raq advances toward Iran's refinery at Abadan BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) = Iraq sent columns of tanks and armored vehicles rumbling down a road from Kut to Basra yesterday, in preparation for an assault on the major Iranian oil refinery city of Abadan. d Western analysts said Abadan and its giant oil refinery on the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway appeared to be Iraq's next major target in the 17-day-old Per sian Gulf war. In Washington, the United States yesterday stepped up its involvement in the dispute, offering to share with other nations in the Persian Gulf region infor mation collected by U.S. AWACs recon naissance planes sent to Saudi Arabia last week. The United States has pledged repeatedly that it is neutral in the war and intends to stay neutral. State ot . Department spokesman John Trattner said the offer to. share information was not breach of that policy and was in keeping with the . U.S. offer to help "friendly, non-belligerent" countries in the area. The Pentagon also disclosed that the finite(' States had sent a technical Funding bill signed Tuition increase eliminated for now tv TOM BOYER Daily Collegian Staff Writer Gov. 'Dick Thornburgh yesterday assured the University of its entire $127 million state appropriation by signing legislation fully funding state-related ietitutions. Thornburgh signed 51 nonpreferred appropriation bills, funding the institu tions at the levels originally passed last summer, The .passage of .1116 , Aegi5latio - wtorad-: tically eliminates the possibility of a tui-,, tion increase this ;year, although the, Viversity'S budget' proposals for next' year include a 5 percent hike. No official comment from the Univer sity was available. The governor also approved a technical measure adding about $33 million to his estimate of state revenues to help pay for the appropriations, litcause the state constitution prohibits deficit spending. The funding .legislation was passed Tuesday by the state . Houk, one day before the legislature recessed until after the Nov. 4 general election. In a written statement, Thornburgh said, "We have been able to overcome the revenue shortfall created by the Li quor Control Board, which forced me to cut the original appropriation by 10 percent." Thornburgh had to cut the nonprefer red appropriations by $33 million last Ju- I3owhen the LCB did not approve a plan to raise $26 million through a 10 cent-per bottle surcharge and the legislature defeated a bill to raise license fees. • Thornburgh had counted on both measures in framing his budget pro posals in January. However, the LCB approved a plan last month to provide the $26 million through a new price structure and from profits left over from past years. The price structure, which is slated to earn $6 million of that $26 million, is be ing challenged in Commonwealth Court, big the outcome of that lawsuit will not affect the nonpreferred funding. The remaining shortfall was covered with $4 million in fee increases that Thornburgh can make without legislative approval, and $1.5 million in unspent funds that had been budgeted for projects and equipment. 9 Carter admits to making some ill-advised remarks VtASHINGTON (AP) PreSident Carter, backing away from his sharp rhetorical attacks against Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, said yesterday some of his statements were ill-advised and he would be more reticent in the future. lie also said Reagan shared the blame for the tone of the campaign. Asked whether it was his nab re to be mean, he interrupted ABC News reporter Barbara Walters to say, don't think I am mean, Barbara." • Carter's remarks bolstered indications that he was preparing to abandon the two-fisted cam paign approach that prompted criticism of his campaign as unbefitting a president. Carter of fered no apologies for his remarks. Ale president appeared in the ABC interview several hours after his spokesman agreed that the president's strategy of attacking Reagan may have backfired. Reagan, arriving in LaCrosse, Wis., was told of the president's comments about toning down criticism and said: "Well, I think that would ,be nidkb if he did. If he's decided to straighten up and fly right, that'll be fine. I don't think there is any BINDERY • 1Y 202 PATTEE survey team to Saudi Arabia to review its air defenses, hut said it would send no weapons. Two vessels from .the American 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea sailed through the Suez Canal yesterday heading for the Arabian Sea to join a U.S. task force already there, sources at the American embassy in Cairo reported. The sources identified the two vessels as the 9,000-ton destroyer Peter son and the 5,300-ton frigate Jesse Brown. Iraqi artillery pounded Abadan again yesterday but there were no signs of a ground attack. Stacks of pontoons for temporary bridges, were reportedly concealed under camouflage in a date palm grove just on the Iraqi side of the border, presumably to be used to ferry tanks for an assault on Abadan. Iraq's move toward Abadan began after Iraqi forces captured almost the whole of Khurramshahr Sunday and Monday, leaving only pockets of Iranian EIRE • t ;,‘• 0 1, rotmi!;.)t Sea of grain The clouds gathered in the sky over this farm south of State College on Route 322 portend colder weather. Though the wheat is still standing, the harvest will be in before long and the fields may be soon covered with snow. 4 COPIES the daily U.S. claims neutrality, offers to share Persian Gulf information • v, c",;'` • 7,:t4§:•;....1:-•:- • ~ . •. t ~, .1 .; ' .‘ '' • ' ' t't - .....tit ~.'... . - ...I,' ' , .: , t‹., , i ,„ . 4 , 1",; !",•,,,,...: tt.' ..,70, - i .t ',l , ~*, :.,: ~ •.• , ;, • ~. o • , , ..., .',. , . 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I 4 1 . .i. .0 1 1111 1 . . ,1 . ::. ~ A . \ i • (t \': :' '• • ‘ i ''.i 1 1 ,I ' )r'i• •,, t' ' •••' ' ~,, d : .‘,:' , IN.C.. ~ ' ' • ' . - 't.• % . ...\ t •;•:!,,,.' i'. ~ ./.,1,1 '4, C$ I.i: • !('`, , ~..( i Sci, ' ' ‘ . :`ii,'' '". .0 kL A * ' .. winner when someone has resorted to that kind of campaigning." Trailing in pre-election surveys, Carter has been increasingly aggressive in his criticism of Reagan, a style in stark contrast to the Rose Garden strategy he pursued during the Democratic primary contests. Asked whether his sharp attacks on Reagan were a mistake, Carter told Walters: "Yes, 'I will say that, but there is enough blame to go'around. I think the• press sometimes has failed to cover major issues. "Reagan has made comments about me that were ill-advised and have made some about him that were ill-advised. I would like to get back on the track." Walters reminded the president that he has been accused of being mean, vindictive and hysterical. He replied: "Those charges are not accurate. I think it's true that when'Reagan says I am desperate or vindictive or hysterical, he shares some blame. . .that the tone of the cam paign has departed from what it should be for this highest office in the land." ()Ile • lan resistance in the city center, which the Iraqis seemed in no hurry to clean up. Iran, however, insisted that it still held Khurramshahr. Iran said tank battles raged further north of Khurramshahr yesterday, and Iraqi warplanes attacked targets inside Iran. Shipping sources in Muscat, Oman, reported almost•4o oil tankers were out side the Persian Gulf, waiting for an end to the war. Iranian oil sources were quoted by the Kuwait news agency as saying tankers were still picking up Ira nian crude from the Kharg Island ter minal, near the head of the Gulf. Survivors told Western reporters that foreign ships trapped in the Shatt-al- Arab were shelled by Iranian artillery and that crewmen of sunken ships were machine gunned to death as they swam for their lives. Iran said armored battles were fought between the Iranian port of Khurram shahr and the city of Ahvaz and another Asked whether he was apologizing, Carter said, "Explaining. Sometimes human nature comes through and when I feel extremely deeply about a subject. . .it's incumbent on me to ex press it but I will try to do it with more reticence in the future." In Harrisburg yesterday, Gov. Dick Thorn burgh criticized Carter for unwarranted and unhealthy attacks on Reagan. Thornburgh took the president to task for his remarks that with Reagan's election, "black may be separated from white, North from South and Jew from Christian. "Gov. Reagan's record reflects a lifetime op position to prejudice and bigotry," Thornburgh said in a statement. "I genuinely feel that Presi dent Carter owes Gov. Reagan and the American people an apology." Thornburgh said, "This type of divisive rhetoric has no place in an American political campaign and I earnestly call upon the president to refute it. . .1 think that all Pennsylvanians will reject the kind of unwarranted and unhealthy at tack the president has made on Gov. Reagan." between Ahvaz and the Iraqi border 60 miles away. At yet another major battle on the nor thern front, Iran's chief of staff claimed his forces inflicted so many casualties on the Iraqis "about 500" that "our forces have still not finished picking up the Iraqi dead and wounded." Iran said Iraqi planes attacked Dizful, 150 miles north of Abadan, and the near by city of Shushtar. It said three Iraqi planes were shot down. Iraq ordered army reservists to repdrt for duty by Oct. 17 and asked Iraqis out side the country to contact Iraqi diplomats. In Basra, survivors yesterday told dramatic tales of a sudden barrage Tuesday afternoon that hit foreign ships trapped by the war at Khurramshahr. "They want to destroy all the ships and they want to destroy all the people because when the people swim they were shot at by machine guns," said the radio operator of the 4,399-ton Romanian cargo ship Olanesti. =NE He said two small Indian freighters were sunk quickly. Crewmen swimming for their lives were shot in the water. Many were killed, but exact numbers were unknown. The Romanian radio operator said he knew of only five sur vivors from the two Indian ships. The Olanesti was hit immediately afterward, perhaps from the gun of a British-built Chieftan tank the Iranians were known to have had in Khurram shahr. As the 30 crewmen abandoned ship he said he radioed: "Our ship is destroyed, our ship is destroyed. We shall lose our ship. Adieu, adieu, adieu." Gen. Valyollah Fallahi, Iran's chief of staff, said Iraq's •claim to have taken Khurramshahr was a lie. It was Iranian forces, he said, that were "engaged in mopping up in the city" after hurling back three Iraqi attacks. But Fallahi, in a long interview broad cast by Tehran radio, indicated the focus of fighting had switched to the area of Ahvaz, 60 miles north of Abadan, and the Syria, Soviet Union sign friendship pact MOSCOW (UPI) -The Soviet Union and Syria signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation yesterday and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev said the pact was to "improve the situation in the Mid dle East." Brezhnev spoke at a state• dinner in honor of visiting Syrian President Hafez Assad, who arrived yesterday seeking support for his shaky regime and possibly military aid. Brezhnev indicated the treaty was aimed at offsetting the U.S. presence in the Middle East, but stressed Moscow would not intervene in the Iran-Iraq war. "The Soviet-Syrian treaty is called upon to help improve the situation in the Middle East and establish there a real and just peace," he said. "It is not directed against third countries. This is a treaty in the name of peace and not in the name of war." "We are not going to intervene in the conflict between Iran and Iraq," Polish premier announces major shake-up WARSAW, Poland ( UPI) Polish Premier Jozef Pinkowski announced a major shake-up of his cabinet yesterday at the end of a parliamentary session that activated the power of a former secret police chief to root out corruption. The official PAP news agency also an nounced that Parliament stripped im munity from the former chairman of radio and television, Maciej Szczepanksi, so that he can face trial on assorted corruption charges. Earlier, the Parliament re-elected as head of a watchdog body strongman Mieczyslaw Moczar, a former secret police chief who reportedly built up numerous files on the corrupt lifestyles of a number of senior officials. A virulent anti-Semite, Moczar, 68, was responsible for the purge of thousands of Jews from public life in the late 1960 s in an anti-Zionist drive. One of the first targets of the new anti corruption mood in Poland promises to be Szczepanski, a close friend of ousted Communist Party Secretary Edward Gierek, who is accused of embezzling state funds and was rumored to own a Photo by Stet Varlas In Hershey, GOP National Chariman Bill Brock said last night that Carter has nobody but himself to blame for backing away his sharp rhetorical attacks against Reagan. Brock, who calls Pennsylvania one of the "bat tleground states" in the Nov. 4 election, com mented shortly after Carter made his statement in an ABC interview. The GOP chairman was at tending a political fundraiser here when con tacted by The Associated Press. "Jimmy Carter's latest assaults on Gov. Reagan cannot be blamed on Ronald Reagan or the press' failure to cover the issues," Brock said. "The blame lies soley with Mr. Carter, who has consciously attempted to avoid any discus sion of the serious issues facing this country." Brock said he welcomes the chance for Carter to discuss such issues as inflation, unemploy ment and national security. "It is a challenge for Mr. Carter to explain his miserable record of the last four years and to of fer the American voter his vision of the next four years," Brock said. Brock said the only conclusion that can be 15° Thursday Oct. 9, 1980 Vol. 81, N 0.53 14 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University northern front near the Iraqi-occupied border city of Qasr-i-Shirin. He said Iranian forces "broke up an Iraqi armored column between Ahvaz and Khurramshahr" Tuesday and broke up another between Ahvaz and the border the day before. "Ileavy fighting" raged between Sar-i-Pul and Gilan on the northern front, Fallahi said. Fallahi said Iran would soon he ready to counter-attack and was capable of "regaining the borders" and even of in vadiing Iraq if ordered to do so. Iraq, in its twice-daily military com munique, said two Iranian planes were shot down and 10 helicopters destroyed, plus nine tanks and seven other vehicles destroyed, in fighting Tuesday. In Moscow a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed Tehran radio reports that the Soviet Union would sup ly arms to Iran. He said this was "rub bish," and that such stories "are too ridiculous" for comment. The Gulf news agency in •Bahrain reported that next month's OPEC meeting in Baghdad had been canceled because of the war. Brezhne4 said. "We stand for its earliest political settlement by the efforts of the two sides." The Soviet president took the occasion to once again criticize alleged "imperialist" interference in the Iraq- Iran war, which he said threatened the security of the Arab nations. Assad, who said last month his nation would merge with Libya to form an. Arab bulwark against Israel, must have been pleased at the treaty that presumably assures Soviet support in case of a con flict with the Jewish state. Details of the treaty were not disclos ed, but Arab sources said the "treaty of support and friendship" may allow Rus sian troops to be stationed in Syria, a foe of Iraq which supports Iran in the cur rent Persian Gulf war. Brezhnev, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Deputy Premier Nikolai Tikhonov greeted. Assad at flag bedecked Sheremetyevo airport. yacht, two planes and several sump tuous homes. In his cabinet shake-up, Pinkowski promoted Interior Minister Stanislaw Kowalczyk to deputy premier in charge of economic problems. Coal and Mining Minister Wlodzimierz Lejczak was replaced by his deputy, Under Secrertary Mieczyslaw Glanowski. Lejczak was replaced partly because of dissatisfactions from miners who objected to a four-shift work system that has since been replaced with a three-shift system with weekends off. Foundry Minister Josef Tejchma was replaced by Zbigniew Szlajda, who was undersecretary in the same ministry. Jozef Tejchma, Poland's ambassador to Switzerland replaced Zygmunt Na jdowski as Minister of Culture, a job he had some six years ago but was ousted from due to his "liberalism." Two deputy premiers, Kazimier Bar cikowski and Tadeusz Grabski were relieved because they had been ap pointed party secretaries during the re cent plenary meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. drawn from Carter's campaign rhetoric is that "he took the low road in frantic avoidance of any meaningful discussion of his tragic record of the last four years." Carter's comments came after Reagan brand ed the president "a badly misinformed and pre judiced" man .when Carter asserted that Reagan's election would split to country along racial, religious and regional lines. Reagan made his assessment in Philadelphia as he set out yesterday morning on a campaign route that began in a Polish-American neighborhood in that city and wound up in Ohio. Still the same Mostly sunny, breezy and slightly cooler today with a high of 65 . . It will be clear and cold tonight with a low of 36. Scattered frost is possible in the normally colder outlying areas. Plenty of sun shine tomorrow with some high cloudiness dur ing the afternoon. It will become mild in the afternoon as the high temperature hits 70. in cabinet
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