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Kurds Attack Radio Station-
ronna ttac WoricE ants tt ac t flacti o St ati on TEHRAN—ICurdish rebels using rocket-propelled grenades and auto- matic weapons attacked a radio sta- t loll i i the western Iranian town of Qasr Shirin near the border with Iraq and battled Iranian Revoltil lonary Guards for more than two hours, offi- cials said. The attack Monday night high- lighted an upsurge of Kurdish guer- rilla activity in the past few days alt ter government forces drove rebels from Kurdish cities earlier this month. In Milan, meanwhile, Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was quoted by Italian journalist Oriana as saying that he does not want the exiled shah killed abroad, but brought back to stand trial in Iran for “his 50 years of crime agatnst thc Persian people -” Airliner Lands Alter Blast MADRID—- An Iberian Airlines DC9 landed safely after an explosion in one of its engines. The plane, with 56 passengers aboard, landed at Sara- gossa airport in nortnern pazn on one engine. Nobody was hurt. Masie Ngnema's Trial MALABO. Equatorial Guinea— Ousted president Masie Nguema Biyo- go Negue Ndong said allegations that he ordered the killing of prisoners were “all nonsense.” He rejected all charges against nim. But as his trial entered its second day, eight former aides accused Ma- cie Nguema of ordering the killing of at least 24 political prisoners. They also alleged that he ordered two villages burned down. and their inhab- itants arrested for subversion. U.N. Espionage Charges UNITED NATIONS—A U.N. spokes- man said there was nothing new in charges made by former U.N. official Arkady Shevchenko that least half the Soviets working at the world organiza- tion were spies. Shevchenko made the charge Monday in a radio interview. “This is not the first time we have heard the charges,” said spokesman Rudolph Stajduhar. “But until details are provided, there is nothing we can do.” 2,000 Reported Released JAKARTA —Indonesia said it hart released 2.000 political prisoners held without trial for a long as 12 years in a remote prison. The prisoners, freed Monday at the Buru Island penal col- ony in eastern Indonesia . were sus- pected of involvement in an at- tempted leftist coup in 1965.