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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1979
American freed after Iran arrest
Greased pig chase
to be held Thursday
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — He has left Iran
twice — once because of violence
and this week for his “personal safe
ty— but the Missouri construction
company foreman says he is willing
to return to work in Iran.
William Tinker, 48, who had been
held under “house arrest’ for nearly
a week by Iranian guards, was
greeted by his tearful wife and two
sons Monday at Lambert-St. Louis
airport. Tinker lives in Elvins, about
60 miles south of St. Louis.
In a telephone interview earlier
Monday from the offices of the Hous
ton Contracting Co., Tinker said that
at 7:30 a.m. last Monday a group of
Pas Dar Iranian guards came into his
office in Ahwaz and told him he was
under arrest.
Tinker and officials of the Houston
Contracting Co. were vague about
how Tinker was released.
“Just through my own personal
channels,” Tinker said at the airport.
When he was arrested, Tinker
said he did not know that the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran, 14 hours from
Ahwaz by car, had been taken over
by Iranian students.
“The guards searched the office
and my briefcase,” Tinker said.
“They asked me if I had a weapon
and I told them I did not need a
weapon in Iran. They then took me
back to my cabin and told me I was
under house arrest and would have
to remain there.
“They said it was just for my own
personal safety,” Tinker said.
Last January, Tinker was driven
from the same compound by violent
demonstrations that eventually de
posed the shah. But Tinker said he is
willing to return to Iran to finish a
pipeline his company is building.
Tinker’s wife, Dean, said she
knew her husband could handle his
captivity well.
“While it should not have hap
pened to anyone, Bill is the best kind
of guy to handle this type of situa
tion. Mrs. Tinker said. “He is very
cool and has a great deal of macho in
this kind of thing. I was sure he
would handle himself well and get
out of there.”
Tinker said he was not physically
restrained but was required to stay
inside for the first few days last week.
On the fourth day, he was allowed to
visit some of his workers and to re
turn to the warehouse office to do
some work. He also was told that day
he would be released in a few days.
“The only problem I had was that I
had to do my own cooking,” Tinker
said. “I probably lost a few pounds
over that.”
Although he did not fear for his
life. Tinker said he was concerned
for his safety.
The MSC Recreation Committee
is sponsoring a greased pig chase in
the Animal Science Pavilion (next to
the library) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
About 25 teams are expected to
enter the race. Each team should
have four members and must pay a
$4 entry fee.
The purpose of the chase is to
promote spirit for the Arkansas;
game. There is no charge to specta
tors.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate
voted Tuesday to give poor south
erners money to pay for air condi
tioning, part of a $7 billion program
for fiscal year 1981-82 designed pri
marily to help northerners cope with
winter heating bills.
On a 68-27 vote, the Senate re
jected an amendment by Sen.
Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., to drop
air conditioning from the energy
assistance provided to poor people.
Last month, some members of the
Human Resources Committee tried
to eliminate the air conditioning pro
vision but lost 8-7.
At that time. Sen. Gaylord Nel
son, D-Wis., charged that the heat
ing aid plan outlined by the adminis
tration was weighted too heavily to
ward the South and he called it “a
Florida primary formula.
Congress already has approved
and sent to the White House $1.35
billion in emergency aid to help the
poor heat their homes this winter,
fiscal 1980. The bill approved in the
Senate Tuesday would authorize $3
billion for fiscal 1981 and $4 billion
for fiscal 1982.
Senate aides said the aid package
is expected to be offered as an
amendment to the windfall profits
tax measure that will be considered
in the Senate this week. The aid
program would be financed by re
venues the government expects to
get from a tax on oil company profits.
Under the program, 18 million
households would get money —
ranging from $100 to $500 a winter
— to help pay utility costs.
Not counting regional adjust
ments, a family of four with an in
come up to $11,500 would be eligi
ble for the aid in the next two win
ters. This season’s aid ceiling would
be about $8,375 for a similar family.
Schweiker argued the air condi
tioning aid should be dropped,
saying, “We are trying to meet a life-
and-death situation in the winter.
That should be the first priority.”
But Sen. Harrison Williams, D-
N.J., the bill’s sponsor, said the
legislation allowed “modest and li
mited” air conditioning aid only for
people whose medical conditions —
heart and respiratory disease pa
tients, for example — make them
susceptible to illness caused by heat.
The aid would be distributed to
states through a complicated formula
based on total energy consumption,
the number of cold days and the
number of poverty households.-
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