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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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OTIS AIR FORCE BASE, Mass.
veloped a unit ■ Two Soviet aircraft were inter-
pled oft the Massachusetts coast
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: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
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lanes came to the U.S. continental
nd mass, he said.
He said the U.S. fighters took up
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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.
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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
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have to,” she said, adding that the
trainers had tried but failed to get the
injured whale to eat some squid.
The 8-foot-long whale beached it-
self near El Segundo Monday
morning.
“He’s so scraped up from the rocks
and surf he just couldn’t make him
self go any more,” Miss Noah said.
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On October 25th. a large metallic
object crashedinlheArizonadesert.
The government is concealing a UFO
and the bodies of alien astronauts.
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