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Jan. 1, 1980 DES MOINES REGISTER 3A Brown's aide says Carter using Iran as an 'excuse' REGISTER PHOTO BY KARA NANDELL I in rjrTZL hi. Ji, his mind." Gannon said he plans no Continued from Page One ii umit umidim, The '70s sign out Darrell Houseman of Des Moines puts up the letters Monday afternoon for the last sign of the '70s outside a motel Split among GOP delegates seen on Fleur Drive in Des Moines. Ex-Iowa surgeon, friend shot to death SmcM CMteatch TM Knitter SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. Authorities Monday were investigating the killing of a former Iowan and a woman friend who were found shot to death in his residence here Sunday.

Dr. Robert J. Offerman, 44, an orthopedic surgeon, formerly lived in Dyersville and Dubuque, and had practiced here for several years, authorities said. The bodies of Offerman and Alexandria Manning, 35, of Santa Maria, were found at 11 a.m. Sunday by a friend who had stopped by to pick up Offerman to play tennis, investigators said.

Both bodies were lying in a bedroom. "We have no suspects at this point, and no clear-cut motive for the murders," said Sgt. Bill Baker of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. Baker said there was "no evidence of a robbery" as a possible motive. He said there were signs of a struggle in the bedroom, but nothing else in the residence appeared to have been disturbed.

He said neighbors reported to officers that they heard what sounded like gunshots about 3 a.m. Sunday, and authorities believe that is when the murders took place. College bans liquor NEW BRITAIN, CONN. (AP) -Reacting to vandalism, assaults and intoxication in class, Central Connecticut State College announced Monday that it is banning liquor from campus. long as Americans continue to be held nostage in Tehran." Powell said: "We would like nothing more than for the situation in Iran to be peacefully resolved at an early date so that the nresident could participate in a debate prior to the Jan.

lowa precinct caucuses," but until the situation in Iran is resolved, however, we feel we have no choice other than to reluctantly regret that we cannot accept the debate proposal." The reaction from the Kennedy and Brown campaigns was quick and angry. "Unfortunate" Decision Kennedy press secretary Tom Southwick said Carter's decision was "unfortunate," adding that "President Carter was the first to accept Gannon's debate invitation in November after the hostages were taken. I don't believe Carter felt that way then about having to avoid political debates and I'm not quite sure what has changed since then." When told the president's approval ratings in public opinion polls have dramatically improved since the crisis began, Southwick said, "I don question people's motives. It is a point of fact that he was the first to accept after the hostages were taken He was willing to debate at that time. Brown Aide "Astounded" But Brown's press secretary, Tom Quinn, was willing to question Carter's motives, and he accused the president of "using the tragedy in Iran to bolster his re-election prospects, and I find that despicable." In a sharply worded statement, Quinn said he was "astounded" at Carter's decision to decline the second proposal.

"Mr. Carter's refusal to accept the new debate offer proves that he intends to run a closed campaign where the president will be carefully packaged by his advertising people, but shielded from tough questioning," Quinn said. He noted that Carter will appear Sunday night in a 30-minute campaign television program. "I wonder how Mr. Carter can find time to appear in that expensive prepackaged program, but not have the time to appear live in Washington, D.C., with Governor Brown and Senator Kennedy," said Quinn.

"The truth is obvious," he added. "Mr. Carter intends to use Iran as an excuse to avoid discussing other pressing issues particularly inflation and energy." Carter's "refusal to debate will not help free the hostages. There i simply no connection," Quinn said. Carter's decision Monday drew criticism from former Texas Gov.

John Connally, who is seeking the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. "His real purpose for avoiding the debate should now be obvious. Clearly, it's not concern for the hostages, and foreign policy, but concern over polls and domestic politics," Connally said. Telegram to Carter Gannon said Carter's decision means there will be no Democratic debate "unless the president changes delegates to the county convention, it is possible that, for the sake of politics, she'll end up voting for some close friends who are committed to other candidates. Milligan, who is involved in the Bush campaign, acknowledges that a number of people who are accustomed to being winners are going to have to end up losers in Precinct 74 on Jan.

21. But Milligan believes there is enough Bush strength in Precinct 74 for victory. "I don't expect to be a loser," he says. In case the Connally-Reagan-Bak-er-Bush struggle in Precinct 74 doesn't provide enough political spice, there are other forces at work. The candidacies of both John Anderson and Philip Crane must not be discounted, for example.

Top-level backers of both candidates live in Precinct 74. Finally, both Roberts and Keith Uhl, though uncommitted in the presidential race, would like to be among the elected county delegates. That would be almost automatic in scores of precincts across the state as a matter of respect for the positions the men bold. But at this point, neither Roberts nor Uhl seems willing to bet that he'll make it. "Unless you take a stand on the presidential race, it may not be possible to go to the county convention as a delegate," Uhl says.

Continued from Page One lature in 1976 and is a member of Reagan's Iowa Strategy Committee. From the Bush camp Robert A. Burnett, president of the Meredith Joseph Strasser, president of United Federal Savings and Loan As sociation; Charles Betts, president of Betts Cadillac and George Milligan, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 1974 and executive vice president of the Iowa-Des Moines National Bank. All are members of the Iowa Bush Committee.

From the Baker camp Nancy Norman-Uhl, a bureau chief for the Iowa Department of Social Services who has held top posts in both the Iowa and National Women's Political Caucuses; Arthur Owens, a lawyer, Mrs. Kirkwood E. Jewett, widow of a prominent businessman all three members of Baker's National Advisory Committee. Also, Thomas Christ, a physician and a member of Baker's Iowa Advisory Committee. "Well Organized" Keith Uhl, a lawyer and the precinct chairman, believes all four groups may be "extremely well organized" by caucus time.

"For more than a month, they ve been working on slates of delegates, lining up people," he says. The primary work of the Republi can caucus-goers in Precinct 74 is to elect 11 delegates to the Polk County Convention. Theoretically, the intent of each caucus-goer is to elect a slate of county delegates who support the candidate of that caucus-goer's choice. The county delegates, 685 in all, elect district and state convention delegates. The national delegates are elected by the district and state conventions.

Considering that Iowa has only 37 National Convention delegates, the odds are very long that any one individual attending a precinct caucus will end up as a national delegate. But in Precinct 74, both Roberts and Uhl say that at least one of the 11 county delegates is certain to go all the way, a situation that makes the stakes much higher than usual. The problem, however, is that several residents of Precinct 74 may be interested in going all the way to the National Convention. Gerald Kirke is. Nancy Norman- Uhl is.

John Ruan says he hasn't thought about it, but adds: "I'm sure it's something I could do, if I tried. Never Been Ruan adds that although he's going to his precinct caucus and hopes to carry it for Connally, he hasn't yet done any precinct organizational work. "I've never been to a caucus before," he says. Roberts believes that Ruan might be able to win one of the 11 county delegate spots on the strength of his name alone. But others aren't so sure.

Keith Uhl says that being a prominent person may not be enough to end up a further attempts to arrange a meeting of the Democrats. As a newspaper, we've carried this as far as we should. We've done what we could in the public interest, and it didn't work. So that's it" Gannon said in his telegram to Carter that "Iowans deserve a chance to hear and compare the candidates' stands on the issues of the 1980 campaign before making their choices" in the state's Jan. 21 precinct caucuses.

In his telegram to the candidates, Gannon said the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company "has devoted substantial amounts of time, talent and money" preparing for the Jan. 7 debate and "we are unwilling to write off that effort, and the people's right to have a debate among the candidates, without one last attempt to make such a meeting possible. The debate of Republican candi dates will go on as scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Civic Center in Des Moines. Live network coverage of GOP debate asked By CHARLES BULLARD Mikr StiH Witter Republican presidential candidate Howard Baker called on ABC, CBS and NBC Monday to provide live coverage of the GOP presidential candidates' debate Saturday in Des Moines.

The three networks had been making plans' to provide live coverage of the Republican debate and a similar debate Jan. 7 for Dem ocratic presidential candidates when President Carter decided Friday to withdraw from the Democratic forum. The president's decision killed the Democratic debate and caused the networks to re-evaluate their coverage of the GOP forum. In a telegram to the presidents of the three networks, Baker urged them not to let the demise of the Democratic debate affect coverage of the Republican forum. "To permit President Carter's decision to avoid the Democratic debate to cancel planned live coverage of the Republican debate would be irresponsible and unfair," Baker said in the telegram.

"If the shoe were on the other foot, all America knows what would have happened," Baker continued. "If I and all of my Republican colleagues had pulled out of the Saturday Republican debate, would you have even considered canceling live coverage of the Democratic debate on Monday night? Of course not." A spokesman for NBC said the network does not plan to carry the Republican forum live. A spokesman for CBS said the network will announce its decision Wednesday. However, the Associated Press said CBS has decided to cover the Republican debate in a late-night special rather than with a live telecast. ABC executives could not be reached for comment Monday.

But Iowans will be able to watch the debate live on the Iowa Public Broadcasting Network. IPBN will feed the live coverage to the national public broadcasting network, and local affiliates elsewhere will decide whether to air the debate. effects of the exhaust fumes. He based his reasoning in part on what he had read of the pioneering work of Dr. Hans Selye, who demonstrated that an overload of stress depletes the resources of the body's endocrine system, and can lead to serious illness.

Selye "detailed the negative effects of the negative emotions on body chemistry," Cousins writes. "The inevitable question arose in my mind: What about the positive emotions? If negative emotions produce negative chemical changes in the body, wouldn't the positive emotions produce positive chemical changes? Is it possible that love, hope, faith, laughter, confidence and the will to live have therapeutic value?" So despite the "downer" effect of being told he had a potentially fatal illness, Cousins methodically prescribed laughter for himself. He also convinced his doctor, an old friend, to take him off the pain-killing drugs and put him on massive doses of vitamin a deficiency of which bad been reported in some persons with a collagen disease. By the end of the eighth day of his homespun regimen, Cousins could move his thumbs without pain a significant improvement for a man who a week before had felt as though he had been run over by a truck. He was sleeping fairly normally, and all medical signs showed the infection to be receding.

Within months, be was back at work and has improved gradually, returning to near normal over the years since then. Cousins readily concedes that what happened to him could have been caused by the placebo effect, which would mean, in essence, that be was cured because of his strong belief that what be was doing would benefit him. But the laughter itself may have enabled him to keep his spirits up, thus helping him retain his positive outlook on his prognosis. NANCY NORMAN-UHL winner. "If I were a prominent person, I'd want to make sure I had my votes there.

I wouldn't want to run and lose," he says. Kirke, on the other hand, says Ruan is "a powerful man, and a lot of people are afraid to vote against him." Such considerations may be tempered, however, if the state party's suggestion for a secret ballot is followed. In any event, Kirke doubts that Ruan can deliver all of Precinct 74 for Connally. Kirke and most other observers believe the 11 delegate spots will end up split among the Connally, Reagan, Bush and Baker forces. For his own part, Kirke is aiming at one of those 11 seats and hopes to go all the way to the National Convention.

He is relying on Reagan supporters, of course, but also, he's counting on some of his friends who are working for the other candidates. "I've got enough friends there, and a number of them might cross over and vote for me anyway," he says. John Keith Rehmann, now of Bradenton, has been attending Precinct 74 caucuses since 1952. He'll be there this time, too, working for Reagan and helping Kirke line up his friends. "Too Mean" But Rehmann doubts that Ruan is well enough acquainted with the intricacies of precinct politics to end up as a county convention delegate.

Still, Rehmann thinks Ruan will garner some Connally support that night: "Nobody's going to get the Connally people away from Ruan because Ruan's too mean," Rehmann says. Some believe caucus attendance could run as high as 300, hut that is questionable, since the precinct now takes in less territory than it once did. Still, Rehmann says there are more than 900 registered Republicans in the precinct, and he wouldn't be surprised if one-third of them came to the caucus. Roberts, the state Republican Chairman, also expects a large turnout. "The people out there take their politics as seriously as they take their religion and their education," he says.

Another Precinct 74 Republican, Nancy Norman-Uhl, wife of precinct chairman Keith Uhl, says that she, too, hopes to end up at the National Convention. She adds, however, that even though she is firmly committed to Baker and wants to send 11 Baker WHEN YOU PURCHASE A STEVC ROBERTS Ill man showed progress after 8-day laugh regimen SIP IS I (l -is MAYNARD REECE OR ROBERT BATEMAN ORIGINAL PRINT Continued from Page One some Marx Brothers films, and books such as E.B. and Katherine White's "Subtreasury of American Humor" and Max Eastman's "The Enjoyment of Laughter." "I made the joyous discovery that 10 minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep," Cousins relates. While in bed, barely able to move, he kept forcing merriment the way some people with a cold force fluids. After each humor session, he and his doctors also observed a drop in his blood sedimentation rate (an indication that the inflammation in his system was receding).

Cousins bad returned home from a trip abroad with a slight fever, then began noticing increasing difficulty in moving his limbs. Admitted to the hospital, he was diagnosed as having an Illness involving the deterioration of collagen, the fibrous substance that binds the cells of the body together. Id addition, the connective tissue in bis spine was disintegrating, Cousins says. One specialist who examined him gave him one chance in 500 of recovering, and another said that he never had known personally a patient to recover from the condition. At this point.

Cousins, who always had had an above-average knowledge of things medical and had been a longtime believer in holistic medicine, began doing some analyzing of his own. His doctors had told him heavy metal poisoning could have caused his type of illness. Cousins realized he had been exposed to an unusual amount at diesel-truck and jet plane exhanst while abroad, and that certain eveats during the trip bad created emotional wear and tear, thus towering his resistance to the If you buy a Maynard Reece or Robert Bateman print at The Art Store, you may select any custom framing of your choice and receive 50 off the custom framing price. You must purchase the print from the Art Store between January 1 and January 31st. This is a great opportunity for wildlife collectors, business, and corporate collectors.

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