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Khomeini envoys hold talks with Kurds on autonomy
a ‘4 •4 1 ' .— I 6 WEST EUROPE —. .. .. __._ THE. TIMES ISLAMIC — I . FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23 of - From Michael Hornsby Nov 1 UNREST . 22 ‘ .4 1979 — couse' _ - — F 2 0 . . — _# p - Its I . From Róben Fisk Tebran, Nov 22 -ç * . — A I . C I flies ave % Brussels, Britain wouM get a refund of about £340m on its contribu- turns to the EEC budget next year , and receive a further unquantified amount of relief from increased Community spending in Britain on the coal industry, agriculture, and road improvement , under proposals announced here today by the European Commission. Mr Roy Jenkin s, the Presi- dent of the Commission, w ill put the proposals to Mrs Thatcher and other EEC heads of governments at their summit in Dublin in November 29 and 30. The Prime Minister has said that Brita in's estimated 1980 budget deficit of £1,200m must be brought into broad balance. In a separate move, Mr Finn OIav Gundelach, the Commis- sioner for Agriculture, disclosed plans for cutting fthancial aid to milk, sugar, beef, and cereal producers. He claimed that these proposals would reduce projected EEC spending on the farm sector by about £650m over a year. Mr Gundelach's proposals will not be discussed in detail at Dublin, but their announce - ment, due in December, was brought forward to show Mrs Thatcher and her . EEC colleagues before the summit that the Commission is serious about tackling agricultural sur- pluses. The initial British reaction to the Gundelach plan was d Is- tinct ly hostile a lthough the Government, like its Labour has complained the heavy charge on the EEC ha ‘N ' ..w-., bassy From ilasan A]ffitar Islarnabad, Nov 22 :i Hugh Noycs . . Parliamentary Correspondent Westminster . . Sir Geoffrey Howe, .QC, Chthwe l lor of the Exchequer, set the Govetnment on a col- lisith course yesterday with the . European Community, when he ! . made dear in a debate in the : Commons that the soludons to :BH fs huge imbaianèe in ! . . . . contr ibutions to the EEC bud- P get must be radical, permanent , and immediate. - . Seldom has a government left itself so little room for retreat : or manoeuvre and rarely, on EEC matters, has the Commons been so united. Opposition and Government , -MPs for and MPs against the Community, rallied . round the Chancellor as he told them that the pr&bleni must be ; solved at next week's Dublin sum.mit once and for all. . - It was not enough for the Co nmunity to offer temporaty measures which . would afford .. relief for a year or two and which at the end o that thne would leave Brithin in as toletal,je a situation as ever. From the Labour benches Sir Geoffrey had the h i ll sup . : of Mr Peter Shore, Oppo- sition foreign affairs spokesman and a long time opponent of the EEC. Gleefully he recited his warnings of seven years ago, . when he had told the House that the present imbalance in our contr ibut ions would in . evitabrly take place. More significantly, Mr Shore served warning that Britain and the EEC were now on a colli- sion course and that the will- h gness shown to change a . shortly alter the Second Wo;Id ‘. War and was once chief-of-staff of the I RA, has a considerable record as a u intermediary; Be' negotiated the release of Arch- bishop Makarios from the Seychelles and undertook the talks which led to the release -of Archbishop Beran, who was ( imprisoned in Czechoslc,valda He took a message from Pope Paul V I , to the Hanoi ,Covernment during the Viet- narn war and spent some time in North Vietham with Mr . Ramsey CIark whom Mr Carter sent on an aborñve mission to -Ira n to free the Americajj hostages earlier this month. The initiative. for Mr Mac- Bride's intervention appears to have come from Unesco but the Ir a nia n Foreign Min istry then issued an invitation for him to come to Tehran. Mr MacBr ide lunched with Mr .. Bani-Sadr today and was to , have further talks with him . tonight. Nevertheless, it is Ayatollah . Khomeini and not the Revolue tionary Council which controls domestic and foreign policy in •: Iran, and Mr Bani-Sadr, who is a leading member of the Coun- dil, does not appear to have any -mandate to negotiate on behalf of the clergy. . Mr MacBride, however, has one thing in his favour : during . . the last 10 years of the Shah's — . .,>x . . ,.. — . ,.. . . . tr V. . . .. . . ; .- ‘:-. :- < • • ‘ . . . . . -, *t.- , • ,_ .‘,-.- c. .. — .....‘ ‘ - •1 . . — . . the study of Communication Prob lSs have earned much condemnat ion in the West, believe s that two possible initia- tives by the Amer icans might open the way to negotiations. He feels that some acknow- ledgement by the United States of the ‘C atrocities “ that took place under the Shah would P a long way towards cal m- ing passions in Iran. Re also be lievts that an investigat ion into the Shah's reign by the International Commission of Jurists might persuade the students at the Amer ican Embassy to free their hostages. Cs I was asked to come here to see what I could do,” Mr MacBride said tonight. “ I did not come . to express any views on the situation. The syste- matic torture and brutaBza- tion carried out by the Sha h here was one of our main problems in Amnesty? The MacBride intervention probably has little chance of immediate success. But the United States is l ikely . to welcome any mediaflon by an internat Ionally known states- man, however controversial his political views may be. Accord- ir ig to Unesco . the arrange - ments for Mr MacBr ide's mission have been carried out cc a strictly confidential basis “. . . inainly by reducing the amount of sugar eligible for price . sup- port and increasing the tax on production. Br itish producers claim that the quota they have been offered of 936,000 tonnes could lead to the closure of half the sugar beet factories in Britain. Mr Gundelach denied that the- milk tax would penalize pro- ducers unfairly : “ They are not being asked to reduce produc. tion . bth merely S stop inã as- ing product ion in the future. The.situatjoñ now is that anyone can produce ‘ anything he likes becausi- it is :?t someone else's, the tazpayers! expense.” Milk prodUction in the EEC is running at 15 per cent above dema nd . The dair y . sector account for about 45 per cent of all spending on farm price SUPPO t anti about 30 per cent of EEC - budgetary expenditur . AmOnj the çbrnrniision's pro- posals or Increasing spend ing in BHtSi ai& proposals for en- couraging the Use of coal. in power plants and subsidizing EEC-produced coal. That could he of substant i al benefit to Br ita in, which is the biggest coal producer in the EEC. The Commiss ion document says dat if Britain join'ed the European Monetary System it could . become eligible for in- vestment loans at subsidized rates of interest. The Commission also des - tribes as “ 3' an It a l ian plan whereby the EEC would, over a number of years, devote an increa sing proportion of Commu n-jt funds to industrial Investment , region 1 develop- ment and farm modernjzatjon. Hugh Clayton, Agriculture Cor- respondent, writes : Bri tish complaints about the cost of EEC farm policy were rejected in London yesterday by Herr Josef Erti, West German Minister of Agriculture. c c It has not been my country which has forced up gricu itura prices in the Community “, he told men bers of the Ang io -Qerma Chamber of Commerce. ‘C Over the pest four years Our nominal agricultura i prices have increased by 16 per cent against nearly 60 per cent in the United Kingdom.” Herr En l rejected Bri tish proposals for small farmers on the Continent to be kept in bus iness w ith social payments -rather than vith high farm pr ices and said the common agricu1tura policy did not need reform. All the nec ssarv in- strurnent for correcting im- balances were available Tate & Lyle welcomed the plan to aa sugarbeet quotas. The Company, . which refines cane sugar, said dumping s in- pluses outside the Community had depressed the world price of sugar and had cost Comma . nity taxpayer 8 £350m a year. Mr Sean MacBride : Impres . sive record as iütermediary. rule, Amnesty was outspoken in its condemnation of torture by Savak, the Shah's secet police. The Iranian authorities can therefore scarcely claim that Mr MacBride represents the Amer ican Government. Judeed, he has had no contact with the United States Admini- stration prior to his arrival here. . Mr Mr Sean MacBride, a. fosér I Assistant Secretary-General of- . the United Nations . and one of' the founders of Amnesty Intera national flew . int Tehran to-k day at the itivitatiqn of the • Ira n ian Government to tEy to. break the deadlock Over the L AmeHcan- ' dipIomats held host- age . at -the United- C States I , . Embassy here. . . ; .. . ‘ ; - . .Mr MacBride, who ‘hGIds the H NÔbàI prize, t u e Lenin Peace . prfre and the American Medal ! of Justice, held talks with Mr A oih a s s a n Bani-Sadr, the Iran- Ian Foreign Minister, and said . later that he felt “ the way could be open for discussions between the United States and ijrañ . - . This is the first time s ince . the embassy siege began almost three weeks ago that the Iran- I • . S . . I : authorities have encouraged I the intervention of a - poten ti a l L media±o± between the . two Ciyuflfraes. . - r Mr MacBride' was carrying with him a' message from Mr Amaduu -Mah t ar M'Bow, the Dfrector-Genera.j of - U iieàco . and . ved . i the Iranian capital . without any pub1-icit . in the company of a Unesco • official. - . Mr MacBride, who was Irish Mihister for External Affairs Ayatollah calls for unity • ‘ against pagans Tëhran, &ov 22. Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian religious leader, today urged the Islam ic world CC to rise i t t the face of injustice “, and supp r-t Iran in :its clash with Amenca. Addressing a group of visit- lug Pakistani officers in a tele- tsed speech, he said this clash flow amounted to CC Ivar between the Muslims and the pagans “. ‘C Now that we are busy re- building over the ruins caused by the foreign vandalism, foreign rule, we have come face to face with Amer ica. a We hope that brotherly and Islamic nations who suffered under foreign oppression, just as we did, rise in revolt now that our nation has risen in revolt .. C C Ifs a matter of joy that Pakistan has risen in revolt. As I saw in the newspaper head- line today , the whole of Paid- F Stan has risen in revolt against America. . . . This is heartening far our oppressed aation cc Muslims must assemble, be one ante from each . not .tonsider fra n cause of dividing cc Sadly, due to About SO families of Amen- can diplomatic offictals in Islamabaci are leaving by char- tered aircraft tomorrow after the violent anti -America n F demonstrations in Pakistan yesterday. Non-essenñai staff members of the Embassy are also being taken back to Wash- ington. Mr Arthur Hunnuel, the American Ambassador, who has I set up his temporary office in the United States aid office, told foreign jGurflaiIsts today - that there was no intention of - breaking relations with Pa id- s t a n because of yesterday's attacks on Amer ican miss ions in Islamabad, Karachi and ! Lahore. . However, Mr Hununel said that prompter action by Paid. s t an authorities could have prevented much of the damage : tO lift and property in Islania- bad. I Th e Ambassador Confirmed that the bodies of two uthdenti- fled Pakistanis and Warrant Officer BHan E l l is had been found today in the Embassy buildinp. A Marine guard was also k illed in the attack by I trowd;s aflp'y at reports of Amencan mvo lvement in the Occupation of the Great Mosque an Mecca. MacBride, - whose views on press freedom voiced in his capacity as chairman of the Internat ional Commission for ‘cc Tses I ftt of the al manifestly unfair taxation would be British people There could Dubl in from deliberate and ments made Minister, Mr S a no I system seen by as test. be retreat at the considered, successive state- by the Prime hare said. It Was From Michael Binyon I ! : Moscow, NGv S 0. predecessor, bitterly about of agriculture budget. After a meeting with execu- tives of the British Sugar Con poration, Mr Peter Walker, the Minister for Agriculture, said that the sugar proposals, aimed at reducing the Community 's sugar surplus by one million tonnes, would put an unfair and illogical burden “ on British producers. He called on the ommissiort to reconside r these unacceptable ideas 3 '. British officials were equally harsh about the Comm ission's proposals for increased taxation of mi lk producers. Milk and sugar production in Brita in, they argued, met only a part of domestic demand and Were not responsible br the surpluses. Yet because Br itish produceré were more efficient they would be disproportionately penalized. Under the Commission plan, the tax on milk producers of 0_s per cent would go up to 1.5 per cent on April 1, and dairies would have to pay a further tax estimated at 3 per cent. The 22 p's It . -t iL - ‘A. to I Sian of C the Irathan peo” fury of the Jraxiian assets had caused . con- siderable auxiety in A me r ica and Western Europe and could cause new currency problems - i the Western world. Yesterday Tass - Reported that . the American position had become more . rigid, and . accused the White House of trying to put all the respon- sibility for the crisis on Iran. It said that President Caner's statement That remedies . other -than peaceful ones were avail- able to th United States was being interpreted as “ a dfreer threat to use military force against Iran “.. not good enough to rattle the chains. Indeed, the Chancellor, with the Prime Minister sitting be- side him, seemed only too well aware that he was head ing down a plath from which the GovenmeM could return othy in gjGry or in ignominy. If no- thing was changed at Dub1i'n Sir Geoffrey said, B r itain, seventh in order of gross national product, would be by tar and away the largest con . tribu .torr to the Community budget in 1980. The Chancellor said he was not wedded to any panicular solution. One method would be an entirely new and separate mechanism. Another could be a single rule limiting Brita in's net contribution i i i a way which would satify the Government's overa]j objective. A further method couid be to raise receipts per head Parliamentary report, page 8 The Ru s s i ans have fre- quently tried to curry favour with Ayato11ai i Khomeini . They were particularly angered by Western reports that the Rus- sians had he'ped to block the Iranian request for a Security Council debate on the situa- tiun, and put out an urgent npwsf lash deny in g that the, Soviet Union had played anyL actlje part in the deliberations. the sugar million to Commission aims to cut surplus from three two million tonnes, Air controllers in France unite, Smoke was still coming from part of the embas sy bui lchng here today. The Amer ic an I Centre in Rawalpinth and the Eritish Council Library were also the target of arsonists while two schools, including a Br itish missionary-nn institu- tion, were also attacked. The Pakistan Government today annou nc that it would strengthen forces protec t Ing all _tholomat ic missions. Presi- dent Zia ukHaq visited some of I the buildings set on fire yester- I day. The Cabinet has aiso ordered an inquiry into yesterday 's inc idents to find out if the -Situat ion was exploited by . 4' vested interests “. - Today the city and the capita:1 were heavily patrolled by the ütops. Most life was normal but a part of the main shopping area was dosed for the second day. P a kist a n radio said that President Carter had expressed appreciation to General Zia by telephone for sending in troops to protect the Americans during the demonstrations. lit an attempt to exploit the tensions between the United States and Iran, the Russians have gone as near as possible to supporting the Iranian sei- zure of the American Embassy without actually doing so. In the past week the Soviet media have given widespread coverage to accusations that the United States was putting pressure on Ir a n , threztening to use military force and ; hounding Iraañan students in A me r ica. Reporting by Tass has been I carefully selective, giving pro- minencè to the statements of Ayatollah Khoinenini that the embassy was a centre of espionage while saying little of . the situation of the hostages or of appeals by the United Nations Security Council for their release. More than a week ago Tass rejected American accusations that the Soviet press had been . i:ssu.ing• “ completely unaccep- ! ‘ b1é ,, commentaries r on the cr.is is It also denied that its reporting had been tenden- ; saying it was svell known that the Soviet Union . upheld all ptixiciples of interhational . law. Since then Tass hü reported p that the A meric a n ca mpaign aga inst Ira n has intensified. The Ir a ni a n Foreign Minister has been quoted as saying that I r a nian citizens in America . were hounded and insulted by inthviduá l A merica ns and by officia ls. Reports from New York said the freezihg of must resume ban I and not other tiers their bad CorrSpondent From Our Paris, Nov Air centres voted tive sep- must as the hearts. propa- da through history, which made people afraid of these erpowers, it has been pos- e to frighten your nations ours, so that we think superpowers le—qn to sp t This public stance contrasts curiously with the private opinions of Russians in all fields, ‘who express amazement that the Americans should have tolerated the situaion for so long. They privately admit that the seizure of the embassy is a gross and unacceptable violation of intenational law, which the Russians themselves could never condone. Yet they justify their public attitudes by saying, in effect, that the Anericaas are fair game, and that anyway the American press would have done the same if the situat Ion were reversed. .1ss1_-e . From Patricia Clough Bànn, Nov 22 O fl ; — - : . The Americans have accused the Russ i ans of encouraging the Iranian students in broad- casts beamed to Iran from a radio station in Baku called the National - Voice of . Ira n. Monitors in the West yesterday :repon d that for the first time . the radio station had urged the release of the hostages. But this call has not been repeated in the Soviet press,. which never refers to Soviet foreign language broadcasts. The one -sided coverage of Iran appears to be motivated . by Soviet reckoning that sooner or- later the Amer icans will use force, with a conse- . quent violent an t i- A me r ic an reaction throughout the Mus- lint world froth which the Rus- sians whose relations with the Khomeini regime have been . in- creasingly strained . in recent months—could benefit Own 22 traffic controllers at throughout France today to resume disrup- action which £s stopping ts taking airports. e action, on for for 24 ome of Roger a eak are not vu!- way that if we they' ll throttle gan has sup sibi an t i these nerab dare -U S . . . S ‘C We hope all Islamic nations join u in this fight, I which is a fIght between Islam I and blasphemy, between our- se lves and Amer ica, between I s lam and blasphemy.” . UPI and Reuter . that Mr Ideologists frequently that the role of the press is to support the p of the, Soviet Commuthst and state. Vance meets assert Soviet olicies Party the majority of flIgli off from the country 's They had called off th which has ben gotug more htan three weks, hours to await the mite talks last night with l v i Machenaud, director of Air Navigation. The cc ,ntro l lers' representa- tives said after the meeting that although they had been able to talk about the whole range of their claims from better pay to higher manning levels, they had been left in no doubt that M Machenaud was in no position to negotiate. The authorities have taken disciplinary action against 42 contro llers at Lyons airport and 36 at Aix-en-Provence, lay- ing them off for periods of between one week and three months, because of their support for the union ban on allowing aircraft to take off. The unions do not meet again until Monday to decide their next step. . The Soviet be echoed in with an Eas paper today over of the Pairick Brogan Nov 22 Mr Andrei Grotnyko, the : Soviet Foreign Min ister, ; warned West Germany tonight %that the Nato plan to station med ium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe would only . worsen the situation on the Continent. It would, he sug- ! gested, undermine the chances of success in disarmament nègo- tiations. Mr Gromyko was speaking at a banquet given by Herr Hans- Dietrich Gensc l-ier, his West German counterpart, after a day of talks dominated by the Nato plan and proposals by both East and West for nego- uatians on arms reduction. Whatever may have been said during the discussions, which offic ials reported were held in a “ very good construc- live sp ir it “, Mr Gromyko pub - liicily mainta ined aTheit in milder tones the bitter Soviet criticism of the plan. - He rejected the Nato argu- ment that it is forced to adopt missiles to counterbalance the Soviet SS2Os deployed in the East. If Soviet policy, does a volte-face, the obliged either to eat wh ile they are stiU assume that readers able of compar ing written three weeks what is proclaimed truth today. Soviet of fi publicly unabashed by tradictions this entails. line appears to Eastern Europe, t German news- calling the ‘take- embassy an expres v •s c S t ... — — . . t - . : ? ; - . — — — — therefore, press is i-ts words fresh or are incap- what was ago with as . the dais are the con- two ministers also reviewed bilateral relations which, they agreed, were going well and were a very important factor in efforts for détente. Mr Gromyko agreed with his hos t that the situation in West Berlin, especially vulnerable to expressions of Soviet dis- pleasure because otf its isolated position inside East Europe, should remain peaceful. They agreed to seek pragmatic solu- tirn ls to the city's outstanding problems. One guest who was to be CGflSPIC1IQUs by his absence at the banquet In Mr Gromyko's honour was Herr Franz Josef Strauss, the opposition candi- date for the chancellorship. . . . a Herr Strauss is displaying an ostentatiously cool attitude to the Soviet visitor. Aides said he had not made any special effort to an-ange a meeting with him and pointed out that Mr Gro rmyko had not shown any particular anxiety to see Herr Strauss. It appears that Herr Strauss has been expecting an invita- don to Moscow for some time and did not wax t to appear to be pressing for it. released in the United in time for F Let. wit. r e voys h ur S 0i ta _ returning group of 13 hostages Prom Washington, The 13 hostages I fl-bran retunnd to States this morning, I Tha JJ sgi g They were met at the airport by Mr Cyru s Vance, the Seat- tary of State, who said that the I Government 's ch ief concern must be to obiamn the release of the remthiing hostages bthng held by m i litant Mus l im . students. 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