Se ROME e@ WASHINGTON “ BERLIN a © CAIRO e HAVANA’ e TOKYO BUENOS AIRES fad nae VICTORY in Cuba — more than six million tons — the Duith a, dancing in the streets of Havana last week. This is biggest harvest since 1900, and the second biggest since ae lution . .. A total of 494 people were executed in Westioner i ot the past five years, Justice Minister Vorster told a deco ae In Parliament . . . Roast beef of Old England will soon almon penare a delicacy in working-class homes at fresh Scottish tising steaqyeist Co-op Congress was told. Meat prices have been fadily in Britain. * * * Cc tong Short of trucks, has ordered 1,035 from the Berliet the Jat, ae Concern in Paris . . . Novelist J. B. Priestley is among lobby in Sponsors of the Peace in Vietnam petition and June 30 *n June 8 en . . . Gas explosion in a Yugoslav mine at Kakani ter gi illed 90 coal miners. It was the country’s worst pit dis- n : Ih yy y 1934, when 127 miners were killed — also at Kahani. in India ne disasters killed 27 in Mexico, 31 in South Wales, 375 _ © 4nd 237 in Japan. * * * ES lohasor ALATION of the war in Vietnam continues. President Cease 47, 2 the. face of recent battle disasters, is expected to in- Ma fo ember of U.S. troops in South Vietnam to 75,000 with- : "idly €eks and to 100,000 over the next few months . .. USSR Se talks ereasing its aid to North Vietnam and Soviet-Vietnam- Abram ae now going on in Moscow. . . Cairo newspaper Al Stith lished allegedly “top secret” documents dealing with larger. ans for military intervention in the Arab countries. First Lebanon. : * * * batggGER POINTER: A western U.S. newspaper bemoans the is Streets Of law enforcement in “cities of the East,” saying that gure ‘a there have become so dangerous the citizens cannot teag at night. The paper says it may see the day when, in- haya t hens jails to hold the lawless, the honest citizens will of we tcrtresses to keep them out. What’s intriguing is the IS paper. It’s the Morning News — of Dallas: 0 leation VIETNAM —Prayda (Moscow) CAVING IN On June 18, 1950, John Foster Dulles, in the capacity of a special envoy for President Truman, visited the 38th parallel and helped plan the South Korean invasion of North Korea one week later. 15 years ago United States launched war in North Korea PYONGYANG June 25 is the 15th anniver- sary of the outbreak of the Korean war ignited by the United States and June 27 is the 12th anniversary of the truce— which was in effect a victory. of the Korean people over U.S. imperialism. America’s aim ever since it occupied South ‘Korea after the defeat of Japan in 1945 was to turn Korea into a_ bridgehead for aggression in Asia. The initial attack northward on June 25 was quickly turned into a rout and Syngman Rhee’s forces would have suffered a disastrous defeat had not U.S. planes and troops intervened. Indiscriminate bombing of urban and rural centres reached a peak with the utter destruc- tion of Pyongyang. American and South Korean puppet troops pressed northward to the Yalu River. China felt her security threat- ened and sent numerous divi- sions of volunteers to aid the Korean people. Under the com- mand of Marshal Peng Teh-hwai, the Chinese People’s Volunteers fought side by side with Marshal Kim I] Sung’s forces and pushed the enemy back to the 38th parallel. For three long years the bit- ter war continued, until on July 27, 1953 the U.S. signed the Korean Armistice Agreement at the very place where it had-pro- voked the first battle of the war. “I capped my career, but it was a cap without a feather in it,’ commented U.S. General Clark. “In carrying out the in- structions of my government I gained the unenviable distinc- tion of being the first U.S. Army commander in history to sign a truce without victory.” Today South Korea resembles a huge military camp—a poten- tial hotbed of a new war. Some 60,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the country, and the South Korean army of 600,000 takes _ this its orders. from Washington. Numerous air strips and naval bases have been built by the Americans; rocket sites have been constructed. Washington dreams of con- trolling all Korea in league with Japanese imperialism. Part of se was to »ush through the “ROK-Japan talks” and open the door to Japanese troops en- tering South Korea. Koreans south of the 38th parallel are struggling to get U.S. troops out of their country. In North Korea the people are building socialism, industrializ- ing their country and mechan- izing their farms. All Koreans look forward to the day when they can peacefuly reunify their country. ; North Korea today is an industrialized, prosperous country. Photo suows students at Pyongyang Medical College studying medi- cinal nients and herbs. South Korea is a land of poverty and unemployment. On the outskirts of Seoul many. families evicted from their houses live in makeshift hovels, as shown in the photo above. 65—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7