Japan rejects Iranian oil;
Germans support U.S.
TOKYO (UPI) Japan braced for a quick and total cutoff of
lonian oil yesterday, saying Tehran had priced itself out of
the market', and reports said Tokyo had American assurances
of help in finding alternate supplies.
The bold move appeared to have removed from Iran’s hands
the oil weapon it had brandished at America’s most important
Far Eastern ally to try to dissuade it from backing U.S.
economic sanctions against Iran.
; a The government Saturday instructed Japanese oil importers
| reject Iran’s latest $2.50-per-barrel price hike to $35 per
barrel despite Tehran’s ultimatum to Tokyo to either pay the
price or face a cutoff in oil shipments, effective today.
Tokyo's tough stand on the oil issue came as Foreign
Minister Saburo Okita was flying to Luxembourg to confer
with foreign ministers from the nine-nation European
fconomic Community about joint moves to support the United
tates jn the hostage crisis in Iran. Japan has indicated it
would go along with any EEC move.
Officials at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry
insisted Japan’s decision Saturday was not part of the
economic sanctions now under consideration, ministry sources
] said.
*1 “The new Iranian price is simply too high,” one MITI of
ficial said, noting that the mark-up makes the Iranian crude
more expensive than comparable oil from other exporting
nations.
In Omaha, Neb., Saturday night, State Department
spokesman Hodding Carter said a cutoff of Iranian oil ship
ments would put Japan in the forefront of U.S. allies in terms
jflf sanctions. He added, however, that it could also be a ploy to
arive down the price.
But Tokyo’s prestigious financial daily Nihon Keizai
Shimbun reported yesterday that the government had won
agreement from the Carter administration for cooperation in
providing alternative oil supplies in case of an Iranian oil
embargo against Japan.
Klan members wound 4 women
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) Four
black women leaving a tavern were
wounded by shotgun blasts from a
passing' car, and a black leader
yesterday praised police for the quick
action that led to the arrests of three Ku
Klux Klan members.
George Key, Chattanooga _chapter
president'of'Qie National'Association'for
the Advancement of Colored People,
said, he had calls Saturday night after
the# shootings from people urging
retaliation.
“I had phone calls all the way from
people urging me to be a little Napoleon
and lead a rally to those wanting an eye
for an eye,” Key said in a telephone
ingerview!
He said, however, he was resisting
those calls because the NAACP believed
in working through the system.
Grier: good Kennedy friend, strong Carter advocate
'He (Kennedy) didn't consult with me whether or not he
was going to run for the presidency. No one consulted
\yith me so why should / consult with him on who / am
supporting?'
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“If justice is not carried out, rest
assured that we will take whatever steps
are legally necessary,” said Key, who
had met last month with at least one of
the arrested Klan members. “The
NAACP believes in the American
system. We believe it can work. We are
the conscience of America and we will be
~ the conscience of Chattanooga.”
Each of the three arrested were
charged with four counts of assault with
intent to commit murder. All were in the
city jail yesterday in lieu of $40,000 bond
awaiting arraignment today.
The three were identified by police as
Bill Church, 23, who calls himself im
perial wizard of the Justice Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan; Larry Payne, 26, and
Marshall Thrash, 30, all from Chat
tanooga. A police source said Payne and
Thrash are members of Church’s group.
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Collegian
the
daily
The plan, according to the newspaper, calls for the United
States to boost oil production in Alaska and allow Japan to
make up its oil shortage from American’s foreign suppliers,
notably Saudi Arabia. American law forbids the sale of
Alaskan oil to foreigners.
A cutoff of oil from Iran would deprive Japan of up to 530,000
barrels of oil each day, or 10 percent of its total oil imports. But
it would also deprive Iran of one of its biggest oil customers
and as much as $6 billion in annual sales.
In Cologne, West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
yesterday issued a strong statement of support for America’s
handling of the Iranian crisis and urged West Germans to show
understanding for Washington’s position.
West Germany has indicated it will support sanctions,
possibly imposing them unilaterally if there is no agreement
between the European allies.
In a major speech yesterday, Schmidt made no mention of
sanctions. But his economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff
told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag it looked likely the EEC
would endorse sanctions, and Schmidt gave strong expression
to his sympathy with the U.S.
“I have very, very deep understanding for the nervous
bitterness of the Americans and the frustration with the
Iranian leadership,” Schmidt said.
Recalling the tension West Germans felt in hostage dramas
enacted by BaaderMeinhof terrorists in the 19705, Schmidt
called on West Germans, especially “those critics of American
behavior,” to sympathize with Americans now that the
hostage crisis has dragged on almost six months.
Schmidt made an emotional plea to both Washington and
Moscow not to allow tension spawned by the Afghan crisis to
escalate into worldwide conflict.
“The superpowers do not have a strategy that would suffice
to avoid war. They are not talking openly enough about their
basic interests.”
Police spokesman Bill Gill said of
ficers who arrested the men found in
their car two 12-gauge pump shotguns, a
spent 12-gauge shell and two unused
shells. He said police recovered two
spent 12-gauge shells at the shooting
scene. • ,
• The women were struck by gt least two
shotgun blasts as they left a tavern in a
predominantly black section of the city,
police said. Authorities did not im
mediately establish a motive.
Two of the victims, Kathyrn O.
Johnson, 48, and Lela Mae Eaves, 66,
were admitted to Erlanger Medical
Center for wounds to both legs and were
reported in fair condition yesterday.
Police said the other women, Viola S.
Ellison, 64, and Opal Lee Jackson, 46,
were treated for pellet wounds in the
legs and buttocks and released.
Editor’s Note: Rosey Grier was an
outstanding lineman for Penn State in
the early 1950 s and went on to star in the
National Football League for the New
York Giants and the Los Angeles Rams.
Grier became the constant travelling
companion of Sen. Robert Kennedy, and
on the night of June 5,1968, apprehended
Sirhan Sirhan Kennedy’s assassin
in the kitchen of the Los Angeles Am
bassador Hotel.
Grier appeared on campus last
Thursday to campaign for President
Carter. Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Paul Boynton and Tom Verducci in
terviewed Grier, and the following is a
transcript of that interview and a sub
sequent press conference edited for
clarity and length.
Interview
COLLEGIAN: You must have debated
in your mind to either back Teddy
Kennedy or Jimmy Carter because of
your close friendship with the Kennedy
family.
GRIER: I went through many weeks
of consideration. I had been getting calls
from a committee of people backing
Kennedy asking me to be a part, but I
said I couldn’t because Teddy said he
wasn’t running. And they said they were
running anyway. But he said he ain’t
running and I believed him. I didn’t join
any of those committees, but when he
did say he was going to run, I got a call
from Ethel (widow of Bobby Kennedy)
and asked me if I would get some of my
friends together for Teddy. I told her I
hadn’t made any commitments. I asked
to speak with Teddy, but she said he was
too busy.
Then I got a call from the White House,
and they asked if the president could use
my name, but I told ’em they couldn’t
use my name yet because I’d like to talk
to him. They said he was real busy, and I
said fine. .. I’ll be here. So I got a call on
the 14th of December (1979) and was told
the president wanted to meet with me on
Dec. 21.
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(9th-liberal arts), Bill Torretti (graduate-counselor education), Joe Radomsky (13th-finance) and Joe Markovich < 13th
accounting). See related photos and story on Page 14.
So I met him in the White house, and I
told him ‘I want to support you, although
you have had problems, because I feel
you have tried to do the job you said you
would do.’ I told him that I would have to
stand with him. (Grier supported
President Carter in 1976.)
While I was in Washington I called
Teddy’s office because I wanted to be
with him. No one called me back though.
The thing is, I considered my
relationship with the Kennedy family
and any possible repercussions of it. . .
because they are involved in a lot of the
areas where I’m involved in. You know
what I mean?
COLLEGIAN: What was the reaction
of the Kennedy family?
GRIER: Put it this way, I have had a
lot of my friends say that I was a traitor
to the friendship by using my name to
discredit Kennedy. And I say, well,
that’s not it at all. It had nothing to do
with my love for the family or my love
for him, but it had to do with what I
thought was essential for my country. I
am a free moral agent. I’m not obligated
to go with anyone just ‘cause I’m their
friend. I mean just because a guy wants
to jump off a building, I ain’t going to
jump with him. If he wants to sail on the
Nile, I ain’t going to do that either. He
(Kennedy) didn’t consult with me
whether or not he was going to run for
the presidency. No one consulted with
me so why should I consult with him on
who I am supporting.
COLLEGIAN: Has the Kennedy
family accepted your position?
GRIER: I haven’t talked to them since
then. I have heard from Jackie
(Onassis) through her lawyer. We’re
still friends; it doesn’t matter. I could
have asked them to go with me and
support the president, and then we
wouldn’t have this conflict, you un
derstand. I mean, why are they so im
portant?
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'The man (Carter) is not weak! Everyone thinks the man
is a weakling because he hasn't pulled out the big army ,
he hasn't thrown the big bomb. That's not a sign of
weakness, that's a sign of strength.'
COLLEGIAN: Is one of the reasons
you are behind Jimmy Carter because
the world is in such a state of tension
right now that it is a difficult period to
change presidents?
GRIER: That would be part of it, but
that’s not it, because I would be for him
if the world war wasn’t . . . because if
the world was great he would have no
problems at all.
COLLEGIAN: You said to make this
country strong the people should unite
behind the president to be the head of
the household so to speak. Why do you
think President Carter should be the
head of that household?
GRIER: We elected him.
COLLEGIAN: The power of the in
cumbency is the key here then?
GRIER: No. Look, do you think the
man has not tried, do you not think the
man has not been honest, do you think
the man has not shown integrity,
reservation and patience! ?
COLLEGIAN: Yes he has, but do you
think he has been effective?
GRIER: Yes, I do think he has been
effective.
COLLEGIAN: In what way? How do
you feel he has done the job?
GRIER: I think he’s done the job in
trying to place people in positions that
who had never been there before. He’s
been someone that I can look to as my
president, and say ‘I can count on that
man!’ He’s consistent. Now, he hasn’t
made all the right decisions, because the
right decision is relative what’s right
today could be wrong tomorrow. No one
person has all the ideas. Let’s just don’t
say he ain’t doing the job, because we
can stand outside and throw rocks all
day long.
COLLEGIAN: How can the people
support a president they are dissatisfied
with?
GRIER: You can’t back a president
you’re dissatisfied with. That's like
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saying I ain’t going to play in the game
because I ain’t going to win I gotta
have my way or I ain’t gonna have no
way at all.
COLLEGIAN: Do you feel the
president will be stronger in his second
term in office?
GRIER: The man is not weak!
Everyone thinks the man is a weakling
because he hasn’t pulled out the big
army, he hasn’t thrown the big bomb.
That’s not a sign of weakness, that’s a
sign of strength.
COLLEGIAN: Was firing Andy Young
a sign of strength?
GRIER: Yes, it took strength because
the man (Young) lied. He made a
mistake so he was fired.
COLLEGIAN: In 1976 Carter won 94
percent of the black vote in the United
States. We want to know just what
specifically Rosey Grier thinks the
president has done since then to
maintain that level of confidence among
blacks. There’s been high black
unemployment, inflation, budget cuts
that have hurt blacks, the firing of Andy
Young where is the evidence that the
president deserves and justifies a 94
percent black support?
GRIER: I’m not representing blacks.
I’m representing American citizens. I
mean, I get so sick and tired of hearing
about the blacks, well, what about them?
They’re no different than anyone else.
We are all equal.
Moving Shadows
Anticipate plenty of sunshine in
Happey Valley both today and
tomorrow, along with comfortable af
ternoon temperatures. Today’s high will
be near 68, with a cool breeze; then
warmer tomorrow with a high of 72.
Mostly clear skies and chilly tonight
with a low of 40. Temperatures may
continue the upward trend Wednesday.
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