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Iranians celebrate while captives observe 100th day
By The Associated Press Iran’s revolutionary regime celebrated its first anniversary today with President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr standing in for ailing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at a victory parade through Tehran. Meanwhile, a group of visiting Americans met Sunday with the militants holding the U S. Embassy and reported a “good exchange of views.” But they said they were not allowed to see the approximately 50 hostages, who began their 100th day in captivity today. Tehran Radio promised a “grand military parade" today to mark the anniversary of the forced resignation of Shahpour Bakhtiar. the last prime minister appointed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, arrived for the celebration Khomeini had been scheduled to preside over the parade, but Tehran Radio said his doctors advised him not to attend. The 79-vear-old leader of the revolution is still in the hospital, convalescing from a heart attack Jan 23. Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev sent Khomeini an anniversary message stressing
ccept compromise plan
Chicago teachers return to classrooms
CHICAGO (AP) Chicago’s 473.000 public school students are returning to classes today for the first time in two weeks after members of the striking Chicago Teachers Union overwhelmingly approved a compromise plan to salvage hundreds of classroom jobs. “We’re happy it ended well,” union President Robert Healey said Sunday after announcing that teachers voted 4,645 to 213 in favor of ending the walkout. “You could say we compromised for good causes. ”
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Noted Physicist Dr. Edward Teller is jolted by a man throwing a cream pie during his lecture engagement at UCLA in Los Angeles Wednesday night. The attacker, who remains unidentified, was hustled away by police
Hoosier has mixed feelings over boycott
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Kathy Landsgraf, like many Americans, has mixed feelings about the proposed U.S. boycott of the summer Olympics. She doesn’t believe the Soviets should able to use the event as a world propaganda platform, but she is saddened that some of the country’s best athletes may miss the Olympics. Unlike most Americans, the mother of two knows exactly what members of the U.S. Olympic team will be giving up if they boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In 1964, Mrs. Landsgraf, then Kathy Ellis of Indianapolis, was a 17-year-old member of the U:S. swimming team at the summer games in Tokyo. “I had been in national and international competition and that was thrilling. But it was nothing like the excitement of
Fire forces evacuation of Shelburne
By The Associated Press About 100 Shelburne residents were ordered from their homes, an Indianapolis woman was killed and furniture companies in two cities were destroyed in separate weekend fires in Indiana, officials said. Residents in Shelburne, a small farming community about 20 miles south of Terre Haute, were evacuated after a fire broke out 9:20 p m Saturday in a warehouse containing grease and other crude oil
the Kremlin’s desire for “goodneighborly relations” with Iran, and the Foreign Ministry said the Soviet ambassador reassured Iran that it faced no danger from the Soviet Union. The young militants holding the American Embassy met for four hours Sunday with the delegation of Americans they invited to Tehran in a new effort to publicize their charges against the ousted shah and the United States. Norman Forer of Kansas University, the head of the 49-member delegation, said there was a “good exchange of views” but refused to say more about it. Randy Goodman of Boston said the delegation was kept in one room and did not see any of the hostages. Bani-Sadr renewed his criticism of the young militants for inviting the Americans to Iran without his approval. “I will not accept such behavior, which I consider a government within the legitimate government,” he said. “In my capacity as president of this government, I call on the students to put an end to this behavior and to unify their opinions and actions with the government’s opinion.”
Board of Education officials have scheduled a ratification vote for Wednesday. Teachers in the nation’s thirdlargest school district had refused from Jan. 28 until they received overdue paychecks at the end of the week. But the following Monday, they were on strike, resisting the Board of Education’s plans to eliminate jobs as part of a S6O million budget reduction. The board was supposed to cut school spending as part of an elaborate rescue plan agreed
walking along wearing a USA on your sweatshirt,” she said of her experiences with the world’s best athletes. She won two gold medals at the Tokyo games by anchoring the women’s 400-meter freestyle and the 400-meter medly relay teams. She also picked up a pair of bronze medals in the 100-meter butterfly and the 100-meter freestyle events. She is puzzled about the proposed American boycott of the summer games, made in light of Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan. She says she has watched movies of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and she feels it was wrong to give Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a stage to strut upon. “It’s a heavy question and I have mixed feeling about the whole thing,” she says. “If we don’ go to the summer Olympics, there ought to be an alter-
products. Fire officials said they feared an explosion from the fire at the Trueblood Bulk Plant, an outlet for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana). State Police Sgt. Robert Philips said residents in a sixblock area were evacuated at 10 p.m. to a nearby grade school seven blocks north of the fire scene. Philips said one fireman at the scene was hospitalized, after he was apparently overcome by smoke No other injuries were reported The cause of the fire is under
upon by school, government and business leaders last month in Springfield. The agreement provided loans for the school system, which could no longer borrow in the money markets because its credit rating had fallen too low. The agreement approved by the union Sunday restored 300 teacher and 204 teacher aides and clerk positions the board planned to cut. The board had voted to end 1,675 teaching positions and now will end 1,375. The agreement also provided
before a motive for the pie-throwing could be determined. Dr. Teller, who helped develop the atomic bomb, was speaking on nuclear energy at the university. (AP Wirephoto).
nate to give these kids a chance to compete.” ' She places herself in the shoes of this year’s batch of Olympic swimmers. “At 17, I was one of the old ones on the 1964 swimming team. The average age was 14 because we were heavy with 13-year-old swimmers. In my case, if I had not competed in 1964,1 would have been 21 years old by the next Olympics and there would be no way I could have been competitive,” she said. Swimmers and some track and field performers, she said, have brief competitive lives, leaving them little chance to qualify for the next Olympics in 1984 at Los Angeles. The Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the threat it poses to the Moscow games puzzles her. “It took Moscow a long time to get the games, and you
investigation by the state fire marshal’s office, Philips said. In Indianapolis, the body of Frances Watkins, 53, was found leaning over a chair late Friday night in her apartment at the Meadow Brook Apartments. The fire, which investigators said was arson, was confined to the ground floor apartment. The woman was the apparent victim of smoke inhalation, investigators said. Her 46-year-old husband, Bester, was found lying in a back bedroom He was listed in sat-
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Blindfolded And With his hands bound, an American hostage was shown by young militants to the mob in front of the American Embassy on the fourth day of
that all 48,600 school employees will lose one day in pay but nine days will be added on to the school year to make up for days lost during the work stoppage, Healey said. Chuck Burdeen, a teachers union spokesman, said the loss of one day’s pay will save the school board about $3.7 million. Restoring the 500 classroom positions will cost $3.69 million. The agreement also calls for the school board to drop court action against the union and its officers.
wouldn’t think they would want to jeopardize them.” Mrs. Landsgraf’s competitive career ended with the 1964 Olympics. After graduating from Indiana University, she coached at Indianapolis swimming clubs, then became coach of the men’s swimming team at Butler University. While coaching, she met her husband. Doug Landsgraf, the soccer and swimming coach at Wabash College here. Now, when he is coaching soccer, she handles swim coach duties at the college. If the boycott of the Moscow Olympics goes through, Mrs. Landsgraf thinks the United States and other boycotting nations should put on the best alternate Olympics possible. “They have got to see that the kids who go to alternate games get all the attention they would if they went to the Olympics,” she said.
isfactory condition at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Another blaze destroyed the Miller Furniture Co. in downtown Kokomo Saturday. Authorities estimated the blaze began about 2 a m. EST, and said the fire had spread to most of the building before the first fire units arrived on the scene. Total damages were not immediately available, although the owner, Robert Strode said the inventory was worth between S6S,(KM) and $70,000.
its occupation on Nov. 8, 1979. Feb. 11 is the 100th day the Americans have spent as captives at the mercy of militants and the Iranian government. (AP Wirephoto).
Board of Education attorneys filed a motion last week asking that the teachers be found in contempt after they ignored a preliminary injunction ordering them to return to work. Healey called the strike “the most unusual in the history of Illinois,” because the teachers stayed home “not to gain, but to keep what we had and to protect the jobs of some of our fellow workers.” The union’s executive board unanimously endorsed the settlement before the general
Hot issues
Chrysler, highway funding measures await action
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - With the Legislature’s work almost two-thirds over, the House and the Senate have dumped the session’s hot issues aid to Chrysler and highway finance into each other’s laps. The House Ways and Means Committee, which heard the Chrysler bill last week, will vote on it Monday. Chairman William L. Long predicts there are enough votes in the committee to send the Senatepassed measure to the full House. The highway finance bill, which calls for a new tax tied to the price of gasoline rather than the number of gallons sold, cleared the House last week and is awaiting action Thursday in the Senate Finance Committee. Other legislation has been handled at a brisk pace during
Youth's murder scares town
BLOOMFIELD. Ind. (AP) - The brutal and unexplained murder of a teen-aged girl here two weeks ago is still a topic of hushed gossip, and residents of the sleepy community of 3,000 have joined their city neighbors in locking their doors many for the first time. “People are really scared here now,” said Donna Mohr, secretary of the Bloomfield Baptist Church. “I talked to one woman who is carrying a ball bat in her car, and people are locking their doors who have never done so before.” "After the sadness came a real fear that bordered on panic in some cases,” said Mary Ann Farris, a counselor at the Bloomfield Hospital. “People began locking their doors and
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membership meeting, and the CTU’s House of Delegates then voted 607-2 to support ratification of the pact. Meanwhile, Chicago firefighters, who have been threatening to strike to win a written contract with the city, and Mayor Jane Byrne agreed Saturday to call in a mediator. Firefighters have previously had only a handshake agreement with the city. Negotiations were to continue today in that dispute.
the past 19 days of the 30-day session. “We’re batting pretty good,” Gov. Otis R. Bowen said of his legislative program. “We’ll have to see what the other house does with it.” Bowen, in his final year as Indiana’s chief executive, said almost all of the bills he requested in his State of the State address have passed one chamber or the other. While he criticized the Housepassed highway plan, he conceded, “It’s a good step in the right direction.” House Speaker Kermit O. Burrous, R-Peru, who has served longer in that position than anyone else in history, said he is pleased with the General Assembly’s work so far. “I think it is going well to this point. We’ve compromised on
leaving lights on inside and out all night. The panic is subsiding now and in its place is a careful prudence.” The body of Kathy Sanford, 14, was found in a pool of blood in the hallway of her home near the courthouse square, stabbed and beaten to death. The state police investigation is centered in this southern Indiana town because of evidence found in the Sanford home, said Greene County Prosecutor David Holt. “It has been a lot longer than
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February 11,1980, The Putnam County Banner Graphic
lOC members urge stall over U.S. boycott request
LAKE PLACID, N Y. (AP) - The International Olympic Committee today privately de bates what to do about the Moscow Summer Games, with a few members urging a stall over the U.S. request for a change of venue. Meanwhile, a Taiwanese athlete’s bid to compete as a representative of the Republic of China is going before a state appeals court. More than 70 of the lOC’s 89 members were expected for the session at which U.S. Olympic Committee President Robert Kane and Executive Director Col. F. Donald Miller again were to present the American position on the Moscow Games. They told the lOC executive board Friday that the Russians betrayed Olympic principles by intervening in Afghanistan and that Moscow is not a suitable place for an Summer Games. President Carter has asked that American athletes boycott the Moscow Olympics if they are not moved, canceled or postponed and the Soviets do not withdraw their troops. More than 30 nations reportedly are prepared to participate in such a boycott. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance went before the lOC at its opening session on Saturday to appeal for action against the Russians, but his speech only seemed to firm the lOC’s resolve. “We must take a firm stand and resist all government pressures that would interfere with the Olympic Games,” said Count Jean de Beaumont of
some things that we had to move some legislation along on, like the highway funding thing,” he said. “The tempo of this session is easier than any short session I’ve ever been involved in. A part of it is that we sat down in advance and we’ve continued to talk about the major issues. We might not agree but we’ve talked and kept things moving,” Burrous added. House Democrats, who are outnumbered 54-46 by the Republicans, gained S2B million in concessions in the supplemental budget bill in exchange for support on the highway finance plan. Some are concerned that the Senate Republicans will delete their hard-won appropriations from the budget and the process will have to begin again in conference committee.
we hoped without an arrest in the slaying, but I have the utmost confidence in the men who are conducting the investigation,” said Holt, who added the investigation is “progressing." “We must believe she was killed for a reason, and there is nothing to tell us it was robbery or burglary.” Holt said. The Sanford girl took a longdistance telephone call from a friend about 9 p.m. the night of the murder, investigators say. They believe she was killed between 9 and 11 p.m.
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France. “We believe the youth of the world should have the right to compete in the Games despite political differences. " “A boycott is the best way to kill the Olympic Games. We should try to unite, not disunite,” added Monique Berlioux, director of the International Olympic Committee. Many lOC members called the speech political and unprecedented. Many felt the Moscow Games, scheduled to begin July 19, must be held so the lOC can preserve its nonpolitical traditions. “This speech will unite the IOC,” said Willi Daume of West Germany. The Soviet news agency Tass on Sunday labeled the remarks “crude political interference” in the lOC’s affairs. Some lOC members, mostly from South America, have suggested delaying a decision on the Summer Games for two or three months. There have been reports the Soviets might soon begin withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan. However, those favoring a stall were a minority. Meanwhile, Appellate Division Justice A. Franklin Mahoney in Albany today is hearing arguments on skier Liang Rerf Guey’s suit to compete in the Winter Games here as a representative of the Republic of China, not Taiwan. Taipei’s team has been barred from the Olympic Village and other Olympic sites unless it accepts credentials under another name.
Burrous is about such a prospect. “The legislative process involves two houses. You can never predict what the other house is going to do, nor should you try to predict what the other house is going to do with legislation.” he said. “If we drafted something and they (the Senate) had to pass it, there would be no reason for them to be here. I just can’t say, well, just because we agreed over here they have to agree over there.” “We have tried to offset the effects of inflation for the people who work for the state and for the people who receive direct appropriations from the state public schools, universities, mental hospitals,” Burrous said.
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