The Michiaan Daily-Tuesday, July 14, 1981-Page 5
OPPONENTS DISQUALIFIED IN UPCOMING ELECTION
Iran executes 23 more
From APandUPI
BEIRUT, Lebanon-Iran's fun-
damentalist government yesterday
disqualified its secular opponents from
running in upcoming presidential elec-
tions and ordered the executions of 23
more alleged leftists.
The nation's 12-man Council of Guar-
disns cleared only four of the 71 poten-
tial presidential candidates who signed
last week to run in Iran's July 24 elec-
tions, and disqualified the rest, the of-
ficial news agency Pars reported. The
election is to fill the post held by
moderate President Abolhassan Bani-
Sadr, fired by Ayatollah Ruhollah
Knomeini and now in hiding.
FUNDAMENTALIST Prime
Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai, of-
ficially approved, became the front-
runner with the endorsement of the
dominant Islamic Republican Party
and 10 other Islamic associations, in-
cluding the influential Preachers
Association in the holy city of Qom.
Among his approved challengers is
deputy parliament speaker Ali Akbar
Parvaresh, a member of Iran's
Supreme Defense Council, which is in
charge of the conduct of the war with
Iraq.
The other two contenders are former
agriculture minister and current
Tehran deputy in Parliament, Dr. Ab-
bas Sheibani, and Habibollah Asgar-
Oladi Massalman, a Parliament mem-
ber who was sentenced to life im-
prisonment in 1963 on a charge of in-
volvement in the assassination of for-
mer monarchist Prime Minister
Hassan Ali Mansour. He was released
in 1977.
MEANWHILE, Iran's ruling clergy
executed 23 more opponents and five
convicted drug peddlers while a former
aide of Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was
caught moments after meeting with the
fugitive ex-president in an undisclosed
hideout, Tehran Radio reported yester-
day.
By official count so far, 195 people
have been sent to the firing squads sin-
ce Bani-Sadr was dismissed by >
Ayatollah Ruhollah Knomeini June 22.
Monday's 23 executions were carried
out at daybreak in Tehran and five
other northern and Caspian Sea cities.
All the executed were found guilty of
membership in Majahedeen Khalq and Bani-Sadr
of taking up arms against the Islamic
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other things opponents say it will
mean." TH:
Fojtik, who was a Washtenaw Coun- feder
ty commissioner for eight years, also Fojti
gave her opinion of President Reagan's over
nomination of Sandra O'Connor to the barr
Supreme Court. "It's a nice gesture - tende
it's tokenism," Fojtik said, "in my job.
view, it does not do enough to lift up all the l
women. Appointing one woman to the "pro
Supreme Court does not do anything - sex.'
nothing like the ERA would do." Of
Fojtik is a founder and a former faces
coordinator of the Domestic Violence befor
Project and Safe House in Ann Arbor. Fojti
"I saw in the criminal justice system but th
how battered women are discriminated
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University yesterday presented to The
Michigan Daily a letter signed by 83
members of the Free China Student
Association protesting allegations
made by some students that gover-
nment secret agents are working
through their organization.
They stressed that the group's pur-
pose, according to the Michigan
Student Assembly's file, is "to provide
services for Chinese students and
provide information service from the
Republic of China."C
THE LETTER declared that the
Daily's previous articles made unfoun-
ded insinuations and that the reporter
was operating from the bias that
Taiwan is a police state and the
Taiwanese independents are subjects of
persecution. The group also expressed
concern over Chen's death.
nst," Fojtik said, "They (the cour-
don't consider women's problems
issues seriously."
SERE ARE approximately 800
ral and state sex-specific laws,
k said. These laws range from
time laws for women to laws
ng women from working as bar-
ers or lifting heavy objects on the
The ERA would wipe these laws off
books, Fojtik said, leaving only
tective legislation not based on
the ratification battle the ERA
- three more states are needed
re the June 30, 1982 deadline -
k said, "We need not one, not two,
hree miracles."
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