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Iran given Kurds’ autonomy plan
Lisbon, Dec 3. The platform
of the four-party Democrat ic
Alliance of the centre right
which gained control of Parlia-
ment in the Portuguese elec-
tion today, calls for reforms in
constitutional, economic and
social matters, as well as in
foreign policy.
The main points include the
creation of a market-based econ-
omy similar to that of the EEC
countries, improvement in the
standard of living, decentraliza.
tion of government and revision
of the
it j ;o calls for complete
partic pation in Nato and inte .
gration Int o the EEC through
development of regular, formal
contacts with its members.
Other econom ic proposais
call for. . the cre tion of jobs,
tax cuts and a rédubtjon IS the
cost of living: ‘ . : •
In sodal mattâs,Lthe. -D6mo.
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çrathc Mlianie proposes. to pro-
mote eflaifty r and . to ‘ jt rov s
publid &ervic s in edutatjoñ.
heälthahd hoizsthg; Y
The . pnposed - constitutional
revision t iuJd not. .be under-
taken . before . next:year'sT l en -
eralu é1 ction, afld äikht inUude
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the usè of a refeteñdum
On national defence and
foreign policy, the Alliance
calls for making the armed
forces answenb le to the C ivil
Government , and for the
defence of peace and inter-
nationaj justice in the causes of
liberty, democracy and human
rights.
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. Democratic Alliance The new Gov rntheht, to?bé
omprises the Social Demo- f&rmed aftef the new Assembly
cratic Pàrt r of Dr Francisco meets in the niidd le . of the
Sa Carneiro, who is the donii- month, faces a difficU lt ter m
nant leader of the Alliance, the because of the Alliance's nã±tthv
Chr ist ian Socia l-Democrath of majothmr and the oppositiozi f
. Dr Sa . Carneiro to Président
Señhor Diogo Freitas do Ramaiho Eanes.
Amaral, the small popular The Alliance will be con .
Mon archist Party , of Señhor fronted with a politically rein-
. Goncalo Ribeiro Telles and the forced opposition because of
Reform Movement, which was Communist gains of seven seats.
not represented in the former However, the victory of the
Parliament. Alliance in the south
The victory of the Alliance especially in Alentejo, coft-
was heralded by the right-wing sidered a leftist stron ghold
press as a “ change of society “. d the . co 1apse of the Socialist
“ Never have so many Portu- tY indicate a trend to the
guese said C no ‘ to socialism ,” right. Agence France-Presse.
said the newspaper 0 Dia in a Bernard Le'vin, page 12
headline. Leading article, page 13
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From Charles Hargro-ve
Paris, Dec 3
Senator Henri Caillavet , the
exôert of the Upper House on
radio and television, has
.
m&unted his charger aga in to
battle against the windmills of
the former ORTF, the French
broadcasting organization, split
in 1974 into four
autonomous but not. their
.
cr itics say, independent—corn -
pantes.
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The fact is that neither
.
under the sway of the cenrnj-
lized ORTF, nor since its
break-up, have viewers had
access to programmes of a
variety and quality compar-
able, the experts readily admit,
with those of the BBC and
ITA.
But they ma inta in that the
setting up of an independent
ch annel would be a cure worse
than the disease, instead of an
inèentive to productive compe .
titan.
The recent spate of “ sca j .
dais “, whether over Emperor
Boka a'sjiaman4s, or the
cid ofM-RObert Thmtiin, . àriñ
the President 's own television
interview last week by a group
àf rather tame journalists (by
British st&idarth at least) his
revived the debate whether—ras
the left mSntains the Govèrn
ment 's cont'ol of te1evision is
even more complete than
under General de Gaufle, but
more subtle in its methods.
The accusation is that none
of the television cbamiels teak
.
Up “hot potatoes” J4 1 è the
diamonds affair until the press
had provided an ample excuse
for doing so. .
The burden of M Caiil!avet's
crit icism in his report to the
Senate which came up for dis.
cussiiyrz today, is that French
. ‘
television proigraimnes are only
CC lukewarm water witth a timid
dash of colour “, that palittai
broadcasts are flat and Ieài-
tive, that advertismg is gatna g
. . . . . —
more and more ground, a nd
that there prevai ls in seveiãi
channels a form of stardom
and old-boy relationship which
is detrimental to information ;
“ People tune in to Gicqilél
or Morousj . or .uharneI,. ..Cthe
most ' popuiar:.
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when they shGuld be taking an
interest in news. By dint of
subservience to the Govern .
ment, political information
loses its consistency and
weight from day to dáy.P' ,
Neither on the first nor the
SeCQfld television channels “IS
‘ there a programmes policy ins-
. . S
pired by an overall view of all
the cultural possibilities “. The
third chànnel it M Caillavet's
wew, s the ot iffy one inspired
by a unity of will, and of clear
and simple choices. On this
channel, progranm es have
made a genuine regionalization
possible. He sing'ed out Joy
special . praise its late night
broadéä t, . which gave
ëomplete reviews of events “ in
spite bi the derisive means at
its disposal “.
Although
theory, strictly
Radical Socialist senator
describes it as a “ deep seated
evil “.
. His remedy is to chax*e
people around, at all levels.
The directors of t he three
channels should be elected by
their boards, not appointed by
the Government, as at present
and their term of office should
be longer.
From Robert Fisk ; . .
Mahabad, Iran, Dec 3 • .
I Shaikh Hosseini and by leaders
of the three ñnin political
5 Part of the national budget
should be devoted to Kurdistan
At a secret meeting in the
mounta ins of north-western
I r a n , leaders of the country 's
five million.ACurds have 1 : pre-
sented the Iran ian Revohitiçn-
ary Council with an eight-point
plan for Kurdish autonomy.
.
The documenr which con-
tains the. most detai led and
. specific . demands to have been
made by the Kurds since their
secessionist revolts began more
than 30 years ago, calls for an
enlarged KurdIsh prov ince, a
b
freely.elected Kurdish Assembly
and a guarantee of autonomy to
be written into the new Iranian
constitution.
The paper listi ng . these
demands, a copy of which has
been made avaflable to The
Times, W as handed over by
Shaikh Ezzedin Hosseini, the
Kurdish spiritual leader, to Mr
Daryush Foraliar, the Ir a n i an
Government negotiator, six days
ago. Mr Daryush is scheduled
to return to Kurdistan tcnnor-
cow to give the Revo1ufion ry
CrnuiciPs reply.
If the Kurds receive no satis-
faction from this, then the
latest ceasefire —which was
implemented after ferocious
fighting around Mahabad and
Sanandaj last month may nat
‘be renewed when it runs out
in a week's tim e , And since
voting is already taking place
on Inn's new Is la mic Constitu-
l ion, at least .one of Shaikh
Hèsseini's demands camwt be
met.
The paper was signed by
‘ ‘P i t t KUflIISThi1 ; the ortho-
dcx communist Kurdish Demo-
ératic Party, the Marxist-Lenin-
1St IComala movement and the
1th W ng Pedayeen.
“ a preface, itpointedly re-
calls that Ayawllah Khomeini
whose revolutionary guards i t t -
their own ruthless pacifi-
c ation of parts of Kurdistan last
month, has several times stated
that the economic, political and
n li y oppression width the
under the Shah 's reg ime should
Kurds believe they endured
be removed.
The demands are listed as
folLows :
I Autonomy for K ard istan
should be officially recognized
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and be specifically referred to
the constitution.
? That the Kurdish region which
at present divided into four
I r a n ian Irovinces, 11am, Ker-
mansah, Kur&stan and West
Azerbaijan, should be recog-
.
as an autonomous . unit.
3 A “ National Assembly of
ur” should be elected
by a free , direct and secret
vote. The Assembly will choose
am autonomous government of
Kurdistan which will contol all
economic, social and cultural
life and local security in the
Kurdish region.
4 The Kurdish language should
be recognized as the primary
language in schools and for
official letters. After the fourth
year of primary sthdies, the
Persian language will also be
tauflt in schools.
and that this regional budget
should be expanded to ta ke
accoimt of the backward
economy Sat has been imposed
on Kurdistan in the past
6 iCurdish representatives
should play a role in central
government
7 Foreign policy, nat ional
‘defence (the Army), the
national economy and long-term
economic planning should rest
with the central governnient.
as freedom of the press, free
8 Democratic freedoms such
speech, political and religious
freedain should exist all over
I r a n.
The document makes it ckar
negotiate “ on these demands
that the Kurdsare prepared to
d that Shaikh Ilosseini might
therefore be prepared to make
some comprom ises. He would,
for example, have to accept a
gov m ent promise of later
changes in the constitution if
his first conditiou was to be
fuifl hled
Although the eighth demand
is theoretically met in the
yor i ng of the constitution,
such basic rights are not going
to be allowed to infringe the
tenets of Islam a caveat in the
o stit uuon of which the Kurds
e deeply suspicious.
The Revolutionary Council
agreed last month that the
Kurds should be allowed some
farn, of self-government but
they did ‘not specify the powers
that might be given to a ICur-
dish Assembly and no reference
was made to ‘ autonomy “.
From Our Own Correspondent
New York, Dec 3 .
Two United States sailors
were killed today wbén teritor-
ists ambushed a Navy bus near
San J u an, Puerto REw, and
opened fire on the ocnipàñts.
Ten other persons, including
three women, were seriously
inju sd. . .
It it'as the most serious mad-
for several years in a low-
level but persistent guerri l la
campaign by groups seek ing
fuli independence for the
island.
The attack was believed to
be revenge for the death three
weeks ago of Angel Rodriguez
Cristobal, an independence sup-
potter who was found hanged
in his cell in Florida. He had
been arrested with 20 others
for trespassing OR Navy prop-
erty at Vieques, an offshore
island which is used as a
weapons ‘training range and has
been a focus for protests by
h natiirnalists. .
Puerto Rico has common-
wea lth status with the Un ited
States. A lthough not a fully-
fledged member of the Union,
it is linked economically ; and
Puerto . Rica ins have complete
rights as' jJnjted States citizens,
i rcIuding the right to settle on
the mainland. They also receive
welfare payments from Wash-
lngton.
want full -fledged statehood. The
United States Government has
said repeated ly that it Wifl
com • 1y with ‘whatever . the
people decide, and a refereri-
diuñ is likely tq, be held in the
next year or t.vo.
.
One of the motives of the
tenarist campaign is to con-
‘vince Americans that by taking
on Puer&j Rico a's a state of
the Union , they would also be
t aking on a dispute w ith
expksive potential, like
Britai n's burden in Northern
Irel and.
Most of the incidents in
recent years have been bomb
attacis against property, both
Pueno Rico and on the
main iand, in which
there have been no casuahies.
The last previous attack , in
which an Ameri can . serviceman
iIed. was in March, 1970.
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Dec 3.
The attack occurred at 6.20
am as the yello rw school bus
‘nth Navy markhigs left a naval
commurncations facility here,
18 people to work at a
radar station two kilometres
away.
Unconfirmed reports said that
at Teast four gunmen used two
V flS In the ambush, one block-
..
ing the way along a deserted
Section of the narrow road.
Authorities here said the
The question of a permanent
future status for the island has
been long debated. PartIes sup-
porting a tompiete break from
the United States, in other
Words independence, seldom
receive a significant number of
votes at elections. -
Of the other options, some
favour the continuation of the
commonwealth link and others
.
attackers opened fire with a
heavy-gauge shotgun and pistols.
A survivor said the driver ‘was
killed ifistantly when he was
shot under the right eye.
Rear-Admira' Arthur Knoizen ,
senior American naval officer
in the Caribbean, said the attack
was “ a well planned, well Sic-
cuted ambush. It was not a
target of opportunity “. A R
From Our Correspondent
Salisbury, Dec. 3
A crowd of about 150 Zanu
supporters demonstrated out-
side the offices of the National
Observer newspaper today..
They were objecting tothe lead
story in the latest issue of
this African-orientated weekly
which said the party leader, the
Rev Ndabaningi Sithole , was
seek ing an alliance with . the
United Mrican National Council
led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa.
The newspaper quoted
sources close to the Zanu party
leadership. Mr J a mes Dzvova,
the party's publicity secretary
and a member . of Parliament ,
said the report - was incorrect.
-Today's demonstration was
orderly although it did hold' up
traffic for a time on QflC of the
City's main thoroughfares.
It started shortly before 10
am ivith men and women hold-
ing up placards calling for the
dismissal of the newspaper 's
editor and two members of his
staff. A petition claimed that
the newspaper was anti-Zanu
in its reporting and favoured
the UANC.
A section of the crowd tried
to enter Herald House, the six-
storev building wh ich houses
- newspapers owned by the
Rhodesia Printing and Publish-
j g . Company ; the National
Observer, the Herald and the
M c d l . . The Sa l isbury
‘ ‘ manager of the corn-
P Y M i ' Michael Smuts, locked
the glass front doors of the
buildiag preventing the crowd
from entering. A white police
officer spoke quietly to the
crowd in Shoná while a three-
man deputation was allowed lfl
10 see the editor.
After half an hour during
which time numerous co ies of
the National Observer were
burnt the crowd sang a fi l ial
song and dispersed quietly. No
one was hurt
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UN Committee : - - jamai a,
Ku wait, Nigeria and N o rway
were named toda y as the mern-
bers of a Security Council
committee set up ui der a resn-
lution of November 23 con-
demning recent . : Zimbabwe
Rhodesian . auack on :Zárnbiä.
destroying road and ài1 li nks.
The committee was est b-
iished to help to impiSent Uie
resolution ; parflcuiar1 y those
par cauing for ompen a on
to Zambia by the “ responsible
authorities “ and urging Unjtcd
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Nations members to help 2am-
bia to rebuild Facilities flOces-
sary to its ecouomy : •
The commiti eê is to tepbh
back to the Security Couhcil
by December 15. Reutcr. .
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