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Championship
Contenders
By CHRIS LODER
Collegian Staff Writer
When they began two-a
day practice sessions
during the sweltering
months of summer, the men’s soc
cer team and the football team set
out to forget about last year. Both
were expected to do well in 1984,
but both stumbled and fell disap
pointingly short.
For the football team, 1984 was a
season of frustration. For the sec
ond time in Head Coach Joe Pater
no’s 20-year reign, the Lions failed
to make a bowl game. There was
some talk that the fire was not in
Paterno’s belly anymore.
The men’s soccer team, on the
other hand, played well during the
regular season last year, but a loss
in the Mid-Atlantic regional finals
of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association sidetracked a trip to
the national championship and a
successful season.
This year is a different story. The
men’s soccer team and the football
team have a shot at winning a
lance
national championship in their re
spective sports. The football team
is ranked No. 1 with a date in the
Orange Bowl against Oklahoma on
Jan. 1.
Meanwhile, the soccer team
bounced back from a slow start
with some outstanding play in the
latter half of the season, including
Saturday’s heart-stopping 6-5 win
in double overtime over Temple.
The team now faees top-ranked
Evansville in the quarterfinals of
the NCAA playoffs.
For both, 1985 is a season of
redemption.
The Penn State football team
was not supposed to do well in 1985.
Many critics said the Lions would
finish with another 6-5 record. The
Lions were ranked No. 17 in the
preseason poll by the Associated
Press a token gesture consid
ering Penn State’s football tradi
tion.
Saying “I want to win another
war,” Paterno rallied his troops.
He worked his players hard during
the off-season, harder than he has
ever before.
In their first game, the Lions
battled what many considered to
be the No. 1 team in the country
Maryland. But, the Lions fought
back a stiff challenge and beat the
Terrapins 20-18.
After a series of close calls, the
Lions received respect by trounc
ing West Virginia and gained the
top spot in the polls with a win over
Cincinnati. The Lions closed out
the season with two impressive
peformances: a 36-6 thrashing over
Notre Dame and a 31-0 romp over
Pittsburgh.
The soccer team struggled in the
beginning of the season. After a
couple of poor performances, the
Lions found themselves with their
backs against the wall. They had
five losses, and a sixth would knock
them out of the playoff picture.
Penn State rebounded with a 3-2
upset over then-undefeated Con
necticut and went on to go unde
feated in its last six games.
Now as icy winter winds descend
upon central Pennsylvania, two
new national championships may
bring warmth to Happy Valley.
Both the Nittany Lion soccer and
football-teams are looking toward na
tional championships this year. This
week’s Freelance captures some of
the Lions’ special moments on the
road to victory. Clockwise from top
left: Jay Ruby and Steve Potter em
brace after winning Saturday’s playoff
game against Temple. Michael Zor
dich, one of the football team’s tri
captains, leads players in pre-game
stretches at Pitt Stadium Saturday.
Steve Potter goes through two defend
ers in the second round of NCAA
playoffs against Temple. Players show
excitement while huddling around D.J
Dozier after Penn State’s second
touchdown against Pitt. Ruby shows
the soccer team’s superior ability to
out play Temple.
The Daily Collegian
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1985
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2 favorites lead Honduran election
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press Writer
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Two fa
vored candidates predicted victory in this Central
American country’s presidential election, and
early unofficial returns showed them outpacing
the seven other contenders.
Returns broadcast over national television late
Sunday indicated that Jose Azcona Hoyo of the
Liberal Party and Rafael Leonardo Callejas of the
National Party were pulling in far more votes than
the other candidates.
Pre-election polls had picked the two as the top
vote-getters.
No running tally was kept by television network
officials as local representatives telephoned re
sults to the network from voting precincts.
The election computing center was slow to
release even unofficial tallies, and the count could
last through today.
Shortly before the polls closed, Azcona Hoyo
said, “All of the reports from the interior of the
country indicate that we have won.”
But Callejas predicted he would receive at least
20 percent more votes than his closest rival.
Both candidates are moderates and advocate
strong ties with the United States. The winner will
succeed President Roberto Suazo Cordova on
Jan. 27, who is barred by the constitution from
running for a second term.
A peaceful electoral transition from one civilian
president to another would be the first in Honduras
since 1929. There are 4 million people in this
Church envoy
arrives in NY
to discuss
US hostages
By LARRY McSHANE
Associated Press Writer
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NEW YORK - Terry Waite, the
Anglican church envoy who nas been
negotiating for the release of four
kidnapped Americans in Lebanon,
arrived yesterday for talks with U.S.
officials and relatives of the hostages
and said the captives were alive and
well.
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“The situation is highly volatile,”
Waite said at a news conference at an
Episcopal Church center. “I’m not
being overly dramatic when I say one
loose word misinterpreted can cost
lives of the hostages or my life.”
He said he was “quietly optimistic”
about the release of four Americans,
but said he knew nothing about the
fate of two other American hostages.
The kidnappers have not made any
demands, Waite said, adding that he
would like to meet with Kuwaiti offi
cials about 17. Moslem prisoners
jailed for bombings in Kuwait. The
captors earlier had demanded the
release of the prisoners in exchange
for the Americans.
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“The Kuwaiti government has been
honorable, to the best of my knowl
edge,” Waite said. “I don’t think it’s
right for a government or individual
to pressure them, and if my visit is
interpreted that way, I will not talk to
them.”
Waite arrived -from Athens
Greece, after being delayed for seve
ral days by fighting in Beirut.
Waite is expected to stay in the
United States for few days before
returning to Lebanon.
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Waite will not meet with President
Reagan, but will talk with adminis
tration officials, said White House
spokesman Larry Speakes. Waite has
said he also would meet with rela
tives of the hostages.
The envoy has made two trips to
Lebanon in an effort to free the Amer
icans, four of whom wrote to the Rev.
Robert Runcie, the archbishop of
Canterbury, seeking h;~ intervention.
Waite, a lay assistant to Runcie,
has successfully negotiated the re
lease of Britons held in Iran and
Libya.
He told reporters in Beirut last
week that he .had met twice with the
kidnappers. He did not identify them
or say where trie meetings took place.
Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy
War, a group of Shiite fundamental
ists apparently linked to Iran, has
claimed it is holding the hostages.
The hostages who signed the letter
to Runcie were the Rev. Lawrence
Jenco, 50, of Joliet, 111., a Roman
Cathoic priest; Terry Anderson, 38, of
Lorain, Ohio, chief Middle East cor
respondent for The Associated Press;
David Jacobsen, 54, of Huntington
Beach, Calif., director of the Ameri
can University Hospital; and Thomas
Sutherland, 54, the Scottish-born dean
of agriculture at the American Uni
versity of Beirut.
The Islamic Jihad has said it killed
a fifth American, U.S. diplomat Wil
liam Buckley, 57, of Medford, Mass.
After controversy; school is dedicated to Anne Frank
By SUSAN J. SMITH
Associated Press Writer
BERGEN, West Germany After reject
ing a proposal to name a street after her,
townspeople have agreed to name a school
after Anne Frank, the German Jewish girl
who died 40 years ago at the Bergen-Belsen
Nazi concentration camp that was nearby.
It is the first area memorial dedicated
solely to the girl who was not quite 16 years
old when she died in March, 1945.
Her diary about 25 months of hiding with
her family from the Nazi Gestapo in Amster
dam, the Netherlands, before they were be
trayed, made her famous worldwide after her
death.
The decision to name the school after her
country the size of Tennessee, and Honduras is
considered a key U.S. ally in Central America.
Political observers expressed concern the out
come could plunge the nation into a political crisis
because of a last-minute decision on how the
winner will be chosen.
Under a new electoral law, the top vote-getter
from the party that polls the most votes will be
declared president and inaugurated Jan. 27 for a
four-year term.
That means one candidate could win while not
getting a majority of the popular votes. The
constitution calls for direct election of a president
by a simple majority.
Azcona Hoyo, a 58-year-old civil engineer, was
running along with three other Liberal Party
candidates and their combined total could be more
than that of Callejas and two other National Party
candidates.
Two smaller and newer parties fielded one
candidate each but were not considered likely to
affect the outcome.
It was widely expected that the National Party
would protest if Callejas leads the field but is kept
from the presidency by the new electoral law.
Callejas, who studied at the University of Missis
sippi, is a 42-year-old banker and businessman
from a prominent family.
The electoral reform law, essentially combining
the primary and general elections into one round,
had been forged earlier this year to end a constitu
tional crisis. But it wasn’t until just before mid
night Saturday that the National Elections
Tribunal ruled the law would prevail.
was reached after the proposal to name one
of the town’s main streets for her aroused
weeks of protests, especially among older
residents.
For years, Bergen townspeople had talked
about a memorial to the girl who died along
with 50,000 other people of overwork, disease
and hunger in the camp.
Inspired by President Reagan’s visit to the
camp last May 6 and his reading of parts of
the diary, the town’s Social Democrats pro
posed that Belsen St. be renamed Anne Frank
St.
The street originally lead from Bergen to
Belsen, which were two neighboring villages
before the war. After the war, Belsen was
incorporated into Bergen, and the town now
has 12,000 residents.
A group of 13 official observers from the United
States praised the election as open and fair. But
they said in a statement, “This delegation is
concerned that the election eve clarification of
election laws may complicate an otherwise very
promising situation.”
Suazo Cordova’s election in October 1981 ended
17 years of virtually uninterrupted military rule.
The military remains the behind-the-scenes power
in Honduras, the second-poorest country in the
Americas after Haiti.
The presidential campaign focused more on
Suazo Cordova’s personality and leadership abili
ty than on such issues as the country’s $2 billion
foreign debt, 30 percent unemployment and short
age of health care and schools.
Nearly 2 million Hondurans were eligible to vote
at 6,500 voting tables segregated by sex throughout
the country. Also at stake were 138 seats in an
expanded national assembly, 284 mayors and
three vice presidents.
Reagan administration officials were closely
watching the outcome to see how well democracy
is taking hold in Central America. The United
States contributed $900,000 for the voting forms,
ballot boxes and other electoral supplies.
U.S. military and economic aid has increased
significantly in Honduras since the leftist Sandi
nistas came to power six years ago in neighboring
Nicaragua. The aid totaled $214.7 million in 1985.
U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels based in Hondu
ras known as Contras are fighting the
Sandinista government, adding to Honduran-Nica
raguan tension.
Opposition to the street naming was spear
headed by Guenther Ernst, 52, the editor of
the local newspaper, the Stadt-Anzeiger.
He wrote in the paper that Bergen does not
want a “daily demonstration” of its past
through an Anne Frank St. He polled Bergen
residents and reported a result of 545 to 29
against renaming the street.
Ernst, who is also on the City Council and a
conservative Christian Democrat, main
tained that Bergen residents are tired of
hearing about the concentration camp.
“All the blame for all the SS crimes has
been heaped on Bergen-Belsen,” he said in an
interview.
“Their (town residents’) annoyance at the
street idea was understandable.”
Ernst published letters from readers alleg-
Jose Azcona, right, of the Liberal Party, hugs a supporter as early returns
from Sunday’s national election indicate he will be the next president of
Honduras.
African government
to rehire 1,800 Blacks
fired for hospital strike
By JAMES F. SMITH
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -
The government said yesterday it
would rehire abyut 1,800 Blacks who
were fired for striking at a huge
hospital in the black township of
Soweto. The dispute had threatened
to inspire sympathy walkouts else
where.
Police reported scattered incidents
of rioting around the country but no
new fatalities after one of the blood
iest weeks in 15 months of rioting
against apartheid. Official accounts
listed at least 52 deaths last week.
The decision to rehire the dismiss
ed student nurses and auxiliary work
ers came hours after a judge ruled
that the initial mass firing at Barag
wanath Hospital was illegal. Richard
Goldstone, a provincial supreme
court judge, ruled that cases must be
reviewed separately.
Baragwanath, in the sprawling
black township of Soweto outside
Johannesburg, has nearly 3,000 beds
and a staff of almost 10,000.
It was reported to be in chaos for
much of the 10 days following the
dismissals. Army reservists were
called up to replace the 940 student
nurses and more than 800 cooks,
cleaners and other non-medical staff.
Black unions had threatened to
strike other hospitals if the workers
were not reinstated.
More than 800 workers were ar
rested for demonstrating on the hos
pital grounds during the strike. A fire
U.S.
for information leading
to Abbas' punishment
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - The
United States yesterday offered a
reward of up to $250,000 for informa
tion leading to the apprehension,
prosecution and punishment of Mo
hammed Abbas, a Palestine Liber
ation Organization leader accused of
masterminding the hijacking of the
Achille Lauro cruise ship on Oct; 7.
State Department Spokesman
Charles E. Redman said reward mon
ey could also be paid to those with
information leading to the arrest and
prosecution of others who took part in
the hijacking but have not been ar
rested.
Abbas was in Italian custody brief
ly after the hijacking, but authorities
in Italy permitted him to leave the
country even though the United
States had sought his extradition.
Several other Palestinians are wait
ing trial in Italy on criminal charges
stemming from the seizure of the
boat.
Italian prosecutors subsequently
acknowledged that Abbas was in
volved in the capture of the cruise
ing that local houses had been plundered by
survivors of the camp after it was liberated in
April 1945.
The vandalism “defied description,” said
one letter signed by M. Staege, who opposed
renaming Belsen St., because “thank you
very much, we do not wish to be branded with
the mark of Cain.”
The Stadt-Anzeiger also published the com
ments of a Bergen lawyer, Ernst von Briesen,
saying that he had visited the camp in the
1940 s and found “the occupants made a very
normal impression, neither tortured nor
afraid.”
A Social Democrat City Council member,
Wilhelm Hohls, 65, takes a different view.
“This quarrel has been shameful,” said
Hohls, who proposed the street name change.
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“I thought we should rename the street as a
reminder. . . . People here need to he re
minded so that it will not happen again.”
Hohls contends that comments against the
street name proposal demonstrate that many
Bergen citizens have never come to terms
with history.
Hohls withdrew his proposal in July and put
forward a Protestant minister’s suggestion
that the local school for fifth and sixth grad
ers be named after Anne Frank.
The compromise was accepted by the City
Council on Sept. 19 and approved by county
authorities Nov. 7.
The school, a two-story brick building
which opened in 1981 and has never had a
name, will be formally named the Anne
Frank School in a ceremony early next year.
set at a student nurse’s home in
Soweto last Thursday night killed her
mother and badly burned the student
and three other people.
The student nurse died the next
day.
Students are still pressing the de
mands that led to the confrontation
keeping dormitory gates open past 8
p.m., better food and an end to “vic
timization” of leaders who speak out
on the students’ behalf according
to the report.
At the small town of Leandra, about
50 miles east of Johannesburg, resi
dents of a squatter' village won a
reprieve from a government plan to
relocate them and raze 115 shacks.
Chief Commissioner J. van Jaars
veld told a meeting of residents that
the government had decided to let
them stay. Four black squatters were
killed a week ago during riots against
the relocation plan.
In Cape Town, the government
dropped charges against the Rev.
Allan Boesak, president of the World
Alliance of Reformed Churches, and
18 other people accused of going to a
funeral in a black township without
permission.
Boesak, who is of mixed race, still
faces trial on four counts of subver
sion.
A standoff was reported in the
black township of Randfontein, an
hour’s drive west of Johannesburg,
between residents and male migrant
workers. Several people have been
killed there in two weeks of clashes.
reward
ship in which the crew and passen
gers were held hostage and one of the
14 Americans aboard, Leon Klinghof
fer, was killed.
Asked to comment on reports that
Abbas has been seen in Baghdad,
Iraq, Redman said the United States
did not know his whereabouts.
Last year, Congress appropriated
$2 million to give rewards that might
help bring terrorists to justice. The
maximum amount that can be grant
ed in connection with an individual
case is $500,000.
Redman said information received
will be handled confidentially, and
the identities of the informants will be
protected. He said the announcement
had been scheduled before this week
end’s bloody hijacking and storming
of an Egyptian airliner in Malta.
Rddman said the actual amount of
the payment would be based on the
State Department’s evaluation of the
usefulness of the information re
ceived and any other relevant factors
and thereforce could be less than the
$250,000 limit set in the Abbas case.
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