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Assassination
squad tries to
kill former Iran
prime minister
PARIS (AP) - A three-man
assassination squad posing as jour-
nalists made it as far as Shahpour
Bakhtiar's apartment door yesterday,
but their attempt to kill the former-
Iranian prime minister collapsed in a
wild shootout that left a French
policeman and awoman neighbor dead.
All three gunmen were captured, one
of them wounded, police said. Three
policemen were also reported wounded
in the gun battle.
THE 65-YEAR-OLD Bakhtiar, leader
of Iranian exile forces opposed to
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's
revolutionary regime, was unharmed
in the attack, which he blamed on
"professionals that the government in
Tehran sent to France."
Police said the captured trio all
claimed to be Arabs - but they could
not be immediately identified. The
Iranian revolutionaries have
established close relations with some
Arab militants.
In Tehran, a group calling itself the
Guards of Islam said in a statement
read over Tehran Radio that it had con-
demned "the traitor Bakhtiar" to death
according to "holy divine law." It ac-
cused the former prime minister of
having masterminded an anti-gover-
nment conspiracy in Iran that repor-
tedly was crushed last week when some
100 "plotters" were arrested.
THE STATEMENT did not mention
yesterday's abortive assassination bid,
but it said another communique would
be issued outlining the "revolutionary
execution of the convict."
A police spokesman gave this account
of the attack:
The gunmen gained entry to the apar-
tment building in the posh Paris suburb
of Neuilly by telling.a policeman out-
side they were journalists and showing
press cards.
THEY THEN went up to Bakhtiar's
third-floor apartment and rang the bell.
When the door was opened, the men
drew pistols and started shooting, but
were unable to force their way in. One
police guard in the hall was killed and
another wounded.
A neighbor, Yvonne Stein, 45, heard
the noise, opened the door, and was
shot. She died later ina hospital.
The gunmen fired several times into
the apartment's reinforced door, but af-
ter failing to get it open they ran back
downstairs, where they were faced with
two more policemen. A gunfight en-
sued, both policemen were wounded,
but one of them shot a terrorist and for-
ced the others to surrender.
A POLICE spokesman said protec-
tion for Bakhtiar had been increased
just 48 hours earlier because of the con-
tinued threats against his life from
Iran. The guards had been given
machine pistols in addition to their
normal sidearms, and it was probably
because of these, guns that one
policeman was able to arrest all three,
the spokesman said.
The Foreign Ministry denounced the
attack and said the French government
"will pursue the inquiry with the
greatest vigor and will take all the
necessary steps required."
Iranian revolutionaries, chiefly judge
Sadegh Khalkhali, have vowed that
death squads will track down Bakhtiar,
who was the shah's last prime minister.
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A MEMBER OF.' the squad which attempted to assassinate former Iranian
Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar yesterday morning is arrested in front
of the building where the attack occurred at Neuilly, France, near Paris.
Regents okay 13 per cent hike
in tuition costs for 1980-81
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spending now, since he said he would
probably not support as large a tuition
increase next year.
University President Harold Shapiro
said ifa tuition increase of less than 13
per cent were instituted, "the (Univer-
sity) would not fall apart. But we think
that's the easy way out."
SHAPIRO AND. other University
executive officers told the Regents they
doubted the University's high quality
programs could be maintained without
a substantial increase in the student
portion of support for the University.
Michigan Student Assembly
President Marc Breakstone said in a
telephone interview yesterday he was
upset by the tuition hike: "The thing I
object to most is that students are
bearing the greatest burden. It seems
ironic that students are bearing the
brunt of hard times but aren't being
compensated proportionally in terms of
quality of education.
"It's just not fair that students are
paying so much, and the money is going
to some areas from which they do not
benefit directly," he said.
BREAKSTONE ALSO agreed with
Tuition Rates
Per Term,
Academic 1980-81
Resident Non-resident
Undergraduate -
Lower Division ...... $ 682 (up $ 72) $2060 (up $236)
Undergradute -
Upper Division .......768 (up$ 86) 2218 (up $254)
Graduate .............1054 (up $120) 2308 (up $264)
Dentistry .............1584 (up $180) 3030 (up $346)
Law ................1172 (up $168) 2518 (up $364)
Medicine.............1732 (up $198) 3336 (up $382)
Candidacy............ 612(up $ 68) 612(up $ 68)
Dunn that the University should have
attempted to decide which programs
will lose money before deciding on how
much tuition would have to go up to
support the remaining programs.
The Regents incorporated the tuition
and salary increases into a $246 million
general fund budget - an increase of
about $20.8 million over the 1979-80
budget.
The general fund budget, as well as
the total operating budget of $622.5
million, is based on an increase in state
appropriations of three per cent.
IN THE EVENT the state's ap-
propriation increase is less than three
per cent, the following contingencies
could be enacted, according to Vice-
President for Academic Affairs Billy
Frye:
* Temporarily limiting or freezing
expenditures from central accounts;
* Replacing some general fund ex-
penditures with funds from indirect
sources; and,
9 Enforcing a hiring/promotion
freeze of whatever magnitude and
direction might be required to offset the
problem.
SHAPIRO STRESSED the importan-
ce of the nine per cent salary increase,
saying the University pays less to
faculty than some of its peer in-
stitutions.
The president also pointed out the
necessity of cutting back some Univer-
sity programs, citing a state study that
said the University is $25 million to $30
million underfunded. "The University
has to get smaller," he said.
Laro said, "I think the nine per cent
increase in compensation is well
justified."
Dunn, however, said he did not sup-
port the increase because it applies to
all employees across the board - he
said employees who earn $20,000 per
year, for example, are entitled to a
larger increase than those who earn
$50,000.
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