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Less than two years since the executions of two writers and poets, and the execution of 200 others, an AP dispatch from Tehran has informed us that the government of Iran is planning to execute ten political opponents of the Shah by firing squad...
...names of seven individuals were given by the government and there was no mention of a trial, military or otherwise. They only evidence cited by the government against the seven was based on "confessions" extracted by Savak, the Shah's secret police, from the defendants...
Human decency and respect for human life dictates that the Shah stay the execution of the ten Iranians. We the undersigned urge that the Iranian government stop the execution of the ten defendants and permit the case of the ten to be remanded to the custody and protection of the United Nations Human Rights Charter, of which Iran is a signatory. Noam Chomsky Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn Congressman Michael Harrington Denise Levertov State Representative Elaine Noble John Roberts, ACLU Joshua Rubinstein, Amnesty International Ruth and George Wald Professor Howard Zinn Marjorie Swann, Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee
Tonight, in the Basement Conference Room of Gutman Library (Brattle Street and Appian way) The Dreamwalkers will be shown. It's described as "a BBC film on the Sufi work of Idries Shah" and I won't display my ignorance by trying to explain that. Free, the film starts...
...jobs in the company's own plants but perhaps 60,000 more in related industries. Workers are threatening to take over the plants if Chrysler goes home. A shutdown of the 7,000-worker factory in Lin wood, Scotland, might fan the flames of Scottish nationalism. And the Shah of Iran has ordered 126,000 Hunters in kit form; Wilson is not eager to anger one of Britain's principal suppliers of oil by letting Chrysler close without filling the order...