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By TOM MORRIS
‘A alarming story about a
erat meeting of World Bank
OUNtries in Paris Oct. 17 was
€POrted in the British Morning
tar on Nov. I and ten days
ater appeared in an article by
Chanjes Taylor in the Toronto
Globe and Mail.
Cajied by the World Bank and
Asia Development Bank, the
Meeting’s aim was to gather
ipRort for a U.S. plan for
M¢jlateral aid” to bolster the
tering Thieu regime in Saigon,
initial annual lending pro-
A to be $50-million.
The Morning Star article by
e foreign editor Sam Russell
ints out that the importance
the meeting was underlined
Y the presence of assistant U.S.
Sury secretary Charles Coop-
& snd two representatives of
Henry Kissinger’s own national
Security council.
Canadians Taken In
“The Americans tried to ca-
MOy¢gage their plan by pretend-
Mg they wanted to discuss aid.
© Yndochina ‘as a whole,’ but
Nobydy was taken in,” wrote
Rugceil, “What was more, in his
marks Mr. Cooper made it
Quit. clear that the U.S. was in-
‘isting that ‘aid to any ally’ must
Continue, and that in this (they)
lyivved strong support from the
Japanese delegates with the
Canadians and West Germans
Siving their support too, if a
littl. less enthusiastically.”
" Mis news of Canada’s support
‘Alsy, gets heavy play in Taylor’s
irt\.je: “, . . delegates were sur-
Mixed by the Canadian position
Which was a reversal of previous
Policy,” he writes. Canada, ac-
ging to Taylor, as early as
“as, yay had refused a request
fron Washington and the World
“Bayic to take part in a project
Tinted to South Vietnam be-
“ce the proposal did not in-
de other, countries in the
ion.
: to Paris Agreements
” Yne U.S. plan contravenes the
tems of the Paris Agreements
“to which Canada was party) re-
Wj,ing participating nations to

greets Arafat

| and UN victory q )

TORONTO — As representa-
“‘\es of the Palestinian people
4\jved at United Nations to par-
linipate in the General Assembly
“Npate for the first time, the
Cy nadian Peace Congress, noted
Ne significance of the event for
he establishment of peace in
the Middle East.

' Jhe Congress wired Yasser
3 Arafat: “Canadian Peace Con-
tess representing thousands of

Qsnadian peace workers greets
With enthusiasm your participa-
Non in UN General Assembly.
Wish you great success in bring-
hg truth of Palestinian just

use before world. May your
jresence firmly establish PLO as

_\Sgitimate representatves of Pa-
Xstinians.”

To UN Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim the Congress wired:
‘Canadian. peace workers wel-

me presence of. Yasser Arafat

presentative Palestinians at
eneral Assembly. His. presence
Will make known just demands
\e the Palestinians, advance
\truggle for peace in Middle

Nast.”

“at Saigon and the Provisional "

Peace Congress §

Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam on the same
terms—especially when it comes
to economic aid. The U.S. pro-
posal does not involve aid to
other than the Thieu regime in
South Vietnam and the Ameri-
cans made it clear that Wash-
ington would not support either
the PRG nor North Vietnam.

In exposing the U:S. ploy
about so-called “regional aid”,
Russell writes: “The Democratic
Republic of Vietnam is in the
first place not a member of the
World Bank and has declared its
opposition to plans for its eCco-
nomic development being dis-
cussed in a committee where it
is not even represented,

“Neither of the two groups in
Cambodia have asked for-a con-
sultative aid group to be set up.
In Laos the new government has
made it clear that it would pre-
fer to be left out of any poli-
tically controversial plans such
as envisaged by Kissinger and
his agents on the World Bank
staff.”

The U.S. hoax was further ex-

ploded by the revelation at the

meeting by Swedish undef-sec-

Fascist violence in Latin Ame-
rica is not confined to Chile.
Other dictatorships oppress the
people, aiming to destroy first
the Communist Parties, In Uru-
guay, the situation worsens. An
appeal issued Oct. 29 from the
Communist Party of Uruguay
asks us to do what we can for
two leading Communists who
were recently captured by
police.

Bo * %

On the evening of Oct. 24 in
Montevideo, Jaime’ Perez and
Jorge Mazzarovich, leaders Of
the Communist Party, were ar-
rested by the police.

Jaime Perez was named first
secretary of the Communist Par-
ty of Uruguay following the
arrest of Rodney Arismendi on
May 8. A deputy at the time of
the coup d’etat of June 27, 1973,
Jaime Perez was a former union
leader. Seriously wounded in a
fascist assault of. Party head-
quarters in 1961, Perez has been
a member of the secretariat of
the Communist Party sincé 1955,
and responsible for organization
in Montevideo, the iargest

centre of the Party.

THIEU INDICTMENT

| A GROUP OF 44 SOUTH
VIETNAMESE NATIONAL AS-
SEMBLY OPPOSITION DEPU-
TIES IN SAIGON) NOV. 8
APPEALED TO _ SEVERAL
‘PEACE-LOVING’ COUNTRIES
AND THE U.S. CONGRESS TO
USE THEIR INFLUENCE TO
HELP END THE REPRESSION
OF THE POPULATION BY THE
THIEU REGIME.

retary for Foreign Affairs, Mr.
Klackenberg, who reported that
“it was a request from the lead-
er of the Saigon regime that ini-
tiated the discussion of an Indo-
china group.” Klackenberg went
on to charge that the Paris
Agreements acknowledge two
authorities in South Vietnam
and that “the “Saigon regime
does not represent the people of
South Vietnam even if the auth-
ors of some bank and Interna-
tional Monetary Fund docu-
ments seem to think so.”

American manipulation of the
World Bank (and with it of the
countries like Canada who are

Jorge Mazzarovich had been
first secretary of the Communist
Youth between 1970 and 1974,
and is presently a member of the
Party leadership. He had been
sought by police since the. day
of the coup.

The two men are in physical
danger, Torture. by the dictator-
ship has already claimed nume-
rous victims, the miost recent
being the young Communist
Nibya Sabalsagaray, and. has
given rise to logical fears over

the fate of Perez and Mazzaro- —

vich.

The state secret service divi-
sion published the photos of the
two leaders 48 hours after their
arrest, together with an appeal
to the people for information on
where they had lived under-
ground...

We urgently appeal to all

demacratic organizations to ex-~

press their solidarity with these
two combattants by demanding
that the Uruguayan authorities
respect the lives of and free
these two leaders immediately,
together with Rodney Arismen-
di, Liber Seregni and all other
imprisoned patriots.

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members) becomes more trans-
parent when it is recalled that
World Bank president is Robert
McNamara who, as U.S. Presi-
dent Johnson’s Secretary of De-
fence, presided over full-scale
genocide in Vietnam. In addition,
the United States under a
weighted voting system, con-
trols 24% of World Bank votes
(compared to Canada’s 3:73%)
and only needs the support of
Canada; Japan, West Germany,
Britain, France and Taiwan to
swing the $50 - million - a - year
deal.

Growing Disenchantment

Taylor’s story points out that
the United States has up to now
provided 85% of ‘Saigon’s budget
“but sceptical congressional
committees” are slashing this
drastically. The World Bank deal
is designed to keep Thieu prop-
ped up militarily and economi-
cally with international money.

Canada’s role in this secret
meeting becomes more ominous
because of our government's re-
fusal to comment on a possible
about-face in our policy toward
Vietnam, Even the names-of this
country’s representatives at the

Paris meeting are |
secret.

Canadian inability
rightly deny support f
World Bank plan c
cern. Doubletalk, as
by the External Affa
ment about “‘Canadia
in touch” does little
fears that Canadian
will find its way in
pockets through t
Bank’s agency, the In
Development Associa

A New, Dangerous

In addition to the
and illegality of suc
observers see the unf
long-term United Stat
to support “friendly T
governments” indirec
international agencie
support of its Weste
regards this system «
as preferential at a
problems at home ai
_awareness abroad Cat
rassment and criticis!

“So disgusted was
ish representative at
hypocrisy,” wrote Rt
he told the America
faces that ‘plans {
group for Indochin
Saigon, should be fii
ped’.”

- Russell goes on tc
“British officials ref
close what they said
and there is a dist
that their silence wi
preted by Kissinge
henchmen as consent!

Smells Like a

Taylor's story fr
point, too. The secr
and further refusal
in both countries s1
deal is being struck |
United States and it:
Canada deeply invol
ing our disgraceful
Vietnamese affairs -
ICC, the ICCS and
weapons supplier —
precious little dignity
matter.

Whatever is. lef
will disappear shoul
this country to bail
cist Thieu regime
this new plan.

Ree

Uruguayan Communist Party leaders Liber Sergegni

Rodney Arismendi (right) in a photo taken before the
May. A world-wide campaign to secure the release of

under way.

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