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Hundreds of
alleged Iranian
conspirators to
face TV trials
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From The Associated Press
Hundreds of alleged anti-government
conspirators in Iran will go on trial for
their lives this week in a mass televised
proceeding, the Iranian chief justice
said yesterday.
The revolutionary regime of
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said the
plot was crushed last Thursday, and by
the weekend some 500 alleged par-
ticipants were reported to have been
rounded up, most of them military men.
OFFICIALS SAID the plotters had
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TOKYO (AP) - Japan's two biggest
automakers, reporting export sales 42
per cent higher than last year's, said
yesterday they have no plans to stem
the flood of their fuel-efficient vehicles.
into the United States, despite
American pressure.
"The American auto industry ;ailed
to make the switch from large gas-
guzzlers to small fuel-economy cars," a
Nissan spokesman said in explaining
why his company's sales have mounted.
while the big three U.S. automakers
have fallen onto hard times.
FALLING SALES of U.S-made cars
has led to layoffs for tens of thousands
of American autoworkers, and to
demands that Japan voluntarily
restrict its exports to the United States,
or the U.S. government enact some
kind of protectionist measures to limit
the import of cars.
Despite such pressure from both the
United States and Europe, spokesmdh
at both Toyota and Nissan said yester-
day such voluntary restrictions are not
planned for the foreseeable future.
The Japanese have an almost 25 per
cent share of the U.S. atuo market.
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planned to fly warplanes to Tehran and
other centers and bomb key targets, in-
cluding Khomeini's house.
A high council of judges led by the
chief justice will be responsible for
trying the accused conspirators.
The chief justice, the politically
powerful Ayatollah Mohammad
Beheshti, said yesterday: "The plotters
are facing the death penalty. Their trial
will begin within two days." It will be
open to the public and televised, .he
said.
THE INFLUENTIAL ayatollah said
he believes the United States and Israel
inspired the anti-Khomeini coup attem-
pt.
In Egypt, a spokesman for Moham-
mad Reza Pahlavi said yesterday he
does not need surgery now and none has
been performed, contradicting an
earlier report by an Egyptian specialist
that an abscess on the deposed shah of
Iran's left thigh had been drained.
Reached by telephone, spokesman
Mark Morse said the deposed monarch
"looked fine" and doctors, "up until
this moment, see no urgent need for an
operation."
In Iran, an Education Ministry of-
ficial, Mansour Bazargan, told repor-
ters in Tehran that the Andisheh
Catholic School in Tehran was shut
down yesterday because its teacher
priests had made it "a center of
espionage for Israel."
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'There she is, Miss Coffee' AP Fhot
American institution Bert Parks, who for decades warbled "Miss America"
before being booted as host of the beauty pageant, has removed himself
from the ranks of the unemployed. Parks has found employment singing
the praises of Chock Full o' Nuts coffee for a television commercial.
Military jury conviets Marine
for refusing to search pig-pen
CAMP GEIGER, N.C. (UPI) - A
Military jury yesterday convicted a
Camp Geiger Marine of disobeying a
lawful order for refusing to dig through
pig slop to retrieve lost silverware - a
routine procedure that has since been-
stopped.
Pfc. Scott Duncan, of Port Huron,
Mich., also was found guilty of
disrespect to a non-commissioned of-
ficer, but the court-martial jury, com-
posed of five officers, found him in-
nocent on charges of disrespect to an of-
ficer.
A SENTENCING hearing began im-
mediately after the verdict was an-
nounced. Duncan could receive a bad-
conduct discharge, six months in
prison, reduction in rank, or forfeiture
of pay.
Duncan was one of two Marines
charged with refusin In oerch for
silverware accidentally thrown out
with mess hall garbage that was sold to
an Onslow County farmer for pig food.
The practice of sending Marines to
conduct the searches was discontinued
after a Michigan congressman wrote a
letter of complaint. Until then, Marines
were sent several times a year to sort
through pig slops at the farm for lost
silverware.
DUNCAN AND Pfc. Dana Gidney,
who still faces trial on the charges,
were charged June 10.
Testimony in Duncan's trial in-
dicated Duncan was ordered to go to the
pig farm but protested the order issued
by a non-commissioned officer, and
continued to protest when an officer in-
tervened.
The officer, Capt. Quentin Cole,
testified Duncan walked away while he
was trying to mediate the dispute.
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Connections aid gofers'
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ALTHOUGH SHE HAS worked for
NBC for several weeks, DeGroot said
she still finds herself gawking at the
celebrities for whom she has worked.
"I'm still to awe of people I see from
other networks," admitted University
of Pennsylvania senior Judy Singleton,
who is also an NBC runner. "But the
excitement of seeing (NBC anchormen)
David Brinkley and John Chancellor
has definitely worn off."
Both DeGroot and Singleton said they
consider themselves Democrats, and
both said their political viewpoints had
not been altered as a result of their ex-
posure to the convention.
"IF ANYTHING, IT made my con-
victions stronger," Singleton said.
"The platform they voted for is so con-
servative. It makes me more certain I
would never want to be a Republican."
Singleton said she and her co-workers
receive a flat rate of $3.50 per hour for
their services. During the convention,
NBC has housed its runners in a Dear-
born motel, she said, adding that they
receive an allowance for meals.
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