The MichiganDaily-1 iursdzy July31, 19e-Poge 13 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. Most Americans favor public school prayer, supporters say WASHINGTON (UPI)-Supporters to remove school prayer issues from fought political issue si of prayer in public schools said yester- Supreme Court jurisdiction, Rep. Phil when the Supreme Co da their effort to syhoss sai ese- Crane (R-Ill.) said Congress would be prescribed prayer Court is constitutional and that exercising its constitutional province" Bible-reading. 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Call Dan, (3121679.4024 . 71YW02 other body defdases that anhihirate it. leukemia and-otheifor ice 1962 and 1963 urt banned both and mandatory AYER BY any mend the Con- ool prayers have e the high court's ent effort, spon- elms (R-N.C.) is he matter to the the majority of ery long school be afforded the t or individual to God," Robert ervative Moral mmittee. ffer Its based on the use lIs which are the en a cancer cell k will be needed disease. But ex- ce using mouse ould be possible bodies to fight a ins from the flu 3. hers have used eat leukemia in e possible to use elp treat human nsaof Iancer.- 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.