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itenarys S3 BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iran rejected an Iraqi offer of a four-day
jn 900, li |de starting Sunday and said its troops, bolstered by Revolution-
922, Ar y Guards fanatically loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini, pushed the
iana 934, Svading Iraqis three miles back from the besieged port of Khur-
d lloustocBshar.
In Beirut, Lebanon, an Iranian diplomat warned if the United
s’Aggies wjatjes intervenes in the 11-day war, the 52 American hostages
he Florid® be killed. The Americans are in their 334th day of captivity.
llahassee.Bgyptian President Anwar Sadat, alarmed the war could spread
(other Persian Gulf states, Wednesday offered the L^nited States
fcstricted use of Egyptian facilities and territory to defend the
lull and Arab and Moslem nations “as far away as Indonesia. ”
banian charge d’affaires Mehdi Ameri Rajai said in the
anese capital: “If America enters the war all hostages in Iran
11 be killed.
herefore, America will not do any such thing, expecially now
kt the American elections are close and the death of the hostages
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[ran still refusing Iraqi truce suggestion
will not be to (President) Carter’s advantage, nor to the advantage
of anybody else.”
Iran pledged not to block the Strait of Hormuz, the artery for
about 40 percent of the world’s oil imports, and diplomatic reports
said OPEC countries were rethinking plans for a 10 percent
production cutback due to start Wednesday because of the supply
cut-off from Iran and Iraq.
Iran bluntly rejected an Iraqi offer of a unilateral four-day
cease-fire beginning Sunday, vowing not to talk peace until Iraq
withdrew from all occupied Iranian territory. The Iraqis offered to
cease firing Oct. 5 through Oct. 8, unless they were attacked.
The Iraqi offer, conveyed to Pakistani President Mohammad
Zia ul-Haq during a goodwill mission to Tehran and Baghdad,
included four tough conditions — to halt all military activity,
including air reconnaissance; to stop hostile propaganda; to re
frain from concentrating troops in the fighting area; and accept
ance of the truce by Iran’s “highest authority.”
At the United Nations, Iranian Charge d’Affaires Jamal Shemir-
ani emrged from 2'/2-hour closed-door Moslem foreign ministers
meeting and rejected the Iraqi truce offer out of hand.
“While the Iraqi aggression continues against the territorial
integrity and sovereignty of Iran, and while those forces of aggres
sion are violating the sovereignty of my country, there is no
question of accepting anything at all, ” he said.
The main fighting was centered around Khurramshahr, Iran’s
major oil port on the Shatt al-Arab waterway, over whose control
Iraq went to war.
Iran said its forces drove the three 3 miles back from Khurram
shahr in fierce house-to-house fighting in which Ayatollah Ruhol-
lah Khomeini’s fanatically loyal Revolutionary Guards partici
pated.
There was no firm word on the progress of the ground fighting
around Ahvaz and Dizful further north, which Iraq said were
under siege.
In all, the Iraqis have swept over the entire 136-square-mile
Shatt al-Arab waterway, established a zone of security 10 miles
deep inside Iran along the central and southern border, and
pushed as far as 65 miles into Iranian territory.
Tehran Radio claimed Iranian forces destroyed 21 Iraqi tanks
and downed two Iraqi jets in the latest fighting around Ahvaz,
capital of its oilrich Khuzistan province 65 miles inside Iran.
Iraq said Iranian jets killed 12 civilians in seven strikes against
civilian and oil installations across five Iraqi provinces Wednes
day. Two Iranian jets were reported downed, one over the Basra
oil port and the other over Kut.
Iraq said its MiG jets “hammered” Iranian military and oil
targets, including the oil depots in Ahwaz.
Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, in a message to Sec
retary-General Kurt Waldheim, said the cease-fire resolution
passed Sunday by the Council “cannot be considered by our
government. ”
Shemirani delivered BaniSadr’s three-page reply to Waldheim
Wednesday afternoon.
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WASHINGTON — President Carter in-
BkIs to sign legislation now on his desk
I limits police searches of newsrooms
alother places where people are engaged
■Ltivities protected by the First Amend-
lent.
■he bill, approved, 357-2, by the House
f|diiesday and by voice vote in the Senate
Kept. 24, says state, local and federal law
ftreement officers cannot use a search
■rant to obtain notes, film, tapes or other
■unientary materials used by those en-
■ed in publishing or broadcasting, except
bder limited circumstances.
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A White House spokesman said Carter
as extremely pleased” by the bill’s final
mgressional approval Wednesday and
K)ked forward to signing the legislation.
■ he bill was sparked by a Supreme Court
ding in 1978 that police were within their
its in 1971 to search the offices of the
Ilford Daily, a university newspaper in
ijbrnia.
ne newspaper filed suit after police in
po Alto, Calif, obtained a warrant and
searched the offices of the Stanford Daily
for photographs of a violent demonstration
by Stanford University students.
A federal district court and an appeals
court ruled in favor of the newspaper,
saying the police should have first tried to
subpoena the evidence it sought.
But the Supreme Court reversed the
lower courts, saying police could obtain
warrants to search the property of persons
not suspected of any criminal wrongdoing
and also that the news media enjoys no
special immunity from courtapproved sear
ches.
The legislation Carter plans to sign
allows use of a search warrant only in cases
where:
— There is reason to believe the person
who has the materials committed or is com
mitting a criminal act to which the mate
rials refer. Mere possession of the material
would not be considered a criminal act,
although searches would be allowed for na
tional security and classified material.
— There is reason to Relieve immediate
seizure is necessary to prevent death or
serious bodily injury to a human being.
>5,000 in question
1 Agent: Clayton lied
United Press International
MOUSTON — An aide to House Speak-
Bill Clayton told the FBI his boss was
Jtoriously scrupulous about reporting
Jpaign contributions, but an FBI agent
i met with the speaker last winter says
Kyton lied about receiving any money
®ng a wiretapped meeting in his Capitol
Ike.
FBI agent Fred Ligarde of Austin testi-
;d Wednesday he knew from recordings
Eft Nov. 8, 1979, meeting involving
Htyton, union leader L.G. Moore and in-
rmant Joseph Hauser that $5,000 in cash
m changed hands during a discussion of
ie state employees insurance contract.
The agent said during an hour-long inter-
jjpw he conducted with the speaker Feb.
Jjplayton avoided mention of the $5,000,
escribed in the November tapes as a poli-
cal contribution to be followed by
WO,000 a year for “whatever you want to
Bwith it. ”
■I asked him had these men offered
Dine kind of inducement to him’ and he
jiid, ‘no,’ Ligarde testified.
^Prosecutors asked Ligarde if Clayton’s
fiswer was honest.
pit’s not correct, it’s not truthful,
iigarde testified. “He was accurate in just
But everything I can think of except for
• ie question about the money.”
Defense lawyers have emphasized
'layton told his visitors: “Our only position
i we don’t want to do anything that’s illegal
| ! &nything to get anybody in trouble and
all don’t either. ”
Ligarde admitted to defense lawyer Roy
linton he did not know the legal defini-
on of a campaign contribution. Clayton is
xpected to testify he failed to mention the
Wney because he did not intend to keep
-"fand did not consider that he legally had
pcepted it.
»Ligarde said the $5,000 was not included
nja list of Clayton s campaign contribu-
ons on file with the Secretary of State.
Ligarde said he interviewed Clayton
hours before a federal judge in Los Angeles
released details of the government’s almost
year-long investigation of labor and politic
al corruption, code-named Brilab.
He said Clayton was “not entirely re
sponsive” when asked if he was aware of
efforts to reopen bidding on a $76 million
state employees health insurance contract
and at first could not recall the names of the
people with whom he had met to discuss
the subject.
“They were interested in saving the state
money and I was interested in that,”
Ligarde said Clayton told him.
Ligarde said he repeatedly asked
Clayton whether he was offered any in
ducements for his political influence.
“He said, ‘No, they said they feel they
can save the state money. The only thing
was they said they have a big organization
and maybe later on down the line they
could help if I ran for statewide office. I said
I don’t deal like that. If you can save the
state money, I’ll help,”’ Ligarde testified.
Clayton aide Rusty Kelley, named as an
unindicted co-conspirator when the
charges against Clayton were handed
down last June, was being interviewed at
the same time Feb. 8 by FBI agent
Gregory Rampton.
Rampton testified Wednesday that Kel
ley was adamant in professing Clayton’s
honesty about contributions.
“I asked him if Mr. Clayton reported
every campaign contribution that Mr. Kel
ley knew of and he said, yes, and that Mr.
Clayton went overboard in reporting such
contributions and if somebody took him to a
fundraiser in their car hp’d try to report the
gasoline they used,” Rampton testified.
Rampton said Kelley’s demeanor was
very calm when the interview began but
changed dramatically, as he began stutter
ing and perspiring, his hands shook and his
face turned red.
Carter on federal pay:
Good news and bad news
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WASHINGTON — Some federal
^employees were irritated, but others
^found it humorous that fiscal year 1981
jbegan without Congress appropriating
ithe money to keep federal agencies
Joperating.
“It’s a classic,” a senior labor rela-
Itions specialist said Wednesday. “Only
sin America on the president’s birthday
Icould Carter come out and tell federal
employees, T’ve got some good news
and some bad news.’
“The good news is you’re getting a
9.1 percent pay raise. The bad news is
you’re on furlough indefinitely without
pay.”
Congress completed work on the
emergency funding bill Wednesday, 12
hours after fiscal 1981 began, and sent
it to President Carter who signed it on
his 56th birthday.
Fish stories
Photo by Bob Lewis
Linda Jared, a junior agricultural education major from
Nacogdoches, examines her “catch”, which appears to
be a small catfish. Jared was participating in an RNR 215
field trip held on the Little Brazos River at the time of
her haul.
Last player
cleared in
drug cases
The final player implicated in a drug
investigation of the 1980 Texas A&M Uni
versity football team was cleared Wednes
day afternoon by an A&M student affairs
hearing board.
Kenny Ingram, a sophomore defensive
lineman from Corpus Christi, became the
sixth player called before separate hearing
boards over the past week and a half to be
cleared of any connection with drug usage.
Four other players were implicated in a
statement signed by former teammate Cal
Peveto last week, but were also cleared.
They were defensive players Jay Dale,
Doug Carr, Leandrew Brown and Stuart
Clark.
Eight players have been brought before
University disciplinary hearings since last
Friday.
Aggies Elroy Steen and Peveto were
removed from the team last week after
their respective hearing boards upheld
their dismissal from the team by head
Coach Tom Wilson for alleged drug pos
session.
Although Texas A&M practiced Wed
nesday in preparation for Saturday’s game
against Texas Tech at Kyle Field, Ingram
was not present at the practice.
He was not available for comment.
Dating Game
kicks off tonight
Fifty-cents may not buy a date, but it will
buy a ticket to the “Dating Game” at 7 p.m.
Thursday in the Grove.
Sponsored by McFadden Hall, the game
will select three men and three women
from the audience as contestants.
“The game chooses its contestants from
the tickets which are placed in two boxes,
one for girls and one for guys,” said Kathy
Dowdy, McFadden vice president. There
is also a box for people who don’t want to
enter, she added.
Free dinners will be provided by Fort
Shilo and Tokyo Steak House and other
local businesses, said Dowdy. Consolation
prizes will be given to the contestants not
chosen.
Tickets will be on sale at Sbisa, the
Memorial Student Center and the Com
mons. They are 50 cents, with no limit on
the number that a person can purchase,
said Dowdy.
The money raised from the tickets will be
used to help pay for the McFadden formal.
Economy very slowly recovering
United Press International
WASHINGTON — From all indications, the economy
has weathered the worst of the recession. But there are
increasing signs the recovery could be sluggish at best.
The Commerce Department reported Wednesday fac
tory orders edged up a bit in August, marking the second
straight month of improvement. But the 0.3 percent in
crease to a seasonally adjusted $147.4 billion was pale
compared to the 6 percent rise in orders in July.
Several key industries, like manufacturers of steel, con
sumer goods and electrical machinery, had a good month.
But others, like makers of construction supplies, auto
mobiles and aircraft, lost ground in August after register
ing considerable gains the month before.
‘Emperor of UT’ has heart attack
United Press International
AUSTIN — Frank E. Erwin Jr. loved
politics and confrontation. He got plenty of
both through his association with President
Lyndon Johnson and former Gov. John
Connally, and as chairman of the Universi
ty of Texas Board of Regents, where he
endured ouster attempts by the students
he called “dirty nothings.”
Erwin, dubbed the “Emperor of UT” by
friends and foes alike, died Wednesday of a
heart attack after a brief hospitalization in
Galveston’s John Sealy Hospital. He was
60.
It was Erwin who persuaded Connally,
then a Democrat, to return from Washing
ton, where he had been Secretary of the
Navy, and try his hand at Texas politics.
After Connally’s election to his first term
as governor in 1962, he rewarded Erwin by
appointing him in 1963 to the powerful UT
Board of Regents, on which he served until
1975.
While Erwin was chairman of the re
gents — 1966 to 1971 — the UT system
grew from 47,000 students to 67,000, an
increase of 46 percent. During that time
appropriations from the Legislature in
creased 111 percent.
His most noticeable contribution to his
alma mater was instigating the construction
of massive new classroom and administra
tion buildings and, as Hardesty recalled,
almost singlehandedly bringing to the cam
pus the L,BJ Library and LBJ School of
Public Affairs.
His first split with UT students came in
1967 at the height of the anti-Vietnam War
protests, when he helped host a birthday
party for Johnson in the school auditorium.
Johnson was met with angry demonstrators
as he entered the gym, which in turn
angered Erwin.
“I am disturbed because a bunch of dirty
nothings can disrupt the workings of a great
university in the name of academic free
dom,” he railed. “When it comes to the
point where 300 armed policemen are
needed to keep from embarrassing the
president, we need to re-examine the goals
of higher education. ”
His phrase “Dirty Nothing” was quickly
adopted by the radicals, who soon sported
pins identifying themselves as “Dirty No
things.”
In January 1970, students held a popular
referendum demanding that Erwin be re
moved as chairman for “unwarranted inter
ference” in the operations of the campus.
The specific complaint was that he refused
to listen to their requests that shade trees
not be cut down to make room for an ex
panded football stadium.
The students voted 6,266 for his ouster to
966 against, but Erwin ignored the vote,
saying the count represented less than 20
percent of those eligible to cast ballots. In
1971, he did step down as chairman but
vowed to complete his six-year term of the
board.
The chief sponsor of the 1970 referen
dum was the school newspaper, The Daily
Texan, which had been at war with Erwin
through most of his tenure as a regent.
After the vote, Erwin said it showed how
little power the newspaper had.
Toward the end of his career as a regent,
Erwin, an attorney by trade, was twice
arrested for drunken driving, and it was
revealed in 1974 that he was several
thousand dollars in debt for taxes owed on
the estate ofhis wife, June Carr Erwin, who
died in 1969.