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iiaurlifatpr Cloudy Tonlaht, Rainy Tuesday lEurntug Mrralb Datalla on paga 2 Vol. XCIX, No/37 — Manchester. Conn., Monday, November 12, 1979 o A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 o 20<t Single Copy o 15t Home Delivered __ ^ Iran Fast Backs Moslem Students m TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) - More then mits” and withdrawal of Iranian Council which took over the country 400 students holding dozens of funds from U.S. banks. The when Prime Minister Mehdl Americans inside the U.S. Embassy Kayhan newspaper said Iranian un Bazargan resigned last Tuesday. today led a national hunger strike to iversity officials were preparing to In Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, a underscore their unbending vow to receive Iranian students expelled group of 100 students briefly occupied keep the hostages until the extradi from the United States. the courtyard of the U.S. Embassy The fast cam e in response to and bum ^ an American flag. Syrian r'^ry tion of the shah. Thousands of soldiers, government Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s peacekeeping forces using their employees, teachers and students declaration Saturday that Iranians boots and the butts of their rifles outside the compound went on a would rather starve than relinquish evicted the demonstrators after 90 similar fast in solidarity with the their honor. Khomeini made the minutes. students inside the compound, the of remark in a speech rejecting a papal In Washington, President Carter ficial Pars news agency said. request to intervene to free the and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance A spokesman for the embassy oc hostages, conveyed to him by met Sunday evening with other top an Hunter" cupation committee said at least 150 Vatican envoy Monsignor Annibale administration officials to review n, Robert "sisters” were among the students Bugnlni. developments in Iran.. who began the fast early today. He Bugnini Sunday visited the 60 The embassy hostages were visited said the fast, conducted around the hostages held for the eighth day by for nearly two hours Sunday by Mon Honor guard, comprised of members of Memorial Hospital, sponsored by the Tiber 01 country, would continue for five student supporters of Khomeini and signor Annibale Bugnini, the 67-year- various Manchester Veterans Manchester Veterans Council. (Herald II Palmer. days, with short interruptions daily reported the captives were "mental old Vatican envoy to Iran. Asked Organizations, participated in a Veterans photo by Burbank) after dusk. ly tired” but in good health. later about their possible release, he Day observance Sunday at Manchester N a u g h ty The state radio said some Islamic Revolutionary Council said, " ’There is, of course, the issue d Abbott, "American agents" had attacked member Mohammad Mofatteh, ac of their freedom. But this is not the other embassies in Tehran and companied by other powerful time 6o talk about freedom.” harassed some foreigners. It urged clergymen, went to see the students A four-nantion team of foreign The DevIT' Iranians to beware of the attackers begin the marathon fast at the em diplomats also was allowed to see the las. Elke who, ij said, were trying to distract bassy. He urged them to press on hostages Saturday. Acting the revolutionary people from their with their campaign to have the shah Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Bani- Veterans Day 1979 set path. brought back for trial in Iran. Sadr called on all ambassadors and The radio gave no details of the at ’The state radio today attacked the diplomatic representatives to attend Veterans Day 1979 js a celebration of a nation at tacks. United States for its "pretentions of a meeting today in the foreign peace, gratefully acknowledging the sacrifices Acting Foreign Minister Abol concern for human rights, which has ministry to consider ways of in made during tiiqSs of strife. ilitaristic natiqn. It is a nation with Hassan Bani-Sadr today met with been exposed so many times in creasing pressure on the United Ours is not a foreign ambassadors and diplomatic Western films depicting American States to surrender the shah, who is a tradition of fi| iting hard a n tM ^ when pushed to as" (tSSfi) atrocities against the red Indians.” in a New York hospital undergoing war. nds representatives to press for the shah’s extradition. Press reports said Ayatollah treatment for cancer. But the hi y isn't and The Ettelaat newspaper, quoting Moosavi Khoyeni, the Moslem Egyptian President Anwar Sadat never was. pf war. officials of the Islamic religious leader who led the attack on Saturday offered asylum to Shah It is a di se who whether Revolutionary Council, said the the embassy Nov. 4, might be Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. have fou Stars and with sons the government was considering an oil promoted to the membership in the The student occupation committee they havi strife embargo "if Imam Khomeini per powerful Islami‘ Revolutionary said the five-day hunger strike was a United il? RIS - b show of support for Khomeini's Veteri afi ihester o n “T ke pledge to the papal envoy Saturday put togei mc^fof veterans, bow” tke that Iran would not bend in its con both living " ye-'hem lugh the a t d lrc c b frontation with the United States and physical and ej lie of War - P ra a k that its people would rather starve Today we also recogml those men and women OUo. Carter Talks who continue to serv^volunt fin our nation’s than relinquish their honor. !. He also armed services to'provlde a 6ng defense for a t The students called on other movies proud constituency. te Series, Iranians to "prepare to fight the rhe WUd enemy by fasting” and issued a state layed one With Cabinet ment saying “our oppressed nation State Sen. David Barry was the guest motorcy- demands the abrogation of all speaker at a Veterans Day observance Sun In black WASHING’TON (UPI) - President either Vatican or Palestine Libera enslaving past treaties” between day at Manchester Memorial Hospital spon jeans, be Carter met with some Cabinet tion Organization representatives to Iran and America. members and his top aides today persuade the Iranians to release the In another defiant statement, they sored by the Manchester Veterans Council. while Iranian students continued to hostages, and said special envoy called for the cutoff of oil exports to (Herald photo by Burbank) hold American hostages at the U.S. Ramsey Clark will remain in ’Turkey “international loafers, the cartels Embassy in Tehran for an eighth day “as long as there is some purpose.” and the trusts.” to Pepper with no solution in sight. Powell said also the U.S. govern The acting foreign minister said in ’ark A re ., Press secretary Jody Powell said ment has been in contact with "a an interview n state radio that he 17) Carter met with ’’appropriate large number” of other hoped Iran did not have to use the oil governments, but refused to specify Recognition Urged members of his Cabinet” and top weapon. White House aides. them. Thousands of angry demonstrators The "Special coordination com He also said he expects the govern again gathered Sunday outside the m ittee,” established to deal with the ment to proceed quickly with the embassy compound shouting, "Make crisis, met following Carter’s deportation of Iranian students who kebab of Carter,” and in English, For Vietnam Service meeting as it has done daily. are violating their visas. “Death to Carter, Death o the Shah.” . Powell paid Carter also met with ’”The president expects the Justice ‘ Spies must be executed,” was the the anniversary of the end of World WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Harris poll done for the Veterans Ad- Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Department and the INS (Inunigra- message on one of the placards. War I. The government holiday is tion and Naturalization Service) to crippled former soldier who heads ministration showed most Energy Secretary Charles Duncan Answering questions about a peti being observed today the Veterans Administration thinks Americans “regret the war in Viet Sunday night on the crisis, with Dun move witnout undue delay, but, of tion signed by some of he hostages From 1971-77, the holiday was it’s time the American people realize nam but still support the soldier who can’s presence suggesting that the course, you do have constitutional calling for the release of the shah, observed on the fourth Monday in Oc the men who fought with him in Viet fought there and realize his need for U.S. purchase of Iranian oil was dis due process requirements that have the papal envoy said the signatories tober as part of a law changing many nam did the nation a service. special attention.” cu ss^ . Carter spoke by telephone to be fulfilled,” Powell said. told him they had signed it voluntari national holidays to Monday to Max Cleland, who lost two legs and Vietnam veterans say the bad taste with national security adviser Powell ^ id he assumes “a signifi provide threeday weekends for ly- his right forearm to a grenade explo left in naany Americans’ mouths by Zbigniew Brzezinski. cant nuniber” of the 50,(XX) Iranian Iran state radio said later the en government workers. sion in Vietnam, marked Veterans the war has made large numbers of The White House said the meeting students in the United States - the voy’s remarks ‘‘disproved lies Day Sunday by laying the traditional people unwilling to consider their The crowd at the ceremony was was a continuation of Iran dis most of any nation - do not support spread by the White House that the red. white and blue wreath at the made up largely of Boy Scouts, cussions at the White House that their fellow students’ holding oT petition was signed (by the hostages) plight- .