,, THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Saturday, March
24, 1973
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I RA Provos reject
British reform plan
BELFAST (Reuter)-Irish Re- by the British government to lif
publican Army (IRA) guerrillas the ban on the Sinn Fein, the poli
in Northern Ireland yesterday de- tical party behind the IRA. This
clared "We fight on"-dashing would enable them to take part in
hopes that peace was about to elections for the new Northern
break out following Britain's plan Ireland Assembly proposed in the
for radical reform of government white paper.
here. But while there have been signs
A statement issued in Dublin on that Britain might well legalize
behalf of the IRA's Provisional Sinn Fein-and the republican clubs
Wing rejected the British white which are the political front foi
paper on the future of the North the rival Official IRA-if the guer
and said it left the guerrillas "no rillas renounce violence, it was
choice but to continue armed re- thought impossible that this step
sistance." could be taken now under an ul-
There.was no firm indication timatum from the guerrillas.
here whether the "Provos" as they A lifting of the ban on Sinn Fein
are widely known, would imme- as a result of the threat of con
diately resume their campaign of tinuing violence by the guerrillas
bombing and shooting, suspended observers here said, could swing
since last Sunday in what has even moderate Protestant opinion
amounted to an undeclared cease- behind the militant Protestants, wh
fire. are holding a mass rally in centra
But the refusal to lay down their Belfast today to protest agains
arms brought immediate criticism the white paper.
from Catholic political leaders and
the official wing of the IRA. The Michigan Daily, edited and man
aged by students at the University o
Paddy Devlin of the Social Demo- Michigan. News phone: 764-0562. Second
cratic and Labor Party, the Catho- Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich
lic minority's main political voice Igan. 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor
hichThurday ppeaed t theMichigan 48104. Published daily Tues-
whih Tursdsayappealed to'"thay hrugh SudymrigUie
Provisionals to stop fighting, called ity year. Subscription rates: $10 by
the Provisional's commitment to carrier (campus area); $11 local mail
violence "blind" and "insane." (in Mich. or Ohio); $13 non-local mai
for te oficia IRA(other states and foreign).
A spokesman for the official IRA summer Session published Tuesday
in Dublin said the decision was "a through Saturday morning. Subscrip
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its military campaign last May. At states and foreign).
that time the officials, regarded as ----
more politically inclined than the
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tical expression in the North. Read Daily
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NEW DRAFT LAW
Students riot in
PARIS (Reuter) - Hundreds of Many university students have
thousands of high school students also gone on strike in sympathy.
boycotted classes here yesterday In the most spectacular demon-
in continuing protest over a new stration Thursday, more than S0,-
law which forces most youths to 000 youths jammed southern Paris
complete their one-year of com- boulevards in a noisy march headed
pulsory military service before go- by crash-helmeted leftist militants.
ing on to higher studies. There were violent clashes at
More than two and a half million the end of the march between sev-
high school pupils stayed away eral thousand hard-core protestors
from school Thursday and demon- and nearly as many riot police.
stration marches took place Screams of pain were heard as
throughout France. police, advancing through a hail of
paving stones and bottles, clubbed
down stragglers after using tear-
Dmgas to dispersesthe demonstrators.
emoc'rats Unrest over the new military
France
service law has been growing in
recent weeks.
Student leaders claim that the
law discriminates against poorer
youths, who they say will have
difficulty starting university stud-
ies if they are forced to do their
service first.
In the past, most students were
given deferments from military,
service up to the age of 27, but
the new law provides deferment'
only for medical students.
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WASHINGTON (P-The Demo-
cratic National Committee (DNC)
overwhelmingly approved a slate.
of new members yesterday in its
biggest show of unity since last
fall's presidential election.
The slate of 25 at-large seats on
the DNC was put together by party
Chairman Robert Strauss and the
executive committee and accepted
by acclamation after endorsement
from the floor by both party regu-
lars and reformers.
The compromise had been reach-
ed in preliminary meetings of the
executive committee when Strauss
agreed to drop two black repre-
sentatives from his own original list
and replace them with two pre-
ferred by the black Congressional
Congress. He also agreed to add a
labor member favored by the re-
formist elements which backed
Sen. George McGovern's presiden-:
tial campaign.
The only other possible con-
flict reaching the floor at yester-
day's meeting was over the method
of selecting new at-large members
for the executive committee. It
ended in a compromise by which
the executive committee picks its
own six members subject to ratifi-
cation by the next full meeting of
the national committee.
The unity drive picked up ir-
resistible support when Sen. Harold
Hughes (D-Iowa), one of the found-
ers of the reform wing of the
party, spoke for the compromise
slate, and Jean Westwood, party,
chairman during McGovern's can-
didacy, called it "a slate we can
all live 'with."
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Co-starring GINGER ROGERS and ADOLPHE -MENJOU
From a play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
Directed by GREGROY LA CAVA
'Stage Door': In Defense of Hollywood
The RKO-Radio version of "Stage Door," which covery of the picture, is the tortured young wo-
was opened at the Music Hall yesterday, is not man who has waited a year for the One Role.
merely a brilliant picture (although that should There are the other young ladies of the ensemble,
be enough), but happens as well to be a magni- and a cleverly individualized bevy they are, whose
ficently devastating reply on Hollywood's behalf to several destinies tragically or comically counter-
all the catty little remarks that George Kaufman point those of the primary four.
and Edna Ferber had made about it in their play.
The twists end turns of the narrative are sen-
Those impolite playwrights had filled the sibly motivated, the direction of Gregory La Cava
mouths of the aspirant Bernhardts of their Foot- has given it zest and pace and photographic elo-
lights Club with gall and wormwood whenever the quence, and the performances are amazingly good
Hollywood topic arose, which was fairly constantly. -considering that Mr. Kaufman's Hollywood is
It was, we were told, a factory and a graveyard
of art a place of complete untalent and all-pervad-
ing witlessness, of sables for the body and starva-
tion for the soul, etc.-all very wittily expressed
and neatly packaged (through the courtesy of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which had backed the show).
For a factory and a graveyard and other un-
pleasant institutions, Hollywood had done some
rather incredible things with the Kaufman-Ferber
contribution, not the least of them being the
transformation of a fragile piece of theatrical
wishful-willing into a far more soundly contrived
comedy drama. Script-writers Morrie Ryskind and
Anthony veiller have taken the play's name, its
setting and part of its theme, and have built a
whole new structure which is wittier than the ori-
ginal more dramatic than the original, more dra-
matic than the original, more cogent than the
original.
Where the team of K & F (who really should. . . . . . .{
have been ashamed) drew Hollywood as the leering
man with the waxed black mustache, RKO has
countered by showing that the villian of all seri-
ous acting fledglings is the Broadway producer
who is too busy to look and listen. But with this
premise, which was the whole sum of the stage's
"Stage Door, ' hlie film edition had only begun its
narrative. Back it goes to the Footlights Club
where the sagestruck maidens nurse their disap-
pointments and sharpen their claws (on whatever
victim is nandy) and gossip betimes over the tri- just a canning factory. Miss Hepburn and Miss ,
angular sham battle being fought by Ginger Rog- Rogers, in particular, seemed to be acting so far
ers, Katharine Hepburn and Gail Patrick over and above their usual heads that, frankly we hardly
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