age 8 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1981
State
Says Carter right to freeze Iranian assets
Muskie urges Reagan to honor Iran agreement
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SAN ANTONIO — Former Sec
retary of State Edmund Muskie says
the country must not forget the hos
tage ordeal, but must put it behind
and go on.
“We have to decide where we go
from here,” he told students at Trin
ity University Tuesday. “It’s a good
thing for our country that the hos
tages are home, that we can begin
the future at the outset of a new
administration with the hostage
problem out of the way.”
Included in the new beginnings,
he said, must be relations with Iran.
“There is a spirit of nationalism
sweeping the country, but there
needs to be a normalizing of relations
with all countries, Iran in particular.
Bearing grudges is not the way to do
it.
“We have a responsibility as a
super power to try to build a better
life on this planet,” he said.
Although he called the hostage
situation “a despicable, criminal act”
and acknowledged the 52 Americans
endured beatings and mental cruelty
throughout their stay, Muskie urged
the agreement that brought their re
lease be honored by President
Reagan.
“The policy has been set by this
agreement, ” he said. “In light of the
terms of the agreement, the normali
zation of relations with Iran should
begin.”
He urged that trade resume with
Iran because “that was one of the
stipulations of the agreement. We
would lift trade restrictions.
“Eventually the time comes when
more normal relations will be per
ceived in the interest of both coun
tries. But it is going to take some
time."
Of the negotiations, he added, “If
we didn’t do it as efficiently as possi
ble, we did it and the country is bet
ter off for it. ”
Muskie said former President Car
ter’s first steps in freezing Iranian
assets turned out to be the right ac
tion at the right time.
“The steps that were taken in
November 1979 were the steps that
persuaded Iran to take the steps that
led to the release,” he said.
lationship with the hostages.
“I was a hostage to the hostage!,"!
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He added that, ironically, the
freezing of assets also complicated
the release because of banks and cre
ditors that brought suit against Iran:
“The assets became tangled in a can
of worms.”
Muskie, a Maine Democrat who
served in the U.S. Senate, was
appointed secretary of state by for
mer President Carter after Cyrus
Vance resigned from the position fol
lowing the aborted rescue attempt of
the hostages in April.
Muskie joked he felt a close re-
he said. “I would never have
secretary of state but for the hostage!
and but for the hostages I mightl*
continuing at secretary of state. Ian
the 53rd hostage that has been re
leased by the events of last week"
Muskie revealed one of thebriglt
moments of the 444-day ordeal ws
the release of hostage RicM
Queen.
“They released him because tk
did not want a dead hostage on tlet
hands,” he said. “(We) inferredfrot
that there would be no dead hos
tages.”
Counsels for indigents warned to do good job
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judges and to attorneys appointed to
defend indigents — the court ex
pects defense attorneys to do more
than stand by while their clients
plead guilty.
Judge Marvin Teague was among
four judges dissenting in an Ector
County case in which a man sent
enced to 15 years for aggravated rob
bery contended he was not provided
effective assistance by a court-
appointed lawyer.
Records in the case show the
attorney was appointed after
Leonard Ortega Diaz Jr. already was
in court, the attorney talked with his
client for only about 15 minutes,
then stood beside the client as he
pleaded guilty and was sentenced.
Teague said the court, in deciding
against Diaz, “missed a golden
opportunity to bury, once and for all,
the ‘cop-out man,’ the ‘expeditor,’
and the ‘warm body attorney’ who,
for all practical and constitutional
purposes, does not in my opinion
meet the requirements of the 6th
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.
“The right to counsel means, to
me, more than just having a warm
body, whatever he may be denomin
ated, standing beside some accused
who enters a plea of guilty or nolo
contendre in a court of law. ”
Teague warned against the
appointment of what he called
“stand-in warm body attorneys” who
appear only so the court record will
show an indigent defendant had an
attorney present.
He said the appellate court cannot
in one opinion establish the duties of
a court appointed attorney, but said
such appointment, “certainly
not mean appearing in court simplj!
to put the seal on the record to slim
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appearing in court after the accusec
is ‘greased’ and ready to plead, is
appears to be the case here.”
Three other judges also wrotediS'
senting opinions critical of the ac
tions of the defense attorney in tit 'Til *j
Diaz case and of the majority opini 'X fjj I
upholding Diaz’s conviction.
Teague said he could have merel)
joined in one of the other dissenls,
but “I personally feel a stronger me!'
sage should be sent to the bench arid
bar that I, as member of this court,
as other members of the court also
feel, will not countenance the mere
presence of a ‘warm body’ to meai
effective assistance of counsel.” i
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50% legislative pay increase proposed as
5.1 to 6.8% argued for other employees
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AUSTIN — Rep. Bill Heatly, D-
Paducah, has proposed an increase of
50 percent in the pay of legislators
and a 66 percent increase in their
daily expense allowance.
The proposed constitutional
amendment would raise legislators’
pay from $600 a month to $900 a
month and their expenses from $30 a
day to $50 a day. Per diem expenses
are paid only for the first 120 days of
the 140-day session.
In the meantime, the Legislature
is debating the merits of a 5.1 or a 6.8
percent pay raise for other state em
ployees.
The pay of legislators has not ben
raised since 1975, when the current
levels were set.
Heatly’s proposal must be
approved by a two-thirds vote in
each house, then be submitted to
Texas voters for ratification.
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