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One Dominican hostage freed
BOGOTA, Colombia (UPI) In its
first face-to-face confrontation with
leftist guerrillas at the Dominican
Embassy, the OAS Human Rights
Commission yesterday obtained the
release of one of the 17 diplomatic
hostages and set a new round of
ransom talks.
The release of Dominican Consul
Rafael A. Sanchez raised hopes the
mediation of the Organization of
American States commission would
break the eight-week deadlock at
building held by guerrillas of the
April 19 movement, known as M-19.
U.S. Ambassador Diego Asencio is
among the 16 diplomats still inside as
is Dominican Ambassador Diogenes
Mallol, host of the Feb. 27 diplomatic
Prison inmates live in luxury
THOMASTON, Maine (UPI)
Several Maine State Prison inmates
made up to $30,000 a year, worked out
of “luxury suites’ ’ filled with food and
stereos and had well-armed gangs to.
enforce their rules, prison officials
said yesterday.
Reporters yesterday got their first
inside view of the prison since a,
“lockdown” and searches were or
dered last Wednesday, April 16, by
Gov. Joseph E. Brennan, concerned
about small band of inmates
dominating the prison population by
intimidation.
They were shown homemade
weapons, the luxurious suites set up
for the inmate kingpins, stereos,
televisions, refrigerators and canned
goods hoarded by prisoners more
powerful than guards.
“Yes, there were many, many
areas that guards did not dare en
ter,” acting warden Donald Allen
said.
Inside one such area were foam-
Shah's sister predicts future
NEW YORK (UPI) Princess
Ashraf Pahlavi, the deposed shah of
Iran’s twin sister, said yesterday her
brother is “a broken man” who was
betrayed by the Carter ad
ministration.
She predicted Iran would
ultimately fall into the hands of the
communists under the leadership of
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khoineini and
“Marxist” President Abolhassan
Bani-Sadr.
“Of course, my brother and I feel
betrayed. After 37 years of friendship
with the United States to have the
Carter administration treat my
brother the way it has and try to deal
with Khomeini and the other mur
derers, yes, we feel betrayed,” she
said in an interview at her penthouse
on Park Avenue.
.‘‘They (Carter administration)
killed my brother emotionally,
morally, almost physically. I saw
him in Egypt last week, and while he
is recovering, he is a drained,, a
broken man,” she said.
French arsonist still at large
France (UPI) Authorities
yesterday sought the “unbalanced”
person who torched a Bible and a
crucifix to ignite a retirement home
fire that killed 22 bed-ridden old
people in one of France’s deadliest
blazes in recent years.
“Many of them were so ill they
would not have been able to leave
their beds by themselves,” a
spokesman at the home said. “They
really didn’t have a chance.”
The victims of the Monday night
fire at Hospice de Viellards, 170 miles
southeast of Paris, were all bed
ridden and ranged in age from 74 to
96.
Two had been at the state-operated
Aiding Cubans will be felony
WASHINGTON (UPI) State
Department officials warned
yesterday that anyone attempting to
bring Cuban refugees directly into
the United States would be com
mitting a felony.
But a formal announcement on the
issue was withdrawn, and one official
said the reason was politics.
Meanwhile, a small flotilla of boats,
many chartered by Cuban
Americans, gathered in waters near
Cuba. It appeared the boats were
there to transport refugees from the
Peruvian embassy in Havana to
asylum in the United States.
State Department officials said a
"strong statement” opposing such
makeshift refugee operations was to
Court upholds abortion funds
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The 3rd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
yesterday upheld a lower court
decision requiring the state to use
Medicaid funds to perform
medically-necessary abortions for
the indigent.
In 1978, the state Legislature
enacted a law overriding a veto by
Gov. Milton Shapp which
prohibited the commonwealth from
funding abortions except where
necessary to save the life of the
mother.
The law was challenged by several
health care . agencies as well as
pregnant women in need of
therapeutic abortions. They con-
reception invaded by a guerrilla
squad of 10 men and six women.
The 18th session of ransom talks
between two government
representatives and a hooded woman
guerrilla were held less than
three hours after the OAS in
vestigators left the building.
Rutgers University Professor Tom
Farer, chairman of the OAS com
mission, led a three-man delegation
into the embassy shortly before noon
“I am Rafael Augusto Sanchez, the
Dominican Consul,” he shouted to
reporters and photographers kept
behind a barricade a half-block away.
Sanchez waved happily and then got
in a car with the other four men that
drove away.
rubber stuffed chairs, a refrigerator,
a pizza oven, a toaster, ashtrays, a
stereo system, a television and boxes
of magazines. The refrigerator was
full of food, including meats and
produce.
It was from this room that two of
the most powerful inmates in the
prison operated as kings, nicknmed
“Lucky” and “Bear,” said Lt.
Richard L. Ames, head of the prison
guards.
“This was their turf,” Ames said.
“The inmates had the key ... I was
never allowed in here. There were
prisoners in here who ran loan
sharking and drug operations as big
as you’ll see anywhere.”
The biggest operation was the so
called prison “novelty” program
manufacturing gifts. It was set up
nearly 40 years ago as a way to
rehabilitate inmates. The items were
sold to the state, which in turn sold
the items in the prison store.
Princess Ashraf Pahlavi
She roundly criticized the present
leadership in Iran, saying that
Khomeini, Bani Sadr and Foreign
Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh were
not equipped to run the country.
home for less than a week and all of
them died of smoke inhalation.
Sixteen other residents of the home
were hospitalized, 10 in serious
condition.
Officials said the blaze and three
smaller ones that also broke out were
the work of an “unbalanced” person
who set the fires by torching such
things as a crucifix, Bible, old
clothes, bandages and books.
The home, which housed 125 people,
is located near Dijon.
The main fire began around 9:30
p.m. Monday in a 3-year-old wing of
the home and was brought under
control within an hour.
have been announced by spokesman
Tom Reston yesterday, but there was
a delay.
Asked why the planned statement
was withdrawn, one official said,
“policy ... no politics.” He said
administration officials do not want
to antagonize Cuban-Americans.
Reston himself said a statement
about the refugee situation had been
taken back by authorities just
minutes before he was scheduled to
read it.
He confirmed that the department
has determined that bringing
refugees directly into the country,
without prior clearance, is against
the law and said there would be a
statement later.
tended it was invalid on both
statutory and constitutional grounds.
That fall, U.S. District Court Judge
Louis Bechtle ruled the law, by
limiting Medicaid reimbursement to
those abortions necessary to save a
mother’s life, arbitrarily
discriminated against medically
necessary abortions in violation of
the requirements of Title XIX of the
Social Security Act.
“The ultimate effect of the new bill
is to deny to an indigent person a
medically necesary abortion unless
the person can persuade the medical
authority that it is necessary to save
the patient’s life,” the judge wrote
then.
Shooting of black youth opens racial scars
BALTIMORE (AP) In an instant, a
fraction of a second, police Detective
Stephen McCown acted. A shot from his
gun smacked into the spine of Ja-Wan
McGee.
McCown, 33, is white. McGee, 17, is
black and now paralyzed from the
waist down.
It was instinct, says the police
department. It was racial prejudice,
says the black community.
“This is probably the most
devastating thing to happen to this city
in a long time,” Councilman Nathan
Irby Jr. said of the shooting that has split
open old racial scars here.
Former Überian officials executed
MONROVIA, Liberia (UPI) -
Thirteen top ministers and officials of
the ousted Liberian government were
tied to stakes on a sun-drenched beach
and executed by firing squad for high
treason yesterday to the cheers of
thousands of soldiers and civilians.
The dead included Frank Tolbert,
brother of slain President William
Tolbert and president pro tempore of the
Senate, who swooned to the ground
before the shots were fired.
Hours before the executions, Liberia’s
new leader, former Master Sgt. Samuel
Kanyon Doe, 28, told reporters he was
prepared to make a decision to hold
elections and step down “when things
calm down.”
He also said he felt qualified to assume
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“The police department is looked upon
in the black community as an army of
occupation. The Gestapo has moved in,”
said the Rev. Douglas Miles, pastor of
the Brown Memorial Baptist Church and
head of a coalition of more than 200 black
clergy.
On the night of March 20, McCown, off
duty and returning home from a night
class at Johns Hopkins University, fired
at McGee without warning because he
thought the youth and a companion were
about to rob a pizza parlor.
McCown saw McGee take an object
from his pocket. He thought it was a
weapon. It turned out to be cigarette
the chairmanship of the Organization of
African Unity, which had been held by
Tolbert, even though he had no previous
political experience.
Besides Tolbert, those executed in
cluded the nation’s former foreign,
justice, finance, agriculture, commerce,
and the economics and planning
ministers, the speaker of the house, chief
justice and head of Tolbert’s True Whig
Party.
The first nine condemned were tied to
nine upright stakes and bound together
with a green rope. The site was a beach
less than 50 yards from the dingy
asbestos-roofed building where Doe had
lived until the April 12 coup.
At the given command, a ragged
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McCown, dressed in street clothes,
was carrying his service revolver in his
raincoat pocket. He fired three shots,
right through the coat. Two missed; one
hit McGee in the back.
McCown’s lawyers say the detective is
devastated by the incident. They refused
to allow him to be interviewed.
The state’s alttorney has announced
that'no criminal charges will be brought
in the case, but McCown, an officer with
five commendations, is being in
vestigated by his department and has
been transferred to administrative
duties.
the area, followed by a coup de grace of
automatic weapons.
The nine bodies were cut down and left
at the foot of the stakes while the second
group of four were brought forward to
take their places. Minutes later, a
second volley rang out.
Soldiers waved rifles into the air and
cheered and thousands of civilians
streamed toward the beach as the of
ficials were executed.
“I don’t like corruption,” said one of
Doe’s newly appointed military com
manders. “I killed 13 men today/’
“They robbed the people with lies,”
said a soldier, joyously waving his rifle
in the air.
The executions came despite attempts
by the United States and others to urge
And McGee’s family is suing the police
commissioner, mayor and city council
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“It’s just another black boy who was
fair game,” said David King, 61,
McGee’s grandfather. > ; -
“Had these two boys been white,
they’d be walking the street today,
playing ball,” King said, standing jn his
neighborhood grocery store on .the-pity’s
east side. He is bitter and, with others, is
accusing the city of conducting a
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Doe was not present for the shpotings.
No proclamation or sentence was read;
and the executions were catried out
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act of high treason,” with charges of
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Participants
By TOM BOYER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
After three days of music, frisbee
throwing, food tasting, educational
presentations and sunlight, about 40
people relaxed last evening over
singing, dancing and a vegetarian
potluck dinner at Sunset Park,
concluding a truly festive 10th annual
Earth Day.
“It was the first project we’ve done
on a large scale," said Eco-Action
member Vicki Wood, co-coordinator
of the event. “It was a learning ex
perience for us.”
Held in and around the HUB from
noon Sunday until last night, Earth
Day was also a learning experience
for the estimated 3,500 people who
attended a myriad of activities aimed
at: increasing public awareness of
environmental issues.
The first Earth Day in 1970 called
attention to the problems of the en
vironment, but the approach this
year was different, co-coordinator
LouChiesa (lOth-biology) said.
“In 1970 people were bombarded
with everything that was wrong,"
Chiesa said. The environmentalists
"weren’t offering a lot of answers,”
he said.
Since then, he said, people have
been developing a more positive
approach.
“There are tools available at an
individual level that people can in
tegrate into their life, without
changing their lifestyle, that can
lessen their impact on the en
vironment,” Chiesa said.
Audiences as large as 50 and as
small as two heard speakerson such
diverse topics as medicinal uses for
mushrooms and herbs, chiropractic
and solar window box construction.
Steve Proudman, an Eco-Action
member who helped set up some of
the programs, said the turnout for the
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as it could have been because the
group had to compete with the
weather.
“One guy was going to give a talk
on recycling chicken manure and no
one came, so I introduced him to
me,” Proudman said. He added that
the mood of the speakers, whether
they had a large audience or not, was
enthusiastic.
On the HUB lawn, people played
frisbee, built wooden homes for owls,
listened to music and participated in
improvised jam sessions with banjos,
guitars, harmonicas and anything
else that would make noise.
“We included music and per
formances because the thing was
supposed to be a celebration,” Chiesa
said. “Celebration brought people to
the HUB lawn, so we got some people
who would never have dropped by
otherwise.”
About 40 campus and community
organizations were represented by
booths on the lawn, offering in
formation on every environmental
topic imaginable, including
vegetarian lifestyles, solar energy
mechanisms and home insulation.
Wood said almost all of the
exhibitors and speakers came from
State College or nearby communities.
“The medium is the message, and
we wouldn’t want people from all
over the state coming in their
gasoline-powered cars,” she said.
Hungry participants were treated
to a wide variety of healthful foods,
including carob brownies, granola,
fresh vegetables and bread and pizza
baked in wood stoves.
The activities were designed to
include the entire community, not
just students, Wood said.
Many of the Eco-Action people
expressed delight over a presentation
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Center in State College, who led a
sing-along and passed out hats with
wild flowers.
“I think students can take a good
lesson from them,” Wood said.
Earth Day also included presen
tations in State College area
schoois.Mary Lou Venezia (11th
education of exceptional children)
said 17 classes in the elementary,
junior high and senior high schools
heard talks on environmental topics
in conjunction with the event.
"We had terrific cooperation with
the State College School District,”
Chiesa said. Arrangements for the
presentations were made with in
dividual teachers, he said.
Chiesa said local businesses, who
donated food and equipment, and the
State College Municipal Council, who
funded some of the projects, were
also very helpful.
Eco-Action members will meet
later this week to begin the process of
evaluating the success of Earth Day
and planning for the future.
“The logistics went fine,” Chiesa
said. “As far as impact, it’s hard to
tell.
“Considering the kind of turnout
equivalent events draw at this
University, I think we did very well,”
he said. “I think we offer programs
and education that students at the
University are not getting in the
classroom.”
Wood said Eco-Action in the future
might try planning several smaller
programs instead of one large one.
“If we’ve helped a couple of people
learn something, we’re satisfied,”
she said.
"What made me happy was no
trash on the lawn,” said Irene
Tzedlmayer (9th-sociology), one of
the event’s planners.
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For your health: meditation, yoga
By DEBBIE PETERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Dr. Rudolph Ballentine, director of the Combined Therapy
Program at the Himalayan Institute, last night discussed
“Yoga, Meditation, and Holistic Health in Daily Living.” He
replaced the expected lecturer, Sri Swami Rama, spiritual
head and founder of the Himalayan Institute.
Ballentine said all consciousness proceeds in steps. From
early childhood through adolescence to death, people make
choices about whether to go on to the next step in development.
“There’s certain unfinished business in our earlier steps of
development. When we sit down to meditate, we’re confronted
by all this unfinished business,” he said.
One of the earliest steps is learning to care for the physical
body “we’re all dragging around,” Ballentine said. The
educational system is not designed to teach body care.
Holistic health involves a total program, including hatha
yoga and meditation, he said. “One of the best starting places
is to take a course in hatha yoga,” he said.
Hatha yoga deals with the physical body and postures, he
said, but medical aspects are also a part of yoga. “In the
classic sense, yoga does not mean'getting into a fixed postion,”
Ballentine said.
Part of the work in learning to meditate is preparing the
body to be comfortable, Ballentine said. Hatha is a physical
prelude to meditation. “When we sit quiet, we begin to notice
discomforts in our bodies we hadn’t noticed before. It becomes
necessary... to get the body in good condition,”he said.
“Our goal is to develop levels of awareness that go beyond
the mind,” Ballentine said. “It’s not as simple as it’s cracked
up to be. Meditation is a jump to another level of develop-
ARHS approves executive appointments
By PAMELA MACLEOD
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Association of Residence Hall
Students approved four executive ap
pointments at last night’s meeting, while
newly elected representatives assumed
their duties.
The council unanimously approved the
following appointments by President
Fran Kenawell: Secretary, Carin
Goodall; Treasurer, Rich Mallon;
Publicity Chairman,Robin Bronk and
Security Chairman, Karen Gravlin.
Stan Latta, assistant director of
Residential Life, agreed to continue as
adviser. The appointments will take
effect at the next meeting, Kenawell
said.
Executive Vice President Chris
Caulkins reported that he is working on
forming a committee to look into the
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possible institution of escort service in
the individual dormitory areas.
“The University-wide escort service
doesn’t work a whole lot,” Caulkins said.
“We want to see if it can work more in
the (dorm) areas.”
One council member suggested that a
list of names of escorts and times they
are available could be posted in each
dorm. This approach was tried in East
Halls, she said, and was convenient and
successful because females usually
knew the escorts, who lived in nearby
male dorms.
West Halls President Doug Gregory
told the council that he and James G.
Thompson, associate professor of
physical education, are still discussing
the ramifications of possible changes in
the system of priority for assigning
students to Physical Education 5
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Hatha yoga is not taught directly as a health technique, but it
is an ideal model for health, Ballentine said. He defines health
as energy, alertness, awareness, using energy constructively,
learning new things and growing.
His definition of health contrasts with the negative, typical
hospital definition of health, which is simply the absence of
disease. If a person with negative symptoms who feels healthy
is left without medication, his own healthy attitude may be
enough to turn his symptoms around, Ballentine said.
“The way our bodies function and how they break down has
everything to do with how we use them,” Ballentine said, and
even very basic meditation will bring beneficial results.
Nutrition is a very important aspect of holistic health and
“may be the basic step,” said Ballentine.
Another aid to holistic health is proper breathing. “The
effects of breathing are astounding,” Ballentine said, and
because breathing directly regulates the body’s use of energy,
many of the yogis’ “miracles” are specifically related to their
regulation of their own breathing
The best way to get results is to work with simple techniques
consistently and patiently, Ballentine said, even though“there
is that frustrating part of being told over and over to do the
obvious.”
At the close of the lecture, Joan Harrigan, from the
University’s Mental Health Center, led the audience in ex
periencing a simple breathing technique by having them relax
their bodies and concentrate on their diaphragms and air
intake, a simple method of relaxation they could practice on
their own. The breathing is “a friend when there aren't any
other friends around,” Harrigan said.
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Gregory said he and Thompson are
now trying to gather data on how many
credits' of physical education current
freshmen, sophomores and juniors have
to see how those students would be af
fected by a policy change.
In other business, Caulkins said that
since former Undergraduate Student
Government President Hal Shaffer’s
resignation from the Intergroup
Relations Board, the student govern
ment has not been represented on the
board.
Caulkins said he will look into having
another student government
representative appointed to the board.
The new representative should probably
be appointed by ARHS, USG and the
Organization of Town Independent
Students, he said.
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