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Show candidates dishing dnt about e ,ch other, hut ignores the fundamental Tuesdays Debate to Spotlight Issues Ignored in Campaign neglected civic commodity. The Issues debate will be The Carter-Reagathe nervous high point of the campaign, and could be its decisive moment Without the intermediation of the press, the candidates will have By Ernest B. Furgurson Baltimore Sun (Field News Service) - n WASHINGTON Tuesday evening, the major presidential candidates and the American public will spend 90 minutes together on a policy diffeiences between them There is some validity ti the charge Every candidate has a st,ek speech, which he delivers repeated ly from winter through fall, polish ing it, adding new statistics or phrases, dropping in special paragraphs for special audiences In the beginning, the basic boasts and charges of that speech are treated as news, reported by press and televi- their own opportunity to make it an educational evening as well. That has not been the case throughout the campaign Over the months, coverage of the contest has renewed what is by now a standard charge, that it focuses on the sion But later in the year, when many voters are just starting to pay dates themselves will have what they constantly seek; a chance to address the puhlic directly, without editing or comment from the sidelines, at least until they are through talking Tuesday evening, Reagan will do his best to put Carter on the defensive by assailing his economic record The president will try to put Reagan there by focusing on the war-an- d peace implications of the Republicans many past pronouncements But while economics and foreign attention to the campaign the reixir-ter- s covering the candidates have heard the stock speech so many times that its basics are no longer a novelty They are capable of chatting or doling while the candidate d livers that speech one more time, but jerking alert at the slightest dr;, ession In practice, those digressions become the news, and the basics are not repeated . That is particularly true on television, with its need for daily snippets of excitement, neatly illustrated. Below the headlines, the press offers more details But now, the candi- - See Page 2, Column 1 i hunt Vol. 222, No. Salt Lake City, Utah 13 x Secret Session I C' Iran ems Press Iran's Parliament met Monday for its second day of secret debate on the fate of the 52 American hostages. There was no firm indication when it would reach a decision on conditions for their release. Most probably it will be decided in the very near future, said a reporter for Pars, the official Iranian news agency, who attended the opening session of the debate Sunday. It is a very important issue. One Iranian aide linked the delay to happening in the region with the1 incitement of the same superpower whose hostages will be discussed in the session today. The 181 deputies on hand for the session then privately debated the hostage issue for about two hours and 15 minutes before adjourning. They reportedly heard a report from a seven-membcommittee that drew up recommendations on the conditions that Iran should set for the release of the hostages. Second Session Monday At the end of the meeting, members of Parliament contacted by telephone from an Associated Press office in Beirut, Lebanon, said a second secret session would be held on Monday. One deputy, Moosavi Tabriz!, said it might take a week or 10 days to decide the hostages issue, apparently dashing hopes the captives would be released very soon. Tabrizi said the hostage debate, scheduled to have been public, was done privately for security reasons. Rafsanjanis secretary, identified only as Mr. Zamani, repeated in a telephone interview Iranian claims that the United States was helping Iraq in the Persian Gulf war. He cited Washingtons deployment of sophisticated radar planes in Saudi Arabia and U.S. arms deals with Jordan, which is aiding the Iraqi war effort. Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai earlier accused the United States of passing on to Baghdad information gathered by the radar planes. He also claimed Iraq is moving in line with America. Asked if a perception that Washington was helping Iraq had influenced the deputies and prompted a delay, Zamani Yes, it is one of the responded, reasons. Rules Out Equipment In the United States, meanwhile, Vice President Walter F. Mondale ruled out providing Iran with American military spare parts and equipment, at least until the hostages are freed, and U.N. Secretary-GenerKurt Waldheim warned against striking a deal. Mondale, speaking on CBS' Face the Nation television program, said the Carter administration was not negotiating with authorities in Tehran to resupply Irans mainly American-equippe- d military forces. But he left the door open to discussing delivery of $370 See Page 2, Column 1 parts-for-hostag- es Aaaodclwl Iraq's missiles e Frog-- 7 hit city of Dezful. Prw Map Iranian brigade at Karan River bridge was reported beaten. Iraqi Missiles Strike Dezful Garrison, Iran Loses Kliorramshahr Brigade O By Tom Baldwin Associated Press Writer Five Soviet-mad- e BEIRUT, Lebanon missiles smashed into the garrison city of Dezful in southern Iran on Sunday, killing as many as 100 people, Iran said. It was the second reported Iraqi missile attack in the Persian Gulf war. y A Baghdad government communique Sunday claimed that Iraqi forces Saturday liquidated an entire Iranian 0 army brigade men) that was trying to knock the Iraqis back from dug-i- n positions near a vital Khorram-shah- r bridge. There was no independent confirmation of the claim, or comment from Iran. Dezful Attack Irans official news agency Pars said e Frog-- 7 Iraq fired five missiles into residential areas of Dezful shortly after midnight. The Frog-- 7 has a range of about 37 miles, just short of the distance from Iraqs eastern border to the center of the city, which houses the largest air base in the Middle East. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime reported 180 Iranians were killed and 300 injured in the previous attack on Dezful three weeks ago. Irans President Abolhassan Bani-Sad- r, who was named chairman of the nation's Supreme Defense Council Saturday, went to Dezful Sunday with Hojatoleslam Khameni, a religious leader who represents Khomeini on the defense council, Tehran radio reported. Dezful is located on a key juncture of (500-80- surface-to-surfac- V highway, railway and pipeline networks that connect Iran's southwestern regions with Tehran, the capital. In Tehran, members of the Iranian Parliament, the Majlis, recessed until debate on the Monday a closed-doo- r fate of the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran. Todays Chuckle It's an ill that doesn't blow somebodys leaves into his neighbors wind back yard. if IJs q M in f Ir sf 'If , : , a ft ff?i i &' i W tf (r' : er al Soviet-mad- - yQ(1.M alleged U S. help for Iraq in its war with Iran The United States has denied it is helping either side. In a statement made before the first session of the debate moved behind closed doors. Speaker Hashemi Rafsan-jan- i condemned the Iraqi rocketing of the Iranian city of Dezful, where Tehran said at least 100 persons were killed early Sunday by Soviet-mad- e surface-to-surfamissiles. Directing his words to the foreign press, Rafsanjani said You should pay attention to these important events t v,l iHV , OmU By Associated Price Twenty - Five Cents Monday Morning -- October 27, 1980 . a . f ! ? Y Auocittod Pros UMnstoto Some members of Iranian Parliament debate hos- tage issue during secret meeting Sunday. They beard recommendations from panel but put off final vote for at least a day. I seven-memb- er Aides Insist Carter Has Not Used Hostage Issue to Aid Campaign Reuter News Agency President Carters running mate and his campaign manager insisted Sunday the administration had not used the Iranian hostage issue in an effort to bolster its chances next week. of As the latest polls showed the race WASHINGTON between the Democratic incumbent and his Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, still wide open, Vice President Walter Mondale and Carter campaign chief Robert Strauss said the fate of the hostages should not be allowed to affect the presidential vote. They said they did not know if the 52 ' PLO Retaliation Blast Wounds 15 in Israel A powerful JERUSALEM (AP) bomb exploded Sunday on the main road leading out of Jerusalem, wounding 15 soldiers waiting for rides back to their bases after a weekend furlough, police said. The Palestine Liberation Organization claimed responsibility for that attack and two other bombings that injured one person slightly. Authorities said three soldiers were hospitalized with moderate wounds from the blast at a popular hitchhiking station on the highway to Tel Aviv. The rest were treated for light injuries and released, they said. Two other bombs went off Sunday, one near Tel Aviv and one in the occupied West Bank, wounding one person and severing a water line. Retaliation for Raids In Beirut, Lebanon, the Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted a PLO spokesman as saying the attacks were in retaliation for Israeli raids on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army said it apprehended a Palestinian man who threw a hand grenade at a military patrol in the West Bank village of Tsurif. After clamping a curfew on the village, the army said it found another grenade in the suspects house. No one was hurt. Tehran radio said Majlis speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani condemned the attack on Dezful and linked it to debate on the hostages. Pay Attention You should pay attention to these Important events happening in the region with the incitement of the same superpower whose hostages will be discussed in the session today. Cause of Resentment Iraq said Iranian fighter-bombePolice sources said the explosions raided fuur towns in northern Iraq and that Iraqi jets shot down an Iranian may have been timed to coincide with Phantom jet in a dogfight over the oil Sundays departure for Egypt of Presirefining city of Abadan in southwestern dent Yitzhak Navon, Israels first head of state to visit an Arab country. Iran. rs Navons trip, at the invitation of President Anwar Sadat, symbolized the peaceful relations between Israel and Egypt, a cause of deep resentment among Palestinians. Hitchhiking stations, simple tin shelters which shield benches from the sun, are frequent targets of Arab saboteurs, but the bombs usually are discovered before they go off. Sundays charge was hidden behind the shelter and blew a two-fohole in the ground. The explosion caused a massive traffic jam on the four-lan- e highway connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, See Page 6, Column I ot Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-- 2 Page Page Amusement Bridge Classified Comics Editorials Foreign Lifestyle AND MORE section. A-2- C-6- -7 D-- 4 C-- 5 D-- 2 D-4-- B-- M 5 A-1- 0 C-- 5 8 B-- 3 C-l-- 3 . . Mondays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Periods of rain or snow. Partial clearing by night. Weather details on D-- Americans would be freed before election day Nov. 4, which is also the first anniversary of their seizure by Iranian militants. Prepare for Debate Carter and Reagan spent the day in . the capital area, preparing for Tuesday nights televised debate which their aides say could decide the election. Independent candidate John Anderson has been excluded from the debate. Asked if Iran might free the hostages Strauss to aide Carters said on NBC televisions Meet the Press that Iranian leader Aytaollah Ruhollah Khomeini despised the U.S. president and would rather hurt than help him. Strauss said it would be an outrage if the ayatollah were able to manipulate the election result by his decision. Mondale said on ABCs Issues and Answers" program the administration was not trying to create optimism about an imminent release in order to improve its political prospects. Denies Manipulation We have tried to diminish exaggerWe he said. ated expectations, havent tried to use this In this campaign." Mondale denied the president was manipulating the crisis for his benefit when he refused to debate Democratic challenger Sen. Edward Kennedy during the early primaries, then said on April 30 the situation had become and he would resume manageable active campaigning. He said the administration was overwhelmed with studies and decisions on the hostages up Jo the time of the abortive commando attempt to rescue the hostages on April 24. He also chided Reagan for briefly raising the hostages as an issue in the campaign this month. Other Developments In other developments as the campaign entered its last full week: The New York Times endorsed Carter for while See Page the 2, Column 6 Atlantas Search for Bodies Becomes Grim Crusade By David L. Langford Associated Press Writer In a city anguished by the unsolved murders of 10 black children, with four others missing, weekend searches for bodies have become crusades joined by thousands of grim volunteers thrashing through bramble thickets and kudzu vines, peering into sewers and poking through derelict buildings. Again Saturday 3,000 men, women and children with walking sticks and g tools, filed into the cafeteria of the Charles Drew School to be assigned an area to hunt for two boys missing In the neighborhood. A sign apparently pain1-- 4 Kv children ATLANTA weed-choppin- and stretched across one wall of the cafeteria said, "Thank you for the world so sweet." Printed instructions handed the vol- unteers reminded that the world also can be violent. Victim Found "Be conscious of odors, the instructions read. Look for fresh diggings. The first such search on Oct. 18 turned up the decomposed remains of Latonya Wilson in the Dixie Hills community, just five blocks from where she had been abducted from her home five months earlier. That brought out four times as many seachers this Saturday to hunt for two boys missing in the East Lake Meadows community of southeast Atlanta. A civil defense van provided communications, the Salvation Army provided coffee, and city workers passed out tools. National Guardsmen and a squad of Marines took to the wooded areas as volunteers. A helicopter clattered overhead. Transit buses shuttled the searchers to their designated areas. Each team of about 30 had a leader with a map. Heartwarming Effort Mayor Maynard Jackson, who joined the hunt wearing a blue jumpsuit and a rain hat, called the effort heart- warming." John Bascom of the United Youth-Adu- lt Conference, a civic group which organized the searches, said, "We had people from all walks of life turn out for this thing and each week we get more people. But the search this weekend turned up only bones of animals, along with a pistol, a safe and a bank deposit bag which were turned over to police, possible evidence of crimes of another nature. Darron Glass, 10, who was last seen in the East Lake housing project on Sept. 14, and Christopher Richardson, 11, who disappeared June 9 while walking from home to a swimming pool, are still unaccounted for. Will Try Again The volunteers win try again next weekend in another neighborhood. Despite a reward fund that grew to over the past week, police Sunday seemed no closer to solving the murders of the children, all between the ages of 7 and 15, that began 15 months $100,000 ago. Last week, Dorothy Allison, a New Jersey woman who claims psychic powers and says she has solved 13 murders and located numerous missing people, flew to Atlanta at police expense to offer her help. Police said they were treating her like any other caller with information." A special task force working on the e case was Increased to 25 officers, and Gov. George Busbee ordered in state troopers over the full-tim- Sc Page 2, Column 3 |
