ISRAELI COURT SENTENCES STUDENT
TEL AVIV — An Israeli court convicted Arab-American student
Sami Esmail for ‘‘membership in a hostile organization”’. The prosecu-
ton is demanding a 10-year sentence. Esmail was arrested outside Tel
Aviv on information reportedly supplied by the FBI. He was accused
Ofdistributing newspapers on the campus of Michigan State University
for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, of contributing

Money to the PLFP and of visiting Libya for political and military
ning. None of these activities took place inside Israel. Unlike all
other countries, Israel claims to have jurisdiction over “crimes that

occur outside its borders.

CALL ON CARTER TO SPEED-UP SALT TALKS
| WASHINGTON — The Christian Science Monitor has called on the
| “arter Administration to speed up agreement on the Strategic Arms
Limitation ‘Talks (SALT). Every month of delay, the paper said,
Mcreases the danger of the introduction of new arms and of other
Countries acquiring nuclear arms. The newspaper noted that never
fore have so many U.S. people approved of a SALT agreement. A
Tecent Harris poll showed 75% in favor. It stressed that efforts should

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| be made to avoid the danger of a return to cold war.
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ANTI-SHAH STRIKES SHUT DOWN IRAN’S CAPITAL 2

| _ TEHRAN — An anti-Shah general. strike shut down Iran’s major
Cities, including the capital Tehran, last week. The general strike was
| Called to mark the 15th anniversary of the Shah’s brutal repression ofa
| demonstration of hundreds of thousands of his opponents in 1963.
Ccording to news reports between 3,000 and 15,000 men, women and
Children were killed when the demonstration was attacked by the
| Shah’s U.S. trained and equipped army. The World Federation of
= Tade Unions has urged the ‘‘strongest possible international solidar-
| tty” with the heroic struggle of Iran’s working people.

ILO CONVENTION OPENS WITHOUT U.S.

| GENEVA — The first conference of the International Labor Or-
| Sanization to meet since 1919 without participation of the United States
| pened, June 3, in Geneva, Switzerland. The U.S. withdrew last year
|, On the grounds of a new majority of socialist and newly liberated
/ Countries in the labor organization. The U.S., whose dues came to 25%
of the ILO budget, is hoping to pressure the organization into positions
| agaihst labor organizations in the socialist and developing countries.

/ UN CALLS FOR INDEPENDENCE FOR MICRONESIA

| _ UNITED NATIONS — The UN Trusteeship Council has reaf-

| firmed the tight of the people of Micronesia to self-determination and

_ Independence. The area, presently called the ‘“Trust Territory of the
Cific Islands”’ by its U.S. imperialist overlords, has been used by the
‘S. for nuclear bomb tests (Bikini, Eniwetok). Members of the

the ; C expressed ‘ ‘profound concern’ over Pentagon attempts to turn
© islands into a base for staging military aggression.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES BEHIND MORO’S DEATH
ROME — Foreign intelligence services could have been behind the
murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro, Italian Communist Party
aur Enrico Berlinguer stated in a press conference. Mr. Berlinguer
oe the Red Brigades’ kidnapping of Moro was aimed at plunging Italy
hto another political crisis, but failed to do so.
: Tevelation of foreign secret service involvement would come as no
Urprise to many Italians, who have been accustomed in recent years to
‘Sagas interference in their internal affairs by U.S. presidents and
tesmen as well as NATO.

700 MILLION SIGN FOR PEACE, PRESENTED TO WALDHEIM

UNITED NATIONS — Over 700 million signatures collected on the
€w Stockholm Peace Appeal were turned over to UN Secretary

Se ta! Kurt Waldheim at ceremonies in the Secretariat Building. The
ignatures were turned over in the form of a representative volume by a
Clegation of the World Peace Council, the sponsors of the signature
fa to'stop the arms race as a first step toward complete disarma-

: a P| “a .
Demonst tions through New
rators representing some. 70 organization
“ah Sy at the State Neuse ae supaart legislation that would restore a
“million cut in state aid for special education programs.

NATO provides constant supply

- Professional killers for hire

By A. DEVITT

_ COTONOU, Benin (APN) —
Dressed in Civvies, but with fine
bearing, a European descends the
gangway from a plane at Kinsh-
asa, Salisbury or another African
airport.

In the questionnaire, filled out
for the border authorities, in. the
column headed ‘‘profession’’ he
writes:: ‘‘technical adviser’’ or
“‘businessman.’” After that,
traces of him disappear. Only a
few confidential persons know
that the so-called ‘‘technical ad-
viser’’ will train native reruits in
methods of anti-guerrilla warfare,
while the ‘‘businessman”’ will
give consultations to the counter-
intelligence bodies and instruct

their native staffs in tracking
down differently-minded people.

Such, for instance, is Gilbert
Bourgeot, a 49-year-old native of
Calvados. According to docu-
ments, issued to him by the
Gabon authorities, Bourgeot is a
technical adviser. Here is one
small footnote: adviser
Bourgeot’s monthly salary is half
a million African francs, which is
higher than that of many African
premiers. In Gabon, Colonel
Bourgeot of the French army held
the post of the president’s chief
security adviser. As everyone
knows, it was Bourgeot who led
the ill-famed raid by imperialist
mercenaries on Cotonou on
January 16, 1977.

Naturally, not all the
“‘specialists,”” trained in the ar-
mies and police of the NATO
member countries, hold such high
posts. Some of them “‘work’’ as
rank-and-file instructors, or sim-
ply serve in special guard or
commandos units. Most of them
have arrived in African countries
on private contracts, and the gov-
ernments bear no responsibility
for the activities of these “‘private
individuals.”’

But, strangely, all these “in-
structors’”’ and ‘‘advisors’’ show
up at places and at times where
and when required by NATO
headquarters and Western com-
panies’. managements. For in-
stance, according to foreign news
agency reports, the foreign mer-
cenaries arriving in Zaire recently
were recruited in the Western
capitals to carry out punitive op-
erations in Shaba province. Many
of them took part earlier in the
military provocations against An-
gola.

Highly significant in this con-
nection are the findings of the Dip-
lock Permanent Security Com-
mission, and, especially, its con-
firmation of the fact that the
British Government has the right
to ban recruitment, the publica-

‘tion of announcements, and other
* similar actions only if it does not-
_ share the views of the recruiting

state of organization. In all other
cases, the government must not
restrict the personal freedoms of
its citizens. It cannot forbid them

4 for becoming hired assassins. It
* can’t be said more clearly than

this.
In permitting recruitment of

mercenaries in their own coun-

tries, the goverments of NATO
members are guided by interests
of preserving the pro-Western re-
gimes in African countries. Be-

sides, in letting their boys serve
anywhere in the jungles as in-
structors for two years, the
NATO brasshats have specialists
at hand with combat experience
in tropical conditions, and know-
ledge of war not only through
educational films.

In a recent interview, Mike
‘“‘Crazy”’ Hoare, a war criminal
who is taking cover in South Afri-
ca, declared that he maintains
constant contact with people who
are preparing a contingent of
mercenaries for ‘‘struggle in Afri-
ca against communism.”

There are press reports testify-
ing that Britain and France are
sending their servicemen to some
countries and helping to recruit
British and French servicemen
after their discharge from the
army. For instance, it has been
learned that a whole British regi-
ment was flown into Khartoum in
January this year and that con-

-siderable contingents of French

armed forces were recently air-
lifted to Chad. Many of the
French servicement change into
Chad army uniforms, and, as the
newspaper, L’Humanite, pointed
out, they make up 80% of the air-
men and mechanics in the Chad
armed forces. The ‘“‘cooperation”’
of France with Mauritania rests
on the same principles.

French military presence in Af-
rica offers an example of the in-
terest shown by NATO members
in the establishment of their milit-
ary control over that continent.
Not only France, but Britain,
Belgium andthe United States,
too, are especially active in this
respect. All of them, in one de-
gree or another, are lending

economic and technical aid to the

so-called ‘‘moderate’’ regimes in
reinforcing their military and
police apparatus, supplying arms
and equipment, and training
specialists both in their own ter-
ritories and locally.

NATO headquarters warmly
support the idea of setting up
military-political blocs in Africa
which can play the role of a
policeman and guardian of West-
ern interests in the continent. It is
planned to knock several former
French colonies together into
such a bloc, with the political and
military leadership of the former
parent country deciding what ac-
tions this alliance is to take.
Another project provides for the

Belgian and French paratroop-
ers offer their services.

founding of an ‘‘alliance for com-
batting the communist threat,”’
leaning on ‘such countries as
Egypt, Sudan and Zaire.
Everyone also knows about the
idea of setting up a South Atlantic
Alliance headed by racist South
Africa.

NATO’s tropical, or African,
version of strategy is charac-
terized by a diversity of ways and
means, ranging from the provi-
sion of mercenaries to massive
military interference. A common
feature of actions by NATO
members in Africa, irrespective
of whether they are upholding
their own interests or coordinat-
ing efforts and taking joint steps,
is the desire at all costs to stem the
advance in the continent of the
national-liberation struggle and
the movement for progressive
socio-economic transformations.

U.S. has plans for
arms sale to China

Following the Chinese foreign
minister’s anti-Soviet anti-
disarmament outburst at the UN
Special Session, President Car-
ter’s national security advisor,
Zbigniew Brzezinski was in
Maoist China for talks.

The New York Times reported
May 28 that Brzezinski ‘“‘gave
Chinese officials an unpre-
cedented, detailed briefing on the
status of Soviet-American
strategic arms talks and explained
at length the contents of some
secret White House memoran-
dums on American security
goals.”’

Brzezinski returned to USA for
a television display of strident in-
terference in Soviet internal af-
fairs, and to make the hypocritical
accusation that Moscow has viol-
ated the ‘‘code of detente.’’ He
said that Maoist China and the
USA ‘“‘have parallel interests.”’

Less than two weeks later the
beginnings were announced of
U.S. arms sales to China. Initially
it was to be equipment which
could be disguised as non-military
— airborne scanning devices and
others which can be used for
submarine detection.

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