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THE BATTALION
College iStation, Texas Friday, February 19, 1971
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Barnes speaks out
for abortion reform
SCON A
At the cinema
‘Statue’ doesn’t stand tall
AUSTIN UP) _ Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes voiced strong support
Wednesday for abortion reform
and a state birth control pro
gram.
Barnes, Speaker Gus Mutscher
and Land Commission Bob Arm
strong addressed the Environ
mental Education Conference,
which its sponsors called the first
such statewide assembly.
“Yes, I do support abortion
reform,” Barnes said in answer
to a question. “I think it’s time
we stop hiding behind the many
reasons used to fight this legis
lation.”
To a question on population
growth, Barnes responded: “I am
for planned parenthood. I am
for the state, if necessary, to pro
vide birth control equipment, par
ticularly to welfare recipients.”
Both Barnes and Mutscher said
environment was high on their
personal priority lists for legisla
tion in their houses.
Mutscher reminded the hun
dreds of delegates to the confer
ence that it will cost money to
preserve and improve the envir
onment. He urged a yes vote on
amendment No. 4 next May 18,
which authorizes the sale of $100
million in bonds to help cities
build waste treatment facilities.
“Be realistic. If we’re going to
get the improvements, we must
also be willing to pick up the
price tag,” Mutscher said.
Barnes got a laugh when he
said, “I spanked my 8-year-old
daughter <Amy) for throwing a
coke bottle out the car window
a few months ago ”
He urged that the Dallas-Fort
Worth Turnpike Authority be
given the power to “develop mass
transportation in Texas.”
sTOPaUT
Press meeting
will feature
national figure
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
First United Methodist Church
in Bryan will hear the Rev. Har-
ral Dunnam, associate pastor of
the church, speak at 7:30 p.m.
on “Taste and See that the Lord
is Good,” the third in a series of
lessons on the Psalms.
Agricultural Education Wives
Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at
Wyatt’s Cafeteria for their Ph.T.
banquet.
SUNDAY
Alpha Phi Omega will meet at
8:30 p. m. in room 3D of the
MSC. All members should attend.
MONDAY
Williamson Comity Hometown
Club will meet at 8 p. m. in the
MSC to have Aggieland pictures
taken.
Omega Phi Alpha will meet at
7:30 p. m. in room 3A of the
MSC to discuss constitution and
bylaws. All women A&M students
are invited to attend.
E. T. Society will meet at 7:45
p. m. on the front steps of the
MSC to have Aggieland pictures
taken. Class A winter or coat and
tie should be worn—midnights are
permissible.
Wildlife Science Wives Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the her
petology lab of the Biological
Sciences Building for a short
course in wildlife science pre
sented by Dr. James R. Dixon.
Speakers with national reputa
tions in space, communications
and trial courts have been an
nounced for the 41st annual joint
meeting of the Southwestern
Journalism Congress and Student
Press Club March 19 here.
Houston attorney Percy Fore
man, NASA Manned Spacecraft
Center public affairs officer Brian
Duff and Jim Thompson of Tay
lor Publishing Co. will speak be
fore some 200 college journalists
and faculty members, said Asst.
Prof. William C. Harrison of the
sponsoring Journalism Depart
ment.
Apollo 13 astronaut Fred W.
Haise Jr. also is scheduled as the
awards banquet speaker.
Purpose of the convention is
to study campus press problems,
Harrison said. The program co
ordinator expects 175 journalism
student staff members of campus
publications and 25 faculty mem
bers and advisers.
Newspaper and magazine writ
ing awards will be presented
during the banquet that night.
Fifteen colleges in Texas, Arkan
sas, Louisiana and Oklahoma will
send delegates to the Ramada Inn
meetings.
“National affairs are a cinch to solve! What gives me
trouble are personal affairs—grades, money, transporta
tion and dates!”
By PAT GRIMES
“The Statue,” playing at the
Campus, is a moronic farce with
the most absurd premise I’ve
ever encountered. The entire film
is an American play-on-words,
one word in particular.
David Niven plays a Nobel
Prize-winning linguist. V i r n a
Lisi is his Italian wife and a very
accomplished sculptress. Because
of this she is commissioned to
sculpt a monument to her hus
band for installation outside the
U.S. Embassy.
She chooses to honor him in
the form of a completely nude,
30-foot statue. Nicknamed Char
ley, the statue resembles Niven
in every respect save one. It is
this one point that bothers him.
It seems he was not at home
enough (only 18 days in three
years) to pose for it himself and
her memory regarding this par
ticular point can’t be trusted.
She considers it her private joke,
but he considers it ego damaging.
An all-out search involving the
U. S. State Department, the U. S.
Marines, the CIA and Interpol
aid Niven in his quest.
The object in question, to put
it delicately (if one can), is
what’s under the fig leaf that
isn’t there. All manner of means
are imployed by Niven in his
search for the nude, taking him
to Florence, a monastery, steam
rooms and a road company of
“Skin,” implying exactly that.
With him is his trusty camera
and color film, I would imagine.
Robert Vaugh plays the U. S.
ambassador and political oppor
tunist. He aids Niven because
he’s not too keen on having this
graphic art object on his front
lawn, especially with aspirations
of the presidency before him.
Though the film sinks pretty
low, you find yourself laughing
at a few of the anatomical gags.
The music aided and abetted
the premise, which needed more
than just music.
The
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'ersity
graph!'
Galley will admit ordering
killings, his lawyers claim
If you can manage to miss the
Campus flick, then I would
strongly advise seeing the two
films the Circle has to offer.
“The Thomas Crown Affair” is
a slick package on all accounts.
Steve McQueen, as T. Crown, is
super intelligent, super smooth
and quite enviable. Though rich,
his life lacks challenge and the
only way to relieve that situa
tion, he feels, is to tackle the
“system.”
He does this by knocking off a
bank for over $2 million, deposit
ing it in Geneva, under a code
number and receiving it back in
installments.
He is tracked by Faye Dun
away, a fortune-seeking insur
ance investigator working with
the law. Though close to his
tellectual equal, she is heartli
to her misfortune.
An antihero, Crown neveiti
less wins for a sardonic fin|
The theme song sums up
complicated mind and the
tography utilizes a series of sjj ^ eX icc
and composites for excel
graphic effect.
The other film is an Ita|
import, “The Bird With ]
Crystal Plummage,” and
suspense yarn it isn’t bad,
The key to the murders ofn rently
ous young females is the Is
call of a rare bird known toj
habit Siberia.
The plot revolves around 1
and maintains an adequate
of intrigue.
An Italian cast stars andj
voice dubbing is hardly noti
able.
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FT. BENNING, Ga. <A>)_Lt.
William B. Galley Jr.’s attorneys
said Wednesday that Galley
would testify later in his trial
that he directed the execution of
civilian captives at My Lai near
ly three years ago.
But Galley was quoted by his
tonight on the tube
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attorneys as saying he was “hy
per or psyched up” during the
so-called My Lai massacre of
March 16, 1968. And defense
psychiatrists were prepared to
testify that his mind bent under
combat stresses, precluding any
murder with premeditation.
This information was disclosed
inside and outside of court be
fore it reached the ears of a six-
man court-martial jury trying
the 27-year-old Galley on charg
es of the premeditated murder of
102 unarmed, unresisting My Lai
villagers.
The defense sought to offer it
to its psychiatrists a hypotheti
cal question about Galley. The
question contained a list of as
sumed facts, reported either by
prior testimony at the trial or
by a defense pledge t h a t they
would be backed up later in Gal
ley’s own testimony from the
witness stand.
In the question, Galley’s law
yers gave some of his civilian
background and based their ques
tions on how such a person would
react to the situation that con
fronted Galley at My Lai.
In the hypothetical question,
the doctors were asked to assume
that Galley will testify as fact:
“Lt. Galley ordered Paul Mead-
lo, a soldier in his platoon, to
shoot and took part himself in
the shooting of some detained
Vietnamese on two occasions. Lt.
Galley states he did not feel as
if he was killing humans, but
rather that they were the enemy
with whom he could not speak
or reason.”
The two occasions cited, the
government has charged, were at
a trail intersection within the
village where 30 Vietnamese
were slain by automatic rifle
fire, and later a t a drainage
ditch east of My Lai where an
other 70 were herded together
and shot down.
As a government witness,
Meadlo admitted earlier in the
court-martial that he took part
in the shooting, saying he acted
under orders from Galley. The
defense, in turn, has contended
that Galley was himself follow
ing orders from his company
commander, Capt. Ernest Medi
na, to wipe out every living thing
during an infantry search and
destroy mission against My Lai.
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