NEO-FASCIST PLOT AGAINST ALLENDE SANTIAGO — Popular Unity government officials have charged there is a plot afoot to topple Chile’s 30-month-old popular unity coalition government of President Salvador Allende. The charges follow raids on hideouts of the neo-fascist Fatherland and Freedom movement in which large quantities of arms and ammunitions were seized. More than 50 people were arrested during the raids in several cities after the government received repeated intelligence reports, according to interior ministry under-secretary Daniel Vergara. He said the arrested members of the right wing extremist movement were charged with possession of arms, which he described as ‘“‘il- legal and criminal conduct aimed at toppling the government through a coup d’etat and then unleashing a civil war.” ’72 EXEC SALARIES EXCEEDED PHASE II GUIDELINES NEW YORK (LNS) — According to recent Business Week statis- tics, top executives’ salaries for exceeded Phase II guidelines in 1972.-One of the biggest increases went to James F. Towey of Olin Corp., whose 1972 pay was $321,718 — an increase of 212.3 percent over 1971. Similarly, Henry Ford II’s salary for 1972 was $887,672 — a 27.4 percent increase over 1971. The Phase II ceiling was set at 5.5 percent. ‘ Corporate spokesman justify these increases by saying that as long as the average for the employee’s classification does not ex- ceed the Federal guidelines, individual increases can exceed the ceiling. According to that rationale, some executive must have a pretty big cut in salary. MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL PROFITS HUGE WASHINGTON—Some 131 firms raked in profits on net worth ranging as high as 1,902.7% even after they refunded large sums. to the government, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) charged in the Senate. He said that the firms which made the largest profits were engaged mainly in production of bombs, fuses, ammunition and miscellaneous ordinance for the war in Vietnam. The National Union Electric Corp., which was directed by the Defense Depart- ment’s Renegotiation Board to pay back $8.9 million to the govern- ment on its defense contracts in 1967, 1968 and 1969, still took in profits of 74, 72 and 91% on net worth in those years. . The largest profit was taken in by Eisen Brothers, Inc., a manu- facturer of ammunition components. It got 1,902.7% profits on its net worth. Return on net worth gives a truer picture of the rate of profit than measurement of profits as a percentage of annual sales, which results in a smaller figure. ‘ Some 94 companies had profit-on-net-worth rates of over 50%; 22, more than 200%; and four, more than 500%. Only four firms on the list took in less than 25% profits. Proxmire noted that ‘Federal statistics show that average profits on stockholders’ equity for all manufacturing firms ranges from 18 to 20% annually.” CPSU-LAO PATRIOTIC FRONT MEET HELD MOSCOW—“The Soviet Union, as it was in war, now in the days of peace will be on the side of the Laotian people in their just struggle to realize their national interests,” it was stated at a meeting in Moscow between delegations of the Laos Patriotic Front and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. _ A Tass news agency report said “On behalf of the Central Com- mittee of the LPF and the people of Laos, the LPF delegation ex- pressed deep gratitude to the CPSU Central Committee, the govern- ment of the USSR, and the Soviet people for their all-round and effective support to the just struggle of the Laotian patriots for na- tional independence, against the American imperialists.” In a joint communique, the LDF and CPSU urged the immediate termination of U.S. bombings of Cambodia and for allowing the Cambodian people the right to decide their own affairs. “I’m sorry—I don’t recognize any of them... !” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1973—PAGE 8 Asian security treaty to isolate imperialists MOSCOW — That the Soviet idea of a collective security system in Asia is in accord with the vital needs of the people of Asia, and of the whole world, is shown in the growing under- standing and support of the idea in Asian political and public circles. -In a recent article in Pravda, Victor Mayevsky, a journalist specializing in international af- fairs, reiterates the Soviet view: It is common knowledge that the idea of collective security rests on the renunciation of the use of force in relations among states, on respect for the sover- eignty and inviolability of bord- ers, non-interference in internal affairs, an extensive develop- ment of economic and other co- operation on the basis of full equality and mutual benefit. The creation of a system of collective security in Asia would reject the practice of military- political blocs, exclude the hege- mony of some or other states and call for efforts . . . in the interests of the common cause. Pro-Imperialist But as support for this idea is growing, those who, for the sake of their mercenary aims are in- terested in causing divisions among the Asian countries’ and deepening the contradictions and enmity among them, are getting more and more uneasy. All kinds of pro-imperialist elements, and the press linked up with colonial and monopoly circles, are step-.. ping up their activities. It is impossible to come out openly against the idea of en- suring security in Asia, there- fore some people hasten to pro- duce false, slanderous ‘argu- ments” to cast aspersions on the Soviet Union’s peace policy. The Hsinhua Agency of China has also assumed an unseemly role. Having grubbed up a lot of quotafions from certain papers which have long since been known for their anti-Soviet, anti- communist articles, the Peking agency tries to soil the idea of collective security in Asia and to present it as the USSR’s at- tempt to “encircle” and “isolate” China. The groundlessness and irres- ponsibility of this sort of alleg- ation are well known. Nobody can deny the right of the PRC to be a full-fledged participant of a collective security system in Asia. What does “encircle- ment” of China have to do with it? Besides, the Hsinhua Agency, if memory did not fail its chiefs, could recall that at one time the PRC government itself had been repeatedly making proposals on concluding a peace pact among the countries of Asia and the Pacific and came out together with the Soviet Union, in favor of the need of replacing closed military groupings with a “sys- tem of collective peace and col- lective security.” Supporting and encouraging today the anti-Soviet conconc- tions, the Chinese agency plays into the hands of the opponents of peace and security in Asia. Such a stand speaks for itself. CBC presents Neruda On Thursday, June 7, the CBC- FM network will present on its Encore series, The Lives of the Poet Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature. This will be part two of the program; part one, beginning at 8 p.m. will consist of the Van- couver String Orchestra in works by Vaughan Williams and Igor Stravinsky. The Neruda works are trans- lated by Prof. Keith Ellis of the Hispanic Studies Dept., Univer- sity of Toronto, and Lina Ladron de Guevara who also compiled his works for the program. The program. is based on Poems of Love and One Ode’ of Desperation, (which Neruda published at 19), and The Heights of Machu Picchu, which THEATRE REVIEW If it was the intention of An- drew Angus Dalrymple to hold up a mirror to the conflict in Northern Ireland, then his play, Quiet Day in Belfast, gives us the kind of odd reflections that both amuse and disturb us in trick looking-glasses. What we see may be superficially factual but essentially unreal. The script is well-construc- ted and alive with people com- ing and going, arguing, joking ‘and clashing. There is an abund- ance of boisterous action, of comedy and drama. The story is about a betting shop owned by a Jewish refugee from fascism. We meet various characters, including an ancient hag, a couple of BBC TV men, a visitor from America, a police sergeant, a terrorist, even a rac- ing dog. There is a parade, a tells of his journey to the mys- terious ancient Incan city, high up in the Peruvian Andes. Neruda’s works have been widely translated, and his poetry has universal value,” reads the CBC’s program notes, “but he remains fundamentally a Chilean poet, who was exiled for his political activities, and then re- turned to be acknowledged by his countrymen and the world.” Taking part are: Jeff Cohen, Michael Polley and Sydney Brown as Neruda One, Two and Three respectively; Nonnie Grif- fin as Woman One; Vivien Reis, Woman Two; Jon Granik and Gillie Fenwick as Man One and Two; and Renata Palestina as the girl. Authentic Chilean mu- sic is heard throughout. Direct- ed by Jean Bartels. WFTU protes French atom#es'|| ‘The World Federation of Trade Unions has_ issu ‘protest against the decisi0t) | of the French government | | carry on with its nucle tests in the Pacific. The deck sion of the French govel™ ment violates the Nucleat Test Ban Treaty signed ! more than 100 countries: _ The peoples and gové ik ments of the countries ™? affected by these tests, i pecially Australia, New Ze and and Chile, have em iar tically demanded the olf mediate cancellation of th ool tests. In Australia the wae have refused to handle F from French ships. ces The trade unions and oth organizations in France, - cluding the CGT, have the pressed the opposition, of sts French workers to the They have denounced policy of building up # hel} clear striking force by tne| | French government. ‘enti colossal wastage of S¢ and technological | The WFTU has als? "| pealed to workers and de unions of all countries ® 4) mand the immediate a lest solidarity with the wo and trade unions in the © tries of the Pacific Zon® Unions campaigt for Vietnam a CANBERRA — A numbet i | trade union organizations, Australia have taken. onsill initiatives. recently to int i the campaign of solidarity just the Vietnamese people. ist i has been launched to 85°" gy the rehabilitation of th fogt devastated land. Plans are {0 for the chartering of 4 ne transport material requir eis in The unions, numbering 4 clude organizations © | i workers, railway workets ‘| and ing workers, miners, posta and telegraph workers, seni as! waterside workers as W°" actors ‘and announcers: igs Meanwhile, these 14 fo; 1 have addressed a joint let" ig trade union organizalO™™ ipl other countries proposiné | yes action especially on the i” tion of campaigning for) pf mediate release of polit? soners held by Saigon. Blarney in the betting shop bombing, two deaths, wild struggles. Because this play has little real substance or depth it leans very heavily on stock Irish situ- ations and stock Irish charac- ters. We suspect that the au- thor is offering ‘‘a curse on both your houses” and equating the two sides for violence and bru- tality. : With few exceptions the characters are venal types, giv- ing each other the blarney. Money is their thing; the civil strife. merely interrupts the avarice. After the tragic killings it is business as usual again. One leaves the theatre in a haze of cynicism. Tarragon Theatre of Toronto has assembled an _ impressive company ffor the _ production. Kenneth Wickes (lavatory at- {0 tendant) overstates his. ily cot say the least, but espe! ° m vincing and sympathe0® cogs traits are developed DY age! McCann as the shop ™ ygigh Mel Tuck as _ jis helper, and Erian Mina as the ow? rede! Richard Donat as the op pas Tiina Lipp’s gambling ae cont” the authentic air of grub y mercialism. Kel The show, staged Dye as Turnbull must, after all, Pa BY s roles ; her. sessed in the light oe Wr happening in Ireland tO’ 4 0 stead we are offered # oc! ersatz -O'Casey. Bub aagE never saw the struggle thal a religious thing — jook against. Protestant. rs oc! deeper and revealed th® hi and economic pressure a the country’s onde in gto" besa \