Ninety-One of Editorial Fr Years eedom E Mhz 43an 43 a Il'l COLDER It will be today, with lower 30's. a bit cloudy a high in the n - n-- -- Tn -ante .4,Tn Pnae Cnnriaht 1481. The Mit-hinon Deify Annv Arbohr. Mihiaan-Tuesday; January 20, 1981 i en %-en Ts #=If I-Uuwb -ILIA %f ell wl._ nA 4 W 01. AI,N l 4 Y4 . . .,y, .,. ~n ri~~.a y. - . ..., .._ . ... Iran he blames dg U I *1 es on hostage release, s 'underhanded'tactics By UPI and AP Iran delayed the release of the 52 American hostages yesterday, ac- cusing U.S. banks of "underhanded maneuvers" to change the accord signed hours earlier to exchange the hostages for $9 billion in Iranian assets. U.S. officials said the delay, which they blamed on Iran's failure to com- plete its end of the paperwork, meant the hostages could not be freed before today, when President Carter hands over the White House to Ronald Reagan. TWO ALGERIAN planes stood by in Tehran to fly the hostages to freedom on the 443rd day of their captivity. At one point, Iranian officials said the hostages had been taken to the airport, ready to depart as soon as Algeria signaled that the transfer of $9 billion in frozen assets had begun. In Tehran, Algiers and Washington, negotiators worked feverishly throughout the night to resolve the last heart-stopping snag as the clock ticked away the final hours of Carter's presidency. Officials conceded the hostages would not be released in time for Carter to fly to West Germany to greet them before he leaves office as he had hoped. They said he accepted an invitation from Reagan to make the trip as a private citizen after he leaves office. WHITE HOUSE spokesman Jody Powell also warned Iran that if the agreement is not implemented by the time Carter leaves office, Reagan was under no obligation to abide by its ter- ms. Reagan planned yesterday to retain temporarily some of the Carter ad-: ministration negotiators. James Brady, Reagan's press secretary, said he discussed with the White House the possibility of Carter going to Wiesbaden, Germany, after Reagan's inauguration to greet the returning hostages as the president's special envoy. FIRST WORD of the last minute snag came from Algerian mediators in Tehran, who said technical problems had arisen with the creation of an escrow account to handle what was: believed to be the biggest financial* transaction in history. One official described it as a "banking problem" caused by the awesome complexity of the exchange and said, "we are still working on these snags and we have to have them resolved." However, Iran's chief negotiator Bezhad Nabavi said the differences were more substantial and he accused U.S. banks of "subterfuge" that jeopardized the hostage accord hours after it was sealed in separate signings in Tehran and Algiers. NABAVI OBJECTED to an 11-page appendix to the main accord that he said Iran had never accepted. He said the appendix sought to make Iran drop all claims to part of its assets being withheld pending the arbitration of See HOSTAGE, Page 5 By ALISON HIRSCHEL Families of the three University graduates held captive in Iran were weary and guardedly optimistic about the hostages' return last night. John Graves, 53, Steven Lauterbach, 29, and Victor Tomseth, 39, who are among the 52 hostages held by Iranian terrorists, all received master of arts degrees from the University. Richard Queen, 29, who received his degree in history in. 1978, was released last summer due to serious illness. GRAVES' WIFE, Bonnie, reached at their home in Reston, Virginia, last night, said the fir- st thing she would like to do when her husband comes home is have a reunion with their six children and four grandchildren. Unlike some of the hostages' families who have announced they will not take down their Christmas decorations until the hostages are home, Graves said she has only saved a few presents for her husband. "If you do that," she said, "and something goes wrong, you have to be prepared to take down the tree by yourself. "Each of us copes in our own way," she added. One of the ways Graves said she has tried to make things easier is by limiting the number of reporters she speaks to. She agreed to talk to the Daily "because the Michigan tie is strong" for her and her husband she said. "MY GREATEST pleasure was speaking with the Algerians at the embassy in Washington af- ter they spoke to John," she said. The Algerians who had been allowed in the embassy at Christ- mas invited all the Washington-area hostage families to tea when they returned from Iran, she explained. Lauterbach, who received a library science degree in' 1973 is still-remembered by a number of professors. Russell Bidlack, Dean of' the Library Science School recalls he was "a superior student somewhat on the quiet side." Thomas Slavens, a professor of Library Scien- ce, commented that Lauterbach "was, is-I don't know why I qsed the past tense-a brilliant person, industrious, and highly articulate." GAIL CAVENDAR, Lauterbach's sister, reached at their parents' home in Dayton, Ohio last night, said her parents will leave for Washington when the hostages arrive there. Cavendar said her brother had never sent a let- ter to them in which he sounded depressed and he "looked pretty normal" when they saw him on the Christmas film. Tomseth left the University in 1966 with a See 'U', Page 5 Liberals stage anti-Right forum 'As national politicos gather in Washington today to celebrate the Inauguration of a man considered to be the most conservative president in two decades, local liberal and leftist groups will hold a campus teach-in to combat the "new political right." The coalition, People United for a Human Future, which includes a number of local groups that have never before worked together, is attem- pting to defend civil liberties and social programs they fear may be in danger once Ronald Reagan takes office. THE FORMATION of the coalition represents a new spirit of cooperation among many left-wing and liberal campus groups that are opposed to the "New Right," Marc Breakstone, one of the group's founders, said. "We have, working together, some very radical people. . . . with some very moderate people," Breakstone said. Coalition members range from the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan to the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade. "I am hoping that it (the coalition) represents the beginning of a new trend of student activism on campus and community activism in general," Breakstone said. MANY OF THE coalition's members said the election of Reagan and a number of conservatives to Congress and the emergence and increasing in- fluence of the "new right" signal a new era of con- servatism in America. They said they fear the Republican administration will dramatically in- crease military appropriations while severely cut- ting or eliminating social programs. "The situation is such that if a liberal voice is to be heard, it will have to be united," coalition member John Binder said. "Otherwise, it will be drowned-especially in the next four years." "There's a real need for people with progressive politics to come together," Ken Jordan, another coalition member, said. "There's a possibility that some of the freedoms that we consider very im- portant may be in jeopardy" under the Reagan administration. BREAKSTONE SAID the November election, in which Republicans took control of both the White House and the Senate, prompted many campus liberals to pull together. "It (the election) made a lot of people realize that the political climate in this country is seriously moving to the right," Breakstone said. "I felt there were a lot of people frustrated with the current political situation who might be looking for an organization to organize change. "I felt there was a critical need to bring together a broad-based coalition of students and student organizations on campus," he said. Many students who have become involved with the group have not been previously active in politics. Coalition members say this is an in- dication that the group will continue to grow. "DURING THE LAST several months, and cer- tainly since the election of Ronald Reagan, a lot of people who weren't previously political are See LOCAL, Page 10 AP Photo A SOLDIER AT the Rhein-Main Air Base (top) in Frankfurt, West Ger- many, readies a banner greeting the American hostages in Iran. The hostages are expected to stop at the base on their way to Wiesbaden. A Lon- don businessman stands in front of the bank of England, which will receive the billions of dollars of Iranian assets. TODAY Pre-inaugural whirl BEFORE ALL OF the hullabaloo of inauguration day started, Amy Carter decided to have a final party of her own in the White House. If the adults can have their party, why couldn't she? While President and Mrs. Carter spent part of their last weekend at Camp David, Amy, 13, invited friends, including press secretary Jody Powell's daughter, to the White House for an overnight party. During the evening, Amy and her frien- 1 _ - ../ youths, but their boats also stalled in the icebound river. Finally, the police lowered a helicopter skid to the ice and the youths climbed up and into custody. "I don't know how they got out there," one officer said, "unless they thought they were going to run to New Jersey." O If at first you don't succeed... The bank robber's first attempt failed. A bandit entered the Caisse Populaire St. Sacrement, -a credit union in Van- couver, British Columbia, and handed the teller a note writ- ten in English demanding all the money. The teller, who is Chinese, didn't understand the note and asked the man in same description handed a similar note to an English speaking teller at another bank. This time the teller handed over $1,200 and the robber fled. Q It's a cat's life Once upon a time, house cats had to bed down with rac- coons in order to survive during harsh winter storms, ac- cording to an old myth popular in Maine. Even though it is genetically impossible for raccoons and cats to breed, some people claim that "coon cats" exist, "Coon cats" are sup- posed to have the intelligence of a raccoon, the physique of a cat, and the stamina of both. Janet Falconer of Ken- in this south-central. Washington town. City Attorney -Dwight Halstead said the council enacted the curfew in an effort to keep massage parlors out of Prosser. "I'd rather it be before the fact," he said. Exempted from the curfew are doctors, chiropractors, other therapists, and individuals "giving massage in their homes to members of the im- mediate family," Halstead added. Halstead said it would be legally difficult to pass such a curfew once a massage parlor had already opened in Prosser. After all, they wouldn't want to rub anyone the wrong way.