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Thursday, august 9.1979 Jim King, BOOKSELLER NOW CARRYING THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY EDITION ON SUNDAY — OPEN SUNDAYS 1-5 MON.-SAT. 10-6 693-1883 WOODSTONE COMMERCE CENTER Overthrow plot in Iraq leads to 21 executions MSC Summer Programming Committee presents EQUINOX s < V f c° Classical Rock and Roll Lunchtime Performance Monday, Aug. 13 12-1 p.m. MSC Fountain MSC Summer Programming Committee presents PAUL Magician Free Lunchtime Performance Wednesday, Aug. 15 12-1 p.m MSC Lounge 1978 recipient of the Jack Gwynne Award for excellence in magic and showmanship. (Magic’s “Oscar”) United Press International BAGHDAD, Iraq — A firing squad Wednesday executed 21 prominent Iraqis, including some of the most powerful men in the coun try for their part in a plot to over throw Iraq’s new president, the Iraqi News Agency announced. Another man was condemned to death in absentia Tuesday was “nowhere to be found ”, the agency said. “The execution by firing squad was implemented here today ”, the agency announced. It said all 21 had been found “quilty of high treason The condemned men, including five members of the ruling Revolu tionary Command Council, were condemned Tuesday by an “emergency court” in Baghdad for their part in what was described as a plot to topple the regime of Presi dent Saddam Hussein. Another 33 defendants were given prison terms ranging from one to 15 years for indirect roles in the plot. Arab sources said they gener ally were convicted of knowing of the conspiracy but failing to report it. Another 13 were found innocent by the special court. Some observers said the plot and and the executions and prison sen tences could spark a crisis between Iraq and neighboring Syria. In an official statement carried by the Iraqi News Agency, the gov ernment said “the executions come for the protection of the soil of the homeland as well as for protection of sovereighty.” The statement said the firing squad consisted of “several civil and military members of the party from all areas of the country.” The condemned men were shot to death as members of the seven-man “emergency court”’ and ranking members of the ruling Iraqi Ba’ath- ist Party looked on. Arab diplomatic sources said the planned coup involving some of the most powerful men in Iraq was un covered in July after Abdul Hussein al Mashhadi, secretary general of the revolutionary command, was ar rested on charges of stirring up un rest among Iraqi Shiites on the tur bulent Iraqi-Iranian border. Under interrogation, Mashhadi confessed to being part of a wide- ranging conspiracy that aimed to oust Hussein and bring about an immediate union with the Baath Regime in Syria, the sources said. The Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram said in Cairo Sunday that Sy rian President Hafez Assad was helping to fund the coup attempt and had offered to send Syrian troops in Iraqi uniforms to aid in thb takeover. M ashhadi reportedly made his confession during a meeting of the Iraq Baath Party leadership on July 22. As he read out the names of his coconspirators in the party com mand, they were dragged from the hall with President Hussein, on. Sources say the entire seei filmed and copies distribu Baath Party branches throi the country. War criminal ma lose his citizensh ] it m ■ Ui iE.NI aof m United Press International ASUNCION, Paraguay — The Paraguayan government, respt ing for the first time to a 17-year-old West German extradition quest, has asked the Supreme Court to annul the citizenship of ^ war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele, blamed for the slaughter of thousands of people at schwitz concentration camp, where he was known as the “Angeli Death,” fled to South America at the end of World Warllandb came a citizen of Paraguay in 1959. A West German court requested his extradition to stand trial war crimes in 1962. There was no response from Paraguayan thorities until Tuesday. It was unlikely the Paraguayan move meant Mengele would quickly extradited. His exact whereabouts remain a mystery. President Alfredo Stroessner, the son of a German immigrant,! ruled the central South American nation with dictatorial powers 25 years and has been accused of harboring several Nazi war criminat in the country. Eduard Roschmann, known as the “Butcher of Riga” and war for the murder of 40,000 Jews in Latvia, died in an Asuncion hospsii in 1977. Roschmann was identified only after his death. Mengele, a concentration camp doctor who is accused of sendisj thousands of people to their deaths at Auschwitz in Nazi-occup^ Poland, came to Paraguay during the 1950s from neighboring Arge; tina. He was employed as a representative of a West German firm sill ing farm machinery and also was alleged to have been supported!) money from a family business and relatives in West Germany. Paraguayan authorities deny Mengele has been in the count;! since 1960. Attorney General Clotildo Jimenez Tuesday asked Paraguay! preme Court to annul Mengee’s citizenship because he had forfei'! the right to Paraguayan nationality by being absent from the couri for more than two years. Ui HART1 Gem Jser p< ion an s die l ard s< ted ir Therei ce otoer i Jt anot “We h date, Hup ti esday, by t iming tugs' se of a tdin tl Art Pa: tional 1 tsdav Pressure building in Etna scientists say 30 U a u BOSK eekly oenix 6tical iiimpe [cash In [with a i classified Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 United Press International CATANIA, Sicily — Scientists said Wednesday dangerous gas pressures are building up inside Mount Etna and the volcano, which has been erupting for the past five days and blackened beaches with its ash, could explode at any time. The warning came from a team of experts, led by volcanologist Ha- roun Tazieff of Belgium, which has been studying the 10,707-foot mountain since it began its most spectacular eruption in 20 years last Friday. “So far the eruption has con tinued without the escape of the gases inside Etna,” Tazieff told re porters. “This mass of trapped gas could open new craters on the slopes of the volcano or perhaps cause a violent explosion.” The volcano, Europe’s mightiest and most tempestuous, was spewing the fo Cai '5,0 Heated trey p ued ii first HUchaet# •V An Episcopal School 2505 South College Avenue Academic Curriculum Small Classes A Superior Faculty PRESCHOOL-ELEMENTARY-SECONDARY College Preparatory Curriculum Call TODAY For Fall Registration 822-2715 lava from three separate crateis of them near the summit anfl arter lower down the slopes abw? «t H evacuated village of Fomaza Lava reached to within IDll nk ho of Fornazzo Tuesday but sda ited i said the front of the lava fid ingsid solidified and molten lava was 2 miles from the village Wednfli >«its Though the village appeart! If init of immediate danger, officii the lava so far had destroyed 1,024 acres of apple, nut and orchards that provide a live! Of 50 for its residents. “This eruption is the most usual we’ve seen since weve modern instruments to studyf! ifiden Tazieff said. “It’s behavior mai ft did impossible to make any prt tions.” He and other experts saic latest period of activity-began 15, when gas pressures inside mountain began pushing up from several miles below thee* surface. Said Tazieff: “We dont where the lava will start pourini next.” He has suggested the Itata force could bomb the new crate! try to block them, or thatbame erected across projected path.'? lava. But this has brought inwrt protests from mayors of • mountainside villages, who si if the lava is diverted it w them. 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