U.S. plans attack

on El Salvador

sa hae HAWES
_ € U.S. is preparing an inva-
sion of E] Salvader. Shafic Jorge
Handal, general secretary of the
Communist Party of El Salvador,
charged in a statement distributed
in Costa Rica. He spoke as the
Salvadoran ultra-right,. with U.S.
aid, attacked peoples forces with
Savage terror. : ‘
“This invasion is aimed at
smashing the popular movement
which, after the recent unification
of its most important organiza-
tions, has become the most
powerful force,’’ he said.
Handal stressed that the U.S.
plans to use troops from Hon-
duras and Guatemala in the plan-
ned intervention.

Help Terrorists

_ The U.S. is presently working
inside the Salvadoran military and
the notorious Salvadoran right-
wing terror organization, OR-
DEN. According to the latest
issue of Panorama Internacional,
a Salvadoran magazine, ORDEN
was set up in 1967 on the urging of
the Pentagon and the CIA. The
paramilitary organization, which
continues to work for the CIA, is
linked at all levels with the pre-
sent Salvadoran military com-
mand and the government.

Former National Guard mem-
bers of ousted Nicaraguan dic-
tator Somoza and Cuban
counter-revolutionaries also be-
long to ORDEN, the magazine
said. The group’s most important
assignments are attacks on the
opposition forces as well as es-
pionage and denunciations, it
said.

According to press reports, the
U.S. has been sending arms to the
Salvadoran port of Acajutla to
equip ‘‘anti-guerrilla units’ and
paramilitary bands. The aid is

of a ‘‘liberation”’ plan de-
vised by Zbigniew Brzezinski,
_ Carter’s national security
adviser.
New Ambassador

Meanwhile, the new U.S. am-

bassador, Robert White, pre-

sented his credentials to‘El Sal- .

vador’s ruling junta March 11 and
pledged the U.S. government’s
*‘total support’’ to the Salvadoran
junta and its social and economic
reforms. White was referring to
last week’s expropriation of large
farms and nationalization of pri-
vate banks, and evidently to the
‘mounting government repression
against opposition forces as well.

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar
Romero said March 9 the reforms
could not resolve the crisis unless
the repression against ‘‘popular
organizations’”’ ended. ‘‘Agricul-
tural reform and the nationaliza-
tion of banks should be judged in
the context of death and annihila-
tion,” he stated.

“The measures are not drastic
enough and they show they are
being carried out in a moderate
capitalist scheme,” he stated.
“Its possible difficulties include
two things: the project is sup,
ported by the U.S. and it includes
masSSive repression.”

. Aspokesperson for the Popular

Revolutionary Bloc, which forms
part of the new unified left, de-
nounced White’s arrival, charging
that the new ambassador had
“one of the most reactionary
reputations in Latin America for
supporting the imperialist formula
of reforms and repression.”’

Archbishop Romero noted that
some 600 people have died so far

this year as a result/of violence
attributed to the armed forces,
security police and the paramili-
tary groups. Last week alone, he
said, at least 80 people were
killed.
Widespread Murder —
Among those murdered in the
past few days were 11 union léad-

ers from the western city of Santa

Anaand 18 left students who were
meeting inside a high school in
San Miguel, 84 miles east of the
capital. :
Dalila Garcia, 22, a leading

member of the Popular Revolu- =

tionary Bloc, was also reportedly
killed March 8. ;

Even the New York Times re-
ported that reforms have been ac-
companied by a “stepped-up
campaign’’ against left labor and
peasant groups by “‘army and
paramilitary units.”

But the moves by the present
junta are a continuation of its rep-
ressive policies. As Eugene
Stockwell, associate general
secretary of the National Council
of Churches, put it in a letter to
The Times last Feb. 21: ‘‘Some
media sources have described the
present junta governing El Sal-
vador as ‘moderate.’ It is any-
thing but moderate. Recent re-
ports we have received indicate
that about 25 persons are being
killed daily, by either Govern-
ment or Government-supported
forces. A major massacre seems
to be in progress, presumably in-
tended to .wipe out opposition
forces but in fact annihilating
popular movements that are
neither radical nor Marxist but
Simply seeking a tolerable gov-
emment with wide support.

“When will we learn that
legitimate people’s aspirations for
minimal decency and security
cannot be silenced by military dic-
tatorships or by United States
arms which support them,’’ he

asked.
— N.Y. Daily World

The U.S. has long maintained a policy of Stationing and training troops in Latin America to hold onto its

interests in the area. Itis currently planning to use troops from Honduras and Guatemala to attack El Salvador
and crush the people’s movements there.

CMEA plan responds
to energy shortages

By YURI SINYAKOV

Novosti Press Agency
The Council for Mutual
Economic Assistance (CMEA) is
the only organization of states in
the world that is almost totally
energy self-sufficient. Only 1% of
its energy needs are imported
from non-member countries.
Nevertheless, certain shortages
of natural fuel reserves force the

- CMEA states to account for this

in their energy plans.

The Soviet Union is the major
supplier of oil and gas to the
CMEA. These countries pay 40%
less for Soviet oil than the world
price.

Soviet oil is delivered to Bul-
garia, the German Democratic
Republic, Poland, Cuba and other

The Urengoi gas pipeline going through the Carpathian Mountains.

Each kilometre section of this line costs over $1-million.

PHOTO — NOVOSTI

socialist countries. In order to
provide its partners with fuel and
raw materials, the Soviet Union
must constantly step up its oil and
gas output. This is a difficult task
since the major extraction centres
are in the inaccessible north-
eastern areas of the country.

For instance, it costs $1-million
for each kilometre of road to the
Urengoi. gas: deposit: in: Western
Siberia which yields more gas that
all the U.S. wells combined. All
this poses the task of the rational
and sparing use of raw materials
and reducing the power consump-
tion of industry.

To do this the CMEA has em-
barked on a long term energy pro-
gram to the year 2000. Its goal is
to utilize as widely as possible the
resources of the member states
and to explore for all types of raw
materials.

Advanced technology has un-
covered new supplies even in the
thoroughly explored regions of
eastern Europe. ‘Large coal and
copper deposits have been dis-
covered with the help of deep dril-
ling equipment in Hungary,
whose sole resource was believed
to have been bauxite. Prospecting
for mineral resources has bome
fruit in Czechoslovakia, where
coal has been found; coal has also
been found in Poland and lignite
and shale has been discovered in
Romania.

Considerable reserves of coal,
and lignite, in the European
CMEA countries provide the
grounds for believing that their
use will help supply enough fuel
for both existing and new thermal
power stations for a long time to
come. This is in line with the
common energy strategy of the
CMEA countries, of lowering oil
and gas consumption and raising
the share of cheap solid fuels in
the output of electric power.

Along with the requirement to
exploit all known reserves, the
CMEA’s energy program at-
taches great importance to de-

veloping nuclear power engineer-.

ing. Currently, apart from the
Soviet Union, ‘‘members in the
nuclear power engineering club”
are Bulgaria,. the GDR and
“Czechoslovakia. Hungary is to

join them soon, with nuclear
power Stations to be built next in
Poland, Romania and Cuba. Ac-
cording to the program, nuclear
power stations with a total capa-
city of 37 million kilowatts will be
built with Soviet assistance in the
European CMEA countries and
Cuba in the 80s.

Nuclear power stations will el-
minate the need-for-these: coun-
tries to Taise their annual fuel im-
ports by 75 million tons (in terms
of conventional fuel), which is
about half of the current fuel im-
ports of the CMEA countries
from the USSR. The program
provides for the joint construction
of two nuclear power stations in
the USSR with a total capacity of
eight million kilowatts. One of
these projects is already being.
carried out: the construction of
the Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power
Station has been started in the
Western Ukraine. Three coun-
tries — Poland, Czechoslovakia
and the USSR — are building it.
After the station is put into opera-
tion, these countries will start re-
ceiving energy in corresponding
amounts to their investment.

This is not the first attempt to
carry out joint energy projects
within the CMEA framework.
The Soyuz gas pipeline that
stretches from the Urals to the
Soviet western border was put
into operation in 1978. The ex-
ports of Soviet natural gas
through this line has considerably
aided the fuel and energy balance
of the CMEA countries which
took part in its construction.

A super-high-voltage (750
kilovolts) power-line which con-
nects the Ukrainian city of Vin-
nitsa and the Hungarian town of
Albertirsza was put into operation
in early. 1979. Apart from the
USSR and Hungary, the con-
struction of the line was financed
by Bulgaria, the GDR, Poland and
Czechoslobakia. The importance
of the new power line can be il-
lustrated by the following fact:
compared with 1975 when the
Soviet Union exported about 10
billion kilowatt-hours of electric
power to the European CMEA
countries, these exports will dou-
ble in 1980.

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