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Bakhtiar's chances of consolidating his control over the country declined sharply yesterday when Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled spiritual leader of the Iranian Moslem community, refused to meet with one of Bakhtiar's envoys in Paris...
Khomeini reportedly still maintains that the present government, which was appointed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi before he left the country for a presumed exile in the United States, is illegal. Khomeini has issued a call for his supporters to abolish Bakhtiar's government and form a Moslem spiritual republic...
Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled religious leader of Iran's dominant Shiite Moslem sect, said yesterday he will probably announce the establishment of an Islamic state in Iran in a few days...
However, Ayatullah Shariatmadari, the senior Shiite Moslem leader in Iran, led a mass march through the streets of Jom, about a hundred miles south of Tehran, where there were no reports of trouble...
COLOMBO. Sri Lanka--A chartered jetliner carrying 246 Moslem pilgrims home from Mecca crashed, split apart and burned yesterday a mile from Colombo's airport while being guided down in a severe thunderstorm...