I

(Reuter) —
Developing countries
a formidable list

of tr demands to rich states
Tuesday at the monthlong
UN Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD).
t.Demanding action to

change the world’s economic |

situation, wherein it- was

feported the rich are.

frrowing richer and the-poor

poorer, delegates from the
developing world said

will is needed to

ing about changes.

: } Defending the developed
states, France, _,the
spokesman of the European
Economic Community

(BEC) » announced can-
cellation of $170 million owed
to France by 10 of the world’s
poorest countries aad
rejected charges of
protectionsim, ’ :

French Economy Minster
Rene’ Monory said EEC
imports from developing
states hes consistently in-
creased by 30 per cent an-
nually since 1972.

The developing states’ de-
mands are in a lengthy Pro-
gram for Collective Self-re-
liance and Framework for
Negotiations worked aut last
February at a meeting in

Poor want change

Arusha, Tanzania, of the so-
called Group of 77
developing countries,

The program was tabled
Tuesday, on the second day
of the Manila conference, by

the: group’s rbpresentative

Wilbert Chagula of Tan-
zania,

He said efforts during the
last 20 years to narrow the

p between rich and poor’

countries have failed.

“We are still faced with a
chaotic
economle system. It is a
world in which the rich grow
richer and the poor, poorer,”
he said.

Israelis on the attack

* BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli
rllitary planes attacked
southern Lebanon

and buzzed Beirut on
Tueaday during a speech in
which Palestinian guerrilla
leader Yasser Arafat vowed
. focontinue guerrilla attacks
against Israel and described
the United States as a
‘"gnake's head” that must be

prushed.

" Arafat's command said
three civilians were
wounded when [Israeli jets
btrhfed the coastal highway

tween the Zahrani River

d ‘Abu al Aswad, 48

ilometres north of the

per fat sald jets also raided
ihe southern Lebanon town
be Bissariyeh, about 51

ometres from Beirut, the
Lebanese capital, but there
was no immediate con-
firmation.

; In Tel Aviv, the Israeli
fnilitary command sald its
planes bombed “terrorist
concentrations’' twice
Tuesaday, striking near the
Zahrani River and near the
village of Reihan, 18
kilometres north of the
northern Israeli town of
Metulla. All planes returned
safely the base, the com-
mand said.

? The third straight day of
Israeli air raids brought the
reported casualty toll of
Palestinians and Lebanese
to at least 66 dead and 143
wounded in reprisal attacks
{Israel mounted since it
_gigned its peace treaty with
Fevpt March 4... ,

! Both “Egypt and’ thé 1g:

attempted to pressure Israel
into halting its attacks, but

Prime Minister Menachem
Begin was resolute to con-
tinue them.

Begin offered a peace
treaty with Lebanon on
Monday, but the offer was
immediately rejected. He
threatened at the same time
to continue © attacking
Palestinian strongholds.

While the jets buzzed
Beirut, Arafat, speaking to
guerrilla graduates in a
hideaway south of the city,
said:

“Terrorist Begin should
realize that he cannot
challenge us. No one can
challenge men of sacrifice,
men who consider them-
selves living martyrs, men
who carry their own coffins
as they fight.”

Arafat also urged foreign
ministers of Islamic coun-
tries meeting in the
Moroccan city of Fez to take
collective sanctions against
the US.

“America is the snake’s
head," he said. “No one can
stop ‘current intrigues
against the Arab cause in the
Middle’ East unless the
snake's head, not. tail, is
crushed,” |

He again called for tough

measures against Egypt for

ita treaty and said:

“I wish to tell the con-
ferees (in. Fez) that
suspending the Egyptian
regime’s membership in the
conference is not enough.
They should rise to the chal-
lenge and take stern punitive
measures against the United

tates,”
‘In Cairo, President Anwar:

Sadat ‘predicted’ the “Arab
boycott af Egypt over its
peace treaty with Israel

Mass graves found

- SOROTI, Uganda (AP) —
A mass grave holding an
estimated 200 bodies of
Ugandans kilied by troops
loyal to deposed dictator Idi
Amin was discovered in
Soroti’s milltary police
rial Tuesday, soldiers

+ Near the pit — stacked to
withia two metres of its top
with: the bodies of men,
women and children — are
three similar graves, all
empty.

- Tanzanian and antl-Amin
Ugandan soldiers showed the
graves to the first reporters
tc reach Soroti, 191
kilometres northeast of the
capital city of Kaiipala. The
town was taken Friday.
One of the empty pits was
more than three metres long,
about ane metre wide and 10
metres deep. Soldiers said
bedies were plled like sacks
on a truck” in the full grave
that apparently was the
same size. Reporters did not
see the bodies, which Tan-
zanian soldiers had covered
with a thin layer of earth.
Air force Lieut. Joseph
Obonyo, 36, a Ugandan exile
who returned with the Tan-
zanlans to oust Amin, said’

some of the slain children
appeared: only years
old. Some had their throats
cut and others were stabbed
in the chest, he said.

Atrocities began surfacing
soon after Amin overthrew
President Milton Obote and
took power in 1971. In-
dependent sources say more
than 200,000 persons have
been killed in the eight
years, Reporters at Soroti,
who have been covering
Uganda since the start of
Amin’s rule, said they had
not previously witnessed an
example of such large-scale
murder.

The massacre evidently
occurred during the three
weeks between April 11,
when Kampala fell and
provisional President
Yusufu Lule was installed,
and Friday, when this town
of 15,000 fell to the Tanzanlan
forces without a fight.

A Tanzanian column led by

three tanks was’ reported -

only two kilometres beyond
Sorotl on Monday. Other
Tanzanian forces were
advancing In central and
western Uganda ina drive to
capture the northern third of
the country still held by
Amin’s troops.

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year,

“Weshall face our fate and
we shall fight our battle ...
but I think all this, even if It
accelerates this year, by
next year it will all he
history,” Sadat said.

In Jerusalem a top-level
committee began preparing
Israeli policy for the opening
round of talks with Egypt
and the U.S, this month on
the shape of Palestinian self-
rule in [sraeli-oceupied Arab
territories.

Government sources said
U.S. State Secretary Cyrus
Vance is planning trips to
Cairo and Jerusalem later
this month for initial con-
tacts on the autonomy plan
for the 1.1 million Palestin- .
fans in the, West Bank and
Gaza, .

Formal talks among
negotiators. of the three
countries are to begin by
May 25.

international Organization of Petroleum

- activities of imulti-national

The Arusha document,
which laid down the 119-

country Third World group's ee

basic position for the tough,
closed-door negotiations
over the next four weeks,
includes demands for:

—Less protectionism and
an opening of markets ta the
manufactured and semi-
manufactured geods of the
developing states.

—Speedy commodity stock
and price stabilization
agreements and support for

Exporting Countries groups
of producers of primary
materials. ©

—Tighter. controls on
corporations.

—A three-year foreign aid
commitment with pledges of
an annual 25-per-cent In-
crease by the United States,
France, West Germany and
Japan.

—A greater share in the
bulk shipping trade.

—A ‘special three-year
emergency . aid and
“development program for

. the very poorest countries.

The succession of formal
statements will continue in
the plenary sessions, while
negotiating groups start
private meetings today.

The plenary opened
Tuesday with a warnlng
from. UNCTAD Secretary-
General Gamani Corea of Sri
Lanka that the world's whele
trading system is in danger
unless ways are found
quickly to cpen markets to
the Third World and aid their
industrialization. .

“H the conference fails to.
act purposefully i in this field, -
it would mean that it. has
neglected one of the major
problems of our time,” he
said.

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