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ting events get out of hand as they have
in the last three-and-a-half years.”
Carter countered saying that he has
kept the peace, that his administration
has been steadily, carefully increasing
the nation’s defense commitment. He
said he has used that power to preserve
peace.
7 think habitually Governor Reagan has advocated
the injection of military forces into troubled areas,
when I and my predecessors...have advocated
solving those troubles peacefully and
diplomatically.' • President Carter
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Tehran Radio announces
By United Press International
Tehran Radio said yesterday Iran
does not intend to hold the 52 American
hostages “forever” but will not free
them until the United States meets
“non-negotiable”' demands.
These demands include a confession of
the United States’ alleged misdeeds in
support of the late shah.
The radio denied any deal to free the
hostages perhaps in exchange for
spare military parts was afoot.
f It said the hostages will be released
only after the United States admits its
crimes and faults” and meets Iran s
other four conditions for ending the
360-day-old crisis. “These conditions are
non-negotiable,” it said.
“Iran has never intended to keep the
Postages in Iran forever,” the radio said.
But it added, “Iran has set several
specific conditions that should be met in
return for the release of the hostages.
Otherwise, nothing will take place.
An Iranian parliamentary commission
denied yesterday a West German televi
sion report that it is demanding three
*hours on live American television as
part of the price for the release of the
American hostages, the official Iranian
Pars news agency said.
Hojatoleslam Khoiniha, head of the
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dation attended by about 150 people. Father Joseph O’Rourke, inset, claimed Catholic bishops m
America are misrepresenting the majority of Catholic women in strictly supporting anti-abortion
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parliament’s seven-man hostage com
mission, called the report an utter fic
tion, Pars reported in a broadcast over
Tehran Radio monitored in London.
In Washington, the State Department
said the report was “100 percent
rumor.”
The new condition was reported as the
French newspaper Le Monde in a
dispatch from Tehran said a majority of
Iran’s leaders favored the hostages’
release, but a hardline group of 87 of the
200-odd parliamentary deputies was still
fighting efforts to set them free.
The West German national television,
in its dispatch from Tehran on Iran s
parliamentary hostage commission,
said a first group of Americans would be
released as soon as Iran’s parliament
had been , granted three hours of
American television air time to “present
its position on the problem to the
American people.”
A second group would be freed when
Washington met Iran’s four other condi
tions: return of the shah’s fortune, un
freezing of Iran’s assets in U.S. banks, a
non-intervention guarantee and a pro
mise that Washington would make no
demands on Iran as a consequence of the
hostage taking. '
The United States said Monday that
Collegian
CLEVELAND (AP) President
Carter and Republican presidential can
didate Ronald Reagan argued war and
peace in a climactic campaign debate
last night, the president accusing his
challenger of “dangerous and
belligerent” talk, Reagan retorting that
the use of force should be “always, and
only a last resort.”
The 90-minute confrontation produced
no dramatic collision; rather there was
a persistent sometimes spirited ex
change, marked by frequent disputes
over policies and programs. Reagan was
especially aggressive in contradicting
Carter when the president characterized
Reagan proposals. Carter, as usual, was
the master of detail.
At one point, Reagan was discussing
world troubles and he likened Carter to a
“witch doctor,” who grows anxious
when a real doctor appears with the
right presciption. Carter also wielded a
tart tongue on several occasions, one
time referring to Reagan’s tax cut plan
as “ridiculous.”
The president said Reagan’s vow to
scrap the pending strategic arms limita
tion treaty with the Soviet Union is “a
very dangerous and disturbing thing.”
“I am not talking of scrapping,”
Reagan replied, saying he wants to take
the treaty back into renewed negotia
tions with the Soviet Union. “That is
hardly throwing away a treaty and being
opposed to arms limitation,” he said.
“Governor Reagan is making some
very misleading and disturbing
statements,” Carter shot back. He said
Reagan wants to discard the treaty, and
suggests that nuclear superiority, and
the threat of an arms race, would be U.S.
bargaining positions under a new GOP
administration.
Reagan said his policy would not be to
insist on American nuclear superiority,
but to call for mutual arms reductions
“to the point that neither country can
represent a threat to the other.’
“This attitude is extremely dangerous
it alleged
conditions for hostage release
piecemeal release of the 52 Americans
would be “unacceptable” and warned
Iran of “grave consequences” if any of
the captives were tried as spies.
State Department spokesman John
Trattner dismissed the West German
television report, saying, “That is a bona
fide, 100 percent rumor.”
He also said no negotiations were go
ing oh regarding the hostages, that the
U.S. government policy of not
negotiating with terrorists remained in
effect and, “We regard the militants as
terrorists.
“We note the various reports from
Tehran,” Trattner said, “and we are in
the position of waiting to see what
happens.”
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a na
tionwide speech yesterday made no
mention of the hostages, held now for 360
days, French media reports said.
Parliament debated the hostage issue
in sessions Sunday and Monday, but was
in recess yesterday for a Moslem holi
day commemorating the choice of the
Prophet Mohammad’s son-in-law Ali as
hissuccessor.
Le Monde said the parliamentary
group of hard-liners did not attend Mon-
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“I think habitually Governor Reagan
has advocated the injection of military
forces into troubled areas when I and my
predecessors. . . have advocated resolv
ing those troubles peacefully and
diplomatically,” the president said.
Reagan assailed the administration on
the continued captivity of American
hostages in Iran, saying that when they
are released and safe, Congress should
investigate the government’s response
to their year-long ordeal.
“Once they are safely here ... then I
think it is time for us to have a complete
investigation as to the diplomaticefforts
made in the beginning, _ why have they
been there so long, and what did we do to
bring that about,” Reagan said.
The debate one week before Elec
tion Day followed months of political
maneuvering and skirmishing over
terms for a debate.
While Reagan and Carter debated
under the sponsorship of the League of
Women Voters, independent presidential
candidate John B. Anderson, who was
dropped from the league’s lineup, watch
ed from Washington and provided his
own answers to the questions put to
Reagan and Carter.
wrongs
day night’s session on the hostage issue.
The paper said, “The hard-liners in
the Majlis (Parliament) constitute a
strong minority. 87 out of about 200
deputies Sunday voted in favor of an in
definite postponement of the debate on
the hostages. The atmosphere of war
and anti-Americanism prevailing
throughout the country confers upon
them, so say their adversaries, a larger
political importance than reflected by
their number.
“This is how they managed to block
Monday all decisions in spite of the ef
forts put up by the leaders, including
those of the Islamic Party, in favor of a
settlement with Washington based on
conditions spelled out by Imam Kho
meini,” Le Monde said.
Little improvement
Considerable cloudiness, breezy and
chilly today with an afternoon high of on
ly 45. Partly to mostly clear tonight and
cold with a low of 27. Partly cloudy and
continued chilly tomorrow with a high of
only 43. Variable cloudiness and cool
Friday with showers possible by day’s
end. The high on Friday should be near
50.
Priest advocates choice
in abortion rally speech
By JUSTIN CATANOSO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Father Joseph O’Rourke, a controversial religious figure,
said last night that the Catholic bishops in America are
misrepresenting the majority of Catholic women by strictly
supporting anti-abortion legislation.
O’Rourke, a Catholic priest from New York City and presi
dent of Catholics for Free Choice, said at a, pro-choice rally
held at the Wesley Foundation that “the Catholic constituency
clearly acts as a free-choice constituency, yet a great many
bishops insist these people are against free choice..
Citing statistics from a national, poll taken last year,
O’Rourke said more than 80 percent of Catholics polled sup
ported abortion as an acceptable choice when dealing with
pregnancy. , .
O’Rourke gained national prominance in 1974 when he bap
tised the baby of a teenage mother in Boston who was admit
tedly pro-choice. The woman’s own pastor had refused the
baptism.
Although O’Rourke is still an ordained priest, he was
dismissed from the Jesuit order for his action. He said he has
continued to be an outspoken advocate of free choice, calling
himself the “voice of the voiceless.”
However, Suzanne Glasow, president of Centre County
Citizens Concerned for Human Life an anti-abortion gioup
said O’Rourke does not speak for the majority of Catholic
women since he is not an official representative of the church.
“He cannot speak for the Catholic church,” she said, and I
j America has never gotten into a war beceuse we
were too strong. We can get into a war by letting
events get out of hand as they have in the past
three-and-a-half years. '
Paraphernalia
hearings to open
By LORRAINE ORLANDI
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A hearing to decide whether the
State College drug paraphernalia law
is constitutional opens at 9:30 this
morning in Scranton, with federal
Judge Richard Conaby presiding.
Two State College businesses have
filed with the U.S. District Court in
Scranton for a temporary restraining
order against the paraphernalia law,
adopted in October by the State Col
lege Municipal Council.
Prior to today’s hearing, the
municipality was given a week to pre
sent reasons to the court for not gran
ting a temporary restraining order
against the ordinance.
A law clerk in Conaboy’s office said
the municipality’s testimony con
sisted mostly of specific citations
from a few other court cases in which
similar ordinances were held
constitutional.
Mary Ann Haas, municipal council
president, said that according to
solicitor Robert K. Kistler, a similar
ordinance has been upheld in six or
seven federal court districts.
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do know that bishops do not make church dogma from public
opinion polls.” . ..
O’Rourke agreed that he does not represent every Catholic
conscience or every bishop. In fact, I speak against the bishops
because I don’t feel they are telling the truth (about abortion
sentiment)he said. “They hold out against all reason that we
agree with; we don’t want to see the state control our private
lives."
Gayle Henry, state director of the National Abortion Rights
Action League, said pro-choice advocates must convince state
and federal politicians that government is no place to decide it
a woman can have an abortion or not. That place should be
with the woman, she said. ’ pn
Using a graph to illustrate her point, Henry said although 80
percent of Americans polled favor pro-choice, only one percent
are active supporters. She said pro-lifers often appear
stronger because of the 20 percent opposing abortion, half are
vocal supporters.
Political candidates Michael G. Day, an independent runn
ing for 77th District state legislature seat, and Douglas Mason,
the Consumer Party candidate for the 23rd congressional
district seat, both voiced their opposition to anti-abortion
legislation. , t .
Day said such action would return abortion to the bad old
days” when the operation was performed by frightened doc
tors under unsanitary conditions, while Mason asserted that he
would seek to repeal the Hyde Amendment disallowing abor
tions to poor women except in cases of rape, incest or if the
mother’s life is in danger.
—Ronald Reagan
law
“The law is very specific as far as
the intent of the user or seller of an
item, which takes it (the law) out of
the vague and unspecific category,”
she said. This is an argument being
used by the municipality, she said.
The State College law is based on a
model act drafted by the U.S. Depart
ment of Justice and follows the opi
nion of a judge in Parma, Ohio, where
a similar ordinance was upheld.
The law prohibits the sale of items
which are used, intended for use, or
designed for use with illegal drugs.
Conviction under the law requires
that the seller of an item know the
item is being purchased for use with
illegal drugs.
The plaintiffs filing for the restrain
ing order are David A. Talmas, presi
dent of Lazy J Ltd., 232 E. College
Ave., and James Bauer, president of
Quickdraw Accessories, Inc., 137 N.
Patterson St.
They said in the filing that they
could not comply with the ordinance
because it is vague, undefinite and
does not adequately define which
items are prohibited.