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January 21, 1980 119 th Year No. 236 468-0123 Ukiah Ukiah, Mendocino County, California 1 Section Inside the Pittsburgh Steelers won their, fourth Super Bowl title yesterday, defeating the dogged Los Angeles Rams in a 31-19 contest. See story. Sports Page. 20 Cents Iran will aid Soviet troops only 19 miles from Iranian border By United Press Interatlonal Iran's foreign minister said today Soviet troops In Afghanistan now are 19 miles from Iran's frontier and pose a "real danger" to the country's southeastern provinces.

He also warned Iran is moving toward "unrestrained Communism." Foreign minister Sadegh Ghotb- zadeh, in a Tehran radio broadcast quoted by the Kuwaiti news agency, said Iran "cannot remain silent" in the face of the Kremlin's military intervention in Afghanistan. Another Tehran broadcast reported a presidential campaign speech in which he warned of the threat of Communism within Iran. "What has happened so far shows that there is a growing trend towards an uncontrolled communist society," Ghotbzadeh said in the broadcast monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp. "Should we continue in this direction. we shall end up with a regime much worse than the former regime.

The present trend is not really Islamic; we are moving towards unrestrained Communism," the foreign minister was quoted as saying. In other developments, air traffic controllers at Tehran's Mahabad air port went on strike today and forced the cancellation of 100 internal flights, the Iraqi news agency said. The agency said the controllers threatened (o extend their strike action to International flights if the government did not meet their demands which Include the appointment of a new director for the internal aviation authority. The agency also reported clashes In the Western Iranian town of Kermanshah and said several persons were injured in the disturbances which involved the supporters and opponents of a local political leader. The Kermanshah clashes were between the followers and opponents of Masoud Raj awl, the leader of the leftist Mujahedl al Shaab movement.

During Sunday's clashes, firearms and tear gas were used, the agency quoted the Tehran newspaper Kayhan as saying. The foreign minister, a candidate in the Jan. 25 presidential election, was quoted by BBC as saying Iran is prepared to give Afghanistan every kind of aid to end the Soviet intervention there. But he turned down a reported U.S. offer to normalize American-Iranian relations In a bid to concentrate on facing the Soviet threat.

He criticized the U.S. naval presence in the region and said, "Iran cannot accept an American Intervention." The foreign minister made his remarks to newsmen after a meeting of the ruling Revolutionary Council Sunday night, and excerpts were reported today by the Kuwaiti news agency. It said Ghotbzadeh also expressed concern over the possible use by Moscow Of the 1921 friendship and cooperation threaty to "interfere militarily against his country." Iran Unilaterally abrogated the treaty last year. In New Delhi, U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said Sunday he Is In "continuous" touch with Iranian officials in an effort to free the 50 American hostages held captive at the U.S.

Embassy in Tehran for 78 days. As the hostages entered their 12th week of captivity, the militants holding them issued no communique on their condition or fate. Adding to the logjam on the hostages' release, Ghotbzadeh indicated in an interview with French radio the failure of the United Nations to set up an international commission to Investigate crimes allegedly committed by the shah would delay the freeing of the American captives. Ghotbzadeh said Waldheim had assured Iranian officials during his visit to Tehran earlier this month that a U.N. commission to study the alleged crimes would be formed.

"We have waited for Mr. Waldheim to name this commission, but unfortunately not yet formed It. I don't know whether Mr. Waldheim considers that the right moment has not yet arrived or if It is the Americans who put pressure on him. "I rather believe it is American pressure," the foreign minister said.

Ghotbzadeh's remarks came after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, seeking to head off regional strife in his Islamic regime, approved a constitutional amendment recognizing the rights of minority Su.bi Moslems In Iran's provinces. A NEW HOBBY Iranian youngsters take weapons practice Moscow has misjudged I Weaving spells along with lOtobyDale Kalkmin. Eighty-year-old Elsie Allen, Porno basketweaver She was at the school last Thursday to display and extrordinaire, shares a few of her secrets with Jim explain the ancient art of Indian basketry to Kennon's fifth-graders at Redwood Valley School, several thoroughly entranced classes. Carter warns Kremlin leaders WASHINGTON (L'Pl) Saying the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is like an arrow aimed at the world's oil supplies. President Carter has warned Kremlin leaders that they have "seriously misjudged" U.S.

temperament and resolve. Carter was at Camp David today, in the mountains of western Maryland, where aides said he was drafting his State of the Union address to be delivered before a joint session of Congress Wednesday night. The address will stress an emerging "Carter doctrine," which reflects a hardened public policy toward the Kremlin because of the Soviet invasion "The Soviets have seriously misjudg ed our own nation's strength and resolve and unity and the president said Sunday, in a glimpse of what he will say to Congress and the nation. Carter also said if the Soviets do not Withdraw from Afghanistan within a month. U.S.

athletes should not participate in the summer Olympics in Moscow "Times change and circumstances Carter said on NBC's "Meet the Press' program mitted to peace, but strength I am still com peace through The Soviet I'nion 'cannot invade an Innocent country with impunity. Carter said, vowing that the Russians will the consequences'' of their incursion into Afghanistan He said Afghanistan had served as a buffer 'between the Soviet I'nion and Iran and the world's oil supplies." and that Soviet actions "have now become kind of an arrow aiming at those crucial strategic regions of the wnrki Afghanistan crisis continues to heat up By United Press International The Soviet-backed Kabul regime has "temporarily suspended" issuing visas, an Afghan official said today, hours after it was learned Western journalists in Afghanistan had been refused accreditation in an apparent move toward expulsion Moslem insurgents, meanwhile, have been called on to unify in one front and wage a "holy war" against the Red Army invaders. The extent of the visa shutoff was not Immediately clear. An official at the Afghan embassy in New Delhi said he was instructed 2 days after 14 American newsmen were expelled from Afghanistan not to give out visas until he received further orders Asked if the order applied only to newsmen, the official would only say. "We have temporarily suspended issuance of visas" and that he was awaiting instructions from Kabul.

Iran offered Sunday to do whatever it could to help the rebel Afghan guerrillas and In Pakistan, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua pledged Peking's support of Pakistan President Carter sought to put tional pressure on the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan by calling for a boycott of the summer Olympic Games in Moscow, but his call brought little international support and was scoffed at by Moscow Radio as "futile." "Neither I nor the American people would support sending a team to Moscow with Soviet troops in Afghanistan." Carter said "Unless the Soviets withdraw their troops within a month from Afghanistan the Olympic games should be moved from Moscow eather By United Press International Northwestern California: Fair through Tuesday with patchy night and morning valley fog. Continued cool nights. Fort Bragg 60. 44 and 60. Ukiah 60.

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Sports Television. Weather 3 .2 .6 .7 4 Iowa caucuses Political fortune tellers polish up their crystal balls as selection process begins BY ARNOLDS A WISLAK MOINES, Iowa (UPI) The 1980 delegate selection process, begins today, with Republican challengers to front-runner Ranald Reagan campaigning right up to the start of the precinct caucuses that, open the presidential "race. i President Carter was favored over Sen. Edward Kennedy In the Democratic race, with public opinion polls showing Reagan the OOP favorite. Former Ambassador George Bushy the man given the best chance to'upset Reagan, was scheduled to fly to three Iowa cities and campaign right through the beginning of the evening caucuses held in school rooms, fire halls and living rooms in 2,531 precincts.

"We've come a long, long way, and tonight will tell how far," said Bush at a morning news conference. He would not make any predictions about the come. But noting that he was just an asterisk in the polls a few months ago, he said hlsshowing would be "better than'all theTxpectations Former Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworskl came to Des Moines to offer an llth hour endorsement of his fellow Jaworskl said Bush's actions as Republican national chairman in the final days of the Nixon administration was "beyond reproach otherwise I wouldn't be here." The last statewide public opinion poll showed Carter well ahead of' Kennedy of Massachusetts and California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.

among Democrats, and Reagan with a lead over the big field of Republicans. Senate Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, Bush and former Gov. John Connally of Texas trailed the former California governor In the Iowa poll. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Reps.

Philip Crane and John Anderson of Illinois were distant also-rans. At the caucuses, less than 10 per cent of the state's 1.6 million voters will begin a months-long process of selecting delegates for the national political conventions next summer. Iowa will send 50 Democrats and 37 Republicans to the conventions, but it won't be known until spring exactly how many can be claimed by which candidates. to an alternate site or multiple sites oi postponed or canceled from the desk By Jim (ntrnrr President Carter appeared tit trim and relaxed during a television interview It seemed an opportune time lo an nouncehe would request a boycott ol the Olympic (James by the I team unless Russia pulls its troops out of Afghanistan within days Today is the Iowa caucus and Carter holds a commanding lead over Ted Kennedy, a lead that surely was made even more solid by his stand on the Olympics Straw polls indicate more than 70 percent of Americans support Carter's position First, why risk injury or even death to our athletes in such an explosive political situation that Russia has created by invading Afghanistan and threatening to invade Iran 9 Secondly, why allow Russia such an excellent chance to propagandize the entire world through the extensive press and television coverage the Olympic Games generate'' And, finally, isn't it about time countries of the free world attempt to alter Olympic rules that allow Russia and her satellites to make a mockery of the games by sending professional athletes to compete with amateurs? The heavyweight boxing champ of Cuba comes to mind He has made a career of winning Olympic titles. While a boycott of the Olympic Games may be merely a symbol of our utter disgust at Russia's behavior, It might help focus world attention on those leaders who foolishly risk nuclear war on the pretense that they were "Invited" to calm political waters in Afghanistan..