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PRICE AF. 3
COMPLETE,I
ECONOMIC'
UNION OF
SIX URGEDBRUSSELS, Feb 18, (DPA)
The European CommiSSlon hasre-emphaSlsed Its v'ew that negotIatIOns should be opened OnBrItIsh memhershlp 10 the Common Market
At the same tIme, It advocatedcompletion of the econom,c umonof the "SJX"
In its annual report, publulhedhere yesterday, the commiSSIon
expressed sceptIcism about IIIS_ola ted actlOns hy some governments" In the BrItish membershipquestIon
It stressed that It could "m noway take part" In such movesIt was the task of the CommunIty us a whole to reach agreement on genume posslblbtles ofaction' the commISSIOn sald
But such actIons must not re~
place membership, nor preJudICefuture negotiatIOns", it cautioned
The commiSSion. saId It haduneqUIvocally commItted Itself toan expansion of the Communlty Its requested statement to theEEC mlnlslenal councIl lastSeptember had shown a waywhich could have led to agree
ment among the SIX If they hadmade stronger efforts for concIlIatIOn mstead of lImitIng themselves to taking note of theIrdifferences of OPinIOn" the reportcntIclsed
AchIevements of polItical unpartance last year had been theharmOnIsatIOn of indirect taxes,introductIon of the added valuetax sYstem the successful conclUSIon of the Geneva "KennedyRound" of tariff cuttmg talksand the comIng Into effect ofthe treaty on mergmg the threeEuropean executives the commISSIon said
But unc"ftaInty over the fateof the Communltr's "Euratom"nuclear pool must be ended anda JOInt actlOn undertaken onthe fIelds of sCIence and technology to strengthen Europe's poSItIon In the world
FRG MPs SayPattakos Won't
Restore DemocracyATHENS. Feb 18, (DPA)- A
promment West GerfTlan MP DrAdolf Arndt, regards Greek deputypremier and mlenor minister Shli<Ino~ Pattakos as completely unfItto help restore democracy In Gre-ece •
Arndt, who IS 00 a VISit to Greel.:e With three other West GermanMP, saId the members 'Of the Greekgo\ernment with whom he talked
nacl shown.. a surpnsmg readmess fortalks With the exceptIOn of Pattak05
Patlakos had msulted the vlsitmgM Ps and With them the Wesl German parliament and had proved tobe a severe burden on Greek West(Jerman relatIons
He had called the pohllcal pnsoner~ on Leros Island "cnmmals exllusIYely", addlDg "you WIll seeYOU! fnends"
Patakos had not the shghtest clue.~bout basiC and human fights andtherefore was completely unfit to(lJoperate 10 the restoratIon of derno... ralic conditIOns In Greece
Another member of the group,l'urt Mattick, descrIbmg hiS ImpresElon of the Leros prisoners camp""llh Its 2 000 mmates saId accomudation W.1S terrible but treutmentb} the guards humane
L !lled double summer lime-twoI,ours ahead of GMT
The deCISion to abandon GM rr In mto OPPOSition here on bothr~adl(al and gentlmental grounds
1 hI; practical complamt was that 10
'he depth of wlOtcr London Willf10\l, remaIn dark until around 9am
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. The Supreme Sport CounCIlsaId It could lead to an OlympICgames WJthout AfrIcans, Amencan Negroes, Koreans and perhaps even SOCialist countnes
The IOC vIewed events herecalmly and saId he had heard nothIng ofllclally on the reportedwlt,hdrawals
IndustrialisedUrged To Drop,Inefficient,Factories
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18(Reuter) -Commerce and Industnes MInister LIm Swee Aun Saturday appealed to developedcountnes a greater chance mcountrIes to stop protectmg theIrown economIC industrIes and gIvedevelopmg countnes a greaterchance In theIr markets
'LlberalisatlOn of trade undertaken In a graduated and progreSSIVe fashlOn should not damage the economies of the developed countnes
'Instead, It could brmg longrun economic benefIts to the In
dustnahsed natIOns smce Itwould permit an Increase 10
their output of sophIstIcated products", he said
Speakmg at the openmg hereof the SwedIsh motor car assembhes plant-manufacturers ofVolvo cars-he added
"Instead of protectmg IneffiCIent Industnes a more ratIOnalstructure of protectJon wouldcontnbute to effiCIent resourcesallocatlOn and to the growth ofexports from the developmgcountnes
uln thiS yray consumers In themdustnallsed nations would beable to buy certaIn manufactured and semi-manufactured goodsfrom the developmg countries ata cheaper rate than from theIrhIghly protected Inefficient homemdustnes"
Dr Lim saId It was no USe expectmg develOPIng countries to
dIverSIfy when they clamouredfor better prIceS for pnmary commodIties
The developmg countrIes hadm fact dIverSIfied and gone mtomanufactunng
"Is there any mo,£ JustIfIcatIOn to protect certaIn Ineffi(nentfactones m the lndustnaltsednations"
MalaYSia was, however, hopeful about the SItuatIOn SInCe Austraha and some mdustnahsedcountnes had taken a broaderVIeW and he hoped that the cullrent UnIted Nations Conferenceon Trade and Development mNew Deihl might show furtherchange of heart.
But he pomted out that whilesInce 1955 trade In manufacturedgoods and semI-manufacturedgoods among develoDlng coun-trIes had doubled by 1965 suchtrade from developmg countnesto developed countrIes had fallen
Moreover the trend among developing cOl,lntnes could not gomuch further because of theIrown tendency to prOVIde ImportsubstItutlOn mdustnes
However he noted that It wasInterestIng'that such trade to thesoclahst countrIes of Easterh Europe had grown from almost neglIgible amounts m 1955 to 558mllhon MalaYSIan dollars In 1965 ,
(IOl:ks have been put back an houreach autumn and forward .Igalnnc\ I spring
Before ILJI6 Bntaln was perl111nCOlly on GMT If anything theHntlsh took satisfaction m stayingout of line With that contmental Europe from which they malOtalned\ll,h determined IsolatJOn
The Idea of daylight savmg wasI'ltroduced by a wealthy builder calied Wilham WIllel He chafed atIhe tt:lought of hiS fellows sleepingliu ough bnght summer mornmgs
But It wus an UphIll struggle aglInSl traditIOnalists wHo avowed no~c Ill! could come of tampermg with(1 1\ 'nely .lppomted tIme diVISions
For years the dispute raged Ith'ok .1 coal shortage In World WarUl1l' 10 persuade the authOrities toadjust the clock! to make oplImumust: of sunshme
In World War Two thl' was taken a stage further For several summers BntalD operated on what was
,Six Withdraw I
S.African He-admission Could(Wreck Olympic, USSR Warns
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GREENWICH. England, Feb )g,(Reuter)-BnlalO puts forward ItS<Jocks 10nlght (0200 GMT) to Imeup With the rest of Europe-and(,reenwlch says goodbye to IlvmgOn GreenWIch Mean Time (GMT)
ThiS famous touchstone of the world tlmescales Will rcmaiO as an lOternatJOnal reference It Will alsoslay In force In a number of othertel ntones lOcludlOg Portugal some\Vest Afncan countrIes and a fewA{lantlc ISlands
But BCllalO Will from now on remOlD permanently fixed to the scaleKnown as Bn\lsh Standard TImeThiS IS onc hour ahead of GMT"IllJ corresponus lo Central Suropcan TIme on which most of Western Europe operates Midday GMTwill be 1300 BST
Th. new rule ends more than 50yt'ars of jugghng the clo...ks tWice aveal to catch the best of the dayI'eh, hours Ever SID"" t916, BnlIsh
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Jordanians Expect BiggerAttacks On Military Units
Thant Still
Possibility
Peace Talks
Convinced Of
SYRIA PROPOSES
'I am mOre convlDced than ever"he added
But he did not wanl to say more.tbout the matter unt1l after hiS Wednesday mcctmg with PreSident JolJrson
He Indicated that he would Issuea statement after the White HouseseSSion, whIch was arranged, at hiSr~quest, by US ambassador Arthur(JoJdberg, to wbom Thant gave adetailed report on Thursday on hiSMeetings In New Deihl and Pans\uth North Vietnamese representatl\es
UNITED NATIONS, Fec. 18,(Reuter)-UN Sec-Gen U Thant
'saId yesterday he Was "more convmced than cver" that North VIetnam would go to peace talks WIthIn two or three weeks of a complete ban of Amencan bombIng Of ltsterti tory
As he entered UN headquartershe was asked If he still held theview he has frequently expressedabout the POSSibilIty of negotiationsh>lIowmg PreSident Johnson's statemeDl FrIday that he dId not thInkHanOI was ready to talk
Thant said he was still of thesame belief
AMMAN, Feb 18, (OPA)-The grey vehIcles which overtookus along the J orclan RIver turnedout to contam King HusseID, whobeckoned to us to follow hIm
On the edge of the road, nextto the rUIns of a shelled houseand watched' by soldIers crouchmg In makeshIft trenches, weasked the kIng what could bedone to end the constant blood-
shed between IsraelIS and ArabsKing HusseIn shrugged " hIS
shoulders and SaId he no lohgerknew, then sent us to an armycaptam who explaIned the latestposltlOn folloWlng the most VIOlent Jordaman-IsraelI flghtmgSInCe the June war
Our plane :was the fIrst to landat Amman aIrport followmgThursday'S artillery duels, bombardments and aIr battles all along the Israeh..J'ordaman armIstIce lIne
The aIrport was bnsthngWith heavy' antI~aIrcraft unItsAlong the roads to the JordanValley there were -.numerous dugIn cannons, tanks and army umts
The nearer we got to the Jor-BEIRUT, Feb 18 (TanJug)-Sy;- dan the more men, women and
na has appealed to Arab countnes. chIldren we observed makmgto coordmate their economies 10 or- j theIr way eastwards carrymgder to fight underdevelopment Pro- theIr belongIngs Wlth themgress 10 the Near East can only be They had left theIr homes whIChachIeved by JOInt explOtlallon of the had heen destroyed by shellsJaw matenals, capital, manpower Together WIth an officer weand personnel at the disposal of par- made a several-hour tour of thetlcular Arab countrIes, AI Thawrah battle areaof Damascus WrItes An Arab com- In Baqura on the banks of themon market also provlCies a SUItable Jordan the roads are pocked-baSIS for mdustnal development m marked WIth grenade holes Ma-the Arab worl~ ny houses are unmhabltable
AI present. the paper wntes no The mayor told us that 70 gren-"rac country on Its own IS m a po ades had exploded the day be-sitton to meet all the needs of Its forepeople or to compele on the world SImIlar damage was done tomarket Arab countnes, It pomts out, numerous houses In Shuma Qa(an mdustnahse all parts of the mm and other vIllagesArab world only If they UnIte all On one damage house sori'tetheir rcsour""s for the common 01>- body had chalked up the wordsJectlve "long hve Kmg Husseln ll
I The officer saId uWe are eXpectmg even stronger attacks,"so far mamly Villages anc;l refu-gee camps were shelled, but notany Jordaman pOSItIons near In
habl ted places"
KABUL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1968 (DALW 28,1346 S.H.)
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USSR Urges
U.S. Accept
Hanoi1s
OfferMOSCOW. Feb 18, (Reuter)-Two
top Kremlm leaders, In theIr newspeeches which became availablehere Saturday have urged the UnIted States to lake up HanOI'S offerof talks to end the Vietnam war
Both CommuDlSt party chiefs Leonid Brezhnev and Pnme MlOlsterKosygm while speakmg at a meetmg\esterday commended HanOI'S offerof talk.<
EarlJer addressmg a meetlng 10
M msk on Thursday both put stres,on talks as a way out of the presentImpasse ...
Brezhnev. 10 a Lernngrad partyconference, called on the US endIhc bomblDg of North Vietnam•and reali~hcally conSider HanOI'sproposals for talks"
Kosygm, speakIDg to MIDsk partymembers said It was "untrue" thatNorth Vietnam was not ready fortalks, and added that It was notI.:lear If the US was ready for apohtlcal solution
The premier said North Vietnamhad shown Its readInes, for talks- ;lR "'B~' rORMonll afler a halt 10 US bomblDg ,.,. ~ raud other acts of war agam~t Its COMMON MARKETttrntory
He said that another fac;tor makIng a pohtlcal sItuation easier wasthe V let Cong programme callidgfor creation of an mdependent, democratic and neutral Vlo'tnam
The SOVIet leaders referred taHanOI offer whIch the U S has declmed as contalnmg nothmg new, asa genume peace move
ThiS endorsement by 'Brezhnevlmd Kosygln was seen here as aclear mdlcatlOn tha.t Ithe KremllOfelt It was senous
Both leaders had talks last weekWIth VJetnamese commumS:t offICIals from North and South, as wella'i I meeting UOIted Nat~tms Secretary-General U Thant when he spentlast weekend ID Moscow on a new IV letnam peace probe
'$'aigon, Mekong Delta Townslto1ll£ UR«er Mortar Attack
\SAI06N, Feb. 18, (oAFP)-The Al 2 50 a m. barrage was con-
V,et Cong shorlly after mldmght thIS tlOUIng all around the capItal WithmOrlllJlg laup.chcd what appeared to explOSIons heard clo""r to the cItybe the second wave of the !/Cneral Trace bullets could be seen ,trew-o!Iensive they begao on January 30 m\ng from Amencan hehcopter"
According to fIrst reports rcach- ffflpg on the other SIde of the Sal109 Slligon, several towns 10 the gon RIver, a kIlometre from theMekong belta, along the coast and centre of the capItal.the capital Itself were the objects of So far there were few detaIlsthe attack avaIlable On the situatIon In the pro-
So far only heavy mortar bomb- 'IDCes It was knOWn that SaIgonardmenls have been reported a, well wa< not the only target of the alt-as, particularly 10 Saigon, fIfe from acks122 mm rockets Nearly three hours after the off-
An Amencan mlhtary spokesman cnSlve was launchea, once agamsaid several very big explosions had excellently coordInated, no groundbeen heard around the base at Tan as'ult had been reportedSon Nhut, also Site of Saigon's aIr-port A~ he spoke, an explOSion sho-ok the Amencan headquarters •
Mortsr shells fell near the newAmencan embassy 1010 the Saigon7une An artillery barrage of unprecedented lDtenslty began tmmedlatel) after the fICst explOSions
This second phase of the Viet(ong offenSive had been expectedTwu days ago the American's mortar> had been Sighted near SaIgon
The mght before last parts of IheoutskJrts of Saigon were evacuatedfolloWIng the reported arflval ofV Jet Cong regular forces from CUChi
Flak-Jacketed Amencan mlhtarypolice and South Vietnamese guards ordered all traffIc off the capI~al s streets as tensIon mounted
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Times Have Changed Britain1s Clock
Planning MinisterInspects Pakthia
Development WorkGARDEZ, Feh 18, (Bakhtar)
-Planmng Mlmster Dr AbdulSamad Hamed, accompamed byPakthla Governor Lt Gen Mohammad Azeem and the preSIdent of the Pakthia developmentproject yesterday Inspected thewater supply system prOject inDargal vJ!lage of Tanal dlstnct.
The water system whIch hasbeen completed through the voluntary cooperatlOn of the peopleWlth Rural Development Department prOVIdes adequate drinkIngwater to the reSIdents
The mimster also Inspectedthe progress of work on the hospItal. reSIdentIal quarters andthe primary school Dr Hamedlater Inspected the constructIonwork on the secondarY schoollUlNader Shah Kot Elders of thearea were present
He conveyed • the good WIshesof HIS Majesty the KIng to themand explaIned SOme of the ThIrdFIve Year Development Projects
He told them pubhc assIstance III ImplementIng the projectwas hIghly SIgnIfIcant
Dr Hamed later Inspected theprogress of work on Khost-Garley umts fIve of the Work Corpsdez hIghway In the Jadran vallS working on this project
The mInIster exchanged VIewsWIth the governor on the commencement of the new road between Sayed KhaI1 and Laka
Talka dlstncts On whIch surveywork was clUTled out lastyear
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heavy Sllowstorm I" hitthtg about etwo thIf'ds of Japan from'TIiU1'llday to Friday brou'ght the nllbons hfe to a vi,rt';lal stands~ill,
leaving 16 people dead, fIve mis- ,,'smg and 29 injured 'in Its wali:eFndllY afternoon,
,WASHINGTON, Feb 17, (AFP)
-Gov George Romney of Mi.ch,gan yesterday uccused hismalO rIval to date 10 tlie NewHampsfilre republican prImary,former VICe-PreSIdent RichardNIXon, of takmll a "me, tOO" lineon the war m VIetnam
bndges m England and Scotland,and reportedly gave good reasons Inlavour of a brIdge rather than a tunnel
The bndge Will not mean the endof the ferry servIces because, althoogh SIX lanes of traffiC WIll eventuall} pass over the bridge, thiS Wiltbe barely adequate to cope With the~rowth In traffIC by 1972
The ferry boats win thus contlOuc to be needed for transportill8 pa~sengers and trams
E'len If the vehicular ferriCS arevJilhdrawn from serVice, scores of~hlp~ carrymg passengers from Karakoy to Kadlkoy and from YeOlCamel to the vanous Islands Willsl II go aboul theIr busmess
And the architects are taking great palOs to SIte the bndge so that theCIty'S skyline, With It~ beautJful mosques and other bUlldmgs, will not,"ffer greatly
(CoTtllnued from page 3)derlmess IS no concern of theIrsThIS puts most of the drivers ina fIX when they come to an mtersectIOn Wlth no traffic lights
This attItude coupled WIthsome dnvers haVIng too muchfaIth In heavens can be rectIfied by a set of rules and regulatIons which the Traffic Department should publish and enforceIn tIie near future The lOscrtptlOn "0 Allah, I pIn all my hopesOn You" pasted on some SW1t~
chboards IS a pleadmg whIch smacks of lOgratIatIon and 15 noguarantee agamst reckless dnv109
CALCUTTA, Feb 17, (AFP)An express train kIlled 16 people and tnjured 13 nther, when itploughed thrpugh a grollP of Hindu pllgrJms Crossing the tracksat Lakhlseral stabon near Patna CIty, Thrusday Dlght
FIrst reports saId the express,bound from New DeIh, to Calcutta, faIled to stop after the aCCIdent
An agry crowd later looted thestatIOn at Lakhlseral. smashingfurnIture and attackmg stahon
staff
BOSPHORUS BRIDGE
Education Projects at Herat, Kabul andKunduz, each cOllSistiilg of Sewage Systeni,Water Supply and Electrical Distribution System;various structures for Administration, Classrooms, Dormltories-'-:-Agricultural and Electro Mechanical Bundin~; ree~tlon and athleticfields. Areas of Struc~reswill be approximtaelyas follows:
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Sealed bids will be received for construction of:
The, Soviet people, have soliderltyWIth the Democratic Repubhc ofVIetnam, whIch I~ defending Its sovereIgnty alld, abO'\',e all, liS rIght tosafeguard its secorlly.
llrezhnev saId ''The SOVIet VOlonsupport, the just struggle of the peo'PIes of Arab stales who arc seekIDgto ellmmate the consequences ofIsrSOh aggressIon and want to putan end to Ihe machinatIon, of theImpenahst forces In the MiddleEast ..
"The SOVIet Umon WIll continUeto come out resolutely for the earlIest and complete Withdrawal ofhraeh forces from all occupIed Arabtel ntones Without WhICh a polItIcalsettlemenl of the MIddle East con-
fliCt IS inconceivable," he added
(Continued from pa~e 2)It seems pOSSible that the archl
te:cts who are ever conClOUS of the(.JlY'~ matena) beauty as opposed tothe old timers who take pride 10 lIsnatural charm, have argued that the[I{5t VISitor to Istanbul from Europe should not be obhged to go unde:rground and thus miss the gran·deur of the Bosphorus Rather, theymust dnve over a brIdge and seeeverythmg
Tht contract which was Signedrt:l.:en1ly between the Turkish MInostry of PublIc Work, and the Bntlsh firm of Freeman Fox prOVidesfor a 1,500 metres long brIdge Witha main span of 1,100 metres Thetotal Width WIll be 25 metres hIghto allow the free passage of ShIpS
AccordlDg to the ongmal plans,the bndge Will carry four lanes oftraffIC, but IS deSigned 10 such a waythat thiS can be expanded to SJX
lanes later Aloog WIth the construchon of the bndge, dual carnageways, underpass and many otherIacllIt,es WIll be bUIlt
PrOVISion has already needed tobuild the bndgc By next January,everythmg wlll be declded-lDclud ng the exact locatIOn of the bndge
So far, the crossmg POlOt has beenkept a secret to preventspe.culatIon, although there ISgeneral belIef that lhe brIdge WIll bebUIlt from ncar Rumulu Hisar, theanCient Roman (and later Ottoman)fort
Freeman Fox won the bid overthe OPPoslllon of the U S firm ofAmman and WhItney by buldlDgone million dollars lower The British fum has bUIlt large suspensIon
AnnouncementThe Government of Afghanstan has received a loan
from thlf International DevelQpment Association invarious currencies equivalent to $ 3,500,000 toward thecost of Education Projects in Herat, Kabul and Kunduz,and it js intended that a portion of the proceeds of thisloan will be applied to payments under the contract (s)for which this invitation to bid is issued.
\ -Payments by the International DeVelopment Associa
tion will be made only upon approval by the international Development of Mghanistan in accordance withthe terms and conditions of the loan agreement and willbe subject in all respects to the terms and conditions ofthat agreement.
HeratKabulKunduz
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In accordance with plans anclspecUlcatioDs preparedby Dalton-Daltoh'v~Jates,~bl~ts and Engfueers,979 The ArCadel"Clevemnd, OhlOf 44114, U.S., and on
" file in the Om"~....of -the'Architect and the Ministry ofEducation of the Government of Afghanis~n.
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Cross Access To
Dress: Black Tie
CAPE TOWN, Feb. 17, (Reuter)-A gOvernment-appointed commiSSion yester4ay recommended stripping the nation's coloured-lnlxed race-population ofall representation ID the stateparliament.
It urged st:rapping the systemunder which coloured~ in the Ca,pe provitice-where most ofSouth Africa's 1600,000 colouredsare concentrat.;d-are repres~nted bY whlteS,.Jln the Cape ProvmClal Council.
The commIssion, m a slx-tofour verdIct, also proposed- legIslation to prohibit multi-raCialmembership ot political parties-a hlow to the small liberal andprogreSSive parties both of whlchhave some non-white membeI1J
At the same tune the commission recommended enlarging thePoWers and scoPe of authorityof the eXlstlDg coloured peoplesrepresentative counoII, makmg ItIn effeot a largely elected coloured parliament.
The government plans to setup a coloured peoples' representative council WhICh WIll handlea Wlde range of coloured issuesmeluding education, 'Social welfare and pensions
KARACHI, Feb 17 (Reuter)Students protesting agamst the publJcatlon of sketch of the prophetMohammad 10 the UOIled Statesl esterday ransacked the Bank ofAmenca buIldmg In Lahore and stDneG the US <!onsulate-general
An unoffiCial report said 28 pcopl~ were lOjurcd when police char·ged WIth staves to disperse a demonslratlOg crowed over 1,000 strongAn offiCial report said several poI!cemen were hurt by stones
The offiCial statements.I'd the crowed had tom down theliS flag from the consulate-general
PolIce used tear gas to dJspersethe crowd, WhICh was chantmg proV'et Cong guernlla slogans, andthrew a cordon round the consulate·general and mformatlOn centre
UNI7'ED NATIONS, New York,Feh 17, (Reuter) -The UOlted
States proposed yesterday thatSouth Africa jillow InternatIonalRed Cross representatIVes to havecontinUIng and uOlmpeded accesato 33 Southwest Afncana 1IIlpnsoned for alleged terrorism
The proposal, from Arthur JGoldherg, came when the Secunty Council resumed its debateyesterday On how tp break SouthAfnca's gnp on Southwest Africa
South Afnca admIOlsters thishuge territory m defIance of aUN resolution desolv1ng Its League of NatIons mandate.
The Security Council Is prImanly concerned WIth the fate of33 Southwest Africans sentencedby a supreme court m South AfnCa last week lit a trial regarded by the UN os illegal
Time: 9:00 p.m.-l:00 a.m.
Avallable at: ASTCO
~~NATJONAL CLUB
~ICANEMBASSY
I Southwest Africans
ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL
George Washington BirthdayCharity Ball
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF KABUL
KABUL, Feb 17 (Bakhtar)-Soviet ambassador In AfghanIstan,eonstan tme Alexandro\' left forMosco\.',' Thursday
JALALABAD, Feb 17 (Bakhtar)-Eng Mohammad Akbar Reza,
minister of agriculture and IrrigatIOn, yesterday lnspected the Nangarhar -Development ProJect
KABUL Feb 17, (Bakhlar.-A movie deplctmg the recent deve_lopment of the armed forces ofthe SoVIet Umon, Including manoeuvres of the air and naval units wasshown In the Soviet Embassy Wed~
nesday The ).1mlster of Infonnationand Culture, Dr Mohammad Anas,and some officials attended
KABUL. Feb 17, (Bakhtar)-The people of Deh Yaya, Bakhtyafan Palmonar Khwajn Chosht andTar'a KhaII of' the Deh Sabz dt,trictof KabUl ha\'lC donated 25 acres ofland in Deh Yahya vlllage for theconstruction of a school there andhave also accepted construction ex·penses Un tIl the school IS completedone of the elders has given his houseto be used as a school
AFP adds Weather conditIonswere so bad over the maflne outpostat Khe Sanh yesterday that half ofth. supplIes for the besIeged dropped by parachute were lost
For the first Ume, some of thearops were carned out by mstruments because of bad vlsablltty WhIChprevented flIghts below the clouds /
The pilots used radar to "aimtheir foodsluffs, a munitIon and sac.;ks of cement to strengthen the def-/e>nses of the base, where 5,000 manlies expected to be attacked by surroundmg North Vietnamese troops
They alternated With manne jetsbombers whIch were dropplDg 250,SOO and occaSionally 750 poundbombs 10 an effort to oust aQ estimated batlalion of Norlh Vlelnamese from the Citadel Some of theNorth VietnameSe are dug In tothe three to SIX feet walls of theanCient fortification Itself
Thursday, Feb. 22, 1968
Kabul Hotel
INTERNATIOAL COMMUNITY ,~i:co_TASK Wishes To ThankPakistan International AirwaysPan American
Afghan Swiss Trading Company (ASTCO)For the door prize, a weekend trip for two to Lahore.
Tickets: AI. 300 each
U. S. Loses 10,000In First Six
Weelc$ 01 Year
Duels ACJjoss Hue's_PerfumedRiver Still Going On Strong
Skung eqwpment IS supphed bythe MIOlStry of EducatIon andthe German peace corps pay thebus fare to the skung area whichIS about 15 km east of Kabul
In next week's tournament twomatches wIll be held---<>ne for theskIlled and the other for the begmners The Wlnner WIll bereceIVe the Afghan skung chamPlOnshlp tItle GARDEZ Feb 17 (Bakhtar)-
Minister at Plannmg' Dr Abdul SaHerbst sald' that on the average mad Hamed tnspected the Palrthla
40 cm of snow are needed for Development Prbject Thursdayskllllg ThIs year they had ab- Hamed, accompamed by Deputy
Abdul SamJ, Sen AU Jan and' Gov·out a metre snow whIch made ernar Lt Oen Mohammad Az~em.,skung condltlons favourable Fo~ mspeoted progress on the waterrtunately, except for some mmor supply system for the city theInJunes there were no senons machinery used in the proJect' and
arcldents the forests In the area '
SAIGON, Feb 17 (Reuter)-TheNorth Vietnamese and AmerIcanssl1l1 battlmg m Hue, a city of terrorfought artillery duels across the'Perturned River yesterday sendmg refugees scattermg for cover, reliablesources said here
Destroyers steaming 1D the SouthChIna Sea levelled their flve-mchgun~ a.nd poured shells mto the anc.ent CItadel where the North Vietnamese are still firmly entrenched
Carner based navy Jets bomberswhich rarely strtke 10 Soutb VIet,nam lashed the defiant North Viet·namese who still fly the red, blueand yellow flag of lhe NatIonal LIberatIOn Front over the Impertalpalace
late skiers also took lessons
Herbst WIll conduct the coursenext year and hopes that one ofhiS fIve Afghan students whoare all skilled skiers will take
over when he leaves
Herbst saId that the studentstake a lot of mterest m Iearnmgthe sport but nearly all of themhad "weak" knees
More sports and more exerCIse can strengthen theIr legmuscle, he saId
SOFIA Feb 17 (DPA) -SOv-, ,iet ForeIgn Minister AndreI Grnmyko and hIS Bulganan counterpart, Ivan Bashev .dlscussed current UlternatIon problems WIthspeCIal attentIOn to European secunty, a communique Issued atthe close of Gromyko's visit aa1dhere yesterday
WASHINGTON, Feb 17. (DPA).J-meracan losses 10 Vietnam dur
HIS the first SIX weeks of thls yearamount to more than 10,000 AmeClean soldiers killed, wounded ormlssmg, It was. announced here yes'Clday
AccordlOg to a U S Defence Department spokesman 1,674 AmeClcan soldiers were killed In action 10
Vietnam between January I andI ebuary 10
In the week endmg February 10alone, 400 Amencan soldiers werek,lied, most of them m the VIet('ong Tlet-offenslve agamst Saigon
and South VIetnam', bIg eltil'S.The Pentagon also reporled that
lj,lnce the begltlnmg of the war mV,etnam 936 AlDl'rlcan ,oldlers havebeen li,ted as mlsslOg An additIOnal233 arc known to have been takenpflsoner
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Ceasefire
Kabul Schools' Skiers Tofl~ld Matchesj Next Friday
By Our Reporter
Over 300 spectators and skiers took part In the 1st annua 1 sid races at Chauld Ski Bowlyesterday.•
The record r.rowd enjoyed good skiing, tine :weather and delicious food at the h1J1 andlodge.
Events we e held for men and women In 3 classes of skIers.Beginners, 'Intenned1ates and advanced, and the winner each event was presented with
"Victor's Cup" from Istallf by His Royal IIlghness PrlnceNader Shah a 'Pember of theclub. ---
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KABUL, Feb 17 -After a decades lapse skIing courses conducted by the MIDlstry of Educallan have been once agam reV1ved In thlS year's course, ~u
pe1"V1sed hy Eberhard Herbst, aWest Gennan peace corps volunteer, 25 students took part
The eIght week course will come to an end next Fnday whenthe years tournament wIll beheld In ChaukJ Arghandeh' SkiBowl
Practice courses were held twodays a week-Thursday and Friday from 9 a m to 5 pm BesIdesthe 25 beginners, five mtermed_
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was accompaDied by Ihe expu1.>lOnof 84 Jordamans from the WestBank of the Jordan and the arrestsof many others, and by a new waveof torture In the Gaza Strip to force the mhabltants to qUlt that Brea
Reuter adds 3D unnamed thudpower acted as mtermedlary 10 secuI,"g a ceasehre along the Jordan valley where Israeli and Jordaman forces fd,;ght an eight-hour battle WIthartillery, tanks, mortars and planes1 hursday ,
Authontatlve sources said the thudpower conveyed to Israel a Jordamanceasehre request as IsraelI planesaided by (lares, pounded JordaDJanpOSitIOn long a 100 km front
Israel accepted the request provIded It was effective all along the froIltler
Jordan's acceptance came throughat 2245 local (2025 GMT) and 15 mlnutes later orders to Israeli troopsand planes to halt the flghtIDg be(dme effective
Skies in the central and northern regions will be cloudy.Yesterday the warmest area wasJaraIabad with a high of 19 C,66 F. The coldest was Shaakwith a low of -28 C, -19 F.Wind speed in Kabul was recorded at 5 knots yesterday.Yesterday North Salang had 2mm rain and Farah 1 nun.
The temperature In Kabul at10 a.m. was -4 C, 25 F.
yesterday's temperatures:
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Also under the same directionIS the Ballet of the FIve Contmt nts The world s leadIng chorcogl aphers have been mVlted to asSIst In the preparation of thIS bal·let the aIm of whIch WIll be topresent an exhibItIon on an In~
ternatlOnal scale of the most repI esentattve cultures In the fIeldor dancmg LIkeWise, the Balletof the AmerICas, for whIch var·10US MeXIcan choreographers areat present studymg Central andSouthern Amencan fol)<lofC Wlthlh., mtentlOn of presenting a rePI esentat..ve programme ofLatm-Amncan folklore
All these spectacles form partof the Cultural Programme whIchWIll run parallel to the sportsevents durmg the XIX Olymp·be descnbed as Industrial
The Corps de Ballet comprIsesmore than 300 artIsts and fivedlc:.tmcbve styles of mUSIC areplayed durmg the perfonnancos'the lodlan mUSIC of Pre Hlspamcollgm played WIth shells andrallies the J arocha charactenstiC' of the Veracruz region andplayed on the harp and the VIa1m the sonorous and vtnle muSI( of the 'MarIachIS' whIch In~
cludes VIolins guItars, trumpetsan dbase gUItar and IStypIcal of the J ahsco area themusIc of the South Eastern partof the country played on ~heMarImba melancholy wooden
Instrument on which up to fivepeople may play slmultaneonusly and the gay musIC of Huasteca Tamauhpeca mterpreted onthe vlOhn and the gUltar
A chorus of well.tuned vOicesac.s as a backmg for the balletand IS dlvlt.:ed Into two categonesone group lnterpretmg the songswhich are so arranged as to great1y enhance theIr beauty, butwhIch have at the same tIme re
tamed tbelr folklonc content theolher group from IndIan dances
to the verbal ImprOVIsatIOns ofVeracluz
ConscIous of the mexhaushbletalent prevalent among MeXIcandancers and the gap whIch rerna)rled when the company went onIOUI abroad Amalia Hernand~z
had Ihe Idea of formmg a secodCorps Ballet which her daughler has directed and manllgedsmce J961
Amalal Hernandez IS asslstmgIhe Orgamstng Committee oftIle Games of the XIX OlYmPIadtn the preparatIon of the balletentitled I New Ftre I whIch together With a magmflcent hght
,..and sound spectacle WIll be pre·
~ f sen ted at the PyramIds of SanJuan de Teollhuancan 40 kl
.. lometres from MeXICO City onthe eve of the mauguratlOn of the
OlympIC GamesThiS spectacle Will be trans
mltled to the entire world Vlat<:levlslOn and Will mark the occaslOO 01 the arrival of the OlympIC Torch tn the V.Illey of Mexll:0 on thiS mght
a Mexican folkloric ballet.
Washington
Ball Thursday
The Dangbters of Sun,
KABUL. Feb IS, -The annnaIGeorge Washngton birthdayball wiU be held Thursday evemng In Kabul Hotel
The black tie event whleh Issponsored by the AmerIcan Soolety o~ Kabul WIll last (rom9 pm to 1 am There will bemusic for dancing hy Gay Jays,and G Clefts huffet and doorprize
The prize consists of a trip toLahore
Proceeds of the events whJehbas been attended hy as mucbas 500 guests In the past yearsago to Afghan eharlttes
In 1959 they performed dUringthe Pan AmerIcan games mChlCago and were a great successEven at that tlm~ the ballet IIIcluded ID ItS repertoIres tableaux",hlch are today conSIdered asclassSlcs The chIldren of the SunWeddIllg In Hoasteca ChriS\..
mas In Jahsco TehuantepecFiesta In Veracruz, The Deer
The small company was warmIy-recelved and began to growboth m number and quahty un·III II attracted the attentIOn ofthe TourIsm Department, and thelJll ector at that tIme Senor Gustavo OrtIz Hernan gave them offlclal representa.tIon In hiS firsttour through Cahforma Canada and Cuba
~J~~~~.O~g~p~1m:~r~~_~~~~n~~~a \~'~~~"~~~Q.!!I.La Argentlna", and later on un. Dance Dance of tbe Quetzal
der the choresographer Waldeen Bird" Los Sonaleros The ReThus she began to make her volutlon
name as an artist 10 the fields In 1960 the PreSIdent at thatof claSSIcal modern and Spanlsb llme Adolfo Lopez Mateos awballet Western styles of dan are of the artIstIc potential ofclOg however could stll no th,s group gave his full backlOggreat emotIOn wlthm her and and helped to create one offrom this tIme onwards she was thp world s leadIng dance combaSIcally drawn towards the paores and as such m 1961 thesongs dances and mUSIc of the cOl)lpany was appomted to repre
Mexlcao people thetr fulsafmg senl MeXICO offiCially m the Fes·rhytms embodymg the emotJOns llval of Nations In Pans where
of the Indo Spanish mestIzo after compet109 agamst 21 otherGradually she began to notIce p"rtIclpants they succeeded mhow the soul of thIS nahon made v. inning first pnzeItS PI esence knOWn m the moun At the present tIme the baltams 10 the valleys and In Villa let Includes more than 30 clIffe.a;e C'clcbatlons In the remotest rent tableaux and the choreo"orner. of the country graphy IS base don 56 dIfferent
C1ances fro,", all regtons of theI't corcupted by these ldea~ country such as the Adehtas
shc worked for some-years 10 the Mayas FIesta of Guelaguet·the NatIonal Institute of FlOe za Masks cane harvest In MamaArts aod fmally 10 1952 she was uhpas Mocambo the Tarascos'able '0 embark on her great hfe s Masks of Guerrero Guadalajarawork and appeared for the the Aztec Gods, 10 addItIon tofirst ttme on MeXIcan teleVISIon those preVlous!y mentioned andWith a small group of dance'" n any others
Folkloric Ballet Plans S~cial
For XIXth Olympiad
Drowning girl (1963)
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rouase nose while two enromoustears gatber under perfect aimand eyes Her thoughts float m acloud above her head "That'sThe Way It should Have BegunIBut It s Hopeless'"
As m the cheap comiC booksher skm IS coloured pmk by tIDYred dots Her harr IS a VIVId un·dotted yellow and behmd herhead IS a contrastmg patch of sohd cnmson In IlDrowrung GIrl1963' (6 ft square). the girl sheadof royal blue halI" IS enclosed byundUlatmg Art Nooveau wavestopped WIth spray
Llchtl:nstem. who was In London for the opemng of hiS exhlbltlon also came as somethmg of(\ surprise to those who met himFar from bemg a sWlngmg flowerchIld he IS a qwet ~hm man of~ w',th grey ng hair and soberdress who talks earnestly abouthiS work and CItes Picasso andMatisse as hiS masters PamtIngrather than fashIon IS obVIOuslyhIS maIn preoccupation In facthe rejects the role of SOCIal cnhcWIshed on hIm by some of hISadmIrers He has saId Once Iam mvolved WIth the palDtmg Itbmk of It as an abstractIOn Halfthe time pIctures are upSidedown anyway, when I work'
V'SItors to the Tate exhIbitIonwhere hiS past seven years' workIS represented, can see why he dlshkes bemg styled the comiCstnp man" BeSIdes the brightlycoloured striP cartoon canvases
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When AmalIa Hernandez, theI>allerma and choreographer, de
Clded to form her own companyIn 1952 there already eXisted InMeXICO vanous groups whichpresented the country's tYPIcaldnnCt's mamly for tounsts
They were all small however,arid as a rule lImIted themselvesto presentmg In their sporadiC
performances the most wellknov.1l dances. Some of themshOl \lded In mystICism and monotonous as their mterpretersweTe completely unaware oftheatrical technIques as we knowthem today
Amaha Hernandez began dane109 when she was eight yeut Sold fIrst of all as a pupIl of Sy·bllle the prIma ballerma In Pavlava's company and then wllh
Madame Dambre an emment dlrectcr of the ParIS Opera
Soon however she rebelledagamst the ngld dISCIplIne of,la'SIcal ballel and went to stu
dy under the SpanIsh ballerma
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Londoners Give Pop ArtOfficial Blessing
Pop Art WllS gIven an OffiCIalbleSSIng 'll London last monthwhen the Amencan pamter, RoyLlchtensteml became the firstPop painter to have a one-manexhIbItion at the Tate Gallery,the home of Bntall1's natIOnalmodern art collectIon The subsequent long and earnest reVIews mthe art columns of the natIonalpress endorsed the Tate's chOIce
Startmg WJth Life-whIch fiveyears ago puhllshed an arhcleheaded "Is Roy LlChtenstemthe worst pamter m tbe world?"-magaztne edItOrs have selZCd onPop Art both to decorate thelt
pages with ItS br18ht amusmg 1m·ages and to proVid'J. edItOrIal rna·tenal On the theme of the affluent society and mass culture
Along WIth other Pop artIstsLlchtenstem has been tIl servedby the reproductIon of hIS workm the press espeCIally as regardshIS use of stnp cartoon materIalas sublect matter In reproductIon, the difference between anactual stnp cartoon lDlage andthe pamtmg It msplres IS blurred
Art cntlcs pomt out that ItIS only when one sees the SIze ofthe canvases and feels the 1m·pact of the bold outlines and co·lours of Lichtenstein's strip cartoon paintings that one reahsesthat the subject matter Is not alIThe amusement prOVIded by thelromc treatment of comic bookbanality then becomes merely anaddItIonal bonus to the VIsualpleasure prOVIded by te pamf· Img's colounng and compOSItion
The attractIOn of stnp cartoons for LIchtenstein Ues In thecontrast between their Violent oremotlOoal sub}ect matter andtheir mechamcal and remote commerclal presentatton In one. ofLichtensteIn's favounte pamtlogS the Tate owned 'wHAAM'1963" (approXlDlately 13 ft by 6ft) a f,ghter aIrcraft dIves towards an already explodmg plane on the adjOInIng canvas TheexplOSIOn IS represented by ferOCIOUS fronds of cnmson and aCIdyellow culmmahng m the largeblock capItals WHAAM' ThIScombmatIon of colours and shapes gIves the tmpresslon of a VIO.lent release of energY
The attackmll pIlot tS palD~ed,n black and whIte whtle the et~tertng conveYIng his urge~thoughts floats above hi
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ok m the thID capIta s resebY the commerclal artIst fO~thought or speech balloons (d
pressed the ftre control andahead of me rockets blazethrough ,the skY ") I
In one of the pamtlDgs en\tted "Hop~less 1962", ~rawn fromthe comic book senes, Teen ROrQaneest ' the herOine's head rechning --:oefully on her plllow, completely fills the frarne A pearshaped tear drops past her rest
I JUSt wondered how he Will remember for so long that It wastime for leavmg and we all Wished(lne another Khuda HafiZ and cameawax and that man went carefullywrappmg the bone m hIS handker,hlef
He then tried to swallow It buthis eyes bu1aed out as the bonegol stucle 1U his throat
He qwckly coughed and broughtout ThlDkmg that he was now obhet«<! to swlillow It I toJd my husband to excuse him for I thougbtIf he tries ap,n he would surelyset throttled
But my hosband told me It wasnot necessary for him to swallowIf he cannot swallow It be was tokeep It always WIth hIS person andhas to produce It whenever I asktor It.. and I can ask even 10 thepublic bath If I happen to see hImtbere and if I*' fails to prodoce Ithe has to give me whatever of bls~ossesslons I demand
When I asked what was the limehmtl I was told there was no hmlthe bad to keep It ready ilfelongWIth him
He told me that this was a closed garne whether the panalty wasdecided beforehand andIt was milch safer thanthe open one where theWlrmet can ask for wbatever helIkes, even the dBughter of the 10,er as a brode for himself or If be beold for b,o son and Ihe loser cannot say' nol
Next week we all gathered agaInat the house of the loser and agaIn a sumptuolts meal was laidbotore us This time my husbandtook one round bone from the mutton and gave It 10 another fnenduf Ii,s This person dId not seem tounderstand what It was and wbenhe saw It be uld," oh I have beencaught unaware I thought youwere giving me a kabab"
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went,Then he went and went andUnttl he could go no farther,
Because he was so thirstyHe went to search for water
To quench IS mighty thIrst
He searched and searched and searched.Unttl he reached a place
Whete there were so many streamsSo many streamS, so many streams
That he could scal cely count themOne two three one, two, threeHe could count no further,
For all 111 all, there were only three slreams,Two of which were completely dry
And the thIrd one had no water
The waterless stream he chose to dnnkAnd drank and drank and drank
Untll h.s hps were sore
But no water did ~each hIS throatHe pIcked up hIS old broken musket,
And saId, "enough hunting today"Tired and happy he went back home
Until Ihe bones were soft as dough,Yet the meat was tougll as stone
He ate the meat,For he was very hungry,
And stored the soup m hIS knapsack
One of them went huntmg one day,An old broken musket slung on hIS shoulder
He went al)d went and WEl/ltTIll he reached a forest thIck WIth trees
There were so many It ees so many trees,
That he could scal cely counl themOne two, three, one two three,
He could count no fUI thelFor all m all there were only three trees
Two of whIch were completely dryAnd the third poor one was leafless
Eagerly he peared at the leafless treeHopmg for game to fIll hIS bag
And what do you thmk he saw?So many bIrds, so many hlrds
That he could scarcely count themOne two three one, two, threeHe could coun't no further,
For all m all, there were only threeTwo of whIch were completely dead
And the thIrd poor one was hfelessThe old broken musket he loaded,
With powder and great lead shots,SlowIy and carefully he aImed,
A very careful and steady aImHe pulled the trIgger
Ger.ra-ram·has, went the gun and ter-ra-ra-pasThe hfeless hlrd fell down,
Whether from shot or soundN a one could tell
He pIcked up the bIrd and put It m hIS knapsack,The knapsack on hIS back
And followed the beaten track, •He went and went and went and wenf
Until was terrIbly hungry,So hungry he could hardly walk,
He wlilked and walked and walkedAnd searched and searched and searched
To fmd a pot,And a proper spot to cook the bIrd
He fmally did reach a spotWhere he saw so many houses
So many houses, so many housesThat he could scarcely count themOne two three one, two, three
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He could count no furtherFor all m all there were only three houses,
Two of whICh wele completely m rumsAnd the thIrd poor one was roofless
Eagerly he entered the roofless houseAnd can you unagme what he saw?
He saw so many pots, so many pots so many potsThat he could scarcely count them
One two, three, one, two, three,He could count no further,
For all m all there were only thr eo potsTwo of whIch were completely broken
And the thIrd one was bottomlessInSIde the roofless house,
He took the hfeless bIrd,And put It mto the bottomless pot
He bOIled and boiled and balled the bIrd.
Once they say there wereThree sons of Mohammad Yar
Who were ever ready to ..atBut Iilways too Sick to work
Char Bache (four sons) of Mohammad Ypr la a folktale oneIj!ams quite early 111 lIfe As soon as a mothe. sees ber chlld becoming lazy she WlII recIte him the story
Both Pashto and Dan are nch 10 follore We hope to be ableprmt more folk stones In an attempt to farnillanse our readera
Wltli this aspect of Afghan cultureChar Bache Mohammad Yar, translated by Prof M.A Ansari,
IS reprmted from Adab magazme, published by the College of Letters.
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One partYilftmli,1 liito JWo <when, '~~ ,SIIIlCat ~ ~vel'y~odY clapped for the one whowe went to ..tteila a'dlnner In the ,had IiAppened. l .... jllSt wonder- bad forgotton was consldcied as ,house of 0'\0 of ow; friendS Aftera ing 'at A,' to" who was the havmg ·lost the- lame
_Imng long W!Uk as we plhere<1 ro- 'loser ';But I • learnt that It was unanunouSly decided thatund the food 18ii;l on a snow white 'Jt wu'not,yel dCCldcd, for the pme nCAt week we aU bave a similar dInsheet calleil 'dBstJirthan' _all hands bad lust"Started WIth the breaking ner ID tbe house. of the losersltetcbcd to -enJoy ~ steaf\1ml Iiot of the bone I told mY h~banQ "poor chapdImes ,and the mvitlDl roast chic- -, We con\il\ued With the food that had a h,t of af lOOO" but th15 wasken one of the pilrtieS handed over one nothing. be said
Hardly a mlDute bad elapsed that dlSb to lh~ other OM and the otberwe saw lWo persons holdinl the qu(ckly shouted "I {"member" andtwo edges of the Wish lio",e In thea Ipok the disb, Everybody Iaujibedhands and telling 'bere now, wbo- and I was lusl puzzled A few mIDsoeve, loses should stand a similar ules Illter 'lbe other one handed overdInner 10 all wbo are present' AiJd a t4lillO ",apltin and the first onll'he) broke the WIsh bone by Ipul' now 'bouted ''I remember" lind tookUng at It the napkin
I curoously bent fOl'Wl1rd to sec They continued thus till one ofwho had the bl~r portion but both tbem forgot to say so and how thethe parties Ignored 11 altogether one gIVIng the article told, "I remFvery cody kept qUiet as If llothml ember and you bave forgotton", and
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Independent SwazIlaod s externalpohcles will m all probablhty resembl, Ihose of the two other formerI-J gh CommiSSion terntorIes Echo109 the PreSident of Botswana SIrSeretse Khama and the Le~othoPllme Minister, ChICf Leabua JonaIhan Prince DlamlnJ has declaredw~ Will not anow foreign JOlerfe
Ie-nce In our affaIrs Not even theOA U can hInder our development
We want good relations With ourr;(,lghbours South Africa and Mozamblque Consldermg our economiclIc=s and geographical poslUan wewant to cultlvatc mutual respect andunderstandlOg ft appcars a safeguess that under the PrlOce SwaZili.lnd Will shortly seck dIplomatictICS With South AfTlca (where DrZwanc= IS banned) and WIth Portugal
Ihe game was between a majorOIl company aad the Tokyo MuoIClpahty The city counCIl and theumOns both chartered bus.. to takethelf workers to the game EverybQd.}i JOloed In songs pralsmg theirworkplace
Between 15,000 aod 20000 supporters, lDcludlng wives and childrenwere supporhng eacb organisationThere were cbeerleaders and bandsgroup chants, songs, slogans, andshouts. The game seemed lDcJden~tal to thc= togetherness The unspontaneous nature of the performancewas as depresSing as Shlnkansen wa"uphflUlg
it mwcated the continwng suenglb of group Ites and loyalbes 10
Japanese life ThIS IS a complexphc=oomenon As one able Japanese50c.1al scientIst saId "Group attachments are today th~ cause of oursuccess Just as preViously they werea cause of our failure'
Or, as one frJ~nd from that perhup" too indiVidualistic nation thePhilIpPines, descnbed It 1m seldom Impressed by the Japanese asmdlvlduals, but 1 never faIl to marvel at their teamwork'
The maIO focus of loyalty IS noI nger the natIOn It JS the companythe school, the offIce, the borne
The dedJC8tJOQ of the Japanesei'<allOnal Railways employees produced ShinkanS\:D as surely as thedevotion to lhe Emperor producedPearl Harboor 26 years ago
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cellent way of bandling youths whowould have been otherWise unemplayed and restless Today s PIoneer~ IOciude many young men whowere among the rioters who helped break up the Federahon of Rhodt:'sia and Nyasaland In Its drive10 Improve agnculturo the MalaWI(Iovernment IS well pleased Wtth theIesult achieve<J, by the Pioneers1 hey arc lough, and we want
tough farmers to end the povertyIn Malawi: Aleke Banda saysTheir' farms have pro'oled hlSblysuccessful The Emperor of EthiOpIa has ViSIted them Aod It wasafter SImilar Visit that the LesothoI)nme MInIster deCided to start hiSown Planeer movement
lu addihon to farmlDg, the PIOneers are IralDed Itl !rades like carpentry, bwldl",g anI! me.hamcs 10Ihe VIllages they bave aSSISted IDgovernment resettlement schemes~Ieanng tbe land and helplDg tobUild hollSell for the new settlersThose PIoneers not ID active servIceare glven laud by tbe Governmenton wblch to farm Such farmsserve as 100deis of good agnculturefor ollie.',villagers to copy
The ollier ...de of Pioneer actmties relates to toternal secunty anddefence Although a tourISt 10 Malawi IS unlikely to noUce them IDthIS role, they do In fact coilstitute
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·1,J 1;1'J .. (~II\1 I"+,.~bas been CJCceeded by Immlllratlon govemment 18 ,lIkeIY'lo break, downdl'rlDg recent years, partlculilrly 'ofl fllie rap[Il'CJCP'nslon of tllel~nom~labouters from MozambIque' There, .,The"ttcild lis, liIready pIetlf' _ SWazi' ,IS also a wblte commumty, ma'l'ly land'. ""'W'r& of, agro-for~tal proof South African stocl/, numbering duce 'amclilJlted more than £. 11
'ahout S,OOO and performlDll mamly • '!lillio). In, 1966)5, the, last yea~ forprofessIOnal and manageflal tasks "hlch detsUelJ stilllstIcs are avall'They control _more than 45 per cent able, ul' from £ 96 mllion In 1965of the land and nearly all the tndu· and unde( £. 8' mlllJon In '963, Itsslry, either as owpcrs or as local exports of asbestos) and 4'on are ..rcp~eselltatiVcs of South AfrIcan, }Idded 'l total o( £ 2 75 lnlllJon InBritish pnd -other foreIgn IDlerests 1964, lUst over £. SJ milhon di1tjilg
The I gtrong !fibal tradItion blla I tbe fol1owlDg year .lad dearly £6 4made lis mark on the Internal pnli- mIllIOn In 1966 < _tiCS of Swaziland DUflng the last A £ 40 mllIJon contract for IronelectIon m April. 1967, the KIDg's ore sliles recently obtained fromtraditIonalist Imbokodov Nahonal Japan guarante~s an accelerat,ooMovement captured 97 per ceot of ot the trend for the future lilewthe votes and all 24 elected seats 10 mlDl>s are helDg opene~ up Theret!;le Lower House of SWllZ1land s are also prospe<:IS of lDvestrnent IDtUSI Parhment onder Internal self- Ihe country's efflc~ntly run pllintalUle One-fIfth of the Vale wenl to lIOns and a bope for developing ,'''the radIcal Ngwane NatIonal Llbe I ydr"",leclfl/: potentlBI for tbe ex.ralol'}' Congress whose leader, Dr )'or, of power to Soutb Afflca TheAmbrose Zwane, was beaten In 111S Ngwcnyama, anxious to mamtainown constituency tbe mflow of IDvestment of capllal
Some of bls former assocIates had has done everythlDg in h,s power to<hanged politIcal colours before the IIlcr(:ase the confIdence Of SwaZI'elections and arc now seated 10 the 1.md's whi1c:1 commWflly Llkew1Se(ubmet One of the most mtcrestmg several forcigp compamcs hav;(.abmef appomtments IS that of made mdependence gifts of shares60 year-old Leo LoveU, the former to the ruler and to national tnstituSouth Afllcan Labour Member of 1Ions with Invltahons to be represenPnrltment and now Swaziland s MI hd on theIr boords of dIrectorsmster of Flnaoce, Commerce andlodustry He IS a SOCialist lawyer~lrong1y opposed to racialism Thefirst Pnme Minister IS PClnceMakhOSII:\I DlarmDl, who IS relatedto the KlDg
FollOWing the electIOns the redl
blue: and yellow SwazI flag repla... cd the Bntlsh UOIon Jack onApnl 25 as tbe former protectoraiebecame a semi mdependent StateWith Its external affairs Bnd secuntyadmlOlstered from LondoD Buteven before the new standard wasraised Dr Zwane made an appealto the Organisation for AfncanUnity (OAU) urglDg alteratIOns 10
th~ new Constttutton towards aftlOre even dlstnbutlon of power
SwaZiland s current stability undc=rth(' tnbal structure cannot precludeconcern for the not too-<hstant fulure when the tradJt10nal sy~ten'J of
least an overnight stop Now I amexpected to go and come back m.:me day
The Japanese are sull funouslyben. on U ca tchlOg up' Ope wondeIS how far abead ID many helds they\\111 be before they lose this orge
fn blgh speed radway tecbnIqoes,It la the rest of the world whicb hasto do the catching up, thOugh curlOusly many Japanese hliven't reallsed this Of course there are manyShlOkansens 10 Europe", IS a reaebOn I have heard So oflen that ItIS not explaJDable merely 10 termsof Japanese modesty and pohteness
BUI at least the Japanese sre hurry ng life along WIth taste and cor.;Cort Their attenton to this--tothmgs h~e the buffet car speeddmetef"-Is 8S striklOg as their teChnicalprogress
Mo.t of the expres~ traIDs go tothe cleanlDg sheds afllOr every IOUrne} If, by chance, they don't get atborough gOing-over 10 Tokyo orSbln·Osaka statIons One begms toImagine that In every large scaleJapanese bUSIness there must be aTasleful DetaIls departmeot
It would not be surproslDg if there were Everybody-worker or rnnnager, cleaner or exeeutlve---caresfor hiS company In a way that would be mconcelvable elsewhere, IS
loyal 10 II as be was ooce l.tyal tothe Emperor
ThiS was brought home to mewhen f Visited the Korakuen Stadl.~il1 JO Tokyo 1 went to watch baseball but stayed to walch the crowd
are m a Iblck forest near thl Police, I:unlng College at Limbe Therea COmnullee of ten aSSIsts AJekeBunda the Cblrman of the PIOneers 10 runnlOg mov~mcot, AlekeBunda IS also Minister of EconomIc Development aod InformatIOnas wc=1I as bemg the PreSIdent of the Youth League aod Secretary General of the Congress Party
Only the tougb survive Ibe Itfe ofa Pioneer under tralPtog Many are:lent back home JUSt to teach agnculture after beIng found untitTbelr day begins at 530 a m aodends at 1000 pm -16thours ofmIlitary traUllDg, famllng, road andbrIdge building apd belplOg, \'1l1agers WIth tbew problemsThe PIOneers own farms JD. V8nous
centres \\Of the oountry, aDd runthem on :much the sam" lines as thekibbutz system In Israel They areseneraIlt popUlar in tIie Villages1,hey bwld scbools and roads andcelp pld VllIagers' tend tbell' ,JandsThIs work also belp. to rCduce government costs 10 development programmes
Ploneo,. get very httle pay Thea-1~clOrs cam as little as £ 12 pet
mpnth Their green uDlforms aresupphed' free They grow their ownfood In 1963, they wilked bar6-footed, now the movement can affordto prOVide them WIth army boots
The system bas provided an ex
The Secr~t Of Japan's Success
Youth Movement's Role In Malawi
A conference IS due to open onFebruary 19 at Marborough Housem London to se«le the fInal arranaements fpr Swazdand's mdependence ID September The conferencewill aU but conclude the history ofBnltsh colomahsm ID Africa WhenSWllZ11and goes, Bro!aID's nnmedlte responsibUltY, after ceottlraes'presence bn the continent, Will behlluled to the people of rebel SQu ~tbern. RhodesIa -
The GCOgtllphy of SW11Z1lan~WIIImake the mdependent State an therblsck 'Island' m whlte-dom ledSouthern Africa, Surrounded bySouth Afrlca aod Mozamhlque thePorluguese colony, the D'tlDeral'rlchKlOgdom of 6,700 '\Quare aulesWIll be dependeat for survlvlil J ongoodwIU of Its neIghbours Interms of trade and profIt retum onforclgn Investment, It has a greatdeal more to offer than Bolswanaand lesotho, the otber two landlocked fOmler Bfltish HIgh CommlsSlOn territories
SwllZtland bas the largest asbestosmine in the world Its mouot8IDSare nch In coal and Iron ore, Itsland, ooe of the best watered BreasID Ih. south of the continent pro.duces a hIgh YJelf,l of woodPUlp,cotton, aod cUrus, aDd Its fourmam rivers arc SUitable for hydroel<ctnc development
Bot the maJoroly of Its less than~oo 000 people live m extreme poverty 10 8 ngld, tnbal SOCIal structure over which presIdes King Sob-:hou. II 1be 69 ycar old ruler whotraces hIS royal house back overfour centunes He was Installed as[03JI-tgmNgwenyama (L,on) ID 1921 Therule, controls the roughly 35 per...COt of land Ifi the country whichhna been entrusted to the SwaZInation ]n practice nghts to occup} and useland are obtained fromlhe KIng s local cbIefs
Aboul 70 per cent of the populatJOn over the age of nme years areIlliterate: and a SIzeable proportion"re suffenng from malnutnhonThousands of SwaZi labourers areemployed 10 South African coal andgold mlOes Howcver emlgtatlon
The slow tralD from Tokyo toOsaka does the 316 mile triP In foorhours The fast tralD does It 10 threehours ten mlDUtes
The bullet-hke expresses of Sh,·nkansen, the New Tokkaido LlOehave proved that there IS hfe 10 raI1ways yet You nO longer save UInel.klDg a plane to Osaka
Shmkansen IS one of the most otrlklDg symbols of Japanese progressNot only do YI'U travel at 135 mph""thout your coffee spilling, but IDIbe buffet-car Ibere IS a speedomOler to teU bow fast you re gOlDgThere IS also a movlDg lDdlcatorshowmg Just where you are between statJODS You can phone fromthe tralQ to the Cities you are passIng through
There are earthquake~measunng
Instruments at regular mtervals alon!; the hne, which IS bwlt mostlyon a v,aduct cuUmg a straIght swathe through the Kanto regIon Assoon as a certain level of disturbanceIS recorded all trams 10 the sectoror on the' whole hoe come to ~hall
There IS one translstoflsed controlSlsnal·box {or the whole line Andat any station you can get a reservatlon from a computer m Tokyo
Not all Japaoese are completelyhoppy about ShIDkanseo, for It addsImmeasurably to the already franbcpace of bVlDg m these overcrowdedJ&panese Islands
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One of these conSiderations wasthat It shortened the distancebetween Ibe Wesl and the Far Eastby two flymg hoors and planes couJd eaSily save ttme and money byllsmg Kandahar as a refuelli{lg stahan
But planes touchmg down forI rtucUlOg also would like to pickup busmess Shoold the aIrport be>come a free port there IS every ~re-o
ason to beheve that more and moreplanes Will be make use of Its facIlitlC=S H said
Execullons of CIVilians senselessdE-struchORS sadIstic treatment ofthousands of people are the dlstmgUlshmg features of the conduct ofthe krughts of the American wayof hfe to Vietnam Pravda satd 10
connection With the latest masslvcair raids 00 the capital of the Den acratlc RepublIc of Vietnam
The ruliog eucles of tbe UmtedSlates are further escalating theltClimes 10 the dirty war 10 Vietnamwltb the object of hUmg Ihe balanceo( military operations to their faV\our Enraged b¥ the successes ofthe South VIetnamese palnots, theywreak their malice on the CiVIliansof Vietnam
pnpularltyCalhog the allaCks an effort 'to
stampede the Amencans by dlTect""l1lary methods the Londonpaper polnled oot The payoffhere should ha ve been wholesaleodectlons by the VIetnamese armyBOI the.e bave oat bappened ReP'"ports from captured Viet Cong stroogly suggest thaI the ranlc andII Ie ~reled to expecL somethingmore tangible to show for therr herOIC sacnflces than a slDgle reargu4
.ard action In Lhe Impenal cltadelat Hue
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Even If the measllres suggested In the conference are adopted and sincerely carried outthere Is IItlle hope of accelerating the processof dl'velollment In the third world to the extent that It could enjoy living standards """'"parable with the developed countrlos In ihenear future. The best that one call boPe for UJl,.
der the present cli'eumstances Is that the economicgap wUl be kept from wldcnlng out of all proporllons
The New Delhi conference has seen thegrowing awal eness of the world ahout thecconomll l.rohIems of the Industrial nationsthemselves I\lost of the would·he benefactorcountries seem to have untold economic problems of their own Even the biggest industrialJlowcr of the West Is sullering from a balanceof payment problem
1\11 these nations seem to be agreed on onet lunl:" and that Is they want to export morethan they Import'm order to 011 set deficits Intheir balance of payments This means thatsome country or countnes must do a lot of Importml:" Who Is this saviour goIng to be? Certaln1y not the developing countnes for tbeycannot afford to buy unless they obtam a reasonable meome from what they export
The IlUrchaslng power of tbe poor natIOnsmust mcrea'e If the Industnal goods of the advanced nahons are to find adequate markets.Thl~ 111 Itself .. enougb reason for the advanced nabons to think of adopting a dllJerentattItude helping the poor nattons solvetbelr economic problems
Any ass..tance given or facdltles grantedshould not be viewed as an act of charity butas a vital necessIty for eunng an econornicalIySIck world Only sucb an attitude translatedInto OIgalllsed action on the part of tbe advanced nations can create the possibilities for thethml world to grow at a rate wlileh will at leastprom!sl' that the present gap wllI not widenany furtber
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1 en youths from the Repubhc ofL=tho (formerly Basutoland) arenow 10 MalaWI undergolog teo montbs of lough agricultural and mlhtary tralDmg as guests of the Malawl Young Pioneers orgamsanon
When they retum to Lesolhothey will fl'rm the nocleu. of a Slmllar movemeot there Their presenc.e In MalaWI results from agreements of cooperation between Prestdent Ilanda and the LesotboPrIme MllllSter. ChIef Leabua Jon"th\Ul, SIX years ago, MalaWI lISelf sent ten: youths to be tralDed IDGbBJYl They returned to launcb tbePioneer movement ID 1962
Th. MlilawI Youog P,oneerscoost)tute a movemellt wbose momCPJocttves ar~ agricultural and ml1llI\1'Y But there ar~ other under-
11I11111 190es and associatIOns- 8OClal,11 educational, ecooomic and pollhcalg Dr Banda himself heads the§;;== "Joneers wbo were offictally sta-_ led two years ago to bave 40,000~_ aeltve members The chief adVIser
IS a Mr Oonen. an IIsraeli. on .....§ - ITIcndment./ The movement ~Onstl'
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After emphaslsmg the needlessneS;) of the armament race and thetaq that It IS consumlDg enonnoushuman and matenal resources theedltonal expressed the hope thatthe J7 nahon Geneva conference ondlsannament would achieve new successcs 10 Its future deliberatIons
The same Issue -carned an artIclesIgned Mohammad Isbaq Ibrah,ml~uggestlOg that the Kandahar lotcrnatlOnal Airport should become afree port
The article gave background JO
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A number of newspapers aroundthe world are of the oplDlon thatthe recent attacks on South VJelnolmese Cities by VIet Cong andNorth VJetnam army unIts havc=laught the JDtematlOnal commuDlty some Important lessons regardrng the nature of commumsm andItS goals In Southeast ASIa
Pratap of Jullundur, lod.. saIdIndia and many other peace seekmg nations were mISled by Harlol spubhc talk of peace whll~ II secretl} prepared for the recent brutalaI tacks on SaIgon and other towns
Another Indian newspaper NavI. !Iarat TImes of New Delhi, saidthose who preVIOusly regarded theUS bombmg as a burdle ID tbewa} of peace can hardly conSiderNorth Vietnam s recent attacks onSouth Vietnam In any differentIrght
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Several delegates bave presented theirVIews on how to bridge the gap between thencb and the poor nations In their speeches atthe second United Nations Conference onTrade and Development These views rangeall tile way from the establlshli:l.ent of a systemof Ir~de )Ireferences by the Industrialised nations for primary commodities, which consUtutethe bulk of cxport trade from the developingcountries, to the free now of aid, the stabilisation of Ilrlces the reduction of freight chargestbe establlshment of regIOnal economic groupmgs among the developing countries and themoblltsatIon of theIr local resourl;es
Thc QuestIon that one shon1d ljsk Is how farwOIJld thcse measures contribute to bridgingtbe e"lstmg gap between the two categories ofnatIOns Is It at all realistic to hope that thisgap can ever be closed? We must first examme the concept of the "developed" as opposedto the "deveJopmg" countries which as commanly understood seems to create mlsoonceptlOll" of the actulil state of world trade AItbough lVe use the term "developed' freely thefact IS that developed countnes are far frombavmg t eached the saturabon pomt In thell'process nf development They too are "developmg but at a much faster ratc,
WinJe tbl' developmg countries are tryingto launch the most essentllil mdustries and toprovide the most basIC goods and serVIces themdnstnaltsed nations equipped with
capitaI and techmcaJ know-how are concentratn11l' on tbe redevelopment of the modes of productllln
Thus the gap between the two groups ofnatwns IS WidenIng In a more senous mannerthan cummonly thought The developing natlons are not only movmg ahead they are mOv!Dg ahead In a dUJerent direction The develop109 countrlcs are not only laggmg behlnd theyare no longer even foIlowmg the developed na·tions
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Today lslah carnes and edItonalon tbe ~ampalgn agalOst locust Thefourtb meelmg of the executive commlttee of the FAO regional commlSsJOn Is bemg held at the PublicIn!\tltute It said
Representatives of MghamstanII an fndla. and Pakutan WIll havefulks On practical ways of carrymg\.lUI the anti locust campaign forltppropnate action
The desert locust IS the numberone enemy of agnculture the edltO
al went on and untIl now unfortunately man has not been able tocompletely WIpe OUt this dangerouspest At ttmes the collective onslaught. of thIS pest IS so dangerousthat It brmgs famme Campaign aganst lOCUSt so far has been defens
1\ e and so far no protective measureshas proved successful
Today when man IS constantlythreatened by hungar and famInethe launchmg of programmes forthe preventIOn of food wastages areall the more necessary the e(htonalI.: r,pbaslsed
We are threatened by the" paSSII) Iltay that WlthlO the next 30 yearsOr so the prc=sent food suppltcs aD
earth may not be enougb to copev"llh the growth of populauon ThisanxIety IS prevaIlIng not only 10 theoe\elopmg counlnes but also 10 ID~
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Holding thc= present meetlO& and(thers like It Will lead to practicala:tlon and collective efforts towardsIhe protectIOn of food supplIes Theedltonal expressed the hope for the!<ouccess of the meetmg In ItS sacredlask The same Issue carried the se<;ond mstalIment of an arllcle by AW suggestlOg the establishment ofa task force to work on fanns durIng the winter 1,ll0Dths
rhe estabhshment of such a fo.rceto mclude men who would otherWise remaIn Idle dunng wmter 10i.Iddltion to increasing total food productlon In the cotmtry wtll alsole4:td to tbe lessenlDg of cnmes suchas tbeft, gambling and murder
Yesterday s Ams carned an ed!1()f1al expresslOg anxu:ty over thef.,lure of world efforts 10 reach
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Also under the same directionIS the Ballet of the FIve Contmt nts The world s leadIng chorcogl aphers have been mVlted to asSIst In the preparation of thIS bal·let the aIm of whIch WIll be topresent an exhibItIon on an In~
ternatlOnal scale of the most repI esentattve cultures In the fIeldor dancmg LIkeWise, the Balletof the AmerICas, for whIch var·10US MeXIcan choreographers areat present studymg Central andSouthern Amencan fol)<lofC Wlthlh., mtentlOn of presenting a rePI esentat..ve programme ofLatm-Amncan folklore
All these spectacles form partof the Cultural Programme whIchWIll run parallel to the sportsevents durmg the XIX Olymp·be descnbed as Industrial
The Corps de Ballet comprIsesmore than 300 artIsts and fivedlc:.tmcbve styles of mUSIC areplayed durmg the perfonnancos'the lodlan mUSIC of Pre Hlspamcollgm played WIth shells andrallies the J arocha charactenstiC' of the Veracruz region andplayed on the harp and the VIa1m the sonorous and vtnle muSI( of the 'MarIachIS' whIch In~
cludes VIolins guItars, trumpetsan dbase gUItar and IStypIcal of the J ahsco area themusIc of the South Eastern partof the country played on ~heMarImba melancholy wooden
Instrument on which up to fivepeople may play slmultaneonusly and the gay musIC of Huasteca Tamauhpeca mterpreted onthe vlOhn and the gUltar
A chorus of well.tuned vOicesac.s as a backmg for the balletand IS dlvlt.:ed Into two categonesone group lnterpretmg the songswhich are so arranged as to great1y enhance theIr beauty, butwhIch have at the same tIme re
tamed tbelr folklonc content theolher group from IndIan dances
to the verbal ImprOVIsatIOns ofVeracluz
ConscIous of the mexhaushbletalent prevalent among MeXIcandancers and the gap whIch rerna)rled when the company went onIOUI abroad Amalia Hernand~z
had Ihe Idea of formmg a secodCorps Ballet which her daughler has directed and manllgedsmce J961
Amalal Hernandez IS asslstmgIhe Orgamstng Committee oftIle Games of the XIX OlYmPIadtn the preparatIon of the balletentitled I New Ftre I whIch together With a magmflcent hght
,..and sound spectacle WIll be pre·
~ f sen ted at the PyramIds of SanJuan de Teollhuancan 40 kl
.. lometres from MeXICO City onthe eve of the mauguratlOn of the
OlympIC GamesThiS spectacle Will be trans
mltled to the entire world Vlat<:levlslOn and Will mark the occaslOO 01 the arrival of the OlympIC Torch tn the V.Illey of Mexll:0 on thiS mght
a Mexican folkloric ballet.
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Ball Thursday
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KABUL. Feb IS, -The annnaIGeorge Washngton birthdayball wiU be held Thursday evemng In Kabul Hotel
The black tie event whleh Issponsored by the AmerIcan Soolety o~ Kabul WIll last (rom9 pm to 1 am There will bemusic for dancing hy Gay Jays,and G Clefts huffet and doorprize
The prize consists of a trip toLahore
Proceeds of the events whJehbas been attended hy as mucbas 500 guests In the past yearsago to Afghan eharlttes
In 1959 they performed dUringthe Pan AmerIcan games mChlCago and were a great successEven at that tlm~ the ballet IIIcluded ID ItS repertoIres tableaux",hlch are today conSIdered asclassSlcs The chIldren of the SunWeddIllg In Hoasteca ChriS\..
mas In Jahsco TehuantepecFiesta In Veracruz, The Deer
The small company was warmIy-recelved and began to growboth m number and quahty un·III II attracted the attentIOn ofthe TourIsm Department, and thelJll ector at that tIme Senor Gustavo OrtIz Hernan gave them offlclal representa.tIon In hiS firsttour through Cahforma Canada and Cuba
~J~~~~.O~g~p~1m:~r~~_~~~~n~~~a \~'~~~"~~~Q.!!I.La Argentlna", and later on un. Dance Dance of tbe Quetzal
der the choresographer Waldeen Bird" Los Sonaleros The ReThus she began to make her volutlon
name as an artist 10 the fields In 1960 the PreSIdent at thatof claSSIcal modern and Spanlsb llme Adolfo Lopez Mateos awballet Western styles of dan are of the artIstIc potential ofclOg however could stll no th,s group gave his full backlOggreat emotIOn wlthm her and and helped to create one offrom this tIme onwards she was thp world s leadIng dance combaSIcally drawn towards the paores and as such m 1961 thesongs dances and mUSIc of the cOl)lpany was appomted to repre
Mexlcao people thetr fulsafmg senl MeXICO offiCially m the Fes·rhytms embodymg the emotJOns llval of Nations In Pans where
of the Indo Spanish mestIzo after compet109 agamst 21 otherGradually she began to notIce p"rtIclpants they succeeded mhow the soul of thIS nahon made v. inning first pnzeItS PI esence knOWn m the moun At the present tIme the baltams 10 the valleys and In Villa let Includes more than 30 clIffe.a;e C'clcbatlons In the remotest rent tableaux and the choreo"orner. of the country graphy IS base don 56 dIfferent
C1ances fro,", all regtons of theI't corcupted by these ldea~ country such as the Adehtas
shc worked for some-years 10 the Mayas FIesta of Guelaguet·the NatIonal Institute of FlOe za Masks cane harvest In MamaArts aod fmally 10 1952 she was uhpas Mocambo the Tarascos'able '0 embark on her great hfe s Masks of Guerrero Guadalajarawork and appeared for the the Aztec Gods, 10 addItIon tofirst ttme on MeXIcan teleVISIon those preVlous!y mentioned andWith a small group of dance'" n any others
Folkloric Ballet Plans S~cial
For XIXth Olympiad
Drowning girl (1963)
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rouase nose while two enromoustears gatber under perfect aimand eyes Her thoughts float m acloud above her head "That'sThe Way It should Have BegunIBut It s Hopeless'"
As m the cheap comiC booksher skm IS coloured pmk by tIDYred dots Her harr IS a VIVId un·dotted yellow and behmd herhead IS a contrastmg patch of sohd cnmson In IlDrowrung GIrl1963' (6 ft square). the girl sheadof royal blue halI" IS enclosed byundUlatmg Art Nooveau wavestopped WIth spray
Llchtl:nstem. who was In London for the opemng of hiS exhlbltlon also came as somethmg of(\ surprise to those who met himFar from bemg a sWlngmg flowerchIld he IS a qwet ~hm man of~ w',th grey ng hair and soberdress who talks earnestly abouthiS work and CItes Picasso andMatisse as hiS masters PamtIngrather than fashIon IS obVIOuslyhIS maIn preoccupation In facthe rejects the role of SOCIal cnhcWIshed on hIm by some of hISadmIrers He has saId Once Iam mvolved WIth the palDtmg Itbmk of It as an abstractIOn Halfthe time pIctures are upSidedown anyway, when I work'
V'SItors to the Tate exhIbitIonwhere hiS past seven years' workIS represented, can see why he dlshkes bemg styled the comiCstnp man" BeSIdes the brightlycoloured striP cartoon canvases
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When AmalIa Hernandez, theI>allerma and choreographer, de
Clded to form her own companyIn 1952 there already eXisted InMeXICO vanous groups whichpresented the country's tYPIcaldnnCt's mamly for tounsts
They were all small however,arid as a rule lImIted themselvesto presentmg In their sporadiC
performances the most wellknov.1l dances. Some of themshOl \lded In mystICism and monotonous as their mterpretersweTe completely unaware oftheatrical technIques as we knowthem today
Amaha Hernandez began dane109 when she was eight yeut Sold fIrst of all as a pupIl of Sy·bllle the prIma ballerma In Pavlava's company and then wllh
Madame Dambre an emment dlrectcr of the ParIS Opera
Soon however she rebelledagamst the ngld dISCIplIne of,la'SIcal ballel and went to stu
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Londoners Give Pop ArtOfficial Blessing
Pop Art WllS gIven an OffiCIalbleSSIng 'll London last monthwhen the Amencan pamter, RoyLlchtensteml became the firstPop painter to have a one-manexhIbItion at the Tate Gallery,the home of Bntall1's natIOnalmodern art collectIon The subsequent long and earnest reVIews mthe art columns of the natIonalpress endorsed the Tate's chOIce
Startmg WJth Life-whIch fiveyears ago puhllshed an arhcleheaded "Is Roy LlChtenstemthe worst pamter m tbe world?"-magaztne edItOrs have selZCd onPop Art both to decorate thelt
pages with ItS br18ht amusmg 1m·ages and to proVid'J. edItOrIal rna·tenal On the theme of the affluent society and mass culture
Along WIth other Pop artIstsLlchtenstem has been tIl servedby the reproductIon of hIS workm the press espeCIally as regardshIS use of stnp cartoon materIalas sublect matter In reproductIon, the difference between anactual stnp cartoon lDlage andthe pamtmg It msplres IS blurred
Art cntlcs pomt out that ItIS only when one sees the SIze ofthe canvases and feels the 1m·pact of the bold outlines and co·lours of Lichtenstein's strip cartoon paintings that one reahsesthat the subject matter Is not alIThe amusement prOVIded by thelromc treatment of comic bookbanality then becomes merely anaddItIonal bonus to the VIsualpleasure prOVIded by te pamf· Img's colounng and compOSItion
The attractIOn of stnp cartoons for LIchtenstein Ues In thecontrast between their Violent oremotlOoal sub}ect matter andtheir mechamcal and remote commerclal presentatton In one. ofLichtensteIn's favounte pamtlogS the Tate owned 'wHAAM'1963" (approXlDlately 13 ft by 6ft) a f,ghter aIrcraft dIves towards an already explodmg plane on the adjOInIng canvas TheexplOSIOn IS represented by ferOCIOUS fronds of cnmson and aCIdyellow culmmahng m the largeblock capItals WHAAM' ThIScombmatIon of colours and shapes gIves the tmpresslon of a VIO.lent release of energY
The attackmll pIlot tS palD~ed,n black and whIte whtle the et~tertng conveYIng his urge~thoughts floats above hi
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ok m the thID capIta s resebY the commerclal artIst fO~thought or speech balloons (d
pressed the ftre control andahead of me rockets blazethrough ,the skY ") I
In one of the pamtlDgs en\tted "Hop~less 1962", ~rawn fromthe comic book senes, Teen ROrQaneest ' the herOine's head rechning --:oefully on her plllow, completely fills the frarne A pearshaped tear drops past her rest
I JUSt wondered how he Will remember for so long that It wastime for leavmg and we all Wished(lne another Khuda HafiZ and cameawax and that man went carefullywrappmg the bone m hIS handker,hlef
He then tried to swallow It buthis eyes bu1aed out as the bonegol stucle 1U his throat
He qwckly coughed and broughtout ThlDkmg that he was now obhet«<! to swlillow It I toJd my husband to excuse him for I thougbtIf he tries ap,n he would surelyset throttled
But my hosband told me It wasnot necessary for him to swallowIf he cannot swallow It be was tokeep It always WIth hIS person andhas to produce It whenever I asktor It.. and I can ask even 10 thepublic bath If I happen to see hImtbere and if I*' fails to prodoce Ithe has to give me whatever of bls~ossesslons I demand
When I asked what was the limehmtl I was told there was no hmlthe bad to keep It ready ilfelongWIth him
He told me that this was a closed garne whether the panalty wasdecided beforehand andIt was milch safer thanthe open one where theWlrmet can ask for wbatever helIkes, even the dBughter of the 10,er as a brode for himself or If be beold for b,o son and Ihe loser cannot say' nol
Next week we all gathered agaInat the house of the loser and agaIn a sumptuolts meal was laidbotore us This time my husbandtook one round bone from the mutton and gave It 10 another fnenduf Ii,s This person dId not seem tounderstand what It was and wbenhe saw It be uld," oh I have beencaught unaware I thought youwere giving me a kabab"
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went,Then he went and went andUnttl he could go no farther,
Because he was so thirstyHe went to search for water
To quench IS mighty thIrst
He searched and searched and searched.Unttl he reached a place
Whete there were so many streamsSo many streamS, so many streams
That he could scal cely count themOne two three one, two, threeHe could count no further,
For all 111 all, there were only three slreams,Two of which were completely dry
And the thIrd one had no water
The waterless stream he chose to dnnkAnd drank and drank and drank
Untll h.s hps were sore
But no water did ~each hIS throatHe pIcked up hIS old broken musket,
And saId, "enough hunting today"Tired and happy he went back home
Until Ihe bones were soft as dough,Yet the meat was tougll as stone
He ate the meat,For he was very hungry,
And stored the soup m hIS knapsack
One of them went huntmg one day,An old broken musket slung on hIS shoulder
He went al)d went and WEl/ltTIll he reached a forest thIck WIth trees
There were so many It ees so many trees,
That he could scal cely counl themOne two, three, one two three,
He could count no fUI thelFor all m all there were only three trees
Two of whIch were completely dryAnd the third poor one was leafless
Eagerly he peared at the leafless treeHopmg for game to fIll hIS bag
And what do you thmk he saw?So many bIrds, so many hlrds
That he could scarcely count themOne two three one, two, threeHe could coun't no further,
For all m all, there were only threeTwo of whIch were completely dead
And the thIrd poor one was hfelessThe old broken musket he loaded,
With powder and great lead shots,SlowIy and carefully he aImed,
A very careful and steady aImHe pulled the trIgger
Ger.ra-ram·has, went the gun and ter-ra-ra-pasThe hfeless hlrd fell down,
Whether from shot or soundN a one could tell
He pIcked up the bIrd and put It m hIS knapsack,The knapsack on hIS back
And followed the beaten track, •He went and went and went and wenf
Until was terrIbly hungry,So hungry he could hardly walk,
He wlilked and walked and walkedAnd searched and searched and searched
To fmd a pot,And a proper spot to cook the bIrd
He fmally did reach a spotWhere he saw so many houses
So many houses, so many housesThat he could scarcely count themOne two three one, two, three
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He could count no furtherFor all m all there were only three houses,
Two of whICh wele completely m rumsAnd the thIrd poor one was roofless
Eagerly he entered the roofless houseAnd can you unagme what he saw?
He saw so many pots, so many pots so many potsThat he could scarcely count them
One two, three, one, two, three,He could count no further,
For all m all there were only thr eo potsTwo of whIch were completely broken
And the thIrd one was bottomlessInSIde the roofless house,
He took the hfeless bIrd,And put It mto the bottomless pot
He bOIled and boiled and balled the bIrd.
Once they say there wereThree sons of Mohammad Yar
Who were ever ready to ..atBut Iilways too Sick to work
Char Bache (four sons) of Mohammad Ypr la a folktale oneIj!ams quite early 111 lIfe As soon as a mothe. sees ber chlld becoming lazy she WlII recIte him the story
Both Pashto and Dan are nch 10 follore We hope to be ableprmt more folk stones In an attempt to farnillanse our readera
Wltli this aspect of Afghan cultureChar Bache Mohammad Yar, translated by Prof M.A Ansari,
IS reprmted from Adab magazme, published by the College of Letters.
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One partYilftmli,1 liito JWo <when, '~~ ,SIIIlCat ~ ~vel'y~odY clapped for the one whowe went to ..tteila a'dlnner In the ,had IiAppened. l .... jllSt wonder- bad forgotton was consldcied as ,house of 0'\0 of ow; friendS Aftera ing 'at A,' to" who was the havmg ·lost the- lame
_Imng long W!Uk as we plhere<1 ro- 'loser ';But I • learnt that It was unanunouSly decided thatund the food 18ii;l on a snow white 'Jt wu'not,yel dCCldcd, for the pme nCAt week we aU bave a similar dInsheet calleil 'dBstJirthan' _all hands bad lust"Started WIth the breaking ner ID tbe house. of the losersltetcbcd to -enJoy ~ steaf\1ml Iiot of the bone I told mY h~banQ "poor chapdImes ,and the mvitlDl roast chic- -, We con\il\ued With the food that had a h,t of af lOOO" but th15 wasken one of the pilrtieS handed over one nothing. be said
Hardly a mlDute bad elapsed that dlSb to lh~ other OM and the otberwe saw lWo persons holdinl the qu(ckly shouted "I {"member" andtwo edges of the Wish lio",e In thea Ipok the disb, Everybody Iaujibedhands and telling 'bere now, wbo- and I was lusl puzzled A few mIDsoeve, loses should stand a similar ules Illter 'lbe other one handed overdInner 10 all wbo are present' AiJd a t4lillO ",apltin and the first onll'he) broke the WIsh bone by Ipul' now 'bouted ''I remember" lind tookUng at It the napkin
I curoously bent fOl'Wl1rd to sec They continued thus till one ofwho had the bl~r portion but both tbem forgot to say so and how thethe parties Ignored 11 altogether one gIVIng the article told, "I remFvery cody kept qUiet as If llothml ember and you bave forgotton", and
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Independent SwazIlaod s externalpohcles will m all probablhty resembl, Ihose of the two other formerI-J gh CommiSSion terntorIes Echo109 the PreSident of Botswana SIrSeretse Khama and the Le~othoPllme Minister, ChICf Leabua JonaIhan Prince DlamlnJ has declaredw~ Will not anow foreign JOlerfe
Ie-nce In our affaIrs Not even theOA U can hInder our development
We want good relations With ourr;(,lghbours South Africa and Mozamblque Consldermg our economiclIc=s and geographical poslUan wewant to cultlvatc mutual respect andunderstandlOg ft appcars a safeguess that under the PrlOce SwaZili.lnd Will shortly seck dIplomatictICS With South AfTlca (where DrZwanc= IS banned) and WIth Portugal
Ihe game was between a majorOIl company aad the Tokyo MuoIClpahty The city counCIl and theumOns both chartered bus.. to takethelf workers to the game EverybQd.}i JOloed In songs pralsmg theirworkplace
Between 15,000 aod 20000 supporters, lDcludlng wives and childrenwere supporhng eacb organisationThere were cbeerleaders and bandsgroup chants, songs, slogans, andshouts. The game seemed lDcJden~tal to thc= togetherness The unspontaneous nature of the performancewas as depresSing as Shlnkansen wa"uphflUlg
it mwcated the continwng suenglb of group Ites and loyalbes 10
Japanese life ThIS IS a complexphc=oomenon As one able Japanese50c.1al scientIst saId "Group attachments are today th~ cause of oursuccess Just as preViously they werea cause of our failure'
Or, as one frJ~nd from that perhup" too indiVidualistic nation thePhilIpPines, descnbed It 1m seldom Impressed by the Japanese asmdlvlduals, but 1 never faIl to marvel at their teamwork'
The maIO focus of loyalty IS noI nger the natIOn It JS the companythe school, the offIce, the borne
The dedJC8tJOQ of the Japanesei'<allOnal Railways employees produced ShinkanS\:D as surely as thedevotion to lhe Emperor producedPearl Harboor 26 years ago
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cellent way of bandling youths whowould have been otherWise unemplayed and restless Today s PIoneer~ IOciude many young men whowere among the rioters who helped break up the Federahon of Rhodt:'sia and Nyasaland In Its drive10 Improve agnculturo the MalaWI(Iovernment IS well pleased Wtth theIesult achieve<J, by the Pioneers1 hey arc lough, and we want
tough farmers to end the povertyIn Malawi: Aleke Banda saysTheir' farms have pro'oled hlSblysuccessful The Emperor of EthiOpIa has ViSIted them Aod It wasafter SImilar Visit that the LesothoI)nme MInIster deCided to start hiSown Planeer movement
lu addihon to farmlDg, the PIOneers are IralDed Itl !rades like carpentry, bwldl",g anI! me.hamcs 10Ihe VIllages they bave aSSISted IDgovernment resettlement schemes~Ieanng tbe land and helplDg tobUild hollSell for the new settlersThose PIoneers not ID active servIceare glven laud by tbe Governmenton wblch to farm Such farmsserve as 100deis of good agnculturefor ollie.',villagers to copy
The ollier ...de of Pioneer actmties relates to toternal secunty anddefence Although a tourISt 10 Malawi IS unlikely to noUce them IDthIS role, they do In fact coilstitute
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·1,J 1;1'J .. (~II\1 I"+,.~bas been CJCceeded by Immlllratlon govemment 18 ,lIkeIY'lo break, downdl'rlDg recent years, partlculilrly 'ofl fllie rap[Il'CJCP'nslon of tllel~nom~labouters from MozambIque' There, .,The"ttcild lis, liIready pIetlf' _ SWazi' ,IS also a wblte commumty, ma'l'ly land'. ""'W'r& of, agro-for~tal proof South African stocl/, numbering duce 'amclilJlted more than £. 11
'ahout S,OOO and performlDll mamly • '!lillio). In, 1966)5, the, last yea~ forprofessIOnal and manageflal tasks "hlch detsUelJ stilllstIcs are avall'They control _more than 45 per cent able, ul' from £ 96 mllion In 1965of the land and nearly all the tndu· and unde( £. 8' mlllJon In '963, Itsslry, either as owpcrs or as local exports of asbestos) and 4'on are ..rcp~eselltatiVcs of South AfrIcan, }Idded 'l total o( £ 2 75 lnlllJon InBritish pnd -other foreIgn IDlerests 1964, lUst over £. SJ milhon di1tjilg
The I gtrong !fibal tradItion blla I tbe fol1owlDg year .lad dearly £6 4made lis mark on the Internal pnli- mIllIOn In 1966 < _tiCS of Swaziland DUflng the last A £ 40 mllIJon contract for IronelectIon m April. 1967, the KIDg's ore sliles recently obtained fromtraditIonalist Imbokodov Nahonal Japan guarante~s an accelerat,ooMovement captured 97 per ceot of ot the trend for the future lilewthe votes and all 24 elected seats 10 mlDl>s are helDg opene~ up Theret!;le Lower House of SWllZ1land s are also prospe<:IS of lDvestrnent IDtUSI Parhment onder Internal self- Ihe country's efflc~ntly run pllintalUle One-fIfth of the Vale wenl to lIOns and a bope for developing ,'''the radIcal Ngwane NatIonal Llbe I ydr"",leclfl/: potentlBI for tbe ex.ralol'}' Congress whose leader, Dr )'or, of power to Soutb Afflca TheAmbrose Zwane, was beaten In 111S Ngwcnyama, anxious to mamtainown constituency tbe mflow of IDvestment of capllal
Some of bls former assocIates had has done everythlDg in h,s power to<hanged politIcal colours before the IIlcr(:ase the confIdence Of SwaZI'elections and arc now seated 10 the 1.md's whi1c:1 commWflly Llkew1Se(ubmet One of the most mtcrestmg several forcigp compamcs hav;(.abmef appomtments IS that of made mdependence gifts of shares60 year-old Leo LoveU, the former to the ruler and to national tnstituSouth Afllcan Labour Member of 1Ions with Invltahons to be represenPnrltment and now Swaziland s MI hd on theIr boords of dIrectorsmster of Flnaoce, Commerce andlodustry He IS a SOCialist lawyer~lrong1y opposed to racialism Thefirst Pnme Minister IS PClnceMakhOSII:\I DlarmDl, who IS relatedto the KlDg
FollOWing the electIOns the redl
blue: and yellow SwazI flag repla... cd the Bntlsh UOIon Jack onApnl 25 as tbe former protectoraiebecame a semi mdependent StateWith Its external affairs Bnd secuntyadmlOlstered from LondoD Buteven before the new standard wasraised Dr Zwane made an appealto the Organisation for AfncanUnity (OAU) urglDg alteratIOns 10
th~ new Constttutton towards aftlOre even dlstnbutlon of power
SwaZiland s current stability undc=rth(' tnbal structure cannot precludeconcern for the not too-<hstant fulure when the tradJt10nal sy~ten'J of
least an overnight stop Now I amexpected to go and come back m.:me day
The Japanese are sull funouslyben. on U ca tchlOg up' Ope wondeIS how far abead ID many helds they\\111 be before they lose this orge
fn blgh speed radway tecbnIqoes,It la the rest of the world whicb hasto do the catching up, thOugh curlOusly many Japanese hliven't reallsed this Of course there are manyShlOkansens 10 Europe", IS a reaebOn I have heard So oflen that ItIS not explaJDable merely 10 termsof Japanese modesty and pohteness
BUI at least the Japanese sre hurry ng life along WIth taste and cor.;Cort Their attenton to this--tothmgs h~e the buffet car speeddmetef"-Is 8S striklOg as their teChnicalprogress
Mo.t of the expres~ traIDs go tothe cleanlDg sheds afllOr every IOUrne} If, by chance, they don't get atborough gOing-over 10 Tokyo orSbln·Osaka statIons One begms toImagine that In every large scaleJapanese bUSIness there must be aTasleful DetaIls departmeot
It would not be surproslDg if there were Everybody-worker or rnnnager, cleaner or exeeutlve---caresfor hiS company In a way that would be mconcelvable elsewhere, IS
loyal 10 II as be was ooce l.tyal tothe Emperor
ThiS was brought home to mewhen f Visited the Korakuen Stadl.~il1 JO Tokyo 1 went to watch baseball but stayed to walch the crowd
are m a Iblck forest near thl Police, I:unlng College at Limbe Therea COmnullee of ten aSSIsts AJekeBunda the Cblrman of the PIOneers 10 runnlOg mov~mcot, AlekeBunda IS also Minister of EconomIc Development aod InformatIOnas wc=1I as bemg the PreSIdent of the Youth League aod Secretary General of the Congress Party
Only the tougb survive Ibe Itfe ofa Pioneer under tralPtog Many are:lent back home JUSt to teach agnculture after beIng found untitTbelr day begins at 530 a m aodends at 1000 pm -16thours ofmIlitary traUllDg, famllng, road andbrIdge building apd belplOg, \'1l1agers WIth tbew problemsThe PIOneers own farms JD. V8nous
centres \\Of the oountry, aDd runthem on :much the sam" lines as thekibbutz system In Israel They areseneraIlt popUlar in tIie Villages1,hey bwld scbools and roads andcelp pld VllIagers' tend tbell' ,JandsThIs work also belp. to rCduce government costs 10 development programmes
Ploneo,. get very httle pay Thea-1~clOrs cam as little as £ 12 pet
mpnth Their green uDlforms aresupphed' free They grow their ownfood In 1963, they wilked bar6-footed, now the movement can affordto prOVide them WIth army boots
The system bas provided an ex
The Secr~t Of Japan's Success
Youth Movement's Role In Malawi
A conference IS due to open onFebruary 19 at Marborough Housem London to se«le the fInal arranaements fpr Swazdand's mdependence ID September The conferencewill aU but conclude the history ofBnltsh colomahsm ID Africa WhenSWllZ11and goes, Bro!aID's nnmedlte responsibUltY, after ceottlraes'presence bn the continent, Will behlluled to the people of rebel SQu ~tbern. RhodesIa -
The GCOgtllphy of SW11Z1lan~WIIImake the mdependent State an therblsck 'Island' m whlte-dom ledSouthern Africa, Surrounded bySouth Afrlca aod Mozamhlque thePorluguese colony, the D'tlDeral'rlchKlOgdom of 6,700 '\Quare aulesWIll be dependeat for survlvlil J ongoodwIU of Its neIghbours Interms of trade and profIt retum onforclgn Investment, It has a greatdeal more to offer than Bolswanaand lesotho, the otber two landlocked fOmler Bfltish HIgh CommlsSlOn territories
SwllZtland bas the largest asbestosmine in the world Its mouot8IDSare nch In coal and Iron ore, Itsland, ooe of the best watered BreasID Ih. south of the continent pro.duces a hIgh YJelf,l of woodPUlp,cotton, aod cUrus, aDd Its fourmam rivers arc SUitable for hydroel<ctnc development
Bot the maJoroly of Its less than~oo 000 people live m extreme poverty 10 8 ngld, tnbal SOCIal structure over which presIdes King Sob-:hou. II 1be 69 ycar old ruler whotraces hIS royal house back overfour centunes He was Installed as[03JI-tgmNgwenyama (L,on) ID 1921 Therule, controls the roughly 35 per...COt of land Ifi the country whichhna been entrusted to the SwaZInation ]n practice nghts to occup} and useland are obtained fromlhe KIng s local cbIefs
Aboul 70 per cent of the populatJOn over the age of nme years areIlliterate: and a SIzeable proportion"re suffenng from malnutnhonThousands of SwaZi labourers areemployed 10 South African coal andgold mlOes Howcver emlgtatlon
The slow tralD from Tokyo toOsaka does the 316 mile triP In foorhours The fast tralD does It 10 threehours ten mlDUtes
The bullet-hke expresses of Sh,·nkansen, the New Tokkaido LlOehave proved that there IS hfe 10 raI1ways yet You nO longer save UInel.klDg a plane to Osaka
Shmkansen IS one of the most otrlklDg symbols of Japanese progressNot only do YI'U travel at 135 mph""thout your coffee spilling, but IDIbe buffet-car Ibere IS a speedomOler to teU bow fast you re gOlDgThere IS also a movlDg lDdlcatorshowmg Just where you are between statJODS You can phone fromthe tralQ to the Cities you are passIng through
There are earthquake~measunng
Instruments at regular mtervals alon!; the hne, which IS bwlt mostlyon a v,aduct cuUmg a straIght swathe through the Kanto regIon Assoon as a certain level of disturbanceIS recorded all trams 10 the sectoror on the' whole hoe come to ~hall
There IS one translstoflsed controlSlsnal·box {or the whole line Andat any station you can get a reservatlon from a computer m Tokyo
Not all Japaoese are completelyhoppy about ShIDkanseo, for It addsImmeasurably to the already franbcpace of bVlDg m these overcrowdedJ&panese Islands
When I went to Tokyo ID theold days, saId a frtend WIth a 8"'"J~ha tWlOkJe 10 his eye, "It was at
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houses, "'restuarants etcThe arllcle gave back ground 10
furmatton on the conSideratIonswhich led to the construction of'iiJcb a modem and well-eqUlppedau port
One of these conSiderations wasthat It shortened the distancebetween Ibe Wesl and the Far Eastby two flymg hoors and planes couJd eaSily save ttme and money byllsmg Kandahar as a refuelli{lg stahan
But planes touchmg down forI rtucUlOg also would like to pickup busmess Shoold the aIrport be>come a free port there IS every ~re-o
ason to beheve that more and moreplanes Will be make use of Its facIlitlC=S H said
Execullons of CIVilians senselessdE-struchORS sadIstic treatment ofthousands of people are the dlstmgUlshmg features of the conduct ofthe krughts of the American wayof hfe to Vietnam Pravda satd 10
connection With the latest masslvcair raids 00 the capital of the Den acratlc RepublIc of Vietnam
The ruliog eucles of tbe UmtedSlates are further escalating theltClimes 10 the dirty war 10 Vietnamwltb the object of hUmg Ihe balanceo( military operations to their faV\our Enraged b¥ the successes ofthe South VIetnamese palnots, theywreak their malice on the CiVIliansof Vietnam
pnpularltyCalhog the allaCks an effort 'to
stampede the Amencans by dlTect""l1lary methods the Londonpaper polnled oot The payoffhere should ha ve been wholesaleodectlons by the VIetnamese armyBOI the.e bave oat bappened ReP'"ports from captured Viet Cong stroogly suggest thaI the ranlc andII Ie ~reled to expecL somethingmore tangible to show for therr herOIC sacnflces than a slDgle reargu4
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Even If the measllres suggested In the conference are adopted and sincerely carried outthere Is IItlle hope of accelerating the processof dl'velollment In the third world to the extent that It could enjoy living standards """'"parable with the developed countrlos In ihenear future. The best that one call boPe for UJl,.
der the present cli'eumstances Is that the economicgap wUl be kept from wldcnlng out of all proporllons
The New Delhi conference has seen thegrowing awal eness of the world ahout thecconomll l.rohIems of the Industrial nationsthemselves I\lost of the would·he benefactorcountries seem to have untold economic problems of their own Even the biggest industrialJlowcr of the West Is sullering from a balanceof payment problem
1\11 these nations seem to be agreed on onet lunl:" and that Is they want to export morethan they Import'm order to 011 set deficits Intheir balance of payments This means thatsome country or countnes must do a lot of Importml:" Who Is this saviour goIng to be? Certaln1y not the developing countnes for tbeycannot afford to buy unless they obtam a reasonable meome from what they export
The IlUrchaslng power of tbe poor natIOnsmust mcrea'e If the Industnal goods of the advanced nahons are to find adequate markets.Thl~ 111 Itself .. enougb reason for the advanced nabons to think of adopting a dllJerentattItude helping the poor nattons solvetbelr economic problems
Any ass..tance given or facdltles grantedshould not be viewed as an act of charity butas a vital necessIty for eunng an econornicalIySIck world Only sucb an attitude translatedInto OIgalllsed action on the part of tbe advanced nations can create the possibilities for thethml world to grow at a rate wlileh will at leastprom!sl' that the present gap wllI not widenany furtber
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1 en youths from the Repubhc ofL=tho (formerly Basutoland) arenow 10 MalaWI undergolog teo montbs of lough agricultural and mlhtary tralDmg as guests of the Malawl Young Pioneers orgamsanon
When they retum to Lesolhothey will fl'rm the nocleu. of a Slmllar movemeot there Their presenc.e In MalaWI results from agreements of cooperation between Prestdent Ilanda and the LesotboPrIme MllllSter. ChIef Leabua Jon"th\Ul, SIX years ago, MalaWI lISelf sent ten: youths to be tralDed IDGbBJYl They returned to launcb tbePioneer movement ID 1962
Th. MlilawI Youog P,oneerscoost)tute a movemellt wbose momCPJocttves ar~ agricultural and ml1llI\1'Y But there ar~ other under-
11I11111 190es and associatIOns- 8OClal,11 educational, ecooomic and pollhcalg Dr Banda himself heads the§;;== "Joneers wbo were offictally sta-_ led two years ago to bave 40,000~_ aeltve members The chief adVIser
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Loodon, Tbe Guardian nuledalthough the offenSIVe ID Iberepresent a change of tacIt got the communIsts now
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After emphaslsmg the needlessneS;) of the armament race and thetaq that It IS consumlDg enonnoushuman and matenal resources theedltonal expressed the hope thatthe J7 nahon Geneva conference ondlsannament would achieve new successcs 10 Its future deliberatIons
The same Issue -carned an artIclesIgned Mohammad Isbaq Ibrah,ml~uggestlOg that the Kandahar lotcrnatlOnal Airport should become afree port
The article gave background JO
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A number of newspapers aroundthe world are of the oplDlon thatthe recent attacks on South VJelnolmese Cities by VIet Cong andNorth VJetnam army unIts havc=laught the JDtematlOnal commuDlty some Important lessons regardrng the nature of commumsm andItS goals In Southeast ASIa
Pratap of Jullundur, lod.. saIdIndia and many other peace seekmg nations were mISled by Harlol spubhc talk of peace whll~ II secretl} prepared for the recent brutalaI tacks on SaIgon and other towns
Another Indian newspaper NavI. !Iarat TImes of New Delhi, saidthose who preVIOusly regarded theUS bombmg as a burdle ID tbewa} of peace can hardly conSiderNorth Vietnam s recent attacks onSouth Vietnam In any differentIrght
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Several delegates bave presented theirVIews on how to bridge the gap between thencb and the poor nations In their speeches atthe second United Nations Conference onTrade and Development These views rangeall tile way from the establlshli:l.ent of a systemof Ir~de )Ireferences by the Industrialised nations for primary commodities, which consUtutethe bulk of cxport trade from the developingcountries, to the free now of aid, the stabilisation of Ilrlces the reduction of freight chargestbe establlshment of regIOnal economic groupmgs among the developing countries and themoblltsatIon of theIr local resourl;es
Thc QuestIon that one shon1d ljsk Is how farwOIJld thcse measures contribute to bridgingtbe e"lstmg gap between the two categories ofnatIOns Is It at all realistic to hope that thisgap can ever be closed? We must first examme the concept of the "developed" as opposedto the "deveJopmg" countries which as commanly understood seems to create mlsoonceptlOll" of the actulil state of world trade AItbough lVe use the term "developed' freely thefact IS that developed countnes are far frombavmg t eached the saturabon pomt In thell'process nf development They too are "developmg but at a much faster ratc,
WinJe tbl' developmg countries are tryingto launch the most essentllil mdustries and toprovide the most basIC goods and serVIces themdnstnaltsed nations equipped with
capitaI and techmcaJ know-how are concentratn11l' on tbe redevelopment of the modes of productllln
Thus the gap between the two groups ofnatwns IS WidenIng In a more senous mannerthan cummonly thought The developing natlons are not only movmg ahead they are mOv!Dg ahead In a dUJerent direction The develop109 countrlcs are not only laggmg behlnd theyare no longer even foIlowmg the developed na·tions
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Today lslah carnes and edItonalon tbe ~ampalgn agalOst locust Thefourtb meelmg of the executive commlttee of the FAO regional commlSsJOn Is bemg held at the PublicIn!\tltute It said
Representatives of MghamstanII an fndla. and Pakutan WIll havefulks On practical ways of carrymg\.lUI the anti locust campaign forltppropnate action
The desert locust IS the numberone enemy of agnculture the edltO
al went on and untIl now unfortunately man has not been able tocompletely WIpe OUt this dangerouspest At ttmes the collective onslaught. of thIS pest IS so dangerousthat It brmgs famme Campaign aganst lOCUSt so far has been defens
1\ e and so far no protective measureshas proved successful
Today when man IS constantlythreatened by hungar and famInethe launchmg of programmes forthe preventIOn of food wastages areall the more necessary the e(htonalI.: r,pbaslsed
We are threatened by the" paSSII) Iltay that WlthlO the next 30 yearsOr so the prc=sent food suppltcs aD
earth may not be enougb to copev"llh the growth of populauon ThisanxIety IS prevaIlIng not only 10 theoe\elopmg counlnes but also 10 ID~
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Holding thc= present meetlO& and(thers like It Will lead to practicala:tlon and collective efforts towardsIhe protectIOn of food supplIes Theedltonal expressed the hope for the!<ouccess of the meetmg In ItS sacredlask The same Issue carried the se<;ond mstalIment of an arllcle by AW suggestlOg the establishment ofa task force to work on fanns durIng the winter 1,ll0Dths
rhe estabhshment of such a fo.rceto mclude men who would otherWise remaIn Idle dunng wmter 10i.Iddltion to increasing total food productlon In the cotmtry wtll alsole4:td to tbe lessenlDg of cnmes suchas tbeft, gambling and murder
Yesterday s Ams carned an ed!1()f1al expresslOg anxu:ty over thef.,lure of world efforts 10 reach
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+10\ ·o..KABuL, Feb 19, (Bakhtar)~Bakhtar Afghan Airlmes beganregular flights between Kabul
,Nangarhar Falzabad and Cha:ghcharan Yesterday
Weather permltttng, there WJllhe two regular fhghts a week toNangarhar from Kabul, threeflIghts hetween Kabul and Falzabad, and three fhghts hetweenKabul and Chaghcharan
A reoort from FalZabad saystha t Governor Rbshandel Rosh011 orllclals nnd reSidents greet~ed the arnval of the plane
The gavel nor and elders of ,Falzabad thanked HIs Majestyfor the gUIdanCe given 10 theImp} ovement of ltnks betweenthe cIty and other parts of thecountry
KABUL, Feb 19, (Bakhtar)-DrMt.'hammad Halder, fanner mlnlS
ler of Justice, has been apPOInted£: m Isor to the Pnme M IDlstry
The 52 year old Dr Halder completed hiS education In the JSleqlalHigh School and recleved hiS doctOlate from the Umverslty of Pans
After returnmg to Afghanistan he\\ orked 10 the Education M lDlslryunll! he was appomted tbe chief ofthe Afghan culturaJ mISSion In Europe four years ago
He later became tbe MIwster ofC,-lmmunlcaltons He speaks Frenchand English and he IS the chaIrmanof the Afghan-Prench Pneodshlp So{'ely
Rebels CrushedSays S. Yemen
ADEN Peb Iq (Reuter}-South(:rn Yemen claimed Sunday mghtto ha ve scored a crushIng VictOryIn a flve-day battle against rebelfC'Cl.:es In the old northern efmrateof Belhan which has common fron1Jers WIth the Yemen Repubhc and( ..udl Arabia
fnlenor Minister Mohammed Ahflallhem said the rebels were Wiped
out 10 Aal EraLZ, a mountamousareiJ straddhng Belhan and the Yemcn RepublIc
He said Yemem forces also cles.red Mnswara town. the rebel base,and chased lbe rebeis 1010 the Yemenl border province of Bald.ha,\l here popular and off,c,kl forces)OlOed lD crushmg them
Haithem who ISSUed hIS statemom as head of the newly-formedNatIonal Secunty Council, saIdmany rebels were kIlled, woundedor captured In the baltlo, whIch bog.n last Tuesday and ended SalUr'9ay •
He saId the Southern YemenI arm~, mJll1l8 and securIty took partrn the "preveptlve attack" He did:tot disclose Southern Yemeni casL:aJttlcs but said "we must remember our martyrs and Wounded'
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HANOI Feb 19 (APP}--TheNt1rlh Vietnam party newspaperNh In Dan yesterday categoflcallyHJe;( l.:d the San AntoOio formulalfl Ihe fnst offiCial rcaClJon bere too;.t31emenls on February 14 and 16b) Pre~ldcnt Johnson and US Se(rd Iry of Slate Dean Rusk
A long article Signed commentaIrlf -the Signature always used forgl vernm~nlal pronounccmenls-an
'i\' ered the A'rneClcan stand In terms\\ hu.:h can be summansed a& folI( \\~
I The AmerIcans claim that It ISlhe) who are seek109 jlSace whileN< rlh Vlctnam IS refUSing II but10 J eahty their statements, plans anddcnsJOns Show clearly that they areseek109 to Intcnsl(y the war
2 There IS nO question of the VIClnamese people (a phrase which1m ludes both North Vietnam andthe South Vietnamese NatIOnal LIberation Front) accephng the SanIt nlomo formula
3 PreSident Johnson and the otherAmencan leaders have losl their
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GENEVA Feb 19 (Reuter) - leI of Yugoslav!>. named by InIndia and Pakistan WIll heal the dla, and Nasrollah Entezam ofv('ldlct of all International tnbu II an nommated by Pa'klstann 11 here today On theIr rival Judge hagergren WIll read outclaIms to 9100 square kJlometres the verdict at a speCIal publiCof hal ren saltmarsh In the Rann hearmg In the Pala1s des NatIOnsof Kutch today
The two countnes agreed to It IS expected to take about 30accept the thJ ce-man panel's ge- mInutes to read and the CruCialCIS10n after theIr armies fought deCISIons m~ not be announcedover the desolate area three yearS until the eno l
ago OmcJ"ls w~king for the tflbu-The three Judges, w~,were lltte~~lili1'-say it wrll ISSUe three maps
to meet here Y<!sterdarto deCIde together wIth the verdIct onethcII final veld,ct haVe had to showlDg each claIm and one sho51ft th,ough 15000 pages of eVI- Wmg the fmal awarddence settmg out the two countll~S posItIons
India claims that the whole oftlw Rann of Kutch, on Its westernhOI der With PakIstan IS hiStortl:ldly IndlUn tel ntory
But Pakistan claims that sinceI t spends so much of the year under water fronher should followInternatlOnaj practice and runroughly mid-channel along the
24th parallel
1 he veld,ct IS WIdely expectedto he a compromlse between thetwo claIms but thIS IS likely toatouse blttel cntlcism and pOSSIbly leg,ll actIOn from Indian opponents of Yleldl"g up teflltoryto PakIstan
ChaIrman of the t"bunal ISJu~ge Gunnal Lagcl:gren ofSweden. who was named at therequest of Pak,stan and IndIa byUnited Nattons Secretary General U Thant
He IS aSSisted by Dr Ales Beb-
JAKARiA~Feb W<ReuteriPakistan's Foreign MInisterShanfudd In Plrzada, IS due to
arflve here next fnday for afour day meet10g of the Indones_Ia-Pakistan Economic and CuI.tural Cooperation Organisation(IPEEC) Antra news agency reported yesterday
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"1 am authollsed to rea{(lrmthat statement' the spokesmansaid
towns and military fortifIca_tions
The guerr Illas made apparently coordInated assaults on taIgets stretching from the MekongDelta to some 480 km north 01SaIgOn
The glant mIlItary and clvlhanJ an Son Nhut alrbase on the outskIrts of the city was regarded asone of the safest areas In thiSbeleaguered country
Mortar shells crumped lOto thevast treeless duty complex, landing near US Commander General WIlham Westmoreland'sheadquarters and the militarystores, bus stops basketballcourts and soak bars
More than 100 mortar shellshave struck the base In the barrage that started In the earlyhours of Sunday mornmg, kIlling two and woundIng 60 AmerICans
F,ghting had pettered out Inmost areas under fire by thJSmornmg and the spokesman dIS
counted reports that a secondViet Cong general offenSIve wasunder way
At least 104 Amencans werereported wounded In the allacks.and South VIetnamese dead wereput at seven POllce kIlled and 34wounded when 11 mortar bombshIt the nahonal po\Ice headquarters In Sellgon
There was no Immediate wordof VIet Coog casulahes
The spokesman said the latestattacks could not be termed a'second wave offenSIve as therewere few substantial ground assaults-unhke the bIg push durIng the VIetnamese lunar newyear when guernllas launchedheavy ground attacks on mostmajor towns In the south
An estimated battalion of VIet
ICong launched a heavy groundattack on Cal Lay 72 kms souIhwest of SaIgon but wele reported to have been beaten back Onthe outskIrts of the cIty
A spokesman In Da Nang SOldthe US Manne base at Phu Ba.which resupphes Marrnes flghtmgNorth VIetnamese 10 the battletorn formel Imperral capItal ofHue was h' hy 70 rockets
But there were no Immediatedetal1s of casulatles or damage
North Korea s contmued use ofthe word 'cnmmuJs 10 relutlOnto the Pueblo crew h;IS causeddeep eoncern In the J ohoson admmlstratIon
Yesterday's statement was ob,vlOusly mtended as a warnmg toNorth Korea that Ihe US wouldtake actIon If any severe pUDJsh~ments were meted out to themen
North Korean and US ropresentatlves have held severalnleetmgS at the truce VIllage ofPanmunJom try109 to settle theIOcldent and to secure release ofthe crew But so far there hasbeen no sIgn of any progress 10
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u.S. Disclaim New OffensiveWhile Viet Cong Hit SaigonAirport, 37 Towns, Bases
SAIGON, Feb 19, (Reuter)-A J22 mIllimetre rocket scored adirect hit on the clvlhan terminal of SaIgon's Tan Son Nhutairport thIS morfllng klllmg oneAmencan soldier and woundinganother 21
A U S mlhtary spokesman heresaId the rocket penetrated theroof and sprayed sharpnel overthe approxImately 150 by 30 yardconcourse where the soldIers werewaltmg for a paine home aftercompletmg then duty tours In
VietnamThe VIet Congo 10 ItS fresh wa
Ve of attacks throughout SouthVIetnam yesterday, ramed rockets and mortar, bombs on 37
man force based on the other Side's~trength But the North VIetnamesehad brought m abou~ 25,000 freshtroops SlDce they began their Tetolfenslve three weeks ago
u.s. Defeat InViet. Predicted
PARIS, Peb 19, (Reuter) -Marshal Vas,h Sokolovsky, a formerSoviet deputy defence mmlster said~ ('sferday that defeat for the AmerIcans In Vietnam was lDeVItablo unless they used nuclear weapons
But ID that case the conflict wouJd develop mto a world war he'old the weekly magazm, L E,preess
Marshal Sokolovsky on a 12 ~ay
\ ISH to Franoe, said tbe Americangeperals had not understood thelypc.: of war they were fighting
They have confused a partisan\'titr With a popular war, he saId
fhey are nOt the same thing onecannot tnumph an a popular \yarwhIch Itself mcludes a parllsan waras one of Its constItuent elements
Jn that war, Ihere are regularumts there are partisans there ISan armed people. self-defence andabove aU-as we have very wellseen Alese last few days-an urbaDfloqt and an achve partiCipatIon ofthe people 10 the town' he saId
man said uFrom both the substance and language of the sta tement 1l IS clear that these arethe words of the NOlth Koreanauthontles not of the crew ofthe Pueblo
AccordlnC 10 the broadcast thealleged •JOll1t leiter" IfIc,ludedstatements such as We deserve any pumshment by theNorth Korean people, rellardlessof Its severlty, for crIme we havecommItted by makmg overt IOtruSIonS Into terntOrIClI waters ofa sovel elgn $tate. namely, theDemocratIc People's Repuohcof Korea, and perpetuating gravehostIle acts
"SInce we are not mere prisO:ners of war but cnmmais caughtm the very act of espIonage wecannot have any complaint, evenshould the worst come"
The spokesman recalled thatanother North Korean broadcastlast month had referred to thecrew as ucnmmalsu who must
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H. Korea Forges Apology Lener, U.S. Says
Abroad U S S Cons.eJlatlOo,I eb 19, (Reut"'nr~idePt Johnson saId yesterday lbe UOIted States was prepared to undertaICe afurther troop bwld-up ulf we Deedto In VIetnam to counter new tommunlst onslaughts
lbe PreSident, who new to thIScarner off the California coast afler a dramatic cross-country tTiP to~a} farewell to troops leavlOg forthe war zone, speculaled that tbe\ Itt Cong might have already laumbed a second wave terrot offenSlye
AI an IDformal mJdOlgbt press conf-.erence aboard the Conslfcllatlonhe strongly mdlcated he would meet<.lily additional requests for men IfGen Wilham C Westmoreland theVetnam Commander, reqUIred tbem
Johnson, In lightnIng trIps yesterday personally sa,d goodbye andshook hands With some of theJ 0500 extra men now bemg rushedto Vietnam
He emphaSised that these men,Ihough urgently requesIed by Westmoreland SIX days ago were stlUwlthm .cthe 52S,OOO-maD commItmentdue to be reached III the neXt twoor three months
That IS not to say that we won traIse that level:' he said We Will,f we need to"
The PreSIdent saId Gen West-norelaod had planned hIS 525,000
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WASHINGTON, Peb 19, (Reuter) -The Umted States government yesterday accused NorthKorea of makmg UP a leIter ofapology by the 82 SUrvIVIng crewmen of the captured US mtelhgence shlp Pueblo
The US State Department alsorepeated that It would regard asa "dehberate aggravatIon of analready serIOUS sltuatIon" any at~tempt by North Korea to pumshthe crewmen
North Korea saId two days agothat the crew of the Pueblo-Jielzed last month-had apologIsedfor vlOlattng Its terrltotlal watersand asked for lemency
The offiCial North Korean ne\\/!;agency saId the admISSIOn ofgurlt and plea for mercy weremade ,n a JOInt letter to the !>y_ongyan!!. authOrities
The ageney saId the letter wasSIgned by the enttre crew, meludmg the captain, Com LloydBucher to'
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'me M~1Ster No~r Ahmad Ete. mstrIes and government agencIesp. yesterday morning! presld- to revIew their admimstrahve,over the first meetmg of the procedures WIth a VIew to ohtain
ndlnlmstratlVe :Refo~m Commls, g~ater eUlclehey and better coor-Ston establIshed to study the or- dlOallon The results of theseIganlsatlOn of the variOus mm.st stud."Il Were to be suhmltted toIfles and recommend ways of lID- the Prtme M'nIstry\ proving the finanCIal status of Results afready submitted wIllCIVIl servants I be studied by the COmmISSIOn
On the baSIS of a government The PrIme Mlmster saId thatpohcy statement and a cabinet the aIm of the commISSion was todeCISion made sometimes ago Improve the government admlnlsinstructions were issued to ml~ tratlOn j Improve the condItIOn of
CIVil servants. facilitate the workof the oubhc sector and speedup the operations and actIvItIesof the State
The admlmstratlon must become a more healthy, more efficIent, and more actIve organISatlOn" he saId
Our aIm IS not to reduce thenwnber of CIVil servants, but to
)l prevent bureaucracy We wantto JOcrease effiCIency, coordinatIOnand speed and to prOVIde bettercondJttons "
The PrlIDe Mlmster saId that"~~I responSibIlItIes to C1VlI servants
must be clear•PrOVISIOns should be made for
glvmg them greater educatIonhealth and sOClal flCl1ltlcS EtemJldl said
The PrIme Mmlster also reco-mmended mcreased pensions
The commISSIon IS made upof offiCIals who are well expenenced 10 the fIeld of admInistratIonor who have received speCialtramlng tn public adnllDlstratlOn
It WIll prepare a report for thePrIme Mmlster, results Ot.lts study, and suggests admlDlStratlvereforms When the reforms arelegally approved they WJll be Implemented
GRENOBLE, Peb 19,(R!:uteJ')Tho 10th Wmter OlympIc Games
".. Illch ended here yesterday WIll belemembered for lthe rows.. thr):atsand political manoeuvres as well aslhe sport109 achIevements
One man has completely domlnaled the sports scene, as h.s French~upporters saId he would Jeao-elaude KIlly grand slam of three men'salpme skung titles put him alongSide Austrian Tom Saller as one ofthe two greatest alpme skters of alltime
Norway, WIth a population of under four mllllan, proved themselvesthe world's best wmter sports nation,t"pphn~ the SOYlet UnIOn from theleadershIp of the mcdal table
But It IS IDdlVldual performances",hlch have the greatest Impact, andthese were KIUy's games
IBLAIBERG HOLDS
HIS OWN HEART
IN HIS HANDS·1001) FEEIJNGI
Only Saller hefore hIm achIevedtho tnple crown of the Olymplt:dOWnhIll, giant slalom and specIalslalom races, at Cortma m 1956
It was a Pity that Killy, a handsome aod husky 24-year-old WIth ap ISSlon for speed On skIS or )D motor cars. completed hiS trIUmph 10
((;ntroverslal circumstancesThe. surpnse of the games was
the partIal eclipse of the SovIet UnIOn who won a record II gold medrd~ ]n the last Winter OlympICSfour years ago
The RUSSians were lucky nOt to<uffer the fmal mdlgnlty of losmgIhm OlympIC Ice hockey title TheCz:echoslovaks, who went Wild wtthJOY after glvlDg the RUSSians theirfast beatmg 1D a tournament forfive years, threw away the goldmedal by only drawms against Sweden 1D their fmal game
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 19,(AFP}-J'hllip Blalberg made hlslory thIS week by l>ecommg Ilie f,rslman ever to hold hiS own heart In
h" hands, the Sunday Express, reported yesterday
,Dunng a talk WIth Prof ChriS
l/all Barnard, the surgeon handed'he Cape Town dentist his old diScased heart 10 a cage In.. which IIwas preserved, and explamed tohim POints about his transplant operation when he received a Dew heart lak~n from Chve Haupt, a yeung coloured man who had died ofa cerebral hemorrhage
Asked how It felt to hold hIS ownheart 10 hIS hands, Bla,berg replled, "It does seem a btl odd, doeso'tIt'
Barnard told BlaIberg "It's amaacle you maoaged to liv. as longas }OU did WIth that 1000de ypu."
The newspaper saId that Blalberghas overcome two slight rejectionper!oiIs sme< hIS operalIon, and that'the flUId Which had formed aroundh,s heart has now completely cleared up
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12,200 m~
16,300 m~
It IS orgsOIsed under the ausplces of the World Food and Agncullural Organisation The executive(.ommltee of the conference Will meet'Wednesday The current session Willd ~cuss the repons of the desert lacust seen in Afnca and SaudI Arabu. and Will adopt measures on co111 batting them Recent reports mdl(al~ locust has been seen In westernIn,"
A regional meeting to combat 10..USt was opened In Kabul dunng theweek The Iconference attended by"tghamstan, Iran, PakIstan and Ind a IS the fourth annual meeting onlocust control 10 thiS region
MONTEVIDEO, Feb 18, (AFP)-Uruguay yesterday threatenedto complam to the current UNTrade and Development Conference 10 New DelhI unless BfJtam ended a ban on unports ofUruguay's meat.
The Foreign MIIDStry here saIdthe ban affected cattle raIsers ID
the La Plata rIver arl'a. and wascausmg udlfficul tIes"(FWF)
Announcement
Kunduz
Berat
Kabul
as fobows:
Sealed bids will be received for construction of:
Education Projects at Berat, Kabul and
-.t~ tin f Sewage System,K~nduz, each consis g 0
Water Supply and Electrical Distribution System;
various structures for Adininistration, Clas-
Donnitories-Agricultural and Electro srooms,
h • I Buildings' recreation and athleticMec amca ,
fields. Areas of Structures will be approximtaely
They suppressed the opposItionto Dr Banda organised by MalaWIChlpembere by arrestlDg and bealing up many people They stIlihl:tve people In detention Manyclcd durmg the disturbances theslarted after the cabinet split
No policeman bas the fight toTrest a member of the Pioneers
for any CTlme except With the perr.1ISSlOn of Dr Banda The PIOC·
ncers man road blocks hear thetorders to prevent guernlas enter109 or to lrap them after entryCnSlla was trapped thus The PIOneers also have the nght to arrestpeople Without warrant and candetam them as long as they deemnecessary Several suspects detainedb\' them did not survive mterrogalion
The Government of Afghanstan has received a loan
from the International Development Association in
various currencies equivalent to $ 3,500,000 toward the
cost of Education Projects in Berat, Kabul and Kundoz,
and it is inten~~ that a portion of the proceeds of this
loan will be applied to payments under the contract (s)
for which this invitation to bid is issued.
,rd 'th plan.. and specifications preparedIn acco ance WI .........
Ito ... --~lates 'Architects and Engineers,by Dalton-Da n~ ,
A ad· ""leveland Ohio, 44114, U.S" and on979 The rc e,"" " , •
Ole in the offices of the Arc~it~,t and the Ministry of
Education of the Govermnent ~!, "~hanistan,1"
(Conlinued from page 2)a fonmdable tel'ntot.al force.
h 's thIS force thaI Dr Banda fehes On when he makes oblique threars about hIS capacity to mvadenetghbourlng Afr,can stales ThePioneers atc tramed 10 aU form!i.. ofwarfare ranglDB from ordinaryrmJl1ary' tactics to guernlla campa,gns It IS said that even the regulararmy In MalaWI would heSitate toat1cmpt a coup Without their cooperation
TheIr strength has helped DrUanda to survive In the strugglefN MalaWI leadership He bas carefUlly balanced lhe army and police{Clrces agamst the PIOneers
The strength of the movementIlIl11tanly also makes It difficult tov suahse BOY take-over by Henry(hlpember the eXile who IS pOIsed'n Tanzam'a to topple Dr Banda &
(.overnment Cblpembere leads therebel Pan AfTlcan DemocratJcParty
HIS one-lime supporter, YBtutaChlSIZS made the mlslake of mlsJudlung the strength of the Ploneersand their mfluence He IS now dead,
WANTEDKabul Ull1verlllb' purchasing
nmce wants bids for ~,OOO rollsof toDet tissue Inoludlng d-.riptiOIl of merm.ncl1ee by Febntal'726,
NEW YOFK, Feb 18 (MP)New York CIty'S garbage collectors Saturday agreed uncondItIonally to accept tbe deCIsIon of aState appomted arbItrator ID Itspay dIspute Wlth the city
The dIspute led to a nme-<laystrIke begmmng' February 2
whIch left the metropohs chokmg under some 100,000 tons ofuncollected refuse
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ROME Feb 18, (DPA).-TheGreek royal family Saturdaymoved from the Greek embassYhere to a large hotel In the centre of the Italian capital
No reasons tor the move weregIven but unconfirlned repOl'lssadd 'It followed fresh contacts
between KlOg Constantme andthe military regune In Athens
MOSCOW, Feb 18, (DPAIThe first human being to travelto outer space, Yur! Gagarlanof the SOVIet Umon, together
PARiS, Feb 18, (DPA) - SaudiArabia's Defence MInIster EmlrBen Abdel ArIZ, WIll amve her..Monday WIth a mlhtary delegation for a one-week offICIal VISItto France
It IS the fifth VISIt of an Arab WASHINGTON, Feb 18, (AFP)leader WithIn less than three -Three AmerIcan pIlots releasmonths ed Fnday bY the North Vletna
ATHENS Feb 18 (J\P) -Hol- mese touched dowSa~~r:~;lsonland and B~IIl1Um Saturday I'<1SU- aIrbase 10 Alaska
med normal diplom~tIc contactsWIth the Greek mlhtary regIme
(Contrnued from page 3)hang subdued pamtmgs ,n blackand whIte of advertISIng Imagery(a houseWIfe cleanmg, mVlslblemendIng and an aerosol spray)and commonplace obJects such asballs of strmg a golf baH and anexercise book
ThIS last paIntlOg IllustratesLlchtenstem's contention thatPop Art 'doesn't look hke a paintIng of somethmg, It looks hkethe thmg Itself" Frameless thepamtIng hangs on the wall forall the world hke an oversIzebook cover complete Wlth shInyfinIsh and malt bmdIng Elsewhere hIS adaptatIons of well
known masterpieces by P,cassoI S Offand Mondna hang SIde by Sl JOhnson eesde Wlth lund land sky an,d sea- PL.scapes moulded In shInY nea· 4 000 aras eavlngmel Other subjects re-' V.etpresented In the exhIbItIon are For I namgIant brushstrokes 10 the four FORT BRAGG North Carolma,famlhar LIchtensteIn colours of Feb 18, (MP) '-PreSIdent Jonblue green, yellow and red an~ son bIdding farewell to 4,000 paheaVilY outlined In black, an ratroops remforcements leavlOgsculptures and palOtmgs based on for V'etnam last nIght saId thethe commerCIal art stYles of the US IS "ready where ever the1930s h battle comes"
In SPIte of hIS versatIhty, (;W- 'We WIll face the deadly chal-ever, It seems likely that his fame lenge" the preSIdent saId addmgamong the public will contInue 'As thIS very hour a second waveto rest at least for the tIme be- f terronsls IS stnking at the109 WIth hIS comIc book pamtIng c~,es of South Vltnam"Whl1e the general publ,''' ":;1": The paratroops were thenot share the Pop artISts spe - first remforcements bemg rushedhsed knowledge of prevIOus art t V,etnam followmg an appeal
forms, It does share the common b~ US Commander m V.etnamexpenence of bemg members
bof Gen WIlham Westmoreland
a hIghly mdustriahsed ur an The preSIdent spoke to men ofcommunIty h the 3rd bngade of the 82nd aIr-
In an mtervlew In 1963, Llc - borne d,VISIOn ImmedIately aftertenctem sa,d that hIS work .~ou~~ hIS speech, the first 91 men fliedbe descnbed as Industnal Ev b rd four-engmed transport
h II d Pop Art 'Ame- a oa a ffrybody as ca e tu l]y plane and took 0ncan' pamtmg, but It'S ac a Johnson saId every effort byIndustnal pamtmg America wa~ the US to seek peace 10 thehit by mdustnahsm harder an had fatled Now he add"l!sooner and ItS values seem mOl~ w~~cond generahsed ~ttack hadaskew It'S what ~ll ~e w~~ ~een launched agamst the cItIesw'lll soon become - en W "Our answer must be Just ashappens, he argues, such art~ I r" he declared "We WIll re-
not be labelled as Pop or I" e- c,~:t thiS ruthless attack as we ""ayments "'y the International Development Assocla-ncan "It ~~ umversa . have resIsted the other" r ~ I
c ld N I-n Brief ' tion will be made only upon approval by the Interna-
Wor ews I h nist in accordance withWIth fellow cosmol\aut Ghej'- tional Development of Afg a anWASHINGTON Feb 18, man Tltov today became entlt: t d will
(MP) -A naval' board of mqw- ed to bear the tItle "engmeer't th terms and conditions of the loan agreemen anry Wlil lOvestIgate the seIzure of They defended theIr theses a e • _the UnIted States electromc 10- the Zhukovsky air force engl- ects to the terms and conditions oftelhgence shIp Pueblo by North neerIng Academy, "Tass" report- be subject in all respKorea the Defence Department ed
sa.d CHI F b 18 ( • "'P) - that agreement.KARA e ""'LONDON, Feb 18, (Reuter) - Pakistam and SovIet engmeers
BrItam's kIller foot-and-mouth have struck 011 at Hut In Carobeplague-believed almost wtped Ipur dlstnct, 75 -mIles west ofout after a fIve-month battle- Rawalpl,!dl, It was offiCIallY an-has struck agam 10 an area pre nounced yesterdaYvlously free of mfectlOn One of two wells dnlled With
A herd of cattle 10 the ceotral the RUSSIans' help has startedEngland county of Worcester was Yleldmg upto 1,400 barrels a dayslaughtered Fnday In the latest sIDce FrIday at a depth of 4,500VirUS attack whIch came after metres, the announcement SOldtwo days free of fresh outbreaks
The plague has already forcedthe mass slaughter of 420,000ammals on. 2.333 farms In Eng.land and Wales
KABUL, Feb 18, (Bakhtor) Dr Ghulam Sakhl Sultan, VIcepreSIdent of the Malana Eradlcatton Depatment, who went to
IndIa fIve weeks ago under aWorld Health OrgamsatIon spoosored programme to VISIt vanousmalana eradIcatIon projectsthere, returned to Kabul yesterday
Mrs Zablha an Engbsh 1eacherIn Rabla Balkhl hIgh school, Kabul who went one and 0 halfYe~rs ago to the UnIted Statesunder a USAID sponsored programme returned to Kabul yesterday
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UN
Accuses
3 JUDGES TO
HEAR CASSIUS
CLAY'S APPEAL
Council
Pretoria Govt.
DisregaTding
HOUSTON Feb 18, (Reuler}--I f three Judges Will bear
A pane old heavyweight champlOnformer wor eal here on Mon(aSslUS Clay S app t 11 for refu~uay agamst hiS conVIC 10"ng mlhtary call up If Moham
Clay who calls h,mse I tAl was convicted here as
rTtad I, to submlt to mdu)un r for refUSing H gIven
h my e wasetlon tnto lear It of five yearsthe maximum pena Yla,l and a $10000 flOe
Rul he has remllmed free on5 000 ball pend109 appeal C
' f the AmeTlcan IAn atloroey 0' Ion (ACLU), WIll
VII L,beratles Un ACLU Ieresent Clay A five-man
rep the boxer s defence 10am look over
December Morton L SusmanU S attorney Iy
th matter as an entICewho viewS e Will argue therouune draft case,
ment's SIdeguvero ed of hIS lItle byClay was stnpp db World BOXlOg AssociatIon aD~~ state of New York after he wasIOdlcted by a federal grand JUryhere last May
He claIms to be a praclIslOg mm'ster as well as a member of theBlack Moslem sect and conteodedthroughoul the case aod hiS appealsthat be 1S entitled to an exemptIontrom the draft as a mmlster and aconsclenllOUS obJCCtor
ACLU contends the JuslIce Depaitment overlooked a n:commendahon that Clay be classified as a consclentious objector •
Clay later moved hiS home to ChIcago ftom HoustQn H,s 18-year oldw,fe, Behnda, IS expecl10g a child
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 18(DPA}--The Sooth Afncan governOleO( was made the target of gencral cntlclsm and unanimous I re~~aches 10 the Secunty Counci
daih~t~~mbers of the Secunly .~ouQC11 accused South Afnca of ~~
cd disregard" for world pu:~~~on and UN authorIlYha~cs~~~elh~ Pretona Government the
d 33 oppoSItion members ofen('e b tnbcSouthwest AfTican Ovam aunder the 'terronsts law he d
The Sccunty CounCil at t ~ndot last month unaOlmou!lly as ed
South Arnca to sedstoP :~e~fl~re';~a'I ase the accu
rc c 1 AfTlcan andIgnored thiS UN IlP
dPedea new Secu-
A <"'es deman asian ,.-~..- demonstra--:n~touncil aCnOD as a f
f rotest and UN reprootlon 01 p demand for sanctions agA cenr .
South Africa did not emergea nst hI's council seSSion,10 Friday mg resentatlvealthough Senegalese rep fed
Abdou CISS called for unspccl I
ce measures,-oervi UN ambassador• 'UOIted Slales f ve-
Arthur Goldberg Jr~:~~11 aact:on,POIOI progr::m~spalch Ito Southmdudmg e f UN SecAITica a special envoy 0, h
I U Thant m a urnIctary Genera ,amtansn mlSSlOn
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PEACE TALKS
S. Afrwan Rel~gioJlS LeadersScore 'Coloured Parliamen~
: Wea:thet:EO'recast~
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, FEBRUARY 18; 1968 ,~,~ r >~ ,.. \ ~THE ,Yr.'A °UIf' !I'TM:IilC!'<,,' J.. .., ,1 \ r. 'I__ P~A~G~E~4~ '-':~_~--:-:"~-':'_-:-'-':'~"'--:-"-__--;;:7_.,.--~~-:- __~:-_n.nD;----:t-:-7""";-.:-.....~~~~~~ :-1,,:..'",-..;.r~~_"-......., ~,:,:"":,,,:::,,,:,,,--,--~..;;......w:~-":;,'-;-----j,:o:.~, ,;;,,-;,~--'T"li~I't.';:: 1 _ ,,'
'1 '" , '." ,f~ ~.,HOII'le Briefs }\fghan ·Week I In; ~view: I ' ,;" j'n; , ,:,: \' ,~>, ' ~:,,-: ' " \,' ,I.
' ~ :,'Y~ \\' LI~'J.'J.;f::I.0~i~g'~' -Fhe A~[t.i TO IJ~1 Bed' :/ '1':,'1 '-. ~':'~:"KABU'I!., Feh, 181 (aakhtar),- ~ f ~n .If, , r'" 1, /' lt1!',~ ,_,Indonesian Atrioassador Kldlr • ,. , I, 'I '" th' By Waklbee1i I' flng, the' next 17 years, '1Osman paid a tarewell c811 on the Two agrecmenlS Were sIgned fNl , h t to Kahul saId unJer Dur.ng the week the AfglJan Kar •ChIef Jusllce:Or Abdul HakIm SovIet Union during the 'l'C"k- one '·r IS re urn Af ha ,.sovIet trade ,.'akul, ,Inslltute annqtJncCd ·~that dur- \ f\Z,ayee Yestetday monpng , of them calls for Surveymg t1ie thjl agre<;m:n~ $53 m~lIlOn durmg - 109 the latest aucllons 10 Nl:Wl~"-k \ ,
Amu RIver especIally m the Tash- ~' amro~e SlUd a further mcrease and. London m6re han $i,2uu,OlIJ ,KABtlL Feb 18, (Bakhtar)- gUne a~_!::':'da':~let 'ot J: SoVlCt dellv.nes of macbm- wiJftb of Afgha"dn thkarakWN':: ';'~:k: ),:Mohamm~d ShlifIe Ra,hgu~r, .... or~nlS' d Ulpment IS expected un- rhe msijtute siu at 10 •
the edItor of AhlS, who went to al,ons WIll undertake ,omt stu lea, Ofy: eq t the sale added up to more than $on, ...
Kuala Lumpur and Manila last ~~:~':'~~~ :r:e~~O~~:llla:~~ , de~or thn:_wy.':.r:::::~~al gas WIll ~lllhonOOOaod 10 London It WB. l,month to partIcIpate 10 tlie IPI !he river, The protocal was SIgned hocome an Importaol expon comm • I 200
0her 1m rtant Item.s ca
semmar for journalists returned d f Afghanistan Under ano- An t po'{<1 KabUl> :lesterday, Rahguzsr, on 10 accordance "{Jth the t,;,vl~lons ~h tly~ent, ,;iined' between Af- pel Ih a roundtable programme lashis Way home, mspeete~ press of the border accord 01 9 8 'Lr 9h:'lSlatYllnd the SOYlet.--Ombn hls~ wtek over Radio Afghamstsn, sevoffices 10 Deihl - The secood agreement W,.!1S on :;'. --$350 116 th of natural ral notable carpet merchants and
~~~t-~a~~:;%'C::~;~,::e.;::: ••~~:r~m o:th~~'~~~amstanwill ~lhcIals of tbe Mlnis~~y ~~~~~,~gleader of the Afghan delegation af' be exported to the Soviet 'vOlon du- ~~~e t:~:;;,u~;dth:a~~mmodlt/which
--- , has met a selback recently In Eu-
Malawi Youth Movement ropean markets
killed JO gun fIght mSlde MalaWI The partICipants around, the tahleThe military role was added to agreed that both Ihe government and
Ihelr duties after lbe spht In Mala- the trader have yet to take slepsWI Before that they dId not have to prevent Afghan carpets from losany mlhtary training at all Sllys Ing theIr traditional favourable pia'Aleke Banda "LIke ally young men ce on the ,nleroatlOnal marke!" TheIn BrttaIn France or America, the use of better matenolsaod advertisIngyouth of MalaWI must defend their campalgns, were suggested as firstland when the need arises There IS necessary steps There was cansennothmg strange about tbal n sus among the parhclpants that hIgh
In Internal secunty, they play a tanffs In the buymg countnes alsoport whIch has beeo compared by hlnderea thc sale of Afghan carpets('titles to the SS men of Nazi Germany They crock down on anybody who speaks agalOSt Dr Bandaor the Congrcss Party-the onlylegal party to the country Theirt1rst firearms totalled nme andwere all donated by private cltlzcnsSInce then the Government has provlded their weapons Bnd they arenow part of the MalaWI Armedrorces
fIlm At I, 3, 5, 7, and 9 AmencanfilmILI'AREZ KELLY
Kandahar
Khost
GhaznJ
Ganlez
Farah
Skies In the central and northern regiollS of the country willbe overcast Yesterday the coldest areas were'Sharak and La!with a low of -29 C, -20 FThe wannest was Jalalabad witha bJgh of 21 C, 70 F Wind speedIn Kahul was reconled ..t 5knots yesterday
The temperature In Kabul at11 a.m was 3 C, 37 F
Yesterday's temperaturesKabul 3 C _8 C
37 F 17 F13 C -1 C55F 50F2 C -14 C36 F 7 F16 C 2 C
61 F 36 F10 C 1 CSOF 34F2 C -14 C36 F 7 F
-5 C -14 C23 F 7 F
(Conttnued from page I)Neither Thant nor hiS aides have
lu...sed any offiCial verSion of whattranspired dunng the meetlDgs, but1 hc[e has beeD persistent speculatIon In UN Circles thaI he returnedfrom hiS moe day tnp abroadeillpty~handed as far as any indICa'Ions of progress towards a nego.!!aIcd Vietnam settlement were conu:rned
But hiS remark yesterday that hewas 'more convlDced than ever'Ih II the North Vietnamese wouldIIcgotlate If only the Unlted StatesII dted the aIT raids raised the queslion whether he had, after aU, recelved some encourag,ang word fromBanol W __ ~
1r was noted here tha\ thiS couldhave been delivered LO hIm evenlitel hiS return to headquarterst rom Pans and that he might notvel havc passed details on to theAmencans
b 18 ment The tentis of office of theJOHANNESBURG,,Fc Ithree coloured MP's have already(AFP-Enghsh aod Africans r<-' b n
S th Af ycs- [beeu extended twIce y a year pe .llglous cilcles m ou nca r f the commiSSion oftel day protested. agamst the )"ceom ( td1ng are-port 0
nfcndallon tabled PrIday m p~rb- mqUiry dIe In theameQt that parliamentary represen- • The recommen a lon ~m on thetat,on of t:oloureds should ceasc (. Iform of a maJo:;:; r:;m the com'With the expltatloo of the tenns of I ~uestton emana g 0 uj TO roffice of the prescot 'Coloured_lDcu <p',sslbn of mqUiry/:,nto d';:P .!i..
b t - 11,0ht,cal IOterferen e An ~ ,,-_m en s ~. I tattoo of the vanoUsCape Provmce coloureds :lre the I hc& represen "("nl~ ones represented In parha· population groups has recommen-
The commISSIOndeeJ the creatloD ot. ...·s coloured legISlatIve assemhly," of 40 electedand 20 nommated members to dealwllh matters "concerDlJlg our colo1I1 ed people
The commiSSIOn however recommcnded agalOsl proceedmg With theprc«nt draft blll to prevent pohti....ll Interference by one ,race groupn another s mtemsl aff8lrs
I It suggested chaoges, though d,dnN question the deslrablhty of theprhlclples of the bill
For their part, the coloured representatiVes have rejected the maJorIty ~ views on coloured rcp.resenta-
\'On Ib fAnghcan ArchbIShop R Se
hYb~I
(ape Town has SBld that I. Isubmitted to the commiSSiOn was
Il.'pugnant to the conSCience of responslble and practlslOg Chnstlans
Owen Cardulal McCann Roman(athohc archlnshop of Cape Town,also cntlclsed the bIll
Prof B 0 Keet a Dutch Refor, Church elder said there shou
nleu b whitesId be no difference etweenitnd coloureds regardlOg politicalnghts and pnvileges d
The religiOUS leaders expressethclr protests while glvmg eVidencebelore the commlSSlon
CLOSER
INTRA.ASIAN
'UNDERSTAN'DING
C~LLED FORSINGAPORE Feb 18, (Reu-
ter) - Delegates attendmg a semmar 6n economIC and pohtIcalcooperatIOn here have called forcloser understanifing among developmg natlonS In ASIa to bodge the chasms that separatethem
They also called for greatercooperaliOn wlth the more deveciloped powers to ensure peace an
ltstablllty ID the area and saidwas unfortunate that man although wllhng to devote all hISresources In an attempt to conqucr space seemed reluctant todo something to conquer lmsunderstandmg dIstrust fear suspicton and hatred among na-tions ed
The semmar which startlast Thursday IS being attendedby some 50 delegates from Austraha Ceylon, India JapanMalaYSia the PhlhpPlnes SouthKorea South VIetnam ThaIlandWest Germany and the UOltedStates
Among the tOpICS bemg dlscussed at the semInar are regionaland defence pacts, exchange ofadmmlstratIve and mIlitary techn1Ques and staff, areas of closercooperatIOn In currency and £ormahtles and removal of hmdran-
d unessential formalitiesces anm trade and commerce
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