Iranians Toughening Release Stand
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300 welcome Viet new year By JOAN K AHN UNCROFT — Folk tongs contrasted with rock muiic yesterday as more than 300 Vietnamese refugee* and their guesU fathered at Brookdale Community College to welcome the "Year of the Monkey." The occasion m i Tet celebration, marking the second day of the Vietnamese new year — and it blended old-country customs with newer American ways. Traditional touches included a red cloth-covered altar with brass candlesticks honoring ancestors; popping and sizzling firecrackers, balloons and banners. In a modern vein was the rock music of "Hot Stuff Baby Tonight." Women wore the "ao-dai," the Vietnamese national costume — a Mandarin-collared dress slit from waist to hem and worn over pants. Red was a predominant color, for red is the color of happiness. To preserve the culture of the old country, children • HUt MM •« Carl F«rl»« participated in skits and sang folk songs in the Viet- RMMMr Mnw .» C«1 f «l~ DANCE FOR LUCK — Vietnamese-American youngsters take part In colorful namese language. And slides of the scenery of Vietnam CEREMONIAL ALTAR — Venerating their ancestors at the traditional red dragon dance, symbolizing good luck for the new year. The dragon snakes its were projected. cloth-covered altar are Thanh Nguyen (left) of TInton Falls and Van Nguyen of way around the floor while youngster In traditional mask tries to catch It. See Vietaamesc, page X Freehold. Ceremony took place yesterday at Brookdale Community College. The Daily Register VOL. 102 NO. 198 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1980 20 CENTS Insisting upon an admission of guilt Iranians toughening release stand By The Associated Press line tack he took in two weekend interviews and offset statements he made last .week Iranian Prestdenr AWIUUUU L. «L_:.__. ~S* ^r'"wrwatpj might be re- has repeated his demand for a U.S. admission leased once the U.N. commission began its of guilt for alleged misdeeds during the inquiry. shah's reign as a condition for the release of In a news conference last Wednesday, the American hostages, Tehran radio said President Carter said he supported forma- today. tion of "an appropriate commission with a The Inquiry by an international com- carefully defined purpose" as a means to mission into Iranian allegations against the free the hostages. But he ruled out any U.S. deposed shah will not be sufficient to ensure admission of guilt during the alleged misrule the release of the SO Americans, now in their by exiled Shah Mohammad lleza Pahlavl. 107th day of captivity, Bani-Sadr was quoted Bani-Sadr told a Greek television in- as saying after a meeting of the ruling Re- terviewer Saturday that the hostages would volutionary Council last night. not be released until the commission re- Banl-Sadr declaration cameras U.N. leased its findings and the United States Secretary-General Kurt Waldneim was "undertakes" its "obligations." awaiting the Iranian government's response He repeated his three conditions for re- Krtmund Louis Pettitl Mohamed Bedjaoul today to his choice of a five-member com- lease of the hostages in an interview Satur- mission that will probe Iran's charges day with the U.S. news magazine Newsweek against the deposed monarch, now living in "The United States must take the in- exile in Panama. itiative on three different points if its wants "The freeing of the hostages will depend to change the political climate," the on the compliance by the United States to magazine quoted him as saying. three Iranian conditions," he was quoted as Bani-Sadr also told Newsweek that saying in a report monitored in Kuwait. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was in "com- It listed the conditions as: plete agreement" with his plan and would "Admission by the United States that it "make his opinion known" to the militants AND NOW WHAT? — Just what do you do with a 17-ton, 35 foot mlnke whale? had interfered in Iran's internal affairs dur- holding the 50 American hostages "when the The mammal was found dead yesterday off Gloucester City N.J. In the ing the rule of the shah. A pledge to refrain time comes." The militants, who occupied Delaware River, not far from Philadelphia. It is the first time in 171 years that from any such interference in the future. A the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Nov. 4, have said a whale made its way that far up the river. Scientists want to perform an promise not to block efforts by the Iranian they would free their captives only on direct autopsy today to determine the cause of death, but can't find a public landfill government to ensure the extradition of the orders from Khomeini. which they can use. See story, page 20. shah and the recovery of his fortune.'' Bani-Sadr's statement confirmed a hard- See .Waldhelm, page? Adib Daoudy Andres Aquilar Mawdsley Bush hails victory as a sign of national candidacy marginally when the rural vote came in. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - George The voting was heA without the privacy of paign." Actually, the 3.3 million Puerto Ricans are voting booths because tjiere wasn't time to set The former CIA director and ambassador U.S. citizens but have no vote in the November When the party stopped counting vo*tes ear- Bush says winning all 14 delegates in Puerto ly today, with tabulation 99.7 percent com- Rico's first-ever presidential primary will give them up when a judge ruled that the Caribbean said the victory "will lift up our workers and presidential election because the island is not a plete, Bush had 123,217 for 59 percent to his presidential bid continued momentum for island commonwealth could not spend public state. They also pay no federal income tax. Baker's 80,782 for 38 percent. the New Hampshire primary next week. funds for a party primary. To offset the cost of The victory gave Bush a total of 17 com- Kennedy's own poll says he's Of the other candidates in the primary, Bush defeated Sen. Howard Baker of Ten- the .primary, coffee cans were set up at the mitted delegates on the first ballot at the behind in N.H, qfory, page 5 former Texas Gov. John Connally got 1,934 nessee by a 3-2 margin in the Republican voting places to seek donations. Republican National convention this July in balloting Sunday in 1980's first presidential The Puerto Rico victory will illustrate Detroit. Reagan has nine delegates; Baker, votes; California businessman Benjamin primary. Former California Gov. Ronald Re- "the national aspect of our candidacy, Bush continue our momentum. It will help us in New five. It takes 998 to cinch the nomination. Fernandez, 1,912; former Minnesota Gov. agan, not on the ballot here, received a handful said Sunday while campaigning tir -Nashua, Hampshire and set off some of the attacks on Bush built a 2-1 margin in early returns, Harold Stassen, 631; and Sen. Bob Dole of of write-in votes. N.H. "It is not just a one- or two-state cam- me." mostly from the cities, and saw it shrink only See Bush, page 2 Olympic problem made worse by below zero temperature LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) - Swirling top of the course was about 40 to 50 below zero. medal in pairs figure skating, making it five lr The only U.S. medal winner yesterday was Still, thousands of persons waited up to two hours for rides as the wind-chill index fell to snow, biting wind and freezing cold are Some competitors in the women's downhill, a row for the Soviet Union. It was also the sixth speed skater Leah Mueller, 28. of Dousman, won by Austrian Annemarle Moser-Proell, had gold medal for the Soviets in the Winter Wis. She took a silver medal in the 1.000-meter minus 20, said Ed Lewi, spokesman for the bedeviling spectators and contestants alike at Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee. the XIII Winter Games, where getting to and to be given facial massages by coaches to Games. race, finishing behind Natalia Petrusheva of prevent frostbite. The American favorites, Tai Babilonia and the Soviet Union. "With this mass of people, 1 think you can from events has become an endurance test of expect delays of up to an hour," said state Olympian proportions. State police said they let spectators use Randy Gardner of Los Angeles, were forced to The troublesome Olympic bus system withdraw Friday due to Gardner's groin in- Transporation Department spokesman Yesterday, the coldest day yet in the ambulances and a bus to warm up at worked "100 percent better" Sunday than the jury. The brother-sister team of Peter and Howard Clark as Olympic organizers Games, the mercury hit 5 below zero at the Whiteface, where thousands of persons faced day before, when New York Gov. Hugh Carey Caltlin Car'ruthers of Wilmington, Del., scrambled to beef up Lake Placid's sagging start of cross-country skiing at Mount Van the day's longest waits for transportation. declared a limited transportation emergency finished fifth In their first major international transportation system, which provided 342,000 Hoevenberg. On Whiteface Mountain, site of In the day's most glamorous event, Irina and agreed to have the state pay for additional competition. See Below zero, page 2 Alpine ski events, the wind chill Index at the Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaitsev took the gold school buses, officials said. The Inside Story Thron8s J am boat show By HENRY SCHAEFER Jersey Normally, attendance , THE WEATHER*"**^' • BASBUHy HENRYY PAR SCHAEFEK - WallR - Jersetheir ycars wit, hbu tsno thewy stiltelll mone totalsNormally about ,70,000 attendan, but thc e to-wall people jammed Con- the roads have been cleared turnout was down last year vention Hall yesterday, the from Saturday's three Inches when a blizzard forced the Sunny today.