Hotel Refuses Ro White House and the Senate in January, Said Rebuilding the by Sue Kelleher Deposit and His Reservations Were Reinstated

... Cartoons -page 8 VOL. XV, NO. 56 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary’s THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1980 Algerians deliver US reply Senate dumps on hostages to Iranians Rpsioiin tciY BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)- carried with him a pledge of non Algerian envoys acting as inter interference and an explanation mediaries for the United States of U.S. legal difficulties in legislation delivered the U.S. reply yester meeting other demands. day to Iran’s terms for releasing In Algiers, official sources said WASHINGTON (AP)-The the 52 American hostages. U.S. the U.S. note was delivered to negotiators, who flew home after outgoing Democratic-control- Tehran by Abdelkrim Gheraib 0 led 96th Congress, embarking on passing the note, said they were and Redha Malek, Algeria’s a final “lame-duck" session, uncertain of their next step. ambassadors to Tehran and junked plans yesterday for con In Tehran, an official in the Washington respectively. sideration of a tax cut backed by office of Prime Minister “Now it’s up to the Iranians,” President-elect Ronald Reagan. Mohammad Ali Rajai said, “The said one of the officials, adding Senate Democrats voted over government has received that he could not predict how whelmingly against even bring America’s letter.” In a telephone long it would take for Iran to ing the tax cut bill to the floor — interview from Beirut, Ahmed study the A merican response and a measure House Speaker Azizi said a Cabinet meeting had react to it. Thomas P. O’Neill announced been scheduled to discuss the In an unprecedented interview m President Carter was prepared to reply but he did not know when it with an American radio station veto if it reached his desk. would begin. that apparently had the approval Leaders promised that the Tehran Radio broadcasts of some Iranian officials, L. session — the first post-election during the day made no mention Bruce Laingen, the senior U.S. meeting of Congress in a of the U.S. reply being received. envoy held hostage at the presidential election year in 32 There was a report the Iranian Foreign Ministry in Tehran said years— would be brief, with a regime planned to publish the he was fine and “We’ie anxious shortened agenda. text of the note Thursday or to leave, hopeful.” Although congressional Friday, but that was not officially The hostages were gratified by Republicans were still pressing confirmed. the support being given by the for enactment of a tax cut this Ayatollah Mohamed Beheshti, American public, Laingen told ear, the proposal was virtually head of the Islamic Republican radio station KAYO in Seattle, \ uried— at least until 1981 — Party and president of the Wash. He added: “We have no when Senate Democrats voted in Iranian Supreme Court, said doubt that that is continuing, a closed-door caucus against Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, and at this particularly crucial bringing it to the Senate floor. would have to consider how Iran time in the discussions going on At the same time, O’Neill told might proceed “if one or two of support is even more important reporters that he had discussed the conditions set by Iran for the than ever.” the tax-cut proposal with Carter liberation of the American Laingen said he could not in a Monday evening phone detainees cannot be legally ful comment on the note’s delivery conversation. filled by the United States,” the because he was “out of touch in “The president told me he would veto a tax bill were it to official Algerian news agency terms of the substance of the Cindy Crumb, a graduate student in the music dept., practices in Crowley reach his desk. He said it would reported from Tehran. problem.” HalidPhoto by Linda Shanahan) be inflationary,” O’Neill said. In a meeting eleven days ago, Thus, Republicans will ap the Iranian Parliament approved parently have to wait until next four demands outlined six weeks year before pushing the kind of earlier by Ayatollah Ruhollah tax cut that Reagan has made the Khomeini, Iran’s revolutionary centerpiece of his * economic leader. The demands are: return Pollution causes program. of the wealth of the late Shah “We felt Mr. Reagan ought to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; can have his time at bat,” Senate cellation of American claims By Rasa Gustaitis: Pacific News health hazard to countless on the subject in California this Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd against Iran; a pledge of non Service: EDITOR’S NO TE: Failure others. fall. told reporters after the Senate intervention in Iranian affairs to take all factors into account in the The hazard is growing more “Most of us spend most of our caucus vote. and unfreezing of some $8 design of new energy-efficient office serious with the growing use of life indoors,” he said. “Indoor air Byrd had previously favored an billion of Iranian assets in U.S. buildings and homes has resulted in man-made building materials, pollution is one of the major immediate tax cut, but said he banks. increased levels of indoor air pollution some of which emit harmful problems we will face in the changed his mind after talking to Deputy Secretary of State which is causing a growing health vapors, and with energy con future.” the president and assessing the Warren Christopher, who gave hazard. Unfortunately, no government servation measures that reduce The problem has become situation in the House where the Algerians the U.S. reply and a agency is responsible for indoor air, and ventilation. something of a headache itself there never was much support lengthy oral explanation of it in a no health standards exist, reports Rasa “Buildings today — new build for citizens who have discovered for the tax cut proposal. 30-hour visit to Algiers, told Gustaitis, a PNS editor. ings in particular — are causing that no official agency is in No major new legislation is reporters on his return to Indoor air pollution, especially people to get sick,” said charge and no standards exist. expected to be approved, Washington: “where we go from in new energy-efficient homes Assemblyman Floyd (Mori, The Environmental Protec- beyond needed budget and ap here will depend on the reaction and offices, is making many chairman of a joint legislative propriations bills and several of the Iranians.” Christopher Americans sick and posing a subcommittee holding hearings [icontinued on page 4] measures already well on the way toward passage, O ’Neill said. Meanwhile, the speaker, who In Birmingham becomes his party’s highestrank- ing elected oficial once Republicans take over both the Hotel refuses ro White House and the Senate in January, said rebuilding the by Sue Kelleher deposit and his reservations were reinstated. Democratic Party would require For reasons not yet clear, the Sheraton once again cancelled a “dynamic figure” as party The gridiron battle between the Irish and the Crimson Tide will not O’Brien’s reservations in early October. As compensation, the chairman. be the only one occurring in Birmingham this week. The fight Sheraton offered lodging in other Birmingham motels, but O’Brien between the Notre Dame Club in Alabama and the Sheraton refused the offer. He described his predicament by saying,“I had 21 He did not mention the cur Mountainbrook Inn, Birmingham, has yet to be fought. Local alumni people hanging out on a string.” rent chairman, John C. White, were denied rooms at the hotel for which reservations were made Shortly after the incident, an irate O’Brien filed a damages suit who has indicated he would like to stay on. O’Neill aide Gary months in advance, and the ND Club has since filed suit to recover against the Sheraton. He obtained a temporary court order, requiring _ the Sheraton to adhere to the original contract. Hymel said the speaker’s financial losses from the subsequent battle. remarks weren’t intended as a In early September, Alumni Club Member John A. O’Brien made slap at White. reservations at three Birmingham hotels. 225 were reserved at the There is a hearing scheduled for this Monday at 8 a.m. O’Brien The Senate began the lame- Hilton Hotel and 5 5 rooms were reserved at the Ramada Inn. O’Brien hopes to receive enough money in damages to cover the legal costs duck session by taking up a $9.57 also reserved 21 rooms for those alumni particularly close to the and a $500 injunction fee. billion appropriation bill for team, at the Sheraton. Though he is grateful for the injunction, O’Brien laments that the several federal departments In a telephone interview, O’Brien said,“Basically, the Sheraton whole ordeal has been “one big hassle.” while the House debated a came back and cancelled my reservation, saying that I didn’t make a Mike Clark, the Sheraton’s general manager, refused to elaborate prposed extension of govern deposit.” O’Brien added that, initially, the hotel neglected to inform on the matter, saying, “As long as this case is pending in Judge ment’s revenue sharing program, him that a deposit was necessary. He immediately made the $500 Barber’s court, I am not at liberty to discuss any details of the case.” which expired last October 1. News Briefs Thursday, November 13, 1980— page 2 by The Observer and The Associated Press Inside Thursday R -C tlfc d ( jd lG f c ll Alexander M. Haig Jr., the former White House chief of staff, says he has not been asked to Media and selling Reagan serve as secretary of state or secretary of defense in the coming Ronald Reagan administration.

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