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MURDERED? Publisher's wife asks for inquiry

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 717, 18 March 1972 · scan page 3

Topics: United States, Education

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of left-wing Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who THE FOURTH wife was found mutilated ›y a dynamite explosion near to an electricity pylon in asked for an immediate post-mortem to establish whether field outside Milan, ha he was murdered. BORMANN 'NOT JUNGLE-MINDED' BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT HEAD of the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna, Dr Simon Wiesenthal, says he is very doubtful that Johann Ehrmann, arrested by Colombian police in a remote jungle shack, is actually Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy.

He said: 'Every time we have information that a prominent Nazi is living in a country with a bad climate and under bad conditions, such as in a jungle, I am very sceptical.

'In my 25 years' experience tracing Nazis, I have found that most of them choose countries like Paraguay, Chile and Argentina with climates similar to Europe. ' "'They also live under' tomtortable circumstances and ally have good relations w local police,' he said. need to io into the jungle Bormann not 80 Ine uncle and live with an Indian wife. NIXON'S BUSSING CONCESSION TO WALLACE IN A major concession to the racialist right in the United States, President Nixon has promised legislation. to bar federal courts ordering the bussing of black and white children to achieve racial balance in schools.

His promise, made in a televised address to the nation on Thursday night, follows the victory of Alabama governor George Wallace in the Florida Democratic primary election earlier this week.

Wallace basett his" campaigni Together with Feltrinelli's other comrades, she strongly suspects that he was murdered by extreme right-wing fanatics who want to provide the government with an excuse to clamp down on the left in Italy.

Political assassination along these lines is a speciality of the fascists, who have mounted a big campaign of violence and intimidation in the run-up to the May 7 General Election.

Fascist squads of the Ordine Nuovo . group have the backing of sections of the Milan police. They are suspected of having organized the series of bomb outrages in Milan in 1969 for which the state is now trying to frame the anarchist Pietro Valpreda.

Feltrinelli himself was charged 1969 with providing Valpreda th a false alibi.

FLED COUNTRY With his friend Sibilla Melega he fled the country. He was later cleared of all charges.

Feltrinelli, who inherited £4m lumber fortune, was Italy's most prominent left-wing publisher. His list included importInternational Of early Communist works by Soviet oppositionists.

He was a prominent Communist Party member in the years alter the war, but gave up his membership after the suppression of the Hungarian revolution in 1956.

In the following year, despite trong pressure trom the stalinnak's 'Dr Zhivago', which won he published Boris Pasterits author the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958.

He visited Cuba several and was on friendly terms Fidel Castro.

Feltrinelli's death under such suspicious circumstances recalls the murder of the Socialist deputy Matteoti by l Mussolini's stormtroopers in 1922. It is a sure sign of the mounting social crisis in Italy and the threat of fascism.

opposition to bussing, which has become the latest euphemism for the campaign against black people's rights in the US.

Nixon denied that he or other opponents of bussing were racialists or wanted to kill integration in the schools. He said he was directing the Justice Départment to intervene selected cases where bus movements ordered by lower courts had gone beyond the requirements of the Supreme Court.

He said it was 'dangerous nonsense' to argue that opposition to moving. children outside their NIXON CUTS DOCKERS' PAY AWARD THE PAY RISE recently United States W coast has Nixon's Pay Board.

The rise has been cut from 16 to 10 per cent, Board chairman George Boldt announced yesterday. The Board, set up last year to hold down wages, split eightfive in favour of cutting the wage award.

The five trade union leaders on the board voted in favour of the contract, but the five employers' representatives and the members who are supposed to represent the public interest voted for the cut.

Nixon is pledged to hold wages down to a maximum rise dockers. Per cent a year. treachery of their leaders in accepting containerization and other speed-up plans, was first major challenge to Nixon policy.

Nixon's efforts to hold down wages are meeting with great resistance from inside the trade unions. Prices continue to. rise at far more than the 5 per cent norm set by the government Price Board.

Last month, wholesale prices rose by 0.9 per cent-equivalent to an annual rise of some 1l per cent. The dockers, who struck for 134 days before finally agreeing their new contract at the end of February, had threatened to strike again if the Board did not approve their rise.

However, Nixon now has legisown areas by bus was anti-black.

In fact, the schools in the ghetto areas of the major US cities are so badly equipped and run-down that education there is a tragic farce.

Nixon admitted as much when he said: 'We all know that within the central cities of our nation there are schools so inferior that it is hypocrisy to suggest that the poor children who go there are getting a decent education, let alone an education comparable to that of children who go to schools in the suburbs.' • won by dockers on the been slashed by President lation on the Statute Book empowering him to order them back to work. Last year, the dockers were forced back to work for an 80-day 'cooling off' period under the anti-union Taft-Hartley Death sentences ratified THE TURKISH Senate yesterday ratified death sentences on three members of the left-wing People's Liberation Army, arrested lust April after a gun battle with troops.

They are Deniz Gezmis (24), Jusuf Aslan (25) and Huseyin Inan (22). Almost 1,800 Turkish intellectuals have petitioned the Turkish military regime for the abolition of the death penalty in political cases.

Malawi welcome AFRICAN President James Fouche was greeted by the entire Malawi cabinet and a crowd of 8,000 when he arrived at Blantyre airport yesterday for his first state visit to an independent black African country.

Hundreds of League of Malawi women in mauve costumes sang welcoming songs and the Malawi forces fired a 21-gun salute in honour of the white supremacist leader.

He said bussing had created anger, fear and turmoil in local .communities and brought agony to parents.

Nixon also announced plans to spend $2,500m in the next year to improve the standards ghetto schools.

This • of course, cosmetic infusion change nothing of the ghetto schools.

Nixon's move af is a blatant bic racialist support i coming presidential is simply a which • will substance in ainst bussing for white 1 the forth-

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