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No injuries were About 2008 Khometal supporters atta leftist. organized demonatrators as the protesters prepared to march Mehdi Bazargan's office. ' NUMBERS SWELLED. The protesters’ numbers swelled to about 100,000 as they marched. along a main avenue to Bazargan’s office. Revolutionary guardsmen on rooftops: hurled tear-gas grenades and fired their guns into the air in an at- tempt to scatter the throng, ‘ After reaching the bullding housing” Bazargan's office, protest leaders read a resolution condemning the new press code imposed by epomelal forbidding “ 40H OF. icles, ‘cour geld: ead: : “Seahips stat MRT The marchers also denounced the closing of the newspaper Ayand: last Tuesday by the chief Islamic prosecutor, who accused it of taking a “continuous critical line of the revolution,” The protesters demanded the release of imprisoned paper staff members. In announcing the new press code last week, the minister of national guidance, Dr. Nasser Minachi, sald it was “necessary to govern relations between the people and the press in Iran.” Rabin JERUSALEM (AP)- Formerprime minister Yitzhak Rabin's memoirs have shaken Israel's Labor party with charges that party leader Shimon Peres Ls a political scoundre! unfit to govern the country. When the two men served | ‘together in the last Labor government in 1974-77, it 4 became common knowledge _that Rabin_and Peres, the from Tehran. University to Prime Minister - Pa, No. parade would be complete without a clown. More fun inside Prices shake ae unrest over. in- creases in food prices, and, fuel ° Police were called out for the second day in a row tc disperse mobs. of rock- throwing teenagers on the outskirta of the capital, witnesses sald. No injuries were reported. Unconfirmed reports salt the violent protests hac shakes up his defence minister, did not get long. ; Pores tried twice without success to unseat’ Rabin as party leader. He finally took - over Labor's helm when - Rabin was forced to resign the party leadership in April, 1977, after he and his wife admitted to having had an illegal bank acount In Wi Labor leet the May, 197, Vietnam plans __ to export people BANGKOK = (AP) vate os officials told 8, congressmen Hanol intends to organize the orderly departure of some 10,000 persons a month in an effort to slop the illegal -exodus that has flooded Southeast Asian countries with Vietnamese refugees, & Thai official said Sunday. The official said the relayed by US. Represen ye ©. Represen- tative Lester Wolff, head of the Mae ember congressional delegation, Thai Prime Minister Kriangsak Chomanan on Sunday after the Americans flew here from Hanoi. At a news conference after the meeting with Kriangsak, the Democratic Ngressman from New : said the delegation ign talks in Hanoi broke | ome significant new round” in areas that have blocked normalization of belations between the United ' ‘talke ‘between the two countries.on gach of three or ge ngsok the Vietnamese fee] tat, unless In an organized manner, it would be' im- possible to halt the flow of “boat people.” The- Viet- namese were d to have said they do no§ have the resources to stop all who try to flee. Vietnamese officials told another U.S. congressional delegation led - by Representative Benjamin . Rosenthal (Dem. N.Y.) In Hanoi recently that tough measures were being taken against all would-be refugees and that about 4,000 had already been arrested while trying to escape by sea. Some hed even been elecuted, the congressmen sald the Americana were election to Menachem Begin’s Likud bloc, and Rabin quietly took a bach ibench in parliament wi IPeres led the party and }arliamentary opposition. The quiet ended last week with the publication ih. the FBebrew newspaper Maariv af the first installment of Rabin’s forthcoming book | Service Record, And Israel .. Television reported details from future excerpty dealing with Peres, Rabin’s assertions — that Peres leaked secrets putting Rabin in a bad light, that the tlefence minister was in- decisive during the Entehbe hijack affair and that he wrecked the Labor party so that he could take over from Rabin — appeared likely to damage Libor’s chances to “win back power from Begin’s troubled coalition govern- ment in the scheduled 1981 elections, Rabin, said the television report, wrote that he did not trust Peres, that Peres was unfit to be prime minister and thathe, Rabin, would not serve under Peres. _ Most Labor party mem- bers ‘rallied around their party chief, while Likud officials judiciously declined comment, evidently pleased _ apread to provincial capital: Saturday, but because o poor communications detail: were not available, Following through or earlier pledges to shake uy the political hierarchy if the unrest continued, Nimeir relieved Abul-Gasin party that the Labor infighting was distracting the public's attention from severe economle troubles and lead- ership problems under Begin’s governient. One passage of the Rabin book, in the version by the state television, goes like this: . . Rabin wrote that during the 1974 Entebbe, Uganda, hijack affair, the defence Ec he may ‘ore ie ry ani to examine the possibility of a rescue operation. The implication was that Peres, perhaps confused and overwhelmed, deserved no credit for the successful mission, Rabin's book says he knew that a cabinet minister was | leaking secret material damm-] o him ad when a minister proposed iie- detector teats, "I saw Peres prleashe objected and {t all ame crystal clear to me.” - 7 ae has ber gt he not remember got le but that he certainly ry pe collapsed — a comment that, to any Israeli, would recall Sudanese that Rabln had suffered a two-day collapse in 1067 when he was military chief- of-staff, : Clark returns home OTTAWA. (CP) Prime Minister Clark arrived in Ottawa early Sunday evening after a 15-day tour of . Africa which included the Commonwealth conference in Lusaka, Zambia. ‘ ‘The armed forces 707 Fe Privy alrcraft carrying Clark and his wife Maureen McTeer touched down at 6:15 p.m. EDT at Ottawa's Uplands airforce base after the flight from the Canadian Forces base in Lahr, West Germany where Clark made a brief stop. The Clarks were greeted dent Justice Walter Baker, Minister Jacques F' and Public Worka Minister rik Nielson, up the Sudan ‘Mohamed Ibrahim of hit posts as first vice-presiden: and secretary-general of the ‘Sudanese Soclalist Union ‘Nimeiri heads the SSU iwhich ia East. Africar jpolltied| exganteation political or on,” } Ibrahim's dismissal came in the wake of a speech last “Monday in which Nimeir! accused: the SSU’ of corruption and ineffictency. The mare at eroances were. § ' an an- nouncement last week of hefty price increases for sugar, fuel and other basic commodities. Public tran: sport fares rose by onethird, Rloting was reported Wednesday, Saturday and again Sunday. ; ‘Observers here sald further political changes might be in the offing as the #-year-old president seeks to contain ihe situation. . Ibrahim had been Nimelri's right-hand man since the president came to power in @ bloodless coup 10 * The ovated vice-president, e Os! ce- ‘whe returned from a visit to Cairo, Egypt, last Monday, was reported to have flown to Saudi Arabia after his dismiasal was announced on the governmentcontrolled radio and in the Arabiec- language daily newspapers. Sudanese officials have blamed the unrest on uniden- tified foreign elements. Newspapers in Cairo said Nimelri claimed at a meeting of top military leaders Thursday that Communists and Traq were behind the out- breaks of violence. The Iraqia cut off oil ship- ments to energy-short Sudan earlier this year after Nimelri, a close ally of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, refused to join the boycott of Egypt over itt ag e treaty with Israel. Hinee then, the Sudanese have relied almost ex- cluaively on Saudi Arabian il and have introduced \gasoline ratloning. ‘ "The Communists, who taged a coup attempt a etst Nimeiri [n 1971, have gone underground - tgoyernment NAIROBI (CP) ~ Joe Clark flew home after an actionpacked seven hours in this busy Kenyan capital that closed the first African tour by a Canadian prime » teking in Cam- eroon, Zambia, Tanzania as wellas Kenya. ‘ Before leaving Saturday night, Clark indicated that his i$-day safari across Africa, attending the Lusaka Commonwealth conference onthe way, convinced him to continue the policies of his Conservative and Liberal predecessors in Canadian government. ; This means maintalning ald for the development of Black Africa — English-and Frenchspeaking equally — while supporting the cam- paign for black majority in white- ed southern Africa. “Ig #igpeech to about 200 Catteditne’ t a teacher- training: deau years establishing the reputation of “own resources” without seeking any other \self- interested goal. The impromptu speech ended a Ks t that mint hearing a Kenyan BI songs of praise to him. * Clark and. his wife aurpen Meter Je aboatd “a° Canadian * jet for Lahr, Weat Germany, enroute to Ottawa for a late- Sunday arrival, - . The choir appeared ai Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi's request after a state house luncheon and sang for almost an hour, squeezing political discussions to about 20 min- , Much of the cholr recital ~ ‘was taken up by several songs Bpecialiy composed by Darlus Mbela, Kenya's housing secretary, which an official present described as “welcoming Mr. Clark, thanking Mr. Clark, praising . Mr. Clark, saying what a, great man Mr, Clark is,’’ Despite the softening up, Clark returned a wait-and- Bee response when Mol asked for more’ Canadian ald — especially wheat. A Canadian official said Clark told Moi what he told Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in response to a similar request two days ‘parler — the Clark gov- ise nerd is committed to p development aid, ie has promised political favor by praising him in foe of 11 of his cabinet ministers for what be sald wasia quietly ef- . fective diplomatic job at the Commonweall(', conference in. Laks, Zaina, This ges may have allay some of uae concern because Clark was spending only a Zew houre in' Kenya, compared with a full two days in hated nelghboring Tanzania. “| Clark very nearly rubbed it in when he talked during a luncheon speech about visiting a Tanzanian game park — just after Moi had urged him to stay longer and visit a Kenyan game park. On departure, Clark walked to the plane on a route that avoided a specially-laidred carpet that ran for abcut 25 metres, He had kept to the ca on arrival, when he alzo blew a toot on a tribal horn and tapped his heel to the drumbeat of welcoming NCETE. Later, Kenyan Vice- President Mwal Kibaki and Senator Martial Asselin, minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, signed three agreements for aid already negotiated between the lwo govern: ments. One agreement provides $5.5 ving or a went. gro project, e@ other two providing grants totalling $1.4 million for mining and ecological projects, Clark described his 15-day African trip through the Cameroon, Zambia, Tan- zania and Kenya as a fan: tastic learning experience. Before leaving, he placed a wreath at the mausoleum memorial to Jomo Kenyatta, who led Kenya to. inde- pendence in 1963 and served as president until his death a year ago. Earller, Clark and his wife had been treated to a mix- Clark says aid Africa ture of the familiar and the exotic when they hopped by small plane around the ‘porthern interior of Tan- zania, They visited a vast, Cana- dlan-financed wheat farm at Basuto that Clark said re- once Friday afternoon and ‘again just after dawn Saturday -- through the spectacular Manyara game park in northern Tanzania. They ogled at close-quarters everything from saucey baboons to surly buffalo, a war rhinoceros and a one- eared hippo... Palestine will reject peace DAMASCUS (AP) — The Palestine Liberation Organization opted Sunday for a collision course with the ’ United States, rejecting any United Nations resolution that does not explicitly recognize Palestinian “ " to an independent state. . . The 57-member Palestine fhe Syrian eaplial for ans , fh Ca (or. u an - Yasser Arafat in attendance, also agreed that U.S. hints of “dialogue” with the PLO were merely “manoeuvres” aimed at alienating PLO ravens Brom opolenn a m 6 man Yasser Abd-Rabbo said the council discussions were “hot” at times, but ended In accord. “The council decided to re- fuse any resolution that does not atipulate frankly on the need to establish an in- dependent Palestinian state and make clear that the PLO is the sole and legitimate representative of Palestinian people and clearly state ... our right to return (to Palestine) and self-determination,” he anid. The UN Security Council is to meet Aug. 23 to consider a Kuwaitl-s resolution that would expand the meaning of the 1967 Resolution 242 to slate that the Palestinians have a right to independent slatehood. Resolution 242, the prin- cipal basis for Middle East peace negotlations, refers to the Palestinians only as a refugee problem requiring a just solution, The United Stales has vowed to veto any resolution. that says the Palestinians the — have a right to an in- dependent state. But Israeli officials have expressed fears the Carter ad- ministration, in hopes of drawing the Palestinians into the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace process, might not vete a resolution that otherwise alters the chair. of Menachem Begin talks in Wa ton between US. President Carter and Israeli Ambassador Eph- a at concerns over a possible shift in U.S. Mideast policy. . The cabinet decided to send Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin to Washington on Wednesday for further discussions with U.S. of- ficials. Informed sources said Arafat, in a one-hour report | that opened the debate, characterized his recent ce. runo and former West chancellor Willy Brandt as part of an American plan to get the Palestinians involved in Camp David process that led to the Egyptian-lar peace accord. The other of the paign involves Amefican contacts with also has arousd@d Israell concern, 3x00 tanks to ote that Kissinger warns of Soviet blackmail - WASHINGTON (AP) — Henry Kissinger ald Sundsy lenry er y the United States needs to increase defence spending because “we are going to be behind’ in all military areas and subject to blackmail by the Soviet Union. “The situation Is that, except for naval forces, we are going to be behind, and increasingly behind, in every significant strategic category of military power, and even In naval power the balance is beginning to shift,’ Kissinger sald on the NBC television program Meet the Press. “Given the world of in- stability in which we live, this means in the 19808 we are bound to be confronting crises in which our forces will be inadequate,’ be said. “So whal is needed is a national decision to try to close these gaps, and I believe we need. them In practically every category of power, of strategic forces, theatre nuclear forces conventional forces and some additions to our naval power,” Asked to say ' hypothetically how the Soviet Union could black- mail a weakened United sought by any of the coun- tries similar to the 1973 alert — the Soviets threaten in tervention. I canno! exclude againat Chine and I cannot, if the situation deteriorates beyond a cer- tain point, even prclude pressures aga rope, As to the possibility ofa an- other Berlin crisis, Kissinger sald: “E think it cannot be excluded if the balance of power shifts Importantly against us.” “T think es cave te get stronger. We have to bring our power into relationshi with our. im he sal adding: “As we get stronger, we have to get tougher.’