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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.
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