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ASA to receive $50,000 more to fund groanizations
By JAN CORWIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Associated Student Activities Budget
Committee will receive about $50,000 more from
the University 'to fund student organizations for
1980-81, committee chairman Bill Tracy said
rikb,ently.
Tracy said the committee was notified of the
decision April 28. ASA previously received
$119,000 in the spring, and temporary funds
ranging between $410,000 and $60,000 were
allocated in the summer from budgetary sur
luses, giving ASA a total budget between
$170,000 and $lBO,OOO.
This spring, ASA will receive $219,000, a
$lOO,OOO increase, but no temporary funds will be
allocated in the summer.
The additional funds this year allowed ASA to
increase budget allocations for most groups by
Cuban refugees blitz Florida's shores
li,rom our wire services
A blitz of Cuban refugees hit Florida's shores
yesterday as President Carter issued a welcome
to the United States and promised to accept
thousands more of their countrymen.
In the 24-hour period ending yesterday morning,
3,500 refugees arrived. In the two weeks since the
boatlift began, about 14,500 Cubans have arrived
qh south Florida.
Federal officials who have been moving the
refugees from Key West to processing centers in
the area and at Eglin Air Force Base in the nor
thern part of the state were staggered by the most
recent wave of arrivals.
"We thought we were going to clean out Key
West, get most of the refugees out today, then all
of a sudden, zappo," said Thom Casey, a federal
disaster coordinator.
In a speech in Washington, Carter said the
United States would welcome the Cuban refugees
with "an open heart and open arms."
He said the United States was the "most
generous nation on earth in receiving refugees
atkl I feel very deeply that this commitment
should be maintained."
When a plan was worked out for the emigration
of about 10,000 Cubans who crowded the Peruvian
Embassy in Havana last month, the ad
ministration had said it would allow only 3,500
Cupans into this country.
Iran releases airmens' bodies
TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) Iranian authorities
yesterday handed over the bodies of eight
American soldiers, wrapped in Moslem death
shrouds inside lead coffins, to begin their final
journey home today.
In a ceremony at a Tehran funeral home that
climaxed more than a week of delicate
'negotiations, Greek Catholic Archbishop Hilario
Capudji signed documents giving him charge of
Return to reality
Some sunshine, breezy and continued warm
tiiday, but there will be ,afternoon thun
derstorms. Today's high will be around 80.
Tonight and tomorrow will be partly to mostly
cloudy with some showers tomorrow afternoon.
Tonight's low will be near 45 and tomorrow's
high will be 57.
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Carter says U.S. will accept thousands more
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20 percent, although some groups received
larger increases and one group did not receive
an increase. . , . ,
Tracy said he and , -Jim Moriison (12th
community development),"'student member of
the provost's advisory committee, submitted a
proposal for increasing student activities fun
ding to the administration about the end of
January.
"There was obviously a predisposition in favor
of this kind of funding" before the proposal was
submitted, Morrison said.
The final decision to increase ASA's allocation
was made by University President John W.
Oswald and Provost Edward D. Eddy.
Eddy said there was a "rather pressing need"
to increase student activities funding and the
University could not hamper the quality of
student life.
As more boatloads arrived in Key West, some
Cuban-Americans from Florida already were
making return trips to Cuba, saying they had
struck deals with Cuban officials calling for them
to transport one load of passengers selected by
Cuban authorities in return for quick loading of
relatives on the second trip.
"I met a captain over there from my hometown
in Cuba, and he promised this to me. I think I can
trust him," Rafael Catala said before leaving for
the second time in his 27-foot boat, Swinger 11, to
get his parents, brothers, sisters, nephews and
nieces.
At Eglin, officials said the first of the thousands
of refugees packed into a "tent city" set up for
them may be on their way into American com
munities by today.
The original plan was for Eglin to house those
refugees who did not have relatives in south
Florida, but in the confusion, some refugees who
have Miami-area relatives and sponsors were
flown to Eglin.
The Coast Guard said two more people par
ticipating in the sealift were presumed drowned,
bringing to seven the number of deaths since it
started more than two weeks ago.
The cabin cruiser Lucie I radioed early Sunday
that it had seen a small green boat with two people
aboard sink very quickly 60 to 70 miles from Cuba.
A freighter asked by the Coast Guard to assist in
the Americans killed in the ill-fated April 25 at
tempt to rescue 53.U.5. hostages, now in their
184th day of captivity.
A Red Cross official in Geneva said the bodies
would be flown to Zurich today aboard a regular
Swiss Air flight and turned over to a U.S.
representative probably ambassador to
Switzerland Richard Vine at a brief airport
ceremony.
American sources said the coffins would be
flown to the United States as soon as possible,
probably aboard a military aircraft from an Air
Force base in West Germany.
After a meeting with Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, Capudji said, "To have the bodies
returned without political considerations depicts
the spirit of Islam."
Iran yesterday backed off from a claim that
four "possibly American" helicopters invaded its
airspace in a fresh intrusion and that one made a
"I think we recognized when both the students
and Vice President (for Student Affairs
Raymond, o.).,Murphy pointed out the lag that
had taken place in recent years, that-something.
needed to be done," Eddy said.
Morrison said the proposal also recommended
that ASA receive its entire allocation in the
spring, rather than receiving "some un
determined amount" in the summer. He said
that ASA would be able to plan better if it
received all its funds at once.
Morrison said that in effect, the University is
allocating ASA its temporary funds in the spring.
He said the $lOO,OOO allocation "is liable to be a
regular allocation, but not permanent."
Eddy said ASA's allocation will be reviewed
next year by the Budget Task Force, a group of
senior University officers which advises the
president on budget decisions. He said the
the search reported it foLlnd nothing. "They
drowned. We know it," said one of the men who
chartered the freighter.
Florida Gov. Bob Graham sent an urgent letter
to President Carter appealing for immediate help
and criticizing the government for being
"sluggish" in assuming responsibility for han
dling nearly 7,500 refugees brought across the
Florida Straits to freedom in the past three days.
"There now exists a shortage of food, water and
space for the refugees in Key West," Graham told
Carter. "I ask you to declare an emergency exists
in Florida."
Carter said earlier he has organized an inter
agency White House group to deal with the Cuban
refugee influx and he said the situation had been
aggravated "by the inhumane approach of Fidel
Castro."
"The situation' is of such severity and
magnitude that effective response is beyond the
capability of the state and the effected local
governments," Graham told the president.
"In order to save lives, protect the property,
health and safety of the people of Florida and
avert impending disaster, I request that you
provide emergency assistance pursuant to the
Disaster Relief Act of 1974."
The refugee processing center at the old U.S.
Navy base became a milling sea of humanity as
boat after boat poured across the straits.
forced landing
Diplomats said the helicopter found in the
desert southeast of the area where the April 25
expedition landed apparently was one which was
reported abandoned by the rescue mission before
it was aborted.
The Iranian army said in a Tehran radio
statement, "Press references to some new foreign
aggression are not correct."
Kayhan newspaper earlier
helicopter was part of a
aggression on Iran."
Correction
James Miller of the Pennsylvania Tran
sportation Institute was incorrectly identified as
Paul Miller in Friday's issue of The Daily
Collegian.
Photo by Betsy Overly
• A sense of belonging will positively affect
students' perceptions of the University and help
them stay in college until they receive their
degrees.
• Increased funding would allow student
organizations to offer more and larger programs
with increased variety.
Tracy said that the committee set aside $63,960
to fund supplemental requests next year. The
remaining $42,540 was added to ASA's $119,000
spring allocation and a total of $161,540 was
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From our wire services
LONDON British commandos
stormed the Iranian Embassy at dusk
yesterday, killing three of the-. five
Iranian Arab terrorists who seized the
building six days earlier and killed two
of their 21 hostages yesterday,
authorities reported.
They said some of the 19 rescued
hostages suffered shock and cuts. Two
other terrorists were captured alive, one
of them wounded.
At least two explosions rocked the
elegant five-story building as the Special
Air Services commandos charged in. A
fire followed but it was soon ex
tinguished.
"My God, they've done it!" said a
reporter for the British Broadcasting
Corp., who believed, as did many other
journalists watching the drama from
behind police barricades, that the
terrorists had carried out their threat to
bloW up the building.
The troops charged the embassy with
machine guns blazing behind a barrage
of hand grenades that. gave them a
camouflage of smoke and flames, for
cing at least one hostage to leap to safety
from one second floor balcony to
another. .
The assault was over in 10 minutes.
The violent and dramatic conclusion
came minutes after the gunmen shoved
the body of one hostage from the em
bassy's front door. The victim was
placed face down on a stretcher, covered
with a red blanket and carried away.
University hopes to keep ASA's allocation at its
new level, but .it depends on the income and
expenditures of the UniverSity.
- The proposal stated three arguments for in
creasing student activities funding:
• Membership in student organizations gives
students a sense of belonging to the University
community.
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Tuesday, May 6, 1980
Vol. 80, No. 167 14 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
distributed among the groups requesting funding
for 1980-81.
The Jazz Club was the only organization which
did not- receive a funding increase. Tracy said
that the club has a ceiling of $l,OOO, and its main
emphasis is Jazz Week, for which ASA provides
about 80 percent of the funds on a supplemental
basis.
Colloquy, the organization with the largest
budget, also received the largest increase, Tracy
said. Previously, Colloquy had a $20,000 ceiling,
and supplemental allocations brought its total
budget to between $36,000 and $38,000. Colloquy
received a 50 percent increase, raising its ceiling
from $20,000 to $30,000, which does not include
supplementary allocations.
The Undergraduate Student Government,
which previously had a $lO,OOO ceiling, will now
receive $12,500, a 25 percent increase.
Overlooking Mt. Tussey
Police said they confirmed a second
hostage was shot to death by the gunmen
before the commando assault began.
One of the slain hostages was iden
tified as the embassy press aide, Abbas
Lavasani, 25. Iranian Consul-General
Saytollah Ehdaie, who was not in the
embassy, said Lavasani "wanted to be a
martyr for Islam. We do not mourn his
death. We are happy his wish was
granted,"
A black-hooded commando slid down a
rope from the embassy roof in a posh
London neighborhood and tossed a
grenade into a rear window to begin the
assault.
Seconds later, two commandos
planted another device on a front second
floor porch and scurried for cover and
another explosion followed.
Through the smoke and flames,
commandos stormed the building,
machine gun fire rattling.
Police knew the crisis had become
dangerous by midafternoon, when three
shots were heard from inside the em
bassy. Scotland Yard Chief Sir David
McNee said "a decision had to be taken"
when the gunmen threatened to kill
another hostage every 30 minutes.
•
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter
Neivens . of Scotland Yard said the
commandos were used "in the final
stages of the operation" when the
terrorists from an Arab-dominated
province of Iran made "totally unac
ceptable demands."
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