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Yankee oil monopolies
plundering Venezuela

By G. ZAFESOV

The predatory operations of
the U.S. monopolies in Venezu-
ela have once again excited in-
dignation - and protest of the
public opinion in the country.
This followed the publication of
a statement by the mining com-
mission of the Chamber of
Deputies of the Venezuelan Par-
liament. The commission sum-
‘moned representatives of  for-
eign petroleum companies to its
session and charged them with
concealing the actual volume
of petroleum exports and dodg-
ing taxes.

Who is mainly to blame for
the disastrous condition of the
Venezuelan economy?

It is, first of. all, the U.S.
Standard Oil of New Jersey and
Gulf. Oil. companies ‘controlled
by the Rockefellers and Mellons
and the Royal Dutch Shell com-

pany.

Laying its hands on oil ex-
traction (the Standard Oil of
New Jersey alone controls 45
percent. of the national oil out-
put) the U.S. monopolies feel
like the 20th-century conquis-
tadores who can do whatever
they choose. All their attention
is focussed on profit: U.S. mono-
polies alone screw $450 million
every year from the exploita-
tion of the Venezuelan oil fields.

Other American operators do
not lag much behind the oil
magnates. Two mining -compa-
nies, the Iron‘ Mines (a branch
of Bethlehem Steel Corporation)
and the Orinoco Mining (a
branch of the United : States
Steel Company) have monopol-
ized iron ore production in Ven-
ezuela and received $630 million
in profit in the past 10 years.

However, Venezuelan petrol-
eum industry. remains the chief
object of U.S. economic aggres-
sion.

Arbitrarily adjusting prices,
the United States, in addition
to economic advantages, wants
to shape and guide the coun-
try’s" policies. The total losses
which Venezuela suffered from
the reduction of prices for oil
run. into .a colossal figure of
more than $4 billion today.

It is interesting to note that

‘the newspaper El Siglo pointed

out in its comments on the re-
duction of prices for Venezuelan
oil that it was “effected pre-
cisely when the government of
Venezuela expressed itself
against U.S. intervention in the
Dominican Republic, when the
United States~ declared that it
would stop.its aid to the gov-
ernment of every country which
refuses to support them do-
cilely.” :

Nevertheless, the movement
for the achievement of econo-
mic independence is growing.

|S. steps up air raids

against land-locked Laos

Bormbers and fighter planes
take off every day from the U.S.
Air Force bases in South Viet-
nam and Thailand and from
the aircraft. carriers of the U.S.
Seventh Fleet and make for
Laos,

The air pirates cross state
frontiers in cold blood. Bombs
fall on the cities and villages of
Laos situaed in the zone of pa-

triotic forces. Vast tracts of the
‘jungle are contaminated with

toxic agents.

Up until very recently the air
raids: were made clandestinely,
with U.S. newsmen reporting
that “planes left in an unspeci-
fied direction.” But now the Pen-
tagon has shed the mask.

The U.S. aggression in Laos
has not yet reached the scope

et

around the world

SOPHIA LOREN received the “best actress” prize for her
virtuoso performance in “Marriage Italian Style’ at the Moscow
Film Festival. The Grand. Prix. was shared by the. Soviet film
“War and Peace” (first two parts) and “Twenty Hours” from

Hungary ..

. Malawi is to become a Republic within the Com-

monwealth on July 6 next year, Premier Hastings Banda has

announced .

. After 16 years of self-imposed exile in the United

States, 74-year-old General Li Tsung-jen, former acting President
of China under the Kuomintang, has returned to Peking.

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GHANA’S High Commissioner in London, Kwesi Armah, flew
to Hanoi accompanied by Dr. J. E: Bosman, Ghanaian Ambassador
in Paris, and ten -other officials, for talks with Ho Chi Minh. The
visit follows the personal. invitation to President Nkrumah to

visit North Vietnam or send a special envoy .

. Trade unions in

Greece staged a 24-hour strike in support of ousted Premier: Pa-
pandreou. The King vs. Parliament crisis has resulted in bloody
street demonstrations of up to. 100,000 es and the new gov-

22 Cate ~ ade Xe
LAOTIAN Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, on a brief visit
to Britain, urged Prime Minister Harold Wilson to recall the 1954

ernment may: fall soon.

Geneva conference on Indochina . . .

Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet

Communist Party first secretary, appealed for unity of all revolu-
tionary forces in a speech to the Rumanian Communist Party

congress in Bucharest.

.Washington

of the. Vietnamese adventure,

but it is steadily expanding and

‘is no longer confined to -air

raids. American subversion bas-
es have been set up in the moun-

tains surrounding the Plain of

Jars and in other parts of. Laos.
Over 50 CIA planes, disguised-as
Air America liners, fly in weap-
ons and military instructors to
these bases.

The threat of an open inva-
sion of Laos by U.S. troops is
also mounting. The Pentagon is
secretly discussing the Coolidge
Plan (Coolidge is an “expert”
on the geopolitics in Indochina),
The plan provides for the occu-
pation of Southern Laos and the
establishment of a single zone

of military operations stretch-:
‘ing from Thailand to South
‘Vietnam.

Closely intertwined with_ the
armed aggression against Laos
are the political intrigues of
and its agents
which have the aim of under-
mining the resistance of the
Laotian people from within.

The three basic political forc-

‘es in Laos are the neutralists,
‘the patriots headed by the Neo

Lao Hat Sat party (the Patriotic
Front of Laos) and the Right-
wing grouping closely connec-

‘ted with the United States.

The Right-wing military coup
in Vientienne in April 1964 en-
abled its leaders to crush the
neutralists and force. Neo Lao
Hak Sat leaders to move from
the capital. A new coup last
winter further weakened the
coalition and the Right-wing, in

cooperation with Washington,

has stepped up the attack on

.the patriotic forces of Laos.

By PROF. HUGO GLASER
Twenty years ago, with the

‘downfall of nazism, the most de-

structive war ever fought in the
history of mankind terminated
with an atomic explosion over

‘Nagasaki and Hiroshima...

Every person, a physician in
particular, should make a mental
visit to the ruins of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Not merely to pay
tribute to those whose lives
were taken there but to ponder
over the consequences of atomic
explosions. Medical people have
made deep studies of these con-
sequences,

The tragedy of modern war-
fare is not confined to the fact
that a single push of the button
releases an atom bomb which
annihilates numberless human
beings: the consequences of the
explosion are even more tragic.

They may be compared. with
an epidemic covering a vast area
and taking toll of men and ani-
mals, polluting the soil and
everything that grows there.
Even this is not all.

An epidemic of this type
harms future ‘generations, ren-
ders them incapable of repro-

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