Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC August 1984 Daily Egyptian 1984 8-24-1984 The aiD ly Egyptian, August 24, 1984 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_August1984 Volume 70, Issue 5 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, August 24, 1984." (Aug 1984). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1984 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in August 1984 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ---- - - -~~~~~~~~- 'Daily 'Egyptian F'nday. August 2J . • 0f84 . Vol iO. No :i 80uthem Illinois University Bombing kills 17 in Tehran railway stop TEHRAN. Iran (AP ) - A bomb explosion ripped lhrough .' a busy rush-hour street near Tehran's railway station Thursday. killing at least I i people and wounning 300 ot hers in Ihe bloodiesl terror attack here in two years. the official Iranian news media reiXlrted. Ca llers to foreign news agencies claimed responsibility for the attack in the name of two groups opposed to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 's Islamic revolutionary government. Official Tehran radio blamed "the stooges of America." The bombing occurred against a backdrop of reported in-fighti ng wilhin the Moslem fundamentalist regi me. internal subversion and continuing war with Iraq. The bomb. said to have been planted near a fruit juice vendor's stand just off south Tehran's Rah-Ahan (IWilroadl Square. exploded al 8:50 a.m" lhe height of lhe rush hour. It mowed down pedestrians and s hattered wi nd ows in surrou nding buildings. showering hundreds of olher Starr Photo by Neville Loberg passers-by wilh shards of glass, L'>e official Islamic Republic News Agenc y reported. 11 As Republicans in Dallas made plans to 'romp 'em,' Democrats Todd McClure, son or Gary McClure. and .Jim Weber. McClure'S back home in Carbondale painted their own message. From len. .Jackson County coordinator. decorate headquarters. See BOMBI NG, Page Z Reagan promises to lower taxes DALLA S (API - President Reagan. Nationa l Convention. November.. Reagan said: Ii eaga n 's s peech accepting accusing Democrats of spending money "Our opponents are openly c('mmi tted "Our lax policies are and will remain renomination to a second-term blended "like drunken sailors:' asked voters lO increasing your lax burden," he said pro-work , pro·growth. and pro-family." anti-Democrat rhetoric with a defense Thursday night 10 reJecl the "old in remarks prepared fo r delivery. "We Reagan said. " We intend to simplify the of his record in office and a promise of liberalism" of Walter F Mondale and are committed to stopping them and we entire tax system ... to bring the tax more of the same. said he intends to bring lax r::ltes down wilL" rates of every American further down. for every American if thev will re-elect He went on : "We could say they spend not up." Already the oldest man to serve as him. money like drunken sailors. bul lhat The president urged voters to "renew president al age n. Reagan also offered "They call their policy the 'new would be unfair 10 drunken sailors. The the mandate of 1980. to move us further a personal nole. "Tonight. with a full realism.' but their 'new realism' is just sailors are spending their own money." forwa rd on the road we presentl y travel heart and deep gratilude for your lrust. Ihe 'old liberalism.''' lhe president said In an answer to Walter F . Monda le's the road leading to pros!>"rity and I accept your nomination for the of his Democratic foes in accepting assertion that a tax increase is economic expansion 'n a world at presidency of lhe United States." he renomination of the Republican inevitable no matter who wins in peace." sa id . Computer director proposes expansion Gus By Ed Foley Affairs. one day" 10 get their printouts multidiSCiplinary computer CJ10de Sta rr Writer Leo Min said Wednesday that back from the compo"er. "That, instruction center. It is intended Ihe move is "absolutely to me, is not acceptable." for use by departments that One of three mainframe ne< >;sary" to keep up wi th Min 's most optimistic target wa nt to use computers in their com pulers will be replaced and increased demand on the dale for completion of the instruction but are now hin­ and 64 terminals will be added syslem and the problems that upgrading is December 1984. dered by a lock of facilities. in Faner Hall , if plans to demand is causing. The plans include turning the " We'd lixe to provide a upgrade the system in fiscal "I've heard many, many classrooms opposite the com­ mic rocomputer lab to become a Gus says the only printout 1985 are approved, said Leo unbelievable stories," he said. puter terminals in the south end students don't mind waiting ror Min , director of Compuling "Some students had to wait over of Faner into a See COMPUTER, Page 2 is their bursar's bill. Man dies in Murphysboro blaze One man died and three were inhalation. Hill, said he was sleeping in the This GMorning injured Thursday in a fire that The blaze apparenUy starled apartment after he and Penrod damaged six businesses and a in a chair Penrod had been returned home from drinking downtown aparlment building, using, Ihe fire chief said, ad­ when he was awakened by Murphysboro fire officials said. ding. "There were just scraps shouts and escaped. The fire began sometime left of Ihat and a blanket he It was only after he had Eastwood more than tough 6 before I :30 a.m. in the second- . must have had over him." climbed down a pole and was slory apartment above V and H Penrod was curled up in a safe that he realized Penrod still Group sees other's views 8 Jewelers, said Fire Chief balhlub beneath about four feet was inside. Hill said. Chesler Sleele. of rubble, Murphysboro police " It was blazing on the inside Mock test good experience 11 He said Alberl Penrod, 45, officer Kendall Glodo said. He when I got out, and windows was found dead inside the said Ihe man apparenUy had were starting 10 break," he said. aparlment at 1116 and a half been dead long before a wall had " I'm nol sure if that was from Offeusive line seasoned Sports 32 Wainul SI. - Ihe apparent collapsed, filling the lub. victim of burns or smoke Penrod's son-in-law, Bruce See BLAZE, Page 2 BOMBING: 1 7 killed in Tehran Wews GRoundup Continued from Page I organizations tryi ng to topple r esistance of the ' martyr ripped off much of the facade of Khomei ni , whos e Khalaghi. " a two-s tory building. damaged revolutionaries ousted Shah Zaccaro defends loan from estate dozens of small shops and II Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in The calier spoke Farsi, Iran's passing vehicles. and dug a G­ 1979. language. with an Arab accent. foot -deep crater in the street. it But the Mujahedeen, from The reference to " Kalaghi" EW YORK (API - Saying. " I felt I was doing the right said. their exile headquarters in could not immediately be ex­ thing ... I still do ," John Zaccaro on Th ursday defended The news agency said 17 France. disowned the attack pla ined . borrowing S175,000 for his own business from an elderly people were killed . but the radio and blamed it on "either the woman's estate that a judge had appointed him to manage. put the total at 18 _ Tehran's regime's agents. doing so in a In Paris. another anonymous Zaccaro. husband of Democratic vice preSidential can· police chief. Col. Abbas bid to cover up their inhuman caller to the BrHish news didate Geraldine Ferraro. testified a t a court hearing on the ~oazzami. told the agency that crimes ". or r emnants of the agency Re ute r s claimed propriety of hi s actions as the woman's financia l guardian. A eight of the approximately 300 Shah's hated secret police. responsibility for a pro­ decision in the case is expected within 30 days. wounded were listed in critical Savak_" monarchist group, " Arya," condition. The French news agency previously unknown. But Shahin Ex-bailiff acquitted of Greylord role Scores of demonstrators Agence France--Presse said an Fatemi, a spokesman for Paris­ nocked to the bombing scene. anonymous call er to its Tehran based Iranian monarchist chanting slogans against the bureau claimed responsibility organizations, later issued a CHICAGO (AP) - A U.S. District judge, saying a former leftist People', Mujahedeen for the bombing in the name of statement denouncing the Holiday Court bailiff should have been charged under state most active of the undergrouna " the unity of the week of bombing. rather than federal laws. Thursday acqUitted the bailiff of corruption charges stemming from the Operation Greylord investigation. COMPUTER: Expansion proposed The government had accused Alan Kaye, 33. of taking S10,000 in bribes and soliciting another $30.000 to fix divorce Continued from Page 1 anywhere from five seconds to mark. The cost will be picked cases. The charges came after a 3 and a half-year feder21 stimulator for inno vative two minutes fo r response to up. in part. by monel' from the probe of corruption in the Cook County court system. change in our instructional commanr.s, he said. Any wait University and , in part, by a process. Then 1 know our longer than a second is "ex­ funding package requested Chicago murder suspect indicted facult y will jump on it and make tremely frustrating: ' said Min.