U.S. VETOES VIETNAM’S UN ENTRY FOR THIRD TIME _ UNITED NATIONS — The United States on Nov. 15 for the third time used its veto against the admittance of Vietnam to the United Nations. The vote in the Security Council was 14-1 with the U.S. using the pretext of Americans missing in action once more.

PORTUGAL CP STRESSES UNITY WITH ARMED FORCES

LISBON — Unity with all the people’s forces and consolidation of the alliance between the people and the armed forces were repeatedly stressed as the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Portugal opened here Nov. 12.

Counter-revolution is striving by every means possible to disrupt the stability and gains made since the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship, said PCP general secretary Alvaro Cunhal, but great opportunities exist to defend these gains and continue construction of democracy.

WEST GERMAN ARMY TODAY THE STRONGEST IN WESTERN EUROPE 3 BONN -— In the 25 years since the official creation of the Bundes- wehr it has become the most powerful army in Western Europe, the shock force of the NATO bloc, writes the Soviet foreign affairs journal ‘International’. The overall strength of the FRG’s regular troops totals 495,000 enlisted men, nearly 4,000 tanks and over 7,000 military infantry vehicles, armoured cars, various rocket weapons, etc. The magazine writes that the constant build-up of West German forces is causing concern even among her allies, particularly in France:

JEWISH DEFENCE LEAGUE ATTACK SOVIET ARTIST

NEW YORK — Soviet violinist Vladimir Spivakov was attacked twice by assailants during his recital at Carnegie Hall Nov. 7 by members of the Jewish Defense League. Following the removal of one person who hurled an object on stage, a second man threw a paint bomb hitting Spivakov full in the stomach. The artist declined to remove his paint-spattered dress shirt but wore it as a badge for the remainder of the his concert. The two assailants have been arrested and Columbia Artists, Spivakov’s management in the U.S., is pressing charges.

SOUTH AFRICA ARRESTS HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER

JOHANNESBURG — The secretary of the Human Rights Commit- tee on South Africa has been placed under five years house arrest, forbidden to receive visitors, go to non-white areas or visit educational institutions. Sheila Weinberg, 31, has been charged with unspecified activities under the umbrella of “endangering the maintainence of public order’’. The government has banned all publications of the committee which bases its program on the U nited Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Its chairman has been under detention for three months.

MOSCOW — “PEACE” reads this segment of workers in the November 7th parade here marking the 59th Anniversary of the October _ Revolution as they march past the reviewing stand in Red Square.

‘PPP calls for protest |

GEORGETOWN — The People’s Progressive Party has called for international protest over the trial of PPP member Arnold Rampersaud for the murder of a policeman last July. The trial opened Nov. 8, 1976.

Rampersaud, because of his wide popularity and loyalty to the PPP, has been subjected to police and judicial harrassment — this being the third time-he has been charged with murder. Every effort is being made to break his spirit. He is in poor health and, while in prison, has undergone two operations on his left eye.

He has refused “invitations”, while awaiting trail, to join the ruling People’s National Congress Party. His trial venue has been changed to make conviction more likely. Rampersaud faces execution by hanging should he be found guilty.

The PPP appeals for letters or cables demanding his release be sent to: Prime Minister, Office of the Prime Minister, Public Build- ing, Georgetown, Guyana.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 26, 1976—Page 6

USSR enters Tenth Five-Year Plan

Planning the economy IN a socialist society

By TOM MORRIS MOSCOW — The Tenth Five-Year Plan (1976-1980),

adopted by the 25th Congress of

the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is titled, ‘‘Guide- lines for the Development of the National Economy of the USSR’’. The tremendous scope

of this Plan, which was examined ©

at the meeting of the CPSU Cent- ral Committee meeting in Mos- cow last month, can be seen in some of its objectives.

The Plan projects that more than 621 billion roubles will be in- vested in the development of the national economy. In five years, steel output will grow by 27.2 mill- ion tons; oil by 149.2 million tons; gas by 145.7 billion cubic metres; coal by 103.7 million tons and power generation by 341.4 billion kilowatt hours.

Output of consumer goods will increase by 45.1 billion roubles and the average annual grain har- vest is to rise by nearly 40 million tons.

Greatest in History

The growth of national income, of industrial and agricultural out- put, the volume of capital invest- ments and a steady rise in living standards show this Five-Year Plan to be the greatest in the USSR’s history.

Labor productivity will in- crease by 25%, accounting for 90% of the increment in industrial output and for the entire incre- ment in agricultural output. Dur- ing the 1976-1980 period, exten- sive use of scientific and technological advances will cut

production costs, saving an addi- -

tional 20 billion roubles.

The agrarian policy calls for further consolidation of the mate- rial and technical basis of agricul- ture with 170 billion roubles being earmarked for this purpose. Nearly nine millions hectares (almost 22.5 million acres) or new irrigated and drained land will be put into use. Another 37 million new hectares (92 million acres) of pastures will be watered.

Social Programs

Some of the more stunning plans are seen in the scope of the social program under way. One hundred billion roubles is allo-

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Under the Tenth Five-Year plan, 20 billion rubles will be spent on health, education and culture. One hundred billion rubles will be allo- :

cated for housing and municipai construction.

cated for housing and municipal: construction and; 20 billion rou- bles for the development of Soviet medical services, educa- tion and culture.

There will be a 21% growth in real- per capita income, with families. in’ the lower-income brackets increasing their incomes even more. Whereas in 1965 only 4% of the population had a monthly income in excess of 100 roubles per member of the family, by 1980 about half the population will have such an income.

Salaries of 31 million workers in the non-productive sectors — education, public health, culture, social services — will all be raised; 17.7 billion roubles are al- located for state social undertak- ings alone. Wages for office workers and collective farmers are also to increase.

Partially paid leave from work will be introduced to enable work- ing women to look after children until they reach the age of one. Pensions will again be raised. Along with increasing cash in- comes, availability of retail goods will increase by 29% with selec- tion and quality improved.

Efficiency and Quality

Efficiency and quality, two words which are the motto of the entire Soviet economy, express

the objective needs of the present stage of its development. Some concrete examples in the first nine _ months of 1976 — the first year in _

the Five Year Plan — show what this means: : :

Industrial output increased by 4.8% as against 4.3% aimed for in the Plan, meaning that billions of roubles were added to the

economy above target. Grain — despite adverse | has very |

harvesting, weather conditions, closely approached the record 1973 harvest year and may eve surpass it.

Trade with the other socialist

countries is expected to grow by 41% in the five years and with the industrially advanced capitalist states by 31%. The 30th Session — for Mutual — Economic Assistance. this sum- — mer developed long-term pro- | grams for socialist economic in- tegration in such areas as raw —

power engineering, —

of the Council

materials, food, etc.

_ The incredibly ambitious and optimistic targets set out in the —

Five-Year Plan are today guaran- teed by the firm economic founda- tion upon which the Soviet Union is based, faith in the experience

gained in the 59 years of socialism and confidence in the strength of —

the Soviet people.

Ethiopia 2 years after abolishing the monarch

Ethiopia has undergone pro- found social changes since the monarchy was abolished two years ago, notes the Soviet news- paper Pravda.

It says that the major achieve- ments of the revolution were the agrarian reform, the abolition of big landownership, and nationali- zation of land. The establishment of peasants associations, which now embrace millions of people, has opened up for Ethiopia’s

countryside realistic prospects —

for economic and cultural pro-

gress. The commentary con-

tinues: Working people are being in- creasingly involved in the running of the affairs of their country. Committees to deal with local problems are being set up in

towns and villages; trade unions are emerging on a new basis; pre-. parations are underway to form a national political party. The ide- als of socialism and the life in the socialist countries arouse a great deal of interest here.

Friendly ties are steadily de- veloping between Ethiopia and the Soviet Union and other social- ist countries. The visit to Moscow of a delegation of the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC) and the signing of a joint communique marked an impor- tant stage in the development of Soviet-Ethiopian

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