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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 1. 1980 Page 5 nai ice H to thep number o(J county Ina be proportinf scntativesjl vorld sends tough message to Iran; hreatens expulsion of diplomats mblican pii^ different! RepubfeB United Press International razos Coir! The United States has sent a tough nessage to Iran, threatening it with a ' will ( l« rac | e embargo and the expulsion of I ('.vaswillipjt of Tehran’s diplomats from ition, sh Vashington unless the 50 American m of vot< |0s tg es are freed, reports said in the 4onday. ongressi«j|'j’l e latest reports follow a (lie numl /eekend of contradictory statements indidatetkp m Washington and Tehran — nvention, ,^0 th e hostages Monday entered ional com ii e j r 149th day in captivity — over e names diether President Carter had sent a >rge Bus! onciliatory message to Ayatollah ar on (lie luhollah Khomeini. “They have sent me an ultima- said shen am, President Abolhassan Bani- this years adr was reported by the New York the numb imes to have told a close associate ■ increastt ionday after a “special” meeting of ary to 19lltK be Repd nchcard )Pl»sedJ e been the ruling Revolutionary Council that ran past midnight. But Tehran Radio quoted Bani- Sadr’s press adviser Monday as de nying that Carter had sent any ulti matum or threatened to expel Ira nian diplomats. Western news re ports said Carter sent a message to Khomeini Saturday proposing for mation of a joint committe for solving the problems between the two coun tries. CBS said the Revolutionary Coun cil had decided to transfer the hos tages to government control but a militant spokesman at embassy said in a telephone call to London Mon day that “there is no plan to move them to another place.” The Times said the ultimatum was believed contained in a letter to Bani-Sadr from Carter setting a deadline of some time Monday, the date set a week ago by the adminis tration when it said it was consider ing stern measures against Iran. The measures were reported to in clude an embargo on trade of all goods except food and medicine, the expulsion from the United States of Iranian diplomats, leaving only a skeleton staff at the Iranian embassy in Washington, and a request to American allies to take economic steps against Iran. At the same time, Foreign Minis ter Sadegh Ghotbzadeh predicted the 50 hostages would be transferred from the militants’ control at the occupied U.S. Embassy to the Ira nian government’s control, the Washington Post reported. CBS News carried a report Mon day saying that the Revolutionary Council had decided to move the hostages out of the embassy. The Iran working group at the State De partment said it knew nothing of such a report. A spokesman at the Foreign Ministry reached by telephone in Tehran Monday denied there would be a transfer of the hostages, saying it was a plan “left over from a few months ago. It is not about to be implemented now.” The spokesman also said Iran was not “bothered by this threat” (the New York Times report of the alleged ultimatum to Bani-Sadr). “We are not bothered by this threat — we receive these threats daily from the United States and we Famous for ‘tumbling strings,’ Mantovani, 74, dies in home V fflllBH United Press International I UIJ ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS, England — Mantovani, the violinist • m * whose use of “tumbling strings” II l/lltunu'd easy listening music into big * ^Susiness, died Sunday in a nursing Dome. He was 74. ( "’l er d The bandleader was the first man 1 anie/ [0 se ]| a million stereo albums in the United States. Once called “the man who could f t PIANO & ORGAN DELIVERY PERSON NEEDED Must have pickup, be neat and dependable. Hours flexible, average 5 hours weekly earns 50.00 plus good mileage. Not steady, busy one week and slow the next. For app. 779- 7080, Randy. i on m t uatd... ’ • t . 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Mantovani’s sweetening of somber classics and pop melodies alike won mation ol. |jj m an ac l or j n g audience, icr intenteH low the oice; 2) to| ' miscom neemingtl ity of the “stablishth ited , ’(i.e.i| attempt tt 1 case.oriol in into it;5) elanie or o hinder isition, :>t the ide)l| while dit eith other >rm. “1 erage perl hat all tlie»j narmsoH itosendo matures * the coi®| ork Tiiwf tlie Waste Nightly I® ; represeol tition inf ampus, 1 as many | d. :cd to l y (signal® ,000,” sit like it’s j>( off campi Born in Venice, Italy, on Nov. 15, 1905, as Annunzio Paolo, Mantovani was trained as a violinist by his father. “Father was a great musician,” he said. “Leader to Toscanini, professor at two Italian conservatories, gold medalist, knighted for his music.” At 16, Mantovani found work in a restaurant band in Birmingham, England and Sir Thomas Beecham once sent the young man a note of congratulations after hearing him play the Saint-Saens violin con certo. know,” Mantovani said. “And a vir tuoso concert artist sometimes doesn’t have enough fodder for years. “There were women at my feet when I used to play in West End restaurants, ” he said. “I used to wor ry in case any of them swept me away.” He took British citizenship in 1933 and continued his success through World War II. In 1945, he became musical director to Noel Coward. E IKcyboARd ^SiilCcNTER MANOR EAST MALL do not take them seriously,” the spokesman said. “We do not fear the United States.” The reports were the latest in con fusion over letters Iran alleges Car ter sent. Ghotbzadeh, quoted by Tehran Radio and monitored by the BBC in London, repeated Iran’s position Monday that Carter had sent a con ciliatory message to Khomeini dur ing the weekend. The White House denied “any such letter” had been sent but spokesman Jody Powell Sunday con firmed a statement by the Swiss gov ernment that its diplomats in Tehran had transmitted messages from Car ter to Iranian officals. Powell, campaigning in Mil waukee, Wis., for the Carter cam paign, said he would “not dispute” the Swiss statements. Apparently, the crux of the matter is Iran’s claim that it received a conciliatory mes sage. 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