Des Moines, which upheld the constitutionality of mandatory state certification of teachers at Christian and home schools.
But one member of the task force, Robert Van Vooren, past president of the Iowa State Bar Association, said it had considered the court cases in
recommending that the Legislature implement the new policy for a test period of five years.
"No more than five states require certification of teachers in Christian and home schools. . . We also found in other states home-schooling students and Christian students do quite well. We would be less than canid if we said that was not a factor in our decision." Van Vooren said.
In place of state certification, the panel recommended that "other adequate safeguards" be incorporated to ensure quality education, including annual reporting requirements and annual testing of children in Christian and home schools.
the unanimous recommendation was hailed by Christian school
leaders as a reaffirmation of parents' rights to determine the proper education for their own children.
But it met strong opposition from the state's largest teachers' group, the Iowa State Education Association, which said the recommendation would jeopardize the state's ability to guarantee equal educational opportunities for all Iowa students.
The three-member Task Force on Compulsory Education was made up of Van Vooren; Robert Benton, director of the Iowa Department of Public Instruction; and Earl Hill, a Kanawha attorney who has represented Christian schools.
Van Vooren said there was a likelihood that students who failed the annual exams would not be allowed to continue in the private programs.
In its recommendation issued to Gov. Terry Branstad, the task force said, "Freedom of choice goes to the heart of America's democracy.
"It it is apparent that there is great diversity in the educational approaches taken both among and within the public and on-public educational sectors. This is healthy and should be encouraged. Unanimity is not necessary. It is not even desirable."
The Rev. David Jaspers of the Fellowship Baptist Church in Marshaltown said his church had been working for 13 years to pass such legislation.
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Both ads feature children, but the children come to different conclusions about what Star Wars means. In the High Frontier ad, the child associates Star Wars with peace, while the child in the ad by the Committee for a Strong Peaceful America determines that
"It's true that we are using it to refer to a specific proposal — the SDI proposal," she said. "We are using it to describe what is now a reality. Lucasfilm creates a fantasy world."
The two groups, High Frontier and the Committee for a Strong Peaceful America, have been running television advertisements with opposing viewpoints on the SDI proposal since October.
"Star Wars," your honor, is a fantasy. It's something that doesn't exist." Hefer said. Ads that associate "Star Wars" with a missile program, he said, "will cause children and parents to tend to shy away from 'Star Wars.'"
"There should be no use of 'Star Wars' as directed to children," he said. "They will identify the two together and become frightened."
During an hour and a half hearing, the judge said, "I'm assuming 'Star Wars' is a strong (trade) mark. I'm also assuming that little children who see TV might get mixed up about it."
Hefter said Lucas' company, Lucasfilm, "does not seek to silence either party" but merely wants to protect its trademark and "prevent it from association with a noxious subject, particularly nuclear holocaust."
Laurence Hefter, representing the creator of the adventure film that has reaped $1.3 billion, asked U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell to grant a preliminary injunction stopping two groups from using the phrase War Wars in advertisements about the controversial defense proposal.
Lawyers protest SDI's nickname
WASHINGTON — Using the term Star Wars to describe President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has turned a movie of fantasy into one of fear, lawyers for film-maker George Lucas told a federal judge yesterday.
Marianne Hall, representing High Frontier, said her client agrees with Lucas that Star Wars is not the right term to describe Reagan's initiative. High Frontier's ads, she said, are trying to stop the use of the phrase in that context.
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