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WASHINGTON -The State Department
reacted sharply Wednesday to an official
Soviet commentary accusing the United
States of using "crude military and politi
cal pressure against Iran in its attempts to
free 50 American hostages.
Department spokesman Hodding Carter
called the commentary, which appeared in
the Communist Party newspaper Pravda,
deplorable and said Secretary of State Cy
rus R. Vance conveyed this message per
sonally to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin.
Carter said the Soviets appear to have a
two-track policy toward the Iranian situa
tion. He noted the Pravda editorial con
trasts with the "positive and constructive
steps" the Soviets have takn in support of
the hostages in the United Nations Security
Council.
The Pravda editorial said the United
States has decided to "intensify the crisis
and turn it into one of the most serious in
ternational conflicts of the, post-war era.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the State
Department's- Iran task force, George
Havens, said U.S. officials were aware of
rumors that several of the hostages in Teh
ran had been executed.
But, he emphasized, "We have no in
formation that would in any way substan
tiate this report. Rumors of this nature
have been circulating" for a number of
days." . i v" i
phal, who helped resolve the cease-fire dis
pute, told The Associated Press of the
accord after Patriotic Front leaders Joshua
Nkomo and Robert Mugabe met with Car
rington for an hour.
Carrington, chairman of the peace talks,
said a British governor, whom he did not
identify, would be traveling to Salisbury in
the next few days to take power during a
transition period for free, internationally
recognized elections.
Female excommunicated
WASHINGTON-Feminist Sonia John
son, whose family has been in the Mormon
Church for five generations, was excom
municated . from the church Tuesday be
cause of her campaign for the Equal Rights
Amendment.
"The verdict is excommunication,' Mrs.
Johnson said in a telephone interview. She
said she would make no further comment .
until probably Thursday.
'Flirty fishing' advocated
NEW YORK-the latest summary of
teachings circulated by the "Children of
God" details its recommended use of sex
to lure recruits. '
"Flirty fishing," it has been, called, by .
the leader of the widely dispersed group,
David Berg, known to his followers as
?'Moses David," "Father David," or "Mo,"
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LONDON-Britain, the Zimbabwe
Rhodesian government and the guerrillas
fighting it reached agreement Wednesday
on a cease-fire, British Foreign Secretary.
Lord Carrington announced, clearing the
f way for election and an end. to seven years
of war. ,
' Carrington, spoke to reporters after a 15
minutes session with representatives of the
Patriotic Front guerrilla forces and dele
gates of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's
Salisbury government.
He said some details of a cease-fire
agreement remained to be worked out but
he hoped the momentum could be main
tained to wind up the 13-week-old confer
ence within the next few days.
Earlier, a spokesman for Common
wealth Secretary-General Shridath Ram-
"So sometimes we have to satisfy that
appetite to prove to them that we really
care and we're concerned and that we love
them."
The advice is part of a new compilation
of Berg's "love letters" currently mailed to
possible recruits, seeking to enlist them as
members with pledgesof a 10 percent tithe
of income, a $10 montly or other regular
contribution.
The group, founded by Berg in Califor
nia in 1968, is now scattered in 70 coun
tries, according to a recent study by the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,
and currently claims 8,000 young people
belong.
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