Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1980 2-14-1980 Daily Eastern News: February 14, 1980 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1980_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 14, 1980" (1980). February. 9. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1980_feb/9 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1980 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Students show concern about possible draft by Jim Holland am opposed to participation in the to Canada, Cunningham said. go to war if she was drafted. Eastern students are among the military." "I don't know How much help it will "I don't think anybody wants to go growing number of college students The card presents a written record of be before the draft board, but I want to to war," she said," l would rather across the nation who are showing an a person's claim to exemption as a do anything I can,'' she said. move out of the country." active concern about the possibility of conscientious objector if the draft is Dawn Morville, a freshman, was also Jones said she did not think the card a draft. reinstated. unsure on how effective the card might would help put that it was an in­ Dozens of students have called the Many of the callers were women who be but thought that it could only help teresting idea. News asking about cards which can be felt they would probably be included if in convincing the draft board of the ·All agreed that the draft was of vital obtained from the Central Committee the draft was reinstated. objectors sincerity. concern to students and that the future for Conscientious Objectors. The card Senior Nancy Cunningham said she Morville also said she thought was uncertain as long as the possibility states that its possessor is a con­ thought the draft should include women will prob'ably be drafted. of the draft existed. scien tious objector. women. Debbie Jones, an Eastern student "You never know what might The cards, which can be obtained "I don't believe in war but I do teacher; agreed that women will happen," Cunningham said,_ "things from CCCO, P.O. Box 15796, believe in ERA," she said. probably be drafted because "it seems might go crazy in the next three or four Philadelphia, PA 19103, state The card seemed to be a better to be the logical thing to do." years and we will all. end up in the "Because of my beliefs about war, I choice than getting pregnant or �oing However, Jones said she would not draft." Weather: Thursday will be mostly cloudy with highs in the lower to mid 30s. ews Snow likely, continued cold Eastern Thursday night, lows in the lower to mid 20s. Snow likely Friday, highs Thursday, Feb. 14, 1980 J Charleston, Ill. I Vol. 65, No. 94 I 24 pages, 3 sections upper 20s to lower 30s. ABC says U.S. agrees to hostage release plan by The Associated Press not answer questions on the hostage The United States ·has agreed in crisis. principle to a plan for release of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Wald­ American hostages in Tehran, it was heim, who has been trying to negotiate reported Wednesday, but the White release of the Americans since they House declined comment. Iran's presi­ were seized Nov. 4 at the U.S. dent said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khome­ Embassy in Tehran, also declined ini accepted a three-point "action comment on developments. He said he plan" for the release. would not go beyond statements made It was not known if the reported U.S. by his spokesman that negotiations for ac ceptance was of a plan disclosed release of the Americans are at ''a earlier this week by President Abol­ very sensitive stage" and that he was hassan Bani-Sadr of Iran, or whether in "constant" touch with U.S. and Bani-Sadr's initial plan had been Iranian officials. changed. Islamic militants have said they The report on the U.S. acceptance, would not release the hostages unless carried by ABC News, said the ordered to do so by Khomeini. hostages would not be held by the Red In his interview with the radio Cross or any other third party. station France-Inter, recorded Tues­ Instead, ABC said, they would be day and broadcast Wednesday, Bani­ released to United Nations officials in Sadr would not say whether. he en­ Te hran after the members of a com­ visioned the imminent release of the mission were named. Under the agree­ hostages. "It is a possibility. It ment, the hostages, held at the U.S. depends," he said. Embassy in Tehran for 102 days, He refused to reveal details of the would be free to testify before the plan, saying only, "We have pre­ commission if they wish, it said. sented new proposals to Khomeini and ABC did not say what the commis­ he has accepted." !::::::�s�!.!io '_ purpose would be. It said it The secretary of the ruling Revo­ would be made up of representatives l�tionary · Council, which Bani-Sadr from Third World countries. heads, said Wednesday the coundl Bani-Sadr said Monday he had pro­ was examining new proposals that posed to Khomeini that the group would end the hostage crisis and the investigate "crimes" committed in government wanted to find a solution Iran by both deposed Shah Moham­ as soon as possible. mad Reza Pahlavi and the United In an interview published Monday in States. the French newspaper Le Monde, All that jazz The State Department reacted by Bani-Sadr said he had given Khomeini -A trumpeter practices one of the musical numbers during the high school saying it would not "profess guilt" to new proposals, approved unanimously jazz festival held this weekend in Dvorak Concert Hall. Forty-three high any U.S. actions in Iran and appeared by the ruling council, for freeing the schools from all over the state participated in Eastern's 21st annual jazz to view the plan with caution. Since hostages and was awaiting an answer. festival. (News photo by Ed Gray) then U.S.. officials have said they will Carter proposes commission to end stalemate WASHINGTON (AP) - President "guard against excessive optimism." claims credit for the proposal. Iran and also the Soviet intervention in Carter said Wednesday night he will Under a proposal for establishment Carter specifically refused to Afghanistan "have not been true, they support establishment 9f an "ap­ of a U.N.-authorized commission, a acknowledge any U.S. guilt for have not been accurate and t_tley have propriate commission with a carefully panel of·neutral observers presumably restoring the shah to the throne in Iran not helped our country." defined purpose" as a way to end the would assess the crimes charged by in 1953. "That's ancient history and I Kennedy has attacked Carter's stalemate over American hostages in Iran's revolutionary regime to the don't think it's appropriate for me to strategy in trying to gain release of the Ira n. deposed Shah Mohammad Reza - go into the propriety of something that hostages in Tehran and contended that Carter did not define the purpose, Pahlavi and any U.S. role in his alleged happened many years ago," he said. a weak foreign policy encouraged the nor did he suggest that the release of crimes against the Iranian people. Iranian officials have said the United Soviets to move troops into the hostages, held 102 days, was im­ The idea of a commission, the States must accept blame for past Afghanistan. minent. president said, originated with Kurt support of the shah before the hostage "This thrust of what he has said Carter told the nation in a televised Waldehim, the U.N. secretary general. crisis can be resolved. throughout the last few weeks is very news conference that there were now This touched on a,-unning controversy Challenging his rival for the damaging to our country," Carter "positive signs" in the Iranian crisis, between the administration and Sen. Democra!ic presidential nomination, said, and to efforts to get the hostages but he also said it would be wise to Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who Carter said Kennedy's statements on released and keep the peace. b. News 2 Eastern News Thursday, Fe 14_, 1980 Fireman walkout probable (JP) News shorts if settlement not reached - CHICAGO AP -IFirefighters in the The mayor, at a new� conference, Thompson proposes tax rebate nation's second largest city are going said, "Our hiring lists are jammed with on strike, their union leader said Chicago men who are eagerly seeking (l(w.. lames R. Thompson proposed Wednesday giving $10 income tax Wednesday. jobs as Chicago firemen," she said . rebates to nearly every Illinois citizen this year, and next year cutting a second "There's definitely going lb be a "The city is in no way powerless. J"cnny from the sales tax on food and drugs. strike," said Frank Muscare, president We're going to continue to run the city Democrats quickly assailed the Republican governor as a "Johnny-come­ of the Chicago Fire Fighters Union and run it well." latelv" to the tax relief bandwagon, and accused Thompson of an electidn-ycar . after the collapse of bargaining aimed The major :-,tumbling block to a ploy they said they could improve upon. · at agreement on the firefighters' first settlement apparently i' the city\ In a tour to six major state media markets, Thompson unveiled a four-point, contract.