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TTTTHE RED AND BLACK
VOLUME 78, NUMBER 74
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1972
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Arabs release
all passengers
The last 129 passengers, including Joseph P. Kennedy
III, were flown from Aden Airport in Southern Yemen to
Athens Wednesday after an ordeal as hostages aboard a
bomb-laden Lufthansa 747 jetliner hijacked Monday over
India. The jumbo jet’s 14 crewmembers remained in the
hands of the hijackers.
The Arab commandos who commandeered the New
Delhi-to-Athens plane Monday night over Bombay said
Wednesday they would hold the S2S million aircraft and
their 14 hostages pending instructions from Palestinian
guerrillas in Israeli-occupied territory seized in the 1967
Middle East war.
Mahmoud Arazi, director of civil aviation in Aden, said
the hijackers of the West German Lufthansa Boeing 747
have refused to negotiate with two German officials who
arrived Wednesday in the capital at the southern tip of
the Arabian peninsula.
IRA women battle soldiers
BELFAST — Hundreds of Catholic women battled
British soldieis with flailing umbrellas, shopping baskets
and handbags Wednesday when the troops tried to
interfere with a funeral cortege for four Irish Republican
Army (IRA) men.
Screaming "Let us bury our dead in peace” and “Keep
your filthy British hands off our dead," the angry women
charged into the ranks of soldiers and forced them to
withdraw in the skirmish in the Falls Road district of
Belfast.
The troops moved in when a group of men in the green
berets and dark glasses of the IRA moved in to fire a
volley of shots over the coffins in violation of Northern
Ireland government laws.
Paris talks resume Thurs.
PARIS - The United States and South Vietnam
Wednesday called off their boycott of the Vietnam peace
talks and agreed to meet the Communist delegates
Thursday.
Allied liaison officers informed the North Vietnamese
and Viet Cong missions in brief notes that American
negotiator William J. Porter and his Saigon colleague,
Pham Dang Lam, will be back at the negotiating table at
10:30 a.m. Thursday.
The allies suspended the talks, now more than three
years old, on Feb. 10 in protest against the convening
near Paris of a left-wing "World Assembly for Peace and
Independence of Indochina."
House kills law school bill
WASHINGTON - Senate leaders, in a compromise
aimed at quieting the public controversy over school
busing. proposed legislation Wednesday to bar
transportation of children over long distances or to
Inferior schools to achieve racial balance
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott and Democratic
leader Mike Mansfield offered the plan as a substitute to
* Southern-sponsored attempt to ban busing altogether as
an instrument ot public school desegregation.
The leadership amendment fell somewhere in between
the Dixie demand and liberal opposition to any
interference with court desegregation decisions.
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Senate foes hit Carter plan
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ATLANTA - Three Senate foes of Gov. Jimmy
Carter’s reorganization plan were appointed Wednesday to
a conference committee on the 1972 supplemental
budget, posing a possible threat to Carter’s early
childhood development program.
LL Gov. Lester Maddox, bitterly opposed to the
program which he calls “communistic,’’ named Sens.
Stanley Smith of Perry, Eugene Holley of Augusta and
Hugh Gillis of Soperton to meet with the House
conferees.
Rumors untrue
Well, it looks like the rumor that no one reads The
Red and Black anymore just isn’t true. At least the
students seem to think enough of it to browse
through it before class. Ot maybe our photographer
was just trying to make us feel good and posed the
whole thing.
UGA Gays plan dance
and fight for recognition
By FRAN FULTON
After a two-month lull, the
Committee on Gay Education is
a(ain bringing the subject
homosexuality before the public.
of
Hall ballroom that evening.
The turnout, said Green, must be
a large one. The affair must be
well-publicized if it is to bring the
subject of homosexuality before
the public eye, he said.
Last night the group met to
discuss plans to press for formal
recognition and to hold a dance for
gays on campus. The committee has
laid low to avoid stirring an adverse
reaction in the Georgia legislature,
their leader said. “We have
cooperated long enough," said
Executive Director Bill Green. “We
ought not to feel any guilt over
publicity we recieve."
The dance, “The first public gay
function in the Southeast," should
receive national publicity. Green
said.
“People are going to be very
surprised and very interested. We’ll
get a lot of publicity."
First on the group's list of
activities is a drive to receive official
status. The committee will apply for
formal recognition at nex.
Wednesday's meeting of the Student
Senate.
“And a lot of letters from
parents," someone in the audience
remarked.
The committee hopes to have a
Registration has already been
promised the group, a move that is
to be approved in three weeks but
which will not take effect until next
fall
The essential difference between
recognition and registration is one
of status, said Green in an interview
after the meeting With recognition,
the group would be officially
sanctioned and approved."
John Gill, minister of a gay
church in Atlanta, will be featured
by the committee in a session at
Memorial Hall next Monday, Feb.
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March 10, however, is the big
date for the group. A dance for
gays - possibly featuring Diamond
Lil - will be held in the Memorial
Tickets needed
to hear Wallace
Students wishing to attend the
address by Alabama Governor and
1972 presidential candidate George
C. Wallace must pick up tickets at
the office of the Dean of the
School of Journalism.
The office is on the second floor
of the Journalism building. Tickets
may be picked up anytime after 9
am.
There is a limited number of
tickets available so students are
advised to come by early.
Vandiver
Wallace is scheduled to speak at I
p.m. today in the auditorium of the
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education He is the lead-off
speaker W the annual Georgia Press
A*ociation’; Press Institute.
Former governor jnd 1972 Senate candidate S. I.rnesl Vandiver will
address the Demosthenian Society tonight at 7 p.m in Demosthenian
Hall. He will discuss issues facing Georgians today. A question and
answer period will follow the address. After the speech and questions,
the Demosthenian Society will hold its regular meeting discussing and
debating issues of concern. Vandiver won the governorship in 1959 with
the largest populai vote in Georgia’s history by carrying 156 of the
state’s 159 counties
Leaders lobby
for abortion
Photo by GEORGE WILLIAMS
contingent from Atlanta at the
dance to increase its ranks.
Any questions concerning the
dance should be addressed to the
Committee on Gay Education, Box
2467, Georgia University Station.
The meeting closed with a
discussion of a past “Media Man’’
article in The Red and Black which
admonished homosexuals to break
from the “queer” stereotype.
Many of those present stated a
preference for their own lifestyles,
even their own affectations, over
the patterns imposed on them by
society. The committee had to
“flaunt” homosexuality, said Green,
betore the public would take notice
of it.
By ALLAN LIPSETT
Special correspondent
does not take sides on the moral
question involved.
ATLANTA A group of health
leaders concerned with Georgia's
abortion laws will be meeting with
members of the General Assembly
today to gam support for a
controversial abortion bill and
possibly make it even more liberal.
Spokesman for the association
Glen M. Hogan says that hospitals
need some guidelines for abortion.
He said it is a “cumbersome kind of
procedure” at present.
A committee on Legal Abortion
Services in Georgia will meet with
the lawmakers in Central
Presbyterian Church here today.
They will be proposing that
abortions be allowed up to the
twentieth week of pregnancy on the
consent of one physician and that
all residency requirements be
removed.
“THE LAW NEEDS to be
clarified as to how women can get
permission for a therapeutic
abortion,” he said. He added that
the hospital committees which
review an abortion application need
to know “how much power and
authority they have and the ground
rules for making this decision.”
The recommendations were
included in a report of the
conference held in Atlanta at the
Georgia Mental Health Institute in
November and cosponsored by 18
Georgia health agencies and
organizations.
OTHER THAN THE sections on
residency and the consulting
physician, the report agrees with the
bill now being considered by the
House Committee on Htalth and
Ecology.
Legislators report that while mail
in support of liberalizing abortion
laws is practically non-existent and
letters received expressing a moral
opposition to such a change have
been heavy, little comment has been
made by the medical profession on
such a bill. It is felt, though, by
some, that the Medical Association
of Georgia would support the
proposed bill.
Lack of
The new bill would do away
entirely with a hospital review
committee and provide that an
abortion could be performed up to
the 20th week on the consent of
the woman's physician and one
other doctor.
concern
for bill ?
It would change the requirements
as to which hospitals could perform
abortions and would modify the
residency requirements. The new
residency requirements would allow
out-of-state patients served by a
Georgia doctor to obtain an
abortion in the state, but would
keep Georgia from becoming a
central rallying point for abortions.
The Student Government
Association is worried about a lack
of student concern over the
18-year-old age of majority bill
presently before the legislature.
The director of the Governor’s
Council on Family Planning says
that the conference was not set up
to make or influence legislation.
Instead, it was established to draw
on public opinion about abortion
reform, said Russell Richardson,
director of the family planning
council.
They are so concerned, in fact,
that they are setting up a table in
front of Memorial Hall today at
which students may pick up form
letters to be mailed to their local
congressmen.
Jim Langford, SGA
Representative to the Board of
Rtfsnts, said, “We found out the
Howe is not going to pass it (the
bill) unless students get on the
stick.”
Richardson, who formerly
worked with Planned Parenthood,
said the conference was patterned
after a similar one in Michigan. The
purpose was to provide a state-wide
assessment on possible conditions of
changes in abortion laws.
He said the bill easily passed in
the Senate but that student interest
has died down since that victory.
“WE WANTED TO avoid what
happened in New York,’*
Richardson said. New York State
passed an extremely liberal abortion
law a few years ago and has since
become a Mecca for American
women wanting an uncomplicated
abortion.
Langford pointed out that
student opinion can have an effect
by citing the recent student support
of the housing department during
the Carl Savage affair.
“It exemplified how well this
thing (students writing their
congressmen) can work,” he said.
“If people called the hotline (at the
fcgfclature) that would be fantastic
too.**
The discrimination against those
women who could not afford to
travel to New York for an abortion
and the springing up of abortion
referral services in the state
“reflected a pretty unfortunate
state of affairs,'* according to
Richardson.
Student Body Vice President Joe
Fowler said, “The SGA is requesting
that thoae people concerned with
this bill write their local legislator
indicating their concern with the
success of the bill. To insure success
it has to be done.”
The Georgia Hospital Association,
one of the cosponsors of the fall
conference, is interested in the
proposed abortion measures, but
“The House is not inclined to
approve it,” Fowler said, unless
students show their concern over
the bill's passage
House kills bill
for bar examination
From wire reports
ATLANTA The Georgia House
of Representatives voted Tuesday to
kill d measure which would have
given graduates of Emory, Georgia
and Mercer law schools the
authority to practice in Georgia
without taking a bar exam.
from keeping students who have
studied for seven years from
practicing law
However, Rep. Jim Bennett of
Valdosta said graduation from an
accredited law school does not
mean students are qualified to
practice law.
The House voted 86-82 to kill
the law school bill. Rep. Tom
Murphy of Bremen, the bill’s
author, said it would prevent “fat
cats” on the State Bar of Georgia
“You can educate a jackass but
you can’t give him any brains,"
Bennett said. He said many students
in his class at Georgia did not pass
the bar exam “because they didn’t
know the cotton-picking answers