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• • • Baseball-Pages 7-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------- VOL. XIV, NO. T66 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's TIIURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1980 Militants threaten to kill hostages if US uses force (AP) -- The young readicals adeeh told a Tehran new holding 50 Americans in Teh­ conference Iran has ''decided ran threalened yesterday to to overthrow'' the Iraqi gov­ burn the U.S. Embassy and ernment of President Saddam kill their hostages if the U­ Hussein, whom he accused of nited States tries "even the being "America's agent." smallest'' military move a­ Border tension between the gainst Iran. two countries has heightened T'he Carter administration is since the revolutionary victory hinting at a possible naval in Iran 14 months ago, and it blockade of Iran if the hos­ tlared into reproted frontier ta!!es are not freed. But in skirmishes this week. W itshingron and other world The embassy hostages were capitals Wednesday, Ameri­ midway through their 23rd can·diplomats sought the- help week of captivity in Tehran of U.S. allies in a broader In announcing a U.S. econ­ program to punish Iran econ­ omir embargo and a break in omically, a program they say diplomatic relations Monday, could make tougher moves Carter warned that "other unneccessary. actions'' against Iran might Secretary of State Cyrus become necessary. He repeat­ Vance summoned ambassa­ edly has considered a blockade dors from 20 nations to the or the mining of Iranian ports State Department to present to cut off economic lifelines. Baldemar Velasquez spoke on the recent attempts of FLOC to negotiate worker the U.S. case, and foreign The embassy militants is­ contracts last night in LaFortune. [photo by joel Annable] ministers of West European sued a statement yesterday, nations were gatering in Port­ read on Tehran Radio, declar­ u&a~ for consultations on the ing, "In the name of God the Cr1S1S. avenger we plainly warn the West European an other criminal government of the nations were considering United States that if it under­ taking action with the United takes even the smallest mili­ Velasquez outlines FLOC goals States, but any decision might tary intervention in Iran we be weeks away. will kill all the spy hostages Iran, meanwhile, was also together and we emphatically by Tim Vercellotti volunteers who talk with the FLOC's efforts. intensifying its showdown with Staff Reporter workers in the fields. Velas­ FLOC's leader congratulated neighboring Iraq. Iranian For­ [continued on page 12) quez told his audience that Notre Dame for doing its part eign Minister Sadegh GHotbz- The efforts of the Farm communication with the labor­ in spreading the word about Labor Organizing Committee ers is not always easy. He cited his organization by the passage (FLOC) in its campaign to gain a situation where the tomato of a referendum banning all Sanctions vs. Iran the right to negotiate a contract fields were surrounded by a Campbell's and Libby's prod­ with the produce canners was crop of corn, thus preventing ucts from the University. the subject of a program pre­ FLOC members from having The group has not met with sented by Baldemar Velasquez, contact with the workers. The success everywhere. Velasquez Vance seeks support president of FLOC, last night problem was solved with the related an episode when some m LaFortune Little Theater. rental of an airplane and a FLOC pickets were jailed on a In characterizing his organ­ loudspeaker. misdemeanor. According to WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre­ nute mee nt between Vance and ization's work, Valasquez said tary ofStatt: Cyrus Vance called the group of allied diplomats, Velasquez pointed out that Velasquez, when one of the that ''you can cut down a tree the cause of FLOC is becoming the amba~ :.adors of two dozen Canadian Ambassador Peter organization's lawyers tried to Towe said his gover-nment al­ with a toothpick; just keep known throughout the country. have them released, he was countries to the State Depart­ picking until it falls.'' ment yesterday as the United ready is doing about all it can. He supported this claim by assaulted by the local sheriff's States pressed it"> allies to Its embassy in Tehran has been The primary weapon that reading portions of letters from deputies. An FBI investigation support new sanctions against closed since the February es­ FLOC is using is the strike. various parts of the country. revealed nothing, and the inci­ Iran. cape of six Americans who took According to Velasquez, two Velasquez also revealed that dent was dismissed. Velasquez Department officials said the refuge there. "We're no longer thousand workers walked off schoold throughout the Mid­ explained that the inquiry con­ initial reaction of U.S. allies to importing Iranian oil and our the job in 1978. The protests west have dropped the Camp­ sisted of interviews with the the new sanctions, announced trade is insignificant," he said. continued during last sum­ bell's label program, and that deputies only, in spite of the Monday by President Carter, Canada is nearly self-suffi­ mer's harvest, and FLOC ex­ FLOC representatives are now presence of nearly forty wit­ was supportive. cient in oil.for other allies, Iran pects the efforts to go on recieving invitations from labor nesses. A recen.t meeting of But they could not yet cite is a more vital trade partner. through the approaching sea­ unions to speak at conventions. FLOC members and ] ustice specific cases where other go­ ] a pan imports about 10 percent son. Stron support has also come Department officials resulted vernments have joined in any of The strikes are supple­ from the northwest, where the the sanctions, intended to pres­ [continued on page 14] mented by picket lines, nightly state Democratic party in Ore­ [continued on page 6) sure Iran to release 50 Ameri­ vigils at the labor camps, and gon has come out in favor of cans held hostage in the U.S. Embassyin Tehran. U.S. officials said they felt it was still too early to expect Court consolidates sex discrimination cases action from allies, but said responses were expected late this week. by Chip Block represents the women faculty at Notre Dame and is a The United States has asked subcommittee of the Association of University Professors. its alHes to take "parallel The sex discrimination suits filed by] osephine M. Ford and Elizabeth Gilbert, chairperson for the committee· and a University steps" to match the Carter Dolores W. Frese against Notre_ Dame were consolidated by a professor, said that the acceptance of the EEOC would benefit administration's four-J>oint U.S. District Coun judge on March 26. Both cases concerned the the Ford and Frese cases. sanctions program, which in­ promotion of women faculty members at the University. •'This· will widen the burden of proof,'' Gil ben stated. She cluded severing diplomatic re­ According to Bridget Arimond, attorney for the plaintiffs, "The went on to explain that the burden of proof lies with the lations with Iran and an embar­ consolidation will make the court case move along more quickly plaintiffs and a large organization like the EEOC will relieve go on all trade except food and and will also save money." some of the bl•rden from Ford and Frese. medicine. The cases were originally combined but separated because of Because the Frese suit is a class action suit, the coun But there is no "check Hst" of problems among the attorneys. The controversy centered around bifurcated the case. This means that the case is spHt into two countries willing to cooperate Attorney Kathleen Ross who represented Notre Dame. She parts, examination of patterns set by the University concerning with the United States, said allegedly knew John Frc> - husband of one of the pl!!.intiffs. Ross women faculty and individual complaints. State Department spokesman recently resigned from . lord case because she left the flrm According to Arimond, the case is currently in the examination David Passage. He said U.S. that represents Notre Dame in that suit. of patterns stage. official.s prefer that each ally The court also ruled that the Equal Employment Opportunity Thomas Murray, a local attorney representing the University, decide on the basis of its own Commission (EEOC) could be admitted in both court cases. said that he ':lelieved the consoHdation would have very Httle circumstances what actions to Before the ruling the commission had only been allowed to effect on the court cases. take. participate in the Ford case. The suit involves 64 faculty members and is scheduled for trial Following yesterday's 45-mi- Another group involved in the suit is Committee W, which on November 17, the date originally set for the Frese case. ------~~----- News in brief Thursday, AprillO, 1980 -page 2 Washington capitalists cash in on Mount Saint Helens Pope announces France visit Pope Paul VI, suspended from Rome but was carried off to VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -the American free enterprise VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II announced yester­ his priestly functions in 1976 Fontainbleau in 1812 and allow­ system is proving equal to the challenge of making a buck and threatened with ex-com­ ed to return to Rome two _}'ears form the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Hawkers and day that he will visit France, the first pope to do since the munication. later after Napoleon suffered vendors are peddling T-shirts, beer mugs and other humbling experience of Pius John Paul, who summoned the military reverses. souverirs of the first volcanic eruption in the continental archbishop for a Vatican meet· During the so-called Babylo­ United States since 1915.

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