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Local Taiwanese students see few problems
A my JEFF MONTGOMERY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Taiwanese students at the University
expect no major problems to result from
the Cutoff of diplomatic relations bet
ween the United States and Nationalist
China.
IP About 110 Taiwanese are enrolled at
the University its largest foreign
student group.
Thomas Tsai, president of the Chinese
Students Association, said he told
.Taiwanese members of the group in
ecember that their studies would not
e affected by their country's changing
relations with the United States.
"We have heard from our embassy
oThornburgh's search for a cabinet difficult
HARRISBURG (AP) Governor-elect Dick
Thornburgh's first cabinet nominations were greeted
last week with high praise. But they could turn out to be
his only "first choice appointments," according to the
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Bulletin quoted unnamed sources yesterday as
saying Thornburgh was having trouble getting his top
choices to take the 11 cabinet posts still open. Money
reportedly is one of the main drawbacks.
Still to be nominated are the secretaries of labor and
industry, general services, transportation, community
affairs, banking, revenue, health, aging and com
merce. State insurance and police commissioners also
must be named. The jobs pay from $39,000 to $44,000 a
year.
Cambodian capital falls to Vietnam
BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) - Pro-
Vietnamese rebels captured Phnom
Penh yesterday at the end of a two-week
blitzkrieg invasion and stepped up their
1) , drive to conquer all of Cambodia, rebel
radio and Radio Hanoi reported.
China, caught off guard by the sud
denness of the victory, condemned
Vietnam's attempt to "annex Cambodia
and establish a colonial empire."
"Our red flag with five , yellow towers
0 (of Angkor Wat) is fluttering in Phnom
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that everything will be just the same,"
Tsai said.
Steven Wong, a graduate student from
Taiwan, said he believes no direct ef
fects will be felt by Taiwanese students
here for a few months.
"I think it is a shock to some of us that
this country suddenly does not recognize
our own," Wong said. "But the only
problem, I think, will be with
passports."
The United States and Taiwan have
not yet agreed on how to issue and renew
passports without maintaining em
bassies in both countries. However,
State Department spokesman Jack
Cannon said current travel documents
will be adequate for the present.
No present cabinet secretaries from .the Shapp ad
ministration will be held over, the Bulletin said.
Thornburgh said Friday that getting the people he
wanted was difficult, and blamed the problem on "an
inadequate compensation schedule" and "the enor
mous tasks facing us in Harrisburg."
According to the newspaper sources, Thornburgh
has spent most of his time since the November election
trying to get experienced managers to run the various
branches of state government.
Rick Stafford, who heads Thornburgh's transition
team, said the governor-elect has been following a
philosophy of appointing people "who have established
themselves in other endeavors and would have to make
a real sacrifice" to come to Harrisburg.
Penh," the insurgents' clandestine radio
station said in a broadcast monitored in
Bangkok. It flew over the Phnom, a
temple-topped hill in the center of the
city.
The station said the invasion forces
pushed into the capital, "annihilating or
disintegrating the main force divisions
of the (Khmer Rouge) army and
smashing the outer defense ring of the
enemy."
Racing through the city, "they cap
tured important positions of the enemy
one after another and the nerve centers
of the reactionary administration."
The official Vietnamese media
reported attacks were underway in 17 of
Cambodia's 19 provinces and "we are
advancing to liberate the whole coun
try."
There was no immediate word on the
fate of the defeated Khmer Rouge
regime of Prime Minister and Com
munist Party boss Pol Pot or of
foreigners mostly Chinese.
Craig Millar, director of International
Student Affairs, said although he did not
know how Taiwanese students will be
dealt with in the future, their problem is
not unprecedented.
The United States has no formal
diplomatic relations with Iraq, Millar
said, but 20 Iraqi students are enrolled at
the University. Iraq supports the group
through a special interest office set up on
Iraq's behalf at the Indian embassy.
"This school has had excellent
relations with the Ministry of Education
in Taiwan, and we want them to con
tinue," Millar said.
He said he had received an assurance
from Taiwan's cultural counselor in
Washington, D.C., that the Taiwanese
But Thai aviation sources said a
Chinese jetliner made a successful flight
in and out of Phnom Penh only hours
before the city fell.
In Washington, the State Department
said it could not confirm the fall of
Phnom Penh from its own sources but
condemned Vietnam's involvement in
the invasion.
"The Vietnamese violation of Cam
bodia's territorial integrity.is a threat to
regional peace and stability and raises
the danger of wider conflict,"
spokesman Ken Brown said." The United
States has repeatedly expressed its
support for a stable system of in
dependent states in Southeast Asia. We
believe that this system includes an
independent Cambodia."
The new administration, officially
called the Cambodian National United
Front for National Salvation, promised
to repopulate Cambodia's deserted
cities, restore freedom of religion and
"duly punish" Khmer Rouge officials.
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government will continue to support
their students in the U.S., even without a
formal embassy.
"The implication is that they will stick
around and help their students," Millar
said.
Thomas Chaing, a Taiwanese
graduate student, said some Taiwanese
students felt very pessimistic at first
about the severing of relations between
the U.S. and Taiwan.
"But I was in Canada before I came
here," Chaing said. "Informal
diplomatic relations were set up there
much earlier with no difficulty. Some
kind of new agency will just have to be
created to handle our passports."
HoWeyer, some of the people Thornburgh wants to
fill the remaining cabinet posts are firmly entrenched
in other jobs and apparently unwilling to sacrifice
them for a shot at state government, the newspaper
sources said.
Thornburgh aides, according to the paper, say there
is virtually no chance that all the cabinet nominees will
be picked by inauguration day, Jan. 16.
The Thornburgh sales pitch to prospective cabinet
members has been "come join my team, it will be an
exciting new era in state government," the sources
said.
"So far he has gotten everybody who was his first
choiCe," a Thornburgh aide said. "Over the weekend,
he will start working on the second round."
Thai military officers ordered troop
reinforcements to their eastern frontier
with Cambodia and put all forces in the
area on special alert.
Vietnam claimed the rebels were
responsible for yesterday's victory. But
most observers thought an estimated
100,000 Vietnamse troops did most if
not all of the fighting.
Official communiques by Vietnam and
the insurgents indicated there was little
attempt, if any, by the Khmer Rouge to
defend Phnom Penh yesterday. Pol Pot
indicated last week he would abandon
the capital and direct guerrilla warfare
against the Vietnamese if they closed in
on the city gates.
It appeared that he decided yesterday
to get out. Phnom Penh, a nearly
deserted city with fewer than 20,000
inhabitants, apparently was abandoned
without notice to the people of Cam
bodia. The only personalities known to
have escaped the city were former
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, his wife,
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Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao
ping indirectly acknowledged the
takeover at a banquet in Sihanouk's
honor, condemning the Vietnamese for
attempting "with Soviet backing to
annex Cambodia and establish a colonial
empire under their complete domination
called the 'lndochinese Federation,"'
the New China News Agency reported.
Cambodia and Vietnam have been
traditional enemies for centuries and
their rivalry was complicated after the
Communist takeovers in both countries
by the dispute between their big-power
supporters, China and Russia.
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Student organization representatives
and a local realtor disagree with
borough officials over the possible ef
fects of a proposed amendment to the
borough's zoning ordinance that would
reduce the number of unrelated persons
permitted to occupy a converted single
family dwelling from five to three
persons.
The amendment would also increase
the required lot size for two-family
dwellings from 12,000 to 20,000 square,
feet and lot width from 100 linear feet to
125 linear feet.
The amendment will be discussed at a
State College Municipal Council public
hearing at 7:30 tonight in the municipal
building, 134 S. Fraser St.
Planning Commission Chairman
James Deeslie said the amendment was
designed to discourage speculation in
residential areas and preserve the
charater of borough neighborhoods.
"What we're trying to avoid is the
speculator buying houses and loading
them with tenants and changing the•
neighborhood," he said.
Another Planning Commission
member, Carol Herrmann, said the
amendment was originated in response
to a petition submitted by residents of
College Heights complaining about noise
and appearance of converted houses.
Herrmann also said the amendment is
intended to discourage speculation in
strictly residential areas.
"We're hoping it will make less at
tractive the desire to speculate in
residential property in residential
areas," she said.
However, Glenn Meyer, Organization
for Town Independent Students
spokesperson, said the amendment
discriminates against 'students because
it would aggravate the housing shortage
and restrict students from residential
He said noise and appearance
problems can be solved by improving
other ordinances. But, he said, council is
disinclined to alter noise and ap
pearance ordinances.
"This amendment is supposed to
address problems, but it doesn't because
three students can make just as much
noise as five," Meyer said.
"In the future, it will limit the supply
of housing because the potential for
conversion is,• in some cases, non
existent," he said.
Deeslie, hoWever, said the amendment
is not discriminatory because students
are not being restricted from residential
areas.
"Unrelated persons still can rent
family dwellings but in smaller num
bers," he said.
Herrmann said, "I see this as a simple
Zoning change opposed
by political affairs group
By LARRY GALLONE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A zoning ordinance redefining
"family" and limiting the number of
unrelated persons living in a single
family dwelling from five to three is
opposed by the Undergraduate
Student Government Department of
Political Affairs.
Jeff Moore, USG Department of
Political Affairs local government
liaison, said the ordinance would
decrease the potential housing supply
for students. The State College
Municipal Council will hold a public
hearing on the ordinance tonight at
7:30 in the municipal building.
"There is just enough housing for
students now and some may go off the
market soon," Moore said. The or
dinance will affect only new houses.
Enrollment is predicted to remain
the same over the next decade, Moore
said.
Part of the housing crunch was
relieved by students' living on
campus rather than downtown,
Moore said. "This might have been in
response to rental increases," he
backed rebels
Monique, and a former Sihanouk prime
minister, Penn Nouth.
Sihanouk got a lavish welcome in
Peking on his way to New York to argue
Cambodia's case at the United Nations.
He called a news conference in Peking
today, but it was not immediately clear
if Phnom Penh's fall would change his
plans.
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adjustment to the ordinance to create a
balance for everyone in the areal If I
believed it was discriminatory I
wouldn't have voted for it."
F. C. Sun, owner of Sun Realty Inc:,
also said the amendment would increase
the housing shortage, by limiting
speculation.
"Just by increasing the lot
requirements the borough will achieve
its goal," he said. "There is no need to
reduce the number of tenants from five
to three."
"If you want to convert a house into
two units you will need three lots which
will involve about $150,000," he said. "It'
you rent to five people you will still lose
your shirt."
Jeff Moore, Undergraduate Student
Government spokesperson, also said the
amendment would effect the housing
shortage by restricting students from
residential zones.
"It can potentially keep students
trapped in downtown areas," he said.
"What was once one or two people in an
apartment will become three people." '
Several borough council members',
however, agree the amendment would
not seriously alter the housing situation.
Council member Dorothy Lennig said
the amendments' provision allowing
present converted dwellings to continue
being rented to five unrelated people,
would prevent the ordinance from
aggravating the housing shortage.
"In the long run the amendment will
not affect, to a large degree, the number
of units available because present
buildings will not be affected by the
tenant restrictions," she said.
Lennig also said the amendment is not
discriminatory because it is not aimed'
solely at students.
Student representatives have also
charged the amendment would increase
student rent because it would reduce the
number of tenants in each unit.
"This will make criminals of students
who don't normally break the law,
because sooner or later they won't be
able to afford their rent," Meyer said.
Sun also said restrictions on the
number of tenants permitted to occupy
units in converted dwellings would cause
an increase in student rent.
"Rent will gradually rise and inflation .
will catch up and people will be forced to
commit crimes," he said.
Council member Wallis A. Lloyd,
however, said the amendment would not:
seriously affect student rent becauSe the
number of
,students who would be in
volved is small.
"I don't think it will make a lot of ,
difference because the percent or
students living in coverted units is so
small and the rate of change will be so
slow," he said.
"Now there is just enough housing
for students 'and if the ordinance goes
through then no new supplier can
come in and there would be no reason
for realtors to keep rents stable," he
said.
M. Lee Uperaft, director of
Residential Life, said there is enough
campus housing to accomodate the
students if the ordinance is passed.
"The zoning ordinance is
discriminating against students,"
USG vice president Tony Cortese
said.
Many citizens favored the or
dinance because they wanted
students out of their neighborhoods
for fear that they were bringing
property values down, Cortese said.
The planning commission said the
problem was that realtors could get
more from students than from
families and could raise prices, he
said.
There has not been much housing
growth in State College and the
current vacancy rate is about 3
percent, Moore said.
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Prime Minister Pol Pot