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...hours of deliberation, they decided that the defendants were "not responsible" for the crime "because of their invincible ignorance." Instead the jury accepted the argument that blame should fall on all Colombian governments since the conquistadores for "doing nothing to improve the way of life in the vast outback where Indians have been regarded mostly as marauding animals." The jury's decision does not amount to an acquittal. The judge has 15 days to decide whether to accept the verdict or call for a retrial...
...lovers of a philosophical bent may ponder an empty frame bearing the label A Knife Without a Blade Whose Handle Is Missing. Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799* The more athletic ones can equip themselves for the outback with a bizarre weapon whose barrel undulates like a snake: it is a kangaroo gun, "whose specially studied trajectory enables the bullet to follow the bounding animal...
...story. To judge from Junior Bonner, he has little love for the West, and little interest in it. He apparently felt obliged to make some kind of comment on it, but like Ace, his heart lies somewhere else - in the past, or maybe in Australia. Ace Bonner in the outback - there's the real movie...
...drawn somehow. There are ways and ways of showing man as a violent animal. I was appalled watching Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs." An attitude like that is bloodthirsty: it's dangerous and corrosive for people to watch these things. I had an offer to star in 'Outback,' that movie made in Australia. You haven't heard of it? There are all these so-called 'roo-bashing' scenes (kangaroo hunting), which were sickening for me to read, let alone watch. I turned it down. One must respect one's private standards...
Died. Reggie McNamara, 83, who broke many of his bones as well as several world records to become the grand old iron man of bicycle racing; in Belleville, N.J. One of 14 children born to an Irish immigrant couple in the Australian Outback, young Reggie hunted kangaroos and sold their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later...