IOWA DEBATE See editorial page V' Ninety Year, of E~ditorwi Freedom IEIII BRISK See Today for details 9/of. XC. No. 84 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday; January 13, 1980 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Iran threatens wide oil cutoff U.S. allies could be targets TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said yesterday it would stop selling oil to countries that back U.S. economic san- ctions against the Khomeini regime. But as the U.N. Security Council prepared to resume debate on inter- national sanctions aimed at forcing Iran to release the U.S. Embassy hostages, the country's revolutionary leadership was preoccupied with violence in the provinces. MOBS OF Azerbaijanis opposed to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's rule went on a rampage through the north- west city of Tabriz, ransacking shops and setting fire to banks, after firing squads executed 11 supporters of the anti-Khomeini Moslem People's Republican Party. Four persons were killed in the day's violence in Tabriz. Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moin- far said of the oil cutoffs, "Our policy is quite clear." "We will surely cut our oil to coun- tries which lend their support to U.S. economic sanctions imposed on our country," Tehran radio quoted him as saying. He later confirmed the remarks to reporters. HE APPARENTLY meant the flow of oil would be stopped to any nations joining the United States in imposing sanctions. The Foreign Ministry refused to comment on a reported oral message from the Iranian leadership asking that the U.N. Security Council recognize the legitimacy of Iran's demands for the return of the ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, now in Panama. The Security Council debate had been postponed for one day because of the reported message, which Western sources in New'York termed "one step forward" toward freeing the 50 or so American hostages, held since the em- bassy was taken over Nov. 4. But they did not hold out hope for their im- mediate release. I OTHER IRANIAN officials appeared to ignore the threat of sanctions, and Iranian news media paid little if any at- tention to the pending debate. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh sent a letter . to Panamanian President Aristides Royo formally requesting that Panama arrest the exiled shah, the official news agency Pars said. It said an Iranian arrest warrant was attached to the let- ter and that Iran would ask Panama to extradite the shah within 60 days of his. arrest. The militant students holding the Americans hostage demand the shah's return before they release their prisoners. A MILITANT spokesman said the students would broadcast a statement endorsing the Tabriz executions, which followed a week of regional fighting in which more than 50 persons died in clashes across Iran. The 11 persons executed in Tabriz were among 28 backers of the Moslem People's Republican Party arrested in a pre-dawn battle in which Khomeini's revolutionary guards captured the par- ty headquarters, a guard spokesman said. But witnesses said the rioting crowd of party supporters, angered by the arrests and executions, re-occupied party offices and ransacked shops. Two party supporters were killed in the clash, and two other persons were killed in separate incidents in Tabriz. WESTERN REPORTERS in Tabriz, central city of the restive Azerbaijan region, said leaders of the party, main organization of the Turkish-speaking Azerbaijanis, went into hiding. The Moslem People's Republican Party supports Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariat-Madari, Iran's second- See IRAN, Page 5 MSU educator seeking funds for Iranian student AP Photo Garner says no! Michigan center Thad Garner blocks an attempted dunk by Purdue's Arnette Hillman (45) in yesterday's away game against Purdue. 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Towghi became deportable after he was unable to renew his student visa. He said the Iranian government refused to renew his passport after he wrote an article in the MSU student newspaper criticizing Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. LAMMERS, WHO is Towghi's doctoral dissertation director, said while some funds are available, he will not know until Monday whether Towghi will agree to receive them. "He's a very proud man who'd prefer to make it on his own," Lammers said. From the Associated Press Backed by air bombardment, newly reinforced Soviet troops inflicted heavy losses on rebels in nor- .theast Afghanistan, according to reports reaching 'akistan yesterday. But rebel supporters vowed the Kremlin would not put down the Islam-inspired in- surgency "even if it commits its entire military might." Reports of the Soviet military successes could not be independently confirmed, and there were conflic- ting reports of rebel gains in fighting in the same area. THE U.N. GENERAL Assembly resumed an emergency sessioi. expected to result in a resolution calling for the withdrawl of all foreign troops from Afghanistan. In the debate, U.S. Ambassador Donald McHenry accused the Soviet Union of "hypocrisy" in claiming its intervention was aimed at helping the Afghan people. Ports oil may be key I to invasion An AP News Analysis KABUL, Afghanistan - Deposed President Hafizullah Amin thought a massive airlift of Soviet troops that began Christmas Eve was intended as a Kremlin show of support for his gover- nment, most diplomats in the Afghan *capital believe. It turned out to be a 20th century Trojan horse instead. Two. days after the airlift began, Soviet military advisers sabotaged Afghan tanks, and Soviet troops, sent into Kabul aboard Antonov transport AFGHAN] planes, moved quickly to replace Amin bombing r over the vi See WESTERN, Page 5 "The truth of the matter is the Soviet Union in- vaded Afghanistan to quell determined opposition by the Afghan people to their own government," he said. THE 152-NATION General Assembly cannot enforce a. withdrawal resolution, and Soviet leaders were ex- peted to ignore it. In Moscow, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev made his first public comments on the Afghan situation, denouncing the "shameless anti-Soviet campaign" in the West and saying it was "absurd" to claim U.S. interests were threatened by events in Afghanistan. He contended that "the politics and psychology of colonizers are alien to us" and declared Soviet citizens would not lose "a single kilogram of bread" because of the U.S. grain embargo. His comments came in an interview with the Soviet Communist Par- ty newspaper Pravda. U.S. OFFICIALS MET yesterday at the State Department with representatives from the world's other major grain-exporting nations in hopes of per- suading them not to replace the 17 million metric tons of grain the United States is cutting off from Moscow. U.S. officials estimate there are as many as 100 million tons of grain stockpiled outside the United States. Brezhnev's interview with the Soviet Communist Party newspaper was read simultaneously on television and radio and transmitted by the official news agency Tass. The Soviet leader made no specific threat against the United States in retaliation for Carter's sanctions against the Soviet Union, but the statements and the prominence given them were the toughest attack on Washington since the Afghan crisis began in late December with the influx of Soviet troops into that central Asian nation and the Soviet-backed ouster of NBC TURNS DOWN REQUESTS Kennedy, Brown will not 'Meet the Press' See AFGHAN, Pages From UP[ and AP SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Sen. Edward Kennedy and California Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown Jr. both asked NBC yesterday to allow them to join Jimmy Carter in a "Meet the Press" interview scheduled with the president on the day before the Iowa caucuses. But no invitation was forthcoming from NBC, which issued a statement pointing out that Kennedy and Brown had already appeared on the interview program since announcing their can- didacies. KENNEDY, campaigning in Sioux City, had said earlier that he "just hap- pened to be available that day" and would be "delighted to join the president and anyone else on the program. And Tom Quinn, chairman of Brown's presidential campaign, sent a telegram to "Meet the Press" program moderator Bill Monroe asking that both Brown and Kennedy be included in the interview scheduled for Jan. 20. But in a statement, NBC said, "Both Gov. Brown and Sen. Kennedy have ap- peared on "Meet the Press" in recent months after both announced they were declared presidential candidates. The NBC News invitation to President Car- ter has been a longstanding one." MONROE SAID one problem in ad- ding Kennedy and Brown was a scheduling conflict which prohibited the interview show from being expan- ded to a full hour. Monroe said he did not know what program posed the scheduling conflict. "We knew weeks ago that we would have only a half hour," he said, adding that length of time would not be suf- ficient to interview all three. Kennedy, Brown, and Vice-President Walter Mondale took their Iowa cam- paigns to Waterloo yesterday to join in a "poor substitute for the debate that never was." MONDALE, . POINT man in President Carter's surrogate cam- paign, was to share the stage at a din- ner with the senator from Massachuset- ts and the California governor, but the encounter bore little resemblance to the plans for last Monday's canceled debate. "It's a poor substitute for the debate that never was," groused a Kennedy aide. "But it's the only game in town." The absence of Carter or even a debate failed to deter hundreds of Democrats from snatching up all the available tickets just hours after the See CAMPAIGN, Page 12 AP Photo REBELS hold a Soviet-made bomb that didn't explode and a fuel tank they say were dropped during a aid over the village of Rohd in August 1979. The rebels said Soviet MiGs flown by Afghan pilots made raids illage. .... . v.v. .v:..........v.... .........v ..........:..:...............~vv::::wr:::::.v::v~::v:::::::".v:n":.v::..:x.............................::+..:"......v :{k:: ...... .vv ..: ...:..v}.. ......v....... ....:.. .. ..........:...v..} , ..:."....... r: . . . . : . ..,... . }.4 . . ......... ........... ... t .. ......:.............."::w":x ....:}:.,.}:''.{ :.....:::r:2:.,.., :}:{:: }} " "r,."}" ,:..: by Soviet Artists at Hill Auditorium need not be out a con- cert. A University Musical Society (UMS) spokesperson j reports that those holding tickets for the events have the op- tion of attending replacement events, at the same place and time. The Glinka chorus of Leningrad, scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m.. at Hill Auditorium, will be r replaced by the Roger Wagner Chorale, a well-known American choral ensemble. The Krasnayarsk Dancers, a Siberian folk dance company scheduled to perform at Hill Friday, Feb. 29 at 8:30 p.m., will be replaced by the Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival, an American-based urmmn f n R Pznc Pn cmiorni-eA, A Adi ntirkk orPvnich Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1985. Dr. Matthew Kluger, associate professor of physiology, will conduct a study of febrile (fever) responses during space flight. Dr. Mureil Ross, associate professor of anatomy, will perform a study of the effects of space travel on mammalian gravity recep- tors. The projects were among 78 proposed projects for the two flights. Spacelab will serve as a laboratory for life science and other investigations in near-Earth orbit for seven to 10 days on each flight. The experiments will be carried into orbit and returned by the Space Shuttle. The reusable shuttle, roughly the size of the Physics-Astronomy huildine in s nected tn reduce the cnt nf naen travel by as Motion." Rev. Gustav H. Schultz, pastor of the University Lutheran Church, said other answers included, "None, but definitely not Mormon," "Blue Oyster Cult, Born-Again Atheist," "Fat Worship of the High Cholesterol Order,. Southern Pedestrian," and "Church of God the Totally In- different." L On the inside For a recap of yesterday's Michigan-Purdue basketball .:-- -- r~an A narntral..mc SA MSS rie see yoe n c tnr.,o n c 'liT' art'dEAc I i