GOP may confront Koch M AN ALAPAN - Mayor Edward Koch of vention Center into the Hudson River Con- The two led a busload of demonstrators of an adequate sewage treatment plant New York City may be met with a little cern has been voiced that the sewage would into New York last week to picket the con- I mil the plant does open, the renter will sludge-slinging ' when he comes here to- find its way to beaches along the New Jersey struction site of the S395 million I 8-billion- spew between 1 and 3 million gallons of raw night to campaign for his former con- shore square-foot center on West 34th Street in sewage into the river each day gressional colleague. Rep James J Howard, The protest may not come off. however Manhattan, as well as Gracie Mansion, resi- Self and Sommers -said the picketing out- D-N.J Self, a Middletown committeeman. said dence of the mayor side the Battleground Country Club, where Frank Sell and Clement Sommers Re- there nave been some objections to the plan The candidates denied that they were Koch will address the Manalapan Township publican candidates for the Monmouth Coun- Democratic Club, is iiitended lo nudge New from Republican headquarters in Freehold latecomers to the issue, jumping onto the ty Board of Freeholders, said yesterday that Jersey Attorney General John Degnan off but that he would attempt to win permission Democrats' bandwagon they and other Republicans may show up the fence" in his/impending decision on outside the Battleground Country Club carry- Sommers, who is mayor of Oceanporl. Several Democratic officeholders have whether or not New Jersey has sufficient ing placards protesting the anticipated said merely that "scheduling conflicts" sharply criticized the timetable which calls grounds to sue New York to halt construction dumping of raw sewage from the still-un- could interfere with his and Self's atten lor completion of the huge convention center .il the center until adequate sewage treat ronstructed New York Exposition and Con- Frut Self dance four years before the scheduled 1988 opening menl facilities are provided Clemeat V. Sommers The Daily Register >l on mouth i ounl> s (>IT«II Home VOL. 103 NO. 93 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980 20 CENTS Iran's assets offered for hostages' release WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter is terference in Iranian affairs Muskie also expressed concern about Soviet offering Iran billions of dollars' worth of incen- Only a month ago Rafsanjani insisted that Iran intentions in the volatile Persian Gulf region. "In tives for the release of the American hostages, an had not dropped an earlier demand — that the light of Afghanistan, we must also be concerned issue the Iranian parliament reportedly is moving United States apologize to Iran. But he made no about the possibility of new intervention pres- closer to resolving. mention of that demand yesterday ented by any instability in the region," Muskie With the presidential election and the first Carter last month criticized his Republican said, without mentioning the Soviet Union by anniversary of the taking of the 52 Americans opponent. Ronald Reagan, for saying publicly that name both two weeks away today, Carter made this he would accept Iran's demands that the frozen He said the war must be ended through settle- offer yesterday in while campaigning in Youngs assets be freed, that financial claims against Iran ment of disputes by peaceful means and with town, Ohio: should be withdrawn and that the United States respect for the principles of non-interference In "If Iran should release the hostages, then I should pledge not to interfere in Iran's internal the internal affairs of other countries. • would unfreeze their assets, Which are several affairs He said at the time that Reagan shouldn't billions of dollars ... I would drop the embargo on negotiate through the news media. "If Iran and Iraq are prepared to respect both trade with Iran and work toward a resumption of of these principles it should be possible to bring Reagan, campaigning in Louisville. Ky , made normal commerce with Iran in the future " this needlessly prolonged conflict to an early end. passing reference to the hostage situation yester- It should be possible to do so in a way which does The president said it is to the advantage of the day, saying only that, "I don't understand why 52 lnMrMiHlmhnl United States "to have a strong Iran It's to our justice to the legitimate concerns of both sides," Americans have been held hostage for almost a he said. i Rep. Frank Thompson, D-N.J. din unset issues yetterday advantage to have a united Iran." year now." with member* of The Daily Register's editorial board Even before Carter spoke, the speaker of the In another development yesterday, Defense 270-seat Iranian parliament, Ayatullah Hashemi Carter's conciliatory remarks yesterday were Secretary Harold Brown said the United States Rafsanjani. told The Associated Press in a tele- echoed by public statements by Secretary of State will not withhold arms shipments to Jordan, de- phone interview that a decision on the conditions Edmund S Muskie. Both expressed concern over spite Iranian complaints that such shipments rep- for release of the hostages would be made "in the Iran's situation In Its war with neighboring Iraq. resent an obstacle to the release of the hostages. Thompson facing next two or three days.'' "We are opposed to the dismemberment of "So long as others do not join actively in the He said the conditions probably would be the Iran," Muskie said in Chicago. "We believe that war we intend to go along with our relations to same as those listed by the Ayatollah Huhollah the cohesion of Iran is in the interest of the them," Brown said, referring in part to Jordan, Khomeini last month. Those include return of the stability of the region as a whole The integrity of which is scheduled to get 100 new M'40 tanks double challenge: late shah's wealth, cancellation of US. financial Iran is threatened by the Iraqi invasion." beginning in 1983 Although Jordan has helped claims against Iran, release of Iranian funds in He did note that Iraq has said it has no claims deliver supplies to Iraq, it has not taken any overt the United States and guarantees of non-in- to Iranian territory. action in the Iraq-Iran conflict. Abscam and Smith Iranians put up stiff resistance By ROBIN GOLDSTEIN the pension plans of approximately 8 mil- SHREWSBURY - Up until this year, lion American workers. when Rep. Frank Thompson. D-N.J., said But during the campaign, as during the "I will be re-elected," it was something of interview here yesterday, the discussion a forgone conclusion: repeatedly swung back from his con- gressional record to Thompson's Abscam Iraq presses siege of Abadan « It's a little different this year, how- ever, with the 26-year congressional veter- involvement. the interest of the stability of the region as a an facing a stiff challenge from a 27-year- No matter what the outdome of the BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Iraq says its forces peared that the Iraqis were maintaining their whole The integrity of Iran is threatened by the old political novice. congressman's bribery trial, which has are tightening their siege of Abadan and mopping pressure on Abadan and Khorramshahr but the Iranians were still able to keep the invading Iraqi invasion." Thompson is still saying "I will be re- been postponed until after the election, up Iranian holdouts in the neighboring port of forces out of Abadan Itself. elected." But, this year, it's prefaced by Khorramshahr. Iran claimed its forces blocked The speaker of Iran's Parliament, Hashemi "I will be acquitted." This year, Thomp- Iraqi attempts to advance in both key cities on the Tehran Radio reported continuing Iraqi shell- Kafsanjani, said yesterday that the legislature son is running against not just Republican Shalt al-Arab estuary but admitted the defenders ing of Abadan, artillery duels yesterday afternoon would decide in the "next two or three days " on challenger Christopher Smith, but against Thompson's views needed reinforcements. on the Abadan-Ahwaz highway north of the city conditions for release of the hostages, but that he an Abscam indictment. and the Abadan-Mahshahr highway to the east, thought they would be the same ones enunciated On Abscam: "I will be acquitted." Baghdad Radio,said the commander of Iraq's During an interview yesterday with the and long-range shelling of the city from the Iraqi by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's revolu- On campaign: "Liberal vs. con- forces at the southern end of the'300-mile invasion editorial board of The Daily Register. front told the Iraqi News Agency his forces were side of the Shatt al-Arab. the boundary-line water- tionary leader. servative." way between the (wo countries and Iraq's water Thompson answered what he termed "the "tightening their control over the approaches to Khomeini's conditions were return of the On county farmers: "They are en- route to the Persian Gulf. Iraq is fighting to get inevitable questions" — about the FBI's Abadan. while our artillery and air force continue shah's wealth, cancellation of claims against titled to subsidies." complete control of the estuary. videotapes which the government will use to pound enemy positions and destroy armor and Iran, release of Iranian assets frozen in the Unit- in its bribery case against Thompson, and Oh GOP tax plan: "Can't be done vehicles. The state of the enemy in Abadan Is The Iranian radio also claimed that Khor- ed States, and a guarantee of non-interference in Abscam.