The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 19, 1980-Page 11 Newspaper in .Tehran reports plot to overthrow. Iran's president. ILLINOIS STATE REP. William Henry (D-Chicago) talks on the telephone in Springfield, Ill. yesterday with President Carter. The president was calling Henry to urge him to vote in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment. The Illinois House last night failed to ratify ERA. Illinois House nixes ERA By The Associated Press A leader of the clergy-dominated party that could determine the fate of the 53 American hostage* was reported yesterday to have called Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr "a tool of America" and to have plotted his overthrow. The Tehran newspaper Enghlab Eslami published what is said was the text of a tape quoting Dr. Hassan Ayat, an official of the Islamic Republican Party, as saying Bani-Sadr, "will be ousted soon." AYAT LATER declared, "I have not been conspiring against anybody." He said he would expose "a shameful plot that directors of Enghlab Eslami are involved in against me, against the Islamic Republican Party and against the imam , (Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini)." Bani-Sadr, who founded Enghlab Eslami, still is said to enjoy Khomeini's spport and therefore is expected to remain in power. But the 80-year-old Khomeini yesterday named represen- tatives of the armed forces to report to him directly-a move observers said might further weaken the president's rule. The newspaper report underlined the deep and apparently growing split bet- ween Bani-Sadr and the Moslem fun- damentalists who run the IRP and, in turn, have a working majority in the Iranian parliament. Khomeini has said Parliament will rule on the hostages, who spent their 228th day in captivity yesterday. AYATOLLAH MOHAMMAD Beheshti, head of Iranian Supreme Court and of the IRP, told reporters during a news conference that Parliament probably won't take up the hostage question for another month. "For the time being the Majlis has a lot of things to do," he said, adding: "There is possibility of a hostage trial, but everything depends on the Parliament." He thus appeared to reject a call Tuesday for a national referendum to, decide what to do about the hostages. THERE WERE THESE other developments yesterday: " The official Iranian news agency Pars said 16 Iranians were executed on orders of revolutionary tribunals-10 men and a woman after being convicted on drug trafficking charges, three men found guilty of armed robbery and rape, and two men charged in a prison revolt. The executions were by firing squad and hanging. e Beheshti said Iran "is not afraid of Russian warnings" and would continue its support of Moslem Afghan rebels, but did not elaborate. Abscam probe nets two more NEW YORK (AP)-Two powerful Democratic congressmen were indic- ted yesterday on bribe charges in- volving $100,000, bringing to five the number of House members facing criminal charges in the two-year FBI Abscam probe. The five-count bribery-conspiracy indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against Rep. John Murphy (D-N.Y.) and Frank Thompson Jr. (D-N.J.) accused them of accepting money in return for agreeing to in- troduce private immigration bills for foreign businessmen wishing to emigrate to the United States. SPECIFICALLY, THE two were charged with conspiracy, bribery, illegally receiving compensation for services relating to government mat- ters, and abetting in interstate travel in aid of a racketeering enterprise. FISRAEL I-LOWE$T CO$T FLIGHTS F Reliable - Flexible Free European Stops Buy Now For Summer (212) 689-8980 Ourside New York FRE1-800-223-7676 Thecener FoStudentTravel 4roadway NYC, N.Y 10001 (Continuedffrom Page 1) receiving calls earlier in the day on behalf of ERA from Carter. Illinois, the only major Northern in- dustrial state not to approve the amen- dment, was targeted by the National Organization for Women and other pro- ERA groups for a major ratification drive this spring. SCORES OF "ERA Action Teams" have combed the state for support and more than 25,000 persons showed up in Chicago on May 10 for a pro-ERA march and rally. Yesterday, ERA lobbyists clad in Kelly green wandered through the Capitol, mixing with sign-carrying op- ponents wearing bright red. ERA supporters had hoped the momentum of House approval would improve the measure's chances in the Senate. THE AMENDMENT banning sex discrimination has been approved by 35 of the 38 states required to become part of the U.S. Constitution. Five states have rescinded their approval, but the validity of that action is in question. ERA supporters had hoped to call the amendment to a vote in the Illinois House on May 14, but canceled their plans when they realized they were two votes short of the 107 they needed. Fatal crashes among youths decline 21.4% LANSING (UPI)-The number of 18- to 10-year-old drinking drivers in- volved in fatal accidents dropped 21.4 per cent in the last half of 1979, the Michigan Council on Alcohol Problems claimed yesterday. The council said state police figures also show the number of young tipplers involved in all crashes continued a decline which had begun during the fir- st six months of 1979-the first year in which the new higher drinking age sup- ported by the organization was in ef- fect. THE COUNCIL had earlier cited the decline in all accidents involving 19-20- year-old drinking drivers as evidence of the success of its ballot proposal raising the legal age to 21 from 18. However, the number of young drinking drivers involved in fatal accidents during the first half of the year had actually in- creaed. The organization is now fighting a battle agaisnt a new drive to lower the age from 21 to 19. The state police figures show 9218-20- year-old drinking drivers were involved in fatal accidents from July, 1979 through December, 1979, compared with 117 for the same period in 1978, the council said. INTERIM STUDENT ADVISORY UN COMMITTEE A committee of students is currently being formed to assist in the planning for the conversion of the Michigan Union into a student center. Interested students must be willing to commit to weekly meetings all summer. CONTACT Peggy or Mark at Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) 763-3241 or stop by 3909 Michigan Union.