The Daily Collegian Monday, May 12,1980 News briefs Killers volunteer for mission REIDSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) Four condemned killers at the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville Saturday sent a letter to President Carter volunteering for a second attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran. Carl J. Issacs, convicted of killing the six members of the Ned Alday family in May 13, 1973, said he and three other death row inmates "should have one last opportunity of performing a duty for our country." The other inmates were Troy L. Gregg, Johnnie L. Johnson and Timothy McCorquodale. all on death row. "All four of us have discussed this propositon and we agree we'd rather go to our graves fighting for our country than sitting here and rotting in this hell," Issacs said. In a letter to Carter, the inmates Arabs condemn execution film BOSTON (AP ) A British film maker set out to unravel the mystery of the execution of a beautiful Saudi princess. The story he found, of boredom, hypocrisy and sexual promiscuity in Arabian palaces upset diplomats and oil companies and divided U.S. public television. "Death of a Princess," a film condemned by the Saudis and questioned by some American government officials, airs tonight on most of the stations of the Public Broadcasting System. Seven stations have decided to black out the show, the program's originators said yesterday. The film follows director Antony Thomas through the Middle East as he pieces together the life of the princess, a granddaughter of the elder brother of the Saudi king. She was executed at the age of 19 in 1977 for having an adulterous affair with a commoner. At each turn, as he talks to. people who knew the princess, Thomas is confounded by conflicting accounts of how she lived and died. This much, he says, is reasonably certain: The princess, whose Iranian mausoleum destroyed TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) —,- Iran's "hanging judge" used a sledgehammer yesterday to begin the demolition of the mausoleum that once contained the body of the deposed shah's father. Restrooms or a museum will be built on the site. • An official in the office of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, quoted by the official Bars news agency, said the Islamic judge, Sheikh Sadegh Khalkhali, was asked to halt the demolition at Rey, south of Tehran, because the Islamic regime intended to keep the buidling intact and "convert it into a monument of the crime." . But Khalkhali said the destruction of the marble monument would proceed. He said either a museum or ratrooms for pilgrims to the Shiite shrine located next door would be built instead. Defendant alleg FORT BRAGG, N.C. (UPI) A parachute rigger charged with murdering an Army captain has admitted sabotaging the officer's chute, a military investigator says. But defense attorneys for Pfc. .Alvin P. Williams are fighting to have Williams' statement to investigators ruled inadmissible in pre - trial hearings that continue today. Agent David Miller of the Criminal Investigation Division says the alleged admission came during a conversation he and Williams had over• a beer at the base PX, one day after the death of Capt. Lawrence D. Among those scheduled to appear at • the hearings today is Jeanette Johnson. another criminal in vestigator, who apparently led Williams in an early morning prayer session during one interview. Bacteria evade WASHINGTON (UPI) The bacteria that cause Legionnaire's disease, killer of 34 people in Philadelphia four years ago, are particularly dangerous because of their ability to evade some body defenses, a New York doctor reported yesterday. Marcus A. Horwitz of Rockefeller University said lab tests show the microbes penetrate the white blood cells that should kill them. The germs then use the defensive cells as a shelter and multiply rapidly inside them. Since its discovery following the Philadelphia outbreak, Legionnaire's disease has been found to be the cause of other outbreaks of a severe type of pneumonia that hits especially hard at elderly people and those weakened by illness. "It is now appreciated that Legionnaire's disease occurs worldwide and it appears to be a major form of pneumonia in the United States," Horwitz said at a briefing before reporting to the an nual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. The bacteria causing Legionnaire's disease are probably spread through said their reasoning was "quite simple. . "We are all four awaiting execution in the electric chair for various crimes," the letter said. "We have discussed this proposition and decided we'd much rather die trying to rescue Americans than to die here in prison. "We believe in this country and we love it and what it stands for," the letter continued. "We would like to have the opportunity of performimg this last duty for our country." The inmates said they had "nothing to lose by volunteering" for such a mission. "The last mission was a failure and resulted in the deaths of eight American military personnel who had everything in the world to live for. We don't have anything to live for," the inmates said. arranged marriage to a royal cousin was never consummated, contacted a young man after she saw him playing a guitar on television. They became lovers and tried to flee the country together. But they were captured at the airport, and a few days later they were taken in a convoy to a parking lot. There, in front of several hundred Arabs and at least one Englishman, the woman was shot and the man beheaded. Less certain, however, is whether the princess was fairly tried. In the program, an Islamic lawyer argues she was never tried at all but instead killed by her grandfather's bodyguards. The program, produced by WGBH in Boston and ATV England, is being shown despite a request from Warren Christopher, acting secretary of state, to "give appropriate con sideration to the sensitive religious and cultural issues involved." In Washington last week, the Saudi ambassador, Sheikh Faisal Alhegelan, complained that the program "contains many inac curacies, distortions and falsehoods." Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali prepares to demolish mausoleum. edly confesses The trial was scheduled, to begin today but the military judge hearing the case, Col. Pedar C. Wold, said jury selection would probably not begin until late today or early tomorrow. Wold is a master parachutist Williams is charged with killing the 82nd Airborne Divsion captain, who fell more than 1,000 feet to his death in a routine parachute jump March 26. The static line of Hill's chute had been cut, and military investigators determined Williams had packed the chute before the jump. Miller testified at the hearing Saturday that Williams admitted his involvement. "I asked him if he felt he could have done this," Miller said. "He said he did. I asked him, 'Do you think you did it.?' His response was 'yes' or 'highly possibly.' " body defenses the air, he said. Air conditioning systems have been implicated in several outbreaks. Horwitz and Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein found in laboratory ex periments that bacteria of the same virulent strain that caused the epidemic at the American Legion convention in 1976 grew inside cells galled monocytes. In a typical experiment, Horwitz said each bacterium reproduced itself every two hours in the cell that should have killed it. In a few days, the bacteria had increased 100,000- fold in the laboratory culture, destroying the defensive monocytes. Horwitz said electron microscopic studies of these infected monocytes showed them to be full of Legion naire's disease bacteria. The scientists discovered that another segment of the body's im mune system, a white blood cell called a leukocyte, also is ineffective against the Legionnaire germ. Horwitz said the new laboratory findings suggest a vaccine .that produces only antibodies to fight off invading bacteria may not be ef fective. UNIVERSITY CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS Monday, May 12 Sports: tennis ( women), EAIAW Regional Championships; baseball vs. In diana, Pa. (dh), 1:30 p.m. STS/3 Cultures Dialogue, luncheon, noon; presentation, 12:20 p.m., Room 101 Kern. Larry D. Spence, pol. sci, on "Sociology and Economics of U.S. Scientific Research." Music in Interesting Times lecture, 3 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall. James May, PSU Catholic Center, on "The Relationship of Music and Religion." France-Cinema, Warner's Animation Festival Part 11, 6:30 p.m.; Children of Paradise, 8:15 p.m., Room 112 Kern. Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel. Hetzel Union Board lecture, 7 p.m., HUB Main Lounge. Stanley H. Kaplan on "All You Ever Wanted to Know About Graduate School, Law School and Medical School Entrance Exams But Were Afraid to Ask." Pre-Med Society meeting, 7 p.m., Room 316 Boucke. Carl Goshy, trumpet, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall. IFS/USO lecture, 8:30 p.m., Room S-209 Henderson. r MIN 111111111111•111111111011111=11111111111111111111111111M11111111111111111.111111 1 1 11111111 I NEED A GOOD ID CARD ? I IThe new "COMMONWEALTH" CARD can solve your problem. I IFive of the most asked questions are answered with your I I "COMMONWEALTH" PHOTO ID CARD —. your age, address, name, social security number, and signature. I. II Positive identification is what you get with the "COMMON- WEALTH" CARD. Government agencies and banks use the same system for their identification cards. I I QUICK & EASY • I p I I Get your "COMMONWEALTH" PHOTO ID CARD in just 5 minutes. No long forms to fill out ... just bring identification with your, I name and signature. 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C 19HO Ponderosa System Inc IMAT YOVMS c SONEVHING TAM ° t id,c) wEARP sa d Publishers may alter text pricing By IRIS NAAR Aaily Collegian Staff Writer In an effort to curtail complaints by college bookstore managers that profits are dropping each year, publishers are considering changing the way they price textbooks in the future. Now, in most cases, campus booksellers purchase textbooks at 20 percent below the publishers' suggested list price, to cover operating, costs and provide a profit. The books are sold at list price. Under the• new plan, textbooks would be, bought at a net price, which would affow individual booksellers to set their own retail prices, based on operating costs and competition. John Bischoff, director of the Penn State Bookstore, said he is in favor of the present pricing system, if the pur chasing percentage was raised or the istablishers were to pay shipping costs. "I would prefer net pricing over the pricing that we're now getting, however," if the purchasing percentage is not raised and publishers are un willing to pay shipping costs, he said. Cunningham to propose handicap funding The University would be appropriated $2 million The unamended version of the bill, "which may proposed amendment, and lesser amounts would be under a proposed amendment to the Handicapped finally move this week" provides funds for state-owned granted to the other state!related schools. Access legislation in the state House of Represen- universities and colleges to start federally required Cunningham's amendment is needed because the tatives, said Rep. Gregg Cunningham, R-Centre renovations, he said. four state-related universities were not included in the ,0 Region. . The University would receive $2 million under the original bill. . —by Philip Gutis itol lili kil l Aa r f lail Ile° 1° ge wit,i sV t i t ° ''' k tll4 ‘ 4tiov 4. N els r in pti,k 4tiz 4 ,„, 7 I I ttk*; • rv4 / '--- / 10 IWO e rrainlai l a eVer l itiOnday Ni ht 9 ' 50 4 ' 4 1 50 i 0 EMI ----/•;- „, ~ _ - ..- ,-- --,-.- -„, 7/ jpiffs ALL KIND" or soorili:; 0 5 , t,,,,0c.',% TUE Tnatu STATZON JuNcrioN OF COLLEGE AVE. $ GARNER. T. OPEN DAILY 8 P.M. - 2A.M, FRIDAY opay AT 3:00 PIA Bischoff said the net pricing system could lead to more confusion, though, particularly among professors who purchase the books and don't understand the net pricing system "I don't think it would lead to over= pricing," he said. "You can't run a business and lose money." In regard to profits dropping over the members saw that the bookstore's years, Bischoff said, "we never made a \ selling price was above the net price. lot of profit anyhow, so we're about Connolly also said he would prefer even." raising the percentage of the present Ted Connolly, general manager of the system, perhaps to 23 or 25 percent, Student Book Store, said the present rather than adopting net pricing: percentage has never been enough of a Students think bookstores charge too mark-up for bookstores. However, he said he prefers the percentage system to net pricing. "It puts a burden on retailers and stores," he said, in regard to net pricing. He said that since publishers sell to faculty members, the bookstore could be blamed for high prices if faculty much anyway, he said, and with a net pricing system, it would he harder to show, students that bookstores do not make much profit.' Students can psychologically accekt a list price, he said. Connolly said that the Student Book Store's profits have been consistent, though money has been tight everywhere Robert DeArmitt, textbook manager of the UniverSity Book Centre, said his store does not make enough profit from the 20 percent system, due to postage, handling, insurance and shipping costs DeArmitt said he thinks the per centage should be raised to 25 percent. The net pricing system would cause confusion between bookstores, he said. "You're going to have conflict in prices," DeArmitt said. 'lt'll take more help to price,and get them out." DeArmitt said the percentage of profit at his store is dropping, due to the in creased cost of wages, postage and shipping, and that the purchasing percentage on' new books has, not been raised. i M A ,y6ivirta d#44,7, t oii . 0 5 t , teetn 1 g )fle congratulates . . . our newest initiates . . . Barry Simmons Mark Crissman Michael Wilson . Lee Whitney James White Our newest sisters of the Shield and Diamond . . . Candis Snodgrass Sheryl Fine Diane Godlowski Linda Bailey Debbie Palermo and proudly welcome our Spring 'BO pledge classes Craig Bachik Cindy Paul • Laurie Taylor Bruce Blausen Rose Marie Smith Caryn Heffner Jeffrey Harrison Jean Harvey Sally McGinnis Donald Hayduk Mellisa Houcke Nancy Bernstein Richard TrostJoann Sheard ' Michael Procopio . The Daily Collegian Monday, May 12, 1980— 1_ ~~;~, •, ~ 4 ~r ~F_i.'
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