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J9th iop. 0 Main Group turns legislature! into Irish fistfights THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 1974 Page 3 BELFAST, Northern Ireland (A*)—Northern Ireland’s trouble- plagued provincial assembly broke up in disorder Tuesday with mili tant and moderate Protestant legislators trading punches over a place to sit. It took six hefty security men to carry out the Rev. Ian Paisley, a burly hardline leader. As he was dumped outside, Paisley boomed: “We shall be back.” Paisley had vowed before the I session, the first since the prov- I ince’s new government took of- ; fice, that his supporters would occupy the front-bench seats allo- I cated to chief executive Brian Faulkner and his coalition ad- [ ministration of moderate Prot estants and Roman Catholics. The trouble flared when Faulk ner and his men tried to take their seats—and Paisley’s sup porters refused to move. Paisley, leader of the Demo cratic Unionist party, shouted: “You’ll not jackboat us with your armored cars and your British army.” He was referring to the rein forced cordon of troops and police that ringed the Stormont assem bly building, on Belfast’s out skirts, in expectation of trouble from hard-line Protestants. Behind the brawl was the mili tants’ vow to wreck the assembly and Faulkner’s coalition execu tive, the first in the province’s Making The Impossible Film Came Easy To Hall Bartlett Filmmaker Bartlett Strives For Honesty In His Movies Jonathan Livingston Seagull Interstate's CINEMA II 846-6714 UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER STARTS FRIDAY JAN. 25th. Fri. 6:00 - 7:50 - 9:40 Sat. - Sun. 2:20 - 4:10 - 6:00 - 7:50 - 9:40 Mon. - Tues. - Wed. - Thurs. 7:15 - 9:10 53-year history to allow Catholics to share power with the majority Protestants. Speaker Nat Minford ad journed the session. It finally reconvened 70 minutes later, but only four of the 30 hard-liners were in their seats. The militants are gunning for Faulkner and his coalition be cause they charge its policy of boosting links between the mainly Protestant province and the pre dominantly Catholic Irish Repub lic constitutes the first step in a “sellout” to a united Ireland. Many of the Northern Ireland’s million Protestants fear they would be swallowed up into a Catholic state after unification. The so-called “Loyalists” want the province to remain firmly British. Earlier Tuesday, the Protes tant-based Unionist party that once ruled the province elected former Agriculture Minister Har ry W. West as its leader. Ed Huckaby points out one of the “joints” fundamental to the stability of the tensegrity he and two other students built. (Photo by Roger Mallison) Grads build tension tower There is a tensegrity on the lawn of the Architecture Build ing. A tensegrity is a building frame superior to conventional frames because it uses cables in stead of rigid supports. The full size model stands about 30 feet tall. The model was built as a proj ect for a creative structures class by graduates Ed Huckaby, Dave Trevino and Steve Foster. “We were told to construct a model of one of the six natural forms,” Huckaby. “Most of the models were made of cardboard and matches but we got inter ested in the tetrahedron, the bas is of the tensegrity and decided to go all out.” Trevino said they worked most of the summer on the model. “The Architecture Building is al most home, so when we told our wives we were going out with the boys to build a tensegrity, they understod.” The total cost for the mate rials, about $217, was split be tween the students and the col lege. Now that it’s up, the col lege is going to reimburse the students and keep the model for future students. Huckaby explained Buckminis- ter Fuller made the biggest ad vances in tensegrities 25 years ago working on the principal that steel performs better under tension than compression. “There are several advan tages,” Huckaby continued. “This whole structure could be col lapsed in 45 minutes and put in the trunk of a car; it takes four hours to construct. You can con trol how rigid the structure is by adjusting the tightness of the cables.” The first time they knew it Would work was after they had put it up, said Foster. “We knew the theory was sound but we weren’t sure we had chosen the right materials. “The night we got it up a rain storm came through town. We were really pleased the next morning to find that it was still standing. 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