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NEWSBRIEFS 1 { Iranian president condemns hostage-taking NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)? President Hashemi Rafsanjami of Iran Monday condemned hostage-taking but said he would take no steps to help release 18 Westerners held in Lebanon until Iranians held in Lebanon are freed. In the past, Iran has linked its assistance in winning freedom for Western hostages in Lebanon to the fate of three Iranians kidnapped by Christian Lebanese Forces militiamen in north Lebanon in July 1982 and believed dead. The official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Rafsanjami as saying at a news conference in Tehran that hostage-taking is an "inhuman action" that can produce no positive political results. Answering a question from an American reporter, the Iranian president accused the United States of using the issue of the hostages as no more than a "bridge for re-establishing relations with Iran." He called on Washington to release more than $1 billion in frozen Iranian assets as a goodwill gesture for normalization of relations, IRNS reported in a dispatch monitored in Cyrus. "You have two options: First to unfreeze our assets, which you must do as we will take them back one day. But if you are very much fond of money, you can at least instruct your agents in Lebanon to free our hostages," Rafsanjani was quoted as saying by the agency. "If you claim they are dead, return their bodies to us or show us their graves," he added. AIDS cases among teen-agers spreading fast Alarming new data show the AIDS epidemic might be spreading rapidly among teen-agers. The federal Center for Disease Control (CPC) in Atlanta says it has now documented 415 cases of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) among teens between the ages of 13 to 19. "AIDS is a public health crisis in all age groups, but we are concerned about teen-agers," said Charles Fallis of the CDC. A study of student blood samples at 20 campuses this past February and March revealed about two out of every 1,000 collegians were infected with the AIDS virus. The latest CDC numbers suggest the virus has spread farther since then. In all, the CDC estimates that 1 million to 1.5 million of the nation's 230 million people are infected with the AIDS virus, a rate of 4.3 to 6.5 per 1,000 people. The rate for teens may be even higher, the new figures indicate. Nobel Prize winner for medicine to speak The complex development of the human embryo and associated developmental disorders will be discussed in a public lecture Nov. 2 at USC. Dr. Gerald Edelman, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology and Medicine, will present his research findings at 4 p.m. in the Law School auditorium. The free lecture should be of particular interest to high school biology instructors. Edelman, the Vincent Astor Professor at Rockefeller University, earned his bachelor's degree from Ursinus College and his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. The presentation is the first of the James T. Penny Lectures in Developmental Biology. Penny, a USC faculty member for 35 years until his death in 1984, also served as biology department chairman. 1 r A assortment of realisti ' period outfits, popula: TMtljwP and lots more! Come in i WfimkHalloween. Men, women I 717 King Street ^^w'' | 254-8866 ?P?n 10-71 "All eyes are on CPU. So co what we have plant /T?t_ _ 1 r? 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One Stanly Community College executive resigned under pressure and another will be reprimanded, apparently the result of community outrage over how the school is repairing its leadership troubles. On trustees' advice, acting President Donnie Lowdcr asked Vice President Darrell Page to resign Friday. Page submitted his resignation Mondav. but will take sick leave and vacation until Dec. 20. Page was accused of threatening instructors' jobs if they didn't support Charles Byrd, the school's former 90 president The trustees' advice to Lowder is a reversal from two weeks ago, when trustees voted Oct. 12 to allow Page to continue in his position. Lowder also said he will reprimand Jim Yandle, 45, raU ass'stant 10 Oie president for public affairs and marketing, and slash his salary 25 percent from $40,824 a BH year to $30,624. State auditors said Yandle lied to them during a recent investigation. "The board of trustees concur with Mr. Lowder's actions in responding to the audit concerning Mr. "V** Yandle and Mr. Page," said trustee Chairman Elbert j^lgi Whitley Jr. The two men's troubles are the result of events unlit folding since July, which also led to Byrd's resignajj| tion in September. Byrd resigned amid reports that he sexually harassed college recruiter Linda Funderud, lied to H state auditors and encouraged Funderud to tamper mm with documents. State auditors began investigating the college in August after The Charlotte Observer remP ported that Funderud was paid $20,904 a year but wasn t working. Their audit found that Byrd reassigned her to work out of her Cabarrus County home after she accused Jl him of sexual harassment. He also paid her and her k attorney $7,500. Hk The audit also implicated Page and Yandle. It said employees did not support Page, who advised the president on educational programs. And it said he ad mittcd making threatening remarks, but didn't mean them as threats. "He said that I'm in the position to have my throat Hjjj cut," Wcs Misenheimer, 30, a part-time teacher, told f The Observer in August. "I didn't take that literally. I took it as referring to my future at Stanly Community College." ecock Page could not be reached for comment. His office at the college had been emptied. ^us_ "I think that, based on the audit findings, this was a decision that was probably good for the college," Lowder said. CPU lie Koger Center ^ , Carolina Life _ I -a,S || ; "i i Gamecock ig you entertained. ' I { and Dad Happy, the Book. & Rlaek Yearbook ait Sittings bsolutely free, and nent is necessary. rOBER 23 THROUGH fOVEMBER 3RD. f TO 5 PM ? HOUSE MALL s? Call 777-3888 f TO BEAT THE LINES! ? t '