ANWAR SADAT

NIKOLAI PODGORNY

Sadat lauds Soviet aid
holds to socialist aims

CAIRO — “We would never
have made progress if it were
not for the aid and support of
our good, honest friend, the
Soviet Union,” Anwar el-Sadat,
President of the United Arab
Republic, said in his address to
the UAR National Assembly on
Thursday. Sadat’s tribute tothe
USSR and his statements -about
consolidating socialist gains
within the UAR were not car-
ried in U.S. news media ac-
counts of the speech, which
tried to give the impression that
the UAR is carrying out an
“anti-Communist ' purge” in in-
ternal politics, and in foreign
policy is coming over to the
U.S. side. There is no evidence
to back this U.S. capitalist news
media interpretation.

Sadat said that post-1967 Is-
raeli air attacks on the UAR
failed to break the Egyptian
spirit: “Working day and night,
our troops shifted around our
missile sites and defeated Israeli
strategy. The USSR supplied us
with anti-aircraft missiles to de-
fend areas deep inside the coun-
try.” The UAR president also
said his peace initiative proposal
is still open: in return for partial
Israeli withdrawal as a first step
to total evacuation of occupied
Arab territory, the UAR will re-
open the Suez Canal.

The U.S. and Secretary of
State William P. Rogers came in
for sharp criticism in Sadat’s

speech, when he remarked that
the U.S. “supplies Israel with
everything, from bread to Phan-
tom jets,” and then claims it can
do nothing to get the Israeli
government to agree to peace.

On internal conditions in the
UAR, Sadat stressed the need
for a new, permanent constitu-
tion which “should emphasize
Arabism (“el-’Uruba”) and de-.
fend the gain of socialism.
Workers and peasants especially
must be more broadly represent-
ed in all government bodies, and
the state and co-operative sec-
tors of the economy must play
the leading role.”

Al-Ahram (The Pyramids), the
semi-official Cairo daily, said on
Friday that the plot discovered
last week to overthrow the UAR
government was planned to in-
clude street demonstrations and
rioting, followed by a military
coup led by ex-War Minister
Gen. Mohammed Fawzi. The
newspaper said army officers
refused to support Fawzi’s plan.
The internal shakeup in the
UAR government and Arab So-
cialist Union party in the past
week in no way involved the
Marxist-oriented journal, The
Journal (al-Tali’ya), whose edi-
torial board includes several in-
ternationally - known Egyptian
Marxist scholars and publicists.

USSR president N. Podgorny
is coming to the UAR on a state
visit this week.

‘Set war's end for 1971’

By NELSON CLARKE

BUDAPEST — The Assembly
of the World Council of Peace
is living proof of the growing
unity of anti-imperialist forces,
with 800 delegates from 124
countries representing 33 inter-
national organizations attending.

A high point of the meeting
was the solidarity between In-
dochinese and United States
peace fighters and the ovations
given Ralph Abernathy and
Sydney Peck, coordinator for
the People’s Coalition for Peace

and Justice. Secretary-General,

Romesh Chandra said to the
Americans, “Your movement
has helped to change the move-
ment in the world. With that
comes great responsibility. We
are with you. Fight on!”

The Assembly adopted action
plans on Indochina, the Middle
East, Eufopean security, racism,
including the Budapest Appeal:

Time means LIFE for the
people of Vietnam, Laos and

Cambodia. Each minute, each

hour, each day the world

allows the U.S. government
to continue the mass slaugh-
ter in Indochina means death
for thousands of Vietnamese,

Laotians and Cambodians,
who strive only for peace and
national independence. It
means death also for Ameri-
can GIs who are forced
against their will to fight in
this genocidal war.

Enough! We must as one de-
mand that the Nixon adminis-
tration set a date for the com-
plete unconditional with-
drawal of all U.S. forces from
Indochina this year.

This must be the theme of
action for the international
peace movement. We must
wage a mass struggle, more
determined than ever to press
everywhere—in all possible
ways—for the realization of
the demand to SET THE
DATE FOR °’71!.

This we must do! It is a
duty to ourselves, to the hero-
ic Indochinese peoples, and
to humanity as a whole. Join
in the worldwide c ign
to “SET THE ’71 DATE” for
the complete withdrawal of
all U.S. and allied forces from
Indochina.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1971—PAGE 10

Tito sounds warning

Clouds in Yugoslav skié

By ERIK BERT

Official excerpts from the re-
cent speeches of President Tito
of Yugoslavia have ‘been made
available by the Yugoslav In-
formation Center.

At a meeting in Pristina, Tito
was critical of - Yugoslavia’s
economy. He made the follow-
ing points:

Production increased by about
10% in the first quarter of 1971
compared to 1970, while person-
al income rose by 22%. “This
means that the rise in personal
incomes is more than double the

‘rate of increase in production.”

However, “the income of the
lower categories of workers is
not growing, only that of the
people with a higher standard...”

Furthermore, despite a price
freeze, prices continued to rise
in the first quarter, Tito said.

“The banks,” he said, “have
recently become increasingly
undisciplined, manipulating fic-
titious, not actual resources, pri-
marily in financing ‘investment.
Abuses by the banks are many,
and this can cost us dearly.”

The cornucopia: which some
Yugoslavs saw in Western skies,
especially over the U.S., ready
to spill its fruits on Yugoslavia,
proved to be pie ip the sky.

Tito pointed out:

“We recently devalued the
dinar by which we hoped and
expected that: we would more
easily solve the economic prob-
lems and move ahead more
quickly. Unfortunately, how-
ever, I must tell you that the
situation is not so good . . . cer-
tain sectors (are) even running
wild...

“In the first three months of
this year, imports increased by
about 45% over the same period
last year, while exports are
stagnant.”

Some Yugoslavs had appar-
ently forgotten what Marx had
said about capitalist crises. They
thought the U.S. had managed
to shelve economic ebbs, and
harbored other delusions.

The magnitude of Yugoslav-
ia’s economic problems is evi-
dent in Tito’s statement:

“Our very existence is in
question, our socialist state, our
community.”

“Where can we lay the res-
ponsibility for all of this except
on the Communists?” Tito ask-
ed. “That is how we must be-
have and anyone who does not
conduct himself in this way—
out with him from the League
of Communists.”

After recounting Yugoslavia’s

’ economic ills, Tito said in Pris-

tina, “Where are the Commun-
ists? Both in the banks and
throughout the economy Com-
munists are for the most part in|
charge. Can we continue to tol-:
erate the situation I describe?

- And what steps can we take?...

What must we do now?

“There are those raising their
heads today who want again to
destroy our life, to undermine
our unity, to sow discord
among our people, to return us
to the path of prewar Yugo-
slavia.

“We have made too many sac-
rifices to permit individuals or
groups, who have nothing in
common with socialism...to ham-
per us and make it impossible
for us to continue our peaceful
creative work.”

Tito’s view of the perilous
position of Yugoslavia’s econ-
omy was paralleled by his esti-
mate of the perilous situation

within the League of Commun-
ists, the Communist party of
Yugoslavia.

“I do not believe that we have
ever had such a situation as we
have now in the League,” he
said in Pristina.

“We are a socialist society, in

_which the League of Commun-

ists is the ideological political
standard-bearer of our entire

development. But behavior in:

the League of Communists is
not good...

“We must have unity, but
there are those among us who
violate this concept, although
they too speak of unity.

“Let us, once and for all, see

who is really for unity in work
and who violates it, destroying
our community.
' “It is essential to establish
finally who the people are who
would destroy this unity...Why
should we deceive ourselves?”

Some Yugosaly Communists
have flaunted ‘their new-style
“democracy” to the world, in
explicit derogation of Soviet
democracy.

The “new style” model ap-
parently did not so much pro-
vide democracy as it did provide
a cover for the distortions of
the economy which Tito casti-
gated.

Among the “various~ ideas”
that occurred to him to meet
the nation’s economic problems,
he said at Pristina, was that
“we shall have to resert to ad-
ministrative measures to halt
this trend.”

“I know there will be com-

. plaints that this is undemocratic,

and so on, but is it possible to
act otherwise when dealing with
such behavior, especially if it is
the Communists who are behav-
ing in this way? Consequently,
we must energetically approach
the settling of these questions
because the coming months are
very critical for our economy.”

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