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1 Iran r V" Mi Afghanis By Ronda Templeton Gamecock Staff Writer The 100,000 Soviet troops fanning out over Afghanistan are the "most serious threat to world peace" said President Jimmy Carter in a twelve-minute address to the American people on primetime television last week. Carter said he would delay the opening of a new Soviet consulate in New York City and a U.S. consulate in Kiev. New cultural exchanges between the two countries were halted and Carter dropped a veiled threat that the U.S. might boycott the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow. Sales of high technology and other strategic goods as well as the fishing rights of Russian trawlers in American waters were also curtailed by Carter. "We will deter agression, we will protect our nation's security and we will preserve world peace," the president said. Saturday in Afghanistan, the new government's attempt to gain the support of the people with a mass release of political prisoners backfired and turned into a riot that killed two and added to the peoples' resentment of Soviet troops in the country. Hundreds of Afghans stormed the main gate of Afghanistan's Pul-I-Charki prison Friday shouting "Russians get out!" when it became clear that despite Last ci li Name |J Street j state J * \ soc.sec.No. i v b .,V h Grad. Senior I ;! ' - 4. Please enclose c 5 v*. ^ MEDIA BUS j MIN Tttl ||Reserve your 1 979-8 li i.. ? l wniy 1 Sttshufr* ItaBBausaasaassssB U.S.S.R. \a)\ han^ tan; threat Afghan President Babrak Karmal's promise to release all political prisoners, many were stil behind the walls of the jail. The new regime, installed Dec. 27 in a Soviet-backed coup, has spent much of it's time using the state-controlled radio, television and press to stir up interest in the prisoner's release and western reporters were urged by the new government to watch the release. The riot at the prison broke out when 3,000 Afghans gathered in hopes of greeting released loved ones and discovered that out of 3.000 prisoners inside only about 125 were being freed. Approximately 800 of the Afghans refused to leave the prison site without learning the fates of their relatives and friends. Several rioters climbed the iron gate of the prison and the crowd broke in when the Soviet and Afghan soldiers showed no reaction. Throughout the riot, which lasted less than an hour, participants called the Afghan soldiers "slaves of the Russians" and chanted the Moslem Rattle cry, "Allah Akbar," or "Allah is great." The riot ended with the death's of a civilian and a soldier. 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A senior Carter administration official in Wachinotnn coiH tVio Soviets have mounted an "extremely brutal" military campaign in Afghanistan designed to "exterminate those who oppose them." The official, who refused to be identified, said approximately 3,000 Afghan political, religious and military leaders have been executed since Soviets troops entered the country. The official said Afghan civilian losses have been "very heavy" and estimated Soviet casualties at between 9001,200. j CA | J professionals ii i i I i j|{ (T i'^t ( jC)()( aw*-4" iicfiyiui.it/fiui y ui/ui l executes dissidents By Ronda Templeton Gamecock Staff Writer An Iranian revolutionary court in Tabriz executed 11 dissidents Saturday after finding them guilty of murder in a revolt against the Islamic regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Iranian Pars News Agency said the dissidents were convicted of "creating fear and insecurity, committing arson, rising against the Islamic Republic armed with clubs and other weapons, (and) murder and torture of Moslems in Tabriz." Tabriz, located 350 miles northeast nf Tphmn is thp stronchnlH of thf* Azprhaiinni spnaratist mnvpmpnt " - ? ? w ? O ' ? -J ? 1 - * " " " * ?- w?. Firing squads are the traditional method of execution utilized by the Khomeini regime but sources did not know how the dissidents were killed. The executions came as a result of outbreaks in fighting in Tabriz between members of the Moslem People's Republican Party and revolutionary guards loyal to Khomeini. The Moslem, People's Republican Party advocates autonomy for the region surrounding Tabriz. A revolutionary guard spokesman said his forces bombed the party's Tabriz headquarters in retaliation for an attack last Friday. There were no reports of injuries from the blast, but three hours of fighting followod Onp Piiflrdsmari and two Hi?:QiHr?ntc HioH ho cniH Thirty party members were arrested and one guardsman was taken hostage by the party, the guard said. Banks, shops and businesses have reportedly been sacked and burned in Tabriz. Schools and businesses in the city of 600,000 have been closed. A guardsman was killed in an attack on a group of separatists that had set up a roadblock outside Tabriz. About a dozen dissidents were arrested after the fight, the guard said. In Sanandaj, Iran, there was a stand-off between revolutionary guards and Kurdish rebels who continued a sit-in at the governor general's office. The Kurds set up posts on the town's central mosque and maintained control of the road leading to the airport and are attempting to reduce the power of the central government in their region. Iranian military sources claim the Kurds plan to attack revolutionary guards holding the radio and television station in Sanandaj, 275 miles west of Tehran. American Indian activist John Thomas met with militant students holding the 50 American hostages in Tehran said he was trying to gain the release of a captive who is part Kiowa Indian. The hostages have begun their 72nd day in captivity and Thomas, 34, led Iranian demonstrators in chants of "Down with Carter" Friday. He said he was trying to convince the militants to free Frederick Lee Krupke. Krupke is one-quarter Kiowa, Thomas said. United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim went to Iran last week hoping to gain the release of American hostages at the U.S. Embassy. Waldheim was publicly abused and denied an audience with Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Waldheim gave up after three days in Iran and flew to New York because of the crisis in Afghanistan. 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