White House lies on Vietnam Stop Wilson's visit to Washington!

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Wednesday night's anlIll' By our education correspondent sive repercussions generated by the My Lai (Tu Cong) massacre, White House press secretary Mr Ronald Ziegler has promised a full investigation . . . then declared the massacre occurred ten months before Nixon's election !

This massacre, far from allaying the growing unrest manifested not only in the public demonstrations, but also in the confrontation beween vice-president Spiro ignew and the press and TI will only serve to incense if not outrage the nationwide movement for the total withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam.

Nixon's fraudulent promise to withdraw troops and his spurious dratt reductions, not to mention Kis latest gimmick co ban the use of chemica warfare, has impressed поbody but his own die-hard supporters (his so - called 'silent majority'),. and the Labour leaders in Britain.

Abandoned by the mass media and scorned by the vast majority of the American people, Nixon's grotesque attempts to fool all the BATTLE DEATHS UP aigon, ,Thursday.—American attle deaths rose last week to 130, the highest figure for two months, while South Vietnamese casualties were the heaviest of the year—567 killed and 1,421 wounded it was announced here today.

people all the time are having as much success as Lyndon Johnson's efforts to bridge the credibility gap with the rotten olive branches he offered Hanoi while escalating the Ziegler's claim that massacres occurred befor Nixon's presidency is a patent Hardly had his statement been made public when tbe Defence Department ordered an investigation into another massacre, this time in Mekong Delta - which seven months after Nixon's inauguration !

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The source of the information was not the army, but the Democratic Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin, who, after interviewing an army doctor, said:

It is a shocking report of LUKAS van den Berg, general secretary of South Africa's Iron and Steelworkers' Union, has been chosen by his government to make a goodwill tour of European labour organizations.

His union is for whites only and opposes the principle of the rate for the job.

The Iron and Stéelworkers' • nion is not a member of the South African TUC, which itself is a racialist body.

It disafiliated its few African members at the beginning of the year.

The TUC general secretary, Arthur Grobbelaar has, even so, been forced to question whether van den Berg can support even the basic principles of trade_unionism.

Van . den Berg will be attending the meeting in Brussels of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and may come • to London.

If he does, it is doubtful whether the TUC will have sufficient principles to reject the advances of this. emissary of apartheid.

Van den Berg's tour should be seen as a follow-up to the success of the Springboks tour-success, that is, demonstrating that the Wilson government is determined to maintain normal sporting (and business) relations, with South Africa whatever the outcry by liberal' opinion. THIS WEEKEND GRAND CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Christmas ANNING TOWN PUBLIC NA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 DOORS OPEN AT 12 NOON whether it is in the public interest to give 50-year leases for the motorway service areas as this allows the contractor a monopoly for that period.

Periodic reviews of the ban on liquor sales in the service areas are called for because of the contractors' complaints that the terms of their leases force them to run at a loss.

CHEMICAL WEAPONS: In the first official Soviet comment on Nixon's decision to seek Senate ratification of the 1925 Geneva Convention banning the use of chemical weapons, 'Pravda' of Thursday said :

'Better late than never, the people s wisdom says. Every. body who is interested in the consolidation of international security will receive this decision of the US government as a positive step!

Meanwhile, the slaughter Vietnam continues.

VISIT CLIMAX: The visit of the Rumanian Prime Minister to Britain reached its climax with his Foreign ' Minister Corneliu Manescly called on the Queen at Buckir gham Palace.

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a compantco Division the Infantry Division ordered his men to use village huts for target practice. When the occupants came streaming down, we've been told occurred at My Lai.' letter to the New ork Times have pointed out that Quang Ngai province- -where My Lai situated-is 'province utterly destroyed'.

When commanders were ordered not to 'generate more refugees because refugee they - the commanders-devised a fendish solution to the problem.

Instead of creating refugees 'generated' corpses attacking villages without prior warning.

'Airstrikes on civilians became a matter of routine. It was under these circumstances of official acquiescence to the destruction of the countryside and its people that the massacre of Song My (My Lai occurred.' (Our emphasis.)

GUILTY ONES The really guilty ones in this macabre business are not the deranged soldiers and their NCOs, however ghoulish heir actions, but the ruling class of the USA and its rep resentatives in the White pentagon they Mrs House, State Department and Meadlo said, turned her into a murderer, and now nake a scapegoat of him No amount of court martials Committee investigations will expiate the crimes of US imperialism ConThe Senate and the authorized this war lorsed the actions of their President and voted massive credits for the prosecution of this genocidal war these institutions to dee the guilt of anybody? this a completer fraum American workers must surely be to break the alliance of organized labour with wid build Demotheir party opposition to the two capitalist arties who re dragging the USA into th hell of militarism, fascism and war. The silence of Wilson lefts the equivocation of the who don't want to rock the parliamentary boat because of the coming general election is a double betrayal.

They betray British labour in the us to the Deate rats trade unions and prevent the independent political expression of the working class In this they are helped by