40 Reported Dead in Southern Iran Town As Shiite Moslems Attack Bahai Members

          
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          40 Reported Dead in Southern Iran Town
          As Shiite Moslems Attack Bahai Members
          TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (AP) —Shiitc
          Moslems, in an outbreak of sectari-
          - an violence in Shiraz, southern
          Iran, were reported today to have
          • attacked homes and businesses be-
          longing to members of the Bahai
          • sect. Forty of the attackers were
          shot and killed, informed sources
          reported.
          The violence against the Bahais
          nipted in the Shiraz suburb of
          Saadi. Among the homes set ablaze
          • were ones belongin to a former
          army intelligence chief and several
          noncommissioned members of the
          army.
          Informed sources in Shiraz, said
          the army men used their weapons
          to defend themselves and their fam-
          ilics against the rioters, shooting
          and kitIng at least 40 and wounding
          corcs of others. An army corporal
          win n.e lionic was burned was killed
          by the u'icrs antI his family fled
          aI(n 't. With hundreds of other
          I Ia in Is a i thy mountain town.
          the Mi lcms also attacked busi—
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          Shiraz has been he Icquent
          scene of anti-shah demonstrations
          since civil unrest started 11 months
          ago throughout Iran.
          As the unrest grew, Shiite
          Moslems put the pressure on the
          sluih to dismiss members of the
          rCt in influential 0 ositiOflS.
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          raise the price o t oil at their
          end price meeting this wed
          but he refused to speculate ot
          precise outcome.
          Mr. Jaidah also said that si
          induced reduction of oil produ
          in Iran will have no immedia'
          feet on OPEC pricing. But he
          that he was optimistic that Jr
          oil production will pick up
          and that other OPEC natio
          any case could raise their pr
          tion to “alleviate the problcr
          declining Iranian output
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          Egypt at a later date.”
          Later, aides said this was meant
          as an assurance to both sides that
          even if the United States turned its
          attention to othet' mailers, it would
          not give up on icuelting an eventual
          seUlement.
          Asked to speuly the other
          pressing inierniutional pi bls ins
          demanding his attention, the pies i '
          dent cited the tension between Ai '
          gentina and Chile over the owner-
          ship of disputed islands, Ike ;uetl n
          tion efforts in Nicarn u4t and the
          negotiations with the Soviet )niitui
          over a new strategic mitts liuitttatiolt
          agreement.
          There are about 700,000 Bahas in
          Iran and the sect has always played
          a prominent role in the country's
          social, economic and military life.
          In an attempt to pacify religious
          opponents, the shah replaced bank
          presidents, several generals and the
          president of Iran Air, retired Ai
          Force Gen. Ali Mohammed Khade-
          ml. Gen. Khademi later committed
          suicide because of accusations that
          he had misapprOpriateel funds of
          the national air carrier, the govern-
          ment had said.
          The military governments mean- day night before they were gunned
          while, maintained official silence down.
          about reports that rebellious troops - The government has declined to
          shot and killed at least 12 imperial comment on the version reported
          guard officers and wounded more by. informed sources, that the at-
          than 20 this week in a camp close tack on the officers mess was made
          to the shah's Niavaran Palace resi- by three troo ers on Monday
          dence. whose fate is an nown.
          Official sources yesterday
          claimed that three terrorists dressed The government tried to et the
          in military uniforms sprayed a bar- economy rolling, again srit on-
          racks with bullets from their auto- certed efforti to soh'e ' cripphng
          matic weapons. wounding at least strike by 37,000 oil field workers
          20 soldiers at Levizan camp Tues- now in its 12th day.
          Iran Oil Production Reported Very Low
          PARIS, Dcc. 15 (AP) — Iranian
          offshore oil production came to a
          cornpletc halt this week, while
          onshore crude oil for export dwin-
          dled to a trickle of 600,000 barrels
          a day, according to a confidential
          report obtained here today.
          The little oil being exported is
          exclusively for Consortium mem-
          bets, according to the report h)' oil
          ntIiu si ty experts that is being circu—
          l; ,tcd among miii c4imnpanics. iliose
          incmnhcrs CoilSist it a luinillill of
          large, mostly nun—A nmc.mica ii, cm am
          panics.
          The report was shown to the As-
          sociau d Press-Dow Jones news ser-
          vice on condition that the source
          remain unidentified.
          It sai .l the virtual halt in produc-
          tion came two days ago. Daily pro-
          duction now stands at 1.1 million
          barrels — one si tth of its usual rate
          —with the unexported crude going
          for domestic consumption..
          Iran had 35 producing oilfields
          in 1976,22 of them on land. -
          1ran's oil industry has been crip-
          pled by strikes. Before the civil
          strife in the country, iran was the
          world's second largest exporter of
          crude, and it produced about 6 mil-
          lion barrels a day.
          ihe mepori said productioli was
          so bmw that the National Iranian
          Oil (.o. was lryin to purchase
          products primarily jet fuel, on. thc/
          international market.
          But consumer intake terminals in
          Iran were not functioning, and it
          ‘Broad Gaiiuut'
          • .“There's such a broad ‘gamut of
          things that I need Secretary Vance
          back here,” he said, explaining why
          he had ordered the secretary to cnd
          his Middle East shuttle and return
          home today.
          Mr. Carter said the Argentina-
          Chile dispute “could erupt into a
          conflict.” But other administration
          officials said that despite this, a
          major purpose in recalling Mr.
          Vance was to jolt the Israelis into
          serious consideration of the latest
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          - Carter May Call
          China Sumnilt
          WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (AP)
          — President Carter hastily ar-
          ranged a televised address to the
          nation late this evening amid re-
          ports that he would announce plans
          for a U.S-Chinese summit and
          resumption of, full diplomatic rela-
          tions. • -
          An administration source said
          ‘‘- . .‘ . r -” ii..
          was difficult to tell how imported
          oil would reach its destination, the
          report added.
          Russians Seen Hurt
          By Iran. Oil Strike.
          • BRUSSELS, Dec. 15 — The oil
          strike in Iran has cut the flow of
          Iranian, natural gas to the Soviet
          Union and threatened tO interfere
          with an important Soviet trade
          agm'ccnscnt in Western Europe, dip-
          lomat ic sources said yesterday.
          l'hc Soviet Union imports sub-
          stantial quniltitieS of Iranian gas,
          then delivers domestic gas to West-
          ern Europe, which pays for it in
          brirs iit reflCii 'f that are much in