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BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI)
.Bolstered by fresh Soviet military aid,
Vietnam yesterday accused China of
staging "barbarous acts of war" that
threaten 'chances for a peaceful with
drawal of the Peking invaders.
itaos, a close ally of Hanoi, charged
Peking with threatening to expand the
19:day war by massing 500,000 troops
near the point where the Chinese,.
Laotian and Vietnanriese borders join.
Western military sources said there
I were signs of disengagement' in some
areas of the 450-mile border between
China and Vietnam, but military
nalysts said so far no Peking troops
have left Vietnamese territory.
1 Radio Hanoi reported 426 Chinese
!were killed or wounded in fresh fighting
in •the north and northwest, and that
i Peking troops blew up two bridges
!spanning the strategic Ky Cung River
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)r core WASHINGTON (UPI) The administration has offered to
con send F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia for the second time
• , 'this year in addition to its dispatch of a carrier, task group,
••)Pentagon sources said yesterday.
dfo b • The sources said while the carrier USS Constellation, ex
' c,petted to leave Subic Bay in the Philippines
,shortly, would
"take 10 days or longer to reach the area, the U.S. fighters could
atlfpe on the scene earlier and free Saudi Arabian aircraft to take
;eQ-lli;'a direct role in fighting between North and South Yemen.
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The Saudis have reached no decision whether to intervene
nPOg 'llirectly in the fighting, in which North Yemen's forces have
I `, l e'Aeen pu§hed back by Soviet-advised South Yemeni attackers.
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' 4, TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) Oil flowed
Hai:pp-16t6 the hold of the first American tanker
r ant,loberthed at an Iranian port in more than
• alle 46 tWo months yesterday, as Ayatollah
6. .7, •; Ruhollah Khomeini complained his
or , loppointed premier's government was
wthi rting just like the shah's regime.
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Wrhomeini's ,criticism of Prime
ev i. l ift inister Mehdi Bazargan, the Moslem
thOeader's most caustic remarks yet about
his chosen successor for the shah's last
it:egime, came after denials of
newspaper reports that' Bazargan
.ady had quit
Chinese mobilizing
and looted nearby villages
It said the stiffest battles were around
Lang Son, a provincial capital which
Western intelligence reports said was
captured by the Chinese last week.
"Chinese aggressors yesterday
(Tuesday) and this morning (Wed
nesday) continued to carry out many
barbarous, criminal acts, including
plundering people's houses and wanton
shellings," the Vietnamese broadcast
said.
The Soviet Union stepped up its sup
port for Vietnam, sending a warship and
two reconnaissance vessels , into the
American-built port of Da Nang for the
first time ever, reports from Washington
said.
Radio Hanoi's report of new battles
indicated the situation could deteriorate
into heavy fighting again because of the
conditions each side has put on a
The ayatollah sent a message to all
government ministries ordering officials
to observe austerity and reform their
"non-Islamic, pre-revolutionary ways."
"The provisional government is
behaving just ag governments behaved
in the days of (Shah) Mohammed Reza
(Pahlavi)•," Khomeini said.
Bazargan has complained that
Khomeini's supporters are interfering
with the work of his government and
asked them to stop it.
At the Kharg Island terminal,
reopened Monday after a 69-day break in
Nor have they indicated whether they would accept the U.S.
offer.
Last January as the shah was being ousted in Iran,
President Carter sent a dozen unarmed F-15 Eagles to Saudi
Arabia on a "show-the-flag" mission to illustrate U.S. ability
to get forces quickly to the region.
The proposal now would be to send armed planes which
could take over air defense duties while Saudi Arabia used its
F-5 jets to bolster North Yemen forces. The F-15 is the Air
Force's top air-to-air fighter.
The United States has protested Soviet involvement in
helping Marxist-led South Yemen plan and coordinate the
offensive against its neighbor.
No price was given, but a day earlier
Royal Dutch Shell picked up 320,000 tons
and paid what Iranian officials said was
"no less than $lB a barrel and not more
than $22." That price range represented
an increase of 35 to 65 percent above
price levels set in December.
peaceful withdrawal, military analysts
in Bangkok said.
China has announced its troops will
withdraw but only if they are not at
tacked, and Hanoi said early yesterday
it would let the Chinese leave if they
went peacefully. ,
But Hanoi's .. announcement of its
agreement to the--• withdrawl was
followed only hoUrs later by the reports
of fresh_ fighting, sparking fears the
Vietnamese will attack the Chinese and
trigger a counterattack.
Though Hanoi as well as Peking
has claimed victory, it is showing no sign
of letting down its guard, maintaining its
full war mobilization and continuing a
troop airlift from the south begun
Friday, Western intelligence sources
said.
Iranian oil production while Khomeini's
revolution forced the shah to leave his
homeland, the supertanker Al Ryah
loaded 160,000 tons of light and 90,000
tons of heavy crude oil bound for the
American Ashland Oil Co.
Begin: Israel's 'done its share'
NEW YORK (UPI) Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
said yesterday his country has "done
its share" to reach a peace
agreement with Egypt, and a treaty
will be signed soon if President An
...war Sadat gives his approval._
"With God's help, very soon, we'll
be signing a peace treaty between
Israel and Egypt;" Begin said, if
President Carter wins Sadat's ap
proval of the new proposals that
broke the negotiating deadlock.
Begin addressed a group of 2,000
Jewish leaders hours before he his
return to Israel to prepare for Car
ter's arrival Saturday.
Carter, Begin and opposition Labor
Party leader Shimon Peres will
address the Knesset Monday.
"They (the proposals) restored the
peace treaty to be a serious
document," said Begin who on his
arrival in Washington last week said
Israel would never sign a "sham"
treaty.
Referring to Israel as the free
world's "one reliable, stable ally in
the Middle East," Begin said he
' made some suggestions to Carter
concerning "regional issues." He
gave no details.
Israeli officials have said one such
idea is to give port facilities to the
American military at Haifa, and the
use of. a Sinai airbase that would be
under Egyptian rule.
If everyone agrees on a treaty,
Begin said, he would go first to Cairo
to sign an Arabic version. Sadat
would then sign a Hebrew version in
Jerusalem and Carter would sign an
English version in both capitals.
"We will not go to Mt. Sinai," said
Begin, referring to a suggestion by
Sadat that the signing take place on
that desert hilltop.
Without giving specifics of the
compromises reached in Washington,
Begin detailed previous American
"unacceptable" proposals. He said
they contained "eight deviations'!
from the agreements reached with
Egypt at the September Camp David
summit.
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The expressions and gestures of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin go
from joyous to serious during his address to the Conference of Presidents yes
terday in New York City. Begin believes Israel has "done its share" to reach a
peace agreement with Egypt.
The Daily Collegian Thursday, March 8, 1979