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The B G News Thursday Bowling Green State University Oct. 2, 1980 Column one Iraq proposes four-day cease in fighting by Associated Press second Iranian claim of territorial BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq But vows to repel any Iranian attacks gains in the 10th day of fighting. Inside declared it will stop fighting Iran for Iran "will not compromise" until Ira- Mehran is in the center of the disputed four days starting Sunday, but will caused by unexpectedly stiff Irana- and was designed to assure Iran of Iran-Iraq border, about 200 miles nor- return any Iranian fire. The new Iraqi nian resistance to Iraqi forces. U.S. neutrality in the Iran-Iraq crisis. qi forces are driven from Iranian soil. An Iraqi military communique said thwest of Khorramshahr. News truce offer followed Iran's rejection of The Iraqi move followed President The Americans were in their 333rd Iran also said in street-to-street a U.N. cease-fire call and renewed air Abolhassan Bani-Sadr's rejection of day of captivity yesterday. Iraq's jets hit oil depots in Ahwaz, the capital of Iran's Khusestan oil pro- fighting its forces, reported to be Junior Jim Finucan thinks his attacks by both sides at the bat- U.N. Security Council call for an end Iraq said Iranian warplanes launch- spearheaded by revolutionary guards, tlefront. to the war "so long as Iraq is in viola- ed seven "savage" strikes in five Ira- vince, destroyed rail facilities, a companion, Samantha, is great bridge and an ammunition dump in - as far as skunks go. PAGE 5. The Iraqi announcement was made tion of our territorial sovereignty." qi provinces and claimed that Iraqi Iran claimed that 15 Iraqis were yesterday at the United Nations. Iraqi jets hammered oil depots and concen- Dezful and hit Iranian tank concentra- killed or wounded in the street tions near Ahwaz and Abadan. Throwing a party in the spokesman Salah al-Makhtar said the IN A MESSAGE to U.N. Secretary- trations of Iranian tanks in wide- fighting and that 39 were taken dates Oct. 5-8 were chosen to allow General Kurt Waldheim, Bani-Sadr ranging attacks. Iraq said Iranian warplanes attack- prisoner and six Iraqi tanks captured. dorms means first checking ed seven Iraqi cities, including Basra University regulations govern- time for consultations with Iran by the said appeals for a cease-fire "cannot An Iranian military communique said United Nations and by an Islamic be considered by our government" AFTER A DAY of tank and infantry and Umm Qasr port in the south and in the southern sector 21 Iraqi tanks ing alcohol and number of peo- and there is "no use in any discussion, Kirkuk and Mosul in the north. ple involved. PAGE 7. peace mission headed by President battles, Bani-Sadr announced recap- and two MiG jets were destroyed in Mohammed Zia ul-Naq of Pakistan. directly or indirectly." ture of the Iranian border city of Baghdad reported 12 Iraqi civilians other battles. In Tehran, Prime Minister Moham- were killed and four injured in the Ira- In the endless challenge of Al-Mukhtar said that during the four- Mehran and the Iranian news agency Abadan and Khorramshahr are on day period, "if military action is med Ali Rajai was reported studying said the city welcomed Iranian troops nian raids. Iraq said the "savage the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the nor- man vs. machine, video games a new U.S. letter on the 52 American strikes" were retaliation for "defeats are scoring points. PAGE 7. taken against us we will return the that "lifted the siege by Iraqi forces." thern tip of the Persian Gulf. The fire." hostages. Iran also said it pushed Iraqi in- conceded by the Iranian forces on the estuary has been the scene of some of There was no immediate reaction But in Washington, State Depart- vaders out of the oil port of Khorram- battlefront." the heaviest air and naval from Tehran to the Iraqi declaration, ment spokesman Jack Cannon said it shahr a day after Iranian leader engagements of the war and the oil Opinion which came at a time when the war was the same letter the United States Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini re- BANI-SADR'S announcement that facilities of both Iran and Iraq have seemed to be moving into a stalemate publicly acknowledged a week ago jected an early cease-fire and said Mehran had been recaptured was the been badly damaged in the fighting. Are the debates another Ken- nedy situation for President Carter? Find out why syn- dicated columnist David Broder thinks so. PAGE 2. Elsewhere Congress passes a bill to avoid going broke before Elec- tion Day. Page 11. Believe it or not, a two- headed snake. Page 11. Sports Lew's views takes a look at the University's investigation of its inter-collegiate athletic pro- gram. PAGE 9. Bowling Green lost to F.vansville yesterday, 2-1, in soccer action at Mickey Cochrane Field. PAGE 9. Boston Celtic veteran for- ward Dave Cowens retired from basketball in a surprising move yesterday. PAGE 10. Weather Partly cloudy. High 65 F (18 C), low « F (5 C), 20-percent chance of precipitation. staff photo by Dale Omori Lying on their backs, members of the HPER club learn the value of working together in a New Games activity in the field behind the Gertrude Eppler complex. as the group combines a little leg and feet work to support the giant "action" ball used Sri Lankan couple find Honorary chapter sought again by Diane Rado More on page 5 tion about the organization of the presented to the Phi Beta Kappa life here an adjustment staff reporter University and its college of Arts and Senate, which meets in 1982. Representatives from one of the na- A 15-20 PAGE report consisting of Sciences, student admission policy, If the senate recommends that the tion's prestigious honorary societies information about the University is by Paula Wlnslow enrollment and test scores, cur- University receive a chapter, installa- staff reporter will be visiting here as the University required to apply. riculum, grading, honors program, tries for the fourth time in 15 years to tion may follow in Spring 1983, Givens "In all honesty, they really don't library and percentage of women and said. Most newcomers to the University are busy adjusting to being at a acquire a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. tell you you're not accepted," Givens minorities. school in the middle of a cornfield and figuring out how to get from the A three-member team from Phi said. "A requirement of Phi Beta Kappa ABOUT EIGHT colleges in Ohio and Union to the Student Recreation Center. Beta Kappa, an honorary founded at is that they take into account the about 200 in the nation have Phi Beta William and Mary College, Three years ago, both the Universi- academic concerns of the whole Kappa Chapters. Williamsburg, Va., 1776, will visit the ty and Kent State University applied University as opposed to its separate Pathma and Selladurai Gunasingam will be making similar ad- University probably during winter to Phi Beta Kappa and Kent State programs," Gregory De Crane, direc- While it may be diffcult to acquire a justments, but will have a few more situations to get used to as well. quarter, said Dr. Stuart Givens, pro- received a chapter, he said. tor of student organizations and new They won't be able to find the spice " jeera" in the local supermarket, or chapter on campus, membership fessor of history and chairman of a Givens added, "Now why three progams, said. standards for students are not use a public transportation system, or expect average temperatures year- University committee attempting to years ago they (Kent) were con- THIS REQUIREMENT makes a necessarily more strict than for other round to hover around 104 degrees. aquire the chapter. sidered to be a better institution than honoraries, Givens said. Givens told Academic Council at its us is puzzling." chapter of Phi Beta Kappa more dif- Those are features of the Gunasingams' homeland, Sri Lanka, an island first meeting of the quarter yesterday ficult to aquire than other honoraries nation off the southeast coast of India; features of Sri Lankan life the which are associated more specifical- Membership in Phi Beta Kappa is that this is the first time in 15 years THE UNIVERSITY applied again based on scholastic achievement and Gunasingams will be doing without during their nine months at the the University has reached the step of last fall and was told last January that ly with single departments or colleges University. at the University, De Crane said. not on leadership on involvement in visitation in the process for acquisi- it would be visited by representatives organizations, he said. tion of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. of the society. There are 37 honoraries registered The University first attempted to Last week Given's committee sub- as campus organizations at the Givens estimated that a student SELLADURAI IS the first visiting Fulbright professor to lend himself to acquire a chapter in 1965, and has mitted a 144-page report, which was University, he added.