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Iranian opposition leader is arrested
The military government, in a double blow against anti-Shah dissident forces, arrested a key political opposition leader and ordered troops in to work Iran's strike-bound oil fields.
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Violence between protesters and the army flared anew in the southern oil-producing region. Witnesses reported soldiers in the oil city of Ahwaz shot and killed two people during a brief demonstration. Police and soldiers arrested Karim Sanjaby, 71-year-old chief of Iran's major political opposition group, the National Front, at his home as he prepared to hold a news conference.
Egypt withdraws Sinai demands as talks go on in US
Egypt has withdrawn a demand in its peace talks with Israel that it be permitted to place ground-to-air missiles on the east bank of the Suez Canal in the Sinai Peninsula.
Sources said Israel would be allowed to maintain three strategic bases in central Sinai pending the second and final phase of its withdrawal from the area. The sources said the only major point still outstanding in the military portion of the Washington peace talks was a timetable for Israel's Sinai withdrawal.
Hero's welcome as Smith warns on peace settlement
Premier Ian Smith, receiving a hero's welcome at Rhodesia's 13th annual independence anniversary ball, warned the British and US governments that time was slipping past for a negotiated peace between the transitional government and the patriotic front guerrilla alliance.
He accused Britain and the United States of procrastination since the bi-racial Salisbury coalition announced in America three weeks ago that it was willing to attend all-party settlement talks with the guerrillas without pre-conditions.
France's great escaper does it again
French police said they feared that the country's most wanted criminal, jail-breaker Jacques Mesrine, had again eluded arrest after taking part in an armed raid on the Paris home of a prominent Judge.
Mesrine, 43, has escaped from justice on three previous occasions since 1972. His most spectacular effort was in May this year when he scaled the wall of Paris' Sante Prison, where he was serving 20 years for attempted murder.
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