From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Headline News About Iran, Spet. 5th 1992.
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:59:19 GMT

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS
  2. KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS
  3. AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS
  4. GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS
  5. FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  6. ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE
  7. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT

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Matched keyword: AFGHANISTAN...

=START=   XMT: 11:23 Fri Sep 04  EXP: 11:00 Sat Sep 05 

UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS 

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (SEPT. 4) DPA - A government security campaign in Kabul
largely confined the controversial Uzbek militia barracks Friday, the Afghan
Islamic Press (AIP) reported. 

AIP said the campaign to disarm unauthorised mujahedin and to control the
militia brought relief to the harassed citizens of the war-ravaged Afghan
capital. 

However, dissident leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizbe Islami party insisted the
militia should have been withdrawn from the capital in the accordance with its
ceasefire agreement of August 29 with the government. 

Afghan Prime Minister Abdul Saboor Farid said at a Hizbe base south of Kabul
Friday that his party would ''review its policy'' if the terms of the agreement
were not honoured. 

Farid, who had left Kabul on a foreign tour just before his party launched
ferocious rocket attacks on Kabul early August, challenged Afghan President
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Burhanuddin Rabbani's authority to expel Hizbe Islami and Hekmatyar from
Afghanistan's Leadership Council and said he was still prime minister. 

Meanwhile Rabbani has put off his visit to Pakistan. He was to stay for a day
in Islamabad Saturday on his way home from the Jakarta summit conference of the
Non-Aligned Movement, but has now informed Pakistan he would be going home
straight because of the flooding in his country. 

Up to 3,000 people are reported missing in the flash floods caused in Panjshir
and Gulbahar valleys in the Hindukush range in northeastern Afghanistan
following heavy rains early this week. 

Only 50 bodies have been recovered so far, according to Kabul officials. 

AIP reported government planes repeatedly bombed the Hekmatyar-held Shindand
airbase in western Afghanistan for the second day Friday, causing unspecified
damage. 

AIP also said an important Hekmatyar commander, Mohammad Deedar, was killed
Thursday when his helicopter crashed against Kurogh mountain on a surveillance
mission over Chahar Dehi area northwest of Kabul. 

A Sunni fundamentalist Afghan leader, Abdul Rab Rasool Sayaf, held talks with
Hekmatyar at a Hizbe base south of Kabul Thursday. 

AIP said Sayaf pledged the support of his Ittehad Islami group to Hekmatyar's
demand for the removal of the Uzbek militia from Kabul. 

Ittehad Islami has fought several battles in Kabul with the Shiite Hizbe Wahdat
group, an ally of the government, in the past. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS
  2. KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS
  3. AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS
  4. GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS
  5. FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  6. ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE
  7. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT

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=START=   XMT: 09:53 Sat Sep 05  EXP: 10:00 Sun Sep 06 

KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS 

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (SEPT. 5) DPA - Government forces clearing Kabul of
unauthorised armed groups Saturday evicted militia units from several places,
the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported. 

Removal of the formerly communist militias was at the centre of the ceasefire
that ended three weeks of fighting in the Afghan capital between the government
and dissident leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on August 29. 

AIP said officers of the 70th Division militia, commanded by General Abdul
Momin, cooperated in evicting their men from its base in Wazir Akbar Khan
district. 

Militia units being taken out of the city would be deployed on the outskirts,
the mujahedin-run agency said. 

Militiamen have largely remained confined to their barracks since forces loyal
to Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masood started a campaign Thursday to remove
roving factional fighters from Kabul and to seize illegal arms. 
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Unlike the past two days when the forces destroyed three armoured vehicles of
allied militias for trying to escape security checks, no incident was reported
Saturday. 

Meanwhile, Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani returned to Kabul Saturday
after attending the non-aligned summit in Jakarta. 

AIP said his plane landed at Kabul airport which Rabbani had not been able to
use for his outward journey to Jakarta. The badly damaged airport was reopened
to civilian traffic earlier this week by the Afghan mediators who brought about
the ceasefire agreement. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS
  2. KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS
  3. AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS
  4. GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS
  5. FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  6. ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE
  7. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT

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=START=   XMT: 13:32 Fri Sep 04  EXP: 13:00 Sat Sep 05 

AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS 

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (SEPT. 4) UPI - Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani
canceled Friday a scheduled visit to Pakistan because of flash floods that
swept away entire villages in mountain valleys of northern Afghanistan, a
government spokesman said. 

Radio Kabul said Friday rescue workers were only able to recover 50 bodies as
''the floods had scattered the bodies in a vast area.'' About 3,000 people were
missing and government officials in Kabul said they feared most of them might
have died. 

Rabbani was in Indonesia to attend a summit meeting of the non- aligned
movement and had planned to visit Islamabad Saturday on a one- day official
visit. However, he sent a message to Pakistan from Jakarta saying he would go
straight home ''because of the disaster,'' the spokesman said. 

President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have sent messages
of sympathy to Rabbani and asked what relief aid he needs from Pakistan. 

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Pakistan was sending food and medicine to northern Afghanistan and would send
more after consulting the Afghan government, the spokesman said. 

The floods destroyed scores of villages Wednesday in the northern province of
Parawan-Kapisa on the foothills of the Hindukush mountains. 

Kabul Radio said torrential rains caused flash floods in the Ghorbund and
adjacent rivers in an area which is the junction of three rivers and several
tributaries. At some places the waves were as high as 30 feet. 

The worst affected were the Gulbahar, Panjsheer and Salang districts. British
mine-clearance experts working near Gulbahar, about 55 miles north of Kabul
said several places in the three valleys had been swept clean of human
existence. 

Most of the affected villages were populated by the refugees returning from
Pakistan who had just completed rebuilding their homes destroyed by 14 years of
war. 

Kabul Radio read a government statement appealing to the United Nations and the
international community to ''help generously to rescue the flood victims and
for their rehabilitation.'' 

Despite the disaster, the government and rebel troops of the dissident Hizbe
Islami party continued to accuse each other of violating a 6-day-old
cease-fire. The truce, which took affect Saturday, had suspended more than two
weeks of fierce fighting that left about 2,000 people dead in Kabul. 

The Hizbe-run Afghan news agency said government planes bombed its positions at
the Shindand airbase for the second day Friday. 

The government also accused Hizbe Islami of violating the cease-fire and firing
rockets and heavy artillery at government troops. 

The Hizbe Islami said one of its senior commanders, Deedar Khan, was killed in
a helicopter crash Friday near the Korgun mountain about 10 miles west of
Kabul. The crash, the party said, was caused by technical faults. 

Meanwhile, Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf, one of the 10 main mujahideen leaders, met
the Hizbe chief Gulbadin Hekmatyar at his base south of Kabul Friday and
supported his demand for the expulsion of all former communist militia forces
from the capital, the Afghan news agency said. 

Hekmatyar, who signed a peace accord with Rabbani on condition he would evict
the militia from Kabul, is now trying to expand his support base. He wants
other mujahideen groups to join him in evicting the militia if Rabbani fails to
do so. 

The militia had fought for the Soviet-backed government against Muslim rebels
during Afghanistan's civil war. Soviet troops helped prop up the government for
nearly 10 years before withdrawing in 1989. The government of President
Najibullah survived until this year, when it collapsed in the face of rebel
advances. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS
  2. KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS
  3. AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS
  4. GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS
  5. FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  6. ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE
  7. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT

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=START=   XMT: 11:53 Fri Sep 04  EXP: 12:00 Sat Sep 05 

GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS 

BERLIN (SEPT. 4) DPA - Police reinforcements were being sent to east Germany
Friday with indications that a fresh wave of attacks on refugee hostels was
being planned for the weekend. 

Youths attacked with stones a refugee hostel in Eisenhuettenstadt, north of
Cottbus, late Thursday with hundreds of police dispersing them with water
cannon. 

In another incident at Luebben, south of Berlin, unknown assailants threw a
fire bomb at a hostel. The missile exploded before hitting the building and no
damage was done. 

Police banned a meeting Friday afternoon of the rightwing extremist German
Peoples Union (DVU) in Koenig Wusterhuasen, near Berlin, after leftist groups
had announced plans to break up the gathering. 

Police said they had information that attacks were being planned against
refugee hostels in the suburb of Hinrichshagen in the eastern port city of
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Rostock. Another attack was feared at a central refugee collection point in
Halberstadt and in Marienborn. 

German politicians meanwhile called for stronger measures against the
attackers. The leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), Otto Graf
Lambsdorff, said: ''The only place where they belong is prison''. 

Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Party (CDU) leadership
discussed at a meeting in Bad Honnef, near Bonn, ways of curbing the number of
asylum seekers in Germany and for stronger punishment for the use of violence
against refugees. 

CDU secretary-general Peter Hintze said the attacks were not only ''a scandal
for Germany'' but also violated fundamental human rights. 

A deputy leader of the opposition Social Democrats (SPD), Rudolf Dressler,
called for a ''crisis meeting'' with the chancellor including representatives
from major social groups to discuss measures for stopping the violence. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS
  2. KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS
  3. AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS
  4. GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS
  5. FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  6. ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE
  7. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT

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Matched keyword: IRAN...

=START=   XMT: 16:09 Fri Sep 04  EXP: 16:00 Tue Sep 08 

FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES 

NEW YORK (SEPT. 4) UPI - Foreign Exchange interbank buyer rates and foreign
currency equivalents, provided by Bloomberg Financial Markets and other
sources. Retail transactions provide fewer units of foreign currency per
dollar. 


                         U.S.$         currency 
                       Equivalent      per U.S.$ 
                      Fri     Thu     Fri     Thu 
 Argntn peso        1.0101  1.0101  0.9900  0.9900 
 Australia dlr       .7212   .7214  1.3866  1.3862 
 Austria schill      .1012   .1006  9.8795  9.9445 
 Belgium franc-c     .0344   .0343   29.03   29.12 
 Brazil cruzado    .000197 .000199 5082.00 5028.00 
 Britain pound      1.9960  1.9830   .5010   .5043 
 Britain 1-mo       1.9849  1.9724   .5038   .5070 
 Britain 3-mo       1.9619  1.9505   .5097   .5127 
 Britain 6-mo       1.9295  1.9199   .5183   .5209 
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 Canada dollar       .8346   .8356  1.1982  1.1968 
 Canada 1-mo         .8335   .8346  1.1998  1.1982 
 Canada 3-mo         .8317   .8328  1.2023  1.2008 
 Canada 6-mo         .8294   .8306  1.2057  1.2040 
 Chile peso-f      .002742 .002751  364.69  363.56 
 China yuan          .1840   .1840  5.4347  5.4347 
 Colombia peso     .001696 .001696  589.50  589.50 
 Denmark krne        .1839   .1826  5.4383  5.4771 
 Ecudr sucre-z     .000614 .000614 1628.00 1628.00 
 Egypt pound         .3002   .3002  3.3310  3.3310 
 Finlnd mrkka        .2562   .2562  3.9030  3.9025 
 France franc        .2097   .2078  4.7685  4.8125 
 France 1-mo         .2085   .2066  4.7962  4.8400 
 France 3-mo         .2061   .2042  4.8530  4.8962 
 France 6-mo         .2050   .2031  4.8790  4.9230 
 Greece drach      .005722 .005674  174.75  176.25 
 Hollnd guildr       .6331   .6277  1.5795  1.5931 
 HongKong dlr        .1294   .1294  7.7304  7.7292 
 India rupee         .0351   .0351   28.48   28.48 
 Indo'sa rupia     .000493 .000493 2029.01 2029.01 
 Iran rial           .0142   .0142   70.30   70.30 
 Iraq dinar         2.6546  2.6546  0.3767  0.3767 
 Ireland punt       1.8855  1.8920  0.5304  0.5285 
 Israel shekel       .4188   .4188  2.3878  2.3878 
 Italy lira        .000933 .000923 1071.50 1083.00 
 Japan yen         .008123 .008071  123.10  123.90 
 Japan 1-mo        .008116 .008066  123.21  123.98 
 Japan 3-mo        .008109 .008061  123.32  124.04 
 Japan 6-mo        .008104 .008059  123.40  123.26 
 Jordan dinar       1.5392  1.5392  0.6497  0.6497 
 Kuwait dinar       3.4305  3.4423  0.2915  0.2905 
 Lebanon pnd       .000418 .000418 2390.00 2390.00 
 Mexico peso-z     .000325 .000325 3076.25 3076.25 
 N.Zealand dlr       .5397   .5397  1.8529  1.8529 
 Norway krne         .1797   .1787  5.5633  5.5966 
 Pakistn rupee       .0401   .0401   24.95   24.95 
 Peru (new sol)      .7937   .7937  1.2600  1.2600 
 P'pnes peso-z       .0442   .0442   22.65   22.65 
 Portugl escud     .008133 .008052  122.95  124.20 
 Saudi riyal         .2666   .2666  3.7505  3.7505 
 Singapore dlr       .6258   .6262  1.5980  1.5970 
 S.Africa rand       .3639   .3638  2.7480  2.7490 
 S.Korea won       .001273 .001273  785.65  785.65 
 Spain peseta      .010948 .010923   91.34   91.55 
 Sweden krona        .1946   .1934  5.1400  5.1715 
 Switzrl franc       .7996   .7911  1.2507  1.2640 
 Switzrl 1-mo        .7962   .7881  1.2559  1.2689 
 Swirzrl 3-mo        .7898   .7821  1.2661  1.2786 
 Switzrl 6-mo        .7807   .7736  1.2809  1.2926 
 Taiwan dollar       .0403   .0403   24.84   24.84 
 Turkey lira       .000145 .000145 6894.00 6884.00 
 UAE dirham          .2723   .2723  3.6725  3.6725 
 Urug'y peso-z     .000310 .000310 3224.51 3224.51 
 Venez bolivr-z      .0148   .0149   67.42   67.28 
 Germany mark        .7135   .7075  1.4015  1.4135 
 Germany 1-mo        .7097   .7037  1.4091  1.4210 
 Germany 3-mo        .7020   .6964  1.4244  1.4360 
 Germany 6-mo        .6912   .6861  1.4467  1.4576 
 Yugosl dinar      .003158 .003158  316.62  316.62 
 c-Commercial; f-Financial; z-Floating; x-N. Y. Money Market. 
 Interbank Buyers Rates 
 Source: Bloomberg Financial Markets and other sources. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS
  2. KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS
  3. AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS
  4. GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS
  5. FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  6. ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE
  7. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT

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Matched keyword: IRAN...

=START=   XMT: 17:55 Fri Sep 04  EXP: 18:00 Sat Sep 05 

ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE 

LONDON (SEPT. 4) IPS - For five years, Deiane Smalley kept quiet, trusting
British justice to get her children back from Iran. 

When it failed she appealed to the politicians, to her local member of
parliament and eventually to the prime minister. The response was the same.
There was nothing the authorities could do. 

"All I can do is keep chipping away until someone listens," said Smalley,
employed as a secretary in the northwestern industrial town of Bolton. This
week she bought a book on Islamic law in the hope that it may provide an
answer. 

Her case is one of a growing problem. To coin a phrase, it's the "tug-of-love"
of children who span international borders. 

Increasing mobility, especially within Europe, produces more marriages of mixed
nationality. Divorces, which are on the rise, then result in bitter disputes
over custody. Often, this leads to abduction, most often by men, although not
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always. 

In 1986, the Lord Chancellor's department, the British body responsible both
for retrieving illegally abducted children from abroad and returning children
brought illegally to Britain, had only 16 cases on its books. By 1989 the
number had swelled to 110; by the end of last year, to 191. 

But there are even more. The London-based charity Reunite is dealing with 300
cases spanning more than 50 countries and this may represent slightly more than
half the overall total. 

"We believe that there are many abductions hidden within the Asian community
here because the women don't know how to come forward," says Reunite
coordinator Lucy Jaffe. "It is always the most vulnerable girls who become
victims." 

Despite the increasing attention focused on the problem in Britain, abduction
remains easy. "As always, the law lags behind social changes," said Jaffe. 

Earlier this year, the Yugoslav father of one-year-old Alexander Cracknell flew
his son to Belgrade within hours of a weekly visit allowed by the courts. "It
took the police 17 hours to establish he had actually left the country," said
Penny Cracknell. "If he was a Porsche it would be different..." 

The chances of children being returned depend largely on whether the country
they have been taken to is a signatory of The Hague convention which provides
for the return of children abducted from rightful custody. 

Membership stands at 24 and keeps creeping up steadily with recent new
signatories including Poland and Ecuador, but the Arab world is conspicuously
absent. "It is a Western convention," said a spokesperson for Regent's Park
mosque, "used only for the benefit of western nations -- like the United
Nations, like international law." 

In the experience of Reunite's Lucy Jaffe, the most intractable cases are those
in Islamic countries. Islam gives the father custody of a boy from the age of
nine, and a girl from age 11. "A non-Muslim woman will not stand much chance in
an Islamic court." 

But Sheik Ibrahim, imam of the Regent's Park mosque in London said that
"abduction is the most hated thing in Islam. It is not a crime, because the
husband probably believes he is doing it for the good of the children, but it
is a sin." 

Abduction, he says, cannot be justified even in the case of a mother who
refused to bring the children up as Muslims. "The father would have to go to
the courts, and the courts would have to hear the mother's side." 

Smalley's children have dual nationality, which, according to Britain's foreign
office means that her ex-husband is their legal guardian in Iran. The real
reason, she believes, is that her former husband's family has powerful
connections in the Iranian regime and can simply trample over the law. 

Smalley and Iranian Mohammed Reza Zaheri met when he was a business student in
Bolton. They married in Iran in 1978, the year of the revolution, and returned
to England four years later at a time when Zaheri was out of work. 

Daughter Yasaman was born in Tehran and their son Amir in England in 1983. As
their marriage deteriorated, Smalley said Zaheri took to drinking, became
violent and regularly beat her. In May, 1987, she fled to her mother's house.
At that point, the legal advice she was given set the scene for the abduction. 

Her solicitor advised her to stay with her mother and leave the children with
her husband while she started divorce proceedings. "Now I know It was the worst
thing to have done because my husband realized I would be given custody " she
said. "But I was terrified of what he might do to me." 

Three months later, when she went for her daily visit she found the house bare.
"I was numb, refusing to believe it yet knowing...He left only the children's
toys and a photograph of his grandfather, a theologian who had taught the
Ayatollah Khomeini...as if to tell me that I would never get them back." 

The last time Smalley was allowed to talk to her little girl on the telephone
was three years ago. Then, she said Yasaman told her, "Mummy, I've had enough
of this holiday, please come and get me." 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. UPDATE: AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY CONFINES UZBEK MILITIA BARRACKS
  2. KABUL BEING CLEARED OF MILITIA AS AFGHAN CEASEFIRE HOLDS
  3. AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI CANCELS VISIT TO PAKISTAN AS RAIN KILLS HUNDREDS
  4. GERMAN POLICE FEAR NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON REFUGEE HOSTELS
  5. FRIDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  6. ANALYSIS: BRITISH MOTHERS MOURN AS ABDUCTIONS OF CHILDREN INCREASE
  7. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT

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Matched keyword: TURKEY...

=START=   XMT: 09:37 Sat Sep 05  EXP: 10:00 Sun Sep 06 

FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT BLAMES BONN FOR ANTI-FOREIGNER SENTIMENT 

BONN, GERMANY (SEPT. 5) UPI - Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt blamed the Bonn
government Saturday for the violent and widespread anti-foreigner sentiment in
eastern Germany. 

In an interview with Cologne's Express daily, the former Social Democratic
chancellor said the government brought about the situation by creating a crisis
of expectancy in eastern Germany and by failing to stem the flood of foreign
refugees seeking political asylum in Germany. 

About 500,000 people are expected to enter Germany this year claiming asylum
under article 16 of the German Constitution, which guarantees refuge to anyone
fleeing political persecution. The authorities say the vast majority of
refugees are fleeing economic hardship, not political persecution. 

"Article 16 of the constitution does not state that we have to let in 500,000
people every year," Schmidt said. 

"No people would bear it if they had half a million people moving in, as is the
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case here," he said. 

He said foreigners are the scapegoats in economicaly ailing eastern Germany,
where people need jobs and optimism for a better future. 

Schmidt blamed Chancellor Helmut Kohl for creating false hopes and
disappointment in eastern Germany and for failing to pull the region out of its
economic quagmire. 

"This country is leaderless," he said. 

Police reported further overnight right-wing violence in eastern Germany.
Youths hurled firebombs and rocks at hostels for refugees in at least eight
eastern German cities. 

At least 18 people were arrested and later released. 

Herbert Helmrich, the justice minister of the eastern German state of
Mecklenburg Vorpommern, said in a radio interview that 338 suspected right-wing
attackers were under investigation and 32 were in prison in the federal state. 

Helmrich said the authorities were investigating claims that television crews
paid youths to give the "Heil Hitler" salute during recent riots in the Baltic
port city of Rostock and asked young girls to brandish batons and shout
"foreigners out." 

For several nights running thousands of Rostock residents, many of them baying
"foreigners out," shouted support for several hundred jackbooted neo-Nazis who
hurled firebombs at a hostel and led street fighting with police. 

Most of the attacks are directed against hostels housing refugees from Romania 
former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and other countries. The police also
reported several attacks against foreigners in the streets. At least nine
people have been killed in racially or ethnically motivated right-wing attacks
this year. 



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