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fan Slyke spoke and gave a slide
about the political situation of
The show was sponsored by
Iranian Students Association of
|as A&M University.
Ie said the United States gives
fe money for arms and military to
annually than to all other coun-
combined. He said the Iranian
i s regime could not last without
Istant support from President
Iter.
fan Slyke said at the time of the
Nam war, there were about
military advisers in Iran. At
moment, he said, there are
|e emphasized the need for
ferstanding between Iranians
Americans. He said Americans
to listen to Iranian students in
I country who protest the Shah’s
une.
nese students are politically in-
Jved for an international cause, he
Van Slyke compared them to
American students in the 60s
protested the Viet Nam war.
uman rights and civil liberties
ealso at stake here, he said,
e discussed the Shah’s visit to
White House in November,
[7, and said Carter’s full ac-
ance of the “vicious dictator”
in conflict to previous campaign
ises to fight for human rights,
e slide show contained pictures
/an Slyke’s recent visit to Iran
its capital, Tehran,
an Slyke said he was invited on
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TULSA, Okla. — A woman
ruck by lightning as she poured
'isoline into her car beside the
Indian Nation Turnpike, is
ankful for her CB radio and the
;ood buddies’ it brought to her
The lightning bolt knocked
ais Ann Dentis four feet into
e air as her 5-year-old daughter
atched.
Mrs. Dentis was traveling with
r three children and a friend
[hen her car ran out of gasoline
{uring a rainstorm Saturday
ght. Using her CB, she had se-
red a ride to a service station
a trucker and another CBer
■d 0 p. look her back to her car.
“A real nice man put me in his
n until the ambulance came
d they took me to the hospi-
she said. “They (CBers)
[topped and stayed with me,
ept me covered and warm,
hey were awful good to me.”
i Mrs. Dentis was in satisfactory
londition at a hospital.
Glen Van Slyke
the trip by a team of international
observers to study the political situ
ation in Iran. The trip, sponsored by
the American Committee for Ira
nian Human Rights and six other
committees, was from December
28, 1977 to January 10, 1978.
In Tehran, the team concentrated
on contacting families of political
prisoners.
Van Slyke said they were con
stantly followed by Iranian intelli
gence, preventing them from at
tending at least two scheduled
meetings.
During the slide show a picture of
the Shah in his ceremonial robes
brought hisses from many of the
60-70 students. 1
There are about 60,000 Iranian
students overseas, and about 12,000
in the United States.
Also in the slide show were pic
tures of huts and tents most of the
rural population live in.
The message that Iranians want to
convey. Van Slyke said, is that “they
have great love and respect for the
American people.”
HOUSTON — The orbiting
Skylab was last manned in 1974
and scientists predicted the
space center would hold its orbit
10 years before losing
momentum and falling to earth.
But now as flight controllers in
Houston, Madrid and Bermuda
team up to regulate the battery
chargers on Skylab, they say at
mospheric drag is taking its toll
on the unmanned space craft
hovering 250 miles above the
earth.
“It looks now if it keeps decay
ing at its present rate, it will re
enter in 1979,” a Johnson Space
Center official said early Wed
nesday. “The main part of the
concern is to get its orbit back up
to a safe altitude — not to let it
fall in a populated area,” said of
ficial Terry White.
White said, however, the
chances of any part of the Skylab
hitting land were slim since 70
percent of its earth track is over
water.
Houston-based flight control
lers relay communications to
operators in Madrid and Ber
muda, who in turn pick up any
data transmitted from Skylab and
submit it to Houston to deter
mine how the craft is holding its
orbit.
“We made two passes Tuesday
and will have two more later this
morning,” White said. He said
the second pass in the Bermuda
station indicated not all of the 18
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