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rresident Jimmy Carter was in Columbia Friday
and spoke at the Township Auditorium. (Photo by
John Parnel/)
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By Susan Hand
Staff Writer
The Iranian parliament is debating to decide whether the
52 American hostages will be released after one year in
captivity.
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professor says he doesn't, think the hostages will suffer adverse
psychological effects.
"I see the whole hostage issue as the wrong thing done for
the right reason. Many of the accusations made against the
United States were true, such as the American manipulation
of the Iranian political scene," said Dr. Kenneth Perkins, a
UvSC history professor who specializes in the Islamic Middle
v East.
} . "The shah could not have attained the position he did if the
' unueu Maies naa not neiped him," Perkins said. "The
hostages might have been involved in extra-legal intelligence
work."
Perkins said he believes the hostages will be released. And
he said he thinks it is still possible that they could be released
before Election Day.
He said he thinks the Iranian conservatives who are
boycotting their parliament sessions are doing so because it
is hard for them to change their positions so openly.
"IF THEY SUDDENLY reverse their positions, it would
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over," Perkins said.
Perkins said he believes the hostage situation could have
been resolved in a matter of weeks if President Carter had
been willing to do some of the things the Iranians were asking
at that time, such as to offer an apology.
Perkins said he believes the hostages had served their
purpose by the time the Iranian-Iraqi war began in late
September.
The reason the hostages were taken was "to allow the
conservative fiinrinmpnta1i?*? t
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ment over the moderates," he said.
Another reason the hostages were taken, he said, was "to
illustrate that the United States had been involved in a
illegitimate way in Iranian affairs."
I'KHKINS SAID that although the hostages had served
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By Mark Platte
News Editor
President Jimmy Carter
visited Columbia Thursday
and Friday in a final effort to
defeat Ronald Reagan in
South Carolina before
Tuesday's election.
Carter arrived on Air
Force One at Columbia
Metropolitan Airport at
11:30 p.m. Thursday. About
150 people greeted him. Gov.
Dick Riley and Sen. Fritz
Rollings (D-S.C.) were
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porters who inet Carter at
the airport.
Carter was swarmed by
national and local reporters
after he landed and
proceeded to shake hands
with politicians and about
100 Columbians who braved
the cold rain late that night.
The president spent Thursday
night at the governor's
mansion.
Riley said Thursday that
Carter had a good chance of
w inning t h e state.
"President Carter was here
in Greenville recently to talk
. with-textile* workers about,
their problems," Riley said,
referring to Carter's midSeptember
visit.
"Now he will talk to
students and their parents
3S
ome before t
these two purposes, the situ
patriotic cause in this coui
climate," he said.
' "If the hostages were relea!
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would clearly help the Irani
else.
"If the Iranians were resu
on the U.S.S.R. to help Iraq,"
pressure, the process might i
get out of hand."
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Perkins said that in the lonj
United States' interests lie
Iranians lose the war, theii
tegrate. But he said the wa
toward a win-lose situation.
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ruiMiib sum mt* Iranian
President Carter rather than
is generally more acceptat
Keagan, because "Keagan h
out the Marines every time so
"IT WOULD BE in the Iran
loose before Election Day if
Perkins said.
I Thomas Cafferty, a social \
of psychology, said he does n
major psychological problem:
"I don't think we are like
psychological disturbances w
released," he said.
Cafferty said the hostages i
health problems, such as nutri
"They may fall depressec
common response to nutrition
any psychological problems \
more of a side effect to some g
Cafferty said probably thejj
face after they are released fo
"They have been separate
communication.They probabi
their home and family is like,
year," he said.
about problems Friday. But
President Carter's concern
extends far beyond the
Township Auditorium,"
Riley said.
THE TOWNSHIP
Auditorium was the site of
Friday morning's town hall
meeting, a speaking format
Carter has used throughout
the 1980 camDaien. Hun
dreds of high school students
were selected to see Carter,
and six were picked to ask
the president questions.
The crowd at the
auditorium at 8:15 a.m.
Friday was small. About 600
seats were vacant during the
meeting. Carter spoke
briefly outside the Township
to a mostly black audience of
about 2.000. "Even though
I'm for Georgia," he said. "I
think the Gamecocks have a
chance against the
Bulldogs."
Carter made another
referenrp to SiinHav'c nQr*.
Georgia game, saying,
"Aside from teams, there's a
contest between two men.
One of course, is Herschel
Walker from Wrightsville
and the other is George
Rogers from Duluth,"
Carter said, adding that he
hopes that if Rogers has
maae me oesi contributions
he election?
ation backfired. "It created a
ntry in a generally apathetic
sed and the United States let the
lians go to Iran, it changes the
i^erKins said. "This resupply
ans psychologically, if nothing
pplied, it might bring pressure
Perkins said. "If they met that
escalate and could conceivably
> run, as far as the war goes, the
with Iran, adding that if the*
r country will probably disinr
does not seem to be heading
s would prefer dealing with!
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>le to Middle-Easterners than
as the tendency to want to call
mething happens.
ians' interest to let the hostages
they want Carter re-elected,"
jsychologist and USC professor
iot think the hostages will have
s as a result of their captivity,
ly to see any cases of severe
un tne hostages when they are
may be suffering from general
itional deficiencies.
I after a while, but this is a
ial problems," he said. "I think
ve may see would probably be
ener&l health problems." *
nain problem the hostages may
social adjustment.
I frooi their families with little
ly developed a sense of what
but they have been away for a
> Colu
>rn ap
to South Carolina, "I hope
Jimmy Carter comes in
second."
Carter made his greatest
appeal by referring to his
southern heritage. "I'm glad
to be here in the Southland,
back home where I belong,
and I'm intending to come
back here and stay in 1985
His Reagan-Ker
give a tremendout
rich and would
controllable in fla tic
after I finish my second term
in the White House," he said.
"AS A SOUTHKRNKK,
neighbor, democrat, incumbent
president and
friend, I ask you to go the
second mile for me in the
last few days," Carter said.
The president admitted that
the election was very close,
but he said he feels confident
he can win South Carolina.
John Sookikian a
Columbia High > School
senior, asked Carter the first
question at the Township
meeting. Sookikian said he
was tired of the Soviets
"taking from us since World
War II." Sookikian said,
"The next war is going to be
fought by people like me.and
I, for one, am sick and tired
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I'd like to see us stand up for
our rights." The audience
applauded.
President Carter said he
would not commit the United
States to get involved in a
country where the United
States faced no direct threat
of war.
CARTER SAID the embargo
of grain, technology
and meat to the Soviet Union
has hurt that country as well
as caused countries such as
China, Egypt and Nigeria to
become American allies.
"The failure of communism
has been demonstrated
vividly by the fact
that the Soviets don't have a
single nation on earth out of
150 nations that wants to
have the same kind of
government which exists in
the Soviet Union," Carter
said. "But there are dozens
of nations now shifting over
to the American form of
government, which shows in
the long run, we'll prevail."
Carter blamed inflation on
the OPEC nations' oil price
increases. He said that since
he took office, 44,000 federal
government jobs have been
eliminated, a sign of "giving
better services with a more
efficient government."
Carter said a youth bill
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in the Senate will establish
(800,000 new jobs for high
school juniors and older
people.
He also said businesses
will get tax incentives so
they will invest in new tools
and new plants to keep
mbia
peal
American workers more
productive.
"GOVERNOR REAGAN
has taken positions opposite
to the ones I've described,"
Carter said. "His ReaganKemp-Roth
bill would give a
tremendous tax break to the
rich and would result in
uncontrollable inflation
np-Roth bill would
> tax break to the
f result in unm...'
Jimmy Carter
The Kemp Roth Bill advocates
a M) percent acrossthe-board
tax cut over three
years, resulting in a $167.6
billion reduction in the
federal budget.
IN' A MILD conflict.
Ronald Beaton, a C.A
Johnson High School
teacher, challenged Carter
to tell him il the United
States could verify the
number of weapons in the
Soviet Union. Carter assured
Beaton that everything in
SALT II can be verified, but
Beaton, a fighter in the
Korean and Vietnam Wars,
went on to talk about the
targets he was not permitted
to hit as a B-52 bomber pilot.
"Maybe after 1 leave, you
would want to continue your
explanations, but 1 really
would like to have a
question," Carter said
The crowd started to
harrass Beaton until he
finally sat down.
"Sometimes a president has
to place restraints on the
activities of our country,"
Carter said after Beaton was
finished. "I literally have at
my fingertips the most
awesome destructive force
on earth."
Today
at USC
Red Crass Blood
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4:30 p.m. in the
Towers gameroom.
HH Film "Mother/*
a
Russian film about a
working-class mother
who turns
revolutionary after
her son is arrested.
Shows at 7 and 9:30
jhiiK Free.
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