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While Vance was collecting promises of support in Europe, the Administration suffered a minor setback at home. In Washington, U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green directed the Administration to stop its crackdown on Iranians with student visas who are illegally in the U.S. She ruled that the Government had subjected the Iranians to a "discriminatory, 30-day roundup that violates the fundamental principles of American fairness." Since Nov. 13, immigration officials had interviewed 50,437 Iranians, found that 6,042 were in the U.S. illegally and expelled 56 of them. Government lawyers won a temporary stay of the ruling...
...faction of the student radicals is composed of seminarians from the theological college at Qum, the holy city where the Ayatullah Khomeini resides. Many others are from Tehran campuses. One Tehran University professor says he knows of four students from his own department who took part in the assault, and a teacher at Melli University in the city reports that about 90 students from his campus joined the takeover...
Three major political groups jostle for position on Iranian campuses. The Mujahedin, the largest and most influential group, consists of radical Islamic nationalists who support Khomeini as a leader, but fear his reactionary approach to Islam. Another leftist group, the Pishgam, is the student affiliate of the Marxist Fedayan. Reportedly the group's members have received training from the Palestine Liberation Organization. The far-right Hezb-Ollahis, which gives Khomeini unquestioning obedience and represents religious fundamentalism, is in the minority...
...convinced that the group, which numbered between 200 and 300, was trained and armed in Marxist South Yemen, and that the tab for the venture was picked up by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The Saudis also claimed that the young leader of the group, Mohammed al-Quraishi, a theology student who called himself the Muslim Mahdi (Messiah), had been killed in the fighting. A Saudi official declared last week that the objective of the gunmen had been to "terrorize the Muslims, incite sedition and rebel against the leader of the country," King Khalid. This was the first admission...
...foreign correspondents, but now more than 200 of them are "persona grata" in a land where American diplomats are not. Journalists walk the streets of Tehran encountering little hostility, despite Iran radio's constant and strident anti-American propaganda. In their on-the-air questioning of the student militants, however, they too seem inhibited by the fear of jeopardizing the hostages. When Khomeini gives televised interviews, he chooses which submitted questions he will deign to answer and allows no follow-ups. His advisers are smart enough about American public opinion to recognize that a star like...