Khomeini
gradually take over
TEHRAN (UPI) Moslem sup-
Ayatollah Ruhollah
porters
Khomeini's provisional government
ITyesterday began a gradual takeover of
Iranian towns and cities. Hundreds of
thousands marched through the streets
demanding the resignation of army-
backed Premier Shahpour Bakhtiar.
The takeover of cities by marshals
'`aPpointed by Moslem religious leaders
Was reported as government employes
pledged their support for Mehdi
BOargan, who was named Monday as
prime minister of Khomeini's Islamic
government in defiance of Bakhtiar.
Opposition leaders were reported in
alniost complete control of the major
cities of Isfahan, Iran's second largest
city, Shiraz, the holy city of Qom and
scores of smaller towns and villages.
Newspapers said the marshals took
over military and police duties and were
Oren building roads in the southern city
of Shiraz.
- Iranian newspapers reported
Khomeini was suffering from extreme
fatigue and general weakness following
scores of meetings and rallies since his
return. But he received thousands of
fcilowers at his school headquarters
yterday, reaching over to hug and
touch some of them from a balcony.
In the escalating political battle for
control of Iran, Bakhtiar promised to put
the case of his embattled government to
the nation today in a news conference.
tßut Khomeini's forces announced a
massive march by millions of followers
Cunningham votes against pay
raises; says restraints needed
By SHARON FINK
Daily Collegian Staff Writer • - •
Rep. Gregg Cunningham, R-
Centre, said he voted • against the
proposed pay raise for state
legislators, judges and governor's
cabinet members because govern
ment officials have to set examples of
fiscal restraint for the rest of the
state.
However, Cunningham said, he
didn't believe the raise wasn't
justified or warranted, but that it was
time to "bite the economic bullet."
"Many of us in our campaigns
pledged to hold the line on spending,"
he said, "and austerity begins at
home. Leadership implies restraint,
and we must take steps now to arrest
double-digit inflation and put the
brakes on government spending." •
Cunningham was one of 90
representatives who opposed the pay
package proposed by the House,
which passed Tuesday by a vote of
104-90. The pay hike gives legislators
elected or re-elected for the 1981-82
legislative session an 8 percent raise
in their current $18,720 salary in 1981
Thornburgh appointee questioned about corruption
, c
supporters
at the same time, and Bazargan said he
would announce his legislative program
Friday.
Tens of thousands of government
employes in Tehran announced their
support for the Bazargan government
yesterday and declared Bakhtiar's
month-old government "illegal."
With the situation becoming more
threatening each day, hundreds of
foreigners fled the country yesterday.
The situation in Tehran itself was calm,
and 'martial law authorities relaxed the
nighttime curfew by one hour, closing
down the city between midnight and 5
a.m.
Six U.S. military flights carried more
than 400 Americans out of Iran Wed
nesday, and their numbers remaining in
Iran dropped to below 5,000 persons
compared with a high of 41,000
Americans only several months ago.
The largest anti-government
demonstration yesterday was in Isfahan
where several hundred thousand per
sons protested the Bakhtiar government
and shouted "death to Bakhtiar!"
But several thousand supporters of
Bakhtiar gathered at, a downtown
stadium in Tehran in a solidarity gesture
hours after demonstrators carrying
huge portraits of Khomeini marched in
the streets.
Military units remained posted at
strategic points across Tehran's
downtown but made no attempt to in
tervene when the demonstrators spilled
into the thick auto traffic.
and another 7 percent increase in
1982.
Cunningham said it is important his
vote on the issue be understood.
"It is very, very important that the
people understand that in voting as I
did I'm not being self-righteous and
I'm not holding my colleagues up to
public ridicule," he said. "I can
understand why some voted as they
did. This is what they do for a living.
Many of my colleagues have given up
lucrative professions to do this, and
it's a great economic sacrifice for
them and their families."
The proposals passed by the House
were amended from the original
proposals presented by the Com
monwealth Compensation Com
mission which called for an im
mediate 8 percent pay hike and the
additional 7 percent next year. House
members amended the proposals,
saying pay increases for incumbent
officials are against the state Con
stitution, and Cunningham agrees.
"There is no question, in my view,
that the raise as originally proposed
was unconstitutional," he said.
"There is a Constitutional provision
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that prohibits an increase in salary
for, legislators presently,•'serving-as
incumbents. That is why the House
voted not to increase the salaries until
the next session. The raise is not for
incumbents, it is for the represen
tatives elected in 1981-82."
The proposals now move to the
Senate, where a vote is expected to be
taken next week. But failure of the
Senate to act or to insist on different
versions of the proposals would be the
same as approving the commission's
original version, and the pay hike
would take affect immediately.
Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre,
said there is a possibility the Senate
will not vote on the proposals.
"The word around here right now is
that they (the proposals) won't come
to the Senate for a vote," he said.
"That's what's been circulating
around here."
Cunningham said as far as he
knows, the proposals are still going to
the Senate.
COntinued on page 14
HARRISBURG (AP) Clifford
Jones, named to head the Department of
Environmental Resources, said
yesterday he once passed confidential
information to newspaper publisher
Richard Mellon Scaife about the ac
tivities of a former Allegheny County
district attorney.
The questioning by the Senate
Environmental Resources Committee
dealt with the late Robert Duggan, a
former district attorney indicted on
federal income tax charges while Gov.
Dick Thornburgh was U.S. attorney.
Duggan, married to Scaife's sister,
was found dead of a self-inflicted gun
shot wound the day he was indicted in
March 1974.
Committee Chairman Robert Mellow,
D-Lackawanna, s said he delayed 'a vote
on Jones to give the committee time to
discuss the nomination. However,
Mellow said he will support Jones.
During the hearing, Mellow asked
Jones about a passage from a recent
book, "The Mellon Family," that quotes
Scaife as saying he received "police
records" from Jones about Duggan in
September 1971.
Jones, who was Republican state
chairman at the time, acknowledged
that he gave Scaife confidential verbal
and written information, but denied it
involved police records.
"I did tell Mr. Scaife that I felt he
should make a private investigation of
Mr. Duggan, which he did," Jones said
yesterday.
Duggan was indicted with failing to
report more than $137,000 in income for
the years 1967 through 1970 and with
understating federal income tax due for
those years in the total amount of
$93,000.
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Requirements , to be revised
'Basics' return to drawing board
By ROBIN BUCCILLI
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Are you an undergraduate English
major who cringes at the thought of
mathematics? . Or , anengineering
student whose last experience with the
arts was playing with crayons?
,Whether you like it or
. not, you must
take courses in these areas as part of the
basic degree requirements necessary to
graduate from the University.
Basic degree requirements are the
University's plan to provide a structured
general education for its students and to
prevent overspecialization of the
curriculum.
"We are not producing technicians,"
says John J. Romano, assistant dean for
undergraduate studies in the College of
the Liberal Arts, "but young men and
women who are competent in their fields
and who have been exposed to the
common elements of mankind."
In 1980 students will face a revised 46-
credit program of basic degree
requirement courses (BDR III)
designed to provide 15 credits of ad
vanced learning skills in the areas of
communication and quantification,
seven credits in health science and
physical education and 27 credits in the
"breadth" requirements.
Breadth requirements involve four
areas of knowledge natural sciences,
Thornburgh said at the time that the
alleged source of the income was
"protection" payments collected by
Duggan's former rackets squad chief
Samuel G. Ferraro from racketeeers in
the greater Pittsburgh area. Ferraro
was convicted in a jury trial that
Thornburgh prosecuted.
Although Mellow said he felt Jones
should explain what a political chairman
was doing with confidential records,
Jones refused to elaborate when
questioned by reporters. Mellow himself
did not press for an answer.
"It was about Mr. Duggan," Jones
said. "That's gone, Mr. Duggan is dead.
I don't prefer to discuss it further."
He said he felt Scaife, whom Jones
described as a friend, should have the.
information to save himself from being
"tarnished."
Eco-Action against state nominee
Several members of Eco-Action said
they are opposed to Gov. Richard
Thornburgh's nomination of Clifford
Jones as secretary to the Department of
Environmental Resources because they
believe he lacks sufficient experience in
environmental concerns.
Eco-Action members Tom Juengst
and Becky Smith attended Senate
hearings yesterday in Harrisburg on
Jones' appointment.
"He has virtually no experience in
doing work with problems of the
physical environment," Juengst said.
"That places conflict on his ability to
make good decisions because of his
training."
ME=
"BDR lll . i§ a step in the right direc
tion but is in no way the final position of a
university education," says Lee W.
Saperstein, professor and secretary of
community mining engineering.
"We are dealing with a large
university community and must ac
commodate the medical school aspirant
as well as those students with less
rigorous expectations," Saperstein says.
One prominent change in the BDR
program is that students will be required
to take six credits in the arts and six
credits in humanities rather than the
current requirement of six credits
distributed between arts and
humanities.
"I'm pleased that the University is
recognizing the importance of the arts
for all students," says William J.
McHale, associate dean for resident
instruction in the College of Arts and
Architecture. "I believe the Non-BA
programs will receive the impact of this
change."
Nunzio J. Palladino, dean of the
College of Engineering, agrees that BDR
111 will bring a change for those students
not previously required to turn to the
arts.
"I think it's the duty of anyone,
whether he's a chairman or not, when he
has suspicions about an individual to try
to pass it on to a person who might be
innocently hurt," Jones said.
Mellow said Jones should have been
more open about the source of the in
formation.
"Anytime you're quoted as saying you
have police records, you should make a
clarification," Mellow said. "How does
an individual who serves as the
Republican state chairman come into
contact with police records? Were they
crime commission records, records of a
grand jury in western Pennsylvania,
which possibly Gov. Thornburgh was in
charge of? Questions like that have to be
asked."
Jones served as Republican state
chairman for five years before being
named as executive director of Penn
sylvanians for Effective Government, a
lobby for the Pa. Manufacturers'
Association. He was appointed
Secretary of Commerce in 1967 and was
named head of the state Department of
Labor and Industry in 1968.
"Basically, he doesn't have an en
vironmental background at all," said
Marie Soveroski, former president of
Eco-Action, who did not attend the
hearing. "What he has done is work with
various groups interested in
manufacturing and commerce."
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arts, humanities and social and
behavioral sciences which ensure that
a student's curriculum has educational
balance.
Asked why he thought Mellow brought
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Many people think Jones is qualified
as secretary to DER because of his
administrative experience, Soveroski
said.
"We feel this is a professional position
and requires experience in order to do
the job correctly," said Jim Perkins,
Eco-Action member and State College
resident.
Thornburgh's nomination of Jones
may have been based on partisianship
because of his service to the Republican
Party, Perkins said.
"I certainly believe there are other
Republicans that have training in this
area," he said.
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"However, the College of Engineering
has always had the requirement that its
students experience the equivalent of a
half year of study in the social and
behavioral sciences and the
humanities," Palladino says. "This is
necessary since everything an engineer
does results in a design, a speech or a
piece of writing."
The BDR 111 program is still in the
evolutionary stage.
"Our focus at the moment is to
elaborate on the guidelines of the 27
credits of breadth requirements," says
Daryl K. Heasley, chairman of the
Subcommittee to Develop Guidelines for
Implementation of BDR 111. "We're
running two or three weeks behind the
projected time schedule but hope to have
the input necessary to facilitate im
plementation of BDR 111 by 1980."
An arctic attack
We'll have an arctic attack the next
few days with mostly cloudy skies
through tomorrow, although a little
sunshine is possible today. It will be
breezy with occasional flurries and
temperatures will fall from a high of 23
today to a low of 9 tonight and rise to only
11 tomorrow.
up the incident, Jones replied, "You
know why he brought it up."
Scaife, publisher of the Greensburg
Tribune-Review, could
,not be reached
immediately for comment.
Mellow also questioned Jones on his
role as president of Pennsylvanians for
Effective Government, a bipartisan
political action group that raises and
contributes money to legislative can
didates.
"I'm not happy with the fact that PEG
collected $160,000 in the last election and
made no statewide ( disclosure) filing,"
Mellow said.
During the hearing, Jones said his
counsel advised him that the law only
required filings in each county where a
contribution was made to a legislative
candidate.
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