By GENRIKH BOROVIK

HANOI (APN) — A telephone
call late at night two days be-
fore the New Year. A day for
packing up, and the pre-New
Year bustle remained far behind
at once. Then a. 25-hour flight.
The landing strip of the Hanoi
aerodrome with fresh patches
over craters from the previous
bombing, and Kham _ Thien
Street.

I am writing this dispatch on
the first day of the New Year in
the Metropol Hotel which ac-
commodates many foreign jour-
nalists accredited to Hanoi. The
Metropol is in the very centre of
the city, near the Lake of the
Returned Sword. The hotel is
not damaged, with window glass
unbroken. There is electric light
and, often, hot running water.

The Kham Thien Street which
I want to describe, because I
saw it today and spent part of
the day in it, is not far from
here. About the same distance
as, for instance, from 80th Street
in New York, on Manhattan, to
the Hotel Pierre or Plaza.

Kham Thien Street was bomb- '
ed by B-52s on Dec. 26, on the
day after Christmas, about 11

p.m. It was morning in New
York then, and I can clearly ima-
gine used Christmas trees lying
near the houses. The trees are
thrown out on the day after
Christmas and they lie on the
pavements waiting for garbage-
men, while the wind tears from
them merry threads of silver foil
and drives them about the city.

Phantoms, B-52s

In Hanoi, too, there is plenty
of this foil. It is on tree branch-
es, on the pavements, on the
ruins. The wind here is also driv-
ing the silver threads from place
to place. But here they have a
different sense. The foil is drop-
ped over the city in vast quan-
tities by Phantoms several min-
utes before the bombing begins,
the hope being that this will put
the radar out of action, and the
B-52s will come, do their busi-
ness and depart unpunished.

It is quite possible that silver
threads for Christmas trees, like
the one that rises in Rockefeller
Centre every year, and for Phan-
toms are produced by the same
American firms. I do not know,
but in the vast deserted space
along the Kahm Thien these

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Communist picket
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OTTAWA—As debate on the Speech
from the Throne began in the Com-
mons Jan. 8, a delegation of the Com-
munist Party of Canada demonstrated
on Parliament Hill demanding new
policies for our country that would
begin to meet the needs of Canadian

people.

Bringing together Communist Party

ing Canadians.

_Speaking for the party in the
absence of its general secretary
William Kashtan (who, with the
majority of the 40 demonstra-
tors from Toronto arrived late
for the scheduled press inter-
views including CBC and CFTO

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bus’ mechanical failures along
the way), labor secretary Bruce
Magnuson, elaborating on a
statement of the party Central
Executive Committee, blasted
the Throne Speech for “appear-
ing to offer many things to all
people, yet offering little to any-
one, especially the working peo-
lew?

d He pointed out that the gov-
eznment does not intend to com-
mit itself to a policy geared to
full employment, but rather to
a vague promise of reducing un-
employment, without giving any
specific details. “Moreover,” he
continued, “the Throne Speech
tends to put the entire blame for
unemployment on the unem-
ployed rather than right where
it belongs — on government po-
licies which have brought about
this unemployment.”

Mr. Magnuson went on to list
a number of immediate propo-
sals which parliament must un-
dertake to put Canada back to
work, and to assure a job or
adequate income for all Cana-
dians, as a right. A policy of full
employment, he said, should in-
clude among others measures to
ensure the processing of our na-
tural resources here in Canada,
a policy based on public owner-
ship and the expansion and
building of secondary industry;
a crash program of public works,
and reduction of hours of work
to 32 without any reduction in
take-home pay.

“Along with these,” Mr. Mag-
nuson continued, ‘‘we must have
laws to stop the price gougers
and profiteers in the food indus-

try, to curb promoters and de-
velopers in land, housing and

rents. Also, Canada must have
guaranteed prices and markets
for her farm products . . . but-
tressed by new trade policies in-
cluding the establishment of a
Canadian Trading Corporation
to develop two-way trade with
the socialist countries on a mu-

* tually satisfactory basis.”

In respect to social security,
the Throne Speech seems to un-
dermine social security while
seemingly speaking in favor of
a guaranteed annual income, he
said. In suggesting that social
security benefits be lowered be-
low that of the minimum wage,
rather than raising both wages
and benefits, and seeing that the
minimum wage is higher than
unemployment or welfare pay-
ments, it ensures an ample sup-
ply of cheap labor for monopoly
interests. The minimum wage

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should. be raised, and social .se-
curity benefits further increased
and adjusted annually in keep-
ing with the rise in prices and
the cost of living.

Speaking on Canadian partici-
pation, ownership and control of
resource projects and the meas-
ures alluded to in the Throne
Speech, Mr. Magnuson pointed
out that it is not simply a ques-
tion of a project individually, but
rather of Canadian ownership
and control of all energy and
natural resources. “This ques-
tion,’ he said, “although not
mentioned in the Speech, can-
not be evaded or ignored except
at the expense of Canada’s inde-
pendence and sovereignty, and
cf the well-being of Canadian
people.”

Turning to the Vietnam war,
Mr. Magnuson welcomed parlia-
ment’s statement deploring U.S.
air attacks on the Hanoi-Hai-
phong area and urging the Unit-
ed States not to resume the
bombing. However, he said, par-
liament did not go far enough.
What they should have called
for is that the U.S. now sign the
treaty with the DRV agreed upon
by Kissinger in October, stop
the bombing entirely, and imme-
diately begin withdrawing its
troops and weapons of war from
South Vietnam and all of Indo-
china. The Canadian government
should also stop selling war ma-

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