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| to enforce boycott WASHINGTON = (AP)—President Committee refuses to go along. The president compared the Carter said Thursday he is prepared The administration coun revoke Moscow Rvs with the 1936 to take legal action if necessary to the passports of American Olympians Games in Berlin, which he said “were prevent American athletes from or stamp them invalid for travel to used to inflate the prestige participating of the in the Moscow the Soviet Union. ambitious dictator Adolf Hitler.” The Olympics this summer. Carter did not specify what he Soviets, Carter said, would like to Carter had previously told would do, but he told the annual exploit the Games, too, and win a American athletes the United States convention of the American Society propaganda victory. would not send a team, but he made of Newspaper Editors meeting in~ “It is essential that our intentions clear in a speech prepared for Washington: “If legal actions are be absolutely clear,” Carter said. delivery to newspaper editors today necessary to enforce the decision not “The measures we have taken against: | that he would enforce his plan for a to send a team to Moscow, I will take the Soviet Union since the invasion Boyeout even if the U.S. Olympic them.” will remain in effect until there is — total withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Then, and only Tornado: a year later then, we would be prepared to join with Afghanistan's neighbors in a WICHITA FALLS—From the air, portions of the south side of this city guarantee of true neutrality and non- of 100,000 still look like unfinished jigsaw puzzles. interference in Afghanistan’s internal Cement foundations are sprinkled like salt throughout sections where affairs.” In the speech devoted to oto By Doug Johnston residents are still rebuilding homes and businesses demolished on that foreign policy, particularly the crises “Black Tuesday’ one year ago. in Iran and Afghanistan, Carter CU soccer team, is defended his restraint in seeking to month. Yesterday, Thursday marked a year since three tornadoes marshaled forces and free the Americans held hostage in natch against the crushed with unrelenting brawn into Wichita Falls, about 90 miles northwest of Fort Worth. the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. And he It was 6:15 that April evening when the tornado first skipped across the again blamed Soviet expansionism dust-colored waters of Lake Wichita and plunged into Memorial Stadium, for threatening Iran as well as snapping steel light standards and ripping up its astroturf. Afghanistan. From there it continued eastward through Western Hills, Faith Village nado “If interference from outside is a and Southmoor. threat to Iran,” Carter said, ‘‘that a game with the It killed 44 persons, injured over 3,200 and left over 2,000 homeless, threat does not come from the United feat. including the families of several TCU students. In the 25 minutes that it States. d team in their was on the ground, the killer tornado cut an 8-mile long swath a mile and “The challenge in that area of the » entire first half. a half wide that destroyed one-fifth of the city. Property damage totaled world—as in some others—comes fessionals,” said nearly $300 million. : from the intersection of two historic vell as we should That same kind of ‘black death” struck not only Wichita Falls that day, trends.” One of those trends, the but Vernon and Lawton, Okla., as well. The Vernon tornado left 11 dead, president said, is the rising demand nade the biggest injured 66 and caused $20 million in property damage. Three were killed for self-determination, to which ned my head, he in Lawton, 127 injured, and property damage was over $12 million. Carter said the United States is And last week, as funnel clouds again threatened the twister-weary city, sympathetic. players—playing setting off wailing civil defense sirens, residents couldnt escape the “The other trend is Soviet ex- haunting memories of last year’s murderous rampage. pansionism, which we are deter- the first half and cil It has been a year of monumental grief for some, especially those who mined to oppose,” Carter said. termission. HONORED PROFESSOR—Dr. Walton H. Rothrock Day Convocation in Ed Landreth Auditorium Thur- rnado by a TCU lost loved ones. For others the tornado constituted at least a disruption holds the trophy he was presented at the 18th Honors sday. Skiff photo by Tommy Hawley 12-0, 2-0 and 6- that was to last an entire year. Nearly all of those residents who lost their homes to the storm were underinsured and government red tape has bogged down many in vhen the Kickers securing federal loans to rebuild. Some of those who have tried to rebuild Rothrock wins Honors Da y award | have been bilked by crooked contractors. Chi Omega sorority and Lambda y attempting to But some residents just couldn't rebuild the homes that they had lived in By LYLE MCBRIDE Pulitzer Prize winner Howard Thomas also says that music is a Chi Alpha fraternity won Greek for years. The mental anguish was just too great. : Staff Writer Nemerov, who Honors Week direct reflection of the mind. Bach Scholarship trophies for having the Fort Worth are “Every time I would go back out there and try to rebuild, I would just Chairman Harry Opperman called would be t he best way to describe highest grade point average among 1 this area,” said get physically sick,” said Gene Wilcox, father of TCU junior Scott Wilcox. “probably the greatest living ourselves to people from other French Professor Walton H. their graduating seniors. The tornado destroyed the family 's home of 16 years shortly after they American poet,” was the speaker at planets. Rothrock won the Honors Faculty Electees to Phi Beta Kappa were had remodeled it. the 18th annual event. avel to Lubbock Recognition Award for 1980 at “We just decided to move,” said Wilcox, a registrar and veteran's Bach's “Magnificat in D” is one TCU’s Honors Day Convocation announced by Madeline Potter, who director at Vernon Regional Junior College in Vernon. “It took a little bit Thursday. such illustration of the way we think, to convince Mrs. Wilcox because there were a lot of memories in that replaced absent TCU chapter Phi Nemerov's address was titled Nemerov quoted Thomas as saying. house.” Beta Kappa President Ben Proctor. “Lewis Thomas, Montaigne, and “All that was left behind was bricks and sticks, so I felt we had to The Alpha Lambda Delta Award She called the award the highest, and Human Happiness” and dealt mostly move,” he said. for the highest grade point average of most coveted, academic award in The TCU Concert Chorale per- with Lewis Thomas’ book “The Life formed three movements from that “It has been a tough year,” he lamented. “But life goes on. We got our a graduating member of Alpha America. of a Cell.” work: “Fecit Poetentiam,” ‘‘Sicut careers and each other...” Lambda Delta went to Alicia White, Locutus Est” and “Gloria.” Direction ~——— Chris Kelley a nursing major. Students must have a 3.9 or above , was by Joyce Hull, a graduate student grade point average to qualify for Phi in music education. Beta Kappa. Thomas is a physician and biologist whom Nemerov said, “has Kit Klein, Student Honors Cabinet Nemerov also mentioned essays got so much le arning that he never written by Montaigne in which the chairperson, presented the Faculty bothers to sound learned.” Recognition Award to Rothrock on author discusses his own life and the basis of his “excellence in feelings. He added that the tie bet- teaching, research. ..and faculty- ween Thomas and Montaigne is student relationship.” Thomas compares human happiness. language with hills built by ants, Rothrock, who has taught at TCU saying that it is continually being “Happiness is not having to worry for 25 years and studied in France on changed by different generations, about yourself, as health is not a Fulbright Scholarship, received a with none of them knowing what the having to worry about your body,” standing ovation from the audience end product will be like, Nemerov Nemerov said. when the award was announced. said. around the world Compiled from Associated Press Boycott supported with words. No nations Sadat confident of autonomy accord. After have joined the suggested American sanctions meeting with President Carter for two days, Sadat against Iran even though the Carter administration said that the next move in the self-rule negotiations says it will have responses by the end of the week, but for the Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied lands is any European decisions could be weeks away. The up to Israeli Prime Minister Begin, who's scheduled administration hopes that tough economic sanctions to arrive for talks with Carter next week. will make military action to free (and kill, the Carter has said that a self-rule plan must include a militants threaten) the hostages. recognition of Palestinian rights and their right to Meanwhile, the 34 ousted Iranian diplomats determine their own future. Administration officials received a heroes’ welcome upon returning to Iran. have said that an agreement can be reached by the President Carter broke diplomatic ties Monday after target date of May 26. : Khomeini rejected a plan to transfer control of the hostages from the militants to the ruling Israel moves into Lebanon. Reinforcements Revolutionary Council. and armored personnel carriers moved into southern Lebanon to search for terrorist squads. The Lebanese Colombian captors reduce demands. Still government said it holding 20 hostages in the Dominican Republic's was consulting with U.N.