Khomeini
Iran's capital
From our wire services
TEHRAN, Iran Abandoned by the
army high command, Premier Shahpour
Bakhtiar’s regime crumbled yesterday
before the guns and masses of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, who seized Tehran
and declared a new Islamic government.
. However, loyalist units, including
members of the elite Immortals Brigade
and Imperial Guards, counterattacked
and fought pitched battles in outlying
areas with Khpmeini supporters armed
•with weapons looted from army bases.
Bakhtiar’s downfall had been assured
hours earlier when the nation’s top
generals abruptly withdrew their sup
port for Bakhtiar and ordered their men
and tanks back to their barracks from
battle stations throughout the city.
The apparent climax to Iran’s 15
of turmoil began building Friday
"night, when the nation’s previously
unified military forces began fighting
among themselves. Hundreds of people
had died in 36 hours of bloody rioting that
swept the capital.
Khomeini’s triumphant supporters
seized the national radio and television
wnd declared an “Ad Hoc Islamic
Revolutionary Command” was ruling
Iran.
“This is the voice of the revolution,” a
radio announcer exulted repeatedly.
* “The dictatorship has come to an end.”
*' Hundreds of Khomeini followers, their
■ faces blackened in guerrilla fashion and
carrying automatic weapons, seized
Students discuss Iranian events
AMY ENDLICH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Although top generals withdrew
support of Prime Minister Shahpuor
Bakhtiar yesterday, several Iranian
students said the army still poses a
T threat to ultimate Iranian goals of in
dependence.
“I am glad that what happened
yesterday happened,” said one student!
in reference to the seizure of the capital
by followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah
“I wish the American-trained
' and American-equipped army would be
crushed by the people,” she said.
Another student said he is fearful of a
coup d’etat if the army remains in Iran.
He said the army supports a monarchy.
'Director calls education shift 'easier to
By NANCY BOYD
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The shifting of the art and music
Education division of the College of
Education to the College of Arts and
Architecture is a move that is “much
easier to live with” now that the
recommendation to make the shift has
been accepted by President John W.
said Harlan E. Hoffa, division
1 'nead.
The move, announced by University
Provost Edward D. Eddy last Monday at
a joint meeting of faculty of the
education division and of the art and
music department, will create two new
academic units in the college of Arts and
Headless wonder
Amy Knoell (Bth-graphic design) seems to have the advantage as she contemplates a figure of art, “Pompeii” by Siena
G. Potta.
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daily
seizes power,
control of Tehran, setting up road blocks
and patrolling the streets.
Almost unchallenged, the rebels
sacked Bakhtiar’s office, official
residence and private home in north
Tehran. They took over both houses of
parliament, radio and television
stations, the shah’s ornate Golestan
Palace and captured most military
bases. '
Mehdi Bazargan, the. Shiite Moslem
leader’s hand-picked prime minister,
declared in a radio broadcast that the
army’s chief of staff had swung over to
his side. Bazargan was expected to
formally take control of the government
today.
The fate of Bakhtiar, 64, was not
known. The radio first reported he had
resigned, then said there were rumors
he committed suicide. Other reports said
he may have fled to France.
Precise casualty counts were im
possible. The radio reported yesterday
morning, when it was still controlled by
the government, that more than 200
people had been killed since Friday
night, when the final disorders began
with an attack on pro-Khomeini Air
Force cadets by loyal army units.
Iranian guards at the U.S. Embassy in
Iran deserted their posts, but 19 U.S.
Marines stood by in combat uniform and
kept order. In Washington, the Pentagon
ordered a detachment of 69 Marines sent
from the United States to Turkey,to be
kept on standby in case the embassy is
attacked.
“All Iranians are looking for a
democracy,” he said. “For Iranians
complete freedom is the most important
thing.”
Arthur Goldschmidt, associate
professor of history, said the situation in
Iran could be worse with Khomeini’s
seizure.
“I’m not sure Iran can go through
without a civil war,” he said. Foreign
embassies, including the United States
embassy, will certainly begin heavy
evacuation, he said.
“You can’t tell if the Islam Republic
will bring back medieval practices.
They probably couldn’t be enforced.”
One student said the same advisors
who worked with the army when it
supported the Shah work in it now. She
Architecture.
“All of us feel much more at ease now
that the decision has been made,” Hoffa
said. “It’s not ging to be easy, but we
have every intention of making it work.”
The realignment will create a com
bined unit of the art and art education
faculty and programs and a second unit
consisting of the music and music
education faculty members, Eddy said.
David B. Van Dommelen, professor of
art education, said although he regrets
leaving the College of Education, the
“marriage of the two faculties could be
exciting.” He said during joint meetings
ideas for future programs and in
novations have surfaced.
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in chaos
The Pentagon’s airlift for American
personnel was suspended, along with all
other flights out of Tehran. Six Air Force
helicopters were being flown to Turkey
in case Americans had to be evacuated
from Tehran, Defense Department
spokesman Thomas Lambert said.
Pentagon sources said Ambassador
William Sullivan had asked for the
precautionary moves by the Marines
and the helicopters, and asked that the
Pentagon update contingency plans for a
possible mass evacuation of Americans.
Sources estimated there are still some
7,000 Americans in Iran, most of them
employees of American defense con
tractors and their wives and children.
State Department spokesman Kenneth
Brown said the 7,000 Americans in Iran
were safe “to the best of our
knowledge.”
Eleven thousand Iranian political
prisoners, convicted murderers and
common criminals, plus a handful of
Americans, Canadians and Europeans,
hacked and clawed their way out of
Iran’s largest prison at the height of
yesterday’s chaos.
As the news of the upheaval in Iran
flashed around the world, there was no
comment from Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahlavi, who ruled the nation of 34.5
million people until Jan. 16. The shah
was still in seclusion in Marrakesh,
Morocco, with , his empress, four
children and mother-in-law, and the
Iranian embassy in Rabat said he would
have no statement.
said the success of the new regime will
depend on “wiping out the old
elements.”
“Success depends on the political and
economic programs of the new govern
ment,” she said.
Goldschmidt said continued fighting
for a long period of time could open the
option of return to Iran to the Shah.
Another possible development could be
Soviet intervention to keep the United
States from intervening, he said.
He said Khomeini garnered much of
his support because he was opposed to
the Shah. Khomeini is also a strong
religious figure which accounts for some
of his popularity, he said.
Religion could be the only thing that
will hold the Iranians’ together, he said.
Van Dommelen said the merger has
gained more acceptance among the art
faculty members since the provost
addressed their concern that the art
education programs remain autonomous
fiscally and in programmatic goals. The
art education faculty sent a letter to
Eddy Feb. 2 indicating acceptance of the
move with the provision that the
department maintain its identity.
Eddy told the faculty the realignment
“will not destroy the integrity of a
particular program.”
Van Dommelen also said the tenured
faculty feel “much more secure” since
Eddy’s announcement that “there has
never been any intention of terminating
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Photo by Mark Mclntyre
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An injured Iranian prisoner is shown escaping from pri- political prisoners and criminals escaped when guards
son in a massive break which followed the resignation of . walked off the job.
prime minister Shahpour Bakhtiar. More than 11,000
Veto rights questioned
By MIKE SILLUP
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A controversy exists over State College mayor Arnold Ad
dison’s right to veto a human rights resolution that may be
passed by the municipal council tonight.
The resolution has places for the signatures of council
members and the mayor. Addison, who has not reached any
conclusion about the proposal, said, “I either sign it or I don’t
sign it, and if I don’t sign it, I don’t know what it means.”
■ Borough Solicitor Robert Kistler said he was not sure if the
mayor could legally veto a resolution, and said no one has
asked him to look into the matter.
Borough Manager Carl Fairbanks said, “The charter says
he vetoes ordinances, it doesn’t mention resolutions.”
The proposed resolution urges equal and fair treatment in
employment, housing, and public accommodations regardless
of “race, religious creed, ancestry, age, sex, national origin,
physical handicap, marital status, or affectional or sexual
orientation.”
Council heard about four hours of testimony from about 50
persons last Monday, but voted to table the resolution until
tonight.
tenured faculty members.”
Hoffa said the shift is strictly an
“administrative change” and he does
not expect the quality of art or music
education to suffer a loss of integrity.
However, he said the number and
quality of service courses offered to non
majors in art and music may decline.
“The enrollment decline of the college
is not in the art and music majors, but in
the number of non-majors taking these
courses,” he said. “It is these programs
that might be affected.”
Kenneth Decker (9th-music
education) said he does not expect the
music education program to be affected
by the move, but he said members of the
Israel accepts talks with Egypt
JERUSALEM (UPI) The Israeli
Cabinet yesterday formally accepted
President Carter’s invitation to renew
peace talks with Egypt at Camp David
but refused to give Foreign Minister
Moshe Dayan the wider negotiating
powers he sought.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
announced his acceptance of the
American invitation Thursday. He said
Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil would
head his delegation to the discussions
expected to begin around Feb. 21 after
being deadlocked since November.
Legislators talking of part-time
HARRISBURG-(AP) The issue of
full-time and part-time legislators is
creeping into conversations on Capitol
Hill again, prompted by the pay raise
pending before the General Assembly
this week.
Some legislators, tired of the con
troversy stirred by a proposed 8 percent
hike in 1981 and 7 percent in 1982, say
they should end the sniping by in :
creasing their salaries significantly and
limiting outside income.
The Senate will vole this week on the
proposal to raise their $18,720 salaries in
the next session.
“Let’s increase our pay to $25,000 or
$30,000, and insist that we be fulltime,”
Rep. William DeWeese, D-Fayette, said.
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Blue Band are concerned that their
funding might be ci/t.
Because the band is heavily supported
by the athletics department, its
operations are not in jeopardy because
of the move, Ned C. Diehl, director of the
Blue Band, said. Diehl also said the band
will not be moved physically from its
present location.
Hoffa said he does not expect the
studios and other art and music
education facilities to be moved to
another building. The two colleges do
have a duplication of some facilities,
Hoffa said, but it is unsure at this time if
any changes will be made.
Hoffa said similar mergers have been
“The government has decided to
accept the invitation of the president of
the United States,” Prime Minister
Menachem Begin said after a Cabinet
meeting in his office that lasted more
than four hours.
“The representative of the state of
Israel will be the foreign minister and he
will certainly have his advisors,” Begin,
said, adding there would be no other
ministers in the Israeli delegation.
Dayan had requested a widening of his
decision-making powers during the talks
“How can you practice law or sell shoes
in Donora, and say you’re a full-time
legislator.”
“You wonder why we have so few
session days on Thursday and Friday?
It’s because so many members have
jobs back home that they give the
leaders a bad time if they have to come
in here,” Rep. Joseph Hoeffel, D-
Montgomery, said.
“We ought to encourage more full
time legislators, although our salaries
would have to be a heck of a lot higher,”
he said.
Of course, some legislators say the
hours' they put in for their $18,720 salary
make them more than full-time, and
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Addison said he was very pleased at the amount of testimony
given by both sides.
Testimony was delivered over a period of months to the
council’s human services committee before the resolution was
introduced by that committee.
Council member Dorothy Lennig, chairwoman of the
committee, said she believed a resolution, not an ordinance,
“was the best way to handle it.”
She said she did not think the mayor could veto a resolution.
Other human rights measures came before council in both
ordinance and resolution form. All were defeated.
The resolution currently before council is the result of a
proposal from the Centre County Advisory Council to the
state’s Human Relations Commission that the borough adopt
an anti-discrimination ordinance.
Although council has heard testimony for and against the
resolution, they have not discussed it in an official capacity,
Lennig said. “I feel we should discuss this in public.”
Council President Ingrid Holtzman said, “We’re not an
ticipating any more testimony.” She would not comment on
the resolution itself.
The council meeting will be held at 7:30 tonight in the State
College Municipal Building, 118 S. Fraser St.
live
Hoffa said the recommendation is
subject to approval by the University
Board of Trustees at their March
meeting. He said he expects the board to
pass the provost’s recommendation.
to forestall frequent trips home for
consultations with the Cabinet.
“We did not discuss widening his
powers,” Begin said. He stressed Dayan
is empowered only to act according to
the decisions of the cabinet and advice
from the prime minister.
“As President Carter wrote to me,
there will be also an interval in the
discussions so that both Prime Minister
Khalil and Foreign Minister Dayan will
be able to go to their respective coun
tries for consultations with their
governments,” Begin said.
that’s where everything gets fuzzy.
Senate Majority Leader Edward
Zemprelli, a Penn State trustee, con
siders a full-time legislator with limited
outside income as “an idea that is fast
coming.”
The atmosphere will flake out today
with snow developing, becoming
heaviest around midday and ac
cumulating 1 to 3 inches. A high of 15 is
expected. Tonight will be mostly cloudy
with some snow flurries and breezy
conditions with a low of 6. Tomorrow will
be breezy with partly to mostly sunny
skies and a high of 13.
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made at other universities without harm
to the programs involved.
However, some students feel the trend
may adversely affect other programs
inside the College of Education.
“It makes me nervous,” said Crystal
E. Nicholson (7th-counseling education).
“The counseling education program is
small and who’s to say we won’t be
moved to the psychology department in
Liberal Arts? In 15 years there might not
be a College of Education.”
Flake out