Roemer Confirms Inaccuracy

• • • Madrigal Magic -page 6 VOL. XIV,_ N9. 57 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1979 In 16 minute session Security Council fails to decide UNITED NATIONS (AP) situation. Shemirani, formally asked the The U.N. Security Council met The council president, 15-member council to postpone for only 16 minutes yesterday Ambassador Sergio Palacios de its meeting until Saturday even on the U.S.-Iranian cnsis, hear Vizzio of Bolivia, repeated an ing when, he said, Bani Sadr ing pleas from Secretary-Gen appeal to Iran he had made in would be present. eral Kurt W aldheim and the the council's behalf Nov. 9, Shemirani said a ·Security council president, and then askins for the release of 49 Council session on the volatile adjourned until Saturday. Amencan hostages held in the embassy confrontation would In one of the shortest formal U.S. Embassy in Tehran. not be "opportune and produc council meetings on record, tive" untif after the Moslem Waldheim called on the United Palacios de Vizzio then adjourned the meeting until 9 holy days of mourning this ... States and Iran ''to avoid any Thursday and Friday. action which could inflame'' the p.m. EST Saturday, when Iran's acting Foreign Minister Iranian leader Ayatollah Abolhassan Bani Sadr is ex Ruhollah Khomeini; in a pected to be in New York to join Tehran radio broadcast yester m the resumed debate. day, dePounced U.S. pressure Board Iran had sought a week's to have the council deal only delay, while the United States with the issue of the embassy had pressed for a public meet hostages, seized by Islamic to submit ing to call again for the release student militants Nov. 4, and of the hostages. Yesterday's not with the alleged crimef' of session was a compromise, with the ousted Shah Mohamn,ad · proposal only Waldheim and the presi - Reza Pahlavi. dent permitted to speak. ''There is talk these days that It also meant a postponement the Security Council will meet by Pam Degnan of any decisive action until the Senior StaffReporter to investigate the issue of the weekend. hostages, whose spying activi Demanding the adoption of The United States . dropped ties have been proved by our stronger security measures, the its insistence on speaking yes people,'' Khomeini said. Saint Mary's Board of Govern terday , U.S. Ambassador ''After political and military ance unanimously approved a Donald F. McHenry saying the maneuvers, Carter has con rape prevention proposal last American speech would "be tended that the Council should night. The objective of the incorporated in the (council) only convene to deal with this proposal is to alleviate the president's statement." Saeed matter.'' occurence of raJ.>e -on both Sanjabi, an Iranian special campuses accordmg to Adri envoy, said of the U.S. deci He rejected in advance any Council decision ''dictated'' by ~rigiani, Development commis sion, "We consider that a very stoner. positive sign.'' the United States. The Board, reflecting student The chtll of a -South Bend winter made its appearance Earlier yesterday, Iran's The shah must be investigat yesterday as these youngsters found themselt•es bundled up opinion, plans co submit the chief U.N. diplomat, Jamal ed only in Iran, he said. against the cold. [photo by john Macorj proposal to the ND-SMC Rape Awareness Committee which is headed by Susan Tamborini, Militants claim responsibility director of Holy Cross Hall; Notre Dame Dean of Students James Roemer; and Kate Kearney, director of Farley U.S.,Iran react to Islamic bomb threat Hall. It will also be submitted to the Saint Mary's administra TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Islamic The militants said they were Paratroopers were seen at ta~k force h~aded by the USS tion for approval. militants said yesterday they especially concerned about pro Tehran's Mehrabad Airport fly Mtdway has been in the The proposal outlines the have rigged the U.S. Embassy vocations Thursday and Friday, ing off in U.S.-made transports Arabian Sea south of Iran for following security measures. A to blow up- on command, and the emotional Moslem holy to an unknown destination. almost rwo weeks. Another glass security hut would be the Iranian armed forces went days of Tasua and Ashura, Leal newspapers said the si~-ship force, led by the carrie; constructed at the entranc gate on alert as Tehran seethed with when devout Moslems here Iranian navy "started defensive Kttty Hawk, has sailed into the south of the campus and would rumors of an impending U.S. whip or cut themselves to operations" in the Persian Indian Ocean. be manned by an armed secur attack and warnings that Amer signify their willingness to Gulf, and the airspace over In other developments: ity guard equiJ.>ped with radio ican agents were plotting to become martyrs. Qum, Khomeini's headquarters --Sen. BennettJohnston, D-La., equtpment. Thts would monitor infiltrate the embassy. The militants had hinted city 120 miles south of Tehran, after a break(ast meeting be cars entering the campus from The U.N. Security Council previously they were rigging had been closed .. rween President Carter and Route 31. gathered in New York to dis explosives to kill all the hos The Carter administration members of Congress, said An emergency phone system cuss the Iran crisis. But tages if the United States indicated last week it might there were certain things Carter would be constructed on the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, launched a military action to respond militarily if any of the back road at Notre Dame as convinced the United States rescue them. hostages are harmed. A carrier [continued on page 2] well as at locations around the had the council on its isde, Notre Dame campus. Lighting rejected in advance any deci is also a major problem on both sion it might make as "dic campuses. Due to the increas tated" by Washington. ed number of night classes, The Iranian leader also raised Roemer confirms inaccuracy Madaleva has been a building anew the prospect that the 49 American hostages who have used extensively during the late by Mike Shields Roeme~ decided to retract the map for further night hours. The proposal been held for 25 days will be News Editor venficatton after The Observer verified one suggests that the lighting situa put on trial as 'spies." of sevt>ral reported inaccuracies in the map. tion be analyzed and corrected. At New York Hospital, exiled Dean of Students James Roemer has con ''Further research revealed that we did not The Board also supports the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlaci firmed the existence of a rape incident im lude ·in the summary of rapes one that following suggestions which in underwent an operation in that was not included in a summary of occurred near Washington Hall in the fall clude an escort service berween which doctors removed a gall rapes released by his office and the Security of 1974" Roemer said. the campus, an update map of stone from his bile duct. · department earlier this month. The t;leventh occurred over Thanksgiving trouble spots that would be A hospital spokeswoman said Roemer requested that a map locating rapes break to i 974 The assailant was nor a made available to students, and the shah would remain under student, Roemer added. on campus be drawn up after rwo women a standard foot patrol and car observation for a few days. But "Ir happened before I was Dean of Students," patrol that would be situated on it was believed the deposed were raped over mid-semester break. The map released indicated ten rapes in the last he said, "and I was unaware of it until the back road at Notre Dame. monarch would probably be we dug into the files.'' 11 years. Also suggested by the Board able to return to his exile home Roemer compiled the map as pan of an overall was the presence of a female in Mexico after that. Four of the rapes shown on the map occurred plan for increasing rape awareness and preven security officer on campus. The militants issued a state on Saint Mary's Road berween Holy Cross tion by students. He is meeting with "We feel that a woman could ment yesterday saying thLy had Hall and Rte. 31. The other six rapes repr~sentatives from both Notre Dame and be an extremely important planted mines throughout the listed occurred behind Walsh Hall, in Stanford Saint Mary's to dtscuss the situation, and has asset in dealing with women's embassy compound and their Hall, in the D1 parking lot, near the WNDU coordinated q. joint committee comprised of re crimes,'' commented Martha supporters should not try to tower, at the O'Hara-Grace townhouses, and presentatives from both schools to study Boyle, Judicial Commissioner. enter the area. behind the ACC near Cartier Field. the problem. --~- •--·--- --------~~~~-----------------....._---~-----------------~----------- News in brief Wednesday, November 28, 1979- page 2 U.S. Steel announces Rabbi heads cult in Guyana widespread plant shtJtdowns EDITOR'S NOTE - In a are common. He claims more their salary, he said. nation strll hospitable to cult~, than 6,000 members in 38 Members are required to PITTSBURGH (AP) - U.S. Steel C<?rp. announced despite the abuses revealed la;t temples throughout Guyana, study Hebrew, Swahili, Ma~ yesterday widespread shutdowns m steel and cement year in the aftermath of toe with branches in Kingston, and Lenin, he added, and their operations affecting 13.000 worke;rs, and ~lamed the move on Peoples Temple horror, a b/a,7k Jamaica, and Des .

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