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dicted for March. Other staples, milk,
sugar, etc. have already shot up.

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ness spokesmen’are less honest. i

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NEWS

U.S. ARMS SOUTH VIETNAM DESPITE CEASE-FIRE PACT

WASHINGTON — Although the American role in South Vietnam
militarily was supposed to end with the cease-fire, actually figures
just released by the Defense Department show a different story.

In the eight months since the cease-fire in January, 1973, the
American government sent Thieu’s forces 180,412 tons of munitions
for ground forces, 25,172 25-pound bombs, 54,291 500-pound bombs,
and 111,786 warheads for rockets carried by planes,

Also 25 light and medium tanks

and six 105-mmm. howitzers.

, 35 armored personnel carriers,

JUNTA SELLS COUNTRY TO IMPERIALISTS, CP CHARGES

MOSCOW — The fascist junta in Chile is selling the country to
the U.S. imperialists, said Jose Miguel Varaz, former editor of El
Siglo, newspaper of the Communist Party of Chile, in an interview
with the Soviet daily newspaper, Pravda.

Varaz said that the junta has already concluded an agreement
with the U.S. copper-mining monopolies, Anaconda and Kennecott,
to pay them a huge amount of “compensation” for Chuquicamata,
El Salvador and El Teniente copper mines which were nationalized
by the Popular Unity government. Varaz also said that it was an-
nounced in Santiago in fhid-January that Chile’s 11 largest textile
mills, also nationalized by the Popular. Unity government, were be-
ing returned to their former capitalist owners, in addition to more
than 200 industrial utilities which were “de-nationalized” and hand-
ed back to the bosses at the same time. The other side of this, Va-
raz said, is that the junta has outlawed the trade unions, forbidden
strikes, and abolished the eight-hour day.

MALAGASY PEOPLE PROTEST U.S._.WAR BASE PLANS

TANANARIVE — The people of the Malagasy Republic (Mada-
gascar) are strongly opposed to U.S. plans to turn Diego Garcia
island in the Indian Ocean into a major U.S. war base, said Rishar
Andriamandzatu, chairman of the Malagasy Peace Committee, in
a Feb. 15 interview in Tananarive. Diego Garcia is a British posses-
sion, about 1,000 miles south of India’s southern tip, and equidis-
tant from India, east Africa, and northwest Australia.

‘Two imperialisms’ lie shattered —

By NORMAN BORODIN

Leonid Brezhnev’s visit to
Cuba and the documents signed
by him and Fidel Castro have
been another essential clarifica-
tion of the policy pursued by the
socialist countries: The point is
that present-day opponents of
international detente distort the
essence of the Leninist prin-
ciple of peaceful coexistence of
states with different social sys-
tems. Their main purpose is to
try by all possible means to dis-
credit and vilify the principles
and aims of the peace-loving
foreign policy of the Soviet
Union and the other countries
of the socialist community.

Maoist propaganda, for in-
stance, spreads fables about. the
“collusion of two superpowers”
against the countries of the
Third World and alleges that
the economic aid being rendered
by the Soviet Union to the
developing countries, including
the socialist ones, is in reality

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countries,

The Maoists are making at-
tempts to equate socialist with
imperialist countries, progres-
sive with reactionary regimes.
The states fighting for the

elimination of colonialism and.

racism with those seeking to
perpetuate this evil on earth.
The genuinely fraternal
tions which have taken shape
between the USSR and Cuba
most convincingly expose these
lies.

Addressing a mass rally of
Cuban-Soviet -friendship in
Revolution Square on Jan. 29,
where over one million Cubans
from all parts of the country
had gathered, Fidel Castro em-
phasized in his speech that
every act of economic aggres-
sion by imperialism was an-
swered by manifestations ~ of
solidarity of the fraternal Soviet
people. Bans on deliveries (by.
the U.S.), of food, raw mat-
erials, machinery and, finally,
dé. were.

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Inflation is eating at the vitals of Can-
adian society. This is the verdict of the
recent Roll Back Prices conference in
Vancouver and that of the Ontario
Anti-Poverty Coalition in Toronto.
It is the verdict of labor journalists, -
trade union leaders, and editors of the
' country’s biggest establishment news-
ineffectual Prices

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By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN—The Western capi-
talist establishments have re-
ceived Alexander Solzhenitsyn
like a god, have assured him
there is lots of money waiting
for him, and during his first days
in Western Germany demon-

strated how warmly, how ardent- -

ly they love his ideas, and how
fanatically they want to imple-
ment them.

immediately answered by the
Soviet people with deliveries of
goods and other economic as-
sistance to Cuba.

These facts graphically testify
to the fundamental difference
between the internationalist
relations of socialist Cuba and
the Soviet
had taken
of Cuba, formerly a colony and
then neo-colony. In his speech
at the same mass rally in
Havana, Leonid Brezhnev
stressed ‘that both countries are
connected by ties which are
different from those typical of
the world of capital. For the
Soviet Union, Brezhnev Said,
Cuba is not an object of ex-
ploitation and application of
capital, not a strategic base of
a so-called sphere of influence.
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Thus, while Solzhenitsyn was
wining and dining last week at
Heinrich Boell’s countryhouse,
not far from Bonn, Bonn’s rulers
were ranting and raving in Fed-
eral parliament against the
“Communist Menace,” and cry-
ing for firm suppression of all
Communists, Socialists and any-
one else who even gave a few
pfennings for Vietnam. The tim-
ing was perfect. No sooner was
Solzhenitsyn in their midst, than
Philistines, old nazis and new
reactionaries in the CDU-CSU
showed him that their fervent
support for dissidence in the
Soviet Union was equalled only
by their determination to sup-
press all dissidence in the FRG.

While Solzhenitsyn rested at
Boell’s countryhouse from_ his
dissident labors, his friends,
hosts and admirers took up their
own labor in the-Bundestag not
for, but against the rights of
dissidents. In two unprecedent-
ed days of anti-Communist in-
vective, the CDU-CSU members
kept up a drumfiré of denuncia-
tion of everything progressive
which evoked memories of Hit-
ler’s anti-Communist campaigns
in the period preceding 1933.
In a debate, which ironically

was listed as a discussion of the
Constitution, the

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tion and courage to try to #
against inflation.” The Star é
be eyeing Robert Stanfield, Wl
his advocacy of “wage and st
controls, primarily wage Of
trols...” but is answered
the Communist Party’s Feb. h
statement: Unite to defend l¥
ing standards, jobs and incom’
“Both. the Liberal and Conse
vative parties evade the ma
issue — that monopoly con 4
and soaring monopoly prot
are responsible for inflation: —

The Communist Party =
summoned the working-Ci)
and democratic organizations”
Canada to unite to “compel ®
government to enact econol
and social policies” serving ©
majority of Canaidans.. ; of

The Prime Minister’s lack ®
concern for rampant. inflati?

but all-out organization to ¥”
pose changes for the presef®
tion of their living standards.

anti-dissident as the CDU-CSt
Interior Minister Gens)
gravely announced on beha#
the government, for exampil
that Communists and ot
democratic dissidents wh0 ‘ 8
not approve of .the prevail 7
social order that is to say, mo"
poly capitalism—had no right
employment in any public © i
vice. F
While Solzhenitsyn was if
Switzerland checking to se® s
the estimated six million doll#
he is supposed to have ea i
was all there, in his host cou
try Interior. Minister Gens? i
presented his anti-dissidents
to the West German Uppe
House. It banishes Commun,
Socialists and every conceiV@ 6
democratic dissident in the rts
from employment in cou atl
schools, universities, 50Vr
ment departments, official aba
cies and all public servi
whether federal or local. olf
Bill, which has been fier,
protested by large and genu:
groups of dissenters in the ? ‘
is not yet federal law but 1§ et
ready being implemented u? nd
Upper House and Local /@

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(provincial) rulings. In the py
year a considerable numbet 4
Communists, Socialists and ™ 4
progressives have been bat
from courts as judges, i
school and university teachit?
posts and other public serviG 4
The Special West German tf@7
Pass on which Solzhenitsy" iis
velled to Switzerland, and iy
permit to stay in West Germ®
whenever he wants are not

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