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Hits ICC01 Laos

HanoiTour

Thant DeniesArabs Will

Meet IsraelUNITED NATIONS, March 1.

IReuler)--United Nalions SecrelaiY(,ereeral U Thal1l yesterday dCOIt'dthat Ihe secretariat now belicved Ih<>.\1 ubs would be willing to meet thehtaelis in lhe same room for peacetalks undr a UN chairman.

He told a questioner as he IcrtUN headquarters Ihat the rep'll ~

\\ a.;; groundless,He declined 10 1..'\)ll1menl furtht..:r

llO the lalks whkh ..Ire untler w'-'yhere f'ollowing the recall ttl NewYork of Midtllc East pea\.'t..: en Vt'}

(Iunnar Jarring,Dr. Jarring is expected hl rl'lufll

III his headquarters al Nil:osia. nel;lTuesday.

AFP repllrt .... Ihl.' ('oum:lI of lheArab'League will meet on Monday:\1 t!1Sl.:USS Isracl's "annexation" 01Arab Icrrilorie." the league's Sene'I",r~ General. Ahdel Khalek Hasslna, said. yesterday,

The announcement, quoted by ("-l

ITO Radio, said other subjects to b\.'di"l.'usscd would be the Palestine question, development in Arab cnun lI't ... Hnd the Middlc Easl cri'ii'\.

that all attacks,' would now ueended.

It addrJ that 'lht.1 stil,ternenthr,wever,' gained significanct' bel::\U::ie it showed that governmentand the cnnlition parlhel's stoodfirmly behind the president.

The "Sucddcutschc ZeitunR""(Mu!licn Libera)) in general echoed the feelings "Die Welt" expressed and suid the statel:l1'enl ofthe oresident C;101I1 too late toI!hange the ('(Iurs(' or thl' devr'lopments,

The "Koelnischc Rundsch!ll..fCc;logne-Christ.ian 11('('orat)

said) seeing Lubke make thestatement must huve convincedeveryhody that he was telling thetruth. However. the paper said italso became apparent that the10 yea rs hl' has heen rn o/liCt'have taken the toll.

"Tl'n year... IS too much", thl'paper said,

The "Stuttgartel' Nachfll'htC'n"(Stuttgart. Libel:"/) said LU"bkedid not say anything ill his sta·tC'ment that ('ould help us also.

"It was a <.;1 :.ltf'm('nt that Camptoo late",

The paper <.ldded tht' only thlllgthat had become dear beyonddoubt was 'that Luebke intl'ndl'dto remain In uflil'e until the expiratIOn cf hiS present term 1969,

Nobody \vill ron'c him to n~·

:-;igll (ove)' the controversy) thepnp('1' :-t~lld Clnd thus Wl'sl Germany and lis c'lllz("ns must jointlybl'dr the l"l:'Ill;lindC'1' ul hi'" lime111 ullin',We~t BL'r1iII's "I\llorgellpost'

(middle of the road) also said itwould have bee-n better ii' Luebke had spoken seoner.

It blamed not Lllebke. but rnuny of his advisers for hlsltntingtoo long,

It too s:'lld the dama~e to Luebke's reputatlon \Vas clOnL' andc\)uld hardly Ul' L'xpl'('ten til berepaircd .

The Wesl B~r1in "TcraC' (sc'dal democrat) said "much toolate" about, Luebke's statement.

HONG KONe.,. Ma"'h .1. tReu·It rl-Norlh Vlt"tnar'l's Fl)rcign MIHlslry yesh.:rduy critl\."l~ed the ret'culinspcl.'Iion lour by Indian and Cana··d:an flIt..:mbch of Ih(' Jnlernational('l,ntral (omll1l~SJOn 10 laos at Ihe·,·!.JUl·.... uf Ihe LallllUn aUlhorlties.

A "Wh:'mcnl Issued by Ihe miniS'(r:,'s ..poh·slTIitrJ and broadt'ast ~:'.'

tbe North Vietnam news agen..;y la~·;rllght sait! Ihc luur by Indian <lnu(;.lOudian members ,uf. the ICC-tlll:he,ck the presence of North Vietnumese troops On Laolian territ6ry-·\Va:; an illegul aq and viola led :hl'1962 Geneva, agrcemen'ts c;m La'Os,

"The Indian and Canadian delegales have grossly interfered in theinternal affairs of Laos," the; stal\."ment said:

It stated thaI the ICC was only su·pposed to act" upon receipt' of a UD

ullimous request from the three fact:ons, in Laos.

BUI by responding 10 a reque.slIrom one faction only, the Indianand Canadian members of tbe ICChave lent a hand to the "U,S. agl.ressors and their nunkeys who arecarrying out a war against the Lavll<\h patrioli\.· ftlrl'('s," Ihf,' slatCOlenlsaid.

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Press Vpholds Luebke's Integrity

But Regrets FRG PresidentH'adNot Spoken Out Sooner

JOHNSON'SSON-IN-LAWGOING TO'VIETNAM

WASHINGTON, March 3. (Reuter). President Johnson's elder daughter. Lynda Birda. andhpJ' husband, Marine Capt.Charles S. Robb, start a monthlung holiday this weekend beforehE' goes to Vietnam.

Captain Rubb, begins a une-yea!' tour of duty .in 'the war zone at the end of March.

He and his bride plan lO makeseveral trips during the hilodayleave period which is customaryfor all U.S. troops bound for Vietnam.

PROPSFID V.f'.TOVRIST TAXIN 'TROVBLEWASHI~GTON, March 3, (Re

uter). The Johnson administration's plans to save foreign currency by taxing American tourists appeared gravely threatenedSaturday after two weeks ofpublic criticism of the proposalsin congressional hearings.

The House of RepresentativesWaYs ad Means Commiltee ended two weeks of hearings Frida.v on the White House schemeto tax tourists outside the western hemisphere at rates up to30 per cent un all they spendover seven dollars daily.

Witnesses, including representatives of students and travelagents, contended that the ideawas inimical to the traditionalfreedom of the U.S. people totravel abroad,

Congress is apprehensive of thetax plan. particularly in theHouse, where all 435 seats ar:e upf( r reelection this year,

With these factors in mind. the25 members of the Ways andMeans Committee 5 Democrat'iilnd 10 Repuhlicans~will movei,nto closed session next week todecide whether to "Uow the billtt: move to thl' House floor.

Committee sources said committee chairman Wilbur MillsI,.\'as awaiting a report from aspecial presidential trade mission, just returned frpm Europe,n:gardiqg possible import taxesan~ export rcbate~.

Following their occupation ofthe special forces camp at LangVei and of the village of KheSanh, the North Vietnamese nowcontrol a bi-supply of manpow'er.

. Their trenches ilnd shelters canoften be see'n loss than 100yards from the base perimetre.

HAMBURG, lVIarch 3, lDPA)West German newspaper edi·

larials y'esterclay appeared nearly un,ariimou5 in their evaluation01' President Heinrich Luebke'sradio TV ilddress rejecting char"ges that concentration camp bllie prinL< dated 1944 bore his sig·

.nature.The editorials regretted that

Luebke's statement aimed at silencing those charges. came so late in the controversy and, lheeditorials said, Luebkt·'s statement . could not be expected toput an end to the controveniY·

The influcnti ..d l'onservativeDie Welt said LuebkE" statement hardly salisfied the hope

I .

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Inl~lrllleu sOlln.:e<;, said ~t nod IT'.lm\l\' ...UI\\ \.lllJld dlnch the agreement1'1 \\. hu\ \he \ioVICh may decidE:',lhl' I... ~ll\.' ... 1ill lH'l't.lo; more thra"h ng

l·ul,So\ wi, Anlenc:ari and Hrilish neg'

tHI<Jturs have been in dose consul1,\'I\Ul llll sPl;urily for many month~,

I hc USSR and the United Stale,1\t)llI' 1\1 presclll their proposals hert:I~t.fo..e the M;lrt'h 15 deadline !"l?t

b'l the United Nations fot the 17n.,llUIl disarlllamcltt t'onfcr~nce 10

•Hush work nn the projecled nll~le!.i1

:Agreement May Be Nearing OnS~J'feguardsFor Non-Nuclear

GENEVA, March J, (Reuterl-~n{)nproliferalion treaty.: ho: Uniled Slates, I3rilain and the The demand for security assural1....lI"iel Unilln are dfl.se I() agrecn, l'C~ came from nations as varied asen: (Ill sc{'urily :lssuranct'"S for other Brazil. West GC'Tmany, Ethiopia and,,:ilHm~ which agree tll har the spr· Rumania. but Ihe touchiest prob\f'm.... uti III llude;l!' weapon .., infnrnwd i ... posed by a nuclear China poised'\IUI'l'C" "alt.l YCSlt'nJay. \lll India'~ Himalayan borders.

BUI \>, h;I1t:wr a~~ur:'lnce... !'he Ih;~e rhere is no chance that MoscowP\l\\(,,'I""l iJgl'('(' 1111 th,t..:y arc t'ertam 10 and Washington could agree on <lnyi:.ll "horl of wh<-lt :-)lHllC natlun, (("o"tintud 01 pUKe' 41.. \ltdd-ld,,l' tn ... t..:e before signing,~\>';I\ Ihl'll nghl l\1 ;\l'quirc '\l..,:h

Inching Towards Khe 50nhIn front of the ranger positions,. One o( the Lownde's fears is

At daylight yesterday morning (hat the -North Vietnamese wj1lthe rangers found the bodies' of eventually'succeed in digging tun-seven North Vietnamese' in pr nels under' the, barbed ~wire en-~near the ranger perimetre, tqnglement.

A:nother 60 bodIes were 'found A party of North VietnameseIn hastily-dug fO,xholes less than :iDparently tried the trick· on300yal'ds in fr9nt of the rangel' Monday but their tunnel was tooposition. short and the marines saw four

M.eanwhile, the spokesman re- men emerging in front of the bar-por.ted that 157 rounds of mixed bed wire..rocket. mOl'tar and artillery fir'ed by North Vietnamese gun crews landed in the Khe Sanh areaFriday.

Casualties at the base weredescribed ilS light. .

"As far as we know no NorthVietnamese h"s got through,"says {.t. Col, D.avid Lowndes thebast· l·llmmandpl".

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Narcotics

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CAPE TOWN. March :l, (Reu·ter). Two months after his hearttransplant operation, DI". PhilipBI3,iberg is still making goodprogress in Grool.... Schuur lIospital-and this could bl' themonth he goes honw

Major

For Hong

Queen Elizabeth CommutesDeath Sentence' On Africans

LONDON, Ma'rch ,2, (Reul\Cr: _ A Commonwl;alth 9ff!ce ~lat'~I~l', n added that yesterday s reJecllun

(Illeen Elizabeth yesterday commu- \. I .".. bl RhodeSia 5 HIgh Court of Ap'ted death, scnte.nces pron~>un..:ed on _.' I b threc Africans condemncdthree Africans In RhodeSia 10 lil(" I t:a:-. hY f d t Id I be.. t !l' d~al or mur e cou noImpnsonmen . .

-rhe Commonwealth Offit'e Stud ll'g.arded as t'onduslvc. ,the Queen had cXlended the royr.l I: was undcrstood thai an appll_a·

. h th ,',nu·· IIU, nllghl be maue shonly to thepp'fogatlve I'D t e ree men . . I' h P' (h f Rhod' t.J th ludll'lal t.:ommltlee 0 t envy 0-

I ~ governor. .. . eSIa an {l~': ,'. in london 10 grant Ihe men ',p-l.'onccrncd With carrymg uut Ihe de- .Ill...I. I Ih .tatcnWl'ltl;' sentences were being informt..:d, ..:~ 1:1: leave tn appca. l~ s '

A Cnnimonweallh Office spok~... - "'i.lio .I~ hodesi.if:~ appeal judges III Sui:'"

fllan said: "It is of course com pie- h, h,ry yCl.;terday rcjc\.·.tcu the t reI':( h illcgal for any Jeath senlcrl\.·l'l'll'l,· ... appc<lb tq st,l}' (':\eculiun fl)r

l\l be l,:arric<:J LIlli when lht..: ruyuJ fl \.'i"llr IIHll\lh ... while they <1ppc<tI\'d

rJgaliH' of 1llen,:y has been eXll'f1~-l~IIC\.'( hI ttl(' privy ('(llln\,'il in L\lTl

(·tI'1 he I3ritish guvernment warn~d Ulll ....

$'~terday ~hat anyone carrying "uI I hey were I.'onvh.:lcd In 1965 lor;1 heath sentence in Rhodcsia £11 ,the :1 pelrul homh att:l\.'k Oil '-l l.'ar whh:hl11emen, wuuld bear "lhe gravl'~t pl.'- I;,:ict..! a whitt' fun ncr.r";llnal responsihility," \I-P rcplll'''' thUI lh(> Hnllsh altj-

I..d\.· is thaI while It docs nol cUI\\IIlfl\' liw l'flllW~ I\lr whkh tht..: lhrc::,',L'IC ;-iI'llll.'lh_'l:d II ,w\lukl dt..:plore thepi Jlll'lple nt Ihe C),C'CUlllllh being I,.a

'n,(l! out 111 a country which ha~ nn!illained, 111 statem("n", Its allegw.·l.'(,I" Ihe ()ueen,

I bl' !!IIV('fIlIllCnl >, ICW 111 lhat tht'"l':ltll ...enlt'lll":'" ;l1't..: "dc<ldy IIlcc.JI.'"

II Ihl.' RlllIdt.'swn ... gil ahead winIn..: t..::\C\.·UllOU.... tl1\'/1 ih:luUl l.'u.;IJl·omplit..:alc, the country\ pU'isl~1c rt'lurr t$ l.'Ol1stittllinnal rulc, It IS Iho·lU:I-JI Iwre,

101 Ian Smith. It t.:ould me"dnII' ott lolloWI1\'g.it rei urn In conslilUII,mal rul,', hl' \.'uult.l lal'(' l'hargl.::i of1,.'~Ulg lIken p,ITI In the lHunlc:r tIl'

lhl "11'~,lfl"',

")1. \.·(,uIJ hl~ lilW lurd ... '1hcnffs andIh,: h;H1gll1iin, Evcn If Rhodesia ,'it\ ... dl'!--\all} lllllt..:pellllt..:111. Ih(' prcllllt-r~.Ild oihcr \In idals l..'lHdd hc chargedII lhq ieI'I lti\~ l'olfnlL ~/

He was also guest of honour ala luncheon /{iven by William J.Handley. Deputy I\g<;istant Secretary of State for Near Easternand South Asian AITairs.Amon~ those present were

Ambassador .John M, Steeves,Director General of the U.S. For.eign Service and former Ameri·can Ambassador to I\fghanlstan;Ahdullah Malikyar. Af/{han A.m·ilassador to the United States;..nd James V. Siena. Deputy Un·del' Secretary of the Departmentof Army for International AlTai"'.

HRH Sardar Abdul Wall iscontinuing a tour of Americathis week that has already included a visit to the special forces anny base and a conference

W<ith U.S. Ambassador·at·Lar/{eW. Averill Harriman.

Sardar WaJj met with Harriman during a vis:t at the StateDepartment.

BANGKOK, Mareh J, IReul'eri-Tho' problem of conlrolling the flu"of narcotics in the Far East still r~

nlhins ont: of the biggest hcada\.·he...l'f the Hongkong police, accordingto Edward C Eates.. Hung ""HI!.'cummissoner of polil:~.

Eales who arrived here Friday fora threc-day visit on his way 10 U,i·"ain. lold reporlers th'ut Hong Kl'lIgrolJce uncovered Over 10,000 C<J~t'~

01 narcotics smuggling evcry }'f,·Olr.

DA NANG. March, '3, !Reu·ter).-- North Vietnames trnopsincJ;1ing forward in trenches to-,wards the surrounded marinebase' at Khe Sanh jumped out ofthem Friday and allacked a

,South VietI,1amese Rariger "suicide line" 200 yards outside themarine perime!re, a U.S.' spok-esman '.s-aid yesterday. .

The North Vietnamese breached .the line in one plaCJ'.. the spo'kesman added.

The hard-pressed rangers, figh_ting . desperatelY to push backthe North Vietnamese altilcks.called down marine artillery almost on their own heads.

According to the spokesmanthe shells were. lanning.,only jusl

KABUL, SUNDAY, MARCH 3,1968 (HOOT 12, 1346 S.H:) PRICE AF. 3be • __........." ..._... ...;:.;;,:;,;;;;:,,.;;::;..;.;....

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"We foundweeds in theh<, added.

Food

Referring to the Tashguzarpasture project' in Mazare Sharifhe said that to save it [rom riverfloods and erosion poplar fr~~..were planted.

The programme to improvepa~turela:nd in the country in-cludes killing poisonous weedsand bushes. removing 'Stones andproviding waler, he said,

HAMIIl-N.. March 3. (Bakhtar)-The foundation stone for the15 room. two storey building ofthe secondary school for Bamianprovince was laid yesterday. TheEducation Ministry is paying theconstruction cost, and the peoplehave donated the two' acre site.

'The best seed is oistributedwith due consideration to soil andclimate. Ava'ilability of water isalso important, some, seeds growin dry plains." he added,

Since IO per cent of the country's agricultural area is pastureland it is hoped that these f~

search centres wiH help popularisc the hE'st seeds for use aIJover the country, Babi said,

Convoy

ReachesHue

The best seeds are being distributed to similar ex_perimentalpastures in Kabul Naghlu, Baghlan, Kandahar. Jo~jan. Farah andMazare Sharif.

, More lhan' 80 per cent of HUt.:·sp\lpulalion of 137,000 were drivclitrom their humes during the lon~

t,c;llie for the city and there <tr~

...1111 more than 10,000 people livlqgIII temporary refugees centres,

.1

In the 10,000 acres' pasture, 15km. north of Bag·hlan 250 different kinds of grass seed 'bavebeen planted and the results ofsOme of ·thcm·were highly favour.ble. said Mohammad OmarBabi the director of the pasturesand foresty department in theMinistry of Agriculture and Irrigation

~AIGON, March, J (Reule,,··A Giant food convoy reached :h\.'hungry city of Hue yesterday. th.:fir,' major supply delivery to the for·'llt..:r imperial capital since the. Vie~

{'ong launched .their Tel offenijVt.l'IlC month ago,

A DO-vehicle convoy carryiug\J~(J tOns of supplies--mainly ricer-: corted by U,S. and South Vietr'lil:lll:se lroops travelled the 51 mIlesl,'f,lr'n Da Nang in six hours. A gJ\ ..:rnment spokesman said they e:ncclintercd no trouble on the wa.y,

'I wu military convoy reopened thelt1ain Du Nang-Hue highway \\\<1'

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Baghlun Project RecordS Gains1n Tests With 250 Grasses

I<ABtlL.· March :J. (Bakhtar.).~Resuj(s obtained from theseed planlt'd in the Baisaqal experimental pasture in -.lBaghlanincl' ~h(l\\'('d n 250·400 'per Cent increase in yields.

ASEANTake OnMilitarySuharto

Language Atlas'''ears Completion

J~ABI;L. March 3. (Bakhtar).-~l'hl' lip;t l)C!rl. of the language atlas LIl Afghanistan will be compH"d bv the end of th next Af~h"n Yl'ar IMarch 22. 1969).

So fur :222 dit-Terent areas of the{dUnl ry hw" been surveyed fort·xi~t1l1~ laJ1J~lIages and dialects.

The rt'sl"al'ch teams of the phil(llfl'~.v d('p~Hlment of the College"I I.<,ltcrs has taped 22 langua'J..:I s sp-,k('n in Afghanistan inc'ImUng Pashto anri Dari.

." he language have bE"Cn tapedIt llrlllnf'liC' alphabet and copies'I" 11 ha\'(' lwen !'('nt to the In·

,.·rn;ltiont-ll Committee of Philol'lC.\··· Nil,,!" Ahmad Shaker theh,';,d of Illl' dl'l>:lrln1l'nt said.

. 'l'1: tlnd ;1 n('\\' l:lng1l3ge ordl,lI'" I InhabItants of an :lreailllS\\'I'!' ~.(lnn· fIUPsl!nns" Shaker'~i I Ir\

Tht' Internat ion;:d CommitteeIII Philoltlg~ in Bern prnvit!cs HIt..:<!f'p8I'tmcnt with Prjuipmpnt and

XIJ!lrts,

Role,Says

.JAKARTA March 3, (Reuter)Indonesia's' Acting President('n. S'uharto is reported to have'iii that thE> Association of South'sl Asian Na'tions (ASENA)tjld telk ..: on a military role tofeguard pe,lct' in the region.Indonesia's Antara news agency~pvrted that the general said~Iis In 'In mtervlew with the JaItl('!"(" daily n(-'wspaper Mainichi

1st Thursday.Ill' was quoted as saying thatoUlht:'~~l .Asian naticns s~u.uld

lut h· worried over Jh.e fOl'thcoflln" British military v';ithdraw;;l)

I"rqm th,' region because ASEANl' .!.dd lw dl~veloped more positivelv ,:Ind effectively to secul'e pe:Il'l' In Asia.

"Bl'side's IJcillg an organisationfor "(,,'llI"'lmic ~oclal and cultundC'I l't'H'l'ation. ASfAN could be dev;'!llj.lC'd into form of cooperatinn in thE' military field fOI- t.hepllrposl: of joint security in thel'l:l.!.ir,n" Sllhartn w~'s qu'ltC'd a~

~Jyillr.: , •.F 11'(-11,,:11 ~,llnlster Adam Mctll'1<

h:'", pn'violls!y stressed that tnplW'P(l~" t)f ASRAN (a r{'~i()nal~:'\lurlng 'of Malalia, Thailand,I n\' Philfppine~. Indonesia' an'd;In!.!.;q)oI'P was to improve the

'lnl.,:pf'rilY of SoutheRst Asia ::,Ind',l'Ir IIlf'm l.'omb'H subverSIOnh":lll~h ('I·I'!'"llli.... not military

, VOL. Vr. NO, 299

;~HEADWAY MA'DE' INPASTURE PROJECTS

IRANSEEKSMOREREVENUE FROM

INT'L OIL CO's.';';'~:il·:.:\N, !\hllTh :1. (DPA).

Pn,ssul't· is bul1(lfng up on inter:f4lti ..n ..d oJ! f.',lnlpaflil's working'II I!', t1 10 I'urrllsh m{lr~~ moneyfur Iranian devl'lupmpnt pl~ms.

,t1n,ugh Plthl'r Ifn In(TL'llS('d pro-I .f):.l"l' or IfllTl:'USl'd produf.'-

I, :).

Prime Miilistl'J' Amir Abuas,\ lo\!l·id" Ci.lr!ll'l" this week clem'

L nded t'hut thl' \\'('stern l'ompa- Refugees in Saigon yesterdo~1

qi\,':-; UJh..'1 ~Iting till' I)il industry in wt:I'l.' told 10 return to thelr homes by:')ulheJ~n Il'uo pay 20 per cent ~'lar\.·h 5. Only those whose dwdi·L.ore of their revenUe to the :llgs were certified as uni.nhabitavle'q""Le. This call was .taken up yes- by tlje Ministry of Wellare wOuld be

'day by the Iranian press., ~llowed to stay in refugee camp.;;,FOl'eigIt oil expe,rt,s, in Iran the spokesman said,

::::'ress that" as usual in the Mid- 5' . f I h d lh' ..I.' atgon re ugees a so a clr rlee\.e .c..ast oil ..producing area, in-

terest in the Iranian demands- is rCllions reduced y.e~tc;rday as the We-increased by th~ expecation that !lare Ministry announced a drop uf'any gains made there will am- about 20,000 in the numb.er of diS'Dunt to Ol'essure for similar piaced persons in the capital, q...

"'ins thl'o~ghout the region, The government spokesman said_U present representatives of the total number of refugees for tbe

ma10r Am~rican a,nd· Euro- whole: country now stood at onlyn oil companies ·are in Iran J ,66,226--a drop of more than 40.000tqlks with the national lran.

t' in the past two days"

Oil Co, It BUl Saigon hospilals were stillis will be the fifth and prob- " bus~' looking after more th~ 5,000

t l'Je final round of talks: wounded, The spokesman said that'ing the last six years, in the past week a total of

{\l alion of the fourth deve- ~l7tl20.710 had been spent on refu-n".. ul .. n. gce relief.

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In add t on to the monumentaldiSC p]mes (frescoes and arch!tecture) the palntmg of mlDiatUles and cons also developedIn the m.ddle ages

I he old miniaturesthe same thematiC andpath of developmentpainting

The mltlal lomanesque style(Mlroslav s Gospel) gave way to( nental byzantme Influences(Pnzren Gospel) and In the laterye ors of the 14th Century therewas a rapId Improvement 10 qua!tty and a capprochement WIththe concepts dommant ill mu-alpalnttng (The Four Gospe,s-Serbian Acad No 69) Iconsoutstandtng for theIr excellence"e the Icon of St Peter andPaul from the 13th Century (nowIn the Vatican) then Icons fromaround the turn of the 14th Centu. y those from the mIddle ofthe 14th Century from Decsntthcn the Chnst Icon natnted tn1395 by the pnest J ovan and theHolY' Virgin Icnn pamted by Ma_karlJe m 1423 Both of these palnters are also renowned for theIrfrescoes ln Andreas

WIth the [all of Smedervo '"1459 SerbIan natIOnal lndependence was eel Ipsed and the hIghstandard of the monumental artsbegan to decltne Even whensome mterestlng artlstlc figuredId lppcnr (sll(h uS the ICOn pamter Long.n til the 16th Century Ithl.2rc was no 0PPOI tun ty durlog the lblee centunes of -rurkl~h occupation for him to devc!op for 10 the hands of mInt rIravdhn~ til islers and vagabondII tlsts the great traditions dIedout and al t became a trade

In the 18th Century after along penod of cultural and artIsLIC stagnatIOn an arbstlc reVlVil began In thc northern parts of

Serb I 1 he nc\\ young homgeOls class Ideolog cally strenghthencd and 10 constant con {hetWith the Austro Hungarian mon,achy C'reated favourable coronamlC cundltlUll~ for new stlrnngsIn art In VOJvodtna durmg thISpClllld numcrou::; churches werebUilt dt.,-orat(d by thC' country smost famous 18th Century pamt('1 s-Teod< r lltc CcslJaT OmItlIJe' Kracun an I J akov Onel10 1 heIT \\ OJ ks to which musLalso be added n number of exceptlt nal CIVIl POItI lItS sh)\\the stl ong mflucncc of the VIenna Academy of Arts

At the beg nnmg of the 19thCentl1l y nat oni:tl life began toflour sh again n SerbIa and became partlculatly turbulent aftel the first and second SerbIanIpnSmgs 1n thiS one hundred

VI: ,r span art first came underthe Influence of the V,ennes andth, n the Mun.ch scademy andthree dIStinct epochs can be dIScerned the classical. rOlllantlcand the reallst all WIth dlstinctlce features determmed by thesoclBI development of the SerbIan bourgeoiS milteu They wereturbulent tImes-amb,tIous V1

C rous Inspu'Cd rebclJiou.. WItha deSire for reconstMlctJOn andenl'i(htenment ThIS was the tl

me of the creatIOn of the Serbianstate and ltS pohttcal and culto

(COllt",ued 01 POI!' 4)

MARCH 3, 1968

PART IIplUff' tncl arch tecture are Studemca (12th Century) and Deca"' (12th Century)

1he lIne of Serbian artistic development began to graduallylurn down at the end of the 13thCentury and the wamng o[ thegreat traditions or MIlcsevo andSopocam can be observed In thelorescoes In AnlJa (1296) andG. adac IClrca 1300)

A new style entered the SCl,2nefrum ConstantInople by way ofMacedoma ollentmg monumt:ntal pamtmg towards the artlsltcprInCIples of the Paleolog renalSsance In the first two decades ofthe 14th Century these conceptlOns gave rIse to the court stylepropagated by KIng Mlluttn spamters Astrapa MlhaJlo andEutlh First known from theIrworks 'S St Clement In Ohnd 101295 where they SIgned theIrn~mes for the first tune theyand ~elr followers decorated nilmelOUs churches throughout Serbla the Holy Church In LevlSka(1307> St Nlcetus (1310) theKmg s Church at Studemca(1314) Staro Nagncano (1317)and Gracamca (1321)

Their patn\tng was of a markedly narrative character profuseIy lIuslraUng b.bltcal scenes thedrama and poetry of the churchthey rapIdly extended the themat cs The number of composltl0ns and cycles Increased thehuman figure dummshed depthIncreased and architecture andlandscapes deplcted were gIvenan Increasmgly s gnlflcant role

The art sllc language alsochanged IOstead of harmony ofcolours problems of light valuescame to dommate modulationwas effected on the llght-dark prtnclple By the fourth and fIfthdecades the style of Mlluttn smastels had completely d,sappeared and a group of pamtcrsfrom the coastal regIOns tookthell place-the so called Greek pamters who decorated Decam and Matelc The SH~nature

of one SrdJa the Smner IS conserved In DecanJ

I he urlcnLaliun towarus HYltUtlUm also blought slgl1lflcant

changes 10 archletccture fOl thelomane,Sque tladJbons of theRaska school were cast olT Thene\\ buIldmgs of the 14th Century have a Greek cross plan WIthone or five cupolas and facadesof rows of stone and bnck eollvened by bllck chess boal d meandel etc decora lions

After the fust Turkish I uoallsthe centre oi the state was moved northwards to the valley otthe RIver Morava Behmd the scenes of tbe bloody battles a newcuI ture and a new al t sorang upand attamed great heIghts InarchItecture and palntmg Ravan'Ca (ClIca 1375) Lazanca (ofthe same perIod) Kalenlc andManaslJa (both from the begmDJng of the 15th Century) andothel commemorative bUlldmgsshow a return to the old style ofstone and bnck constructIOn butWIth plasttc bas rehefs WIth carvlllgs of 8Dlmals human figures.palmettes and plalted ribbonsPa10tmg culllvated soft hnes effecttve modulatIOns ennched bycolour wtth slender almost goth.c fIgures

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The development of monumental composl~lons was conditionedto a great extent by the uodistUI bed lIght wall surfaces ofthe archltecture of the Raskaschool Conceived as SIngle naveconstructlOns With a cupola thesechurches were bUlIt of fme rnatenals (usually marble) With ornamented romanesque stonevorl( 810und the wmdows and

portalsThE' best examples of thiS scu

J I / 1/ \' ~ lilt St c 1 d {'l III ( (lrt I 0, St'rbwfI ,.1. I r r

J f Y ~ I,v::;) rc.

1hiS was at the same t me apenod of the consol dation andstrcn~thcOlng of the PO\\ er ofthe SerbIan state which favourably IIlflucnccd t.he developmentof monumental paIntmg The' freS{OCS of Mtlesevo (circa 1235)SI Apostol In Pec (1250) Moraca (1252) and Soponcam In natUlal size while the pamted surfact'S hrd two dimenSIOns

PlastICIty was ach.eved by alternatlOns of green yellow andred surfaces and the careful bIendIng of one surface Into anotherThe resonance of the colours wasfurther IntenSified by yellowgold or blue grounds

Anothcr facUv thaI contrIbuted laught by a. mixed staff of AfPIl510 the degeneraTIon of musIc was nnd Indians whose graduates were'he suc.al status of the mUSICIans employed by Rad,O Kabul of thethemselves Most of theS'e we~ II hme, some of whom ale still lIISbcI lerat<: and unpoplJlar because of ated wllb musIC But teaching wascertain excess~ A few of them not hased on mus,cal --who could read and write w.... so 11tese courses were fo~ byparSImonIOUS Wlth the,r knowledge similar attempls off aDd on but the'hat they ellher did nol Imparl It resulis were not s.miliu\ lIB the oradequately or treated mus,eal know- gamsers were fueking In enthuSIasmledge as somethmg stnetly conf d The efforls made by a. group ofental }oung boys called The :Amatu

The conflneme,* of profesSIonal res the MuSIC ScbooU founded bymus,c.an. In a partIcular qual'ler of Ihe MInistry of Education, and theKabul called K:harahat In lat. Fmc Arts Centre opened by the Fa-Iu'h century Jed to the segregation culty of Lettera are collll1dored 10 beand ,solahon of the people Involved a coosequence of tbe growmg ID

'" th th,s form of enterlammeot lerest m music But all these howrhI~ segregllt10n ID turn bred a c. vcr are not a complete curesort of contempt for mus,c and dl 1 A baSIC soluhon to the problemsuuded Important persons from ~enl81ls the teaching of mUSIC on coc 'het assoc,aUng wllh folks bvmg D rnpletely modern lilies from then 'hIS ghetto or allowmg thell" sons :k,ndergartens onward coupled w,thto learn music there Only a fcYi :measures to recreate some sort of~nnces and some merChants had .lespeetlblhty for mUSIC and musIc...h.ac..! mUSical portles With solo glr1~lans ThlS of course Involves mdancers ID thea houses Weddings ....mcnse expenses which the governconstltutcd thc solc source of 10, .. mcnt dt present cannot afford becoltle for the usually ,mpovcflshed caUse of huge capital outlavs of tbeI rofesslonals Third Five Year Plnn Hence a

ThiS Situntion continued lIlI AnlJr number of bankmg organisationsHahlbullah (1901 19lJ ascended the dnd Ihe Chambers "f Commer,ethrone A polished mon who appr fJught to Jom Carets nnd help Ihee talcd music and enjoyed co J 1 Department of Culture of the Msplendour encouraged mUSICian, f1 stry ot Information nnd Culturclc1ud ng the two mO!lit cmment f) 10 cultivate mUS1C ThiS department

Cures Ustad Kassem md Usta should pm all ItS hopes upon the( I l1am Hussein The former 'let IIf'W generations Meanwhile the exlJall~ shaped what we refer to as ~llllg profess onal mUS1CIuns shouldIh(' Afghan school of musIc and be fully utilised n thclr var ous ca ~he lalter taught hundreds of stud rilclllCS and sufflclcntly paid ft r

l.:nts from klOdergarten'i t) hlg 1 [hell services to make thcm respeds hools ble

J-1ablbullah s ardent love for Several reports regrading IheIllUSK was nOt fully shared by hiS ystema(Jc teachlOg of mUSIc In the

n lnd successor Amlr Amanul I,.ountry have been complied whl hIlh Khan whose rule W1S terminal ght to be studied and I curfl<"uc I Ihrough CIVil stnfe In 1928 and I II based on these be drafted In

hl: lurmoll that followed disrupted I.: nsullolon With the UNESC 0 andl:1 ylhlDg ther bodies Interested III lhe proAfghanJstll fur the first tl 1<:' nrotlOn of musIc Of course oUlsidet ilrkcl! upun :l ~ys em It c Ira r. hell s necessary and IS to be sought

I; f talented boys n musl lb ld It lIsed w Ih dlscret on i-tndU ye Ir.. 19O The ourscs we e ~rscverance

ART: CLASSIC AND MODERN

THE KABUL T1MES

One of the statues displaYed In LqndoD exhibition of ancient Afghan art

worthlessness of hfe In thiS WOI Itland looked down upon whatever!=;i!ve pleasure and happiness

Almost hve centunes of the ArabrUIC to Central ASIa before theMongol conquest Iiad dImmed hOtntH entlrdy obliterated the mllnylO~redlents of culture In thiS regiona:"l most of ttie prmcipahtles hadonl) nominally accepted the Arabsuzeramty The austere way of ArabItf, 10 'he hegmmng and the mflucnc( of the sofls who were comrle1ely hostile to entertammg musIchud prevented from It'i development The Arabs themselves dId nothavE' a developed musIc to speak flfunl l safls endeavoured to empl Jy

1USIC only 10 the service of the rlull and creed

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But there wele changes In theair and these years saw themf100dmg IDtO thIS fabulous kIDgdam of h,gh fel hie valleys tucked bet\\een soarmg mountain tanges The roller coastel of famehad once cal lied the cIties andvalleys of IhlS al ea to the heightsof Ienown and prospenty

Hordes of conquerors andkIngs mel chants and phgnmshad tI amped across thIS regIon In

unendIng Pi oceSSlOn(To be cO,IlInlled)

Ch,ldren were expected to beat the beck and call of the 01del membe. s of theIr famIly tofetch and <allY and only to~peak when spoken to when In

the comuany of adults It wasexcellent d,sc,pllne and I am su'e could be Iev,ved to good elfect

Children were seen not heardat any kind ,f gathenng Theygenerally clustered at a doO!way fI om whel e they could eaSIIy slip out for a QUick run 10 theanJ for a l:ouple of glgl;le.:)

\\ hen bOI t:d to exttnctlon by the<.:xtremc formahty of thell eldClS

rhl.2 adults were ah\ ays ranged 31Qund the loom With strictadh«:: IellCt. to senlorlty the Jun101:"i bt: illS towards the dom ofen 11 v conSidered to be the lowe'/end 01 the loom Defelence to eld~ls was in. essentIal part of soc al behaVIOur and IS stili to blfou nd In most homes

an IndIan raga IS st,lI called Gana u which mayor may not haveRnv relevance

The ,nhabltants of Ihe presenl(jay Afghanistan were fIrst Zoroastnans then Buddhists and laicon Brahmms With pocket'i of pag1Il~ here and there The ZerOa'ilr nns encouraged the bards In Rae.:'"a probahly Ihe cradle of thc reIIglOn The BuddhIsts allachcd ,great deal of Importance to mush...

I the monks tbems~lvcs used toson vanOU!i hymns At one timethere were 5000 of them dwellingm· painted caves 10 BamInn And from Barplan Buddhismspread to ChIDa and Japan Kabul

mong o'her places had Brahm nIulers In the 8th century AD whulike other Hindus conSidered mu" c as part of their rchglot,l The British Ilnd CzarISt colon

I he invasIOn of Central ASia In la1 expansion In €eotral ASia dureluding Afghil[llstan by tho savage ng the 19th century created an ?tMongol hordes In the 13th century Inosphcre of anxiety and npprehenf Howed milssacres and rum com s on that was condUCive to the der clely disrupted the cultural hfe 10 \clopmcnt oC arts A number ofIhl part of the world lltel pcnod bards In the -streets re

rhe aftermath of the Mongol on rlaccd the regular mUSICians Theyslaught was a peSSimistic attitude slarted to agitate the people to takereflected 10 what had remaanP.d of up arms and defend their countrythe arts IncludIng musIc Thls br rhl however was suppressed bvought about a Situation that was the British authontles 10 Kabul asCfJnduclve to the appearance of re I.,oon as their temporary rule was

cluses and sofls who preached thec<.:tabhshed

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llowevel the freedom to shop... ~ not hers Hence the me:lfolk -gl Indfathers to grandsOns

were eXl.:clk:nt shoppers TheypUI<.'h lsed cvpythmg from proVI:)I H1:s hOllst. h )Id goods md

clothIng II, the entIre famIly tosu<.'h purely fcm nUll.: needs ascosmetics

I \\ lS eVel amazed Lu see theaccul aey \\ lth \\ hlch they gaugcd deSigns colours and SIzes thatwould fit the1l womenfolk pelfeclly But how th.. women longed to be able to choose lhe" pu,

MuSIC has eXISted 10 AIghamstan for about 5000 YeaI sme bnrds In the anCient Bact Ii\

used 10 playas well as SlOg thell0\\'1:\ com.,ositlons The Noonstanha.p dates back to 2800 yearsy hlle the fresco pamted aoov"Buddha shead m Banunn depictstwo 10IJcly girls With attractive d..colles and ultra modern ear nng!:lplaying a harp ThiS can be consdered almost a prototype of the pre".enl LOstrumenl The 53 metrc high.. tatue of Buddha was hewn 10 therock" 10 the second century A DI (Idakl the Chaucer of Persian poell y and probably the most accompI shed mUSICians of hiS day mIghth IVl;: used a SimIlar Instrumenl undcr•he spell of which he made the Sam"i1 d King Noah Ben Mansoor toIe ve Badghls for Bokham w, h(ne foot JOslde hiS boot and U et ther boot In hiS hand he gallopcd hiS horse 10 t:r6ss the OxusI hiS musical fent was achIeved abt lit 1000 years ago

There IS no doubt now that theVedas were written somewhclcs luth of the Hmdu Kush rangAl.:cordmg to Ombar NaLh Th;\ktl I bnUmnt IndIan claSSical Sin

ger and professor of musIc at theIIl1lar \S Umverslly IndIan musIc, rtty onglnated m Kandahar and

i\ ruhab gh.chak and doul are the three IRstrumenls whIch most of the local singing groupsus~ III wcddmg ceremomes and concerts

Afghani,stan's Leaps Are /0 l(\ ~Faster Than Nuclear Leaps ut~~Xl;~h~~~rogl:u-e~Ollo~:~

By Prita ShahZ! workers diggmg ;m undergroUJIdEIght hundred yeaJ s of tur chases themselves to walk n railway have found the remams

010 I SOCial and SCientifIC change the ba~aals gazing at the medley of TecltJtlan-the first t.empleh.s brought western clvlltsatlOn of artteles dIsplayed fmgel mg described hy Sparusb oonqulsto ItS present stage of the space the mater als they fanCied or tador Hernan Cortez when heage and ItS hlgh,1;tandard of hv btst of all dnvmg a hard barg entered the anelent Aztec Cltyng "11 bv 1l1\\ ellng the pnce asked of TenoehtltJan over 500 years

Afghamstan has flo" n through by a couple o[ Afghams Rut agoan almost slffiJlar transformatIOn th .. t was sllli to COme The location of the temple has\\ ILhin the extremely shol t pertod been known from deSCrIptionsd the last '0 years' It 'S unbe In those }ears tl ad.tlon ,uled left by the conquermg SpanIardslIevllble but \\e have seen Il supleme On Eld hohdays ~very but no efforts were nlade toWith our own eye:) and !Jv(d thl ne had new clothes fJ om the uncover It because It lay belowI ugh It ourselves eldest to the youngest ft om arte..a1 roads Experts bope to

Twenty yea. s ago Kabul was the head of the house to the low fInd olferlDgs and deeoratlonsthe small brown capital of a my ill st helper Then the me, ry go which Will throw more light onslellous muuntalnuus country ound of fam ly v s ts fot un one of the bIggest temples Inwhele tht Jomt fam Iy system de. way the old Aztee Cityand clu I ., alt es el E' st 11 the The:: 111 st h lIsC n the 1st v. as

Tder of the day Llfl moved 01 COUISL thnt I the uldestslo\\ly and Ie sUlelv to the pac!: nembel of the lam ly and the 1

I th< pedesll an lhl b cycle and til the \V Iy c!< \\ n thp line to lIstthe.: g Id a lS\l s u ('( re ") aved second

n e sec! IS (n 01 tl (' h gh wul counslOS mort! removed andl~ i \ ill d and the (' h c!l.211 [<cpt the <Ol s Os mOl e I em< ved'* n en stnctly \\ Ithm the con till one fmally lost track And

-rinlS of thell home 1 ulmg the ull thiS to the accompaniment oflust yC't serVIng then menfolk' (UP aftel cup of tea flanked by'11 the \Jue trad,ttons of the a multitude of httle plates careI I fully set up WIth nokul (sugar'

It \\ 'S at home Ihat the dough coated apncot kernels almonds or101 thut essential staple of ever Y plst(l(hIOS) sweets salted nutsOl< II the naan (bread )-was t. ake and cookiesPIt:P lied dailY' diVided IOta theneeded number of smooth fatounos spunkled \\ Ith flour and

I I.:kcd IOta a shug Ir a sort ofshallow basket that was tl anSPOI ted a top the head of a pel kyvoungstel to the nearest bakmgshop to be LI ansformed mtothat tasty el' ngated nat brcad typ.cal of Afghantstan

But thiS was not all The corIler stQ( e not yet a part of thePICtUl e meant that a constantsupply of proVISIOns diary products pIckles Jams and so forthhad to be always avtlliable 10 thehouseWIfe Naturally she Wi'S blought up to be a really guod cookand a qUIck O! der artIst and swas leady to cater to every guest In the traditIOn of the bount.[ul hospltallty of thIS count,y

Therefore her duty was to seeth It all the conslltuents necess 11 y to her work were preparedIII advance and always leady onh md

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foreigner 10 JaIS beller Irans a

lhe wordgelkokuJtnoutSIder

(GEM INl)

I he language barner IS a maJ\)faclor Just as few outSiders knowhpanese so few Japanese have canf dence III Ihclr master~ of Engll~r.th )ugh English IS more Widely u 1

(lerslOod 10 Japan than IS generdlli'upposed

I Jcctlllg lhe lsdves-f II Iron II fms ar( e IS Iy avu Ilblc tu t-l Ia} Ihe Japanesc landsc Ipt: Ihe K)t temples s( n e of the more e~O

Jt aspeels of Zen B Iddh.sm bUI1(' v If any gIve ytJu the feel ofJ pan 100 ty

I rade pl bl (; Iy apart lh~ Jup3nse gcnE'r'-llly fad to PUl themse Vl:

l~ 01 don t even tr~

Japan s econOOlK SUcnss lies paII} In her abtllly to absorb (dndI nprove on) lodcm tcchnoJog)I-- lelgners !":onscquently assu I C

J Ipan s \\estcrnlsed whllh IS fa IIe

There are other barr crs of Japanc~ mak..ing nOlably a seemmg dIrt> by many to keep Ihemseht-<.;more dlslant more foreign Ihan nlal:t they actually arc

B)i and large there IS little mkr"I III what outsiders Ihmk ur WI eIhuut Japan

Japanese on the other hand I e'It colly fall to see desp te the'if:!mportallons theIr cultural SOCial

poltllcal and even national dlstlnctlveness In relation to the outs dew rid hence their remalnmg large1) Ihe unknown country

l( Japan l:ont nues to be mlsunoer 100d ,nd mlsunderstandmg theroao to super power slatus could be\er) bumpy

T.wo symbols Illustrate tbls twoWU)i lack of comprehenSion ForLorelgners Japan IS Japan-but forthe 100 mIllIon Japanese It IS NIppon

Andpalllo;sclell as

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SmIth government may onlY bea de facto government but thatIt was nevertheless enbtied toexercIse perogatives attrIbutedto the executive that'lt has therIght of execubve pnsoners oron the contralY repneVIng them

The Judges of the RhodeSIanappeal court also handed downFnday a s,mllar rulIng on another RhodeSIan cause celebrethe case of DanIel Madzlmbamuto

They ruled that an appeal tothe pnvy council would remaIninoperatIve In Rhodes,"

Madblmbamuto was the firstperson along WIth l,bel al European lawyer Leo Baton who

was placed under house arrestto questIon the val.dlty of the

RhodeSlan constItutIOn 'O[ 1965and the valId ty o[ measurestaken agaInst them

Baron was freed because of IIIhealth In 1967 and left Rhodesla for England

Observers here say I t now remains to be seen whether theRhode"an government WIll actually carry out the cxecutl~ns

I[ It does so thIS WIll not fa,l todl aw strong protests from manygovernments partlcularlv In AfrI( a the observers believe

(AFPl

bsh government-cannot JustIfythe four month repnevc demanded by the lawyer for the threeAfrIcan prIsoners Sydney Kentrldge of the Johannesburg bar

ThIS four month penod accordmg to the lawYer would enablethe pnvY coul)cl1 to examme thealfalr

The RhodeSIan Judges held thata prIVY counCIl ruhng would bemope1 abve In RhodeSia SInCethe Rhodes..n consbtutlOn of1965 does not recogmse Its competence

Two of the three pnsonel S J ames DaVId Dhlamml and VCltorMac Slferanl had been sentenced for throwmg a molotov cocktall at Europeans m a car kIllIng one m a polIt,cal attempt

The thIrd pnsoner Dully Shadreck 15 detaIned £01 a commonlaw offense

The three were sentenced todeath befO! e November 1965 Kentfldge had first sought from thecourt a pennanent Interdict onthe execution order by argumgthat the government of PremIerIan SmIth was not legal He alsopOInted out that It was both revol tmg and mhuman to keep pnsoners awaitIng an uncel lam executlOn for years

The Judges granted that the

From everywhere IOUrIsts comc10 rokyo live It up In the GlIlza orShtnJuku nightclubs marvel at theflluseums goggle at the gelsh...~ogle Mount FUJI and lea"Vc lovlllgJapan but scarcely addmg to the

IOlernauonal understandmg Inlenallonal Tounst Year IS suppo~ell

to promotelournahsts vlSltmg Japan have

to contend With editors at hon e\'" ho often don ( understand Japane;\lsts and frequently end up compe109 for spare With stones of Karr

Ikaze laxl-dnvers floods and yphoons dramatic love SUICides ertiC films and super tankers

Does th.s add up to anythmgn ore than Ihe Simple tOuTlsm thaidespltc and somel1mes because ofmodern mass media and fast tranport the nations of the world Clre

stIli too separate?It would seem that these various

fractional vtewpOlllts being allshort SIghted only prolong ,",sunderstandmg of I apanese reahty andcontnOOte to J span S Image abroadremalDlng eJther weak or distortedor Just plaiD maccurate

Not thai the Japanese sbme atof

The RhodeSIan governmentcan now execute the 100 or so AfrIcan prIsoners who have beensentenced to death followmg therulmg FrIday by the RhodesIanappeal court that prIsoners hadno rIght of appeal to the BntlshCommonwealth Court the Judlclal commlltee of the priVY councII m London

The decISIOn was the finalround of a consbtutlOnal test case brought by Afocans detamedafter RhodeSia umlaterallY declared ItS mdependence from BrltaIn

The Afncans were seekmg recognIbon of theIr nght to appealto the JudiCIal commIttee

Three AfrIcans sentenced todeath before tn)I sought an Intenhct restrammg the government from executmg them andrecogmtlon of right of appeal toLondon A fourth Afncan DamelMadzlmbamuto was appeahng adetenbon order and contestingthe vahdlty of the 1965 constltubon drawn up after mdependence

The RhodeSIan Judges heldthat an appeal to the queen sprIVY councIl-whICh IS the courtof final resource for certam Commonwealth countrIes meludmgRhodeSia n the vIew of the Bn

I IS unknown to an unhealthyexlent ChIna IS a close competnorfor the title ThiS provokes th·( hlna watching Indu&tryTronlcally some members of thu.

t..."smess nave recently moved frolllHongkong to lapan BUI they contmue China thought It might bere-tter If more effort was put IOtl\\alchmg Japan

Certamly Western vlsltors--of lenf om countnes Wlfh much lower cx:on mlC growth ri(lcs-mc~asmgly

C,;Ome to see the economiC miraclewhich has recently put W Germap.)" sn the shade

rhey return home talkmg

!Where The Foreigner Remai ns OutsiderI a man from outer space on b s Japan s effiCient bureaucracy s

f rs Earth v sJl toured Siberta and ph stlcated planning techo qucs l11ghthe SovIet Far East he would mar He of saVIngs and nvestment ~lld

cl at the s zc of the country the dpac ty for hard workspat: ousness of the towns th.. Amencan observers feci nea yt; uge dam al Bratsk WIth Its atteR n the unduly close somewhat sh3uant hydro-electnc power station 10\\ Japanese--US relationship wh h

BUI suppose he then sailed {roOi circumstances have produced andNlhdkalo Yokohama and enkl proceed to write hopefully but nOI

la ned the hustle aod bustle of rna 'I: holly accurateJy about a newaero Japan He would see the good J ipan emerging from Isola lion J

lale the dnvJng effiCiency the nO new nauonahsm ansrng from thenonsense office block architecture ashes of the old a new pohqthe bullet speeds of the New Tok ? med at Asmn leadership~31do railway hne suc:cessfully com More Afro ASian sludents arepetmg with the aeroplane at up to c.Jmmg to Japan thoughl the~c III h Ir num

P bEr IS shll small because of the IanHe would understand that since puage barner

(CO the time bemg) II IS emotlOna <.J Maanly Ihey come to study techIy politically and consututIonally n ~ues and lcchndtogy seldom ItlmposslbJe for the Japanese to m ever to discover what Japan husdulge In largesse They cannot rank ~ot that most developmg cocmln lhe bIg league Earth style-evt 1 r tes lack

though they bave an annual prodllCtlVlty growth rate of IO D andmore

rc be fair our VISitor would Ifhe stayed JO Japan nole that whileIhe surface IS frequcnlly ImpresSiveII conceals many Ihmgs WhlCb arenut

But most of hiS IDltlal reacllonwould remam He might reporl ba kI h s planet hIS conclUSion thatIapan s lack of status was large Jthc result of ber bemg the Earth sUr known Country

Rhodesian Court Tries African Prisoners

MAR€H 3, 1968

Syria's Strong Man-Salah J~?~~ven the reprcsentallVc ofIn Ihe oul"lde world Syna used Another par ldox helps us 10 lin II 1:'\111 W t Icd len d )~ fn In In

to be the mosl neglected of Arab tI rsland why OstenSibly tht> mm, I I\I('\\-l( Ill. IV IIL: unIfies Foreign correspondents pJogresslve regime Syria h IS ever I \\h II u c lh,s sh H.lOWY rc011 I tour of the area tended to take hac It IS '" a deeper sense Ihe mo I .. \\c h .. allih mty One ObVI

H1 Damascus If II all as a dutlf I Ir':lrograte aggreSSively secular n II cxplln II 11l rC4u rcs n d Ib

uffulhought appearance 10 reallly Is power ,k I.:h II H:lc.:r In dysls J lill! I" a"Synan POllllcS II was fell wereL IC'i.b on a nilrrow confcsslonal base I \ cr( the H:l.:cpl<d hl: d h s

too <.:ompllcated Worse they \\Crc' MoSI SYrians arc orlhodox Sunn 'lind 1 n Inll .. the I II I 1111.:l r ng Just one coup after anolher Moslems but they live am mg :"llieg. 111.: f Ir hal Ie llkrleading nowhere n partlcu1a r"" er table archlpelag) f rE'I g t 5 nIh 'i AI W h:

v., hat happened n Syna would ne n lOor ties ~ 1 I k< h 1 h I

v r have an endurmg mpact on thQ One of these s the Alaw t S Iv.. s lhc} will II~rid \\ ho some 400000 strong represe t I hn n:>; ern I n::

The Arab Israel war changed all It.:ss than 9 per cent of the total p< I~ he!": t e IhI a It was easy to see m retrospe- rulallon Jad d IS an Alaw te nd I lr I cJ knows

l:l thai th s event wh ch sent shock beh nd Its pubill.: face SQ 1'\ h S f AI I Int <lW l: 'i.

\\ ~I\ c... round lhe world had In lar reg me 'i. t ISpc measure gorwn naturally out of OffiCIRJly lad d o~cuples the l: h s d cthose bonng complex t es of Synan \ I an pOSI of Ass stam Secretary t h I I I th f •C I f h R g IJ ere lC t t ncrpol lies Syna has proved to be as encra 0 t e eglOn d (Syr an) I he llU I lies IJh h hr l ghlI kel~ a tr gger as any for a thm.! ('ummand oC the Arab Baath Soc Ihe I p I ft.:" II lble I\ (rid war list Party but really he governs I h h h h

Yel though Syna IS now getting th ough the army a~ ~~1l~0 atr,~ PA",' ~ It os(' \V II.: (f thtIS It"1 (' lr gins IIlt.l

more 0 e a tenllon I ments It As Chief of Staff under the regime partly olhers whlt:h Ir( pccullirlyremains somethlng of an enigma (broadly representative of 1he SunOl Ius own-though thl,: two are mcOnt.: reason IS thal the regime doe, Mt slem maJorl!j:) which he event x> ITlcably Interlwlncd Undoubtcnc I like Journalists Another IS the urlJly overthrew )adld has been th Jly ,he b t h h d

I fe am I IOn w IC rIves Jadld

persona lIy 0 Major General Salal balDs behmd the Alawlte takeovc .. the S b I h hJ d d r ame am Ion w IC dTlvesa I of the armed forces J Iladltlonally undcrprlvcleged nlln

Jadld does not qUIte rank as Sy He IS a highly intellIgent m n nty > h hh th hal nce I sees tee Incc toria S strong man e IS ra er tel hat much IS known about hIm But get even \\ IIh the worldstrongest m~n 10 the country Sy tpart from a distingUIshed record BUI Jad d th h

gh h h hilS more an I e repre

r it 5 el t post w.ar coup W II.. a the national mlhtary college s nta' v f h I hI h h F b

e 0 l.s l: an (" IS also Inlroug t m to power 10 e ruary s hiS obVIOUS success rather than t narro\ h1"66 bl d t d t ver senSe I e representat ve~ was Its 00 les 10 ate s hIS wntIngs or public utterances of a clas th th

h h h d Is Wine dan For he

nlllt IS overt row IS WI e y e\ which proves 1t I U n, >s f h I Id b bl d 11 B h

l I 0 ~!,,: osesl A Wile as,:,CCle to e 00 ler stl Ut t e c For Jadld s most stnklOg chara so','e b dlI f ~ S l:ome roa y speak109h IItt e sign 0 It yet etfflStlc IS the way he shuns th I rc In the small sectIOn of rural S

For Jadld presIdes over a para limelight 5mce he took power h r al C I h h h Yd h t I d

I so Ie y w Il: as Tlsen above(lX t e mos unpopu ar an unre has kept complele pubhc Silence Ihl: re t f thtat S d g a mass 0 e peasants With

prfscn Ive regime In yna s rno Icsolulely refusmg to meel any l:or thell fatalIstll.: aucplance of thlll ser 1 history yet one of the mosl en respondenl Arab or foreign The I rem, d h 1 I gU '- a ne ope e"s y out of

UllOg Sl viets are hIghly esteemed 10 Dam (C fit d vI p Igc 4)

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!ask force of dlstmgUlshed l:ltIzellSrr.eJ relallvely free from IIlvolvmentn recenl VIelnam debates to asse

the facts and help him redesign the<':lJUntl y s answer to ItS Vietnam deJnma

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a ('s Al the moment there are noI I per arr mgemenls for emerge-I"!l:'v cases 10 Ihe Clly hospllals esp~

111\ dUring the mght

J hl: emergencv hospital should beequ pped wllh all necessary surgl,-aJeljUipment staff medicine and blood( apable doctors and surgeons showd be there on duty round the clo k

EugeniO Scalfan director of It:eI.:ekly L Espresso was sentenced to

l"'l months In prison for hbelhngf Imcr arm)' e.:blcr of staff Gen (11

\anl1l de Lorenzo Sub-edllor LlnoJanulZl drew a fIve month lerm onthl: Mme charge

\ I.:flmmal courl In Rome foundIt al Ihe general had been hbellet.111\ I slory writ len by Januzzi sayinghe plannt.'tJ a I.:OUp d etat dunng the! ng 1964 cabinet l:r SIS

I he article published n L E,}prtsn the spnng of 1967 also alleged

hac the general a former head ofthc Ital an secrel serVIce was keepng files on a number of leadmg pu

I t lans omccrs and church men

J he Cape Town newspaper lJI ger branded India 5 refusal to

tow Indl Ins forced to leavetu mIgrate to Jnd a as Ihe a

range nother who dtd notte look after her ch Idren

rhc African language ria Iy adan edItor al The moral wh h

r ous l:ountr es have been pes ngthe Internat onal scene has ~"n

dh Il rn off by their trealment(f the: ASIans of Kenya

Kenya herself IS one of the worldsft remoSI f,ghter agamst raCial diS

I.: lOlInallon wherever she thmks she110liCCs It-but she IS forclOg heASian tnhabllanls out of their postsIi Ilam slJlI it bulwat"k of freedomnd tolerance IS hastenIng to kc("p

tli ~ ASians outsu:fe her border'len f lhey are Br tlsh CItIzens

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The psychologIcal problems of rebrement could be tackled If retired officlals couldJo n soclaJ groups and \ oluntary orgamsatlons,uch as golf elubs hterary eucles and advISOrysen Ices to assist welfare orga.rusatlons Old ageIIld rest homes should be Ol>ened for those whownuld otherWise ha ve to lead a soiltary hfe

Some offiCials retire at a time when theycould shU be usefully employed These peopie should he allowed to work and earn moneyon contract baslS With government and nongovernment orgamsal1ons At present an amIIImt equal to the retIrement fund pension 'sdeducted from salaries earned by rel1red officlal workmg on contract baSIS

receIves from the state an amount equal tothe total sum collection, from official salaries.

Some years ago most of the state propertyeSI,ec.ally agneultural land, was at the d~sal of the retirement fund administration andeach retlrmG officIal could obtain a plooe ofland

Land ownership Instead of retlnment penSlon Iud the double advantage uf 0ileDfng upI new /leld 01 aetivlty for the retired offil>la I and 'n helpmg merease agrieultural produchon Were thIS system re 1Otrodueed theretirement fund could use part of ItS resourees to help new landowners ,"vest '" ways ofmakmg the land more fertIle

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"erIJe'i as I solid foundation forper I(U)Il belween the lwo COlJ:l

cs-Ihc Soviet UOIon and Afghann 1 hroughoul these ycars the

I.; \le1 Unlcn has been rendeflnbSI n al help to Afghamslan ~ld ng p t ndependent nat 01

!,,: n III n tr I n ng sk lied aei

I r Ihe r(!al J )b starl'i afterwa dA Ir{'C requires to be looked af l:r

n I nursed (111111 such time that Jl I.:dnI ... Id lis )"n against the onslaughtI m In and weather

I he paper also l:arned an articlem Samlm urg ng the MInistry '- rI ubI I.: He-dllh to COns der the po~

h I (e" >f bUIlding a hosp tal In thlIrlt 1 cxd ... v('(v for emerge!ll.-I

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How can retIrcment be made attractive?ThiS 'S a question that needs to be studled 10

the light of present endeavours by the government to introduce admlnJstratIve Tetonus PrimeMlmster Noor Ahmad Etemadl referred to rehrement as a ghost haunting people who have toglve up their el\ 11 scrvlce careers because thepenSIon allowed retIred offiCIals does not~uarantee a mJnlmWll standard of liVingeomlortably and a retIred official leels as I'he has IlnIshed the uselul part nf hIS iIfe ,nd\\.11 no longer be needed

Some people become so all "hed to theirCareer'S that when the:} retire the~ find It ashard to leav(" their work as to sa) goodbye10 a helo\ed friend The Admlnlstratl\e Refurm CommissIon should stud\ both theseI)roblems of r ..toremenl

Th .. rcllft ment fuhd <ould and should be,trell/:lhen..d to make ,t pOSSIble fur rchredoftlclal to recenc more attractl\e pensIOns I\tI'I('ent II has heen partlv 10\ esled In unprorlU( live JlroJccts Ind III certain cases there Isn t, \, nth.. hnp.. of 1:' thng hack the OrigInal m\ estl d capital The lund should be re InvestedIn more productl\( and self Illluldatlng proIt (ts The Jlrcsenl three Ilel cent t IX on salarieswhlt:h I.:Ot'S to tht. rt't rement fund couldIe r lIl>ed tu 11\ e pt r ccnt fhls Will doubly henef,l the fund for the gO\ ernment s eontrlbulIOn \VII) :lutom ltH~:llh tn( reast: l~ the fund

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I I lhdeJ en d not hC"lllif upI 19 ne I} phi led trc~s JU~I for

rtfun\ft(OltS re hl: number une CO(

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SalisburyStill GoingAheadWithExecution

EL Salvador UrgesCommunist Summit

Iheught not 10 be In favour of thL:Idea at present

The Tunku has alrcady mdicaledthai he Will be lookmg at the possIblhty of usmg IndoneSian surpluslabour 10 fill a shortagc In eaSt MaIt\Slll especlllly If MalaYSia goc.:ahead WIth pI inS 10 develop 100 000Ll:reo,; 10 Sarnwak for rice growmg

He may also Investigate the possblhty of brlngmg Indonesian workus to Sabah whose labour shortageh:b hitherto been fIlled by laboulf om the Phlllppmes and Migrantsfrom west MalaYSIa

BUDAPEST, Marcb 4 (Tass\-1 he Hungarian news agency M r Ireprats the followlDg offiCial commUOIque on the consultative meetng of the communiSt parttes held

hereAt the Friday afternoon sesslUn

of the consultative meetmg of theCommunist parties the followmgHldresses have been delivered 10 add tlon to the contrtbuttons alread}reported

AntOniO Pmeda secretary of thecxccullve committee of the commuOISI party of EI Salvador said

rhc CommunlSl Parly of El Sal\ et.dor IS 10 agreement Wlth the c.alhng of the new world conferenceof the commUniSt and workers parles With the central objective of es

tabllshmg a baSIS for the umflcatIonof the commUnIst progressive dnd(emocratlc forces to the fight a&dnst Impenal!sm The venue may beMoscow whlJe not rejcctlng the IdeaIhat the venue of those mternatlonalconferences may vary later

Our party supports the Idea thatall parh~ "hould be 8pproach.cdregardmg the new conference

Yet we conSIder Ihat the conferI.:nl.:(. should be held also If one ormore partIes do not Wish to utknrl

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Burma ToContinue StrictNeutrality

r he conference should be attenu1.:<1 exclUSively by communist and"orkers partie" though It would beu HeCI to hold afterwards a WideInlernatlonal meetmg al which theL.:~ mmumslts would I.:onfer logetherWIth the reSt of the anti Impenall~1

te\ulutlonary forl:es

LONDON ,Marob 4 (Reulel)A royal repncre from hanging forthree condemned Afflcans yesterdd Yleft Bntam presentmg Its sharp"st(.hallenge yet to RhodeSia s whIte reClmc

h also roused fears that new rnaVcs towards a settlcment might no.wbe jeopardlsed

III all (he wrangling smcc Rhod(."13 snatched mdependence In 1965Ihe rcbel ngme of Jan Smith ha'imnlntalOed that Its quarrel IS wuhnnllsh polltlcmns-Ibat Its loyalty10 Ihe British crown remamed unsuJIi<d

Now the regime IS faced With elthcI backing down on a crUCial do

(COIII//Jued of page 4)

RANGOON March 3 (Reuler!Burma yesterda} marked the an

lllversary of Gen Ne Win s goverllmcnt whICh I.:ame 10 power In 190_tupplmg former Pnme MIDlster L!Nu

Ne W m who has toured the cuullntry In recent weeks told a peas Ints semmar that despite cootmumgproblems he was haPPY tbere badbeen progress to some extent In

)h~ countryRecent Jncldents near the 5100

HlJrmesc border the chairman of therl \ olutionary counCil sald wouldnOt make Burma change ItS str l,;\tUlclgn polIcy of neutrahty

Descnbmg the inCidents he saidrebels sometimes retreated to theother Side of the border and Burn {.sc troops had to be very carefulthaI Ibelr bullelS did nOI call on IhcC'ther Side

In recent days Ne Wm s government has been freems pollltcal det.uoees mcludtng all the former (..3

\:'lmet ministers dclalDed dunng Ihet..1 arch 2 coup 10 1962

Malaysian Premier Goes OnGoodwill Visit To Jakarta

res InvolVIng occupIed Arab terrltofles was bemg prepared andwould be forwarded soon to theUmted Nallons

He said The Israeli measures are bemg closely scrubmsed by the Jordaman governmentwhIch IS examlfimg the legal andpolllIcal repercuSSIOns of thesemeasures

The Jordanian governntent wasIn contact With other Arab authonlIes and foreign and lOternallonal bodies concern109 thIStOPiC he added

AFP adds Israel s offiCial announcement that the occupiedJordan West Bank and Gaza StrIP were no longer enemy terntory was purely adll\ll/Istratlve andWithout pollttcal Significance agovernment spokesman saId InJerusalem Saturday mght

Johnson WatchesNuclear BombersSimulate Flights

PUERTO RICO Marcb 4 (R<ut(; "-U S PreSident Lyndon JohnS0n \watched a simulated take oftby nuclear bombers from a StrategicAir Command alert station yest~1

d (>' At Ramey AIr forcc baseThree mmutes and 33 secoruls

from the sounding or an alert III

(he crew quarters the flTst glanl8 52 was moving along the alrslr pleidy to fly

SIX B 52 and their at.:companYll1g"IX KC 135 tankers lOok part In IhC'demonstratIOn

Each plane roared up the runw I)

as though for take off and then I~;\

led slowly off ,he air slrlprhere was nn offll:lal word un

when the presldenl planned to r...lurn lO WashlOglon bul hc has t

~ I1cduled tpP0lnlment In the WhittHousc al 2100 (JM I IOday .vI Il (ilun and company rcpresenlatlvl.:to Iry to end Ihe nearly elghl munthl IJ U S copper strake

KUALA LUMPUR March 4(Reuter)--Pnme Minister TunkllAbdul Rahaman leaves today fo" af \( day VISit to Jakarta on a good"-Ill VISit to MalaySia s largesl nrlghbour dcmonatrahng that thr~

\it ar 5 of armed confrontatIOn I ashcen put well and truly behmd

The IndoneSians themselves ..etthe VISIt as an acl of confidence mthcolr ill.ctlng PresJden:t Suharto

fhc Tunku himself has saId mhe past week that he wants 10 "ee

If the fnendshlp treaty Signed bdween what was then MalaySia andIndonesia to 1959 IS stili operat llgor needs to be reactlvlted

The treaty was shattered In May1961 when thcn PreSident Sukalllcobjecting to the formation of thelarger MalaYSia fcderallon and dedared hiS policy of armed confrun1IIIOn

Lasl August the two countnes agIced to restore dlplomatH': lies al till

b:Jssadonal levelThe (Wo countnes have SInce 10

meQ W1th Smgapore Phlllppll1esdnd Thailand In the ASSOCiatIOn ofSouth Easl ASian oatloos «ASEA N)

designed to be the premier baSIS 0fleglonal cooperatIOn In the area

fhe two countnes Will also unuoubtedly survey the areas secunty ''1

tl.!alton 1n view of Bntam s pullfl..JIand IndoneSia may well seek assUrdnces that any new arrangemen:)'"'Ill not Impmge on her own plan:,

The cbaoces of ASEAN bemg turned IOtO a security pact at thiS stag~ are unlikely for IndoneSIa IS

:1 pJea to delegates 10 speed up d~...IS Vl actIon

This course accordlDg to sour ('h)sc (0 tbe conference was not tJ

opted 10 case It gave the ImprcssiolIII the world that the conference \V IS

deadlockedOn Frtday night however tbl

\Ocll of offICial secrccy was shattered when the deputy leader of theIndian delcgalion K B Lall calledthem In no uncertain terms that the(IC\eloplOg countnes had lost confldance In the ablltty of the coo ferencc: lo solve their problems

The challenge was ImmediatelyI tken up and SlDce then and thr'lu~hout yesterday conference offlCJtlband leading delegations have beenhavIDg secret talks to ftDd a waJOul of the Impasse, so that sometb111& can be salvaged from the la 1three weeks of the seven week long1~Ik.s

servicemenUS

Nasser Says He'll LiberateAll Occupied Arab Areas

tn Amman Jordanian miniSter of state for foreign affairs announced that a J ordantan memorandum on recent Israeli measu

The Israeli decrees on Thursday no longer defmed these occuplcd areas as enemy tern torYand referred to the JordanIanWest Bank as Judea and Sarnana But Israel Stl essed It wasnot a move towards annexatlOn

In a speach that was bIPadcastIlve PreSIdent Nasser also warned there was a reactIonarY forceIn UAR waltmg to seize power

He accused such forces of explOltIng the demonstratIOns lastweekend agaInst thc allegcd IenIecy of sentences on four senlOr air force ofhcers for theIrpart In the June war defeat

CAIRO March 4 (Reuter)PreSIdent Nasser pledged before a cheerIng clOwd of thousands yeslerday to hberate allArab areas occupIed by Israel Inthe June war last year

Before God we sweal weshall free every lOch of thISland , he told a workers rally atHclwan, near Cairo a factorytown tbat last weekend was thescene of demonstratIOns

He warned that decrees by Israel last week eaSIng travel between Israel and the occupiedareas would cost her mucb Iheywould be a new InCentlVe to theArabs he saId

Arab countries would not beshaken by terrOrIst lacttcs hestated

PreSident Nasser swore to IIberate Jordan s West Bank Syrla S Golan heights and the SmlalPeninsula foot by foot whateverthe cost

Anotbe~ 28were wounded

The company belongIng to thefirst brigade of the 25th mfantrydiVISIon had been sent out on ar.eConnalssance mlsswn along aback road known as route 248

The spokesman said the V'etCong force estimated at remforced company strength or about150 men were waltmg In prepared posltlOns

They set off claymOl e anll personneI mmes among the Amerlcans and poured nne and rnachmegun fife On them

The Amerlcallj.fought back andkilled 20 of the Viet Cong thespokesman saId

They called In hehcopter gunships ar!lllery and Jets to helpthem

After the ambush the VietCong vanished

The spokesman said two moreViet Cong gunners also firedrockets mto the huge Da Nangall base and two neal by Amencan installatIOns and mto thebIg 'llr base at Bien Hoa 24 kmnorth of Saigon

A South Vietnamese mIlItaryspokesman saId the VIe! Cong fLred mortar rounds and reCOillessnfle fIre Into the 011 tank farmat Nha Be the countrY s bIggestpetroleum storage area eIghtkm south of Saigon on the Salgon rIver

The tank farm IS used by theEsso and Shell 011 companiesThe spokesman saId the commu

nlst shellmg started a fll e 10the Shell Company s area butthat the flrc was put oul In 30mmutes

I allons have become despondentwer lack of real progress toward ...!('achmg agreement on lhe mam ~

"\Ie ... lOvolved

Some quarters feel that four we I\ss more than long enough to compk

te the usual mternatlOnal conferen clac-lIcS before somebody makes theIlrq saCrifIce which activates iheOF-bates and qwckly leads to firm~ roposals based on give and take

BUI so far IhlS bas not happencdat UNCfAD 10 spite of the app"lTllment of mlnlature commltees IIIld~ commlltees (0 get to closer g I

ps with the problems

Several da.)'s ago there were wellutbenttcaled reports that UNcrAD

i!,;; retary Geoeral Paul Prebisth h.sheen trylOg to call a speCial sesslOnIlf the plenary now 10 recess un'llMarch IS-al which he would make

U[TI

Efforts To Avert UNCTAD Deadlock

48 U.S. Soldiers Die In VietCong Ambush Near Saigon

II

SAIGON March 4 (Reuter)V let Cong guerrIllas Saturdayambushed a US anny companyonlY nIne miles from SaLgonand unleashed a VlCIOUS baIl offIre on the Amencans kllhng 48of them a US mIlitary spokesman saId Sunday

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In Tunn Italy 12 personswere QuestIoned after a Violentblast at the US consulate whIchblew the 11ft away from ItS st~

el supports brought down part ofa wall and made three floors ofthe stall case partl~lly useless

A gIrl lIvmg on the premisesfaInted from sbock DespIte allthiS the consul Glvon Parsonsaid the consulate would reopenas usual tomorrow mOl nmg

In London a smgle bomb smashed wmdows In two near byembaSSies the Spamsh and WestGerman and damaged masong

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Japanese BanksFear Pool MightStop Selling GoldTOKYO March 4 (Reuter)Bank of Japan and foreign ex

change bank Circles Sunday expressed fears that the gold tloolfonned hy the UnIted States and{lve EUlopean Nations mIghtstop selhng gold

In that event they saId theassurance that the dolla~ andgold are always Interchangeablewould crumble Concern ovelthe dollar would be rekindledexerting an unfavourable mfluence on Japan s balance of International payments

Current gold speculatIOn wagtriggered by U S republican senator Jacob Javlts (New York)who last Fnday proposed In theSenate that gold convertlbllttybe suspended for a time and pnce operatIOns bv the London goldpool be stopped In order to prevent a further outflow of goldfrom the UnIted States

Although US treasury authonlles said the next day thatgold convertibIlity would bemamtamed rumors have persisted that gold would soon be unavaIlable

In UK, Italy

Holland ,.PARIS Marcb 4 (AFP) -Po

hce ol three countnes-'J he Netherlands, llaly Bntam-Sundaynight were investigating a waveof bomb attacks agamst foreIgnbUild10gs mainly embnssles

MeanwhIle, another bomb ex·ploded 10 Puerto RICO, wherePreSident Johnson IS on a viSit

The explOSIons dId conSIderable damage to property but lewpeople were mjured

The most spectacular terrOrismwas In the Netherlands wherethl ee bombs were apparently tlmed to gO off WIthIn a fewhours at the Spanish Portuguese and Greek ffilSSlons In The Hague

The hrsl blast at the Spanl~h

embassy occurred after an anonymous telephone call about abomb scale at the United StatesembassY Four polIce and SIX

firemen were lO)ured

Bl~ts HitEmb~sies

NEW DELHI March 4 (Reu,,,- Behmd the scenes talks to IOje Isome Zip mto the work of the U 111

led NatIons Conference on Tradtand Development were taklOg placl.:ID hotel lounges and embaSSies nere\csterday

For four weeks from early mom109 untIl latc Dlght delegates ha 'n;

been llstllnmg to a lot of speechesfrom minIsters and tOP rankmg Cl VI

servants from the nations they Irefrymg to fmd what concessIons thcwealthy nations are· PJcpared 10

make to meet the demands of hepoor oatloRs ID their slruggle to c1o~"

the standard of hVlOg gap betWC:~1

the two worldsSpeecbes by leaders of bolb Ih.

dt. \ eloped and developmg countne\have established the attitudes ofboth Sides but many delegates espeCially those from the developing

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FRG POLITICIANSTO HOLD TALKS

IN W.BERLIN·USSR HITS MOVEWEST BERLIN March 4 (Reu

tel) -Hundleds of West Germanpo1Jtlclans were an IVIng hel e fora week of meetIngS whIch theSov\et Union claims-and theWest denieS-Is an attempt to aller the status of Berlin

From today until FrldaY~orethan 400 Bundestag (lower hOllse) deputies will be here for asenes of committee meetIng and15 o[ the 18 West Gel man mlOlsters will make bnef VISIts

It Will be the iiI st Bundestagweek In Belhn smce last October when the Soviet UnIOn firstPi olested agamst them as a provocatIOn But It will not be aplenary sesSIOn

The last plenary sessIOn washeld here 10 Apnl 1965-whlleSoviet Jet fIghters flew over therooftops of Berlin and the access routes to the city were partlally blocked

In mId February the SOVIetEmbassy In East Berltn In notes to the three western ambassadOl s 10 Bonn agaIn protestedagainst the Bundestag week lo

West Berlm saymg they wereaimed at changing the city s status

On Saturday fhe Umted Statesand BntIsh ambassadors In Bonnhad notes handed over In EastBerlin which r.ejected thls charge Theil notes were Identtcalbut a separate Flench answer ISto be sent

The status of Berlin East andWest together was fIxed 10 thePotsdam agreements which FranCe never SIgned

Another despatch said tbe EastGerman govel nment warned yestelday It would take appropnate"Counter actIOn If West Germanyl,;ontlOued ItS offiCIal actiVItIes In

West BerlinA statement published last

night by the East German oR'clalnews agency ADN said the meelIngs were tllegal

They Infnnged the post WorldWal II Potsdam agreements\\htch gave' Berlm a speCial status under the control of the fouroc(upatlon powers the UnitedStates Bntaln Flance and theSoviet Vmon the statement

said

India Says She'llFill Vacuum InInclian Ocean

HOM BAY March 4 (Reuter!Admiral Adhar Kumar '- ChatleTlI-..:hlef of IndlD S naval staff said herelhe rndlan navy would be In complele charge of the Indian Ocean Withthf Withdrawal of the Bntlsh fle .. ts10 1971

He told a reremomal parade SatI I day the IndIan navy would acquIre more ships and recruIt more men

The cQ.lef of naval staff was raisedto rank of full admiral from MarchI bnnglOg the navy Into !tne Withthe army and aIr force chiefs

It wa& announced Saturd!y thatnew naval commands had been est~ b!tshed-western command basedun Bombay and eastern based oil"Ishakhapatnam The fleet which Iscpt"ratmg In two wmgs wilL soon be_phI 1Oto two full ned~ed fleelS

Most of the new eqUIpment IS expecled to come from the SOViet UoJon whose naval chief Admiral ~e

rgt:1 Gorshkov VISited Indian navale~1abltshments last month

He was followlRg up talks bel\\teen Prime MInisters Alexei Kosygm and Mrs IndIra GandhI onbUIlding UP the Indian navy tofIU the vacuum 10 tbe IndIanOcean

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~t~SIANMANPOWERafo :'>RAIN WORRIES~:'t ENYAN GOVT.

In fROBIl:lnte

Marcb 4 (Reuter)enya government IS concerneddram of sl<1l1ed manpowe"

d by the exodus of Ihousanu.>o\slans (Q BntaIn Mwal Klbakl

Inlster for Cornmerl:e and Industry s.ud In an mtervlew on The SUIj I) Nation yesterday

He saId the country was facea\\ th problems of readjustment that\\ould affect Lhc economy for soml.:

011. because of the outflow of alarge number of people wIth LlIgh1 L;ymg power

Oul he added the KenyaJ1lsatlon})Iogramme had to proceed as pIliI Ilca to avert the threat of real(pen SOCial confhct

We have gol to be honest and ell.. the ptople the truth which IS (hat

fl r :.t period the problems of readju~Iment Will be With us

However he did not thmk the efJ cts on the economy would be la~

tlOg or very greatThe economy has enough rcsJlI

cr:c( to bounce back-but It will ia~c

(nI&,; tIme he saidIt would have been caSler to Pi c..

Lit...! IhlS If we had not run mto fncI oblem of the BrItish attitude anll

II.: aUlon,:-; of the BrItish parh11 ent

He added But we have got to

fI.:t.:ogOlSe Ih tl now there IS thiS sellj I II ulll.:crtatn(y 10 the cotnmuOity'/lc.:re Will be pc.:ople leaVIng whom\\It: would have wanted to keep

We have gol to be honest WltlloUJsclves In our trammg pregra n

t me ... lor skilled manpower It Will beqllllt: a few years before we have(nl ugh ~llple trained to do the Job

KABUL March 4, (Bakhtar) -Maps of the whole of Afghamstanhas been prepared on tbe scale of 1/100000 by the Cartography Department Forty-four hundred maps each shOWIng 1600 sq Ion nowcover the entlfe area of AfghanIstan

The maps have been prepared photographybY~aePM Photography and land photomosalcssU eys ps are later, ne thousand s'x hundred and mg he said101 ty four maps covenng 400 sq SI~ce tbese photograpbs do not,!lIle~/;~~~ohave been prepared show the details on the land andii d scale These have are Without names of tbe places

en 1eat justed to meet the ave tramed personnel have to ente:r ,ge sca e of 1/100000 geophYsIcal detaIls and lOcludeI Morc than $ five million have the ri1Imes of places On them beIC~1l sp~nlt on lhls project whIch added

Incl,udps ,1/100000 scale maps MOle detailed maps Will alsomnr (-' hv aella] photography be preparedand 1/:;0000 scale photomosalcs _

(hf' l Irtographv Departmentof Ihl' Ministry of Mmes andIndustllcS \\ Ilh the help of thefOlllgn experts has completedthe m lOpmg of the country

M IPS of thc north havc beenpll P II cd In colour and maps oflhf' S( 11th <.\1 e In black and white

I hiS \\111 enable Us to pnnt asmill') lOPI(;S of these maps as we\\ ilfll 110\\ and In the futur e.LQld Eng Muzafarurldln YakoubJtill> preSident of the ("'31 tography~D~p trtment~ Rpfernng to tht stages essentt Jal fot PI ('D<1rmg maps he satd

that Illst tho arcas to be map\ pt:d II( mil kpd and the aenal

(:ARTOGRAPHY DEPT.~~~~' MAPS ALL AREASthIh

OF AFGHANISTAN

Israel Accused OfPressuring Arabs;Usin~ UAR Money

UNITED NATIONS March 4~£"uler)-I he UAR complamed fa I

Ihe UN Sel.:urlly Counl.:ll Fnd.l\-() ght that Israeh aUlhontJes to theulluplcd Gaza S(T1P and Sinal werept.:11 Ilising persons carrymg the Ie Igal tcnder of lhose tern tones byfInes and Il11pnsOnmenl I

UAR ambassador Mohammad e1Kony ~uld the l:lvillao population 10

thL: ar4i.as were being harassed and

Jrnldatcd WIth the view I() campg them to flee these terntone:o.,

compllcallng the Arab refug eblm e

He; said Israeli policy demonstruI eu kirael s utter disregard of the

I J\I .... ember 22 Security Council IesI oluJ on which affirmed the neCf':sS

( It\ to [lnd a Just settlement to the\ refugt:e ~roblem

.... " Meanwblle a band of Arabs blaJ d a farm machmery depot neal

i'rusalem With blgh explo~Jves c,lf\ yesterday after strangling a nigh

I walchman reports reachmg m JerIIsalem said

An army spokesman siud a fu~1

tank caught fIre aDd two tractorsInc! lorry were damaged m the alta

do:. 00 the depot near the VIllage otAbu Gosh about 12 kms weSI of

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f"om prchmlnary survey... mdlCltcIhal climatIC conditions are faVllll

Ible for gr.owlOg ten thereI he Chmese are assisting th1s pro

Jeci and last week a tcam of lhreecAperts arraved 10 Kunar for Ihlspurpose

The Ministry of AgTlclilture andInlgallOn announced that 4"'i m Ihon ~hoots and I 600 kilogram of\ "gelable seed Will be dlSlflbuteJ 1(1

fa mcrs thiS sprmg Mlnlslry expcrls('~p'amed 10 the farmers correct Ytavsof plantmg thc seeds and sapplJr gs

BIg plans were annoum:cd by theM IOt~try of EducatIon 10 exp lI1dNdng Irhar University v.hlch his "0

far only a medical l:olleglS nce the university IS 10 a PU"ihltl

s~" lkmg region speC I II me 1:)11 F'~

nh.: to be adopted to ohtllo Pin 0

"pc Ikmg leal.:hcrs More facl/It e:,>:l.Ie also to be tddcd In ord{'1 tl1 eCl lhe space new requlremenls till

University Will be shifted from 'IIaid bad 10 (he oulsklrls of lhe clly In

n.. runta where homes bUilt flU I L

t. Illal authoflly are SIIIIa1edMore Ihan 5000 students gnul I

Ic,,; oj K Ibul s pn01ary st.:hnolS-I(nell hIgh schools cnlrancc ex If I

r.alums last week rhls filleTing "'V... en ha" been deVised hCl.:!Us 111 Ir; ar) sl:hools hive Jnuea..cd~ul.:h that high schols tan laos Ihall Sixth class graduates

I he Pnme 'MInister of Bavan:l lrlnl.: Federal RepubliC of Genna v01 Alfons Goppel Visited Kabul forone day at the ,"vltallon of fhe AIghan M 100ster of COUri Dunng hiS.. ) he was r("\,;elved by Th( Ir 1\11j(;s1l('s the K ln~ :lml ::}ueen II"tis mf't \\Ith tht Pllmp MilliS

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Peace Corps Is(;alled Kennedy's

Main AchievementWASlllNG rON r.lalch

If)PAI On Ihl sevcnth blllh11 f the Amll car Pc a( (' Co.ps

IJ ~ PI eSJ{!cn\ J( hllson sent Itsxth 1l1mJ I 10 It tu thp US

or g{(Ss \\Ith the nbsclvat1()nth It the COlPS ~ of an ldl'a comef <.1",,1 no longel a novelty but

I 0\\ I I);lrt 01 thl,; AmellC'an lift:I hl P<:>..lCC COlPS Johnson

"Ill..1 IS of President Kenneth ...mcsl <. ndul 109 Ichl('vements as1 IIV If' tl humarlll\

1 Inl1Slln ~(,lOted UUt that the1: II p-. IS Onl III the leadlllg (Ill

nlovl 1 s 01 n('\\ (ollege grarhllles With 11000 (oll{"gl' scnwlSfOi mally applvang for membelshiP last Veal three pomt f,\ ('pel (ent of 111 US L:raduates

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guarantee that Ihey would rail} 10

India s defence 10 l:aSe of needThe pflJmlsed assurances Ire expl

... h.:,J to l.:onSl51 of a Jomtly sponsnll.:dUN resolutIOn and separate bUI ~I

fi\lIar dcclarallons by Ihe lhret nu{lcal powers----Chll1a and I r tn(.e llonul plan to Jam Ihe Ireat}

Meanwhllc an AP reports frnlll\Iv- tshlngton that US Q{flclals hd\/';II. It.:lcd angnly to allegatIOns In {.

velal German newspapers th It theLnlted States has thrcatcllC I lL I.:l!

off nuclear fuel !\upplles 1 n tlllH :.;v h l:h refuse 10 sign the prnp.\,l')cdtn.-at y to prevent the spre 1(.1 II lU

ea weapOns-----------

JAKARIA March j (Reuler)- -fndoneslan tlOOPS have smasht:d an alleged commuOIst underolound mov<:menl In east Javapruvince kIlling Its leader andC'aptunng 50 01 Its members InooneSI<1 S Antal t nc\\s agency reported

Rumania Said ToBe Taking StepsFollowing Walkout

BUDAPEST Malch I (Reutel) - Rumania \\ ho stalked outof I hc BuddPCSI commUnist me£>tlO~ F'lld l\ lft('1 tht: mC'etlng refused t t:l nett mn the Synan delC'L:. 1t un f( I accusing Rumania(I n tHJncll srn may pless fOI ref llms it IH xt \\leks ml'etmg of

110.; Wlrst", PICI leader" In ~I

II ClJll1n1UIl <.;1 " JI((S :saId yest£'l I y

1\ Rum Inl in ( ommunastPatty statemem Issuedvf'steld IY n Buchufl.:st restatedIhl.: reasons lor the party s walkout 10 Budapest and said approf-T1ale deCISions had been taken coneel nmg thc W:lrsa\\ Pac-t gather109 In SOflil

Meetings of Ihe: p IIlIeal consulatlve' committeI!' 01 the Warsa\\Pact all1anl.:( iii e IHII mally aUended by party and gove: 1nmentl~ad~f5

Among the Iemalnlng' 66 pal tles at thc Budapest conference

Ieperesentlng some three Quarters of the \\ orld movementthere IS broad support for theproposal to invIte Rumania tothe commumst summIt proposedfOl later thiS year 10 Moscowdespite the walk out

It IS not conceded hele thatthe Rumanians Will automatlcaJIv boycott the meeting Butthen partiCipation may welltinge upon certam pnnclples-whethel It will be open to allparties An6 "Iso whether theleWIll be pressure to sign a unlversal documt'nt of commUnI~t aeHon

Altough th<: RumanIanwalk out lema ns Ihf' m I

Jor sensation {f tht confel ence the \VOl k e I the lSSembly IS no\\ able to ploceed morerapidly

Cutaway drawmg shows an orblfu!g workshop using a spentthird stage of the buge Saturn V rockeL The stage would be outfiltted on the gTOund to serve as a scientific laboratory and living areafor astronauts spending UP to a year at a tlm~ In space First launchIs expected In 1970 or 1971 This Is part of the Apollo ApplicatIOnsProgramme to tnvesUgate m;m s expanding role Itt space

By Waklbeen

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Afghan Week In Review: '~ \""

Cotton Prices Raised 10) Help Farmers

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I)Similarly IOcreaSlDg cotIon pnL:

<.;5 IS essential In order to prov desufhcrent raw malenal to the counIry < textile mills Altbougb !,bese ml11" 8TC complalOlDg sbaul a scarcilyof cotton another textile mIll IS beingbUilt near Kabul

AccordIng 10 Ute government lhep Ce of all four grades of cottonhilS been mcreased by AI 20 peseer (a seer IS 15 pounds)

J he MInistry 01 Agnculture andIr Igatlon announccd that tea WOll

ld be planted expcnmcntally m thee lstern province of Kunar RC:o.ult!.

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The lovernment s decision tb...week to ralsc the pnce of cotton pulchased from the farmers IS aJmedat scrvemg as an tnc:enthe for farmers to IOcreasc productIon· l1eed~dto feed the country s textile mlUs andedible oil plants

Only about a month ago a yeg('table 011 factory was opened 10 La!.hkargah But there ISD t enough cotton seed to permit plant touperated at full capacIty

Recently Afghanistan has be.:nImporlmg large quanlttIes of edlbl::all and IllS time somethmg was doneto produce enough edible 011 local

World News In Briefb IUlt!l'l March ~ (AP) A IO",YO iVlalch 3 (Heuter)-

omo blast roared through do Japanese Pnme MUllster J:.lsakuwntown ! urm ::>aturday nIght ::>ato said ) esterdaY he wouldand wrecked the U::; consulate like to see a prompt settlementat ~he second noor 01 a modern 10 thc long st mdmg problem ofoUlldmg f Jsa e apanese flshang operations

Within IndoneSia s untlatelallyproclaimed exclUSive fishing zom

RAMEY AfR DORCE BASEPuel to RICO March 3 (Reutel J

PreSident Johnson arrived herelast ntght for a weekend of rclaxation

MASCOW March 3 (AP)fhc ::Soviet VOlon Saturday launched an uutomatlc spaCe statIon

Zond 4 the ::soviet news agency Tass ~nounced Sunday

1ass said the aim ol Zond 4 ISlO study outlYing regions of nealearth space and IJnprove ne'Y.systems and Untts aboard thestation

NICOSIA March 3 (AFP)PreSident Makanos Will submit!lext week to the Untted N'ltlons certain proposals fOI sett1ement of the Cyprus problemIt was offiCIallY announced

NEW DELHI March 3 (OPAl-The Indian Reserve Bank yl". ...tel day announced Ieduction otthe bank rate from SlX to tlvepel cent With ImmedIate elfeltThe last change 10 IndIa s ba'lkrate was February 1965 when Itwas [[l1sed from five to SiX pelcent

KARACHI March 3 (DPA)Alfons Goppel Pnme Minister o[West Germany s Bavana prov!nce yestelday leached Rawalpmdl fJ om Peshawar and was recelved at the ,.alrport by Paklstan F'nrelgn Mlnlstel Shanfuddm Pllzada

UNITED NATIONS March 3(Reutel ) -The Secumty CounCilWill resume debate on the Southwest Afnca Question on Monday after a recess of 12 days Itwas announced yesterdaY

SAN FRANCISCO March 3(Reuter)j-More than one tbll'<lof San FrancISCo s 4 000 teacherswent on stnke yesterday and unsupervised pupIls ran Wild foremg autnorrtles to close all thecIty s schools at ll1Idday

The I 500 stnkers-all umonmembers voted to stnke for Improved working condItIOns bettel educational qualIty and smallclasse:;.

AMMAN March 3 (AFP)-JOldaman FOIeign Mmlster Abdul Munlm al Rlfal and UnitedStates Ambassador HarrIson Symnes discussed Israeli pohcy Inoccupted Arab terrltones durmga two hour meetmg hert: vestelday

ADEN Malch ~ (AFP):::iouth Yemen foreign mInistersaid the federallon of Al ab em,rates on the PersIan Gulf seemed to be a cooy of the defunctSouth ArabIan (ederatlOn

11 seems the same mt n whtwere here at the time of ou I federatlOn are there llnltatmg It In

all aspects he Said

But Hatum did nol get hiS dueleward and he soon began 10 sayso Jadld coolly lauoted himLook at Sehm laymg the slatc:'

sman all of a sudden he)s saidto have whispered In the parlycouosels The IneVitable happenedHatum turned ... nasty and Jadldtook the opportunity tQ crushboth blm and bls Druze followersJust after the June war, Hatum reeolered SYrIa from Jordan apparently With Ibe mad desIgn of stogmg a popular uprlswg agall1.Sttbe dIscredited lunta Captured bewas shot at dawn Ihe followmgda)

h was Ute Baalblst regime wllbI1s patronage of Ute Palestlman guemU,s and Its verbal ferOCity,wblcb sparked the June war yet Itwas tbiS confl'llral,1on whIch showed Jadld at his most coldly reabsIc

THE KABUL TIMKS-----~

Tourist Guide On

Afghanistan

Printed In FRGBy A SWf Wrtter

KABUL March 3A small tOUrIstic gUide of

AfghanIstan has recently beenpublished for tbe first !lme InFedel al Republic of Gennany mthe senes of Mals Weltfuhrer

The author Carola Burknerhad VISIted AfghanIstan last yearand gathered matenal for hergUide book BeSides betng an excellent gUide book With InterestIng pictures and maps for theWest Gel man VISitOrs to A(ghaI1lstan the book contaIns veryuseful mformatlon On all aspectso[ Afghan life

The 80 pages booklet IS devldcd In two parts Part one dISCUSsC: the gt ography cultuT e orgaIllsatlClll ethnography and hISto! v rhe second part gIves veryu~etlll nformatlOn on places\\ I I th VISit ng Th(" gUIde book\\ Ii) no Lit ubt help the purposetn Increase West German tau I~r

I affll.: to Afghanlslan

! I s \\ Ith oleasure that weheal the author IS mtendlng loVISIt Afghanistan agam In order10 gather mOl (" matenal for amore detailed gUide book

SYDNEY March 3 (ReuterlCloser lies between Australiaand Indonesta 10 Southeast AsianI eglcnal security arrangementswere fore shadowed by the Australtan MInister fm Defence andthe leader of the oPPOSitIOn Labour Party here last Right

that the pulses could be measured to SIX deCImal pomts

ThIS IS the first SIgnal of thatkind to be discovered The othorsemit on(' contlOuous Signal Sowe can t Iule out the little grp

en men he saidBut he added that three othor

Similar throbbers had beendiscovered recently In outer space- and thiS had shaken thegreen men theory

The Strong Man Of Syriawiles He was Ib~ chief hatchetman of tbe February \'l66 ....oupI~dtng the murderous onslaughtcn the house of the former Presloent

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\M~Uky Way Men Try ContactEQrth, Astronomer Believes

\H rks for the DaOish branch of Ihe'\\ ...... C hlldern s Relief Organ! I

I on 'erre Des HomesB<"cker 'I '4 year-old former ou

rt tll!..1 who liVes '" Salborg norlhI rn Denmark IS I.:oncerned Wit:,Ilk.mg children .. ntlcally IDjured In

he v letnam war to Denmark {orho~pllal Ircalment Ihey cannOI gelI , rt

On Mar~h X he hopes 10 fly out\\ lIh abolll ..0 l:hlldren-but he ~ays

I' ad) live more he hoped to take\ lh hUll h tVe died and by the IIIl,e

!l -..: party Ie tve, liS number mayhI.: SI II lower

~11n\l e f (he survivors are In ~

I I Ihle .. ondltlOn-A siX year oldgIl h 1\ lost both hands a little be y\\ III an open chest wound IS parI a11 P ir tlysed tnd un lble to speClk

In year old hoy IS totally paraly(d tllU \ IOnQt be ldenlifled

Slerllng Alrw IYS Denmark 5 b gge'it P \' lIe tlrltne has agreed to11\ Ihese .. hildrc:n to Denmark lree(, lh Irge Onte there Becker IS

ur m In) Danes will offer to adopt1t'-1.:01 when Ihev I.:ome OUI of nopsPit d

HeckcI 'aid he ha~ .. olleded II IId ('II frum all paris of Vietnam alIh \ugh re.. cnlly It has become vnydifficult 10 Iranspon such chlll.henfn m Ihe northern provInl:es be... I

nw of heavy flghtangWe ~Ive pnonly to youngs,cr:,

liider the age of 10 preferably thvSoe"tom "'e know to be deVOid ofhelp but above all 10 those wh"

r{ desperately III he saidrhe dlfflcull Ihmg IS to appll

tor a passport In cases where tht:Dalents may or may nol be alIve

CAMBRIDGE England Mar~h

(Reuter) AstuoJt0mIS herehave stumbled across pulsatIn~

rad U Signals deep 1D outer spacethat could come from another C1\ libatIon trYing to contact earth

They are puzzlmg over thesaulee r('ckoned to be some 2001 ght yt:ars away-of the slgnab \\ hlCh regIster a short

beep eVel) 1337 seconds on ultra sensitIVe Il~c(lldlng equIpment

He said SCientIsts wele excltS(lenllsts at the Mullard Rad ed because the SOUl ce mIght be

10 Astronomy Observatory here a neutral star a SUlI where lhe\\ hI) aCCidently <.IJscovered the matter IS so highly concentratedSlgnals last November have mc that a tcasooonful would weightknamed their ongm LGM (lit about 10 ml1lion tonslie green men) They say It tS He said the Signals could bcsome\\ here In the Milky Way the pulsations from neutrons the

RadiO astronomer Prof 5t1 nuclear matenal formed whenMaltln Ryle '" ho heads the five one of these dYing starS-<lOly amall IOvcsttgatJon team told Reu few miles In \\ Idth-eollapses 1n

tel What IS so remarkable l~ \\ards---

(ContInued frOm 1'£lj.;,f'l IIICS not so much an Ideal as th('1t-8ch of lis Imme<hate superiors mao lo power One brother fadedthe wealthy landed anstocracy Hut a second was assassmated bUI

If envy IS lhe I.:haractenshe VIl.:C there IS no doubt that power comesot the lower middle class III the 10 naturally 10 the third who fmallydlJstnahsed Wesl It IS even more made the grades,- of Ihe country bourgeoiSie of Jadld wastes no llme On the outS\ na and the fact [hal one of ward splendours of power Of couIhelr typical occupations was to se as an Alawite he must tak.e caret.elp manage the estates of ab~n 110t to exacerbate the feehng of theee landlords served only to mteh Sunnl Moslem majority by flaunt

.. II} It mg hiS authority for all to secIt would be difficult to say just At the same tlme however II IS

hoy. far thiS combination of confe dear that Jadld IS a backroom boys" onal and class envy account for an emmence grise as much bythe regime s highly progresstve aITs personal preference as pohhcal ne-h tdeologlcal Virulence and ItS de- I,;esslly He genumely prefers the

<.; rte tQ turn Synan society upSide shadows and he IS supremely well-down Qut II IS certamly a very egUlpped for the kInd of lDtrigue andImportant factor manipulation which passes for $0

AgalOsl such a background, Jad ,ernment tn SyrIa today He IS Dold own career raises conSIderable Impetuous. lIk.e many of tbe semi

dGubt about hiS real political con educated young officers aroundvldlons He was brought up ID an hlm on the contrary It IS he whomt<nsdy pohtlcal bousehold but explOits Ibe headstrong amblhonsy, hE'reas hiS two brothers took a of othersne ) faSCist course he chose soclah The case of Sehm Hatum IUustra-SOl Jtes ibIS to perfectIOn. Hatum. a

Sucb a fundamental parllng of young commando colonel, was thethc ways has been mlerpreted as an \ Ieadmg spOkesman of Ibe Druzesmdlcatlon that from the very begl I another rehgious mmorlty whIchnnmg the Jadld brothers saw 10 po had JOined forces With the Ala

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T:e pO~i cm~assy here beld a recepUon last mgbt to wclco me a number of Afghan studentsrom e r s udles in Poland tn 'aflous fIelds partaculArly arcbitecture Here the Af ·-

studenls are pictured wIth the Polish Ambassador Jan Petrus. 6 ......-- --- -- ---

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ha~ 1051 boLh hiS legs In an ex-plu~ un whose parents I.:annol be tr t

I. ed and who I".an onl) murmurh:w unlntelltglble s)"llables

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worker here Henning Ul ... kcr \"'H

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dy Yesterda) the wannest areawas Farah wltb a hlgb of 24 C75 F Th~ coldest was Lal witha I.." of -23 C 9 F Wmdspeed III K3hul was recorded at 5

Depth of snow as recorded at244 rm In North Salan/( and 199cm In South Salang

The temperature In Kabul at11 :l III was (. C 43 F

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ral institutions wht'n tht' languagc was I elurmetJ and thp faundatJUll:-> oJ.. a nl'\\. lltelatult: lal j

when nat fl<.lJ llbral es laro:-ichooJs le.i:lI ned ::iOCl~tle~ must'ums theatn::i eh were founded

PaintIng lollowed dose behndtht;l ::i()(;lal and (ultural transfOlmatwll Ind sometimes Ideas tookshape fa~tel and mOl t:: l'lfectlvelythele than Tn other fields Tho5CWith I paSSion f'l pOI tralturcnatlOniJl df<::ss <lnd lh( rebel UnJtorm kne\'. thl \. alul of still hl'eand landscape~ could enJoY folkIOfe and study histOrical compositton \\ Ith humble fervour

The most Important Serbianpain leIs o[ the 10th Century dwell un .')uch mutlfs the classlCISts Pavel D)urko\ IC DLmitriJe Avramovlc and KonstantmDaml, thE' romantiCists NovakRadon)lk and DJura Paslc andthe realtsts Djord)e Krstlc Todurovlc and M11m. renkovll:

A ne\\ element was IntroducedIOta Serbian paintIng at the endof the 19th Century by studentso{ the MUnIch academy bnlhantIy led by DJonlJe Krs!lc It wasmanIfested In t\\o ways In thework of tho~E" \\ ho contmued In

the academiC tradition (Paja Jovanovil UIOS Predlc Rista Vulkane\,: It: AlekSIC and olhers)and also the \\ ork of 01 hers \\ hoattempted tn bllng the MUnJchconception" up to date and to IntrodUcl rcvolutlQnary features(LeOnId Koen Nadezda PetrovIe Milan MJlonovlt Kosta M1l1CeVll Clnd nthel S)

The \\ I ks I)f thiS ]<1lter trendwh (h Ie I the fll st time marrIedSerb! In and French art developed I n('\\ eXpe'l ('nct: of the worldInd a ne\\ II tlStH deologvwhlC'h bee Imt tht foundatIon ofthe rnolltrn 1/ t I the Serb~

'KIANA etNEMAAI 2 30 4 30 7 and ~ pm En

CLJsL film JO FarSICAUFO.RNIA HOLIDAY

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kabul times (march 3, 1968, vol. 6, no. 299)

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