FCC prepares to answer cable questions quickly WASHINGTON (API — Television viewers who are con fusts! about now cable television regulations can take heart Federal regulators My help is one phone i all awnv The Federal Communications Commission also has printed a fact sheet with answers to consumers’most frequent questions And officials at the agency, legendary for speaking to targon and bouncing callers from one office to the next, say they an* changing their ways "We re finishing up the rules, making them clear and simple, so that any consumer who wants to take some time can understand them, said Sandy Wilson, chief of the FCC's new cable TV bureau. When a consumer t alls the bureau, the person who answers will be expected to start addressing the caller's problem immediately, she said Wilson is in the process of hiring and organizing n staff of 240 lawyers, accountants. I'commusts and clerical work ors They will In- divided into learns, ear h of which will have authority over all cable problems in one region of the country Hut Wilson emphasized that the FCC is not a police fort e patrolling the nation's U.tMM) cable companies look ing for violations And consumers can't e\pe< t every change in month lv hills to lie 1 overed by the law For example, subscrip tion fees i barged for om e free cable TV program guides or fees for fixing VCRs a re not covered by the law It's inevitable when |>art of a business gets regulated, companies will look for w.i\s to make more money in unregulated areas, said Mike Huger, an !-( .( attorney We have soon operators who have dreamed up charges they never had before, he said, adding that the agent v is interested in hearing about new charges The public's biggest nusi otu eptton about the new lavs appears lo tw> that nil rates would go down and mat me federal government regulates everything cable-related. FCC officials said. Actually. lotal governments regulate the cost of equip ment needed to ri* eive cable serv ice; installation: service charges, and basic (able programming i e , all over-the air broadcast stations, public and government an ess table t hnnnels Consumers who have problems in those areas should c all their lot al government's i able 1 V offlt e Officials there are supposed to determine whether basic rates are reasonable I'he I ( (. regulates the cost of channels that aren't basic . inc luding premium c hannels. sue h as HHO and Show time. and pas per s less for spec ini sporting events or movies The H ' will decide whether program |kic kages lievund the basic are reasonahlv pru eel Police question suspect’s kidnapping story TRENTON, N.|. (AIM — A woman who is still a suspect in her son's 1991 kidnapping and death has new troubles with the law she claims she was abducted by two men who said they were FFU agents Michelle I.odzinski disrippeared Friday Her brother, Edward I.odzinski. said that five hours after she left for work, he found her car idling outside the apartment they share in Woodhridge. The driver's side door was open, but her pocketbook, coat and a canister of Mace were still inside, accord ing to police and neighbors Lodzinski said his sister called him collect Saturday morning from Detroit and told him two men driving a black four-wheel-drive vehicle abducted her and said that she had better keep quiet about the death of her son, Timothy Wiltsey "The two guys who took her were telling her You're going to learn a lesson from this " I.odzinski said " They told her ‘Every one's going to think you're nuts hoi ,iuse of this You're going to lose your job It'll make you look had Before Timothy's body was found. Mil belle I.od/.inski repeated I v told relatives she feared those responsible for his death might t ome after her FBI offii lals and Middlesex t ountv Prose color Kolmrt Gluck said Mil belle I.od/inski claimed to have been kidnap|>ed by two men identifying themselves as FBI agents "At the end of the interview with her. we determined her story Ini ked credibility, said Hank Glaspie. FBI spokesman for the Detroit office. Michelle l.odzinski, 2t>. was staving with relatives Sunday in Toledo. ()hio. and could not be real bed for comment Her mother, Alice Lodzinski, said her son planned to pick her daughter up but did not know when she would bo bei k Gluck said investigators want to speak to Mic.hallf? I.od/mski whim sho returns, and addl'd that she i> still a su*p«* t m Timothy s death I hi' fivt> year old disap|**ared at ii carnival he was attending with his mother in Slav loot Ills skeletal remains were found in April 1992 in a marshy section of an indus trial park Shi! has never stopped (wing .1 stispei t. (iluck said Sunday The investigation is still open When questioned after I iuiothv s disap pea ranee. Michelle l.od/mski first said she lost trai k of her son when she went to buy a soda 1-iter she told police a couple that she re< ogni/ed took the hoy aw.in She moved in with her brother after she rei eived harassing phone calls and her apartment was burglarized, f.dward l.odzin ski has said Police also have tint onfirmed reports that someone stalked Mu belli* laxlzinski for about two months in 1992 Golden Globe Awards honor ‘Schindler’s List’ BEVERI.V HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Schindler's List, considered by many the crowning achieve ment of Steven Spielberg s dis tinguished filmmaking career, left the Golden Globe-winning director at a loss for words on what lies ahead. "The sad thing for me. I don't know what I'm going to do next," said Spielberg, who accepted Golden Globes on Sat urday night for best dramatic picture and best director. Schindler s Ust was the expe rience of my motion picture life." said the maker of laws, ET The Extra- Terrestrial and The Color Purple What could lie ahead are Oscars for the director and his soaring black-and-white film about a Na/.i profiteer's rest ue of Jews in the Holocaust The Golden Globes, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are seen as a barometer of film industry senti ments leading up to voting for the Academy Awards, which will be handed out March 21. Also in the running are Tom Hanks and Holly Hunter, hon ored for best dramatic perfor mances in Philadelphia and The Piano, respectively. The 51st Golden Globe Awards show was staged at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Monks, who plays a lawyer with AIDS who sties his firm for firing him in Philadelphia, accepted his award with humble thanks to 0 number of advisers now dead from AIDS "I am a very lucky man to have been able to make the i holt es I've made this \ear. ' said Hanks, who also starred in Sleepless in Seattle Hunter was honored for her role as a mute virtuoso in colo nial New Zealand The star of The Piano thanked director writer Jane Campion for "com ing up with such an amazingly original story " After the ceremony. Spielberg said youths who laughed during a recent Oakland screening of Schindler's List and applauded when a Jewish woman was shot by .1 sadistic. Merman officer were "not to blame "They've been desensitized to violence," he said The director also said he planned to take bis film to Germany in a couple of weeks, "and that should lie very interesting." Kohin Williams was named IHist actor in a musical or come dy for masquerading as a British nanny in Mrs Doubtfire. which was named best musical or com edy film. "If I start shaking, it's my nerves, not the room.” Williams s.ud, referring to last week's quake mid iho aftershocks Tho exits are over there und there Angela Bassett. vvlm portrayed Tina Tumor in What's Give t-ot to Do With It. won Iho (.loin- for Im'sI ai tress in a musii a I or corn ■ edy Winona Ryder of l hr Agr of Innocence and Tommy I.oo lories of The Fugitive won Gold on Globos us host supporting plavors Tho press assor lalion made Iho comedy series Seinfeld, tho hard-nosed cop show NYPD Hlur and the HBO drama liar bantu is at the (late multiple winners in the television cate gories Seinfeld was named best comedy series, and star Jerry Seinfeld and supporting actress Julia I .outs Dreyfus also coder I oil Gloiies SYPD Hlue. dropped by some stations because of its frank material, was selected lies! dra ma series, and star David Caruso was honored for best perfor mance by an actor in a dramatic series. Kathy Baker of Picket Fences won best actress honors for a dramatic television series Barbarians At the Gate, the scorching treatment of financial chicanery in the 'HOs, scored a Globe for best millineries or movie made for TV Its. shir. James (aimer, won for lies! actor in 11 minisorios Helen Hunt of Mod About You. was named lies! actress in a musical or comedy Bruce Springsteen claimed the Golden Globe for best origi nal song in a motion picture for "Streets of Philadelphia," writ ten for Philadelphia The ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel seemed festive despite the devastation of the past week in Los Angeles "We all thank God that we re alive and well and able to be here tonight." said em< ee Faye Dunaway. Before the program began, producer Dick Clark said the ballroom was safe and pointed out emergency exits to the audi ence. Presenters included Gregory Peck. Al Pacino. Mariel Heming way, Carol Burnett. Morgan Freeman, Lou Gossett )r , Laura Dern, Charlton Heston, Tim Robbins. 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