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          Ikiard s,
          Warn s
          Leaders
          Prom News flisnatches
          TERRAN. Aug. 22—Iran's unofficial
          head of state, Ayatollah Rubollah
          Khomeini, today offered the country's
          restive [ Curdish minority the equiva-
          lent of $75 million in an apparent bid
          to buy its loyalty and head off a rebel-
          lion in western iran .
          At the same time, khomeini warned
          [ Curdish rebel leaders that they would
          be punished harshly if they did not ac-
          cept his Islamic rule.
          In an eight-point statement broad-
          cast by the state radio, the Moslem re-
          ligious leader said he had ordered the
          chairman of the National Iranian Oil
          Co. to put a day's oil revenue at the
          disposal of the western province of
          ICurdistan within the next week. At
          normal export levels, this would
          amount to about $75 million.
          The first four points of the state-
          ment covered discipline in the armed
          forces, of which [ Chomeini declared
          himself the supreme commander last
          week.
          Hinting at discontent in the armed
          forces over his orders to put down the
          ICurdish rebellion, he said special
          courts would judge soldiers who
          failed to obey orders or who took part
          in strikes.
          The fighting against the ICurds has
          been carried out principally by Is-
          lamic Revolutionary Guards dis-
          patched from outside the ICurdish -re-
          gion.
          In his statement, Khomeini said. “I
          tell the [ Curds that all the Iranian
          masses are the same. There is no dif-
          ference between the nationalities.”
          But he warned members of the ban-
          ned Kurdistan Democratic Party that
          they must “join islam” or face harsh
          treatment from the authorities. The
          [ Curds are Sunni Moslems; Khomeini
          is the leader of the Shilte wing of Is-
          lam in Iran.
          In the Kurdish stronghold of Maha-
          bad, supporters of the [ Curdistan Dem-
          ocratic Party today deployed tanks
          and antiaircraft batteries in prepara-
          tion for a possible attack by govern-
          ment forces.
          Earlier today Iran's state radio re-
          ported that Revolutionary Guards had
          killed 60 ECurdish rebels in mopping
          up operations in ECurdistan. The radio
          said iO guards were killed in the
          clashes, several were injured and 10
          were missing.
          A. Tehran evening newspaper said
          75 rebels were killed.
          Those reports could not be con-
          firmed independently. [ Curdish
          sources indicated that the govern-
          ment-controlled news media was try-
          ing to dramatize the conflict to rally
          support from an increasingly disen-
          chanted public.
          Meanwhile the leaders of the [ Curd-
          ish. rebeUion threatened to execute a
          captured Revolutionary Guard for
          each rebel [ Curd shot by firing squad.
          in other developments in Iran:
          o A married woman convicted of
          adultery was executed in the northern
          town of Behshar, while her lover was
          flogged. The revolutionary court said
          it gave the lesser sentence to the man
          because he was single.
          o Two Vest German journalists,
          among five European reporters whose
          expulsions were ordered yesterday by
          the Ministry of National Guidance,
          will be permitted to stay in Iran, the
          official Pars News Agency said. A
          ministry spokesman said the two were
          accredited by the government and
          that “the expulsion order against.
          them was due to a misunderstanding.”