MONTREAL — A conference on political prisoners in South Vietnam, organized jointly by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee and the International Committee for the Liberation of Political Prisoners in South Vietnam, was held here on Dec. 10, on the oc- casion of Human Rights Day. Among the numerous organi- zations and personalities taking part in the conference were - Monsigneur Guy Belanger, Jean- Pierre Debry, a French professor who was imprisoned for two and ° a half years by the Thieu regime, Guy Leduc, Radio-Quebec pro- ducer, who chaired the confer- ence, Robert Gray, professor at the University of Montreal, Ed Sloan, president:of the Moratori- um Committee, Abraham Cohen, municipal councillor and repre- sentatives of the Canadian Uni- versity Services Overseas. Among the 200,000 political prisoners now detained by the Thieu regime, are many trade unionists. One trade union lead- er, Pham Van Hi, was tortured to death in one of the prisons just over two months ago. His death, which the Saigon author- ities registered as “suicide,” sparked a series of reactions among Americans and Viet- namese. The Thieu regime and the U.S. government were CHENG a SAN World campaign steps up - A South Vietnamese family posing for their official photo. The police make periodic searches and if the occupants of the house don't match the photo, the whole family is arrested. squarely accused of this murder, as well as of torture and repres- sion of other trade union leaders, pacifists and South Vietnamese democrats. Following the report on Indo- china at the recent World Con- gress of Peace Forces in Mos- cow, the campaign to free the 200,000 political prisoners still held in tiger cages by the Thieu regime in Saigon has been step- ped up, especially as it is now one year since the Paris Agree ment on Vietnam has been sign- ed. The Moratorium Committee is now circulating a petition de- manding that the Canadian gov- ernment tell the Saigon regime to free the prisoners and respect the Paris Agreement. Canadians probe Viet prisoners Two members of the Interna- tional Contmittee to Free South Vietnamese Political Prisoners from Detention, Torture and Death, Frank Dingman and Ann Buttrick, left for Vietnam Jan. 1 to look further into the civilian prisoner question in South Viet- nam. They will go to Saigon and Hanoi, returning Jan. 26. They go under the auspices of the. Canadian Council of Chur- ches, with full knowledge of the Canadian Department of Exter- nal Affairs, who has cabled both Hanoi and Saigon to the Cana- dian representatives (the Brit- a in Hanoi) that they are com- Religious leaders in Cznada— Bishop Belanger (Catholic), Dr. Civilian detainees being held for processing. Over 200,000 political Scott (Anglican),. Dr. McLeod (United Church), Rabbi Gunther Plaut (Holy Blossom Temple), Bishop Newton Ishiura (Bud- dhist Church), Dr. George Mor- irson (United Church), and oth- ers — have sent letters to both the Saigon government and the U.S. Embassy to be delivered by Buttrick and Dingman. The let- ters detail the concern of thous-. ands of ‘Canadians for the con- tinuing incarceration and_tor- ture of the civilian-political pri- soners. The United Church has expressed particular anxiety for the children held in Da Lat prison. : Contact will be made with the Committee to Reform the Prison System in Saigon whose presi- prisoners are still held in South Vietnam in contravention of the Paris Accords. - PACIFIC TRIBUNE FRIDAY, JANUARY, 18, 1974;-PAGE 4 dent is Father Chan Tin. At- tempts will be made to get in to see several particular prisoners. They will also try to see the U.S. member of the AID establish- ment who is connected with the prison system — though this is a long shot. They were week to North Vietnam by the Vietnam Peace Committee, and will interview ex-prisoners re- leased from the South — civilian political prisoners. They will be in Hanoi from January 12th to January 18. The U.S. war machine is back in Vietnam in force, supporting the puppet Theiu regime. In the Saigon army there are 3,500 American personnel and another 9,000 “non-Vietnamese foreign- ers” on the payroll of the Pen- tagon. Although the Paris peace agreement provided for only the replacement of destroyed mili- tary hardware piece by piece, in the last year the U.S. has sup- plied over 500 planes and it re- 4. cently announced that it was sending an additional 60 ad- vanced F-5E jet fighters worth $96 million. : Also during the last year the U.S. supplied 200,000 tons of bombs, 150,000 tons of artillery shells, 600 military vehicles, chiefly. M48 tanks and armour- ed cars, and 200 guns, ranging from 105 to 175 millimeter. To supplement the arms ship- ments the U.S. has also sent teams of computer experts who maintain a nation-wide appara- tus of repression, including com- puter identity cards. invited for one ; By BORIS ANTONOV MOSCOW (APN) — While Zionists and the pro-Israeli press are strenuously searching Europe for Palestinians with a Soviet rocket in their pocket, Israeli terrorists have been ex- posed in Norway and “Italy. They are guilty of murdering Ahmed Bouchiki and Abdel Vael Zueiter. There were 14 of them. Six members of this terrorist group are being tried in Oslo by the Norwegian court. Last July they killed’ Bouchiki, a Moroc- can, in the Norwegian city of Lillehammer. It is established that bullets of the same calibre and of the same weapon termi- nated the life of Zueiter, a prom- nent Palestine figure. This hap- pened in broad daylight in the centre of Rome. The assassins shot point-blank fine times. Zuei- ter had come to Europe to in- form the continent’s public at large about the criminal policy and atrocities of Zionists in the Middle East. The other day Italian legal authorities charged the 14 mem- bers of the Zionist gang with preparing and committing this crime. Most,of the accused are agents of the Israeli secret ser- vice, Mossad. The investigation showed that Israeli agents had committed a series of political assassinations in Western Eu- rope. The secret service Mossad and Shin Beyt organized no less than 18 attempts on the lives of leaders of Arab national-libera- tion movements. Zionists from the Jewish Defence League also participated in terrorist acts. The Norwegian and_ Italian press stress that Israeli agents enjoy such freedom of operation in Western Europe thanks to the fact that they are backed by the CIA of the United States. The same opinion is voiced in Aus- tria too. The Schoenau Castle near Vienna was turned into a Zionist spy centre which passed intelligence information to the U.S. Secret Service. The Israelis built a powerful transmitter inside the castle. The money for it, several million dollars, was received from over- seas. Electronic instrumentation was also. installed there, with the help of which it was possible to carry out “long-range recon- naissance” of vast areas. Mossad and Shin Beyt agents have literally flooded Austria. INDONESIA Many of them obtained Austrian cocuments for the right to we: firearms. It was established that Israeli terrorists regularly pra shcoting-range of Springer firm, Vienna 8, Jo- sephstrasse. On leaving Austria, assassins operated all over WeS- tern Europe. Not only Arabs were the vic tims of Zionist terrorists. The Mossad and Shin Beyt comm ted several murders of Israel citizens and political figures 4 well. In November 1972 Israel diplomat Zadok Ofir fell, thi victim of a provocation by th Israeli intelligence service: hi was killed by its agent, Hasa Judat, a 29-year-old Moroccan It turned out later that Juda had taken an assumed name Mohammed Ahmed Rabbah and had spoken in public for” provocative purposes that h had been an Al Fatah membe a Palestine resistance organiza tion. ; With the help of provocateur of the Judat type, Tel Aviv dis: credited the struggle of Palestin ians, fanned hysteria aroun “Arab terrorism” and enginee ed pretexts for “preventiV strikes” and “retribution 4 tions.” When committing killings i France and the Sudan, Israe terrorists used the cover Palestinians. Mysterious circu stances under which the mu ders during the Olympic Gam were committed show that t threads of this crime were in thé hands of those who sought 107 discredit the Arab liberation — movement. It was established ~ also that the attack committe@ by the three Japanese in the raeli airport at Lod was not 0 ganized by Palestinians. Some Israeli papers recent exposed the methods used by the Israeli secret service to © list. the cooperation of you people from different countrié coming to their “historic home lana” for some time. Facts de: onstrate that the Mossad ane Shin Beyt train in Tel A secret Zionist agents who act in favor of Israel after their retu sy The exposure of Zionist ter rorist gangs in Norway and Italy _ helped to expose a part of Te Aviv’s intelligence network that covered Western Europe. Students demand democracy JAKARTA — Student leaders from 31 colleges in Indonesia held a two-hour closed meeting with President Suharto and de- manded a return to democratic rule, redistribution of the coun- try’s wealth and recognition of the principle of equality before the law for all Indonesians. The student leaders newsmen later that they were not satisfied with Suharto’s atti- tude towards their demands. Political observers were quick to relate the Indonesian student protest to recent events in South Korea, Thailand and elsewhere, which have gravely threatened or toppled pro-U.S. imperialist regimes. Charles R. Smith, se- nior editor for United Press In- ternational (UPI) in Hong Kong, commented on Friday that “the moment of truth for Suharto is not so near as it appears to be for Park Chung Hee in South . indicated to - Korea. But unless Suharto me some of the student demands, © dangerous confrontation appeal — a distinct possibility in the com ing months.” Indonesia, with 120.4 mil people and a land area equa Alaska and California combi is one of the richest countrié in the world in terms of natu™ resources: it has oil, gold, copper, coal and other mineray in considerable quantities. It 15 major Asian producer of ric and rubber. The Indonesian ec), omy was badly hurt by Nixo? decision in mid-1973 to d U.S. stockpiles of tin and ru on the world market. A longed drought, 1972-73, caus rice crop failures and wid spread famine. : «In October 1965 Indone armed forces seized power, 0 ing President Sukarno.