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YEMENI MARXIST -LENINIST PARTY FOUNDED

ey aoe 7 ADEN — The First Congress of the Yemeni Socialist Party came to
a4 i “> ie r a close last month, with the election of the Central Committee headed 4)

by its general secretary Abdel Fattah Ismail. The Central Committee
has 51 members and 12 candidate members. In his report Fattah Ismail
said that the Congress was a victory for the Yemeni working class and
guaranteed the continuance of the revolution began 15 years ago. “The
revolution,’ he said, ‘‘is now stronger than ever before and nothing 1}
can stop its advanee.’’ The foreign policy adopted by the congress was
based on the principles of peaceful coexistence and solidarity with the |
socialist community.

OSCOW (TASS) — The visit
a's deputy premier, Teng
140-Ping to Thailand, Malaysia
ame ingapore has ended in fai-
‘ute for Peking’s diplomacy.

t Vietnam and the pressure
plied to draw Thailand,
“alaysia and Singapore into the
Main tream of Peking’s great-
POWEr politics were regarded as
Yet another evidence of the in-
ng aggressiveness of the
e's Republic of China.

eae K. Chomanan, Thai-
| ‘sNd's prime minister, during the
talks with the guest, put the chief
Mphasis on the prospects for the
Stablishment of a lasting peace
and stability in Indochina, Teng
he ne spent the major part
| the time undermining the re-
| Sults of the recent visit to
angkok of the delegation of the
oCialist Republic of Vietnam and

ISRAELI PERSONALITIES TO VISIT USSR

TEL AVIV — A group of Israeli public figures, including members
of parliament, have been invited to visit the Soviet Union later this
month, and have accepted the invitation. Yosef Sarid, member of
parliament, replied to fierce press attacks in an interview in the news-
paper Davar, saying the invitations came from the Soviet Peace Com-
mittee. “‘I do not want to pin great hopes on our visit, but I think it will
be useful,”’ he said. ‘‘It’s obvious there can be.no lasting peace without
the USSR.”

PUERTO RICAN UNIONIST TRIED ON A FRAME-UP

SAN JUAN — Puerto Rican trade unionist Miguel Cabrera went on ,
trial here Nov. 13. Cabrera is being framedon a murder charge which is i
the culmination of several years harassment by the CIA and the FBI.
Cabrera is accused in the 1977 killing of company lawyer, Alan Ran-
dall. Immediately after the killing, repression against the 14,000-strong

Spvi It is well known, that on theone man and General Secretary ofthe Committee Nov. 21 approved a proposal for a mandatory oil embargo a
i pying on Cuba hand, Peking declares it does not. Socialist Unity Party. against South Africa to stop the flow of petroleum to Rhodesia. The
The U.S. is conducting aerial interfere in the internal affairs of | GDR Deputy Foreign Minister committee also deplored ‘‘the complicity of successive British gov- a

| Advanced Soviet planes. Presi- other, however, Peking recently - ‘‘These. regulations and agree- Africa’s continued collaboration with the Salisbury regime. 4)
S | dent Carter ordered ahalttoaerial openly and insistently had called ments cannot be seen merely 1
st | Spying after he took office in for overthrowing the govern- under the aspect of travel and f
Ya January 1977 supposedly to pave | ments of Singapore and Malaysia. financial policies. That was evi- : |
R &, the Way for normalization of rela- An even more clear-cut formu- dent to both sides during our 4
$ | tions with Cuba, a move which _ lation of Singapore's position was negotiations and talks. They have 1)
~ | has strong popular backing. Ad- provided by the country’s prime general political significance. }
a Ministration officials refused to minister Lee Kuan Yew. Speak-. They are @ step forward in the |
| disclose when Carter ordered re- ing at a reception in honor of Teng. relations between the German 1
9 SUmption of the flights or how Hsiao-Ping he said that the people Democratic Republic and the
. Y missions have been flown. of Singapore are sufficiently Federal Republic of Germany and |
ie Pe phbgeete the principle of mutu- |
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try to force Thailand to turn a
Nd eye on the chauvinistic
ourse pursued by Peking with
Tegard to neighbouring Kam-

ma Puchea.

Teng Hsiao-Ping’s pro-

| Rouncements in Thailand and
| Malaysia have also revealed that

does not intend to give up

the Policy of interfering in the in-

Canada backs
Israel at UN

» FARIS — The United Nations
_ “ducational, Scientific and Cul-

l Organization condemned Is-
"ael during a debate on education
an culture in occupied Arab ter-
Ntories by a vote of 64 in favor,
Ne against\and 26 abstentions

o qo 1S.

The motion ‘‘condemned as

“ontrary to human rights and fun-

damental freedoms all violations

Of ating from Israeli occupation,
ot the rights of populations living
awl the occupied Arab territories
9 national education and cultural
: € and particularly the policy of
‘YStematic cultural assimila-
Hon.” The four countries op-
POsed were the USA, Canada,

| Australia-and Israel.

U.S. resumes

Spying against Cuba under the
Pretext that Cuba has acquired

Chinese troop build-up alon

g Its neighbors’ borders has led those

countries to view China’s ‘non-interventionist’ policies suspiciously.

ternal affairs of Southeast Asian
countries through support of the
anti-government Maoist move-
ments in that region. Bearing this
problem in mind, Malaysia's
prime minister Hussein Onn said
that his country would like to be
left alone and spared all forms of
interference, subversive activity
or instigation. :

In response to Teng Hsiao-
Ping’s attempts to denigrate the
peaceful foreign policy of the
USSR--and»to» mar~ friendly
Soviet-Malaysian relations, Hus-
sein Onn stated that Malaysia
would not allow anyone to set its
people against a particular great
power.

Similar results were seen dur-
ing Teng Hsiao-Ping’s visit to
Singapore, a country with no dip-
lomatic relations with China, de-
spite the fact that ethnic Chinese
constitute a majority of its popula-
tion.

Even on the eve of the Chinese.
visit, Singapore’s mass media ap-
pealed to the population to dis-
play maximum caution and not to
provide the Chinese leader with
an opportunity to play up the idea
ofa ‘‘national community”’ of the
peoples of these countries.

Southeast Asian countries and
poses as their friend. On the

well-versed in geopolitics to
realize that their future is directly
dependent on the future of Singa-
pore in Southeast Asia and not on
the future of China. The people
cannot sacrifice their national in-
terests in the name of China.
Neither can they count on China
sacrificing its own interests in the
name of Singapore.

GDR - FRG
sign agreement

: _ By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN - The complicated
process of normalization and
coexistence between the two
German states has moved for-
ward again in a series of agree-
ments between them for large
scale measures and financing to
build new transit roads between
the FRG and West Berlin over
GDR territory.

Another set of agreements has
been reached by the GDR with
the West Berlin Senate for the
same purpose. Both implement
proposals made to the FRG and
West. Berlin in August by Erich
Honecker, State Council chair-

Klaus Nier, who led the negotia-
tions for the GDR side, declared:

local branch of the Teamsters Union was increased and the workers
responded by 27 unions joining together to form the Labor Committee
Against Repression.

The key witness against Cabrera is a man called Tanco already
convicted of four murders. In-exchange for his testimony Tanco’s life
imprisonment sentence has been reduced to 10 years.

NATO GENERAL TO VISIT TROUBLED IRAN

TEHRAN — Gen. Haig, U.S. general and Supreme Military Com-
mander of NATO, is preparing for a trip to Iran to provide NATO
backing to the current military government of Premier Reza Azhari. It
was also learned that U-S. officials at NATO headquarters in Brussels
are demanding that France “‘shut-up”’ the exiled leader Ayotollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, one of the Iranian Shi’ite Muslim opposition
leaders: Khomeini resides near Paris.

RIGHT WING PLOT UNCOVERED IN SPAIN
MADRID — The Spanish government is in full control of the armed
forces after foiling a plot by right-wing officers to arrest Prime Minister
Adolfo Suarez and force a change of government. Sources said the plot
code-named Operation Galaxy, was discovered by military intelligence
and quickly neutralized.

PORTUGAL’S COMMUNISTS WIN MUNICIPAL ELECTION

LISBON — The Alliance of Popular Unity, supported by the Com-
munist Party, has won an important victory in the municipal election in
the provincial capital of Evora gaining 53% of the votes. Evora is the
capital of the farming district of Alentejo. The rightist Popular Social
Democrats came second with 21% and the Socialist Party finished with
a dismal showing, picking up less than half the 9,000 votes they won in
1976. :

UN CALLS FOR RHODESIA OIL EMBARGO
UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly’s Trusteeship

ernments” in the violation of oil sanctions against Rhodesia. The
committee also condemned Smith's ‘internal settlement’ and South

ry

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