Planned hostage debate delayed
From our wire services
Iran’s parliament, scheduled to debate
Iranian conditions for freeing the 52
American hostages Thursday, failed to
achieve a quorum and postponed the
crucial session until Sunday.
In the United States, an aide to Presi
dent Carter said in an interview publish
ed yesterday that religious leader
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “has
cancer of the colon” and is “not going to
last long,” which may have some bear
ing on the hostage situation.
The State Department declined to
comment on the report, or other com
ments by the aid that release of the
hostages before next Tuesday’s election
is unlikely.
The official Pars News Agency an
nounced the postponement and a
parliamentary spokesman in Tehran,
reached by telephone from London, said
UPI wirephoto
The Ayatollah Sheik Sadegh Khalkhali, known as Iran’s "hanging judge,”
predicted yesterday that the hostage debate would end today and that the 52
American captives would be released before the Nov. 4 presidential election.
See related stories on the Middle East on Page 5.
Assembly's letter rejects semester change
By DAVID MEDZERIAN
yaily Collegian Staff Writer
By a split vote, the Undergraduate
Student Government’s Academic
Assembly approved a letter against the
proposed change in the University calen
dar to a semester plan.
The letter passed by a vote of 9 to 5,
and will be sent to University President
W. Oswald early next month.
Oswald has given all interested groups
until Dec. 1 to submit their input to him,
and will make his decision on the change
by Feb. 1.
The assembly’s letter states, “Due to
lack of adequate information, we do not
(tel the change should be implemented.
An honest, valid opinion, we feel, is im
possible to form without more details
concerning the change.
“We would like to make it clear that
we are not against a semester system,
but we are against the method used for
this decision. We do not feel we can
Shake such a valid opinion without such
information. We would like to see ten
tative figures concerning cost analysis,
Brazill allegedly asked to quit House campaign
By JUSTIN CATANOSO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A pair of local Democratic Party leaders, with
independent candidate Michael G. Day, alleged
ly told Democratic candidate Robert C. Brazill in
a riieeting Friday he would be “a hero in the eyes
of area Democrats” if he withdrew his bid for the
77th District state legislative seat.
The meeting came about after Brazill alleged
ly voiced an interest in helping to form a single,
united opposition to incumbent Gregg L. Cunn
ingham, R-Centre County.
grazill said he never strictly said he would
drop out of the race
Yesterday, he issued a press release stating
that party leaders Daniel Chaffee and Gregory
Stewart told him at the meeting “that if I were to
back out of the race and endorse Mr. Day, (the
Democratic Party) wou}d help me to run for of
fice in the future and would reimburse me the
nfcney I have spent on my campaign.”
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the next meeting would be held Sunday.
There was no explanation why the re
quired two-thirds of the 220 members of
the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, fail
ed to respond to an appeal by their own
parliamentary leaders to attend the
session.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman Wayne Miele of the Iran
Working Group said, “Why that occur
red (lack of quorum), I can’t really sayi
We would hope that the hostages would
be home soon, and this just prolongs it a
bit.”
Iran’s “hanging judge,” Ayatollah
Sheik Sadegh Khalkali, had predicted
yesterday the parliament’s debate on
the American hostages would end early
today and he said, “We want to free the
hostages before the election.”
However, the official Iranian news
service, Pars, announced there was no
teaching workloads, etc. concerning the
proposed calendar change.”
Assembly President Ted Szklenski
said he feels the administration has not
sufficiently informed the students of the
details of the calendar change.
“They haven’t given us enough
reasons to change or not to change,” he
said.
“I don’t think we can make a decision
if we don’t know what we’re going to,”
he said. “They are not telling us when
the (vacation) breaks will be, will there
be 50-minute classes . . . how can we
make a decision?”
Szklenski said the workshop session
held by the assembly earlier this month
showed that there isn’t enough detailed
information on the calendar change.
“Supposedly they (the panelists) had
as much information as anyone else,” he
said. “Even if some of this information
does come out, we haven’t heard it.
Szklenski also said a lack of concrete
plans for the Summer Term is another
problem with the current situation.
“The Summer Term is totally up in the
Day said no such agreement was suggested,
“It was suggested to Bob that he would have
less trouble running for elected office in the
future when his eligibility wasn’t in question,”
Day said.
“But at no time did we ever offer to cover his
campaign debt. The simple truth is, we don’t
have the money to give him. He’s making it
sound like we tried to bribe him and that is a
slanderous accusation.”
Brazill lost the support of the Democratic Par
ty when party officials discovered that he lived
and voted in New Jersey three years ago. The
Pennsylvania Constitution stipulates that a
representative must live in the state for four con
secutive years.
Day, who is a Democrat-turned-independent in
order to run, said: “Many Democrats want to
openly support my candidacy but can’t because
of party by-laws. They want to see Gregg Cunn
ingham defeated. They see Brazill as the spoiler
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quorom today and the meeting was
postponed until Sunday.
“The open session of the Islamic Con
sultative Assembly (Majlis) that was
scheduled to be held Thursday morning
has been postponed,” Pars said.
“The reason for this delay is that a
quorum was not met in today’s session.
The. meeting is postponed linti next
week.”
Sources close to the talks said that
after a heated debate yesterday in which
several members of the Majlis, or
Parliament, stalked out, the members
had decided to hold the open session and
vote on proposed conditions.
Deputy Hussein Hashemian, reached
by telephone from Beirut, Lebanon, had
said, “We may have an open session or a
closed session it is not for sure,” and
that debate may continue for four to six
days.
Before the aborted debate, some
members of the 228-seat Parliament or
Majlis had expressed guarded optimism
over the possibility of a final decision
today.
“The Majlis generally favored solving
the issue in a way acceptable to both par
ties,” Hossein Ali Rahmani, a Kurdish
Crown Prince Reza
to claim title of shah
CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Without the
pomp his father loved, Crown Prince
Reza will proclaim himself shah of Iran
tomorrow in keeping with Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi’s deathbed wish.
There will be no crown or Peacock
Throne, no gala reception or banquet, no
well-wishers. Only Egyptian TV will be
permitted to watch.
The shah’s eldest son will claim the
Iranian throne his father said it dated
back 2,500 years to Cyrus the Great in
a 10-minute speech inP’ersian addressed
to the Iranian people, a family
spokesman said.
Tomorrow marks Reza’s 20th birth
day. The 1906 Iranian constitution re
quired the heir to a vacant throne take
over at that age.
The late shah was overthrown and
Iran was proclaimed an Islamic republic
by the revolution of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini early last year.
The shah died in his Cairo exile July 27
without relinquishing his title and con- '
sidered Reza his heir. Reza’s mother,
Empress Parah, has served as regent in
the interim.
In a message released in Cairo Aug. 1,
the shah said: “Let the (1906) constitu-
air they haven’t given us any input as
to how it will be handled,” he said.
Steve Smalley of the College of Science
Student Council said, “We have to have
some specifics about the number of
classes (and) the time you’ll be in
classes. We’re not saying ‘Don’t
change,’ we’re saying ‘Wait and see
what it’s going to be like.’,”
Smalley said he thinks most students
and faculty members are against the
change because the administration will
not finalize plans on the semester
system until after the change is decided
upon.
“This is the first time I’ve seen the
faculty and the students on the same side
of the issue,” he said. “They were told
‘Here’s the change, tell us why not to do
it.’ •”
But College of Business Administra
tion representative Paul Bell said the
assembly cannot expect the administra
tion to provide the students with more
information.
“They have gone as far as they’re go
ing to before they make the decision,” he
and every vote that he gets is one that I won’t.”
Day said Brazill left the meeting, leaving open
the possibility that he would consider
withdrawing.
Brazill said, “I never seriously considered
their offer. I would be disappointing the people
who are planning on voting for me.”
Brazill said Chaffee and Stewart approached
him after the League of Women Voter’s can
didates night Oct. 23 and suggested the three
meet with Day the following afternoon.
Day, however, said the meeting was arranged
through an intermediate, Melvin Hodes.
Hodes, a State College resident, said he and
Brazill talked after that night’s forum.
“I told Bob that since he and Mike agree on the
majority of the issues,” Hodes said, “they were
only hurting each other. Bob didn’t absolutely
say he would drop out, but did indicate that he
was willing to think about it.”
Hodes said he contacted Chaffee and Stewart
deputy known to be moderate on the
hostage issue, said.
“I think there is a 70-percent likelihood
of a decision Thursday (today),”
Rahmani had said.
Asked if new conditions been added,
deputy Hashemian said, “yes but we will
make them public later.” Several issues
still were unsettled, but “the condition of
the shah’s wealth remains,” he said.
“We are debating on the apology.”
Khomeini, the 80-year-old Iranian
leader, has said the U.S. government
should apologize for its support of the
late shah’s regime. But in September,
when he set out in general terms Iran’s
demands, the apology was omitted.
His demands included return of the
shah’s fortune, a pledge of non
interference in Iran’s affairs,
withdrawal of lawsuits against Iran and
release of Iranian assets frozen in U.S.
banks. Khomeini, who holds the greatest
power in his country, has charged the
Majlis with responsibility for the
hostages’ fate.
Some members suggested Iran be
given three hours of U.S. television time
to air its grievances but this was not
greeted favorably, the deputy said.
tion decide the fate of the country
The preservation and respect of its prin
ciples is the basis of our country’s ter
ritorial integrity and independence. . . .
I enjoin my son to protect it.. . . This is
my last wish.”
Earlier this month, Farah informed
Cairo news bureaus her son “will suc
ceed his father” on his 20th birthday.
“Under the circumstances, no public
ceremony and no press conference will
be ; held,” Farah said.
' .Reza, wearing a business suit and the
Order of Pahlavi decoration his father
reserved for heads of state, will read his
address from his office at Kubbeh
Palace, a cream-colored, two-story
mansion on 70 acres of gardens.
It was the home of King Farouk until
the Egyptian monarchy was overthrown
in 1952 by a military junta that included
President Anwar Sadat. Farouk was ex
iled to Rome where he died.
Sadat was the only world leader who
offered the 61-year-old shah exile, and
the ex-monarch came to Egypt with his
family last March 24. The Pahlavis have
lived at Kubbeh Palace since then with
limousines and security details provided
by Sadat.
said. “In their belief, they have enough
information.”
Assembly Vice President Chris Hop
wood said he thinks Oswald will go
ahead with the semester proposal
regardless of student and faculty input,
even though the official administration
position is that the decision has not yet
been made.
“If the students were unanimously
against it, they’d still make the change,”
he said.
Hopwood said the administration
should first work out the details of the
plan and then ask for a
recommendation.
Correction
In yesterday’s Daily Collegian, Gayle
Henry, state director of the National
Abortion Rights Action League, was in
correctly identified in a photo caption on
Page 1 as Suzanne Glasow, president of
the Centre County Citizens Concerned
for-Human Life.
Independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson addresses a erov
more 1,000 in Philadelphia yesterday, including about 30 University students
and State College area residents.
Anderson calls debate
a'shallow performance'
By ROSA EBERLY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA Independent
presidential candidate John B.
Anderson called Tuesday’s presiden
tial debate a “shallow performance”
yesterday while addressing a crowd
of more than 1,000, including about 30
University students and State College
area residents.
“I listened last night,” Anderson
•said, “because, after all, I was
answering the same questions.”
Anderson called Cleveland’s Music
Hall, where the debate was held, the
place “where the two performers
danced around the issues.”
Chiding Carter’s remark about
discussing nuclear proliferation with
his daughter Amy, Anderson said he
could have persuaded the president to
debate with him “if I had only talked
with Amy first.
“I would have told her to tell Daddy
it’s important to sit down and talk
with John Anderson;” he said.
Citing Carter’s sale of 38 tons of
uranium to India despite a House of
Representatives’ vote against it,
Anderson said Carter “put aside non
proliferation when he thought it was
convenient and expedient to do so.
“Jimmy Carter wants a mass tran
sit system for nuclear missies,”
Anderson said.
Comparing Reagan’s and Carter’s
philosophies is “like putting the
dreams of yesteryear versus the
nightmares of today,” Anderson said.
The approximately 30 students and
residents from State College who at
tended the rally had mixed reactions
and said both were interested in the possibility
that an agreement could be reached with Brazill.
Hodes said Day was also interested in the
possibility and a meeting was arranged.
Brazill said, “I said maybe three or four words
the whole meeting. I just listened and said good
bye.”
Day and Modes both said Brazill insisted on
having a “written list of promises” from the par
ty leaders including that the party would support
him in future races.
“There was nothing to put in writing,” Stewart
said. “We simply asked him to withdraw for the
good of the party. We told him he was ineligible
and that we have Democrats who are willing to
support and work for Day.”
Brazill said he did not request anything at the
meeting.
However, Brazill said he called Terry Dalton,
a Centre Daily Times staff writer, on Friday
night and allegedly told him that Chaffee and
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to the speech.
“He (Anderson) didn’t make too
many special remarks, but those he
did make really got his point across,”
Steve Lunger (4th-political science)
said.
“I think the type of concerns that
John Anderson represents in his plat
form are better suited to solve our
problems in the free market
economy,” Lunger said.
Rosalyn Millman (4th-geography)
said, “I would’ve liked him to talk
more about his own positions on the
issues.” She said Anderson should
have stressed his opinions on foreign
policy, energy and the economy.
“I think most people watched the
debates and wanted to hear his
(Anderson’s) views,” Millman said.
Dave Dinger, a State College resi
dent and campaign worker for Ander
son said, “His (Anderson’s) is the on
ly position I can agree with concern
ing arms limitation.”
The arms race is viewed by Reagan
and Carter as the “trump card that
we haven’t played yet,” Dinger said.
“Ronald Reagan is lying to us right
now,” he said about Reagan’s posi
tion on SALT II and 111.
The thirty State College area
residents were assigned to walk
throughout the city prior to the rally
as a “dragnet” to attract people to
the rally.
As the busload of students and
residents left Anderson headquarters
in Philadelphia, an unidentified
Anderson campaign worker shouted,
“Hey, Penn State, thanks a lot; we
appreciated that a lot.”
Stewart did offer to support him in the future and
cover his campaign debt if he dropped out of the
“I called Terry Dalton because I felt that
through the meeting,’ the Democratic Party had
finally recognized me as their candidate,”
Brazill said. “I haven’t accused anybody of
anything and I haven’t slandered anyboby.”
Day said, “The press release was a desparate
and a childish prank. And insinuating that we
bribed him is a lie and a malicious one.”
Bone chilling morning
Quite a bit of sunshine today along with inter
vals of cloudiness. It will be cool with a high of 50.
Partly to mostly clear tonight and cold with a low
of 29. Partly sunny, becoming breezy and slight
ly mildier on Friday with a high of 54.
Changeable skies, breezy and colder on Saturday
with a shower possible and a high of 45,