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Iran sets four conditions
Iran's Parliament Sunday approved the four conditions
set by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Kuhollah Khomeini
for the release of the 52 American hostages, reports from
Tehran said. The approval came on the 365th day of their
captivity.
The conditions set by Khomeini include return of the
wealth of deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
release of $8 billion in Iranian assets frozen in the United
States, withdrawal of lawsuits against Iran and a U.S.
pledge of non-interference in Iranian affairs.
No other details of the Parliament's decision were
immediately known and it was not clear when or how the
Americans might be freed.
Militants call for rally
The militants holding the 52 U.S. hostages called on the
Iranian people to stage a mass anti-American demonstration
in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on
Tuesday, the first anniversary of the Americans' capture.
Tehran Radio's broadcast of the appeal appeared to
refute speculation that the hostages would be released
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Although the militants claimed the hostages were
scattered to different sites after the aborted U.S. military
rescue April 25, there is widespread speculation most of
the Americans are still in the embassy.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Prime Minister
Mohammad Ali Rajai denounced a U.S. news report that
said a deal was sealed about two weeks ago to trade the
hostages for military equipment.
"It is American news and naturally it is a lie. Such
claims are laid down for taking political advantages in
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No flags at Olympics
LAUSANNE, Switzerland ? The national Olympic
committees around the world -147 of them - will be asked |
in the coming weeks if they will agree to drop national 1
flags and anthems from the Olympic Games.
me proposal, designed to take politics out of the Games,
has been made by Julian K. Roosevelt, one of the United
States members of the International Olympic Committee.
Roosevelt's plan is the first move toward reshaping the
Games following the boycott which weakened this year's
Olympics in Moscow, It was considered by the IOC's
Executive Board at a two-day meeting which ended in
Lausanne Friday.
The whole question of flags, anthems and other political
aspects of the Olympics is likely to be debated at next
year's Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden, Germany,
when the IOCwill be joined in conference by the national
committees and the International Sports Federations
which control the Olympic sports.
Polish union wins pledge
WARSAW, Poland ? Solidarity, Poland's largest independent
union, won a pledge from the communist
government that it can print newspapers, collect dues and
conduct all other union business. But 10 hours of talks with
Premier Jozef Pinkowski that ended early today left the
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The conflict is over a clause affirming the supremacy of
the Communist Party in state affairs that was inserted
into the union charter by the Warsaw District Court last
week. The union has demanded it be removed and had
threatened to strike Nov> 12 unless it is.
The government promised only that an appeal filed by
the union would be decided by the Polish Supreme Court
by Nov. 10. Union leader Lech Walesa said he hoped
Friday's bargaining would settle the issue, but reiterated
early today that the Nov. 12 "strike alert" was still in
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Neighbors fear killer
NEW HOME, Ohio ? Eight families are living in fear of
a killer who strangled a neighborhood teen-ager and who
they believe is writing them letters like the threatening
notes the boy got before his death.
"We never are going to be able to live our lives in total
peace again," said Carol Comeans, 46, whose son William,
a Westland High School honor student, was slain Jan. 7.
The youth, 14, had received several hand-printed notes
warning of his impending death. And since July 21,
similar messages have been sent to the youth's family and
seven neighbors in the Columbus suburb.
The notes have become increasingly threatening, and
one delivered Wednesday said, "It's time."
The neatly penciled notes have been hand-delivered at
nigni ana attacned to cars and porches with leather belts,
Mrs. Comeans said. The messages are brief - three or four
words - and consist of poorly constructed sentences, according
to Franklin County detective Steven Martin.
Wrong leg amputated
LOS GATOS, Calif. ? The California Board of Medical
Quality Assurance is investigating an operation in which a
65-year-old man had the wrong leg amputated.
The wife of the man says she has consulted her attorney
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The patient was to have his right leg amputated because
of poor circulation resulting from a diabetic condition,
according to officials at Los Gatos Hospital.
Instead, the left leg was amputated below the knee
during an operation two months ago. After the error was
discovered, the right leg was amputated in accord with
the original plan.
Ralph Ross, executive director of the nonprofit, private
hospital, declined to say how the mistake was made. He
said the operation was performed by Dr. Allan Vishoot,
who also declined comment.
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SMYRNA, Del. ? "I feel like a piece of raw meat," says
\ Anthony "Diane" Cannon. "There's a lot of men in this
jail who haven't had a woman in a long time. "
The jail is the Delaware Correctional Center, a
collection of sand-colored buildings that squat in an open
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Inside the maximum-security facility there are 900
men. And Cannon ? a man turning woman, with large
breasts and facial dimples, wearing mascara, lipstick and
rouge, sashaying down the prison corridors, sometimes
with sex for sale.
Before prison, the 26-year-old inmate had a partial sex
! change operation (the removal of testicles) and was on
heavy doses of female hormones.
Today, Cannon is trapped in a cinderblock cocoon; the
metamorphosis has been suspended until society's debt is
paid.
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because I still had my sex organ," Cannon, an admitted
prostitute, told a reporter. "I'm caught in between."
Prison officials say they made the right decision, albeit
a tough one, to incarcerate Cannon in the all-male institution.
"Sure, she belongs right here," insists George Pippen,
the prison's chief of security. "I've known Cannon for a
long time. She's a male."
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State
Man sentenced to chair
YORK, ? Wardell Patterson, 21, of Rock Hill, was
sentenced Saturday to death in South Carolina's electric
chair. A jury returned the verdict three days after Patterson
pleaded guilty to the murder of an 18-year-old
convenience store clerk.
The nine-woman, three-man jury, which on Friday
i convicted Patterson's sister, Jerleen Nelson, 25, and
Michelle Patton, 15, or murder, Saturday sentenced them
to life imprisonment.
The three, along with a fourth defendant, were charged
with murder in the shotgun slaying of clerk Ted Graham
during the Aug. 18 robbery of a Fast Fare store where
Graham worked.
Patterson calmly chewed gum but his sister and Miss
Patton sobbed loudly as Circuit Judge C. Anthony Harris
read the verdicts. Harris ordered Patterson to be electrocuted
Feb. 2.
Under the state death penalty law, Patterson's sentence
will be automatically appealed to the state Supreme
Court.
Bush warns Carter
CHARLESTON ? Republican vice presidential hopeful
George Bush warned the Carter administration Saturday
against making any deal with Iran for the return of the
hostages that would risk American involvement in the
Iran-Iraqi war.
"That would be a very serious foreign policy mistake,"
Busn said ai a news conference following a speech before
about 250 GOP leaders and party workers.
Bush was apparently referring to speculation the United
States might make spare parts for Iran's U.S.-made
Phantom jets as part of a package that would bring the
hostages home.
Bush noted that moderate Arab nations traditionally
friendly with the United States are supporting Iraq in the
conflict and would take a dim view of any American action
that might help Iran.
He also said that he and presidential candidate Ronald
Reagan had expected that there might be a pre-election
attempt by President Carter to solve the hostage crisis.
Cuban hijackers guilty
euL.uiviisiA ? a prison term of at least two decades
awaits Juan Adega Fresneda, one of two Cubans charged
with hijacking a Delta Air Lines jet near Columbia Sept.
17.
Adega Fresneda, 25, pleaded quilty Friday to air piracy,
which carries Judge Charles E. Simons Jr. delayed
sentencing until he receives a presentencing report from
federal probation officers.
He and Crecencio Perez Perez, 26, were held by Cuban
authorities after Delta Flight 470, with 108 passengers and
seven crew members, was commandeered to Havana by
two gasoline-carrying men.
Adega Fresneda and Perez Perez on Sept. 18 became
the first alleged hijackers returned to the U S hv Ciih?
under Premier Fidel Castro's new crackdown on air
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Aikens comes home
SENECA, ? The Kansas City Royals may have lost the
World Series, but first baseman Willie Mays Aikens is still
a winner in his hometown.
Mays said after returning to Seneca Friday that his
greatest thrill was hitting four home runs in this year's
series,
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