eee | oo I wi | LAR INTERNATIONAL WOTES Zambia on war footing Zambia on Tuesday mobilized its armed forces and called up reserves to meet a “‘full-scale war’’ situation. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia made the announcement in a nationwide radio broadcast Tuesday following two days of attack by Zimbab- wean forces. The racists penetrated deep into Zambian territory, blowing up vital bridges and killing several Zambian Army soldiers. Kaunda said: ‘‘I call upon the people and resi- dents of Zambia to realize we are in a full-scale war and to assist in vigilance all over the country.’’ He called on the world community for help and mate- rial aid. The Zambian president said Britain was re- sponsible for the racist Zimbabwean aggression against Zambia, which he termed an “‘act of war.” He said the illegal regime of Abel Muzorewa and Ian Smith in Zimbabwe was trying to wreck the London conference. Zambia’s war, Kaunda said, would be against ‘formidable enemies backed by Western imperialists.” Israel cancels subsidies Israel’s working people were hard hit by Mon- day’s cancellation of government subsidies and cutbacks in jobs and public projects. Leaders of Histradut, the Israeli labor confed- moves and said they meant a ‘‘massive increase in prices.” Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, who an- nounced the cuts Monday, admitted that Israel’s inflation rate is now 150 percent, not 100 percent, and said the Israeli economy is ‘‘sick.”’ eration, on Tuesday condemned the government . Hurvitz’s program includes a freeze on civilian projects such as schools and hospitals, cancellation of government subsidies on dairy products, cook- ing oil and margarine, and public services. The price of a quart of milk, 25 cents on Monday, was 55 cents on Tuesday, and there were similar price hikes for other items. Public transportation fares went up 50 percent, electricity 37 percent, tele phone and postal services by 52 percent. The price increases are expected to hit Israel’s poorest families the hardest of all. Businessmen are angry over the credit freeze announced by Hurvitz, which they said would com- pel them to fire tens of thousands of workers. Protest military exercises About 300 people from the village of Yomitan, in the center of Okinawa, Japan, demonstrated against the landing exercises of U.S. marines, Tuesday, forcing them to be discontinued. In the past, 13 incidents have occurred as a re- sult of similar U.S. exercises at the military air- field, including the death of a Japanese girl and repeated material damage to the villagers. The Okinawa Assembly, at an extra-ordinary session Tuesday, unanimously passed a resolution calling for an immediate end to the landing exer- cises and the removal of the U.S. military airfield. at Yomitan. Kamphuchea blasts resolution The UN resolution on the ‘‘situation in Kam- puchea”’ adopted by the General Assembly was called “gross interference in the internal affairs” of Kampuchea in a statement by that country’s foreign ministry. The foreign ministry categorically rejected the ’ the treaty of peace, friendship and cooperation be- resolution saying that it ‘‘completely distorts the real state of affairs in Kampuchea” where there is no armed conflict and therefore no need of ‘‘end- ing” it and no need of any ‘‘political settlement.” The presence of Vietnamese troops in Kam- puchea, the statement said, is in accordance with tween the two countries and is vitally important to Kampuchea. It is only the People’s Revolutionary Council of Kampuchea that is authorized to raise the withdrawal of troops, which they would consider once the threat to its independence is withdrawn. The statement attacked the ‘‘lies and slanders” made during the debates at the General Assembly by representatives of certain countries against “our people and government.”’ Guatemalan writer killed José Leon Castaneda Juarez; 31, one of the lead- ers of Guatemala’s Press and Communications Workers and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Di- ario Impacto, was found brutally murdered in Guatemala City last weekend. He was buried on Monday. ; Castaneda had been kidnapped several days be- fore by unidentified pérsons. His body was found in the northern part of the capital with traces of se- vere torture. A statement by the Press and Communications Workers’ Union said he had repeatedly received letters and phone calls threatening his life. The trade union and the Journalist Association of Guatemala are calling for a thorough investiga- tion into the murder — one of many such crimes by reactionary gangs which act practically with im- punity in the country. ; By TOMFOLEY . Ten more hostages — six Black men and four white women — released from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran arrived in West Germany >on Tuesday, where they were held in strict isolation and whisked away to a U.S. military hospital for in- terrogation by U.S. spe- cialists. Hani al-Hassan, chief fo the Palestine Liberation Organiza- tion (PLO) Mission in Tehran, said Tuesday: *‘We are happy that the Imam (the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini) has ac- cepted our proposal and freed the oppressed Blacks, women and non-Americans.”” There were about 40 non-U.S. citizens working in the Em- bassy at the time of its November 4 seizure. Their re- lease was never announced by Officials react to hostage release the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. U.S. security personnel surrounded five of the ten embassy personnel released today as they arrived in Paris from sein of Iraq opened the mee with a ringing speech calling © all the Arabs to unite and their ‘‘very efficient weapons our economic resources, our resources, against those strengthen the Zionist aggr sors.” Iraq is Iran’s next dé neighbor. Libya supports Iran Libya had earlier expre complete solidarity with Ir and called for a joint Arab boycott against the U.S. Alge on Tuesday harshly attacket) Washington’s position: in ! editorial in the official da newspaper al-Chaab (‘‘TM) People’), the Carter freeze Iranian assets was call ‘proof that the U.S. objectivé not the liberation of host: but rather it is the Iranian volution itself.’’ In Riyadh, Prince Sultani?) Abdul Aziz, the Defense Min ter of Saudi Arabia, stron” denied U.S. reports that ™% Saudis will increase thei * production to meet the & the students occupying the Embassy. The PLO earlier sent a top-level mission to Iran which held talks with Iranian government officials on the Embassy situation. Official Washington reaction to the release of the U.S. hos- tages, 13 altogether, was grudg- ing at best. White House spokesman Jody Powell and State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III both said Tuesday that the U.S. will not extradite the shah to Iran, the chief demand of the Iranian people. A senior administration offi- cial, quoted in Tuesday’s New York Times, said: ‘‘I don’t be- lieve the American people want us to yield and the U.S. gov- ernment under no circum- stances will yield,”’ that is, ap- parently, whether the people of the U.S. want the Shah sent back to stand trial or not. Hostages released The ten hostages were re- leased Tuesday at a news con- ference held in the Tehran Em- bassy grounds. A huge poster in English behind them read: “Carter is supporting this nasty criminal (the Shah) under the pretext of sickness.” The Shah was brought to the U.S. on October 22 on the urging of David Rockefeller, head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Wash- ington said at the time to the Iranian government that the Shah was “terminally ill’? with cancer and could receive medi- cal treatment nowhere else. Dr. Stephen Levin, a physi- cian who was demonstrating with many others Monday night against the Shah about a block from New York Hospital, told reporters he had ‘‘spoken to many of my colleagues who work in the hospital and they all feel there was no reason for bringing the deposed monarch into this country.’’ Jimmy Breslin, columnist for the Nw York Daily News, earlier re- ported New York Hospital doc- tors saying the same thing. Abroad, Washington’s stand on the Iranian and Middle Eastern crises was coming under heavy fire. At the 10th Arab summit confernece in Tunis, President Saddam Hus- pected shortfall of Iranian the U.S. He said: ‘‘Theseé ports are a fabrication. 1? have no basis in truth.” = In New Delhi, Adm. 974 | Kohli of the Indian Navy 5® the recent U.S. naval buildup. the Indian Ocean region 15 serious threat to peace ape India’s national interests 4 national security. We have * forgotten the dangerous ac of the U.S. 7th Fleet in the of Bengal during the I Pakistan crisis of 1971. opened our eyes.”