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MANILA, Philippines (UPI) — The United States announced I today it would accept 1,200 Viet namese refugees from the Philip- I pines, including 600 from the freighter Tung An, marooned in Manila Bay for 48 days. Canada also confirmed it would take from 300 to 350 refugees from the vessel packed with 2,100 Viet namese and Australia said it would resettle 200, New Prime Minister The announcements by the three countries came at a meeting of about 30 ambassadors brought Names Military Chief tl I together by Foreign Minister TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) — Carlos F. Romulo to discuss the refugee situation in the Philip Ayatollah Ruhollah Related stories on pines. K hom eini’s revolutionary pages 6 and 7. U.S. Ambassador Richard forces completed their seizure nt of Murphy told the assembled of- of Iran today and his prime danced n the tanks abandoned by the •rmleullto I ficials the United States would minister, Mehdi Bazargan, for ■It moM take 600 refugees from the "immortals.” | iMrcoal Fabella Center in suburban Man- mally took over the govern Bazargan appealed to his followers Dtorod Mtid daluyong Town and 600 from the ment. Bazargan promptly for calm amid wild jubilation by Mot moM I Tung An. named a new military chief of Khomeini supporters who rampaged I food*, polo Murphy’s announcement came staff. through the capital firing wildly into rlcMl the air. on the 48th day of the Tung An’s The takeover came after forces stay in Manila Bay. Refugees The commander of Shah loyal to the 78-year-dld ayatollah cap Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s Imperial aboard the vessel were denied tured the luxurious Niavaran palace asylum in the Philippines, wich guard was killed — apparently by his vacated by the shah 26 days ago and own men — after he switched his claimed there was no more room took control of the last stronghold of I for them at Fabella. loyalty to Khomeini in a communique loyalist troops in Tehran — the broadcast Sunday night. every More than 2,000 refugees at Lavizan barracks where the shah’s Mennbers of Khomeini’s popular little Fabella have been awaiting elite imperial guard had held out un resettlement for months prior to til early today. militia stormed the Lavizan thing barracks, where the elite palace the arrival of the Tung An Dec. 27 Bazargan, designated by the and the United States had refused guard — dubbed the "immortals" — ayatollah as his prime minister on held out against the Ayatollah’s to give priority to the people the religious leader’s return from 15 aboard the vessel. forces until early today. years of exile, fired the pro-shah Khomeini, in an appeal broadcast chief of staff of Iran’s a rm ^ forces over the radio, called on thousands of The Economy and appointed Maj. Gen. his heavily armed followers to Hold Onto Your Sled Mmohammed Vali Qami in his place. restore calm and stop destruction Beirut, Lebanon': The The new Islamic government and arson amid indications that I authoritative Middle east Salvatore Samzo, 21, of Central Avenue, Idader also named chief Khomeini youthful guerrillas rampaging I Economic Survey says Saudi East Hartford, and his niece, Tina Colty Gyr- spokesman Ibrahim Yazdi as assis through the capital were acting on Arabia has increased the price of sold, slide down the hill at Center Park in tant to the prime minister for their own. i make them revolutionary affairs. I extra oil produced to offset cut Manchester. Tina got a free ride up the hill, Radio Iran said Khomeini’s backs in Iranian exports by 14.5 Bazargan took over from Prime designated priirne minister. Mehdi courtesy of her uncle. (Herald photo by Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the ap percent above the 1978 price level, Strempfer) Bazargan, would announce shortly a rather than the 5 percent pointee of Shah Mbhamm^. Reza comprehensive program fo/ applicable for the first quarter of Pahlavi. Bakhtiar’s wherabquts were reopening schools and calling off in 1979 under OPEC guidelines. a mystery. Radio Iran said Bakhtiar dustrial strikes to resume produc Washington: President Carter, either resigned or committed tion. who begins a state visit to Mexico suicide. But diplomatic sources said Bazargan prepared to take formal on Wednesday, says the United he was alive and hiding. control of the government, aban School Deficit Due; Bazargan’s sweeping dismissal of States will be a good customer for doned Sunday by Prime Minister any oil and gas Mexico decides to Gen. Abbas Qarabaghi from the post Shahpour Bakhtiar. Iran Radio said sell, so long as the price is fair. of chief of staff followed surrender Bahktiar, who once called El Centro, Calif.: Tons of let by the last surviving pockets of the Khomeini’s pledge to take over the tuce ready for harvest is left un Spending Freeze Set palace guard "immortals," sworn to governent "a joke,” had "resigned or picked in California fields where protect the monarchy, a bloodless committed suicide." United Farm Workers union By CHRIS BLAKE salaries ($21,000), summer takeover of the Niavaran palace and However, diplomatic sources in generate surpluses when there are capture of the capital city by tens of leader Cesar Chavez — hoping to Herald Reporter school ($1,600) and home instruc only five months left in the current Tehran said they had heard reports quell violence — has called off tion ($4,300). thousands of gun-welding Khomeini that Bakhtiar was still alive and in EAST HARTFORD — The school budget year and most of the spending militia. picketing until after the funeral of department is facing a projected The figures are based on spending has already taken place. hiding. They said he was trying to a young striker shot to death $255,000 deficit and school officials in the first six months and an Surpluses would have to come from The Niavaran palace, which the negotiate a formal resignation and stand shah vacated Jan. 16 to leave Iran, Saturday. have ordered an immediate (reeze on ticipated spending for the rest of the non-salary accounts, because salary handover of power to Baza gan in lid call Detroit: Transportation budget year, said Dominic Fulco, fell to the revolutionaries at 12.30 exchange for his safety. T e reports all expenditures except those which accounts cannot be touched, he said. p.m. (4 a.m. EST) The takeover was you at Secretary Brock Adams, faced are absolutely necessary. school finance director. Also, the school department cannot could not be immediately confirmed. with predictions that the price of The school department will try to totally peaceful. Earlier today, crack units of the ntative, Board of Education members expect the situation with the utility The revolutionaries went up to the gasoline will hit $1 a gallon this cut back wherever it is possible, accounts to improve, he said. "immortals" surrendered to pro- Aiyour learned Thursday night that the troops and the troops surrendered all year, summons the nation’s top school department has deficits, Fulco said. All requests for funds will Khomeini forces after a bloody gun- er rea- automotive experts to open an all- be reviewed and only those which are Even so, school officials are of their weapons including the tanks. battle around the American military either actual or projected, in the "praying for warmer weather," Several of them broke into tears. which- out search for a revolutionary, following accounts: tuition, emergency needs will be granted, he advisory center in north Tehran. fuel-conserving car for the 1990s. said. Fulco said. Warmer weather would They were given civilian clothes and The center had been vacated by telephone, insurance, fuel oil, elec allow the schools to save on fuel oil told to go away. Belle Chasse, La.: Union tricity, water, substitute teacher In addition, thermostats at school Ame^'an personal. It had housed the expenses. The revolutionaries then put pic representatives and management salaries, summer school and home buildings will be turned down on U .S an itary mission to the Iranian officials at Chevron Oil Co. have instruction. nights and weekends, when students tures of Khomeini on the front gates ari/r. "It doesn't look good," Fulco said, of the palace. reached a tentative contract The largest single deficit is in the are not in school, to save money, he referring to the budget situation. jter, UPI reporter Raymond agreement, easing a strike threat. said. Several Moslem mullahs armed rilkinson reported from the site that tuition account. ’The $141,900 deficit I,ast March, School Superintendent with rifles immediately took charge is largely due to the increasing However, Fulco said he foresees Eugene Diggs ordered a temporary „ie building was being systematical "an immediate" increase in fuel oil of the palace in the name of the ly pilfered and all portraits of Presi IPKE. number of placements of students in freeze on all school spending to avoid police and locked it up. The only schools outside of the district. prices because of the unstable a projected $134,000 deficit at the end dent Carter had bren torn down or reported damage during the takeover Big Explosion The utilities — fuel oil, electricity political situation in Iran. The U.S. of the 1977-78 school year. smashed. He said that only a few has not received any oil from Iran in was one photograph whose glass looters were going through the WHITING, Ind. (UPI) - and water — all face projected The board wound up with a surplus the past three months and, with Sun broke when it fell off a wall. IRY Explosions ripped through oil deficits. The fuel oil account has an of about $7 last ,lulv.