Reagan denies charges of 'ransom '

by David Hoffman

L.A. Times Washington-Post Service

President Reagan said Thursday night that the United States
has not paid "ransom" to Iran for
the American hostages in
Lebanon , but has covertly sent
arms to Tehran to gain "access
and influence" there, end the
6-year-old Iran-Iraq war and stem
international terrorism.
In a nationally televised address
from the Oval Office, Reagan
defended the "secret diplomatic
initiative" against rising criticism
from Congress and abroad that he
violated his own policy against
negotiating with terrorists in a bid
to buy freedom for the Americans
being held hostage in Lebanon.
"We did not - repeat - did not
- trade weapons or anything else
for hostages - nor will we,"
Reagan said. "Those who think
we have 'gone soft ' on terrorism
should take up the question with
(Lib yan) Colonel (Moammar)
Gadhafi ."

Lycoming
evacuated
followin g
threat

Claiming that the Iran operation was begun 18 months ago
"for thebest of reasons," Reagan
acknowledged that U.S. officials
had talked with unidentified factions in Iran about pressuring
other groups in Lebanon to
release the American hostages.
But he denied that the arms sent
to Iran were sent to Iran were a
"ransom payment. "
Wh ite House chief of staff
Donald T. Regan said in an interview Thursday that the president authorized "exploratory "
contacts with Iran in hopes of curbing its role in international terrorism and opening avenues to
moderate factions there.
Regan said the arms shipments
were made later as a demonstration of "good faith" to these factions , and that the United States
asked the Iranians to "use their
influence on people to get the
hostages released . "
Regan added that "occassionally their influence worked" and
produced the release of the Rev.

Benjamin Weir , the Rev.
Lawrence Martin Jenco and
David P. Jacobsen.
"Did the arms shi pment coincide with this? No. As the Iranian
ambassador said the other day ,
sometimes they did and
sometimes th ey didn 't , Reagan
said. "They were not being sent
for that purpose. "
In his address , Reagan discussed only the broadest details ofth e
Iran operation. He did not mention strong objections that were
raised to the shipments of arm s
to Iran by Secretary of State
George P. Shultz and Secretary
of
Defense
Caspar
W.
Weinberger.
He also omitted mention of
Israel' s role in establishing contacts inside Iran and shipping the
U.S. weapons , and he sidestepped the question of whether the
timing of the arms shipments was
linked to release ofthe hostages ,
as other officials have reported .
Instead , Reagan said that the
arms shi pped were "small

amounts "
and
"modest
deliveries " that "could easily fit
into a single cargo plane. "
He said the weapons were
"defensive " in nature and "my
purpose was to convince Tehran
that our negotiators were acting
with my authority, to send a
si gnal that the United States was
prepared to replace animosity between us with a new relationship. "
While Reagan avoided details,
other officials said the arms may
have included surface-to-air
missiles , antitank weapons and
spare parts , especially for Iran 's
force of U.S.-built F14 jet
fighters .
Some of the weapons may have
been sent by Israel and not directly fro m the United States. The
president said that the weapons
"could not , taken together , affect
the outcome of the six-year war
between Iran and Iraq. "
The administration had long
been on record as favoring
neutrality in the war and has call-

war because we 're trying to bring
it to an end. "
Asked why the president had
apparently broken his princilple
against ending the weapons to
Iran , the senior official said, "We
have never said that we weren 't
shipping arms to Iran . That would
be the matter of princi p le if we'd
said we'd never ship any. We
haven 't commented on it.
"At the same time, we've
worked to stop uncontrolled
shipments. I don 't see anything
inconsistent with that at all . "
The senior official said the Iran
operation was approved by
Reagan in a directive signed in
January, although discussions
about it occured before that point.
The official refused to provide
details on the number of
shipments to Iran on grounds that
"the radical elements will be able
to fi gure out who was dealing
with the United States. "
At first , the official said no
shipments were made before

by Jim Mulvaney

Steele would straighten it out ,"
he said.
The clandestine weapons supply operation firs t came into light
after a plane was shot down over
Nicaragua during an arms shipment Oct. 5.
The only survivor , Eugene
Hasenfus , a former Marine and
CIA contract employee, told
Nicaraguan officials that the illfated mission was his 10th arms
delivery to the contras.
Hasenfus told Sandinista interrogators that the operation was
supervised by two Cuban
Americans , Felix Rodri guez ,
who used the name Max Gomez,
and Luis Posada , who went by
the name Ramon Medina.
The crewman , who described
himself as a former member of
the U.S. Army Special Forces ,
made the claims in interviews in
his home in the southern part of
the United States.
He provided substantial
documentation for many of his
claims , including photographs of
Gomex and Medina , check stubs
and a number of specific details
that have since been independently verified.
He said that he was on dozens
of supply flights of weapons, food
and clothing in April and May
from Ilopango airport in El
Salvador and Aguacante , a CIAcontrolled airfield in Honduras
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Staff Writer

The Bloomsburg University field hocky celebrates after winning the Division III semi-final contest this
weekend. The team fell one game short of winning the Division III national championship as they lost in
the final. For story, see page 6. (Voice photo by Imtiaz All-Taj).

Researchers recommend
cooperation to fight AIDS
by Robert Steinbrook

L.A. Times-Washington Post Service

AIDS "now ranks as the most
serious epidemic of the last 50
years," an international group of
researchers declare in a report
that urges global cooperation to
head off the spread of the deadly
acquired immune deficiency
syndrome.
Noting that several million people around the world are infected
with the AIDS virus , the researchers called for "a major international committment, not only in
terms of providing financial help,
but in providing scientific, educational and technical assistance. "
Between 10 percent and 30 percent of those infected with the
virus are expected to develop the
disease within the next five to ten
years, according to the report ,
published Friday in Science
magazine.
Their report is the latest in a recent barrage of exhortations for
more public health efforts to combat the spread of AIDS.
In Washington earlier this
month, U.S. Surgeon General C.
Everett Koop and the Institute of
Medicine separately urged that
AIDS education be implemented
as soon as possible in the schools.
Cases of AIDS have now been
identified in 74 countries , in-

cluding more than 25,000 cases
in the United States, 3,000 in
Europe , nearly 3,000 in other
countries in the Americas , and
many thousands in Africa , according to Dr. Thomas C. Quinn of
Johns Hopkins University
Medical Center, principal author
of the report.
The study was prepared in conjunction with officials of the
World Health Organization in
Geneva and the U.S Centers for
Disease Control in Atlanta.
It focused on the ' 'major health
problem " caused by AIDS in
Africa , where many researchers
believe the AIDS virus
originated.
With estimates of "several
million ' Africans infected with
the AIDS virus , Quinn and his
co-authors said they fear the
disease may overwhelm hte
limited medical resources of
many African countries.
For example , they point out
that screening blood to prevent
AIDS virus transmission would
likely cost "approximately 30
times the annual per capita health
budget" in many of the countries.
Such an effort in the U.S. last
year cost about $60 billion - an
amount that is , they noted ,
"many times greater than the entire health budgets of many
African countries. "

Furthermore , they added ,
"The costs of caring for 10 AIDS
patients in the United States (approximately $450,000) is greater
than the entire budget of a large
hospital in Zaire, where up to 25
percent of the pediatric and adult
hospital admissions have (AIDS
virus) infection. "
The report called for the creation of national committees in
African countries that would
coordinate the public health efforts against the spread of AIDS
- a proposal that is being discussed this week at a WHO meeting
in Brazzaville , Congo.
AIDS attacks the body 's immune system, leaving an infected
individual vulnerable to a variey
of life-threatening infections and
tumors.
The increased succeptability to
infection is a particular problem
in Africa , where anemia ,
malnutrition and infectious
diseases such as tuberculosis and
malaria are common.
"Unless there is an international committment of will and
financial resources , AIDS will
continue to spread through Africa
and the world , " warned Quinn
and his co-authors , Dr. Jonathan
M. Mann of WHO , Dr. James
M. Curran of CDC and Dr. Peter
Piot of the Institute of Tropical
Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Advisers helped
plan air routes
says crewman

L.A. Times-Washington Post Service

by Imtiaz Ali-Taj

Lycoming Hall on the campus
of Bloomsburg Univerisity was
evacuated for 45 minutes early
Sunday morning following a
bomb scare in the building that
ended with no explosives found .
The women living in the dorm
were asked to leave the building
and were directed towards the
President 's Lounge in the Kehr
Union Building during the search.
Bloomsburg University Law
and Safety Enforcement would
not comment on the scare.
"It was just about 4 a.m. that
we heard the fire alarm go off ,
Brenda Haan , a resident of
Lycoming Hall , said .
"We had to get up and leave
for the Union ," she continued.
"They kept us there for 35
minutes and then we came back.''
Jennie Carpenter , director of
Residence Life and dean of
Lycoming Hall , said , "The
policy of the university is when
a bomb threat comes in , we empty the residence hall , and that's
what we did in this incident. "
"We opened the President 's
lounge and sent everybody there.
There were about 150 girls in the
dorm. We kept them in the Union
for 45 minutes," Carpenter said .
According to Carpenter , BU
Law and Safety Enforcement
helped in evacuating the building.
She said that she was on her
way to the BU campus in a
Security car, when the message
came over the radio telling of a
bomb scare concerning Lycoming Hall.
Carpenter said that she went to
the dorm and pulled the fire alarm
herself.
''The student playing this kind
of joke doesn 't relize how much
hassle they are creating for
others," Carpenter said . "This
incident was really inconvenient
for everybody ."
Carpenter added that this was
the first incident of its type this
year.
However, she said it was not
the first ever on the Bloomsburg
University campus.
"Once we received about 30 in
one month in Columbia Hall , "
Carpenter said.

ed on other nations to join in an
arms embargo of Iran.
A senior White House official ,
speaking to reporters at a briefing Thursday, said Reagan secretly authorized "some specific
waivers of that embargo " to send
the weapons to Iran .
"The amount of material that
was shipped was miniscule7' the
senior official said , adding that it
"had absolutely no effect on the
balance of the war. It was ... a
demonstration of good faith and
an indication that the people we
were dealing with could gain
some support from the United
States. "
"Now we don 't want unlimited
shipments from the United States,
we don 't want unlimited
shipments from Germany, from
France , from China. And we
have worked to try and prevent
that , " the official added.
"We will admit that we were
not totally successful; arms still
get through. But we don 't want
an uncontrolled supply to fuel the

NEW YORK - The head of
U.S. military advisers in El
Salvador helped plan air routes
for private contractors carrying
out clandestine weapons supply
flights into Nicaragua , according
to a former crew member of the
flights .
The crew member, who claims
to have flown dozens of
clandestine supply flights , also
said that the military adviser, Lt.
Col. James Steele, and an aide
acted as liasion between the
private contractor and the
Salvadoran air force, arranging
permission for night landings and
cash purchases of fuel.
The State Department and the
Department of Defense refused
comment Thursday on the
allegations.
A congressional ban was in
force from 1984 until last month
on arms shipments to the contras.
It also barred military advisers
from providing intelligence data
to the rebels.
State Department officials in
Washington and El Salvador
repeated claims Thursday that
they never participated in
weapons deliveries.
However ,
a
Western
diplomatic source in El Salvador
confirmed that the military advisers were in regular contact
with the private airmen.
However , he would not
elaborate .
Steele , who recently was
transferred out of El Salvador ,
could not be reached despite
repeated calls to the Pentagon .
The weapons flights were carried out by private contractors
hired by the State Department to
deliver $27 million worth of
"humanitarian "
aid
to
Nicaraguan rebels known as
contras.
Newsday has reported that the
contractors mixed weapons with
non-lethal supplies in apparent
violation of a congressional ban
on deliveries of any military hardware to the Contras .
The crewman, who spoke on
condition that his name not be used , said that Steele was in regular
contact with the arms operation.
"If we had any problems ,

Index

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tie as they lost 3-2 to
Salisbury State. For
story, see page 6.

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BU Thursday night.
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A matter of perspective

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BU: not love it or leave it

In the past three issues of The
Voice, three letters have run , one
per issue , addressing administrative policies, procedures ,
and bureaucracy at Bloomsburg
University .
The first was a horror story
which dealt with a sing le case involving the oversi ghts and inadequacies of the scheduling and debt
procedures at BU.
The second , written by a
former CGA president , was an
attack against the woman who
wrote the first letter , terming her
complaints "irrational ravings , "
stating basically that she should
be thankful for the way things are
at BU and that the problems are
worse at other schools.
The third defended the woman ,
citing a second horror story not
connected to the first in any way ,
and written by someone who felt
there was no excuse for "some
ofthe fiascos which occur at this
university .
Initiall y, I had intended to
simply run the letters without
commenting . After the third , I
figured the issue had played itself
out. Then (Friday) I received
word from the current CGA
president that he too would be ad-

ding a salvo to this debate.
I was told I would receive his
comment today (Monday) and
that he too would be saying, in
essence, "be thankful. "
REGARDLESS of how the
situation here compares to
somewhere else, if it prompts not
one, but two lengthy , thought out
attacks against the situation , then
something should be done.
If a man enters a restaurant and
is served a bowl of soup with a
fly in it , should he accept the fact
that 'well , at another restaurant ,
they served two flies-in the soup, '
and be thankful?
If a problem exists, the fact that
there are bi gger problems
elsewhere does not mean ignore
the problem.
The viewpoint of the former
CGA president seems rather
similar to the argument
"America-love it or leave it. " In
this argument , we are told to accept the problems here and rejoice in our situation because
things are much worse in other
countries. Sound familiar?
Though I admit his intention
was to defend this university , to
which he , and I myself , are
devout , I disagree with his

reasoning. He said the woman's
letter "criticizes the Registrar 's
Office, Business Office and in
general the university with what
I consider the 'irrational ravings
of an 18-year-old . ' "
letter
The
woman 's
chronologically lists a series of
events that reek of human error
on the part ofthe administration.
The woman paid her bills , but the
debts were not removed from the
computer.
She called long distance
because she was ill and could not
come to Bloomsburg to schedule,
and was given a date and time
when it would be possible. When
she drove the forty miles to BU
to do so, she found that scheduling was not even open on that
particular day .
Beyond that , the woman stated
she has two campus mailboxes ,
"because the campus can 't seem
to change it to one , " and had
never received the card required
to get a scheduling booklet.
The claim of "irrational ravings " appears to be , to say the
very least , ridiculous.
Bloomsburg University is a
fine institution , but neither it nor
America is without problems .

by Daniel Schorr

CIA alumnus , and his crew of
Cuban-Americans. Aid to the
contras drew on some anti-Castro
talent along with retired military
officers with Counterinsurgency
skills , and grudges dating back to
Vietnam. They included two
retired major-generals: John
Sing laub , Army, and Richard
Secord , Air Force.
North m a i n t a i n e d formal
deniability for the White House
about the CIA-like chartering of
planes and dropping of supplies.
But when one cargo plane was
shot down in Nicaragua a month
ago , it was traced back to an airfield near San Salvador.
Telephone records there showed
calls to Secord and to the White
House line of Oliver North .
Arms to Iran in return for
American hostages held by Iran 's
terrorist friends in Lebanon fell
into place as another assignment
for a tested covert action facility. Its origin was Reagan 's
chagrin over the political fallout
of the public pressures by
hostages' families for government
action.
When covert action substitutes
for foreign policy , little consideration is given to countervailing arguments about departing
from declared positions against
giving aid to terrorists and against
taking sides in the Iran-Iraq war.
It appears that the princi pal concern was to withhold details from
the State and Defense departments , which might press such
arguments.
Secret missions have a way of
taking on a life of their own , involving a concentration on keeping the secret at the expense of
examining the rationale for what
is being kept secret. So well were
the secrets kept from most of the
executive branch , not to mention
Congress , that Israeli diplomatic
and intelligence officials , partners
in the enterprise , knew more
about what the U.S. government
was doing than all but a few in
that government.

When McFarlane left the White
House last December , North officiall y took over the "Iranian
Connection ," but when North
flew to Tehran , he took along
McFarlane , another "volunteer "
from the private sector.
Now congressional committees
are preparing to ask for NSC files
and telephone logs ,, seeking .to
establish how pocket government
works and how it subcontracts to
the "private sector. " The White
House indicates it will invoke executive privilege. To. paraphrase
Ronald Reagan in other connections , here we go again.

Just a whiff of Watergate
Editorial Columnist

Hell hath no fury like a Congress scorned . The Democraticcontrolled Congress , scenting
abuse of power in Nicaragua and
Iran , is going into its war dance ,
and the wagons of executive
privilege are being drawn around
the Reagan White House.
If you think you smell a whiff
of Watergate in the air , it 's
because the odor is there . There
is no evidence of illegality in congressional mandates evaded and
executive orders flouted. But
once again , the issue is raised of
a willful president , scornful ofthe
plodding ways of democratic
government , p u r s u i n g his
perceived national security objectives by extralegal means.
In the present case , President
Reagan had a pocket clandestine
directorate created inside the staff
of the National Security Council.
This was not the NSC operated
as a colleg ial body of Cabinet officers and intelli gence professionals , coordinating policy and
advising the president. It was
simply a roosting place, under the
blanket of executive privilege , for
compartmented special projects .
From this vantage point ,
Robert McFarlane 's protege ,
Marine Maj. (later lieutenant colonel) Oliver North , a Vietnam
veteran in unconventional warfare, rode herd on the CIA's mining of Nicaragua 's harbors .
When Congress imposed a ceasefire on hostile official activity
agianst the Sandinista regime ,
North simply created a network
of military friends from Vietnam
days to do the job of supply ing
the contras.
America 's anti-communist ventures have left a pool of unrequited right-wingers available for
such
work.
The
Nixon
"p lumbers " did their recruiting
mainly among the embittered
veterans of the abortive Bay of
Pigs invasion , Howard Hunt , a

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The party is over Uncle Sam
by George Will

Editorial Columnist

Does that elderly, angular
gentleman of disheveled aspect ,
leaning on yonder lamppost , look
familiar? He should. He is Uncle Sam. He may be standing tall ,
but he would not be standing at
all were it not for the lamppost.
He has been on a two-month toot
and is in for a fearful hangover.
The decision to approach Iran ,
with an eye on the post-Khomeini
era . was defensible , if perhaps
premature . The decision was
made last year. Recentl y,
however , it became entang led
with , and subordinate to , the project of releasing hostages. And
here the plot thickens and perhaps
sickens.
This nation 's foreign-policy
bender began in September with
the administration seized by
another hostage obsession. The
Daniloff debacle culminated in an
improvised summit at which the
gravest tissues—elimination of
ballistic missiles ; elimination of
nuclear weapons—were raised in
a manner so slapdash that no one
seems sure what happened.
If the administration reallv
believes it came close to wotidtransforming agreements in
Iceland , it has an unconservative
tendency to exaggerate the tractib 'ility of the world , or it has a
dangerous penchant for improvisation and chaos in* its
policy-making procedures. And
chaos begets chaos.
Within day s of the Daniloff
swap, hostage David Jacobsen
was seen on videotape denouncing the administration of not doing as much for Americans held
in Lebanon as was done by
Daniloff. Hostage-takers are encouraged by successes of the sort
the Soviet Union had in jerking
around the Reagan Administration. Imagine the brisk business

in hostages, now that weapons are
the coins of that commerce.
The Iranian episode has come
to light just as Democrats are
coming to power in the Senate.
The power of investigation , even
more than legislation , may soon
be the principal Senate thorn in
the administration 's side.
There is going to be a long,
livel y row about the wisdom of
trading arms for hostages, and of
trading with the Iranians through
Israeli intermediaries. Certainl y
by pay ing for hostages in the coin
of military material , U.S. policy
spares Iran the necessity of making a policy choice . Iran can get
necessities and remain hostile to
the United States. What especially demands scrutiny is the riddle
of how U.S. policy—whatever it
is—is made.
In "Cadillac Jack , " a picaresque novel about , among other
things , Washington mores, Larry
McMurtry describes Washington
as "a graveyard of sty les," a city of museums in which the defining attitudes are' curatorial.' In 'the
Iranian episode , someone seems
to have rummaged in the
Smithsonian's attic and dusted off
not only a Henry Kissinger insight , but also a Kissingerian
sty le.
Iran is , in Kissinger 's formulation , "the China of the Nineties. "
That is , Iran will be what China
was in the Seventies: a large, important nation contiguous to the
Soviet Union and therefore in
need of Western friendship. That
formulation is timely coming
from Kissinger who, as national
security advisor , did a sweeping
end run around an unaware
Secretary of State William Rogers
in preparing the opening to China
15 years ago.
Rumors that the dealings with
Iran have, or had , Secretary of
State George Shultz distressed to
the point of considering resignation raise three questions: What

did he know , when did he know
it , what did he do about it? And
episodes like this are reminders
that our national attic contains
few specimens of resignation
sty les.
It was a policy concerning
hostages and Iran—Carte r 's attempt to rescue the hostages—that
provoked the most recent policyrelated resi gnation of a senior official. Cyrus Vance lost an argument within the Carter administration concerning what he
considered a core value , and
departed with dignity .
If two instances can be said to
constitute a pattern , there is a pattern , albeit sketch y. In June ,
1915 , Woodrow Wilson ' s
secretary of state , William Jennings Bryan , resi gned. As
historian Henry May wrote ,
Bryan was perhaps the only
devout Christian pacifist ever to
be foreign minister of a great
power. He resigned over a policy
involving a core value—U.S.
movement away form neutrality
following the sinking of the
Lusitania.
Today , a senior Republican
senator (Lugar of Indiana , chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee) says Shultz claims he
was "not conversant " with important aspects of the Iranian connection. Lugar says important
details "obviousl y apparently
were" kept from Shultz. Because
U.S. policy and the process that
produced it are unclear , it is impossible to say which is worse,
the policy or the process.
Given the passion Shultz has
invested in the princi ple of not
dealing with terrorists , he may
now feel like resi gning not
because he was responsible for
what was done , but because he
was not. In ' any case , someone
should sober up Uncle Sam
before he staggers into another of
the world' s sharp edges.

Curb 'genetic impatience

From the Editor

The Los Angeles Times

genetic
Researchers , in
engineering have understandably
grown impatient with the administrative morass that has
developed around getting approval for tests of altered
organisms. More than a decade
has passed since fears of potential catastrophes from genesplicing were first voiced, and all
evidence to date indicates that
those fears were groundless.
A few months ago, the Reagan
administration put a new
liberalized regulatory program into effect. But proposals for fieldtesting potentially beneficial new
products continue to languish
under threat of legal challenge.
Tired of waiting, some
biologists have decided to conduct their tests overseas , where
foreign governments are less incumbered by skeptics and
regulations.
Last July the Wistar Institute of
Philadelp hia and the Pan
American Health Organization
took a new rabies vaccine produced by genetic engineering to
Argentina and tested it on 20
cows. Argentina has no regula-

tions about genetic engineering ,
and the researchers simply conducted the experiment without
telling anyone. That upset the
Argentine government, and with
good reason.
Now it turns out that the experiment in Argentina was no
isolated case. Researchers at
Oregon State University in Corvallis who have genetically
engineered a vaccine against a
common animal virus went to
New Zealand in April of this year
and inoculated 37 calves, 16
chickens and four sheep with it.
Unlike the Argentine affair ,
however, the Oregon State people told the government of new
Zealand what they intended to do
and the government approved the
experiment.
The disclosure of the two field
tests follows three incidents
earlier this year in the United
States in which researchers were
reprimanded or rebuked for
unauthorized testing of live,
genetically engineered organisms
in the environment.
Some people have apparently
decided to get around the
regulatory process by taking their
experiments abroad . That is a

shortsighted idea that in the end
may bring more regulation and
difficulty on them.
To be sure , the tests in Argentina and New Zealand , like the
tests in the United States, were
successful and gave no evidence
of any danger posed by the releasing of laboratory created
organisms into the environment.
The prospect of an environmental calamity remains science fiction. What 's more, the new vaccines promise benefit to society
in increased food supplies at
lower prices.
But the researchers should not
be looking for loopholes in the
rules. As evidence has accumulated that the products of
genetic engineering are safe, U.S.
regulations have been steadily
reduced. No one, of course, can
ever be sure that something is
perfectly safe, but gene-splicing's
record to date should allay fears .
Still , the questions are
legitimate, and it is both wise and
politically prudent for researchers
and commercial producers to be
cautious and to follow the rules.
The public has a right to expect
a high standard of safety in such
experiments.

Reagan denies charges
From page 1
concurrence, there can be no en- tional security affairs adviser
Reagan approved the Iran opera- during peace in the Middle Robert C. McFarlane had traveltion in January , but he then said East/' Reagan said.
ed to Tehran for talks with ofone shi pment was made "in our
Administration officials said
ficials there .
interest " b y another country there has been continuing
Presidential aides have
before that , about the time Weir disagreement in the White House acknowledged that the Iran operawas released in September 1985. over how and when to disclose tion was "undone " by the inAnother senior White House the Iran operation to Congress fig hting among Iranian factions.
official, speaking in an interview, and the American public.
The senior officials said Thurssaid Attorney General Edwin
While chief of staff Regan urg- day that McFarlane made only
Meese III had provided a written ed disclosure , national security one visit to Iran. The pro-Syrian
legal opinion that the Iran opera- affairs adviser John M. Poindex- magazine, Ash Shirra, reported
tion did not violate any laws.
ter advocated continued secrecy . Thursday that McFarlane visited
Tehran twice to offer arms to
In his address , Reagan said ,
Thursday ni ght , Reagan
"Those with whom we were in acknowledged that information Iran.
Reagan said McFarlane 's miscontact took considerable risks about the Iran operation was
sion was intended to "open a
and needed a signal of our serious limited to top U.S. officials.
intent if they were to carry on and
He said congress would now be dialogue, " and that progress has
broaden the dialogue. "
informed , and did not contest been made since then .
The senior administration ofWhen the secret effort was reports that the White House had
started , Reagan said , "We made purposely not informed congres- ficial who briefed reporters said
clear that Iran must oppose all sional leaders previously . The McFarlane at one point had
forms of international terrorism senior White House official who telephoned Poindexter from Iran.
Poindexter has been deeply inas a condition of progress in our briefed reporters said the law
relationshi p. The most significant allows the president in such situa- volved in the Iran effort.
step which Iran could take, we in- tions to tell Congress after the fact
dicated , would be to use its in- of such an operation.
The president has not held a
fluence in Lebanon to secure the
release of all hostages held there. news conference since August ,
"Some progress has already and he skirted many questions
been made , " the president said. about the Iran operation in his adFrom page 1
"Since U.S. government contact dress Thursday night.
that is in the contras ' air
However, he opened his
began with Iran , there has been
headquarters.
no evidence of Iranian govern- remarks by attacking what he said
He worked for Richard B.
ment complicity in acts of ter- were false news reports about the
Gadd ,
Va.,
a
Vienna ,
rorism against the United States. operation.
He branded it "utterl y false "
businessman and retired Air
"Hostages have come home
Force lieutenant colonel who last
and we welcome the efforts that reports suggesting an arms-forserved in the Joint Chief's office
the government of Iran has taken hostage deal with Iran .
of special plans.
Noting other reports about a
in the past and is currently underpossible Danish sealift to Iran ,
taking. "
Gadd was one of several contracted by the State Department
The senior official who brief- secret U.S. shipments through
to deliver the humanitarian aid .
ed reporters said that U. S. of- Spanish and Italian ports , and
Repeated attempts to contact
ficials believed they had an U.S. shipments of spare parts for
"agreement " with Iran to curb combat aircraft , Reagan said ,
Gadd by telephone and at his
home were unsuccessful.
"All these reports are quite exinternational terrorism and the
"Steele would review our
citing; as far as we are concernkidnapping of Americans.
routes," the crewman said. "He
The official said this agreement ed , not one of them is true. "
wouldn 't plot the routes over the
Although Reagan chastised
lasted until the most recent state
fence (into Nicaragua), but he
American and world press reports
of hostage-taking.
would comment on them.
Separately, chief of staff Regan about the Iran operation , he did
"He's say, 'You can 't fly there
not mention that the initial report
said in the interview that
because you 'll go right over a
came from a disclosure made by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
(Sandinista) radar installation...or
had issued a document on ter- one faction in Iran opposed to
a densley populated area. ' He'd
rorism and added that "we have contacts with the Unitd States.
review all the routes, and tell us
The disclosure was made to a
no knowledge of any terrorist act
if we had a safe one-."
pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine,
by Iran " or groups it influences
which reported that former naSteele and a deputy, Lt. Col.
since the U.S. contact began.
However , during the entire
period the administration kept
Iran on its list of nations sponsorThis coming summer, the
Students will be housed at
ing terrorism.
University will offer a course in Trinity College, Dublin , foundMoreover , Reagan denounced
Ireland from August 3 to 22. ed in 1592. The cost of $1,350
Iran for its support of terrorist ac"Government and Politics of includes three undergraduate
tivities at about the same time the
Ireland " will trace the economic, credits , roundtrip airfare, and
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make contacts with Iran.
Those interested should contact
which have led to the current
In a speech to the American
violence in Ireland and explore its James Percey ,* Political Science ,
Bar Association on July 8, 1985,
relationship to international Bakeless 213 , or phone
the president said Iran was among
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terrorism.
a group of nations including
Libya , North Korea , Cuba and
Nicaragua that he identified as
"Murder Incorporated. "
Four Army ROTC cadets
Despite the snow and freezing
"Well , yes, only recently the recently attended and participated rain , cadets Chris Vincent , Scott
prime minister of Iran visited
in area Veteran 's Day services. Bear , Ed Boyle and Michael
Nicaragua bearing expressions of
Veteran ' s day, originall y Williams gave their support by
solidarity from the ayatollah for
known as Armistice Day , was marching as colorguard and parthe Sandinista communists," he created to honor veterans of ticipating in a 21-gun salute.
said.
foreign wars.
While the administration had
previousl y cast Iran as an
"outlaw " nation, Thursday night
the president declared that it is in
the "national interest " of the
United States "to watch for
changes within Iran that might offer hope for an improved relationship. "
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"until last year " when intermediaries suggested a 'direct
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David Rankin , who is stationed
at Uopango , were in regular contact with the members of the
operation , who lived in three safe
houses in El Salvador , according
to a western diplomat.
Rankin , reached at his office in
El Salvador Thursday , refused
comment.
"Whenever you couldn 't find
Steele , you 'd find Rankin , " the
crewman said . "Rankin , Steele ,
Max (Gomez) and Ramon
(Medina) were the onl y
(emergency) numbers we had . "
The crewman said that Steele
and Rankin operated as liasion
between his operation and the
Salvadoran air force.
Gomez worked as an advisor
for the Salvadoran military , having been recommended for the
job by a top aide of Vice President George Bush.
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the civilian contractor.
"Steele received money and
turned
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Salvadorans , " he said. "I never
saw less than $20,000. "
"I know Steele and I saw the
money in his hands. The money
was always in briefcases or
envelopes , very large , thick
manila envelopes, " he added.
A State Department official
said Thursday ni ght that there
was no legal prohibition of U.S.
funded supp ly fli ghts into
Nicaragua , as long as no weapons
were on board .
The crewman said that most of
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Ken Kirsch
I suppose there w i l l be
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the form of comp ilations and solo
material. Perhaps what is most
important , thoug h , is to take a
look back to see where it all
started.
We are constantl y bombarded
with rep lay ings of "Press " by
Paul McCartney and others , but
whatever happened to the pop
classics which started it all; "I
want to hold your hand ," "Hello ,
Goodbye ," and the like?
There are many aspects of
Beatle music which prove that
they are indeed the premier
precedent-setting pop music band
of this or any musical era .
The album which best illustrates this is "The Beatles 20
Greatest Hits. " The edition I
have was released in 1982.

Today 's emphasis on the fourminute wham-bam-and-done
dance tune has its origins in
Beatle music. The classics
"Help !," "Love me do," and
"Hard Day 's Night " were dance
hits back in the 60's. The shallow
'I love you-ish' lyrics ofth e majority of these tunes were also a
big influencing factor in the formulation of a lot of today 's hits.
Their influence was both good
and bad , as talentless bands such
as Huey Lewis and the Nerds , oh
I' m sorry , the News are suddenl y mega-successes , simp l y
because they are good imitators .
Those who may dismiss the
Beatles as a gutless pop band who
capitalized on the dance ori gins
of 50's rock are sadly mistaken.
The social and emotional insight of Lennon and McCartney ,
which pervaded such earl y
ballads as "Hey Jude ," "The
Long and Winding Road , " and
"Penny Lane" show that the duo
was looking around thsm at a
British Empire on the swift
decljne. They sang the sorrowful
odes to a people oppressed by an
ineffective Aristocracy .
'A
' nd when the broken-hearted
peop le in the world agree/there
will be an answer/let it be. But
though they may be parted , there
is still a chance that they will
see/there will be an answer/let it

be. "
The Beatles dealt with domestic
and international themes as no
other band had done before them;
preaching a simple message of interpersonal love. To them, 'all we
need is love.' As a result, the love
gospel of the 60's caught on in
America through Bob Dylan, The
Lovin ' Spoonful .and other later
successes of social rock.
These ballads also opened new
avenues for musical innovation.
"The Long and Winding Road "
used an orchestrated string section as well as a gospel choir to
lend background support which
has yet to be matched. The vocals
of an ever-young McCartney also
added an honest character to a
multitude of Beatle ballads, quite
different from the brash vocal
norms of the times. The soft
vocal quality of James Taylor and
Dan Fogelberg and even the love
themes of Bruce Springsteen emphasize a low-key, melodic sound
rather than a raspy, shouting
approach.
This compilation album best
shows the numerous avenues The
Beatles took in their music . It is
clearly a giant among today 's
mousy musical efforts. But if you
think it 's more "hip to be
square " than it is to "come
together ," then perhaps you
should avoid this record .

Clockwork Orange quite bizarre
by Lisa Cellini
for The Voice

To sum up Stanley Kubrick' s
movie Clockwork Orange, the
onl y word appropriate would be
'bizarre. ' For if nothing else, the
film is unashamedl y exp licit and
strange in nature . It is a satire

about a distant degenerated society reforming criminals and questions what is morall y correct in
this world.
Malcolm
McDowell , a
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'Til Tuesday 's a positive rock
by Dave Sauter
Sports Editor

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Approximate ly 1000 fans were
in attendance at Haas Auditorium
Thursday ni ght for the 'Til Tuesday concert , and most were not
disappointed.
Performing their hit sing les
"Voices Carry " and "What
About Love, " they had the crowd
on their feet and dancing .
Book of Love , a new band on
the rise, was the opening act.
Play ing a nine song set, including
music from their new album , they
soon had most of the crowd into
the concert.
The group started out slow ,
which resulted in a lukewarm
reception from the audience. But
about halfway through , the music
started getting faster and the
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"This band ain 't taking no more
-— from anybody. " By that time ,
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whatever they wanted.
Probably their most popular
song was "I Touch Roses ,"
where the lead singer and a
keyboarder handed out bunches
of long-stemmed roses to the audience. Within seconds the area
in front of the stage was packed
with eager fans dancing and
screaming, hands outstretched so
the lead singer might shake them.
The crowd's overall reaction to
the opener varied , but for the
most part , they seemed to enjoy
it. According to one fan , Matt
Korcl , "They didn 't start out
very good , but then they picked
it up. " Kelly Ann Cuthbert enjoyed the opener saying , "I really
liked the music because it was so
upbeat ."
Of course , there were some
fans who didn 't particularly care
for Book of Love. One of those
fans was Paul Tellefsen , a
freshman. "Everything was so
synthetic. Every body played
keyboards and the songs all

sounded the same. You couldn t
even hear the lead singer. "
After about a twenty minute intermission , the real show began.
As with their opener , 'Til Tuesday also started out slow with the
crowd almost mellow. But then
keyboard trouble ironicall y got
the crowd going.
Forced to fill the silence while
technicians worked on the pro blem , the lead singer entertained
questions from the audience , including one from a fan who asked her to take her clothes off.
Then she told a joke , and before
resuming with the concert , warmed up the crowd by say ing, "I
feel very at home in Pennsylvania. "
The group s next piece , ' Love
in a Vacumn ," had many people
standing up and dancing . Then
came the hit everyone was
waiting to hear , "Voices Carry. "
With that song, everyone was
up and dancing, with many people again crowding the area in
front of the stage and the aisles.
From that point through the rest
of the concert , people were constantly up and moving around as
the music blared through the
auditorium.
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performing, they announced their
closing number, the newly released sing le from their new album
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Love. After finishing , they ran
off stage , but the crowd remained , standing and cheering for
about five minutes , hoping for an
encore .
Finally, they were rewarded as
'Til Tuesday came back on stage
and entertained the crowd with
two more pieces, before finishing
for the night.
Overall , virtuall y all ofthe fans
in attendance had only positve
things to say about the concert.
One dedicated fan , Kirsten
Hughes, had 'Til Tuesday written across her cheeks. When asked about the concert she said , "I
thought it was really good. They
sounded great live!"
According to Anne Richard son , '"Til Tuesday was
awesome. Voices Carry really
stirred up the crowd ." Eric
Ackerman , when asked about the
differences between the group on
television and their live performance , said , "I thought the lead
singer,was very good. She seemed to strike me as ve ry,personal ,
much more than on TV. "
To sum up the event , the 'Til
Tuesday concert was for most
fans a better than average concert. Even though both groups
started out slowly, they finished
very strong ly. The Program
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what lines the inside of the roof
in the car. Make sure it is not
torn.
There should be no cracks in
the rubber seals around the windows or leaking will occur. Also,
open a,nd close the windows.
Next ,* look at the tires to see how
much tread is on them. If the
tread is uneven, it could mean the
frame or body is out of line.
Now for under the hood. There
should not be oil around seals that
are around engine pistons. Oil
means leakage. Look at oil and
fluid dipsticks . Are the levels
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Bizarre
From page 4

a group of perverts and a
Hitlerian guard . To his fortune,
within two years, he is chosen for
the miracle criminal "Ludovico
Treatment," which involves electric shocks and waves of nausea
conditioning him to be ill at the
slightest hint of sex or violence.
He is, in effect , as "queer as a
clockwork orange ," the old
Cockney expression goes. In
other words, he is stripped of his
free will and reduced to an
automaton in society .
As a recipient of this treatment,
he becomes a victim of his own
twisted society . Those he
tormented in the past avenge
themselves as he stumbles about
the town. Realizing the severity
of his dilemna , he decides to
commit suicide, only to be unsuccessful in the attempt. He
awakens in a hospital bed to learn
that his society would rather have
him naturall y evil than
mechanically good , and he is
restored to his former self , no
better for the hell he went
through.
The screaming for focus , not
on the screen but in the audience,
was a symbol illustrating the action in the film. From the Korova
Milk Bar styro-plastic beauties to
the repeatedly exploited women ,
the audience was exposed to the
only portion of the movie
Kubrick intended us to enjoy . He
specifically detached us from the
suffering of the women he showed for that reason.
What came across, however,
was a chilly antipathy to the way
it was handled and its essentially
inhuman aspect.
Infinitely more important than
that is the message Kubrick left
upon the audience through Alex's
story. Alex prefers sadism. Okay;
we can grasp that . The thing
that 's difficult to understand is
that the society feeds his sadism.
The film leaves the audience
farther ahead in the future .
Desensitized to violence and sex
in the movies, I caught myself
laughing during this film and the
only statement it made to me was
that this is the way it is going to
be if we don 't watch ourselves.
However exaggerated , the
story is unfortunately true to a
degree. There is no liking or
hating this movie. It is in the middle, an empty grey haze, a television on long after the station has
stopped broadcasting .
Through this , Kubrick' s statement has been made, pointing a
finger at our society. If we simply
accept the daily violence around
us and the frequent sexual undertones without so much as a
denial , we are no better than
clockwork oranges ourselves.
Mindless , mechanized , purposeless protop lasm unable to
control our own lives , lacking
free will. Let 's hope not.
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the oil. If there are bubbles , it
could signify a cracked block, the
main engine part. Look at the surface under the car for spots ,
which rnay indicate leaks .
Look at the hoses and belts for
wear. The hoses should be fastened well and the belts should be
fairl y tight. The less corrosion
and age on the battery, the better. See if the radiato r leaks or is
rusty . If the transmission fluid
smells like varnish , it means the
transmission is burnt , check the
exhaust system for holes.
Then comes the most exciting
and dangerous part—test driving .
Is the steering firm or loose? It
should be firm. Turn on the air
conditioner and heater to see if
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Dave Burian

Kehr Union is a veritable Ellis
Island for all the hapless refugees
of collegiate life. All manner of
mortality inhabit it 's erudite
hallways and corridors during the
week.
Bustling activity abounds as
students congregate, eat, play
video games, and otherwise ignore the academic rationale
behind a college education.
But despite the plurality of
various destinations , students
tend to cluster around the middle
section ofth e first floor , seeking
knowledge and information for
their personal use.
These unwary travelers are
venturing into an area which we
call-The Info Desk.
Students find this area of the
Union mystical because it often
relegates the physical presence of
a human being to that of a mere
phantasm.
It is a telephone, oddly enough ,
that so fully warrants the attention and actions of the persons
working within this eerie realm.
I had overheard .the rumors regarding this particular part of the
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ed these off as the ravings of a
lunatic.
, Then it was my turn to enter into this most formidable of arenas.
I stood trembling with a
ponderous question on my lips ,
as an employee spoke into the
phone. Several other students unwittingly approached the counter.
We patiently waited , all of us
praying for a dial tone, but the
horrid ringing was incessant.
It went on like this for maybe
ten or fifteen minutes until I could
stand it no longer. Some of the
others had relinquished their patience and given up, but I felt that
I had one last chance.
I scurried over to the wall
phone and hurriedly dialed 3900.
After two rings, the greeting 'Info
Desk' warmed the cockles of my
ears . I gained the information I
sought , and then proceeded to
wave to the confused worker.
Needless to say , her disgruntled expression and obvious embarrassment made my day , as well
as the days of those disheartened
students who had continued to
wait patiently.
As the remaining students
scrambled for an available phone,
I hoped that the lesson they had
just learned would be forever ingrained in their memories.
Another
eni gmatic
phenomenon of our beloved
University had been unveiled and
exposed , hopefully to the benefit
of both myself and the 'huddled
masses' that exist among us.
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Remember , he wants to sell the
car. Be willing to negotiate on the
price. Ask a friend who is
knowled geable about cars to
come with you when you examine a car.
For information on repair rates
for different models, look at Consumer Reports 1986 Consumer
Buying Guide Issue and Consumer Report Books Guide to Used Cars.
Consider seriously the sunroof
on that 1978 Pontiac Sunbird . It
works now , but do you really
need it and the possible frustration that could accompany it?
Wei gh heavil y every added 'luxury ' feature . The more accessories , the hi gher the
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sure the cruise control , if it has
one , works. Are the seats
comfortable?
Look at and listen to the exhaust. White smoke coming out
of the tailpipe means everything
is fine. Blue and black smoke
says there is oil in the smoke. A
loud roar means trouble. Test the
acceleration. Does the car
hesitate? If the car has an
automatic transmission , does it
shift smoothly. Floor it to test the
pick-up. Test the brakes. They
should be smooth and not grab .
Make sure the spare tire and
jack are in good condition. Ask
who has serviced the vehicle.
Look for stickers on the inside of
the door that indicate dates of oil
changes , greasing s, etc. Ask the
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NCAA DivisionIII f ieldhockey tournament

Bloomsburg falters , finishes second
by Imtiaz All Taj
and
by Elizabeth Dacey
Stuff Writers

It was a record-breaking cold
day in Trenton , New Jersey when
the BU field hockey team
defeated the Trenton State Lions
in their NCAA Division III national semifinal match.
Four teams partici pated in this
final round. They were Bentley
College , the Northeast Reg ional
Winner , Salisbury State College ,
the South Regional Champ ion ,
Trenton State College , the Midand
Atlantic
Champ ion ,
Bloomsburg, the Pennsy lvania
Reg ion Champ ion.
In the Huskies ' game , Robin
Schwartz ofthe Lions opened the
scoring at 14:51 in the first half.
This was her 36th goal of the
season , and it gave the Lions a
1-0 lead.
Earl y in the second half , Carla
Shearer passed the ball to
Maureen Duff y near the 20-yard
line. Duffy then sent it to Diane
Shields , who with a hard hit , shot

the ball past the ri ght side of
Trenton 's goalkeeper to make the
score 1-1.
Finally, with only three and
one-half minutes left to play , BU
forced a penalty corner. Shearer
hit the ball , only to have it stopped by the Lion 's goalie. On the
rebound , Shields , who happened
to be in the right place at the right
time , scored the final goal taking
BU to a 2-1 victory .
This was the first game of the
year in which BU was outshot on
goal. The Huskies managed just
nine shots , while the Lions attempted 16. Trenton also beat BU
in corners seven to five .
Bloomsburg 's goalkeeper , Lori
Guitson , had a rough day turning
away nine shots while the Lion 's
goalie recorded five saves.
Trenton
State 's
Robin
Schwartz complimented the
Husky team after the game .
"Bloomsburg deserved to win.
They hustled ; They fought; They
showed us they had guts . But we
played well , too. "
"We didn 't play as well as we
could have in the first half ," said

From the locker room

Lynn Hurst , one of BU' s senior
links. "At halftime , Coach Hutchinson talked to us and in the
2nd half we went out determined
to p lay hard and cut to the ball.
And we won the game. "
The final match to determine
the final Division III champion
pitted Salisbury St. against the
Huskies.
BU was losing earl y as
Salisbury scored twice before the
Huskies could record their first
goal. Sea Gull Sue Scofield
scored the first goal with an assist
by Stacy Stem. Five minute s
later , her sister Judi scored the second goal for Salisbury ,
unassisted.
Finally, with 1:40 left in the
first half , Bloomsburg got on the
scoreboard thanks to a goal on a
penalty corner by Donna Graupp
with an assist by Carla Shearer.
Salisbury struck ri ght back ,
though , as Sue Scofield scored
her second goal of the game with
another assist from Stacy Stem
ending the first half , 3-1.
The Huskies had a much better second half again cutting the

How we measure success

by Mike Mullen
Spurts Editor

"Winning isn 't everything, it 's
the onl y thing , " has becn heard
since Vince Lombardi uttered
those immortal word s some three
decades ago
A lot of emphasis is put on excellence , and has been ever since
we were young. Thc more we
compete in sports , the more we
are pressured to accomplish.
How do wc measure success?
I know that when I played in hi gh
school , if our football team
wasn 't undefeated , we had a terrible season. On the other hand ,
some schools would rejoice if
they could barel y manage a winning year.
How , then , do we jud ge the
field hockey team 's season? At
19-3-2 , they had one hell of a
year. They didn 't win the national
title , that 's true , but they did
finish second in the nation.
Are we to be disappointed in
them because ofa precedent they

set some six years ago when they
won their first title?
Being National Champions in
1981 , 1983 and 1984 is no small
feat , and a tough a act to follow ,
but take them for what they were,
three excellent seasons that were
rewarded.
Now this happens , they lose the
Pennsy lvania State Athletic Con-

'success isn 't measured by
what you wear around your
neck. It 's measured by what
you house inside your
heart. '
ference
champ ionshi p
to
Millersville , the National title to
Salisbury , and are left with
nothing to show for their extraord i n a r y season except the
loneliness of second place
So measure these young ladies'
success by how they played
throug h the year , the confidence
they showed in continuing after
losing the PSAC's and the incredible
character
they

demonstrated after falling just
short of their season long goal.
It must be hard to be coach like
Jan Hutchinson. She enters each
season , the only goal being a national title. Imagine that sort of
pressure.
There is nothing wrong with
this attitude or the emphasis that
is put on winning, but let ' s
remember that success isn 't
measured by what you wear
around your neck. It 's measured
by what you house inside your
heart.
This attitude is evidenced best
by our own soccer team. Starting
the season at 1-6, they came back
to finish strong, ending the season
11-8, for their first winning
season since 1982.
Recovering from what could
have been a disastrous season ,
they showed a little of what our
field hockey team also possesses,
strength in adversity .
That , my friends , is how I
measure success.

Sea Gull lead to one as Carla
Shearer fired the ball into the cage
on a penalty corner with an assist
from Kate Denneny with ten
minutes left to play .
The excitement didn 't end until the final whi&tle was blown as
the Huskies kept constant
pressure on the Sea Gull defense.
Unfortunatel y, the Salisbury
defense held strong and the
Huskies were ultimate ly dealt a
3-2 loss.
The game was definitely not
one-sided . Salisbury outshot the
Huskies 23-17, but the Huskies
out-cornered the Sea Gulls 13-8.
The Salisbury goalie recorded ten
saves against BU's Lori Guitson's
eight.
"I think in the first half we
didn 't play as well as we could ,"
said Donna Graupp , a senior attack player. "But the second half
we played well , but could not pull
it out. We are pretty much disappointed , but what can we say? We
are still ranked second out of 127
teams. "
Carla Shearer , another senior
and team leader in goals and
assists put it in a different
perspective . "They played well .
We came out with a slow start.
If we would have played as hard
the whole game as we did in the
second half , then maybe we

would have won the game.
She added , "Salisbury is a
good team , but I cannot say that
they have to win. We are also a
good team , and we worked very
hard all season long. "
This was the last game for
seven of BU' s senior players.
Sharon Reilly, a freshman starter
for the team , said , "I wish we
could have won the game for the
seniors. This is their last year and
they worked so hard for it and
came so close. They won it two
years in a row and came very
close last year. I wanted to win
the championship for thtSm this
year. "
"Basically we only played one
half of the game," said Huskies '
coach Jan Hutchinson. "We
didn 't play up to our potential in
the first half and got ourselves in
a hole. We scored late in the half ,
but didn 't play well. "
She continued , "We came out
and battled in the second half , and
we could have won the game, but
you cannot win the national title
by onl y playing one half.
Salisbury is a very good team.
They played well and deserved to
win. "
Karen Weaver , Salisbury 's
head coach was very excited after
winning the title. She said , "It
was a much different game than

when we played Bloomsburg.
earlier this season. They really
came out this time and played a
very, very tough game . I think no
one team particularly dominated
the game, and I think no one team
was stronger than the other. "
"The game could have gone
either way , " she added, "but we
were able to capitalize when we
needed to and were able to put
,
one more goal in. "
"BU is a very good team antf
I can say it without doubt that
they gave us a very, very tough
time," she concluded .
Bloomsburg 's goalkeeper Lori
Guitson had a very difficult time
in these final two games. Going
into the semifinals, she had 77
saves in 22 games while only
allowing 17 goals and shutting out
nine opponents . In the final
round , she added to her totals 17
saves in two games and allowed
five goals.
She complained ' about the
game, "I am really disappointed
by losing the game. We played
excellent in the second half. I just
wish we could have played both
halves that way . "
Diane Shields summarized the
match in a deserving manner. She
said , "We played a good team ,
had a good battle, and unfortunately, they came out on top."

The thrill of victory: The Huskies celebrate semifinal win over Trenton St. (right); The agony of defeat: Coaches
Hutchinson and O'Keefe plan action during BU's loss to Salisbury St. (left). (Voice photo by Imtiaz All Taj).

Traditional football prayer is in jeopardy
by David Treadwell
Los Angeles Times

For as long as most residents
of Doug lasville , Georg ia can
recall , the home football games
at Douglas County Hi g h School
have been opened with a prayer.
Just before the play ing of the
Banner ,
a
Star-Spang led
clergyman selected by the county ministerial association steps into the press box at Tiger Field
and , over the public address
system , invokes the blessing of
the Deity on the upcoming
contest.
Now , however , that timehonored ritual is under serious
assault. It will be tested in a
federal court trial opening Friday.
Douglas Jager , an 18-year old
senior science major at the
sprawling red-brick high school ,
has filed lawsuit along with his
father , William , a retired Army
sergeant , contending that pregame prayers should be banned
because they violate the separation between church and state
by
the
U.S.
mandated
Constitution.
"The prayers really irritate
me , " said the younger Jager ,
who attends the games as a saxophonist in the school's marching

band. "I'm basically an agnostic ,
a humanist. I've got nothing
against people who want to pray
at the games. I just think they
should do it on their own , without
all that amperage on the P.A.
system.
The case, in U.S. District
Court in Atlanta , 25 miles due
east , is the latest legal skirmish
in an on-going battle below the
Mason-Dixon Line over what
role prayer should play in public
school life. The outcome is expected to have repercussions for
high schools and colleges not only
in Georg ia but throughout the
Deep South .
If Jager is successful , said Herman Scott , executive director of
the Alabama High School
Association , then "some nut will
certainly try to do the same thing
in Alabama to seek recognition
and notoriety . Prayer is good for
the sport and good for the image. "
Jager has already won one important round in the suit.
In late September, with three
games remaining in the Tiger 's
10-game schedule, U.S. District
Judge G. Ernest Tidwell granted
Jager 's request for a temporary
restraining order barring the
school-sponsored prayers until

full arguments could be heard and
a decision rendered.
That set off a firestorm of reaction in Douglasville, a town
dominated by conservative Bapand
Methodists ,
tists ,
Presbyterians.
Jager has been harassed at
school and besieged by threatening phone calls at home. Last
Sunday , he says, the left rear tire
on both his 1971 sedan and his
mother's new car were slashed as
the automobiles sat in the family
garage. One lady, who called her
minister to complain about
Jager 's lawsuit, was reported to
have said , "I believe in prayer ,
but I think somebody ought to
beat him up. "
At the first home football game
following the judge 's decision ,
many in the crowd wore tee-shirts
and carried banners such as
"Pray today " and "I feel the
need for prayer." One man broke
into a recital of The Lord 's
Prayer and was joined by part of
the crowd of 3,000.
David Hill , principal of
Douglas County High School ,
which has a student enrollment of
1,400, said that the tradition of
praying before home football
games goes back at least to the
1920's.

"We don t think that this is an
issue that involve religion and
government," he said. "People
go to a football game voluntarily, and no particular religion or
religious viewpoint is being pushed in the prayers. "
He also said that, up to the time
of the temporary ban on the
prayers , the Tigers had a 7-0
record , and afterward , the team
lost the remaining three games .
But he hastened to add , "I certainly wouldn 't want to say there
was any connection. "
Jager , meanwhile, appears to
be taking the controversy stoically. His closest fri ends are behind
him , he says, as are his parents
and 14-year old brother , who attends one of the other two county high schools.
"I knew I was going to get a
lot of flak over this," said Jager ,
who was born in Denver and
moved to Douglasville with his
family in 1976. "I've been living with these people for the last
ten years ." •
Bryan Barnett , one of Jager 's
friends , says Jager has shown
tremendous courage. "I have the
same views as him , but I don 't
think I would have the guts to go
throug h what he has ," he told a
reporter after Tidwell imposed

the temporary prohibition.
The depth of passion aroused
by Jager 's case is not unusual ,
given the vaulted place of prayer
and football in Southern life.
"Southerners pray before just
about everything. It's a social
ritual ," said William Ferris ,
director of the Center for the
Study of Southern Culture at the
University of Mississippi.
"Football ," Ferris said , "is
part of a regional ethos that
unifies Southerners each fall in a
way that no other force can.
Coaches like Bear Bryant are not
unlike such Civil War heroes as
Stonewall Jackson or even Robert
E. Lee in the reverance paid to
them .
The presentation of evidence
and testimony at the non-jury
trial , over which Tidwell is
presiding, is expected to take less
than two days. Closing
arguements will be given eight to
ten days afterward.
Among the colleges watching
the case closely is the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta ,
one of the state 's many institutions of higher learning where
prayers are offered before football games.
''We don 't believe it is a violation of the separation between

church and state," said Georgia
Tech President Henry C. Bourns,
Jr. "But we have it under advise^
ment ,. as does the University oSf
Georgia , and are looking into the
legal ramifications ."
In a strange twist, Georgia
Tech is one of the two universities
to which Jager , who wants td
become an astrophysicist , plans '
to apply.
"I hope I can get in , " said '
Jager who graduates this June';5
"Maybe they won 't take me;|
' ''
knowing who I am. "

I NTRAM URAL CORNER
MONDAY:
-Men 's intramural indoor target archery begins-9:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
-Co-Ed
intramural
Turkey Trot cross-country
2 mile run sign-up and
competition-4:Q0 p.m.
THURSDAY:
intramural
-Men 's
registration buck season
Big Buck contest--3:30
p.m.
-Men 's *. intramural
straight pool double s
begins—7:00 p.m.

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