Medvedev to research in London

ZHORES MEDVEDEV, the Soviet geneticist, who was detained in a psychlatric hospital in May 1970 for his criticism of Kremlin policy, has left Moscow in order to do medical research In London. Medyedev told his friends that he wanted to return to the Soviet Union and intended to engage in purely scientific research in London.

He did not want to be involved in political activities that could be to the Americans' demands.

quarters at Key Biscayne, North Vietnam has 'yielded slightly' on some of the issues in dispute, among them the terms relating to the international commission to supervise any agreed ceasefire. this commission should have only 250 men and be largely tied down in Saigon. The negotiations are said to have reached a compromise on a figure of 2,500, drawn • from the Indonesian, Canadian, Polish and Hungarian forces.

of the secret négotiations is the division of Vietnam, which was partitioned along the 17th parallel in 1954, under the treacherous Geneva accords approved by correspondent reported yesterday that 'Hanoi might have agreed to some sort of formula that would be written into the agreement-which provided for removing its troops from South Vietnam over a period of time, although not necessarily before a settlement is signed. 'This has been THE HONG KONG government has taken emergency action to stem the speculative boom on the colony's four stock exchanges.

Civil servants have been barred from visiting the exchanges or brokers' offices during working hours and banned from using their office telephones to phone through share deals.

After a meeting with the financial secretary to the governor, the heads of the exchanges issued a joint statement urging investors to show restraint.

The government has also apparently prevailed on some of the colony's banks to call in loans which have been used by investors to buy shares on credit. The banks are reported to have advanced £230m (a sum almost equivalent to the colony's budget) last September for new share dealings and general market operations.

Hong Kong is a tax haven and is readily accessible to speculative capital from Britain, which has been flowing in to the stock markets there at a considerable rate.

The lack of companies to invest in was not an obstacle for long. Firms like Slater Walker, Ralli International • and • others used as a pretext for taking away his passport, making him a permanent exile.

Last summer, he was barred from attending an International geneticists' conference in Kiev.

Maintain fight against second partition of Vietnam THE UNITED STATES and North Vietnam yesterday pushed ahead with high-level technical talks as President Nixon conferred in Florida with his chief negotiator Nixon has despatched Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, to Indo-China to report to the US puppet regimes there on the latest developments in the Paris talks. He will visit South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.

These moves come at a particularly ominous stage in the Paris negotiations, where there are indications that Hanoi has made certain important concessions According to reports from Nixon's headHanoi originally insisted that The vital question at the heart On this question, Reuter's La major Pressure all round for Hanoi to do a deal Hong Kong shares on never-never the south Medveder's twin bro ther, Roy is the author of the important book 'Let History Judge: the Origins and Consequences of Stalinism' (published by Macmillan, £5.75), the first Soviet attempt to assess Stalin. Nixon (right) with his Vietnam team (I. 1o r.) Henry Kissinger, Melvin Laird and General Haig. He has sent Haig to south-east Asia to explain the latest Paris moves. of contention with South Vietnam which objected to the terms reached in October which contained no such assurance. There was no indication how such a condition might be phrased, bearing in mind that Hanoi has never acknowledged having any forces in the south.' an agreement would amount to de facto recognition of the puppet regime of Nguyen Van Thieu in South Vietnam. This is one of the main concessions being demanded by the Nixon regime under threat of renewing bombing-this time by guided missiles.

If such a deal were actually to come into operation it would detract heavily from the legality and status of the Provisional Revolutionary Government According to one high Washa ho had ended the official, the Duc Tho reached the outline of an agreement which would yield to Hanoi's demands that in the long term there should be a united Vietnam. floated their own subsidiaries fill the gap.

One company had as its sole asset a 16-year-old ship. The shares of these firms shot up in price, pushing the index from just over 300 at the beginning of last year to nearly 1,000 last The rise bore no relation to the current earnings of the companies involved—or to any earnings they are likely to get in the future. Some of the firms involved had price/earnings ratios of over 100.

But this is not the most important aspect of the share boom in the colony. It appears that much of the buying was 'on margin' the method which Spain and East Germany to exchange ambassadors THE SPANISH Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced at the weekend that Spain and East Germany had decided to establish diplomatic relations and would exchange ambassadors in May.

The agreement was reached in Warsaw on January Zhores Medvi Such an agreement is assured of the enthusiastic support of the Stalinists and Liberals who have become the advocates of peace at any price in Indo-China.

The main demand in the Stalinist campaign is for the signing of the October nine-point draft agreement, which ratifies the continued presence of US troops in Thailand, the Tonkin Gulf and other parts of Asia.

It is important to note that the deal would leave US Air Force planes positioned ready at any time to resume the terror bombing of the north.

This campaign is masterminded by the Soviet and Chinese bureaucracies, which have repeatedly made clear they want to liquidate the Indo-China revolution so that they can improve their relations with Nixon.

Olivier Todd,_reporting from Hanoi for the French magazine 'Nouvel Observateur' witnessed Soviet officials in the beleaguered Hanoi during last month's bombing raids openly chiding. the North Vietnamese for their lack of 'realism' and for standing in brought the downfall Street in 1929.

This involves a virtual hire purchase system, in which as little as 10 per cent of the share price need actually be paid by the buyer.

In this way credit is transformed into fictitious value with a call on part of the total surplus value produced. The government's intervention indicates that the credit relations are close to the point of breakdown.

Indeed the intervention itself could be the final straw to initiate the credit collapse. Even a small fall in the share index could be enough to set in motion selling by margin buyers, which could then snowball into a crash. negotiations between the East German ambassador leader of the Spanish consular delegation in Poland.

East Germany has become the first Stalinist regime in eastern Europe to extend commercial relations with Franco's regime into the field of diplomatic recognition as rist. "x:

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These leaders are undoubtedly intriguing behind the scenes to undermine the intransigence of the North Vietnamese fighters and undermine their morale as the B52 bombers were unable to dọ.

There is undoubtedly great hostility among the Vietnamese fighters to the Moscow-Peking line-up. According to the French newspaper 'Valeurs Actuelles' the US bombing raids provoked a split in the North Vietnamese politburo, with one wing, headed of the National Assembly, giving priority to the 'construction of socialism' which, it claims, is endangered by the war.

The other wing, led by Le Duan, the Vietnamese party's first secretary, reportedly maintains that the consolidation of socialism in North Vietnam can only be brought about by its victory in the south.

This position is echoed in a recent speech by the veteran strategist General Vo Nguyen Giap. Speaking at a ceremony last Friday to mark the award of medals to anti-aircraft units, Giap warned:

'We have won glorious victories, but we should never be complacent because our task remains very heavy. As long as the enemy continues to invade our country, our armed forces and people will have to continue to step up our resistance . .. to defend our entire territory and our beloved fatherland's territorial space and waters.' Nowhere in his speech did Giap refer to the 'peace' prospects which are noted with such approval by the advocates of pressure to force Nixon to sign. This campaign is nothing more than a political extension of the treachery of the Soviet and Chinese leaders.

There must be no second partition of Vietnam. The secret diplomatic manoeuvres of Kissinger and Nixon, Brezhnev and Mao, are the gravest danger to the Vietnamese struggle, which is the highpoint of the world revolution against capitalism.

The Socialist Labour League is for the victory of the North Vietnamese Army and the National Liberation Front and unequivocally for the defeat of imperialism both in Indo-China and by the working class at home.

Against the protesters and vigilantes we consider that the campaign to force the Tory governme it to resign is the high point of working-class solidarity with the Vietnamese: revolution.