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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Hanoi proposed Saturday that Vietnamese and Chinese negotiators open peace talks in the war-ravaged Vietnamese border town of Lang Son on Friday, five weeks after Chi- nese forces struck across the frontier to \punish\ Vietnam. Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-ping) said in Peking Saturday night that Chinese troops have \en- tirely\ withdrawn from Viet- nam. He spoke with reporters during an intermission at a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. But tens of thousands of Islamic Units® Acts - Restricted by Iranians TEHRAN, Tran (AP) - Tran's new leaders Saturday banned local Islamic revolu- tionary comtaittees from en- tering private homes without authorization and lifted the two-day-old censorship of tele- vision film and. news photo- graphs taken by foreign jour- nafsts, - > , Revolutionary leader Aya, tollah Ruhollah Khomeini on . Friday ordered a halt to sum- mary trials and executions, but other forms of \revolution ary Justice\ were still being ; carried out. . © mission from his office before * their own, had turned Iran's An unmarried couple caught havir@g sexual relations was publicly flogged in the Caspian Sea town of Amlash after re- fusing orders by revolutionary authorities to get married. She ,. got 100 lashes, he got 25. The ban on entering private and executions and mounting foreign criticism of the sum- mary courts. At least 63 persons are known to have been executed since the shah was deposed, in- cluding 13 generals and mer member of Parliament. Trial Suspended -' Last week former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida went before an Islamic court charged with 17 offenses. He faces death if convicted, but the trial has been temporarily suspended. According to news reports Saturday, a former driver for the chief of police in the city of Qum was executed Friday for killing anti-shah demonstra- tors. The sentence apparently was carried out only hours be- fore the ayatollah's orders on summary executions. Vietnamese were reported dig- ging new defense lines Satur- day on the border with China, and th the Laotian capftal of Vientiane thousands of Lao- tians reportedly marched to protest what they said were Chinese plans to take over their country. For the first time in the 34- day-old. Vietnam-China con- > flict, there were no reports of lighting. Hanoi's official radio, moni- tored in Tokyo, said the pro- posal was made to Lu Ming, Chinese ambassador to Viet- nam, by Nguyen Tien, director of the Chinese Affairs Depart- ment of Vietnam's foreign Min- istry. , The Chinese ambassador said he would convey the Viet- namese proposal to his govern- ment, the radio added. Week After Pallout ' The Vietnamese had ex- pressed willingness to open talks a week after the Chinese pulled back across the border. In Peking Saturday, Deng told American reporters, \When we made the &nnouncement on cessation of hostilities . . . we already had stated our cooper- ation to have negotiations.\ Vietnam did not mention fighting Saturday but said tens of thousands of soldiers and ci- villans were building a defense line along part of the border. Vietnamese boradcasts Vietnam Offers To Open Talks claimed that as late as Friday Chinese troops were commit- ting trocities and shelling areas qr Tuyen, Cao Bang and Lang Sor-provinces. Laotlans Protest In Vientiane, an.estimated 6,000 to 10,000 demonstrators marched through the streets carrying banners denouncing alleged Chinese attempts to overthrow their Vietnamese- dominated government. The demonstration followed more than a week of accusa- tions by Vietnam, the Soviet Union and Lacs that China was massing troops along its bor- der Laos and was infiltrating military units and spies into the small mountainous nation. Laos has ordered all Chinese aid personnel out of the coun- Reliable sources in Vient- fane, contacted by telephone from Bangkok, reported on the demonstration and said eight Chinese experts working. for the United Nations left Satur- day as a result of the expulsion order. It is estimated that thousands of Chinese special- ists, construction workers and other \'techniglans\' have worked on projécts i}: northern Lacs in recent yéars. Vietnam pledged anew Sa- turday fo support Laos and thwart attempts by China to \create a split\ among Viet- nam, Laos and Cambodia. = BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS, Sunday, March 18, 1979 ___ 'A-5 homes was imposed by Gen. Mehdi Hadavi, chief prosecu- tor of Tran's Islamic revolu- tionary court, and meshed with the orders by Khomeini that summary trials and executions cease pending establishment of new legal guidelines. Announcement in Press Hadavi, in an announcement carried in the Tehran press, said local revolutionary com- mittees now need special per- they can search private prem- ises. Since the revolutionaries took power last month, Islamic gunmen often have arbitrarily entered and searched homes on the pretext of seeking out counter-revolutionaries. The Interior Ministry called on people to inform revolution- ary committees of anyone who imposed on their \liberty or individual social rights.\ The new 'announcements were seen by observers as another move to restore order and mute criticisms from pro- visional Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan that Islamic revolu- tionary committees, acting qn \day into night.\ ' The Information Ministry announced Saturday that restrictions imposed Thurkday on television news filo «and news photographs had been scrapped by the Bazargan gov- ernment. Accused of Bias Deputy Prime Minister Ab- bas Amir-Entezam on Thurs- day accused the foreign media of bias against Iran's Islamic revolution and of distorting events in Tran. Khomeini, spiritual leader of the revolution that toppled Shah Mohammed Reza Pah- lavi, ordered Friday that all verdicts of revolutionary courts were subject to review in Tehran, and all sentences must be reviewed before being carried out. 1 The order followed protests by Bazargan over the trials Venezuela To Boost Oil Prices CARACAS (Reuter) - Vene- zuela announced Saturday that the price of its crude oll will rise by $1.72 a barrel on April 1. The fugure is $1.20 more than the increase decided by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for the second quarter of 1979, Energy and Mines Minister Humberto Calderon Berti told a news conference. OPEC agreed last December on a staggered 14.5 percent in- crease in the price of crude oil during the whole of 1979. 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