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Mipp* 'i '■j"..• ’ ‘ Page 2 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 iart s' '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. "Conti Ocean' ico.” ^ utions physic 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 Numbers in ( ) denote 6:00 3 (5) Evening News channels on the cable. 6:30 3 (5) Brady Bunch 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night 15 (12) Campus and Com- 15 (12) Sesame Street munity Today (PBS) (Repeat of 7:00 3 (5) Nanny and the Thursday) Professor 3:00 3 (5) Gomer Pyle a. 4<3 ’4 */|i 15 (12) The Great 3:30 3 (5) Town Talk American Dream 15 (12) University Machine (NET) Instructional 7:30 3 (5) Andy Griffith 4:00 3 (5) That Girl Show 4:30 3 (5) Bewitched 8:00 3 (5) Movie—The Battle 15 (12) What’s New of the Bulge— (NET) Pt. II 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital 8:30 15 (12) SCONA XVI 15 (12) Misterogers’ 9:00 15 (12) The Best of the Neighborhood Week (NET) 10:00 3 (5) Final News 5:30 3 (5) CBS News 10:30 3 (5) Alias Smith and 15 (12) Sesame Street Jones (PBS) 11:30 3 (5) Alfred Hitchcock Bingo—Weekdays at 5, buy. You need not be BCS*TV/9. Nothing to present to win. v Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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Your cooperation is necessary for your picture to appear in the Aggieland. 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. 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