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.. .Eagles — 8 VOL XV, NO. 72 an independent student newspaper serving noire dame and saint mar)' MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1981 Key talks U.S., Iran com e to terms on rip-offs on hostages’ release WASHINGTON (AP) - The The exploitation of consumers ference tody, Monday, Jan. 19, United States and Iran, in accord on 1981.” through the advertising media is a every point but still working on final growing problem, according to A White House official said Sun translations, stood at the brink of Wilson Bryan Key, who has served day evening that the signatures agreement yesterday for the release as a Journalism professor at several awaited oly a final translation o f the of 52 American hostages, probably terms into three languages - English, major universities in the U.S. and before President Carter leaves office Canada. Key has studied the Tuesday. French for the Algerian inter mediaries, and Farsi, the language of problem for over ten years and is It was believed that the freed Iran. president of a media research Americans would be flown to Al group. Observer staff reporter HOTflf giers, and from there on to West The Pars report, dated early Mon David Sarphie spoke with Key when Germany, where they would spend a day Tehran time, was received late he lectured at ND in December. DAMt "decompression” period of a week yesterday Nicosia, Cyprus. The or so at a U.S. military hospital. Iranian media said Nabavl would Six Algerian doctors were already conduct a news conference about 3 p.m. Tehran time (6:30 a.m. EST) in the Iranian capital to examine the Monday hostages and certify their condition before their release. But there was Nabavl indicated In his remarks no word on whether the doctors had that the agreement had not yet been formally signed and the documents ■ seen the hostages, or even on the whereabouts of the 52. entrusted to the Algerians, as has been planned. A man who identified himself as one of the doctors (old/Ac /tx- Nabavl had similarly announced a “final agreement" several hours ear scociated Press ir. a telephone inter Dr. Key lier, but said at that time that view, “I think that we can leave "several wholly trivial points" before Monday night. We shall go Q. Dr. Key, what is su blim in al remained unresolved His later an back by special airplane ... We leave seduction, and how widespread is nouncement apparently was made Tehran with the hostages, and I itf after Iran bcame satisfied that those A: Basically, it's a technique of the don’t know if we shall go to Algiers or West Germany. ” points had been settled. advertising agencies to sell products by manipulating the unconscious In its report of Nabavi’s announce ment, the Iranian news agency Pars mind of the consumer. How I think that we can widespread, you ask? It's definitely a said, "The U.S. government has final multibillion dollar industry. I’ve ly accepted all the terms set by the government of the Islamic Republic been examining advertisements leave before ol' Iran for the release o f the since the early 70s, and I’ve yet to find a national ad that didn’t employ With dreams of a future as an Irish cheerleader, this little tyke is American hostages. The minister the technique. already practicing the arduous routines at the Hofstra basketball said that the details o f the agreement Monday night.' Q: H ow does it w ork? game. (Photo byJohn Macor) will be disclosed in a press con A: I’ve discovered two distinct Vice President Walter F. Mondalc ideas that these ads seem to play sion was that this type o f media must you and your studies? recognize these techniques and said earlier yesterday the remaining upon. One, as you might have be prohibited. Not one word o f that realize that they exist, the ads can't differences were "not substantial," guessed, is sex. If you look closely at study appeared in a U.S. newspaper, A: The research corporation of be as harmful. However, these ads the ice cubes in many alcohol ad not even in the New York Times. which I'm currently president, are very dangerous to the uni involving the precise amount of vertisements, you’ll see that they arc Belgium is the only country that has Media Probe, has been studying nformed person who allows it to frozen assets to be returned to Iran, not ordinary ice cubes. In fact, they definitive laws concerning this these advertisements for quite reach his subconscious. That’s why I and a problem concerning court aren’t ice cubes at all. They are media exploitation. awhile. We know the problem ex give over 90 lectures each year. The jurisdiction of certain claims. pieces of plastic. Some are designed ists. Our job now must be to educate more people we can reach, the more A U.S. official said the second to spell out the word 'sex’. Others Q: What does the future hold for the consumers If people can good we can do. problem related to arrangements for transferring U.S. court claims against get a bit more graphic and portray the sex organs. These techniques arc Iran to an international arbitration panel. by no means limited to booze ad vertisements. No, I've found phallic Stereo stolen Tehran radio said Nahavi was symbols in such seemingly innocent asked whether he now expected the hostages to be released in the next ads as those for a margarine com few days. pany. Strange, isn’t it? Sorinitesfall prey to another robbery “Yes, of course,” he reportedly The other major idea used in replied. "On the basis o f the agree many of the ads is that of the death 3y LAURA LARI.MO RE Malloy concurred, stating that to Paul Korzenecki, one of the theft ment reached after the statement wish. I've found skulls in those same Senior Staff Reporter the best of his knowledge the front victims, noted that record albums has been signed by both sides and ice cubes used in booze ads. doors remained locked throughout and a hat were left in his room. "I the Algerian government has made It Grotesque faces of monsters appear Stereo equipment valued at over don’t know whose they are,” he said. the break. “But you know as well as 1 public and the assets which it has quite frequently, as well. In fact, I’ve *850 was reported stolen from two "The door was locked when I came do that a person can get into any been agreed to deposit In an account found many images related to self rooms in Sorin Hall during the back Monday afternoon. They cut dorm on the campus if he wants to with the central bank o f a third destruction and death. recent semester break, despite what the cords and the plug from my badly enough,” he remarked. country have been so deposited the Q: How does that sell products? hall officials termed "an excellent receiver and turntable, but left the Security is continuing Its investiga hostages will he released im A: Ever since 1558 and the work job by Security.” The items were dis tion. speakers and the reel to reel.” mediately." of Thomas Hobbes, philosophers covered missing when residents Two speakers and a turntable dis have pondered the reasons behind returned on Monday, Jan. 12. appeared from the room of Mark man’s self destructive tendencies. Fr. David Porterfield, rector of Skorcz, down the hall. “They left the Such brilliant men as Nietzsche, Sorin, appeared baffled by the inci receiver and another turntable, and Masked gunman Freud, and Fromm have all delved dent. “Security noted that doors took the wires,” Skorcz said. He into this area, and they haven’t been locked on say, Monday, would then noted that his door was also locked able to find the answer. I don’t un be open on Wednesday,” he said. when he returned Monday evening rapes ND stude derstand it, either. But I do know In addition to Porterfield and as Blankets reported stolen from that companies have spent millions sistant rector Fr. Edward Malloy, neighboring rooms may have been A female Notre Dame student was raped at gunpoint late Friday of dollars on ads that play on this part of a high school basketball team used to conceal the equipment, resi afternoon near the east perimeter of the Jake Kline baseball field in an death wish idea. stayed in the hall over the vacation. dents surmised. Nothing else has incident that ND security surmise is related to a similar assualt last Q: Hasn't Congress been able to According to Porterfield, seven been reported missing Thursday. do anything in terms of legislation team members, their coach, and a Porterfield said that he assumed According to the county sheriffs office, the student was walking in this area? priest were allowed to use student full responsibility for his guests. He home alone to her apartment when she was confronted by a black man A: Are you kidding? Congress is so rooms for several days, without the stated that he felt it unlikely that the wearing an orange ski mask, light-blue bell bottom trousers, a blue swayed by special interest groups students’ prior knowledge. team could have been responsible nylon jacket and carrying a green blanket. He dragged her into a that legislation is very difficult. Of "The priest was a good friend of for the theft, but said it was being in nearby wooded area at pistolpoint and then raped her.

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