Soviet aid to fascists' nuclear programme

Finance Minister. magnet to ignore it liability.

richs did, for a rise in the 'official' price.

At $38 an ounce, the official gold price is almost $30 below the level on the 'free market. For this reason, the gold reserves held by central banks are effectively frozen.

Since August 15 last year when the US Treasury stopped selling gold to central banks at the infris ripht mind has set led his debts in gold when he could use special drawing rights, dollars or other paper assets.

This has given rise to the idea that gold is on the way out as an international reserve asset and that in the future the capitalist countries will settle their debts entirely with pieces of paper.

This idea is being fostered by the Americans, who currently have low gold reserves and want the rest of the world to believe they have abandoned the idea of piling up stocks of the metal.

....kit.it e YORKSHIRE Young Socialists ended their Right-to-Work march last Saturday with a demonstration through Sheffield. They marched in from Rotherham in the morning and through the crowded city centre to a meeting attended by local youth and trade unionists.

Mike Duke, a local militant during the recent building workers' strike congratulated the marchers who walked for seven days from Leeds. The marchers, he said, had not allowed anybody to stand in their way. They had exposed the fake lefts, who also sold out the building workers' strike.

We have got to fight for leadership. We have got to force a General Strike to get the Tories out,' he said.

March leader Ray Jaxon said the unemployed youth on the march had shaken up the trade union movement in Yorkshire.

'We drove fear into the minds of the trade union bureaucrats who do not want to fight the Tories. But we received enormous support from workers who are driven into conflict with their own leaders.' KRANEAN YOLNS YORKS REGi RIGHT TO WE LEECETO SHEFIELD MARCH 144, 40Г

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LEEDS TO SHEFFIELD Flare-up on Yemeni border THE SOVIET Union is prepared to give technical assistance to Spain's nuclear energy programme. The offer came at à recent conference organized by the European Economic Commission of the United Nations in Alcala de Henares near Madrid.

After Spanish delegate Colino had pointed out that developing nations had difficulty with advanced technology, the Soviet delegate said aid would be in line with the recently-signed Paris trade agreement.

This Stalinist offer of nuclear aid to the fascist regime follows a statement by Luis Cerón, minister in charge of negotiations with the Stalinists, that Spain would have abundant trade with Comecon countries if Common Market entry was not possible.

This latest episode in the Moscow-Madrid alliance coincided with the first anti-student foray by the new ultrafalangist rector of Madrid university, Munoz Alonso.

Without any explanations, he banned a meeting of teachwhich which was to discuss staff ing staff in the Law Faculty resignations and the barring of 27 students from the Faculty this year.

The Ministry of Education has refused to renew the contracts of over 50 university lecturers who had built up a reputation as liberal academics.

Both students and lecturers are still waiting for the start of term to be announced.

A Barcelona military court on Saturday sentenced four men to terms ranging from 15 to 18 years imprisonment for a bomb attack on a local police patrol car.

North Yemen also claims to have shot down two planes belonging to the People's Democratic Republic of (South) Yemen. North Yemen wants to restore the semi-feudal system of rule which has been overthrown in the South.

European mercenarie: most of them extreme righti: reported fighting alongs ide the North Yemen troops.