Zionism
U.N. assembly votes
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The U.N.
General Assembly, despite opposition
from the United States and other
Western nations, voted 72-35 with 32
abstentions last night to approve a
resolution declaring Zionism a form of
racism.
“We, the Jewish people, will not
forget,” Israeli Ambassador Chaim
Herzog told the Assembly.
The vote confirmed the decision taken
by the General Assembly’s Social
Committee Oct. 17 when it voted 70-29
with 27 abstentions for the Arab
promoted resolution stating that the
world body “determines that Zionism is
a form of racism and racial
discrimination.”
After the vote, U.S. Ambassador
Daniel Patrick Moynihan told the
Assembly: I
“The United States rises to declare
before the General Assembly of the
United Nations and before the world that
it does not acknowledge, it will not abide
by, it will never acquiesce in this in
famous act.”
Referring to U.S. delegate Leonard
Garment’s description of the resolution
in the Social Committee as “obscene,”
Moynihan siad:
"It is something more today, for the
furtiveness with which this obscenity
first appeared among us has been
replaced by a shameless openness.”
After the Assembly rejected a move
by the European Common Market
members to postpone! a vote on the anti-
Zionism resolution until next year, most
of the Western powers said they would
not support other measures on the U.N.
decade to combat racism.
Despite that, a resolution supporting
the 10-year program started in 1973 was
approved 117-9 with five abstentions and
another calling a world conference on
racism in Ghana next year was carried
116-18 with seven abstentions.
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
Course rule changes
today up for votes
By MIKE JUST
Collegian Staff Writer
The University Faculty Senate is
expected to act today on proposed
academic rule changes, including the
academic redemption option (ARO).
Besides ARO, the Senate is expected to
decide to retain or drop pass-fail and the
course repeat option and also to revise
the present drop period rule.
If either pass-fail or the course repeat
option is not retained, the Senate will
vote on ARO. If ARO is rejected, pass
fail and the course repeat options will be
reconsidered.
If ARO is approved, a student will be
able to exclude from his grade point
average up to 18 credits of previously
scheduled courses.
Although the credits would be
eliminated from his average, the
courses and grades would remain on the
student's transcript.
ARO was proposed because
elimination of pass-fail and the course
repeat options would eliminate the
deadlines which are difficult to ad
minister under the options.
Tlie pass-fail committee has reported
After the shower
Collegian^
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is racism,
issued a formal statement declaring that
the vote placed the United Nations in a
“critical situation.” '
“The issues under debate have
aroused great passions on all sides,” he
said. “The fact is that they will not
subside, nor will the divisions be healed
unless urgent progress can be made in
finding a satisfactory solution to the
problem of the Middle East in all its
aspects. It is essential that we keep this
basic objective firmly in mind.
“The United Nations has been through
many critical moments in its history. We
are again in a critical situation today. In
these circumstances, I urge all member
states to remember how much we have
to gain by working together and how
easily we may lose the future through
d iscord and conf ron ta t ion. ”
“The General Assembly today grants
a symbolic amnesty and more to
the murderers of the six million
European Jews,” Moynihan said. “Evil
enough in itself, but more ominous by far
is the realization that now presses upon
us: the realization that if there were no
General Assembly, this could never
have happened."
Moynihan said that since the end of
World War 11, “there has not been
another issue which has brought forth
such unanimity of American opinion.”
“The proposition to be sanctioned by a
resolution of the General Assembly is
that ‘Zionism is, a form of racism and
racial discrimination, ’ ” he said. “Now
this is a lie. But as it is a lie which the
United Nations has now declared to be a
truth, the actual truth must be restated.
“The very first point to be made is that
the United Nations has declared Zionism
to be racism without ever having defined
racism. ‘Sentence first verdict af
terwards,’ as the Queen of Hearts said.
But this is not Wonderland, but a real
world, where there are real con
sequences to folly and
Moynihan said.
that AEO would provide a simpler, more
flexible program because it offers an
opportunity to a larger number of
students. The committee feels ARO
would be a more acceptable method for
students to explore areas outside their
majors. It also concludes ARO would
relieve grade pressure and help students
to recover from a disastrous term.
Student senators and the Academic
Assembly have said ARO would increase
grade inflation and provides advantages
for irresponsible students. They both
propose to keep pass-fail and to revise
the drop period rule.
If the drop period is revised, students
will be allowed to drop a course begin
ning with the fourth week of the term
and ending on the last day of the eighth
week. A WP for passing and a WF for
failing will be entered upon the student’s
transcript.
In other business, the Senate is ex
pected to decide if faculty members who
hold research ranks are considered part
of the Senate electorate. Senators also
will decide if the director of the Division
of Undergraduate Studies is considered
an ex-officio member of the Senate.
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DROPLETS OF RAINWATER from a recent Centre County
thunderstorm glisten on this window screen in Irvin Hall. The
murky visage in the background is Jordan Hall.
“Today, we have drained the word
‘racism’ of its meaning. Tomorrow,
terms like ‘national self-determination’
and ‘national honor’ will be perverted in
the same way to serve the purposes of
conquest and exploitation.”
Doom of the determined but futile
campaign led by the United States to
reverse the committee vote was obvious
when the Assembly refused to postpone
balloting on the anti-Zionism resolution.
The vote on postponing until next year
a vote on the resolution was 67-55 with 15
abstentions rejecting a motion by
Belgium and backed by the Common
Market nations.
The Assembly then rejected, 74-36 with
26 abstentions, another Belgian motion
to vote on the Zionism-racism resolution
before taking up a series of other
committee proposals on racial
discrimination. Western .countries had
threatened privately to vote against the
latter measures if the anti-Zionist
resolution is adopted.
Earlier yesterday, the Assembly
overwhelmingly approved two
resolutions supporting the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
The Assembly’s Social Committee
approved the anti-Zionism measure Oct.
17 by a vote of 70 to 29 with 27 ab
stentions. Since then the United States
has made a determined effort both here
and in foreign capitals to reverse the
vote.
Jewish leaders in the United States
have warned the resolution would
cripple Israel by encouraging action
against the Zionist movement in many
parts of the world, especially the Soviet
Union.
But yesterday the Assembly dealt twin
setbacks to the United States and Israel
by approving two pro-PLO resolutions
which Israeli Ambassador Chaim
Herzog promptly announced his
government would ignore.
The first, approved 110-8 with 25 ab
stentions, called for an invitation to the
PLO to “participate in all efforts,
deliberations and conferences on the
Middle East, which are held under the
auspices of the United Nations, on an
equal footing with other parties.”
“I can only repeat that my country
will not, under any circumstances, sit
down and negotiate with the
representative of a body which, in
principle, rejects compromise as a basis
of solving international problems and
which avowedly sees as the only solution
of the Middle • East problem the
destruction of Israel,” Herzog told the
Assembly
The second resolution, approved 93-18
with 27 abstentions, created a committee
of 20 countries to work out a program for
Palestinian self-determination as a
nation with the right of Palestinians to
return to property from which they were
uprooted in four Middle East wars.
The committee is to report to the
Security Council by next June 1.
weather
Still no snow 'in sight for Centre
County. Brilliant- sunshine but cooler
temperatures come to State College.
Bright fall sunshine, breezes and cooler
temperatures today. High 59. Clear and
cool tonight. Low 40. Mostly sunny
tomorrow with a few high cirrus clouds
arriving by afternoon. High 62.
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'Still praying
LEAVING COURT after their plea that their daughter Karen
be allowed to die with dignity was rejected, Mr. and Mrs.
Quinlans can't pull plug
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (UPI) The parents of Karen Ann
Quinlan cannot pull the plug on her respirator and let her die,
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr. ruled
yesterday.
Only Karen’s doctors may decide whetfler there is any
reason to keep using the respirator, even though Karen’s
brain has been virtually destroyed by nearly seven months in
a coma, Muir said.
“The single most important temporal quality Karen Ann
Quinlan has is life,” Muir said in his 44-page opinion. “This
court will not authorize that life to be taken frofy her.”
In rejecting the parents’ plea that 21-year-old Karen be
allowed to “die with dignity” rather than linger on, the judge
agreed with state attorneys that pulling the plug would be
“homicide” under New Jersey law.
“Humanitarian motives cannot justify the taking of a
human life,” Muir wrote. “The fact that the victim is on the
threshhold of death or in terminal condition is no defense to a
homicide charge.”
Muir said he was issuing the decision “with prejudice,’’
which means that the Quinlans may not re-plead the case in
Superior Court on different grounds. They may, however,
appeal his decision to a higher court a course of action the
parents of the comatose woman have not yet decided on.
In a news conference, Karen’s mother, Julia, said, “We
haven’t decided whether to appeal. We want to sit down with
our two children and discuss this.”
Karen’s father, Joseph T. Quinlan, 53, said,
LCB to hear license request
Council neutral on resort status
By PAMELA REASNER
Collegian Staff Writer
State College Borough Council
yesterday voted not to oppose the
University Faculty Club’s effort to get a
liquor license by having the borough
declared a resort area.
The Faculty Club will appear before
the Liquor Control Board tomorrow in
Altoona.
The State College Tavern Owners
Association requested Council op
position because they felt resort area
classification would glut the area with
bars.
Walt Stanton, representing the tavern
owners, said at Council's special
meeting he knew of ten establishments
that would apply for liquor licenses
under a resort classification.
Stanton cited several cases where
resort area classification led to an in
creased number of liquor licenses. -
Borough Manager Carl Fairbanks said
most of these new licenses were granted
by the courts on appeal from the LCB.
He said LCB officials in Harrisburg told
him they were reluctant to grant new
licenses and treated each application
individually.
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Hearst pleads innocent
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Despite defense contentions
that Patricia Hearst is mentally incompetent, a federal judge
yesterday entered an innocent plea for the newspaper heiress
to charges she robbed a San Francisco bank and ordered her
to stand trial Dec. 15.
“We must appeal,” defense attorney Albert Johnson said
after the hearing. “It is impossible for the defense to prepare
a case By the trial date set.”
U.S-District Judge Oliver J. Carter entered the plea for the
granddaughter of legendary newspaper owner William
Randolph Hearst after Johnson refused to let her speak,
contending that she is unable to help her attorneys prepare
her defense.
“I, as counsel, contend that Miss Hearst is not ready to enter
a plea at this time and should stand mute,” Johnson said.
“In that case, the court, will be forced to enter a plea of not
guilty,” Carter replied. He also entered a plea of innocent to a
second charge of using a firearm to commit a felony, and set
Nov. 20 for a hearing on pre-trial motions.
“The trial date will not be absolute or binding if you bring in
convincing proof along the way that she is not competent,” the
judge said.
Miss Hearst, dressed in a chocolate brown suit and beige
blouse, paid close attention during the 42-minute hearing and
chatted with her attorneys but did not speak to the judge, even
when he gave her an opportunity to do so. She also did not
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Joseph Quinlan told reporters they are ‘'still pra>ing" that
judge will make the right decision. To the rear of the Quinlans
are their attorneys, Paul Armstrong and James Crowley.
before, I have been praying for the judge to make the right
decision. I am sure that the judge made the decision he
thought was right.”
He added, “We’re still praying for God’s will. Somehow God
showed his will to the judge.' ’
State Attorney General William F. Hyland called Muir's
ruling “predictable” and “in the public interest.”
The Quinlans received Muir’s decision in the privacy of his
chambers in the Morris County Courthouse here, where the
judge heard their plea unprecedented in American history
in a five-day trial two weeks ago.
Muir said he wanted to spare the Quinlans the “anguish” of
dealing with the day-to-day medical decisions in Karen’s
future, and he appointed lawyer Daniel R. Coburn as her
guardian.
Miss Quinlan lapsed into a coma last April 14 after mixing
alcohol and tranquilizers. She has not regained consciousness.
During the trial, six neurologists testified that Karen’s state
was “vegetative,” but asserted that her condition did not fit
the so-called “Harvard Criterion” of brain death, under which
doctors often remove patients from life-sustaining devices.
In her testimony, Mrs. Quinlan said Karen on three oc
casions had asked that she not be kept alive by eextraordinary
means if the situation ever arose. Quinlan, meanwhile,
testified simply that Karen had a right to die naturally and be
taken “into the loving hands of the Lord.”
“As I said
John Gilliland, lawyer for the Faculty
Club, said he felt sure the Club would get
its request.
He said the decision would be based on
the legal definition of resort and
evidence of a seasonal flux of people into
the area.
In 1964 the Elks Country Club obtained
resort classification for Harris Township
using the seasonal influx of people into
State College to prove the definition,
Gilliland said.
Faculty Club President Donald Olson
said the Club has tried every other
avenue possible to get a license.
Gilliland said the suggestion to con
nect with the Nittany Lion Inn and serve
liquor under its license was discarded
for several reasons.
First, the connection would detract
from the architecture of the building.
Second, the club wishes to remain
autonomous and does not'want the Inn to
have complete control over liquor
served in the Club.
Borough Solicitor Robert Kistler said
the LCB might make a narrow ruling
about the Faculty Club that would not be
binding on the Borough.
But Stanton said he knew of no cases
acknowledge the presence in court of her parents and sister,
Anne.
Hearst is accused of taking part in an April 15,1974 robbery
of a neighborhood branch of Hibernia Bank. A man and four
women entered the bank with weapons and ordered customers
and employes to lie on the floor. They took $lO,OOO and
wounded two bystanders as thev fled, i
Bank cameras took 1,200 photos during the robbery, and
some of the pictures showed Miss Hearst holding a semi
automatic rifle. The other four suspects, identified through
the photographs, died in the Symbionese Liberation Army
shoot-out with police in Los Angeles a month later.
In setting the trial date, Carter acknowledged that the
recently enacted federal Speedy Trjal Act, which requires
trial to begin within 90 days after arrest, is ambiguous on the
question of time spent on mental testsland invited the defense,
which seeks a delay, to appeal his ruling.
He said the 90-day requirement presents “a most difficult
area of interpretation and it is obvious that decisions are open
to appeal.”
The trial date is the same as the scheduled beginning of trial
for Sara Jane Moore, accused of attempted assassination of
President Ford, and if they run concurrently the two trials
would take place down the hall from each gther.
where just parts of a municipality were
declared resort areas.
Gilliland said club licenses normally
are exempt from the quota system ex
cept if the municipality is over quota.
State College is currently six retail
licenses over quota.
People seeking club licenses under
resort classification have to reaffirm
resort status and prove need only in
terms of the club’s members, Gilliland
said.
' Gilliland said retail license petitioners
must reaffirm resort classification and
prove the need for an additional license
Each subsequent applicant should find
it harder and harder to prove this need,
he said.
Galliland said there have been no
requests for additional retail licenses in
Harris Township since the resort
classification.
The no-action motion proposed by
Councilman Dean Phillips was approved
by all Council members except James
McClure. Allen Patterson was absent.
Council also will ask to be notified of
all LCB hearings on license applications
in the area.