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PAGE 21 • PLA1NPEALER - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, MM Notion/World c Soviets bow to the videofevolution By United Press International VORONEZH, U.S.S R. - The Soviet Union has decided if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, and has announced it is selling its own brand of video recorders that look exactly like their cousins in the West. But there's a hitch. If you want to plunk down 1,200 rubles ($1,450) for a machine, you have to trek to Voronezh, a sleepy town of 90,000 250 miles south of Moscow Worse, you have to sign an agreement that if the machine breaks down, you will return it to Voronezh's Elektronika store -- the only place in the U.S.S.R. that sells the Soviet VCRs -- and demonstrate the problem. A salesman in the store confided that the "Elektronika VM-12'r video recorder, which a press report said would be available in four cities by the end of 1984, is an experiment. It appeared they may no longer even be for sale. He said that about 250 people have bought the units and are be­ ing used as trouble-shooters to iron out problems that apparently plague the rather limited device. When the bugs are eliminated, the Elektronika factory in Voronezh that builds the VCRs 'j will produce a new, improved ver­ sion. But VCRs are not likely to become a household fixture in the Soviet Union for many years, he said. Still, the Soviet bow to the worldwide video revolution -- a consumer revolution -- seems to run counter to the official attitude expressed early this year. In January a spate of articles appeared in the Soviet media call­ ing the video recorder a tool of "imperialist propaganda "In a bourgeois society, video is used to spiritually enslave man," the newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura said on Jan. 9. "Contamination of the mind with the help of the video stuff of the bourgeois mass culture is becoming an ever more acute pro­ blem in the West," it said. But as with radio and television, the Soviets have discovered the machine has potential -for spreading official ideology. "Mass production and distribu­ tion of video-ideology itself does not mean that the modern domestic video technique is born to be an evil genius," the Sovet­ skaya Kultura article said. "By whom it is used and for what pur­ poses, that is the critical point." In the Voronezh Electronika, one of only 36 electronics stores in the Soviet Union, the salesman said the VCRs are perfect for many small towns that don't have a movie theater. Video recorders could also be used during Communist Party meetings or as an entertaining way to disseminate controlled in­ formation. He demonstrated the one work­ ing unit in the main store. A<$ separate "Video-Magnetaphone Salon," added to the store to display and take orders for the machines on a one-month delay basis, was not open. The current model works like Western VCRs. As expected, it does not accept Western tapes It has a digital clock, but it can­ not be programmed to record television programs in the viewers' absence. ; The Elektronika VM-12 weighs 22 lbs and has fast-forward, fast- reverse, record, play and stop but­ tons functions. Rumors that the Soviets receiv­ ed technical help from West Ger­ man or Japanese manufacturers Could not be confirmed, though the gun-metal gray machine looks ex­ actly like its Western counter­ parts. Western and Japanese VCRs are available legally in Soviet second-hand shops, but the prices are astronomical. In a Moscow second-hand store a Grundig VCR costing $9,500 was gathering dust on a shelf. Boxes of 12 blank cassettes cost as much as $960. So the 1,200 rubles price tag on the Elektronika .VM-12, which comes with a coupon for 10 free blank tapes that usually go for about $60 each, is a deal -- if it works. Elektronika VM-12 was put on sale May 15 with the restriction that only people who live in and around Voronezh could buy a machine. In three months, only 250 have been sold. Despite colorful win­ dow displays advertising the machines, it seems the recorders are no longer being sold. The Voronezh salesmen shooed away a crowd of curious shoppers and told the few bold enough to ask that they couldn't buy a machine. " A local taxi driver rolled his eyes with traditional Russian forebearance when asked about the Elektronika VM-12. He knew all about it. "Of course, it doesn't work," he said. i Space experiment aborted because of blown fuses By United Press International SPACE CENTER, Houston - An experiment .designed by a Ohio student to grow pure crystals in space was shut down prematurely aboard the shuttle Discovery Tuesday because it blew too many fuses, the astronauts reported. . Shawn Murphy, 18, of Newbury, Ohio, monitored the abortive operation from the shuttle control center. Murphy, who was a junior at Newbury High School when he submitted his proposal to NASA two years ago, currently is a sophomore at Hiram College in Ohio, is seeking a degree in criminology. • \ • V . "One of the lessons you learn do­ ing science, and I know from per­ sonal experience, is that not everything goes how you expect it will all the time and that's certain­ ly the case in-the float zone experi­ ment todayt" astrophysicist Steve Hawley reported from Discovery. Technicians said results of the experiment would not be known until engineers evaluate the crystal and the film which record­ ed the crystal growth in a small box located in lower deck of the shuttle Discovery. . The experiment was designed to grow a pure crystal - in the weightlessness of space with what is known as the "float zone" method in which a heating ele ment is moved along a crystalline rod. The heating element creates a zone of heat which floats through the crystal. "Any impurities that might be present in the crystal are suspend ed in the solution and so, as the crystal cools behind the float zone, we are hopefully left with a pure uniform crystal," Hawley said. However, when Hawley and Resnik turned on the power for the heating element, the device blew a fuse. Each time they started it up, more fuses were blown. "When we finally got down to running out of fuses, we elected to take the heater power as high as we thought we safely could and have the experiment stay on line/' he said. The unit then appeared to overheat and Hawley reported he c o u l d n o l o n g e r s e e t h e temperature displays. 2nd -^rr_^*Annual McHenry County ANTIQUES SHOW To Benefit The Easter Seal Society SEPTEMBER 8 & 9, 1984 Sat. 11-9 Sun. 11-5 Preview Sat. 9-11 McHenry County Fairgrounds Rt. 47 A Country Club Rd. 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