European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 was Damn Prober says bomb explodes at Iran Bank in from press dispatches san Francisco a powerful bomb exploded outside an iranian Bank Early blowing a Hole in the masonry and shattering windows on both sides of a Street in the cites financial Dis police no injuries were report it was Damn said a police bomb squad member investigating the explosion at the Bank Melli the Fri and state department were notified of the authorities report shortly after 6 an unidentified Man who claimed to be a member of the jewish defense league telephoned the associated press to say the jul had set off the bomb because of the persecution of iranian Earl the jul state director in los disavowed responsibility for the but said that he condoned the a witness said the blast shattered at least seven tall plate Glass windows on the ground floor iranian Bank which is in the High Rise Wells Fargo he said several windows on the second floor also were other witnesses said a Bowling Ball size Hole was torn from the masonry on the buildings police inspector John Hennessey said the blast apparently caused minor structural damage to the facing of the army credibility remarks Black leaders get apology from Dayan Jerusalem up former foreign minister Moshe Dayan monday apologized to a group of Black leaders for implying that the american military was suffering because of the Large numbers of uneducated Blacks that make up the Volunteer some real damage was done by his Black Leader Bayard Rustin said after the half hour meeting with Dayan at the parliament he was poorly briefed by the american Dayan made the remarks recently in is Rael on returning from a trip to the United he said the american army did not have credibility because of the Large num Ber of poorly educated Black volunteers that make up the temperatures City Molnes City vegas Rock l h 48 70 30 66 46 69 53 69 32 52 33 71 42 73 33 51 23 51 41 66 35 54 24 45 21 50 06 33 38 49 19 36 23 60 20 43 46 67 36 68 26 41 49 65 46 57 75 90 41 47 14 41 44 63 29 51 los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Paul Nashville new Orleans new York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Pittsburgh Providence Raleigh Reno Louis Petersburg Salt Lake City san Diego san Francisco san Juan Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington i dont want a misunderstanding of All with Dayan told the group of four Black foreign ministry officials said Dayan meant to say that an effective deterrent Force cannot be based on volunteers alone because the More qualified and educated american youth Are lured away from Mili tary service by better a process which detracts from its fighting his clarification was satisfactory to Rustin he said Dayan repeated an apology issued of course we accepted his he the former foreign minister in the begin Cabinet who has also served As defense min ister in previous governments accepted an invitation to visit the Black Community in the United states to gain a better under standing of its problems and its Rustin Rustin said a Large part of the closed door meeting dealt with whether an Al vol Untener army was adequate for the United our views were not very far he Dayan also met with Alexander Vic president of the National Urban Lewis Carter of the a act and Arthur Logan of the National Council of negro the four Are part of a group studying the problem of the Black a member sect of american living up to its name England a an exploding Gas Cylinder blew a Hole in the Wall of a shop Here called Hole in the the press association the reported at also damaged the Union Bank building across the Street As much As the Bank of Hennessey almost every window on one Side of the ground floor of the Union Bank building was a witness the Bank Melli Iran is Iran main commercial according to the states mans founded in it was replaced As Iran primary Bank by the Central Bank of Iran in in a phone Call to United press internal a Man identifying himself As a member of the jewish defense league said the bombing was to protest the Bru Tal persecution of iranian he demanded the release of hostages he said were being held in who speculated that a pipe bomb was used in the closed off the area and launched an Glass was strewn All Over the Street by the officer Walter Costa was driving in the area at the time of the he said later i saw a heard a huge noise and then my car was lifted a Little off the i thought a transformer had blown up under the Street until i drove Back and saw what had the Bank has been the scene of Many demonstrations in recent and last week a Rock was tossed through one of the scaffolding was still by the win which was broken again Early Mon Iran spurns islamic efforts to mediate War with Iraq from press dispatches the third islamic Summit began its first working Day monday in saudi Ara by offering to mediate in the Ira Iraq but the speaker of the iranian parliament said it was impossible to negotiate a conference sources also reported that provisional plans had been outlined to Send algerian president Chad i Ben Jedi to act As a the 38 moslem gathered for the had been scheduled to formally discuss the Ira Iraq but it was still unclear monday whether the topic would be brought the feeling among conferees was that it was pointless to talk about the War unless both sides were despite several attempts to get Iran to the iranians remained steadfast in their refusal As Long As iraqi president Saddam Hussein iranian parliamentary speaker Hashemi a Sfanjani said in Tehran monday that the Summit must denounce and ban Iraq if it was to be an islamic Accord ing to the official pars news we cannot sit at the same table with a warmongering aggressor who has weak ened islam forces so much and we cannot the speaker pakistani president Ziaul Haq noted in an opening speech that several moslem nations were ready and willing to be an intermediary this War is a painful blow to islamic it is exhausting the resources of both moslem the pakistani Leader Zia also touched the two other topics expected to figure prominently in the three Day Summit Palestine and of Zia complimented the Palestine liberation organization on its struggle against Israel and its sacrifices to liberate their lands from zionist occupation and oppress the pakistani also demanded an unconditional withdrawal of the soviet Union from the eight 19 Heads of state and 11 government representatives attending elected saudi arabian King Khaled chair Man of the Summit and president Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea first Deputy chair Bangladesh president Ziaul Rahman was voted second Deputy chairman and Plo Leader Yasser Arafat was named third neither Side in the Ira Iraq now in its fifth was showing any sign of action to break the midwinter desert stalemate and military observers in Beirut were saying the conflict was Shap ing up As a Long for a number of reasons this is shaping up As a Long an Arab military observer said satisfied with the territorial gains made during the opening Days of the has adopted a defensive posture and seems Content to continue this the iraqis seem to have adopted their present positions As their new the observer for its now freed of the hos Tage Hopes to mount a ground Offen Sive that will improve its position and per Hap its bargaining hand at the same but the nations internal discord appears to be working against president Abolhassan in firm control of the regular is unable to satisfactorily control the diverse Contin gents of the National guard which owe their allegiance to various religious Lead news update part goer Dies London a the death toll from the 18 firebombing of a lon Don birthday party Rose to 12 monday when another of the hospitalized guests the latest victim was Glen of who died at East Grinstead ten More guests remain the Al night party in London dept Ford District was held to celebrate the birthdays of two West Indian police said at first that it appeared a firebomb was thrown through a some 140 people in the but detectives now say it is possible someone got into the House sprinkled turpentine on a carpet and then ignited Jiang on death Row peking up Jiang qing began Day 1 on death Row monday and China said scores had finally been settled for the damage that Mao tse tunes widow and nine co defendants caused the country during the cultural revolt Jiang qing and the villains of her like have been dumped in the garbage bin of the communist party newspaper Peoples daily said following the sentencing of the the account has now been As the defendants began serving their amnesty International in London asked the chinese leadership by Cable to commute the death sentences of Jiang and gang of four Collaborator Zhang the soviet Union commented that their trial reflected a continuing Power struggle within the chinese eight other defendants were Given prison terms ranging from 16 years to family called hostages1 Moscow up soviet radio said monday the United states was holding hostage a ukrainian couple and their 13yearold child who has been granted political Asylum in radio Moscow said the Popovchak whose Tugo War for their son Walter began in is still in the United states and their position is Actu ally that of in violation of american authorities Are trying to deprive them of their 13yearold son by granting him political radio Moscow the latest soviet outcry for the return of the teenage Polovchak was obviously timed to coincide with the first full Day Back in America for the 52 former the Polovchak parents have asked that Walter be returned to them so that the entire family can return to the soviet Walter ran away from his parents in july and received political