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1 THE BATTALION Page 7 TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1980 world Sadat expels Soviet experts from Egypt makes substantial Embassy staff cutbacks 6 Afghan rebel leaders seek anti-Soviet assistance United Press International Six allied Afghan rebel leaders made a dramatic appearance before an emergency meeting of Islamic na tions Monday to appeal for assistance in their bitter conflict against the Soviet invasion force in Afghanistan. The 36-nation conference meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, also was ex pected to move within hours to expel the Kabul government from the 42- nation Islamic Conference organiza tion, a mini-United Nations of Arab and Moslem countries. The appearance of the six rebel leaders, five of them bearded and wearing the distinctive headgear of their homeland, was the first time they have been allowed to formally take part in any international diplo matic gathering. “It signifies that the Moslem world does not recognize the communist regime there in Afghanistan and that we are prepared to support their struggle,” said Moazzam Ali, a Pakis tani diplomat who helped bring the six Afghan leaders together. The rebel leaders addressed the political committee which is drafting a final communique to be issued to day. The rebels did not take part in the debate. “We are delighted,” said Sibgha- lullah Al-Majadded, leader of the Afghan National Liberation Front. “We have wanted to be heard and now we have been heard.’ The de facto recognition of the re bel groups, combined with the anti cipated expulsion of Moscow’s Kabul government from the session, comes as a diplomatic setback for the Kremlin. Tunisian government stops guerrilla attack United Press International TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian armed forces — using fighter planes and helicopters — have overpo wered a 300-man guerrilla force that had killed at least 20 people and injured scores more in an attack Sun day on the mining center of Gafsan, authorities say. The Tunisian News Agency late Sunday said a majority of the guerril las were captured, and women and children taken hostage by the gun men were released unharmed. Tunisian security forces suspect the guerrillas were either supporters of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and wanted to rid Tunisia of western influences, or the attack was to commemorate the second anniversary of a nation-wide strike in Tunisia. The news agency said the guerril las began the attack early Sunday af ter crossing into southwest Tunisia from Algeria — 40 miles away — and into Gafsa, located 180 miles south west of Tunis. The Algerian government Sunday night denied any connection with the force and expressed “astonish ment and sorrow” over the attack. Pakistan President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq formally convened the three-day meeting Sunday with a speech condemning the Kremlin for the Soviet invasion. After the inaugural session hun dreds of journalists were ejected from the proceedings. Each of the nations attending the emergency conference was expected to deliver its official position on Afghanistan as well as on the Palesti nian issue and the crisis in Iran. Pakistan delegates urged the opening session of the Islamic Con ference to send Moscow an “une quivocal message. . . conveying to the Soviet Union the grave concern of the Islamic world at the presence of its troops in Afghanistan, and call ing on that great power to reverse the course of its military interven tion.” Only five members of the Islamic Conference — Syria, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Upper Volta and Guinea Bissau — were not present. A four-man Palestine Liberation Organization mission attended the meeting despite earlier threats to stay away, as did delegates from Libya, Algeria and Iraq which repre sent the hard-line Arab position that has downplayed the importance of the Soviet invasion. By United Press International Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Monday announced the expulsion of all remaining Soviet civilian experts and a drastic cutback of Soviet Embassy personnel in Egypt to pro test the invasion of Afghanistan. Sadat, in a hard-hitting parliamen tary speech, also accused Saudi Ara bia of “treason and ignorance” for allowing Soviet arms to be ferried across its skies to the Marxist regime in South Yemen. Sadat also said that despite the hostile attitude taken by Saudi Ara bia and other Arab countries toward Egypt because of its peace treaty with Israel, Egypt remains fully committed to grant military facilities to the United States to help defend any Arab country on the Persian Gulf coming under attack. The retaliatory measures announced by Sadat against the Soviet Union went much further than those disclosed by his National Democratic Party’s Political Bureau Jan. 6. “I have stopped the departure of the new Egyptian ambassador to Moscow and reduced the size of the Soviet diplomatic mission, Sadat said. “We have seven diplomats in Moscow and they should have no more than seven here. This number represents a reduction of 80 percent in the Soviet embassy staff. “I have also directed Prime Minis ter Mustafa Khalil to send home all remaining Soviet experts here,” Sadat added. Officials estimated there were fewer than 200 Soviets working at the Helwan Iron and Steel Mills, the Alexandria shipyards and other Soviet-built installations. They were all that was left of a once-massive Soviet presence in Egypt. energy saver The 1980 MSC Political Forum Committee’s 3rd Annual Washington D.C. Extravaganza is conning! , March 8-15 trip will include: V.I.P. Tour of White House Reception with Texas Congressmen on Capitol Hill F.B.I. tour FOR MORE INFO CALL 845-1515 r Dissident’s wife says internal exile takes toll United Press International MOSCOW — Andrei Sakharov’s wife returned to Moscow Monday and said the conditions under which Hunger, politics called conflicting United Press International International politics stand in the way of solving world food supply problems, three authorities on food and world hunger agree. But three state agricultural lead ers who responded to the speakers’ remarks Wednesday at the Consulta tion on Food and Hunger at Texas A&M University said they believe the solution should begin with farm problems at home. Dr. Ronald D. Knutson, econom ist with the Texas Agricultural Ex tension Service, said food is too vital a resource to use as a political lever. Dr. Robert McClean of the United Methodist Church said hunger prob lems are mainly “a problem of access to food.” the dissident leader is held in inter nal exile are worse than those faced by many Soviet prison camp in mates. Yelena Bonner said a heart ail ment that has afflicted her 58-year- old husband in the past has become aggravated by the strain of his forced move from Moscow to Gorky, an in dustrial city closed to foreigners 250 miles east of the capital. Sakharov emphatically denied the charges Soviet authorities have pub lished since his ouster from Moscow last Tuesday in an evident attempt to justify his banishment, Bonner said. “He never at any time gave any one any state secrets involved with defense,” Bonner told Western re porters during a news conference in her apartment. The 57-year-old bonner, herself a human rights activist, was not per sonally affected by the banning order that has severely restricted Sakhar ov’s movements — a virtual cutoff from the outside world. 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