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<i> From staff and wire reports</i>

The Hells Angels say their trademarks have been used without permission in the movie “Nam Angels,” so they’re retaliating in full force.

They’ve filed a lawsuit.

As spokesman George Christie pointed out, rules are rules.

“We have a structure in place for negotiating commercial licensing arrangements,” Christie said, “and we would be perfectly amenable to working with any enterprise interested in using Hells Angels trademarks within the guidelines we’ve established.”

The Angels, who incorporated in 1966, have trademarked their name as well as four symbols, including a logo that features their name decorated by a skeleton’s head with wings.

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Barry Fischer, the group’s Century City attorney, said the Angels were particularly angry over their portrayal “as being disloyal to each other and to their organization.”

The 1988 movie, which had a video--but no theatrical--release, depicts a group of Hells Angels on a mercenary mission in Vietnam.

A spokeswoman for one of the defendants, Concorde New Horizons Corp. of Los Angeles, which produced the film, said only that “the lawsuit is unfounded.”

This is the first trademark suit lodged by the Hells Angels, who obviously no longer consider themselves a group outside the law.

Critics who have called the Board of Supervisors a Mickey Mouse outfit because of all their petty wrangling and jealousies might not be surprised to learn that the board has called for construction of a Yogi Bear Schoolhouse.

It is, however, a serious endeavor. The schoolhouse, proposed by Supervisor Mike Antonovich, would enable students to experience a simulated 8-magnitude earthquake and learn safety tips.

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The quake, by the way, was still very much on the mind of Nick Suncin, 8, when he found a $20 bill on the playground at Monterey Hills Elementary School in South Pasadena. Learning that no one had reported losing the money, he decided to donate it to a school relief fund for the earthquake victims. “I don’t really need it,” he explained. “They need it.”

The Elysium Institute nudist colony in Topanga Canyon recently announced that, for the first time, it’s opening its doors to “non-nudist groups” who wish to hold seminars there.

Not so fast, college fraternities. Elysium adds that the clothed seminars will be “nested apart” from the nudists.

But back to clothing. . . . One of the celebrities whose garments will grace the soon-to-be-reopened Bra Museum at Frederick’s of Hollywood will be Zsa Zsa Gabor.

No, it won’t be jail-issue.

More evidence that sexual stereotypes are disappearing: Barbara Rosenstein of West Los Angeles asked her neighbor, Laura Siegel, 7, what type of character she would portray on Halloween.

“I’m going to be a businesswoman,” said Laura.

“What kind of an outfit do you wear for that?” asked Rosenstein.

“I carry a briefcase,” replied Laura.

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