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Radonna Wright had just a little trouble with her hefier Monday
afternoon during the Dress-up Heifer Contest in the Civic Center
livestock arena. Although Miss Wright and her calf won third
place in the senior division of the contest, the calf was reluctant
to go to the judges and claim her prize. Other contestants in the
event were Amy Rabun, Cherrie George, Ann Rabun and
Tammy Teel.
—StaH Photo by JOHN GORE
Waiting for the judge
Leche time...
Iranians duck issue
of hostages' future
By The Associated Press
The Iranian Parliament, in a stormy
session on the American hostages, put off a
full-scale debate on the issue today and
voted instead to set up a special committee
to deal with the fate of the 521 Americans
who have been held for 10 4 months.
President Carter, campaigning today in
Atlanta, tempered his optimism of Mon-
day and said “there is no prospect at this
time for an early resolution” of the
stalemate over release of the hostages.
Tehran Radio said the Majlis, or
parliament, voted by a “decisive
majority” to set up the committee. The
action, in effect, postponed the long-
awaited parliamentary debate that had
been expected to provide an indication of
how Iran would deal with the hostages.
Artiid arguments over whether the
Iranian Parliament should conduct a
secret or public session on the hostages,
hardline deputy Sayyed Fakhrodin Rahimi
said “we do not need any special com-
mittee or a secret session.” He said "the
spy-hostages must be tried and executed
and the non-spy hostages released on
contitions.”
But Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani ruled
him out ,of order and said speakers should
stick to setting up procedures for con-
sidering the issue. The speaker said
discussions on the new committee will
continue when Parliament resumes
Thursday, but assured deputies that "the
final decision will be by the Majlis itself.”
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of
the Iranian revolution, has said the Majlis
has authority to decide the fate of the
hostages.
Abdolmajid Dialameh, speaking for 17
deputies who wanted a closed session to
discus^ the issue, said “this secret meeting
is necessary for the deputies to gain in-
formation^.” But Mohammad Maham-
madi, a ihember of The Struggling
Moslems Movement which is close to the
militants holding the hostages, bitterly
objected.
“Everything should be open to the
nation,” he shouted. “I am absolutely
against any kind of secret session.”
Speaker Rafsanjani twice warned
Mahammadi to stop shouting, and the
proposal for a closed-door meeting was
rejected.
Abdolkarim Kumelah argued against a
special committee, and was ruled out of
order.
Fifteen deputies proposed that the
debate on the hostages be suspended “as
long as the United States continues its
provocations against Iran,” but other
deputies objected to the idea.
The assistant Majlis speaker and
spiritual leader of the militant students,
Hojjatoleslam Mossavi Khoeini, warned
that if the Majlis proved to be moderate on
the issue, “I will not nominate myself for
membership in the special committee.”
Rafsanjani and two key Iranian
religious leaders said Monday the
revolutionary regime has not dropped its
demand that the U.S. government
apologize for past actions in Iran, and the
Islamic fundamentalist Tehran newspaper
Ettelaat again demanded the hostages be
tried as spies.
The demand for apologies has been
rejected repeated# ty the United States,
and when It was omitted from four con-
ditions for the hostages’ release spelled out
Friday by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
some U.S. officials in Washington were
optimistic that a breakthrough might be
developing.
However, Secretary of State Edmund S.
Muskie told a news conference in
Washington Monday there have been half
a dozen statements by Iranian officials
over the past month which could have been
interpreted as positive but which did not
pan out.
“I think it is very important to be
cautious in our reaction to statements
coming out of Iran,” he said. “I think it
would be a mistake to raise expectations.”
A few hours earlier, President Carter
told a meeting in Texas: “They’re making
statements in Iran that may very well lead
to a resolution of this problem in the
future.” Muskie said the president was not
suggesting either optimism or pessimism
and that it would be inaccurate to portray
Carter's statement as signaling a possible
breakthrough.
Muskie said the conditions laid down by
Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian
revolution, might lead to progress, “but
the reverse is also true.” The conditions
included the return to Iran of the fortune
which it charges the late Shah Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi transferred abroad, the
unfreezing of Iranian assets in the United
States, the withdrawal of all U.S. claims
against Iran and a pledge not to interfere
in Iranian affairs in the future.
Muskie said although the U.S. govern-
ment has been working through various
channels in recent months to open talks
with the Iranians he couldn’t point to any
effort that has produced results.
Debate ground rules
set; Carter declines
Melinda Deaton of Dike anxiously awaited the judge's decision Monday atternobn
during the Junior Dairy Show in the Civic Center Livestock Arena. The Junior Dairy
Show is an intergral part of the Fall Festival along with the Open Dairy Show, which
was to begin at S p.m. today. (Results of the junior show appear on Page 10 of
today's News-Telegram.)
—St*H Photo by JIM MOORE
Shad Gillean holds the bottle for his calf during a new attraction at the expanded
Fall Festival — the ''suck bucket" competition held Monday afternoon just prior to
the Junior Dairy Show in the Civic Center arena. Several calves and their owners
lined up for the contest. The object of the competition is to see how fast a calf can
drink a bottle of milk. Young Gillean received a blue ribbon for his efforts; the calf
got a full stomach.
-StaH Photo by JOHN GORE
By DON McLEOD
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first round
of the 1980 presidential debates was of-
ficially set on Monday for Sept. 21 in
Baltimore, and members of the public
may be allowed to join in the questioning.
The announcement of details for the
debate came from the League of Women
Voters, which is sponsoring the debate,
after a two-hour meeting between league
officials and representatives of the can-
didates.
The debate, which will begin at 10 p.m.
and last one hour, will be between
Republican presidential nominee Ronald
Reagan and independent John B. An-
derson. President Carter has declined to
participate.
The league announcement said
questions would be limited to domestic
affairs, the economy and foreign affairs.
The first debate between Republican
Gerald R. Ford and Democrat Jimmy
Carter in 1976 had been on domestic affairs
and the economy.
Expanding tte scope of questioning for
the Sept. 21 debate could be an indication
that the league is trying to cover as much
ground as possible in the event its plans for
further debates fall through.
The league says it plans to hold four
debates in all, including one featuring vice
presidential candidates, but if Carter
continues to abstain, media coverage
could be curtailed and subsequent debates
would probably get less notice.
The League said there will be a
moderator and six panelists for the debate,
but that the panelists may include
questioners who are not journalists. This
could mean league members, academics
and other experts on the subjects to be
covered, or members of the general
public.
In 1976 each questioner was a member of
Malleable English: putting backspin on the tongue
By HUGH A. MULLIGAN
AP Special Correspondent
OVER LAKE MICHIGAN (AP) -
The English language, she is as
malleable and manageable as ever:
something for all tastes.
You can mold it into a big meatball,
like the house special in a fast food
joint, and dish it out without undue
premeditation.
“What’s your gut feeling about
airline food?” the man in the seat next
to me just asked, as we made our
descent into Chicago. My gut right then
was feeling a mite queasy.
Or you can serve it al fresco,
unadorned, raw - steak tartare with
all the red blooded juices running.
“A fool and his alimony are soon
parted,” I heard a lady on the check-in
line say, and I don’t think she was
trying to be clever.
You can garnish the mother tongue
with double or triple entendres for a
zesty, spicy dish that a neighbor of
mine, originally from Bucharest,
specializes in. She said her overweight
daughter now walks to school because
of “all the insults she got on the bust
line.”
Or you can flip it easy, over light, to
produce the delightful delectation
known as obverse English.
For those of you not familiar with the
form, obverse English is a sturdy
serviceable cliche recycled and slightly
reshaped so that the resulting product
makes your head turn, as if to ask:
how’s that again?
It’s a three-cushion shot in logic that
deftly glances off the comers of the
mind. Last Saturday the political
debate in the barbershop at New York’s
LaGuardia Airport produced a splendid
example of the genje.
“It’s the unvarnished truth,” a
customer lectured the manicurist,
“we’re taking a shellacking from the
Russians over this Salt treaty...”
“Don’t get your dandruff up,” I
wanted to tell him.
Maybe it’s got something to do with
cabin pressure or light air turbulence,
but airplanes seem to provide the
proper setting for a seminar in obverse
English.
“My married daughter is a difficult
type,” I heard a Florida-bound woman
say in the terminal lounge. “She would
cut off her face in spite of her nose,
whch is why she didn't call us at
Christmas.”
“With children,” her friend consoled
her, “you got to take thf bit by the
horns and swallow your pride.”
the print or electronic news media.
Each questioner will be limited to one
question, and questions will alternate
between Reagan and Anderson. The
candidate taking the question will get 2Vi
minutes to reply, and the other candidate
will have lVi minutes for rebuttal. In
addition, each candidate will have three
minutes for a closing statement.
Additional debates are planned in
Louisville; Portland, Ore.; and Cleveland,
although dates have not been set. Plans
are for the Louisville event to be a vice
presidential debate.
Meanwhile, in New York, NBC said
Monday it will broadcast the first of the
debates, joining CBS in live coverage.
CBS had announced earlier it will cover
the debate beginning at 10 p.m. EDT.
NBC’s coverage will start at the same
time, the network said.
ABC has said it has not yet decided
whether to have live coverage of the
debate.
Another heat
record falls
September’s scorching weather
continued Monday as yet another
record high temperature tumbled in
Sulphur Springs.
The thermometer reached 101
degrees at the official weather ob-
servation station here, eclipsing the
previous record for a Sept. IS. The
previous record of 99 was established
in 1955, according to statistics
maintained by The News-Telegram.
Monday's high was the fourth
record-setting or equaling maximum
temperature recorded in the past six
days, and no break in the heat is in
sight for the near future.
Temperatures in the upper 90s to
lower 100s are anticipated in the
Hopkins County area through the
week, with no rain in sight and with
clear to partly cloudy skies.
Some hope for a break in the
summer-long heat wave has been held
out by area weather forecasters, who
say the massive high-pressure dome
which has hovered over Texas for,
weeks appears to be moving to
west.
The result, forecasters say, is I
the next cold front to move in froTn/
north may penetrate the
barrier and bring cooler
peratures to the region.
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