CIA-KISSINGER ‘HIT LIST’ BARED NEW DELHI — The magazine “India Today’’ has charged that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the CIA laid the plans for the 1975 assas- sination of President Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh. The magazine quotes several U.S. of- ficials as evidence that Rahman was on Kissinger’s ‘‘hit list’’ along with Chilean president Sal- vador Allende. The persons who killed Rahman in 1975 were the same ones in on an abortive coup in 1971, the magazine says. "WELL YES, THE C.LA. DID PLOT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON VARIOUS POLITICAL LEADERS, BUT THERE WAS CERTAINLY NO - HARM INTENDED... VIETNAM’S PRESIDENT DIES AT 91 HANOI — Ton Duc Thang, President of the Socialist Republic of ¢ Vietnam, died March 30 at the age of 91. President Ton Duc Thang held 7[%gaq this post since the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969. BRITISH DEFENCE SECRETARY IN CHINA BEIJING — Bnitain’s Defence Secretary, Francis Pym arrived here March 24 for talks with Chinese officials. Britain hopes to sell China its Harrier jet fighter and, according to the London Financial Times, is ‘‘invigorating’’ its military ties with China. Beijing is also reported to have made moves to become a member of the International Monetary Fund with a view to having access to financial aid. ‘FACT-FINDING’ GROUP WHITEWASHES APARTHEID BERKELEY, Calif. — A delegation of 10 members of the Dem- ocratic Party Natiqnal Committee returned last week from a 17-day tour of South Africa speaking in glowing terms of the ‘‘enlightened”’ leadership there, and the need for continued U.S. corporate investment. The tour was hosted by the South African Freedom Fund, aleading public relations group of the apartheid regime. The delegation also visit Namibia where it held talks with a number of political organi- zations with the exception of the Southwest African People’s Organi- zation which is recognized by the United Nations as the sole legitimate representative of the Namibian people. sere ee ey WASHINGTON — Over 40,000 protesters marched past the White House, March 24, chanting “One, Two, Three, Four — No Draft, No War!” in the largest anti-war demonstration since the Vietnam war. The march was part of nation-wide actions against draft registration. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 11, 1980—Page 6 : | here,’ Oranges from the Nangarhar Valley for sale in the Kabul market. By YURI VOLKOV JELALABAD (APN) — The weather in Kabul is still -cool: snow remains in the foothills as well as on mountain tops, and sometimes even covers the streets of the city. It takes the plane only half an hour, however, to bring us to another world, a world of bright sun, lush greenery and the merry chatter of birds. Roses are blossoming and bright orange fruit called narenj, a sort of cross between the orange and the lemon, hang from trees in court- » yards. We are in Jelalabad, the centre of the plentiful and fertile Nan- garhar Valley. The mountains surrounding it-on all sides, have | created a subtropical micro- climate in the.valley. Four crops a year can be taken in in those parts — that is, if there is enough water, because in sum- ‘_ merthemerciless sun scorches all i land. That was why in the recent past the local peasants remained |, at home and worked the land for three to four months in winter, when there was plenty of water and when a good crop of wheat, barley, vegetables or greens could be raised. After that they would seek jobs in other provinces. ‘‘Average summer tempera- tures reach 45-48 degrees C * says Mohammad Naim, head of the Development Board of the Nangarhar Valley. ‘Peasants remain in the fields from four to nine a.m. when life comes to a stop. At mid-day water boils in tanks and if you put an egg in a tin cup, pour some water in it and put it on the sand you will have a boiled egg in 10 to 15 minutes.” ; When large-scale economic and - technical cooperation be-. tween the USSR and Afghanistan got under way in the mid-1950’s, the Jelalabad irrigation system in the Nangarhar Valley became one of the first joint projects. A 75 kilometer canal was built, irrigat- ing thousands of hectares of fer- tile land, and a hydropower plant was constructed. Two. farms, |} Ghaziabad and Hadda, appeared where once was barren desert. They grow wheat, citrus fruit, olives, other fruit and vegetables, and also breed livestock. All work is mechanized: there are tractors, combine harvesters, fertilizer in- troducing -machines, insecticide sprays, milking machines and, of course, trucks. ‘‘Apart from bringing water to the fields, the irrigation system became a good school, as it were, for the local population,”’ Mohammad Naim says.”’ Since 1960 Soviet experts. have trained here 13,000 workers in different trades. The following figures well INSIDE AFGHANISTAN Third in a Series illustrate the importance of the canal to Jelalabad. Before the pro- ject got under way, the population of the city had barely reached 15,000, whereas today it has top- ped the 45,000 mark. Water gave a new lease on life to the desert. The peasants’ dream of working their land round the year has finally come true: having taken in a harvest of grain crops, they begin preparing the soil for veget- ables. Then sugar cane is raised on the same plot, which is fol- _ lowed by grain crops again. A few years ago we built two factories, one to process olives and the other to can fruits. Harvests are growing, however, and the fac- tories can no longer cope with all output. So we have begun build- ing one more factory at the Hadda Farm. ‘‘After the victory of the April Revolution in 1978, we gave 14,000 hectares of irrigated land to landless peasants. The land was given to them gratis and they are not charged anything for water supply. The operational costs of the irrigation system are covered by the state. As a result, the peasants’ earnings have steeply risen. Apart from that, the people’s government is going to hike the purchasing prices of cer- tain kinds of agricultural output this year, and also to reduce the prices of mineral fertilizers. This will have a particularly beneficial effect on those peasants and cooperatives in the country that raise cotton and sugar beet’’. I asked Mohammad Naim how the activites of the counter-rev- olutionary gangs crossing into the country from the neighboring ‘ cedented four golds won in two Pakistan affected the work of farms and factories. a “Now the situation has mal- kedly improved’’, he says. ““The — resolute measurés taken by the party organizations, the people's militia and the Afghan army curb the bandits’ incidious activities. — However, a considerable portion — of the workforce are scared and — do not go to work every day. Our ~ farms and factories, nevertheless, — meet their plan targets and yield © good profit for the state. Our out- put is exported to many coun- tries, including the Soviet Union, __ as well as consumed domestical- _ ly"’. rl Babrak Karmal, Prime Min- — ister of the Democratic Republic © of Afghanistan, stressed at the | first Afghan conference on agri- — culture that the country was faced © with the task of steeply raising yields from every hectare of land. _ It is necessary to use modem — agricultural methods on a large — scale, he said. All agricultural” organizations, farmers and peas- ants should closely cooperate in making their contribution to na-— tional economic growth, assist one another and prevent the enemy from frustrating the Re-~ public’s development plans. Owens winner of four gold TUCSON, Arizona — Former track star Jesse Owens, who won — four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, died March 30 at the age of 66. Owens — is best remembered for his unpre-— poeipape ey egrt inser Ns hours where he broke three world — records and tied another. % ‘‘When I came back to my country I couldn’t ride in the front — of the bus,”’ he said. ‘‘I had to go © to the back door. I couldn’t live — where I wanted .. . Joe Louis and — I were the first modern sports figures who were Black. But neither of us could do any na- tional advertising because the South wouldn’t buy it. That was the social stigma we -lived under...” Owens, just before he died, publicly opposed Carter’s Olym- pics boycott.