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THE BATTALION Page 7
TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1980
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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.
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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.
She said the Nobel Peace Prize
winning physicist has been told he
may not telephone anyone outside
the Spyiet Union, and he cannot re
ceive or write any letters abroad.
Two of his stepchildren and their
families who live in the United States
are included in the ban.
“Even those in a prison camp can
receive letters,” Bonner said.
The dissident leader has not been
able to complete one telephone call
outside the city of Gorky since he
arrived there last Tuesday night, his
wife said.
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