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Show Page 4 Thursday, January 25, 1979 ' ' j WM STOI OT "EFflSK INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran The embattled government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar received confirmation of support from Iran's military leader Monday but a political leader resigned under pressure from anti-shah forces. In an unprecedented radio appeal, Gen. Abbas Ab-bas Gharabaghi, military chief of staff, called on his troops to "overcome their sentiments" for Moslem religious leaders and defend the new government. Previously, Charabaghi told reporters the 430,000-man armed forces are firmly supporting the Bakhtiar government despite the challenge by anti-shah leader Ayatullah Khomeini. As new political violence erupted in various provinces, Jalal Tehrani, the head of the Regency Council left to act in the shah's absence, resigned his post at the urging of Khomeini. Khomeini, who from his Paris exile, organized the forced exit of the shah is expected expec-ted to return to Iran on Friday. The religious leader told the Iranian people he will build an Islamic republic and directly challenge the Bakhtiar government. Bangkok, Thailand Guerrilla warfare flared near Phnom Penh on Monday as Cambodian loyalists fought with Vietnamese invaders and Cambodian rebels, according to "reliable sources." After establishing a new government in Phnom Penh on January 7, the rebels claimed they controlled the entire country. But sources in Bangkok said troops loyal to Cambodian Premier Pol Pot continue to fight. Beirut, Lebanon Abu Hassan, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's top personal aide, was killed Monday when a bomb exploded near his car. Four bodyguards also died in the blast and several bystanders were killed or injured. Israel has claimed Abu Hassan was the mastermind behind the "Munich Masscre" at the 1972 Olympics and he was reported to be one of Israel's most wanted criminals. Palestinian sources said a radio-controlled bomb was triggered as Abu Hassan and his bodyguards drove through central Beirut. Hong Kong More than 1,100 Vietnamese refugees were allowed to leave a rusted freighter and enter Hong Kong during the weekend. On Saturday, 372 refugees left the old Huey Fong and came ashore after almost a month at sea. They were followed on Sunday by 1,046 evacuees, leaving about 2,000 still aboard the tramp freighter. London "Never in our history have we been so close to total anarchy," said Opposition Member of Parliament George Gardiner. Britian is staggering under a wave of crippling crip-pling strikes and despite a series of negotiations, things seem destined to get worse. The strikes came in response to government attempts at-tempts to impose wage increases and one industrial in-dustrial expert predicted, "you have not seen the half of it yet." Having already experienced panic food buying in the wake of a truckers' strike, Britons now face the possibility of a transportation shutdown, school and hospital closings and no more garbage pickups. Tel Aviv, Israel Two villages suspected as Palestinian guerrilla bases were attacked Friday by Israeli ground forces supported by artillery making their deepest penetration into Lebanese territory. Friday's invasion came as the United Nations Security Council debated whether to renew the mandate for about 6,000 U.N. forces stationed in southern Lebanon since June. The military action ac-tion prompted the council to extend the stay of the peace-keeping force for another five months. NATIONAL Washington A proposed national budget, which President Carter described as "Lean and austere," was met by criticism both from political parties Monday. Carter urged Congress to up defense spending and cut job programs in the $532 billion budget, which he said is designed to fight inflation. "Real sacrifices are to be made if we are to overcome inflation," the president said. "The budget asks the poor, the black, the sick, the young, the cities and the unemployed to bear a disproportionate share of the reductions," Sen. Edward Kennedy responded. On the Republican side, Sen. William Roth said, "To describe Carter's budget as lean is like looking at the package of bacon in the supermarket you don't see that fat until you open the package." Washington An estimated 60,000 persons marked the sixth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision striking down restrictive state abortion laws by marching past the White House and demanding an end to legal abortions. The "March for Life" demonstrators carried artificial roses and placards portraying a fetus nailed to a cross. When invited by the National Organization of Women (NOW) to "seek ways to lessen the need for abortions," Nellie Gray, March for Life president, responded, "I do not sit down and negotiate with babykillers." Jersey City, New Jersey Five children and two adults died Monday in the second tenement fire to hit New Jersey in three days. Forty persons have died in northern New Jersey Jer-sey fires in the past six weeks and police have launched a manhunt for an arsonist they believe may be carrying out a personal vendetta. vendet-ta. Louisville, Kentucky One man was killed and two other people were wounded Sunday when a football fan denied entrance to a tavern party during the Super Bowl returned that evening with a submachine gun and opened fire. About 20 to 25 people were reported to be in Kelley's Bar when Raymond Wilson fired "numerous" shots from a .45-caliber sub machine gun. New York Pluto is no longer the farthest planet from the sun. Astronomers at the Hayden Planetarium said Pluto's highly eliptical orbit has carried it inside in-side the nearly circular orbit of Neptune. At 4:58 p.m. EST Sunday both planets were 2.816 billion miles from the sun and Neptune will remain the outermost planet until March 1999, ' when Pluto's orbit carries it back outside Neptune's Nep-tune's orbit. Despite the intersecting orbits, astronomers say there is no chance of a collision. Washington John Mitchell, the last of 25 Watergate figures to enter prison, became the last to leave. On Friday Mitchell walked through the prison gates at Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, Mont-gomery, Alabama after 19 months in the slammer. Nashville, Tennessee Outgoing Tennessee governor Ray Blanton issued 52 pardons and commutations two days before being ousted from office and his successor, Gov. Lamar Alexander said last Thursday he probably won't be able to block the actions. Alexander took the oath of office three days ahead of schedule in a secret ceremony designed to keep Blanton from releasing more prisoners. 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