The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, July 15, 1980-Page 13 Iran executes at least 26; steps up threats of hostage trials FromAPandUPI Iranian executioners shot at least 26 persons late Sunday and yesterday, in- cluding a former army chief of staff, two leaders of the Bahai religious sect, and an anti-government student ac- tivist, the official news media reported. It was one of the busiest nights in months for Iran's firing squads. STEPPING UP their campaign for hostage trials, the Moslem militants holding the U.S. Embassy published a purported interview with one of their Just fiddlin' around Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) plays "Turkey in the Straw" on his violin for Chinese political leaders at a banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People last Wednesday. 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He added that women suffered chronic poor health and inadequate nutrition in developing countries and that two out of three illiteratesin theworld are women. Lucille Mair, Jamaic n secretary- general of the conference, said, "We have learned valuable lessons. The at- 'titudinal prejudices which stand in the way of women's advancement are held _ by women as well as men, and both are responsible for the lack of political will in many countries to change the status of women. "Everywhere, in ways as varied as our world, efforts to improve the con- ditions of women have suffered," she said in her keynote speech. The most controversial item on the agenda - the rights of Palestinian women in Israeli-occupied territories - caused a disruption at a press con- ference when a journalist from Radio Israel heckled the Palestinian delegation. American captives in which he admit- ted to being a CIA officer and named two of his contacts - both high-level Iranians. The militants identified the hostage as Thomas Ahern, a 48-year-old State Department employee and native of Fond duLac, Wis., whom they have ac- cused previously of espionage. Yesterday was the 254th day in cap- tivity for the 52 American hostages. THEIR FATE is to be decided by the Iranian Parliament, but the decision may be months away. Parliamentary leaders have said the deputies over- whelmingly support putting the Americans on trial as spies. At least 19 of the Iranians executed - in Tabriz, Tehran, and Hamadan - were accused of drug trafficking, prostitution, adultery, or other vices that have become capital offenses un- der Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's strict Moslem regime. Others shot in Tehran included Lt. Gen. Houshang Hatam, who served as acting army chief of staff in the final months of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime, and Kiomars Rajabian, a former officer of the shah's imperial guard. HATAM HAD been accused of "killing struggling people," apparently during the anti-shah revolution, and Rajabian of killing "a brave son of the nation," Tehran Radio said. In Tabriz, two men executed were leaders of the local Bahai community. Bahai is a modern offshoot of Islam, and many of the estimated 50,000 Bahai believers in Iran were close to the ex- shah's regime. An Islamic judge said two generals accused of masterminding an unsuc- cessful coup against Khomeini would go on trial "within the next few days." The RC/BRECHT COMPANY Presents The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui byfleruhl~rechl bJuly 16-20 East Quad Auditorium Wed.-Sat. a p.m., Sun. 2 p~m. TIKES 3 $.A DO Diggs loses leniency bid; ordered to serve sentence From UPIand AP WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Charles Diggs Jr. (D-Mich.) lost his final bid for leniency yesterday on mail fraud and payroll padding convictions and was ordered to begin serving a three-year prison term onJuly 23. Diggs appeared before U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch yesterday and asked to be placed on probation or given a reduced sentence, but Gasch turned him down ina brief hearing. GASCH ORDERED Diggq to report to a prison to be designated by the Justice Department. The judge said he would recommend that Diggs be assigned to the prison at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Diggs, when asked if he had anything to say to the court, noted in a wavering voice that he had acknowledged his guilt before his colleagues in the House. "I'm here to further acknowledge my misconduct before this court," he ad- ded. "I believe the sentence previously imposed is a fair sentence," the judge responded. "I do not feel that any long period of incarceratioq is indicated, but I do feel some term shuld be imposed and that the parole board is better suited to determine the length." Diggs, who resigned from his House seat following Supreme Court rejection of his appeal, represented Detroit's in- ner city for 13 terms and was the senior black member of Congress. He was convicted in 1978 on 11 counts of mail fraud and 18 counts of filing false pay vouchers in what the gover- nment said was a scheme of inflating staff payrolls to obtain kickbacks.