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faced during 1971.

unrest BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT PAKISTAN'S new ruler Zulfigar Ali Bhutto is running into trouble with national minorities in the West now that his forces have been defeated in Bangla Desh.

The Baluchi and Pathan peoples who live along the border with Afghanistan have long resented Punjabi chauvin- two years. ism and rule from Islamabad.

The victory of BanglaDesh and the ousting of • Yahya Khan have encouraged them to press their démands.

formed.

In the Baluchistan capital of Quetta, police killed one man and injured three others during a demonstration against Danny McGarvey.

Bhutto's nominee for the post of provincial governor.

McGarvey concluded: 'Wild scenes' The shootings occurred after what were described as 'wild scenes' at Quetta Airport when the provincial governor and his entourage landed most humane way.' The new governor, Ghaus Bakhsh Raisani, supports Bhutto's People's Party in the history of UCS. provincial assembly. But the majority in the assembly belongs to the National Awami agement.

The appointment was 1967 U.C.S. Formed FEB.1008 BY STEPHEN Apart from 1966-1967, the biggest recorded increase in output was this year when shipping LAUNCH OUTPUT launched increased by over 7,000 tons, despite a drop in the labour force of 4,000 over the last The basis of the drastic cut in the work force was productivity deal agreed when the now-bankrupt UCS consortium was Prime mover in the bid to boost output was Boilermakers' Society President Less than six months after UcS was formed "The company is on its feet now and ready to start walking. We hope it will be possible to start running. bra 196%. The directors have concluded redundancies in a It was this most 'humane' approach to mass sackings that characterized the short Always the union leaders were ready to trade jobs and speed-up with the man• U.C.S. (Govan, Scotst • Rest of Chide. PLOY • UC.S. Nos Erdaloxed • Rest of Clyde Nos. En CENSORSHIP of news from Ireland exploded into a major political row yesterday when reporters and film producers at the BBC revolted.

They have circularized an unsigned letter in Fleet St demanding the right to work 'in an open and free manner'.

Unless this demand is met by January 10, the editorial staff will introduce a total ban on visits to Ireland by news staff.

The one-page document says that reporters, producers and technicians are meeting increasing pressure to hold back or censor news and current affairs items.

Integrity

The integrity of journalists trying to do a difficult job is being openly challenged. Pressure is applied in a variety of ways.' The circular lists several ways in which the political muzzle is used: • Programmers are simply refusing put out material. • Pressure comes from BBC heads of department in. N Ireland who 'now openly act. as censors'. • BBC N Ireland is withdrawing permission for réporters and producers to talk to some civil rights leaders and Roman Catholic priests.

Some BBC staff have been banned from Ulster by corporation because of the 'controversial nature' of programmes they have been responsible for in the 'We emphasize the circular adds, 'that increasing censorship is not just being exercised within the BBC; independent television and the préss are also experiencing the corrupting self-defeating hand. of censorship.' Backed down The revolt at the BBC comes on the eve of the corporation's decision not posed debate on the Ulste- to go ahead with situation involving Stormont and Westminster politicians.

The BBC has now backed down from the programme following pressure from Tory ministers.

Two months ago Independent Television Authority banned--without even seeing-a film called 'South of the Border' made by Granada's World in Action team. • KEITH GRAVES, BBC TV reporter and frequently the BBC's industrial correspondent, issued a statement yesterday saying he knew nothing about the circular. 'The views expressed in it are inaccurate and we have no intention of taking any notice of the call to stop work in N Ireland. We do not feel any strictures on our coverage at all. • IN BELFAST a spokesman for the N Ireland Civil Rights Association has confirmed that a protest march against internment will be held on Sunday. Demonstrators will converge from various parts of the city to a rally in a park.

Speakers will be two MPs, Paddy Devlin and Austin Currie, and civil rights organizer Kevin McCorry. Under Stormont regulations all rallies and marches are illegal.

hipping Belfast. The total is under half of the 1968 figure of 2.5 million tons.

Chamber of Shipping president John Kirby is warning of an absolute decline in the British shipping fleet if investment is not stepped up with help from the government.

'Someone must carry our trade,' he said recently, 'and if British ships cannot, some other flag will.' It is clear, however, that the Tory government sees little hope for the ailing, outdated British shipbuilding industry.

In fact they are closing down the Shipbuilding Industry Board at the end of this week. ROLLS' MEN KEPT IN THE DARK' Two hundred air force and navy jets are flying continuous sorties to what the Pentagon describes as 'limited targets', though details of the bombing are being kept strictly under wraps.

The Americans can expect just as much success with this attempt to blast the N Vietnamese people into submission as they had before the so-called 'bombing pause' three years ago.

Their attack is primarily a reaction to the unprecedented series of defeats suffered by America's puppet allies in neighbouring Cambodia Laos.

The current dry-season offensive of the Indo-Chinese liberation forces is advancing more extensively and more rapidly than in any previous year.

The Americans' chief fearopenly admitted by military spokesmen in Saigon-is that the advances in Laos and Cambodia are only the prelude to huge NLF attacks in S Vietnam.

The run-down of American ground troops - forced on Nixon by large-scale opposition to the war both within the army and among the US population-leads to increased reliance on means of 'technological genocide'.

But even electronic sensors computers are proving inadequate to maintain ramshackle military dictatorship driven of the Plain of lor in Laos