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Congressmen
call on Iran's
leaders to end
hostage crisis
Custody controversy AP Photo
Soviet-born Walter Polovchak, 12, is escorted to a custody hearing in
Chicago yesterday. Polovchak and his sister Natalie, 17, have asked for
asylum in the United States. Their parents want them to return to the
Soviet Union with them and contend the children were influenced by an
unnamed person who' promised them a "golden- mountain of gifts" if
they stayed in the U.S.
From AP and UPI
Iran submitted to Parliament yester-
day a letter signed by 180 U.S.
congressmen appealing for a speedy
resolution of the 270-day-old hostage
crisis. The speaker who introduced the
document said the United States was
"telling lies."
The letter, which the State Depar-
tment said it passed along to the Swiss
Embassy in Tehran, was one of several
reported moves to unsnag the hostage
crisis and nudge Parliament closer to
its long-awaited debate on the fate of 52
Americans held captive since Nov. 4.
TEHRAN RADIO said the
congressman's letter asking that the
issue be given "the highest and earliest
priority" was delivered to Parliament
Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani by a
Swiss diplomat.
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Before reading it aloud in the Majlis
chamber, the broadcast said, Rafsan-
jani informed his fellow deputies he had
told the Swiss diplomat, "You are duty-
bound to tell the American people that
the American government is telling lies
by claiming it is making an effort to end
the crisis."
In a letter, as reported by the Iranian
radio, the congressman hinted strongly
that because of a perceived threat from
the Soviet Union, Iran should end its
dispute with the United States.
"AT A TIME when free nations are
subject to aggression by hegemonist
and expansionist forces ... solution of
this serious bilateral issue will be in the
interest of both nations," Rafsanjani
read from the letter.
"... Aware of the important internal
issues facing your government, we ask
you fervently to give the highest and
earliest priority to the issue of the
hostages. as your first step in helping
solve much greater, more important,
and more sensitive dangers which the
nations of the world and the world itself
are facing."
The State Department confirmed it
had transmitted a congressional letter
to Tehran, but it would provide no fur-
ther details, including the names of the
signers.
MEANWHILE, Iran's domestic
unrest exploded into new bloodshed. A
terrorist bomb blast in the south-
western city of Ahwaz killed eight
people and wounded 36 others, the
government-run radio said in a broad-
cast monitored in London.
Ahwaz is in the heart of Khuzestan
province, where'dissidents among the
local Arab population have been
agitating for greater autonomy from
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Per-
sian-dominated central regime.
Khuzestan also has been a focal point
for alleged sabotage attacks by in-
filtrators from neighboring Iraq, which
is locked in a sometimes bloody border
dispute with Iran.
In Paris, Iranian exiles in contact
with Tehran said the United States was
quietly violating its own boycott of Iran
by allowin $150 million in American-
made spare parta to be shipped to the
Iranian oil center of Abadjan.
The sources said the spare parts were
sent from Britain in an airlift that
began several weeks ago.