TORONTO — Mr. Andrew yriacou, President of the not-Canadian Democratic “sociation, attended the World -Onlerence for Solidarity with prus. The Conference, held in nkfurt-Main, West Germany, “ctober 29-31 declared: 5 | The Cyprus crisis is not the sult of internal conflict between eek and Turkish Cypriots but- the Imperialist strategic plan to ie On the island, destroy its in- “pendence and bring it into the etwork of military bases aimed sealnst the people of the area. S State of affairs is not only the Use of the suffering of all the abitants of Cyprus but also a *Tous threat to peace. Aggravat- Mg further the already explosive ation in the Middle East.” Mr. Kyriacou, delegated by the YPriot-Canadian Democratic SOciation and the Canadian ace Congress reports that lead- 5 Of all three of the political par- ig Cyprus were present and -Orty-five countries were repre- nted by delegates from church, =e, and public organizations as as by representatives of 15 “Mational organizations. Tun conference noted that th tkey had ignored all three of YN resolutions including he Ution 3212, 1974, for which he had voted. Also that Turkey, K- part in the conference. — » 0ugh a signatory to'the Helsin- YPRUS SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE Opposes Turkish occupatio di Agreement for Security and Cooperation in Europe, had con- tinued the violation of Cypriot territory and the military occupa- tion of Cyprus. The conference called for world-wide action in support of the Cypriot demand that all foreign troops withdraw from the island, that-the 200,000 Greek refugees be permitted to return to their homes. : The conference also endorsed the proposal of the government of Cyprus that an international con- ference on governmental level be called within the framework of the United Nations with the aim of taking measures to implement the UN resolutions on Cyprus. Mr. Kyriacou pointed out that Greek-Cypriots were still being expelled from the Turkish oc-. cupied zones, that at least 2,000 Greek citizens could not be ac- counted for. He also reported that the Cypriot- Turkish citizens were suffering at the hands of the oc- cupying forces. .They were treated with contempt, deprived of their freedom, were ill paid and suffering from poverty and famine. The conference welcomed the statement of Mr. Carter — then democratic candidate for Presi-' dent of U.S. He said he would support a just settlement of the Cyprus problem based on the resolutions of the UN General Assembly. aret VLADIMIR SIMONOV ,) LENNA (APN) — It was like «U.S. State Department Pokesman R. Funsett sum- «ued the press ina fit of anger to that Washington is adam- \-Y Opposed to any rise in oil Ces “‘at this stage’. There was little new in this, € line at all the previous oe What did catch the obser- Meas? however, was the par- ed St tesolve with which the Un- ae entered into urgent tations with its West Euro- i partners and Japan this time. 5 O = €nt political issue since Nov. ae the Economic Commis- ee aa ne pena of Pet- xporting Countries OPEC) began meeting here. In Secy the Commission is ) tine Proposals for the OPEC a Meeting in Oatar next ae However it is no longer a €t that there is a likelihood of 5 ae Prices being raised by 10 lth as of January 1, 1977. ~ By Pere has broken its Bali “ abstinence which it took in ,. . /X months ago, it can hardly 8Ccused of greed. It is naive to that the industrialized West the Endlessly export inflation to Xorbitant prices on manufac- k ite, 800ds, thereby ruthlessly ot Arab oil. OPEC esti- Ina Ss undicate that price hikes on lufactured imports from ad- political t first shot of a new oil war’ Nee Washington had held the “ul has once more become an’ e . Arab world in the form of | & down the purchasing . Ned Western countries has _ outpaced that of oil prices by 40% since October, 1975. . The United States has, in fact, no one but itself to blame for the ever-growing oil bill it has to foot. In spite of all predictions, the once low rate of Arab oil con- U.S. has turned into a heavy dependence. Its proportion in the overall domestic oil consumption has leaped from 29 to 40% since 1973. : For all of its much advertised programs announced during the years of the oil crisis, Washington has failed to achieve any break- through in the use of alternative sources of energy- The market economy has proved unable to solve a simple problem of large- scale planning, that is, to switch sumption in the investment over to coal mining. Besides this, a powerful opposi- , tion to nuclear power develop- ment has got under way in the pee The U.S. has failed to achieve any breakthrough in the use of al- ternative sources of energy. The market economy has proved un- able to solve a. simple problem: to switch investment over to coal mining .-- -ence : ' favourable impression on the Oil costs — a hot. ssue again United States. : It looks as if the urge to satisfy . its increased energy appetite in the Middle East impels Washington to undertake some drastic diplomatic action. Another thing the uncommon bel- licosity of the Ford Administra- tion in its closing weeks of office may be taken to indicate is that it has nothing to lose. It seems this is the reason why Washington is provoking its partners into a head-on collision with the Arab world in total disregard of their special relations with oil produc- ers (the OPEC countries supply 80% of West Europe’s energy ~ demand.) : The U.S. peremptory appeal for urgent consultations over oil prices has brought no enthusiasm _in West European capitals. Fr- ance, as always, is the most out- spoken in exprening such senti- ments. She has made it a rule to have no dealings with a bellicose, Washington-orientated group - known as_ the International Energy Agency, and does not re- lish the prospect of a head-on con- frontation with the raw material exporters, preferring a ‘*north- south’’ dialogue which; as experi- indicates, produces a Third World. With the growing determina- tion of the developing countries, supported by the socialist states, to see the new economic order established, this firing at oil bar- rels which Washington has started, may well hit some of its allies on the rebound. . HALL-TYNER PLACE FOURTH IN NEW ORLEANS VOTE NEW ORLEANS — The Communist presidential ticket placed » fourth out of seven in the Nov. 2 election both statewide and in New Orleans. The Communist candidates, clearly marked with the CP emblem, in the statewide vote ran fourth behind Carter, Ford and Maddox and ahead of Eugene McCarthy and the Libertarian and Socialist Workers’ candidates. In New Orleans the CP ticket ran fourth behind Carter, Ford and McCarthy. JDL, FBI LINKS EXPOSED IN SHOOTING TRIAL BALTIMORE — Dr. William R. Perl, head of the Washington area Jewish Defence League, on trial here for instigating a terrorist attack on Soviet embassy personnel, has established firm links between the JDL and FBI. Perl admitted that his ‘‘hit man’’ in the attack, one Reuben Lev-tov, is an FBI undercover agent. CATHOLIC CHURCH ATTACKS TERROR IN BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Roman Catholic Church vehemently attacked what it called the country’s climate of violence and fear. It cited cases of torture, violence and oppression in a 17-page document F released Nov..17. The document is the latest in 2 conflict over human : rights between the church and the fascist regime which has ruled Brazil since 1964. : GUYANA TRADE UNIONS BREAK TIES WITH AIFLD > _ GEORGETOWN — The Guyana Trades Union Congress an- nounced it will no longer accept financial aid from the Anierican Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD)as of March, 1977. The TUE discussion brought to light the close connections between the AIFLD and the CIA. KOREAN JOURNALISTS HIT KOREA-CANADA NUCLEAR AG- PYONGYANG— The Korean Journalists’ Union, in a letter recent- -ly, has criticized the Canadian government's sale of nuclear reactors to the Park regime of South Korea. The letter points out that this can only strengthen Seoul’s aggressive posture toward the Democratic People’s -Republic of Korea. Singer barred from GDR for attacks on socialism By FILS DELISLE | BERLIN — Wolf Biermann, a mediocre balladeer, who has been turned into a hero by the anti- GDR propagandists in West Germany, will have the opportun- ‘ity to live with his anti-communist friends who have been paying him and calling histune. ~ Biermann, who moved to the GDR in 1953, has been stripped of his right to return here while tour- ing West Germany with diatribes and gamey songs against the GDR. Whatever personal prop- erty he has here will be forwarded to him, although the West has for 10 years been the source of all his money and earnings. Biermann is beery-voiced, guitar-plunking, would-be troubador who imagines his bal- lads and verses have made him one of the great figures of the age. That image has been carefully fostered by reaction in West Germany. Here in the GDR, th- ose building socialism have greeted many a balladeer and foreign folk singer, with love and -enthusiasm, but Biermann has been a nonentity, not a hero. During the past decade he has not worked at anything in the GDR, but has been encouraged, praised, paid and fattened by the anti-communist publications, re- cord companies and shady characters of the political under- world in the West. In numerous interviews in the West he boasts that he has more support than the Socialist Unity Party, that he de- fies the government and takes for himself any liberties the pleases. He has also told how he has taped songs in his home here, how these have been sinuggled out of the country, been made into records back into the GDR to attack the party and its socialist program. Biermann has of course at all times claimed, even when col- laborating with the dirtiest anti- communists, that he alone is the purest of the pure communists. He has remained on in the GDR during these years of anti-GDR activity for reasons revealed by his political blood-brother, Robert Havemann, who has ad- | mitted in the rabidly anti- | communist West German publi- cation, ‘‘European Ideas’’, that “I could not publish what I want in the West if I were not here in the GDR”. On his current tour of the FRG Biermannescalated his attacks on the GDR to such an extent that the -authorities here have - ruled, under Paragraph 13 of the in the FRG, and then smuggled 1967 Law on Citizenship, that he has forfeited his right to return to the GDR. The announcement stirred up the usual howl of pro- test among those in the FRG who accept and even strongly support the anti-communist regulations in force there, such as the prohibi- tion on communists being teachers, railway workers, even garbage collectors in government service. The GDR press has pointed out that Biermann’s anti-GDR diatribes on his current FRG tour were the crudest revi- vals of the cold war where he cal- led for the overthrow of the gov- ernment and coarsely maligned the working people here. The West German Communist Party, pointed out that Biermann was ca'ling for a new West Ger- man Communist Party against the existing party, and that in fact he was the darling of West German anti-Communist forces. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 3, 1976—Page 7 H| es Eat