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IRAN I AN ARMY OFFICERS' PLOT TO OVERTHROW AYATOLLAH FOILEDO They then planned to lay siege Khomeini's refusal to see Waldheim Meanwhile, Japanese officials WASHINGTON (AP) -- A plot to over- to Khomeini's home, the holy city when the diplomat was in Iran ear- say they can't go along with a U.S. throw Ayatollah Khomeini has report- of Qom, the report said. lier this month. request for an economic boycott of edly been foiled by Revolutionary It said the plot was discovered The report comes from ABC News Iran, because that would mean a to- Guardsmen in Iran. accidentally. quoting United Nations sources in tal cutoff of Iranian oil to Japan. A usually-reliable newspaper in The newspaper report quotes un- New York. That, the officials say would be Kuwait reports a number of medium identified diplomatic sources. Getting a direct story from Teh- "a major shock to the Japanese ranking army officers were arrested There's been no independend con- ran is very difficult today, and economy." and secretly executed after their firmation and sources in Tehran say will be for quite some time. The officials do say Japan could alleged plot was discovered. they've heard nothing about a plot. All American news agencies in go along with U.N. sanctions. According to the paper's account, But Khomeini has reportedly agreed to Iran have been shut down on govern- the Security Council has al- the officers had planned to seize accept U.N. Secretary General Kurt ment orders, and all U.S. corres- ready tried to impose a boycott, control of Tehran, the capital Waldheim as an intermediary with the pondents have been told to leave only to have the measure vetoed by city. United States -- this despite the country by midnight Friday. the Soviets. Guantanamo Gazette," Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Vol. 35 - No. 11 Wednesday, January 16, 1980 CAB I NET-LEVEL DISPUTE SETTLED BY TH IRD G GOVERNMENT AGENC Y people in CAB I NET-LEVEL DISPUTE SETTLED BY TH IRD G0 VERNMENT AGENC Y 7 ~the news WASHINGTON (AP) -- The dispute be- The resolution? Two-thirds of tween the two cabinet-level depart- the civil rights enforcement staff ments was over how to split up the will move to the Education Department staff that pursues cases of illegal and one-third will pursue health and discrimination for the government. welfare violations. The resolution apparently has The sources said the beauty of been provided by a third party -- that agreement is that it means more another government agency. people will work in each of those than is the case now. NEW HAMPSHIRE (AP)--The Bow Men's Club in New Hampshire remembers Lillian In one corner was Patricia Harris, areas and Harris are Carter well. secretary of the old Department of Both.Hufstedler The President's mother made an appearance there a few months back and Health, Education and Welfare. said to be satisfied. spoke bluntly about Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini. She In the other corner was Shirley An element that complicated the fact that HEW must said, "If I had a million dollars, I'd hire someone to kill him." Hufstedler, who's taking the "E" decision was the with a court order requiring Club President Henry Waley says letters have been pouring in since. One out of HEW after being named the comply enforcement letter is especially treasured. It came on official Carter-Mondale nation's first education secretary. specific civil rights Committee stationery thanking the club for sponsoring Miss Lillian's visit. At the heart of the wrangle was actions in education. deployment of 1,700 people in the That order stemmed from a lawsuit groups frus- MPILED (AP)--Tracy Austin's mother tries to sit still when watching her Office for Civil Rights at HEW. by private civil rights past daughter play tennis. Mrs. Jeanne Austin is afraid of breaking her daugh- How should they be divided up be- trated at what they consider by the government. ter's concentration. The two Austins have been traveling together for tween the new Education Department. lax enforcement rights organiza- three years -- since Tracy joined the women's pro tennis tour at age 14. Sources privy to the disagreement Meanwhile, civil Mrs. Austin says she started traveling with the daughter because "The between the two secretaries say tions are taking a wait-and-see plans players are expected to be adults, no matter how old they are." their positions were this: Harris approach to the reorganization wanted to keep half of the civil by the two departments. The groups have been arguing for FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP)--Former firefighter Fred Kelley is on his way to rights enforcement staff members. an overAll staff increase to satis- California to await the OK for a heart transplant. After the people Hufstedler sought staff assignment fy what they see as a need for great- of Framingham, Mass. raised the $60 thousand for the surgery, doctors of 80 percent to her. efforts in all three areas -- at Stanford University Medical Center turned Kelley down, saying his heart The sources said Hufstedler's rea- er education and welfare. wasn't diseased enough. soning was that more than 86 percent health, administration sources Now, Kelley says it's getting worse all the time and he wants to be of the 3,700 civil rights complaints However, will be little if any boost ready. He and his son left on a cross-country drive to Palo Alto yester- last year were in education. But say there office staff and its $67.5 day. They took a CB radio along in case Kelley gets sick on the way. Harris contended that if she took in the annual budget. His handle? The Tin Man -- because he's looking for a heart. only 20 percent, it left too little million administra- staff for health and welfare cases. They cite the Carter tion's efforts to hole down costs ISRAEL (AP)--As Israeli artist Shalom Moskovitz lay dying in the hospital, Enter the Office of Management and in those areas. someone broke into his home and stole 34 of his last paintings. The Budget. Still, the deployment move is ex- publicity that followed apparently left the thief so conscience-stricken Sources say the office agreed to pected to bolster civil rights en- that he packed the artwork up, and sent it back to the artist's widow by resolve the dispute and came up with forcement in the areas of health bus. He even called the family this weekend to make sure his package a decision last week. and welfare. arrived safely. The artist's son-in-law says, when the widow opened the package and saw the treasure, she fainted on the spot. Police say the paintings were probably too "hot" for the thief to sell. COMPILED (AP)--Questions about Chappaquiddick have been growing like weeds on Edward Kennedy's campaign trail. Today, the Mass. Senator challenged two new reports which cast doubt about his version of the incident. And he says that independent studies support his account of the Jult, 1969 accident, which took the life of World News Digest Mary Jo Kopechne. W TENNESSEE (AP)--Elvis Presely's physician claims the late rock 'n roll COMPILED (AP)--Treasury Secretary Miller today said "unsettled conditions star took only some of the thousands of pills issued in his name in the in the world" have caused the meteoric rise in the cost of gold. And he two years before his death. said the treasury won't be auctioning any of its gold until the gold rush Or. George Nichopoulos made that statement before the Tennessee Board has abated. of Medical Examiners. That remark pushed the price of the precious metal past the $700 an ounce The board is looking into charges that the doctor indiscriminately pre- drugs for Presley and 15 others. level for the first time ever in New York. Gold closed at $715 an ounce scribed up $47. ATLANTA, Ga (AP)--Jury selection in the trial of Bert Lance continued in NEW YORK (AP)--A federal judge in New York has ruled that attempts by Altanta yesterday. And the presiding judge says the proceedings could drag Congress to deny Medicaid payments for medically necessary abortions are on all week. unconstitutional. The former federal budget director and three others are charged with The ruling came in a challenge to the so-called Hyde Amendment. A gov- misusing some $20 million in bank funds. ernment attorney says that ruling will be immediately appealed to the COMPILED (AP)--Congressman Daniel Flood took the witness stand at his own Supreme Court. competency.neringto.«A. e eon n aul dnot sa what cometecy eaingtody.The Pennsylvania democrat coui not sy wa day of the week it was -- and identified the year as 1990. WINAMAC, Ind. (AP)--Prosecutors in Winamac, Ind. claim Ford Motors "deli- The 76-year-old Flood is accused of taking more than $50 thousand berately chose profit over human life" in selling its Pinto cars. They in exchange for using his influence on a House Approporiations Subcommittee. charged yesterday in the criminal liability trial that the company knew the Pinto fuel systems were unsafe, but didn't change them. COMPILED (AP)--The makers of a new drug prescribed for high blood pressure Fords response: Pintos are safer than many subcompact models. and fluid retention are withdrawing it from the market. Spokesmen for Ford is charged with reckless homicide in the 1978 deaths of three Smith, Kline and French say five people taking the frug "Selacryn" have teen-agers who burned to death after their 1973 Pinto was rammed from died.