WORLD SCENE

GROMYKO ASKS UN END ARMS RACE

UNITED. NATIONS, N.Y. — In the second day of the general
debate at the 26th session of the UN General Assembly, the Soviet
Union unfolded a program for institutionalizing the struggle for
disarmament. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stated the
Soviet Union was presenting a draft resolution and urged the Gen-
eral Assembly to express its approval of a world disarmament con-
ference which would be a permanent organization to cope with
the greatly increased speed of the arms race.

Gromyko said that although the UN had contributed certain
steps to disarmament, what was achieved was only “a threshold
to disarmament” and that “‘to stop with that would mean evading
the solution of the fundamental problem.”

In a far-ranging address covering all aspects of the international
situation and the work of the UN, Gromyko appealed for all states
to participate in an effort to end the arms race.

CHINESE MILITARY JET CRASHES IN MONGOLIA
ULAN BATOR:— Montsame press agency reported that on the
night of Sept. 12-13 a Chinese jet crashed deep inside the territory
of the Mongolian People’s Republic. Charred bodies of nine per-
sons, firearms, equipment and documents showed the plane be-
longed to the Chinese air force. Cause of the crash is unknown.

TREATY TO BAN GERM WARFARE

GENEVA — The USSR and U.S., together with their allies, sub-
mitted a new international arms control treaty to the disarmament
conference which would ban biological weapons for all time.

It was the first time since the 25-nation talks began in 1962 that
all NATO and Warsaw Pact countries joined in sponsoring a dis-
armament convention.

The treaty will prohibit the development, production and stock-
piling of biological agents of warfare. It provides for the destruc-
tion of all existing biological weapons. :

The East-West treaty now goes to the United Nations General
Assembly which is expected to endorse it for world-wide signing
in November.

A similar treaty is being prepared to ban all chemical weapons.

CHILE DEDUCTS EXCESS U.S. PROFIT
SANTIAGO — President Salvador Allende of Chile’s Popular
Unity government ordered $774 million in excess profits to be
deducted from compensation payments to the U.S. copper-mining
monopolies, Anaconda and Kennecott, for nationalization of their
mines in Chile. The excess profits deduction announced by Allende
on nationwide TV is based on a just profit estimate of 10% per

year since 1955 for the American monopolies.

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No concession to U.S.
auto pact blackmail!

There is growing evidence
that the Canadian government
is preparing to trade off the
protection of the Canadian U.S.
Auto Pact as part of a deal for
relief from President Nixon’s
10% surcharge, the Central Ex-
ecutive of the Communist Party
declares.

Recent statements by Trade
Minister Pepin and Mr. Trudeau
make it clear that they are in-
volved in Yankee horse-trading
with the Auto Pact on the auc-
tion block.

This bears out the warning
issued by the Communist Party
when the surtax was announced
that it was the opening ploy in
a power play by U.S. imperial-
ism to scuttle the Auto Pact—

compel Canada to play a strong-

er role in NATO and_- force
through a continental energy
deal which would give the U.S.
full access to Canada’s energy
resources.

Unfortunately the first part
of this prophesy is coming true
and the victims are to be Cana-
da’s 50,000 auto workers and
the entire Canadian geonomy.

Let there be no mistake about
what the consequences of end-
ing the Auto Pact would be.

Under the terms of the pact
a guarantee of $250 million
content for vehicles turned out
in Canada (equal to the 1964
ratio) was set. Secondly the
ratio of vehicle production in
Canada to sales achieved in

1964 was guaranteed, or 75%
of sales, whichever was highest.

This provided some guaran-
tee that when the Canadian
auto industry was_ integrated
with the U.S., it would not be
possible to close out the Cana-
dian industry at will when it
suited the needs of the U.S.
based corporations.

That was Stage One of a de-
liberate . plan to reduce the
Canadian -auto industry to a
cog in the U.S. machine.

Stage Two is now being put
into effect with the demand for
the removal of the protection of
the pact. This would enable the
U.S. based companies to do
with the auto industry what
General Electric is doing to its
branch plants here and what
Dunlop did to Toronto workers.

The long term needs of Cana-
da must be served by an inde-
pendent Canadian auto Industry
and we suggest that the gov-
ernment should have such plans
on the drafting table now, the
party declares.

In the interim however, the
jobs of auto workers and the
needs of the economy must- be
protected by retaining the pro-
tection of the Auto Pact.

The Communist Party asks
for a clear unmistakeable guar-
antee by the federal govern-
ment that the terms of the Auto

-Pact are not negotiable and

that we will not be browbeaten
by U.S. big stick tactics.

* PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1971—PAGE 4

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MOSCOW — Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin on Sept. 28
called upon Pakistani President
Yahya Khan to “take the most
effective steps for the liquida-
tion of the hotbed of tension” in
East Pakistan and pledged that
the Soviet Union will ‘do its
utmost for the maintenance of
peace in that region and for the
prevention of armed conflict.”

Kosygin made the statement
in a speech at a Kremlin lunch-
eon in honor of visiting Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

“Tt is impossible to justify the
actions of the Pakistani author-
ities which compelled over eight
million people to leave their
country, land, and property and
to seek shelter in neighboring
India,” Kosygin’ said. “The
wholesale flight of the popula-
tion from East Pakistan — and
eight million people is the po-
pulation of a medium-sized Eu-
ropean country — can be only
explained by unbearable living

conditions created for them

there.” s
Kosygin noted the tension in

relations between India and

Pakistan as a result of this situ-
ation and said that the newly-
signed Soviet-Indian treaty is
“not spear-headed against any
states and that friendly Soviet-
Indian relations will not be
further strengthened through
the worsening of relations with
other countries.”

“The task is to prevent aggra-
vation of the relations between
India‘ and Pakistan,” he affirm-
ed. “It is necessary, above all,
to offer the refugees an oppor-
tunity to return home, to give
them a full guarantee on the
part of the Pakistani authorities
that the refugees will not be
persecuted and will have an op-
portunity to calmly live’ and
work in East Pakistan. Peace-
able opinion in a!! countries and
all friends of India and Pakistan
expect from the Pakistani au-
thorities an early political set-
tlement in East Pakistan which
would consider the legitimate
interests of its population,
would safeguard its normal de-
velopment and eliminate the
threat of further aggravation of
Pakistani-Indian relations. Such
an approach, we are convinced,
would accord with the interests
of the Pakistani people and the
cause of peace in that region.”

Kosygin pointed out that the
exchange of opinion begun with
Prime Minister Gandhi on this
question shows that “the Soviet
Union and India will continue
pooling their efforts to attain
this aim.” :

“In the present _ situation,”

Kosygin went on, “it is highly .

important to bring about an end
to imperialist aggression in In-
dochina and in the Middle East
and to attain mutual under-
standing between states on the
main international _ problems
which call for their solution.”

He emphasized that the treaty
“opens up before our countries
new prospects, gives reason for
saying that notwithstanding the
different social systems in our
countries, we can march and act
together in the interests of im-
plementing our plans of peace-
ful construction, in the interests
of the cause of peace in Asia
and throughout the world.

“The Soviet Union respects
and appreciates India’s peaceful

- foreign policy, the policy of

non-alignment, whose founda-
tions were laid by the outstand-
ing India statesman, Jawaharlal
Nehru.”

Premier Kosygin:

‘Yahya Khan is unjusti

TEL-AVIV—At 1 a.m, on Aug.
22 Minister of Finance Pinhas
Sapir announced over the radio
the devaluation of the Israeli
lira by 20% relative to the U.S.
dollar—from IL 3.50 the dollar
to IL 4.20. With this step Israel
was the first country and one
of the very few which used the
dollar crisis as a pretext for de-
valuation—the seventh since the
establishment of the state 23
years ago.

Why at one o'clock at night?
Well, the O.K. from Wall Street
via the (U.S.) World Bank and
the White House for the decision
of the Israeli government, ac-

cepted.some days before, arrived .

one hour earlier, according to
press records.

At that time the men at the
White House were doing every-
thing to persuade and press
other hard valuta, as e.g. the
West-German Mark and _ the
Japanese yen, to revaluation de-
jure after it had done so already
de-facto. Why then the agree-
ment for such a sharp devalua-
tion of the Israeli lira?

First of all, the true reasons
for the devaluation of the Israeli
lira are very much the same as
those of the practical devalua-
tion of the dollar: enormous
military expenditures, war ad-
ventures and occupation, a great
part of which has to be paid by
foreign hard cash. Secondly the
devaluation of the lira has no
repercussion whatsoever on the
dollar, since it is not convertible
valuta on the world market.

The devalution has most
catastrophic consequences for
the masses in Israel itself. To-
gether with the announcement
of the devaluation, Sapir pro-
claimed rises for bread, eggs,
milk, petrol and gas and many
other consumer goods. He prom-
ised that the government would
not allow any “unjust” rise of
other prices. But the experience
of former devaluations or simi-
lar promises on other occasions
teaches that they will not be
kept anyway. ;

The: truth is—and the day
following the devaluation al-
ready prove’ it—that prices will
soar again. Only a few days
after the promise had been giv-
en, the government agreed to a
rise of bus fares by 20-30%.

‘The rising anger of the work-
ing masses, protest strikes and

other forms of struggle forced

the government to cancel the
price rise at least of one kind of
bread, the so-called “standard
bread” and reduce the rise of

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but all the other prices —
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widely dependent on
which naturally become ult
expensive by 20% as 4 ee
the devaluation. The 14°" agi
cit this year, according 7
ister of Finance sap 1
$1.4 billion. This 15
deficit of 1967 and abel
times the, total expe?
the state during the cur
et year. :
The enormous debts of
state in foreign value
automatically by 2 %
value. ta
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NEW DELHI — The CC nd

has decided to particip4
left coalition governme
state of Kerala, let ne ¥
Menon, member 0 u!
Committee of the comm
Party of India. the ©
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Party, although it was Pr aet
cluded in the state By
or cabinet. On Sept. 2 ov
ever, Mr. Menon’s new
ment included five its
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cabinet posts. This is ai
time that the Congress | 1
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