Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - November 8, 1979, Waterloo, Iowa 52 pages 4 sections Thursday November Waterloo Iowa 25 cents PLO help sought on Iran crisis WASHINGTON AP U.S mediator Ramsey Clark is holding talks in Turkey with an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization in an effort to negotiate the release of some 60 American hostages in Iran it was learned Thursday A US official who insisted that he not be identified said Clark met with the PLO representative Wednesday in Istanbul and was meeting with him there again day The PLO has offered to intercede with Iranian authorities to try to gain the release of the hostages held since Sunday in the U.S Embassy in Tehran BUT AS A the PLO is demanding that the United States ask directly for Its help U.S policy prohibits direct negotiations with trie group until it recognizes Israel's right to exist in peace in the Middle East In response to the demand discussed by dark with the PLO official the State Department volunteered a reporters in Washington Thursday ing It If they the PLO are moving to help release the Americans it would be a highly responsible action in a situation where they may have some influence and we welcome such assistance The question now being taken up by dark with the unidentified PLO official is whether that statement satisfies the PLO Meanwhile Rep Paul Findley who maintains close contact with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sent a telegram to President Carter urging him to send a personal message to Arafat stating his personal appreciation for any PLO effort in behalf of the hostages Len Lefkow a White House spokesman said officials there were aware of suggestion but had not acted on it Bufno avenues are being Lefkow said Earlier Thursday one administration official said that in seeking freedom for the hostages we have utilized every channel we feel is available with the exception of referring to the PLO There was no indication as to how long the Carter administration was prepared to let the embassy ordeal continue I'm not going to say anything at ail about one official said privately IN TEHRAN Iranian demonstrators blindfolded one of their 60 American hostages at the U.S Embassy bound his hands behind his back and paraded around the garden Thursday while mobs shouted Death to and Send Back the a witness reported The demonstrators at the embassy also accused L Bruce Laingen the U.S charge d'affaires a plotting spy and said they would hold him cap- live at the Foreign Ministry where he has been holed since the embassy was taken over Sunday The spectacle at the American Em- bassy was reported by a witness who telephoned The Associated Press in Athens The witness asked anonymity NBC television said the American who wad paraded around the garden was about years old but did not further identify him The hostages were blindfolded and bound after the embassy takeover last Sunday but their Iranian later claimed the blindfolds at least had been removed Ayatollah Khomeini has re- a special peace mission from Pre- sident Carter Tehran radio said before any talks could be held with the U.S peace emissaries the Carter administration would have to surrender mad Reza Pahlavi to Iran to face trial as a war criminal something Washington has refused to do The shah is hospitalized in New York U.S government by keeping the shah has declared its open opposition to Iran The U.S Embassy in Iran is our enemies center of espionage against our sacred Islamic movement It is therefore not possible under any circumstances for- the special representatives to meet said the broadcast monitored in Kuwait and London Carter's special envoys were Clark who met with Khomeini in January while the ayatollah was an exile in France and William Miller a staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee who speaks Persian They interrupted their journey in Istanbul Turkey pending clarification from the Iranian authorities State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said Reports within the oil industry day said Iran appeared to be suspending shipments to the United States but this was denied by both U.S and Iranian officials A Tehran newspaper Thursday quoted the Iranian oil minister All Akbar far as saving chances of an oil embargo against the United States were small since the problem between the two tries is political hot economic it was reported by the Japanese news service Kyodo Japanese oil traders said meanwhile that Iran had notified them that oil ments to Japan would be reduced by 5 percent for technical reasons A US official in Washington who asked not to be identified said the American hostages had been pushed around abused intimidated and but there was no evidence any had been injured He said their captors had brought in new weapons including machine guns Two American employees of Bell Helicopter were reported to have been taken from the Tehran Hilton to the embassy as new hostages and a Japanese report said U.S officials of the America Society a State affiliated cultural organization were also seized and taken to the embassy The State Department said about 200 Americans have left Iran since the em- bassy takeover and urged the 300 to 400 still in the country to leave quietly Iranian students face resentment By The Associated Press A growing number of Americans pear to agree with the sentiment in a banner hung from a college dormitory window in New go back to your fascist dictator The banner discovered Wednesday dangling from a dormitory window at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut was one of many responses to the ing stalemate at the U.S Embassy in Tehran where about 60 Americans are being held hostage by Iranian students SOME 2M Iranians attend the ty of Bridgeport The words were different but the message this week has been the other schools meeting halls street cor- ners and living rooms Some people have picketed Others have shouted The captors are demanding the U.S return the deposed Shah of Iran hospitalized in New York with cancer to face trial The Carter administration has ruled out resolution by force but many Americans don't want the U.S to back down either It's time for Americans to take a said Mike Hyman student body president at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where ah open-air forum known as Free Speech Alley drew 500 persons more than normal for a discussion on the trouble in Iran Too many people have died for that American flag for them to deface it like said Hyman An Iranian student supporting his was shouted down IN HOUSTON where about 60 Iranian students paraded through downtown to demand the shah's extradition several spectators heckled and one pulled a sign from a student's hands and tore it up In an angrier confrontation earlier in the week dozens of students at the Un- of Washington at Seattle shouted Go Go at Iranian dents protesting the shah's U.S stay Two Iranian students at Pittsburg State University in Kansas were punched in the face Wednesday by a man in a One of the students was hospitalized in good condition with facial cuts Student senate president Mark fman said the assault was an attack against Iranians in general not just those two The embassy impasse created special fears for the families of the hostages Their captors are armed and a State Department official who asked not to be identified said hostages were being pushed around abused intimidated and mishandled In Columbia Angela Belk 23 wife of State Department diplomat William Belk picketed with her brother and sister in front of the state capitol She wore a sign that Please help bring my husband home safe AP Iranian demonstrators set fire to an American flag near the U.S Embassy in Tehran At least 60 Americans were still being held hostage in the embassy Thursday and the Carter administration said it was talking with the PLO in hopes of getting its help in resolving the situation Brown says he's candidate for president First place for second year Waterloo wins betterment award Brown WASHINGTON Gov Edmund G Brown Jr of California formally an- his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday saying that the nation's current leaders are simply inadequate to steer the ship of state Brown says he stands for protection of the Earth service to the people and exploration and industrialization of space That was the theme of a brief statement with which Brown said I offer myself as a candidate for the White House because the nation's current leadership is not adequate PRESIDENTIAL leadership often seems the exception rather than the he time to wake up America to build for the future not steal from it He to offer an alternative With that Brown formally launched his challenge to President Carter and Sen Edward M Kennedy the latter already on the road campaigning for the tion Carter is to announce his candidacy on Dec 4 Brown said he is the candidate of the future and that is what the nation needs Today is the first day of my campaign for the tea leaves of the polls I leave those to he said He called for a constitutional ment requiring a balanced federal budget And he proposed a national energy corporation to develop and manage the country's oil supply and said he would impose government control over petroleum imports He also urged that public named by the president be pointed to the boards of directors of all multinational corporations BROWN THE last serious challenger to President Carter for the nomination three years ago acknowledges he is ning a distant third in the polls and in campaign fund raising For the second consecutive year Waterloo has taken first place in the state Community Betterment Contest for cities of over population Waterloo also won the Youth ment Award in its population category for the second consecutive year Each award includes a 5500 check The Highland Neighborhood tion won second place in a category for neighborhoods and that award included a check THE TWO checks will be presented to the City Council night The awards were announced Wednesday Waterloo competed with 11 other cities in its category including Cedar Falls which placed fifth and received Cedar entry took second place a year ago The Waterloo entry consisted of seven Designer Showcase chairwoman Rosemary Curran Columbus High School's forensic program and dance marathon headed by Kim Kyll and Bob the Youth Development Task Force headed by Jim Laurence the Youth Honors Breakfast handled by Alison Gaard Goodwill Industries 18th Birthday Party headed by Linda Thompson the Volunteer Probation Youth Aide Program headed by Marvin Nicol and the Club entry headed by Cathy Curran Judy Petersen of 101 Byrn Brae St received the Governor's Leadership Award from Waterloo MEMBERS OF Waterloo's Community Betterment Council are Nancy Dykeman Jenner and Joan Schreiner Cedar Falls fifth place entry consisted of Sturgis Falls Day the Ice House Museum the Municipal Utility's energy conservation program the battered women program the Clean Community Commission program and the police department's Neighborhood Watch gram Other Northeast Iowa cities to place in the contest Eldora first place in the population category Cresco third place and Hampton fifth place in the same category Vinton won honorable mention in that category Riceville won first place in the population category Independence took honorable mention in the to population Parkersburg took fourth place in the population category and Monona won the Youth Involvement Award in the population category Blairstown placed fourth in the population group and Grafton took fourth place in the category for towns with less than 255 persons The awards were presented by Gov Robert Ray in Des Moines Today's Quick Comment A jail initiate says the scales of justice weigh heavily against him The Montana prisoner has filed suit against the Cascade County sheriff claiming he is not ing enough food to keep him from going hungry The suit also complains the jail food is greasy He wants three hot balanced meals a day in- fruit He com- plains that dinner at the jail usually consists of sandwiches and cake Inside A group of students at West High School wants illegally de- smoking areas abolished Page 6 Weather Rain possibly mixed with snow Friday Complete weather on page 2 Capitol quips In the romantic tales of our childhood the marvelous new battery would have come from Chrysler No end fo it Some tasks it seems are never-ending Raking leaves is Cedar Falls says this is the third time she has raked and one of them Mrs Ray Hanemoller 1922 Edwards St in burned leaves this fall and they're still coming down Courier photo by Mary Kollath
