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- ' ' ' The 70's -page I VOL. XIV, NO. 62 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1979 Iranian crisis deepens Council reacts to trial threat TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Kitty Hawk has reached the said it could be assumed "I month-old U.S. Embassy crisis Arabian Sea area, joining -don't mean cooperation just ... turned grimmer yesterday as another U.S. carrier force. This in routine matters.'' Iran's foreign minister declared put the ships, carrying more tha The warning of an upcoming the American hostages would 135 planes, within reach of the trial of the hostages as "spies" be put on trial and their entrance of the Persian Gulf. came from Iran's acting foreign Moslem militant captors were President Carter has warned minister, Sadegh Ghorbzadeh. reported to have threatened to Iran of "extremely grave" con Iranian revolutionary leader execute them if they did not sequences if the hostages are Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ''cooperate. '' harmed, and U.S. officials say a had said previously that the At the emergency U.N. Se trial of the diplomats would be hostages would be tried as curity Council session in New an even more grievous violation spies if the United States does York, members finally agreed of international law than the not return the exiled Shah on an urgent resolution calling hostage seizure itself. Mohhammad Reza Pahlavi for on Iran to release the 50 The report of threats to shoot trial. But Ghotbzadeh was hostages and urging both the hostages came from a White quoted by Iranian state televi United States and Iran to House official in Washington. sion yesterday as saying "the ''exercise the utmost re The official, who asked not to hostages will be tried for sure. '' straint.'' be identified, said the hostages Whether the hostages will be Pentagon officials said, ''have been threatened with punished according to the ver meanwhile, that a six-ship Navy execution if they fail to cooper-· dict - they could be sentenced to force led by the aircraft carrier ate with their captors." He death - would depend on Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who could overrule the sentence "if the United States extradites the shah," llirm fire raises doubts, Ghotbzadeh reportedly said. The Iranian account of the interview with the French questio,ns of safety newspaper Le Figaro differed slightly from the version pub lished by Le Figaro. In that, by Mary Kay Ley don by security, "most · residents Ghotbzadeh says such halfway StaffReporter thought it (the alarm) was a measures as an international joke and refused to leave the investigation of ousted Shah Buckminster Fuller spoke yesterday at the Library. See The response of Saint Mary's building." Some students even Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's story below. [photo by Mike Bzgley] Security and students to a fire gathered around the open door reg~me would not settle the Friday evening in Holy Cross and watched the fire be extin Cf!SlS. Hall has raised questions about guished, the report said. ''Thus the hostages will be the efficiency of the College's Security reported the cause tried?" he was asked. Fuller speaks to crowd on emergency procedures. of the fire to be a "lit cigar "Yes." The fire began at 5:15 p.m. ette.' ' Damage was minimal It was evident from the on the fourth floor of the dorm, and required only scraping and minister's remarks as reported thought, human existence according to Susan Tamborini, painting. The report lists by Iranian television, which the hall director. Kim Kearney damages as scorching of the closely follows the official line, by Tim Sullivan and inventor of the geodesic the only resident of the room at wall, ceiling and floor; smoke that Ghotbzadeh meant the StaffReporter dome, outlined his personal the time. tried to extinguish the damage, and damage caused by hostages would be tried in any philosophies and impressions of fire while other students report powder from the fire extin event. Urging a receptive crowd of the future last night in the ed the blaze to Chris Morris, guisher used. Previously, Iran threatented about 250 to use "comprehen Librat y Auditorium. The 84- who was on duty at the hall's Anthony Kovatch, director of year-old professor emphatically [continued on page 8] sive thinking,'' Buckminster front desk. security, had no comment. Fuller, noted visionary thinker concluded his speech saying he Morris called Saint Mary's placed faith in "today's youth, Security, while Joan McCarthy who are in love with love.'' pulled the fire alarm, alerting Fuller described himself as the Notre Dame Fire Depart an "average, healthy human ment. Security called the South Carlerannouncescandidacy being" who has "made an Bend Fire Department at 5:21. experiment of himself'' by The city responded with four attempting to do something emergency vehicks. Notre WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter, form At the brief East Room ceremony eariier "for all of humanity." Seated Dame sent one truck. The ally launching his fight for another term in the yesterday, Carter said he ''would have preferred throughout the initial part of vehicles arrived at 5:35. White House, said yesterday night the crisis to postpone this announcement until another the program, he outlined histor Estelle Geyer, president of with Iran that delayed his campaign plans ''may time." But he said election laws in some states ically why the struggle for the hall and a resident of the not be resolved easily or quickly.'' forced him to act now. habitable areas has lead to the room, said the fire started in a In a five-minute paid political broadcast on "Therefore," he said, "I declare that I am a development of nations and wicker waste paper basket, CBS television, Carter said the fate of 50 candidate for re-election as president ;)f the corporations, who are primarily "probably as a result of a American hostages in Tehran could hang in the United States of America." concerned oniy for themselves. cigarer b~~t thrown into the balance so long that "our patience and sense of Carter also asked fellow Democrats to renomi ''No one was doing anything trash can. uni~y may waver as frustration builds up among nate Walter F. Mondale, "the most effective for the total 'spaceship earth,' A woman in the section us. vice president in American history." so I decided to try," Fuller explained. complained that Security arriv The broadcast followed a muted declaration of The president, who spoke for less than ei~ht ed at Holy Cross "fifteen to Drawing from scientifi._ his candidacy that Carter made yesterday afternoon minutes in the East Room, appeared before tory and personal experiences, twenty minutes after having in the East Room of the White House. relatives, staff aides and a delegation from been notified." They proceed Fuller showed how he tried to Saying then that his stewardship of the nation's campaign headquarters. Mondale was with decipher the riddle of human ed up the elevator to the fire, affairs has resulted in scars, which he carries him. The low-key event contrasted sharply with which Kearney had extinguish existence. "All other organ ··with pride,'' Carter spoke of ''a somber time'' Carter's original plans. isms have special equipment, ed. when hostages held by "a mob and a Before events in Iran intervened, the president Security said in their report but humans do not," he ex gover~~enr that have become one and the had intended to invite prominent supporters plained. "Humans, however, that their attempt to clear the same. dorm of the residents was 'Slow from across the nation to the White House and to do have minds," which he due to the lack of co-operation In the broadcast. Carter referred to his spend the evening at a fund-raising gala at a described as ''a capability to hy the students. postponement of campaign plans and said, Washington hotel. Then he was going to find relationships existing be tween special cases.'' Most students responded to ''While the crisis continues, I must be present to em hark on four days of campaigning in six stares the alarm in a "manner con define and to lead our response to an from Maine to Texas. Fuller concluded that man's exisrance must be important, trary to safe fire procedure,'' a ever-changing situation of the greatest sensitivi Although the fund-raiser was on Caner's resident commented. ''A girl ty and importance." announced schedule for the day, chief spokes because ''the mind can com pre· hend to some extent the design with a hearing problem was White House press secretary J ody Powell said man J ody Powell said the President would not the television appearance was keyed to 2,800 anend because he "simply felt his presence of the universe, and nothing asleep, and no one hothered to else can do this." check and make sure that she Carter fund-raisers. many held in private homes there would not be appropriate under the Born in 1895, Fuller said, ''I had gotten out,'' another stu around the country. Had there not been this circumstances." a reference to the· Iranian found myself growing into a dent complained. connection, he said, the broadcast would have According to the report made been canceled. [continued on page 3} [continued on page 8) - ----------------- ... ._ ) News in brief Wednesday, December 5, 1979- page 2 UA W rejects Senate bill Producer bases movie on Chappaquiddick to freeze wages HOLLYWOOD (AP) mobile accident in which a be Stensel's first and one of the Promoter Glenn Stensel once 28-year-old campaign worker new kind of Hollywood movies, Grass-roots leaders of United Auto Workers union members tried - in vain - to produce a drowned in a car driven by Sen.