WASHINGTON — Executive
hearings are currently in pro-
gress before the Sub-committee
on Foreign Operations of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee to consider the Nixon
Administration’s funding re-
quest for foreign military assist-
ance and military sales. The re-
quest, which totals $11 billion
for fiscal year (FY) 1975, will
have a great impact on U.S.
foreign policy for the next year.
An analysis of the request also
reveals much about foreign po-

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tion in Chile is critical. That is
why we have decided to urgent-
ly call this extraordinary session
of the International Ccemmission
of Inquiry into the Crimes Com-
mitted by the Chilean Junta,”
Hans Goran Frank, the well-
known Swedish lawyer, secret-
ary-general of the commission,
told a news conference held
here on the eve of the session
which they-call a “counter-trial.”

That the situation in Chile is
critical, especially with the
forthcoming “trial” of Luis Cor-
valan, general. secretary of the
Communist Party of Chile and
other leading figures of the
Popular’ Unity government can
be understood by everyone.
They represent the tragedy of
the Chilean people — 30,000
dead, thousands tortured in con-
centration camps and in jails,
hundreds of thousands of crip-
‘pled lives.

It is justly said that few

COPENHAGEN — “The situa-

licy trends that have not been
stated outright by Administra-
tion officials.

However, as important as this
request is to future policy, the
American people know virtually
nothing about it and can have
almost no effect on its eventual
resolution. In addition to the
fact that the hearings are being
conducted in. executive session,
the Administration has. succeed-
ed in completely disguising the
scope and impact of the military

aid bill by splintering it among -

17 different projects administer-
ed by the Defense Department,

the State Department, the Agri- |

culture Department and ‘others. —

In fact, although requests for
military aid will total at least
$11-billion for FY 1975, nowhere
does that sum appear in the fed-
eral budget. The situation was
the same last year when the Ad-
ministration requested $12:8-bil-
lion for FY ’74, most of which
has been approved by Congress.
This sum included $2.2-billion
for emergency aid to Israel
stemming from the “Yom Kip-
pur War.”

According to Defense Secre-
tary James Schlesinger, “Po-
litically, U.S. security assistance
contributes in a major way to
regional stability . . . (and) fos-
ters good military relations with
our friends and allies.”

However, the Center - notes
that at least 14 nations whose
military forces have received
arms and training from the U.S.
under these grants have shifted
from nationalist or constitution-
alist governments to military
dictatorships in the last 20 years.
This can hardly be seen as pro-
moting “stability.” Some of the
leading changeovers include:
Brazil (1964); the Dominican Re-
public (1963) ; Indonesia (1966) ;
Iran (1953); Chile (1973)
Greece (1967); Philippines (1972)
and Uruguay (1973).

Besides pumping large
amounts of weapons aid into
these nations, the U.S. has
provided billions of dollars
worth of training under the Mili-
tary Assistance Act. From the
close of World’ War H to the
end of FY°’73, 428,000 foreign

- military officers were trained in

U.S. war schools. An additional
80,000 will have been trained
by June 30, 1974, “The military

events in the world of the past °

few years have caused‘ such a
tide of the international protests

as the fascist coup in Chile. This -

international movement has al-
ready saved lives of many peo-
ple. It has compelled the Chilean
junta to postpone the “trial” of
the leaders of the Popular Unity
government. Although nothing
but a frame-up, the junta has not
yet dared to make short shrift
of these prisoners in the same
way as did with thousands of
others — without trial, on the
sly, secretly.

The International Commission
of Inquiry into the Crimes Com-
mitted by the Chilean Military
Junta has demanded that the
junta publish an official indict-
ment against the leaders of the
Popular Unity. This has been
backed by governments, by gov-
ernmental, party and public or-
ganizations, by churchmen, by
public and political figures of
many countries.

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Peru $21.5 million

$28.9 million

Indonesia

South Korea $235.3 million

group that overthrew the Allen-
de government in Chile last Sep-
tember, for example, included
in its higher ranks six gradua-
tes of our training schools. From
1950 to 1973, we also prepared
14,144 potential leaders of the
Greek military regime . .. and
7,883 from Brazil and many
others from nations which have
since met with less than happy
fates at the hands of their mili-
tary men,” notes the Center re-
port.

—Abridged from LNS

The Danish government has
given the parliament ‘buildings
to the Commission to hold a
counter-trial. The work of the
session has been supported in an
official message by the prime
minister of Denmark. The Fin-
nish prime minister has also
lent support to the session in a
special message. The Norwegian
government has sent an official
observer to the session.

The session is being attended
by prominent. lawyers, public
figures and politicians of many
countries, including George Le-
bel, professor of international
law from Montreal, Dr. Basiga-
luppo, professor of criminal law
from Argentina, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, the outstanding Col-
ombian writer, Vladimir Kudry-
avtsev, director of the Institute
of the State of the USSR Aca-
demy of Sciences, and William
Booth, a well-known New York

judge. (APN)

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SYDNEY—The Socialist Party
of Australia welcomes the re-
election of, the Labor Party gov-
ernment &s a defeat for the
plans of the reactionary political
forces of Australia. The attack
launched by the Liberal and
Country Parties has been turned
back and the initiative is again
in the hands of the Labor Party
and the whole Labor movement
to carry on with the reform pol-
icies commenced 17 months ago.

The election indicated. wide
support for Labor’s policies of
progressive reform but this
needs to be further consolidated
and extended if the Liberal-
Country Party big business
forces are to be defeated in fu-
ture elections. The labor move-
ment cannot be satisfied with a
situation where close to half of
the Australian people vote. for
the conservative and reactionary
policies of the parties represent-
ing the monopolies. Nor can it
be satisfied with the loss of sup-

' port in country areas where it is

necessary to adopt policies which
differentiate between rich and
poorer farmers and which clearly
support the poorer farmers.

We call upon all Socialist
Party members and supporters
to give the fullest active sup-
port to the progressive national
and international policies of the
Labor government, which will
advance the well-being of the
Australian people in conditions
of international peace.

In addition, we stress the need
for the Socialist Party to popu-
larize and develop wider support
in the Labor movement for its
basic socialist policies. While
working to build the united front
in action between Socialist Party
and Labor Party members and
supporters in support of all posi-
tive aspects of Labor policy the
Socialist Party of Australia calls
for fraternal discussions on the
commonly held labor movement

Newspaper Guild President
Charles: A. Perlik, Jr., left for
Chile June 12 on an Internatio-
nal Federation of Journalists
mission to investigate and help
alleviate the plight of journalists
under that country’s military
junta. ;

Perlik, who is the IFJ’s North
American vice president, will
spend 10 days to two weeks in
Chile, obtaining information on
40 journalists reportedly jailed
by the government and seeking
ways to aid hundreds of other
jobless because _ their papers

have been closed by the regime. °

Perlik was asked to undertake
the mission by IFJ leaders at the
federation’s recently concluded

world congress in Luxembourg _
and Trier, West Germany.

The mission is being financed
by four Scandinavian journalists’
union. Perlik will take with him
a check for $844 collected
among employees of the Swedish
newspaper Dagens Nyheter to
aid the families of imprisoned
journalists.

The IFJ is considering financ-
ing legal assistance to Chilean
newspapersons and will act on
the basis of Perlik’s findings.

The IFJ has made several pro-
tests to the Chilean government
Over the journalists’ imprison-

ment. Its world congress ad-
dressed an “urgent appeal” to

support and gives

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