By MAX REICH Erhard government, the Chris-
Tribune Staff Correspondent tian Democratic Party’s choice
BERLIN for the new prime minister,

JUBILANT von Thadden, Since elected, was Kurt Georg
leader of the National De- Kiesinger.
mocratic Party, the new Kiesinger was a member of
West German nazi party, com- the nazi party from 1933. He
mented on: his party’s two elec- tried to deflate his role during
tion successes in so many the Hitler era by claiming that
weeks: “After the 1969 general he was only a small cog in the,
election,our party will appoint azi state machine.
the prime minister!” Professor Albert Norden has
Some people in West Germa- now presented documents which
ny think: the time is ripe; why show that Kiesinger was in
wait till 1969, when we can have charge of the entire psycholo-
a nazi as prime minister in 1966? _ gical warfare of the nazis by
After the collapse of the radio, with a big staff working

eee
around the world

AMERICAN Negro comedian Dick Gregory, who had planned
to go to North Vietnam to entertain U.S. prisoners of war over
Christmas, and had been informed by British philosopher Bertrand
Russel that the North Vietnamese authorities would allow him entry,
may be prevented from going as a result of a conviction arising out
of a demonstration for Indian fishing rights in Olympia, Washington
... A 17-year old youth in Milwaukee wounded a bookseller when
trying to kill Fred Blair, Wisconsin State chairman of the Com-
‘munist Party, last week. The young man, who admitted he was a
' member of a fascist youth organization has been charged with
attempted murder.
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THE INDIAN beauty who was recently crowned Miss World
is refusing to go to Vietnam with a Bob Hope show. India’s exter-
_ nal affairs minister has said that while American bombing continues
in Vietnam, Indian citizens weuld not go there and “‘show approba-
tion” . . . Five men and a woman were sentenced to jail witK terms
ranging from six months to 10 years in Madrid last week for alleged-
ly attempting to organize a clandestine political party.
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UNITED STATES would disregard a resolution calling for the
dismantling of foreign bases if passed by the United Nations, accord-
ing to US. delegate William C. Foster during a debate in the UN.
main political committee . . . Maggs, a London bookseller, has paid
£2,000 at a recent auction for five letters and a postcard written by
Karl Marx to British social reformer Thomas Allsop.
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BELGIAN DEMOCRATS have censured the government’s deci-
sion to accommodate NATO military and political agencies on
Belgian territory, and are insisting on Belgium withdrawing from
_ the aggressive North Atlantic Pact. Protest demonstrations have
_ been held in Brussels and Mons . . . The computer-played chess
match between U.S. and Soviet scientists will have to end after
the 40th move: their problem was how to program the ending of the
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_* A MATHEMATICALLY-INCLINED writer for London’s New
_ Statesman figured out that if the money the United States is plan-
_ning to spend on the war next year were simply divided up and
given to the inhabitants of South Vietnam, every man, woman and
child there would get a sum of almost $2,000 each. That would
give that little country one of the highest per capita incomes in
the world for 1967 .. . Prof. Seymour Melman of Columbia Univer-
sity last week told an audience at the school’s Medical centre ‘that
Scientists should refuse to participate in germ warfare research
rather than later to “stand in the position of German scientists who, —
in the name of solving problems of heat transfer, designed the

ovens used to destroy Hitler’s concentration camp prisoners.”

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= TWO AND A HALF MILLION workers in Argentina will go on
strike Dec. 14 to protest the economic and social policies of. their.
- government . . . The world press must give more space to the sig-
nificance of the Nuremberg trial of major nazi war criminals so as
_ to develop more humane relations among people. This was the
-conclusion drawn by participants in the Warsaw meeting of corres-
-pondents accredited at Nuremberg during the International Tribunal.
They appealed to UNESCO to study methods of aquainting
young people with the proceedings through school manuals, ency-
clopaedic and popular-science publications, and through mass infor-
mation means.

- Bonn's new prime minister
was link in nazi machine

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=

under him. He was the link be-
tween Ribbentrop’s and Goeb-
bels’ ministries; he attended the
Goebbels’ daily ministerial con-
ferences; the power and author-
ity vested in him by Ribbentrop
was held only by big levers not
“little cogs” in the nazi state
machine.

Kiesinger’s. reaction to these
charges, according to the press,
was laughter.

“None of the documents of-
fered by the East Germans sug-
gested that Mr. Kiesinger had
himself committed any acts de-
scribed as war crimes,” says the

‘New York times. But it misses

the point, just- as do those peo-
ple who testify to Kiesinger’s
unblemished character, or claim.
that he was against anti-Semitic
excesses.

If there is such a thing as po-
litical decency, then a man who
served the nazi state and nazi
propaganda in such an impor-
tant function for many years,
throughout the war, is unfit to
become prime minister.

If Kiesinger were really the
honest gentleman his friends
now portray him to be, he would
have been the first to decline the
offer of such an elavated office,
instead of trying to make a mole
hill out of the mountain of his
services for Ribbentrop, Goeb-
bels and nazi policy.

Kiesinger’s appointment as
prime minister is a slap in the
face of civilization:

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‘Negro
can be

Stokely Carmichael, ‘national chairman of the militant. Stude

Non-Violent Coordinating commi

in California. Following is an excerpt from a news report of 1
speech to a meeting of 450 students and faculty members at Sa

Francisco State College:

Carmichael first introduced
the subject of economic reform

in his description of the nation’s”

Negro ghettoes.

“The ghetto,” he said, “is the
product of special interests in
the white community. Those who
have the power to make chang-
es in society are the ones who
profit from the ghetto. Ghettoes
are captive communities.

The economic stranglehold on
the ghetto can be broken, he
said, by establishing cooperative
enterprises on all levels of eco-
nomic activity. The profits
from these cooperatives would

. be used to reconstruct the ghet-

toes.

A middle-aged white man
asked the SNCC leader if he
were advocating socialism.

“What’s going on in this |

country,” said Carmichael, ‘‘can’t
keep going on. If you call what
I'm saying socialism, that’s your
word, not mine: It’s time to say
what’s good for black people is
good for the country.

“They've been saying what’s
good for the country is good for
black people. But slavery wasn’t
good for us — and they said it
was good for the country. They
now say the same thing about
Vietnam, but it’s not good for
us. They say the economic struc-
ture is good for the country: —

ghettoes
broken’

ttee, recently made a speaking tol

but it sure as hell isn’t good fo
us.” .
A Negro student asked if th
goals of black power couldn
be achieved faster by separatin
blacks from whites.
Carmichael smiled and lea
over the podium.
“If we did that they’d wip
us out,” he answered. “If wel
separated completely they coul
just drop a bomb. Now we’
strategically located in the if
ner city.”
A white student asked if Cat
michael advocated violence t?
achieve black power. a
“We'll get it by whatevé!
means we have to. Don’t talk t
me about violence. What thi
country needs is a white Marl
Luther King,” he said.
Carmichael spoke wryly ®
the relationship of violence 1
the Negro freedom movement
“No matter how we denouncé
violence,” he said,. “when one 9
our boys throws a Moloto’
cocktail — you’re in it.” 4
“If one white cop messé
with one black man,” he salé
later, “the whole country we
know about it. That’s the kine
of organization we want.” =
_If policemen lived in the
neighborhoods — they patrolled:
“there ain’t going to be polic®
brutality.” 4

LBERTO Lovera, a leader
of the Venezuelan Com-
munist Party, was sec-

retly jailed, brutally tortured
and then murdered on Octo-
ber, 1965 by agents of Digepol,
‘a branch of the Venezuelan
police force, which works in
close cooperation with and
under the direction of the FBI
and CIA agents in Venezu-
ela.

These facts have come to
light now, a year later, after
a government investigation
of the case.

Lovera was kidnapped in
Caracas on Oct. 18, 1965 and
tortured by Captain Vegas
and 10 other police agents.
He was then sent to Cachipo,
a military concentration camp
located in Monagas state in
Eastern Venezuela, where he
was subjected to more tor-
ture.

Because of Lovera’s physi-
cal state, the military police
gang decided to kill him and
then cover up their crime.
On Oct. 27 Lovera’s corpse
was found with a chain and
pickaxe around his neck,
floating on the shore of Puer-
ta La Cruz.

At first the government

ALBERTO LOVERA

Murder of a patriot

agencies denied any respon-
-Sibilities for the kidnapping
of Lovera and put out the sto-
ry that “he was _ probably
killed by his comrades on or-
ders from Havana,” but be-
‘cause he had been moved
from the headquarters of
Digepol in Caracas to other
police precincts in the city
and then transported to Matu-
rin (about 450 kilometres
from the capital) and was
tortured in the presence of
other political prisoners
(thousands of whom over-
crowd the jails and _concen-
tration camps in Venezuela
today) it was impossible to
hide the murder.

The Lovera case. (and
others like it) was denounced
in Parliament and a_ broad
mass protest movement
around it developed all over
the country. As a result Con-
gress ordered the investiga-
tion which has just been com-
pleted. :

The investigation has prov-
ed conclusively the respon-

_ Sibility of Digepol for the

murder, and especially of
Captain Vegas, and Patino
Gonzales (at that time direc-
tor of Digepol and now in

New York studying at FBI
headquarters), and five other
police agents and, losically of
the minister of interior, Gon- ©
zalo Barrios.

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Alberto Lovera was born
in 1923. From his early youth
he lived in the oilfields of
Zulia state, where he.worked
as driver of an oil tanker. As
an oil worker.he travelled in
the United States and Can- —
ada. Years later he became a
member of the youth section
of the Venezuelan Commu-
nist Party. Soon after, he was —
asked to quit his job in order |
to’ work full time for the
party. He was a loyal, active
and noonlar leader and an in-
defatiosble fichter for the na-
tional liberation of his coun-
try.

As a leader of the narty he
attended many international
Communist meetines in vari- q
ous world canitels. From. |
196? until his death. because
of the persecution ef Venezu-
elon patriots ordered by
Washineton and carried
throush by the Betancourt- |
Leoni regime, he had to work —
clandestinely.

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