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C-6 Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville, Mondav, June 3, 1985 Founder ofMADD Is Still Mad again released and again violated his parole, she said. Tonight NBC will display a toll-free telephone number 1-800-GET MADD (438-6233) that will be active through June, says Lightner. Many of the callers will ask for information, she said, and others will be victims of accidents or relatives of victims. For the most part volunteers will refer callers to local MADD members who will provide information on court processes and referral services and serve as listening posts for the angry, concerned and pened to have returned to the Sacramento suburb and passed the site of the latest accident about 20 minutes before it occurred, near the place where the same driver she says was the same one hit Cari Lightner and drove on, leaving her to die on the street. That time the man had been out on bail only two days earlier on another hit-and-run drunken-driving charge, Lightner said.

For the death of her daughter the driver was incarcerated 16 months, released, violated his parole, was sent to a half-way house, TV Tonight By Steven H. Scheuer Today's best television shows as previewed and selected by Steven H. Scheuer and TV KEY'S staff in New York and Hollywood. 7 p.m. CBS Scarecrow and Mrs.

King. (Repeat). Filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria, Mrs. King and Lee are sent to the famous city to find a missing British agent. She's known as Emily Farnsworth, played by Jean Stapleton.

It's a fast-paced chase show with Bruce Boxleitner showing his athletic prowess and Kate Jackson at her appealing best. Stapleton adds dash and color to the show. 7 p.m. ABC BasebalL The teams and site to be announced. 8 p.m.

CBS Kate AlUe. Jane Curtain is simply splendid in tonight's episode. We find her thinking about her past and coming to terms with the possibility of selling her house in Connecticut the place she spent her married years and had her kids. Holland Taylor has a good role as one of Allie's old cronies. 8 p.m.

NBC Movie. "M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Driving." (Made-for-TV 1983). (Repeat). Moving, emotional drama about a grieving, angry California mother whose daughter is killed by a drunk driver. The drama works because the early portion is devoted to grief and initial reactions and then turns into a political lesson.

Mariette Hartley is most believable as the angry mother who develops into a political activist to generate a tough California law and more public awareness of this growing problem. 8 p.m. PBS American Playhouse. "Three Sovereigns for Sarah." Plodding drama perks up a bit in the courtroon scenes near the end in which Vanessa Redgrave's character is accused of witchcraft along with her two sisters. The production values and Salem, location shooting are impeccable, but more attention should have paid to the script.

MONDAY TUESDAY ONLY! A Special Top Sirloin Dinner for 2 plus all the salad you can eat. being tested by focus groups, she says. Lightner describes PARTY as "a fun-type campaign with a variety of activities and projects which educates teen-agers about the dangers of alcohol and drugs and driving." This year Lightner moved MADD headquarters as well as her 14-year-old son and Cari's twin sister, now 18 from California to Dallas. With her staff of 25, Lightner works with MADD groups across the country and in Europe, particularly in West Germany, where many of the members are Americans living abroad. She recently visited England and Ireland, two countries with "horrible problems," and Scandinavia, which rated her compliments.

LIGHTNER said that in the United Kingdom the safety slogan last year was not America's familiar "If You Drink, Don't Drive," but "Two Will Do" a compromise. In Scandinavia, however, "they have sobriety checkpoints, their laws are tougher than ours and they are not afraid to pull drivers' licenses." MADD's other projects include training sessions for bartenders and managers of drinking establishments "to be responsible in their service, hopefully, and still make a living." The group continues to push for laws that would raise drinking ages in every state to 21, revoke permanently the licenses of drivers responsible for death or injury or who are repeat offenders, and enable police to arrest drivers who are also drinking and to impound cars of repeat offenders. In August Lightner will kick off MADD's continent-wide march from Los Angeles to Washington, scheduled to end with a candlelight vigil here in December. Meanwhile, the man who was responsible for the death of Cari Lightner in 1980 has been involved in yet another automobile accident in which a girl has been injured, according to Lightner. He has pleaded not guilty, Lightner said, and his preliminary trial is set for today the day that NBC repeats "MADD: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers." Lightner, a former real estate agent in Fair Oaks, hap By Patricia Brennan The Washington Post Candy Lightner is still mad.

And she's frustrated over this country's attitudes toward drinking and driving. Mothers against Drunk Drivers, the group she founded five years ago after her 13-year-old daughter was killed, has 600,000 members and supporters in 450 chapters in 47 states and more in Europe but she still has work to do at many levels. Take a recent conversation at a barbeque she attended in Dallas, where she now lives. LIGHTNER WAS chatting with a neighbor whose son was going to dinner with friends to celebrate high-school graduation. The mother said she was planning to have bottles of wine sent, to the graduates' dinner table.

"Suddenly," said Lightner; "I had to decide whether to be 'Candy Lightner, neighbor' or 'Candy Lightner, So she asked the woman whether she was aware of the legal drinking age in Texas (It's 19), or knew whether the teen-agers would be driving after they left the restaurant. The answer to both was negative Mom didn't know. Lightner wondered if she cared, either. So it's for a change in attitudes, as well as for stronger legislation against drunk driving, that Candy Lightner is fighting. TONIGHT at 8 NBC will repeat its story of Lightner, the hit-and-run death of her daughter Cari by a drunk driver with a long arrest record and Lightner's subsequent founding of MADD.

Mariette Hartley has the lead (she won a 1983 Emmy nomination for her work) but Lightner has a small role as a reporter. It has been five years since she founded the advocacy group. She spent the first two years working on a volunteer basis, the past three as its paid director. "It's my life," she said simply. And MADD has branched out.

Now, Lightner said, "MADD is far more than legislation only about 1 percent of our work is aimed at changing laws. We do far more than that community awareness, court monitoring, speakers bureaus Its most recent project is called PARTY, an acronym that stands for "positive and responsible training for youth" (but Lightner says that the acronym is what matters, especially to teens). PARTY is a spin-off program Chef special cut limited time only $6.99 at Bonanza. Only TOP SIRLOIN DINNER FOR 2 only 56.99 NBC Repeating Movie About MADD Formation And that includes (at no extra charge) a baked potato a thick slice of Texas toast and all the salad and fixings you can help yourself to at our famous Discovery Salad Bar. And there's never any tipping.

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Amiable entertainment, tailored for the pouty charms of Walter -Matthau as a renegade CIA agent out to expose the dangerous idiocies of The Company. ABC "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure." (1979) 1 Stars. Disappointing sequel to. the 1972 hit. There are a few good moments however, as an all-star cast races to loot the half-sunken Poseidon of its treasures.

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The drama works because the early portion is devoted to grief and initial reactions and then turns into a political lesson. Mariette Hartley is most believable as the angry mother who develops into a political activist to generate a tough California law and more public awareness of this growing problem. Tuesday: CBS "The Marva Collins Story." (Made-for-TV 1981) 3 Stars. Cicely Tyson gives a standout performance as a Chicago teacher who was so disillusioned with the public schools that she started her own. The remarkable part of this true story is that the students, considered slow, thrived in an atmosphere of love, discipline and dedication to learning.

A heart-warming and well-acted drama. Wednesday: ABC "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia." (1981) 2 Stars. The only reason to bother with this loud, brawling film is Kristy McNichol, who brings a validity to the role of a sister tagging after her beer-guzzling country-singing brother (Dennis Quaid). The pair try to crack the bigtime in Nashville but their road to the recording mecca of country music is less than smooth. Thursday: No network movies scheduled.

Friday: CBS (Late Movie) "The Frisco Kid." (1979) 2 Stars. The premise of a Polish rabbi making his way across the United States to join a congregation in gold rush San Francisco is a potentially intriguing one, but doesn't quite work here. Gene Wilder does a good job with his character as he is put in some unusual situations, but director Robert Aldrich doesn't fit all the pieces together. Harrison "Indiana Jones" Ford co-stars. Saturday: No network movies scheduled.

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But in the case of the Commodores, the success of the band's current LP and single "Nightshift," has proved that the lead singer's departure in 1983 did not necessarily mean critical or commercial death, although there was a down period shortly after Richie left. Orange was exalting over an offer that the band had received hours before. It seemed "a certain major cola company not Lionel's" (Pepsi) had contacted the group about the band doing a musical endorsement. Orange, the voice behind the 1977 hit "Brick House," was savoring the moment. "The group is being approached now about a lot of different things.

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