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By B. BANNOV
A PNePolitical Correspondent

Maving announced a boycott
| UN measures. carried out
Mer the motto of solidarity with
Palestinians, the U.S. has
in demonstrated its contempt ,
human rights. Its refusal to
port the struggle of the Pales-
an Arabs-for their sovereign
hehood and for the protection
$\ their nation is tantamount to
epreval of the crimes committed
MAinst the 3,500,000 strong
ple over the past 30 years.

—Yhe massacre in Deir Yasin,
Mich became an.Arab Song My,
Xen all its residents were mur-
sted, is not a chance occurr-
Re. The extermination of re--
Rees in the Tell Zaatar camp
Ar Beirut was no less cruel. Re-
Rees were surrounded by tanks
uN artillery in a territory of 0:6
| miles and then shot. The entire
jib town of Kuneitra was elimi-

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Over 30 years of Israeli policy

are being built instead. The prop-
erty of Arab residents is con-
fiscated. This is a policy of
genocide being conducted against
the Arab people of Palestine.

‘Resettlement of historical Arab

‘territories and terror are ‘the

methods used to perpetuate Is-
raeli occupation of Arab lands
seized in 1967.

Boycott of international actions
of solidarity with the Palestinians
is an. act of open defiance of
corresponding UN resolutions.
Resolution 181 adopted Nov. 29,
1947, provided, among other
things, for the division of Pales-
tine into a Jewish and an Arab
state. The latter has not been
created so far. For 30 years now

the U.S. has been sabotaging the
fulfillment of this resolution.
Since 1974 when the legitimate
representative of the Arab people
of Palestine, Yasser Arafat, the
PLO Chairman, was given the
right to use the UN rostrum, the
United Nations and UNESCO
have passed a number of very im-

iticy aimed at eliminating the
estinians as a nation, similar
iitmes have been committed

Alny times.

ists very year numerous commis-
DPnas of the UN and other rep-

MXentative international organi-
itions compile reports on ever-
a\x, crimes of this kind. The’
gi\estinian question has been dis-

~\sed at the UN more than a
sand times, It has been ir-’
hiutably proven that the Israeli
liters ‘want to eradicate the very
(ion of a ‘Palestinian nation’’.

Yithey want to raze Palestinian
M\4s and settlements to the
hi und.The Arabs are driven out
heir homes without the right to \
Chien in the Israeli-occupied. ter-

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U.S. leads anti-Palestine bloc
as Israeli genocide continues

of eliminating the Palestinians as a
nation many horrible crimes have been committed, charges APN
correspondent Bannov. Photo: Israeli troops conducting one of their
regular round-ups of Palestinians.

the legitimate right of the Palesti-
nians to sovereignty and state-
hood and have strongly con-
demned Zionist policy in the
Middle East.

In response, Washington has
set up an anti-Palestinian, pro-
Israeli bloc of some UN member
states which have been siding
with the U.S. and Israel in voting
against any resolution designed to
ensure a fair settlement of the
legitimate demands of the Palesti-
nians and the cardinal settlement
of the Palestinian problem:

Washington has assumed an
anti-Palestine stance not for
reasons of its national interests.
Its present course is a result of the
pressure by the pro-Israeli lobby
in the country: ~ The former
French M.P., Raymond Offroy,
told France. Presse +» correspon-
dents after his visit to the United
States that when he was setting
out on his visit he thought Israel
was an American colony. ‘“‘I am
leaving the U.S. fully convinced
that America has now become Is-
rael’s colony,” he said.

avries and Jewish settlements portant resolutions in support of
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B\AOSCOW (APN) — The smell
il can now be easily detected
long the dubious aromas: of

alinese political cookery.

12-49 months after Nixon’s visit

14\~hina in 1972, a group of lead-

18 managers of Canadian-based .

WS transnational corporations

WA de a trip to Peking. The tour

ail “not receive much publicity.

“According to the Japan Times,
VA aim of the visit was to study

founded or the ‘‘second person”’

‘in the present Chinese leadership
is too forgiving. Whatever the
case, last May, Exxon, Penn Oil,
Union Oil and Philips Petroleum
received a new invitation to send
their representatives to Peking.

Early in September’ the
Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tsushin quoted Teng Hsiao-ping
as saying that China had signed an
agreement with U.S¢ oil com-

Multi-national oil sharks
wimming in Chinese waters

ogy. The exhortations “‘not to
allow foreign exploiters’. into
China also have been forgotten:
Judging by everything, the only
problem now is to find convenient
definitions.

In a bid to play the ‘‘oil card’’ in
the West, the \Peking ‘‘revolu-
tionaries’’ have backed out on
their own assurances of solidarity
with the developing world. Al-
though China has not yet become
a ‘‘leading oil producing power’

aMina’s oil reserves. While the
IM orious “gang of four’* was still
ist the height of power and all
iA; nese newspapers tooted their
ns about the intransient valid-
mM of the principle of ‘‘self-
iance’’, a group of Chinese ex-
‘ts set out on a trip to the
\ser’s den’’, Houston, Texas,
ss\ere they spent four months
Ja\dying the techniques of seis-
eit searches for oil and negotiat-
ic\ a sale of necessary technolo-
ra\
at\A number of reciprocal visits
th\iowed. Chinese waters were
\ited by such sharks as Exxon,
NIf Oil and Caltex. Rumours
nsified to such an extent that
oft same Japan Times ventured to
that the ‘‘oil sisters’’ were im-
hicated in a plot which led to the
»jcond fall of Teng Hsiao-ping.
lelNow one can only say that
‘her thé rumours were un-

another Deputy Premier, gainsaid

panies on the development of oil
deposits-on China‘s continental
shelf. 4

Five days later, Kang Shih-en,

and specialists give very modest

estimates of its oil reserves (at the
Honolulu international sym-
posium of oil geologists in August
most delegates agreed that China
reserves of oil were equal to those
of the northern Alaska Range), its
subversive role with regard to the
oil exporting countries has be-
come obvious. It was put into
practice-in the policy of fixing so-
called “friendly” prices for the

. countries with which Peking is
flirting (Japan reportedly may be-
come one of them) and in China’s
readiness to compete with OPEC
on all markets for which it will be
able to get oil.
’ The United States and Japan
realize this well. Japanese papers
now frankly say that with the help
of China the government hopes to
“disperse sources of oil supply
which has so far been mainly con-
fined to the Middle East.”

that statement but confirmed that
Peking discussed the ~ problem
with West European countries,
the United States and Japan.

A report came two days later
saying that China had reached an
agreement with a Japanese
government corporation on the
joint mining of oil in the Gulf of Po
Hai and the South China Sea,

This statement also may be re-
futed: oil-is a matter which the
Chinese do their best to befog.
One thing cannot be refuted how-
ever: Peking is clearly seeking to
cash in on the capitalist countries”
thirst for oil to strenghthen its ties
with them. In so doing, it has ab-
solutely no regard for principle.

They have cast away old ideol-

NATIONAL FRONT FOR SALVATION ESTABLISHED
KAMPUCHEA — Kampuchean (Cambodia) patriots have met in
one of the liberated areas of the country and established a Kampuchean
Front For National Salvation. A representative congress has been held
and a 14-member central committee was elected with Heng Samrin as
chairman. : ae
. The congress unanimously approved the objectives of the Kampuc-
hean revolution. It includes an appeal to the people to unite to topple
the reactionary clique headed by Pol Poth and Ieng Sari in the interests
of creating a peaceful, independent, democratic, neutral and non-
aligned Kampuchea, building socialism.

CHILEANS DEMONSTRATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
SANTIAGO — More than 1,000 people demonstrated in Santiago de
Chile to mark United Nations Human Rights Day. The demonstrators
demanded an end to the fascist reign of terror and the release of all
political prisoners. They demanded to know the fate 2,500 missing
prisoners. The demonstration was broken up by the'police and several
dozen people were arrested.

AID POURS IN FOR VIETNAM FLOOD RELIEF

BERLIN — The Lutheran Churches of the German Democratic
Republic-have sent $750,000 worth of relief supplies to Vietnam to aid
its recovery from the recent heavy floods. Kurt Seibt, President of the
GDR Solidarity Committee, in a recent news conference said that the
committee originally had planned to raise about $20-million this year
from public contributions for Vietnam. In fact, the committee has
already collected $31-million.

Meanwhile the Soviet freighter Ivan Babushkin arrived in the port of
Haiphong carrying a full cargo of Soviet Red Cross relief supplies. The
Babushkin is the third Soviet freighter to arrive in Vietnam recently
with relief supplies for the flood victims.

SMITH REGIME SUPPLIED WITH U.S. HELICOPTERS
SALISBURY — The racist Ian Smith government in Rhodesia is
using U.S. helicopters in its war against the Zimbabwe people. A
Rhodesian military. spokesman said: ‘*The U.S. Bell 205 Huey helicop-
ter is now in service with the Rhodesian Air Force’’. The Smith regime

reportedly has 11 of the U.S.-made copters which were used widely by
_ American forces inthe Victnam war: Sale of the copters is tir Viorfauuil

of United Nations sanctions. A spokesman for Bell Helicopter in Fort
Worth, Téxas, said he did not know how the copters got to the
Rhodesian Air Force.

POLAND-ETHIOPIA SIGN FRIENDSHIP TREATY

WARSAW — The governments of Poland ard Ethiopia have agreed
on a Declaration of Friendship and Cooperation, signed recently in
Warsaw. The declaration stresses the role of the non-aligned move-
ment in the struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism,
apartheid and racism. Cooperation between Poland and Ethiopia. will
now cover a variety of concerns including agriculture, industry, sci-
ence and culture.

PLO OFFERS TERMS FOR PEACE SETTLEMENT
PARIS — An official of the Palestinian Liberation Organization said
here that the PLO is prepared to cease hostile acts against Israel and
give it de facto recognition in return for the creation of a Palestinian
state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Ibrahim Souss, the PLO’s
_ permanent representative in France, made the comment while addres-
sing the Ametican Club here.

SOVIET SPACESHIP VISITS VENUS
MOSCOW — A Soviet spacecraft, Venera 12, flew to the outer
fringes of Venus Dec. 19, and dropped a package of TV cameras and
other scientific equipment onto the planet. The Soviet Union has
successfully soft-landed scientific equipment on Venus in the past.

SALISBURY — Seventeen million tons of fuel went up in flames as
Patriotic Front troops brought the war right into the capital. The loss is a
severe one for the racist regime both in economic terms and morale, as
the glum face of lan Smith attests.

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