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IITTHE RED AND BLACK
/OLUME 78, NUMBER 82
UNIVERSITY 08 QEORQIA
MAR 8 1972
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1972
Bomb removed
from TWA jet
Police seek ROTC arsonist
By JON HAM
Associate news editor
Two unsuccessful arson attempts
were made at the Army ROTC
Building last Wednesday and
Thursday nights, according to
Edward T. Kassinger, Director of
the Fublic Safety Division.
Information regarding the arson
attempts was withheld by Public
Safety officials in cooperation with
The Red and Black “in order to
give us an opportunity to apprehend
the person who seemed determined
to set fire to the building,” Kassinger
said in his report.
According to the report, campus
police officers responded to a night
watchman’s report that a bottle
containing a flammable liquid had
been thrown through a first floor
window of the building at 10:20
p.m. last Wednesday.
Campus police reportedly found a
rag that had been ignited, possibly
as a fuse for the flammable liquid in
the bottle. No fire resulted from
this attempt, the report said.
On Friday morning when the
janitor of the building reported to
work he detected smoke coming
from the ladies' restroom.
When campus police arrived th$y
noticed that the window that had
been broken during the first arson
attempt and subsequently repaired
was broken again. In the debris they
found another bottle containing
what they suspected was kerosene.
The liquid had caused the paint
to burn around the window and
resulted in minor smoke damage,
the report said. The fire was
promptly extinguished.
The ROTC Building has been the
target for arsonists several times in
recent years.
On May 16, 1968 arsonists
caused $1,000 damage to the
building after gaining entry through
a lounge window Kassinger said
suspects were identified but charges
were dropped because of a lack of
evidence.
On Feb. 10, 1969 arsonists set
several fires in the building,
ransacked furniture and stole a
copying machine. 1 wo persons were
identified as being involved in the
attempt and received five-year
sentences. Damage was estimated at
$1,000.
Another attempt occurred on
Aug. 30, 1970. A Molotov-type
cocktail was thrown through a
window, but the sprinkler system
kept the fire from spreading.
Damage was estimated at $400. This
attempt is still under investigation.
Last week’s attempts, according
to Kassinger, “have not publicly
been tied in with any anti-ROTC
motivation” and “may or may not
be so related, or may be merely the
act of a vindictive malcontent.”
Kassinger said the Public Safety
Division is hopeful for “successful
prosecution resulting in a penal
sentence” of whomever is responsible
for last week’s unsuccessful
attempts.
NEW YORK - A bomb set to explode in 12 more
minutes was removed Tuesday from the cockpit of a
Trans World Airlines jetliner which already had taken off
for Los Angeles but been called back to Kennedy
International Airport after TWA received a bomb threat.
Police said the airline had been warned that three more
bombs would go off in its planes at six-hour intervals if it
did not pay a $2 million ransom but TWA officials
refused to confirm this.
The airline issued a statement saying, “With respect to
the bomb threat, TWA is taking every precaution,
including thorough inspection of all aircraft. Wc plan to
operate' all flights as scheduled although there may be
some delays due to searches.”
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North Viets charge U.S.
SAIGON North Vietnam Tuesday charged that the
United States has launched a major, wide-scale bombing
campaign in the north. The U.S. command declined
comment on the charges and said it had established a new
policy not to disclose information on future air raids for
security reasons. Earlier, about eight U.S. warplanes
battled five Soviet-built MIG fighters over North Vietnam
m the biggest Indochina dogfight since 1968, the U.S.
command said Tuesday. One MIG 17 reportedly was shot
down.
Bomb wrecks Belfast store
BELFAST - A bomb explosion wrecked most of
Belfast's biggest department store early Tuesday, blowing
a huge crater in its steel and concrete floor. Elsewhere in
the capital, a member of the paramilitary Ulster Defense
Pcgiment thwarted a machine gun assassination attempt
by punching the first of two gunmen into the second and
blasting them away from his door with a doube-barreled
shotgun.
A British army spokesman said the bomb went off
shortly before 4 a.m. at the cooperative store on
downtown York Street and "ripped a hole the sire of a
bus in the floor, which is steel-reinforced concrete."
A group of four gunmen kept the store's night
watchmen at bay while they planted the bomb, then left
with a warning to the employes. "Get the hell out of
here if you know what's good for you.”
House leaves plan to courts
ATLANTA - The House Reapportionment Committee
voted Tuesday to remedy as much of the House
redistricting plan as possible during the remainder of the
session and leave the final determination to the courts.
On a motion by Rep. Hines Brantley of Metter which
passed 11-2, the committee agreed to redraw five House
districts in east-central Georgia which had been
specifically rejected by the Justice Department.
They also voted to permit representatives from
multi-member districts to cut their areas into smaller
single-member districts if they so desired
Additionally, a resolution will be offered the final day
of the session, telling the Justice Department the
legislature has acted in what it considers good faith on
the reapportionment question.
Convention center bills pass
ATLANTA - A proposed $35 million World Confess
Center for Atlanta moved a step closer to reality Tuesday
as the House approved three bills setting up the
mechanics for its creation.
Still awaiting approval is a controversial bill aimed at
raising money for the center.
The World Congress Center was proposed by Sen.
Eugene Holley of Augusta, Senate majority leader, who
claims it will be a billion dollar industry for the state.
He said the center will create 3,000 jobs and will bring
in between $100-160 million to the sute.
Georgia takes Tech
in second half surge
Nixon, Muskie lead
in New Hampshire
Photo by RICK DUNN
AND A STUNNED BUNCH OF JACKETS LOOK ON
Charlie Anderson had one of his best nights
Coalition bids
black nominee
By BOB GILLETTE
Sports editor
The Georgia Bulldogs overcame a
miserable first half to embarrass the
insects from Georgia Tech 93-78
last night in the Coliseum.
Georgia is now sporting the best
season record, except for the
1967-68 season, in 22 years.
The first half play is reflected in
Georgia’s unimpressive 36.1 per cent
field goal percentage. Tech scored
first, but Georgia bounced back to
lead until 11:40 left in the half,
when Tom Hyder put the Jackets
ahead 19-18.
The Dogs saw nothing but
stingers the remainder of the half.
Ronnie Hogue led Georgia’s
scoring in the first half with 11,
followed by Dick Toth with six.
Dick Toth out-rebounded Tim
Basset 6-5 and Georgia
out-rebounded Tech 22-18.
Following half-time ceremonies
which honored Georgia’s football
seniors, a fired-up pack of ’Dogs
took the court.
Georgia immediately began to
whittle away at Tech’s 44-37
half-time lead. A base-line jumper
by Ronnie Hogue pulled the ’Dogs
to within one with 13:55 left.
Gino’s near-perfect free-throw
shooting put the ’Dogs ahead by
two with 12:17 left. The ’Dogs
began to run away with the game.
The Georgia cagers stretched their
lead out of reach of the Jackets
behind the inspired play of
sophomore forward Charlie
Anderson.
Gino had the second of two of
his best games ever, breaking his old
record of 13 assists in one game by
two.
Coach Rosemond said of his
players’ effort, “Tonight was a
maximum effort. Everybody played
heads-up; wc played together.”
Georgia overcame its cold field
goal shooting of the first half.
MANCHESTER, N.ll. (UPI)
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie and
President Nixon won New
Hampshire’s first primary of the
1972 election year yesterday but
the Maine senator was fighting to
capture a majority and retain his
role as the front runner for the
Democratic presidential nomination.
Nixon crushed the challenges of
two Republican congressmen, Reps.
Paul N. McCloskey of California
and John M. Ashbrook of Ohio, in
the same primary which catapulted
him to the nomination and the
presidency in 1968.
DESPITE SERIOUS inroads into
his margin bv fringe candidates in
the heavily - populated area of
Manchester, Muskie decisively edged
South Dakota’s Sen. George S.
McGovern who was running second.
With 20 per cent of the precincts
in, Muskie was pulling 48 per cent
of the vote, running noticeably
earning a 55.5 per cent in tljfc
second half to give them a game
total of 45.8 per cent.
Defending Georgia’s mediocre
first half Coach Rosemond
explained, “Tech played a
controlled ball game, we had to
open them up in the second half.”
better in other parts of the state
than in Manchester. McGovern, who
was shooting for 25 per cent of the
vote, was running well ahead of that
at 32 per cent.
Cutting into Muskic’s strength
were Mayor Sam Yorty, backed by
the conservative Manchester Union
Leader, at 8 per cent; Sen. Vance
Hartke of Indiana, 4 per cent; and
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, also a write-in, at 1
per cent.
NIXON, who polled 79 per cent
four years ago, was moving strongly
against more serious challengers. On
the basis of 19 per cent of the
precincts, he was getting 70 per
cent of the vote.
McCloskey, who said he would
withdraw if he could not reach 20
per cent, was falling just short at 19
per cent. Ashbrook, the conservative
wing candidate, trailed at 10 per
cent.
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Assistant news/feature editor
Coalition ’72 became the first
group to support a black student
for any of the three executive
offices of SGA last night.
The black candidate is Connie
Brown, a junior. She was nominated
for the office of student body
■ecrctary, completing the ticket of
David Alonso and Linda Chafin, at
a meeting in Memorial Hall in which
Coalition took nominations for its
senatorial candidates and announced
its campaign platform.
Ms. Brown said her candidacy is
not based on appeal to the black
vote nor will she be concerned
only with black affairs. “I don’t feel
obligated, just because I’m black, to
certain demands by blacks, but I
will work for blacks.”
According to David Alonso, who
heads the Coalition ticket, the
secretarial office will act primarily
as a liason with the Student Senate.
Saying that SGA needed better
coordination between its legislative
and executive branches, Alonso put
forth Ms. Brown as the candidate
able to develop that coordination
“Connie has a constructive and
progressive attitude needed in
student government.”
(’ailing for the support by SGA
of student interests “on campus, in
the community, at the state and
national levels" the Coalition
platform said, “Coalition ’72 will
put student interests first; our
efforts will not be restricted to
proposals designed primarily to win
Administration, Board of Regents,
or Georgia General Assembly
approval.”
The platform calls for the
combination of the Student Senate
and University Council into a
University Senate, the establishment
of a University Judiciary to cover
administrators and faculty in
addition to students, a full-time
legal counsel for students, and
increased emphasis on the rights of
women, blacks, married students
and veterans.
In addition to support of major
campus publications the platform
calls for financial support of minor
publications. An information
secretary is also called for in
student government to keep
students informed through the
media and through leaflets printed
by SGA.
Nominations were received for
nearly half of the available seats in
the Student Senate According to
Bill Condon, party chairman,
nominations for these positions are
still open.
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Beauty and the beast
Photo by RICK DUNN
In a pre-game cere money last night, Alpha Phi
Omega announced the winners of its Beauty and thi
Beast Contest and presented the American Cancer
Society with $1,200 collected as votes in the
contest. Bonnie Ulmer of Alpha Xi Delta was the
winning beauty and Dean Emeritus William late
sponsored by Russell Hall, took the prize •
beastliest. Bonin' Goldstein, sponsored by Delta Phi
1 psilon, polled second among the beauties; Alpha
Gamma Delta's Vicki Lawrence came in third.
Sigma Chi’s Coleman Goodrich was voted number
two beast and Clarke Howell Hall’s Nick Curry took
number three
