WEST GERMANY: The EvennE standard ast wok Dub sed a letler from Socialist Challenge International Editor Richard Carver exposing the distortions in their report of sur revelations of Hans Martin Is issue). You may remem her that they maintained that the information they received from the Wiener Library conmaned nothing camens or Schleyer'. The letter pointed out Bad confirmed that sellery Wiener was in charge of Nazifying the Austrian aniversities, cading member ol the Associ of Industries in Prague, and that he was an SS officer 13 терту тле смаванго версаси this was 'nothing damnEAST GERMANY: East Gerwith no political prisoners, released 180 of them last week. The release was paid for by the West German Government! Apparently the physician is 150,000DM. Labcurers only fetch 30,000DM. BRAZIL: More than a thousand people were arrested when police broke into the Catholic University in Sao Paulo last week. Thousands of students were mectine to discuss demonstrations against the miltary SPAIN: Madrid missed it censpapers for a day last week when papers closed in protest aainst a bomb allack do the satirical paper El Papus. Two people were killed. Only the right-will El Alcazar appear:
The Tripie-A far right terrorists claimed responsibiliPORTUGAL: Police suspect that a recent series of bombings group linked to the Angolan FNLA. The aim is to provoke a -Wing minary - BENCH O'BRIEN reports.
Oope again there is a resoLution coadcatning Covernment arms sales to South Africa. Once again it will be passed, and once again te covera man tere The past year has beer listinguished one for arins sales Take the tropospheric scatter system, for instance. The system is used by all major powers for nilitary communications, since i gets rid of the need for vul nerable ground sinuous Inder a loophole in the 197 ontrol Order Marconi was g ing so win a contract to see such a system to South Africa when news leaked out Labour Government was forced o plug the loophole and make Marconi apply for an expor Locace, only to grant the licenc on 25 October last year Labour's record on Namibis, inter unan occa on is equally glorious. The Namibian people have long ceased to take mations of support seriously.
RIO TINTO ZINC In 1968 the Labour Government and its Technology Minister, Tony Benn, signec tract wilh Rio Tuto Zine for the exploitation of the Rossing uranium mine in Namibia. The CUE DECLE PERS rucial to South Africa's nucles decided to terminate the ABARTZ contract. That in which neither the ABA nor RTZ were altogether candid with the Labour ment, points to the need for even greater vigilanoe than has beer Minister responsible at tbe time 1 certainly learned that lesson.
He had learned nothing of the Benn, Secretary of State for Energy, who is refusing even to Delegates in Brighton next week will face a familiar spectacle: another year of brazen Government defiance of Labour Party policy on southern Africa. CHRIS discuss the cancellation of the and industrial action by workers FRAUD Even Lahour ministers admil that Britain does not need any Rossing uranium within the next ten yeurs and mar assume that we want a British nuclear programme. So why is the Gowernment determined to buy Namibian uranium?
Benn says it is in the long term interests of Namibial We prefer to see it as yet another example of a Labour Government playing messenger boy for nterests in southern Afric he crowning glory of Lal our's foreign policy Anto to many rue a TOOR TO BURTOILE site simply, the plan is a trau tead of the right to imin diate elections to a Constituent ssembly with one person, or transitional regime, over by Lord Carver, a man with Jons extericnee of counter-insurency operations 4 Con Cenya, and a public champion of STACE AILS BEMS DEALL SUC subject.
The transition is to be policed by a force which includes sections of the lan Smith army. Last week we printed an eye witness account of the murders 80g tortures carried out by these very people who are meant to be th particular Huaranors of malory rule.
report published last week by the Catholic Commission for Peace GovernRACIST JUDGES the The racist judiciary remain intact; the same judgea who pass death sentences freedom funters are 1o 0e trusted with giving power to the Strange, then, that the British press should have omitted to mention a [13 million heroin haul in London a month lalet Those arrested were Marco Chi imperialist - confirms this view presided including in black majority!
Clause Crist, them. implicated in the Imperialiam that calls the tune.
of the proposed constitution includes a provision vation of property. That means shinterime.
example, the grossly inequitable system of land tenure altered, unless the white landlords choose to up and go. If they do, the Owen-Young compensate Lace of larger in the mind of Labour's Foreign Secretary than hlack leve nothing. livelese developments are the pertect answer to those on the winger. Sacpucei, who had been "Tora-Tora attempt at a fascist coup in 1970, Ted hy Prince Valerio Borghese, bicky this time. He ANDREW YOUNG, American UN ambassador, has atayed in the background during recent taiks. But it is shif US left of the Lahour Party who bave called on the Government to carry out its colonial responsibilities against the "illegal Itshows that Britain has no progressive role to in southern Africa. The weakness of every • COINCID resolucion and pious declaration in the past has been a failure co recognise this simple tact. In the overtly pro-imperialist policies from the Lahour Gov ernment polite requests can ach If British companies are to stop arming the racist regimes, if Britain is to canoel the RTZ contract and if Labour is 10 recognise tbe sight of Zimbahwe to self determination, conference resolutions will need to be back propaganda and action in th abour movernent as a whole. A Parties for the trade union week of action planned for If delegates leave Brighton to fight for their local parbes to ThE MeDIC TUES SCHR voted for, for once the resalution passing may not have been in Inaer] SANDRO