ORLD SCENE & WON’T TOLERATE DISCRIMINATION OF GDR NEW YORK—The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia have decided to withdraw from the preparatory committee for the international conference on human environment, to be held in Stockholm in June. Their decision followed a resolution by the UN Assembly limiting participation to the UN and its members and specialized agencies. This would bar the German Democratic Republic but would allow West Germany. CHURCHES PROFIT FROM WAR NEW YORK—Churches of 10 denominations have been accused of complicity through their stockholdings with the “irresponsible, immoral and socially injurious acts” of 29 corporations holding military contracts. A report, prepared by the Corporate Information Centre of the National Council of Churches shows that 10 denominations, plus the National Council itself, have almost $203-million invested in companies that last year provided more than $10-billion worth of war material ranging from guns to missiles. BRITISH TROOPS LICENSED TO MASSACRE ‘BELFAST—The British Army has given orders to its 14,000 troops in Northern Ireland allowing them to use machine guns on city streets as well as rifles and pistols. Troops are also permitted “in certain circumstances” to open fire without warning at moving cars and to shoot, again without warning, at anyone carrying a “positively identified” firearm. (Mothers are warned to keep toy pistols from children because soldiers may shoot them.) COMECON LOANS SPUR INDUSTRIES MOSCOW (TASS)—Comecon Investment Bank, set up by eight socialist states a year ago, has approved loans for projects in Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany and Romania. Bank chair- man Vitali Vrobyov said credits for construction, expansion and reconstruction projects were accepted by a recent session of the bank’s council. They included the Tatra motor works in Czechoslo- vakia, engineering enterprises in Poland and the German Demo- _ cratic Republic and carriage-building and chemical works in Ro- ‘mania. : ; For medium and long term loans in transferable roubles the inter- est rate was 4 to 6%, but interest on convertible currency credits depended on rates on the international money market. USSR LEADS WORLD IN BOOK-PUBLISHING PARIS—The Soviet Union leads the world in annual numbers of books published, the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on releasing its annual set of statistics. Its list of the world’s 120 most-widely published authors was topped _ by V. I. Lenin. UNESCO said more works by Lenin have been published than any other, including the bible. COLONIALISTS PANIC IN MOZAMBIQUE LUSAKA, Zambia—Reports from Mozambique indicated the Por- tuguese colonial regime is in a state of panic because of increased attacks by FRELIMO, the Mozambique Liberation Front. In Tete province, the Portuguese have forcibly deported 25,000 Africans to concentration camps to try to break the guerrilla forces’ hold and have fobidden any movement by night. OPEC TELLS WEST ‘HANDS OFF LIBYA’ BEIRUT—The chairman of the Organization of Petroleum Export- ing Countries warned the Western oil corporations to keep their hands off Libya or face OPEC retaliation. Adnan Pachachi, the Iraqi chairman of OPEC, whose members account ‘for 93% of all petro- leum exports in the world, said the organization would retaliate against any Western boycott of Libyan oil. Libya recently national- ized the holdings of the British Petroleum Company following the British backing for the seizure by Iran of three disputed islands in the Persian Gulf. BP and other British and American oil companies have been talking about organizing a boycott of Libyan oil to get Libya to revoke its action. : JAPANESE PREMIER’S SUPPORT PLUNGES TOKYO—Asahi, one of Japan’s leading bourgeois newspapers, said its latest poll showed only 24% of the people support Premier Eisaku Sato’s pro-U.S. policy. COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS GAIN IN FINLAND HELSINKI — The Social Democrats and Communists were the main winners and the conservatives the main losers in Finland’s two-day general elections. Overall the non-Socialist parties lost their previous 112-88 majority in the old parliament. They now have 108 seats against the Socialist and Communists 92. The Social Democrats increased their share in the 200-seat parliament with three seats to 55, while the Communists won a new seat and now have 37. The Conservatives were three seats down from the 1970 elections with 34 seats. The Center party (previously Agrarian Party) held its own with 36 seats, as did the Finnish Rural Party, with 18. ’ SECRET PAPERS EXPOSE NIXON’S LIE WASHINGTON — Documents leaked to Jack Anderson, syndic- ated columnist, by unindentified government informants, contained statements at secret sessions Dec. 3, 4 and 6 by Henry Kissinger and other Nixon advisors revealing that President Nixon tried to sneak arms to Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan conflict. The documents were labeled “secret sensitive.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1972—-PAGE 4 The Soviet diplomatic offen- sive for peace and international security is developing success- fully. Now ‘another significant advance has been registered on the decisive sector of disarma- ment. On Dec. 16 the UN Gene- ral Assembly unanimously en- dorsed a resolution drafted on the initiative of the USSR con- cerning the convocation of a world disarmament conference... The General Assembly resol- ution, which was sponsored by 27 socialist and developing countries, corroborated the cor- rectness of the Soviet Union’s constructive approach to the solution of this cardinal inter- national problem. It urges thorough consideration without delay of the question of calling a disarmament conference open to all states, both members of the UN and non-members, and: asks all countries to advise the UN Secretary General of their views on the time of convoca- tion and the agenda by Aug. 31, 1972. The question will be taken up again at the next General Assembly. The endorsement of the Sov- iet initiative is a significant step towards safeguarding world peace. At the same time it signi- fied a serious defeat for those who sought if not to torpedo the idea outright, then at least to put off examination of the Soviet proposal indefinitely. This object was pursued with ~particular zeal by the United States and People’s Republic of China delegations, which lined up in a united front. True, ‘their methods differed—the U.S. representatives “deplored” the “too general” approach, and the Chinese delegate, true to him- self, instead of advancing any arguments went out of his way to smear the Soviet Union. This “difference” between the U.S. Petition USSR: Take By BORIS BANNOV MOSCOW (APN) — Members of 300 Jewish families which went to Israel from Georgia have sent an appeal to the Pre- sidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet which says in part: “We ask you to allow us to return - to the USSR. We refuse to ac- cept Israeli citizenship. We have learnt that the Finnish embassy represents Soviet interests in Israel. Each of us has, already.- handed there two filled-out forms and photos. We ask you to help us get out of this con- centration camp.” ~ “The promised land,” the “Zionist paradise” is called a concentration camp! World pub- lic opinion once again has the chance to see that there is a gap between the description of the Israeli way of life by Zion- ist propaganda and the real situation in Israel. Even the Zionist apologists in Israel now have to admit facts which ear- lier they furiously rejected. _ With discontent growing in Israel, the Tel Aviv propagand- ists are beginning to unwillingly admit that no. one prevents Soviet Jews from leaving the USSR for Israel if they so’ de- sire. Moreover, some officials of the Israeli Ministry of Immigra- tion are of the opinion that im- migration from “the USSR should be limited since persons who have got» accustomed to socialist living .conditions sow “discord, discontent and de- moralization” in Israel... Even ‘Zionist newspapers ad- mit. that as a result of the triple rise in prices of foodstuffs and prime necessities in 1971, over half a million Israelis live in poverty, while a million drag out a miserable existence in slums which do not meet ele- mentary sanitary standards. The Jewish agency ~Sohnut has now admitted that “a few hundred” families demanded. to SFIELD LFADET2-PRESS 1223-71 cost “We must protect our planes from these unprovoked counterattacks!” el t and Chinese positions did 0%. however, mislead the majof of the Assembly. The Beirut ¥ Shaab has observed that the representatives of many M® aligned countries no longer 5* any difference between the tions of Peking and WashiNb) T TON. a; vr The convocation of a wind disarmament conference is a of the elements of the pe@uall program advanced by the 240 Congress of the CPSU. The ail! of the Soviet Union, as wa | stressed in the report of inc Central Committee to the ie ic gress, is “to secure conctel97 results reducing the dangef © « war, and to prevent the peop™, from accepting the arms !@, as an inevitable evil.” There no doubt that the conferem, and active preparations for | will be an important step © this direction. geal pull n return to the Soviet- Union, ®} though up till now it claim only a few individuals found ™ life in Israel not to their likiMéls: In the USSR, believers can Pf form all religious rites and % serve the law of the Sabbal} which is violated in Israel.” At so Israeli propagandists have "3 report that deeply religi? ir people want to leave Israel an return to a country where ©) church is separated from 4) state, but which ensures 1% gious freedom. 7 The Zionist press, of cout! cannot be expected to discl0®a the whole truth about the } raeli way of life. That is expos” by those who have seen muvn sorrow in the Zionist “patiit dise.”. There are hundreds © such testimonies. ee “All people are alien to ea other here.” says immigt@®y Lazar Krais who has escap™ from Israel to Austria. } Jews and immigrants are 4%j daggers drawn. Nowhere havé% heard so many insults aS 7 Israel. I was mocked becav?; I had lived in the Soviet Uni I was treated as a good-fo! nothing. My son was admitt® to a boarding school wh, pupils work four hours a 07 and study also four hours. In V7 Soviet Union he was a 7th gra pupil. Here he was admitted © the 9th grade. However, curriculum of this grade ©} responds only to the 5th gra of the Soviet school. The T° mud is taught here, but pupil have no idea of algebra — physics.” “In Israel we met with medi i val obscurantism, with a 10 12 hour working day. In Isra we were compelled to perfo humiliating work for employ® there was an inhuman attitu® toward us, Soviet Jews, we . fered unemployment and fra discrimination,” Jews, forme Soviet citizens, write 1109 Vienna. — : a It was not only Jews trot Soviet Georgia that rebell J against the Zionist “paradis’ and not. only 300 families, P many more. Former residents / Riga, Vilnius, Chernovits, i shinev and other cities want escape the Israeli “concentt tion camp.”