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• • • Conflicting surveys- page 12 VOWME XVI, NO. 6 an mdt>pendent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1981 Bombing victim Iranians tnourn Rajai's death BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)- Iranian Paris in a dramatic July 29 escape been the most at:tive opposition crowds mixed sobs of mourning aboard a commandeered air force group. with chants of "Death to America!" plane. Both Rajavi and Bani-Sadr, in yesterday as the nation buried its A two-man presidential council separate telephone interviews with president and prime minister as mar which assumed executive powers the AP in Pari:., said the respon· tyrs cut down in Sunday's assassina after the explosion in the prime min sibility was Kh·.>mcini's because his tion bombing. ister's office formally announced the rigid policies have given rise to the President Mohammad Ali Rajai, deaths of Rajai, 48, and Bahonar, 47, opposition. who held the office for 27 days at dawn. It was broadcast in Farsi by In a recent interview with tht· before his death, and Prime Minister Tehran Radio and monitored in New York Times, Bani-Sadr MohammadJavad Bahonar, in office Beirut. predktt·d tht· Iranian govcrnmt·nt for just 25 days, were buried in Teh A spokesman at Khomeini's office would fall If five men were kilkd, ran's Behesht Zahra Cemetery in told the Associated Press by phone including Rajai and Bahonar. Ht· said services that drew a crowd reported that the two leaders died the other three key figures wen· numbering 2. 5 million people. hospital of burns and smoke inhala Hashemi RaJSanjani,the speaker of In a speech broadcast by Tehran tion st~ffercd in the fire touched off Parliament; Abdulkarim Musavi Ar Radio, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the bomb blast. He said five other dabili, tht· chief justice; and Ayatol promised new elections to replace people were killed and I 5 injured in lah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani, the "martyrs," vowing their deaths the blast. the interior minister. Both are tht· would not alter the course of the Is The presidential council's state members of the interim presidential lamic fundamentalist revolution that ment blamed the bombing on the council. he leads. United States and on the secular op Khomcini, the 81-year-old It was the second time in two position groups that have waged a patriart·h of the revolution that months that Khomeini's top Islamic nine-week campaign of urban guer deposed the late Shah Mohammad leadership had been wiped out in rilla warfare. Reza Pahlavi, told the nation that blasts and fire. Raja vi is the leader of the Islamic "Iran cannot be pushed back by as On June 28, an explosion at the Marxist Mujahedeen Khalq that has sassination." headquarters of the ruling Islamic Revolutionary Party killed Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Beheshti, con sidered the second-most powerful Terrorists' bomb rocks figure in Iran after Khomeini, and more than 70 other leaders. As the funeral procession wound US/NATO headquarters through the streets of Iran, mour ners demanded the deaths of ex RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, West Ger Europe and the NATO air command. A grieving Iranian woman carries a portrait of slain Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and many (AP) - A bomb believed The explosion, which occurred at fusident Mohammad Ali Rajai. See related story at right. ( AP) opposition Mujahadeen Khalq planted by terrorists exploded 7:20 a.m., catching early arrivals for leader Massoud Rajavi. Both fled to outside the joint U.S./NATO air work, hurled passersby to the command headquarters here ye::;ter ground, shattered windows and in day, wounding a U.S. general, 17 terior walls up to 100 yards said, AI- In Bethel Park other Americans and two West Ger mans. The blast came at a time of growing opposition by many West Germans to U.S. defense policies. HS Students pay to play Two weeks ago a American military facility in Berlin was bombed, but By JOHN BRONSON athletic programs, like the ley, president ofthe Bethel Park Ath there were no injuries. Associated Press Writer astronomy club and the student letic Association, a local booster newspaper, cost a nominal $I or $2. club. No one claimed responsibility for PITTSBlJRGH (AP) High I.odge said the amount of equip "It's a sad thing when people work yesterday morning's explosion. school football teams wm soon be ment and supplies used was the 4lll their lives and can't afford to stay West German sources said it was defending the athletic honor of criterion for setting the rates. in their homes when ~hey retire be believed to have come from a bomb Uons and Tigers and Bears across Frank I.avalle, director of business cause of the tax structure. I'm not placed in a Volkswagen sedan in a the land. At halftime, marching affairs, said Bethel Park spent about convinced my elderly neighbors parking lot outside the headquarters bands will swarm on the gridiron in 1265,000 on non-academic ac See PAY, page 5 buildings of the U.S. Air Force high-stepping splendor. tivities last year. The figure includes Off the field, math club members salaries and supplies. will twist Rubik's Cubes, and The fees wiJJ bring in an esti':llated Fifteen people were injured from choruses will begin practicing for $15,000 to $ 18,000. "That was University grants a bomb blast in front oftbe U.S. Air Christmas concerts. enough to be significant, hut not so Force base at Ramstein, West Ger Extracurricular activities are the much in an opening year that it many.(AP) icing on America's academic cake. In would be outrageous," I.odge said. $20,000 to Chautauqua most communities, they are taken The Bethel Park School District, tercd other cars across the lot in for granted. which has a student population of ByBD.LKOLB formal environment. I.ocated on flamt·s, witnesses said. A car engine But in suburban Bethel Park, stu 6,400, Is located in an aftluent com News Staff the second floor of I.afortune Stu was flung onto the roof of a five dents this year will pay to play. For munity in the rolling hills south of dent Center, it operates on a story building. lice said. the first time, kids who want to par Pittsburgh. Student Body President Don br~ak-even basis. Murday hopes The most seriously injured were ticipate in various activities are Murday opened the Student the money enables the Student Brig. Gen. Joseph D. Moore, assstant being charged users' fees. Senate's first meeting of the year Union to sponsor -more am deputy chief of saff for operations of "Why? Our taxes are very high U.S. Air Force Europe, and I.t. Col. and we're trying to do anything we last night by announcing the Uni bitious shows. Douglas R. Young, an operations of can to avoid raising ing them furth," versity's agreement to help finan In other business, the Senate athletic director Joe Lodge said. cially guarantee the success of approved Judicial Coordinator ficer with the USA FE command. "Some school districts have flat the Chautauqua Coffeehouse. Carol Silva's nominations to the Moore's hometown is Myrtle out eliminated their extracurricular Terming the $20,000 line of Judicial Review Board. A body Beach, S.C., and Young's is Glendale, activities because they simply don't credit "a major commitment to comprised of faculty and ad Ariz., tbc Air Force said in Washing have ways to fund them," he added. Parents look upon the district's the students," Murday expressed ministrators, the Board nominees ton. I.odgc was referring to Massachu education and recreation program optimism about the Student Uni include Juanita Cleveland, Both were reported in stablt· con setl-!1, where voters approved with pride. The school also excels in on's ability to present "first-rate" Richard Conklin, Donald dition at the U.S. Army hospital in Proposition 2 last November. That athletics. The football team, 9-3 last shows. "I'm sure people are Dedrick, Nancy Ferran, Daniel nearhy I.andstuhl, where they had tax-cutting measure: has rcuccd year, was the western Pennsylvania going to come out," he said. Osberger, Sr. Marietta Starrie, been taken by helicopter. Air Force municipal revenues by SSOO million runner-up in its category. The bas According to Mun~ay, half of Katharina Blackstead, Angie officials said several others Injured this year. In the· schools, non ketbal and baseball teams won their· the fund transfers to the Student Chamblee, David Dodge, Ber seriously cnough to be taken to the academic activities and courses arc conferences and both the boys' and Union immediately upon re nard Dobranski, William Eagan hospital w1·re treated and releast·d. _ bearing the brunt. girls' swimming teams won the state quest, the remainder after con and Robert Rodes. "There were two loud blasts, one "We're trying to avoid that panic championships last year. sultation with Mr. Thomas right after the other - bam! bam! situation. We thought it would be a The new fees have caused hardly a Before closing the meeting. Mason, Vice President for Busi eight as if a Phantom jet haairoken good idea to get a juntp on what ap ripple among students, probably be Murday asked Senate members to the sound barrier," said Staff Sgt. pears to be a trend," I.odgc said in a cause most parents are picking up ness Affairs and Fr. Van Wolvlear, form for the benefit of the stu Harry Baske, an eyewitness.

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