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Stop criticizing cash policy Trade war warning

By Peter Jeffries

Workers Press no. 856, 31 August 1972 · scan pages 3, 4

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Liberation forces on move puppets face new battle BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT LIBERATION forces have launched a new offensive PRESIDENT NIXON has formally warned the Comsouth of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, threatening a mon Market countries that further criticisms of US number of strategic towns and provoking a crisis in trade and financial policy will be met with immediate the capital. trade war. The Cambodian premier, Laos government still Son Ngoc is cur- clings to the defunct formulae ng has been issued directl The unprecedented warn British yards. they There is already dearth of rently with the South Vietnamese In Saigon for talks 'neutralist' administration under under which it was set Geneva agreement. up as a to France-in American eyes orders throughout the world,' said puppet government. Chairs it cabinet meetings the major source of opposi- director still left vacant for the tion. But Nixon's aides have Shipbuilders and Repairers is seeking assur ances Rovernment in the mid-s and made it clear that the same National Association. they will come to the aid of country that steps out of line. treatment awaits Among the firms does give us considering island Phnom Penh regime under the mutual defence have been fighting it ever since. According to foreign diplomats 'he immediate cause of this chartering the Ben also possibility in Vientiane, the situation is utburst is the publication Line, Court British and establishing an air-lifi proving an , to tht embarrassment to next of next week the latest OECD Commonwealth Shipping and and Americans prop up on The impact felt most The pacing here May Islands in event that the cut supply routes. liberation Souvanna Phouma government. They would lose any justificatrade be will tion for their intervention in the ely severely in the the colonial and semi- IN VIENTIANE, capital of Laos, country if the government were issuing a minority statement dissent which opposes colonial whelmed countries, already over- by debt to the bankers owner, work it revealed in a confi- Prince prime Souvanna is facing Phouma, However, Washington may well fall.

report's main line. (See :er- in the etropolitan countries. dential Australian government threat of take-over feel that a government dominated day's Workers Press.) Latest to feel the blast of report. more extreme rightists. by the Sananikone family would But the Nixon admin to oppose publicly compromise istration what it EEC crisis is of emergency General Gabriel Ramanantsoa was "the grave state be for The report says internationally Which has con- the standers the past ful Led by the Sananikone family, the co1 interests, they are intry's most power- be more amenable to their plans. their encouragement of the This in line would be M. Jean Rey, former EEC Com- problems facing the country's pressing for folios and key cabinet port- completé re- Thailand, who recently overthrew extreme rightists in neighbouring yesterday: mission President, commented economy phere which and hinders present atmos- deter- Iney can work only for the of present parliamentary government Other members of the group mination achieve owner of most the freehold government. agreed in a spirit of of compromise recovery' land, Mr John unies-Ross, a positions. Had modify their these initial personal slump in The so urce exp ort prices founder. He pays descendant th e original Scots them $2 final I acceptance of failures tr week, which must be spent at the this compromise would be with- Agriculture responsible for company store.

certain members of the over a third the island's out- Clunies-Ross, who, together group, they would have put wo-thirds of her with his wife and an overseer, their views differently' which go mainly are the only whites on Home over dockers' strike In other words. only total France. Island--one of the main capitulation will now satisfy the This development follows in the chain—has said he wants Americans. They have no Harold Wilson's warı ng this less interference frinisestraliaor Australa tion of yielding on the question that two-thirds THE CANADIAN parliament is to be recalled, probably of dollar convertibility into gold abolished as a result crisis and faced vast unem severe ployment External Territories, Andrew Pea- parliament yesterday een tied premier year. Nor the August 15 ave they measures last least inten- were I unless And eversed. present reversed trading policies reathe relationship Ross and the islanders that relations between 'required Clunies- Hiring the strike on August 23. Dockworkers in other British Columbia ports joined tion of easing their drive against But in luite the opposite direc- That one holed Parliament expected to rush through Act imposing comforeign Europe. Specifically, Nixon warned tariffs Japan and enormously which Wilson will inten- absolute inhabital sovereignty This is a view over arbitration and ordering itheral sevèral times immediate : return resorted to similar work.

that if next month's International every thi capitalist world. which I do not concur,' he said. action against strikes since he took oflice. Monetary Fund meeting turns into an anti-American forum, he will personally mount the rostrum — Jail protests are growing source described as a reply Europeans in understand— have allowing anything 'We are human beings and Britain's prison population has Novem- risen, her Victorian ber Presidential clection prepara- such' sums up the frame of tions. Thursday night and batc from university academics and jails with men incarcerated for It is certainly this mind of the demon- their were allowed the first leave time in the Pooley autumn lecture aimed tour become woefully inadequate. mests by one shouted attracting student for This position has been the world staged a sit-down protest in PROP's recognition worsened by and improved prison condi- ing off in industrial work. which open today between men occupying an exercise yard President Nixon and Prime Min- Cheimsford he Home Office and priso tions. which has hitherto helped preister Kakuei Tanaka. Yesterday prisoners were treat rite demonstration to vent frustration and boredom "inside grown con- among large numbers take $750m minimum The Americans expect that Japan will agree to emergency imports as Isle of Wight. and another squatted on the tiles at neigh- been issue hat anied siderably worse. This is partly more prisoners. Overcrowding, rigorous together chases of US farm produce total- with increased pur- bo"ring Parkhurst. More than half the 370 in later men have been driven to petty crime, partly because new and sharp has brought fall in ,400m. Albany 30 'militants' building programmes have prisoner tempers to boiling But Japanese have little disciplinary charges and have been segregated and been knocked on the hea Id and point.

50 others were put put on report placed in while because of the failure They are, of course, by no mact on the Thie lei on Tuesday after made clear that to implement the 1966 Mount- unt- means immune from the social which nothing would done to im- batten Report. upheavals taking place on annual rate of over 53,000m. now rur blazing dows. was hurled fror bedding and furniture cell win- prove living prisoners' conditions 10W until squalid they Mountbatten that prisoners in wanted need ngle not other side of their walls and conditions reflects the fight In return Tanaka is hoping that recent share the rigours of their con- within the unions and Americans agree campaign against the trade will prisoners refused to leave their cells for work meals on ecognition finement. of George fence of the de- and the prisoners union PROP in Parkhurst men, but yesterday (Preservation of the capital in in Clearly shipbuilders c Scials claimed situation launched in May by and the acceptance same Radzinowicz" masters Camp Hill and Lite in a spent 20 years of his that highSteamship they will persed has m should be dis- same working class. Japan seriously considering not About 4,000 men in 26 jails made life tougher Their problems will only be having huge tankers built for union call for resolved when, as irst step. leasing to owners in Scandanavia the Albany men are dropped. one-day strike August the Tory government is forced and the UK Now attempts are being made and now a three-day stoppage was succinctly resign and It is impossible for British them back ground planned i junction with veyed by another rooftop com- ‚overnment is elected and yards build such tankers level campaign of non-co-opera- orced out socialist anything near competitive prices. Whereas such near tankers could be Rioting had been going on Albany since the The union has won support shouted: 'We are being treated like pigs.' policies prison reform. including drastic built for around f5m in Japan,

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