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■4 * ation THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1981 [First ex-hostage sues Iran for failing to block seizure Suits challenge hostage terms United Press International In Arkansas, Michigan and New irk today, five freed hostages took inter stage for more homecoming lebrations, but the controversial j-eement that won their release ■eady is the subject of legal battles, ie waged by the twin sister of the ite shah of Iran. Detroit planned a soulful “Celeb- ition ofFreedom” today for Charles mes Jr. and Army Staff Sgt. Joseph bicjr. ofRocljester, N.Y., and de lated Tuesday “Freedom Day” for rmer hostage Col. Thomas E. haefer. Arkansas planned to welcome me its native sons, Robert Blucker id Marine Sgt. Steven Kirtley, with parade, a legislative reception and an “All-American” lunch of hambur gers with Gov. Frank White. With the fanfare — and stories of hostage abuse — subsiding, new attacks on Iran are coming from the nation’s courts. Lawsuits challenging the hostage agreement between Iran and the United States were filed Monday in New York and New Jersey. Ashraf Pahlavi, 61, the twin sister of the late shah, Monday invoked the “Doctrine of Unclean Hands” in seeking the dismissal of a $3 billion embezzlement suit brought against her by the Iranian government. Pahlavi charged Iran violated “the laws of every organized nation” in holding the 52 American hostages. If New York’s state Supreme Court does not dismiss the embez zlement case, she argued, it will give the appearance of “condoning im moral and illegal acts.” Iran filed the suit against Pahlavi and a $56 billion suit against the shah in November 1979, charging they had funneled billions out of the coun try through the Pahlavi Foundation, the late monarch’s investment com pany. Attorney Paul O’Dwyer, repre senting the Iranian government, cited the agreement releasing the hostages as evidence the United States recognized the present reg ime as being the successor to the shah. United Press International WASHINGTON — A Marine sta tioned at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when it was seized by mili tants has filed a suit against Iran for failing to prevent the taking of hos tages. In what is believed to be the first lawsuit by one of the former Amer ican hostages, Gregory Allen Persin- ger, a Marine sergeant, sued the Ira nian government Monday seeking $420,000 in damages. Persinger and his family of Sea- ford, Del., charged in the suit filed in U.S. District Court that Iran’s secur ity personnel made no attempt to fight off the militants Nov. 4, 1979, or to rescue the Americans held hos tage in the embassy. Persinger charged he had been “illegally arrested and detained and subjected to threats and other attacks on his person, freedom and dignity.” He said he was subjected to in timidation by the militants and para- iP'MSC AGGIE CINEMA* ded in front of the demonstrators outside the embassy, blindfolded with his hands bound and near “menacing and chanting” crowds. Persinger said he was repeatedly interrogated during his captivity, threatened with execution by firing squad and subjected to other “in timidating and coercive tactics.” His parents, Lawrence and Jac queline Persinger, said they were subjected to severe emotional and psychological distress. As a result of his 444 days in captiv ity, Persinger said he has suffered physical and mental injuries and will be required to undergo medical treatment. Under the agreement between Iran and the United States reached to gain the release of the 52 Amer icans, suits of the sort Persinger filed are barred. The agreement calls for establish ment of a nine-member arbitration board to settle all legal claims. bused illegal aliens seized in NY City e. The fenci i ast Kyle Field tlm United Press International NEW YORK — Eighty-four illeg- aliens, many of them packed into a !thy truck and left without food for lys, have been seized in one of the gest raids on human smuggling in : city’s history. The aliens, several of whom have Jlege degrees, paid $500 apiece to brought to the United States, offi- lals said. They were captured Mon- ay in the Bronx after a woman called olice to report people going in and lit of a parked truck. Fifty-one aliens were found cow- ting in the locked trailer-tractor, me other 33 were found crammed in 1 by a Panami ' using 15 to attract invest ms has been mi in the dien Hunsakem to build a« dding, Utah, nd as fuel. Huasl ering natural p. an apartment in the building. Most of them came from the Dominican Republic, officials said. The driver, Roopnarine Singh, and another man who was not im mediately identified, were arrested. Authorities said they would be charged with illegal transportation of aliens. Singh allegedly told police he could not open the truck because his brother, who was inside the build ing, had the keys. As the officers headed up the stairs to the fourth-floor apartment, they were fired upon. Singh ran inside the apartment, police said, and the offic ers called for reinforcements. When they returned, they found 33 more illegal aliens in the apart ment, along with a .25-caliber auto matic pistol and $10,150 hidden in a stove. Investigators said most of the aliens were from Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Repub lic, and were flown from that country to Mexico City on Jan. 17. They were trucked along back roads to the Un ited States border, and crossed the border on foot at El Paso. There, they were loaded into the tractor-trailor and driven to New Soviet aircraft intercepted JL J80 miles from Cape Cod York. Officials said the aliens had to sit on the floor of the vehicle amid the litter of clothing, empty soft- drink cans and plastic jugs used as toilets. The people in the truck had not eaten for two days, officials said. "This is the largest seizure in a smuggling operation in the New York area in seven years,” said Hen ry Dogin, district director of the Im migration and Naturalization Ser vice. The 84 aliens were being held in a detention center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. / MSC AGGIE CINEMA* United Press International OTIS AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. veloped a unit ■ Two Soviet aircraft were inter- pled oft the Massachusetts coast tr-sand deposits- stweekby U.S. Air National Guard impanies rej r said he tl •k, and he setol :ers and escorted down the east- |n seaboard, Air Force spokesmen id Tuesday. The two Russian TU-95 BearD ircraft were intercepted by two n a i a,J-S. F-106 fighter planes on Jan. 26 ic t a e wi Kj(jt 2SO miles off Cape Cod, Air ational Guard Maj. Richard Penny •ated Kingbridgt luciary Trust .ed trust comp was t | le c l oses t the Soviet r 40 percent d gbridge agred nillion for theji ipany began is* )S ' tions about 500 yards off the lanes came to the U.S. continental nd mass, he said. He said the U.S. fighters took up :s and gold I ings of the Soviet planes and ker’s claims. 1 :corte( ^ ^ em to a P os *Uon parallel apposed to be id irs, Hunsaker rs suddenly [lent and suingl >osed to have to; I got funds erties,” he sail inding, but to the New Jersey coastline, where they were picked up by other U.S. aircraft. Penny said the planes were escorted down the U.S. coast past the tip of Florida, but he did not say what happened to the Soviet planes after they left coastal air space. “This was the first intercept by the North American Air Defense Com mand of Soviet aircraft off the con tinental United States this year,” Penny said. It was the second such intercep tion in the past two months off the Massachusetts coast. The Air Force reported a similar incident in De cember. The Russian planes were picked up at the New Jersey Coast by fight ers from the New Jersey Air National Guard from Atlantic City, Penny said. They were later escorted by Air Force planes from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, and by air craft from the Florida Air National Guard out of Jacksonville Interna tional Airport. MANOR EAST 3 MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 Battered whale gets narine park care r a long ride anill 1 stop was kill the whole United Press International RANCHO PALOS VERDES, ilif. — A battered and apparently pound pigmy sperm whale |und on a local beach has been taken the Marineland Aquatic Park in an fort to save its life. d he doesn'tk He’s almost dead,” Marineland icates actually« okeswoman Lisa Noah said Mon- h money trustd V ^tly after the whale was ept for themseS ac f d , in a , sa “ , water tank - ‘ He s it all the autboiii n “ (d ' n s ' lock ff> 'ates and letteii Marineland officials, who gave the mkmntpv twt® animal a 50-50 chance for survival, i id the whale appeared to be suffer- g from an illness that has not yet ien diagnosed. “We have four trainers in wet iits walking him around the tank in | sling with towels, guiding him nund so he doesn’t bump into the des and hurt himself more,” Noah a s 5.53. have to,” she said, adding that the trainers had tried but failed to get the injured whale to eat some squid. 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