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Soviet Union plans
big incomes boost

Proposals to raise real incomes
by 380 percent under the next Five
Year Plan will go before the
Soviet Communist Party’s 23rd
congress at the end of March,

The draft of the CP proposals
tells the Soviet people of the
economic, social and cultural
gains which the party considers
it is possible to achieve in the
next five years. Among the main
objectives are: ~

* WAGES: To raise real in-
comes by 30 percent; to raise
factory and office workers’ wages
by 20 percent, andfarm workers’
income in cash and kind by 36-
40 percent,

WILL SPEAK TO YOUNG PEOPLE. SAM
WALSH, national leader of the Parti
Communiste du Quebec, arrived in
B.C. this week. While here, he will
appear at a number of public gather-
ings, including the campus at UBC on

~ Friday and University of Victoria on

Monday.

* OUTPUT: Toincrease indus-
trial output by 50 percent (this
follows an 84 percent output in-
crease since 1959); toraise farm
production by 25 percent and to
double state capital investment
in agriculture, totalling $46 bil-
lion over five years.

_* HOUSING: To spend $84 bil-
lion on housing, municipal, cul-
tural and social service ameni-
ties and to build about 14 million
new apartments, including a 400
percent increase in cooperative
housing schemes,

* EDUCATION: To provide 60
percent more places at creches
and nurseries to cater for atotal
of 12,200,000 children, thus solv-
ing in the main this particular
problem in the towns,

* DURABLES: To produce twice
as many trucks and television
sets a year by 1970, three times
as many refrigerators and four
times as many Cars,

* POWER: To raise output of
electricity from last year’s fig-
ure of 507,000 million kilowatt
hours to 850,000 million kilo-
watt hours by 1970; to raise oil
production to 335 million tons
a year {a 40 percent increase)
and steel production to 129 mil-
lion tons, from 91 million last
year,

Over the next five years, pro-
duction of capital goods — the
means of production, or machine
making industry—will rise at a
slightly faster rate (49 to52per-
cent) than that of consumer goods
(43 to 46 percent),

“The most vital task is topre-
vent a new world war breaking
out,” the draft says.

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The growing distaste of the American people for their'government’s dirty war in Viet-
nam is becoming so widespread that President Johnson and his clique of hawks are finding
themselves more and more in an isolated position. The only sure support LBJ can now count
on in his own country comes from the diehard racist Senators of the South, Goldwater Repub-
licans, and his personal cohorts like McNamara and Rusk.

The latest shattering blow to
Johnson’s prestige was supplied
by Sen, Robert F. Kennedy, who
last week proposed that the Na-
tional Liberation Front of South
Vietnam should not only be in-
vited to participate in negotiating
a peaceful settlement of the war,
but should be asked to become
part of a coalition government,

In so doing, Kennedy displayed
a keen sense of timing and poli-
tical realism —his late brother’s
stock-in-trade.

The nationally televised hear-
ings of the Senate’s foreign re-
lations committee had served to
illustrate the growing desire for
peace in America and had crys-
tallized opposition to LBJ’s
hawks to unprecedented heights,

Many observers were freely
predicting that fully two-thirds
of the Senate was prepared to
back any move which would dis-
engage the U,S, from its Vietnam
nightmare, if a realistic method
could be found,

At the same time, the public
was getting “expert” testimony
from a parade of witnesses con-
demning nearly all aspects of
U.S, imperialism’s adventurism
in Southeast Asia,

While the political pot was thus
boiling, Kennedy, who had been
noticeably silent on Vietnam for
quite sometime, made his realis-
tic proposals for a compromise
settlement,

The addition of the magic Ken-
nedy name to those of respected
senators like Fulbright, Morse,

“Mansfield, Gruening, Church and

others, undoubtedly means that

_LBJ has a full scale Senate re-

volt on his hands,

Speaking on his proposal, Ken-

DE GAULLE SAYS:

‘No military solution

French president de Gaulle has
again condemned the Vietnam
war, In a letter to North Vietnam
president Ho Chi Minh published
in Paris last Wednesday, he
wrote: “We exclude all military
solutions and we do not approve
of the prolongation of the fight-
ing, still less that it should be
extended on the pretext of there-
by bringing about a solution.”

Gen, de Gaulle was replying
to a letter from President Ho
sent to him and other heads of

_state on January 24, two days

Cont'd from pg. 1
its support to demands for peace
in Vietnam through the imple-
mentation of the 1954 Geneva
Agreements,

Readers wishing to make a
financial contribution to the com-
mittee or to help in its work
should write P.O, Box 2543, Van-
‘couver 3, B.C, | ee Ss a

A

THE FACTS OF LIFE are beginning to make themselves felt, even in the U.S. poll-
tical arena. One compelling reason for RFK's coalition proposal is that the Nation-
ai Liberation Front controls 80 percent of South Vietnam. Despite rosy press rée-
leases emanating from the Pentagon, things have not improved for the U.S. ag-
gressors since this map was‘issued last August.

nedy pointed out that “there are
three things the U.S, can do with
(national liberation) groups: kill
them or repress them; turn the
country over to them; or admit
them to a share of power and
responsibility.”

In his opinion it was in the
third alternative in which “the

before the resumption of US.
bombings.

A political solution had two
aspects, he wrote, They were:

(1) The constitution of a rep-

Women’s Day
plans set

Plans for International
Women’s Day have been an-
nounced by the B,C,. Wom-"
en’s Committee for World
Friendship, The celebration
will be held at the Garden
Horseshoe Hall, 2786 East
Hastings St, in Vancouver, on
Sun, March 13th at 1:30 p.m,

Dr. Inglis has been invited
to acquaint the audience with
the work of the “Canadian
Aid for Vietnam Civilians”,
Program will include a film
short, music and sale of home-
baked international pastries
and tea service, ;

heart of the hope for anegotiated
settlement” lay.
A short time before Kennedy’s

public proposal, Senator Ful- .

bright reported he had received
thousands of letters as chairman
of the foreign relations com-
mittee, The letters ran 30 to 1
opposing further escalations and
in favor of extended hearings.

possible’

resentative South Vietnamese
government, without talking ofan

ultimate reunification of Viet- —

na, which in any event could not
be done while the war went on.

(2) The renewal and observ-
ance of the undertakings entered
into in 1954 with regard to the
independence and neutrality of

Vietnam and to the non-inter- —

vention of all parties, which was
obviously in contradiction with
the present situation.

On February 2 in a statement
personally drawn up by the Presi-
dent, the French government

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voiced regret and disapproval at _ a

the resumption of American
bombings of North Vietnam. It
called for an end to all external
intervention,

Last Monday De Gualle de-
clared that France will continue
to disentangle her military forces
from NATO integration, He said

by 1969 all foreign military forces

on French soil must be unde
French command, —