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Montazeri was the most promi nent casualty so far in a Fierce drive by Khomeini to return Iran to the roots of its fundamentalist revolu tion. Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Moham mad Jaafar Mahallati, also resigned Tuesday, two days after deputy for eign minister Mohammad Javad Larijani handed in his resignation. Both were U.S.-educated. Khomeini last month harshly at tacked those who would rebuild links with the West and denounced lagging revolutionary fervor. Montazeri’s resignation came af ter Khomeini sent him a letter on March 26 asking him to step down, reported Iran’s official Tehran ra dio, monitored in Nicosia. “I see myself compelled to obey your orders, because the survival and stability of the Islamic Republic rests on obeying your command,” the radio quoted Montazeri, 64, as saying. The immediate cause of Montaze ri’s ouster appears to be his critical assessment of the revolution’s ac complishments. Montazeri declared last month that Iranian leaders made many mis takes in the First 10 years of the revo lution which isolated the fledgling republic from much of the world. After the speech, Khomeini blasted the man he personally had selected as his successor, without mentioning Montazeri’s name. “How short-sighted are those who think that because we did not reach Final victory at the front, that mar tyrdom and self-sacriFice are worth less,” he said. Immediately after the cease-Fire in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war last August, Khomeini apparently gave free rein to the pragmatists. Parlia ment Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani and Foreign Minister AH Akbar Ve- layati, seeking loans and technology to rebuild Iran, spearheaded a drive to soften Iran’s radical image. Mahallati and Larijani were in strumental in rebuilding diplomatic- ties with the West. The ties had been strained since the radical outbursts of the first days of the 1979 revolt tion. Iran saw the West then as batl ing the ousted Shah, Mohamniir Reza Pahlavi. It violently purged it ternal opposition and he!d52Am« icans hostage in the U.S. Embass for 444 days. Bv last week, Khomeini was pro claiming that Iran had drifted awn from the values of the revolution. He warned pragmatists in j lengthy speech that “the govert ment must do its very best to govern the people as best it can, but tbi does not mean that it should dritt them away from the great goalsd the revolution, which is thecreatioj of a global Islamic government." Khomeini First tired up the resin gence of the fundamentalistcampbi condemning Salman Hushdie u death for the British author’s not’d “The Satanic Verses,” saying If hook was blasphemous and proofo! the West’s attempt to underminels lam. When 14 W estern nations witk- drew their top diplomats to protesi the death sentence, Khomeini saidii was proof of the futility ofnormalii ing relations, and Parliament voted to sever ties with Britain. Convicted murderer gets execution stay from appellate court SEATTLE (AP) — A federal ap peals court in San Francisco on Tuesday issued a stay of execution for Charles Rodman Campbell 33 hours before he was scheduled to die for slaying two women and a little girl. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the stay pending an appeal, and ordered additional briefs sub mitted byJune 21. Campbell, 34, had been scheduled to be hanged Thursday morning at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. He would have been the first person hanged in the nation since Kansas executed four men in 1965, including Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, whose story was told in the Truman Capote book, “In Cold Blood.” It would have been Washington’s First execution in nearly 26 years. Campbell was sentenced to die for the 1982 slayings of Renae Wick- lund. who testified against him after Assault (Continued from page 1) Head football coach R.C. Slocum declined to comment on the incident until the proper authorities make a decision on it. “Student Activities has ways to deal with it,” Slocum said Tuesday. “I’d have nothing to say until the matter is officially resolved —until it’s decided one way or the other. The witnesses and those involved are in a much better position to com ment on it than I am.” Slocum has not taken any form of disciplinary actions against Jones and the tight end is participating in spring football training. Assistant Sports Information Di rector Colin Killian said Jones did he assaulted her, her daughter and a neighbor years earlier. Hanging is Washington’s official form of execution, although a pris oner may opt for lethal injection. Campbell had exhausted his bid for a stay in state courts. A federal ap peal was rejected Monday by U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle. Campbell’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal with the San Francisco court Tuesday morning. That pan el’s ruling came 33 hours before Campbell’s scheduled execution at 12:10 a.m. Thursday. Campbell’s attorney, Al Lyon, said he was very pleased by the decision. Informed of the stay, Gov. Booth Gardner reiterated that he would not intervene on Campbell’s behalf. “I’ve made my position clear,” Gardner said. “The decision is now in the hands of the courts. We have to wait until the legal system has Fin ished its work.” not want to comment on the situa tion. Whitacre said the Intramural Of fice was planning to make Jones pay the department for damages to in tramural equipment, including an electric score clock. Director of Intramurals Tom Reber did not wish to comment on the incident. Whitacre said Jones should have realized the possible penalties for striking a referee. “These guys know if they’re out on Kyle Field they can run their mouths at the officials, but they know not to touch a referee,” he said. “They know that as soon as they do, they’re gone.” Rocket gets green light for launch LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)- The nation’s first licensed com mercial rocket ship passed itspre launch tests Tuesday and was given the green light for a Wednesday morning launch. The last test was completed about 2 p.m. Monday and the weather was predicted to be ideal for the launch, scheduled fot 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, said Mart Daniels, project manager for the Consort 1 flight. The Consort 1 was loaded Tuesday with a 630-pound pack age of six scientific experiments designed to measure the effects of near-weightlessness on various materials. The 15-minute, subor- bital flight was scheduled to blast off from a pad at White Sands Missile Range, and the payload was designed to parachute onto the range about 50 miles north of the launch site. The Consort 1’s launch will mark a milestone in the history of s p a c e • flight because it is the first space craft to be licensed by the federal Department of Transportation in a 4*/2-year-old program designed to open the heavens to private en terprise. “We are here today to partici pate in and observe the begin nings of a transition from a serv ice performed by the government to one provided by private enter prise,” said Carol Lane, director of the Transportation Depart ment’s of fice of commercial space transportation. The Consort 1 was built b) Space Services Inc., a Houston company that launched the Con estoga 1 rocket from Matagorda Island in September 1982. That rocket contained a dummy pay- load that landed in the Gulf of Mexico, 300 miles east of the launch site. The success of the Conestoga 1 showed that private industry could launch a rocket safely, but it also showed the federal govern ment was unprepared to handle private spaceships. The Trans portation Department was as signed the task of licensing pri vate launches and working with other government agencies. Student regent T By SRC Hh dou and nis i ist a: T uled twin H rani ' sum mitt gam [ husl T start S NI Tues Yach year': avvan tropl club. Sta men fated a 6(1 again Club’ about Sat "Star: boat t mane land.' Ski San E over t off Sa Cal mate! yearn the Ni Th, syndic such s “It he sai land. ' May the bo World Hov anothe cago C fering. In 1 come v adise, I longer Sino eral me hisclul Last Boston dently the bul the So: pitchitr Nation: This winter hey tn Texas f Palm fear. T °fhis f hard to Willi outs in walk 41 |and cat trying t (Continued from page 1) Austin, said the student-regent bill is a bad idea. “The students are only one of the many constituents that the Univer sity has,” Mobley said. He said the Board also serves fac ulty, staff, the communities the un- versities serve and the communities in which they are located. To have a separate regent for stu dents creates the possibility of the student regent representing his own opinion and not that of the entire student body, Mobley said. The students’ interests must be merged with those of the faculty, the employees and the general public, he said. He said the Board already is con cerned primarily with the students’ interests, and said it gets feedback from students through Student Services. Regent Chairman William McK enzie would not comment on the bill because he had not read it, he said. None of the other regents could be contacted. John Koldus, vice president for Student Services, said the existing system is adequate to represent stu dent concerns. He said he has dinner every Thursday with student leaders to hear their ideas and problems. He said he also has a luncheon each week with either students, faculty or staff. Students have another channel to the regents through the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Board, he said. The CSAB meets once a month and is made up of students from the four universities comprising the A&M University System. Zelia Wiley, chairman of the CSAB, said the board has been ef fective this year in communicating with the regents, but added that di rect contact between it and the re gents would be beneficial. Currently, Wiley meets with the chancellor once a month, and the CSAB rarely gets to meet with him because of his busy schedule, Wiley said. Jay Hays, A&M student body president, is a member of the CSAB. He said the bill for a student regent would be unnecessary if the CSAB could report directly to the regents. If the CSAB had direct contact ^ with the regents, its chairman’s re-" sponsibilities basically would be the , same as those proposed by the advi- Vj sory-regent bill. But the A&M System is the onl) university system in Texas with a CSAB. Under the bill, student govern- E ments at each school within a system ’ could nominate a student forthead- \ visory-regent position. The govet " nor then would select one of the nominees for the regent position. \ The student regent would have® the right to participate in all board activities except voting S To prevent dominance of the \ largest school in a system, the stn- ^ dent regent could not be chosen o from the same school for two consec- ' utive years. S The bill is expected to come to a c vote in the Senate later this weekot ^ early next week. An identical bilhvil be acted on next month in the House.