WORLD SCENE CALLEY CASHES IN ON MURDER NEW YORK—Viking Press has announced that Lt. William Cal- ley, sentenced by a courtmartial for the murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians, and his literary collaborator, John Sack, have received a $100,000 advance for a book, “Lt. Calley: An American Tragedy.” The two will split the fee roughly 50-50, although Calley committed the murders, according to the courtmartial. HUNGER STRIKE IN ISRAELI PRISONS TEL-AVIV—Arab prisoners in Israeli jails and detention camps began a hunger strike to protest against their inhuman treatment by Israeli authorities. In Cairo and Damascus, ‘spokesmen for the Pales- tine Liberation Organization called for world public opinion to sup- port the protest. The PLO estimates that there are 17,000 Arabs imprisoned on Israeli-controlled territory. The official Israeli figure on Arab prisoners is about one-tenth that of the PLO. The United Nations Human Rights Commission has repeatedly condemned Israel for violating the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of Arab prisoners. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel publish- ed an appeal to all Israelis to protest against the recent criminal attack on the offices of the CPI newspaper, Zo Haderekh. The CPI statement blamed the attack on the Israeli fascist youth organiza- tion; Beitar, and said that in recent months, fascist groups had _ become increasingly active within Israel. SOUTH KOREAN STUDENTS BATTLE POLICE SEOUL—About 3,000 South Korean university students battled riot police in a series of student demonstrations demanding the abolition of military training on campus. The club-swinging riot police charged the students at least five times, but failed to break up the protest marches. Police salso laid down barrages of tear-gas cannisters, but were forced to retreat when the students began bombarding them with rocks. .FARMERS’ PROTEST MARCH IN VENEZUELA (CARACAS—More than 20,000 Venezuelan farmers set out on a 250-mile protest march on Thursday, from Accarigua to Caracas. The farmers are protesting against the machinations of trading cor- porations, which buy sesame from them at low prices and re-sell it at much higher prices. The Venezuelan Federation of Farmers’ As- sociations and the Federation of Peasants have come out in support of the farmers’ protest. Venezuelan transport workers also have stated their support. Mass meetings and demonstrations have been held in every state in Venezuela to back the farmers’ protest march. ALLENDE HITS PRESS SLANDERS OF CHILE SANTIAGO DE CHILE—President Salvador Allende of Chile told a group of foreign correspondents that the “crudest slandering” of Chilean developments is beginning to mount up in a number of foreign publications: Allende was on tour of nitrates mines in northern Chile to talk with the miners and listen to what they had to say about the new government. Allende expressed the hope to the foreign newsmen that they would travel more in Chile, outside the capital, and see for them- selves how the people live. He stressed that the Chilean Popular Front government had scored great successes, but still ahead is the necessity to carry out a genuine land reform. He said he favored setting up mixed Latin American companies, with Peru and Bolivia for example, to exploit Andean resources. Allende said Chile was not going to “export” its own politics, but said he welcomed moves to set up left, popular fronts in countries like Uruguay. PORTUGAL’S CHEMICAL WAR IN ANGOLA CONDEMNED UNITED NATIONS—Portugal used massive quantities of toxic gases and poisonous chemicals in its colonial war in Angola, the United Nations was told on Thursday. In a telegram to UN Secretary-General U Thant, Agostinho Neto, chairman of the An- golan Popular Liberation Movement (MPLA), said that hundreds of Angolans were dying from chemical poisoning as a result of the Portuguese action, and that two-thirds of Angola’s crops had been destroyed. CEYLON ARMY BATTLES TERRORISTS COLOMBO—Ceylon’s armored corps battled terrorists 55 miles northeast of Colombo, while Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandara- naike said in a nation-wide radio broadcast that the armed forces of Ceylon are in full control of the situation and are taking resolute measures to restore order. The terrorist gangs, who call themselves ‘Che Guevarists,” began their activities by a sudden, unexpected series of attacks on police posts. The Ceylon authorities say the “Che Guevarists” are nearly all from the ranks of the unemployed and penniless young men, and were organized by “reactionary forces” to try to overthrow the _ United Left Front government of Premier Bandaranaike. It was noted that one of the first attacks the terrorists made was on the Tulhiriya textile factory, 45 miles from Colombo, which was built with aid from the GDR. BRITAIN TO SELL MISSILES TO SOUTH AFRICA UNITED NATIONS—Britain wil! sell $120 million worth of anti- aircraft missiles and radar equipment to South Africa, the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid was told on Wednesday. Deo Batt, the representative of Nepal, said in his report to the Com- mittee that a group of British firms, headed by the British Aircraft Corporation, were already engaged in completing the arms deal. South Africa also will send a mission to Britain soon to recruit mili- tary and naval “advisers” to handle its new British equipment. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1971—PAGE 6 What they're fighting for Oil monopolies behind the wars “One of the world’s richest areas is open to the winner in Indochina,” wrote U.S. News and World Report just before the battle of Dienbienphu in 1954. “Tin, rubber, rice, key strategic raw materials are what the war is really about. The U.S. sees it as a place to hold—at any cost.” As everyone knows the costs have run high indeed over the 17 years since then, but U.S. im- perialism is still waging war to stay in Indochina. In this policy of brutal ag- gression, oil has now become a major factor. “Major companies are eager to diversify their sources of pe- troleum because of the political uncertainty in the middle east, the world’s major source of crude (oil) today,” wrote For- tune magazine in March of 1970. Now the oil rush in Southeast Asia has reached the shores of South Vietnam, where explora- tion for long-suspected offshore oil reserves has been under way since 1969. Currently, 16 U.S. oil companies along with two Japanese firms and one Cana- dian-based company expect to begin negotiations with~ the Thieu-Ky regime for seventeen major oil concessions. The oil companies clearly have a real interest in having Nixon hold on to Indochina at any cost. The stakes are high. A U.S. oil expert with 15 years experi- ence in Southeast Asia has said. that in five years “the off-shore oil fields of Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, South Vietnam and Indonesia will be ready to pro- duce . . . more than is now produced in the whole western world.” The drive for Southeast Asian oil. has been given additional impetus by the negotiations of the consortium of oil producing countries (OPEC) for higher prices. “Friendly” governments like that of Thieu and Ky can be counted on to give the oil tycoons much better terms. Beyond these considerations of profit, lies the drive of U.S. imperialism to control vital oil reserves. As has been the case since World War II, U.S. economic influence in Asia rests on the ability to control Japan’s supply of raw materials and its avail- able markets. An independent, _ socialist Southeast Asia would pull Japan into expanded trade ee gan as me ey ea ep eet CP CT Oe net both with itself and China and end its reliance on the U.S, Such a shift in the Pacific ba- lance of power could deal a shattering blow to the U.S. big business strategy to keep and extend its position in the world economy. Also involved in the negotia- tion of offshore concessions with Thieu-Ky and Company, is the development of certain “contin- gency” plans against defeat in Vietnam. Victor Perlo writing in the Daily World explains: “Should American troops be driven off Indochinese territory, and the Thieu-Ky regime col- lapse, the American-Japanese oil concerns will claim that the con- tinental shelf concessions are valid. They may then use the U.S. and Japanese fleets and air forces to ‘protect’ their piratical exploitation of Vietnam’s nat- ural resourecs from the victori- ous Vietnamese people. “The U.S. fleet, now joined with the Japanese, would then perform in the South China Sea the same role it has performed in the Formosa Strait. There SAUDI ARABIA 7 2 _— 200 Note on this map the oil-fields along the western shore of the On NO iat ae eee eens tae We ee ee ee eg ee for 20 years it has beet rf China from important ter of as well as use of Col Shelf waters and resourr f the two imperialist pow bE be plotting the same _ spect to Vietnam.” : OR DD agp Bilas Sanit PSE eA Sinai peninsula. Israel, by seizing these fields in June 1967, became changed overnight from an oil-importing country to one whose oil requirements were completely satisfied. 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