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By MICHAEL WADE
State and National Editor
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Moslem
leader and major foe of the "vacationing" shah of
Iran, considers Prime Minister Shahpour
Bakhtiar "irrelevant" and has a guardedly friendly
attitude toward the United States, a visiting
human rights activist who met with Khomeini this
week said Thursday.
Don Luce, international director of Clergy and
Laity Concerned, a human rights group, talked
with the 78-year-old ayatullah for an hour and a
half Monday in Paris. Luce met informally with
the religious leader along with former U.S.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Richard
Falk, a Princeton professor of international
relations.
Luce was in Chapel Hill Wednesday after a two
day speaking tour sponsored by the Middle East
Project of the American Friends Service
Committee Southeast and the Carolina chapter of
Friends of the Filipino People,
Luce went to Paris after a 10-day research
mission to Iran for his organization. He, Clark and
Falk requested the meeting with Khomeini and
were invited to the religious leader's house
Monday morning. Much of their conversation
centered on the U nited Stajtes relationship with
Iran, Luce said. I
"His attitude toward the U.S. is a desire for
friendship, but he said specifically that he does not
believe the American power structure will stop
interfering. He hopes it will, but he is very skeptical
that it will." I
Khomeini expressed concern over the presence
of U.S. military forces and the CIA in Iran, Luce
said. "The one thing that hej specifically asked for
was that the United States should allow the
Iranians whatever kind q)f government they
wanted." - . i ;. '; ."
Prime Minister Bakhtiarv jivho has been running
Iran's government in the shah's absence, is not a
major concern for Khomeini, Luce said. "His
attitude toward Bakhtiar is jmore or less that he's
not really relevant that Bakhtiar doesn't have a
political following. j
"He just didn't even talk; about Bakhtiar. He
didn't even mention his name not once in the
hour and a half we talked with him."
Khomeini also did not pnention his pending
return to Iran, Luce said. Ope of ayatullah's aides
said in Paris Wednesday that Khomeini still
planned to leave for Tehrarj on schedule, despite
apparent efforts by the Iranian military to keep
Mm from returning. i
Luce said Khomeini appears to be in incredibly
good health. It's amazing. He sits ramrod straight.
He's as strong as he looks in the pictures."
The religious leader lives in a small ordinary
house from which all the furniture has been
removed and replaced with Iranian carpets. Luce
said.
"He lives a very simple life. He doesn't joke
he's completely unpretentious and completely
non-compromising. He will not make deals with
the shah."
Luce said his recent visit to Iran was the third
time he has visited the strife-torn Middle Eastern
Country. He was in Iran during President Carter's
visit in January 1978 and again in July 1978.
During Carter's visit, he and many Iranian citizens
were prevented from talking to foreign journalists
about human rights violations, he said.
Luce said he visited the Qasr prison in Tehran
and saw many prisoners who had been beaten or
tortured, including some who had cable scars on
their ankles from being hung by their feet from the
prison's ceiling.
If Ayatullah Khomeini assumes control of Iran,
Luce said the biggest change will be in how money
from the country's vast oil reserves is spent. He
said Khomeini's aides told him the leader wanted
the money spent on development projects.
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By PAM KELLEY
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
decided in executive session Tuesday to
appeal the state's recent property tax
commission ruling that UNC owes
Carrboro no back taxes.
The aldermen also heard a proposal
from James McHugh, vice president of
Alert Cable TV, that Alert be permitted
to build and maintain an antenna on
town property for town and "cable
televison use.
Town attorney Michael Brough said he
probably will file the property tax appeal
in Orange County Superior Court. The
appeal must be filed by the. middle of
February, 30 days after the tax
commission ruling.
The commission ruled last week that
UNC must pay tax on three of its Orange
County properties, including the
Carolina Inn. Since the properties are
used for commercial use rather than
governmental or educational purposes,
they are subject to property tax. the
commission said.
But the commission decided that
University property in Carrboro, valued
at well over $1 million according to
Brough, was not taxable. The property in
question was part of UNC's electric and
telephone companies, sold by the
University in 1976. Carrboro is trying to
collect taxes on the property from 1974 to
1976. .
The commission decided that $3
million of UNC property was taxable.
The University may appeal the ruling.
Alert Cable TV's proposal came after
the Orange Water and Sewer Authority
rejected last week the company's plan to
build an antenna on OW ASA's Carrboro
water tower. Alert was granted, a
franchise in Carrboro two years ago but
has been unable to begin operation
because it-has not been able to find an
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Alderman Nancy White and Town Attorney Michael Brough
...at Tuesday's Carrboro board meeting
approved antenna site.
McHugh's proposal was sent to the
Procedures Committee, which will
discuss it at its Feb. 7 meeting and will
make a recommendation and present it to
the board at a future meeting.
"The antenna would be used for police
and extended emergency communication
coverage," Alderman Ernie Patterson
said. "It would have to be at least 100 feet
tall, and it would be fairly expensive,
somewhere around $50,000." Patterson
said he is sure that if the antenna were
Approved, the town could reach some
agreement with Alert Cable so that the
Company use it also.
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human support? then they? too? are
guilty of apathy and indifference toward
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Gregg White
Coitpity study release success ffoif inmate
By BILL McGOWAN
Staff Writer
When Gregg White was sentenced to two
consecutive 10-year terms on drug-related charges in
Orange County in 1976, he never thought he'd get the
chance to attend a university.
White is now taking 12 hours of classes as a UNC
freshman under the study-release program. He has
found many open doors at the Hillsborough minimum
security prison unit the work and study-release
programs, the inreach program and the community
sponsor program all of which are designed to help
inmates readjust to society before being released.
"Alot of people have helped my over the past year,"
White said. "They helped me w hen 1 was down, helped .
me stand up again to face myself and the world. I
can make it now, knowing I have such friends."
The study-release program, like its forerunner the
work release program, is a "constructive form of
rehabilitation with high results," according to Bob
McKay, program supervisor at the Orange County
prison. "The percentage of study-release inmates
staying straight is about 90 percent," McKay said.
Through these programs an inmate can go to work
or school during the day and return to the prison unit
each night. Both programs aim at preparing men and
women to make something of themselves and to cope
on the outside, McKay said.
"The study-release program costs the taxpayer a lot
of money," White admitted, "but if you were talking
about somebody who would go back out of prison and
sell heroin that would cost the taxpayer too.
"I think it is a good program in the long run. College
won'i do much to help me stay moral, but it will make
sure I won't end up like I used to be."
The inmates's admittance to the work-release or
study-release programs depends on his work habits
and attitude, the type of crime and length of time to be
served and his relationship with other inmates.
The inmate must reach a high conduct level of at
least 4 on a scale of 0 to 5, McKay explained. Also, his
progress in the "Econo-College" program, which
allows an inmate to take college-level courses through
correspondence- is monitored closely.
Tuition and fees are usually paid by the inmate's
family or through the Veterans Administration,
vocational rehabilitation programs or other types of
loans and grants. ,
Perhaps one 'of the most crucial elements in the
success of the program is the attitude of the inmate,
McKay said. Two programs which have helped
encourage the attitudes of inmates like White are the
inreach and community volunteer sponsor programs.
The inreach program was developed by the N.C.
Department ; of Correction "to improve
communications and relations between those who are
incarcerated and people in society." It was initiated at
the Orange County prison unit in 1974.
"Because inmates lose touch with people on the
street, they become overly dependent on prison,"
White said. The inreach program allows the inmate an
opportunity to sit down to talk with an outside
volunteer who comes to the prison. Not only is the
inmate able to receive moral support by gainings new
friend but also to gain new motivation to seek
advancement in' work or education.
The community volunteer sponsor program relies
to an even greater extent upon volunteers. In this
program, however, the inmate is allowed to leave the
unit with well-screened Volunteers for up to six hours
on recreational,; religious or social passes.
While all of these programs hinge upon the
cooperation and attitude of the individual inmate just
as important is the community's willingness to support
these, programs' and the prison system in general,
McKay said.
Gregg White put it best. "Obviously, an inmate will
ultimately make the decisions about his or her own
life, but concerned community volunteers can have a
measure of .positive input into these decisions." If
citizens who are not in prison fail to give inmates
personal, hurnlan support, then they, too, are guilty of
apathy and indifference toward the system of which
they are also a part." '
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especially agriculture, rather than on the military.
Luce said Khomeini indicated that some foreign
corporations would be ousted from I ran if he takes
control of the government. "Khomeini said foreign
corporations that benefited the people would stay ,
and that the others would be asked to leave.
Khomeini - did not mention any specific
corporations that would be asked to leave.
Khomeini appeared very concerned about the
"bad aspects of Westernization" in Iran, Luce said.
"He and his aides pointed out that what the West
has done is import (into Iran) the worst of its
culture and not the strengths of it."
"His primary concern is to strengthen Iranian
nationalism, get away from dependence on
foreigners " and implement social justice as
advocated in the Koran. He said he wanted to he
sure investments would make Iran a self-sufficient
country when the oil money would be used up."
The closing of Tehran's airport Wednesday, in
an apparent effort to keep Khomeini from entering
Iran, is "a dumb move," Luce said.
"Here you have this guy that's sort of the
Mahatma Ghandi of Iran, and the government
announces that the airport is closed to prevent him
from coming in.... It keeps the whole aura of
excitement around him."
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's army
announced Wednesday that all of the
nation's airports will be closed for three .
days because of striking government
workers. The move was seen as an effort
to bar the planned return of Ayatullah
Ruhollah Khomeini who has vowed to
replace the present government with an
Islamic republic.
But Gen. Mehdi Rhimi. the military
governor of Tehran, made no mention of
Khomeini trr his ; ahnouricenienl shutting
down the airports, according to a Tehran
Radio broadcast monitored in London.
The military had closed the Tehran
airport for several hours Wednesday.
Tehran Radio quoted Rhimi as saying
the three-day closure was .ordered
because of a nationwide strike by
government flight control employees and
the "failure" of certain companies to
operate flights. Companies named in the
broadcast were the German and French
airlines, Lufthansa and Air France. The
broadcast said the airports would be shut
down beginning at midnight Wednesday.
The ayatullah. living in self-exile in
Paris, was still planning to fly back to
Iran, according to his aides. He is a leader
of the Moslem Shiites and is chiefly
responsible for directing the uprising that
forced Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to
leave the country. Khomeini now is
demanding that Prime Minister
Shahpour Bakhtiar step down. . He
accused Bakhtiar of being a tool of the
shah, who appointed Bakhtiar before
leaving Iran Jan. 16.
In Paris, Khomeini aide Ibrahim Yazdi
told reporters that the 78-year-old
religious leader planned to leave Paris
according to schedule I iuirsday night,
headed lot Ichran to start replacing the
Bakhtiar government with an Islamic
.republic. tad said Khomeini would
travel aboard a chartered Air France jet.
"If we cannot land it. 1 chran we will go
to another airport in Iran, and if wedon't
find one we'll come back here," said
Yadi. who called the flight "a calculated
gamble."
Yazdi also said that Khomeini would
refuse to see any representative of
Bakhtiar unless the representative was
carrying the prime minister's resignation.
The Tehran military governor said
early Wednesday that the airport had
been closed because "opportunists"
planned to disrupt operations at the
facility, which serves as both a military
and commercial field. '
Thousands of demonstrators
supporting Khomeini drove to the airport
Wednesday morning in hopes of seeing
the Iran Air jet take off. But they found
troops and British-built Chieftain tanks
blocking the ; -airport. 7 Onlookers were
dispersed by armed soldiers.
Iran Air crews, who had suspended
their month-long anti-government strike
to fly Khomeini's plane, accused
government agents of sabotaging the 747
and a backup aircraft, both disabled by
the removal of the engine starters and fuel
pressure transmitters.
In. downtown Tehran, scattered
demonstrations erupted for and against
the Bakhtiar government. Hundreds of
demonstrators supporting Khomeini and
about 1,000 supporters of Bakhtiar
hurled stones at each other near the U.S.
Embassy.
The government announced it had
granted permission for a demonstration
Thursday by supporters of the
constitution.
In a tough speech to Parliament,
Bakhtiar said his representative was
carrying a letter to Khomeini indicating
that "I would be willing to do anything
within the framework of the constitution,
including any desired changes in the
constitution," to satisfy the peoples'
desires.
But Bakhtiar warned that "as I have
said before, I will not leave the fortress of
the constitution," repeating his refusal to
let Khomeini change the government
without following constitutional
procedures.
There was speculation that his
representative was Jalal I ehrani, former
head of the regency council representing
the shah. Tehrani announced his
resignation from the council Monday in
Paris, but political sources said they
believed it was a precondition to being
received by the Shiitc Moslem leader.
Candidates must file
by Monday deadline
By PAM HILDEBRAN
Staff Writer
All petitions for offices in the student
body elections Feb. 14 are due at 9 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 29 in Suite C, Carolina
Union, according to Jil Linker, elections
board chairwoman.
The following persons have signed out
petitions for these offices: '
Student body president J. B. Kelly,
Harold Schmuck, William Greshan,
Gordon Adcox, Merl F. Baldwin,
Richard Klimkiewicz, William
Porterfield and Chris Mackie;
Daily Tar Heel editor Allen
Jemig3n, David Stacks, Reid Tuvim and
Alan Openshaw;
Residence Hall Association
president William Porterfield;
Campus Athletic Association
president Matthew Judson and Ricky
May;
Senior class president and vice
president Christopher John Adams (no
running mate). Heather Weir and Steve
Jacobson, Steve Felts and Bob Cramer
and Mark Mann (no running mate);
Senior class secretary -Judith C.
Emken; Senior class treasurer Eloisc
McCain; Campus Governing Council:
District 7 Eleanor Smith; District 8
Cynthia Currier; District 9 Diannc
Hubbard; District 10 -Greg Cranford,
Wes Armstrong, and Al Godley; District
II Jimmy Everhart; District 12 Don
Laton; District 13 Ellen Gelbin. Randy
Harry and Susan Hoke; District 14
Joyce Green and Brenda Jenkins; District
15 Rhonda Black; District 17 Bill
Pomeroy.
No petitions have been picked up for
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation president or graduate student
districts I through 6.
Off-campus undergraduate districts
without candidates are:
District 16, which includes Castilian
Villa CoIony,Glen Lennox. Kings Arms,
The Oaks and Willow Terrace
See PETITIONS on pago 2