21 November 1975

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JOBS LOBBY ON WEDNESDAY BERT RAMELSON writes about a plan to

beat

unemployment.

Make sure of Star sales to lobby contingents on trains and coaches.

After F ra n c o — hope fo r d e m o c ra tic b re a k th ro u g h

PACE 2 TO D A Y SPAIN A FTER FRAN CO , by Spanish Communist leader Santiago Alvarez.

SPAIN STRAINING AT We say Devolution delay ITS FETTERS tactics sp ark DEATH O F A MONSTER— an obituary by Sam Russell.

men had souls and hel existed, General Franco’s would rot there for ever.

By SAM RUSSELL T he protests of Labour MPs against sending Lord Shep­ S P A I N ' S democrats inside and outside the herd to represent Britain at Franco’s funeral should be country hailed the death of the country’s fascist supported.

T he death of few men in his­ dictator yesterday as the opportunity for a tory has been so eagerly democratic breakthrough. anticipated with so much They looked forward to the hope by so many. breaking of the shackles that nauseating perversion of have bound the Spanish people medical science delayed his for nearly 40 years. going to give his heirs time In PARIS, Spain’s Communist for manoeuvres to continue Party general secretary Santiago his regime.

Carrillo said: “The long waiting spite this, his end can be the period is over. A period in the beginning of the new and I NEVER did really believe in "having history of Spain is ending. to be cruel to be kind,” but even democratic era, so brutally “Now the opposition forces— less so now when the government the left, the centre and the right interrupted by his treachery continues to bash the workers with included—must come out into to the elected Republican the wage curb and unemployment, the open to propose a provisional government of Spain some telling them it’s for their own good. government and a realistic pro40 years ago. gramme capable of achieving the The bosses, despite all the concessions is regime is rotten, sustained widest national unity. they gained in the policies outlined since the departure of his in the Queen’s Speech, have straight “We have to bring together all away "put the boot in" with their closest partners in crime, those people, without exception, blackmailing ultimatum: "Allow in­ who wish to put an end to the Hitler’s Germany and M usso­ spirit of civil war, to hand back creased prices or no investment." lini’s Italy, by the m ulti­ the power of decision to the national concerns, including The workers must get in quickly with Spanish citizens and set up a their demands — and that’s not the British and particularly democratic regime. blackmail, because pressing the the American. government to implement its party’s

FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

manifesto could make the future less bleak for all of us.

For years it has relied on revenues from the US bases, the pact for which President Ford recently rushed to renew.

E verything must be done to see that these quarters do not interfere and help those seeking to continue t h e fascist system.

E verything must be done by the British labour movement and all democrats to support the appeal which Spain’s Communist P a r t y leader Santiago Carrillo made yes­ terday, to all opposition par­ ties, left, right and centre, to come into the open and set up a provisional government to introduce a democratic regime. stead of condolences to Franco's heirs, Britain and its government should give all material and political help possible to his democratic opponents. democratic Spain is neces­ sary not only for the Spanish people, but to strengthen peace and d e m o c r a c y throughout Europe and in Britain.

The lobby on November 26 w ill be the first and best opportunity to press this home, and the Star is daily campaigning to mobilise the greatest support for this lobby, which can truly be described as “ for your own good” and for the good of the Labour government, too, because its future is at stake also.

The Star is backing you and all on the left pushing for real change.

In yesterday’s post of £89 came some handsome support: £10 from Maldon friends "as a token of our abhor­ rence of the Chilean regime"; £10 from a Coleg Harlech friend; £2 from "sympathetic students"; and C plus extra, £5, from two Swansea sisters. This brings our total to

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Workers Press

‘Suspect’ QE2 sails

By JIM TAIT

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SERIOUS concern was ex­ pressed yesterday by the Scottish TUC at w hat the Scottish Communist Party ca lled filibustering by the government in its proposed delay over setting up a Scot­ tish Assembly.

The STUC general council stated they were seriously con­ cerned about the implications ol any delay in the implementation of legislation to establish a Scot­ tish Assembly.

And Scottish Communist Party secretary lack Ashton warned that any delay would spell danger to the labour movement.

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Wide-ranging Both organisations were res­ ponding to Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s announcement in the Queen’s Speech to Parlia­ ment that legislation for setting up a Scottish Assembly may not be introduced in the forthcoming parliamentary session—as pre­ viously pledged.

The government’s intention is to follow up its devolution white paper, due out this month, with a debate and then wide-ranging consultation before

N EW L IF E

“Any delay could prove dan­ gerous for Spain, Europe and for peace and stability in the world.

In the days to come the Spanish people will act with firmness with this aim in view.”

Im MOSCOW, the legendary Spanish C o m m u n i s t leader Dolores Ibarruri said: “Franco’s death creates new conditions for a democratic development in Spain “The man who has on his conscience the responsibility of a fratricidal war which cost the Spanish over a million dead, 40 years of repression, executions, imprisonment and torture, has disappeared physically.

“Freed from 40 years of fascist dictatorship, Spain begins a new life. It is the dawn of a Spain in which the people will be the principle protagonist, in which ;ihe rights of the men and women and peoples of our countny will be recognised once again. “'In these moments, my thoughts are un the first place for our prisoners, for all the political prisoners who must be freed immediately.

“This must be the first con­ cern of all those who are struggling for. and who desire the establishment of a demo­ cratic regime in Spain.”

A N G U ISH Members o f t h e National Graphical Association at the Dolores Ibarruri warned that Workers Press, the newspaper unless world progressive opinion of the Workers’ Revolutionary made itself heard, the lives of Party, came out on strike yester­ the political prisoners were in day after the management sacked dire danger. the composing room father of In MADRID, Spanish Socialist the chapel (branch chairman).

Party leader Felipe Gonzalez SPE AKS to the press from the The WRP refused to comment. said: “A black chapter in the government’s d e v o l u t i o n history of Spain has closed,” but, white paper indicate th at it he said, there was anguish be­ cause of “violent and provocative will fall far short of what acts” against Spanish democrats is required. The Queen’s The QE2 sailed for New York in recent weeks.

Speech announcement of yet The Socialist Party executive after stringent security more delay on setting up yesterday checks on its 1,300 passengers. committee said Gen. Franco had Scottish and Welsh assem­ The security operation came after usurped power for 36 years. blies only makes the govern­ police and troops had completed trampling on the forces of pro­ ment’s position worse. their search of the QE2 for traces gress, liberty and justice.

Oder its present timetable, of explosives. it c o n t in u e d on p. 3 even if everything goes ac­ cording to the Queen’s Speech programme, there will not be an assembly in either country until late 1977 and probably not until 1978. this unnecessary delay is an affront to the Scottish and Welsh peoples and can only play into the hands of the right wing in the nationalist movements. will be used by these right­ wingers as a stick with which to beat the present govern­ ment and through it the labour movement. ie trade union and labour movements in both Scotland and Wales have made it clear where they stand. There is absolutely no excuse for delay.

A ssemblies with wide fiscal, planning and public invest­ ment powers should be set up without further delay.

N o delay

Scots’ anger

SEND NO ONE TO FRANCO’S FUNERAL-MPs LABOUR fury erupted yester­ day over the decision to send Lord Privy Seal, Lord Shep­ herd to represent Britain at Franco’s funeral.

In a strong protest Labour Party general secretary Ron Hayward said: “The Labour party will 'be deeply shocked that our government is contem­ plating sending a senior Cabinet Minister (to Franco’s funeral.

“It is an affront to all those fighting for democracy and ‘h uman rights in Spain. On the proposal of the Foreign Secre­ tary this year the Labour Party went on record at its annual con­ ference condemning the policies and actions of Franco’s regime.

“It would be a cynical repudi­ ation of Che views of the whole party to send to the dictator's funeral a senior member of the Cabinet.

“We urgently request the gov­ ernment to rescind this deci­ sion.”

At a Parliamentary Labour Party meeting about 40 MPs from all sections of the party Playing guitars and Basque bag­ pipes, joyful Spaniards cele­ brated the death of their country’s fascist dictator out­ side the Spanish Embassy in London last night.

urged the government to send no representative.

A telegram to Mr. Wilson signed on behalf of Che Spanish Democratic Defence Committee by its chairman, Mr. Bob Edwards, and treasurer, Mr. Jack Jones, the transport workers’ leader, says: “Strongly urge that no member of government should go to Spain for Franco funeral.

“It would be affront to all those fighting for democracy both inside and outside Spain especially when think of recent events and view of Labour Party conference.”

D ISG RA CEFU L

A deputation was sent to see Mr. Wilson consisting of the chairman of the parliamentary party Cledwyn Hughes and government chief whip Bob Mellish.

One Labour MP, Mr. Robin Corbett, said: “This will be the most unmourned corpse in Europe.”

Mrs. Judith Hart, former Overseas Development Minister, called Mr. Wilson’s decision “an insult to the labour movement.”

She said the party had made its views quite clear in a private message to the government several days ago.

The Queen’s message offered

her condolence on the death of Gen. Franco “who, as head of the Spanish state, led his country for so long.”

Mrs. Hart’s reaction summed up the anger of many Labour MPs. She said: “This is a dis­ graceful decision. To send a cabinet minister to Franco’s fun­ eral when, as I understand, the Queen herself is to be repre­ sented at a low level by the British ambassador, is a gratui­ tous insult to the labour movement.

Acute turn in Portugal PORTUGAL plunged deeper into crisis yesterday with the decision of the sixth provisional govern­ ment to “suspend its activities” in an apparent: attempt to force the country’s military command to the right.

A government statement said it would function again only when President Costa Gomes could “effectively guarantee the con­ ditions indispensable for the exer­ cise of its powers and authority.”

L ast n ig h t tro o p s in th e L isban region—most of diem under the command of Gen. Carvalho, one of the military leaders the right wants to remove — were placed on limited alert.

The Communist Party, which has only one member in the Cabinet, described the govern­ ment action as a “blackmail manoeuvre” to gain “the repres­ sive means to crush the growing resistance and opposition of the working masses and revolutionary forces to its policies.”

The party called a demon­ stration outside t)he Belem presi­ dential .palace which was attended by more than 20,000 people yes­ terday afternoon.

Communist Party leader Dr. Alvaro Cunhal, speaking in Ber­ lin, said: “Communists, Social­ ists. and men and women of other opinions, in trade unions and villages, should, without waiting for the decisions of the respective political parties, engage in con­ sultations . . . to see how they can unite their farces to defend the freedom and achievements of the revolution.”

firm legislation on an assembly is passed.

This could delay the setting up of a Scottish parliament until late 1978.

The STUC General Council said: “We will be pressing the government to keep to the time­ table, with legislative powers and the elections for the assembly by mid-1977.

“Any departure from this will not be in the best interests of the Scottish people or their needs.”

Mr. Jack Ashton stated: “The proposed delay is in line with the government’s retreat on other policies in Labour’s October manifesto. What is being pro­ posed on devolution is not a Great Debate, but filibuster, the purpose of which is to talk out the issue.”

He said that this betrayed a lack of understanding of the de­ sire of the Scottish people to

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JOBS LOBBY DAY ★ NOV. 26 ★ Wednesday

Welsh call to miners’ lodges Morning Star Reporter

THE South Wales miners* execu­ tive council has sent a letter to all its lodges urging them to send their own additional representa­ tives 'to the lobby against unem­ ployment on November 26.

The executive council and miners’ agents will already be going to London to join the lobby.

Mr. Cliff True, secretary of the South Wales Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions has also asked all wishing >to travel to the lobby 'to contact him at Treherbert 772.

The Young Workers November 26 Campaign Committee has now heard that 20 young Rhondda workers will be travelling with them on a special coach.

They ask any other people to book seats on their coach with Mr. G. Trickey, 116 Malefant Street. Cardiff.

The Ford Dagenham trade union panel of officials and con­ veners yesterday unanimously backed the lobby. Local coaches are being laid on.

(Train to lobby: p. 5)

Castle blasts consultants’ ‘resign’ call HEALTH Minister Barbara Castle last night condemned the call by right-wing consultants for mass resignations from the National Health Service as a “strike against the British House of Commons.”

The rlight-wimg Hospital Con­ sultants’ and Specialists’ Associ­ ation claims to represent 5,000 of the 11,000 NHS consultants.

It made its call yesterday in protest at the government’s de­ cision to introduce legislation, to phase out hospital pay beds.

The Junior Hospital Doctors* Association yesterday said th a t' it was “appalled” that the British Medical Association had pre­ vented junlior doctors knowing that their organisation was in­ vited to a meeting with Mrs. Barbara Castle.

The meeting, held yesterday afternoon, at which the BlMA’s junior hospital staffs committee was represented, ended without agreement.

THE COAL Board has an­ nounced an £8 million investment THREE people died and five in the reorganisation of three were injured when a stadium wall coking collieries in Gwent. collapsed in West Java.

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M O RN IN G STAR

Friday November 21 1975

THE LEFT

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ

FRANCO'S d i s a p pearance from the scene opens up a new political situation in Spain a t a m om ent when the struggle of our party and other dem ocratic forces has reached a crucial point.

With his death attempts are being made to preserve the continuity of the system by means of a monarchy under Juan Carlos, who was designated by Franco himself.

A scaffolding of support is being erected to prevent the col­ lapse of the edifice, but the con­ struction of this scaffolding is riven by the contradictions within the group in power.

The “ultras” want a pure and simple continuation of the status quo that implies no risk of liberalisation; the prime minister, Arias Navarro, and his group, would like to see a mild liberal­ isation as a lesser evil, but with­ out losing the support of the ultras.

T H E FEA RS

SANTIAGO CA RRILLO : general secretary of the Communist Party.

Ex-ambassador tin London, Fraga Iribarne, who appears to enjoy some support from the military and who is considered by some Francoists as too liberal, represents the attempt to re­ group the forces of the right so as to ensure the .political hegemony of the right-wing olig­ archy, and to save as much as possible of -the present political ruling-class.

Count Motrico, Franco’s for­ mer ambassador in Washington and Paris, represents a centreright formula, some sort of Karamanlis figure, who would attempt a liberalisation while conserving the hegemony of the centre-right.

But what they all have in common is the -determination to prevent the true solution de­ sired by the people—that of free­ dom—and their efforts to over­ come. even temporarily, -the deep crisis which has been opened up by the disappearance of Franco from the stage.

T h e policies of the group which holds power enjoy a cer­ tain degree of support f r o m people who fear change, from

Spain now poised for freedom

by S A N T IA G O A L V A R E Z , executive and secretariat member of the Spanish Com m unist Party. the bureaucrats of the system, and also from the military bureaucracy.

Fear of violence and of t h e spectre of civil war, a n d even the impact of certain aspects of the present situation in Portu­ gal, is a real phenomenon among the middle sectors and o t h e r backward sections, which m a y make them accept any form of shoring-up the present situation.

Nevertheless, it is impossible to pass from Franco to J u a n Carlos without breaking some­ thing very important in the sys­ tem because of the convergence of political circumstances, be­ cause of the moment at which the transition has to take place, and because of t h e role the working class a n d the people will play during this transition —the role of principal protago­ nist.

Iin Spain we have a labour movement which is inspired and guided by the Workers’ Com­ missions, which have in the past few years undertaken very im­ portant struggles.

In Che recent trade union elections, despite the power of the fascists and their candidates.

the Workers’ Commissions won a victory of decisive importance for the labour and democratic -movement.

Side 'by side with the labour movement are a developing peasant movement, and great mass democratic movements, of women, slum-dwellers, students, professionals and intellectuals.

Together -with other demo­ cratic forces, there exlists a Communist Party of consider­ able size and influence.

EN D FR A N C O IS M The labour movement, which is popular a n d democratic, is not prepared to permit the con­ tinuance of Francoism, and will mobilise all its forces to prevent this and impose a democratic al­ ternative.

Juan Carlos has already, dur­ ing his period of interim head of s t a t e , ordered or permitted a massive repression. In the past few weeks more than 600 antiFranco fighters have b e e n de­ tained. among them well-known personalities such as S i m o n Sanchez Montero.

Police and para-military'

groups are in action to attack well-known members of . t h e opposition, including Christian Democrats, showing j u s t what the Spanish peoples can expect from the Francoist monarchy of Juan Carlos.

T h e peoples of Spain need and will impose democratic lib­ erties. To achieve this, the de­ termining factors are the mass struggle and the unity o f . a 11 democratic and opposition forces, with t h e corresponding participation in this unity of the Church and armed forces.

The recent agreement between Spain’s Democratic Junta a n d the Platform of Democratic Con­ vergence represents an impor­ tant advance in this direction.

This is the first time since the civil war in 1939 that we h a v c witnessed a political fact of such importance. We d o , n o t hesitate to call it historic.

It -rejects the continuation of Francoism, and calls for a demo­ cratic breakthrough.

It demands an amnesty for political prisoners and exiles, trade union freedoms, the right to strike and full liberties for

all political parties; freedom for the different nationalities which compose the' Spanish state; 'the establishment of organs of executive power based upon a broad coalition without ex­ clusions.

It also calls for the opening up of a period in -which to draft a constitution which will lead, after consulting the people on ■the basis of universal suffrage, to a definition of the forma of the state and government to be adopted.

The statement to the peoples of Spain -which was published w ith. this agreement calls upon “all democratic, political, trade union and social forces, upon all the citizens of the peoples who make up the Spanish state, to participate in the mobilisations and peaceful activities which are necessary if we are to conquer fundamental rights and freedoms.”

M A IN A IM We believe that we are on the

eve of great mass actions of national scope. Higher levels of activity will be achieved, cul­ minating in -what we call the national strike, or national democratic action; a great, but peaceful, popular national up­ rising strong enough to impose the democratic break through.

Certainly i t will be no bed of roses. It will be a difficult and complex struggle to reach our goal, and we will continue to need the solidarity of Britain’s democratic forces.

The fundamental objective of the Communist Party of Spain, which we do not and will not renounce, is the same as that of all the Spanish democratic forces: the winning of freedom.

At the present time, this (its our highest objective, amd one which is a pre-condition for our sub­ sequent struggles for political and social democracy and a Socialist future.

We believe that the type of change which we have outlined tils the best contribution we can make to the cause of the work­ ing class and of all left forces tin Europe. Socialism within democracy is their aim as it is ours.

THE RIGHT

JUAN CARLOS: puppet prince appointed by Franco to continue the fascist regime.

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ARIAS NAVARRO: Franco Prime Minister who aims to keep the old gang in power,

FELIPE G O N ZA LEZ: general secretary of the Socialist Party.

COUNT MOTRICO: Ex-Franco Ambassador who is jockeying to replace Arias Navarro.

RUIZ JIM ENEZ: leader of the left Christian Democrats.

GEN. ANGEL CAMPANO Chief of the notoriously repressive Civil Guard

"W e believe that we are on the eve o f great mass actions of national scope."

BROUGHT to power by H itler and Mussolini and the forces of international reaction over the bodies of a million Spa­ niards, Gen. F r a n c o was Europe's longest surviving fas­ cist dictator.

Born in blood, the inhuman fascist regime that Franco and his backers imposed on the Spanish people died in blood, the blood of five young anti­ fascists who fell recently before the fascist firing s q u a d s on Franco’s command.

Until his dying day, brutal repression was the hallmark of the activity of Gen. Franco, the monster who once declared that he was ready “to shoot half of Spain if that was necessary.”

The firing squad and the garotte, the torture chamber and prison bars, these were Franco’s stock-in-trade in the 39 years of his bloody regime.

to furnish substantial loans Franco to keep him in power and this has continued, making Spain one of the major center of US economic domination Western Europe.

With hundreds of thousands of Spaniards massacred by Franco at the end of the civil war] 1939, hundreds of thousands more imprisoned or forced in exile, and a brutal fascist regime imposed on the country.

Spanish people were unable many years to make th e ir feelings evident to the outside world.

But the first strikes began 1951 and, since then, Franco and his regime have fought a losing battle against the i n ing demand for freedom by people.

Opposition

by SAM R U SSELL 1940: Franco w ith puppet-master N o. 1, Adolf H itler . . .

Almost unknown outside the country. Franco hit the inter­ national headlines on July 18, 1936, when with his fellow traitor-generals he declared war on the legally elected Popular Front to which the Spanish people had given a decisive majority in parliament.

But the Spanish people had long known the face of Franco fascism following his brutal re­ pression of the Asturian miners and other workers in 1917 and again in 1934.

And the people of Spanish Morocco had even earlier been the testing ground where Franco and his fellow fascist officers tried out their butchery on a colonial people, during the Rif war, with methods which were later to be used against the Spanish people themselves.

Franco treated the Asturian miners with the same cold­ blooded brutality as he had treated the Kabyl people of Morocco and. for years after­

wards. scores of Asturian villages bore the marks of the passage of the notorious Franco column.

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was bom on December 3, 1892, in the port of Ferrol, where his father was the commander of the naval base, and entered the Toledo military academy in 1907.

He went to Morocco to take part in the Rif wax in 1912, and -remained there till 1917 when he carried out his first action against the Spanish people in Oviedo, capital of the Asturias.

When the Spanish Foreign Legion was formed in Morocco in 1920, Franco was among the first to volunteer to lead this bunch of mercenaries in the war against Moroccan leader Abd el Krim, to put down another at­ tempt by the Moroccan people to free themselves from colonial rule.

Promoted in 1926 to become the youngest general in the Spanish army, he returned home covered with decorations for his part in the brutal suppression of the Moroccans, to be ap­ pointed commander of the Sara­ gossa military academy, a post he lost when the academy was closed after the abdication of King Alfonso and the declaration of the Republic in 1931.

Mercenaries Appointed military governor of the Balearic Islands. Franco was recalled to Madrid in 1934 to direct the brutal repression of workers’ strikes in the Asturias and Catalonia, with the help of Foreign Legion mercenaries brought from Morocco on his advice.

In 1935 he was appointed chief of the general staff, a post he occupied when the Popular

1959: Franco w ith puppet-master N o. 2, G en. Eisenhower.

Front government was elected in February 1936.

Because he was already known as one of the generals plotting against the Republic, he was sent to the Canary Islands. But before he left Madrid he took part in a meeting with the other generals who had begun to pre­ pare their revolt against the legally elected government.

When the traitor-generals re­ belled on July 18, 1936, Franco left the Canaries for Morocco to take command of the 15,000 mercenaries which then formed the elite corps of the rebel forces sent to Spain to suppress the Spanish people with the help of German nazi and Italian fascist troops, bomber planes and arms as well as oil and vehicles from the US. The history of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 was the history of the massacre of the Spanish people on Franco’s

orders, with incidents like the murder of 14,000 in the bullring of Badajoz, the brutal bombing of Guernica, the massacre of 15,000 at Teruel, and other equally bloody incidents.

It was also a history of the immense heroism of the Spanish people and the International Brigaders who came to help them defend their democratic republic.

Chamberlain Recognised immediately by Hitler and Mussolini after his appointment as Caudillo, the Spanish title equivalent to Hitler’s “fuehrer,” on October 1, 1936, he also received the tacit support of Britain's Tory Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and was hailed by Tories as “that gallant Christian gentleman.”

When World War began.

Franco was ready to repay the debt he owed to his fellow dic­ tators. and his “benevolent neu­ trality” helped Hitler more than open participation on the side of the fascist powers.

He also organised the "Blue Division” of fascist troops sent to help Hitler on the Soviet front.

With the defeat of the fascist powers. Franco looked around for another backer for his dis­ credited regime—and found it in the US which, as early as 1946. frustrated the efforts of other governments in the UN to bring the Spanish question be­ fore the Security Council.

In 1947, negotiations began between the US government and Franco under which the US established air and military bases in Spain, which have con­ tinued to this day and which made Spain one of the major US military bases in Europe.

In the same year, US Gen. Marshall called on big US banks

As the years passed, even the who supported him duringthe civil war began to oppose the ageing dictator, until e v e n Catholic hierarchy as a In asked pardon of the Span people for the role the Gum had played.

Spain’s new generation, alongside side the veterans of the earlier anti-fascist struggle, has refused to be cowed by Franco and had refused to accept the continuation of “Francoism after Franco clearly aimed at in the appoin ment, in 1969, of Prince Juan Carlos as the dictator's heir and successor.

I Franco remained to the with the doubtful distinction being the last fascist dictator Europe, an anachronism whom the firing squad was the only method of government I was able to comprehend, And at the last, as one British Tory observer reported: "All the death bed manouevrings, with the family out to protect I interests and the notable squabbling over the legal col plexities of the succession, I making the exit of the reg as ghoulish as its entry bloody.” |

M O RNIN G STAR

November 21 1975

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Don’t re sta rt anti-abortion M a rch to b a ck ‘Voluntary’ committee, say Labour MPs stu d e n ts fro m wage limit lambasted

By HELEN HEW LAND

CALL on your MPs to vote against the reconvening of the anti-abortion select commitlee—that was the message women Labour MPs yesterday urged on supporters of the National Abortion Campaign.

Some 252,439 signatures on petitions opposing restrictive abortion law were stacked up outside the House of Commons as lobbiers queued up to visit their MPs. They were handed over to MPs Renee Short, Jo Richardson, Millie Miller, Maureen Colquhoun. and others by represent­ atives of the Woman’s Right to Choose Campaign and NAG Women and men supporters of NAC from London and other parts of the south-east lobbied their MPs throughout the after­ noon.

"We must impress on MPs to vote against the reconvening of the select committee,” Ms Short said.

“This committee was set up to look into the Abortion (Amendment) Bill and was made up in the main of MPs who are anti-abortion and who want re­ strictive legislation,” she said.

The lobby is part of this "Week of Action” against the reconvening of the select com­ mittee by supporters of NAC, and protest activities against restrictive legislation have taken place in towns and cities all over Britain.

The culmination of the week’s activities comes on Saturday when demonstrations will be held in London and Edinburgh.

o v e rs e a s

By ALAN SLINGSBY

PLANS to cut the number of overseas students in London re­ ceived a blow yesterday when a big march and rally of students demonstrated their opposition to the proposal.

National Union, of Students president Charles Clarke told the rally at Waterloo that the demon­ stration had to be made a spring­ board for further campaigning against the education cuts and attacks on overseas students.

Earlier, nearly 2,000 students had marched from the University of London Union to County Hall, headquarters of the Inner Lon­ don Education Authority in pro­ test against proposals before the authority—to be discussed on Wednesday—'which could lead to big cuts in the number of over­ seas students in the capital.

The proposals, which could also lead to the closure of several colleges which have large num­ bers of overseas students, are part of the ILEA's response to govern­ ment instructions to cut back on education funds.

'Richer first'

Women Labour MPs, including Joan Maynard, Joyce Butler, Maureen Colquhoun, Jo Richard son and Renee Short outside the House of Commons yesterday receiving some of the tens of thousands of signatures opposing restrictive abortion laws.

CHANCE TO BREAK SPAIN’S SHACKLES c o n t i n u e d f r o m />. 0

By MARTIN G O STW ICK

opposed the fascist regime’s denial of civil liberties added: “All of us have the responsibility of letting Spain live in peace, of letting Spaniards enjoy liberty and sufficient means of develop­ ing their own personality and dignity as men and Christians.”

A committee statement said the party would contribute to building democracy, but rejected any formula designed to continue the regime.

“The death of the dictator is one of the last pages of the deep crisis of the regime,” it OPEN JOY said.

But while the official con­ “With it a new chapter is opened in our history, marked dolences were going, on first by the necessity to liquidate reports said that the announce­ authoritarian institutions that ment of the dictator’s death make liberty impossible and by brought an explosion of joy the will to build a free and de­ from the ordinary people of mocratic Spain.”

Spain.

The hated dictator, who had In one street in a fashionable earned the well-deserved title of part of Madrid while mass for “Butcher of the Spanish people,” Franco was being held in the breathed his last at 3.40 a.m. church, less than 100 yards away after a month during which mil­ a popular bar was packed with lions of pesetas were poured out smiling and laughing people in a vain attempt by 32 doctors drinking to the dawn of a new to keep him alive. era free from fascism.

He had suffered during the In the factories where workers month since he first fell ill, a had started not knowing the series of stomach haemorrhages, good news, there were meetings heart attacks, kidney failures, to plan the next steps. blood clots and pneumonia, and Abroad, despite the spate of three major operations in 11 official condolences, there was days. hardly a personal tribute among He left a message which was them, and there was a chorus of read on radio and television by hope for future democracy in Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, a Spain. former Franco police chief, re­ sponsible for some of the worst O N E T R IB U T E atrocities of the regime.

US President Ford was virtu­ Maintaining the hypocrisy alone among world leaders which characterised his regime, ally in expressing personal sorrow as well as its ruthless cruelty. over Franco's death.

Franco “forgave” his enemies, The only real tribute came adding: "I ask pardon from all.” from Santiago, where the equal­ ly bloody monster who has M AIN A IM seized power in Chile. Gen. But the main aim of the Pinochet, ordered three days of message was to try and ensure mourning for this “unique from the grave, or from his figure,” adding: “May God en­ coffin, continuity of the fascist lighten Spain and not let if stray from its current path.” regime he imposed on Spain.

In WASHINGTON. US offici­ He called on Spaniards to support his nominated heir, als were obviously concerned end of Franco might Prince Juan Carlos, who is to be that the a change in the special sworn in as king on Saturday on mean relationship which had enabled the eve of Franco’s funeral.

US imperialism to make Spain He is to be buried in the into a military base with over monstrous monument to fascism 9,000 troops manning naval and carved out of the granite hills air bases. near Madrid and called the One US official admitted: “valley of the fallen.” really isn't any support Over 2,000 blue-shirted fas­ “There for monarchy. There hasn’t cists gathered there yesterday at beenthe for 44 years and now an annual requiem mass to mark that one being artificially the 39th anniversary of the death graftediton,isit may not take.” of one of the founders of Spanish fascism, lose Antonio Primo de Rivera.

Arms raised in fascist salutes and screaming shouts of “Franco, Franco,” they vowed to “defend the Spain of Franco.”

By Our Political Correspondent MEASURES of a police state ONE M ONTH nature are to be kept in force A month of national mourning under a new Prevention of has been decreed, schools are Terrorism Bill published by closed for a week and stock ex­ the government yesterday. The changes have also been shut new bill is almost identical to the Prevention of Terrorism down.

Franco’s body will lie in state (Temporary Provision) Act in­ from today at Madrid’s Oriente troduced in 1974. which expires Palace, where he made his last at the end of the month. public appearance on October 1.

Police are given wide powers With Prince Juan Carlos at to arrest and detain suspects his side. Franco addressed a rally without a warrant, and to detain to dismiss protest against his people for two days without ruthless execution of five Spanish charging them or up to seven anti-fascists on September 27, days with the Home Secretary’s the last bloody act of a regime agreement. born in blood The Bill continues the ban In a mass for Franco at the on the IRA without making any Pardo Palace, the Archbishop distinction between the Pro­ of Madrid. Cardinal Tarancon, visionals and the Officials. It called for an end to rancour makes membership of the IRA among Spaniards. an offence punishable with a The Cardinal, who had often maximum penalty of five years

Troop build-up at Angola border IOHANNESBURG, Thursday.

SOUTH AFRICA is strengthen­ ing its security forces on the border with Angola, defence sources said today.

Troops and equipment are being flown to Che north of Nambibia, South-West Africa, in a special airlift using chartered aircraft of South African Air­ ways.

The sources would not dis­ close the number of troops in­ volved.

They said many officers in the citizen force — reservists — had been put on standby and some soldiers under training had been denied leave.

The moves come amid mount­ ing c o n c e r n in government circles in Pretoria over the fighting in Angola between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)

and the combined forces of two other movements — the FNLA and UNITA. At the same time. South African troops based in Namibia have been increasingly engaged in action against guerillas of the South-West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO).

Foreign reports alleging that South African regular troops and mercenaries are fighting with the FNLA-UN1TA forces have been suppressed here under terms of the Defence Act. which says special permission must be ob­ tained before publishing anything about the movement of troops.

—Reuter.

In Parliament, Labour MP Bob Hughes (Aberdeen N) yesterday called for a debate on the infervention of South Africa in Angola, and asked for a statement on the matter from the Foreign Secretary.

Secret plans to shut down four London hospitals Morning Star Reporter

CLOSURES of several London hospitals are proposed in a discussion document by a secret committee set up in the National Health Service, a new co-ordinating committee against the cuts declared yesterday.

The hospitals concerned are the Middlesex. University Col­ lege, the Whittington and St. Stephen’s, said Dr. Paul Stem, secretary of the National Co­ ordinating Committee Against Cuts in the NHS. Proposals to close them are contained in a report by a "Lon­ don co-ordinating committee” made up of members of regional and area health authorities dated September 30, he said.

Last night a spokesman for one of the London regions admitted the existence of the committee and that it was vir­ tually secret.

There were no firm plans at this stage to close the hospitals mentioned, he added.

The anti-cuts committee also disclosed plans by the South Glamorgan health authority to cut back on ancillary workers and nurses, to axe £100,000 spending immediately, and over the next few years to, reduce spending in real terms by £1 mil­ lion.

‘Terror’ Bill published

‘NO COD WAR YET’ SAYS HATTERSLEY

By Our Parliamentary Correspondent

NO COD WAR yet, Foreign Office Minister of State Roy Hattersley told the Commons yesterday in a report on the breakdown of talks with Iceland.

Rejecting “send in the gun­ boats” appeals from the Tories.

Mr. Hattersley said civilian vessels would be employed to protect British trawlers.

But he implied that there was no question of accepting Iceland's offer of 65,000 tons. He was anxious, however, to remain open to a settlement with “a friendly country and a NATO ally.”

The minister flatly opposed a call from National Union of Sea­ men sponsored left MP John Prescott (Lab, Hull E), that Britain should concede to Iceland her 200 mile limit.

In Bonn, West German and Icelandic delegations drafted an agreement on North Atlantic fishing rights. It is understood to provide for an annual catch of 60,000 tons by the West German fishing fleet inside Iceland’s 200mile fishing zone.

imprisonment and an unlimited fine.

O t h e r organisations “con­ cerned with terrorism” con­ nected w i t h Northern Irish affairs may also be proscribed by order.

Exclusion orders against people THE BOY mauled by a circus suspected of being concerned in lion two weeks ago has died. acts of terrorism can be made under the Bill.

11 killed in Beirut At least 11 people were killed in Beirut yesterday as new shoot­ ing threatened the collapse of the Lebanon ceasefire.

WEATHER: Mostly rather cold and dry.

Outlook for tomorrow and Sun­ day: Mostly dry and cold.

Students from as far afield as Coventry, Nottingham, Bradford and Manchester joined the march, which was jointly organised by the London student organisation and the Co-ordinating Committee of Overseas Student Organisations (CCOSO).

At the rally, Mr. Clarke said a government’s priorities when it came to overseas students seemed to be “the richer ones first, the poorer ones last.”

He warned that plans were afoot for yet another increase in the fees charged to overseas stu­ dents.

Mr. Salum Ali of the CCOSO, said that implementation of the ILEA proposals, and the others that would follow if they were allowed to go through, would badly affect the third world and developing countries.

“Experience shows that attacks on everseas students only paves the way for attacks on students as a whole,” he warned. .Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

FREE DES WITH MASS ACTION-NOW South Wales miners have called on their executive to call for immediate industrial action to secure the release of im­ prisoned Shrewsbury picket Des Warren.

The South Wales NUM exe­ cutive said it was an outrage to trade unionism that Des Warren should still be in jail, and felt that direct mass action is now the only way to win his release. The matter is also to be raised with the Wales TUC.

Sackings plan at Telegraph B y O u r In d u s t ria l C o rre s p o n d e n t

Daily Telegraph employers yesterday insisted that the door be left open to allow them to institute sackings if they felt this necessary.

In a meeting with representa­ tives of all sections of workers at the newspaper in London they refused to give a commitment that they would not seek "compulsory redundancies” in the course of their staff-paring plans.

They also told the workforce representatives that they wanted no automatic replacement of workers who left the company.

Scots’ concern at ‘filibuster’ c o n t in u e d f r o m p .

have a greater measure of con­ trol over their own affairs.

“The government’s decision further demonstrates the ignor­ ance of the fact that a debate has been raging for years with a majority decisively in favour of an assembly.” he said.

Demanding that a Scottish Parliament should be set up with all speed, he declared: “The de­ bate is now at a new stage and the real issue is over what powers the Scottish and Welsh assemblies should have.”

He reaffirmed the Communist Party’s view that these should include wide-ranging economic and industrial powers.

“Further delay is an attempt to frustrate the Scottish peo­ ple’s will and spells danger for the Labour movement.” he warned.

In Parliament left Labour MP Jim Sillars (Ayrshire S) de­ manded that the government fulfill its election promises on devolution.

The timetable he wanted was a vote on next week’s white paper before Christmas; a Bill introduced and given _a second reading by March 1976; Royal Assent early in the 1976/77 session.

‘INTOLERABLE’ AN “intolerable mistake” was being made by the government on vital economic and social questions in delaying the setting­ up of a Welsh Assembly, said the chairman of the Welsh Committee of the Communist Party, Cll r Arthur True, yester­ day.

“This is not a matter of an academic, constitutional blue­ print. It is a matter of urgent democratic rights for our people,” he declared.

“Factories are being closed, investment diverted, transport services slashed, education and welfare programmes cut, in fact the whole economic shape of Wales for years ahead is being decided now.

“The people of Wales must have a popular assembly with power to legislate to save the development of our country from the iron heel of the boardroom godfathers, b e f o r e it stamps us into decades of depression.”

‘N O BARGAIN ’

“Their younger children ar e condemned to continue in obso­ lete and run-dowtn schools, be­ cause the programme for modern­ ising or replacing those schools has been put back. Their older children leave school and go to the dole queue.

"It’s not a very good bargain, is it?” said Mr. Mikardo. But this, he added, was how the social contract looked to his constituents and many other people in the East End of Lon­ don.

Mr. Mikardo, who was speak­ ing to Beaconsfield constituency Labour Party’s general manage­ ment committee, asked: “How long before the worm starts to turn?”

TA K EO V ER CA LLS

In Parliament, other Tribune group MPs have been heaping criticism on the government's plans for the coming year in the debate on the Queen’s Speech, Mr. Stan Thorne (Preston S.) said there was nothing at all in the government’s proposals which represented “even a stumbling step forward” toward Labour’s commitment to an irreversible shift of power in favour of working people.

He called for extended nationalisation, as did Mr. John Prescott (Hull E.) who declared: “Public ownership is about the extension of political power through ownership of the means of production. The private sector has failed.”

Front men expelled Top National Front bosses John Tyndall and Martin Webster have been thrown out of their party bv a disciplinary tribunal chat has found them guilty of constitu­ tional breaches.

Car output slumps Weekly car production last month was 21 per cent below the figure for October last year. ac­ cording to figures issued yester­ day by the Industry Department, averaging 24.280 a week.

NEW POLISH RADIO COMPETITION! The Polish Radio is running another competition for listeners abroad. The main prizes are all-expenses-paid ten-day trips to Poland with dozens of attractive consolation prizes for runners-up.

Here are three questions: 1 What do you think about the role of trade unions in settling current problems of the working people?

2 What do you know about the setting up of the World Federation of Trade Unions and its activities?

Consumer spending slashed by £73mn

3 Could you name any women who, in your opinion, have played a prominent role on the international arena or made a noteworthy contribution to the life of your country? '

Consumer expenditure in the third quarter of this year took another plunge, the Central Statistical Office announced yes­ terday, with £73 million pounds— in real terms—clipped off the second quarter total.

The main items consumers had to cut back on—again in real terms—were food, drink, tobacco, and durable household goods with an overall 4 per cent drop.

A reply to at least one of these questions will qualify the entrant to be considered for a main prize or a consolation award. Prizewinners’ names will be announced in all our external .service broadcasts on January 31, 1976, which can be heard at: 6.30 a.m. and 12 noon /31, 41m/ 4 and 6.30 p.m. /31, 41, 49m/ 8.30 p.m. /31 and 49/ and 10.30 p.m. /41, 49, 75 and 200m medium wave/ Times are GMT

Whip’s tax evasion

All entrants, successful or otherwise, will be contacted by mail.

The trips to

A B o n n c o u r t yesterday ordered the former chief whip Poland will take place at a date to be set later. Entries should be postmarked of the West German Social not later than December 31, 1975, and addressed to: Democratic Party, Mr. K a r l POLISH RADIO. 00-950 WARSAW Wiemand, to pay £19,000 for tax evasion and false accusations.

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GOOD L U C K !

BELFAST JOBS SLASHED A THOUSAND jobs are to be slashed at the giant Belfast ship­ yard of Harland and Wolff, it was charged yesterday.

Mr. Jimmy Graham, Northern Ireland Secretary of the Con­ federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, said the yard’s management planned to cut the work force of 10,000 by 10 per cent.

I

TRIBUNE 'GROUP MP - Ian Mikardo, in a blistering indict­ ment of the wage restraint policy, said last night that the so-called voluntary limit on wage increases “is as voluntary as a regimental sergeant-major's re­ quest for volunteers from a 'bunch of new recruits.”

The effect of the £6 pay limit was that in real terms workers and their families “have less money every Friday for the weekend shopping thaw they had the Friday before. “What have they got in return?” Mr. Mikardo asked. “First their jobs are at risk. Their rents, fares, gas an d electricity charges go up apace.

News of the redundancies came at a Belfast press confer­ ence to announce details of a mass “right to work” demonstra­ tion at City Hall next Wednes­ day.

The confederation called on 40.000 shipbuilding and engineer­ ing workers in the province to down tools at 2 p.m. to demon­ strate their support for the right to full employment.

GLASGOW

SAVE CHRYSLER

MARCH AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT Sat., Nov. 22, Assemble Blythswood Sq . 11.30 a.m.

March off 12 noon STUC speaker BRING FACTO RY AND TRADE U N IO N BANNERS —Glasgow TC/UCS Co-ord Cttee..

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Friday November 21 1975

Young Romeos and Juliets A CLASH of swords, two gangs of teenagers locked in fierce battle— all executed in swift - moving choreographic steps of ballet to a background of beat music.

This is the bitter feud of the two families of Verona—t h e Capulets and Montagues in the city square, with all the pent-up hatred each h a s for the other family exploding as depicted by Shakespeare in “Romeo and Juliet.”

The young lads and girls on the stage are from Lyublino, a district to the south of Moscow.

Their stage is in t h e Gaidar theatre studio of the local pio­ neer palace. Their audience is composed mostly of teenagers too but parents are also m u c h in evidence.

I was t o l d by 33-year-old director a n d leader of the theatre studio, himself a profes-

by C O L IN W IL L IA M S sional actor f r o m the famous ' M o s c o w Taganka Theatre, Vyacheslav Spesivtsev, that the production was mounted two years ago and is so popular that they cannot accommodate all the locals who want to see the production.

W h ite ribbon The atmosphere of enmity be­ tween the families begins out in the foyer before the performance, when the young actors and act­ resses start recruiting supporters for the Capulets and for t h e rival Montagues.

In the auditorium a w h i t e ribbon divides the audience in two—one side urges on t h e Montagues and the other t h e Capulets. and so is drawn i n t o the tragedy that unfolds before them.

Above: Juliet (M aria Katayeva) awaits Romeo and below, Romeo and

Tybalt

The white ribbon dividing the auditorium is cut in the final scene as the two families, the Capulets and Montagues, are brought together by their com­ mon remorse.

Vyacheslav Spesivtsev said he accepted anyone who walked in­ to the studio and asked to be able to act.

Children are natural actors in his view and he says there is no such thing as a youngster without talent — what is required is the oppor­ tunity to express and the guid­ ance to be able to master how to do so.

There is a place for everyone — whether it is acting a part on stage, working as a stage hand, designing the scenery, or as an electrician or the man handling the stage lighting.

But there has to be genuine interest and the will to work as a collective, interchanging aux­ iliary jobs that go with the theatre with acting.

Recently, as I watched a dress rehearsal, I was instantly re­ minded of “West Side Story.” It

had the same teenage spirit and tension. These could have been teenagers in any country—their attire was universal—ordinary jeans and tee-shorts, maxi skirts and blouses.

The play-ballet is divided into four parts—the four days the action of Shakespeare's play en­ compasses. And there are four Romeos and four Juliets, the young actors and actresses pass­ ing on the symbols of their roles to the new Romeos and new Juliets at the end of each part.

Haunting music The beat music of the street scenes and sword fights is dis­ pensed with in t he love and death scenes where more appro­ priately Prokofiev’s haunting music for the ballet is played. .There is nothing slap-dash about the production, the dic­ tion or the dancing.

It is thought-out and rehearsed to the very last detail, with the result that there is a remarkable level of professionalism. The young­ sters thoroughly enjoy them­ selves and this as transmitted to the audience.

Top: One of the four pairs of Romeo and Julie t and above, street fighting, Shakespearean style.

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BIRMINGHAM University stu­ dents’ union has, for the past two years, been dominated by the right wing. Last year the women’s group was small, and had difficulty in getting out of its insularity and into union affairs.

It did manage, however, to gain a lot of support for the campaign against the James White Amend­ ment Bill.

by A N N E STA FFO RD , So f ar this year, the women’s group has been actively involved We held smaller meetings— in initiating campaigns against on battered wives and gay both the ideological and material women, and women and the suppression of women. The group NUS. These, together with ex­ was able to mobilise over 150 tensive leafleting, provided a students for a picket of a “Car­ good build-up for the UGM. nival Queen” competition which Two hundred and fifty stu­ aimed to point out to students going to it, how these types of dents almost unanimously sup­ events perpetuate the image of ported the motion, which cen­ the woman as a sex object with tred on areas where women few extra fittings. This was fol­ suffer discrimination on the lowed by a similar picket the 'campus. For example, while we following week of a “Grapple are lucky to have an ei ght-hour and Strip” (Yes it is what it nursery for students and staff, the cost for students, although sounds like!).

In previous years we had also lower than (that for staff, is still objected to these events with around £7 per week. very little union support. To The motion called for an in­ consolidate this year’s protest, vestigation into the finances and the group organised its first union running of the nursery. Birming­ general meeting on women’s ham is also notorious for its rights during the NUS week of non-implementation of the 1967 action.

Abortion Act—very few abor­

United action on women's rights

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6.35 ’Crossroads.

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be implemented as union policy until ratified by Guild Council (the union council) We have already 'begun to implement this motion. A women’s studies course has been set up in the uinion from a Broad Left initiative, with about 20 women involved; investigations are under way into nursery financing and the means of implementing the abortion loan service.

The (successes of the women'sl group so far, have demonstrated that united action can win struggles both within and out side a very right-wing structure There is still, not supringinsly a lot of systematic work to be done.

Do You Do. 7.30 Rising Damp.

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5 .2 0 Cartoon.

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7 .0 And Mother Makes Five.

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11.0 The Fantastic Disappearing Man: film.

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Birmingham University

tions are carried out on the NHS. We called for the union to support the NAC, free abortion on demand—a woman’s right to choose, and to set up an abor­ tion, financial-loan service.

There is still evidence (but not official) of discrimination against CHRIS WALLS writes: women in university admissions, E D IN B U R G H University stu­ especially in the medical school dents' branch of the Communist and the law faculty. We Party has recently made five re­ demanded a union investigation cruits, and is selling 30 Morn­ into this. ing Stars twice a week.

Communists on the students' Last but not least, the motion called for an end to sexfist events representative council of Edin­ on the campus and the setting burgh University successfully up, within the first-year “inter­ put forward a motion to alio faculty studies” course, of a cate transport for an official special c o u r s e on women’s delegation to the November 26 studies and support for the equal- lobby of Parliament. pay demands of women workers.

However pleased we felt about COOKERY column has been held over winning thills motion, it cannot until Monday.

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11.0 John Peel.

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9.2 Pete Murray.

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4 .4 5 Sports Desk. 4 .4 7 Sam Costa.

6 .4 S Sports Desk.

7.2 A Question of Fun. 7.30 Ronnie Aldrich.

8 .3 0 A s You Were.

9.2 Music Night.

10.2 Those Were the Days.

11.2 Sports Desk.

11.5 Len Jackson.

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Solidarity rally to support Clay Gross rent rebels I Morning Star Reporter WITH yet another High Court wrangle impending to hear allegation of negligence against t he second Clay Cross council, p Ians are being laid for a big s olidarity rally in the Derbysh ire town.

An array of labour movement l eaders will be turning out in this former mining town on De­ cember 6 — miners’ leaders A rthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield. MPs Joan Maynard. Dennis S kinner and Tom Swain.

They will be joined by released S hrewsbury picket Eric Tomlins on.

Demonstrators will assemble outside the Holmgate Community Centre at 1 p.m. before march­ ing through the town.

A week earlier on December ■ the ten Labour councillors who look over when their predeces­ sors were banned, after being s urcharged for refusing to im­ plement the Housing Finance Act, will be appealing against a court ruling of negligence.

The ten were only in office nor three weeks before the coun­ cil was wound up in the local authority re-organisation.

However, while the govern­ ment-imposed housing commissioner was insisting on raising the rents, the council re-deployed Bits rent collectors.

I The councillors will be appeal-

ing against a surcharge of over £2,300. “This is just another attack on Clay Cross,” said exCllr. June Nuttall. "We have been singled out from the start.”

Only a matter of days before the Appeal Court hearing another former councillor, Mr. Roy Booker, will be called to a bankruptcy hearing because of his failure to pay surcharges im­ posed on the first council of rent rebels.

Labour policy He has already received a letter from the official receiver warning him and his family that valuers will be arriving from Sheffield to estimate and sell his three-piece suite and fitted carpets.

“I can't do a deal about this, they are on the hire purchase,” said Mr. Booker, an office cleaner at the Avenue coking plant in Clay Cross.

“It just shows you what these people will do. This is happen­ ing just because we carried out Labour Party policy. I didn’t think they could do things like this these days.”

Mr. Booker’s wife is also likely to be heavily penalised—she was a member of the second rebel council.

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IRISH FARMERS from North and South united yesterday in stop­ ping the British Army from blocking a cross-border road out­ side Keady in South Armagh.

And. paradoxically, in London, the government announced that it was joining with the Irish Re­ public in asking the Common Market to finance a feasibility study of the problems of com­ munications—among other mat­ ters—in border areas.

The farmers who stopped the soldiers building a wall across their road pointed out that it could mean an extra 15 miles on the journey from their homes to some fields. A previous wall

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Both studies will surely bring forth protests from the Unionist right in Northern Ireland, which has already been angered by crossborder co-operation between the county councils of Donegal and Fermanagh.

In Larne. Northern Ireland, yes­ terday. workers at the STC tele­ communications factory ended their sit-in protest against a man­ agement threat to close The -works, with the loss of 800 jobs.

- A spokesman for the workers said they had made the point that they were united in resisting mass redundancies.

new assembly ORTH and South Vietnam will Sreunited under a central government elected by a unified national assembly, the North ietnam news agency reported in V Saigon yesterday.

This was stated in a speech ade by lawyer Trinh Dinh Thao, cvie-president of the advisory council of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) at the (unification talks now taking lace.

“First of all, we fully agree with the proposal on the holding of general elections throughout the country to elect a unified national assembly according to the fundam ental principles of universal, equal, direct and secret ballot,” he

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“The unified national assembly ill elect the central government id the other leading organs of le unified state machine,” Mr. hao said.

T EQUALITY “Only by this way can the right ofequality of the masses be guaranteed which will enable them to ring into full play their role of m aster of the country,” he added.

Mr. Thao said all citizens over 8 will have the right to vote, and the number of deputies to the national assembly in each zone w ould be fixed according to population. -Reuter.

Picketing outside the Old Bailey yesterday in protest against the Incitement to Dis­ affection Act: Labour MPs Andrew Bennett, Arthur Latham, Jo Richardson, Stan Thorne and Ron Thomas (left to right).

They were joined later by Joan Maynard and National Union of Students’ president Charles Clarke, and scores of other people. Inside the court, 14 pacifists are being tried under the Act. The MPs moved on to Down­ ing Street with a letter com­ plaining that the Act is “a tool for the suppression of opinions.”

The letter to Mr. Wilson also refers to the use of conspirary in the trial of the 14, and points out that defendants* “life-styles and political affilia­ tions” can be used against them.

Within the labour move­ ment, says the letter, it is widely believed that conspiracy laws are invoked when it is difficult to prove any other charges.

WELL over 1,000 North-West delegates will travel by train and coach to the November 26 un­ employment lobby, the biggest contingent coming from Mersey­ side on the special train booked by the City’s trades council.

Nearly 600 delegates have al­ ready been elected on Mersey­ side, including construction wor­ kers, dockers, car workers, en­ gineers and workers from the telecommunications i n d u s t r y.

And 300 seats have been booked for delegates travelling on the special train from Manchester.

More than 300 delegates will travel by coach from Preston, Lancaster. Blackpool and Rossendale Valley. Delegates from Skelmersdale and Wigan will travel by train from Wigan.

Marshals will be appointed to ensure an orderly demonstration from Euston Station at 1.30 p.m. on lobby day and the NorthWest delegates will be warned of attempts by other groups to hold an alternative demonstra­ tion to the one organised by the London district committee of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.

Building workers Some 200 building workers yesterday voted unanimously at a mass meeting on Mowlem’s National 'Westminster Bank s te in Old Broad Street, London, to hold a half-day stoppage and to join the march from Euston.

Also yesterday, calls for sup­ port for the lobby came from UCATT regional council mem­ ber Jack Henry, transport union full-time official Peter Kavanagh and UCATT London regional organiser Olly Man ning.

About every one in four build­

ing workers was now out of work and likelv to be for periods of at least six months, declared Mr. Kavanagh.

“We need a radical upsurge of protest by workers in the in­ dustry. both in UCATT and the TGWU. and a massive mobilisa­ tion for the lobby on November 26.” he said.

"Building workers from as far as Aberdeen and Edinburgh are travelling down for the lobbv and the organised sites in London are planning to close down.”

The Nottingham and District Trades Council has carried unanimously a resolution deplor­ ing circular 17 of the Trades Union Congress (the circular de­ fining the attitude of the gen­ eral council to the November 26 lobbv).

The council went on to elect five delegates to lobby the Nottingham MPs on the serious unemployment situation in the area. They will be travelling to the lobby as part of a coach load, the coach being organised by the Nottingham organisation of AUEW (TASS).

The council also agreed to sponsor a 16-year-old youth, who left school in July and is still without work, to take part in the lobby.

US won’t obey UN The US said in Washington yesterday it had no intention of obeying a UN Assembly call for the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea. State Department spokesman Robert Funseth said the Assembly resolutions are recommendations and have no binding force.

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Top dental fee cut to £3.50 Out at the Pru! Members of the Association of Scientific Technical and Managerial Staffs picketing the Prudential Insurance Company in London’s Holborn yesterday in protest at management’s decision to pay a £6 rise only to the higher paid staff are joined by the union's general secretary Clive Jenkins (centre).

C IA ’s ‘KEEP NAMES” SECRET’ BID REJECTED

WASHINGTON, Thursday.

THE CHAIRMAN of the Senate select committee on intelligence The Britain-Vietnam Association yesterday rejected a last-minute plea by Central Intelligence today sent the following message Agency (CIA) director William ofthe consultative conference on reColby to keep secret the names un ification of Vietnam being held in of agents involved in foreign Saigon assassination plots.

“Congratulations to all concerned at Senator Frank Church said he the speedy convening of the conference to discuss reunification of Vietnam would not sanction what he called Mr. Colby’s “eleventh and general elections. This can hour” bid to have the names of O nlyensure the future unity and prosirify of the Vietnamese people to a dozen CIA employees deleted ftom we wish every success and from the report before it was made public. security of peace” Mr. Colby claimed publication of the names of both American and foreign agents could subject to retaliation.

CONGRESS OK FOR them But Senator Church said his panel had reviewed, on a caseALL ARMS S A L E S ’ by-case basis, White House or US Secretary of State Henry CIA objections to the inclusion Kissinger said yesterday that no in the report of the names of American arms would be sold to CIA employees.

Eypt g by other states without NAMES OM ITTED Cngressional o approval.

Where the administration had He was appearing before a (nate foreign relations sub- “sufficiently substantial” com­ committee to support the admin- plaints. the names were omitted istration’s request for 4,700 million but where they were “inseparably oDllars in foreign military and involved’’ in assassination plots economic aid. About 70 per cent they were retained in the report, ofthis is destined for the Middle he said after Mr. Colby’s plea.

Senator Church, asked at a ast. press conference what could He also said that Egypt had sen told it could not use US aid be learned from the nin-month tosettle its debts with the Soviet investigation of CIA assassina­ tion plots, said: “. . . there must U nion. be more explicit executive branch control of CIA covert operations.”

The report is expected to de­ tail how the CIA. with the con­ Oil began flowing early yester- nivance of underworld figures, day from BP’s third production attempted to dispose of foreign ell in the Forties Field, augment- leaders such as Cuban Premier igthe 44.000 barrels a day being Fidel Castro, the late Congo­ produced from the first two wells, lese leader Patrice Lumumba and Peak production in the Forties— the late Dominican dictator 00,000 barrels a day—is expected Rafael Trujillo.

Senator Church has said that to be achieved by the second quarter of 1977. % in most cases the CIA act^d like

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erected by troops (“to stop terror­ ists”) was knocked down by local people.

A spokesman for the farmers said: “We just cannot afford to have this road closed. We would not object to a permanent check­ point at the crossing.”

The London statement—like that in Dublin—said the proposed study of communications would examine roads, railways, ports, airports and telecommunications in the Derry and Donegal areas.

The aim was to determine their adequacy and to make recom­ mendations for future develop­ ment, "having regard to financial constraints” (which means: “Don’t hope for too much too soon.”).

The Common Market is also being asked to finance a fisheries study to evaluate the potential contribution of the sea fishing industry to the economy of both parts of Ireland.

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a rampaging rogue elephant, im­ plying that it often engaged in operations not authorised by higher officials.

Earlier, a senior official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) acknowledged that its campaign to discredit the late Dr. Martin Luther King was totally unjustified.

He also told the Senate intelligence committee there were no official documents in the bureau explaining why the FBI launched a massive campaign against the civil rights leader, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was assassinated in 1968.

COMMON CRIM INAL

Mr. James Adams, the asso­ ciate deputy director of the FBI’s intelligence division, also said that Dr. King was not re­ garded as a common criminal.

He said under questioning that the reasons for the FBI’s drive against Dr. King were best known only to its late director J. Edgar Hoover and other close associates no longer alive.—Reuter.

THE TOP charge for dental treat­ ment under the health service is to be reduced from £10 to £3.50, Social Services Secretary Barbara Castle announced in the Commons yesterday.

The new charge—which ex­ cludes that for dentures—comes as part of a major improvement in NHS dental and optical services.

Other important points in the plan include free optical treat­ ment for all registered blind and partially-sighted persons and free contact lenses for children needing them.

While lighter plastic frames are to become available for children with very poor sight, and popular adult plastic frames are to be extended for children, top level talks are planned to introduce a wider selection of frames for all wearers of NHS glasses.

5 0 0 A RR ESTED IN ARGENTINA OVER 500 people have been arrested throughout Argentina over the past three days in stepped-up anti-guerilla operations by the army, it was reported in Buenos Aires yesterday.

Among those arrested were 300 striking iron miners in the southern town of Sierra Grande.

The army operation against the miners * was the first against strikers since it was authorised on October 8 to extend anti-guerilla operations from northern Tuouman province to the rest of the country.

Others were arrested in the provinces of Rosario, Cordoba, San Luis, Formosa, Corrientes, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires.— Reuter.

2 million exposed to noise risk Morning Star Science Correspondent

ABOUT two million workers are being exposed to dangerous levels of noise says a pamphlet issued by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science.

Hundreds of thousands, it states, are partially or com­ pletely deafened because of noise at work.

Excessive noise can also have other effects on health.

Many office workers as well as factory workers are at risk and both need to check the noise levels to which they are exposed.

The pamphlet is intended as a

simple guide for ordinary people on why noise is a hazard, how it can be measured, and what can be done about excessive levels.

A warning by the US National Cancer Institute alerting users of the degreasing solvent trichloroe­ thylene to its possible dangers is discussed in the latest issue of Science for People also published by the BSSRS. JL- Noise: fighting the most wide­ spread industrial disease, by Tony Fletcher, 20p post free from the BSSRS, 9 Poland Street, London, W1V 3DC.

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Steer clear of this stormy path

DON REVIE and his England team arrived home from Portu­ gal yesterday and were imme­ diately confronted by a blister­ ing attack from Alan Hardaker (above), secretary of the Foot­ ball League.

“This is one of the biggest shocks I have had in my life,” said Revie after digesting Hardaker’s comments.

“It is hard to believe that a person in such a responsible position in football should say such things. It has hurt me-a little, but I do' not wish to get involved in a slanging match over this, especially if it might hami England’s chances in the future.”

Hardaker, upset by Revie’s recent comments that “compared to other countries we have an amateurish outlook but expect professional results at inter­ national level,” had said: “I am a cynical man and it sounded to me that we smacked of excuses before we even left for Portugal.

We have got to face up to the fact that we were not good enough.

“It is Revie's approach to ad­ ministration that is amateurish.

He has even got the players brainwashed.” This was a direct reference to Derby centre-half Roy McFarland’s appearance on television on Wedesday night.

In an interview McFarland said: “Our preparation is terri­ ble. Unless Revie gets help from the League, England will not qualify for the World Cup finals”

By STAN LEY LEVENSON

THE SPORT MINISTERS of the 18 Council of Europe Nations, irtcluding Britain, are in danger of setting out on a voyage which could lead them into stormy political weather.

A working group, meeting in London yesterday, decided to look into the influence of “power blocks” in sport and see how Western Europe could counteract them.

This was among the proposals discussed by the representatives of Britain, the Republic of Ire­ land, France, West Germany and Belgium, said Sports Minister Denis Howell afterwards.

Howell did not spell out the power blocks he had in mind but clearly he and his colleagues are referring to the way coun>tries such as those in socialist Europe, Africa and Asia often act together, especially when it comes to balking reactionary plans from Western Europe.

As if the Western countries do not act together in many situations, including the defence of apartheid inside the Inter­ national Sports Federation.

The Ministers should steer back to port and concentrate on the other, acceptable, plans which spring from the Council of Europe’s “Sport for all” policy.

For yesterday’s meeting also discussed matters of greater rele­ vance to the public and the sports world—better collective use of Western Europe’s sports facilities, control of the mush­ room growth, often dangerous, of martial sports like Kung Fu: sports aid to developing coun­ tries: the influence of commer­ cialism; and relations between governments and governing bodies, both national and inter­ national.

Walter Winterbottom, director of the Sports Council, who is also chairman of the permanent officials in Europe’s sports orga­ nisation. gave examples of how sports co-operation is develop­ ing.

Britain, for example, has good sub-aqua facilities, which, with Council of Europe help, will be widely used by Western Euro­ pean sportsmen.

Another was the proposal to turn the excellent Michelin guide to pleasure cycling in Belgium, since copied by Holland, into one for all Europe.

There is a lot to do. but rak­ ing up political cudgels o fa right wing nature will not bene­ fit sport and will confirm nonEuropean suspicions of Western Europe’s desire to maintain hege­ mony in sport.

A PREMATURE R L CUP FINAL HULL KR, beaten for the first time in five finals in last week­ end’s Yorkshire Cup, aim for a place in the semi-finals of Rugby League’s richest sponsored tour­ nament. the Player's Number Six Trophy, on Sunday, when they entertain Widnes.

Widnes, Challenge Cup holders and recent winners of the Lancashire Cup, are showing brilliant form and are current First Division leaders and favourites for the Player’s com­ petition.

They have maintained their success this season, despite losing captain Doug Laughton and coach Vince Karalius, and their former captain Frank Myler is proving a worthy new coach.

But Hull KR are formidable opposition on their own ground and, with their captain Roger Millward anxious to put his team back on the winning path, and with Neil Fox in brilliant form, the game could be worthy of a cup final.

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“Can I change my bet from England to win the European Championship to qualifying for it?”

England’s 1-1 draw in Lisbon means that they are almost certainly out of the European Championship—and that leaves Wales, 1-0 winners over Austria, as Britain’s only representative in the last eight.

Hardaker said: “If we had the same national pride as them instead of playing for all these big bonuses we might get some­ where. At the moment it is all money, money, money.”

Countered Revie: “The players have never discussed money or

SPORTS

JIM FOX took the individual bronze medal as Britain finished joint fourth in the world modern pentathlon championships in Mexico City.

Hungary won the team title with 14,703 points, ahead of the United States (14,444) and the Soviet Union (14,299). Britain and West Germany shared fourth place on 14.180.

THREE DAYS after Rothmans’ withdrawal from tennis sponsor­ ship the game got a boost today when it was announced that Coca-Cola had signed a threeyear agreement “with the Lawn Tennis Association to stage the British hard courts champion­ ship at Bournemouth on May 10-16. Coca-Cola took over this event from Rothmans this year and they will now sponsor it at least until 1978.

BOOKMAKER Joe Coral is to take over sponsorship of the prestige Eclipse Stakes from Benson and Hedges. The race, over one and a quarter miles at Sandown in July, will have £40.000 added to the prize money. Half will come from Corals.

SOVIET gymnasts dominated the last day of the international meeting in Witamyushu, Japan, yesterday, winning three out of five events and sharing first place in a fourth.

In the men’s events. Vladimir Safronov won the floor exercises and Nikolai Andrianov, silver

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bonuses or asked for them. They have run themselves into the ground in each match. No set of players could have given more.”

Had England reached the quarter-finals the players could have received £2,000 each.

Commenting on Revie’s state­ ment that the ideal situation was to have players ten days be­ fore a match, Hardaker said: “I hate to say this but Revie wants all his own way just as he wanted his own way when he was at Leeds. I have a long memory and when Revie was at Leeds he was probably the least co-operative of all League mana­ gers.”

Hardaker has devoted a lot of time and thought toward finding an answer to the England situa­ tion.

“The League are as interested in the England team as anybody else. It is a difficult problem but I think I know the answer — I, suggested it when Alf Ram­ sey was manager. The sooner we all get round a table again the better.”

Hardaker refused to reveal what his answer is. “I will put it to the committee,” he said.

Apart from upsetting Revie, Hardaker’s comments also shocked Len Shipman, a former League president and a manager of the management committee, who said: “I am surprised that Alan should say anything like this before we have had a chance to discuss it. Sir Matt Busby and I will be speaking to him as early as possible.”

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medallist at the 1974 world championships, shared first place in the horizontal bar event with Japan’s Mitsuo Tsukaharp.

Soviet girl Maria Filatova won (the women’s vault and Nelli Kim took first place in the asym­ metrical bars. The only event which the Soviet team did not at least share was the pommel horse for men, won by Zoltan Magyar, of Hungary.

A RECORD first prize of £6,000 will be at stake in the Embassy world professional snooker championship in April. There will be simultaneous play at two venues, Wythenshawe Forum, Manchester, and Middlesbrough Town Hall on April 11-19, with the final at Wythenshawe on April 21-24.

Ray Reardon (Stoke), cham­ pion for the last three years, will be defending his title with Eddie Charlton, the Australian whom he beat 31-30 in last April’s final in Melbourne, seeded to meet him in the final.

TERRY KREUGER, the Ameri­ can heavyweight who meets Richard Dunn, the British cham­ pion, at London’s Albert Hall on Tuesday, arrived in London yesterday dressed for a Texas autumn, and minus all his lug­ gage which had been lost en route.

THE AUSTRALIAN R u g b y Union selectors will i use their fourth fly 1half of the tour when they play Northern Division at Gosfiorth tomorrow.

John Weatherstone will play in the position, though selected as a centre on tour.

Those Yeovil days are here again SEVERAL former league players from the financial side and also have a chance to relive their because it puts the club on the glory days tomorrow. The map. Things are going to be a occasion is the first round ol bit tight for Gillingham on our the FA Cup—the competition pitch and I don’t think they which has thrown up more relish the thought of coming shocks than the rest of football here.” put together.

The last time Walton and Yeovil Town, the most success­ Hersham reached the first round ful giant-killers of all time and was two years ago, when they one of ten Southern League beat Brighton 4—0 in a replay. clubs left in the competition, The only survivor from that side have a chance to add to their is goalkeeper Gary Bloom—and already impressive list of scalps he only plays against Division when they tackle Third Division Three leaders Crystal Palace Mill wall on their notorious because Ian Gould is cup-tied. sloping Somerset pitch.

On the league scene, current Player-manager Stan Harland leaders and reigning champions captained Swindon to their Foot­ Derby hope to have Roy Mc­ ball League Cup success over Farland in their defence at Arsenal at Wembley in 1969 and Wolverhampton. McFarland re­ ceived a recurrence of a groin as confident Yeovil can win.

The youngest player on duty injury during last week’s 2—1 in the weekend’s ties is 15-year- win over West Ham and was old schoolboy David Fry, who f o r c e d to withdraw from 'keeps goal for Weymouth at England’s squad in Lisbon.

QPR striker Stan Bowles, who home to Gillingham. Fry wins his chances because regular also missed the Portugal game keeper John Clarke is out for with a groin strain, trained for the season after breaking a leg the first time for eight days on Wednesday and hopes to play at against Yeovil on November 8. home to Burnley.

Player-manager Dietmar Bruck, Several managers anxiously formerly with Coventry and awaited the return of Don Charlton, has passed himself fit Revie's squad before knowing after r e c e i v i n g manipulative the extent of injuries. Man­ treatment on his damaged ankle. chester United striker Stuart Regarding Fry, he said: “The Pearson aggravated a hamstring lad has bags of confidence and I strain in a training session in am sure the occasion will not Portugal, while Paul Madeley of prove too much for him.”

Leeds damaged a knee in a He added: “It is important work-out before England flew that we have a good cup run out on Monday.

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ENGLAND, smarting from their disappointing draw wit Portugal in the Europe Championship, last night go some comfort by being draw into a comparatively easy group for the 1978 World Cup The draw made in Guate mala City last night put them in Group 2 where their oppo nents will be the relatively weaker footballing countries of Italy, Finland and Luxem bourg.

Unless their recent result on the field decline even more dramatically the only one of these likely to give England much of a fight is Italy.

The chances of Britain having at least one country qualify for the finals were boosted by Scotland and Wall both being drawn into Group 7 which has only three team Ironically the third team i Czechoslovakia who are now favourites to qualify in place of England for the European Championship—they have on to beat Cyprus (although draw would see England win on goal difference).

Northern Ireland’s oppo nents will be 1974 World Cup Finalists Holland along wit Belgium and Iceland. The Iris Republic faces Bulgaria an France.

Group I: Poland, Portugal Denmark, Cyprus.

Group 2: Italy, England Finland, Luxembourg.

Group 3: GDR, Austria, Tu key, Malta.

Group 4: Holland, Belgium NORTHERN IRELAND, Ice land.

Group 5: Bulgaria, Franc REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. Group 6: Sweden, Switzerland Norway.

Group 7: SCOTLAND, Czech* Slovakia, WALES. Group 8: Yugoslavia, Spai Romania.

Group 9: Soviet Union, Hu gary, Greece.

(The winners of European Grout will have to play a South American to for a finals place.

The other gro winners will qualify automatically I the finals to be held in Argentina Ju n e. 1978.)

SOUTH AMERICA G roup 1 : Brazil. Paraguay. Colombi G roup 2: Uruguay. Bolivia. Venezud G roup 3: Chile. Peru. Colombia The group winners play each otlw th e top two going into the finals l the third plays off against the winner European Group 9.

N AMERICA-CARIB8EAN Group 1: Canada. Mexico. US Grout G uatam ala. Honduras. El Salvador, Col Rica. Panama. Group 3: Dutch Antilh Barbados, Cuba, Guyana. Haiti.

The group winners play each other a place in the final.

AFRICA Group 1: Algeria. Libya. Group Morocco. Tunisia. Group 3: Ghan Guinea. Group 4: Senegal. Togo.

Group S: Zaire. Central African f public. Group 6: Nigeria, winner S ierra Leone v Niger Group 7: Cong* CamerOun GtOup 8: IvOry Coast, wlm Of Upper Volta v Mauretania.

G roup 9: Egyot, Ethiopia. Group 1 Sudan, Kenya. Group 11: Uganda, Til zania. Group 12: Zambia, Malawi.

The winners of each pair of grow will play each other and the subseouf winners will play each other again. WW th ree team s remain (one from each ' groups) they will play each other for place In th e finals.

ASIA-AUSTRALIA Group 1 : Hongkong, Indonesia, Main sia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thilli* G roup 2: Israel, Japan. N Korea. S Korti G roup 3: Iran. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sirt G roup 4: Bahrain. Kuwait, Qatar. Unit* A rab Emirates. Group 5: Australia. N* Zealand. Formosa.

Group winners play off for a place I th e final

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