=. ae BERLIN © ROME © WASHINGTON e CAIRO © HAVANA e TOKYO © BUENOS AIRES eonetican bombers killed 40 be, including patients and eee a raid on a North 4m tuberculosis sanatorium * Week, ety Other patients and mem- ound, the medical staff were €d in the raid, which was sy {espite the large Red _ Markings displayed. y Ee. dene U.S. planes pursued tie aa nurses trying to get 0) i i otker Safety. Five medical ig. S Were killed in this straf- Twent: Se Natori People living near the : ee were also killed in Smbing, which destroyed uses and elesg left many people nets Sanatorium, on the aie S of Thanh Hoa provin- aes was one of the three ee establishments in US. bombers blast Vietnam sanitorium North Vietnam. It was located in open ground with a big Red Cross flag hoist- ed on its roof and another at the entrance gate. The U.S. attack was at least the eighth on a North Vietna- mese hospital. * * * More. American troops for Vietnam, more American bomb- ing, a call-up of U.S. reserves, and an increase in the U.S. mili- tary budget were foreshadowed by President Johnson at his Washington press conference on July 13. He warned that “new and serious decisions will be neces- sary in the near future.” The number of U.S. service- men already in South Vietnam is over 60,000. The total will soon be double that figure. In “OUth ‘ff Past 10 years the U.S. has built 160 military airfields in ‘etnam. This is one at Saigon. U.S. planes drop bombs on North and South targets in Viet- nam every day, including napalm bombs (above) which set fire to jungles. USSR, China give more aid The Soviet Union has signed an agreement to _ strengthen North Vietnam’s defense poten- tial, it was officially announced in Moscow and Hanoi last week. The agreement was reached in talks in Moscow between Soviet and North Vietnam delegations. On its way back to Hanoi the Vietnamese delegation stopped over in Peking and signed an agreement on Chinese economic and technical assistance. around the world — NOBEL Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King recently told a Southern Christian Leadership Conference meeting in Vir- ginia to “become involved in the problems of war” and called for genuine negotiations to end the war in Vietnam . . . James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality says that organization should “stay out of the peace movement .. . and leave foreign policy to the United States.” When a CORE convention of 1,000 delegates passed a resolution demanding withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, Farmer used his influence to have the delegates reverse the decision and table the resolution. x * * LUMUMBA Friendship University in Moscow has just gradu ated 228 young men and women of 47 countries, mostly from newly developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Established in 1960, the university has 3,000 students and 100 postgraduates from 82 countries studying engineering, physics and mathematics, natural sciences, medicine, agriculture, economics and law, history and philology. * * * HAROLD Davies, Labor MP and Prime Minister Harold Wil- son’s personal envoy to Hanoi, said on his return to London that his talks in Hanoi had been “useful” . . . West Germany plan to give Prussian Junkers back their estates—now cooperative farms in the German Democratic Republic — was published in Bonn . . . Portu- gal’s biggest student trial of recent years has opened, with 31 stu- dents, including a 16-year-old girl, accused of subversive activities. * * * d BIOLOGIST Sir Julian Huxley, advocate of population control, clashed with Lawrence Abel when he suggested artificial insemina- tion to improve the standard of the populaion by eugenics. Said Abel: “In 40 years of medical practise I have met large numbers of women, young, middle-aged and old, and I have never known one who would be satisfied with going to bed with a test tube.” 3 * * * WHO PAYS most taxes to the National Front for Liberation in South Vietnam — the French or the Americans? When bitter Amer- icans in Saigon complained because French planters in Front- controlled areas paid taxes, angry Frenchman retorted that the U.S. pays more, because the commercial trucks used by Yanks to trans- port food and gasoline pay taxes to the National Front in order to move supplies through liberated areas . . . Total French investment in South Vietnam is about $324 million; half in rubber, tea and coffee plantations. __ By DENIS KEVANS tana Hispaniola is the is- hic, ©§ two republics—Domi- Marin td Haiti. The US. Donec’ Tecently helped keep Fry Mica “free” and in Haiti ang colS Duvalier, his army es his police do the same. pigatmed struggle is common- © in South America. pojtited States big stick Yea.) 8€s back a good many ee and there was a time hog. the “rolos, cholos, gau- ach and jibaros” had only ites to fight with. wigcetilla armies are fighting Minute et weapons at this || big Ne in Venezuela, Colom- | * *€ru and Guatemala. aes. tactics in Venezuela Vienne’ differ from those in €than. eran in the jungle war, na- oto Urat peasants frighten - tetro Staphers, villages are "zed, prisoners are shot. anqui South e go home!” cries merica. mA. ° do the Revolutionary i 8uerj Forces of Haiti whose } lato lla war to overthrow dic- ed er Tancois Duvalier start- June 27, 1964. They are led by a Catholic priest, Jean Baptiste Georges, ex-minister in Duvalier’s gov- ernment. Francois was elected “by carbine” in 1957. In power, he jailed the army of officers he mistrusted, and chose. his own “praetorian” guard. Francois says: “I am the Haitian flag and I am invin- cible . . . and I will leave a Himalaya of corpses before I go under.” His guard, like Hitler’s S:S:; are a law unto themselves. They are called the Ton Ton Macoutes. The cost of main- taining the Ton Ton and police is $15 million a year. This is a little more than half Haiti’s budget. Their arms are sup- plied by the U.S. Last year the Ton Ton stop- ped a mass in the Roman Catholic cathedral: in Port-au- Prince and beat up the wor- shippers. They broke one wo- man’s ribs and fractured her skull with pistol butts. An- other woman was impaled on . ‘the points of the cathedral gates while trying to escape. The Ton Ton charged that the mass was being said Voodoo and bazookas reign in Haiti against Duvalier. Francois claims that he talks to the voodoo spirits and that he has supernatural powers. Three Catholic bishops and one Episcopal bishop have been expelled in the past three years, and 18 Canadian Jesuits were ousted in Febru- ary, 1964. In November, 1964, the Haitian government turned the execution of two young men in Port-au-Prince into a public spectacle. Marcel Nu- ma, 21, and Louis Drouin, 28, were shot by firing squad in - a city cemetery. Cheer lead- ers led the crowd with cries of “Viva _Duvalier.” The ex- ‘ecution was televised. In August, 1963, the Inter- national Commission of Jur- ists indicted Duvalier as the perpetrator of a “bloody tyr- anny” which had a free hand to jail, question, torture and ~ murder. © “Persons unlucky enough to be labelled by police as enemies of the regime, or simply as suspects, just dis- appear without leaving a trace,’ said the commission’s report. “There must have been at the lowest estimate several hundred executions.” In June, 1964, Duvalier held a “plebiscite” to elect himself dictator for life. He went to the polls at a They live hand to mouth. Infant mortality is 50 percent, illiteracy is a world record 90 percent. In the capital Port-au-Prince there is one doctor per 5,000, for the rest there is one doc- tor per 35,000. There is one booth in the centre of the city but the streets were deserted. To calm_him, his police took - several trucks, drove them to crowded parts of the capital, leaped down and started driv- ing people to the booths with baton and boot. An orchestra in one of the trucks struck up a march. The strange spectacle was in- creased by seeing police bang- ing on doors and hauling peo- ple out of their houses to join the ranks. A lot of tourists standing around gaping were also got into step. One Am- erican journalist summed it up when he returned to New York and said: “I only voted 50 times...” * * * Haiti’s population of four — million is 85 percent Negro; their average annual income is $100 (South American average $200). 240-bed hospital in the whole of the republic. Duvalier is shrewd. At the Punta del Este conference he at first opposed the sanctions against Cuba proposed by the U.S. He kept his vote to sell it (to the U.S.) next day for $2,000,000. Duvalier used “Alliance for Progress” bribes to build lux- ury villas for himself and the big shots among the Macoutes. When they asked him to please explain, he told them they had no business asking him what he did inside his own country. And official, U.S. policy? It was summed up in Newsweek of May 31, 1965— “Of course we don’t like Duvalier, but we can’t over- throw him. Right now Haiti is not Communist . . .” “"™reeenes . July 30, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5