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DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY, JULY 31, 1983 7B Aides preparing Reagan '84 strategy By SAUL FRIEDMAN Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign commanders are scheduled to meet with the president in Los Angeles around Aug. 25 as a prelude to a series of events they expect will culminate in November with a formal declaration of his candidacy for a second term. The Los Angeles meeting, which will interrupt the president's three-week California vacation, is to be the first discussion with Reagan on campaign strategy. According to a Reagan aide who has been invited, the meeting is designed to bring the president up tp date on the political outlook for 1984, and to further demonstrate that he intends to run. Sen.

Paul Laxalt of Nevada, the Republican Party's general chairman who is to oversee Reagan's campaign, said in an interview that, while he has no doubt that Reagan will run, he expects the president to finally make up his mind around the time of the August meeting. After that, Laxalt said, he expects to get the "signal" to take the legal steps that would open Reagan's campaign. BARRING THE unexpected, Laxalt and White House officials have approved plans to file the necessary papers with the Federal Election Commission around Oct. 15, creating an authorized re-election organization for Reagan and Vice-President George Bush. Formal announcement of Reagan's candidacy could come in November, before he leaves for a trip to the Far East.

Laxalt said lie has spoken with the president about "time frames" for his decision and about the needs of the campaign, but acknowledged that "there is no reason for an early announcement. Nevertheless, Laxalt is anxious to begin raising money. The goal would be to fill the Reagan campaign treasury with about $15 million (plus another $7 million in federal matching funds) by Jan. 1 for use in the primary season to get a head start on the general election campaign against the Dem- ocrats. Laxalt said he hoped to begin.

this quick money-raising effort at the time of president's declaration, and then "get out of fundraising so that we don't clash with the other (Republican) committees" that will be seeking money for congressional and other candidates. ACCORDING TO Laxalt, Drew Lewis, who resigned as transportation secretary earlier this year to become a business executive, has agreed to become manager of the Reagan campaign if he can break free from his business commitments. The campaign field organization will bring back many of the 1980 operatives. They include political consultant Roger Stone, who is to be in charge of the Northeast; Richard Shelby, who is helping to oversee the GOP national convention in Dallas and will organize the Southwest, and former California Congressman John Rous-selot, in the West. i iHf A AP Photo Liquid air conditioning As temperatures soared into the high E0s Saturday in London, a girl enjoys the water pouring from a fountain in Trafalgar Square.

i i i Iran persecutes Baha'i followers as subversives B017L sib v'wrrtcm i mt tv i wami i AND '-i IW( tsiH I WfSf vK By KEN KUSMER Assoclsled Press HAIFA, Israel The solemnity of the Baha'i World Center dominates picturesque Mt. Carmel here. The golden-domed Shrine of the Bab glistens in the sun, and two white marble buildings stand amid manicured gardens. Meanwhile, in Iran, 750 miles away, another ugly chapter in the faith's brief history unfolds. Baha'is there are imprisoned, sent to the gallows or forced from their jobs by a government that considers them heretics, subversives, prostitutes and Zionist spies.

Baha'i shrines have been bulldozed. 'n June, the situation there deteriorated drastically. The fundamentalist Islamic regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini scoffed at President Reagan's appeal for the lives of 22 Baha'is and executed 17 of them. The World Center claims two other prominent Baha'is were kidnapped on the streets of Tehran, while 130 Baha'i men, women and children were held captive by neighboring villagers and pressured to renounce their faith. And the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that 50 Baha'i families had converted to Islam.

"WE ARE ALARMED and very concerned that the' extent and the intensity (of the persecution) may be increasing," said Donald Barrett, secretary-general of the Baha'i international organization. Jewish author Elie Wiesel, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial, recently suggested hat the UN Human Rights Commission probe the plight of the Baha'is in Iran. "We all vowed after the Nazi outrages never again. Now is the time to act on that vow," Wiesel said.

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BAHAISM, OFTEN erroneously referred to as an Islamic sect, embraces many religions. Besides Mohammed, it considers among its prophets Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna and Zoroaster. Already, the United Nations, the European Common Market, the U.S. House and the national parliaments of Canada, Australia, Fiji and West Germany have condemned the persecution. Barrett represents Baha'i concerns for the International House of Justice, the top Baha'i administrative body.

A silver-haired American and former senior legal counsel for Gulf Oil Barrett, 55, explains the faith's little-known history and beliefs and swers Iran's charges. Bahaism was founded in 1844 and has spread to 1 34 nations with more than two million adherents a million in India. It has 100,000 followers in the U.S., with headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, III. BAHAISM HAS been persecuted in the land of its birth, then called Persia and now Iran, and has been banned at least partially in several other predominantly Muslim countries, including Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Syria and Indonesia. Bahaism is the largest minority religion in Iran, with an estimated 400,000 members, but it is not protected under the constitution of the Islamic republic as are Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism.

"Now it is virtually impossible (for a Baha'i) to leave Iran," Barrett said. "Why? We're the scapegoats. If the war with Iraq goes bad, blame the Baha'is. If the crop goes bad, blame the Baha'is." Bahaism has been regarded as a heresy to Islam since its founding. Mirza ali-Muhammed, now worshipped by Baha'is as the Bab in Arabic), announced then in the southern Persian city of Shiraz that a new prophet was coming.

The Bab and 20,000 other Baha'is were executed within the next six years. The new prophet, Mirza Husayn AH, known as Bahaullah of proclaimed himself in 1863 in Baghdad, where he had been exiled from Persia 10 years earlier in the aftermath of the Bab's execution. According to. Baha'i literature, the popularity of Bahaullah's teachings was his undoing, as local rulers viewed him as a threat and banished him to the Ottoman centers of Constantinople and Adrianople and finally to Acre, eight miles north of Haifa. Bahaullah won relative freedom in Acre and died there in 1892.

Acre and Haifa now serve as the spiritual and administrative center of the faith. About. 250 Baha'is all officially connected to the center live in Israel. The influx of Baha'i money and pilgrims to Haifa has triggered the Iranian accusations of Zionist espionage, a charge that for many years caused the world center here to avoid comment on the Iranian situation. Because Baha'i roots are in Islam, Iran regards it as a heretical sect and a threat to Islam.

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