Impossible to achieve peace ~
in Middle Eastwithout PLO _

MOSCOW (APN) — In talks
here between the Soviet Union
and Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation chairman Yassar Arafat
the USSR reaffirmed its position
i support of an overall settlement
in the Middle East of which an
Mseparable part is guaranteeing
the lawful national rights of the

Palestinian Arab people, their’

Tight to self-determination and the
establishment of an independent
estinian state.

The USSR also re-stated that
the PLO is the legitimate repre-
Sentative of the Palestinian people
and that it is impossible to pro-
Ceed to the solution of the prob-
lems of the Middle East without
the full participation of the PLO.
It again repeated its demand that
the PLO be included in the
Geneva Conference and charged
that Israel continues to raise
arguments against PLO participa-
tion to gain time to consolidate its
annexation of occupied Arab
lands.

The Soviet Union says a similar
Stand is being taken by the new
U.S. administration despite its
Claims to be working for a Middle

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JAIME PEREZ

Uruguay CP
appeals for
Solidarity

The Communist Party of
Uruguay has again called for in-
temational solidarity actions to
Save the lives of imprisoned pat-
Tots, Communists and non-
Communists, who are suffering
Tepression and torture in fascist
Uruguay.

In a letter signed by CPU gen-
€ral secretary Rodney Arismendi,
attention is drawn to the plight of
Jaime Perez, member of the

Ommunist Party’s Central

‘Ommittee who is in jail in the
City of Durazno, his health broken
from the tortures he has endured.

€ letter also speaks of other

Ommunists — Jorge Maz-
Zarovich, Eduardo Bleier, Jose

assera, Gerardo Cuesta,

Vladimir Turiansky, Rosario

€trarroia, Luis Touron, Alberto
Altesor, Rita Ibarburu — who are

‘Mprisoned.

It calls for the release of general
Liber Seregni, president of the

©pular Front who is in danger of
being murdered by his jailers and
freedom for countless other
. Tuguayan patriots, trade un-
Onists, teachers, journalists, stu-
€nts, in the many prisons and
Camps.

East settlement and that Wash-
ington continues to ignore the
legitimate rights of the Palestinian
Arabs. ei

-Commenting on the recent visit
of Egyptian president Sadat to the
USA, the Soviet Union charged
that Sadat, despite advertizing his
trip as ‘‘ mission to uphold Pales-
tinian rights’’ actually denied th-
ese rights by speaking of certain
‘‘political formations’’ and did
not speak of the PLO as the repre-
sentative of the Palestinian
people. Likewise Sadat did not
forthrightly demand PLO partici-
pation at the Geneva Conference.

Some Arab newspapers, said
the USSR, spoke of Sadat’s trip
as a ‘familiarization visit’’. But
such visits are aimed at misleading
public opinion and delaying a real
settlement. Each such visit pro-

duces seemingly small but actu-

ally important concessions to
U.S. imperialism and Zionism,
designed to achieve a settlement

favorable to themselves and not

the Palestinian people, the Soviet
Union charged.

YASSAR ARAFAT

In his talks with Yassar Arafat,
Leonid Brezhnev said the USSR
“‘has always supported the Arab
people of Palestine and other
peoples of the Middle East who
are fighting for freedom, national
independence and socialism; for
an overall political settlement and
for ajust and durable peace in the
Middle East.”

Castro, Honecker pledge
aid to African freedom

By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN — The GDR and
Cuba have joined in a pledge to
give all possible assistance to the
anti-imperialist, liberation and
socialist-oriented forces in Afri-
ca.

The pledge was made during a
visit here of a government and
party delegation from Cuba
headed by Fidel Castro, president
of Cuba and General Secretary of
the Cuban Communist Party. In
his welcome to the Cuban guests,
Erich Honecker, chairman of the
GDR State Council and general
secretary of the Socialist Unity
Party, declared socialism in Cuba
and the GDR showed in which
direction history was going.

He added: ‘‘socialism has now
taken root on four continents. Its
powers of attraction, its influence
on all the basic decisions of our
times have enormously §in-
creased. That does not suit the
gentlemen of imperialism. That is
their problem. What is important
is the fact that socialism, peace
and the national liberation
movement of the peoples con-
solidate their positions.”’

Castro flew to Berlin directly
from his extended tour of a
number of African countries.
That, as the GDR press com-
mented, made it inevitable ‘‘that
Africa took a special place in the
exchange of views on interna-
tional questions’’ between the
two sides.

At a banquet in honor of the
Cuban visitors, Castro summed
up his impressions of his tour of
Africa, of the struggle there “‘be-
tween imperialism and the newly
developed countries, between
capitalism and socialism, bet-
ween oppression and freedom’,
of those Arab lands and the coun-
tries of Black Africa ‘‘which are
fighting for social change.

“‘We have seen with our own
eyes,”’ he said, ‘‘the present situ-
ation of the people who have had

“to live under colonialism: an un-

believable poverty, an extra-

ordinary technical backwardness,

illiteracy, unemployment, dis-
ease. In Africa, people do not
grow old. There is one doctor for
about 40-50,000 inhabitants.
There are no technical experts.
There is a shortage of engineers,
teachers and very often there are
no tradesmen.”’

In their final communique, the
GDR and Cuban leaders said they
would work to deepen their rela-
tions with African countries with
a socialist orientation, and would
support the struggle for freedom
of the peoples of Zimbabwe,
Namibia and South Africa, as
well as the revolutionary changes
in Ethopia.

They called for bilateral and all
other kinds of consultations be-
tween the Communist and Work-
ers’ parties of the world and laid
special emphasis on maintaining
friendly relations with the Soviet
Union.

USSR constructs
first power
plant in Zambia

The first one of the six power
stations, now under construction
in Zambia with Soviet assistance,
was commissioned in the city of
Feira. This station will help boost
the economy of the outlying east-
em areas of this African country.

The Soviet Union’s economic
and technical cooperation with
many other African countries also
keeps growing. These relations
rest on the principles of equality
and mutual benefit. The Soviet
Union is now helping build the
following projects in Africa: a
cement plant in Tanzania, two big
oil pipelines in Nigeria, a hyd-
ropower complex in Somalia and
many others.

Soviet-built power stations are
now used to supply power to a
number of districts in Guinea,
Zambia, Mali, Somalia and Su-
dan. A big metallurgical works is
to be built with Soviet assistance
in Nigeria within the next few
years.

INDIAN PRIME MINISTER INSULTS WOMEN
NEW DELHI — Indian prime minister Morarji Desai started his
new job with a blanket insult against women in politics. ‘Women on
the whole have better, softer qualities than men,”’ the 81 year-old prime
minister told Time Magazine, ‘‘and on the whole they don’t go as
devilish as men. But when a woman becomes devilish, she beats all

‘records.”’

He told the magazine his views came as a results of women such as
the prime ministers in India, Israel and Sri Lanka. ‘‘And Thatcher will
become the same if she becomes prime minister of Britain,’’ he said.
Desai later apoligized to Thatcher and Sri Lankan premier Ban-
daranaike. He neglected to apologize to the women of India, however,

CHINA CONTINUES AID TO.ZAIRE GOVERNMENT

PEKING — Socialist diplomats left a banquet here April 16 follow-
ing remarks by Chinese vice-premier Li Hsien-nien that the USSR had
organized the war in Zaire. He said the Soviet Union had launched a
new round of aggression on the African continent.

China, along with the USA, France, Belgium and other imperialist
states have supported the regime of Mobutu and are aiding his fight
against rebels in Shaba province. China also backed the CIA-organized
groupings in the Angola civil war last year.

FRENCH UNIONIST GETS SOVIET AWARD

MOSCOW — Georges Seguy, General Secretary of the General
Confederation of Labor (CGT) of France, has been awarded the Order
of the October Revolution.

The award has been bestowed for fruitful activity in the international
working class movement, for his big contribution to stronger solidarity
and friendship between the workers and trade unions of France and the
USSR, and on the occasion of his 50th birthday, says the decree of the
Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet.

USSR, MOZAMBIQUE SIGN TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP
MAPUTO, Mozambique — The Soviet Union and the People’s
Republic of Mozambique signed a Treaty of Friendship and Coopera-
tion April 1 during the visit of Soviet president Podgorny to that
country. At the same time a consular convention was signed between
the-:two sides.

FASCISTS GATHER AT PARAGUAY CONFERENCE

ASUNCION, Paraguay — The third congress of the so-called “‘La-
tin American Anti-Communist Confederation” (CACAL) was held
here at the end of March with featured speaker general Gustavo Leigh
of the Chilean junta. The meeting was attended by Paraguayan presi-
dent Alfredo Stroessner, Ku Cheng Kang, speaker of the parliament on
Taiwan and president of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL),
vice president Mario Sandoval of Guatemala and U.S. representative
Robert K. Dornan (R-Cal.)

ROMANIA EXPOSES RADIO FREE EUROPE’S “AID”? CAMPAIGN
BUCHAREST — Romania has attacked Radio Free Europe, a
station broadcasting hate propaganda for the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency, for using the worst enemies of the Romanian people to or-
ganized ‘‘humanitarian aid’’ to earthquake-torn Romania. Vasile Bol-
deanu, leader of the fascist Romanian legionaries, has been put in
charge of this ‘‘aid’’. Boldeanu, now resident in France, was sentenced
to death in absentia by a Romanian court for his crimes.

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Our map shows the six-nation tour last month by Cuban premier Fidel
Castro of African and Arab nations. He first visited Algeria where he met
with president Boumediene on March 1; then to Libya where he stayed
from March 1-10 and attended the Libyan People’s Congress and met
with Libyan leader Khadafi. He then travelled to the People’s Demo-
cratic Republic of Yemen March 10-12 and met with Fatah Ismail, gen-
eral secretary of the National United Front Political Organization and
other leaders. in Somalia, Castro met with president Mohamed Siad
Barre; in Ethiopia he was welcomed by Megistu Haile Mariam and in
Tanzania where he arrived March 17 he was met by Gulim Neyerere. The

Cuban premier then visited the German Democratic Republic and the
Soviet Union.

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