LONDON ee PARIS e MOSCOW e RIODEJANEIRO e PEKING e NEW DELHI e@ DJAKARTA ° ae LEFT CALLS FOR ELECTIONS Greece—Palace plot against democracy Greece has once again be- come a volcano. In Athens, in Salonica, in Piraeus; Patras, Crete, everywhere spontaneous, huge demonstrations are taking place demanding the immediate dismissal of the government appointed by King Constantine. They want new elections, or the return to power of Premier Papandreau, who was compelled by the king to resign. Greece’s -United Democratic Left Party (EDA) calls for im- mediate elections as “the sole legal way out of the crisis.” The Greeks have évery rea- son to seethe with anger. They have every reason to fight with everything they have. got in order to protect their de- mocratic rights. The royal court, the Americans, the Right Wing and the fascist army generals, using the young king as their tool, staged a coup d’etat which could lead to the restoration of than that. It expects that the new Novas administration will try to “settle” the Cyprus prob- lem in discussions with Ankara, according to British, American and Turkish wishes. Such a settlement would pro- fascism in Greece. Naturally the Americans are supporting the plotters. Not long ago the Athens press re- ported that King Constantine had promised Washington to send a contingent of Greek troops to South Vietnam. Papandreou, when asked, did not deny the report. Washing- ton expects that the new gov- ernment will try to carry out the king’s promise. But Washington expects more vide for a Turkish and a nu- clear NATO base in Cyprus un- der the cloak of a sham union of the island with Greece. Such a “solution” however has been rejected time and again -by the people of Cyprus who do not want any Turkish or NATO base in their island even if such a “solution” is masquerading as Enosis. The United Democratic Left Party statement that “the legal government has been over- around the world PREMIER Kim I] Sung of North Korea told a Cuban journal- ist: “The basic obstacle to the unification of Korea is the U.S. im- perialists’ occupation of South Korea and their policy of interfer- ence in the internal affairs of Korea.” . . . When the Second World War ended most of Budapest’s primary schools were destroyed and only 100,000 pupils were attending classes. Today the Hungarian capital has 325 primary schools with 3,800 classrooms and more than 204,000 pupils . . . Bulgaria has 8,575 public libraries, of which 5,556 are in the villages, and their total stock of books amounts to 30 million volumes. * * * AT RECENT parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia, the new constitutional principle of compulsory replacement of deputies was put into practice for the first time. The deputies to the various assemblies — federal, republican, regional, district and communal — are elected for a four-year term, half the number being replaced every two years. No deputy may serve two consecutive terms... Dangerous secrets of thalidomide were first disclosed by a young Russian scientist, Lusyena Filippova. As a geneticist she became interested in thalidomide because of its dreadful effect on the hu- man foetus. She conducted painstaking research and found that thalidomide is dangerous not only to those who take it, but also to people who come in contact with this substance when it is pre- pared and packed. : * * * ONE PINCH of a new drug, about as much as would cover the head of a pin, is all that is needed to make an infuriated rhinoceros behave as gently as Mary’s little lamb, according to Dr. A. M. Har- thoorn of the University of East Africa. The drug is injected by dart guns . . . Rose-growing solicitor in England, George Vaughan, was awarded "$6,000 damages for road accident injuries which im- ‘paired his ability to smell his blooms. thrown and a puppet govern- ment put in,” added that “the country has entered on a period of open deviation from the con- stitutional order and the nor- mal democratic process.” The statement pointed out that the situation was made possible by the policy of com- promise of ex-Premier Papan- dreou’s Centre Union, “by its refusal to base itself- on the people, and the unity of the de- mocratic forces, by its failure to carry out the mandate of the people for the restoration of de- mocracy.” The General Confederation of Labor conducted a 24-hour General Strike in defense of democratic institutions. Hundreds of people were in- jured in street battles in Athens and other cities as mass pro- test demonstrations grew in size from day to day. Every- where in Greece the people are showing determined opposition to King Constantine’s attempt to “turn back the clock 30 years.” ‘MAN CAN END HUNGER -SNOW There is enough - scientific knowledge in the world to re- move hunger, brute labor and premature death from Africa, ‘Asia and Latin America — two- thirds of the world’s population — said Lord Snow in London. Lord Snow, parliamentary “secretary to the Ministry of Technology, was speaking to 500 science students from °30 countries, attending the seventh London International Science Fortnight. 4 Removal of the grosser mi- series of life “is the greatest task of your generation,’ he said. Youth iti Citizens in the ancient city of Athens (above) and in other i and towns in Greece are demonstrating against King Cons i new puppet government and demanding immediate elections return to office of ex-Premier Papandreou. Profits are fat’ for U.S. in Vietnam information corporate nee Up-to-date some U.S. ‘ments in South Vietnam is given in Business Week. Under the heading “Big Lure” it reports that the investor can “expect profits from 20 percent to 30 percent a year in a wide range of industries.” These fat profits are safe- guarded by a division of the U.S. government called the Agency for International Deve- lopment. It “guarantees U.S. in- -vestors against the risk of loss revolution, civil or: cur- through war, unrest, expropriation, _rency incosvertibility.” Some of the companies men- ‘tioned are Standard Oil of New Jersey, Caltex (a combination of “Standard Oil of California and Texaco, Inc.) and Shell Oil Co. Together these three big oil Undaunted by U.S. escalation of its aggressive war against Vietnam, young patriots in South Vietnam are joining the Liberation Army and taking to the paddy fields to step up guerilla warfare against the foreign invaders. Photo shows villagers cheering new recruits. A August 13, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PO9? ‘concerns “are negoiti / ‘up a jointly-owned anty Trust Co, “is xen) participate in the ac ed companies are Johns? the Saigon government 9 ill refinery.” Their sales, of iit are primarily to the U.- oi ry machine, and Morga? the deal goes through. Other U.S. taxpayer in national Corp., tl vie “new venture” called V} rv American Textile C0 Aa pis which | and Whittemore, whic? jjqit million - dollar pape! Brownell Lane, which local distributor of &% ey ing equipment for Ale ers Mfg. Co.; ° the ob Trading Co., which Bet tractors made by In i es Harvester Co., and on Dairies which has put into a milk plant. ug All this is consider, i ting in on the ground ae cash in economically “i ; ioped-for effects of as appropriations Congress! of ed to the Pentagon lators. All of these millions ie lions out of U.S. o Oa pockets are intende 30 td 0 those 20 percent t for st t investments secure ei it ard Oil, Caltex and t nat! ciates in the military? complex. The munitions manvl aca and aircraft makers # a ‘nl group of Vietnam até 5 ciaries. And still an0 ie ‘ae local profiteers. Part 4 i millions being pu wh *y South Vietnam every, 0! ing pumped out agail: inf th native rich are se? mo money abroad: a ae et f Saigon says, “Capital overseas bank aC Oe 6 known to be treme?