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France expels members
of group opposing Iran
PARIS (AP) — France expelled 17
opponents of the Khomeini regime
Tuesday in what appeared to be an
other step in a plan for restoring
normal relations with Iran and se
curing the release of French hos
tages in Lebanon.
The government denies any deal
with the fundamentalist Shiite Mos
lem regime in Tehran, but recent
developments indicate an arrange
ment.
Welcoming two freed hostages
home Nov. 27, conservative Premier
Jacques Chirac said resumption of
normal relations with Ayatollah Ru-
hollah Khomeini’s government was
desirable but could not occur until
all French hostages were released.
Still held by pro-Iranian extremist
groups in Lebanon are French dip
lomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel
Carton, and journalist Jean-Paul
Kauffmann.
A fourth Frenchmen, researcher
Michel Seurat, is believed to have
died or been killed in captivity.
Since Chirac’s conservatives
gained power in March 1986, the
government has won the release of
seven hostages from Lebanon.
In addition to the French hos
tages, eight Americans and at least
12 other foreigners still are captives
in Lebanon.
Held longest is Terry A. Ander
son, chief Middle East correspon
dent of the Associated Press, who
was kidnapped March 16, 1985.
Although the Interior Ministry
said Tuesday it acted for pressing
reasons of national security, some of
the people involved have spent years
in France as exiles.
According to the statement, the
members of the People’s Mujahe-
deen of Iran were arrested Monday
and deported Tuesday because the
group’s actions in France country
constituted a serious and immediate
threat to the public order and
harmed French interests in the
world.
If the nation was in such immedi
ate danger, Socialist Party leader Li
onel Jospin wondered aloud to re
porters, “Why was it noted only
today?”
Jack Lang, a former Socialist Cab
inet minister, called the expulsions
an unworthy gesture (that) denies
the right of asylum and makes a pact
with the Khomeini dictatorship.
The ministry said 14 Iranians and
three Turkish citizens were put on a
plane Tuesday to Gabon and nine
other people — eight Iranians and
one Turk — had been placed under
house arrest.
Jean-Louis Malterre, a lawyerfoil
one of the expelled Turks, said kill
not aware of involvement withtlit|
Mujahedeen.
No reason was given for <
the 17 to Gabon, but BasqueguernlI
las and others expelled from Frail
in the past have been sent tothefoil
mer French colony in Africa. FraiMi
provides economic and military aijl
to Gabon’s government and
good relations with President Oml
Bongo.
Mohammed Ali Massouni, a Mil
jahedden member, declared: “Tlt|
Chirac government has disf
itself.” His organization has calld
the roundup part of an ug
with Tehran.
The Mujahedeen appealed
President Francois Mitterrand.aS
cialist, to intervene personally todl
sipate all constraints against (Ini
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It said all were members of the
People’s Mujahedeen, the most ac
tive opponent of Khomeini’s regime,
but Mujahedeen spokesman Behzad
Naziri said he knew of no Turks in
the organization.
Lawyers representing the
ans said the expulsions,
under emergency regulations
do not require court approval
the price paid to the Ayatollah Kktl
meini.
Khomeini’s government bj
pressed for a crackdown on I
nian opposition in France, whereiW
Ayatollah also lived in exile whil|
plotting the revolution that
the late Shah Mohammad RezaP
lavi in February 1979.
U.N. says 400 files
on Nazi war crimes
discovered missing
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The
United Nations disclosed Tuesday
that more than 400 files on Nazi war
crimes are missing from its archives,
and it has ordered an urgent investi
gation.
The sensational disclosure that
the U.N. archives staff knew of the
missing files last year but did not tell
the secretary-general raised ques
tions of whether a coverup was in
volved.
Israel’s U.N. ambassador said vital
information on atrocities against
Jews and others by the Nazis during
World War II may have been lost or
destroyed by a source who is both
unknown and possibly dangerous.
how the information could have
been kept secret. Last year they were
asking now Waldheim’s file could
have been lying unnoticed for so
many years.
U.N. Secretary-General Javier
Perez de Cuellar issued a statement
saying he was “surprised and dis
turbed” to learn for the first time,
through news reports, that some
files of the war crimes commission
were missing.
It was the second dramatic reve
lation about the archives of the U.N.
War Crimes Commission, kept in a
Park Avenue office building since
the end of World War II. In March
1986, it was discovered that the
8,000 files with more than 36,000
names contained a file on former
U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Wald
heim, now the president of Austria.
“This was not known in the
United Nations Secretariat outside
of the Archives Section,” the
statement read to reporters by the
secretary-general’s spokesman,
Francois Giuliani, said.
The U.N. chief ordered a full in
vestigation by Richard Foran, assis
tant secretary-general for general
services.
The inquiry will try to determine
fill
There also was talk of a coverup
then, a charge denied by the United
Nations and archivists. Waldheim
has denied any wrongdoing during
his service in the German army in
World War II.
Bewildered U.N. diplomats and
staff were asking Tuesday how the
files could have disappeared and
whether the missing files were sepa
rated from the archives while they
were in U.N. custody or whether
they ever were received by the
United Nations when it first got cus
tody of the archives after the war.
It also will investigate whether the
files concern adjourned and with
drawn cases, which are filed sepa
rately and are not on microfilm.
When asked whether there might
have been a coverup in the present
case or in the case involving the pres
ident of Austria, Giuliani said, “Of
course not.”
Traders worry
OPEC may fail
to reach deal
NEW YORK (AP) —Oilpncej
continued to slump Tuesday ail
traders worried that OPECi
fail to reach an agreement on I
production quotas at its ministe |
rial meeting in Vienna, Austria
At the New York Mercanil
exchange, contracts for Januan
delivery of West Texas Interme f
diate, the benchmark U.S. crude|
oil, closed at $18.08 per42-g<
barrel, down 17 cents from ^
day, when they lost 49 cents.
Among refined products, con |
tracts for wholesale heating i
skidded 0.86 cent a gallon
54.07 cents a gallon, while whole
sale unleaded gasoline closed ii
46.49 cents a gallon, down 0.!'
cent.
“It’s really all OPEC rigl
now,” William Byers, an analysts I
the Bear, Stearns & Co. securities |
firm, said.
He said virtually all of the sell I
ing consisted of traders liquidat I
ing long oil positions ahead oil
Wednesday’s meeting of the 131
nation Organization of Petrol
leum Exporting Countries.
By selling existing futures con i
tracts, the traders avoid riskio|j
being stuck holding losing posi |
tions should prices fall.
Chris McCormack, an analysil
at E.D.&F. Man InternationalFuj
tures Inc. also said market pessil
mism about the OPEC meetin{|
was behind the losses.
“The OPEC ministers havei|
real tough task in front of then):
he said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Blue-chip
stocks rallied impressively in the last
half-hour of trading Tuesday, with
the Dow Jones average jumping
more than 56 points on a wave of fu
tures-related buying.
After languishing throughout
most of the session and even dipping
into negative territory, the Dow
Jones average of 30 industrials
ended the day up 56.20 points at
1,868.37, a rise of 3.1 percent.
That was the average’s eighth
largest point gain and gave it a rise
of more than 101 points in two days.
Gainers outpaced losers by a 5-to-
2 margin on the New York Stock Ex
change, with 1,142 stocks up, 465
down and 371 unchanged.
Analysts said futures buying trig-
g ered the big push upward in the
tow average.
With less than 30 minutes to go,
computer-guided, futures-related
programs kicked in to dump futures
contracts and buy the underlying
stocks.
Analysts were quick to character
ize the rally as healthier than Mon
day’s advance, which was confined
mainly to the bluest of the blue
chips.
Big Board volume totaled I
million shares, up sharply W
146.66 million on Monday, howf'®
62.3 million of those shares invol
purchases of just two stocks l
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noted.
Last week the Dow Jones a' 11
aged approached the record mal
lows hit during the October:
crash.
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