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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.
