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p mg ap- )iie aid so, aly pay >of Few ess ck- led ex- too tax ,vas m’s THE BATTALION Page 11 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1979 lits o ig for credit h report on a 7 such as the in the com- i a lot of re- A before we ill be totally arrive,' he - College Sta ge) by bus to ey will board another 36 > Club will he fornia to re- arketing and trip has the rn how major lent the vvorl i,” he said, roup will visit Armour and rs. rips may! nts. linate te tax [jars national State Affairs i Wednesday : would give, lowered an- by Sen. Wal- ;ton, exempts ger cars idded to f all diesel- t owners ol ■ed by diesel inual registra nt) more id. inn Sen, d the original :e diesel tmcl rd registrafa damage theii ate highways, ily lose ahoiit aes if the bill 3, and would 000 by 1981. xxxzzx Iran probes crime’ United Press International TEHRAN, Iran —A U.S. Marine ounded in the attack on the American Embassy a week ago is being ‘investigated” for an un specified crime, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s deputy prime minister for information said Wednesday. Amir Entezzam told reporters at “certain action will be taken regarding Sgt. Kenneth Kraus, 22, oflansdale, Pa., who was abducted from his hospital room where he was recovering from wounds suffered in last Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Embassy by urban guerrillas. Entezzam told reporters at Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan’s office Kraus was now “in the hands of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s rev olutionary committee. Regarding his crime, investigations are going on and after they are completed, certain action will be taken.” He did not say what Kraus’s al leged crime was. There had been earlier reports hat some of the revolutionaries ranted to charge the Marine with tilling three of their comrades who ittacked the embassy Feb. 14, cap ped the staff and held them for teveralhours before releasing them. Khomeini Wednesday strongly lenounced left-wing elements and oommunists in Iran as anti-Islamic, ietting the stage for a major battle vith radicals opposed to his week- d government. Tehran’s Kayhan newspaper re- Mrted under a one-word headline. Confrontation,” that a clash was leveloping “that may affect Iran’s olitical course for a long time to me.” Khomeini, in his strongest warn- ng to date, said he would ignore a nareh to his home planned for today ly the people’s fedayeen, left-wing adicals who oppose Khomeini’s Is- amic republic. They (the fedayeen) must be ig- lored and every Muslim must ref- ain from cooperating with them,” (homeini said. The fedayeen have refused to sur- ender thousands of rifles, machine Jins and hand grenades. The items ere looted from army and police rsenals during the climactic tight- nglast week that toppled the shah’s aretaker regime. China, Vietnam move troops to battle spot Rain wont stop expansion Battalion photo by Bill Wilson Even though the Kyle Field expansion project has enjoyed little accommodating weather, construction continues in an effort to meet next fall’s deadline. This worker prepares to raise another piece of the rising third deck columns. At a student senate meeting Wed nesday night, construction was reported to be four days ahead of schedule. United Press International BANGKOK, Thailand — China and Vietnam Wednesday moved troops toward the Vietnamese provincial capital of Lang Son for what appeared to be shaping up as a major battle in their 5-day-old war. Intelligence sources in Bangkok said China sent another division of troops across the border toward Lang Son, 12 miles into Vietnamese territory. A French reporter said he saw thousands of regular and provincial Vietnamese troops, accompanied by 105 mm howitzers, also heading for Lang Son. The intelligence sources said the troop movements by both sides in dicated a major battle for control of Lang Son, a key northeast border junction of rail, river and road communications, was shaping up. Soviet reconnaissance planes flew near the area for the second time since the Chinese invasion began Saturday, the Japanese Defense Agency reported, underlining in tense Soviet interest in the conflict. Intelligence sources said fighting continued along much of the 450- mile border but without major movement of the front lines. Chinese jets were reported strik ing targets well ahead of ground troops, trying to knock out Vietnamese missile sites, the sources said. The French reporter quoted the Vietnamese commander of forces at Lang Son as saying, “We think they (the Chinese) have regrouped. They will try to surround us.” Intelligence sources in Bangkok said there were large troop buildups on both sides but could not confirm the infusion of the Vietnamese regu lars. “So far as we know, the regular army divisions have been kept in re serve, well south of the fighting,” one source said. The latest reports from the battle area indicated the Chinese forces were overpowering, one source said. “There are lots and lots of Chinese on the border,” he said. “They have plenty of capability.” Earlier Japanese reports from Hanoi quoted Vietnamese officials as saying the Chinese objective was to occupy Lang Son and two other key provincial cities north and northwest of Hanoi — Cai Bang and Lao Cai. Secret attempts to mediate peace in Nicaraguan civil war revealed United Press International WASHINGTON — Two of the bitterest enemies in Latin America — Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Carlos Andres Perez of Ven ezuela — met secretly last summer in a vain effort to settle Nicaragua’s civil strife, UPI learned today. The two presidents, meeting July 30 on the tiny Venezuelan island of La Orchila, agreed on a solution to the crisis but the accord later fell apart in mutual recriminations. Highly reliable sources said Somoza and Perez agreed during their 6.5 hours of negotiations to hold free elections in Nicaragua in 1979. But the election never took place and the two Latin American leaders have been attacking each other as bitterly as ever in recent months. Somoza arrived at the island in his private plane, accompanied by Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Julio Quintana and his friend Manolo Re- boso, deputy mayor of Miami. Perez, who suggested the meet ing, was accompanied by his foreign minister, Simon Alberto Consalvi, and Venezuelan publisher Miguel Angel Capriles. Luis Pallais, editor of the Nicara guan newspaper Novedades, ar ranged the details of the meeting. Pallais is Somoza’s cousin and closest political adviser. The two leaders agreed to an elec tion in Nicaragua under the auspices of the Organization of American States as well as Perez and former Presidents Daniel Oduber of Costa Rica and Alfonso Lopez Michelsen of Colombia. Somoza and Perez refused to comrpent when questioned about their secret meeting, but James D. Theberge, former U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua, said he was aware of the meeting. Consalvi refused to confirm the talks outright, but said he “once saw’ the devil in 1978, but I do not know if it was Gen. Somoza. As soon as Somoza arrived in La Orchila, the source said, the two presidents were alone for a three- hour private meeting. They emerged from the meeting for lunch, and Perez reported to the others a new democratic day for Nicaragua was in sight. Perez and Somoza, who hugged each other many times, agreed the Venezuelan leader would contact the opposition in Nicaragua to ex plore conditions for taking part in the election. But near the end of August, Perez sent a rpport to the State Depar- ment saying Somoza refused to comply with the agreement. Somo za’s friends denied the charge and accused Perez of double-crossing Somoza by contacting the State De partment. Perez then accused Somoza at the OAS of being the worst human rights violator in this hemisphere, and also sent warplanes to Costa Rica for use against a possible attack by Nicaragua. Last summer, Panama’s strong man, Gen. Omar Torrijos, broke his friendship with Somoza and became an ally of Perez. In the meantime, the effort of the OAS to mediate the dispute be tween Somoza and the opposition has been falling apart, although Somoza says he wants to resume the dialogue. The mediation co. mission is made up of U.S., Guatemalan and Dominican Republic diplomats. Change FAT FEVER LOSE 17-30 lbs. in just 6 weeks, at the Call Nadine today. 779-6124 OPEN 7:00 1:00 3:00-6:00 SAT 9:00-12 00 ^SKj^BOJJTmJ^GOAR^J^Ei the Aggie Players TXEATER ARTS SECTION DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH — TEXAS AAM UNIVERSITY, -^ ‘S •49~-£*sr 'PM m 1 L TO LE A&M ENT J. EQUUS By PETKR SHAFFKR ★ TRYOUTS ★ FOR ACTING ROLES Sign up For production crews MON. FEB. 26 & TUES. FEB. 27 7:00 P.M. - RUDDER FORUM For more information & materials see the call board, 3rd floor Bizzell (east wing). Follow the Texas Aggies on KAGC All Season Long - At Home & Away Starting Thursday at 3:00 PM The Aggies face the Japanese National All-Stars Brought to you by: John A. Arnold Inc. 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