Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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Lines at the Pumps Again? A threat of fuel curbs and Sunday closings in April if. A bumpy stretch of gasoline shortages and substantially higher prices may well be lurking just around the bend for American motorists. That was the mes- sage coming from Washington and the nation ' s oil industry last week. The threat of scarcities is being raised by the poUt- ical upheaval in Iran, which has virtu- ally shut down that country ' s vast oil- fields and is reducing supplies worldwide. Last week Energy Secretary James Schle- singer warned that unless Iran ' s wells are pumping again by April 1 — which is unlikely, given the complexity of the job of resuming production even if the po- litical crisis is soon resolved — the Ad- ministration wiU have to take steps to clamp mandatory restraints on U.S. gas- oline and oil consumption. Until now the Administration has giv- en the impression that the U.S. could ride out the loss of Iranian oil without man- datory cutbacks imtil late spring or sum- mer. The 900,000 bbl.-a-day shortfall in crude supplies resulting from the Iranian shutdown has so far been made up by in- creasing imports from other coim tries and drawing down domestic reserves. But Schlesinger said that the Government would move more quickly than expected to cut consumption so that stockpiles for next winter can be replenished over the spring and simuner. Schlesinger reported that his depart- ment is preparing a variety of measures to curb demand after April 1 if such moves become necessary. The most likely step: limiting the crude oil and gasoline made available to refiners and dealers. Anoth- er possibiUty is the mandatory closing of Cars lined up for gas during 1974 crisis; below: ominous sign of new scarcity Jacks Adds 100th Win to Golden Era ir Kreslcin Unveils ESP Mystique The Price of Stormy Petrol

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STATE CHAMPS AGAIN??? I CN o E U Q. M O E E o O u 0. 00 c o u o GunSy Death and Chaos Amid the fallout from revolution, the U.S. evacuates Iran The f!rapi ' s are not yet ripe And the people are already drunk on the wine. — Ancient Persian saying A revolution was spinning out of con- trol. With nonviolent protests and uncommon discipline, the peo- ' pie of Iran had ended the tyr- anny of the Shah. Their reward was not freedom but chaos, as the forces united around Ayatullah Ruhollah Kho- meini last week showed the first dread signs of schism. Suddenly, guns were everywhere, in every hand, as self-styled freedom fighters liber- ated weapons from police stations and army barracks In Tehran. Ta- briz and other cities, sporadic fight- ing raised the death toll for the week to an estimated 1,500. A bewildering motley of forces was involved: troops loyal to the Shah, ethnic separatists, mojahedeen (literally crusaders) who backed the new government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, and, om- inously. Marxist fedayeen (sacrific- ers) who felt that the revolution had not moved far enough to the left- Out from the underground and initially bringing with them arms supplied by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Marxists were pri- marily responsible for an ugly outburst of anti-Americanism, long latent in Iran but never before so vi- ciously expressed. At midweek, left- ist gunmen attacked the U.S. embas- sy in downtown Tehran (see following pages), taking 70 American prison- ers, killing one Iranian employee and injuring two Marines, One of the pris- oners was Ambassador William Sul- livan. Forces loyal to Khomeini were able to lift the siege after two hours, together for very long. But neither was it expected that the Marxists, well disci- plined and well armed, would emerge so soon as a challenge to Iran ' s provisional government. It was plain from the begin- ning that the Marxists had aims that dif- fered sharply from those of the fervent Shi ' ile mullahs and their followers. But the speed and efficiency with which the Marxists moved last week raised questions about the ability of Kht Bodies of Iranian generals executed by firing squad but the Carter Administration (as Seemingly at variance with Khomeini ' s ideals. well as the British and several other Western governments) concluded that the lives of foreigners in Iran could no longer be protected. On Friday, in the first stage of an exodus from anarchy, a Pan Amer- ican 707 flew from Tehran ' s Mehrabad Airport to Frankfurt and New York with 151 people aboard. On Saturday, under tight security provided by the Khomeini regime, chartered Pan Am 747s began the full-scale evacuation of Americans to Frankfurt and Rome. No one seriously expected that the co- alition of disparate forces that backed Khomeini ' s revolution would hold solidly and Bazargan to hold on to the reins of revolution. When armed units of the two forces clashed during the assault on the American embassy, the split seemed as loud and decisive as the crack of a Ka- lashnikov rifle. The fissures appeared shortly after the collapse, on Sunday. Feb, II, of the 45- day-old government of Shahpour Bakh- tiar, who had been appointed Prime Min- ister by the Shah. Following a bloody weekend of fighting between units of the Imperial Guard and pro-Khomeini air- men and armed civilians at Doshan Tap- peh airbase in eastern Tehran, the army supreme command abruptly announced that it would withdraw its troops and give full support to the wishes of the people. The army had been Bakhtiar ' s last prop; he resigned, as did the members of parliament. The army ' s surrender to the rev- ulution signaled not truce but further hloodshed. On the next day, Kho- memi forces attacked the Lavizan barracks in northeastern Tehran, home of the crack Javidan guards, killing the commander and many of his troops. Using acetylene torches, the attackers cut their way through electrically locked doors to free pris- oners at Evin. a jail run by the hated SAVAK secret police. There the lib- erators found electric whips, torture beds and other interrogation devices that justified many of the atrocity charges long leveled at SAVak. Also attacked was the Shah ' s principal residence in north Tehran. Niavaran Palace. Dispirited Imperial Guards on duty there capitulated without a fight. In the confusion that followed, revolutionary forces entered police armories and military barracks and seized weapons. Soon thousands of ci- vilians, including teen-agers and even children, were armed with ma- chine guns, rifles and handguns. Doz- ens were killed as they fumbled with unfamiliar clips and bolts. Zealous militants set up classes in weaponry at Tehran University. Captured army trucks filled with newly armed youths went careening through the city. When a woman supervisor of a Tehran orphanage told her young charges to get rid of their guns before they got huri, one boy snapped, Why should we hand them over to the mullahs? Even the Koranic protection that has always shielded Muslim holy men from attack was shattered as discipUne broke down. When a mullah and his armed companion attempted to disarm several youths near the Shahyad monument in Tehran, the mullah was shot to death. Some leftist guerrillas even attacked mosques, a sacrilegious act that would have been unthinkable a few days earlier. 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