'Caretaker' government plan for South Vietnam-report

NIXON aide Dr Henry Kissinger returned to Saigon yesterday visiting Cambodia for talks with dictator Lon Nol. He is believed to be pressing America's puppet regimes in China to accept preliminary proposals ceasefire in the Vietnam On Saturday Kissinger spent ten hours with South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu, who has made it clear he is opposed to any deal with North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front.

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam has made Thieu's removal from office one of the prime conditions of any peace settlement.

WORK was completed at Nagasaki, Japan, yesterday on the world's largest shipyard, capable of building a I-million ton deadweight tanker. The Koyaki dockyard, built by Mitsubishi, is 3,242 feet Jong and 328 feet wand larger than the Harland Wolff yard in Belfast which measures 1,804 feet by 308 feet.

But according to reports attributed to diplomats in Peking, the PRG is now prepared to accept Thieu as leader of one of the three factions in a 'government of national concord' while insisting that he must step down as president.

Thieu has recently stepped up the tone of his anti-communist rhetoric with promises of a fight to the finish-denouncing the idea of a tripartite government as treason.

But his independent powers of manoeuvre are very limited. If Kissinger is pressing him to accept some such scheme it is doubtful if Thieu can resist for very long.

North Vietnamese and NLF spokesmen in Paris have apparently warned the Americans to expect unpleasant military surprises if preliminary agreement on the terms of a ceasefire deal is not reached soon.

According to military sources in Saigon, the threat to the South Vietnamese capital from the liberation forces is still serious and the US military ner talking terms of spectacular designed to put pressure on Thieu.

'Time' magazine claimed at the weekend to have obtained from South Vietnamese sources an outline of a war settlement agreed in principle by the US and North Vietnam in Paris. * It said the agreement provided for an internationally supervised South ceasefire vietnamese government formation of a new and elections for a constituent assembly to draft a new stitution for the country.

The magazine said it might 'take many months to accomplish in its entirety'. It added that the Nixon administration wants 'to be able to announce an agreement "in principle" on the package before election day, November 7, though the first steps of a ceasefire might not even be possible that soon.' 'Time' said the military portion of the proposed deal provides for a ceasefire 'in place' and halting of all military activity including the US bombing of the North. Then negotiations would begin wrawal of all US forces upted with the return of American prisoners of war in communist hands.' After the ceasefire went into negotiations would said, begin effect, 'Time' said, direct between the Saigon government and the PRG. The two sides would work out the composition of a "caretaker" government that would succeed the Thieu regime and prepare the country for general elections to choose a constituent assembly.' The plan also involves extension of the existing international control commission and the formation of a committee comprising all four sides in the war the US, North Vietnam, the Thieu government and the National Liberation Front-to arbitrate who controlled what territory at the time of the ceasefire and negotiate the US withdrawal and the return of PoWs. policies aid the fascists WEST GERMANY'S neoNazi National Democratic Party has approved an election programme calling for an end to what it terms the invasion' by foreign Party chairman Martin Mussgnug, who took over last year from Adolf von Thadden, said the presence of 3.5 million foreign workers spurred inflation by increasing production capaThe fascists of the NPD clearly hope to use anti-immigrant agitation in the same way as Hitler used anti-Semitism. They are aided by the thoroughly chauvinist and reactionary position of the ruling Social Democratic Party headed by Willy Brandt.

Not only has Brandt called for curbs on immigration of workers from southern Europe and North Africa, he has also launched a vicious police campaign against Palestinian workers and students, deporting more than 200 in the wake of the Munich airport shoot-out.

The attack on the Palestinians is a direct attack on the political rights of all immigrant workers in Germany, who have been reduced at a stroke, of Brandt's pen to the status of barelytolerated factory fodder who can be deported at the government's whim.

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principled struggle in support of the Liverpool men. or conduct a slogan 'protect jobs at Acton', respond with a call to carry out black work on the mail. They are watching closely to see if stewards This is regarded by militants as close to biackthey co-operate in the production of parts normally told that no one's job there need be affected if Workers at CAV Acton, west London, have been their own occupation against closure some months Workers from Fisher-Bendix, Kirkby, who staged shift transmission workers at Ford Halewood (£58)

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The extension of the struggle will The officials said they supported the Workers in the north west on Saturday.

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Press, by Published Registered as a newspaper at the Post reject the pay deal. the recall is needed to ratify or while Kendall says joint talks, Buckton wants to oppose further demanded the recall of the TUC. already Kendall - have liam Services' Association chief Wiland Civil and Public ASLEF, Buckton, of the locomen's union the leaders of two unions-Ray TUC meets on Wednesday and The General Council of the are claimed to be enthusiastic. and senior government advisers Office Economic Development and top employers, the National ability to halt 'wages drift' of plan with approval because The CBI are looking on the economy. capitalist of agement associating the unions with manit demonstrates his intention of ernment's own, but also because it is less expensive than the govJones scheme not only because Heath is said to favour the of a 'government payment'.