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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1979
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United Press International
IATON ROUGE, La.— South-
University Wednesday canceled
■ rviews with 299 Iranian students
nise of a federal judge’s decision
ruled the process violated the
ents’ constitutional rights.
Jharles Cruce, deputy director
he Immigration and Naturaliza-
Service in New Orleans, said the
rings were indefinitely post
ed until further notice.
S. District Judge Joyce Hen
n of Washington, D.C., ruled
sday that the administration’s
program to interview all Iranian stu
dents was unconstitutional because
it singled out Iranians for deporta
tion.
“We are honoring the injunction
(against the deportation proceed
ings),” Cruce said Wednesday in
New Orleans. “Everything related
to this is held in abeyance. ’’
Clayton Lewis, a Southern Uni
versity spokesman, said immigration
agents had planned to begin three
days of interviews Wednesday at
Felton G. Clark Activities Center.
But school adm nistrators received
word late Tuesday to postpone the
deportation hearings.
“The immigration officials con
tacted them and said the interviews
were to be canceled until further
notice,’’ Lewis said. “There was no
explanation other than to remind
them that Judge Joyce Green had
made the ruling (Tuesday). If it is to
be continued, it will be rescheduled
at a later date.”
A spokesman for Louisiana State
University, Nick Kalivoda, said
slightly more than 200 Iranian stu
dents at LSU were interviewed over
a two-day period. Eighteen students
were found to have violated terms of
their student visas and were ordered
to appear before deportation hear
ings in January, Kalivoda said.
“(That was) according to what was
said before the court ruled the other
day,” Kalivoda said. “All were not
deliberate violators, although about
eight were former students and their
visas expired.”
Kalivoda said some Iranian stu
dents awaiting registration for the
spring semester were “in limbo” and
were not in actual violation of their
visas.
He said one student refused to be
interviewed by immigration author
ities.
“A political science major came in
and reported to them that he was not
going to be interviewed,” Kalivoda
said. “They told him he was going to
face the consequences.”
Seven immigration agents check
ed student visas, passports and asked
students about their employment,
Kalivoda said.
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ERA crusader
supports Carter
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Equal Rights Amendment crusader Elizabeth
enter disagrees with an apparent decision by the National Organi-
tion for Women to oppose the renomination of President Carter.
“I’d give Jimmy Carter A-plus” for his support of ERA, Carpenter
d.
“As one who has walked the miles for ERA, there is no president as
sensitive to it or given as much time or called on his workers as much in
support of the amendment as President Carter, ” she said.
The New York Times said NOW’s 27-member Executive Board met
during the weekend and decided to oppose the renomination of Car
ter, although it did not decide which candidate to support.
Efforts to confirm the accuracy of the story were unsuccessful,
mainly because NOW spokeswomen failed to return numerous tele
phone calls placed to them by UPI.
Carpenter said it is not Carter’s fault that “we re down to the
reluctant states.” She said the fault lies with the “key legislators in four
or five states who treat it like fun and games.”
Congress extended the ratification deadline of the proposed amend
ment from October 1978 to June 30, 1983. Three more states need to
ratify the amendment before it can become law.
Pilots want president's approval
Navigation of ship to Iran refused
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS— Mississippi
River pilots, striking back at militant
Iranian students holding Americans
at the embassy in Tehran, have
themselves taken a hostage of sorts.
The pilots, whose job it is to guide
vessels along the curving, treacher
ous bends of the river, have refused
to navigate a ship headed for Iran
with a load of soybean oil until Presi
dent Carter approves the shipment
personally.
“We are not going to send a pilot to
the ship unless someone high in the
government tells us to do it, prefer
ably President Carter himself,” said
Capt. Charles Arnoult, president of
the Crescent River Port Pilots Asso
ciation.
The pilots’ refusal Tuesday pre
vented the 558-foot freighter Jubilee
Venture, a ship of Liberian registry,
from heading to open waters.
A spokesman for International
Matex, which loaded the vessel at its
terminal, said the shipment was
approved by the State Department.
“This company is a good citizen,”
said International Matex executive
Ray Samuel. “It supports the presi
dent 100 percent in his position re
garding Iran.”
But Arnoult said his pilots’ group
and another in Baton Rouge, La.,
had not been notified by government
officials regarding the cargo.
“I think I got a call from the agent
for the ship and he was trying to
figure out what his options were,”
Arnoult said. “I think he realized he
didn’t have any.”
Arnoult said he regarded his situa
tion as a matter of patriotism.
“I’m not trying to create a protest
or anything like that,” Arnoult said.
“I just think that it’s our patriotic
duty to do these things. If the gov
ernment overrules me on it, that’s
fine.”
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United Press International
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• employees of an animal shelter
e been ordered to work 30 days
a charitable organization and pay
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ith with pieces of pipe.
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