Cease-Fire Brings Peace to Kurdish City in Iran

          
          Cease Fire Brings Peate To Kurdish Cit in Iran
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          Cease Fire Brimgs Peace
          To Kurdish. City In Iran.
          SANANDAJ, Iran March 23 (AP)—
          A cease-fire bdtween Kurdish tribes-
          men and government troops restored
          peace to this strife torn western city
          today after the Kurds gained prom-
          ises of at least limited autonomy from
          the Tehran administration.
          In downtown Sanandaj, several hun
          dred men loaaea tneir oags ann weap-
          ons aboard vehicles for the journey
          back to their villages. Loudspeakers
          blared messag s of appreciation from
          the people of Sanandaj for their help.
          The cease fire went into effect Wed-
          nesday night after almost four days of
          fighting claimed about 200 lives nd
          wounded hundreds. Many victims
          were women and children wounded by
          army mortar barrages and by ma
          chine-gun strafing by military helicop
          ter gunships.
          Religiuus and government onicials
          from Tehran reportedly had worked
          out an agreement with local Kurdish
          tribesmen granting the Kurds a “senu
          autonomous” status, But Kurdish offi-
          cials said it had been “simply pro-
          posed” by Interior Minister Seyyed
          Javadi and was not yet agreed to
          Javadi and Ayatollah Mahmoud Ta-
          leghani, Tebran's Shiite Moslem
          leader, met with Kurdish officials but
          it was not disclosed whether Sheik Es-
          zedin Hosseini—acknowledged poilti-
          cc 1 and religious leader of the Kurds,
          who are Sunni Moslems was at the
          meetings. Hosseini was in Sanandaj
          yesterday and was hailed by thou-
          sands of Kurds at an open-air rally,
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