Exec Stay Home Rem!, but If This Ruling Is to Inspire Confidence in Iranian by JAMES MATES
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LEEDS RAG FILM FESTIVAL '81 'COMA' 'THE BIRTH OF THE BEATLES' 'THE WANDERERS' 'THE GREAT ROCK 'N ROLL SWINDLE' HYDE PARK CINEMA - TONIGHT 20th NOVEMBER 11p.m. - EARLY HOURS TICKETS ONLY £2.50 FROM THE RAG OFFICE OR ON THE NIGHT 1RAN 1 AN SP1 E The Iranian Government has Iranian students will he left they will he deported or not is at ordered all its Embassies and without a visible means of sup- the whim of the Home Office. EXEC Consulates abroad to step up port_ Once again they are liable Home Office policy, as far as their spying operations on to be deported. is known, is to treat every case Coel E. 7 counter-revolutionaries. and ff they are sent home. many on its own merits. Those who not to renew the passports of will face summary execution can show that it they return they A t- 5&N 'so-called' students'. Recently a group of students face persecution "for reasons of In a document from the Ira- studying in France and Ger- race, religion. nationality, nian Ministry of Foreign Affairs many went back to visit their membership of a particular marked -TOP SECRET -- families -- they were executed group or political opinion", will URGENT', foreign delegations before they even left Tehran he allowed to stay. Those who are told to: "supply with the airport. cannot seem likely to he utmost accuracy the names of all The Iranian Consulate in deported. Bahai's and counter- London. somewhat predictably, One thing is certain --- the revolutionaries, especially the denounced the document as a Home Office is going to come so called students, resident in forgery. under great pressure from Stu- the area of your responsibility. "We don't know whether it dent Unions throughout the "Also refuse renewal of their was produced in this country or country to allow Iranian stu- passports and only issue them in Germany -. said a spokesman. dents to stay. with the pass permits-. "It is just another piece of Leeds area NUS is pressing This seems to be part of a counter-revolutionary prop- for all Iranians to be allowed to growing campaign by the Kho- aganda". remain in Brilaillkikaticaat two. meini regime to silence opposi- The spokesman claimed that Sears Leeds University Union tion from Iranian students they are renewing all Iranian is to table an emergeney motion studying abroad_ If a foreign passports. except for those at the NUS conference, asking national does not have his pass- non-students who are eligible the NUS to publicise and con- port renewed each year by his for National Service. demn the Document from the embassy. he automatically He also denied that Khomeini Iranian Foreign Ministry. becomes an illegal immigrant agents are spying on students, They will also ask NUS to and faces deportation. "Of Milne we spy on prominent write to the Home Office. ask- This week Iranian State counter-revolutionaries like ing it they intend to deport Ira- Radio announced that no more es-president Bakhtiar, but we nians, and they hope to get an money will be allowed out of don't consider students to he NUS committee set up to deal Iran to pay student fees. Ostens- counter-revolutionaries". with the problems of Iranian ibly this is to save foreign cur- Such platitudes are unlikely St udents. Exec stay home rem!, but if this ruling is to inspire confidence in Iranian BY JAMES MATES. enforced many thousands of dissidents in Britain. Whether Red-faced Exec_ Members have The turnout from the University been rummaging around for was a disgrace, but students were excuses to explain their absence hardly set a good example by those In Brief..In Brief..In Brief..In BriE 'rum the crucial lobby of M.P. 41, at in authority. So why weren't they Westminster. there? Here are their excuses -- An NUS brief distributed to all make of them what you will. Following the decision tit last Union President Seamus t eiversities appealed for as many Seamus Gillen and Jim Murtaah Thursdays Poly Union OGM on come out top of the poll in this .'dents as posstbte to attend. "A --- "We had to attend a senate weeks elections for delegates to the Carnegie (see page 2 for full report) large turnout from every University meeting on staff redundancies".• a special General Meeting has been NUS conference on the -7th-/th is vital if we are to persuade the Rob Earn I Welfare Secretary and called, to be held at Beckett Park on December. Government and Parliament of the Leeds Area NI'S chairperson) --- , a time when The week also saw u double Tuesday nt 12.46 strength of feeling against the cuts. "I had to go to a meeting about almost all non Carnegie students triumph for leading F.C.S. member \ lake sure you're there!" Iranian students", He came an tines- are away from the Beckett Park Marcus But on a da when the entire Andy Kershaw (Treasurer, and peeled 2nd place in the NUS elec- attending lectures at the City sites, Exec_ of 13radtord University were delegated to distribute publicity on tions, and then followed it up by The motion states: "This Union in LAindon. our Exec. members the lobby) --- Unavailable for being elected Publicity Secretary. believes all residents of Carnegie went about their normal business in comment as he was at lunch with a should be students affiliated to Car- taking over from the retired Leeds. representative from Brighouse Catherine Ogle. negie School. In all only 26 people felt on the Games This Union resolves to mandate Andy Graham did only half as I_ U. U. coach -- and ten of them Jill Newman tCuliural Affair% the Executive to support the cus- wetl. He was elected External were lecturers Secretary) — "I was too busy". toms and traditions of any school or Affairs Secretary. but only man- Deputy President Jim Murtagh Elaine Goswell (General Secret- department within the Polytechnic aged to get elected as an observer to blamed the appalling turnout on a ary) --- "I had a meeting". that might be to the advantage of the NUS. breakdown of communications and Piers Williamson (Education the students. There were other unexpected a lack of publicity_ Precious hole Secretary 1 --- Unavartahle for Mads Dohm. the Poly Union failures in the NUS election. Jeremy comment. • Seamus Gruel) notice was given to students of the Vice President for communication Mindell, the often critieesed °GM lobby. and the publicity (if one Marcus Killick, Andrew Graham and Recreation commented that speaker. and Gill Newman. the cur- could find any) was nothing it not and Philip Chand all recently "The motion is a waste of time. It rent Cultural Affairs Secretary, Election ineffectual_ elected were no doubt too flushed could have been put to an Ordinary both failed to be elected as dele- No-one in Exec. even seemed by their victories to he able to tear GM. The hit about 'all residents of gates to the Conference_ Results sere who was responsible for the themselves away. Carnegie' is daft. However they can take bean mobilisation of this campaign BY PENNY JACKSON. "A lot of the students in Carnegie from the fact that others did worse, House Secretary.'- are members of other schools". As much worse. Poor I.ynnc Guerney Phillip Chanel' 517 Your Letters to the "resolves" part of the motion could only muster one first prefer- Jeremy Mindell: 267 Mr Dohm said "Exec. already sup- ence vote --- her own maybe? Feature: Soviet Jewry Page 4 ports all the customs and traditions Mary Cassidy, sister of former External Affairs Centre Pages of the schools and departments" Exec. member David Cassidy and Crossword Secretary: - outspoken President of Amnesty 'Bow Wow Wow' Page 2 International came third, with John Helena Coningharn.. 354 Review - Arts Pages Cinema Reviews Erskine in fourth place. Adrew Graham: 432 Rob Earn, Welfare secretary. Aikido Report Arts Pages Chairperson of LANUS, and Me Publicity Secretary -- Page 10 Mains behind the Rent Strike, came a creditable fifth. Saeeda Khnama: 369 A full list of elected delegates Marcus 440 wears on page three. Page Two 13 Each way crossing (5) , CLUES ACROSS 23 Proclamation takes nothing to L * to 14. 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