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Page 10 THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1981 National Pro-lifers vow to fight her confirmation THE INTRAMURAL-RECREATIONAL Abortion foes attack O’Connor SPORTS DEPARTMENT is looking for “A Few Good AGs!” Intramural Officials Are Needed For Flag Football. Good Pay! Flexible Hours! Training Provided! United Press International WASHINGTON — Sandra Day O’Connor will face painstak ing scrutiny of her record as a state legislator and judge at confirma tion hearings this week on her nomination as the Supreme Court’s first woman justice. Conservative forces that want President Reagan to withdraw the nomination of the Arizona Appeals Court judge have deluged the Senate Judiciary Committee with about 20,000 pieces of mail — mostly form letters — running 4- to-1 against her. But Senate leaders have pre dicted her confirmation, perhaps without dissent, because no sena tors are on record opposing her. This has not discouraged abor tion foes, who contend they will use the hearings as a forum to show Reagan he “should never in sult his friends again.” “No observer of this fight — and it is a fight — should judge by the final number of votes,” said Peter Gemma Jr. of the National Pro-Life Political Action Com mittee. O’Connor’s nomination is a “complete break of faith in light of the promises in the Republican platform,” which endorses “pro- life” judges, said Conservative Caucus head Howard Phillips. Sure to be aired at the hearings, which begin Wednesday, are data on her votes on state abortion bills — votes that are “consistently anti-life,” abortion forces charge. Also, the conservative groups claim O’Connor is too soft on crime, too liberal on women’s issues and has ignored conflicts of interest in voting on areas affect ing family interests. William Billings, director of the National Christian Action Coali tion, spent two weeks perusing O’Connor’s record in the Arizona Legislature. His research has been turned over to so-called “pro-life” sena tors and to United Families of America, which is scheduled to testify during three days of hear ings. Billings said O’Connor favored abortion measures four times, in cluding a 1970 bill that would have legalized abortion three years be fore the Supreme Court’s land mark decision that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion. Douglas Johnson of the Nation al Right to Life Committee charges O’Connor misrepre sented her relations with “pro- life” forces seeking anti-abortion bills in the Arizona Senate. Dr. Carolyn Gerster, a personal foe of O’Connor’s, will review the judge’s state legislative record at the hearings. Gemma said questions about the Arizona judge go beyond the abortion issue. “Her lack of experience — only 18 months on the state court — would normally be questioned. But she has a lot of important and influential political friends,” he said. A review of O’Connor’s record shows she voted against manda tory prison sentencing bills and opposed restoring the death pen alty, Billings reports. Stop by the IM-REC Sports Office in 159 East Kyle for further information. First Clinic — Monday, Sept. 7, 7:00 p.m. Room 274, East Kyle TAMU JAZZ BAJKD First Rehearsal Monday Sept. 7 8 p.m. Commons Area Lounge • New members welcome • While hs still free. Jeni Malara, Student “I had C’s in high school. After Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics, I was able to maintain an A average! 2 2 % <r / Chris Walsh, Engineering “It’s boring to read the way most people are taught. This way. you look at a page of print —you see the whole page. 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In her answers to a lengthy Sen ate Judiciary Committee ques tionnaire, O’Connor made no sec ret of her feminist record, noting: “As a legislator I worked to equal ize the treatment of women under state law by seeking repeal of a number of outmoded Arizona sta tutes.” O’Connor also may face ques tioning on some alleged conflicts of interest during her four years in the state Senate. One charge is that while she was Arizona Senate majority leader, she brought a state Medicaid bill favored by her brother-in-law to a floor vote after it was twice killed in the approp riations committee. Another charge is that while serving as a board member ofttfl First National Bank of Arizoml she excused herself from votingoil only four of 16 major banking bill She also was accused of attenM ting to weaken air pollution lawsall a time when her husband’s k firm represented Kenneeott Cod per Co., whose smelters weresaidj} to be serious polluters. If O’Connor can withstand pub I lie dissection of her record—mil there is little in the conservatives [ claims that appears likely to sun I many votes against her —sheuiil pass Senate muster. Senate leadf ers predict confirmation by i September and the swearinginol| the first woman justice by Septl 25. Manson family member appeals murder conviction United Press International WASHINGTON — Former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten is appealing her con viction in the 1969 LaBianca kill ings to the Supreme Court on grounds her jury was shown grue some pictures of murders for which she was not charged. After three trials. Van Houten was found guilty of murder and conspiracy in the deaths of Leno LaBianca, a wealthy grocery chain executive in Southern California, and his wife, Rosemary. They were killed as part of Charles Manson’s “Helter Skelter” revolu tion. Van Houten has asked the high court to overturn her conviction because prosecutors showed her jury several gruesome color photographs of the Manson fami ly’s slaying of actress Sharon Tate and four others, a crime that occurred the night before the LaBianca slayings and for which she was not charged. But prosecutors, in arguments filed with the high court by the California attorney general’s office, defended their use of the photos at Van Houten’s trial and urged the justices to reject her appeal. Introduced at her third trial were photos of the bloody bodies of Tate — wife of film director Ro man Polanski — and four others killed on Aug. 9, 1969. The other victims were Voitcek Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring and Steven Parent. Five color photos shown to the jury are included in a packet that is part of Van Houten’s petition to the high court. Prosecutors said the Manson family members who participated in the Tate slaying were Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Lin da Kasabian and Tex Watson. The following night, they said, Wat son, Krenwinkel and Van Houten killed the LaBiancas. The state told the justices tk because Van Houten was aw “her companions’ had been in volved in the Tate murders, "mil that knowledge she wanted to job them and participate in theldlliii; that would take place on thenlgfi j the LaBiancas were so c slain. ” FisI Ma) teet The photos shown the jury,! state argued, also were importol “because they related to the n®| ner of killing, which is part ain!| parcel of the conspiracy’’ A California appeals coiui| U WAS lent of )ns re] “Al itlmay icxpecte appeal, leading to the case bejorfEj ] Qa] the Supreme Court. Sheissenilf a life sentence in the Califoraim e ^ Institution for Women at FroiiK rcent tera, Calif. j The justices will deciAinedioci whether to hear her appeal wbe jof abou they return from summer recesloney in October. I But Lawyer to fight for child right to receive Laetrile comes ( combin; and the them b low der itbout And I egre; United Press International TIJUANA, Mexico — Famed defense attorney Melvin Belli says he will help the parents of 2-year- old leukemia victim Amanda Accardi fight for the right to choose their child’s medical care. Belli, 74, met with the Accardis Friday at the Mexican Laetrile cli nic where Amanda has been tre ated for cancer, and told reporters he would fight Los Angeles Coun ty officials in a battle that might go to the highest court in the land. “If we lose in Los Angeles County, we’ll attempt to test this und irtifica equivah •V. ' matter all the way to the U.S. Sum The o reme Court,” Belli said. offered Belli said he charges $400) loans an hour for legal consultation andk |nations written many books, but mone;|lw spe< and publicity did not motivate hilt hide in to represent the Accardis. ions ol “It certainly isn’t money be- 800. cause they haven’t got any,” Bel Treas said of Michael Accardi, 26, afor- sport I mer Glendale, Calif, purchasin': ppears agent, and his wife, Catherine [Humber The couple and their two daugl fbvestm ters have been living on donation [Public, and free medical care for Amandilivings at the Tijuana, Mexico, cwenPemsel clinic. Bbh qu Accardi took Amanda out of km Most Angeles Children’s Hospital Jul' terest n t7 / ir i •ii 4 . a. 4e tax i Altho on the a bx exen thoke* McsionCo. 16 while she was under court order to receive experiment chemotherapy treatment fa leukemia. He took his family to Tyuani Ho bai and placed Amanda in the cared ^ults, ; Dr. Ernesto Contreras at the Cen tro Medico del Mar cancer clinit 'ate wa complex. There she received Laetrile, chemotherapy and en zymes, and almost immediatel) appeared to improve. Contreras attributed the im provement to conventional che motherapy rather than to Laetrile and enzymes. Several weeks later, Dr. Kung, a San Diego cancer sp ist, confirmed that Amanda’s can- j Bookpacks that Last. ^Lifetime: Guaranteec-o SEE. OUR LARGiE SELECTION &E.FQRE. VOU E>UY \oo 0FF any pack \n STOCK WITH THIS COOTOU GOOD THRU SEPT. 30,1961 cer was in remission. Belli said, “A parent has the right to make the decision on k child’s medical treatment whether it be here, in Belgium,ot back in Harvard. “What is important is wb? makes the determination. Tiiatrt what matters. 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