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• • Soph Literary VOL. XV, NO. 87 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary’s MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1981 Iranians order Dwyer expelled from country By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fourth division ol the Central Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Pars An Iranian court convicted jailed said. American writer Cynthia Dwyer on The court ruled that the prison spying charges yesterday, sentenced term begin last May 5 — the day she her to time already served and or was arrested at her room in the Teh dered her expelled. The State ran Hilton Hotel. Department said Mrs. Dwyer would Iranian militants had announced a he released to Sw iss authorities early hunt for American "agents" they today with her departure from Iran believed were linked to the aborted k to follow shortly. hostage rescue mission 10 days ear At his home in the Buffalo, N.Y., lier, and Tehran newspapers said suburb of Amherst, Mrs. Dwyer’s Mrs. Dwyer was accused of spying husband, John, said he felt for the CIA. The report never was “tremendous, grateful, thrilled, confirmed officially. News of Mrs. relieved" at news of the pending Dwyer’s imminent release came first release of his 49-year-old wife, who from a spokesman at Tehran’s Fvin has been held by the Iranians for Prison where she has been held. The nine months and three days. Mrs. report was confirmed the State Dwyer denied the spying charges at Department and by Swiss officials her trial last Wednesday, according who represent U.S. interests in Iran. to Iranian press reports. Swiss diplomats in Tehran said Dwyer said he and the couple’s they were still discussing the case three children had no word of Mrs. witf authorities and could not con The recent production o f "Pippin, "performed over the weekend hy the Notre Dame Student Players, Dwyer’s travel plans. proved a roaring success. At left, an interested patron looks on as Pat Byrnes and Mike Kelley discuss See DWYER, page 3 In Washington, State Department the "ravages o f war. " (photos byJohn Macor) spokeswoman Anita Stockman said the plans would he determined by the family. The State Department had been Informed that Iran wanted Mrs. Reagan plan to cut aid draws fire Dwyer to leave the country im mediately upon her release, she said. Mrs Dwyer, an occasional writer By DON MCLEOD asked to sacrifice until it hurts for most frequent campaign refrains. UDAG may be one o f the best for H u m a n ist magazine who her Associated Press Political Writer the good of the economy. Carver was backed by colleagues "pork barrel" tools in the White husband says went to Iran to But the only specific information such as Mayor Pete Wilson of San House kit. It creates highly visible research the Iranian revolution for . WASHINGTON - UDAG is one of they gleaned from the meeting was Diego, the other co-chairman of new projects which politicians can freelance articles she hoped to sell, those lesser known Washington that UDAG was definitely on the list mayors for-Reagan, and Mayor Ric point to with pride for a relatively was convicted on four charges, acronyms. Few outside the to be eliminated. hard Hudnut of Indianapolis, also a small investment. including “indulging in acts of bureaucracy would even recognize The bipartisan shock the mayors Republican and chairman of the Na A good example o f UDAG ac espionage against the Islamic the letters. displayed came as something of a tional League of Cities. complishments is Baltimore’s Har Republic of Iran," according to But President Reagan has raised a shock to White House officials In three years, UDAG has been the bor Place which cleaned up a Iran's official Pars news agency. firestorm by proposing to eliminate around the table. booster for more than 1,000 urban crumbling water front and replaced It listed the others as: a program considered by his urban UDAG had looked like an easy tar projects and nearly $2 billion in it with restaurants and tourist attrac "establishing contacts with counter allies to be as Republican as Calvin get, one line in the budget that could federal investment, attracting more tions. revolutionary agents in order to Coolidge. than $11.5 billion from private in be scratched for a neat savings of Peoria received $4.9 million in mediate between them and other The intended demise of Urban vestors. Each UDAG dollar now $675 million a year. Out of nearly $4 UDAG money and attracted an ad American agents, collaborating with Development Action Grants may being pumped into one of the city hillion a year in block grants to local ditonal $20.3 million for a South an armed outlawed group in order provide the best example of the projects generates at least $5 in governments, UDAG was a drop in town neighborhood rehabilitation to inform the former American problems facing Reagan as he tries to the bucket. private investment, he explained. project. hostages in Iran on the status of so cut billions of dollars from federal UDAG has created 463,218 jobs In Indianapolis, UDAG provided cial and political affairs in Iran ” and agency budgets. Even the most vul on construction projects and in the $12.8 million to help build a shop "making efforts for establishing nerable items in the budget have MONDAY completed facilities. An estimated ping complex radio commmunication between diehard defenders in unexpected 286,887 of these will be permanent members of the opposition in Iran places. jobs. In Kansas City, a hotel com plex FOCUS was built with $10 millioprivate in and the United States." When a delegation of big city The program also targets money She was sentenced to nine months mayors visited the White House last to specific projects in needy areas. vestors. In short, the new Reagan ad imprisonment and ordered week they got the hard news they In addition, UDAG is distributed Carver told Reagan gan the same ministration was taking the ax to the deported from the country by the had expected — they would be in tight little packages approved in amount of money spread around the Washington and aimed at specific country would give each city so one federal program which best projects. Hadn’t the mayors and little money, it wouldn’t do any reflects the president’s own view of governors been at full cry for more good. It would be better for the urban aid and creates the greatest John McGrath freedom in use of federal aid? treasury to just keep the money, he publicity and patronage at the least expense. It also was tnc gemstone of former said. new Editor-in-Chi President Carter’s urban policy, the only major new program that he ac John McGrath, a junior from tually got through Congress. That SMC freshman Johnstown, Pa., was elected editor- alone made it suspect to a new in-chief of The Observer by a Republican administration. return of captive aunt majority vote of the editorial board Reagan explained he would ease and members of production and the blow by distributing an undis business departments. closed amount of alternative money By MARY AGNES CAREY before returning to the United A marketing major, McGrath through less strictured grants. But Staff Reporter States. hopes to continue the advancement the mayors, with Republicans in the Ms. Dwyer has spoken with the made by The Observer in recent vanguard, begged him to take anot “Before I couldn’t study because former captive’s husband, John years. "My goal,” he said, “is to her look. she wasn’t home," explains Saint Dwyer. "My uncle is in really good streamline the production ef Mayor Richard Carver of Peoria, Mary’s freshman Colleen Dwyer, spirits. The kids ( Mrs. Dwyer’s three- ficiency and continue the tradition III. — president of the Republican niece to Cynthia Dwyer, an children ) won’t go to school today of the professional editorial content Mayors Conference and past co- American journalist recently — they’re just too excited. My aunt of the paper. ” chairman of the mayors’ division of released from Iran’s Evin Prison. might he home tonight, ” she said. “With our new computer set-up, Reagan’s presidential campaign — "Now I can’t study because she’s “Over 800 ND-SMC students had we have the potential to be one of patiently explained the facts of life. coming home.” signed petitions for Mrs. Dwyer's the finest college dailies in the Even if it was a Carter program, he “We’re keeping our fingers release. "I’d like to thank all the stu country. I am looking forward to told the meeting, the concept was as crossed until she finally returns. dents who helped out by signing the reaching that status. ” Republican as Coolidge. Its main We’re all excited — so excited,” the petitions, ” Ms. Dwyer commented, McGrath is currently production purpose is to lure private invest Saint Mary’s student said "We appreciate all your concern.” manager of The Observer and has ment into troubled areas instead of Ms. Dwyer explained her aunt will "I can’t wait to see my aunt again," also served as a News Editor, Senior John McGrath pumping endless federal dollars leave Tehran on “the first plane and Colleen Dwyer explained,“I just Stall Reporter and Copy Editor. down the drain —- one of Reagan’s go to Vienna for a couple of hours, ” can’t wait.” News Briefs Monday, February 9, 1981 — page 2 by The Observer and The Associated Press .. .Serving ND and SMC T he A m erican d ip lom at who was recalled to Washington last weekend after a letter he wrote to a friend calling The Editorial Board of The Observer elected John Ireland "dull" and “small potatoes” was published byThe Irish Times , McGrath as the new Editor-in-Chief last Friday.