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GOP's Hirsch opens bid for Congress By BARBARBARBARA KATBLL steering committee when it meets March 1 Mahler declared he is the immediate past national president FREEHOLD - Vincent T "Vic" Hindi, Spring Lake, her candidacy for Congress last week. Dr. Richard Feufold Hirsch said he has received "sizable pledges and pro- yesterday became the second declared caadidate in the race of Holmdel, Monmouta County coordinator for the Con- mises of support" from many of these people, both from lor the Republican nomination for Congress The person servative Caucus, is also expected to enter the race. within the Third Congressional District and from elesewhere chosen by the GOP will attempt to unseat It-year veteran Hirsch said be would not comment aotil after March 1 in the country And he said he saw nothing wrong with seeking Rep. James J Howard, D-N.J., in the November election. whether he will mount a primary challenge if be fails to and receiving money for the campaign from outside the Hirsch, president ol an Ocean Township insurance com- receive the endorsement and support of the party's steering district and the state pany, is a self-described conservative, who indicated in a committee However, be said he would support the eventual Although conceding be has never held elective, office, press conference at the American Hotel, here, that his Republican candidate, as he expected all others to support Hirsch said he has been active as a Republican forB years in primary concern is the need for a stronger defense commit him if he is chosen. Bdmar and Spring Lake and has supported many local Hirsch disputed Muhler's claim that she Is the front- candidates. He also noted that as president of the Navy He also expressed opposition to the SALT II (strategic runner in the race for the nomination League be has testified before Senate and Congressional arms limitations talks) treaty and concern about "uncon- "She is an elected officul,"Hirsch said. But I started committees and knows many elected officials in Washington. trolled inflation, unchecked government spending," depen- the groundwork for my candidacy five months ago, and I think Hirsch acknowledged that be is not as well known in the dency on foreign oil supplies, "unnecessary regulations" on I am as much a frontrunner as she is. I have met with many northern part of the congressional district as he Is in the area business, and ''disarray in our foreign'policy." And Hirsch top leaders in the county who have wanted to lend me their south of Long Branch. However, be said he has been attempt- chided Howard and the state's U.S. senators for failing to support." ing to meet with local Republican committees in each oppose the Panama Canal Treaty. Hirsch said he has been also urged to run by people from municipality. And he said that he will intensify his efforts Hirsch will be vying with Assemblywoman Marie S. all over the country who came to know htm as the result of his even more, if nominated. Muhler, K-Monmouth. for the endorsement of the Republican activities for the Navy League of the United States, of which See Hirsch, page II Vincent T. llir.ch The Daily Register VOL. fO2 NO. 199 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1980 20 CENTS Still demand return of the shah -»* ! ___ ___^_______ Iranian militants reject UN paner l By The Associated Press career diplomat Adib Daoudy. The group would mission members and its mandate. The U.N. commission agreed to by the U.S. board a charter plane to Tehran and arrive there The Washington Post quoted U.N. diplomatic and Iranian governments is preparing to go to later tomorrow, the source said. sources as saying Iranian President Abolhassan Tehran to investigate charges against the ousted U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim re- Bani-Sadr was believed to have assured shah. But the militants holding the American ceived Iran's acceptance of the commission mem- Waldheim that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, hostages rejected the panel as a "U.S. plot" and bers by telephone from Tehran yesterday. He was Iran's revolutionary leader, has approved the said until the monarch is returned they will keep still awaiting telexed confirmation from the Ira- commission. the hostages, who began their 108th"day In captivi- nian capital. When he gets it, presumably today, The Post also said the 79-year-old Khomeini, ty today. „ he is to formally announceishe^names of com- convalescing in » Tehran^ hospital from a heart A wen-.niui...«. fc^ce at fne United rations'' a'tac^4Wuu,3 «MIM«W m+ H,.I««L'II1'B'A JUs week, said members of the commission', set up to in- possibly Friday. vestigate Iranian complaints against deposed The Islamic militants who seized 'the U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, will arrive in Bani-Sadr heading Embassy in Tehran Nov. 4 have said repeatedly Tehran tomorrow. The source, who declined to be they would release the Americans only under identified, said hopefully freedom would come for Iran's armed forces orders from Khomeini, who has not publicly dis- the Americans within a week after the five- cussed the hostage crisis for a month. member commission's arrival. By the Associated Press A spokesman for the militants told the Tehran The source said two of the commission mem- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was reported by correspondent of the Japanese newspaper bers, Mohammed Bedjaoui, the U.N ambassador Tehran Radio today to have transferred his post Yomiuri that Khomeini "and the Iranian people from Algeria, and Andres Aguilar, Venezuela's as commander in chief of the armed forces to are still demanding the extradition of the shah former ambassador to Washington, were leaving President Abohassan Bani-Sadr. and the return of his assets" before the hostages New York aboard a Concorde supersonic jetliner There has been speculation in the last week are released. this afternoon to fly to Paris, where they would be that Baoi-Sadr wanted to move Iranian troops to He then toughened the position by declaring met by another commission member, Louis-Ed- the U.S. Embassy and replace the militant stu- there was "no need for the U.N. to investigate mond Pettiti, a Judge on the European Court of dents who have been holding approximately 50 the crimes of the former shah" because "the Human Rights. American hostages since Nov. 4. United Nations' efforts to break the impasse by The report of Bani-Sadr's increased power appointing a five-member commission to probe VANCE, WALDHEIM CONFER — U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, left, The source said the three would fly tomorrow comes as a U.N. commission prepared to fly to Iran's grievances is a U.S. plot being perpetrated confers yesterday with United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldhei m to discuss to Geneva, where they would meet with the two Iran via Paris to Investigate the regime's charges through U.N. Secretary-General Kurt rules which the commission Investigating the regime of the former shah of Iran will other members, Hector Wilfred Jayewardene, against the ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Waldheim." conduct Its Inquiry. one of Sri Lanka's leading lawyers, and Syrian Pahlavi. See Commiiiion, page 18 Trudeau is back in charge of Canada once again TORONTO (AP) - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a political has- Commons, four more than a majority. The Conservatives had But his pointed remarks on world affairs were not ex- been just three months ago, took charge of Canada once again 103 seats and the socialist New Democrats 32. The race in one pected. in a stunning election victory he called a rerun of "an old love district had been postponed until March because of a can- "In the world ... we have many friends," he said. "We story" between his party and the voters, and offered himself didate's death. are proud that our greatest friend of all is also our neighbor, and his country as peacemakers in the U.S.-Soviet dispute. The former Parliament had 136 Conservative members, the United States of America... Trudeau's Liberal Party routed the Progressive Con- 114 Liberals. 27 New Democrats and five Social Credit Party "We do not forget that Canada is geographically situated servatives of Prime Minister Joe Clark in parliamentary members. The Quebec-based Social Creditists, a rightist between the two superpowers, and that Canada, like the rest elections yesterday, cutting down a government that was one group, lost all their seats yesterday. of the world, (is) very interested in the preservation of peace of the few to stick by the United States down the line in its With about three-quarters of the popular vote counted, the between these two powers. And we see that as an important confrontation with Moscow. Liberals had 4,041,481 votes, or 49 percent, the Conservatives aspect of our role." In a victory speech early today to an ecstatic crowd of 2,400,333, or 29 percent, and the New Democrats 1,536,614, or By contrast Clark had sounded like anything but a supporters in Ottawa, Trudeau, 60, took a distinctly softer 18 percent. moderating force on the two sides since the Soviet military approach, declaring that the United States is "our greatest Although they scored some gains in the Atlantic Maritime move into Afghanistan. He declared that "aggression must friend" but adding that preserving peace between the provinces and in staunchly Liberal Quebec, the key to the not go unchecked," made even tougher demands than Presi- superpowers must be part of Canada's world mission.

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