WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 1979 (UPI) - President Carter has no intention of asking the ailing shah to leave the United States as a means of freeing American hostages in Iran, a White House official emphasized today.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 1979 (UPI) - President Carter today demanded the immediate release of all U.S hostages in Iran and warned that putting them on trial as spies would further fire "worldwide outrage."

The families of the three hostages released early today from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran greeted the news with relief and joy, but also with thoughts of hope for other Americans still held captive.

The following seeks to answer major questions on the crisis affecting the United States in Moslem countries.

TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 6, 1979 (UPI) - Tens of thousands of demonstrators seized a provincial radio station today in the first major outbreak of domestic opposition to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, reports reaching Tehran said.

TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 27, 1979 (UPI) - Afghanistan President Hafizullah Amin was overthrown Thursday in a bloodless coup staged by his old-time political foe, Babrak Karmal, Iran's official Pars news agency said, quoting Radio Kabul.The coup followed a Christmas Day airlift of thousands of Soviet troops to Kabul, capital of neighboring Afghanistan. The troop deployment was reported by State Department officials in Washington on Wednesday and strongly criticized as "blatant military interference."

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28, 1979 (UPI) - The United States Friday protested to the Soviet Union over Russia's military involvement in the Afghan coup, calling it unjustified and warning it will have "serious implications" for future U.S.-Soviet relations.State Department spokesman Thomas Reston said Soviet troops, backed by armored personnel carriers, took part in the five hours of street fighting in the Afghan capital of Kabul Thursday night, specifically in the vicinity of Radio Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 1979 (UPI) -- Administration officials believe that one effect of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan will be widespread outrage in the Moslem world -- including the 15 million Moslems in the Soviet Union.President Carter, in denouncing the Soviet intervention Friday, compared it to Hungary in 1956 and the crushing of the Prague Spring of 1968, but he pointedly added that this was the first Soviet action against a Moslem state since 1941, when the Soviet Union militarily occupied Iranian Azerbaijan.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 1979 (UPI) - President Carter used the White House hot line to the Kremlin Friday to deliver a blunt warning to Soviet President Leonid Breszhnev: Get out of Afghanistan or face "very serious consequences," it was learned Saturday.Carter was said to have received "convincing, if not conclusive" evidence of a large-scale Soviet military drive across the border toward the Afghan capital of Kabul.

NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 29, 1979 (UPI) - Afghanistan's 2-day-old Soviet-backed regime that seized power in a military coup claimed Saturday it is in "total control" of the country. Soviet soldiers patrolled the streets of Kabul, the capital, Afghan rebel sDiplomats in New Delhi said the coup which brought Moscow prot

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan set off a chorus of angry protests from the United States and its Western allies Monday. China called in Moscow's ambassador to protest what it called a threat to its own security and world peace.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 31, 1979 (UPI) -- Travelers returning from Kabul said Monday that major fighting has broken out in the capital between Soviet and Afghan troops.The Press Trust of India, quoting reports from Kabul, said Soviet troops suffered 250 casualties in fighting last Thursday that led to the overthrow and death of former President Hafizullah Amin in a Russian-backed coup.