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I_ll Soviet and Union United could States tripled result as talks between Moscow officials and a United States delegation headed George Schultz.

Schultz had talks on Monday with First Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Mikhail Kuzmin and Soviet State Bank chairman Mefodii Sveshnikov. It was also thought possible he would meet Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin.

Under last October's trade treaty, the USSR and the US agreed to increase annual trading turnover to at least $1,500m.

TZU TSAI-CHENG, found guilty in the United States of the attempted assassination of Chiang Kai-shek's son, is lying in Pentonville prison awaiting the outcome of his appeal to the House of Lords:

If his March 5 appeal is rejected, Cheng taces up. to 32 years in Amerıcan Jalls followed by further extradition to Taiwan. There he would certainly be killed.

So far Cheng's appeals not to be sent back to America have been rejected on the grounds that the movement to which he belongs--the Formosa Independence Movement—is in conflict with the Taiwanese veen be 'Release Abu Daud' demo 3000) POLITICAL PRISOMERS ARE TOURTURED I DORDANIAN MILS Some of the demonstrators outside the Jordani Cheng awaits decision Thyssen seals link-up Last year the turnover reached record $642m, though Soviet exports to the US earned only about $95.4m.

A large proportion of the US exports was taken up by the big grain purchases made by the Soviet Union to offset a bad harvest. In 1971, US-Soviet trade turnover totalled $218.1m.

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During the visit Schultz was planning to raise the question of granting the Sation Sions, notca wored naton status. walca give Russian goods preferential tariff treatment.

Some Congressmen STOP KILLING •DEROUS OUR PEOPLE • SSEINS IN JORDAN. *GINE ha= government, but not with the United States governThe entire British labour movement should demand the immediate granting of political asylum to Cheng.

• A full review of the Cheng case will appear in US JETS BOU ISRAEL is to receive four squadrons of combat jets from the United States according to a 'New York Times' report. The US will also help set up production lines for an Israeli-designed jet fighter. EDITOR JOHN SPENCER Washington are threatening a veto of tariff benefits to Soviet goods in the United States unless the Soviet government removes high exit visa fees on educated immigrants from the USSR.

However, the Nixon administration has made clear that it favours giving the Soviet Union preferential treatment regardless of its emigration policy.

President Nixon recently established an East-West Trade Policy Committee, with Schultz as chairman. • The Soviet bureaucracy is extremely anxious for more trade with the United States and for American capital investment and loans in order to avert the worst aspects of its own economic crisis. at Jordan N THE Embassy ARAB STUDENTS demonstrated outside the Jordanian Embassy in London yesterday demanding the reprieve of Fatah leader Abu Daud and his 16 comrades sentenced to death by King Abu Daud was arrested on February 8 with a Fatah unit on its way to the Israelioccupied West bank of the river Jordan. They were tried by a military tribunal on trumped-up charges of plotting against state Despite appeals from a number of Arab heads of state and from Yassir Arafat-chief of the Fatah-Hussein has made it clear that he will go ahead with judicial murders.

An offer from the King to reprieve the Palestinian commandoes if the Fatah gives an undertaking not to act against the Jordanian regime has been treated with contempt by the Palestinian freedom fighters.

More than 3,000 Palestinian fighters are Hussein's prisons along with thousands other political prisoners who are subjected brutal torture during their long sentences the hand of military courts.

Since the massacre of Palestinians by the regime in September 1970 Hussein has authorized 200 death sentences. Seven people rdon, were hanged on December 9.

THYSSEN Group, West Germany's largest steel company, has succeeded in acquiring a majority shareholding of the big Rheinstahl engineering and steel firm.

Prime Minister Golda Meir visited Washington earlier this month to arrange a new arms deal. Deliveries under an agreement made by President Nixon in December 1971 are still going on. from abroad and potatoes from eastern Europe was barely enough to stave off acute shortages and even famine in parts of the USSR hit by the worst harvest of the century.

This harvest, the result of bad weather and bureaucratic mismanagement, has meant the widespread imposition of rationing, even for such staples as butter and potatoes.

Rations

Rationing is acknowledged by CP political lecturers at such widely separated places as Volgograd (Stalingrad), Gorki and Astrakhan.

The Press is now urging farm managers to avoid last year's mistakes by planning in advance for the spring sowing.

The merger, brought about by a consortium of banks, creates the second largest industrial group in Germany, with a £2,000m annual turnover.

The move creates the biggest privately-owned steel is part of the attempts by steel cartel in Europe and German capitalism to rationalize in competition with British, French and Japanese manufacturers.

The takeover was one of the biggest in German history, dwaring the cartels of the 1920s which later backed Hitler's Nazi Party in its rise to power.