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The GHews Bowling Tsreen State University| thurs- day 3-13-80 Vance, officials debate status of U.N. panel in MAC schools vary on views of suit hostage situation UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Iranian revolutionary leader Each Mid-American Con- Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ference school involved in met with U.N. officials yesterday changing signals on the com- the class action suit filed by in an effort to determine if a mission, refused to allow the in- two Northern Illinois coaches special international comi.iission ternational panel to see the in January probably will can still be used to end the crisis hostages unless they released their issue individual responses to over the holding of some 50 report on the shah's regime before the suit, University attorney American hostages in Iran. leaving the country. Myron Chenault said yester- Vance conferred with U.N. day. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim THE COMMISSION members He explained that each and memebers of the U.N. spon- refused the demand and returned school's legal counsel has its sored commission who returned to New York, where Waldheim own reasons as to why there from Iran on Tuesday after failing indicated the panel's report would are no grounds for the suit, in their mission to see the not be released. and each is viewing it from a American hostages. Commission co-chairman different perspective. Chenault said represen- tatives from every MAC "We have no false expectations about the school except Miami Univer- chances the commission can still do sity attended a strategy meeting here yesterday. something positive. But we have no very Building desirable options, either." Wall Street Research with Carter administration officials, Andres Aguilar of Venezuela was speaking privately, said they asked at New York's Kennedy in Russians continues wanted to make sure there was no International Airport if he thought possibility of making progress the panel's mission was a failure. Bowling Green The Soviet invasion of through the commission before "No, I don't think so," he replied, Afghanistan and recent abandoning it and deciding on a adding that the commissions's John Gurtzweiler of military upheaval has put a new strategy. work "is not yet finished." halt to Russian-American "We have no false expectations Gurtzweiler Construc- research in some of the U.S. officials were disappointed tion Co., Toledo, welds a country's colleges and about the chances the commission in the failure of the U.N. panel and can still do something positive. But two members of Congress called girder onto the universities. framework of the new But at the University, we have no very desirable options, for strong action against the either," one official said. Wall Street Journal research will continue as it Iranians. Building on the comer of has in the past. Reports had ANOTHER ACKNOWLEDGED SEN. ALAN Cranston (D-Calif.) Van Camp and Brim indicated that Russian Roads. scientists and scholars were that the commission members may called Tuesday for an international being denied entry into the advise Vance that there is no point quarantine of Iran. State Depar- United States. in continuing their efforts. tment spokesman Hodding Carter Reginald D. Noble, Members of the commission said, "We understand his con- associate professor of were sent to Iran to investigate cerns," but did not comment biology, had been working Iranian charges against the further. with Russian scholars fall deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Sen. S. I. Hayakawa (R-Calif.) quarter and planned further Pahlavi with the understanding urged that Iranians in the United research for spring quarter. they would be allowed to see all the States be rounded up and held by According to Noble, in- American hostages. the U.S. government until the dications are that the But after completing their work Iranians release the Americans. research will resume as they were denied permission to see planned. Noble said he the Americans, who have been held But speaking privately, ad- received a telegram ap- hostage since the U.S. Embassy in proved by the State Depar- ministration officials said overall tment that indicated the • Tehran was seized by Moslem congressional reaction to the Russians will be returning to militants more than four months commission's failure has been the University in April. ago. "understanding." staff photo by Tim Westhoven Their research focuses on the effects of air pollutants on plant life. Noble said one reason the University may not be ex- Elected parliament to decide hostages' fate periencing problems is ine hostages spent their 130th because the research is not by Associated Press day in captivity yesterday. military-linked. In addition, Khomeini urged the election of voting is scheduled for April 4, and consider the situation those "who are faithful to Islam the legislature, known as the In London, former chief of U.S. he said the cooperative en- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Air Force intelligence was quoted vironment agreement bet- and the constitution, are free of Majlis, is expected to convene THE OFFICIAL Soviet news yesterday urged his countrymen to tendencies toward left or right, and several weeks later. It is not known agency Tass, in a dispatch from as saying that the Iranian militants ween the two countries took a "dash the hopes" of Iran's long period of time to for- are renowned for their good record when the Iranian parliament will Tehran, quoted Ayatollah holding the hostages are an elite mulate, and it's only recently enemies, "especially the op- and commitment to Islam. The consider the hostage question. Mohammad Behishti, the justice group of agents trained by the that meaningful work has pressive U.S. government," by nation should know that to stray Iranian President Abolhassan minister, as saying the conditions Soviet Union. begun. voting in parliamentary elections from this important Islamic task Bani-Sadr said Tuesday the cap- for the hostages' release have not The Daily Telegraph quoted Gen. tomorrow. Khomeini and other top would be treason to Islam and the tives won't be released from the changed. Tass quoted him as George Keegan as saying there is Iranian leaders have said the country." His message was U.S. Embassy in Tehran before saying Iran was still demanding "irrefutable evidence" that the parliament will decide the broadcast by Tehran Radio. "mid-May at the earliest" because the return of the deposed shah and Soviets paid $150 million in gold to Board of Trustees American hostages' fate. A second round of parliamentary the parliament needed time to the money he allegedly plundered. establish a corps of 1,000 left-wing militants in Iran. will meet today A revised budget for Counting heads residence and University dining halls for 197940 and a proposed 1980-81 budget for $50 billion to be spent by government according to results of 1980 census this area will be discussed today by the University by Paul O'Donnell TWO UNIVERSITY demo- of the community, adding that for University professor of sociology, Despite the $l-billion price tag on Board of Trustees. staff reporter graphers explained that the the first time this year there will be said the number of federal and this year's census, both Stockwell The only new item to be amount of federal funds given to a local review program. state congressional seats is based and Groat agree that the benefits of brought before the board is When the 1980 U.S. census forms localities and communities is based The program will allow com- on population statistics, adding the census outweigh its cost. the proposal to offer a arrive through the mail on March on the population statistics obtain- munity leaders to review the cen- that boundaries and election wards "In terms of the value we get out master of arts in Early 28, there will be more at stake than ed by the census. sus statistics before they are sub- may be re-defined because of the of it, it's worth more than that," Childhood Education. just the compilation of figures. "The allocation of federal funds mitted in an attempt to gain more 1980 census data. Stockwell said. The meeting is in McFall Federal funds totaling $50 billion is one of the greatest single dimen- accurate Information, Groat said. Ohio is likely to lose some of its Stockwell and Groat said they Gallery at 10 a.m. will be riding on the data obtained sions of the census," Dr. H. congressional representatives, use the census data every day, ad- by the census, Dave Galdi, Theodore Groat, a professor of FEDERAL FUNDS allocated to Stockwell said, because it is not ding that the data also is helpful in manager of Toledo's Census sociology, said. "People running Bowling Green have allowed for growing as rapidly as some research. Bureau, said. communities throughout the coun- renovation of the city's roads and Western states. weather The amount has increased from try are getting a portion of federal waste water treatment plant, Groat THE UNIVERSITY uses the the $7 billion allocated by the 1970 funds based on the census, popula- said.