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LATEST ANTI-SOVIET LIE EXPOSED
WASHINGTON — Senator J. William Fulbright charged that

*htagon reports that the USSR is building a nuclear submarine

ase in Cuba are unsubstantiated and are an attempt to scare Con-

Bress into more defense spending.

It happens every year at appropriations time,” Fullbright said.
St year, it: was the SS9 missiles. Now it’s a submarine base.
€y are hoodwinking the American people.”

Fulbright said Pentagon officials who briefed his Foreign Rela-

ai Committee had no evidence that a base was being built, and

i not even try to canvince thecommittee that anything was going

x He added that while the U.S. opposes a Soviet base in Cuba there
48 not the slightest doubt that U.S. nuclear weapons are located in
Urkey and Greece.

GONORRHEA, SYPHILIS AT EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS
WASHINGTON — In 1969 there were 1.8 million cases of gonor-

¢ Tea and about 72,000 cases of syphilis in the United States, aceord-

ms to Dr. William J. Brown of the U.S. Public Health Service’s
ational Center for Disease Control in. Atlanta. He added that
Mobably only the common cold outranked gunorrhea as a commun-
“able disease in the U.S., and that of reportable communicable
meses gonorrhea was first, streptococcal infections second, and
YPhilis third. According to Dr. Thorstein Guthe, World Health
"ganization medical officer for communicable diseases, “syphilis
‘on the rebound and gonorrhea is rapidly increasing in many areas,

“Ountries,”

CHINA PREPARING NEW NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS

: PEKING — Government authorities are selecting several thou-
ed Tepresentatives to a new National People’s Congress to be con-
“ned “at an appropriate time,” according to a CPC central com-

| Rittee announcement. In preparation for the new Congress, which

bine approve the party’s selection of government leaders, the state
jigs and new legislation, Hsinhua press agency is reporting
a filment ‘of output quotas for 1970 by industrial enterprises and
Brarian agencies. The news agency also listed new titles for Com-
“nist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung and Deputy Chairman Lin
be In its report of the Oct. 1 observances of the 21st anniversary

the formation of the first government of the Chinese People’s
“public, Mao was listed as “Supreme Commander of the Whole
ation and the Whole Army,” and Linas the “Deputy Supreme Com-

ender of the Whole Nation and the Whole Army.” The last Na-

‘Onal People’s Congress met in 1964, its annual meeting having
*N suspended by the “Cultural Revolution.”

THIRD WORLD PER CAPITA FOOD CONSUMPTION DOWN

st ROME — The Food and Agriculture Organization has reported a
jndstill in the combined output of the world’s farms, fisheries and
Tests for 1969, the first time since 1957 no increase was registered.
lo € standstill was attributed to restrictive measures by the deve-
ae countries, where output is artificially kept down to maintain
. Ies. The FAO said in these countries “surpluses rather than
tie tBes are the problem.” But people of the underdeveloped coun-
Ne €s, where population is increasing by 2.7% annually, will have
88 to eat. In Africa, food production fell by 1% percent; in the
¢ \ddle East it showed no increase, and in Latin America its in-
Tease of 1% fell behind the population growth of 2.9%.

BOLIVIA WORKERS, PEASANTS OUST JUNTA

| LA PAZ—wWorkers, peasants and students, many carrying arms,
88st week defeated a rightwing attempt to impose a military junta
epvernment. on the country. Labor organizations called a general
ke to support Gen. Juan Jose Torres, whose troops had seized
te, BOVernment palace. The 30,000-member Bolivian Workers Cen-
Tal ordered its members to block the streets and prevent the move-
cent of troops supporting the junta. Armed peasants estimated to
Umber from 3,000 to 7,000 marched on this city. Armed students
Wrounded the city jail that was crowded with political prisoners,
Students and workers encircled the building of El Diario, Bo-
S biggest and most influential newspaper. we
i € massive intervention of workers, peasants and students
€rted imminent-bloody strife between military forces supporting
au Torres and those backing the junta. The three-man junta, in-
alled a few hours earlier by the rightwing army chief of staff
om Regelio Miranda who had ousted President Alfredo Ovando,
t lapsed after one of its members, Gen. Fernando Sattori, chief of
the airforce, threw his support to Torres. The other members of
os Junta, Gen. Efron Cuachalla and Vice Admiral Alberto Abarra-
}, surrendered to Torres. :
cworn in as president of Bolivia, Gen. Torres told a cheering
d owd he would end hunger in the country. He drove to the presi-
®ntial palace in triumphant procession, shaking hands with the
Populace, ;

wie vant to eradicate poverty, I want work for all so that there
a be more bread,” he said.Torres promised action against the
jelivian rightwing, which had organized the aborted coup after

Ovando government ‘had been forced by popular pressure to

§

d Propriate the $150-million U.S.-owned Gulf Oil Company subsi- .

x)
ro It was expected the Torres government would investigate the
€ of U.S. agents in the attempted coup.

aching epidemic proportions in some developed and developing .

Elections in Sweden

CP gains,

On September 29th last, nine
days after the vote in the Swed-
ish general elections, final re-
sults gave 180 mandates to the
socialists and communists, and
170 mandates to all other parties
combined. This, in a 350-member
single - chamber Parliament,
(Riksdag). A bare 122,000 votes
determined this outcome, in the
final counting of ballots.

The turnout of voters was
88.2% of the total eligible. This
was close to the 89.3% recorded
in 1968, the highest ever in any
election.

Total number of people who
did turn out to vote was the
highest ever at 4,976,000, com-
pared with 4,862,000 in 1968.

The social democratic vote
was 45.3% of the total, the
second - lowest since the party
achieved governmental power in
1932. The only time it polled a
lower vote was in 1956. The vote
gives the Social Democratic La-
bor Party 163 members in the
Swedish parliament, or 13 mem-
bers short of a bare majority.

Despite this, however, the

party is not planning to relin-

quish power, nor to share it with
any other party.

On the occasion of the 60th
birthday of Gus Hall, General
Secretary of the Communist Par-
ty USA, the following greeting
was sent on behalf of the Cen-
tral Committee, Communist Par-
ty of Canada:

“Happy Birthday Gus! Sixty
years is what you make it and
you have made it a meaningful
one indeed.

“Your whole life has been
dedicated to the real American
dream, the cause of the working-
class and the battle for a social-

Lebanon CP

congratulated

In a reply to the announce-
ment by the Communist Party of
Lebanon that their Party has
achieved its legality after 45

years of struggle, the Central ,

Committee of the Communist
Party of Canada, over the signa-
ture of its General Secretary
William Kashtan wrote:

“It is with great joy and satis-
faction that we hear of the re-
cognition by the Lebanese auth-
orities of the legal existence of
your Party. e

“We fully agree with you
when you Say it is ‘an important
gain for your Party, the Progres-
sive Lebanese movement as well
as for the whole Arab and inter-
national Communist Movement’.

“We are sure that now, in this
new stage of political struggle,
your Party will be able to play
an ever more influential and ef-
fective role in strengthening the
progressive and anti-imperialist
forces in Lebanon, and in the

world wide struggle against im-

perialism, the cause of peace,
democracy, national indepen-
dence and socialism and the
cohesion of the _ international
communist movement on the
principles of Marxism-Leninism
and proletarian internationalism.

“Our Party wishes you every
success in your work.”

halts Right takeover

Nevertheless, what makes this
possikle for the Social Democrat
Prime Minister Palme and his
party is the fact that the Com-
munists, with 17 members elect-
ed compared with 3 in 1968, hold
a decisive balance of power in
the new parliament.

The Left Party of Communists
immediately announced their in-
tention to back the Social De-
mocratic Labor Party against
any attempt to gang up on it by
the other capitalist parties.

Standing among the different
parties in the new  single-
chamber parliament, the first
such in Swedish parliamentary
history, is as follows: the Center
Party (Liberal) 71 members, a
gain of 12; the People’s Party
(Conservatives) 58, a gain of 3;
The Moderate Rally (rightwing
Tories) 41, a loss of 10; Social
Democrats 163, a loss of 22;
Communists 17, a gain of 14.

The new polarization of the
electorate, with appreciable
gains for the Communist Party,
can be attributed to the crisis in
the capitalist system, which finds
its expression in permanent and
growing inflation, the rising mili-
tancy of and fight-back by the
working class, the link-up be-

ist America. You: have shown
yourself to be an indomitable
fighter for the principles of
Marxism-Leninism, for the ‘build-
ing of the Communist Party as
a vital, decisive instrument in
the day to day and long term
interests of the working class.
In the course of so doing you
have ably defended the Party
against the opportunists and li-
quidators and firmly upheld ‘the
internationalist position of your
Party.

“Your effective and inspiring
leadership is a source of strength
for your Party which you ably

’ liamentary

tween the monopolies and the
government to beat the workers
down.

This is what led to the rapid-
ly rising strike movement in the
past year in Sweden, as in Bri-
tain and other countries of capi-
talism.

But while the British Labor
Party suffered a defeat at the
hands of the Tories, the Swedish
workers have shown more poli-
tical maturity by turning to the
Communist Party as the alter-
native to Social Democrats who
gave no socialist perspective to
offer.

The Swedish general election
follows the pattern of elections
in Chile, India and Céylon, ra-
ther than Britain. In this sense
it is consistent with the begin-
nings of a new pattern in par-
elections, giving
more and more expression to the
class struggle in the parliamen-
tary arena.

The broad program advanced
by Swedish Communists was
anchored in peace, economic de-
velopment to abolish unemploy-
ment and raise living standards,
and for a re-distribution of the
national income so as to abolish
poverty and want. (B.M).

lead, and to all the forces of
peace and progress on a world
scale.

“Your 60th Birthday comes at
a time of growing crisis for U.S.
imperialism and an upsurge of
the anti-imperialist, democratic
and peace forces throughout the
world. New prospects open up
for the Communist Party in this
period.

“We are confident that under

your leadership the Communist
Party will ably fulfill the role
history places on its shoulders.

“More power to your élbow,
Gus.”

On the invitation of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee and the
German-Arab Society in the GDR, 45 Palestinian refugee children
spent a 4-week holiday at the Sornbig children's home near Bautzen.
During their stay in the German Democratic Republic: they visited
Dresden. Our photo shows them at the museum of transport.
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