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Supervisors Call for End to Deaths
TUSTIN, CA. NEWS W. 6,000 LOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN AREA SEP 1 983 BP000552 --.-- . ‘ . ‘ . ‘- ‘ .-- —- ‘ .‘ :,T ' , / / ‘/_.____ Supervisors Call for End to Deaths Orange County Board of THEREFORE, BE IT behalf of ‘the ‘) ‘isof - executions f “ Baha'is SUpervisors, recently RESOLVED THAT TEE Iran and to jut a stop :tó whlch had' already been joined President Reagan Oraiige County Board of further persecution in or- planned. .He was ignored,: in calling for the end of. Supervisors does hereby der to establish peace to and on June 16, six Baha'i executions of adherents of.. support. the efforts of allpeoplesof.theworld.” enwerehanged. the Baha i Faith by the'. President'RoáaldReagan,' Since, the Ayatollah ‘TWO days later, ten government of Iran. •, the U.S. Senate Commit- Khomeini came to power women had their lives. tee on Foreign Affairs, the in 178, more than i o taken by the gallows. In response to a request u.s. House of Represen- Baha'is have n Many were husbinds and' by Orange County, tatives Committee on ‘ executed by the Khomeini wives, sons and daughters Baha'is,.. the.; board Foreign Affairs. and government Thousands executed days apart. One unanunously passed a ,. World Court; in their at-. have had their homes con- . woman died alongside her resolution stating:. ‘Now tempt to intercede . on fiscated and been thrown daughter. outof their jobs.'.: “ : Two eighteen-year-old On May 22, President girls died for the “crime” . . Reagan sent aplea tothe. of teaching Baha'i Sunday Iranians to withhold SChOol classes. ..