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Show Want the facts? Want to learn tne truth about prominent personalities? Want informed opinion? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 733 3rd Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies impossible. understand that Hollywood does not like Ali MacCraw, her husband Bob Evans, or actor Ryan O'Neal. Is this why Love Story failed tc win an Academy award ? Lois Sonnenfeld, Larchmont, N.Y. d A. Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal are personally in the motion picture industry. Love Story won an Oscar for its musical score, but members of the Academy regard the film as successful commercial claptrap and little else. There is no correlation bedraw. tween films of distinction and their Q. I well-like- box-offi- ce Q. How do the South Vietnamese feel about Lieuten- ant Calley and his sentence? Henry Bowman, Riverside, Calif. A. President Thieu, who originally described the My Lai massacre as phony Viet Cong propaganda, declared Calley's life imprisonment sentence to be When President Nixon ordered Calley removed from the Fort Benning stockade and placed him under house arrest, however. Catholic and Buddhist newspapers in South Vietnam objected to such leniency. An editorial in Duoc Nha Nam, a neutral and widely respected religious newspaper, denounced American justice as "justice for white Americans, despising and trampling upon all mankind." According to a poll conducted for the American Broadcasting Company by the Lou Harris organization, however, 77 percent of the people in the U.S. "believe that Lieutenant Calley was singled out for and punishment even though the My Lai massacre involved others, including his superior t. officers. Only 24 percent agreed with the guilty Some 81 percent believed that other incidents such as My Lai have occurred inhe war. "well-deserved- ." court-marti- al ver-d:c- AT HOME: MR. AND MRS. BILLY GRAHAM. Q. Does Evangelist Billy Graham suffer from cancer of the throat? Isn't that why he was hospitalized? P. T., Asheville, N.C. A. According to Graham, 52, he underwent surgery on Feb. 10, 1971, for the removal of some salivary glands, "the doctors then ordered me to take an extended period of rest because they found I was going too fast." 'The effect of this directive is to reverse service regulations issued last summer, which had liberalized the rules on abortions at military hospitals. The new ruling supersedes this and has been put into effect by the Seoetary of Defense. "But while this matter is being debated in state capitals, and weighed by various courts, the country has a right to know my personal views. "From personal and religious beliefs I consider abortion an unacceptable form of population control. Further, unrestricted abortion policies, or abortion on demand, ! cannot square with my personal belief in the sanctity of human life including the life of the yet unborn. For, surely, the unborn have rights also, recognized in law. recognized even in principles expounded by the United Nations. "Ours is a nation with a judaeo-Christia- n heritage. It is also a nation with serious social problems problems of malnutrition, of broken homes, of poverty, and of delinquency. But none of these problems justifies such a solution. "A good and generous people will not opt, in my view, for this kind of alternative to its social dilemmas, Rather, it will open its hearts and homes to the unwanted children of its own, ar it has done for the unwanted millions of other lands. Q. I note that President Nixon has spoken out against abortion, reversing the liberal Defense Department posture on termination of unwanted pregnancies. In doing this, is the President supporting the position of the Roman Catholic Church or his own Quaker faith? Mrs. T.Y.O., Whittier, Calif. A. The Quaker faith has no ruling on abortion. Each Quaker is free to make up his or her own mind on the subject. President Nixon's position, however, was made evide.it in the following statement released at the Western White House, San Clemente, Calif., April 3, 1971: "Historically, laws regulating abortion in the United States have been the province of the states, not the Federal Government. That remains the situation today, as one state after another takes up this question, debates it and decides it. That is where the decisions should be made. "Partly, for that reason, have directed that the policy on abortions at Ameiican military bases in the United States be made to correspond with the laws of the states where those bases are located. If the laws in a particular state restrict abortions, the rules at the military base hospitals are to correspond to that law. I THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE MAY 23, 1971 there any chance that Tommy Corcoran, the old New Dealer, will marry Mrs. Anna Chennault? Ed Wade, Washington, D.C. A. There is always a chance, but at this time, not much. Says Mrs. Chennault: "I am very happy being single." Q. Is chairman of the board. ARTHUR H. MOTLEY editor, IESS GORKIN president, DANIEL D. K1NLEY publisher, WARREN J. REYNOLDS H art director, ANTHONY LA ROTONDA editor at large, LLOYD SHEARER associate editors: M. DAVID DETWEILER, LINDA GUTSTEIN, GEORGE KANNAR, HERBERT KUPFERBERG, DAVID PALEY, JOHN G. ROGERS art associate, AL TROIAN! assistant art directors: JOHN N. TIERNEY, MANFRED F. MILKUHN assistant to the editor, MARION LONG editorial assistant, MARY HODOROWSKI home economics, DEMETRIA TAYLOR cartoon editor, LAWRENCE LARIAR fashion, VIRGINIA POPE Washington: bureau chief, JACK ANDERSON; FRED BLUMENTHAL, OPAL GINN west coast bureau: CAROL DUNLAP, CONNECTICUT WALKER 1971, Parade Publications, Inc., 733 Third Ave., New York, N.Y., 10C17. All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. Reproduction in whole or in part of any article without permission is prohibited. PARADE; Marca Reg. 2 continued on page 4 |
