ae attend Oliphant, Denver Post He has a plan to supply energy. Go connect these to the nation’s electrical Supply.” Radian banks aid S. Africa By JOHN BIZZELL Three Canadian banks have fen recently exposed for their Mrticipation in a series of mas- ai Clandestine loans via an ~eMational banking consor- ‘um to the government of South Nica. The fact that these tran- Sactions were carried out in- “omplete secrecy has extreme Political significance. The banks Baclved were ‘obviously seeking ~ “Void public protest at subsi- 1s to the racially oppressive epee AID TO RHODESIA .. The Times of London has re- Ported that South Africa ‘is Secretly supplying consider- able financial aid to the Rho- “@sian government to combat Querrillg incursions.~in. the North-east, R According to the report, the hodesian government ‘has Started -q development opera- tion in the bushland close to © Mozambique border. The Program includes the building a4 Toads, the resettlement of cee and a strengthening | the civil administration. Sources in Salisbury noted Gt the South African govern- Ment has contributed about 10 million to the cost of the Program as well as providing nN undisclosed number of Slice for border patrol duty. Th teng Sing € Bourassa government in- s to modify Bill 63; which, © its passage in 1969, had e cheuted Parents the right to tip Ose the language of instruc- n for their children in Quebec. 1 4 telephone interview, Sam 5 Sh, President of the Parti mMmuniste du Québec, com- Sie on the proposed legisla- agit Bourassa government leaked the fact that it in- — apartheid and fascist South African gov- ernment, This exposure came via the leak of confidential material known as the “Frankfurt Docu- ments,” originating from sourc- es within a U.S.-based multi- national banking firm, The Eu- ropean-American Banking Cor- poration (E.A.B.C.). E.A.B.C. is jointly owned by six of the larg- est international banks and is one of the world’s most power- ful banking groups, In this par- ticular deal E.A.B.C. sold parti- cipation to over 40 banks in clandestine loans to the South African government in the amount of over $210 million. When. confronted with the documentary evidence represen- tatives of the E.A.B.C. con- firmed the veracity of the al- legation in’ a’-meeting in New York with Judge William Booth, president of the American Com- mittee on Africa, Rev. Donald Morton, South African consult- ant to the Council for Christian Social Action, United Church of Christ, and Professor Sean Ger- vasi, economic research officer at Oxford University. It was confirmed that three of the six credit transactions in- volving $150 million were made from E.A.B.C.’s Nassau branch and were arranged with the Min- istry of Finance in Pretoria, South Africa.’ The other three : Continued on Page 10 tends to introduce a new lan- guage bill into the National As- sembly before the end of the current session. The bill ap- pears to have the effect of an- nulling or seriously ammending Bill 63, which gave to all par- ents in Quebec the right to choice of the language of in- struction for their children — whether English or French. “The bill, as leaked, proposes to abolish this freedom of choice Bret OP SPANISH CLERICS HELD OVER SERMON : Anoy, RID — The Roman Catholic Bishop of Bialbo, Antonio Unda 10S and his assistant, Vicar-General Jose Angel, were put lo . house arrest Feb, 28, on orders from the Franco regime fol- Bas ng Circulation of. a sermon calling for wider reforms for “piles in running their own affairs. Of © sermon declared that “the Basque people, as all other people CUltiva © Spanish state, have the right to conserve their own identity, ludic ting and developing their spiritual patrimony, without pre- lit; Roy, «© to a healthy exchange with neighbours, within a socio- /Cal organization that recognizes. their just liberty.” , Mce his arrest, Anoveros has been ordered by the Franco ‘tment to leave Spain. But he has’ refused. FULL OF BLANKS _ Face up to real needs Communists tell Ottawa TORONTO — “The Speech from the Throne gives little by way of a clue re- garding the government’s intentions in this session of Parliament,” said the leader of the Communist Party of Can- ada following opening of the new ses- sion. William Kashtan said that while Prime Minister Trudeau “tried to fill in the blank spaces by what appears to be a sharp attack on the ‘price gougers and profiteers’,” his government, in line 8 with such talk, “should implement legis- lation to roll back prices.” It should give assurance “that the Petroleum Corporation will have teeth in it,” and should recognize energy as a public utility, the Communist leader said. He referred, too, to the threat to Canada’s VIETNAMESE MEN, WOMEN 8c CHILOREN ae rs