a AGENDAS See editorial-page I P Mt lE i IaiI WARIs See Today for details ;'\Ninr h'iYou(rs of FEdigori~i I Irre('(Iof~ VoI. XC, No. 118 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, February 22, 1980 Ten Cents Fourteen Pages . . tants: No hostage release without shah By The Associated Press Inspired by a message of support from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the young militants holding the U.S. Em- bassy in Tehran vowed anew yesterday they will not release their American hostages until the "fugitive" shah is handed over to Iran. The militants' reaffirmation of their tough stand raised new questions about the prospects for an early release of the hostages. THE U.N. investigative panel on Iran, whose work might be crucial to resolution of the crisis, continued to mark time in Switzerland. Iran's president and foreign minister both insisted there is no deal guaran- teeing freedom for the hostages in ex- change for the U.N. Inquiry. And both Khomeini and President 4bolhassan Bani-Sadr reiterated Iran's demand for extradition of the ousted shah. One of the co-chairpersons of the five- member U.N. commission, Mohamed Bedjaoui, Algeria's U.N. ambassador, unexpectedly left Geneva, Switzerland, for New York yesterday. The com- mission .members had been scheduled to fly from Geneva to Tehran Wed- nesday, but U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at the last minute delayed their departure until this weekend. WALDHEIM TOLD reporters at the United Nations that Bedjaoui was returning because he had "urgent business" in his diplomatic mission in New York, but a U.N. spokesperson later said Waldheim and Bedjaoui would meet today. Presumably they will discuss the ob- stacles that caused Waldheim to delay the commission's departure. Iran's foreign minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, indicated yesterday they might now arrive even later than the weekend,. telling the Iranian news agency they would be coming to Tehran "early next week." Well-placed sources at the United Nations who asked not to be identified said the delay was necessary because Bani-Sadr needs more time to marshal various groups in Iran behind a set- tlement of the crisis. THE COMMISSION is to carry out a "fact-finding" mission hearing Iranian charges of mass murder and corruption against deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and of U.S. interference in Iranian affairs, and hearing American grievances over the hostage-taking. In statements Wednesday demanding return of the shah, neither Khomeini nor Bani-Sadr said the hostages' freedom was contingent on it. But the embassy militants made the connection clear. In a statement broadcast on Tehran See MILITANTS, Page 6 ' prof named federal judge SJ£2~*S..*~ . *AiAlIFIJ~ VlI AP PhQtJ WHILE RECUPERATING FROM a minor heart ailment, the Ayatollah Khomeini rests in a Tehran hospital. Khomeini called for the return of the shah over public radio yesterday. MER CHANTS CL OSE THEIR DOORS: The U.S. Senate Wednesday con- firmed the appointment of University. Law School Prof. Harry Edwards to the position of judge for the Federal District Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. Edwards will assume the post March1. "I'm very excited," Edwards said yesterday in an interview. "I'm happy the confirmation procedure is over. It seemed like it took forever," he added, laughing. EDWARDS HAS been a member of the Law School faculty since 1970. President Carter nominated him for the post in December. The 39-year-old Edwards will be one of the youngest jurists sitting on a U.S. Appeals Court. But this doesn't faze him. ".It's an interesting challenge," Edwards said, adding that "no matter what age... the quality of performance is what counts." Edwards will take the oath of office next Wednesday in Washington. A ceremony will follow later this month. EDWARDS GRA DA UTED from Cornell University in 1962 and received a law degree from- the University of Michigan in 1965. He has taught at Harvard Law School and the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. He has also served as chairman of the board of Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. The D.C. court is commonly considered one of the more important courts in the country. "'he D.C. court is confined to the District of Columbia," Edwards said, "but many cases include major federal regulatory agencies." "We're extremely sorry to lose him," said Law School Dean Terrance Sandalow. "He's been a distinguished member of the faculty." But, Sandalow said, "we're pleased for him. He'll do an outstanding job as a judge." Edwairds, a specialist in labor law, has not been teaching at the University this term, because "we anticipated his appointment," Sandalow said. Afghan From The Associated Press Merchants in Kabul closed their shops yesterday in a mass protest. against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. In Fuopae, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance failed to achieve unanimous Western backing for a boycott of the Moscow Olympics as a way to show displeasure over the inter- vention. Most shopkeepers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, heeded the call of Moslem rebels to show their "unanimous condemnation" of the Soviet intervention by paralyzing the commercial life of the city of one million. THE RESISTANCE to the Soviet oc- cupation came two months after *Russian troops first crossed the Afghan 'border in an attempt to put down an Islamic rebellion against three suc- cessive communist regimes. Elsewhere, Moslem soldiers of the Afghan army killed 50 Soviet soldiers when they arrived at Ghazni airport, 80 miles southwest of Kabul, Pakistan is stage a Press International reported. The Soviets retaliated by killing all the Afghan soldiers posted at the airport, strafing them from gunship-helicop- ters,said the report, which could not be" independently confirmed. The news agency did not say when the reported attacks took place, or how many Afghan soldiers were killed. ON THE diplomatic front, Vance concluded a series of European talks to coordinate a Western response to the Afghan crisis. But toward the end of the tour, which included stops this week in Bonn, Rome, Paris and London, the secretary could count only Britain as a firm supporter of President Carter's decision to boycott the Summer Olym- pic Games in Moscow. Vance said he found "general agreement on the nature of the threat" to Western security over the Soviet military moves "and on the general ob- jectives.'' But, he added, "There are differences of opinion on how to carry them out." During talks in Paris yesterday, nti-Soviet protest before flying on to London, Vance ap- parently failed to budge Foreign Minister Jean Francois-Pancet from France's opposition to a boycott. WEST GE RMANY and Italy have delayed decisions on a possible Olym- pic boycott. A State Department official in Washington told reporters the Soviet Union has established supply depots and lengthened airfields on its side of the Afghan border as an apparent prelude to sending an additional 25,000 to 50,000 troops into Afghanistan. The official, who asked not to be iden- tified by name, called the Soviet incur- sion "a case of very mistaken military judgment" and said "nothing has gone right" for Moscow since it began moving an estimated 70,000 troops into Afghanistan Christmas Eve. The Afghan army has disintegrated since the incursion and Soviet forces had lost control of major roads and See AFGHANS, Page 8 Edwards .. approved by Senate Class boycott planned to protest registration; LSA-SG endorses March 20 no-show Council puts off action on confusing energy plan By JOHN GOYER A comprehensive energy plan was indefinitely tabled by City Council last night, amid confusion over exactly what approval of the plan would mean. "I don't know what it is. I want to know what the .specifics are," said councilman David Fisher (R-Fourth Ward), who introduced the tabling motion, which was approved on a nine to one vote. Fisher and others objected to man- datory conservation measures men- tioned in the plan, such as one tbat would require homeowners to insulate their homes and have them meet energv code requirements before they would be allowed to sell the houses. But according to Barry Tilman, director of the city's Community Development Office and author of the plan, Council would not necessarily have been approving such a measure by passing the new plan last night. Tilman said Council would only have been approving general goalgs for the next year-and-a-half, and not specific mandatory conservation measures. Council would also have approved transferring $17,000 from the city's general fund to pay the salaries of two energy consultants for the next six See COUNCIL, Page 9 By DAVID MEYER A one-day boycott of classes to demonstrate opposition to President Carter's registration proposal was overwhelmingly endorsed by LSA Student Government (LSA-SG) Wed- nesday night. The boycott, slated for Thursday, March 20, is being organized by the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) and LSA-SG member Mark Alonso. AT LEAST 14 student organizations, other than LSA-SG, have indicated sup- port for the boycott. PIRGIM plans to seek the backing of the Michigan Student Assembly next week. Alonso says he expects the Assembly to sup- port the boycott. PIRGIM representative Dan Carol said that PIRGIM planned to contact 'faculty members about the boycott next week. "We're going to ask professors to encourage students to boycott their classes," Carol said he was unsure how the faculty members would react to the boycott. Carol said that there has been no ton.. We can make. Washington aware that we 're against it." -Mark Alonso, LSA-SG member a message to Washington," Alonso said. "We can make Washington aware that we're against it." "We want to get a message to Washing- Carol said that the boycott is also part of a larger "two-week jamboree" of programs designed to promote student awareness of the draft registration proposal and related issues. According to Carol, the series'of events will begin with a teach-in that will run from March 13-16. The teach-in will be followed by the boycott and Diag rally on March 20 before the departure of some students for Washington, D.C. on March 21 to participate in a national anti.registration march the following Saturday. "We want to stress the whole two weeks before the boycott," Carol said. "It's not just getting out of classes, going to a rally and screaming." Caro] emphasized that the boycott was merely a part of the two-week series to provide registration-oriented educational opportunities. The teach-in preceding the boycott, titled "Peace and Politics in the 1980's: A New Understanding," will include a lecture by former United States Attor- ney General Ramsey Clark. response yet from the University ad- ministration to the boycott proposal. Carol added, however, that he expected the administration to react after professors are contacted next week. Alonso said the primary purpose of the boycott is to generate further student opposition to the draft registration proposal. "We want to get BOTH ALONSO and Carol said they oppose registration for the draft because they feel it will almost inevitably lead to the draft. "The idea is that registration is not different from the draft," Carol said. Carol added that he expects relatively strong student support for the boycott. "I think the majority of students oppose registration.", "I'd better, or else I'll go to the Olympics to find the kidnappers myself." Meanwhile in Alice Lloyd, the curious George kidnappers still hold the monkey they abducted seveal days ago. Their latest demand to arrange a blood drive in Alice Lloyd was flatly tirrned down by the Red Cross, which is sponsoring a blood drive in the Union March No-snow woes All recreation and non-recreation small businesses that have suffered heavy financial losses due to the lack of snow and mild temperatures this winter have been declared eligible for Small Business Administration (SBA) economic pleased that the SBA was sensititive to the needs of all businesses that have suffered heavy financial losses due to the lack of snow and ice this winter," Levin said. Recreation and non-recreation businesses in Michigan affected by the mild winter can apply for the loans until October'28, 1980. Viper caper Thieves who burglarized the home of Oklahoma City Zoo Director Lawrence Curtis Tuesday night might be in for an unpleasant surprise. The freeze-dried African viper they abscounded with is still as deadly as it was when it was alive. Curtis said although the three-foot-long puff adder had been freeze-dried, the preservation process left its day-the price he paid for learning one good turn doesn't necessarily deserve another. Police reported Lawrence Wright of Hartford, Vt., stopped on Route 50 to assist a woman trying to change a flat tire on her car. -Just as he put on the spare, the jack slipped and the car fell down on Wright's left side. Instead of helping the good samaritan, the woman ragged at Wright for letting the jack slip and not finishing the job. Police said the woman then replaced the lug nuts, told Wright "the hospital is just down the road," and drove off. The injured man managed to get to his own car and drive to Ellis Hospital in Schenetady. E' On the inside The edit page features a rightside on censorship° and the' Monkey see, monkey do J , ;i i