| Soviet ambassador cheered in Cyprus. COSIA—A _widely-cheering “Of more thar’ 10,000 Cyp- ected Leonid Ilyichev, the deputy foreign minister, a arrived in the southern i City of Limassol on © ctowd waved placards banners reading “Alliance "Do Greece and Russia!” sin wn With NATO!” and ate — Murderer!” iad the USSR’s chief dip- toubleshooter, previous- Athens visited Ankara and nes. plore coming to Cyprus. ith bo €t envoy was presented Uquets of flowers as he ashore, and went to a ly in Limassol’s central » Where speakers empha- at the Soviet Union has 5 3 Supported the indepen- unit Overeignty and territo- nd of Cyprus. fi - 1S on an official mis- =e xchange views with the __~ 8vernment on the Cyp- ee appear the German sts, 9 Republic no longer des €ast Peking thinks so, Krasi TASS correspondent Ompted OV. His conclusion is o by a fresh “revela- ne from Teng Hsiao- Re uty premier of the Peo- cil Public of China State 7 Who is reported by Reu- , waving “called West Ger- : ae Only German nation” con for the leader of Ch German opposition, 4 airman Kohl. foe Pas long had a’ weak- me o8taphic “closures”. told ago Premier Chou . Doli another West Ger- tician he had never he. pe City of Kaliningrad ““new only of Koenigs- a i * le laying territorial claims aes Union in Asia, em as Wishes to create a frontiers in Europe, this Re. In their attempts s € Maoists obviously ae themselves to in- €nge-seeking senti- SPearheaded di ectly Yemand freedom oF imprisoned atalan leaders ae C aELONA — For the ations € in 48 hours, demon- din Toke out here de- © immediate release fr, 67 people had d in the convent of noe they were attend- lunia, Stine meeting of the ee Assembly, the pro- m Wory Position body elected 0 €rs and other sectors ” Were ,cotalunia. Fifty of Ore a, leased on Sept. 12. med 1 two thousand peo- that Sa the streets of Barce- liber Cvening demand- “tation of the remain- ae and were able fees several blocks be- Could break up the rus question. Meanwhile, in an interview Sept. 17 with the Paris daily newspaper Le Monde, President Makarios of Cyprus confirmed that he will be returning to the Mediterranean island republic next month. He said Foreign . Minister George Mavros_ of Greece had assured him all regu- lar Greek Army officers will be withdrawn from Cyprus. Makarios-told Le Monde he is willing to consider setting up a federal state on Cyprus, but said this could not be a geographical federation based on a territorial division or partition of the island. In regard to the July 15 coup which drove him from Cyprus, he said that while he had no for- mal proof of the active involve- ment of the U.S. Central Intel- ligence Agency, he was sure the CIA knew perfectly well all the details of the coup before it took place. SDR is not found on map against the USSR. They long ago made it clear they would be glad if somebody questioned the en- tire political map of Europe re- sulting from the defeat of nazism in the second world war. It: is in this light that the latest pronouncement of Teng Hsiao-ping should be viewed. The same applies, by the way, to a recent issue of the magazine Hungchi, where not only the German Democratic . Republic, but the socialist community as a whole is plainly declared non- existent. E Bad luck for the Maoists, but it is beyond their power to cross out the USSR, the GDR, and the other socialist countries, he con- cluded. Sports in fascist Chile "Even soccer is disappearing Most sportswriters in Canada would have us believe that sports and politics are not. re- lated, umless,° of course, for jingoistic, chauvinist outbursts providing that “we” are superior to “them” because of our so- called free-enterprise system. A foreign journalist in Santi- ago, however, talked to Chilean soccer Officials and then to the fans’ reaction about the crisis in soccer under the fascist regime: Chilean professional soccer is undergoing an acute economic crisis due to the constant drop in attendance at the games. «|. It’s impossible. For ex- ample, I have been a soccer fan ever since I can remember, I played soccer and I was at the stadium every Sunday to watch the games when I wasn’t play- ing. But now... now...” The Chile Cup for which 34 teams are now contending, 18 of the first category and 16 of the second, attracted an average of under 1,800 fans per game in the last weeks. «|. The former spirit has passed. I remember that just re- cently only a few momios (reac- tionaries) were on hand to see off the team that went to the World Cup competition; anyway ; - . they only went there. to charge for interviews and pic- tures but they flopped on the field. They didn’t do anything. A farce. After that (and before that) everything was the same and with- what we are going . through here... .” : The previous weekend there were only 8,930 fans in the 14 stadiums, and at the National Stadium in Santiago (which the fascists used as a concentration camp) 84 tickets were sold. «“.. . In Santiago and every- where else. It is going to be a year but it seems like a century. Damn! This man in power, with his two-bit military men, the junta and the carabineers, have destroyed everything. How can my family and I, or any families, go to the stadium where with my very eyes I saw my brother tossed there with all the others like a dog, all beaten up and tor- tured . . . poor Alejandro!” Financial problems have be- come so serious that several clubs haven’t been able to pay pearing here.” their players, and the officials haven’t been paid since May. “How can I buy a ticket? The wretched pay I get is all used up buying food which is sold at sky-high prices nobody can bear with. Unfortunately, I still re- member those well-dressed wo- men with their pots . of course they don’t do anything now since their bellies are full and they even deprive us of the Chums... Sports circles in Santia that the financial crisis wae unprecedented in the history of Chilean soccer could lead to its disappearance on a professional -asis. “Everything has disappeared. These people who claimed to be Chile’s representatives talk about freedom (at bayonet point). . . . Then they complain about emp- ty stadiums! But you can’t even ° stand on this street corner with- out running the risk of being pulled in as a “suspect” and taken to a military garrison. Yes, they tell me 10,000 people were arrested last week... yes... well . . . even soccer is disap- —Granma ‘Art show’ really attempt at confrontation The following letter appeared in the Soviet press concerning an event carried widely by the Western daily press, radio and television earlier this month: Ca Bo We wish to bring to your no- tice a disturbance created in the Cheryomushki district yesterday, September 15. for In the morning we who live in this area and. work in near-by factories came out to take part in a voluntary labor day planned for that Sunday. We were to help in the autumn gardening and beautification of our area. You can well imagine how puz- zled at first and then indignant we were when, around noon, at the corner of Profsoyuznaya and Ostrovityanov streets, a number of cars pulled up from which alighted rowdy and’ sloppily dressed persons who began drag- ging out extremely strange paintings, framed and unframed, with the intention of putting them up for show on the very spot where people were garden- ing. Their arrival created a distur- bance and interfered with the gardening. The quiet street cor- ner was converted into a scene of commotion, jostling and noise. The uninvited visitors behaved most ‘brazenly, snatching show- els and spades from the hands of the workers, pushing them off the lawns, tearing down the poster calling for voluntary work on that day, obstructing traffic, quarreling and using obscene language. : A curious fact is that along with the “artists”, and even a little earlier, arrived a number of foreigners. They came in cars with the embassy numbers of several capitalist countries. In- cidentally, a number of the pic- tures arrived in embassy cars. Among these foreigners, as was later ascertained, were quite a few foreign correspondents who, it became clear, by no means came here to report an “art event”. They photographed the whole rowdy disturbance and took an active part in it. Ud- gaard Nils Morten, correspon- dent for the Norwegian Aften- posten even went so far as to punch a voluntary guardian of public order in the face who tried to reason with him. There were other similar occurrences. This indecent sally by a group of formalist artists thus assum- ed the character of a deliberate political provocation. At the de- mand of the Sunday voluntary gardeners, the guardians of pub- lic order and the militia stepped in. Some of the organizers of this “showing” who behaved es- pecially indecently were taken to the militia station to ascertain their identity. They were O. Ra- bin, A. Krapivnitsky, V. Sychev, N. Elskaya, A. Tahl, M. Slavuts- kaya, V. Tupitsyn and others, about 15 persons in. all, who called themselves ‘“‘free artists”, “non-conformists”. The pictures they brought were, in our opi- nion, of a positively anti-artistic nature and could hardly evoke anything but disgust and ridi- cule. , Since all these persons called themselves artists we asked for an explanation from the Artists’ Union. It turned out that none of- them are members of the USSR Artists’ Union.. They’ therefore acted merely on their own. A week earlier they had applied to the Executive Com- mittee of the Moscow City Soviet where they were apprised of the existing rules in the capi- tal for organizing and carrying out art exhibitions, but they chose to disregard them. At the request of the Moscow City Soviet Executive Committee the necessary explanations were given to them also at the capi- tal’s Artists’ Union but this too had no effect. It also came to light that there were among these “artists” who decided to exhibit their works in this strange manner, one or two who had earlier PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1974—Page 9 smuggled their pictures into foreign countries and even had them exhibited there, gaining out of this not so much money, as the prestige of “talents unre- cognized in their homeland”. It is well known, that such a shameful bid for recognition has never brought anybody laurel wreaths as yet. All the more so that on Sunday in Cheryomushki all this went hand in hand with a flagrant disturbance of the public peace and rowdy hooli- ganism, something which cannot be tolerated. We who witnessed this lawlessness protest against such “artistic” actions and de- mand that the laws of our coun- try and the public peace in our capital be respected both by these so-called free artists, who obviously have not the slightest idea what true art is, and their foreign friends and patrons. V. Fedoseyev, fitter, Communist labor shock worker, E. Svistunov, radio assembler, Communist labor shock worker, V. Polovinka, Manager of Cheryomushki district board of traffic and landscaping, District Soviet Deputy, B. Timashev, electric assemblyman. . . SOB’s!