THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1979
Page 7
naiiNetwork refuses to remove actress
lenfrom movie for favoring Palestinians
United Press International
ight strokeil,NEW YORK — CBS has re
el the use ofy fused concentration camp sur-
been doingt vivor Fania Fenelon’s request
ball to regai ; that actress Vanessa Redgrave be
Y removed from the lead in “Play-
iderwent rasj' n K f° r Time,” a dramatization of
December lj'1 Fenelon’s book, because ofRed-
ir cancer ofyS rave ' s pro-Palestinian senti
ments.
to follow k |L^ ene ^ on an< ^ Rabbis Marvin
lecting law ^’ t:r an( f Abraham Cooper, both
e had faeledijlb
/as considerioiPE-
of Yeshiva University of Los
Angeles, met Monday with Gene
Jankowski, president of the CBS
Broadcast Group, and Gene Ma
ter, vice president and assistant
to the president.
“We met with them at their
request,” Mater said afterward.
“We assured them it wasn’t our
intention to desecrate the mem
ory of those who died or offend
anyone or to seek publicity. But
we would not and could not re
move Vanessa Redgrave from the
part.
“At issue are two principles far
more important than the simple
question of casting — whether
individual, personal and political
views should be considered more
important than his or her artistic
ability, (and) whether any indi
vidual should have power to veto
the decisions, editorial or artis
tic, of any entertainment or news
medium.”
Fenelon, a French woman
who survived Auschwitz-
Birkenau concentration camp,
objects to Redgrave playing the
role because of her highly vocal
support of the Palestine Libera
tion Organization.
“She’s a fanatic,” Fenelon
said. “I can’t accept that.”
>ry .said
ly why be i
Id others tky
; ill health is
i was strickeil
former New
is appointed
rt in 1956 ly
amp survivor, Redgrave not friends
espite view given on 6 60 Minutes 9
By JOAN HANAVER
f UPI Television Writer
■ NEW YORK — When “60
Minutes” did a segment on con
centration camp survivor Fania
Fenelon and actress Vanessa
Redgrave, the impression at the
end was of two women walking
arm and arm into the sunset.
Forget it!
Fenelon continues to deplore
e casting of Redgrave as the
lead in the CBS dramatization of
her book, “Playing for Time,”
which relates her experiences as
an inmate-musician in the Nazi
[concentration camp Auschwitz-
rted teachers| Birkenau.
>ne school Bit? Fenelon’s objections are based
reachersaht j on her perception of Redgrave as
thered at pal ajfanatic in the cause of the Pales-
g places anil fvtine Liberation Organization,
it 1 picket I and more personally because “I
■st can’t accept her as me.”
ents were adsiH
school
isent, com]
1 average at
Who would she like to see
playing her life? Jane Fonda.
Fenelon, a Frenchwoman, is
in the United States under the
auspices of the Simon Wiesent-
hal Center for Holocaust Studies
at Yeshi for the University of Los
Angeles, which is trying to wrest
“Z just cant accept her as
me” — Fania Fenlon
an apology from CBS for insen
sitivity in casting Redgrave.
Fenelon was asked at a news
conference if she and Redgrave
parted friends after the “60 Min
utes” broadcast.
“Friends? Oh, no!” was her
reply. “We were not friendly at
all.”
She also objected to the way in
which a statement she made was
cut on “60 Minutes. She said
her entire statement was:
1
“I am for Israel, I am for the
Palestinians, I am for the Puerto
Ricans, I am for the blacks, I am
for everybody who suffers.”
What came over on “60 Min
utes’ was, “I am for Israel.”
CBS, in the person of Gene
Mater, vice president and assis
tant to Broadcast Group Presi
dent Gene Jankowski, argues no
one has a right to deprive an
actor of a role because of his or
her personal, or political opin
ions.
Rabbis Marvin Hier and Ab
raham Cooper of the Wiesenthal
Center don’t doubt Redgrave’s
ability to play Fania Fenelon.
They fear she will capitalize on
the part to prove her claim she is
not anti-Semitic, merely anti-
Israeli. She has not sold Fenelon
on that point.
Seated together at a news con
ference after Fenelon and the
rabbis met with Jankowski and
Mater were two women —
Yvette Lennon and her sister,
Lily Assael.
The women are Greek-born
Jews who, like Fenelon, played
music for their lives at
Auschwitz-Birkenau, and who
now live in New York. What did
they think about all this?
“I don’t care about politics,”
Lennon said. “If Vanessa Red
grave really is an anti-Semite, I
don’t want her in the play. But I
don’t know enough about her to
know if that is true, and I don’t
want to accuse anyone who is in
nocent.”
Assael, who at one point casu
ally rolled up her sleeve to check
the blurry blue concentration
camp number tattooed on her
arm, added: “If she is an anti-
Semite, it would make the whole
thing like a comedy.”
Shah in New York for treatment
Court orders Stafford executed
;n their (
:es and plain
" 0 g d s Condemned man insists on innocence
ion demand'*
h across-tbe-*
ear of a two-)*
ement’s last*
said, was $70a»
16 months, tkB? United Press International
the remaii OKLAHOMA CITY — Roger
contract, jjale Stafford, ordered Tuesday to
d I executed Jan. 17 for the murders
f six restaurant workers, said he
not afraid to die, but would fight
: i ^sentence “to the very end.
Despite last-minute protests of
*OW Ip' 0061106 ’ District Judge Charles
pens formally sentenced Stafford
b be injected with a lethal dose of
mt almost cerpjjituates and paralytic agents,
■leased, ault Jklahoma’s statutory method for
ixeeution.
Angelo Buo4 Gwens ’ who P reside d oyer the
vas his acoi Sght-day trial that led to Stafford’s
;omadeabrieffl victions for gunning down six
er Monday, Ej m pl°y ee ' s in the meat freezer of a
his innocew
and was grai
' before enteiii
■d to plead j
slayings
an upholstewj
dale, in att
amber,
meed lift
977-78 mimfal
nspiracy.i
ear sentence 1
United Press International
NEW YORK — The exiled shah
of Iran flew to New York Tuesday
and was admitted to a local hospital
for treatment of cancer, U.S. offi
cials said.
In Washington, State Depart
ment officials said European and
American doctors had examined the
shah and reported the former ruler
is suffering from a “malignant
tumor,” a form of cancer, and a
blocked bile duct.
The two problems, the officials
said, are unrelated to each other,
but contributed to a significant de-
Pot treatments
made legal, but
patient dies first
United Press International
LANSING, Mich. — The
therapeutic use of marijuana is legal
in Michigan now, but the young
cancer victim who first campaigned
for a law to allow the use of pot to
relieve symptoms of chemotherapy,
did not live long enough to see the
law enacted.
Lt. Gov. James Brickley signed
the bill in his office Monday, calling
it a “humane bill.”
Keith Nutt, 23, who crusaded for
the right to use the drug to relieve
the discomfort of anticancer treat
ment, died hours earlier in a Mid
land hospital.
A member of the NORML advi
sory board, Nutt had told a Senate
panel he needed marijuana to re
lieve the nausea brought on by his
chemotherapy treatments.
His mother, reached in Midland,
said Nutt was aware the bill was
being signed Monday and was “very
happy.”
“I think as time goes on I will
think this is one of his contributions
to his fellow man,” she said.
terioration of his condition in the
last several days.
The shah, believed to be accom
panied by his wife. Empress Farah,
about a dozen aides and two
Doberman pinschers, arrived at
LaGuardia Airport at 10:30 p.m. on
a chartered twin-engine jet.
State Department spokesman,
David Passage, said in Washington
that the shah was “quite” ill and air
port workers said he “looked weak”
and walked in a slow shuffle to a
waiting Mercedes at the aiiport.
“I’m under the clear impression,”
Passage said, “that there’s been a
significant deterioration in the
former shah’s health in recent
days.”
Asked if the shah’s life was in
danger because of the illness. Pas
sage said, “One has to read the in
formation I’ve got this way.”
At the Pahlavi family’s adjoining
townhouses on exclusive Beekman
Place in Manhattan, a large Great
Dane paced behind a wrought-iron
gate, a television camera monitored
the doorway and guards turned
away reporters without comment.
GUYS & GALS
Sebring Products — Perms — Hennas
Certified Hair Designers
4103 Texas Avenue S., Bryan
Suite 208
846-5018
south Oklahoma City Sirloin Stoc
kade restaurant, overruled a de
fense motion for a new trial.
“When the state of Oklahoma can
condemn an innocent man, what’s
the world coming to?” said Stafford,
during an interview after the formal
sentencing. “I’m going to fight this
to the very end.”
During the sentencing, Owens
asked Stafford if he had anything to
say before sentencing.
“Yeah, I’m innocent. I didn’t do
the crime,” the soft-spoken Stafford
told the judge.
Stafford then thanked Owens “for
taking time to have a fair trial.”
Owens acknowleged Stafford’s
praise of the trial and said he under
stood Stafford’s pleas of innocence,
“but under our system a decision is
left to 12 jurors.”
“I’m directing that you be held
closely confined and imprisoned
until Jan. 17, 1980, upon which day
I am further directing (the prison
warden) to put you to death,
Owens said.
“He (the warden) is to do so by
the statutory method provided.
That being by continuous, intrave
nous administration of a lethal quan
tity of an ultra-short acting bar-
bituate, in combination with a
chemical paralytic agent, until death
be pronounced by a physician.”
ased
iting Fo
i Tax.
o 7:00 Pi.
ESOflf
SPECIAL
Tied Steak
n Gravy
otatoes and
one other
liable
■ead and Bull
or Tea
MEAT, FISH and LIQUOR
.... CO.
SPECIAL
| EVEIW
key dinnei
id with
iy Sauce
j Dressing
read . Butter-
or Tea
Gravy
icice of a n y
getable
SERVING LUNCH MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 11-2.
Now featuring a large assortment of salads, sandwiches and
burgers.
SERVING DINNER MONDAY THRU SATURDAY
AT 5 P.M.
Prime Rib, Steaks, Lobster, Stuffed Flounder and many
spectacular desserts.
NEW — WONDERFULLY ORIGINAL MAD MIN
UTES.
From 4:30-6:30 — All drinks poured double with a variety
of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres.
LUNCHEON PARTIES
SPECIAL DINNER OCCASIONS
REHEARSAL DINNERS
815 Harvey Rd. College Station
(Formerly Beef-n-Brew)
693-1991
nm€mcA:r no.i
VALUE
VALUE
nt nmcnicRs no.i pricc/i
■at 220
SEMI-AUTOMATIC
BELT DRIV
/LD2
SEMI-AUTOMATIC
DIRECT DRIVE
FULLY AUTOMATIC
DIRECT DRIVE
PRICES GOOD
THRU
SAT.!
OFF
A.
ON CAR
AUDIO-TECHNICA
ADC and SHURE
;o«.
LAY-AWAY
and
FINANCING
AVAILABLE
BANKAMERICARD. VISA. MASTER CHARGE,,
CHECK OR CASH ACCEPTED
3820 TEXAS AVE. 846-1735
(Next to Randy Sims BarBQue)