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From UPland AP Ghotbzadeh spoke only hours after Bani-Sadr told a crowd of 13,000 mar- BANI-SADR addressed theg
RAN, Iran - Foreign Minister special U.N. envoy Adib Daoudy, one of chers yesterday that Iranians must put 3,000 guards and 10,000 Irani
z Ghotbzadeh yesterday ruled out five commission members, left Tehran aside their differences, or "the only had marched through Tehran
urn of the United Nations com- at the end of a 27-day mission. He said beneficiary would be the enemy." press support for the Revolu
Daoudy "has no more reason, as far as Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Guards and mark the annive
r Attorney General Ramsey we are concerned, to return to Iran. Ruhollah Khomeini sent a message to the birth in 626 of Iman Husein
said yesterday he would conduct Neither does his commission." the rally, urging his Revolutionary of Iran's dominant Shiite Mosle
n investigation of the U.S. role in U.N. SECRETARY General Kurt Guards to purge those among them who Khomeini told the Revolu
Congress refuses to. See story, Waldheim formed the commission in an are "instigating disorder Guards: "You overthrew the
0. effort to resolve the grievances of both and ... causing chaos." His son, Ah- criminal regime, but the enem
Iran and the United States and help win mad, conveying the message to the defeated completely and suppc
n on Iran, ending hopes that the the release of the American hostages, gathering of guards and their suppor- Satan are plotting against y
ould secure the release of the 53 in their 226th day of captivity. ters, said, "You should hand them over uses the word Satan to refe
can hostaes In Tehran. President Abolhassan to the revolutionary courts." United States. He also asked th
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Bani-Sadr demanded in his speech
that all the laws and habits of the past
be set aside and the holy laws of Islam
be observed. He also said: "I hope that
peace comes to Kurdistan soon and all
the deceived understand that
everything is available in Iran."
REVOLUTIONARY Guards oppose
the armed forces in fighting against the
autonomy-seeking Kurdish guerrillas.
The guards also have come under
criticism for no co-operating with the
armed forces and not obeying the or-
ders of the revolutionary courts.
Ghotbzadeh told reporters that
during his recent trip to Europe,
Socialist International leaders told him
they could no longer support the
Iranian revolution unless the hostages
are freed.
He said all Socialist leaders he talked
to "were unanimous in their view that
this problem of the hostages must be
A FLOWER IS offered to armed mullahs yesterday during a rally in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The rally was
held in celebration of the birthday of Imam Husein, patron of Iran's dominant Shiite Moslem sect. Ayatollah Khomeini's,
son and President Abolhassan Bani-Sady addressed the crowd.
Supreme Court OKs patents
for man-made organisms
From UPI and AP
WASHINGTON - By a single vote,
the Supreme Court ruled yesterday
man-made living organisms may be
patented.
The court's action upheld a lower
court ruling giving patent protection to
a laboratory-produced "oil-eating"
bacterium to combat oil spills.
INDUSTRY AND university resear-
chers are predicting an upsurge in
genetic engineering work because of
the court's ruling.
The decision, described as "lan-
dmark" by several business represen-
tatives, removes a major barrier
preventing industry from throwing its
full resources ,into the potentially
profitable research.
"We believe the court's landmark
decision will spur the genetic in-
dustry," said Thomas Kiley, a vice
president of Genentech Inc., a San
Francisco firm devoted to genetic
research.
"IT IS particularly important to
smaller companies, like Genentech,
who can be protected by patents so that
they can enter fields such as phar-
maceuticals which have been
dominated by large firms," Kiley said
in a telephone interview.
Enthusiasm for the research has
mostly drowned out initial concerns
that genetic manipulation could be
dangerous and lead to the creation of
uncontrollable disease organisms.
Critics copy dathe teh' t:qf als :
could lead to undesirable tinkering with
human genes, such as the temptation to
create "perfect" people.
Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote
for the majority that the bacterium was
patentable under existing law which
says "whoever invents or discovers any
new and useful process, machine,
manufacture, or composition of matter,
or any new and useful improvement
thereof, may obtain a patent."
THE COURT held the bacterium.
qualified as a "manufacture" or "com-
position of matter" that did not occur in
nature.
However, Burger wrote," This is not
to suggest that the law has no limits or
that it embraces every discovery. The
laws of nature, physical phenomena,
and abstract ideas have been held not
patentable."
Justice William Brennan led dissen-
ters Byron White, Thurgood Marshall,
and Lewis Powell.
Senate passes bill on
nuke safety stanckirds
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate provisions, including:
unanimously passed and sent to the + Withholding of nuclear licenses
White House yesterday the first com- unless an emergency response plan for
prehensive legislation on nuclear safety the affected plant exists. An attempt to
since last year's accident at Three Mile require a state evacuation plan before a
Island in Pennsylvania. license could be issued was removed
Passage of the compromise from the legislation;
legislation worked out by a House-
Senate committee came on a voice vote * Increasing the maximum civil
after no debate. The House had passed penalty for violations of Nuclear
the legislation last week by a 386-9 Regulatory Commission regulations by
margin. a licensee from $25,000 to $100,000 per
The bill is the first attempt to revise violation;
safety standards at nuclear power plan- s New criminal penalties for
ts since an accident severely damaged sabotage;
a nuclearreactor at Three Mile Island, p New regulations to ensure that
near Harrisburg, Pa. plants are located far from populated
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