The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 23, 1980-Page 9 Arab states restrict Palestinians A HAVE DINNER WITH Charley THIS WEEK A bowl of chili, a slice of - MANAMA, Bahrain (AP)-Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states ve tightened restrictions on an timated 400,000 resident Palestinians since the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, diplomatic sources said. A ban on political gatherings by Palestinians has been imposed and strict visa requirements are being rigidly enforced. The reason, sources in this Persian Gulf island state said, is that the authorities are suspicious of lestinian ties to the militant Shiite oslems in Iran, who have vowed to export their Islamic revolution. "OUR ARAB brothers in the gulf have been holding us in suspicion, operating under the misconception that we would become an instrument of ex- porting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution," one Palestinian source said.I Other sources said that Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization based in Lebanon, has reassured gulf governments that his guerrilla movement would never upset the stability of the oil-rich area and has instructed his representatives in gulf capitals to maintain a neutral stance and avoid involvement in the Iran-Iraq conflict. "The PLO has been tredding a delicate path of neutrality between Iraq and Iran and that has not been easy," one Arab diplomat said. "Iraq, and all other Arab powers, insist that the PLO must put its political cards on the table and declare its unchangeable commitment to the Arab cause against that of the non-Arab Persians." AT THE SAME time, Iranian leaders reportedly have been asking the Palestinians to support Iran in return for support of the guerrilla movement. With intense pressure from both sides, Arafat has sponsored apeace initiative through the non-aligned movement. Palestinian opinion, while reflecting the PLO's reluctance to choose sides in a war between its two allies, appears much more pro-Iranian than that of conservative gulf governments which seem to be privately hoping the Iraqis will keep the leaders in Tehran from exporting their revolution. "We feel that we owe Khomeini a lot," said a Palestinian merchant in Kuwait, reached by telephone from Manama. "After all, the man set Iran straight as far as Israel and America are concerned. His revolution is a Corn blessing, a healthy trend for us Palestinians." ON THE OTHER hand, he added, "Palestinians are unquestionably Arab and Arafat will never forfeit his Arab commitments." PLO officials declined any extensive comment on the conflict. "We are brothers to Iraq and friends to Iran," one PLO official said. "We pray to Allah to bring the meaningless war to an end because we stand to lose more than gain from it anyway." i bread & house beverage for $1.50 Special is from 6-8 pm, M-F Good TimeyCharleys 1140 South University--66-8411 IRAN: U.S. READY TO MEET CONDITIONS Hostage release possible (Continued from Page 1) * Return of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's "stolen" wealth. " "Unfreezing" of billions of dollars in Iranian assets held in U.S. banks. * Dropping of legal claims against Iran. Scores of U.S. companies have filed lawsuits seeking damages from the anian government for brokencon- racts, lost assets, and other grievan- ces. " A promise not to interfere in Iran's in- ternal affairs. These conditions are expected to be the terms recommended by the com- mission.: President Carter has declared his willingness to release the frozen Iranian assets, and the Carter ad- ministration has said repeatedly it does not intend to intervene in Iranian af- fairs. The first and third conditions might prove more difficult to meet, since they, might require unusual executive inter- vention in the U.S. judicial process. The Iranian government has filed a lawsuit in New York demanding $56 billion in compensatory and punitive damages from the estate of the late shah and from members of his family for what it contends was three decades of rampant corruption before the P.ahlavi regime was overthrown in February 1979. But the legal process is expected to take years, and U.S. officials claim they know the location of only a few Pahlavi assets in the United States. Fighting continued yesterday in the 31-day-old Iraq-Iran conflict, with Iraq claiming major new victories, saying its forces had captured six towns in six days and had seized territory equal in size to the state of Massachusetts. Iran, which again bombed Baghdad, vowed the defenders of the oil refinery city of Abadan would fight to their last drop of blood and said no Islamic peace mission could begin until Iraq withdrew from Iran. Diplomatic efforts to end the war ap- peared to take one step forward and one backward. The secretary-general of the Islamic -Conference of nations, Habib Chatti, said Iraq had agreedl "in principle" to receive a peace mission of seven Islamic heads of state. But Chatti said that, contrary to previous reports from Tehran, Khomeini has not agreed to the plan. w (I Hockey team loses two players (Continued from Page 1) assists for a total of 76 points. The total was the highest ever for a freshman Wolverine player. Baseotto's mother said Bruno "got a good deal" from the Calgary team, which she said will be paying for his eductional expenses at a local univer- sity for the next two years. She added, however, that Bruno will not be able to attend classes until winter term in Calgary, since he arrived home too late to begin: attending fall term classes. BASEOTTO ALSO SAID her son quit the Michigan team because "he felt up- set about some other things, he felt like he wasn't part of the team anymore." She would not elaborate further, however. Todd expressed surprise and disap- pofntment after being notified that Baseotto had quit the team. "Wow. That blows the team," he said. "He's our best player." "I had no idea he (Baseotto) was unhappy," said junior defenseman and alternate captain Steve Richmond. "We were taking our team picture (Monday) and I didn't realize he wasn't there until we started practicing. I don't know why he left." 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