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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