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Noting Reagan is 'still the champ,' Connally withdraws from race

c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service HOUSTON After the stinging defeat inflicted on him by Ronald Reagan in the South Carolina Republican primary Saturday, John B. Connally came home to Texas to announce he was pulling out of the Republican presidential race. With his arm clasped tightly around his smiling wife, Nellie, the silver-haired former Texas governor began brightly, recalling the start of his quest 14 months ago. He said he had begun this campaign against “overwhelming odds" knowing that he had to overtake Reagan in the South and by deliberately challenging him in the Florida caucuses last fall and the South Carolina primary Saturday. In both contests Reagan won, Connally noted, and in South Carolina in particular, "we ran second and not a very close second.” "Gov. Reagan is still the champ," he said. “We haven’t overtaken him and I don’t think we’re going to.” But though he began brightly and confidently, Connally’s head fell and his voice broke as he moved on to say, “I’m announcing the withdrawal of my candidacy.” There were protests in the room but both he and his audience quickly recovered and he drew a laugh when he added. “To do so is not to announce the withdrawal from politics.” Later, however, he said that he did not “intend ever to be a candidate again” for public office. Although Connally told the audience of about 400 close supporters here that he had telephoned his decision to Reagan and to some other politicians, Connally said he was not going to endorse any other candidate Sunday though he left open the possibility that he might do sc at a later date. When someone asked what Reagan had said when he informed the California governor of his intention to withdraw, Connally drew another laugh by saying, “I found him interested in it,” but then he said Reagan had done little but to give personal regards to both Connally and his wife. Although close Connally advisers said that his withdrawal was forced not only by the South Carolina defeat but by money problems and a lack of prospects for victory in any of the upcoming primaries. Connally generally side-stepped a port mortem on his campaign. Benton Barnes, a Texas businessman who acts as finance chairman for the campaign, said it was now in debt more than $500,000, including SIBO,OOO left from a personal loan taken out by Connally. But he said the campaign, which has spent over $lO million, hoped to recover some funds from telephone and rent deposits and from canceled advertising. Connally acknowledged that there had been things in the campaign he would have done differently if he had it to do over again, but he did not mention, as others did, his failure to campaign more vigorously in lowa and to prevent a bad showing there that weakened him subsequently, his difficulty in public opinion polls with a wheeler-dealer image, or his controversial statement last fall on Middle East policy which many had interpreted as a suggestion that the United States make a deal

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JOHN B. CONNALLY 'Not a very close second' for guaranteed Arab oil supplies in return for an Arab-Israeli settlement that would allow somaitind of mixed control over the city of Jerusalem. Connally had always insisted that the issue of an Arab-Israeli peace and Arab oil supplies were separate issues and that his policy toward Israel was really a statement of previous American stands, though some of his aides have conceded that his policy pronouncement alienated important Jewish leaders and contributors. The only two factors cited by Connally for the failure of his campaign were the depth and fervor of Reagan’s support among Republicans and the Iranian crisis, which he said had for 90 days “changed the whole political environment in the country,” and caused the public to lose interest in the presidential contest in both parties. Before the crisis, he Said, most people had assumed that Sen, Edward M. Kennedy would be the Democratic nominee and that the Republicans would have to field “the toughest campaigner to compete with him, which worked to my benefit.” But when the crisis diminished Kennedy’s chances, Connally said, it also hurt his own. The second factor, he said, was that “I recognize we’ve not been able to erode Gov. Reagan’s strength over this party. He’s got it. It’s out there. It’s strong. It’s deep. It’s devoted. And if somebody else can shake it. I’m going to go over and congratulate him.” Nonetheless, Connally refused to say this was “his last hurrah.” He promised to campaign actively this year for Republican candidates for the Senate and the House. “I don’t intend ever to be a candidate again,” he said, “but I’m always going to be active in politics.”

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Cabinet okays Shamir JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel’s new foreign minister, Yitzhak Shamir, is a strong advocate of Jewish settlements in the occupied Arab territories who wouldn’t support the Camp David accords and the peace treaty with Egypt and still is “not enthusiastic” about them. A leader in the terrorist underground that battled British rule in Palestine and later the second-in-command of Israel’s intelligence service, Shamir quit the speakership of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, to take on the post Moshe Dayan quit Oct. 23. Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s Cabinet gave preliminary approval to Shamir’s appointment Sunday and was expected to give final approval today. Begin has been acting as foreign minister since Dayan resigned in protest against Begin’s policies for the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and the Palestinian population there.

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Khomeini issues conditions

By The Associated Press Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said today the U.N. commission can question U.S. Embassy hostages involved in crimes against Iran, but the panel can not see all the captives unless it issues its report in Tehran, the state radio said. "We shall fight against the U.S. government to the end of our life,” Khomeini said. His statement appeared to repudiate the decision by the ruling Revolutionary Council, its chief, President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, and Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh that the militants holding the approximately 50 hostages for 128 days allow the panel to meet all the hostages or hand them over to government custody. However, Ghotbzadeh denied it was a setback. Khomeini’s statement also ordered the embassy militants “to deliver copies of all documents concerning the U.S. intervention and the traitor shah” to the U.N. commission. The statement was issued after 10 members of the council met with him in hopes of resolving the deadlock with the militants. “The panel can meet with those hostages involved in the crimes of the U.S. and the shah for questioning,” Iran’s 79-yearold revolutionary leader said. “If the

Iranians protest arrests,go on hunger strike

MONROE, La. (AP) - For ty-seven jailed Iranians, on the fourth day of a hunger strike, claim they were arrested in retaliation for the seizure of the 50 Americans held hostage in Iran, and will not cooperate at their arraignment today, their lawyer says. “Apparently the officers were trying to get the magic number of 50,” lawyer Marion Overton White said Sunday. ’’the arrest is political and racial. They were singled out as Iranians and arrested. Some of them were arrested off of the campus, others were arrested in the parking lot, others were arrested in their cars,” he said. The 47, and another Iranian who was released on SIOO bond

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Computer system hinders military

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military, which owns and operates nearly half the government’s computers, is saddled with thousands of obsolete machines that leave the services ill-prepared for a modern war, according to outside experts and high-level sources within the Carter administration. A study solicited by the president’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from a team of outside specialists found that Air Force computers, in par-

panel issues its report on the crimes of the deposed shah and interventions of the invading U.S. in Tehran it will be allowed to see all the hostages.” Khomeini concluded by saying, "I express my support for the Revolutionary Council and the honorable president and ask all the nation to help and support them.” There was no immediate comment from BaniSadr, the militants, or the U.N. panel, whose mission appeared in very shaky straits. But Ghotbzadeh, interviewed by ABC-TV News in Tehran, called Khomeini’s ruling a positive development. He said he hoped the U.N. panel would stay in Tehran for two or three more days to meet with several of the hostages, as Khomeini outlined, then issue a “declaration, not a report” of its findings so it could then meet with the rest of the captives. Asked when the hostages might be freed, he reiterated, “This is a decision of the Parliament,” which won’t be in a position to discuss the issue until May. The U.N. commission arrived in Tehran Feb. 23 to investigate the revolutionary regime’s charges of mass murder and plunder against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and to try to ease the crisis between the United States and Iran over the hostages.

Saturday, were arrested after they broke up a speech by a former Iranian diplomat Thursday at Northeast Louisiana University. s They were held on charges of trespassing and resisting police officers after they shouted down

ticular, “offer vulnerable targets to either a nuclear attack or sabotage.” The systems already are operating at or near capacity, and “it is unlikely that they can accommodate war-time surges in load,” the panel said. A summary of the group’s findings, prepared for President Carter a year ago but never delivered, said: “The Defense Department cannot fly a modern airplane, drive a ship, issue paychecks, assign an officer or issue an item from in-

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Ferelydoun Hoveyda, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations under the deposed shah. White said they had broken no laws and had not heckled, but only asked questions the audience did not like.

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ventory without using its computing resource. “In a future conflict, intelligent computer management could have a major impact on the success of the national defense and would extend far beyond the purely military areas.” Blit the team found that the Pentagon’s top management has largely ignored its growing dependence on computers and has forfeited the military’s position as a world leader in computer technology.

The Carter administration hoped the commission’s visit would result in the speedy release of the Americans. But after the panel got there, Khomeini said the hostages’ fate would be decided by Iran’s new parliament, which won’t be fully elected until April 3, and the secretary-general of the Revolutionary Council said no decision could be made until mid-May. The militants announced Thursday they were ready to turn the captives over to the council. Ghotbzadeh said Friday the transfer and a visit to them by the U.N. commission probably would take place Saturday. But the militants balked, saying Ghotbzadeh lied when he said he had the backing of Khomeini The Revolutionary Council again demanded the militants surrender the hostages and allow the U.N. commission to see them. The militants agreed to a transfer Sunday, then balked again and set forth their new conditions. They said the state radio had to broadcast details of any hostage transfer eight hours in advance, that Ghotbzadeh had to be removed as the council’s represen-, tative in arranging the transfer, and that they WoilW stay inside the U.S. Embassy after the move to eqntinue revealing documents from the “den of spies.”

He said two Americans, an Italian and an Arab were arrested with the Iranians, but released without being charged when police learned their nationalities. Police officers on duty Sunday night were unable to con-

The Defense Department’s official response to the National Security Team’s report said top management involvement had been increased and that many of the recommendations were under study. One of the team’s findings was that previous reports similar to its own had been ignored. Data compiled by OMB show that the Navy and Air Force have some of the oldest computers in government. Several in the missile-tracking North American Air Defense Command are more than 20 vears old. A team of government auditors has concluded that one Defense computer system the worldwide system built to warn the president of an enemy attack or international crisis is fundamentally deficient in design and cannot be used effectively for military command purposes.

firm or deny his claims. “I don’t' know. I wasn’t there,” said Sgt.: Don McClanahan, the super-: visor on duty. The Iranians were scheduled for arraignment today, but White said they would not cooperate because they felt doing so would condone the arrests. “Based on their religious belief they cannot condone a wrongful act,” he said. “I don’t expect them to go in', unless they’re brought in. They’re not going to volunteer.: And if they are brought in they: will remain silent,” he said. City Attorney Patrick White; said that would not stop the arraignment. Those who refuse to: walk to court would be carried in one by one, he said. Welfare department in the red KOKOMO. Ind. (AP) - These are hard times for Indiana auto workers and nowhere is that known better than at the Howard County Welfare Department. Caught between rising financial assistance claims and a property tax freeze, the department is $23,000 in the red and the situation looks like it could get worse. To combat the dwindling funds. the Howard County Welfare Board will seek a $907,000 bond issue to help fund the department’s programs for the next 21 months. The plan was scheduled to go before county commissioners for their review today. Economic problems for the department were blamed on the dramatic increase in Aid to families with Dependent Children payments. The department budgeted $132,000 a month for ADC payments in 1980. In January it actually paid out $152,000 and in February. $155,,000. County officials, who began talking about a bond issue in January, say it wouldn’t be the first time Howard County has floated a bond to support the welfare department. In 1968. a $275,000 bond issue was offered. It was paid off in 10 years through a property tax rate of a penny per SIOO of assessed value. James McClean, the welfare department director, said tUe current request for $907,000 wfls based on state welfare department projections of tax revenue and estimated department expenses for the next two years, rThe department estimated the total cost to the county Sit $987,725 for all welfare prfr grams this year, compared l» an anticipated $540,000 in tlk revenues. That leaves a shortage of $447,725 for 1980 In 1981, estimating the same tax revenues. McClean projecls the department will fall short by $460,000. The combination of the projected deficits for 1986 and 1981 equals the $987,725 figure. Welfare board attorney Joseph Scionti agreed with McClean’s figures, and noted the department “was stuck" with $540.00 county tax revenue figure for the next two years because of the 1973 tax freeze