"WORLD SCENE DRV DOWNS II U.S. PLANES IN TWO DAYS HANOI — The Democratic Republic of Vietnam’s air defense forces downed 11 U.S. warplanes in two days last week, bringing the total shot down over the DRV to 3,697 since 1964. The DRV re- ports were confirmed by French and other foreign newsmen sta- tioned in Hanoi, who reported seeing the U.S. planes hit by Soviet- built SAM anti-aircraft missiles over Hanoi. Eight planes were downed over Hanoi and three over other parts of the country. For- eign. Ministry said the U.S. was continuing its attacks on dams and dikes in the Red River delta. The U.S. air attacks seemed to be concentrated on destroying the irrigation system and flood-control workers. And in Washington, U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) charged that the Pentagon is seeding the monsoon clouds now over the DRV. BOYLE SENTENCED ON ILLEGAL FUND USE WASHINGTON — W. A. Boyle, formerly United Mine Workers of America president. was sentenced on June 27 to five years in prison and fined $130,000 for conspiracy and illegal diversion of union funds. Federal Judge Charles R. Richey ordered Boyle jailed immediately, rejecting bail during appeals. In all, Boyle drew two concurrent five-year terms, followed by two years on probation, with the requirement that he make resti- tution of the full $49,250 he misused. “All fines to each count shall be paid by the defendant himself,” the judgement reads. A federal court two months ago declared invalid Boyle’s 1969 election to the presidency, the election in which he “won” in a rigged vote over Joseph Yablonski. As Yablonski prepared to testify before investigators he, his wife and daughter were murdered by hired killers who have since been convicted. JAPAN WELCOMES SOVIET ELECTRONICS FAIR TOKYO — The, daily newspaper Yomiuri said here last week that more than 60 of Japan’s leading electronics company. have ap- plied to exhibit at the Moscow electronics in mid-July. Some firms are quite concerned that the present monetary crisis in Western Europe will cut deeply into their market there. They are thus “greatly interested” in expanding trade with the USSR. Among firms already signed are Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Sony <2 Fuki. Electronic computers are expected to be a major exhibit item. : ITALIAN COMMUNISTS INVITE ANGELA NEW YORK — Angela Davis has been invited to Italy in Sep- tember as guest of the Communist Party of Italy to take part, among other things, in the national L’Unita Festival in Rome. L’Unita is the daily newspaper of the Italian CP. The invitation, addressed to Henry Winston, national chairman of the CPUSA, and Gus Hall, general secretary, and signed by Luigi Longo, president of the CPI, and Enrico Berlinguer, CPI general secretary, declared that “Comrade Davis’ presence would have great political significance and would permit us to further strengthen the bond between the Italian workers and Communists and your Party and all Americans who are so bravely fighting for peace and friendship among the peoples.” NEW SOVIET-CHILEAN AGREEMENT SIGNED MOSCOW — A new Soviet-Chilean agreement on economic and technical cooperation was signed in Moscow following talks be- tween representatives of the two governments. At the same time, talks took place between leaders of Chilean parties and the Soviet- Communist Party. ‘Carlos Altamirano, secretary-general of the Socialist Party of Chile, and Jose Cademartori, member of the Political Commission of the Communist Party of Chile, held talks with Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Andrei Kirilenko, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, CPSU Political Bureau member Boris Ponomaryov, and CPSU Central Committee member Vladimir Nivikov. “Soviet leaders expressed complete support for the revolution- ary changes in Chile conducted under the leadership headed by President Salvador Allende,” Tass reported. Altamirano and Cade- martori stressed the consolidation of the unity of the Popular Unity bloc in Chile, especially the growing ties between the Communist and Socialist Parties, which they said is ‘‘a guarantee of the suc- cessful development of revolutionary forces in the country.” VATICAN RECOGNIZES POLAND’S WESTERN LANDS VATICAN CITY — The Vatican last week recognized the west- ern territories of Poland, i.e., those east of the so-called Oder-Neisse Line. Pope Paul VI named six Polish bishops to the 38,000 square mile territory which contains 11 million people, many of them Roman Catholic. Franciszek Goscinski, deputy secretary of the Polish Catholic episcopate, said in Warsaw: “This is a great vic- tory for Poland, especially as certain people in West Germany still question the present border.” West Germany previously had claimed the 1937 German borders, including large parts of Poland and USSR. These claims were dropped in the 1970 Polish-West Ger- man treaty ratified earlier this month. Vatican sources said the action clears the way for a Polish-Vatican diplomatic agreement, but Polish official sources made no immediate comment. UNESCO COMMISSION MEETS IN CUBA HAVANA — The International Coordination Group for Coopera- tive Research in the Caribbean and adjacent regions (CICAR) here was attended by more than 50 delegates. Taking part were Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad-Tobago, Colombia, Cuba, USA, USSR, France the UK and the Netherlands. The CICAR project, under the aus- pices of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commision, possesses 24 boats, plus planes and research satellites. ? 24 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY'7, 1972—PAGE 6 Make use of Soviet experience Peru charts new course | By JIM LEECH Developments in Peru since the coming to power of Juan Velasco Alvarado’s military gov- ernment on October 3, 1968, have been often encouraging, fre- quently puzzling, for the most part not typical of what Cana- dians know of South American military regimes. wv The new government made drastic changes in the economy, beginning with expropriation of the assets of U.S.-owned Inter- national Petroleum Company. ¥ The Agrarian Reform Law of June 1969 freed from foreign and local big business control some of the most fertile sugar- ‘cane land in the country, and put it into the hands of workers’ co-ops. ¥ The fishing industry, a mainstay of this Pacific country, got a new lease on life when state control of fish product ex- ports was combined with aid from the Soviet Japan. ~ Laws governing financial operations and foreign-currency speculation, and controlling in- dustry, brought new stability. $ Billion Debt Just servicing the billion dol- lars in debt it faced on taking power threatened economic dis- aster for the military govern- ment. Its effort to disengage it- self from this financial strangle- hold was not, and is not, aided by its creditors: Spain, Britain, France, West. Germany and Bel- gium. The reluctance may have hard- ened Peru’s independent stance. It has, since then, arranged a credit of $750 million from the International Bank for Recon- struction and Development. Soviet Contracts A Fishing Ministry set up within months of the govern- ment’s coming to power, enraged the fishing bosses and rightwing press by revealing criminal mis- management. Japanese experts soon pointed out that 95% of Japanese catches go for human food, while 98% of Peru’s went into fish meal. Many contracts have been signed with the USSR, but by far the most important so far is an agreement for construction of the world’s biggest fishing port at the village of Paita, some 600 miles north of Lima. Part of the complex will be built on what is now desert, and will give Peru first place in the world’s hake trade, processing 50,000 metric tons a year. (The hake is a mem- ber of the cod family.) Soviet Pi ~~ Union and ! Quechuas listen to an expla- nation of land reform. researchers say Peruvian waters can provide a million tons of hake annually. Oil Pipeline Oil— another major Peruvian resource — will be flowing by 1975 through a 200-mile pipeline, from Selna near the source of the Amazon, to the Pacific coast. Petroperu, the nationalized oil industry, with three large dis- coveries to its credit, promises to return Peru to its role as oil exporter. Today, the country produces 65,000 barrels daily, but uses 100,000. By 1980 it will reach 200,000 and by 1985, one million, in the opinion of its West Ger- man technical adviser, Gerhard Bischoff. Present contracts provide for eight foreign oil companies, mainly U.S., to explore for and extract oil, with the proviso that they are to receive about 50% of the oil produced. In 35 years all plant and equipment will be- come government property. Basic Reforms During a visit to the Soviet Union in May, the Peruvian Min- ister of Industry and Commerce, Rear Admiral Alberto Jimenez de Lucio said he hoped his coun- try could draw on Soviet exper- ience. “Peru is a country that has taken the road of cardinal re- forms,” he said, “and is trying to carry them out with due ac- count of her own specific con- ditions and by her own methods. “We naturally do not think _ those yet to come are CO a The U.S. war on the people of Vietnam is being challenged by Japanese worker: . port workers at the U.S. forces’ North Pier in Yokohama harbor took to the water earlier this ofl to protest against the war and the transport of U.S. war materials from Japan. decked out 15 launches with slogans against the war and supporting the Vietnamese people: 4 a ‘ we are blazing new trails every respect. Many of the pl | lems we face today have My solved—though at times in adh ferent way—in other countr@ | He said his delegation a familiarizing itself “with Sov) industry and economic pad in order to make use of S? experience.” Velasco’s Views vf Progress on the domestic f tL has been characterized in 1@ at times by the disbanding of 5 organizations as the big # owners’ National Farm Ass) tion, At the same time 1 have been party shifts. 7 F Christian Democratic Partly if announced abandonment 0 “A “active critical independent in favor of support of the iY vian revolution, that 1) present government. Both the Communist and the Accion Popular S0¢ th “have for some time expla) their backing for the revolutial | ary process,” says Prensa reporter, Abel Sardinas. sgl “However,” he adds, “Wig the government never reje? their support, neither did ceive it with the enthusiasm a which (President) Velasco 8 it ed the Christian Democrat ©) nouncement. sine! : “The difference is very qi the government’s announcé ial tention of creating a sof which is neither capitalist, 14 communist. This positio? cht F perfectly with that of the vei tion Democrats, who favo") tt patll] ialis Marxist socialism while ing an anti-imperialist, capitalist revolution.” : Plan Promised east However, President V@ al does not state that in suc t terms. He says rather th@ measures adopted so faite in a confidential governl Ke plan which cannot be rev usp because the “revolution , 4 confront many enemies: aot suggested that the fourth © y versary of the revolute i October, might be the #™ make the plan public. nif! Meanwhile, in June @ 4 4 level Soviet mission, invit® yar General Jorge Fernandez ” js) nado, mining and powe! © aif ter, arrived in Lima for COM i discussions on econome ihe technical co-operation rel! | electricity, mining and pel oy sectors. The invitation wig : tended when the ministet i af! an agreement for econoM™ sys technical co-operation ' cow at the end of last ye" a S. Docker, About 120 :