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Show P5 Tht Deity UUh ChronW. KMntsdsy. Jcnucry Four 23. 1(31 Put Iran in its place Kudos to campus rec Iran 's complex crisis Editor: Editor: Since Mike Shea has become director of campus recreation, the program has improved each year. Schedules for the various facilities are reliable; new programs, such as outdoor recreation, have been added; regular maintenance is performed on the equipment; and new equipment has been added. In my dealings with him I have found him to be straightforward and honest When you take him a problem or question you get an answer, not the runaround. If he doesn't know the answer he will take the trouble to find out and call back. This is to let him know that his efforts are appreciated. Patrick Redington U's closet Napoleons I would like to respond to the letter cone erniiiR the Iranian crisis: in her letter, while watching the American their on hostages way to Germany. wrote about the apparent positive treatment of the hostages. At that point, unlike the writers who responded to Iter letter, she had no knowledge of negative treatment. 2. The seizure and treatment of the hostages are not condoned, but instead, are vehemently denounced by moderate Iranians since the beginning, as represented by President Bani Sadr. who knew it was illegal, inhumane, and totally blackened the name of the revolution. A distinction must be made between religious zealots, the mullahs and moderate Iranians. 3. The American-Irania- n conflict did not. as it appears, 1978 when in November the hostages were seized, but begin 30 years earlier during the government of Mossadegh, a secular, rational leader who sought Iranian independence from Britain and the United States. An American CIA coup Shah Pahlavi toppled Mossadegh in 1952 and the pro-U.was put in power. Moreover, initially, the hostages were taken by themilitants to gain public attention and inform the world of this long American involvement with the insidious Shah Pahlavi and his Savak secret police. Tragically, the situation exploded into months instead of days and confusion instead of an information platform. The Iranian conflict will probably be perceived by most Americans simplistically as "good" vs "evil" which is curiously the same theme of the religious, Iranian zealots. However, I hold the news media, in general, responsible for this narrow point of view because they failed to objectively analyze and report the Iranian crisis as the complex, 1. As stated Shahin-Ghandeha- S. Editor: One needn't scour history texts to find the bold actions of our noble campus police either unusual or anything other than beneath contempt. Such a well organized band of "closet Napoleons" demonstrates a paraphrastic maxim: A little power is a dangerous thing. The recent trivial apprehension of 27 people suggests that any state of narcosis is being enjoyed by these swell gendarmes. Wayne Shepherd and his cohorts should apply for the Bountiful Police Force; the arena of crime without consequence is patently their element. De only ting is, I sure hope dese guys don't slam me wit a parking citation because of all dis vicuxTation! -- Film Festival t ? sponsored by Lambda Delta Sigma "Sounds" So Unbelievable They'll Go to Your Head! Records In Stereo Sped) flywheel mewraes motion in ,aZ7?V. h lnteifence. Bufit-l- 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. i central institute complex J Dane B. Jones Catherine Legge Robert Redford J Friday, January 30th place. historical conflict it is. Philip Willden j ri Editor: In the Jan. 23 issue of the Chroniclr. some character stated that "the condition of the hostages indicates that not only were they not tortured or harassed, but they were also treated with rare, dignity and deewicy .'To me. this sounds like they wer e treated as guests rather than hostages. Some people have fixed beliefs which this character seems to have. Well, if I woe held captive for Hi days. I sure would be -, of happy to be set free- and I doubt very much if a state I found out I was after hit would immediately depression going home. So this is a reason why the hostages looked happy because of high spirits. The guy w ho wrote that letter sure sounds like he is an Iranian who saw it all. He also sounds like he is trying to defend his country. The questions. "What are we going to do?" and "What should be done about the incident in Iran?" have come up I many times since Americans were taken hostage more than i months ago. Both the U.S. government and the American people try to spread freedom and democracy to the rest of the world. Bui in this process, we don't seem to get through to communism and terrorism. If communists and terrorists are going to deprive-al- l of us of our freedom, we owe it to ourselves to stand up for our beliefs and not to let them take those beliefs away from us. Other than our word of honor, I don't see any reason why we owe Iran anything just because the Iranians are freeing 52 people. We seem always to be the bystander and try not to offend anybody just to show the world that we're not the "bad guy." Although I think that the agreement with Iran to frtr the hostages should be kept, we really don't owe the Iranian government a damn thing, except for some drastic measures which should be bestowed upon them by our government. But, American should keep its word of honor. 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