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WITH AN INFLATABLE mock whale in the background, thousands of demonstrators shouting anti-whaling slogans
line up along the beachfront road in Brighton, England, yesterday. The demonstrators were making their views known
to the members of the International Whaling Commission, who started their conference in Brighton yesterday.
Soviet securli agents
har ss U.S. journalists

Japanese,
Soviet
whalers
will not
halt hunt
BRIGHTON, England (AP) - Japan,
the Soviet Union and five other major
whaling nations vowed yesterday to op-
pose "the tyranny" of nations seeking
to save whales from extinction through.
a global ban on hunting the mammals.
The United States, Britain, France
and other conservationist nations have
said they will press for a total ban on
commercial whaling at the 24-nation In-
ternational Whaling Commission
(IWC) conference that opened yester-
day in this resort town on England's
south coast. Thea conservationists need
a three-fourths majority to secure a
ban.
THE IWC confrontation, stoked by
increasing pressure from militant con-
servationist organizations, coincided
with protest demonstrations outside the
conference hotel by conservationists.
Several hundred paraded, chanting
"save the whale." A police cordon held
them back. Officers carried several
away when they staged a sit-down
protest on the street. One'man was
arrested.
Representatives of the influential
whaling industries of Japan, the Soviet
Union, Brazil, Iceland, South Korea,
Peru and Spain issued their fight-the-
ban declaration after a weekend
meeting to discuss "solidarity and
cooperation."
With the exception of the Brazilian
whaling industry, whose government is
pledged to phase out whaling by the end
of this year, the other six have decisive
influence over their countries
delegations at the week-long conferen-
ce.
THE JAPANESE-SOVIET faction,
after electing Shaguri Hasui, managing
director of the Japan Whaling
Association, to be their provisional
chairman, declared in a statement:
"Anti-whaling nations and protec-
tionists, in their drive to abolish
whaling, have attacked incessantly the
whaling industry, and are intensifying
their efforts to obtain their objectives
within the IWC through the tyranny of
the majority.
"Under these circumstances, it is
vitally important and urgent for the
world's whaling industry to increase
their solidarity and collaboration to
find ways and means to defend their
legitimate right and interesta against
anti-whaling groups ....
A vote on the ban proposal is expec-
ted later this week. Previously, the
whaling commission has not been able
to order the ban.

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From UPIandAP]
MOSCOW - Soviet and East
European athletes swept the medals on
the second day of the Moscow Olympics
yesterday but Afghanistan and an un-
scheduled wrestling match between the
KGB and four Western reporters over-
shadowed the competition.
As the Games were under way, Soviet
officials stepped up harassment of 1
Western journalists with a brief but
violent attack on four of them in Red]
Square.
THE REPORTERS were arrested
while covering a demonstration by
Vencenzo Franconi, an Italian activist
supporting homosexual rights. UPI
Moscow bureau manager John Moody
said he was kicked in the groin by a
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were roughed up- and insulted before
being released.
Franconi,~32, was taken away in a
police van. The Italian Embassy asked
authorities for information on his
whereabouts but received no answer.
The leader of the Afghanistan team
denied earlier reports that members of
the team were trying to defect to the
American or British embassies in
Moscow.
"THESE MEN live in Afghanistan
and will continue to live in
Afghanistan," said Gholam Hassani,
the team leader. He said his athletes
did not know enough English or Russian
to hold a political conversation.
Reports circulated Sunday that
members of'the team - which was
warmly greeted by the Soviet crowd at
the opening ceremonies - were trying
to defect to the West.
"Five members of our team want to
go to the American or British embassy.
We do not like it here," a team mem-
ber, who said he had a brother in the
United States, told a reporter.
IT WAS THE Soviet intervention in
Afghanistan that prompted President
Carter to call for a boycot of the

Games.
In the competition, East German
swimmer Barbara Krause broke her
100-meter world record for the second
time in two days, and Romania's Nadia
Comaneci displayed her usual brilliant-
form in preliminary gymnastics even-
ts.
Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, toured the
Olympic Village on Sunday, prompting
a Soviet official to say that the PLO had
nothing to do with the massacre of 11
Israeli athletes and coaches in Ger-
many eight years ago.
Vladimir Popov, vice chairman of the
Olympic organizing committee, told
reporters that the visit was justified
because Arafat had nothing to do with
the terrorist attack by Palestinian
guerrillas on the Olympic Village at
Munich.
That attack was staged by Black Sep-
tember, the now-disbanded terrorist
arm of Al Fatah, the largest of the
Palestinian groups that make up the
PLO.
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