The Michigan Daily
Vol. XC, No. 36-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, July 11, 1980 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages
Hostage to be set free
}E E Khomeini orders
seriously ill vice-
consul released
From UPI and AP
Richard Queen, one of the 53 American hostages in Iran,
is seriously ill in a Tehran hospital and Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini has ordered that he be freed and sent home to his
parents, Tehran Radio announced yesterday.
The radio said Queen, 28, a native of New York, was in
"serious" condition in a Tehran hospital. It did not disclose the
nature of his illness but said it was serious enough for Khomeini
to order his release after 250 days in captivity:
QUEEN IS A former Ann Arbor resident and University
student. He did graduate work here several years ago and lived
on North Campus while he was a student.
In several broadacasts announcing Khomeini's orders, the
radio carried conflicting accounts of Queen's illness and the
events leading to the order for his release.
One broadcast said Queen, a vice-counsul on his first foreign
assignment, was rushed to the hospital yesterday. Another
broadcast quoted his militant captors as saying he had been in
the hospital for several days.
e rANNOUNCING KHOMEINI'S decision to free him, it said
Queen would be flown to a "third country" of his parents'
choice. But another news bulletin implied that Queen's parents,
a Cwho live in Lincolnville, Maine, would be allowed to come to
Tehran to escort him home.
The State Department said it was investigating the report
from Tehran Radio but had no immediate independent confir-
mation of plans for Queen's release.
The State Department press office issued a statement
saying, "We are urgently checking the report. We have no in-
dependent confirmation of it. We have notified Mr. Queen's
parents of the news report, and we will make every effort to
-bassist them in any way that may be required."
e ily Photo by JIM KRUZ IN SCARSDALE, N,Y., where they were visiting relatives,
yrQueen's parents, Harold and Jeanne, said they were "tremen-
o. storage barn, located near Liberty St. and dously excited but worried" about their son.
lso destroyed were several antique cars stored "We're worried, the health there must be some reason,"
f the autos, said he would deal with the loss in Mrs. Queen said. "We ask that you all pray."
get drunk tonight," he said. See AMERICAN, Pages
By HOWARD WITEngineering Prof. Ralph Loomis-a member of the
specialio TMeDaly humanities department administrative committee
and a defendant in Marwil's suit against the Univer-
DETROIT-In testimony that appeared to take sity-meant an ad hoc tenure review committee
University attorneys by surprise, a witness for might not have agreed with the administrative com-
Jonathan Marwil said yesterday that when he mittee's decision to drop Marwil from the faculty.
questioned the 1978 refusal of the engineering MARWIL, A FORMER assistant professor in the
engineering humanities department who has been
off the University payroll since May 31, 1979, is suing
the Regents and three members of the humanities
department administrative committee, claiming his
constitutional rights were violated and he was un-
fairly denied a review by an ad hoc departmental
A q es ion ofcommittee of his qualifications to receive tenure.
He is seeking either reinstatement to the faculty
pending a tenure review or damages from the three
ten ure review s department members that could total $1.1 million.
Marwil charges the administrative committee
humanities department to form an ad hoc committee members-Chairman J.C. Mathes and Profs. Loomis
hugive Marwil a tenure review, e was told by a and Dwight Stevenson-sidestepped College and
to a itatrtretiswhasmttey department policies requiring a tenure review in his
department administrator that such a committee sixth year of employment with the University. The
"might have come upwith the wrong decision. former assistant professor maintains the defendants
Engineering Humanities Prof. Richard Ross
testified in federal district court here that he to remove him from the faculty in 1978
assumed the comment allegedly made by See MARWIL, Page 2
Autos destro
Ann Arbor firefighters douse a Killens Concrete C
Wagner Rd., which was gutted by fire yesterday. A
inside the building. George Riehl, unhappy owner o
an understandable manner. "I'm going to go out and!
Witness:
Defendant
opposed
ad hoc
committee,