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Ortega told

TITO WARMLY WELCOMED IN USSR
MOSCOW —President Tito of Yugoslavia received a hearty wel-

o pom hundreds of thousands of Muscovites on his arrival here
Bist Bev ugosiay summit meeting. This is not a “new thaw in
a Sind Ugoslav relations” as United Press hurried to report, but
in Fe dation of stable good relations and understanding. The
To any President was awarded the Order of Lenin.
special under discussion include a 50% increase in trade, further
ne ization and cooperation in machine-building, and long-term
Peration in extraction and exchange of raw materials and fuel.
t © USSR expressed readiness to give technical and financial aid
meay power engineering, and metallurgy. -
dent iad Confidence in Soviet assistance, Yugoslav Vice-presi-
one ¢ 2 OV Sirotkovic said: “This is an economic partner with whom
Present. develop long-term and stable cooperation in all fields of
Possibj “day economic relations on the basis of mutual requirements,
Wilities and interests.”
Socialis” qualitative shift in relations between the USSR and the
t Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was mentioned on the
Brezhney meetings by Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid

At

altri & dinner in the Kremlin, Brezhnev said: “We are for the
of the «Strengthening of cooperation with Yugoslavia on the basis

ism.» Principles of Marxism-Leninism and socialist international-

MEL DOCKERS PROTEST FRENCH BOMBS
ship Ge QURNE— Australian dock workers will ban any French
Fre c CXing here this month in protest at the current round of
Behera} pctear tests in the Pacific, said A. E. Bull, secretary-
Port of Of the Waterside Workers’ Federation. The action is in sup-
a Australian Council of Trade Unions resolution.

Cause of rench cargo vessels are reported stranded in Sydney be-
Workers? the ban; and ACTU President Robert Hawke predicted a
airliner refusal to service the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic
" when it arrives late in the month,

U.S. BASE THREATENS LATIN STATES

Pan, S—In what amounts to a provocation against Venezuela
ama, the United States has signed a deal with its NATO

© Netherlands, to build-bases on the coastal islands of

Tuba and Bonaire, Venezuelan Senator Leonardo Montiel

He saiq the press.

Port fon that the U.S. is trying to obtain advanced points of sup-

’ctiong toe tational forces in the event of landings or repressive

any een Protect the oil companies in Maracaibo and to cancel out
hay le Panamanian action in regard to the Canal Zone.

ISRAEL TAKING ITS FIRST CENSUS

, EL.

Cla] AVIV—Israel began taking its first census, and census offi-
Wit 4 Limor told reporters that some trouble had developed
Jews © who oppose any census for religious reasons. Orthodox

ae forbiaae to answer any census questions because they said it

MS US : ' : Dali
fous lntitude, Limor said, almost halted the census-taking. Reli-

Us’ t . cee
Wnder os S in only the state of Israel and not the Arab territories

: ary Occupation since 1967.

pew aa AND INDIA SIGN TRADE AGREEMENT __

int Unde Hi—Peru and India signed a trade agreement in New
the ney, Which Peru will supply India with 54,000 tons of copper

Xt three years.

JOH APARTHEID IN CAR PLATES

- Potteg that ScURG—The daily newspaper, Rand Daily Mail, re-

H

oretse Plate in the small South African town of Thaba Nchu car
Wneq Cars Epave been segregated since March of this year, white-
| ve distinctive letter-number combinations.

non RSAW_y; FIDEL, IN WARSAW, IS WELL :
he, he hag Ks me Cuban Premier Fidel Castro grinned. at *
Saat steel ered a heart attack,” and told newsmen: a
0 : : ,
thin Secretar With Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz and Edward Gierek,
Sein they Of the Polish United Workers Party. Among other
the g®® an ‘ €re Said to have discussed increasing cooperation 1n
Te Socialist BY between Poland and Cuba. Trade between
bity © Cuba ‘st countries in 1971 amounted to $10.8 million.
and po Guine €mier is on a two-month-long tour which has taken
Polan “4 a, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary

re Astin S: OPPOSES LIFTING CURBS ON CUBA _
at the's With N—Despite Nixon’s professions of seeking improved
O06, Organi all countries, the U.S., at a specially called meeting
€d a pec ttion of American States (OAS) Permanent Council
Dene &tu’s eon by Peru for normalization of relations with
tive Mitteg ;°*c!a Bedoya proposed that the 23 nations of OAS
Mee Seph J ° Normalize relations with Cuba. But U.S. representa-
+; € co N Jova said, “The 1964 resolution remains valid . :
The Us, foreuitions that prompted this action have not changed.
x take TUVian the break of relations with Cuba in 1964. _
up jn oo solution was referred to the Geneva Committee to
Pen, tico a. €xecutive session.
tions has mage stile now have diplomatic relations with Cuba, and
“Ven ig j It clear that it intends to renew full diplomatic rela-
S resolution is rejected.

b

Labor hits Ottawa's
rush on take-overs

The shameless haste of the federal
government and big business politicians
to push through the legislation on U.S.
take-overs of Canadian industry, which
actually smooths the way. for further.
take-overs, was shown in limiting time
and participation in presentation of
‘briefs to the Commons Committee on

Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs.
The Canadian Labor Congress an-
nounced it would withdraw its presenta-

tion in view of the short time given to.

prepare. The Communist Party protested
against being not allowed to express its
views in this debate. United Electrical
Workers President C. S. Jackson sent
the following wire to Committee chair-
man Robert Kaplan: Ss

"The decision of the majority of your
committee to limit appearances to a
few selected groups, mainly big business,
to hear views on the proposed foreign
take-over legislation, is clearly a win-
dow-dressing operation which ignores
the critical importance of the basic issue
of U.S. economic control, and the dom-
ination of the U.S. over Canadian affairs

by reason of this control.

"You also ignore the tremendous pub-
lic concern evident on this issue, a con-
cern which now recognizes that Can-
ada's future as an independent and
sovereign country is very much at stake.

"This non-policy of the government
dished up in the proposed take-over bill,

is an expression of contempt for the
people's concern, and borders on crim-
inal unconcern for the present and future
interests of this country.

"The Commons Finance Committee
decision aids and abets the government
in this anti-Canadian design. The take-
over bill is a fake and it must be assum-
ed you know that this is so. If this was
not the case, then you would schedule
the broadest possible public hearings,
affording an opportunity to all organiza-
tions and individuals wishing to appear
and testify. You would also do all in your
power to prevent the passage of this
trick bill which only masquerades as
legislation to protect Canada.

"Our union stands four-square for
genuine and effective legislation to halt
the American take-over, and to begin the
process of restoring tull. economic and
political decision-making to Canada.

or more than two decades we have
pressed for recognition of this grave
problem, and demanded government
action to ensure the full independence
and sovereign rights of our country.

"We now ask your committee to stand

up for Canada. Give the Canadian peo-
P e as a whole their sovereign right to be

eard. Schedule unrestricted public
hearings on the take-over bill and pro-
pose to government that a moratorium
on further foreign acquisition of Cana-
dian companies be instituted until mean-
ingful eon engt -based on the will of
the people can be passed by the House."

‘ONLY ONE VIETNAM’
Negotiate war's end, Nixon told

“Twelve million tons of bombs
dropped on our country have
not and cannot stop our peo-
ple’s march to liberation,”
Huynh Van Ba, ambassador to
Cuba for the Provisional Revo-
lutionary Government of South
Vietnam, told an enthusiastic
Toronto: audience of over 500
last week. Mr. Van Ba described
the Nixon escalation of the war
as “three moré years of bar-
barous killing of our people.”

“He promised to end the war,
but has continued it, stepping
up the bombing and shelling,

using the most modern weap-

ons,” he said. “For over 4000
years there has been one and
has never been two Vietnams.
We are one country and one
people. The 17th parallel was
stipulated as a line in 1954 be-
low which the defeated French
army would regroup and with-
draw. Elections were to have
followed under the Geneva Con-
vention throughout Vietnam.
The USA sabotaged the Agree-
ments, set up a puppet regime,
began to exterminate everyone
opposed to the dictatorship and
eventually sent in over 500,000
troops to hold its occupation
south of the 17th parallel.

The speaker described how
this policy has come to failure.
“The Tet Offensive in February
1968 spelled the end of this
strategy. The U.S. was forced
to stop its bombing of the DVR,
sit down at the Paris talks and
begin its troop withdrawal. The
policy of ‘Vietnamization,’ which
meant Vietnamese killing Viet-

namese, collapsed and, during
the April 1972 offensive, 15,000
puppet troops came over to the
side of the Peole’s Liberation
Army bringing their weapons
with them. ?

“We grow stronger each day.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail, once a.

small supply line, now resem-
bles the autoroute from Mon-
treal to Toronto,” Van Ba said
to the applause of his listeners.
“Now it’s the GIs who sleep un-
derground to avoid our shelling.
The United States has become
our best supplier of weapons—
tanks, guns, shells, radio equip-
ment, food, clothing, even match-
es and cigarettes. Their most
modern weapons cannot destroy
us. We have found a’ weapon
stronger than their B52s—Man
is stronger!”

He told of the growing strength
and prestige of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government since
its birth three years ago. Today
its representatives sit at Paris
and discuss with the USA, its
flag is known around the world
and it is recognized by 28 coun-
tries. “We are stronger econo-
mically, militarily, politically
and diplomatically.

“We are ready to fight 10, 20,
30 years more if necessary. But
we want peace, and have ad-
vanced our 7-Point Program
which is the basis for peace. If
the U.S. wants to break the
deadlock, it has only to agree
to go home, abandon its sup-
port of its puppet regime, and
peace will come in one-half an
hour!”

Mr. Van Ba exressed the gra-

titude of his people for the sup-
port received.:from. around the
world: in- meetings, demonstra-

tions and financially. He urged

such actions continue and

until final victory. He incl
special admiration and thanks
to the democratic people of the
United States for their massive
actions to end the war. “We.
love our brothers ana comrades-
in-arms, If the U.S. comes to
Vietnam as a friend, welcome,
If they come with bombs, we
will fight!,” he said.

In reply to questions abou
the mining of Vietnamese cute
Van Ba explained that such min-
ing has been going on for 25
years, described the defusing
methods used by their divers in.
defusing and disarming them,
“Blockade is not new,” he re-
plied. “The war in Vietnam will
be settled between the aggres-
sors and the victim, between
the Vietnamese people and the’
United States by sitting down
in Paris based on our 7-Point
Program,” he concluded.

HUYNH VAN BA
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