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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1976 Page 5 Comic-actor was 43 Ford will take active role A WEll CIE, fhe 'HOLEci ' RIGHT! Cambridge collapses, dies Republicans plan policy panel Associated Press Godfrey was waiting for a cue and he racer and cab driver, while trying to a ■ ® ® Associated Press BURBANK, Calif. — Godfrey am bridge, the black comic-actor ho wanted his movie roles to tran- nd color lines, has died of a heart tack after collapsing on a movie set. Ie was 43. Cambridge collapsed last night hile playing the role of Ugandan ictator Idi Amin on the set of the BC television film “Victory at En- bbe.’ The movie portrays the dar- ig Israeli commando rescue ofhos- ges at the Entebbe, Uganda, air- jrt last summer. “Godfrey did two small scenes ear- er today and was doing a simple alk-on scene, speaking to the hos- iges,” said producer Bob Gunnette. The scene had not even begun, Godfrey was waiting for a cue and he collapsed. “There was absolutely no forewarning, he just went down. I think it was apparent to most of us around that he was gone. ” Gunnette said Cambridge had ar rived from his home in Ridgefield, Conn., earlier in the day. The actor was taken to nearby St. Joseph’s Hospital, where a team of doctors pronounced him dead on ar rival. Cambridge was raised in New York’s Harlem by parents who emi grated from British Guiana. Graduating from Hofstra College in 1955, he worked as an airplane wing cleaner, judo instructor, maternity hospital ambulance driver, hot rod 7 ormer diplomat to speak racer and cab driver, while trying to break into acting. He got his first role in 1956 as a bartender in an off-Broadway revival for which he earned $15 a week. He won critical acclaim — and an Obie Award for Best Performance of 1961 — for his role in Jean Genet’s savage drama about racial hatred, “The Blacks. ” Once he had become established in movies by playing black roles, Cambridge insisted on acting parts that depicted him “as a man, rather than as a Negro.” He played an Irishman in “The Troublemaker (1964),” a CIA agent in “The Presi dent’s Analyst (1967),” a gangster in “The Busy Body (1967),” a Jewish cab driver in “Bye, Bye Braverman (1968), ’’ and a white bigot who gets turned into a black man in “Night The Sun Came Out (1969).” Associated Press WASHINGTON — At President Ford’s suggestion. Republican lead ers are drafting plans for a new policy panel to guide the party and speak on the issues after Democrat Jimmy Carter moves into the White House. A Republican source said Ford has indicated he would take an active role in such an operation, patterned on the party committee that set and spoke policy a decade ago, during another GOP rebuilding effort. Mary Louise Smith, the resigning national chairman, told Republican governors yesterday that she is exploring the possibility of setting up “a policy committee of Republican leaders whose specific task would be to harness ideas and set directions. ” ’ That was the concept of the Re publican Coordinating Committee, which charted GOP policy when Lyndon B. Johnson was president. It included congressional leaders, including Ford, governors, former presidential nominees and other party officials, and spanned GOP ideology from right to left. That was not the only familiar for mula advanced on yesterday as GOP governors, only 12 of them surviv ing, discussed the Republican plight and future. Their two-day meeting winds up today. The governors and other party leaders spent yesterday talking of broadening GOP appeal, shelving ideological disputes and turning to a master organizer to lead rebuilding efforts for the next election. Now, as then, the Republicans are in need of a new national party chairman and, as before, the gover nors want a voice in the selection. In similar circumstances 12 years ago, their predecessors settled on much the same prescription. There were 17 Republican governors then, and Sen. Barry Goldwater had just lost a landslide to Johnson. “The basic problem here is to broaden the base. That’s the thing to be dealt with,” said George Rom ney, the former Michigan governor, who was on hand yesterday as he was in 1964. John B. Connally, the Republican convert who once was a Democratic governor of Texas, told them the GOP needs a spokesman at the party helm, then added at a corridor news conference that he might be avail able for the job. His evident interest did not pro duce any swell of support among the governors. Several are pushing their, own state chairmen for the job. Others are awaiting Ford’s sugges tion on a successor to Smith. Tran Van Dinh, a former South ietnamese ambassador to the Inited States, will speak here Wed- esday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. in the Rud er Forum. Dinh served as South Vietnam’s ibassador for ten years before res- ;ning in 1964 because of his views against foreign involvement in utheast Asia. He is now a free lance writer for such periodicals as “The Christian Science Monitor,” “The New Republic,” “War/Peace Reports’ and “The Washington Post.” Dinh’s speech Wednesday will be on the “Emerging Third World.” Admission is free. Cathy Ruedinger Get into some great pants! TOP DRAWER Culpepper Plaza s the eqnipi is in goodeiB y could be real Most of then 1 o 1945. 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