af Soviet— UAR Treaty Pledge of friendship CAIRO — President Nikolai Podgorny of the Soviet Union and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt signed a new treaty of friendship and cooperation last week. The treaty calls for the continuation of Soviet aid to Egypt, as well as a stern warn- ing that Israel’s insistence on pursuing its expansionist policy represents a serious threat to world peace and security. In signing the treaty, Presi- dent Podgorny stated that, “We are happy that the government and the people of the UAR, as underlined in the declaration of President Sadat on the 20th of May to the National Assembly, intend to conform in the future to the ‘Charter of National Ac- tion’ and the ‘Program of March 30,’ documents of the Egyptian revolution elaborated during the lifetime of President Nasser which set out the path of your country towards socialist deve- lopment.” President Sadat reaffirmed in his conclusion that “our people are fully aware of the enormous contribution which the socialist countries have made towards the success of progressive forc- es around the world.” Angela's health in peril The dropping of charges against Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, the releasing on $25,000 bail of Seale, in prison since August 19, 1969—these are good signs. In sharp contrast Angela Dav- is has been held for more than seven months without bail in conditions that imperil her health. Being nearsighted, her imprisonment in a windowless cell makes impossible the condi- tions that can strengthen focus. Her eyesight is steadily deter- iorating. She is allowed to exer- cise only twice a week for 30 minutes in a recreation area. She has not been given the dental care that she needs. Por- tions of food are-so small that Angela remains hungry after every meal. This also has an ef- fect on her health. No one can be silent in the face of the kind of sadism that is being practised on Angela Davis. Thé right to bail is a prime demand in the case of Angela and all political prison- ers, a step in the struggle against the frameup system which keeps innocent people behind bars for years while waiting for trial. An immediate mass mobilization to demand that the imprisoned black wo- man Communist be released on bail now is urgent. FRESH WATER The discovery~ of large amounts of fresh water trapped beneath the Pacific (Sea of Japan) coast of the Soviet Far East had led to an even more surprising discovery—that they are associated with river-beds submerged some 15,000-20,000 years ago. Peace Assembly @ Continued from page 5 ,AUUC, two veteran leaders of the Canadian Peace Congress, there was present Hilary Brown aS a guest representing the Voice of Women, Roland Morin, federal co-president of the New Democratic Party, H. Dupuis as an official observer of the Mont- real Central Council of the CNTU, and as observers John Trufal of the United Electrical Workers of Welland, and Pat- rick McNamara of the United Automobile Workers in Windsor (Local 444). This writer repre- sented the Communist Party of Canada. Similarly, for example, the Australian delegation included Dr. J. F. Cairns, M.-P., a leader of the left-wing of the Labor Party, and J. J. Bull, chairman ofthe Waterside Workers Fe- deration. For four days, the new parti- cipants in World Peace Council movement mingled and debated with those others who have been its stalwart supporters for more than 20 years including the representatives of the Peace Committees of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. They found themselves able to come to unanimous agreement on a range of issues vital to the achievement of peace in the world. The areas in which the united action was agreed upon are set forth in the reports of the several Commissions, and in the Manifesto of the Assembly. They included full support for the demand that the U.S. get out of Indochina, and for the prog- rams of the Democratic Repub- lic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, the Patriotic Front of Laos, and the United National Front of Khmer (Cam- bodia). They embraced the de- mand for the implementation of the UN Resolution of November 1967 on the Middle East and in- cluding “the guarantee of the legitimate national rights of the Arab population of Palestine and of its right to self-deter- mination.” European _ security and cooperation was called for on “on the basis of the recogni- tion of the territorial conditions resulting from the Second World War.” Preposals for a world conference on problems of dis- armament, and of a conference of the five nuclear powers “to adopt complete measures for nuclear disarmament” were strongly supported. Through all the documents’ rang the condemnation of impe- rialism and its policies of rac- ism, colonialism and