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Vol 78 No. 62 DSPS 0453110 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday November 30,1983
usey prepared for Bryant role
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Staff
\jeteran actor Gary Busey has spent a
f time preparing for his title role in
pcoming movie, “Paul Bryant, The
|r,” — a movie about the former
A&M football coach who went on
come the winningest coach in his-
at the University of Alabama,
usey, who was nominated for an
for his role in “The Buddy Holley
y,” has spent a lot of time studying
famous coach from film clips of old
|ant television shows while spending
in Alabama studying the people
^ pud atmosphere there.
I \Ballas Cowboys assistant coach Gene
“lings got Busey onto the sideline of
last three Cowboys’ games to watch
m je mannerisms of another famous
Hh, Tom Landry.
|ta press conference at Texas A&M
[sday, Busey said that Stallings has
helpful in many other ways.
Jusey said he is going to all this trou-
fcecause he wants to portray the man
me screen as he was in real life,
/[native of Baytown, Busey said he
Bired Bryant while growing up and
Wng football himself for 12 years.
as led ItBilming for the movie, scheduled to
o firedBniere next fall, began Friday night
ses andB the Texas A&M bonfire and stu-
passes (»■ body providing the backdrop.
nes for the movie also were filmed
Saturday’s Texas A&M-University of
football game in Kyle Field and
day night in the Grove.
Monday’s film segment featured the
members of the Corps of Cadets
Ised in uniforms similar to those
|n by cadets in the 1950s when
Jant was here.
It will feature the Aggie Band and yell
ders, and re-enacts the introduction
Iryant to A&M College from his
le state of Kentucky.
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Director Richard C. Serafian said
there is nothing better for an actor than
to film in a real-life situation. Serafian
and Spangler had their schedules
arranged to accommodate bonfire and
to avoid conflicting with the students’
upcoming final exams.
As for the two scenes filmed over the
weekend, Spangler said he felt the film
ing crew got enough usable footage but
won’t know exactly how much until
Wednesday. Editing will dictate how
much of the Texas A&M scenery will go
into the movie.
Spangler said film time centering on
Bryant’s tenure at Texas A&M could be
as long as 15 or 20 minutes.
An important part of the film will be
about Bryant’s now famous training
camp at Junction.
Before his first season at Texas A&M
in 1954, Bryant took about 100 potential
football players to a 10-day training ses
sion in Junction. Only 27 endured the
entire camp. That group is now referred
to as the “Junction Gang.’’
Filming for those scenes will be in
California because there is no place for
the production crew and cast to stay in
Junction during deer season amd the
fact that it is now too cool to get the true
effect of that hot summer on the players.
The idea for the movie began two
years ago after Joe Namath, former New
York Jets quarterback, convinced
Spangler to talk to Bryant about the
possibilities of producing the show. The
movie is not intended to be a response
to the coach’s recent death, Spangler
said.
Spangler said he has found a distribu
tor for the movie but dechned to iden
tify it because he is still closing the deal.
The movie crew is scheduled to go to
Atlanta next to continue filming and will
then use that city as its base.
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Battalion Staff
ion day wasn’t a usual day at the Stu
nt Government office. A quiet gloom
(ig thickly in the air, and the usual
letings shouted from room to room
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r weren’t heard. Most of the people
filled the office were still in shock at
| news that one of their friends had
over a weekend that was supposed
e one of thanksgiving,
olie Mailhos, 22, a senior marketing
for from Bay City, was killed along
!h her father, grandfather and 19-
-old brother in a tragic plane acci-
tin Louisana Saturday. Mailhos and
family were on their way to Louisa
ns Lu na after the University of Texas-Texas
- M\j football game when the four-
fexas phne went down in a heavily
an 26 1 w )( kd area 40 miles short of their des-
Texas donation of Oakdale. She was on her way
19-25 to pick up a car that her father had
[Dought for her to drive back to College
Station.
■ Mailhos, whose first name Jolie
means “happy” in french, transferred
, , here after attending Wharton County
Junior College for two years. She was to
[graduate next May.
Jl? “She was involved in everything,”
J Student Body President Joe Jordan
I rsaid. “I guess that’s why so many people
■j |knew her.”
™ I The list of her involvements during
I her two and a half years at Texas A&M
goes on and on. This semester she was
the executive director of information for
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Jolie Camille Mailhos
the Student Government. Before that
she was a senator for the College of
Business, vice president for academic
affairs and she served on numerous
committees. She was also a member of
the College of Business Administration
fellows program.
Last year Mailhos was the recepient
of the Buck Weirus Spirit Award, an
honor given to a few selected students
for outstanding contributions to student
life at Texas A&M.
Dr. Carolyn Adair, director of stu
dent services said she was to become a
member of Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Colleges this semes
ter, but didn’t know it because the
names have not been announced. At
Wharton Co. Junior College she was in
Who’s Who Among Students in Amer
ican Junior Colleges and was active in
student government there.
“She never could say no to any
thing,” Adair said shaking her head in
almost disbelief of the news, adding that
her death is a tragic loss.
Jordan said that she was always in
volved in many things, but never over
extended herself to the point of not
doing a good job. He said doing the best
she could was always important to her.
When he learned of her death, Jor
dan and others went to the Student
Government office and began calling
people to tell them what had happened.
They didn’t want people to learn the
news after coming into the office
Monday.
“You always think of people in terms
of their potential — what they will be
doing after they graduate — and it’s
such a shock that you’ll never realize
that, ” Jordan said. “Maybe we can learn
something from this.”
Memorial services have not yet been
scheduled, but Jordan said that many
members of the Student' Government
plan to attend. In addition to Silver
Taps, the Student Government would
like to have some sort of service, but no
plans have been made, Jordan said.
“She was successful,” Jordan said.
“People will remember her.’’
Making movies
John Makely, Battalion staff
Larry Spangler, center, and Gary Busey, left, answer
questions at a press conference held Monday about the
upcoming movie being filmed here on Bear Bryant’s life.
Spangler is producing the movie and Busey is the star of
the production. Richard Sarafian, right, is the director of
the film.
Shuttle Columbia blasts off;
starts international research
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The
world’s largest astronaut crew blasted
into orbit Monday aboard the shuttle
Columbia and began the European
Spacelab experiments that comprise the
boldest bid yet in international space
research.
Despite last-minute concern about
the weather, Columbia rocketed
flawlessly off its launch pad on schedule
at 11 a. m. EST to begin a nine-day mis
sion for five U. S. astronauts and a West
German physicist.
Six hours later, MIT biomedical en
gineer Byron Lichtenberg activated an
experiment in the $1 billion Spacelab to
study the effects of weightlessness on
disease-fighting blood cells.
Lichtenberg, along with commander
John Young, co-pilot Brewster Shaw,
and scientists Robert Parker, Owen
Garriott and Ulf Merbold, will conduct
72 separate experiments working 12-
hour shifts around the clock.
Lichtenberg and Merbold are the
first non-NASA members of a U.S.
space crew and Merbold, a West Ger
man, is the first foreigner to be carried
into orbit by an American rocket.
Researchers in 14 nations already
were anticipating a rich return from the
Spacelab flight.
“What a venture this is! Our goose
bumps have goose bumps,” Bill Bock
told the astronauts from Marshall Space
Center in Huntsville, Ala., where the
NASA portion of the Spacelab project is
being directed.
Lichtenberg, Garriott and Merbold
entered Spacelab by floating feet first
through the 18-foot-long tunnel that
connects Columbia’s living quarters
with the 23-foot-long reusable research
center tucked in the shuttle’s cargo bay.
They exchanged congratulatory
handshakes and started turning on
Spacelab’s switches.
“It looks like Spacelab came through
with flying colors,” Young told mission
control in Houston.
The astronauts will use Spacelab —
built by the European Space Agency —
to conduct experiments including stu
dies of the upper atmosphere. Earth
observations, astronomy and solar phy
sics, biological sciences, materials pro
cessing and a 1 million-mph stream of
electrified gases from the sun.
Columbia, outfitted with new and
more powerful main engines since its
last flight a year ago, thundered off the
launch pad in a burst of yellow flame,
just ahead of an approaching cold front
that had given NASA forecasters some
anxious moments.
In a plume of dirty white smoke, the
shuttle punched through the thin
clouds overhanging the Cape and
streaked along the Eastern Seaboard to
an orbit that reaches farther north and
south than any previous manned Amer
ican space flight.
Young, the only person to fly six space
missions, reported the thrill of space
flight never gets old.
“It’s just super up here, just beauti
ful,” said Young, as Columbia started
the first of 145 orbits 155 miles above
Earth. “Our view doesn’t change any.
It’s really something.”
“That is really some ride. I want to
tell you it hasn’t changed a bit. It’s the
smoothest way to fly you ever saw,” he
later exulted to mission control as the
shuttle circled the world at 17,500 mph.
The smooth countdown and success
ful launch was especially gratifying to
NASA and the ESA because technical
problems had caused a two-month delay
in the flight.
“It was superb,” launch director
Alfred O’Hara said of Columbia’s
takeoff.
Spacelab was developed by ESA and
donated to NASA as Western Europe’s
contribution to the U.S. space program.
The scientific instruments inside
Spacelab and on an outside platform will
provide information for researchers
from 11 European countries, Japan,
Canada and the United States.
Classes in architecture center
cancelled Monday: bomb threat
by Edye Williams
Battalion Reporter
A&M may have lost the game, but a
few students got Monday off anyway
when all classes meeting in Langford
Architecture Center were cancelled.
Students attempting to attend class
were greeted with locked doors and
signs that read: Do Not Enter. Building
Closed Until 1 p.m.
It had nothing to do with the football
game, however, it was due to a bomb
threat made by an unknown caller.
This is the second threat made
against the architecture building this
semester. The first, earlier in Novem
ber, was made directly to the Depart
ment of Environmental Design, which
is within the College of Architecture
and Environmental Design, did not
lead to evacuation.
Monday’s caller dialed 911 and told a
member of the College Station Fire De
partment that a bomb was ready and
would go off in the building at 10:30
a.m. The firemen quickly notified the
University Police who then made the
decision to evacuate the building.
This type of prank is a Class A misde
meanor and is punishable by one year in
jail and a $2000 fine — even if it’s just a
hoax.
The police have no clues to the
identity of the caller or the motive, and
the matter is still under investigation.
Pope appeals for stay of execution
for Florida murderer on death row
United Press International
STARKE, Fla. — Supreme Court
Justice Lewis F. Powell was asked Mon
day night to block Tuesday’s execution
of condemned murderer Robert Sulli
van, and Pope John Paul II asked Flor
ida’s governor to spare Sullivan’s life.
Sullivan, a Catholic, has spent more
time on death row than any other in
mate in the nation.
Tom Horkan, director of the Florida
Catholic Conference in Tallahassee,
said the pope authorized Archbishop
Edward A. McCarthy of Miami to ask
Gov. Bob Graham to stay the execution
for humanitarian reasons. Horkan said
the Catholic church opposes the death
penalty.
There was no immediate word on
Graham’s response to the pope’s plea,
Horkan said.
New York attorney Eric Freedman
filed the emergency appeal with Powell
in Washington after the 11th U.S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta refused
to stay the execution, scheduled for 7
a.m. Tuesday. Freedman asked Powell
to halt the execution so Sullivan could
continue to appeal.
A federal appeals court refused Mon
day to block Tuesday’s scheduled ex
ecution of condemned murderer Robert
Sullivan, who has spent more time on
death row than other inmate in the na
tion.
Attorneys for Sullivan immediatly
appealed to the Supreme Court.
In another appeal, they asked for a
new hearing by the 11th U.S. circuit
Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
In Washington, New York attorney
Eric Freedman filed the emergency
appeal with Supreme Court Justice
Lewis F. Powell at 6:30 p.m..
“We just wait and see now, that’s ab
out it,” Freedman said in the hallway of
the Supreme Court building.
Earlier Monday, Judges Paul Roney
and Gerald Tjoflat of the 11th U.S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals voted to reject
Sullivan’s appeal, while Judge R. Lanier
Anderson dissented.
Sullivan, 36, the adopted son of a
Havard-educated surgeon, has spent
more than a decade on Florida’s death
row.
Attorney Eric Freedman pleaded un
successfully with the appeals court to
spare Sullivan on the same grounds the
U.S. Supreme Court used recently to
halt the execution of a Texas murderer
24 minutes before he was to die.
Sullivan asked for an evidentiary
hearing so his attorneys could argue that
the condemned man’s death sentence
was not fair considering the crime he
committed.
U.S. District Judge Jose A. Gonzalez
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last Wednes
day refused to hold such a hearing for
Sullivan, who was convicted of the 1973
murder of a south Florida motel-
restaurant clerk.
Sullivan and another man were found
guilty of abducting Donald Schmidt, 39,
from a Howard Johnson’s Motor Inn at
Homestead, Fla., and killing him ex
ecution-style. Schmidt was taken to a
swamp and beaten with a tire iron, then
shot in the back of the head.
Sullivan’s co-defendant, Reid
McLaughlin, pleaded guilty and testi
fied against him. McLaughlin has since
been paroled.