The Michigan Daily-Saturday, October 1,1980-Page 5 'Poll vaulting Reagan camp boasts of strength Ar Photo THIS MURAL, containing two female nudes, was finally unveiled in an air terminal in Peking after the artist, Yuan Yunshen, refused to paint panties on the nudes. Chinese dropdemands that artist paint pantties CHICAGO (AP)-Ronald Reagan's strategists, polling the nation daily, think they may wind up with 300 to 320 electoral votes Tuesday, more than enough to win if their game plan proves sound. It takes 270 Electoral College votes, and Reagan is spending the sunset days of his campaign for president in the states where he thinks he is slightly ahead or just slightly behind. LYNN NOFZIGER, Reagan's press secretary, quotes a pollster as saying the election outlook is so tight "you might have a very narrow popular, margin and have an electoral lan- dslide." Reagan's schedule is taking him to the states that figure largely in his campaign's "possible" or "ahead" columns. He continued with ever harder at- tacks on President Carter and his economic policies and urged Democrats and independents to join his cause. "CARTER economics has been a major tragedy for the American family," Reagan said at a rally in a high school in suburban Des Plains. He had begun his day in Pittsburgh, where he told a reporter that the president "does seem to be dragging his feet" in the government's investigation of his brother Billy. "I have always had a standard belief that if there's any appearance of wrongdoing, then there ought to be a clear and open explanation for the people and an investigation," Reagan said. MEANWHILE, in Lakeland, Fla., Carter continued to criticize Ronald Reagan's views on nuclear arms and social issues yesterday, shortly after Carter aides directed an assault again- st the Republican candidate from Air Force One. At an outdoor rally where several thousand young and old crowded under cloudy skies on Florida's "Sun Coast," Carter renewed his attacks on Reagan's positions on Social Security and Medicare. But the presidenttsaid more important than either of those issues is the threat posed by a nuclear arms race or the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist countries. Carter has been hammering on the UEmm nuclear issues in the final days of the campaign, trying to instill fear of a Reagan presidency while citing his own policies of moderation and restraint in dealing with international crises. IT WAS A theme Carter stressed during Tuesday night's debate in Cleveland. Carter said in Columbia, S.C., that if Reagan is elected and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty is abandoned it "would be a major setback for this nation and a major advantage for the Soviet Union." He said that if the SALT II treaty is not resubmitted for Senate con- the ann arbor film cooperative sideration "there will be no debate on the Senate floor . . . there will be no chance to modify the treaty in the Senate." The president withdrew the treaty from Senate consideration last January in the wake of the Soviet military inter- vention in Afghanistan, but he said in an interview with The Associated Press two weeks ago that he would resubmit it as soon as possible after the election. GORDON ANITA MACRAE DA RIAN In Mr. Mr R He the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein TONIGHT AT 8:00 Tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. POWER CENTER Power Center Box Ofice openls at 60O) (763-3333) TONIGHT ' presents TONIGHT FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT'S THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN 7:00 & 9:00-MLB 4 "A supremely humane, sophis- ticated comedy."-vincent Canby, NY Times French with subtitles ADMISSION: $2 PEKING-(AP)-China has lifted at last the curtain that for five months shrouded an enormous mural with two female nudes, yielding to an artist who refused to add paintbrush p anties. The artist, Yuan Yunshen, said the request for the pain- ted clothing, made by propaganda chief Wang Renzhong, was like asking Michaelangelo to clothe the figures in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. POLITICAL LEADERS finally signalled their approval of the mural. "The purpose of art is to enrich life," said Yuan, "and it was a good thing that I was permitted to paint it." Yuan, once banished to the countryside for his bourgeois art, said this is still a time for artistic caution, but predicted that someday Chinese authorities will per- mit paintings of nudes to hang in public places without blushing or fearing political flak. THE FLAK IN his case began when Yuan, one of China's best known artists, painted a monumental, sen- sual mural for a restaurant in Peking's new international' airport. In brightly colored, flowing, elonated forms, "The Song of Life" depicts the waters-splashing festival of China's Dai minority people near the Burma border. Two of the figures among the dozens are nudes. ART CRITICS HAILED the mural in January, but the Dai people reportedly complained and China's conser- vative arbiters of artistic expression called for modesty. In the spring, authorities draped a huge white curtain over the mural and shoved a bulky coat rack in front.of the nudes while China deliberated w at state of undress was politically and artistically acceptable. The curtain went up last month at the close of the National People's Congress, China's parilament. During the session some deputies scoffed at the idea of hiding a mural behind a curtain because two figures were nude. Yuan said official opinion about the nudes had been divided and he doesn't know why the mural finally was unveiled. Lina Wermuller's BALL SCREWED UP Class, work and sex in industrial society: what other subjects could be so funny and so serious of the some time? The film is of a group of rural immigrants in bustling, crowded Milan. Wertmuller portrays their struggle for a decent life with ruth- lessly honest humor. Tonight at 7:00 & 9:00 at Lorch. Plus Daffy ! Sunday: THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ Monday: Japanese Film Series: EARLY SUMMER CINEMA GUILD Films are like vitamins DESPITE CHURCH LEADERS VERBAL OPPOSITION: " Irish allow birth control DUBLIN, Ireland (AP)-Birth con- reform and the conservatism of the trol becomes legal in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Catholic Irish Republic today despite a The act will allow only "bona fide" moral outcry by church leaders. married couples to buy birth control However, PrimeI Minister Charles devices at registered pharmacies if Haughey's "Irish solution to an Irish they have a physician's prescription.- problem" will make contraceptives Single men and women will not be per- harder to get and more expensive than mitted to buy any. when they were outlawed. "THE MOST definite-thing that can HUNDREDS OF men and women be said about the new act is that it will yesterday swamped illegal family be flouted," one observer commented. planning clinics in Dublin seeking con- Selling contraceptives illegally will traceptives before the new law goes in- carry a $1,200 fine for a first conviction, to effect. a year in prison on a second conviction. The Family Planning Act, put The main thrust of the new law is to together by Haughey last year when he close the eight private family planning was the health minister, was designed clinics that for several years have to balance demands by liberals for operated through a legal loophole in the *Census Bureau to draft adjustment plan in Detroit, acting on such a complaint, WASHINGTON . (UPI)-The Census has ordered the government to revise Bureau said yesterday it will try to the entire national census to include comply with a federal judge's order and people missed by census takers during draft some kind of plan to adjust the the April 1 headcount. 1980 headcount upward-but it won't Thursday, the judge rejected gover- vouch for the plan's accuracy. nment requests to stay his order pen- Census Director Vincent Barabba ding appeal, or to grant a new trial, and said the bureau will stand firm in its ordered an adjustment plan to submit- refusal in a separate case, however, to ted within two weeks. give New York authorities address lists Barabba told a news conference they want unless it is ordered by the yesterday the Census Bureau hopes the Supreme Court to surrender them. solicitor general's office in the Justice MANY CITIES HAVE complained of Department will back its position and undercounting; which could affect appeal Gilmore's initial ruling. But in federal grants to local governments the meantime, he said, it will work on based on population figures. an adjustment method to give the U.S. District Judge Horace Gilmore judge. a. old law that forbade the sale of con- traceptives., THEY HAVE handed them out to anyone who wanted them in return for "contributions." Family planning groups estimated they have supplied more than 100,000 couples, married and unmarried. Several of the clinics have said they will not close. A spokesperson for a clinic in Galway said local men do not plan to go to doctors for contraceptive prescriptions "as if they were prize bulls looking for a license." It's Back . ... 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