Page 18-Saturday, May 10, 1980-The Michigan Daily STATE DEPT. SAYS FOUR LIBYANS AGREE TO GO HOME a TRIF leader the stal United yesterd two cot assets f The State settlen deman intimid United deadlin U.S. maylose Libyan oil POLI, Libya (AP) - Libyan improper activities. whom the Libyan government was Col. Moammar Khadafy, raising In the past two months, five Khadafy trying to force to return home. kes in a diplomatic feud with the opponents have been assassinated in The official Libyan news agency States and Britain, threatened London, Rone, and Beirut. Two weeks JANA quoted Khadafy as saying he was lay to cut off oil supplies to the ago Khadafy declared that Libyan "seriously thinking" of halting oil untries and withdraw all Libyan exiles must return to their homeland or shipments to the United States, which from them, otherwise be "doomed wherever they obtains 3.5 per cent of its oil from threat came hours before the might be." Libya, and to Britain, which depends on Department announced that a ITALIAN AND BRITAIN police are Libya for less than one per cent of its vent had been reaphed on its investigating whether Khadafy oil. d that four Libyans, accused of supporters are systematically killing He also was considering withdrawing ating Libyan dissidents in the his critics overseas. In the United Libyan assets from the two countries, States, leave the 'country. A States, the FBI reportedly discovered a JANA said. The value of those assets ie of 4:30 p.m. had been set for "hit list" of two dozen Libyan students could not be immediately determined. the Libyans to comply with the expulsion order, and police and FBI men were stationed around the Libyan mission when the settlement was reported. ALTHOUGH FBI agents were unlikely to have been given approval to go into the mission, U.S. authorities could have cut off water and electrical servies as well as preventing anyone from entering the building if a settlement had not been reached A joint statement released at the State Departmhent said Libya had agreed to recall the four and they would leave tomorrow., The four claimed they were students, not diplomats, and they could be kicked out of the country only through legal deportaton proceedings and not by an expulsionorder. UNDER THE settlement, the Libyans also "confirmed their interest in concluding satisfactory arrangements regarding the documentation of- their remaining personnel" at the mission. Libya has replaced its traditional embassies with "People's Bureaus," but the State Department insisted the Libyans at the Washington mission register as dilomats. dn London, British government officials were reported preparing to order several members of the Libyan micinnth~P Pnae fa ll annedo 6 6 6 Libyan holdout would rather be in A 2 (Continued from Pagel)' men under surveillance for two months and discovered a "hit list" of about two dozen Libyan students whom the" Libyan government was attempting to force to return home. Zbedi assailed the FBI for conducting investigations of Libyan students. He said that he has recently received calls at the embassy from University studen- ts complaining that they are being harassed by the FBI. "It's not us," he said. "They can't- accuse us of in- timidating our own people and get away with it." HE ALSO ACCUSED the American press for what he termed unrepresen- tative journalism. "The Washington Post Was willing to print everything against us and nothing about our point of view," he said. Zbedi said his immediate reaction last Friday when he was notified that he was to be deported was one of "sur- prise, dismay, and disappointment." Zbedi, who said he has been working as a committeemember in the Libyan em- bassy since last September when Libyan students converted it into a "People's Bureau," said the State Department revoked his student visa. "I'm a student, not a diplomat and I've always carried a student visa," he said. He explained that none of the embassy personnel are registered as diplomats because "in a People's Bureau, all decisions are made by a committee." He maintained that as a student, he has a right to a fair deportation trial to con- test the expulsion order. However, the State Department considers all embassy petsonnel diplomats and demanded yesterday that along with expulsion of the four, the remaining Libyans in the embassy must formally register as diplomats. ZBEDI SAID THAT he came to work at the embassy "almost against my will. On the tenth anniversay of the Libyan revolution our leader (Col. Moammar Khadafy) called on the students of nine countries to take over the embassies and change operations into an electing- committee administration." He added that the new People's Bureau was established to "take better care of the Libyan problems in this country." Zbedi, who has a wife and five children, said that he wanted to remain in Ann Arbor for financial reasons. He said his wife and children are in Virginia awaiting further developments. Although Zbedi said he has been offered a professorship at a Libyan university, he said that he would rather return to Ann Arbor to complete his half-finished dissertation. "I would like to renew my visa and get my Ph.D from the University," he said. "Michigan still means a lot to me-but I don't know if I'll have a chance." ACCORDING TO Sandy Fine, Administrative Assistant of the Linguistic department, it would be difficult for Zbedi to earn a degree while living outside the United States, but not impossible. Difficulties would arise, she said, because a candidate is required to register for the term he defends. Fine, who said she knew Zbedi distantly, said he seemed to be an "awful nice guy." But another acquaintance and classmate who asked not to be identified said "people seemed to think he was a pretty nasty guy." Zbedi came to the U.S. for the first time in September 1973 and received a masters degree in linguistics from the University in 1974. He said that while he was in Ann Arbor (up until last September), he participated in student and social organizations, including the Libyan Student Union, the Arab Student, "ncniatnad ,c Afrian -Stu t4 Khadafy ... thinking of oil cutoff A T R SERVICE,. . . Billing 764-0550 t Circulation 764-0558 Classifieds 764-0557 Display 764-0554, News 764-0552 (including happenings), Sports 764-0562 Bush: Carter incompetent abroad (ConinedfromPage3) "We should use the tax structure to stimulate (the private sector)," he said. "You have to hold the growth of spending to less than the rate of in- flation." Such tax incentives, he said in his 30 minute speech, would stimulate jobs in the private sector as well as home ownership. The 55-year-old candidate said he believes home ownership produces a sound family unit, which is fundamental to a stable country. Bushclaimed that former President Gerald Ford "disciplined" Congress in- to spending less, lowering the inflation rate 12 per cent to 4 per cent. 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