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Iran situation
U. N. commission can see hostages
Colombia forces warn
against rebel release
United Press International
\vatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the
mate key to the freeing of the 50
j hostages in Tehran, has over-
their militant captors and said
l p . m at Qjl ,p.N. commission will be allowed
“ m det with the Americans.
gut the status of the meeting —
m as a crucial step in the U.N.
i ' u ee deal tying an investigation of
any weeki , Jleged crimes of the ousted shah
release of the Americans — was
unclear at the end of a day of
contradictory statements issued bv
the militants Tuesday.
The five-member U.N. panel has
been in Tehran since Feb. 23.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh emerged from a meet
ing of the ruling Revolutionary
Council Tuesday night and said
Khomeini had approved the meeting
between the U.N. panel and all the
hostages, an official Pars News Agen
cy report broadcast on Tehran Radio
said. The radio was monitored in
London.
Ghotbzadeh also reiterated the
council’s approval, originally issued
earlier this week, of such a meeting
but did not specify' when it would
take place.
The Moslem militants holding the
Americans hostage said Tuesday
they would not permit the U.N.
commission members to meet with
all 50 of the hostages, but would let
them visit some, on the basis they
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UMABAD, Pakistan — Many
nen and children reportedly have
lin a new exodus of tribes fleeing
advancing combined Soviet-
ian thrust against Moslem rebel
tions in eastern Afghanistan,
he rebels have all but conceded
at in bitter fighting against Rus-.
and government troops in the
dnce of Kunar, on the border
r Pakistan.
he Foreign Ministry of the Kabul
the pact wouflme charged Pakistani military
ies were violating Afghan air
in Kunar, Soviet and Cuban
reports said.
Many civilians, especially
len and children, drowned in the
River when trying to flee from
advancing Soviets, ” a spokesman
he Hizbi Islami (Islamic Front),
largest of the rebel groups, said
;day in Peshawar.
The Islamic Alliance for the Liber
ation of Afghanistan, a coalition of
rebel groups, said Wednesday some
7,000 Afghan families are making the
dangerous trek across the mountains
into Pakistan, where thousands of re
fugees are now living.
The rebel parties conceded the
combined Soviet-Afghan force cap
tured the main Kunar towns of
Asmara and Shegal in three days of
bitter fighting.
The Hizbi Islami spokesman said
guerrillas had retreated to the moun
tains where they were being pinned
down by tank fire and continuous
heavy bombardment by helicopter
gunships and MiG fighters.
Villages in the plains of the pro
vinces were destroyed by Soviet
napalm attacks, the rebels said.
Western sources could not con
firm the rebel claims but said inde
pendent reports indicated there was
heavy fighting in Kunar.
There are an estimated 75,000
Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
The rebel groups claimed “hun
dreds of Soviet soldiers and more
than 2,000 Afghan troops” were kil
led in the fighting. They would only
say insurgent and civilian losses were
“heavy.”
A spokesman for the Alliance
appealed Wednesday for arms and
aid from Moslem countries and the
United Nations.
“This is not a football match going
on in Afghanistan,” he said. “Our
only weapons are those we capture.”
In Washington, the Pentagon said
the 1,800-man Marine force ordered
to the Indian Ocean as part of the
U.S. response to the Soviet action
were to have arrived Wednesday in
Thailand. They are to join a Navy
task force in the Indian Ocean later
this month.
Pakistan rejects offer
U. S. military aid
Inds support
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the U.S. e*AMABAD, Pakistan — Pakis-
ras officially rejected the $400
an aid package offered by the
d States to counter the Soviet
ion of Afghanistan, it was dis-
VVednesday.
sidential foreign affairs adviser
Shahi told a meeting of muni-
officials that his government
told Washington it was not in-
|dia famine
tves 17 dead
United Press International
tW DELHI, India — Seven-
I people have died of starvation
Intral India where some people
fcting grass, roots and flowers to
■alive, Indian news reports said
jnesday.
^idespread famine and drought
ripped India’s central Madhya
?sh state. Villagers say a “food-
| 0 rk scheme in the region has
trials have ordered a probe fol-
5 reports 17 people starved to
fin the region near Raipur City,
t500 miles southeast of New
Pta in Kusli village near Jabal-
p forced to eat grass, roots and
P °f the gular tree because of
y ere drought, said Munder
Ila ' a member of Parliament
ember of the ruling Congress-I
terested in the arms and economic
package and that Pakistan had speci
fically disassociated itself from any
U.S. initiatives to introduce the re
levant legislation in the U.S. Con
gress.
The aid package, proposed by
President Carter in January, con
sisted of $200 million for military
equipment on credit and $200 mil
lion in economic aid to be spread
over a period of 18 months.
After the Soviet invasion of his
neighbor, Zia asked for Western aid
to counter the threat of any hostile
moves Moscow might make toward
Pakistan.
Moscow has charged that Pakistan
serves as a conduit for U.S. and
Chinese aid to rebels fighting the
Marxist regime in Kabul, propped
up with the help of 70,000 Russian
troops.
Both the United States and China
have denied the claim.
Shahi told the conference
Wednesday that in view of the “de
veloping threat” to Pakistan, the Un
ited States had shown a revival of
interest in the original U.S.-Pakistan
agreement, reached in 1959, along
with the aid package offer and an
effort to organize a consortium of
additional assistance through friend
ly countries.
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are “spies, not hostages.”
That statement — made in a tele
phone interview with UPI in London
— was the latest in a series of confus
ing and seemingly contradictory
announcements by the militants
throughout the day.
First, a militant spokesman was
quoted on Tehran Radio as saying a
visit by the commission with some —
but not all — of the Americans would
be allowed.
Several hours later, the radio said
the militants sent a message to the
five commission members at their
Tehran hotel, telling them they
would not be permitted to see the
Americans because the hostages had
nothing to do with the commission’s
investigation of the “crimes” of the
deposed shah and the United States.
That was followed by the tele
phone interview in which the
spokesman said: "We decided to
show the commission some of the
spies who are here and documents
found here.”
United Press International
BOGOTA, Colombia — Negotia
tions between the government and
leftist guerrillas resumed Wednes
day for the ransom of 21 foreign di
plomats held for a week in the Domi
nican Embassy but the Colombian
armed forces warned against release
of imprisoned guerrillas.
Foreign Ministry officials Ramiro
Zambrano and Camilo Jimenez met
with a hooded woman guerrilla and
hostage Mexican Ambassador Ricar
do Galan in a cream-colored police
van in front of the embassy seized by
the armed militants last Wednesday.
While the talks proceeded after a
two-day recess, the armed forces
issued a stern statement in the form
of an editorial in the military news
paper Armed Forces.
The editorial spoke in general
terms of supporting the constitution
and democracy but its phrasing
appeared to be an indirect warning
that the armed forces would not tol
erate the release of 311 jailed leftists
who are facing court-martial for sub
versive acts or who have been con
victed.
The prisoner release is the guerril
las’ key ransom demand.
The Colombian armed forces re
spect the constitution and legal
order, the editorial said. It said any
one who would try to "undermine
the pillars of the Colombian state”
should consider his position care
fully.
The armed forces “know who they
are faithful to and why," the editorial
said.
In the context of Colombian socie
ty, the statement was both a pledge
of loyalty to the civilian government
and an indirect warning of military
opposition to handover of prisoners
whose cases are being handled by
military courts.
Wedneday’s meeting between the
government and the April 19th
Movement guerrillas was only the
second face-to-face negotiation for
the release of the diplomats and
other hostages held in the besieged
embassy.
Tire guerrillas have been deman
ding $50 million ransom, safe pas
sage out of the country and the re
lease of 311 jailed leftists. They have
been offered political asylum in
Panama.
In the Vatican, meanwhile, Pope
John Paul II appealed for the release
of the hostages, who include the U.S
ambassador and the papal nuncio to
Colombia. Pope John Paul said he
had sent his special envoy in Argenti
na, Monsignor Pio Laghi, to Bogota
to keep in close contact with the
situation and perhaps to aid in nego
tiations.
"In virtue of the rights of man to
regulate international relations,
their persons and their liberty are
inviolable,” the pope told his weekly
general audience.
With the leftist guerrillas and Col
ombian officials still stalemated over
ransom demands, the only break in
the week-long ordeal at the Domini
can Embassy was the delivery of care
packages from home to the 21 diplo
matic hostages.
For the first time since the hos
tages were seized, they received
fresh changes of clothes, letters and
games from their families to pass
time.
As a security measure, police cau
tiously shuffled several decks of play
ing cards, opened and inspected a
game called “Conquest,” checked
cardboard boxes filled with food,
then allowed the shipment into the
occupied building.
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