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Asbury Park June 21, 1981 A8 Iranians battling in BEIRUT, Lebanon Thousands of Iranians battled on Tehran's main streets guns, iron bars, clubs and rocks yes-: terday after Parliament began debate on impeaching President Abolhassan BaniSadr, who has disappeared. Hospitals reported 10 dead and 70 wounded, but witnesses estimated up to 30 killed and 200 injured. Iran's Revolutionary Guards declared a 24-hour "full red alert" to put down what the official Pars news agency called a "revolt." It said "counter revolutionaries" supporting Bani-Sadr were trying to destroy the Islamic revolutionary regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Associated Press Bani-Sadr was reported moving from one hideout to another in the capital to avoid arrest by Revolutionary Guards. A WITNESS in Tehran contacted by The A Associated Press from Beirut said three leftist pro-Bani-Sadr groups began demonstrating in various sections of the Iranian capital about 4 p.m.

and that the clashes continued on a sporadic basis for four hours. The witness, who declined to be identified, said pro-clergy hardliners numbering about 3,000 and armed with clubs, iron bars, and stones, battled an equally large group of leftists marching near the main throughfares of Mossadegh and Fatemi streets. Audit of jobless funds reveals millions lost The Associated Press The unit, announced two weeks ago by Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, was created to upTRENTON State Attorney General hold the "fiscal integrity" of government James Zazzali has ordered a review of New programs and see whether they are operatunemployment compensation and ing efficiently and "free from either misdisability funds after a state audit revealed management or corruption," said Zazzali.

$100 million was lost during the past 30 Labor and Industry Commissioner John years. Horn, whose department administers Two state audits of the funds said unemployment compensation and disability "horse and buggy" accounting methods led funds, was not available to comment on to the loss of millions of dollars in taxpay- the review. ers' money. But department spokeswoman Susan "On the surface of the state audits, Zambito said yesterday, "'We believe any there does not appear to be any criminal- review conducted by the attorney general ity," Thomas Cannon, a spokesman for will reveal the same thing the commissionZazzali, said yesterday. er has been saying.

"This goes back about 30 years," he "We have auditing problems, but there said. has been no mismanagement of A review of the audits will be conduct- Zazzali said Friday the audits showed ed "as soon as we can" in conjunction with some employers might have failed to make the accounting firm of Touche Ross and required contributions to the funds and the the state treasury department, he said. department might have failed to pursue Zazzali said Friday that he has refer- those employers. red the audits to the new internal fraud The attorney general said he asked. the control unit in the state Division of Crimi- fraud unit "to determine whether the denal Justice for a "review to determine partment can employ civil or criminal what further action, if any, should be remedies against those employers who fail taken." to make payments to the funds.

Unlicensed driver killed, passenger hurt in crash TINTON FALLS A 16-year-old unlicensed Wall Township youth was killed early yesterday when the car he was driving went off Shark River Road and crashed into a tree. Kurt Smedburg of the West Belmar section of Wall was pronounced dead at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune, police said. He and his passenger, Charles Jenners, also of Wall, were taken to the hospital by Hamilton First Aid Squad. Jenners was reported in critical condition last night after undergoing surgery, according to a hospital spokesman Smedburg did not have a driver's license, police said. In New Jersey a person must be at least 17 years old to obtain a driver's license, said Detective Sgt.

Melvin McKeller, who is in charge of the investi- Smedburg was driving east on Shark River Road and failed to negotiate a curve on the road when his car left the road and crashed just after midnight, police said. Sgt. LaDean White is assisting in the investigation. Smedberg would have been a junior at Wall Township High School in the fall. He was a member of the school's varsity wrestling and football teams and a communicant of St.

Rose Roman Catholic Church, Belmar. He is survived by his parents, Robert, Lake Hiawatha, and Dolores, Wall Township; two brothers, Richard and Robert, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township; two sisters, Nancy Smedberg, Wall, and Kim Smedberg, Parsippany. The Reilly Funeral Home, Belmar, is gation. in charge of arrangements. I hurt as car hits rail, overturns DOVER TOWNSHIP One person was injured yesterday morning when the car in which he was a passenger turned over after striking a guard rail.

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THE CONFRONTATION tapered off after the tear gas was fired. But clashes elsewhere in the city were reported continuing into the night, although less intense than the afternoon battles. A statement from the Revolutionary broadcast by Tehran Radio said a 24-hour alert had been declared. It accused the Mujahedeen Khalq, or leftist people's guerrillas, of joining "other counter-revolu- the capital since Tehran's revolutionary tionary groups to counter Islam and prosecutor, Assadollah Lajavardi, declared the Koran in an armed authorities lost track of him Tuesday. Observers in Tehran have been expect- Another unidentified caller, saying be ing anti-government riots if Bani-Sadr's was acting as spokesman for Bani-Sadr, impeachment process got under way be- telephoned major news organizations cause the president and his supporters Tehran and denied the president had fled have no other outlet for protest.

the country, Turkey's semi- -official Anatolia Their newspapers have been closed and news agency reported. they were afraid to go to Parliament yes- "President Bani-Sadr has no intention terday to defend Bani-Sadr because of pro- of leaving his country. I can't give my Khomeini demonstrations demanding Bani- name nor my telephone number because it Sadr's death, according to the Tehran ob- would cause me great danger. In the future servers. I shall be the spokesman for the president.

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