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Hickton says gun incident report falls short
By COLLEEN GALLAGHER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
ilk Student trustee Dave Hickton said
yesterday he has no plans to seek further
action on the Oct. 5 gun incident,
although he feels the University's report
on the incident falls short of the proof he
and other student leaders had called for.
"It's not what I asked for, but it's good
enough," Hickton said of the report
released Dec. 18 by University Provost
Edward D. Eddy.
"I was for the most part satisfied," he
Peace talks expected to resume this month
BY United Press International
'A senior Israeli diplomat predicted in Washington
yesterday that direct peace negotiations with Egypt
will resume in mid-January. Officials in Cairo said
arrangements are.not yet that far along and left it to the
(*.United States to make the next move on reviving the
stalled talks.
The Israeli diplomat, who asked not to be identified,
conceded that the date and specific details of the
renewed peace talks still were being worked out. But he
said Israel has agreed to return its negotiators to
Washington at any time proposed by Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance.
St In Cairo, Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil said Egypt
Haig resigns as NATO forces commander
. CASTEAU, Belgium (UPI) Gen.
I Alexander M. Haig yesterday an
nounced his resignation as commander
of NATO military forces. Despite
speculation that he hoped to run for
president, he denied any political am
bitions.
In a valedictory message from his
F vantage point at the head of all U.S. and
NATO forces in Europe, the four-star
general said the threat of Soviet ex
pansionism is real.
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said. "It seems to be a good faith in
vestigation, and the new board that was
formed seems to solve some of the
problems involved."
In his report, Eddy announced that an
advisory review board made up of
students, faculty and administrators will
be established to give advice on
University safety.
Hickton had called for a public
disclosure of the gun incident Dec. 16
and said at the time that Director of
University Safety David E. Stormer's
has not changed its position on the negotiations
stalled since November over two key issues but is
prepared to resume efforts toward a peace treaty.
Khalil said direct Egyptian-Israeli negotiations could
resume "at a later stage." He suggested a more im
mediate possibility was a meeting between himself and
Vance.
The Egyptian official said he "will leave it up to
(Vance) to decide the method of re-establishing con
tact."
In Washington, State Department spokesman Hod
ding Carter said, "It is not true that anything has been
fixed." Carter said the United States would welcome
the resumption of talks at an early date, and he said
Haig's resignation takes effect June
30. At the same time he will retire as
commander in chief of U.S. forces in
Europe, a command he held along with
his NATO post of Supreme Allied
Commander, Europe.
The 54-year-old officer, who stood
loyal guard over the White House in the
last dark days of the Nixon presidency,
disclaimed any political ambitions and
denied rumors that he might seek the
1980 Republican nomination.
"I have no political plans at this
moment and I don't foresee any within
the next six months," he said, adding he
was returning to "retired status."
But pressed on this point, he added: "I
don't exclude anything."
Assessing Soviet military might after
four years as NATO commander, Haig
warned against the "myth" that
Moscow's intervention in other countries
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failure to report the accident • could
threaten the foundation of good faith
upon which the University's gun policy is
based.
Hickton said yesterday, however, that
according to Eddy's report, Stormer's
action was due to poor judgement and
did not indicate a breach of good faith.
"The policy is no longer in jeopardy,"
Hickton said.
The gun policy, adopted Nov. 6 when
Eddy decided to arm 33 campus police,
would require any future incident to be
was inspired by "paranoia about en
circlement."
"As I look back over history I find it
very difficult, to justify that assessment.
If you sit down and do the arithmetic as
some have, you'll find that on an
average basis over the last 100 years, the
Soviet Union has acquired the equivalent
of a Netherlands each year," he said.
"I would suggest that the alliance has
a great task ahead to begin to recognize
more clearly the inter-relationship of
these activities with the health and the
vitality of the alliance itself," he said.
But he said he was not calling for
NATO military involvement in new
parts of the world.
"I have never been a proponent for
expanding the boundaries of NATO to
include the Third World or the Middle
East or some other area and I do not
propose this today," he said.
Bakhtiar also said, "The shah wants to
take a rest and a vacation. Those are his
plans. I think the shah is going out (of the
country) for a few months. I don't know
for how many months."
Observers said the shah's departure
could ease the violent situation in Iran.
Some diplomatic sources said such a
"vacation" could well turn out to be
permanent, meaning the end of the
shah's 38-year reign.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman Hodding Carter said the
United States would welcome the shah if
he left Iran, and added, "We would do all
Viets attack on eight fronts
Cambodia border areas captured
BANGKOK, Thailand ( UPI)
Vietnamese troops and warplanes, at
tacking up to 100 miles into Cambodia,
have captured a quarter of the country
and attacked on eight separate bat
tlefronts, official reports said today.
Radio Phnom Penh praised resistance
by Cambodian troops, but said a
delegation • would fly to - the United
Nations next week to seek international
aid to halt what appears to be a Viet
namese juggernaut.
The Vietnamese forces have secured
the entire northeast of the country and
launched heavy attacks along highways
and rivers south of Phnom Penh, reports
from Hanoi and Cambodian media said.
Radio Phnom Penh, in broadcasts
monitored in Bangkok today, said
Vietnamese warplanes were flying in
front of the ground forces, hitting
Cambodian towns and cities in an ap
parent effort to soften up resistance.
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promptly and fully reported.
Hickton said although he accepts
Eddy's report, he feels students should
not have been given the results of the
University's investigation "after the
fact."
He said the student leaders on
Executive Council had asked that an
investigating committee be formed and
that a student be included.
Eddy had said after releasing his
report that he considered the students'
requests moot.
Vance's schedule is clear of any travel plans for most of
January.
Khalil spoke to reporters at the end of a six-hour
cabinet session that debated Egypt's position in the
deadlocked peace talks. A cabinet statement affirmed
the Egyptian call for a timetable linking the proposed
treaty to the establishment of Arab autonomy in the
occupied Jordan West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian cabinet also insisted the treaty should
not supersede Egypt's defense obligations to other Arab
states. ,
The statement made no mention of the Egyptian
demand that autonomy must be established by the end
of 1979.
Iran approves forming
civilian-run government
TEHRAN (UPI) Parliament
yesterday approved formation of a
civilian government headed by Shah
pour Bakhtiar in hopes of ending months
of violence as thousands of Iranians,
Americans and other foreigners fled the
country from the newly reopened air
port.
Premier-designate Bakhtiar promised
gradually to end martial law, free
political prisoners, abolish the political
arm of the SAVAK secret police
blamed for 21 years of oppression and
torture and end oil sales to Israel and
South Africa.
"I hope my mission will succeed. If I
fail, I cannot imagine what the con
sequence will be for my country,." he
said.
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Gen. Alexander Haig
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Shahpour Bakhtiar
we can to assure his safety." But Carter
also noted, "It is not the policy of the
U.S. government to ask the shah to leave
the country."
In his references to the shah, Bakhtiar
said a regency council would be con
stitutionally necessary if the shah was
out of the country more than three
months.
His statement appeared to suggest he
The official Cambodian radio said
eight separate battlefronts had been set
up by the invasion force, ranging along
the entire Vietnam-Cambodian frontier.
Phnom Penh claimed 14,100 Viet
namese were killed on the fronts bet
ween Christmas, and New Year's Day.
This was considered an exageration by
most observers. ••
Reports from Hanoi tended to confirm
speculation by intelligence sources that
Vietnam is supporting Cambodian
rebels trying to surround Phnom Penh
and strangle it.
During the last few days, the Viet
namese and their Cambodian rebel
allies have broadcast a series of victory
statements while the central Cambodian
government has been exhorting its
populace to fight to the death.
There was no independent con
firmation of the latest battle reports. But
Program to try to
cure 'test anxiety'
By PETE LIEBER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A free training program to help
students suffering from "test
anxiety" is being offered this term by
the University Mental Helth Center.
The center defines test anxiety as a
student's concern over how well he
will do •on the test and this concern
distracts him from concentrating on
the material.
Program Coordinator Diane Ar
nkoff, a counselor at the center, said,
"Because they are focusing more on
their fear and worry than on the test,
these students do not do as well on the
test as they could."
The program, which will meet in
four weekly sessions is aimed at
capable and hard working students
who could perform better on tests.
To qualify, students must have a
grade-point average of 2.3 or higher
and must study an average of 10
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"The training offered will be
directed at changing the thought
patterns which are the problem in
test anxiety," Arnkoff said.
"Students who volunteer will also be
given practice in using what they
have learned to keep their attention
focused on the test."
Arnkoff also said past programs of
this kind have been very successful,
according to both test scores and
students. The program is to help
students and also to help her gather
information for her dissertation, she
said.
Interested students should contact
the Mental Health Center and ask
about the Test Anxiety Program.
Arnkoff said she hopes to have the
program started by Jan. 15.
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believed the monarchy would continue in
some form in Iran.
"In our constitution there is a place for
a monarchy," Bakhtiar said.
Military authorities reopened Tehran
airport, closed Tuesday by a strike by
civilian air traffic controllers, and
flights began carrying out thousands of
Iranians as well as Americans and
Europeans jamming the air terminal.
The Pentagon in Washington said
fewer than 200 dependents of U.S.
government officials remained, though
thousands of Americans working for
private companies were still in the
country.
Demonstrations against the shah and
Bakhtiar continued, though with less
fury, and the Moslem leadership and
civilian opposition vowed to withhold
cooperation from the new ad
ministration.
Sporadic shooting was reported in 14
towns across the country yesterday and
the National Front opposition claimed
soldiers backed by tanks demolished
homes and shops of opponents of the
regime Monday and Tuesday, killing
hundreds of people in the western
Iranian town of Ghazbin.
Bakhtiar, 63, a French-educated
lawyer, met the press after parliament
voted 110-80 to permit him to present his
cabinet to the shah.
piecing together by both sides, the
situation appeared thus:
The Vietnamese control the entire
upper Mekong, having pushed to the
northernmost Stung Treng province
capital on the river, 100 miles from the
Vietnamese frontier where it started
Christmas Day;
' undel-heavy air cover, Vietnamese
have moved across the Mekong River at
Kampong Cham, a key province capital
45 miles northeast of Phnom Penh;
Vietnamese were moving up
highways 1, 2 and 3 from the border
toward Phnom Penh from bases west of
Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, and
the Mekong Delta province of Chau Doc;
a major Vietnamese force had
formed in extreme southwestern
Vietnam, pushed across Cambodia's
only southern railway to Phnom Penh
and was moving to cut Route 4.
hours a week. Arnkoff said up to 48
students will be allowed to enroll in
the program.