US unlikely to heed PM Trade war will tear us apart Heath warns

•We shall cut each other's throat,' he said in an interview taped for the •Unless it will technical tear each TORY PREMIER Edward Heath has warned that the capitalist countries will just tear each other apart? unless they sort out their trade differences. Canadian broadcasting corporation and transmitted on Thursday night.

'There will be the development of protectionism and this will weaken the security of the western world as well, Heath said.

The Tory leader said the economic future of the western world depends on three large trade blocs: the European Common Market, the United States and Japan.

Their task, he said, was to work out international trading arrangements that are 'agreeable to all of us, and in which we can all share, including Canada.

we really do that-and expertise ole shall just -we other apart, Heath said.

Wide-ranging trade negotiations between the three blocs are due to begin in the New Year. The US has repeatedly made clear it will demand that the other countries accept a massive increase in American exports.

The US wants a 25 per cent increase in imports of its products by the EEC and Japan, and to get this result it is threatening punitive tariffs unless the other countries toe the line.

The latest US balance of payments figures show, in the words the Washington Post' that 'this country's international trade position is deteriorating' This will certainly stiffen Nixon's stance in the forthcoming talks. For Heath to talk of KGB action against Opposition CORRESPONDENT IN ITS latest drive to smash the Soviet opposition the political police (KGB) has arrested dozens of suspects and called in many more for questioning. The aim is to hold key figures from the different sections of the opposition movement and to demoralize others with threats of arrest, confinement in psychiatric hospitals or deportation to labour camps.

Others, like Valeri Chalidze and Zhores Mededev, have been induced or permitted to leave the country to get them out of the way.

Facing a difficult economic situation and actual food shortages following a disastrous harvest, the bureaucracy considers it necessary to deal with any potential pole of attraction for mass discontent. Oppositionists are presented as being in league with enemies of the Soviet state abroad.

At the same time, the improved relations between the Soviet Union and the US and other capitalist countries mean that the KGB is now freer to carry out a clamp down. As Workers Press warned last June, the Nixon visit and the preliminaries for a European Security Conference 'make the position of the opposition not less but more precarious'.

As we said at that time: "This applies particularly to the revolutionary communists who represent as much a menace to the bourgeoisie in the west as to the bureaucracy? The support of the capitalists is assured for the measures which working out terms "agreeable to all of us is little short of entitled to a healthy and prosabsurd. perous agriculture just like auyAll efforts to patch together an agreement through international negotiation on monetary and trade questions since August 15 last year have failed.

In fact, Heath's statement reflected the bitter feeling against the United States among the European bourgeoisie. Referring to American demands that the EEC slash its tariffs on farm produce, he said:

THE SRI LANKA (Cey. ment headed by eras ment headed Sirimavo Bandaranalke has begun a new wave of arrests among the country's youth.

Over 150 young people have been arrested in the past few days on the pretext that they were plotting an attack on the capital, Colombo.

The armed forces have been put on the alert and deployed to guard strategic installations and prisons.

KiR... No the reai me YAKIR... Not the real me the KGB is taking against this wing of the opposition which wants to return to the traditions of Bolshevism and Leninism.

One of the first victims of the latest clamp down was Pyotr Yakir, son of one of the Red Army generals shot on Stalin's orders in 1937. From the age of 14 he spent 17 years in a concentration camp, emerging with a burning hatred of Stalinism.

Because Yakir was the revolutionary t Coalition attacks Ceylon youth and attempts to muzzle the Press Detention camps, where over 5,000 youth are already held, have been placed under heavier At the same time the government is pushing ahead with Its plans to muzzle the Press and take permanent dictatorial powers.

The Press Council Bill now on its way through parliament is one of the measures designed to strengthen the government's hand against all opposition.

leaders rend opposi'Europe now feels that it is body else. Until there -recognition of that, I don't think that one can really get a proper understanding of how you get a trade agreement negotiated.

I mean it doesn't help to say that the United States is the knight in shining armour, and we're all protectionist. The United States is highly protectionist and Canada knows that perfectly well.' The Bill has been pushed through regardless of an appeal to the Constitutional Court, whose members have resigned in protest.

The continuing unrest among the youth has the same causes as the brutally suppressed April 1971 uprising.

There are thousands of educated youth who have no possibility of finding a job. And village youth come to the towns to seek work which is not there. tion, he earned the special enmity of the KGB, which now claims that he has given them information about other. oppositionists. About 25 people who had contact with Yakir at the Institute of History in Moscow, where he ance worked, or in other places, have been pulled in for questioning. • It is not sure that the KGB has succeeded in breaking Yakir's will by the same means used in Stalin's day Deal, beat and beat again', as Khrushchev put it). His friends claim that he told them during a prison visit that while not giving up the struggle, he had been shown material establishing that other dissidents were, willingly or not, being used by anti-Soviet forces abroad.

Before his arrest Yakir told a foreign reporter: 'If they beat me, I will say anything. I know that from my former experience in the camps. But you know it will not be the real me speaking.' The KGB would like to stage another show trial in which they could use Yakir as a state witness to discredit the opposition as a whole. This could be used by the bureaucracy to divert attention from the economic crisis now gripping the Soviet Union.

While tough measures are being used against the left wing of the opposition, the 'liberals' are being treated in a different way. Some of them have already been driven into silence by fear of reprisals. Others have been permitted to leave the country, like the physicist Valeri Chalidze (See yesterday's Workers Press).

Chalidze was allowed to lecture, but after a short HEATH .. . It will weaken security US bombers pr Vietnam in the negotiators, Dr They are conden to rot in the city str When they revolt ag this situation the ernment brings modern weaponry crush them.

Sri Lanka's jails are still full to bursting point with young men and women arrested after last year's revolt.

They are being tried in batches before special commissions which assume they are guilty unless they can prove thein innocence. go to US tr time pass'Peace' recedes: War hots up unded North heaviest raids as peace Henry KissinLined sets. ainst govin signs IMF RUMANIA has become the first member of COMECON, the Soviet-led economic bloc, to join the • International Monetary Fund set up to stabilize capitalist currencies.

Yugoslavia is already a member, but does not belong to COMECON. Rumania will have to pay for admission by depositing about f80m with the Fund, a quarter of it in gold.

In return it will be able to use the drawing rights under the Fund and will become more attractive for trade and investment by capitalist firms.

To get the full advantage of this it will have to join the World Bank.

Rumanian representatives signed the IMF articles of agreement at the State Department in Washington. ger and Le Duc Tho, returned to their respectivie capitals.

The B52s dropped over 1,500 tons of bombs on the demilitarized zone and the North Vietnamese panhandle.

Rocket attacks were launched on bases around Saigon within 24 hours of the blowing up of a giant ammunition dump only Six miles from the capital. The main attack was on the Bien Hoa air base. The next target may be the capital itself where there is growing nervousness.

With the chances of peace receding President Thieu has become more insistent that his regime remains in command of South Vietnam. He was visited by American ambassador Ellsworth Bunker who informed him of the results of Kissinger's latest round of talks.

No doubt the President was assured that whatever the Americans have been saying publicly, he can count on all the military and other aid necessary keep his corrupt and crumbling regime together. Do Soviet citizented He as a founder of the Human Rights Committee, which was always careful to stay within the letter of the law.

By leaving the country he obviously laid himself open to the measure which has now been taken against him. If he asks for political asylum in the US or another country, it will be said that he Soviet Unioner to the enemies of the To the une It was this danger which novelist Alexandr Solzhenitsyn understood when he refused to go to Stockholm to collect his Nobel prize or to accept other invitations to leave the Soviet Union. The experience of other exiled dissidents shows that they became completely ineffective once outside the Soviet Union.

The KGB's repression, although it has undoubtedly deterred some dissidents, has not been • able to stamp out the opposition. Despite orders from the Communist Party's Central Committee that the opposition's 'Chronicle of Current Affairs' should be suppressed, another issue has recently been distributed in the underground.

Over 50 imprisoned oppositionists staged a hunger strike from December 5 to 10 and a Silent vigil was held in Moscow's Pushkin Square to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations.

If the "liberals' have not been completely cowed, it may be ass amed that the revolutionary opposition is continuing its activities teeth in the tee th of the repression.

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