Page 2 University Daily Kansan, September 11, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Militants doubt Bani-Sadr's courage
The Iranian militants holding the 52 American hostages charged yesterday that President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr does not have the courage to stand up to the United States.
The statement broadcast by Tehran Radio underlined the intensity of the Islamic fundamentalist opposition to Bani-Sadr.
The broadcast did not mention Bani-Sadr by name but it was obvious that it referred to an interview the president gave recently to a French newspaper in which he said Iran was being held hostage by the United States and was isolated from the world because of the 312-day crisis.
The militants issued their statement hours after Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajal, having received an overwhelming vote of confidence from the fundamentalist-dominated Parliament, said he saw no early prospects of agreement with Bani-Sadi on the formation of a full cabinet.
I anticipated threatened to further postpone Parliament's debate on the fate of the hostages, but Tehran Radio said the assembly would meet Sunday to consider a Foreign Relations Committee reply to a letter from U.S. congressmen seeking an end to the crisis.
The political clashes in Tehran paralleled reports of serious new fighting along the border with Iraq.
Tehran Radio reported that Iranian forces shot down two more Iraqi MiG fighter jets and two helicopters. This brought the number of Iraqi aircraft that Iran claims it has downed in the latest fighting to four jets and three helicopters.
Poles protest AFL-CIO contributions
WARSAW, Poland—Polish officials have complained to the U.S. Embassy about the AFL-CIO's $25,000 contribution to Poland's fledgling free trade unions, a Western diplomatic source said yesterday.
The source said that Polish Foreign Ministry officials protested the grant and expressed their "unhappiness" in a recent conversation with U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Nikolai Kukushkin.
An AFL-CIO spokesman in Washington, confirming the contributions and the establishment of a National Polish Society, said: "Whatever the Polish society has done, it is a positive step."
State Department spokesman John Trattner refused to confirm or deny whether the United States had received the complaint from the Polish government but he later told reporters, "This might be classified as a deliberate misinterpretation."
Secretary of State Edmund Muskier later warned AFL-CIO president Lane Kirland of possible repressiveasures on the American trade unions contributed to the outbreak.
A high administration official modified that warning when he said this week "it would be a good thing" if the U.S. trade unions were to financially help the independent unions in Poland. He added, however, that the American unions "shouldn't push it," and make a large stir with their effort.
Lawvers urged to settle Oswald case
FORT WORTH, Texas—Attorneys for and against exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald's grave and the court of out to avoid court to avoid lawyers, lawyers said yesterday.
of Concurently Lawyers representing Oswald's brother, Robert, said that Civil District Judge James Wright on Monday urged that all attorneys involved in the case settle the dispute privately.
Wright said it would not be proper for him to comment before returning a verdict in the lawsuit filed by Robert Oswald. The verdict is expected next
One source said, "The judge wants it done out of court. Otherwise, he thinks it could go on for years."
Robert Oswald's lawyers sued British author and lawyer Michael Eddowes, who is seeking the exhumation, and Rose Hill Burial Park, the grave of his late wife.
Attorneys for Eddowes would not comment, although they were at the meeting Monday.
Courthouse sources said the judge believed that public desire to know who, if anyone, was buried in the grave would constantly increase if the grave were not opened and that attorneys for Robert Oswald might have to spend years trying to justify why they blocked an exhumation.
w right reportedly told the attorneys, "It might be better to agree to an exhumation and have it done right than to have someone sneaking around out there and do it anyway."
Carlin. Dugan to discuss differences
TOPEKA-Gov. John Cartlin and his discontented lieutenant governor, Paul Dugan, have scheduled a meeting for next week that is sure to include discussions on the budget.
Dagan and Carlin plan to meet Sept. 19 in the governor's office, according to Carlin's press secretary, Bill Hoch.
Dagan, a Wichita attorney, last week said he would not be Carlin's running mate if the governor ran again in 1982.
Complaining that he has not as active a role as he had wanted in Carlin's administration, Dugan said he was considering running for attorney
"I just felt like I should talk to him." Carlin told us conference yesterday, "I have and I'll continue to. As he pointed out, he'll continue be
Although Dugan said he had not been consulted on state affairs as much as he would have liked, Carlin he had communicated with Dugan through the letters.
More California wine workers strike
SAN FRANCISCO—The California wine strike spread to three more large wineries yesterday while truckloads of ripe grapes continued to roll up for processing.
Major issues are a union proposal for a 30 percent wage increase over three years and the length of the probationary period for new employees. No longer do some employers have to pay a salary.
Workers left their jobs at the Almaden, Guild and Paul Masson plants, raising the total of strikers to 3.000.
The union strategy was to add two or three new strike targets daily on a schedule dictated by the rivening of the grange crop.
**a) walkout that began last Friday, 11 of the 23 major companies involved in the disruption have been struck. The 23 companies produce 80 percent of California**
All the struck vintners use supervisory and temporary employees to perform the crushing, fermentation and filtration work that occurs in the production process.
Management said the work was getting done, but union officials said there was no way the wineries could handle the entire crop without the striking workers.
Matthau to explain promotional role
HOLLYWOOD--Picketing actors circled MGM studios yesterday as one of their most famous colleagues, Walter Matthean, prepared to face a trial committee on charges of "conduct unbecoming a member of the Screen Actors Guild."
Matthau, who has joined at least one picket line and has been an ardent supporter of the walkout, was ordered to appear before the committee to explain a promotional appearance he made last week for his motion picture, "Honecock."
It is the first known action taken against a performer in the 52-day nation's strike by more than 67,000 actors, a result. Matthau could be accused of being an insider.
The actors, members of the guild and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, moved their picket line yesterday to MGM studios, where they also sold tickets to a Sept. 16 benefit at the Hollywood Bowl that will reenlist their strike fund.
A federal mediator has recessed negotiations between the two striking actors unions and the producers. Although several issues are yet to be settled, the main dispute is over the amount and distribution schedule of residual payments in the growing home video television market.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The League of Women Voters said yesterday that President Carter had rejected new debate proposals by the Reagan administration, and was prepared to go ahead with two debates and one empty chair Sept. 21.
"The impasse remains ... I regret that very deeply," said League President Ruth Hinerfield after two and a half hours of negotiations with representatives of Carter, Ronald Reagan and independent John Anderson.
Reagan, Anderson to debate without Carter
The debate will be Sept. 21 in Baltimore.
Anderson and Reagan promptly accepted without reservation, but Carter declined, saying he first wanted to head-to-head confrontation with Reagan.
Anderson got the debate invitation his campaign badly needed Tuesday, and predicted President Carter would join and invite the three-way configuration.
Hinerfield said Reagan aides had suggested a series of round robin one-on-one debates among the three canceled, followed by multi-candidate debates.
Reagan and Anderson aides "were forthcoming and indicated their willingness to consider the proposals, which the Carter campaign rejected them.
Another proposal was a multicandidate debate followed by a Carter-Reagan debate and then a vice presidential debate.
Both Reagan and Anderson have indicated a willingness to take part in a first debate Sept. 21 in Baltimore even if Carter's chair is empty.
Hinferfield said the league's policy had always been to include an empty chair if an invited candidate failed to show up at the debate "for his own purposes," and "that will be the case" in Baltimore.
Hinerfeld said that the league would sponsor a Carter-Reagan debate only if the president showed up for the Sept. 21 game, and that the invitation to Carter was still open.
Carter's campaign manager, Robert Strauss, said both Carter and Reagan have "selfish reasons" for their stands on including Anderson in the debates.
Strauss said that Anderson would take votes from Carter on Nov. 4 and that this knowledge affected the choice of both major party candidates.
Anderson, upon arriving at Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday night after a day of campaigning in the East, told reporters the president would change his mind once he had seen a fight of public outrage over his decision.
But Anderson refused to question the mother's motives for deciding not to debate.
"I would certainly leave his motives for others to judge," Anderson said.
Meanwhile, Reagan promised to free the United States from oil domination by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and charged that
President Carter misled the public when he claimed there was an energy shortage.
He said Carter had led the country to believe there was an acute shortage of energy resources when, "the truth is America has an abundance of energy."
"The American people have been held hostage by the OPEC countries long enough," he told a rally in Cleveland's Public Square yesterday.
The Republican presidential nominee earlier told an audience of blacks he was proud of his civil rights record as governor of California, but that he had never spoken of his actions lest he be accused of boasting.
At the White House, leaders of almost every major U.S. environmental group endorsed President Carter's re-election bid yesterday and denounced Reagan as an insensitive man who failed to grasp ecology issues.
Tom Kimbail, president of the National Wildlife Federation, speaking for the group of 22 conservationists, said the endorsements were made by individuals rather than on behalf of their environmental organizations.
Others at the meeting included representatives for the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club.
Carter, posing for a picture with the leaders, said he had a "lot in common" with Mr. Wheeler.
Kimbala said, "On balance, we believe President Carter has been sensitive to environmental concerns submitted to conservation principles."
Afterward, the conservationists took turns denouncing Reagan, who they said was the only viable opponent Carter faces.
School gym damaged in fire
CANEY (UPI) - A fire yesterday destroyed an elementary school gymnasium in this southern Kansas town, but no one was injured.
The gymnasium, in the center of the building, was destroyed but the building's firefighters, Damage has been estimated at about $600,000 to $700,000.
The fire broke out about 8:40 a.m. in the gymnasium of Lincoln Grade School, but a teacher spotted the fire and quickly alerted the students, according to a spokesman for the Caney Fire Department.
The fire apparently started underneath some bleachers in a janitor's closet that contained paint thinner, the spokesman said.
Fire officials are still investigating the cause of the blaze.
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