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Khomeini Orders Kurdish Revolt Crushed
P .2 . unduy, August IQ, 19 f 1•i-(E //‘ tsi-r.t 1 /GTON POST Khomeini, as Military Chief, Orders Kurdish Revolt Crushed leagured government forces, led a counterattack from inside the town before it fell, tb radio said. Scores were Icilled and wounded in four days of fJghting in the town, fol- lowing an attack by Kurdish tribes. men early WeO iesday morning after they had evacuated their civilian pop- ulation to neaVl r mountain camps. Earlier the government said 40 of the 280 Revolutionary Guards in the town had been killed. The state radio said 18 of thet i had been beheaded when the tribesmen attacked Paveh's only hospital. Kurdish losses reportedly also were heavy. The radio said 2,000 tribesmen took part in attack. A spokesma i for the Kurds said to- night the tribesmen retreated because it; would have been futile to battle the superior Iranian forces, including the Air Force. He termed. the Pa .'ol as sault a guerrilla aótlon that shoW d the Kurds will notpermit thpir rights to be trampled without fight. Khomeni's action in bypassing the country's military • leadership in his role as “supreme conirnpnder” fol- lowed a speech last night In which he warned against opposing his govern. ment. Khomeini lashed out at the press, political parties, lawyers and intellec- tuals. Speaking in the holy city of Qom, lie declared he would return to Tehran if necessary to put his Islamic revolution on the correct course and end all Opposition. “If we had been truly revolutionary we would have destroyed the press long before this,” Khomeini said, sup- porting theclosing of what he termed “counterrevolutionary newspapers.” He condemned all political pal-ties “to death at the gallows,” reiterating the slogan of Mosleni militants who have attacked democratic groups iii Tehran this week with shouts of: “The only party is the party of God.” “As supreme commander of the armed forces, I direct the chief of staff to order all state police units and the army to the Paveb area and the gOvernMent to provide transport for Itevolutionary G uards,”. Khomeini said. He directed the forces to be fully armed and ready for battle and, “with- out waiting for any further orders,” to put down the 1 el ellion. The ayatol1 h. warned the armdd forces theywoulci face the wrath of the revolution if they failed to crush the revolt. “I hold the armed forces responsi- ble for the massacres in Paveh and if they disobey my command I will deal with them in a revolutionary way,” lie said. “They keep telling me from the Pa- veh area that the government and the Army have done nothing. If within 24 hours something positive is not achieved, I will hold the Army chief and head of the state police responsi- ble,” Khomeini added. Fle issued an ultimatum, which cx- pired at 1 p.m., warning the Kurds that if they did not end their rebel- lion, troops and Revolutionary Guards throughout Iran would destroy them. Kurdish leaders conden ned the government action to crush the revolt. Kurdish spiritual leader, Sheik Sos- semi, asked Khomeini not to make “rash • decisions that were governed bY hIs emotIons.” The' head of the Kurdish Demo. cratic Party, which the main propo- nent of autonomy the, rçgl n Ab- durahman Qassemlu said; “We were not the on a who started the fight in Paveb. It was started 1 y Revolution- ary Guards sent there from another area and the residents of the town were forced to. leave when attacked by them.” •‘ . Meanwhile, the pro-Khomeini Is- lamic Republican Party newspaper re- ported that a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy here early this morn- ing came after a telephone call ad- jsed Revolutionary Guards to Va- cate the compound. The newspaper indicated the attack may have be'en carried out by militia- men angry at being removed by the government last week from their post as security guards at the embassy. An embassy spokesman said the at- tackers fired two rocket-propelled gre- nades, one of which failed to detonate and was discovered later. The spokesman said damage was limited to broken windows and fallen plaster in the embassy's former corn- missary restaurant, which was being converted into a new consular and visa department. No one was injured in the attack. . 1 1 Executed as Kurdish Rebels At Border Site of Fighting. Reuter TEHRAN, Aug. 19—Iran loday exe- cutgd 1]. ‘ Kt*rd lsh rebels captured whOn go/'ernment forces took the border tgwn of Paveh, the state radio said. The 11 were shot by a firing squad Save 8O .. . Save S5Q . . Save . XL—100 25”color console XL-100 19” color portable XL-100 13”cotor portable . 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TEHRAN, Aug. 18—Ayatollah Ru- hollah Khomeini today declared him- self military commander-in-chief and gave the country's armed forces 24 hours to crush a Kurdish rebellion or face the wrath of the revolution. Shortly after his declaration and a government ultimatum to the Kurcis to end their revolt, the western Ira- nian town of Paveh, captured by Kurds this week, was back in the hands of Iranian security forces. Army troops, state police and Re- volutionary Guards sent to the region from throughout Iran oc- cupied the town today after Kurdish tribesmen abandoned their positions and retreated into the mountains. The government said Paveh was recaptured after fighting in which 400 l)elSOflS were killed and hundreds more wounded. A government spokes- man, Sadeq Tabatabal, announced over the state radio that security forces' losses were 18 dead and 40 wounded. Deputy PrIme Minister Mostafa Chamran, who had been trapped there earlier with the last remnants of be- The Washineton Post before dawn at Kermarishah .prjso ,. east of Paveh, after being found guilty of corruption and waging war on God and his epresentatives, it said. ...,‘ ayeli, near the border, WaS quiet aft er he tvy government reinforcements ye iterday lifted a siege 1 r Ku isli in sp gents. The fig ithigi . apparently stáited over local protests aga st non KUrdisli revolutionary guards being sent I tc4 the arça. - k . “. Egyptian President Aiiwar Sadat and U.S. envoy Robert Strauss emerge from talks. - .. :L . SHOP ALL WASHINGTON AREA STORES (INCLUDING CQLUMBIA) . . .. SUNDAY 11 A M.TILL 6 P .M . ‘ . . . . •:i•::.:. •••••••: •• . I... Hecht's sets the pace with . introductory savings on new 1980 models Strauss and Sadat Discuss Efforts to Widen Peace Talks The Olympics are coming. So are the elections. Football's here and the new TV season starts.. any day now. 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Strauss and the Egyptian leader conferred for about 70 minutes in the cool breezes of the terrace at Sadat's rest villa here beside the Suez Canal. “r can sy that our views on most of what we discussed are identical, as usual,” Sadat said to reporters after- ward. Strauss, aside from praise of Sadat's hospitality and efforts toward peace. refrained from characterizing his meeting . ‘ith the Egyptian president. It was seen by observers here as a business-like effort to keep Sadat abreast of U.S. moves on a possible ne/v U.N. resolution mentioning the rights of the Palestinian people in the hope of drawing some Palestinians into paiticipating in the autonomy talks set up under the March 26 Egyp- tian-Israeli treaty. ‘rue atmosphere here was in shari) contrast to that in Israel. where Strauss returns Sunday morning for what U.S. officials traveling with him expect to he a stormy Israeli response to the l)roposal for a new resolution. The Israeli Cabinet is expected to take UI) the U.S. suggestion at its weekly ine ting and Strauss is to see the Israeli leadership again after the Cabinet session. Prime Minister Menachem Begin made it deal- when Strauss raised the proposal yesterday in Jerusalem that he sharply opposed it, U.S. officials said. I-Ianging over the disagreement is an indirect Israeli threat to reconsidet ' its commitment to participate in the autOnonly talks if, in israel's assess- ment, aiiy new resolution makes a substantial change in Security Coun cii Resolution 242. ‘rhe resolution refers to the Pales- tiniaiis as refugees with no mention of their “rights.” It s'as ambiguously /VOlded in order to end the 1976 Mid- ci'e East war l)Ut did call for Israeli withdrawal from occupied areas. Prime minister 1/lustafa Khali) of Egypt h 3 ublicly backed the U.S. in- tention to I)I'OPOSC a iie ' resolution designed to bring Palestinians into the l)eaCC process, calling it a way to gh'e the autonomy talks “new monica- Lu m .“ Sadat also seemed to refer to this after his talks here tonight with Strauss, l)raising “Bob” for his Middle East travels and his work to give new momentum to the talks. The Egyptian leader, howewer, was quoted earlier today as calling Arab proposals for a new Security Council resolution “silly acts.” ‘rhis was inter- preted by diplomats in Cairo more as a jab at his Arab foes than as a seri- ous expression of O )poSitiOfl to the ef- forts at l'incling a new resolution to foster broadened autonomy talks. Egypt's official i'sliddle East News Agency quoted Sadat as telling a Chamber of Commclce and Industry group last night: “We have jumped beyond words and we are now sitting to talk about Pales- tinian automy. Are they going to be aI)Ie to produce that in the Security Council? Impossible. Silly acts, and acts that indicate bankruptcy on their part.” The Arab-backed PrOPosal s('olled at by Sadat includes a reference to a Palestinian right to return to tile land. that is now Israel and to establish an independent state. The United States has made it clear it cannot accept such an amendthent. For the first time, however, it has told the lsrae I leadership directly that it probably will pi-opose a corn- 1)10fli15C resolution of its own, mend- ing a call for something similar to Palestinian self-determination. This, U.S. officials explained, is nec- essal'y if the U.S.-sponsored autonomy negotiations are to gain credibility iii the eyes of Palestinians and other Ar- al)S who are boycotting the negotia- tions. In the IsraelI vie s', Resolution 242 is the cornerstone ol the Camp David accords and the Ieace treaty with Egypt. Any changes in the resolution —even in the forn of additions— would be tantamount to changing the rules for application of the treaty, Israeli officials argue. . .‘ The dispute with Washington ‘over 242, added to disagreements ovei 5ev- eral othei- key issues, has biought U.S.-Israeli relations to their lowest ebb in several years. U.S. diplomats have complained that Begin and his colleagues appear convinced that by resisting strongly and loudly they can make / ‘ashington back away from its U.N. intitiative. U.S. officials traveling with Strauss increasingly give the i rnpressio it , how- ever, that a firm decision has been made in /Vashlgnton to go ahead with attempts to find a compromise Securi- ty Council resolution. even at tue cost of increased strain with Jerusa- 1cm. 56 Egyptian A ,-e Accused of Ti-ying to Replace Sadat Reuter CAIRO, Aug. 18—Fifty-six people have been ai-restéd and accused of try- ing to replace President Anwar Sadat with a Communist, Egyptian Prosecutor- General Salam B,.ashidi said today. Hashidi, in a statement relayed by the official news agency I/'IENA. said those arrested b Jopged to the banned Egyptian Communist Par.E and many had contacts ‘with hostile . go'verh. meets. He said they included six law- yet's, four j,jurnalists and a former member of parliament. None was nan ccI. Sadat made an apparent reference to the ai'r esl.s yesterday when he said at a meeting at his home village of Net Abul Kom that there were ele- ments in the country who wanted to exploit freedom. and democracy to corn mit sabotage and treason. ‘I'he left-wing Union l'rogressive Party said in . a statement two days ago that 23 of its leading members had been arrested. The party is legal, hut all Communist organizations are banned, although several are believed to operate se 'cretly. Some alleged members of the Egyptian Communist Pai'ty arc now standing trial on charges in connection s'ith the food riots of January 1977 in vvhich 80 peo- Pl C died. Meanwhile, Israeli navy vessels last •nighl. sank a rubber dil)ghy carrying Arab guerrillas on an attack mission. An Israeli Army spokesman said to- day. 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