British explosives
ignite booby-trap
Army uses devices in rescue
LONDON (UPI) Explosives thrown
by army commandos who rescued 19
hostages from the Iranian Embassy
apparently touched off booby-trap
dQices planted by the terrorists and
ignited the raging fire that gutted the
building, police said yesterday.
The police also disclosed that days
before the bloody climax of the six-day
siege Monday, the Iranian-Arab gunmen
had dropped demands for the release of
91ethnic Arabs jailed in Iran and wanted
only "free exit from the country . . . by
aircraft."
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
said yesterday the daring commando
assault that ended the Iranian Embassy
siege "made us all . proud to be
British," and expressed hope it will
4'ncourage Iran to free the 53 Americans
held hostage there.
She went before an exultant House of
Commons the day after the spectacular
rescue of 19 hostages three Britons,
the rest believed to be Iranians. Mrs.
Thatcher referred to the "brilliant
operation" carried out with "courage
and confidence."
While police experts combed the shell'
e. the burned out embassy, Peter Duffy,
lead of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist
squad said he "personally believed . . .
in excess of five gunmen" were involved
din the siege but stressed final proof lay in
the rubble.
Other • officials said there were six
gunmen five slain and one in custody.
But a Scotland Yard spokesman said
the body count was still uncertain and
two or three unidentified bodies
''remained in the embassy rubble,
making six or seven dead in all in
cluding the two hostages killed by the
terrorists hours before the commando
assault.
The 19 rescued hostages relived their
six days of terror for police investigators
National Direct Student
*may be reduced by $lOB
By JUSTIN CATANOSO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
In a continuing effort to balance the
federal budget, President. Carter has
proposed large cuts in National
Direct Student Loans and the Basic
*Educational Opportunity Grant
program.
The proposals will reportedly come
before the Senate and House budget
committees this summer. .
According to Fred Phluger, staff
assistant to the Senate appropriations
committee, the proposal calls for
student outlays in NDSL to be
reduced by $lOB million. If approved,
NDSL will be appropriated $l7B
million in fiscal year 1981. This year it
controlled $286 million.
Phluger said the appropriations
committe estimates an NDSL cut will
eliminate 163,000 students from the
program nationwide. According to
University statistics, more than 6,000
Penn State students receive financial
aid from NDSL.
The Carter administration has also
proposed cuts totalling $135 million
for BEOG. The House budget states
the cuts will reduce the amount of
each student's basic grant by $5O.
Grants would then range from $l5O to
a maximum of $1,750, rather than
Relaxation?
Me warm spring weather has lured many students away from their classes and
into the cool waters of area recreation centers in hopes of finding relaxation
but fighting the currents can sometimes be harder than fighting the boredom of
class.
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trying to piece together exactly what
happened, what went wrong and why.
"We do not mourn his death," said
Iranian Counsul General Saytollah
Ehdaie, who was not at the embassy
during the siege. "He wanted to be a
martyr for Islam. We are happy his wish
was granted."
Unconfirmed reports said the other
slain hostage was a military a dache.
While declining to give details of the
raid by the crack British team of
Strategic Air Services commandos,
Deputy Assistant Commissioner John
Dellow said he believed "most of the
loud noise and explosions were part of
the military attack."
As for the subsequent fire, "It is likely,
I think, that the amount of material left
about by the terrorists was likely to be
something that could have caused a
fire."
Throughout yesterday, police sear
ched the gutted building, its floors
collapsed by the fire and explosions that
rocked the posh London neighborhood
during the 10 minute assault. "There are
at least two bodies still in the embassy,"
Duffy said.
Dellow said he anticipated trouble
when negotiations became centered on
allowing the terrorists to leave the
country, something police were not
about to commit themselves to.
"The negotiatiors worked extremely
hard to keep a dialogue going," Dellow
said. "We tried to impress on the
terrorists exactly what would happen in
his country as opposed to other parts of
the world, that if they didn't harm
anybody, they would come out unhar
med themselves. It didn't make very
much impression."
He said the last hours were marked by
increasing tension between the
terrorists and police, as well as between
the terrorists themselves.
from $2OO to a maximum of $l,BOO.
Phluger said some 2.6 million
students receive basic grants, 18,000
of whom are attending the Univer
sity.
Edward BlankMein, Inc., a private
corporation which handles financial
aid relationships between nearly 200
client schools and the federal
government, has investigated the
proposed cuts and found that many
senators oppose them.
"The whole mood in Washington is
like a monsterous bureaucratic
organism that wants to balance the
budget," said Eugene Detro, a
representative and federal lobbyist
for Blankstein. "The majority of the
senators I spoke with don't want this
cut and don't want to screw the
students who will be affected."
Detro, speaking from Blankstein's
San Francisco office, said the cut in
NDSL is what caught the the group's
attention. After learning of the
proposal through an official in the
Office of Education, the lobby group
sent out mailgrams to over 100 major
universities across the country to
alert students and financial aid of
fices of the proposed cuts.
"We figured students could
withstand the $5O cut in BEOG and
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million
still stay in school," Detro said, "but
we've done a lot of work with students
in poor areas and we feel we have to
jump on the $lOB million cut (in
NDSL) with both feet. That's
'something students can't live
without. It'll keep them out of
school."
Although many senators oppose the
budget cuts, Detro said without
constituent feedback on the matter,
those senators may be inclined to
support the cuts in an attempt to help
balance the budget.
"The senators who told us they
opposed the cuts said they would need
input from student groups, financial
aid offices and individual students in
order to justify their position later,"
Detro said. "If the constituents raise
hell, the senators will have an excuse
to follow their gut feelings."
Detro said he did not contact any
House members for their views on the
budget cuts.
However, when reached at his
Washington office, U.S. Rep. William
F. Clinger, R-central Pa., said
although he was under the assump
tion there would be no cuts in NDSL
for the new fiscal year, he said, "I
certainly would not support cuts of
that magnitude." '
Refugee tide creates disaster area
Carter boosts Guard forces in Fla.
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) Additional National Guard
troops were rushed to Key West yesterday to keep order
among the overflowing human tide of refugees from
Cuba brought to the United States by Cuban exiles
manning the freedom sealift.
As the refugee influx threatened to swamp federal
and state authorities, President Carter declared parts
of Florida a disaster area and authorized the release of
up to $lO million in funds to help federal and state
agencies deal with the situation.
Despite Carter's "open heart and open arms"
statement toward the refugees on Monday, the Florida
congressional delegation called on the administration
to declare a clear U.S. policy toward the refugees.
Carter, after a two-hour meeting with Florida's
congressional delegation, agreed the massive small
boat sealift of Cubans between the Port of Mariel and
Key West had reached emergency proportions.
In fact, the administration hinted of an airlift
yeserday. One congress . man predicted the total could
reach 250,000 Cubans and 250,000 Haitians.
The congressmen, worried that Carter's pledge to
greet the refugees with "an open heart and open arms"
would lead to an uncontrollable situation, called for a
clear U.S. policy on the refugees.
None was immediately forthcoming. Some officials in
Washington discussed the possibility of an airlift
which would require Cuban government consent.
In Key West, more boats crossed the Florida Straits
and dumped their human cargo at the old U.S. Navy
base, where weary government officials struggled to
cope with the seemingly endless wave of refugees.
The ocean-going tugboat Dr. Daniel reached dock
with a single-vessel record of 773 refugees aboard,
including several women who strutted ashore in heavy
makeup, high-heeled shoes and dresses slit to their
thighs.
John Taylor, a state coordinator for the refugee
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Carter, Reagan drub opponents
By United Press International
President Carter and Ronald Reagan
drubbed Sen. Edward Kennedy and
George Bush in Indiana, Tennessee and
North Carolina yesterday leaving the
front-runners within 200 delegates of
what they need for the presidential
nominations.
But Bush and Kennedy salvaged a
victory in Washington, D.C., the
smallest of the four primaries and
vowed not to get out of the races despite
the seemingly unbeatable odds.
Carter won more than 150 additional
delegates and Reagan grabbed more
than 100. That gave Reagan 80 percent of
what he needs, while Carter had 88
percent of the delegates needed for
renomination.
"We (will) continue this race,"
Kennedy said in Baltimore where he was
campaigning for next week's Maryland
primary.
Seldom have Carter and Reagan been
more impressive this year drubbing
their challengers of margins that ranged
from 2 to 1 to as high as 4 to 1.
As Carter and Reagan walked off with
most of the 223 Democratic and 140
Republican delegates at stake, they
were within easy grasp of the
nominations and it was difficult to see
how they could be denied. Maryland and
Nebraska hold Republican primaries
next week.
At 11:35 p.m. EDT, the primary
results looked like this:
Indiana : With 70 percent of the vote in,
Carter had 263,097 or 68 percent and 54
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processing operation, said, "We're losing ground at a
less rapid pace than before."
By last evening officials estimated more than 19,569
refugees had arrived at Key West in 690 boats from
Mariel. At least seven people have been lost at sea since
the sealift began April 21.
Another 300 National Guardsmen were activated
Tuesday to quell fighting and disorderly conduct among
refugees crammed into a chain-link-fenced Navy
hangar, vacant buildings at the old Navy base and an
abandoned Hawk missile site. That brought the
National Guard contingent in Key West to 700.
"We've had a couple of skirmishes behind the fence,"
said one National Guardsman on duty at the hangar.
"We had one woman who was back in the corner en
tertaining some of the men." he said.. "When the lights
go out, all kinds of things go on in there. There are a lot
of queers."
Col. William Ensslin, commander of the National
Guard troops in Key West, said he didn't think federal
decision-makers "appreciate the urgency of our
problem."
"I frankly can't understand why the federal gover
nment, with the resources it has, can't get geared up
quicker for something like this. We have a number of
people who are less than desirable and the way they are
stacking up is creating a powder keg," Ensslin said.
State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said
yesterday the United States did "not have its act
together" when Cubans suddenly began arriving en
masse on American shores.
But he said that no one could have planned for a
situation where "the man who holds the key to the jail
(Fidel Castro) suddenly throws open the doors."
Until a firm policy is decided, he said, "no one is
being kicked away from our shores."
Meanwhile, red tape blocked release of Cuban
delegates to Kennedy's 122,790 or 32
percent and 26 delegates. Reagan had
302,161 or 74 percent and 54 delegates to
Bush's 67,275 or 16 percent and 0
delegates.
Tennessee: With 96 percent of the vote
in, Carter had 206,128 or 75 percent and
47 delegates to Kennedy's 49,155 or 18
percent and 8 - delegates. Reagan had
129,451 or 74 percent and 24 delegates to
Bush's 30,980 or 18 percent and 8
delegates.
North Carolina: With 87 percent of the
vote in, Carter had 445,942 or 70 percent
and 56 delegates to Kennedy's 111,349 or
18 percent and 13 delegates. Reagan had
104,512 or 67 percent and 30 delegates to
Bush's 33,390 or 21 percent and 10
delegates.
District of Columbia: With more than
half the vote in, Kennedy had 25,866 or 61
percent and 11 delegates to Carter's
15,875 or 38 percent and 8 delegates.
Bush had 3,892 or 67 percent; John
Anderson 1,523 or 26 percent. Bush was
leading in all 14 delegate contests.
The Democratic delegate totals did not
include 192 delegates who will be
selected based on caucus results
Saturday and Monday in Texas and
Colorado which Carter dominated.
James Baker, Bush's campaign
manager, said he expected the losses
and said Bush was now aiming at
California Reagan's home state with
168 delegates that all go to the winner
where he hopes to spend $1 million in a
last ditch effort.
"Tonight was not going to be our night
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refugees from the tent city at the Fort Walton Beach
fairgrounds yesterday.
Wayne Joy, chief inspector for the Immigration and
Naturalization Service at the tent city, said today "will
be the earliest anyone can be released. Even the
numbers leaving then will be small because we've just
established those screening procedures."
Air Force Maj. John Toner said the fault lay in tardy
action in Washington. "We can't release anybody until
clearance arrives," he said.
Miguel Galvan Domingo, a 25-year-old refugee, said
he had been waiting at the hangar for two days.
"We don't know where we're going and I haven't been
able to call my relatives in Miami," he said.
Most refugees sat waiting listlessly on their cots in
the dusty, 85-degree heat. A few played soccer or at-.
tempted volleyball without a net. Children played in the
dirt with makeshift toys. Some adults played cards or
dominoes a favorite Cuban pastime.
Maj. Jim Calloway, the National Guard's operations
chief, said the average wait before refugees are shipped
from Key West to the mainland is only 24 hours.
Airlift flights to a "tent city" at Eglin Air Force Base
near Fort Walton Beach in Florida's Panhandle were
leaving Key West about every two hours yesterday. But
the tent city was filled to capacity and refugees were
housed in a gymnasium and hangar.
Some morning sunshine, followed by afternoon
cloudiness with a few light showers. The high will ap
proach 65. Partly cloudy and quite cool tonight with a
low of 43. Partly sunny and noticeably cooler with a
shower still possible tomorrow afternoon. The high will
reach 59.
under any circumstances," Baker said.
"What happened was totally expected."
Reagan called the voting results "a
tremendous day for our campaign. I'm
very happy."
Asked if it is time for Bush to drop out,
Reagan indicated there was no doubt in
his mind that was the case.
"Well, it doesn't make much dif
ference if I believe it apparently he
doesn't believe it."
Carter's press secretary Jody Powell
said it was now time for the president to
get on with winning the general election,
but he stopped short of saying Kennedy
should drop out of the race.
Powell said Kennedy would have to
win nine out of 10 of the remaining 1,000
delegates to block the president.
Kennedy did not seriously campaign in
North Carolina and Tennessee, con
centrating on Indiana, where parts of the
state were badly hit by the automobile
slump. He produced a respectable vote
in the industrial regions, but not enough
to offset Carter margins everywhere
else.
Bush had looked for a late surge in
Tennessee like the one he got in Texas
last Saturday but that also collapsed.
The turnout was light in all four races
as voters perhaps were resigned to the
presidential contests seemed to be over
for 1980. The most interest was sparked
in the District of Columbia where voters
rejected a referendum that would have
legalized lottery, dog racing and jai alai.
Cooling trend