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US is ready to move on

By Robert Black

Workers Press no. 258, 22 September 1970 · scan page 2

Topics: Middle East, United States

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The working class must give a decisive answer to the Tory government's our THE RIGHT TO STRIKE AND INDEPENDENT BACKED BY the full might of the US war machine, American oil tycoons and Wall St financiers are at this very moment preparing to unleash a savage war of repression against the Arabs in the Middle-East.

On Sunday Mr William Rogers, Secretary of State, utclareu inat synan miltary dannand that Cranina militaur. support for the guerrillas against Hussein was 'irresponsible and imprudent.

Washington announced yesterday that the Pentagon has placed military units at home and abroad on alert for a 'possible evacuation of American citizens' from The Syrian government yesterday denied Rogers' claim that Syrian troops were fighting in Jordan.

The insinuation was 'preparatory to American intervention in the area'.

Instead Damascus Radio Press. called for the withdrawal of the Us Sixth fleet, as a 'threat to Middle East and world security and peace'.

Rogers' threats and alarm are understandable.

The use of Syrian tanks and armour, manned by Palestinian commandos, is clearly turning the tables on the Royalists in N Jordan.

Under pressure

An unstable Ba'athist regime which leans on both workers and army, the Syrian government is now under great pressure from the masses to give military aid to the guerrillas. have Similar "préssures had their effect in Iraq. There the Arab Liberation Front said that it had sent the Tory government. 500 of its commandos. to the battlefield *to protect the revolution' The official Iraq news agency quoted a Front Spokesman as saying that 'hundreds of youths' from the Baath Party ruling in Iraq had responded to an appeal by the Party's Intership to ion the Palescuea national (Pan-Arah) leaderrevolution'. Monday, October 12, 1970.

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