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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1980
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Islam nations rebuke Soviet Union
Bani-Sadr rejects
militant share in power
United Press International
ISLAMABAD Pakistan — The
Islamic nations delivered a stinging
rebuke to the Soviet Union Tuesday
for its invasion of Afghanistan and
issued only a mild resolution against
threatened U.S. economic sanctions
of Iran.
Another resolution also adopted
by consensus condemned the United
States, Egypt and Israel for their
Middle East “collusion and coopera
tion” and opposed superpower pre
sence in Moslem countries.
With four resolutions approved
and only more to go, the 36-nation
emergency conference moved to
ward an end of its three-day
meeting.
The Moslem countries, ranging
from Indonesia to Morocco, deman
ded the “complete and immediate
withdrawal” of Soviet troops from
Afghanistan and suspended the pro-
Moscow Kabul government from the
42-member Islamic Conference a
mini-U.N. for the Islamic and Arab
world.
Hard-line Moslem nations includ
ing Iran and Moscow’s traditional
allies, tried to prod the conference
into taking equally firm action
against the United States, but the
moderate faction, led by Saudi Ara
bia, appeared to have blunted the
drive.
The resolution on relations be
tween Iran and the United States
was seen as the test for the hard
liners’ strength but the measure that
finally emerged appeared more
moderate in tone than originally ex
pected.
It expressed “the sincere wish that
the Islamic Republic of Iran and the
United States of America resolve the
outstanding problems between
themselves by peaceful means.”
It also “declares its firm opposition
to any threat or use of force of any
kind or intervention or interference
or imposition of economic sanctions
against the Islamic Republic of Iran
or any other Moslem nation.”
In the crucial paragraph concern
ing economic sanctions, the United
States was not mentioned by name.
Iran, which joined traditional
Soviet allies such as Libya and the
Palestine Liberation Organization in
condemning the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan, was not satisfied with
the general condemnation of super
power pressures.
An earlier resolution used mild
language saying the group was
“strongly condemning pressures of
all kinds” against Moslem nations
and a fifth resolution was still ex
pected on superpower involvement
in the Horn of Africa.
The resolution dealing with the
Horn of Africa was believed aimed
primarily at the presence of Soviet
advisors and Cuban troops in
Ethiopia and at blocking the United
States from building new military
bases in Somalia.
United Press International
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Iran’s first
president-elect, has rejected sharing
any power with hard-line militants
holding 50 American hostages as ran
som for the shah’s extradition.
In an interview with Le Monde
newspaper published in Paris Mon
day, Bani-Sadr said the hostage crisis
could be resolved if the United
States admitted to “crimes it had
committed” during Shah Moham
med Reza Pahlavi’s regime.
Bani-Sadr s remarks to the Paris
daily echoed his comment on the
hostage crisis Sunday that “the grea
ter part of the solution lies with the
Americans.”
Western press reports said Bani-
Sadr, 46, was not prepared to accept
parallel government with the radical
Moslems occupying the American
Embassy for the 87th day.
“If in Iran we have two govern
ments, for example, one for the
students .. .and the second one the
Revolutionary Council, this condi
tion is not acceptable,” he said in a
session with reporters.
During his campaign for the pres
idency the French-trained econom
ist told reporters the hostage crisis is
“one of the most important prob
lems. . . I will try to resolve this
crisis as soon as possible.”
Militants holding the Americans
hostage at the besieged U.S. Embas
sy in Tehran since Nov. 4 have in
sisted the shah be returned to Iran as
a precondition before the hostages
can be released.
In Washington, in what was seen
as a tentative gesture of reconcilia
tion to the newly elected govern
ment in Tehran the United
delayed plans to impose economi
sanctions against Iran for holdinglk
hostages.
"We remain ready to work will
Iran’s leaders toward a solution I)
the crisis,” President Carter \m
quoted as saying in a statement re-
leased by State Department spot |, an c
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Aggi'
man Hodding Carter. “We are
able to predict what effect the eh
tion results will have on the release
of the hostages.”
Official election results releases!
by Tehran Radio and monitoredii
London by the BBC showed Baai
Sadr received more than 77 perceil
of the vote, or 10.7 million ballotso«l J ec is
of more than 14 million cast in
election Friday.
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Article says
State position
are pay-offs
United Press International -
WASHINGTON — Ambassador
X, a product of the American Mid
west, looked quizzically at his stal
members in the U.S. Embassy
somewhere in Southeast Asia.
“Did you say there are two
rate Koreas?” he asked. “Hoi
come?”
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arrival was, “What’s Islam?’
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thor of an article in the Foreign Ser
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paying off political debts with diplo Ma
mafic assignments.
Neither Ambassador X, nor tbt
author, who served as the ambassa
dor’s deputy for eight months, is
identified in the journal which is
published by the American Foreign
Service Association.
But UPI has learned the ambassa
dor is Richard Kneip, a former gov
ernor of South Dakota who is no*
serving as U.S. envoy to Singapore
State Department sources said tb(
author is Edward Ingraham, a re
spected career diplomat now on ten
porary assignment at a Midwest uni
versity.
The article says Ambassador Xil
an example of the “true political
appointee, those who have no visible
qualifications for the position and.,
who have been selected for reasons
that have nothing to do with the con
duct of foreign policy.”
The article says the ambassador
had never heard of: Gandhi Nehn
Sukarno, German Chancellor Hel
mut Schmidt and Chiang Kai-shek
to say nothing of such other notables
as Ch ina’s Deng Xiaoping and
French President Giscard d’Estaing
Kneip, 47, is owner of a whoiesalf
milk equipment distributorship i»
South Dakota, his official biograplf
says. He was governor of Souti
Dakota from 1971-1977 and served
as chairman of the Democratic Gov
ernors and as chairman of the Mid
western Governors Conference.
The author is sharply critical ol
Carter for raising expectations dial
his administration was going tn
change the practice of using embas
sies for political payoffs. About 1#
percent of the current 150 U.S
ambassadors are career diplomats
but the author said some ofthepoli
tical appointees are “of stunningui
suitability for the job.”
One of those, the article said,!
Ambassador X, who sometimes aver
aged less than 21 hours a weekinbii
office and would drop everythingtt
entertain visiting friends, occasional
ly entertaining them in his offi®
while he conducted business.
The author concludes, “It seel
quite clear that the present admiil
tration, despite the grave words|
1976, is no more ready than itsp|
decessors to take the vow and swear
off the use of ambassadorships |
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Embassy blast
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United Press International
PARIS —- A bomb left in a waiting I
room exploded in the Syrian Embas-1
sy Monday killing one embassy staf-1
fer and injuring eight others short!) I
before Syria’s foreign minister was |
due to arrive in France.
The explosion shortly before noon 1
destroyed the entire ground floor of I
the four-story building and part of I
the floor above.
A telephone operator died from I
injuries suffered in the blast. Three 1
of the injured were reported inse l
rious condition. One of the injured,a j
pregnant woman, was rushed intol
intensive care at a hospital.
A police official said a group idem I
tifying itself as “the Lebanese Front I
claimed responsibility in a telephone I
call shortly after the explosion.
Syrian Foreign Minister Abdulha-1
lim Khaddam was scheduled to ar- j
rive on a visit that would include!
meetings with French Foreign I
Minister Jean Francois-Poncet and J
an appearance at the European Par-1
liament’s Middle East debate Thins-
day in Strasbourg.