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IAN SMITH ASKS FOR ISRAELI MILITARY HELP LONDON—Ian Smith, the so-called “Premier” of the illegal racist regime in Rhodesia, has asked Israel for military aid in training the white population to handle firearms and conduct counter-insurgency operations, the London Daily Mail reported on Monday. According to the newspaper, the Smith regime has already set up special re- serve “women’s brigades.”

WORKER RESISTANCE MOUNTS IN ARGENTINA

BUENOS AIRES—Strikes against military rule and the sharp rise in prices spread across Argentina on Thursday as the military gov- ernment of Gen. Alejandro Lanusse took drastic action against the five million-member General Confederation of Labor (CGT) to try to put down the workers’ resistance. The Lanusse government an- nounced it was seizing all the funds of the CGT. Martial law and “shoot-to-kill” rule has already been imposed on several of Argen- tina’s industrial cities, including Mendoza, San Juan, and Tucuman. The army has arrested more than 500 people in Mendoza following Monday’s clash between workers and troops in which two workers were killed. More than 6,500 workers at the Renault auto plant in Cordova have gone on strike in support of the Mendoza workers and are expected to be bolstered in this action by FIAT plant workers. A

_mass hunger march is scheduled for April 14 in Cordova.

SOVIET ART EXHIBITION BOMBED IN HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD—An anonymous telephone caller told United Press International: “Now you listen carefully. I just bombed the art museum at Barndall Park. Never again! Never again!” That is the slogan used by the fascistic Jewish Defense League, which had picketed the exhibition. Police blocked traffic on nearby streets and roped off the area. There were no reports of injuries from the blast. On exhibit were examples of Soviet art and crafts.

UN HEAD DENOUNCES U.S. CHROME IMPORTS :

UNITED NATIONS — United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim denounced the United States government for its decision to permit importation of chrome ore from Rhodesia in defiance of UN economic sanctions against the illegal racist regime.

In a message to the UN’s Committee on Sanctions Against Rho- desia, Waldheim said that the U.S. had ignored the UN Security Council’s resolutions imposing sanctions on the regime of “Premier” Ian Smith, and that the UN would be compelled to take steps to make sure that such violations could not occur in the future.

SHARP IMPROVEMENT IN SOVIET CHILDREN’S HEALTH

LENINGRAD—A sharp improvement in Soviet children’s health in recent years was noted yesterday in Leningrad at the opening ses- sion of a conference of Soviet pediatricians. Professor Nina Nisevich of the Soviet Public Health Ministry reported that since the 1950’s cases of polio in the USSR have been almost unknown,

By ALAIN PATRIE

MONTREAL — Their militant ranks united and inspired by the Common Front of Que- bec's three trade union centres, 210,000 pub- lic workers on Tuesday morning began a general strike of indefinite duration against the anti-labor policies of the Bourassa gov- ernment.

Continuing attempts to un- seat President Makarios of Cyp- rus and turn the island into a U.S. war base in the Mediter- ranean make the following let- ter received by the Communist Party of Canada from the Prog- ressive Party of Working People (AKEL) of Cyprus of special importance:. ;

Foreign interferences in Cyp- rus have reached their climax with the ultimatum of the Greek military government of Febru- ary 11 and the subsequent direct attacks against President Maka- rios and the sovereignty of the Cyprus Republic. In fact, the ultimatum of the Athens regime demanded the disarmament of the Cyprus state in face of the illegal armed groups, the forma- tion of a new government with the participation of those that wanted its dissolution and the isolation of the left wing forces from political life. The Athens regime demanded at the same time that as regards the policy for the solution of the Cyprus problem all decisions should be taken in Athens, which should be recognized as the centre whilst. Nicosia should limit its role to that of a ‘branch’.

“It should be stressed as well that there have already been authoritative reports that plans for the violent overthrow of the Cyprus government by Greek military circles had been can- celled at the last moment be- cause of effective international protests and the firm resistance of the Cyprus people. In this respect special mention was made to the decisive stand of the Soviet Union in defense of the Cyprus Republic as well as to that of other socialist coun- tries. The danger, however, for the very existence of Cyprus

Answering Quebec government threats, the leaders of the Common Front have "cate- _gorically recommended" to their members not to submit to court injunctions the govern- ment has obtained against the strikers. Should the government attempt to enforce the court injunctions, Laberge declared that “everyone takes to the streets and they'll

have to arrest all of us."

Announcement of this most massive strug- gle of organized workers in Canada's history was made jointly two weeks to the day after March 28 one-day general strike of Quebec public workers, by Louis Laberge, president of the Quebec Federation of Labor (CLC): Marcel Pepin, the Confederation of National Trade Unions president; and Yvon Charbon- neau, president of the Quebec Teachers Cor- poration. ;

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Five trade unionists from Quebec attended the 15th congress of Soviet

The striking workers through their leaders have undertaken to maintain essential ser- vices as they shut down all Quebec govern- ment services, hospitals, most schools, Que- bec-Hydro and liquor outlets.

The general strike was preceded by four days of visits by the leaders of the three trade union centres to their members in 10 Quebec cities. Full endorsation was voted in. mass meetings for this historic confrontation

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still stands as pressure from foreign imperialist centers is escalated and so long as buried church regulations, whose valid- ity is very much disputed, have been drawn out in order to press Makarios to step down from the presidency.

“The Plenum of the Central Committee of AKEL that took place on Feb. 14, connected the crisis that has been provoked at this moment in Cyprus directly with the general plot of NATO and American imperialism against the republic with the aim of subjugating the island by means of partitioning it and turning it into a base for their military adventures in the area.

“The CC of AKEL stands at this crucial moment most deci- sively behind President Maka- rios and his patriotic policy of a peaceful solution of the Cyprus

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In unprecedented solidarity with : mon Front, the 7,000 members of f te04 ’ cial Association of Protestant al (PAPT) have voted to join the gene” on Wednesday morning, April 12.

Joining the common struggle. PA ers have declared that "any scabs thrown out of our Association."

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