The Michigan Daily Vol. XC, No. 18-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, June 3, 1980 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages Ex-attorney general in .k fran despite U.S. gov't objections From UPI and AP TEHRAN, Iran - Defying a U.S. travel ban, former attorney general Ramsey Clark and'Nobel Prize-winning biologist George Wald flew into Tehran with eight other Americans yesterday to try to talk with Iranian officials about the release of 53 American hostages. The American delegation joined an international conference on "U.S. in- terventions in Iran," called by AP Photo Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the IRANIAN PRESIDENT ABOLHASSAN Bani-Sadr makes the opening speech abortive U.S. hostage rescue April 25 yesterday at the "Crimes of America" conference in Tehran. Bani-Sadr said which Clark has called "lawless" and Washington and the Pentagon virtually governed Iran for years and urged "contrary to constitutional gover- condemnation of U.S. efforts there. nment." FBI estions w tess about ordan shooting From UPI and AP Wayne Davis, special agent in charge of the FBI in In- FORT WAYNE, Ind.-Martha Coleman, the only known diana, said prior to the interview that Coleman "definitely is witness to the shooting of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan, not a suspect. We are simply talking to her to get details on was questioned by FBI agents yesterday for the first time the shooting." since the sniper attack last Thursday. Coleman, 36 and a Fort Wayne Urban League board Neither FBI officials nor Coleman's attorney would member, was dropping Jordan off at his room at the Marriott reveal details of the interview. Coleman, 36, a white civil Hotel at 2 a.m. Thursday when he was shot, police said. rights volunteer, skipped an earlier conference with the FBI ' JORDAN HAD BEEN in town to speak at the local chap- because she saw reporters waiting to question her. ter's annual dinner. After the dinner, Coleman joined Jordan JORDAN, 44, DIRECTOR of the National Urban League, for drinks at the hotel bar. At 12:30 a.m., Leonard said, they got out of bed and sat up in a chair yesterday for the first time drove to her home for coffee. Leonard said no one else joined since a bullet from a .30-06 rifle gouged a fist-sized hole in his them and they received no phone calls. They left to return to back. The shooting took place in the parking lot of his motel. the hotel around 1:30 a.m., he said. His condition was listed as serious but stable. On the ride back to the hotel, they were passed by a car of Coleman, who took Jordan home for coffee and then drove hecklers, Leonard said. him back to the motel said in a newspaper interview "The comment that she recalls was something to the ef- published yesterday she "didn't see a thing" and did not have fect of 'derelict' or 'deviant,' something along those lines," "anything to hide." .Leonard said. Her attorney, Charles Leonard, said his client would There were "two men in the front, one individual in the remain in seclusion back" of the passing car, he said adding, "She was unable "SHE'LL TALK TO as many people as she needs to si c h -s s Leonard said. WITNESS,Page 2 "IT IS inconceivable that con- stitutional government could ever delegate to a single person - president or prime minister - the power to risk killing many people half a world away in a foreign country," Clark said of the aborted mission ordered by President Carter. Eight American commandos were killed in the rescue attempt. Clark, who was attorney general un- der President Lyndon Johnson, said he was told the delegation would be allowed to talk about anything during its stay. "We think that dialogue will lead to the early release of the hostages," he said. "That's our hope." Despite Clark's optimism about a possible role in the 212-day hostage crisis, Iranian officials failed to respond in the same vein, although Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said Clark was known as a friend of the Islamic revolution. ACTING FOR President Carter, Clark tried to help solve the hostage crisis soon after the U.S. Embassy was seized last November 4. Hut his mission was called off before his plane got beyond Istanbul, Turkey. Now on his own, Clark dodged questions on the consequences of defying the administration's ban on travel to Iran, saying, "I never an- ticipate difficulties. I am an optimist." It was reported that Clark and the other members of the delegation were shown a "top secret" letter by an American general who purportedly planned a military coup last year. THE ALLEGED document released to the conference was a letter ad- dressed to then NATO Forces Com- mander Gen. Alexander Haig by his deputy, Gen. Robert Huyser, sent to Iran in the last days of the shah last year. According to the alleged document, Huyser planned "a straight military takeover" to prevent Khomeini retur- See EX-A TTORNEY, Page 2.