Radio CIA from Peking 75,400 hours a year It isn’t news to Tribune readers, and to progressive people generally, that Radio Free Europe, Voice of the USA and Radio Liberty are CIA-financed operations which have been beaming into the socialist world since the end of World War II. Their messages vary — combinations of the latest in Western music and news, scannings of the Western press, comments on life ‘behind the Iron Curtain’ and the like. The aim, naturally, is to attack socialism, to plant rumours, play up short- comings and generally reduce the level of confidence the people have in their govern- ments. The U.S. budget for 1980 for these stations is $515-million and will jump to $555-million in 1981. They are a well-oiled op- erations and some of this money goes to other than American stations. _ Here’s a partial breakdown of the scope of the operation: Radio Liberty broadcasts 450 hours per week in 16 lan- guages. Voice of USA in 36 languages from 120 stations. Radio Free Europe broadcasts 550 hours a week in six lan- guages. The BBC and Deutsche Welle, who also get CIA money via this budget, broadcast in 38 and 33 lan- guages respectively. BBC is on the air 710 hours a week. So far, you say, none of this is news. _ But, did “you | know. that - Radio Peking has joined this il- lustrious* band of saboteurs? Agreements signed in Bonn, and made public by the radio Stations tell us that Radio Pek- ’ ing will get over $82-million via the CIA budget for overseas broadcasting. Added to the funding from Chinese sources, Radio Peking’s 1980 foreign broadcasting budget will top $100-million. And will they use’it! Listen- ers in the socialist world will be bombarded 1,450 hours every week in 40 languages from China. Who could have im- agined $100-million worth of CIA poison spewing from Pek- ing at the rate of 75,400 hours a year? 2 Stolen Arab land: what price victory? Israel’s response to the Un- ited Nations March | resolu- _ tion urging it to stop its settle- ment program on occupied. Arab land was sharp. It an- nounced last’ week the ‘“‘ex- propriation”’ of 1,000 acres of land, this time in East Jerusalem which will complete the encirclement of the city. As this latest theft proceeds, Begin, Sadat and Carter make ready for a new round of talks on ‘‘autonomy for Palestin- ians’’ scheduled for early April. The irony and insult must be inescapable for the Palestinian people. The Camp David so-called peace accords, condemned by virtually every Arab nation and many non-Arab states, are coming home to roost. The rights of the Palestinians are INTERNATIONAL RACs being completely sold out. Is- raeli settlements are mush- rooming, cleary signaling Tel Aviv’s determination not to re- turn Arab lands seized in the 1967 war. Look at the trio that will dis- cuss ‘‘Palestinian rights’: Menachem Begin, architect of the current hard line who refuses to talk with the Palesti- nians, annexes their land, and whose army holds an entire people hostage. Anwar Sadat, who drove a wedge deep into Arab solidar- ity and pretends to speak for the Palestinian people, a role no one assigned him; a man who took Egypt into the im- perialist camp. Jimmy Carter, who reversed his country’s support for the March 1 United Nations resol- ution paving the way for Is- rael’s latest land grab; a man whose political ambitions in this election year seem in- satiable. * The latest seizure approved by the Israeli cabinet will tum 1,000 acres of land presently belonging to the Arabs into 10,000 housing units for Israeli citizens. It will link two other such settlements, Neve Yaacov and French Hill into a circle around predominantly- Arab East Jerusalem. ~ “This is not an action de- stined to improve the peace process,’ mouthed the presi- dent’s press secretary, Hod- ding Carter Ill, as he cast an eye toward the March 25 New York primary where his boss is relying heavily on Jewish voters. What the hell is a mere 1,000 acres in a distant land com- pared to the benefits in nearby New York? After all, Republi- can presidential hopeful John Connally spent $11-million in his futile race winning only one delegate before withdrawing. The U.S. electoral process is truly an amazing thing. WR ry ANWwA 3312,79y IND no Amn 1-2 ‘Tee March bes the pereiasion end proiection of the TOF Jerusalem Post ad for a Gush Emunim “march” into the oc- cupied West Bank. “Bring all the necessary equipment — in- cluding a happy mood,” it says. “Owners of firearms and musi- cal instruments are asked to bring them.” The ad promises protection by the Israeli army. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 28, 1980—Page 6 Afghan workers and soldiers greet Soviet servicemen stationed outside Kabul. ‘Ordinary Afghans speak with contempt of these criminals’ By YURI VOLKOV KABUL (APN) — The Jan- galak plant here is one of the old- est industrial plants in Afghanis- tan, although it is only 20 years old. Initially it was conceived as an automobile repair plant, but its workers acquired more and more experience and the output be- came more varied. Now it has a smoothly organized production. In this period, hard for Af- ghanistan, the enterprise func- tions uninterruptedly. I recently visited the plant and spoke with its veterans — chief‘ engineer Ayas Banuzai and chairman of the local trade union committee Maleksher Porshor. Twenty years ago Ayas Banuzai, a 17-year-old lad, came to the construction site of this plant and linked his fate with it. In 1963 he got ill. Soviet experts, who worked with him at the plant, helped Ayas to go to the Soviet Union for medical treatment. After his recovery Ayas began to study at the machine-building department of the Byelorussia Polytechnical Institute. He graduated from it and became a post-graduate student. In 1972 he was granted the academic standing of a Candidate of Science (Eng.) and returned to the Kabul works. At first he was appointed an adviser to the plant’s board for technical mat- ters and in 1979 became chief en- gineer. ‘*Today our pint” is a rather large enterprise by Afghanistan’ s standards,” the chief engineer said. ‘‘Its main output is iron han- gars used as storehouses and workshops. We also turn out tanks up to 400 cubic metres in volume for storage of petroleum products. At the same time the plant continues to repair motor vehicles, to produce spare parts and bus and truck bodies. “We have an awful lot of or- ders. But we fulfill our plans. Our profits enable us to renew equip- ment, to expand production Ad to improve our working condi tions.”’ When in April 1978 the working people came to power, all our workers wholeheartedly wel- comed that great event in the life of Afghanistan’, Maleksher Por- shor, chairman of the trade union committee said, joining the con-- ‘“‘They stated their: versation. INSIDE AFGHANISTAN complete support for the revolu- tionary council and expressed their readiness to defend the rev- olution to its final victory. ‘‘But since the early days of the Democratic Republic of Af- ghanistan enemies have been try- ing to reverse the course of events. Now mercenaries, armed . by American and British im- perialists and Chinese hegemonists, have intensified their offensive against us. Afghans Not Alone “But ordinary Afghans know that they are not alone in the face of counter-revolution. Honest people all over the world, the Soviet Union and other socialist. countries are siding with us. When on February 22 and 23 the henchmen of reaction pro- voked unrest in Kabul, our work- ers came of their own free will to © the party and trade.union commit- tees, asked for arms and defended our plant. We did not have a single day of stoppage; on those alarming days all the shops func- tioned smoothly and the enemies — did not dare disturb us.”’ Villages Returning ‘‘Not only the workers of our plant, but all patriots took up arms and gave a fitting rebuff to the im- perialist and Chinese hirelings,”’ Maleksher Porshor went on to say. ‘“‘The people did not join _ these mercenaries and will never side with them. The counter-rev- olutionaries that have gathered in Pakistan will not be able to de- ceive our people. Ordinary Af- ghans are speaking with contempt . of these criminals. News is pour- ing in from various provinces 3) about the return of the town Po people and Villagers who had I left their native places.”’ “Our republic is less than tw0 years old,’’ Maleksher Porshor noted. ‘‘Despite hard conditions — ) the government does everything le;= possible for the working age | Let us take, for instance, bazaar. Now that counter teva tion is trying to cause economic — difficulties in the country by attacking merehants’ caravans and trucks carrying foodstuffs, 4 a a] pe 4 the prices are rising. The people's” | government has set up spec! shops where workers af employees of state-owned entel- = prises buy with coupons food and — prime necessities at firm prices: As a result, the saving of eae worker’s family comprises, on an average, 50 to 60% as compar with the purchase of the. “same x | goods at the market. As far’ as such items as flour and meat are ia concerned, greater.” We were already leaving the plant when-a group of workers. the saving is § came up tous, having learned that _ we were Soviet journalists. “Convey our gratitude to your ; people for the assistance they have rendered and continue t0 render to Afghanistan,’’ said. ‘‘You may rest assured that they — we shall not allow the enemiesstO _ destroy the gains of the people’s — revolution.” Vietnam responds. to talks breakdown i Vietnam criticized China’s uni- _ lateral decisionto break offthetwo countries’ talks. The Hanoi daily — newspaper Nhan Dan (‘‘The People’’) said Vietnam is firmly — ’ for negotiations to solve all prob- — lems in relations between Viet- — nam and China. But the Beijing — decision to break off talks, Nhan Dan said, is evidence of China’s _ ‘‘offhanded and irresponsible at- _ titude.”” China is following 2 — hegemonistic, expansionist pol- icy in collusion with U.S. im- perialism, the Vietnamese paper said.