The trial of Luis Corvalan, General-Secretary of the Communist

Party of Chile, is to begin in the first week of December according to
the latest reports. The world wide campaign to save the life of Cor-

valan and other political prisoners
date nears. -

In Greece

is being stepped up as the trial

Right deposes right

One gang of generals kicked
out another. gang of generals in
a new coup in Greece last Sun-
day which bore all the hall-
marks of being masterminded
by the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency. :

The CIA was believed to have
ordered the removal of its pre-

40 years of U.S.-
Soviet relations

In the Soviet newspaper Iz-
vestia, recently, M. Sturua re-
called in an article, that 40
years ago, on November 16,
1933, “an agreement was signed
in Washington which officially
confirmed the establishment of
diplomatic relations between
the Soviet Union and the United
States of America. Simultane-
ously, agreement was reached
On mutual non-interference in
each other’s internal affairs.”

Noting the “paramount im-
portance” of the event and the
fact that “the United States had
been compelled to abandon the
policy pursued by it for 16 years
of ‘non - recognition’ of the
world’s first and then still only
socialist state,” the author calls
it a ‘success for Soviet foreign
policy aimed at ensuring peace-.
ful coexistence of states with
different social systems.”

Similarly, the present - day
shift in Soviet-U.S. relations
from confrontation to coopera-
tion are significant far beyond
the two countries involved. As
M. Sturia says, “It is an im-
portant integral part of the ge-
neral process of the relaxation
of international tension.” .

He quotes Leonid Brezhnev,
commenting on the good pros-
pects, provided, ‘‘of course, that
this question is approached with
a sense of responsibility. and in
good faith, that the principles of
mutual benefit and mutual res-
pect are applied in practice, and
that no attempt is made to dis-
tort them and to interfere in
the internal affairs of the other
side . 2 :

vious protegy President Papado-
poulos after he had proved un-
able to stem the rising tide of
protest by students and young
workers which culminated last
week in open revolt.

Tanks and troops called out
to support the dithering dictator-
ship resulted in a mounting toll
of deaths and hundreds of ar-
rests.

At the same time the opposi-
tion political leaders, including
the Communists, issued calls for
united action against the Papa-
dopoulos dictatorship, demon-
strating to the world that six
years of tyranny had been un-
able to cow the Greek people.

The new gang’s tanks began
to roll about 4 a.m. when they
took up positions round the old
gang’s villas, surrounding the
whole area where the home of
ex-President Papadopoulos was
located.

Then the new gang, headed
by Gen Phaedon Gizikis, com-
mander of the first army, issued
a proclamation over the radio
claiming that it had acted to

“save the country from the-

danger and chaos facing it.”

Which was the same cooked-up
excuse used by the old gang led
by Papadopoulos when it seized
power in 1967.

The statement said that after
two referendums the country
was without a eonstitution and
the state machinery could not
function.

“The country was being drag-

ged into an electoral adventure,”
the broadcast said. “The armed

forces obeying the supreme law ~

to save the country decided to
intervene.”

It also claimed that the old
gang of army officers had not
implemented its undertaking to
save the country from anarchy.

Gen. Gizikis, who was sworn
in as president by the Bishop of
Ioannina, _had only recently
been appointed commander of
the first army, based on Larissa.

In Stockholm, the _ exiled
Greek political leader Andreas
Papandreou said the new coup
had been engineered by the CIA
and charged that the new pre-
mier was paid by the CIA.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1973—PAGE 8

Did j’a ever! Down through
the centuries incumbents in the
White House have been knOwn
for pithy statements. Remember
Lincoln and his government of
the people, for the people, by
the people which shall not Peér-
ish from this earth? And how

It’s Only 18 Minutes

And then, yet again, there are
the tapes. For an “honest” man,
Dick is sure surrounded by in-
competent engineers and aides.
Hey, presto and the important
eighteen minutes have been
wiped out of the tape. The af
planation that Sony ae
make good equipment cause

about FDR with the classic, the i; Washington Watchers to
only thing we have to fear is eae if Sony’s problems
fear itself? And even Jack.had .\oren’t that they didn’t give

that one about ask not What
your country can do for you but
what you can do for your COun-
try. But no president can CVeE
top the immemorable one-liner
tossed off by Tricky-Dick last
week, “I’m not a crook.”

So what if there are Some
amazing discrepancies in 11S n-
come tax payments. So what if
there are all sorts of fiddles
about the many homes he Now
owns, and the illegal donations
to the Committee to Re-elect the
President (CRP). So what if his
friend Vesco is being charged
with fraud, and rumors are fly-
ing about his connection with
massive drug trafficing. AS Gl-
bert and Sullivan might have
put it, “Oh he is an honest Man,
for he himself has said it, and
its greatly to his credit, for he
is an honest man.”

War heats u

Saigon’s airforce jis heating
up the war in Vietnam with

stepped up bombing raids
against the areas in the hands
of the National Libération
Forces.

While they have never re-
spected the agreements reached
in the spring, recent weeKS have
seen more widespread military

actions. While Saigon stated
that their raids were only
against military targets last

week spokesmen for the NLF
displayed photos showin’ exten-
sive damage to a markét, hos-
pital and church, and numerous
civilian casualties.

The NLF spokesme® have
been speaking out since early

enough to the CRP. (Crook

ichard’s Plunder?)
ee the record it’s now four
months since the existence of
these tapes came to light. See
their ostensible purpose was the
preservation of material for the
Nixon record it seems to one
and all highly unlikely that a
man with the sort. of égo that
Dick has would have had Bid
equipment but then he _
pretty incompetent burglers an
bunglers working on his beha :

Just before the eighteen
minute gap became public, Dick
had been down south in Mem-
phis assuring the Republican
governors that there will be “no
more embarassing revelations
about Watergate.” He indicated,
according to one governor that
there will be a number of pa-
pers issued soon’ responding

violations by the

peen thousands of
nibbling at areas

return all the

rs. :
: They also warned the US.
government has been illegally

sntroducing weapons and. war
ye 2 the. use of the

i hind
aigon army and has left beh

cate of thousands of American
military personnel disguised as

equipment for

civilians.
Bombers

Early this
force chief,

Ready

‘No more cheap oil says
Venezuela to U.S. demand

By MICHEL BIANCHI
(Prensa Latina)

CARACAS — “Tf thé. United
States thinks Venezuela !8 going
to send them more cheap oil,
they’ve got a very cold winter
ahead of them,” said Minister
for Mining and Hydrocarbons,

Hugo Perez La Salvia.

The minister’s warni'8 was a
dampener to the feverish at-
tempts of the oil companies to
get Venezuela to drain its wells
dry by further increas€ in out-

- at more
than 3.4 million barrels Per day.

A few hours after th€ opening
here of the meeting of the Latin
American Association for Recip-

put, already. running

; ie A ie
rocal State Oil Aid (ARPE )
peing attended by delegations

‘oo. Brazil, Argentina,
from Mexico, dor

Uruguay and Colombia — Perez ital, Phom Penh, will
La Salvia repeated that Vene-
zuela would not step up extrac-

Chile, Bolivia, Peru,

tion. ;
And he added: “the price of
down. The price
oi t up not because of .
of oil went up vg bs
cause the producer countries

ht to receive a bigger Cut
oft earnings of the

private companies,” he explain-

oil is not to go

the Middle-East war,

of the excessive

ed. °

p in Indochina

summer . about the numerous
Thieu regime.

i t that there have
They point ou operations

under NLF

1 to
ntrol as well as a refusa’
ss political prison-

month the U.S. air-
Gen. John Vogt,
said that U.S. planes were ready

Venezuela is the number two
-oil supplier to the United ‘States,

wy)

|] BUCHANANVANG Be

clearly to the questions which
have been raised.
Sensitive Areas

The problem though is that

the questions have not yet all
been asked. From the office of
the Special Prosecutor Jaworski
comes word that they are going
to look into a number of sensi-
tive areas that in the past have
raised a fuss and will be asking
for presidential records on such
things as the presidential pro-
perties, the wire-tapping of
Nixon’s brother and the $100,-
000 from Howard Hughes.
These were the things that got
‘the last special prosecutor oust-
ed. Will “I’m not a crook” Dick
fire Jaworski too?

Along with the continuing
AFL-CIO Campaign to have
Nixon impeached on 19 counts,
there 1S now a campaign launch-
ed by an organization called
Lawyers to Preserve the Con-
stitution with a large ad in the
New York Times petitioning
Congress to undertake a full
and continuing investigation of
the necessity of Presidential
impeachment.

One thing is clear, the credi-
bility gap has widened and there
will continue to be lots of ac- -
tion to watch in that nation’s
capital.

to resume bombing raidg ; -
dochina. “Now that we ai aoe
actually dropping bombs. we
must maintain our capability to
resume such action if we have
to,” he said, adding, “1 gon't
think people will be sitting
around with nothing to qo in
Southeast Asia or elsewhere in
PACAF (Pacific Air Force) for
that matter. Our mission js to
be ready to fight if we have to.”

That they are not cit
around idle is porne out by He
reports that the Americans are
flying Over a hundred Missions
daily over northern Laos The
justification for the continued
action nine months after the
Laos ceasefire is that they do
not have to quit Laos until 60
days after a Laos coalition

ernment has peen for
med and
that governm h
formed yet, seg ve
Old Propaganda

And the American :
_An S ar 0
viewing developments in Cem
bodia with care since there is

at the cap-

own people,
It is in light of these

the world fo Ir
peace have spoken of canted

Peoples of Indo-

be Protecteg fro
slought from U.S

develop:

™Mperialism.