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UN DENOUNCES SOUTH AFRICA SENTENCE

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—The UN Assembly’s special committee on apartheid has denounced the five-year jail sentence passed on the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg and called for an international judicial inquiry into the “ill-treatment and torture of prisoners by the South African regime.”

The committee said in a statement recently that the conviction of the dean, the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh under the Sup- pression of Communism Act, showed the extent to which South Africa would go “to stifle all opposition to its racist policies.”

The committee paid tribute to the dean and called on all govern- ments and people to denounce his conviction.

N.Z. GOVERNMENT STRIKEBREAKING

AUCKLAND—New Zealand’s government has disbanded the sea- men’s union and put troops on standby to work strike-bound ships.

The union is now de-registered, which means its funds are frozen and all approved work contracts are set aside. Its members cannot be protected by other trade organizations or draw social security as they are now classed as voluntarily unemployed.

The stoppage started in Auckland last week against penal clauses in a shipping bill.

The Federation of Labor is having an emergency meeting to plan

policy for other unions involved in further confrontations with the government.

ANARCHISTS, NOT IRA, BEHIND LONDON BOMBINGS

LONDON—The British anarchist “Angry Brigade” said it was responsible for two recent bombings in London and denied that the Irish Republican Army had anything to do with the blasts. The IRA and the “Provisional Alliance,” an IRA splinter group, both denied they were involved in the bombing of London’s Post Office Tower.

Some Irish sources believe the “Angry Brigade” has close ties to the British police.

95 COUNTRIES DENOUNCE U.S. POLICY

LIMA—Representatives of 95 countries in Lima, Peru, attending the second Conference of Asian, African and Latin American Coun- tries on Trade and Development, denounced the Nixon administra- tion’s political and economic policies. Especially bitter feelings were expressed against Nixon’s import surcharge, which severely affects the developing countries’ economies. Colombia said that as soon as the developing countries demanded just prices for their goods and an abolition of customs barriers, the U.S. had replied to them with the surcharge. It was also pointed out that the USSR abolished all taxes and customs duties on goods from the developing countries in 1965. India, Peru and Cuba attacked what they called the Nixon administration’s “predatory” economic policy.

NIGERIA PROTESTS WEST GERMAN FILM

BONN—The Nigerian Embassy has leveled a strong protest against the West German film, “Bullfrog in the Sun.” The film was based on stories by Nigerian writers, but was distorted to show Nigeria and Nigerians in the worst possible light, the protest stated. The Embassy said the film depicted Nigerians as savages and “bloody dogs,” and tried to justify the so-called “Biafra” regime, which was backed by the imperialist powers, including South Africa and Portugal. The film, the protest said, is a ‘deliberately falsified picture of Nigeria.”

POPULAR ASSEMBLY FOR CHILE

SANTIAGO—Chile’s Popular Unity Front government now con- trols the basis of the national economy and plans to set up a single chamber Popular Assembly, President Salvador Allende declared here last week at a rally of over 80,000 in the town centre to mark the first anniversary of the Popular. Unity Front victory.

The Popular Unity Front does not have a majority in the Con- gress but if it does not get a majority it can hold a plebiscite on the issue.

COMMON MARKET DEMANDS U.S. $ DEVALUATION

VERSAILLES—The six European Common Market nations have declared they would not revalue their currencies upward, as de- manded by the Nixon administration, unless the U.S. first devalued the dollar. The ECM announcement was made by French Finance Minister Valery Giscard D’Estaing. The ECM takes in France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands. D’Estaing said the U.S. will be asked point-blank whether or not it will agree to take part in international negotiations about dollar devaluation at the scheduled meeting of the “Group of Ten” leading capitalist countries in Rome on Nov. 22.

DENMARK DECIDES TO RECOGNIZE GDR COPENHAGEN—Danish Foreign Minister Knud Berge Andersen said-on Thursday the new Social-Democratic government of his country will formally recognize the German Democratic Republic early in 1972. Andersen made the statement after a meeting of the Danish parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

DESPERATE YAHYA MAY UNLEASH WAR

NEW DELHI — India’s people must be prepared to face the possibility of war with the Yahya Khan military regime in West Pakistan, the Communist Party of India warned here. It it said that Yahya Khan, unable to defeat the Liberation forces in Bangla Desh, is turning desperately to the idea of a war with India in the hope of deterring the Indian people from giving help to Bangla Desh, and of preparing the way for U.S. intervention.

Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s government must mobilize the people of India in preparation for the event of war, the statement said.

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U.S. “foreign aid” program

Humpty Dumpty fell down

By G. GERASIMOV APN Political Observer Like a stone dropped into a quiet lake, the U.S. senate deci- sion to kill the bill on aid to other states has produced wide ripples of comment. No wonder

—the issue involves $2,900 million and 85 recipient coun-

_ tries. Since the ‘Marshall Plan”

the foreign aid program has been a permanent and substan- tial feature of America’s for- eign policy—and it now depart- ed from life. At any rate, Mike Mansfield, leader of the Demo- cratic majority in the Senate, predicts that though “the pro- gram will not die suddenly, it will very likely die a linger- ing death.” He meant that ex- penditure of previously approv- ed sums will continue for some time. It may be presumed that some parts of the program will be restored, but Humpty Dump- ty has fallen off the wall and “all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men~ couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty — togther again.”

Since the U.S. aid program consists of at least three dif- ferent components, and the ball sent in the Senate bowling alley knocked out all the pins, displeasure is widespread, al- though the reasons are dif- ferent.

The principal ingredient of aid—about 55%, was military. According to Swedish econo- mist Gunnar Myrdal and many others, appropriations of this sort cannot be called aid. This is a form of payment for the

global claims of U.S. foreign policy. The list of the main re- cipients is eloquent of itself: Cambodia, Korea, Greece and Israel were to have received a very substantial slice of the total—$1,000 million.

Another was economic aid. In spite of some easier terms in- troduced by the’ present U.S. administration, it remained aid

“with strings,” that is, it re-:

quired first of all purchases of U.S. goods. The U.S. always looked on this aid as an incen- tive to exports at the expense of the taxpayer, or as Myrdal wrote, it was “subsidy to the American economy.” But here, too, the decisive role was played by political considera- tions, as is evident form the list of the principal beneficiaries: South Vietnam, Jordan and Cambodia were to have gotten a very appetising bit of the total — $1,000 million.

The third and _ insignificant part of the U.S. program were allocations for UN specialized agencies ($141 million) as aid to the refugees from East Paki- stan, etc., an appendage of a humanitarian nature which pro- vided’ the excuse for calling all external appropriations “aid,” like covering a dozen machine guns with a bowl of rice each.

The decision of the USS. Senate once again demonstrat- ed that in its foreign policy the USA has been overtaxing its resources. The burden of “world leadership” which it claimed has proved too heavy to shoul- der and produced “hernias” in the form of monetary and fin-

Young black Communist

near win in Boston poll

BOSTON — Patricia Bonner- Lyons, member of the Young Workers Liberation League, the first Marxist-Leninist to run for public office in this city, and the only Black candidate for the School Committee, received 53,269 votes and came within 10,000: votes of being elected in last week’s elections.

Mrs. Bonner-Lyons placed first in six of the 22 wards, and was in the top five in three others, with the largest vote coming from the Black com- munities, but with substantial votes also from interracial and white liberal-student areas.

Joel -Kugelmass, campaign manager for the young candi- date, noted that her vote was doubled and even tripled in a number of areas since the pre- liminaries, in which she received 28,000 votes.

In a speech the day after the election, Mrs. Bonner-Lyons de- clared to her supporters, “We have won a victory, and we have won it because we have unity among Black, white and Spanish- speaking. We all have a lot in common, and one of them is that we’re not getting an educa- tion. We have just begun to fight for quality education, and we have several things to do now.

“One is, we have to put those racists out of business.

“We have to win quality edu- cation for people who have to work for a living—and I know what it’s like standing in line at the bus stop 6:30 every morning and working hard for eight or more hours every day. We're

going to show these people who say ‘niggers ain’t no good’ and ‘Communism ain’t nothing’ that Black people and Communism are going to make it.”

Mrs. Bonner-Lyons was en- dorsed by the Black Political Convention Citizens for Partici- pation Politics, the Boston Globe, Women’s Service Club of Boston, Amalgamated Meat Cut- ters and Butcher Workmen Lo- cals Pll and P616, Storefront Learning Center, the Teachers Center, Ward Five Democratic Committee and Ward Four Democratic Committee.

Her campaign was sponsored by the YWLL. (The Young Workers Liberation League is the youth organization of the Communist Party of the USA— Ed.)

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