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CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1980
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Iran's President Gives Details On Release Of American Bodies
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in the abortive raid.
"The secretary felt he
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Convicts End Seige At Indiana State Prison
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Andrews' Retirement
Reception Draws 250
Violent Winds Batter Refugees
back to Key West and the juries reported during the
day and were hospitalized in coast for their turn to pick up
technical training and Mrs.
more refugees.
Families Optimistic
Volcano Steams
Arizona,
Colorado, California and
opportunities for escape.
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captives and their eventual
control of the captives.
Secretary Of State Vance Hands
Resignation To President Carter
Guerrillas Take Money,
12 Hostages To Cuba
it could ease the way for the renewed faith in the nation’s
Iranian government to take will to ensure the safety of the
Consul Donald Cooke, said
the transfer could mean the
Shorly after dawn Sunday,
15 guerrillas — 10 men and
five women - walked out of
the embassy, herding 16
hostages at gunpoint into two
Red Cross buses escorted by
three ambulances for the
terrorists will lose some Oregon said the United States
control and also increase should not apologize to Iran
who miss service may
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Monday thru Friday 8:00
a.m. and 12 noon on Sat-
urday or 8:00 a.m. to 9:30
a.m. Sunday.
for the scrubbed rescue raid.
"We not only support the
Coast Guard auxiliary Bernie
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BOGOTA, Colombia (UPI)
— Leftist guerrillas flew to
Cuba with 12 diplomatic
hostages to peacefully end a
61-day siege at the Dominican
Embassy, taking a $2 million
ransom but not the jailed
comrades they vowed to die
for.
U.S. Ambassador Diego
Asencio, a captive throughout
the two-month occupation,
was released with the other
hostages in Cuba and flew to
Homestead Air Force Base,
Fla., for a reunion with his
family. He was joined in the
flight by the papal nuncio,
who also was held hostage.
good condition.
Since Wednesday morning
when south Florida exiles
began plying the Florida
Straits to Cuba in hopes of
bringing back relatives and
other refugees, the Coast
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TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) -
Bodies of the Americans
2 killed in the abortive rescue
J mission were removed from
8 the U.S. Embassy today and
turned over to the coroner
■ and President Abolhassan
J Bani-Sadr said they would
■ ultimately be released to the
" Vatican, the Red Cross and
Switzerland.
An undisclostransferred to
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Tabriz where militants said
they would be held in the
I former American consulate.
In Washington, officials
, said Secretary of State Cyrus
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light and variable tonight.
High this afternoon 76, low
tonight 44. High Tuesday 79.
High Sunday 66, low this
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Secretary Richard Moose.
Vance is expected to be
replaced on at least a tem-
porary basis by Deputy
Secretary of State Warren
Christopher.
Christopher, 54, is con-
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candidates to succeed Vance,
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want out awful bad. Many
have friends in Iran. If our
son escaped, I think he could
go into hiding very easily."
Johnny McKeel of Balch
Springs, Texas, father of
hostage Marine Sgt. Johnny
McKeel Jr., said it could lead
"to something better,” noting
kansas, Texas,
our unjustly held relatives,"
the statement read.
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Coast Guard received 29
distress calls.
Although Sunday’s storm
terrified nearly everyone
nearby, there were no deaths
only two injuries.
"Maybe God had a hand in
it. It is kind of miraculous,”
said Coast Guard Petty
Officer Robert Britt.
At least two dozen boats
had to be towed or escorted
President Julio Cesal Turbay
said in a nationwide radio-TV
speech.
The occupation ended in a
whimper compared to its
Feb 27 start when the April
19 guerrillas shot their way
into the embassy at a
diplomatic reception,
wounding four people and
losing one man but taking 57
hostages in the largest mass
kidnapping of diplomats ever.
Hundreds more boats
jammed Mariel harbor or
waited just off the Cuban
include White House Legal could not support it but did
Counsel Lloyd Cutler; Sol not want to resign until it was
Linowitz, ambassador at over." the official said.
specifics at this time but will
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president.”
Coast Guard lost count of how
many people were pulled out
of the water.
“Death — I saw it close,”
“We feel that the eight
volunteers who so tragically
died in this rescue attempt
are true heroes."
The families of the
American hostages have
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“He felt strongly about it.
He talked to the president
several times over the past
two weeks and he and the
president agreed that they
simply differed," said one
official. "Cy felt he had no
Iranians said there were nine
- were taken out of the U.S.
Embassy and turned over to
the Coroners Department.
Bani-Sadr said in a
statement broadcast by
Tehran Radio the bodies of
the U.S. servicemen would be
handed over to envoys of
Pope John Paul II, the Red
Cross and the Swiss govern-
ment.
"In view of the propaganda
launched by America... to
i justify) its ugly aggression
and to harm our Islamic
revolution, and since there is
no guarantee that the U.S.
government will hand over
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.
(UPI) — Rebellious convicts
released their last four
hostages today and ended a
16-hour uprising at the
Indiana State Prison. State
officials agreed to discuss
demands that included
amnesty for riot leaders.
Corrections Commissioner
Gordon Faulkner announced
at 4 a.m. the hostages had
been freed and platoons of
riot police moved in to secure
a cell block and security
building containing about 200
inmates.
Fifty minutes later the riot
police left the prison. Guards
at the prison gate said at 6
a.m. they had been informed
the prison was totally
secured. All appeared normal
outside the 119-year-old
maximum security prison by
mid-morning.
Faulkner said inmates
released the last of the
hostages when prison of-
ficials agreed to discuss
demands including amnesty
for those involved in the riot,
a review of prisoner arrests
and convictions, better
medical treatment and im-
mediate news media at-
tention to inmate problems.
He said those discussions
would be held this afternoon.
Faulkner said the only
injury during the uprising
was one sprained ankle.
About 5:30 a.m. a prison
guard handed reporters an
unsigned news release which
read;
"At approximately 3:45
a.m. we secured the release
of the hostages unharmed.
The institution is being
routinely secured. We have
agreed to meet with a
representative group of in-
mates to discuss issues of
concern to them. We have no
meet with them later this
afternoon."
Theriot began at 11:42 a.m.
EST Sunday when 30-some
prisoners took control of a
security unit, and an
estimated 150 prisoners took
control of cell block C. The
prisoners originally took
seven hostages, but released
three by midevening Sunday.
One was set free soon after
the trouble began when he
became ill. Two more were
released when authorities al-
Carter, in another hand-
written note, accepted
Vance’s resignation with
“deep regret" and “deep
appreciation.”
“Cy felt he had no choice,"
said one State Department
official, adding that Vance
opposed the mission from the
outset and told Carter he
would quit after the raid “no
matter what the outcome.”
Vance, 63, who walked into
the White House with the aid
of a cane due to painful gout,
has been a strong supporter
and personal friend of the
president during three years
and 99 days as senior man in
the Carter Cabinet.
It was understood that
Hodding Carter III, an
assistant secretary of state
and the department’s chief
spokesman, and others also
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) -
Hurricane-force winds
howling through the Florida
Straits buffeted the makeshift
Cuban refugee flotilla,
capsizing ships and leaving
others powerless. The Coast
Guard, however, said there
were no deaths reported.
More rough weather was
forecast today but most of the
boats planned to continue
their mission.
The National Weather
Service estimated that a
Sunday squall produced
winds up to 90 miles an hour
in some areas, and during a
Vance was resigning because
he disagreed with the White
House over going ahead with
the rescue operation. The
officials said Vance had
decided to resign whether or
not the raid had succeeded.
An undisclosed number of
the American captives, held
for a 177th day, were tran-
sferred to the northwestern
city of Tabriz where militants
said they would be held in the
former American consulate.
The newspaper Kayan said
the bodies of the eight
American servicemen,
wrapped in white cotton cloth
and polyethethylene, — the
Presiding at the guest book
were Michelle Von Tungeln, a
granddaughter of Mr.
Andrews from Oklahoma
City, and Karri Harrod of
Chickasha, daughter of Mrs.
Ken Harrod.
Members of the Chickasha
Vo-Tech faculty presided at
the reception table.
drawing instructor, was a
speaker.
The guests included 14
members of the El Reno
faculty plus many from El
Reno, over 50 from
Chickasha, about 40 from
Minco, 30 from Tuttle plus
residents of the Ninnekah,
Am-Po and Yukon areas
along with friends from out of
state.
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance went to the White
House and resigned “with a
heavy heart" today in protest
of President Carter’s aborted
attempt to rescue American
hostages in Tehran last week.
The hand-written
resignation was presented
personally to Carter. It came
three days after the president
revealed mechanical
problems forced cancellation
of a mission Thursday night
in which eight U.S. ser-
vicemen died on an Iranian
desert.
Vance said he “could not
offer public backing” for the
president’s decision to send a
military force to rescue the
hostages. He said he was
resigning "with a heavy
heart."
A joint statement issued freedom, Hohman said at the
Saturday by the 13 hostage end of the two-day, state
families from Tennessee, Ar- Department-
diplomats later returned to drive to Bogota’s El Dorado
Bogota for an emotional Airport.
reunion with their wives and The M-19 guerrillas took a
children while the Mexican privately raised cash ransom
ambassador returned to payment estimated at 62
Mexico City. million and promises from
"The worst diplomatic kid- the government to permit
napping in the world was international monitoring of
settled, as the Colombian trials of leftists by military
government promised, in a courts.
manner that was bloodless, But they left with none of
decorous and legal," the 311 jailed leftists they said
“I think it will be easier for president’s decision in this
the hostages to escape,” he attempt, but feel that every
said. "Knowing human effort should continue to be
nature, some of those people made to secure the release of
planned to resign. They in- large to the Middle East
eluded Assistant Secretary of peace efforts, and U.S.
State for Human Rights Patt Ambassador to Great Britain
Derian, who is Hodding Kingman Brewster.
Carter’s wife; Under- Vance presented his
secretary Matthew Nimetz, resignation shortly before
Assistant Secretary Richard Carter flew to Texas to visit
Holbrooke, and Assistant with five servicemen injured
Over 250 people attended
the Retirement Reception for
Ernest Andrews Sunday
afternoon in the Community
Building at the county
Fairgrounds.
Andrews, retiring as
assistant superintendent of
Canadian Valley Vo-Tech
School here, was in-
strumental in organizing the
vo-tech district which in-
cludes the main campus at El
Reno and the Chickasha
center. He and J.R. Gilliland,
superintendent of the school
until Roy Peters Jr. was
named superintendent,
contacted area schools in
Grady and Canadian counties
to organize the district.
Andrews, former vo-ag
teacher, principal and
superintendent at Minco, has
over 40 years in teaching. He
servicemen killed in the mis- demonstrators set fire to the people of Tabriz, north of
sion. consulate a few weeks before Tehran, to cooperate with
The militants said in a the shah’s downfall. them in protecting the
broadcast over government The militants said other hostages. It later said the
radio details of the arrange- hostages would be kept in undisclosed number of
ments for keeping the Qom, 80 miles south of captives would be kept in the
hostages in Tabriz would be Tehran. Qom was the city’s former U.S. consulate,
announced later. headquarters of Ayatollah
It was not clear how many Ruhollah Khomeini until in Washington, U.S. of-
of the 50 Americans heart trouble forced him tu ficials, who had said eight
previously held at the U.S. remain close to his doctors in men died in the collision of a
Embassy in Tehran would be Tehran. helicopter and C-130 tran-
held in the Tabriz consulate. The militants decided to sport plane, said a commando
Among the hostages held by spread the hostages across who survived the raid had
the militants for 177 days is the country after the abortive dropped his wallet during the
Michael J. Metrinko, 33, who U.S. rescue mission last retreat and that might have
was for years the American Friday. been the basis for the
consul in Tabriz. Metrinko The radio broadcast an Iranians’ claim of finding
was in Tabriz when appeal by the militants to the nine bodies.
least 30 tremors measuring Guard said it had responded
over 3.0 on the Richter scale to 175 rescue cases,
and five to seven over 4.0 spokesman Michael Kelly
daily. But the volcano has said.
been relatively peaceful the The Coast Guard gave up a
previons three days. search for a boat with a
„ 0.. "possible 200 people aboard"
However, scientists were that apparently had made a
still concerned about the distress cali Saturday night,
possibility of mudslides or There was no indication
avalanches on the mountain’s whether the boat survived,
north side. Geologists The fate of whoever was
reported seeing new frac- aboard another 24-foot boat
tures in hemysterious 300- found capsized north of
foot, "bulge on the. north Havana also was unknown,
flank, further increasing the but Coast Guardsmen said
danger of shides. they hoped those aboard were
Such slides could reach picked up by another craft.
Spirit Lake - where stubborn Because of the rough wea-
Harry R. Truman, 83, refuses ther, the Key West docks
to leave his lodge - and banned any departures after
possibly cause flooding in the 3 p.m. Sunday.
Toutle River valley northwest The only new arrivals oc-
of the volcano, they said. curred before noon — six
The cause of the bulge, boats carrying a total of 819
apparently formed shortly people. That brought the total
after the mountain erupted figure since Wednesday to
March 27 was still unknown. 3,183 refugees and 41 boats at
along with Zbigniew choice, despite his warm
Brzezinski, the president’s personal relationship with the
the bodies to their families, it progress toward releasing the
was decided to hand over the 53 hostages
bodies to envoys of the Pope, Ayatollah Sadegh
the Red Cross and the Swiss Khalkhali, meanwhile,
government to be returned to charged the failed American
their families," Bani-Sadr mission was actually aimed
said. at staging a "creeping coup
In Luxembourg, leaders of d’etat” in Iran.
the nine Western European Khalkhali said the United
Common Market nations for- States even planned to bomb
mally pledged today to stand key points in Tehran, in-
by President Carter and the eluding the North Tehran
American people over the home of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Iran hostages crisis. They Khomeini.
reaffirmed plans to start an The White House reacted
economic blockade of Iran with outrage to the grotesque
after May 17 if by that date display at the occupied U.S.
there was no decisive Embassy in Tehran of the
charred remains of American
they were prepared to die for.
In 24 rounds of negotiations
with a hooded woman
guerrilla representaing the
M-19 movement, Colombia
never yielded to the demand
that it release prisoners
facing court martial on
subversive charges.
But the government’s pro
mise of letting a Colombian
human rights group observe
trials of leftists and inviting
the International Red Cross
to visit jails and detention
centers throughout the
country broke the siege.
During earlier stages of the
61-day crisis, the leftists freed
all the rest of their original
catch of 60 hostages, except
for one, the Uruguayan
ambassador, who escaped.
The end to the long drama
began just after dawn with
the arrival of the Cubans
jetliner at El Dorado airport.
Four minutes later, two
aging Colombian Red Cross
buses, with all but the
driver’s window painted red,
arrived at the embassy, five
miles from the airport.
Relatives of the Americans
held captive in Tehran
believe the transfer of the
hostages from the U.S.
Embassy may be a positive
sign rather than an indication
reprisals are planned for last
week’s attempted rescue.
Lewis Hohman of
Sacramento, Calif., whose
brother is Marine Sgt. Donald
Hohman, said he saw the
move as a "security" action
by the terrorists that would
not mean harm to any of the
Americans.
"We feel at this point they’d
have to be crazy to harm
anybody," he said. "We think
everything will work out in
the end."
Ernest Cooke, a professor
at Memphis State University
whose hostage son is Vice
lowed two reporters to against certain guards ap- night or over the weekend
monitor negotiations. peered to be involved in the that hs precipitated this,”
Ed Jones, prison director of disturbance, which he said I arson said. “It’s my un-
classifications, said the exact may have been triggered by derstanding that this was a
number of prisoners involved the stabbing of a guard rather spontaneous thing. It
in the rioting would not be earlier in the weekend was put together through
determined until afternoon. Four previous riots and disruptions of las; evening."
Sen. John Larson, R-Val- demonstrations since 1973 Dozens of state police and
paraiso, chairman of a have centered on complaints members of a Corrections
legislative committee which about too little heat, hot Department emergency
last year recommended total water, medical attention, fire squad were in and about the
renovation of the over- safety and recreational op- prison prior to the time 120
crowded prison, spent four portunity. state police in two riot
hours behind the walls. He “There was some kind of platoons moved in to secure
told reporters grievances stabbing last (Saturday) the buildings.
To Accept
Project Bid
ABCO Glass Co. of
Oklahoma City was the
successful bidder for new
windows to be used in the
Junior High School
remodeling project. Bids
were opened Thursday af-
ternoon at the school board
offices, 900 Choctaw.
Three firms submitted
bids, ranging from a high of
8111,478 base bid down to the
low bid, submitted by ABCO,
of 854,798. This firm also
provided the windows for
Fourth Grade Center and the
Intermediate school.
Board members accepted
two alternates to the base bid,
Alternate 1, at 82,421 which
for insulated glass, and
Alternate 2, porcelain on steel
paneling on sides of windows.
boat was being towed by the undetermined number of
Coast Guard cutter Cape arrivals at Marathon, Fla.,
York when the storm hit. “I and Miami, officials believed
felt like this was it. Welcome the total figure was well over
to death. I commended my the 3,500 the State Depart-
soul to God." ment had said it would accept
His boat sank but of the 10,000 Cubans who had
Sotolongo, his wife and a jammed the Peruvian
friend, were rescued by Coast Embassy in Havana Easter
Guardsmen. Sotolongo and Sunday.
and Mrs. Andrews, long-time Alexander, were among the
residents of Minco now reside special guests, along with
on a farm northeast of J.R. Gilliland, former vo-tech
Chickasha. superintendent and Mr. and
The Canadian Valley Mr. Jim Moore who is filling
School board of John Nelson, the position of assistant
Chickasha, president; M.G. superintendent now held by
Wilds, vice president; Mrs. Andrews for the 1980-81
Charlene VonTungeln, clerk; school year. Andrews
Dr. Marvin Denney, vice- retirement is effective June
clerk and Jim D. Vaught, 30
presented Andrews a gift. The Chickasha vo-tech
Also, Roy Peters Jr., faculty hosted the reception,
superintendent presented included were Mr. and Mrs.
Andrews a plaque listing the John Pethel, Mrs. Neyaa
board. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Von
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Von Tungeln, Mr. and Mrs. Don
Tungeln presented Andrews a Miller, Mrs. JoAnn Watson,
gift from the Chickasha Vo- Kay Harrod, Denial
Tech faculty and Donna Von Blankenship who was master
Tungeln presented the gift of ceremonies, Mr. and Mrs.
from the El Reno faculty. Bill Adams and Mr. and Mrs.
Arch Alexander, state Amos Smotherman.
deputy director of vocational- Smotherman, former trade
VANCOUVER, Wash.
(UPI) - The Mount St.
Helens volcano has awakened
from a three-day nap, sen-
ding plumes of steam into the
air and causing minor ear-
thquakes.
Fumeroles, or steam jets,
resumed Saturday and con-
tinued through Sunday
although the volcano has
ceased spouting ash, at least
for the time being, Richard
Hoblitt of the U.S. Geological
Survey reported.
Thanks to clear weekend
weather, the steam eruptions
were visible for miles.
Hoblitt said tests of steam
and gases showed low con-
centrations of sulfur dioxide,
indicating the steam is not
coming directly from molten
rock under the mountain.
Seismic activity at the
mountain has continued in a
regular pattern for several
days, Hoblitt said, with at
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