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OS) battalio E BATTALION Wednesday, February 2, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 5 n could push me its open antagot *rve its purpoe* than intimidalj ' n ? my puncha,' Expelled skier urges teammates to stay in Olympics Wore felt that Iw of people it honorable thin? i. u can discredit i [rti n't make much! lore what theyi SAPPORO <#) — Ski ace Karl iranz, expelled from the Win- Olympics as a professional, ed his teammates Wednesday stay and compete — and their official said they would. Somber and emotional, the 33- ar-old former world ski cham- m told a news conference: 'Knowing what it means to icipate in the Olympic mes, I would not want to be ponsible for seeing Austria, jreat skiing nation, deprived of its opportunity in this event.” He urged the Austrian Ski Federation to rescind its decision to pull all its Alpine and Nordic ski performers in protesting against the decision of the In ternational Olympic Committee to expell him from the games. Dapper in the brown velvet suit that is the Austrian team uniform, Schranz was flanked by Karl Heinz Klee, president of the Austrian Ski Federation. When Schranz completed his statement, Klee announced that the Austrian Ski Federation would stay and take part in the Sapporo O 1 y m p i cs opening Thursday. The appeal by Schranz appear ed to be a face-saving device for the Austrian team that Klee and other top officials had been urg ing since Tuesday night. Schranz, who had been in virn tual seclusion since his disquali fication by the IOC Monday, showed up at the Olympic press center with a large delegation of Austrians. “How do you feel?” he was asked. “Not so good,” Schranz re plied in English. He was obvi ously near tears. The militant Schranz refused to apologize. “If the reasons for which I was disqualified are just,” he said, “then every athlete should be disqualified. They are as guilty as I.” He attacked the Olympic phil osophy of Avery Brundage, IOC president just as he had done in an earlier interview with The Associated Press — an interview that reportedly piqued Brundage and some members of the IOC. “Mr. Brundage must not for get,” he said, “that there are many young people who are not in such favorable conditions as Brundage, a millionaire, who should also have a chance to compete in the Olympic Games.” After the Schranz statement, Klee said the Austrian Ski Fed eration would remain in the Games. Asked by a television camera man to rebut Mr. Brundage, Schranz said: “Mr. Brundage always says I am talking against him. But I only said the things I mean. 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The Austrian skier said he had spent many uncomfortable months under the threat of dis qualification for his alleged com mercial enterprises. “I am deeply disappointed,” he said. “My ambition always has been to win a gold medal in the Olympics.” He was disqualified for hav ing his picture made for com mercial gain and for making re marks which the IOC said were detrimental to the Olympic movement. He won a silver medal in the giant slalom at Innsbruck in 1964. He had a better time than France’s Jean^Claude Killy in 1968 but was disqualified for missing a gate. He contended that a policeman ran across his path. Senator Byrd opens Forum U. S. Senate Democratic Ma jority Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia will lead off spring semester Political Forum presentations at A&M. Senator Byrd will speak Feb. 10 in the Political Forum major programs series, announced Chairman Paul Turner. Byrd replaced Senator Edward Kennedy as the assistant ma jority whip of the Senate early last year. He will speak at noon Thursday on “Political Parties vs. ‘The New Politics’.” A veteran of three Senate terms and one in the U.S. House, Senator Byrd is a prominent leg islative figure and has held more legislative elective offices than any other individual in the his tory of West Virginia. Death (Continued from page 1) Northern Ireland’s protestants worked as usual, except in those shops shut down after intimidat ing telephone calls. Life was near ly normal in Belfast in contrast to the dead city of Londonderry. Provincial Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, in a fighting speech in the Northern Ireland parliament, gave a thinly veiled warning that Protestant patience may be near an end, raising the specter of a backlash of violence against the Catholics. And, said Faulkner, “The un ionist community Protestant in Northern Ireland will not tolerate ‘a united Ireland’ without our consent.” Another top Protestant politi cian, former Home Affairs Min ister William Craig, suggested in Belfast that Northern Ireland should cede Londonderry’s Roman Catholic stronghold to the Irish republic. In the House of Commons Speaker Selwyn Lloyd warned lawmakers to obey all rules of procedure if they wanted to es cape punishment. He was referring to Monday’s violent attack by Miss Devlin against Maudling. She was an gered at being denied the oppor tunity to question him on the Londonderry riot. She returned to the House shortly after being dragged out and was not sus pended or censured for her ac tions. But Conservative Sir Harry Leggenbourke noted she would have been arrested if she had attacked anyone in the same way outside Parliament. 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