Rally protests Cambodian plight
By LISA DOHNER
ik Daily Collegian Staff Writer '
More than 500 students rallied on the HUB lawn
yesterday to “raise the moral issue of man’s
inhumanity against man,” Bob Sjogren, vice president
of Campus Crusade for Christ, said.
The demonstration, sponsored by Christians for
Cambodia, an affiliate of Campus Crusade for Christ,
was held to protest the 1975 communist takeover of.
Cambodia. Sjogren sajd that since the takeover, 3 to 5
l million Cambodians have died from starvation and
murder by what he called ‘ ‘systematic genocide. ”
Diane Lawson, a member of the World Relief
Organization, was a featured speaker at the demon
stration. Lawson said that Congress and President
Carter have announced that $69 million in United States
will be available to the Cambodians, but $3OO
' million is still needed.
More than 400,000 refugees have fled Cambodia to
other countries, Lawson said, and the United States
been asked to take 150,000 more. She compared that to
“two football stadiums worth of people.”
“Politics should not be an issue here,’’she said.
are at stake.”
7*r yet Huong Taing, a Cambodian refugee, also spoke at
Cambodia accepts unlimited aid to country
, ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand (UPI)
Cambodia said yesterday it opening
the Mekong River waterway to bring in
unlimited aid to its starving people but
moved to cut off Pol Pot guerrillas from
getting any of the help.
“Cambodia welcomes with gratitude
the aid in provisions free of political
conditions by various countries and
international organizations to stem
famine,” a Cambodian Foreign Ministry
statement said.
"In anticipation of an eventual in
crease in this aid, the Cambodian
Peoples Revolutionary Council has
worked together with the Socialist
of'Vietnam, and the two sides
have agreed to open the Mekong River
Department integration
on future board agenda
By JEAN FOGARTY
Daily Collegian Staff Wrjter
The University Board of Trustees
will vote in January on a recom
mendation to integrate the services of
the department of continuing
education and the Commonwealth
campuses, said Floyd Fischer, vice
president for continuing education.
The proposed change is based on a
recommendation in the University
Plan for the ’Bos. The plan includes a
demographic study predicting a
decrease in the 18-. to 22-year-old
population and a resulting drop in
enrollment.
However, education will continue to
play an important role, Fischer said.
More professional people will return
to school during the next decade for
up-to-date training in their fields.
The proposal calls for the con
solidation of the dual systems of the
units, including personnel ap
pointments, registration, scheduling
and record keeping. This would
improve coordination between
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the rally. Taing lived in Cambodia for four years before
escaping to Thailand. He described life under the
communist regime
“In the beginning,”he said, “we were eating lizards,
cats, dogs—anything with four legs.”
Taing said that the communist soldiers considered
human liver a delicacy. In order to get the livers, he
said, the soldiers would tie people’s hands behind their
backs, kick them so their liver would swell, then cut the
liver out with their knives. The soldiers did this so
frequently, Taing said, it was like “pancake-eating
contests” in America.
The purpose of yesterday’s demonstration, Sjogren
said, was to raise the “consciousness level of man’s
inhumanity.”
“It’s not just the issue of these people'starving,” he
said, “ but the fact that people are letting it happen.”
Sjogren said that during the rally a few students were
shouting: “You’re right. We don’t care. Let them
starve.”
Sjogren said that after the demonstration about 120
Campus Crusade members marched through campus
carrying signs and urging people to sign a petition in
support of U.S. intervention to force the Cambodian
government to accept funds raised for those people still
for navigation and to use Phnom Penh
port for receiving international aid,” the
statement said. • •
The statement, broadcast by the
Cambodians and monitored in Bangkok
on Vietnam’s official news agency, VNA,
coincided with a conference called by
U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
in New York to increase pledges of help
to the war- and famine-stricken country.
Relief supplies are already reaching
Phnom Penh via its airport and the port
of Kompong Som on the Gulf of
Thailand.
Phnom Penh has rejected an
American proposal for truck convoys to
deliver food and medical supplies by a
“land bridge” from neighboring
continuing education and resident
instruction at the Commonwealth
campuses and reduce administrative
overhead. .
Initiation of this plan, Fischer said,
could generate sufficient income
from student fees and have enough
subsidy from state appropriations to
maintain itself. The University could
save money, he said.
The University system can adjust
to the integration of the two units
without “traumatic experiences,”
Fischer said.
“This is not as big a change as it
sounds like on paper,” he said.
The two units were consolidated
prior to 1959. The Commonwealth
campuses had fewer students then
and the two departments had little
financial support, Fischer said.
When the two systems were in
tegrated, he said, the undergraduate
centers began to grow and gain
support. They were then separated to
enable the two systems to con
centrate their efforts.
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Thailand, contending it would be used to
support the guerrillas of ousted Khmer
Rouge Premier Pol Pot.
During the past month the Khmer
Rouge have been pushed back by
Vietnamese along a broad front ranging
20 miles south of the Thai border village
of Aranyaprathet and now cling to only
one side of a hill completely in their
control four weeks ago.
Reporters who frequent the region of
Phnom Malai mountain said fighting has
not been heavy, but the Khmer Rouge
have slowly been moving out of their
flank on the side of the border facing
Thailand.
An estimated 20,000 Khmer Rouge and
their families were believed holding out
U.S. consulates captured in Iran
By the Associated Press
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s
followers, already holding scores of
hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
seized two U.S. consulates and the
British Embassy yesterday in an
escalating war of nerves against “the
great Satan, America” and its “evil”
ally.
No injuries were reported in the new
takeovers in Iran, and it was not known
how many new American hostages were
seized, if any. The British Foreign Office
in London announced last night that the
takeover of its embassy in Tehran ended
peacefully after six hours, apparently
following intervention .by the Iranian
army guards, and no one was hurt. It
said more than 100 students had invaded
the embassy, holding about 30 persons.
The head of the Iranian Embassy in
Washington made clear the Tehran
government would not intercede to free
U,.S. Embassy hostages. Ali Agah told
reporters the government “reflects the
demand of the people” regarding the
shah, and the student militants who
seized the embassy Sunday could not be
asked to leave.
The State Department estimated 60
American hostages were being held in
in the country.
The United Nations will hold a debate on the Cam
bodian issue Monday, Sjogren said, and the Christians
for Cambodia hope to have 20,000 signatures on the
petition by then. They will take the petition to New York
City and will march with Christians from around the
country in front of the U.N. building, he said.
“Our goal is to put pressure on the delegates to act on
Cambodia to forceably make them accept money for
food and aid the U.S. has to send,” Sjogren said.
Sjogren also said the Christians for Cambodia are not
dealing at all with politics. “We aren’t fighting com
munism, but immorality,” he said.
Jeffery Rozwadowski, a member of Campus Crusade,
marched after the demonstration yesterday. He said
that students from schools as far north as Maine and as
far east as Tennessee came to participate in the rally.
Cheryl Myers, also a member of the Campus Crusade
and a participant in the march, said: “We’re not
standing; for a political issue, but for a moral one. ”
' she said Campus Crusade believes that the way to
change immorality “is by a one-on-one individual
change.” • , . T „ .
“We believe the source of that change is Jesus, she
said.
on the western flank of Phnom Malai or
joining the trek southward toward the
Thai side of the Cardamom mountains.
Both Hanoi and Phnom Penh have
claimed that much of the aid funrieled
through Thailand to Cambodia has been
reaching the guerrillas.
UPI reporters have seen some of the
goods leaking across the international
boundary, but have been prevented by
Thai soldiers from • following.
“It is public knowledge that the United
States, acting in collusion with the
Peking reactionaries, is using Thai
territory to', maintain and .resupply the
Pol Pot-leng Sary and Sereika gangs
who have regrouped in certain areas,”
the Cambodian statement said.
the, embassy, ’ and said it' received in
direct assurancesirom thensitudents that
“all are well.” Previous reports said
seven or eight Iranian employees also
were held.
Iranian leader Khomeini and his
student supporters demanded the United
States and Britain hand over two
“criminals” for trial the deposed
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
hospitalized in New York, and former
Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour
Bakhtiar, living in exile in Western
Europe.
But the Carter Administration
rejected the demand that it expel the
shah, and the British said they did not
have Bakhtiar that he was living in
France.
The shah, long a close U.S. ally, fled
Iran last January as the Khomeini-led
revolution neared victory. He first went
to Egypt, then Morocco, the Bahamas,
and finally Mexico. Last month he flew
to New York, where he underwent
gallbladder surgery and is undergoing
treatment for lymph cancer.'New York
Hospital said yesterday that a tumor in
his neck has enlarged since the surgery,
and that more surgery may be needed to
remove a stone in a bile duct.
Student runs write-in campaign
By WENDY ZOLDOS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Michael J. Scanlon, president of the Organization for Town
Independent Students, announced yesterday that he will run as
a write-in candidate for a seat on the State College Municipal
Council. ,
Scanlon said he decided iast. Thursday to run after the other
six council candidates announced their positions on possible
abolishment of the student seat on the Centre Area Tran
sportation Authority board.
Four of six Municipal Council seats are being contested m
today’s election. Scanlon said he is seeking a seat on the
council because during his term as president of OTIS, there
have been a lot of repercussions between students and the
town.”
Last week, Scanlon had printed 2,000 cards asking voters to
vote only for him. He said if voters write in only his name, the
Some nuclear plants may dose
WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
acknowledged yesterday that certain
nuclear plants near populated areas
may have to be shut down because of
potential problems in evacuating
residents in the event of an emergency.
Joseph M. Hendrie, testifying before a
House subcommittee, also announced
that an NRC freeze on new nuclear
plants imposed shortly after the
March 28 accident at Three Mile Island
is being extended at least until spring.
He said the added time is needed so the
recommendations of the presidential
commission on Three Mile Island can be
fully examined by policy makers.
The delay directly effects four plants
that had been scheduled to open by the
end of this year, and keeps another 88
Students attend yesterday’s rally sponsored by Christians for Cambodia, to
voice support for U.S. aid to the war-torn country whose people are threatened
with starvation. More than 500 students turned out to participate.
' The State Department' said" he was
admitted to the United States for an
indefinite stay but will not be allowed to
stay permanently.
Broadcasts of the government-run
radio, monitored in London, said
students seized the U.S. consulates in
Tabriz in northwest Iran and in the
southern city of Shiraz. The State
Department said another mob occupied
and ransacked the Iran-American
Society Building, a cultural center, in
Isfahan, central Iran.
No injuries were reported, but it was
not known whether any staff members
were taken hostage.
The British Foreign Office later
reported that students invaded the
British Embassy in an apparently
peaceful takeover. It said some staff
members were believed inside the
embassy at the time, but it was not
known whether they were taken hostage.
The Moslem clergyman Khomeini, in
a speech in his headquarters city of
Qum, openly endorsed the takeover of
the U.S. Embassy and said it had been a
center of “plots” by “the great Satan,
America,” Radio Tehran reported. His
representative Ayatollah Seyyed
Khansari declared that America, Russia
plants in various stages of construction
in a holding pattern.
There are now 70 nuclear plants in
operation in the United States.
Rep. Toby Moffett, D-Conn„ noted that
a number of the plants now in operation
are older ones, built before the current
policy of constructing them away from
populated areas.
For people who live near the Indian
Point nuclear plant near New York City
or the Zion plant near Chicago, “there is
no evacuation plan that can help you,”
Moffett said. \
“If we are really concerned about
safety, why don’t we shut down some
existing plants? ’ ’ he asked.
“It’s a possibility, Mr. Moffett,”
Hendrie replied.
However, Hendrie was quick to note
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and Britain were each “more evil than
the others,” the broadcast said.
The State Department said it con
tinued to receive indirect assurances
from the students that the hostages
taken when they seized the U.S. Em
bassy.on Sunday “all are well.”
The department estimaied that 60
Americans were being held in the em
bassy. Previous reports said seven or
eight Iranian employees also were held.
The Carter Administration was
relying on the Iranian government’s
efforts to secure the hostages’ release,
department spokesmen said.
The tenth week will start off with
lowering and thickening cloudiness by
late morning and the chance for a
shower or two by late afternoon. Today s
temperatures will remain seasonably
cool with a high of 50. Tonight will
become windy with clearing skies and
temperatures falling to 55 as cool.
Canadian air filters into central Penn
sylvania. Tomorrow will be mostly
sunny, breezy, but cool with the high
reaching only 46.
opposing candidates’ totals will be decreased.
“Students can have a voice in local affairs,” Scanlon said.
He said some of the cards have been distributed to student
organizations and the rest will be distributed near the polls
today. ' .
“A lot of local government officials pay us lip service by
encouraging students to sit on committees and advisory
boards,” Scanlon said. “A lot of things are decided by the
borough council which affect students. I’m pushing lor student
support.
“Of course I expect to win,” Scanlon said. He said that if
elected, he will serve the full four-year council term. Scanlon
said he is concerned about zoning issues, the installation of
smoke detectors in apartments and the rates students are
paying for garbage collection.
“If I’m elected,” Scanlon said, “at least students will be on
the inside and will know what’s going on.”
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that he wasn’t advocating shutting down
either of the plants mentioned by Mof
fett, saying “we’re going to come to'a
very hard-rock place soon, but we’re not
upagairfstityet.”
He said the closer a plant is to a
populated area “the time for evacuation
gets longer and longer.”
Commissioner John F. Ahearne said
that, short of being closed down, some
older plants mighi be ordered to operate
at vastly reduced generating levels to
provide an extra margin of safety.
Hendrie said it will take time to digest
and implement recommendations made
last week by the presidential com
mission that investigated the accident at
the Three Mile Island plant.