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The Red and Black. Tuesday. October 28. 1980
Khomeini non-partisan; hostages will stay
BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPD—Iran will not free
the 52 American hostages before the U S.
elections because Ayatollah Kuhollah Khomeini
does not want their release to benefit either
President Carter or Ronald Reagan, senior
Iranian diplomatic sources said Monday.
A special envoy from Khomeini’s office
visiting Beirut said Iranian Prime Minister
Mohammad Ali Rajai conveyed this message,
directed to Carter through U N Secretary-Gen
eral Kurt Waldheim during his visit to New York
earlier this month
In Washington. State Department officials said
there has been no communication from the
Iranian authorities about the timing of the
hostage issue Rudolf Stajduhar. spokesman for
Waldheim, said "I'm not aware of any message
relayed through the secretary general to
President Carter.”
' Khomeini is neither pro-Carter nor pro-Rea
gan,” the envoy said. "He does not want the
hostage issue to be decisive in the American
elections. He does not care who wins.”
The envoy, who declined to be identified, said
Rajai told Waldheim that Khomeini wants to
resolve the 359-day-old hostage question but that
he will not release the American captives until
after Nov. 4—election day in the United
States—so as not to benefit either presidential
candidate
The sources said this was the earliest the
hostages could be freed and cautioned that much
hard bargaining and political infighting
remained before the Iranians made their final
terms for release clear.
The Iranian parliament or majlis began
debating the terms of the hostages release
Sunday But after three closed-door sessions on
Sunday and Monday, no formal conditions were
agreed upon.
The sources said Khomeini now favors the
release of the hostages, held since Nov. 4, 1979,
because they are no longer useful for him in
Iran's domestic political game. He used the
American captives to defeat the moderate, or
so-called “pro-American” circles in Iran.
Since the task was more or less completed, the
hostages have been a burden, especially in the
context of the Iran Iraq war which finds Tehran
badly in need of international goodwill and
trading partners
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bag of political tricks, the
young Talmadge added a
new twist: running against
the Atlanta “Liberals"
using Atlanta corporate
money.
The senator runs explict-
ly on his record. The
message is that Herman
Talmadge is a powerful
man. an accomplished legis
lator. and that Georgians
ought to think twice before
giving up that power
Likewise, the opposition
to Talmadge among many
voters is personal It is not
his record to which they
object, since so few are
familiar with it; some
voters just object to Tal-
madge the man. A lurid
public divorce, a bout with
alcoholism and a formal
denunciation by the Senate
for mishandling public
funds have left some
Georgians with a thorough
distaste for the name
Herman Talmadge
TALMADGE
Those who go behind
Talmadge's personal prob
lems. behind the cliche that
"it’s time for a change."
find a Senate record that is
difficult to characterize.
Talmadge is certainly con
servative, but he is not a
rabid right-winger He
tends to vote consistently
on certain issues, but not
inflexibly.
The man who wrote "You
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ODD INDEPENDENCE
There is more than just
rhetoric to the campaign
cry that Talmadge is a
powerful man. He chairs
the senate committee on
Agriculture. Nutrition and
Forestry, where he has
managed to rally an odd
group of liberals and
conservatives behind a
comprehensive farm and
agribusiness policy.
Talmadge got a seat on
the agriculture committee
when he first went to
Washington in 1956, and he
likes to boast that not a
single piece of farm legis
lation has passed the Senate
without the ‘‘Talmadge
imprint" since then
It is in his image as a
friend .to farmers, and to
rural people generally, that
the major source of Tal
madge's political strength
lies In the runoff election
against Zell Miller. Tal
madge carried every county
except a handful in Miller's
territory of north Georgia
and the metropolitan
counties of Clarke, Fulton,
DeKalb and Muscogee
(Columbus). The vote for
Talmadge in four rural
counties exceeded 80
percent.
Talmadge's concerns ex
tend beyond agricultural
policy, however He ranks
second in seniority on the
powerful Senate finance
committee, chairing the
subcommittee on health.
He ranks second on the
veteran's affairs committe..
A fiscal conservative, he
pushed bills to limit govern
ment spending to an amount
equal to revenues.
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Americans for Democratic
Action, a liberal political
lobby which publishes "lib
eral quotients" for con
gressmen based on their
voting records, gave Tal
madge a lowly 16 in 1979,
compared to 79 for Ted
Kennedy and a perfect 100
for George McGovern In
1978, however. Talmadge
got a 40 from the ADA—still
on the right, but not the
score of an arch-conserv
ative.
Americans for Constitu
tional Action, a group as
conservative as the ADA is
liberal, gave Talmadge a 39
in 1978. By comparison,
Georgia Democrat Sam
Nunn got a 67, while
Tennessee Republican
Howard Baker got a 79.
Kennedy got a four
Talmadge's votes on
major issues reflect the
same odd independence. He
consistently favors high
spending on arms, and
votes for bills favoring
nuclear power But he also
voted for the Panama Canal
treaty, against deregulation
of natural gas, and against
the Kemp-Roth tax-cut bill,
a Republican measure that
would cut taxes 33 percent
over three years.
RELATIVE LIBERAL
The senator is fighting
hard to win this election,
and he is taking nothing for
granted. He has the money
to wage a high powered,
last-minue television cam
paign, and he has reserved
the air time to do it.
His opponent. Mack Mat
tingly, has charisma, mon
ey, recognition, and a shot
at being the first Republi
can to win a statewide
election since Reconstruc
tion Talmadge cannot
accuse Mattingly of that
sin liberalism, since in the
general election Talmadge
is probably the relative
liberal.
News Briefs
Persian Gulf War moves into sixth week
BAGHDAD. Iraq (UPD—Last-ditch Iranian defenders fought on in the embattled
city of Khurramshahr Monday. Iraqi attackers inched close to Abadan—the key oil
refinery city—and Iranian warplanes ranged over the battlefronts in a series of fresh
attacks.
None of the battles were conclusive as Iran and Iraq hammered each other and
the Persian Gulf war dragged into its sixth week
Iraq shelled Ahvaz, capital of oil-rich Khuzistan province, and Iraqi jets attacking
the city were driven off. Tehran said In the far north. Iran claimed its forces were
in "complete control" of mountainous areas around Qasr-i-Shirin and Gilan.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said his country was still ready to halt the
36-day-old war with Iran and enter into negotiations, the state-owned Iraqi news
agency said.
Both sides reported heavy ground fighting on several fronts, though casualty
reports were low. Tehran said the final death toll in Sunday's Iraqi rocket attack on
Dizful was 106.
But no conclusive battle action was reported while Iran’s parliament secretly
debated its terms for freeing 52 American hostages approaching the first
anniversary of their confinement.
One of the war’s deadliest attacks came Sunday when Iraq launched five two-ton
missiles against Dizful, an oil center and Iranian garrison town in Khuzistan
province. The Soviet made Frog-7 ground-to-ground missiles killed 106 people, many
in their beds, and injured 290, Tehran said Monday.
Nation’s productivity on the rise
WASHINGTON (UPI)—American businesses generally increased their
productivity in the third quarter to register the first gain this year—another sign the
recession probably ended in late summer, the government reported Monday.
The Labor Department said the 2.6 percent increase in business productivity,
excluding farms, in the third quarter followed a 3.7 percent decline in the second
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The senator's appeal will
be as personal this time as
it has always been. On
election day. the specifics of
the Talmadge record may
not matter much to Georgia
voters.
It is Herman they have
been returning to office for
three decades, not his
record.
Wednesday's installment
will look at the prospects
and campaign pledges of
But private and government economists indicated the growth was a natural quirk
in the business cycle, and some questioned whether it can be sustained in the current
quarter
The report said the 2.6 percent increase in productivity resulted from all percent
increase in business output and a 1.4 percent decline in hours worked
Labor Department economist Lawrence Fulco said "it is not unusual al all" for
productivity to turn upward at the end of a recession because work forces, still small
from recession-induced layoff, produce more as orders for new business increase.
“But that doesn't mean workers are more efficient or productive." said Sandra
Shaber, senior economist with Chase Econometrics in Bala Cynwood, Fa. "It's just a
phenomenon of the business cycle."
1 m still looking for a decline in productivity in the fourth quarter," she said.
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