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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
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By Chris de Kretser
Sneclal Lo The Washington Post.
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
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Egyptian President Aiiwar Sadat and U.S. envoy Robert Strauss emerge from talks.
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By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
ISMAILIA, Egypt, Aug. 18—Special
U.S. envoy Robert Strauss filled in
President Anwar Sadat tonight on an
American proposal for a new U.N. res-
olution on the Middle East aimed at
broadening the Palestinian autonomy
talks among Egypt, Israel and the
United States.
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. I-I.e said t iree 01 the four guerril-
las aboardi thcboat were captured ac
ter it was sunk off the lsraeli-Leba-
nese coast. ‘the missing guerrilla was
believed to have drowned.
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