Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - January 24, 1980, Burlington, Iowa 143rd Year 167 The Hawk Eye 22 pages January 319 7548461 Iowa 52601 Grudging approval for draft By Peter Thompson President Carters call for a re vitalization of the Selective Service registration has the grudging ap proval of some Burlington Students surveyed Thursday at Burlington high school showed a pa vein exists and that young persons are concerned about the consequences of the draft on their lives but would be willing to serve if I feel that the past few years weve been getting pushed said Jay a If they know that we have the draft and were strong then they wont try to push he re ferring to current conflicts in Iran and Courtney plans to attend college after graduating in but said he is interested in pilot training and might enter the Air Force after col Senior Joe Schilling and others mentioned the need to present a uni fied show of force to the Soviets to forestall further military Failure of the volunteer Army to attract the necessary recruits is an other factor in the students support of reinstating Selective We have the but we just dont have the said Allen Junior Randy Pflum sees draft registration as a guarantee that the military would be prepared in case of an Dan is against reins tating the Selective Service and is dead set against Thats the last thing I want to do with my life is spend it in the armed he Forcing people to serve could ruin Lazenby In his Wednesday State of the Union address which mentioned the Selective President Carter said nothing about women register but administration havent ruled out that That idea elicited differing opin ions from BHS I dont think we should have to said Dawn and a If a nation al military emergency wom en will be needed to take mens places in factories and other jobs as World War she Baxter plans to take medical laboratory technician training after high But Junior Kathleen agrees with a draft resumption and thinks women should be If they want the Equal Rights they should take part as much as the Bangert If I got Id I wouldnt want to but I FORECAST A chance of snow tonight and tomorrow turning cold er low falling temper atures through the day Sat outlook Continued chance of RIVER STAGES Burlington down Davenport up Keo up Preparing draft gears could take months WASHINGTON UPI Preparations for mandatory military registration of 18 million young American men could be completed in several Selective Service System said The agency quickly began following up on President Carters request Wednesday night for a resumption of peacetime registration fol lowing the Soviet invasion of Carter noted he is at present only calling for registration not a return to the actual No American has been drafted since 1973 and none registered since A Selective Service System spokesman said registration is anticipated for men only be tween the ages of 18 and There are about 2 million men in each year group within the lim a total pool of about 18 Women may not be registered under the cur Afghanistan Soviet coffins heading home By United Press International Soviet combat casualties in Afghanistan are mounting steadily with antigovernment Moslem rebels picking off Russians a handful at a reports from the coun try said The rebels were also reported intensifying Viet guerrilla warfare in eastern Western diplomats in the Pakistani capital of bad said the Soviets are losing men mostly in small en rather than large They put the over all Soviet death count at between and since the invasion There are reliable reports of large numbers of coffins being loaded on planes at Kabul airport and being flown back to the Soviet one diplomat One traveler emerging from Afghanistan said a con voy of more than 100 trucks was ambushed as it headed south from the Salang Pass toward Kabul last Saturday and four Russians were MiG jet fighters had to be called in against the rebels before the engagement he Diplomats in the Afghan captal of Kabul have de scribed civilian assaults on Soviet personnel since the 27 They said Soviets had been beaten to death with mauled with meat cleavers and shot to death in the Kabul The loyal to the Yunis Khalis faction of the Islami operate in the area surrounding a provincial capital 60 miles from the Pakis tani Theres been an Intensification of their activity In the area sabotage and the like Viet Cong kind of a Western diplomat in the Pakistani capital of Is said The Jalalabad area is the region of Afghanistan most accessible to the outside It was not clear whether the events there were typical of what is going on in the rest of the remote r r In US officials said Thursday the Soviet Union may be using lethal chemicals in Afghanistan and charged that if true such actions would be outrageous and We have unconfirmed reports the Soviet Union has used lethal chemical agents against nationalist forces in said State Department spokesman Hod ding If the reports are such actions would be an out rageous and inhumane act against defenseless We are unable to substantiate these reports at this Carter He the reports are from sources which we are simply not capable to go further beyond saying we have they are persistent enough and have come from enough different sources that we feel they need to be explored more We do he that Soviet military forces have brought chemical decontamination equipment with them into Afghanistan and that Soviet aircraft oper ating from bases in the Soviet Union conducted air strikes in the areas where these chemical attacks are al to have rent Selective Service Act and Carter did not say whether his call for resuming registration would include But the issue would be hotly debated in Registration is not going to happen imme Its probably several months said the Carters draft registration announcement in his State of the Union address before Con gress Wednesday night was alternately praised by legislators and de by civil liberties One student group said it will actively protest the Congress is expected to quickly approve funding for a resumption of Immediately after the end of the Vietnam War in President Richard Nixon ended the The last man to enter the military services through the draft was inducted June The system continued to register men through April when draft registration was also The Selective Service was put into deep standby with local draft boards disbanded and area offices The organi has retained six regional Under the Selective Service Carter has the authority to resume registration of men between the ages of 18 and but Congress would have to provide funds to finance such a Congress would have to amend the act to include Our executive authority currently is only for the registration of males as I in it is an open question as to whether females would be the White House spokesman It would also take an act of Congress to re sume drafting and inducting young people into the The American Civil Liberties Union de the move as likely to curtail the lib erties of millions of young and The Committee Against Registration and the Draft called it a moral and social Eleanor president of the National Organization for issued a statement denouncing reinstatement of registration as the first step toward a return to the sexist and racist selective service system that gave us discrimination against the minorities and women In recent only the Air Force has met its manpower while the Army is currently running about 15 below its objec House supports Games boycott Ayatollah Khomeini WASHINGTON UPI The House voted overwhelmingly today to keep athletes home from the 1980 Summer Olympics unless the games are moved out of the Soviet The boycott resolution is designed to send a message of contempt to the Soviet government for their bar baric said William ranking Re publican on the House Foreign Af fairs A similar resolution on the Mos cow games is expected to receive prompt passage in the The vote gives strong support to one of President Carters chief sanc tions against the Soviet invasion of Only two voices were heard against the William said the games could be destroyed by moving too He said he supported mov ing the but that could be ac without rapid and emo tional Ronald said the resolution was a hys action and that athletes should be beyond Robert head of the told the House Foreign Af fairs committee earlier Wednesday that if there is a transfer or cancellation of the games in Mos the Olympic games will never be the same because the Eastern bloc countries would not enter the 1984 Olympics in Los Lee asked Kane whether that would be the destruction of the Olympics as we know it Kane replied I dont think theres any question about Khomeini gives Big John has big friends report Not bad By United Press International Ayatollah hospitalized with heart told the Iranian people from his sickbed today his condition was not bad and urged them to vote in Fridays presidential Irans revolutionary guard was placed on alert until the voting In a recorded message broadcast to the nation by Tehran radio and monitored by BBC in Kho meini said As far as my condition is I am praise be to God not Khomeini was taken to Heart Diseases Hos pital from his headquarters in Qom Wednesday and confined to bed with slight heart capping two weeks of seclusion because of fatigue and Tehran radio said the heart specialists treating Khomeini told the official Pars new agency this afternoon that Kho conditon was so good that he may be transferred out the special care unit to the ordinary heart treatment unit In the his Khomeini urged Iranians to sup port the new president and to keep calm in order not to give any opportunity to enemies to create troubles during the Tehran radio also said the Revolutionary Guard has been put on a state of alert starting today until the end of the elections and announcement of the The radio said the central Revolutionary Committee in Tehran issued a statement asking asked local leaders and all people to cooperate with the especially in the light of reports saying that a group from Iraq has arrived to the country to disrupt the or WASHINGTON UPI Former Texas John presi campaign has received con from presidents of 41 of the nations top 200 industrial com Common Cause said The public interest group said the officials contributing to campaign included the board chair men of the nations seven major oil A Connally spokesman sought to minimize the Common Cause re saying that as of of the contributors to the campaign gave less than twith an average contribution of As a measure of finan cial fundraising the cam hit the million mark this compared to the million listed by Common Cause as of the end of the The campaign would be eligible for between million end million in federal funds if it were accepting the spokesman Since matching funds go only to donations of less then those figures mean more than million of money has come in higher Connally is the only presidential to announce he will not accept funding for his cam By the subsidy Con nally is not obligated to observe federal spending limits but is still prohibited from accepting more then from any one Mayor proposes fillin personnel boss By Lynn Byczynski Mayor Roy Uffelman has a plan to fill the po sition of personnel Uffelmans plan would apparently move Steve Perlstein there from his job of rehabilitation su with the planning department until the issue of hiring a director is who has said he does not want to hire another fulltime made his sugges tion to the council at its Thursday work A majority of councilmen favor a permanent po Personnel chief Greg Loose resigned last week after two months on the Uffelman didnt say name the person he want ed to move into Looses but Perlstein con firmed he had been approached about the It was mentioned to but we have not dis cussed it in any he Other councilmen were about the mayors Finance commissioner Doug Worden and public safety commissioner Chuck Griffin wanted a name before offering an opin Streets chief Roy Pranger said he the Parks commissioner Morris Brown op posed the suggestion because he said he wants the position filled permanently as soon as pos Perlstein applied for the job in but then mayor Tom Diewold said Perlstein did not meet the The job requires a BA degree with three years personnel experience including labor or an MA degree with one year Perlstein had no personnel ex Uffelman said the employee he had in mind would be granted a leave of absence from his current job and assigned to the personnel The city will have to negotiate with five labor unions in the next few Loose was the citys chief Uffelmans suggestion of a temporary per director followed an animated discussion on the merits of filling the Griffin sided with the mayor in calling the job Pranger and Worden favored filling the We definitely need a personnel Worden Its not a good idea for council to negotiate directly with the When a union president gets up and tells you it thats a good indication its Worden was referring to a comment made at Tuesdays council meeting by Rex presi dent of the local firefighters Mundt told the council he was in favor of the mayors sug gestion to abolish the personnel Uffelman said he thought most personnel work could be handled by department Pranger warned that would be loading the de heads down with a lot of paperwork that would take them away from their Griffin said the council should meet with de heads to see how they He also suggested the council redefine the job duties of a personnel I totally disagree with the section that says the personnel director can do anything he wants to any employee and that can only be overturned by the votes of three commissioners Griffin Now listen Amy Carter whispers to her mother Wednesday night during the State of the Union Her dad the president was en what one day may be called the Carter warning the Soviets to stay out of the Gulf an page 2 a report and page Inside story Even before the Monday night massacre in Ted Kennedys presidential campaign was showing signs of stress page A revitalization program for Pleasant wins city council approval page Come CETA job program will try a different approach page For the obituaries and Hawk Eye Page
