Free all oppressed' GENERALS ACCUSED says Angela OVER SECOND 'MY LAI

The report, drawn up by Lt-Gen William Peers, has been kept under lock and key since the internal army inquiry was completed two years ago.

Exclusive extracts have been published by the 'New York Times'. They reveal that 'efforts to suppress and withhold information concerning the ... incident were made at every level in the Americal division'.

They also . reveal that second massacre, involving the killing of as many as 90 civilians, took place less than two miles from the hamlet of My Lai on the same morning-March 16, 1968.

Maj-Gen Samuel Koster, then commander of the division, was cited in 27 specific acts of misconduct or omission and his chief deputy, Brig-Gen G eorge Young was accused of 16 specific failures.

Some of its basic findings are:

• Gen Koster failed 'to insure that a thorough investigation would be conducted', and accepted at face value patently fraudulent reports from his subordinates.

• Both commanders failed to inform others on the division staff of the complaints and allegations about My Lai 4 and thus *effectively Suppressed' information about it.

• Lower-level staff officers of the Americal division 'probably conspired' to make false reports about the activities at My Lai 4 and participated omcial investigations that were little more than a pretence.

• Scores of officers attached to the Americal division and to the nearby provincial advisory headquarters • knew many details of the massacre as did many high-ranking Vietnamese officials whose reports were ignored.

The report singles out Lt-Col Frank Barker, head of the task force which • committed the my Lai massacre, for special criticism. Col Barker is now dead.

It says Barker planned ordered and actively directed Disaster faces Ruhr coal combine WEST Germany's huge Ruhrkohle coal combine is still facing financial disaster despite enormous cash injections from state and private sources.

The company produces 80 per cent of West Germany's steel It was formed four years ago by merging the mining interests of 24 German companies with the aim of rationalizing production and slashing the workCut-backs in the steel industry, its main customer, have driven Ruhrkohle to the brink of bankruptcy.

To stave off this fate, shareholders agreed earlier this year to renounce f27m in interest charges due to them and made interest free loans of £32m to Ruhrkohle for the period up to 1975.

At the same time, the Land and State governments agreed to inject more than £300m to keep the company on its feet.

These moneys have only been enough to stave off the immediate threat of collapse, however, and people close to the com'the execution of an unlawful operation against the inhabited hamlets which included destruction of houses by burning, killing of livestock, and the destruction of crops and other foodstufis and possibly the closure of wells'.

The report says several members of the platoon headed by Lt William Calley "testified to having observed an old Vietnamese man being bayoneted to death by a member of the platoon and to having seen another man thrown alive into a well and subsequently killed with a handgrenade'.

The second platoon, according to the report, committed nearly as many murders as did Calley's. Members of that platoon 'neither sought to take nor did they take detainees where in suy Lai 4.

The report concludes that Lt pany think far more will be needed to keep Ruhrkohle going over the coming years.

They estimate that Ruhrkohle will have to shed at least 25,000 of the 175,000 miners employed at present.

PRESIDENT lito of Yugoslavia arrived in Moscow yesterday for his first visit to the Soviet Union since the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.

aimed cementing ils are still at Calley's men had killed between 90 and 130 persons, the second platoon about 100 persons, with perhaps another 100 or more casualties resulting from actions of the third platoon and the helicopter gunships.

The Peers report demonstrates conclusively that My Lai was not an isolated incident but part of a deliberate and systematic policy pursued by the highest echelons of the US army.

The only officer convicted for the massacre is Lt Calley, who has been released from his detention on presidential orders despite a life sentence from a court-martial.

The real criminals of My Lai are still in the White House and the Pentagon, and despite the Peers report they are still continuing their atrocious war against the people of Vietnam.

The continuing financial crisis must give rise to harsh attacks on the wages and conditions of the Ruhrkohle miners, many of ners, many of whom will be Irown out of work to save the company from bankruptcy. 'Good results from summit' says Tito the reconciliation between the Yugoslav and Soviet Stalinist bureaucracies, begun when Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev visited Belgrade last September.

During the trip, Tito will be presented with the Order of Lenin awarded him on the occasion of his 80th birthday a week ago. • In an interview broadcast on Moscow television, the Yugoslav president said the international situation was now improving; he believed the recent summit between President Nixon and the Soviet leaders had yielded good results.

Despite differences, Student editor fined in Spain JUAN de Dios Mellado, editor of the Spanish student magazine 'Gaceta Universitaria', has been fined £1,200 for contravening the fascist press laws.

The magazine has published reports on Spanish students' struggle against Franco and has supported the call for freedom for students.

The fine was imposed after a cabinet meeting of Ministers who condemned as a 'very grave' offence an interview with a university professor.

New crisis coalition for THE new Italian premierdesignate, Giulio Andreotti, has accepted a mandate from president Giovanni Leone and begun consultations to form a new government coalition.

Andreotti, a Christian Democrat, has said he will make no alliances either with the Communist Party or with the fascist Italian Social Movement. two bureaucracies are driven closer together by a mutual fear of the working class.

Tito needs to improve relations with the USSR to combat the threat of civil war in crisis-ridden Yugoslavia.

For their part, the Soviet leaders need Tito as a go-between in the preparations for a European security conference.

Accordingly, Tito is now described in the Soviet press as a 'fighter and a patriot'—a far cry from the cartoons in 'Pravda' 20 years ago comparing him with Nazi leader Hermann Goering and calling him the executioner of Yugoslavia. case failed, defence attorney Moore said: The prosecution didn't have a case.' In his final summing-up for the defence, attorney Leo Branton told the jury the prosecution's contention that Miss Davis would openly buy a shotgun with which to blow off a judge's head—'is an insult to your intelligence'.

This speech to the Jury Branton summed up the 300year history of Negro oppression in the United States prove that Miss Davis' flight after the shooting was a natural black reaction.

Miss Davis, a member of the Communist Party and former university lecturer, who had spent 16 months in jail before the trial, said outside the courtroom:

"The fact that I had to fight these charges is itself a comment on the unfair system of justice.' On the verdict, she added: 'The people of the world see this as an example of what is to come, starting this day. We will work to free all political people of the world! oppressed prisoners and all oppressed Nine of the jurors attended a victory celebration afterwards, the other three sending their congratulations.