US arms imported into Jordan

King chief minister States : has been confir Wasfi es Tell.

The shipments, he told a Beirut newspaper correspondent, were for purposes necessitated by the special circumstances'.

Tell has confirmed repeated charges by Palestinian commando leader Yassir Arafat that the Hashemite government is preparing a new repression of the guerrilla fighters.

Recently, Arafat produced the identification card of a US Marine found during the fighting in September and charged that the Central Intelligence Agency had played a key role behind the scenes in Hussein's attempt wipe out the Palestinian commando moveirms to Jordan's red by Hussein's an oil refinery in Jordan had been raided by troops, who brutally attacked workers Dismissed Hundreds of workers have been dismissed from their jobs, the Federation says.

These purges are clearly part of a concerted plan to whittle down • the commandos' support before hitting out militarily finally to smash the commando moveThis is the acute danger opened up by Arafat's compromise with Hussein. Make TU leaders fight' campaign is A WARNING that Tory anti-trade union legislation would make control over rank-and-file members more difficult will be issued today by the Trades Union Congress.

The TUC's 'Reason: the case against the government's proposals on industrial relations' will no doubt be welcomed by most of the national union officers attending today's campaign conference at Congress House in London.

Its reception on the shoploor, however, is likely to be rather less than ecstatic 'Far from improving industrial relations, claims the 30page pamphlet (price ls), 'these proposals could create innumerable new sources of friction within industry and generate the most widespread bitterness and anger...

'Embittered'

If the Tories seriously intend to exercise the powers they propose taking, it concludes, 'the use of punitive measures would embitter, not alleviate, industrial difficulties; would impair, not strengthen the authority of trade unions and their representatives; and would sap, not reinforce, the procedures for avoiding and settling disputes' Is this the kind of reformist claptrap with which unions and trades councils, who are being invited to place bulk orders for the pamphlet, are expected to conduct the campaign against the Industrial Relations Bill due in less than four weeks' time?

Revealing the main driving force for the union chiefs' tears, Congress secretary Victor Feather's introduction to 'Reason' seems amazed by what he describes as the government's ill thought out conclusions ... at a time when more and more people are rightly demanding a bigger and bigger say in the affairs that affect their everyday life'.

Effects

It is in this context, he complains, that the government 'expects trade union leaders to guarantee the behaviour of thousands of working people'.

While pointing out in some detail the possible day-to-day Robens urgent effect were the Tory registration, Industrial Court and anti-closed shop proposals to become law, the pamphlet's main concern remains with their effect on the union bureaucracy itself.

Union officials would no longer be able freely to speak their minds "The TUC's Bridlington introduced for the benefit of principles and procedures both sides of industryemployers as well as unions' which have 'halted the spread of breakaway unions', are to be 'thrown on one side, it Punch-line for the whole pamphlet is the amazing discovery that the government's proposals are 'one-sided in being severely damaging to trade unions while having a negligible effect for employers and their organizations'!

In other words, rather than mobilize Britain's 10 million organized workers in official action to break the Tory charter the TUC's publicity campaign boils down arguing the case for maintaining its present forms of class collaboration.

Thus 'Reason' serves only to point the urgency of immediate action by every trade unionist to force his official leadership into battle.

Computer ca AN INSTRUMENT which can monitor all eye movements and eye focusing actions of a worker has been developed by the Honeywell Radiation Centre at Lexington, Massachusetts.

The device, called an oculometer, shines a beam of infrared radiation onto the eyeball.

Reflections from the cornea and the retina of the eye are picked up by a sensor which analyses all the time and distance movements electronically-including blinking and pupil dilation.

It is claimed that the system can be linked to a computer and can be used for ation of their great French ally. out the world.

of the few great men of the century. if anything, surpassed by the Stalinists.

Moscow Radio affirmed that de Gaulle had 'won a lasting place in French history', , not least by "laying the foundation for the many • links between the two countries'.

Polish Stalinist reactions echoed this theme, lauding the veteran strike-breaker and dictator as 'one of the greatest political personalities of the 20th century . . . a symbol of France, great, free, eternal. in the French Communist party 'France' always meant