Attorney declares candidacy for state House seat
' , By PHILIP GUTIS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
University alumnus and State College
attorney Michael G. Day recently
declared indepTident candidacy for the
Centre County ;seat in the state House of
Representatives.
Offering
,himself as a "Democratic
alternative, to the policies of (Rep.)
Gregg Cunningham (R-Centre
County);" Day said the present
Demociatic nominee is unqualified to
hold office.
University student Robert C. Brazil'
(7th-political science) is now the
Democratic nominee but his eligibility
status has been questioned.
'l'm in a very awkward position. The Democratic
ir party cannot run a legitimate campaign for him
(Brazil/): is he willing to hurt the Democratic party
for this?'
Brazil] voted in New Jersey in 1977.
According to the Pennsylvania state
Constitution, a representative must be a
citizen and inhabitant of the state for
four years and of the , district he is
running in for one year.
Brazil! had to declare residency in
New Jersey to be eligible to vote, the
supervisor of election administration in
the New Jersey secretary of state's
office recently told The Daily Collegian.
Day, 29, questioned whether Brazill
meets the constitutional requirements,
while declaring "what is unfortunately
an independent candidacy."
Iranian militants move hostages again, paper says
By The Associated Press
Iranian militants will once again transfer the
53 American hostages to different parts of the
country, Tehran radio said yesterday.
Judge Sadegh Khalkali, meanwhile, was in
jured in an automobile accident and
hospitalized, the radio said. Khalkhali, the stern
Islamic judge who has ordered the execution of
scores of people convicted of drug trafficking
and other crimes, suffered chest injuries in the
accident and was in satisfactory condition, it
said.
The militants, who occupied the American
Embassy in Tehran and took the Americans
hostage last Nov. 4, claimed once before that
they had moved the hostages from the em
bassy to cities throughout the country after an
aborted United States rescue mission on April 25.
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"I hope Mr. Brazill will come to his
senses and withdraw," he said.
When asked if he would withdraw from
the Democratic nomination, Brazill
said: "No way, I'm in this for keeps."
"I see Mr. Day as not being a serious
threat," he said.
Brazil] said he was told he is eligible to
hold the office but declined to tell the
Collegian who is advising him.
At a news conference Thursday,
Daniel Chaffee, chairman of the Centre
County Democratic Committee, said he
is "putting this in his (Brazill's) lap,"
but will not ask him to withdraw.
"I'm in a very awkward position,"
Chaffee said. "The Democratic party
—Daniel Chaffee, Centre County
Democratic Committee Chairman
cannot run a legitimate campaign for
him (Brazill)."
"Is he willing to hurt the Democratic
Party for this?" Chaffee added.
Day, answering reporters' questions
on issues, said he would have worked for
an increase in Gov. Dick Thornburgh's
$127 million University appropriation
proposal passed by the General
Assembly last week.
He said Cunningham has "done a
pretty good job" representing the
University, but that his ability to
represent it "is being eroded by his
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In Washington, the State Department declined
to comment on the location of the hostages, for a
variety of reasons, a spokesman said. He said
there was no confirmation that the hostages
were moved.
"In view of military aggression by the world
devouring U.S.A. against Iran, and its satanic
plots against the life of the hostage spies, we
have decided to transfer them to different parts
of the country, so as to have them under the
control of the nation, until such time as their
final fate is decided by the Islamic Majlis
(parliament)," the broadcast said.
The new Iranian parliament has yet to set a
date on which to address the issue of the
hostages, who have been held for 246 days.
The radio did not give the location of
Khalkhali's automobile accident, which it said
failure to gain the respect of his
colleagues."
He cited one of the votes against
University appropriations by Rep.
Eugene R. Geesey, R-Cumberland, as
evidence of this erosion.
"Penn State funding should not have
any votes against it," Day said.
"Everybody wants to support Penn
State."
However, Cunningham said, "The
notion that my effectiveness has been
eroded is preposterous."
In response to a question from Bill
Cluck, advisor to the University chapter
of the National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws, Day said he
would support legislation legalizing
marijuana for medical uses.
Day also said he supports the Equal
Rights Amendment and, although
personally opposed to abortion, he
favors free choice.
While discussing energy, he said he
would not support the re-opening of
Three Mile Island.
"Nuclear power has had its chance
and failed," he said. "I support a
complete moratorium on nuclear power
plants."
Day called solar power "the great
alternative" and said he was disap
pointed to see how little the federal
government has done in the field.
He also said he does not support the
employment compensation legislation
now before the General Assembly and he
is opposed to the welfare reform bill,
passed by the House and still pending
before the Senate.
"Pennslvania must look at the tax
system and see why jobs are going
elsewhere," he said. "The state must
create a kind of tax atmosphere that
creates jobs in Pennsylvania."
occurred Saturday night, nor did it say if anyone
else was injured.
Since the t 979 revolution that drove Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from power, Khalkali
Doctor
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A semi-official
Egyptian newspaper said yesterday the deposed
Shah of Iran was in "very critical condition," in
and out of a coma, but a surgeon treating the
ousted monarch called his condition "excellent."
The doctor, who asked not to be identified, said
the 60-year-old ex-monarch, Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi, was "doing very well . . . fully alert,
conscious, talking, smiling" after surgery
Attorney Michael G. Day of State College declared his candidacy for the state House of Representatives Thursday. Day
said that despite his independent status, he is a "Democratic alternative" to incumbent Rep. Gregg Cunningham, R-
Centre County.
Ile • liar'
calls shah's condition excellent
has sent Kurdish rebels and former members of
the shah's regime befOre firing squads. He has
offered a reward to anyone who assassinated the
deposed shah, whose return to Iran is one of the
Saturday, which the doctor said was designed to
cleanse and dress an incision made June 30.
At that time doctors placed tubes inside the
shah to drain accumulated liquids from his
lungs. The operation was intended to help the
shah's breathing and to bring down his high
temperature.
"If you have a very high fever, it's natural that
you're sometimes unconscious, but (it's) not a
Carter to pay
at service for
From our wire services
PLAINS, Ga. President Carter will
meet Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng in
Tokyo when the president flies there
tomorrow to memorialize Japan's late
prime minister, administration sources
said yesterday.
It will be the first meeting between the
two world leaders, although Carter
earlier was host to a Washington visit by
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese vice premier.
In public speeches recently, Carter
listed the opening of diplomatic relations
with China as one of the chief ac
complishments of his administration.
Carter's meeting with Hua comes at a
time when dispatches from Peking are
reporting a possible shakeup at the top of
Chinas aging leadership.
The reports indicate Hua may possibly
step down as premier to make way for a
younger generation of rulers. However,
Hua would be expected to keep his job as
communist party chairman.
The topics to be discussed have not
been revealed, but the fact that the
meeting will take place at all is sym
bolically important, particularly since
Carter passed up an opportunity for a
similar meeting with Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev two months ago.
Carter will be in Tokyo to attend
memorial services for Masayoshi Ohira,
who died last month. The Japanese had a
private funeral service for the 70-year
old prime minister and invited world
leaders for the memorial service.
White House press secretary Jody
Powell said Carter and Ohira were close,
and cited the fact that both of them,
being Christians, had similar religious
beliefs. Ohira had made a•state visit to
Washington earlier this year.
Powell also said the trip will signal the
U.S. intention to remain a power in the
Pacific.
Carter is also expected to meet with
Japanese leaders to discuss small-car
exports from Japan which are
aggravating the economic problems of
the American automotive industry.
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militants tcindittons for release of - the hostages.
The exiled shah is hospitalized in Cairo, Egypt
for infections related to his cancer and its
treatment.
coma," the doctor told The Associated Press
during a telephone interview.
But the newspaper Al Ahram said Pahlavi had
to undergo emergency surgery Wednesday to
stop serious hemorrhaging, that he was down to
110 pounds, far below his normal weight, and
that French, Egyptian and American specialists
were anxious about what it called the shah's
general infection or poisoning.
In addition to meeting with Flua
Carter may also confer with other heads
of state, including India's Prime
Minister Indria Ghandi.
The private talks would come on
Thursday morning following Iht
memorial services.
Carter is stopping in Detroit tomorrow
morning on his way to Tokyo to talk to
industry executives and union leaders
and may announce a policy package to
aid the hard-hit industry.
Carter declined to attend the funeral of
Yugoslav President ,losip Broz Tito in
May and came under some criticism.
particularly from the European allies.
Carter is sandwiching the Tokyo i rip
between a three-day rest in Plains. his
hometown. and a week-long vacation on
Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia
during the Republican National Con
vention. He will resume his campaign
for re-election by attending two fund
raisers in Florida at the conclusion of his
holiday.
Carter attended two rival Baptist
churches in his hometown yesterday
after going fishing the early part of the
morning.
The president and his wife Rosalynn
attended a Bible class at the Nlaranatha
Baptist Church, which broke away from
the Plains Baptist Church several years
ago when the Plains Baptist refused to
admit blacks.
The blue skies and bright sunshine of
yesterday will return for a second
showing today. The picture will be
smudged by just a few afternoon clouds
as temperatures leap toward a high of
79. Tonight will be fair with a corn
fortable low of 62. Tomorrow will be
variably cloudy, breezy and warm with
a brief shower possible with a high of 85.
Wednesday will bring more sunny skies
with a pleasant high of 80 degrees.
Photo by Janl
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