VOL. LXI - No. 49 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, February 8, 1971
A nti-escalation
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Rv 1TI'' ETIA .ONES
.\%sist.an Managing Editor
Two weekend pickets against the
0Inited States' intrusion into Laos
were comprised of students,
soldiers and members of the
community. The pickets in front of
the Capitol had 150 marchers on
Saturday afternoon and more than
loo in the candle light march
Sunday night.
The pickets were te protest the
escalation of the wav in Indochina
in which 20,000 American ground
lorces were added as a rein
lorcement to the already existing
air offensive. According to news
releases, these troops are in the
garrison of Khe Sanh in
Southeastern Laos.
Sponsoring the demonstrations
were groups from the USC cam
pus. civic groups, workers,
soldiers from Fort Jackson and
Shaw Air Force Base andl local
church members.
Sponsoring the demonstrations
v%ere groups from the USC cam
pus, civic groups, workers,
soldiers from Fort Jackson and
Shaw Air Force Base and local
church members.
The Saturday march had ap
proximately 150 active participants
(Continued on page 9)
Birth c
By Jerry 4
Any Saturday between 6:00
of Beth Israel Hospital's Lii
New York City is filled with a
word.
Unlike other times at the n
all the people waiting in the cc
#vaiting for the same word, t
brought in for an abortion is ali
I n the lobby where at other i
awaited births, stood death wi
14 people - 12 men, and two woi
resignation, reading and re-r
magazines.
The interest shows in the pai
works is somehow too avid. TI
an occassional doctor or nurse
a heavy and Uneasy one. In ft
Accord ing to one anomynous
in this lobby on this particular
waiting. "They make you br
sharp. Any later and they wol
another two weeks before they
~ey make it clear that you has
hil e that the girl is upstairs
During this waiting period
hours, the person accompanyi
in the lobby. When pressed for
doctor I spoke with said ft
someone remain due to th4
complications.
While this explanation wa
student, he later commented,
that they do it as a kind of penai
itional
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Picketers pr<
These protesters were part of the p
on Saturday, Feb. 6, in front of the
00on 1Af
0P1LrOt-evi
.alabrese What
a.m. and 1:00 p.m., the lobby waiting
iskey Pavillion in far away and pai
variety of people waiting for At air
place th
iammoth medical complex, women
>mfortable, pastel lobby are exchang
hat the girl or woman they The ry
i right and can go home. was no i
imes and other days, people smiled i
itches and paced nervously, o tered
,nen - sit this day in subdued why evE
eading the same set of old New I
the Unit
ntings and other various art to term i
ie quiet, interrupted only by or condi
passing through the lobby is Estim
us silence there is no peace. Isreal th,
USC male student who was is, of cor
day, the hardest thing is the women
ing the girl in at 7:00 a.m. ticular d
n't take you, and it may be he perfoi
can re-schedule you. Then than Ne'
~e to stay in the lobby all the sylvania
-'' As an)
, between five and seven point in
ng the patient must remain simple o
a reason for this policy, the ro add
at it was necessary that there ha
possibility of unforseen referal e
pack age
- Some(t
s acceptable to the USC various
''l still can't help thinking Under al
strike c
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ME
testing Laos invasion
icket House. More than 400 people a
tate picket. Further photo coverag(
tdent faci
ver the reason, to an impartial obc
room appears to be as much a place o
n as the operating room.
nost any other time, hospital waiting
at contain a strange comraderie; well
ask strangers about expectant wivo
e stories and people give each other
iost glaring thing about this group wa
ittempt at easy conversation or exchai
he - "lt's going to be all right" smile,
anyone else a cigarette. Everyone ki
ryone else was there, no doubt, nott
(ork, as of July 1, became the abortic
ed States. Under the new law, any won
nate her pregnancy, whatever her cir
ion, is entitled to an abortion (up to 24,
ates of abortions performed since July
). Many of these, according to the do<
at Saturday morning, are from out of :
irse, no way to tell exactly how many
come to New York for abortions, bi
octor claims that out of the three to fix
rms each week, at least one is from a
A, York, New Jersey, Connecticut
'one can tell you, the matter of gettir
the United States to New York is
ne, depending on how much money yo
to the ease of obtaining a legal and sa
ye sprung up overnight a number
ervices that can take care of everyt
deal.
tf the agencies tell the caller (male or
procedures, expenses and recupera
I but one of the various techniques, tU
aIled
NSA will
announce
plans today
A National student strike has been
called for.
> 1From the headquarters of the
National Student Association
'NSA) in Ann Arbor. Michigan,
has come a demand for a national
strike by college students to
protest the invasion of Laos by US
forces.
Early yesterday the group
received a telegram from the
I)emocratic Republic of Vietnam
saying that 20.010 American
ground troops had invaded Laos.
In the meeting that followed some
2.1114 NSA representatives from all
parts of the country voted to call
for the strike.
When the Gamecock contacted
the NSA at their headquarters, a
spokesman said the decision would
be olicially announced at a press
conference in Washington, D.C. .
on page 7. today at 11 a.m. Renee Davis and
D ave I)ellinger of the "Chicago
Conspirace Trial" are schedules
speakers.
'he NSA also is calling for
communitv action against
American oppression in Southeast
erver , the \sia.
discomfort
ieflore the strike call the group
was circulating a peace treaty
rooms are a which they reported was receiving
meaning old excellent response. The treaty
?s, old men stated dissatisfaction With
comfort. American involvement in
s that there Southeast Asia and the treaty's
signers stated they were not at war
ige. No one with the )RV and that President
and no one Nixon no longer represented the
iew exactly American public in his war efforts.
ing curious.
in capitol of
ian desiring
'cumstance,
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ran as high
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See story, page 6