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Fridav. November 21. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Khomeini criticizes U.S.-Iran ties
From Kansan wires
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini yesterday ruled out reconciliation with Washington and said that any Iranian officials who sought to improve relations were Satan-oriented.
"I never expected such things from these people." Khomeini, 86, said in a speech at his residence in north Tehran. His remarks were broadcast by Tehran radio and monitored in Nicosia.
"This is a time when they should be screaming at America. (But) they are shouting at themselves." Khomihein said in his first public comment on contacts between Washington and Tehran.
He also urged unity within Iran's revolutionary leadership, in which Western observers recently have reported deep divisions.
Without mentioning names, Khomeini criticized Iranian leaders who publicly demonstrated flexibility toward the United States in recent weeks. He accused them of falling prey to propaganda from the White House, which he called the Black House.
President Reagan disclosed last week that the United States had secret diplomatic contacts with Iran over the past 18 months and delivered small amounts of defensive weapons in a bid to improve relations.
Several Iranian leaders, including Parliament speaker Hashemi Rafsanji, spoke of possible reconciliation with the United States, but they have stipulated that Washington first must meet certain conditions, such as releasing weapons bought by the Shah's government but never delivered.
IRNA, Iran's official news agency, said Khommi also criticized group of deputies in the Khomeini
nian Parliament for making efforts to create division among the country's officials and leaders.
The radio said he was referring to an unidentified group of lawmakers who submitted a letter to Iran's parliament, the Majlis. The broadcast did not disclose the letter's contents, but it apparently urged some sort of dialogue between Washington and Tehran.
Khomeini said Reagan's remarks last week on contacts with Iran were full of contradictions, agitation and horror. He did not elaborate.
He reiterated Iranian denials of Reagan's statement that former U.S. national security adviser Robert McFarlane talked with Iranian officials during a secret visit to Tehran.
The radio reported that Khomeini had said the McFarlane visit caused a separation among U.S. supporters.
McFarlane calls Iran arms deal 'error'
United Press International
WASHINGTON Former presidential adviser Robert McFarlane said yesterday that arms shipments to Iran were a mistake, and took responsibility for the failure to anticipate harsh public and diplomatic reaction to the secret operation.
McFarlane, who initiated the overtures to Iran as white House national security adviser, issued a statement in which he admitted making a "serious error in judgment for which I accept full responsibility."
McFarlane, who resigned last December, sought to elaborate on a Washington Post interview in which he said the decision to use arms sales to improve relations with Iran and
seek the release of American hostages from Lebanon was an error
President Reagan sent McFarlane to Iran in May to meet with Iranian factions and discuss improving relations, ending the Iran-Iraq war, quelling Iranian sponsorship of terrorism and seeking the safe return of the American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
"I think that it was sensible policy to determine whether we could have a political dialogue with reformists people in Iran," McFarlane told the Post. "I think it was a mistake to introduce any element of arms transfers into it."
In his written statement, McFarlane said he believed at first that the U.S. would benefit from contact with iranians who favored improved relations with the West. At the time, he said, it also was clear that "such talks with us would place these people in a position of extreme vulnerability."
"I could understand the need for these elements to broaden their constituency." McFarlane said. This potential constituency apparently was thought to include other Iranian officials and the military, which could be strengthened by providing "modest levels of defensive military equipment."
"While today, I can draw a distinction between the need to strengthen reform-oriented Iranians and the unacceptable trading of arms for hostages," he said, "it is apparent that as events have become public, this distinction is not accepted by the
American people.
"That understandable public perception governs the political process in our country. Thus, however well-meaning and defensible our purposes were, to the extent that the introduction of arms transfers into the process has led to understandable turmoil that can have a very damaging effect on the ability of our country to lead, it was a mistake.
"As a senior adviser to the president, I should have anticipated this potential outcome; the failure to do represents a serious error in judgment for which I accept full responsibility."
Reagan said his administration sold a small amount of defensive weapons to Iran as a sign of good faith.
Scotsman delivered wine in record time
French lose, but drink red wine first
United Press International
NEW YORK — Carrying bottles of French wine, teams representing five countries raced by motorcycle, taxi, subway and limousine across the city yesterday in a contest to uncork the latest vintage of Beaujolais nouveau.
the new wine season.
A French team got the first taste but lost the competition.
Thousands of bottles of Beauplais
nouveau, a red fruity wine, were
uncorked around the world to kick off
In New York, bottles of the wine were raced across Manhattan in an event sponsored by the Hotel Parker Meridien.
Shortly after several cases of the wine cleared U.S. Customs at John F. Kennedy Airport, racers representing England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland and France grabbed bottles and set out to reach the midtown hotel, where the wine was to be given its first taste test.
Arriving first at the French
managed hotel 30 minutes later was the Scottish representative, who carried his bottle in a backpack while riding a motorcycle through the streets of New York.
"It wasn't much of a competition," said Anthony Dilworth. "I was doing 90 mph and there was no traffic."
The French team, which came in two hours behind the rest of the competition, took an easy cruise in a slow-moving vintage limousine.
"About 30 seconds into the car, I had theorkscrew in," said French
team member Valerie Zabriskie.
"We knew we were going to lose."
"It's the first bottle of Beaujolais nouveau consumed in a Rolls-Royce between Kennedy and Manhattan.
Frenchman Paul Colin said he planned to try to sell the corkscrew with the cork still impaled on it, explaining, "This is America, after
The event's organizers billed it as the "first authentic race to bring back bottles of the young wine ever conducted on this continent."
1.100 clay warriors unearthed in Peking
United Press International
PEKING — Archaeologists involved in fresh excavations at the fabled tomb of China's first emperor have discovered another 1,100 terra cotta warriors, more than doubling the size of the famous underground army near Xian.
The lite-size soldiers guard the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huangdi, the ruthless emperor who unified China in 221 B.C. and chose to be interposed with a full army of clay soldiers, horses and weapons as a substitute for the human sacrificial victims who accompanied earlier regional rulers into the afterlife.
For 2,000 years,the vast imperial bodyguard lay hidden under a parched plain in central Shaanxi Province until a band of peasants digging in her in 1974 stumbled on to the burial ground which Chinese archaeologists described as the "eighth wonder of the world."
In the first stage of excavation,
1,087 of an estimated 8,000 warriors and horses were unearthed.
They were placed on display in the vault where they were found, attracting archaeologists and thousands of tourists to the site, including two U.S. presidents and the queen of England.
But the digging so far has barely scratched the surface of the sprawling, 22-square-mile necropolis devoted to China's first and fiercest emperor. Archaeologists acknowledge tha many mysteries remain unexplained.
The digging revealed another 1,100 warriors and 44 clay horses, as well as 11 wooden chariots and weapons such as halberds, swords and spears.
Buried in rectangular battle formation and facing east, the army stands at facing east in three pitts around the tumulus, which is believed to house the emperor's remains.
Each figure is the realistic portrait of an individual, each with different features and facial expressions.
Despite the detail and completeness of the find, answers to the maze of questions puzzling archaeologists so far have been elusive. The official Xinhua news agency said recently that "heated debates" were raging in Chinese academic circles over the significance of the tomb's contents.
Professor Lin Jianmiling proposed a theory that the legions are not part of the emperors's mausoleum at all but were simply constructed as a show of force. Engineer Chen Jinyuan, meanwhile, believes the emperor was ordered not by the emperor but by the emperor's father.
All these questions pale beside one central mystery — what is hidden in the grass-covered, rounded tumulus which stands 15 stories high.
One of the problems was separating FAA radar signals from other radar.
"We learn an awful lot about looking at radar. We were gathering too many signals," Twigg said. In another six months the satellite probably would have fulfilled the FAA study, he said.
The college staff and volunteer students found several applications for future NUSAT flights, including one for farmers.
"We can bounce a signal off the satellite and back to Earth, turning on irrigation systems in remote areas. A farmer could turn on his pumps during periods of low power use, saving him money without ever leaving his house." he said.
Twiggs said NUSAT was not completely successful in its main job of helping the Federal Aviation Administration improve its radar network.
On Campus
United Press International
First college satellite to end its orbit soon
NUSAT was placed in orbit in April 1983 by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. Although it initially experienced communication problems, Weber State of officials said the satellite provided
“It's hard to really predict when it will come down, but we've charted its decaying orbit and it looks like the satellite will come down during the first week in December,” said Robert Twiggs, a Weber State professor of electronics.
The satellite, dubbed NUSAT,
will burn up on re-entry, said
Twiggs.
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OGDEN, Utah — The Northern Utah Satellite, the first college-built satellite to orbit the Earth, has about two weeks of life left, Weber State College officials said yesterday.
Two rings, valued together at $2050, were taken on between Aug. 23 and yesterday from a house in the 3000 block of Bainbridge Circle, police said.
A microwave and jewelry,
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