international airport at Last week porce demonsnac 10r N0 op Planes ung t The construction of the airport began in 1965. The whole on the local offices of the the youth organisation of the Japanese snction Fourth International. throughout the been COTTIST struggle.
Prime Minister Takedo Fukuda has decided to the airport by the and of the NORTH TH lensive against the Sannizuka Backing by Foe Fail remain.
Under previous law any hank registered overseas — even ones whose business would not fall into usual banking categories allowed to set up without the approval of the Department of Trade or the Bank of England, This means that fly-bynigns were not even obliged to register the names of their dires tors.
We have already reported on the Shady Dusins me CaR of Banking Corporation of Craw popuEDUC
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'LAST WEEKEND Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Squad, operating jointly with the Fraud Squad, made a series of arrests in connection with international fraud offences. This Is part of the campaign to implement Section 31 of the Companies Act 1976, which is designed to impose more stringent conditions on tringe banks.
false halance sheet.
were involved.
ford Strer. London Soatind Yard have made a number of Arests on charges of conseracy to defraud the public by publishing a The nien charged are Mario d'Agnolo.
Fernando Delabor, Jean Mamed based in Karim, Andrew Brian Pritchard, Gino Scalamandra, Samy Wag- Fear. ner, Roberto Loioni (or Loyola) and Philip Dews. D'Agnolo was also allegedly found in possession of forged banknotes and Loioni/ Loyola charged with handling frontation:
DETTICAL ed, we are not able to reveal any nares. Whether these arrests are tied in with operations similar to those of UBC cannot be said with certainty. The police refused to comment on early reports thar arms smuggling and kidnapping A reliable source informs me the International Conneroe Hank of 60. Pall wal lEis nor possible to say who owns ICB bur it is apparently "carrying on the husi ness of Maritime Bank', a company of equnlly obscure origins Hockingham Palace Road, which closed down las ism ICB, likethe Maritime Bank and the Universal Banking Corpora tion, is registered in Anzuilla A company called Bear Secur ties acts as hankers for ICB. Bear In the hottest centres of conKarachi, Lyallpur the extreme right-wing divines have been providing the and organisational shock-trocips for the opposition Their slogans are: Islant Yes, Socialism No', Implement Islamic Lass', etc.
The carly demands related to cisil liberties have given way to a more idenlagical debate betugen "Socialism'. Bbutto hecause of the large-scale natborder provinces and Baluchistan, Lie and concentrares on the derband for new elections, civil liberties, ere. though even here cheap and sordid appeals to religion are not unknown. In this situation 1oc ialises have to say so both Bhutto and the PNA (Pakistan National Alliance — the umbrella organisation of the opposition parties):
We cannot support either of your houses, both of which art infected with a cancerous plague We meht for the interesis of clE own house which harbours the spend use reen are sir and whose interests are alien to all you genclemen".
STRUGGLE Thus independent working class forces should be opposing the repressioo and utilising their own metbods of struggle; factory accupations, creation of work ers" defence guards and demands for the right to strike, for trade union freedoms, for the right 10 distribute socialist propaganda, Tor the release ol all Boltical permission.
Maude at firs claimed that ICH was owned by Anguillan inter ests", but later by "Americans" Irvine Benjamin, of Benjamin anc Benjamin, solicitors to ICB's purchaser, confirmed a list of three directors. He said that Pie Luigi Torri, who had run Mari time Bank, was neither a director nor a sharcholder of the new company.
Allcbisisextremely irregular and a tborn in the side of the bizger, "respecrable' banks. But we canDot, of course, claim that these businesses have UBC's connec Aller charges are made against those arrested we may begin to be able to clear up some of ibe obvious questions which need answering.
CHRIS O'BRIEN was revealed aharply in the fiasco of the so-called long march' to Rawalpandi to beseige Bhutto's bouse. Bhutto had the capital scaled off by pobce and scat units and the march fizzied out.
On the political front Bhuttle has made ominous moves, some of them analogous to Chile. H has had the old butcher Dacca, Tikka Khan clected to the Upper House as n PPP Senator, and reports indi cate that be -will be placed in charge of Lie moortans betende Ministry, It is an attempt to keep it to quell the recent distur bances, Bhutto might well have sharpened its appetite for more direct political power. Certainly the voong colonels and majors are nor averse to politient dis cussions in the arory messes The decapitation of the Pakis tani state by the establishment of CELEBRI STUR SIVE T problems for the Pakistan ruling puttie which has the largest debt truncated and moth-eaten of any semi-colonial country A continuing crisis could wel bring into question the future existence of the country as totally separate cotity. A forced confederation with Indin or with Iran and Afghanistan? Which would preserve the stability of the region'? No answers to ches mestions have yet been finalise posed sinewbat sharply.
ma curious asluen al tik protagonists of political struggles in Pakistan are aware ol this fact. Blucco, the PNA aod the Army koow what is at stake is the existine boundaries of South Asia. Their inability to unite reflects a political deathwish, in itself a reflection of the irrational basis on which Pakis ran was established in the first -place 5 May 1977 and peasantry to RIC CISSONE
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Helmeted Japanese Trotskyists confront police. * Japan