BISHOP TO MEET MINISTERS ON SETTLEMENT

JAN SLING-son of Otto Sling, a prominent Czech Communist Party official executed in the Stalinist 'Slansky Trial' of 1952 —has not been released, as had been reported in the west.

Jan's mother, Mrs Marian Sling, who lives in London announced this after a phone call to Prague at the weekend.

Sling was arrested last month, accused of spreading anti-regime propaganda in the form of leaflets and a monthly underground newsletter.

Others arrested about the same time include. Rudolf Slansky (son of the late Rudolf Slansky, former Czech Communist Party secretary-general, who was executed in the 1950s and posthumously rehabilitated in 1963); Jan Vik, whose father was accused of Trotskyism and also jailed in the 1950s; Jiri Lederer, a journalist, sentenced last week to two years' imprisonment for 'defaming a socialist state'; Professor Karel Kosik, philosopher; Vladimir Nepras, journalist; Karel Kaplan, scientist; and Jiri Littera, former secretary in the Prague party organization.

GRAIN FEARS IN US UNION and management representatives are still seeking settlement in the crippling W coast dock strike.

Two meetings began on Sunday, the most important being between the dockers' union president, Harry Bridges, and Pacific Maritime Association President Edmund Flynn.

The second meeting was between negotiators representing 1,000 longshoremen who handle grain shipments (mainly from NW ports) and representatives from grain movement companies.

Employers say they are worried that the 122-day strike may eliminate grain markets for the US in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and India.

As little headway is made in these meetings, it seems likely that Congress will act in the near future to bring about a forced settlement.

Senate majority leader THE TORY government could be a just and meaningful' role in the situation, an African nationalist London yesterday.

RUMANIAN LOAN TO IRAQ RUMANIA is to lend $35m (£13.4m) to Iraq as part of an agreement allowing Rumanian organizations to prospect for oil in an area E of Baghdad on behalf of the Iraq National Oil Company.

The lóan, part of an economic and technical co-operation agreement negotiated last November, is to be repaid in crude oil at 2.5 per cent interest.

DOCK STRIKE Mansfield (Democrat), has said he may support President Nixon's proposal to enact legislation to force the 15,000 strikers to return to work while arbitration takes place.

One of the issues remaining is the date on which a new contract would become effective. The union wants new pay rates backdated to November 14, when Nixon's initial wage-price freeze expired.

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Other outstanding issues a hunger strike against her include paid holidays and a union detention without trial. She is demand that workers be pro- detained in Marandellas. prison, vided with prescribed medicines. 50 miles SE of Salisbury.

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The Bishop is to meet some Tory ministers next Monday to discuss the Smith-Home settlement over Rhodesia's future.

Yesterday he refused to comment on the future of the Pearce Commission, now investigating African opinion on the settlement terms.

If the Commission came up with a negative answer, he said, the British government should once again get around a negotiating table where Africans would be included.

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The only way in which the Ulster and miners' struggles against imperialism can be united is through the common action to make the Tory government resign.

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