rage )ex rrt: MICHIGAN DAILY IGAN RTORY'77 A UN 1; ,0 0MICHI-GAN y \ JULY 5-10 Michigan Rep Tic ket Office Mon-Sat 1-5 Mendelssohn Theatre Lobby For Ticket Information Call: (313) 764 04511 nursaay, July *7, 1977 Moslem cultists murder former Egyptian minister CAIRO (AP) - Pol 1S members of a Mosl advocating "sacred terr terday in the assassinat former Egyptian relig fairs minister who had stamp out their sect. Police said the deco body of Sheik Mohamed was found in a shabby Cairo's nightclub distr the Giza pyramids with wrapped around bis h . neck. An Interior spokesperson said he h shot through the left e a pistol. THE SCARF led to /ummer Hour Mon-/at.OP M-2 611CGhurdhiAM12 95" Use Daily Classitieds - A Pub Ic Serv ce of this newspaper& The Advertising Council David 0n d ice held that he had been strangled, but em cult the Ministry said determination or" yes- of the exact cause of death ion of a would have to await an autop- ious af- sy, tried to Police arrested three young men in a hideout near the one- )mposing story villa where the body was d Zahabi found, the Ministry said. It said house in one of the three, a bricklayer ict nea named Moustafa Abdul Maasood a scarf Ghazy, admitted under question- ead and ing that he had carried out the Ministry actual killing. ad been Medical examiners said 64- ye with year-old Zahabi, minister for 19 months until last November, was killed Monday night, almost 40 reports hours after he was dragged from his home and shortly aft- er a second deadline set by his captors. They had demanded a half million dollars and the re- lease of 60 jailed sect members. 2wm -5955 A WITNESS said Zahabi was found lying on a bed and still wearing the white nightshirt in which he was kidnaped. The witness said the stench of death was overpowering in the small, hot room. The three suspects, all univer- sity dropouts under 21, were identified as members of the outlawed "Jamat al-Tafkser wal-Hirja," literally the socie- ty for atonement and flight from evil. The society, formed in 1966, advocates "sacred terror" to overthrow secular rule and es- tablish a strict Moslem state. Zahabi had worked hard as religious affairs minister to stamp out the cult, and it was evidently this campaign that marked him as the group's first known kidnap victim. IN THE WAKE of the kidnap- ing Sunday, authorities launched a nationwide crackdown against the society, arresting 130 mem- bers and uncovering caches of automatic weapons and explo- sives, complete kidnaping plans and religious tracts, the Interior Ministry said. Of the 130, 15 played a leading role in the Zahazi kidnaping, the ministry said. Nine were univer- sity students or dropouts and the other included a former po- lice major, a taxi driver, a sec- ond-hand book peddler and sev- eral unemployed youths. The government of President Anwar-Sadat condemned the kid- nap-slaying as a "base criminal act that is totally divorced from all Islamic and Egyptian moral pirnciples." THE STATEMENT, carried by the official Middle East News Agency, added: "The criminals will not escape the harsh pun- ishment of the law." Zahabi's funeral was set for Thursday at the 1,000-year-old Azhar Mosque. Police sources said his wife and daughter were hospitalized suffering from emi- tional shock. Although religious fervor has led to sporadic outbursts of vio- lence here over the past three decades, kidnaping with religi- ous and political overtones is unprecedented. POLICE SAID they found the body after catching a courier who tried to swallow a note reading, "Merchandise should be covered with mint leaves, sprayed with ammonia and mov- ed away in a cart for burial." Under police interrogation, the courier led them to the villa. The reported time of Zahabi's _ death.Monday placed it shoty after a second deadline set by extremists, who had demanded $500,000 and release of 60 sect members from jail. Wher David had open heart surgery not long ago, he needed six vital units of blood, type o Neg. All of it was obtained, processed and pro- vided by the Red Cross blood center. We're not the heroes of this lifesaving story (the six wonderful blood donors should get the med- als). But we (and other voluntary blood centers) do need your con- tinued support. Blood, you know, doesn't grow on trees. It comes from donors. Uke you. And we need more people like you. Call your Red Cross or other voluntary blood center soon. Please. TWhe. The Good Neighbor. I Red Cross.