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King's

Soon

In a neutral atmosphere Ia tf)both s.des

The Itst 01 c t1e~ sent to Hano was 1eported to have suq~es

ted New DelhI Jakarta RangoonVlenttane and Geneva Cflr1SPIC

uously miSs ng was Warsaw PIOposed by North V.etnam bu t unacceptable to the Amencans entl c giounds tt IS a comnlU!J1 t (apltal

The pres den t IS expect" i tfly tn Honolulu on Monday wherehe wIll first meet US paclI carea mIlitary chiefsOn Wednesday he IS due to open

tall<s WIth the South Korean pres dent on the VIetnam war andNorth Korea s seIzure uf tbe

US mtelItgenee sh.p PuelluAlso on the agenda IS Sn~tI

KOI ean concern that the L S semphas s ng the Pueblo orobl mI ather than the ent re ISS \ ofNorth Korean guerrilla acllv, p,and sabotage In South Korea

They wanted h m not as a suspec( but to quest on him about the carand h s whereabouts dur ng the lastweek the paper saId

It added that w tneses had givenIhe FBI Ih<!)heenceplate number ofa veh de seen bemg dnven off aherthe shoot ng n Memph s

WASHINGTON April 14 (Reuter)--U S Attorney General RamseyClark saId Friday nIght be hopedthe killer of Dr MartIn Luther Ktngwou41 ije arres ed soon But he warned It was ImpOSSible to predictwben that would be

rn a bnef statement the atorneygeneral added The FBI .s devohng every pOSSible resource to thiSIn~hgatlon (IOto the aSa.5SlOstJOnlast week of 9r Kmg)

Agents are worktng around theclock pursulOg every lead PhYSicaleVidence IS very substantial

Salurday s New York dalll' newssaid a wli te Mustang car found InAllanla GeorgIa on Thursday badbeen ddmttely established by FBIagents as the car seen speedmg awayfrom the murder scene on Apr I 4

The newspaper also saId Er c S1­arvo Gall 36 year old owner of thevehicle was be ng sought by lnves1 gatoFs

SouthwestA fricans JeerUN MissionAt Dar Airport

DAR es SALAAM Apr I 14 (APl-A banner readmg Your Des lOa

t on s W ndhoek not Dar l!.ree edthe UN CounCil lor Southwest Afea when It arr ved here Thursdayn,lbl.

1be comm ss on had flown fromLusaka Zamb n after several abort ve at e 1 pts to obta n cha ter a ruafl and South Afncan p rm Sli nto fly 10 the disputed territory 10 establ sh a UN presence there

Othcr pwc.:anls l:arr ed by S,Julhwesl Afr c.:uns 01 the alrpurt hereread Is Ih Ullltco Nalon another100 hless bulldugl l.lOd SeL:iJrl,; IdeaSoC of Sw IpO f t.'Cdom flghle s n Prclor a

I he Go I I s expected to returnto Lusaku 1 hursday when It hopesto make Il further attempt to enterSouthweSI Afr Cll

Counc I leader Mostaf.. AbdulWahed sUld here the Coun I Ie;: stilidetermmed to go to Southwest Afncaand the Zambia government hadthe aucraft

The Indoneslsn permar COt UNrepresentatIve Dr H Ro~lan

AbdulgaDl a member of the Council saId the miSSIon had all thelandmg rights It requtre~ bu••1did need a landlDg clearao e andth s IS m tlie hands of he a fronadmlOistration at Wmdho k

As the Counctl made ts w t~ tothe YIP lounge here s memberswhere Jeered by Swap~ supportersmany of whOIfl were SouthwestAfrIcan students

The CounCil said Frtday tht rcOisoo for the Side tnp to Dar cs Salaam s to meet representaltHs ofthe people of Southwesl Africa whohave headquarters here

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have suggestHangoon Jaor Geneva

contrad.ctlon to the stateIllJOde by the U S governso f I the statement sa.d

Farmers Day

To Be Observed

U.S. Refutes Hanoi Charge-On Finding M1eeting Venu~

AprilKAB1:1L Apnl 14 lBakhtarl

The farmers day WII be observed by the MinIstry of Agnculture and In .gatlon On Apr I 18

A 1 ve stock show s neludedIn the plogramme fOI the daywhIch wIll be held 10 Khall khana Pass north of Kabul

Teams of exoorts from theMlmstry have 'been despatchedto VarIOUS localllles m and areund Kabul to contact farmetsfor the selectIon of theIr bestcattle and farm products to beIncluded 10 hsts of awards

J he Arnel UI)}S

ed New Deihl!{l\lta V c tar ('

AUSTIN Texas Apnl 14 (Reuter) -The WhIte House spoke,man yesterday mdlrectly rejected a HanOI charge that the Un ted States was stall ng n the negotl3t ons on a site for prel mnary V.etnam talks

Ptl~s dentlal press secretaryGeorge Chr st an sa d that eentacts on the matter were st II to

progre~s

1\sl(e4 dIrectly about the }!3nN charge the spokesman sa dI :d0ll't olan to be ~omrnent .g

on eve~hlDg HanOI ~adio say,Asked where the mattef stand

followmg US obJecbons to HanOI E suggestlQIlS of WarsR,\\ 3:ld

Phnom Penh as oosslble ~Itl'S

Chnstlan said Its Just In pr)gress I alan to have very I m ted comment wh Ie It IS under dn;cuss on

Pres dent Johnson s spe lel gEaster at h,s Texas ranch hopng fer Ct esh word from Hatol on

VIetnam peace talks befo", leav ng to meet South Korean P, es.dent Chung Hee Park I Honolulu

The Pres dent arr ved In lexas sholtly after a State I)epartment announcement that thg, UShad suggested fIve c.t.es as pasS ble s tes for orehmrnary peacetalks w th Nolth V etnam

MeanwhIle contacts w th NorthVietnam are contmulng In an ef'fort 10 get peace talks oppned asscan as pass ble The U:S h ssa d It wants to hold th~ tall s

Of the cars preparmg to set outon the southern leg last night .eIghtwere of French manufaclure-fourPeugeot 404 IDjectlon and three Pe­ugeot

At the start of the rally there were31 Brlt.sh 23 French 14 West German 13 Japanese SlX Ital an andr ve Swedish entnes

Ii'pletementment

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1968 (HAMAL 25 1347 S H ) AF 4---~--------..:...iii;ij~~~';':;;~

Thant Appeals To U.S,

N.V. For Prompt Talks

I he Secretary General haslung been pursumg efforts to promote talks between the US andNorth V,etnam and has statelithat d scuss",ns would followv th n a few days of an uncondtiona I cessation of Amencan bombmg of the north Saturdayhe gave no hmt of when a meetmg between Amencan andNOIth V.etnamese offiCials could

In fol~lOg PreSIdent JohnI l:.emen t on March 31

i:I ordered a PartIe}\tacks

U Thant who Ieturned to New York FrIday nIght from Panswhere he met Hano. s chIef representatille In the west May VanBo saId he felt very strongly the urgent need lor agreement ~n lhe'enue for prehmmary talks which both Sides have agreed to undertake

UNITED NATIONS April 14 (Rellter) -Secretary General UThant Saturday appe~led to both the United States and North VIetnam to reach a prompt agreement on a SIte for prelImmary peacetalks say)ng that any further delay would be most unfortunate

wA North VIetnamese foreIgn

mlnlstry statement Issued Fnday nIght sa.d the U S had demanded that the talks take piace In a neutral country whereboth s des had representatIOn andadequate commumcat ons

Th sUS atlltude IS 10 com

II" Nulll Vetnamese statemelJt JCJ('l:l12d t1 e sites suggesteri.by the U 1 I,d States saymg they

'-II t not adequate to the Democrutll: Republl(; of Vietnam

b h.s statement the secretalY rr thc Un tcd States governgenel.l gave no nd cat on of ent Ically wants talks w th thet} e substanc.:e of h s c.: nvers I gavel nmcnt f the Democrat e

tlOns w th Ma Van Bo although. Hepubl c of Velnam It mustIt was presumed the two men diS stop CI eating dllhcultles m thpcussed the dIplomatiC sparnng cho ce of a place for prehmmarylJetween Wash ngton and Hano contacb wh ch only delay theOVCI the site of the mtlal peace talks bet Vl.:C'n tt c w S des thetalks statement c.:oncluded

North VIetnam has accused theUSaf del berately delaYIng thecontacts The US has objected toNorth V etnam s suggest on of\lVUlsaw InSlstmg that a neutralcountlY be chosen

V etnamese force of unknown sze The government troops reported kIlling 99 North VIetnameseand termed the r own casulat esas light

South Vletnamese m htaryheadquarters reported two VietCong shelhngs both n the Mekong delta below SaIgon

One shelling of 40 mortar rounds h.t In a South V etnamesemlhtary subsector area m southernmost an Nguyen prov nee andeau.ed hght casualt es to government troops

The other shell109 In a m.1itary sub sectol 50 mIles (80 km)south of SaIgon caused hght casualtles to defend109 regIOnaltroops and wounded 13 S V.etnamese clvlhans

According to an AFP reportft om HanOI an merl un rec.:C'nnalssance plane Saturday flew

w thm 70 k.lometres of HanOl­for the filst t,me smee PreSIdentJohnson s March 31 speech

Loud speakers warned thepeople of the North V.etnamesecapItal of the plane s apDroachThiS was the first time smce thetwo SIdes had began d,scussionson prelumnary talks that theloud speakers had been In use

1n a statement read by a UNspukesman the Secretary General saId any further delay 10

the agreement on the venuewould be most unfortunate In

VICW of the fact that mass vc dcslI uct on of 1 fe and property ISst II gomg on

I would fervently appeal toboth s des to come to a promptog. eement on the cho ce of thevenue

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Onlt 21 SUl'Vive To Contest2nd HallCounting the aggregates of the best way Soag"

Ihree cars In each team the Datsuns SwedJsh'rally Aces Bengt Sodersthave lost 594 penally POints the Peu rom and Gunnar Palm lYIng see-gco s 602 and tbe Fords 691 and In a Ford Lotus Cortma were

EarlIer safan headquarters aono the only overseas dnvers to surviveunced tbat the Peugeots were leadmg the first legbut the figures were corrected yesterday afternoon co put the Japanese cars abeag

FollOwIng the dlSquahfJcahon ofV.e Preston and Bol> Gernsh In aFord Lotus "CorllOa fIrst to comp­lete the northern leg for a checkpOint Irregulanty Jogmdler Singhand Beverely Smith 10 a DatsunH 130 were 10 Ihe lead at the half

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East African Safari:

last n ght condemned as .lIegal East Germany s ban unBonn cabinet ministers and sen.or offiCIals from travelhng through ItS terrttory to West Berlin

ThiS IS a typ.cal Illegal me 1sure agamst the freedom of theaccess routes to Bel lIn a WestGerman government spokesmansa.d

The spokesman saId •t was not;yet poSSIble to say how ser ousthe East German move was Weshall have to walt and see

(Conrmued 0" lIage4)

Forest Of Darkness On Fire,Viet Cong Flee Into Open

SAIGON Apr I 14 (Reuter)­The V.et Cong s strongest fort•ess the Wild Forest of Darkness IS on flIe from end to endfOlclng the guerr.llas to flee Intothe open US m lItary sourcessa.d Saturday

The US seventh fleet destroyer SlI ong has been pas 1I0nedolf shore to shell the V.et Congas they haul theIr munlt ons fromflle threatened cashes onto thebeaches

Governmen t troops al e understood to be shoot109 down othersas they emerge on the fnnges ofthe U Mmh or forest of darkness wh.eh runs th. ough threeMekong delta provinces

The sources said the area onfire now covers BOO square mIlesof the vast forest whIch IS constantly IOckmg to the explOSIonsof ammumt on caches

The forest s such a mazeof naths canals and tunnels sowell defended and booby trap­ped that only a guer"la who haslived there can penetrate It

Sharp ground fIghting flaredSaturday Just below the demlhtansed zone South VietnameseInfantrymen conductmg a sweep near the allIed outpost atGIO Lmh clashed WIth a North

NAIROBI April 14 (Reutet)--Only 21 of the 92 .'arters '" IheEast AfrIcan safarI tbe world smost pUD1shmg motor rallv SUrVI,eto contest Ihe gruenmg second halfof the 3000 mIle (4818 kilometres)course througb southern Kenya andTanzam. thiS weekend

VC Announces ICeasefire I

[n An GiangHONG KONG AprIl 14.cHe

uter) -The VIet Cong ha,e <f

dered a ceaseflfe m the llrovlnceof An GlaJlg close to CambodIafrom :saturday un\II Apnl 16the North V.etnamese ne\\. ageney reported yesterday

The agency quat109 the VietCong s G,al Phong press agencysaId the ceaseflfe was to nableKhmer Born troops and personnel m the SaIgon anny and admlnlstratJon to return to the r [am.hes and enjoy the Cambe diannew year

(An G.ang prov nCe 'S mhab ted by the malonty of Khmerpeople I vmg 'n South VIe lainThe Khmers are the .nhab ntalltsof Cambod.a)

The V et Cong made the cand lion that the people observ ngthe ceaseflre should not returnhome In groups or carry weaponsor means of espionage aeCQl d ngto the agency

A VIet Cong commun que sa dthe crder would come into elf( ctfrom zero hour on Apnl 13 tozero houl AOlll 16 linda ChtnatIme) or 0100 ADnI 13 to 0100Apr I 16 Sa gon tIme

It ordered all People, L bera t on Anned Forces n theprov nee to help Khmer ,old ersand publ c servants satlsfl Ihe rw.1l

At the same time they should heig­hten their vlgllenee and punishthe US aggressors and thE-IThenchman should they del borately d.sturb the festIval nf theKhmer people

Japanese Oatsuns yesterday tooktbe tead over French Peugeot 404and BrItish Ford Lotus Corltna Inthe manufacturers {earn prIze aftereomplellOn of the "\lorthern leg through rugged ram--damaged roads n

weslern Keny~ and Ugandaage 4)

"-------- ---!Western Envoys In Bonn

Discuss East German Move

S.X of the deceased were under 20

The family that had gone tnJ alalabad last week on a va atlOn was returmng to Kahul IIItheIr Mercedes Benz when the.rcar at a very high speed accOt d109 to Kabul traffic sourCes hada headon colliSIon WIth a speedmg bus comIng from the opposte dlrectlon The acclden t occuI ed near Kaka) vllla~e In KaJAz z Khan d strIct

J he call slon was so f erCe thatthe Benz was completely smashcd Out of the 12 occupants TIlneI ed on the spot and the rematn

g three who were ser ously nJured were tI ansferred to hC'~

p tal .mmedlatelyOnly one member of the faml

ly a 13 year old g rl who d d nntgo to J alalabaB has serv.ved

Noone n the bus has been :l

JuredThe bus v rtually cl mbed ave

the Benz n the call slOn Thprare traces of the tyres of thebus on the smashed body of theBenz Mohammad Salemya' the Woleswal of Qargha ed stnd whe e the aCCident oc­CUt 1ed saId

(Continued On age 41

PEACE MOVE HASSET ASIA IN

"MOTION": MlKI

BONN Apnl 14 (AFP) -Theambassadors of the three western powers m West GermanyFrance Bntam and the UnIted States met here Saturdayn.ght for consultat on on East

Germany 5 ban On access toWest Bedm by West German gOvernment offiCIals

Dlplomahc quarters tholignt Itlikely the western !powers en

voys actmg as high commlSS 0

ners would draft a note to theSoviet ambassadOl n East BerI n protest ng agamst the ban

Such a note would recall thpfour power agreements guaran

teemg ft ee access to West Berhn

East GelmanS' yesterday barred the passage of East Germantern tory on the way to WestBerlIn to West German mm s ersand rankmg offic.als unt 1 further notIce

The rulmg wh.ch became efTeeitve Saturday was .ssued byEast German InterIOr MtmsterGeneral D.ckel

Accordmg to the East Germannews agency ADN the measure was taken 10 vew of whatIt was descr bed as the IllegalInterventIOn n the affalrs ofthe mdeoendent polll.cal enlJtyof West Berhn by Federal Inter or Mm ster Ernst Benda

The German Federal Republ r

TOKYO Apnl 14 (Reulerl­Japanese Foreign Minister TakeoMlkl back from an ASian "'conomlcconference n Smgapore Fr daynight sa d here yesterday that Japanshould do everythmg In Its powerfor the progress and prosper t) ofSoutheast ASIB

Mtkl told the parhament of hiSImpreSSIOns he had at the m nlsteflal conference for tbe eCOnoml1,; development of Soutbeast Asia

He saId tba~ the countrtes rcpresonted at tbe conference were senously lh nklng about l!evelqpmentplans follow ng the peace move onVIetnam

He sa d the peace move has setASia 10 motIOn The .fe~llDg wasrunnang high among conferee:> thatthe r countries should work for thedevelopment of their domestIc tndustnes because the Vte nam \\ arWIll he over before long MIk saId

[he Smcapore meetlp.g was aUended by cabmet minIsters from ludoneSla Laos, MalaySIa the PhIlipp nes Singapore Thailand and Soutl\Vietnam besldes.. Japan AustrahaCambodl' Ceylon India NewZealand and Pakistan sent observersto the meet og

(Contmuetl 01

Appointed

Envoy

Turkey

(Cofltmuecl 011 page4)

M, Osmllt S d/cy

, Senafo,'s,Deputies Study

Dralt Laws

On Jalalabad Hig~way

Sidky

Afghan

To

KABUL. AprIl 14 (Bakhtar) -NIne members of a fan1l1yoled In a traffic aCCIdent on the Kabul Jal1\labad hIghway Thursdal mght Three people were serIOusly Injured tn one of the worst

traffic aCCIdents In recent tImes 10 AfghaOlstan

KABUL AprIl 14 (Bakhtar)­S x arlIcles of the draft law

on poiJtlcal pal ties was approved by the Jomt committee ofthe two houses of the parllament In ts meetIng yesterdayDeputy Mlr Al Gauhar pres.ded

MeanwhIle the var ous commJtteesof the Senate 10 the r meetmg yesternay dIscussed mallers related tothem

J hc Mm ster of Agricultureand Irrigation Mlr MohammadAkbal Reza accompan ed bysome heads of the depa. tmentsof the Mm stry attended 10 theF nanclal and Budgetary AffaIrSCommittee and answered Questons of the senators related tovetennary cattle rals ng a[Jdp pular sat on of Improved seeds Senatot Mohammad OmarGhaus. p.eslded The comm.tteedIscussed the Development budge of the Ministry for the cur•ent Afghan year whIch beganon March 21

ArtIcle 58 70 of the draft law)n mumclPalJt es WhICh hasI een prepal ed by the House ofRepresentahves was approved bythe Law and Leg.slallve Comml ttee preSided over by SenatorMohammad Amm Khogyante

The Petlllons Comm.ttee d.scussed fi number of petltlons submltted to Ihe comm.ttee by someI etn ed offlclals A representat.ve of the Governmen t Monopolles who attended the meetlOganswered questions related tothe ret rement of ItS offlc.alsThe committee Issued ItS decisJOns and refen ed them to thesel:retallate of the Senate forgeneral study

f{ABUL Apnl 14 (Bakhtar)­Mohammad Osman S.dk~ theseCJ etary genel al of the Fore gnM,n,stry has been appJ r.ted asAfghamstan s amoassad r to '1 urkey Th~ Turk.h gov~ r ment,agre~ment to h s app ntn en thas been recelve~ a ~... t ~fl MIOlstrY source Sa ., today

S.dky 54 \\ ho has I e 'n theseeretal y gene> al of th. Fo'e gnMInIstry Slllce June .l l:> j J lor tothat he was th~ ffilntS t el uf 11

forma lion lind c IltureSldky a. graduate of Hab.b a

H.gh School and Law and P , tIcal Sc.ence C"lI~ge of Ka'ml UOIverSlty tS a noted histor an andliterary flgUl" of Af~n n s anHe receIVed h sMA lp'~rpp. 10

nternat anal law from to UOlVerSlty of New Y rl<

He started hI carnel n \93 j

as sub editor of E. f"" nemonthly rpagazlne of the F.ducatIOn MInistry In 1938 anj 1~39

he became a ,,,ember of the Kabul L.terary oC13110n a~d Afghan H stoflcal SocIety respectvely

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Tu144s To Be

Flight Tested

Shortly

Israel To Pay

Up French Bill

For MiragesI \HIS AD I J:J (Rcuter)

lSI (') cxoecls t complete paynent sum 01 a $ 60 m Ilron c nliar! f 50 m rage Jel f ghtelbe rnb blocked n Franl:(' throu,.,1 Genel al d12 Gaulle... embalg n at ms del ('VCly helE'sa d F' day

11 e Israel governmentdue I oay e 1 Munday Apr I 15$ 0 m II Oil eOI esenl 109 lhttI I d Ind I lsi ,"stallment ,f theh II I the m lage Jets

Tel Av v has already oa d , 40n II I f the a rCI aft 01 derer!

f C rho t \cars agoI h12 eoe Jetg 31 e the

h non Cady v n Is ael a rI ce mal k ngs I ut can ol leav Flee yet on French Pl esident S OJdels

Israd \\as th s \\eek faced \ lh1 c uc al dec s on on \\hetnel ornot to SCI ao the deal for breach

f contract and demand the. efund of money oa d so far

B It,.\hc lsr el s ele eportedto 1ave 'osen to eLa nonesh p of the mages 1 hey \ ouldtake I nom nal del vel y ([ thea rcrafL ~t the olant md leavethem , FI ance pend ng theI ft ng of the emba. go \ Ih aneaSIng f the tens on n theM ddle E 1st and tr1 ImplOV m,n!n F anc( Ts I Jdal r

Human Error

May Be Cause Of

Saturn V Mishap

MOSCOW Aprl 13 (T,ss)-Thefly ng tesls of the Soviet supersonica rImer Tu 144 are tu begm sbortlyThe new nter cont nental 1 ner cancarry 120 passengers and develop aspeed of 2500 kilometres In hour

ThiS was reported by NlkolaBykov deputy m nlster of C VII 1\vat on of the USSR at a press confercn(;e here Fr day

Speakrng f aeroflol s modernlsat on be sa d that the Soviet airwaysWill soon fly a medium range Jet piane Tu 154 1158 passengers) to replau: on mlemal onal routes such popular alrl ners as Tu 104 11 18 andAn 10

Pressmen were told that n the paslyear the Soviet Umon was v s ted bytounsts from over a hundred countnes Many of them used Aeroflotserv ces

CAPE Kennedy Apnl 13 (Reutcr)-A prelImmary aoals. s of 10formation on last week s troubleplagued unmanned f1lgbt by Arne

nca s giant Saturn Apollo rnoonshtpmd cales the problems I"ay haveresulted from errors and faults andnot bnslc des gn defects space off1elals saId here Tbuesday

If so tl would havc a dlfect bea(Ing on the deCISion whether to senda three man crew nto earth orbitw Ih the next Saturn V rocket thuss3" ng an expens vc unm Inned flightand speedmg up the US man onthe--moon programme

The first report on the giant rocket s second fI gh1 Issued here Thursday by the NatIonal Aeronauticsand Sp~ AdmInistration said ~

fuel 1 ne leak was thc suspected reaSOn why the third stage cng nes d dnot 19n te 10 space

Th s manoeuvre successfully pelformed 10 the near perfeci rna denfI ghl of the rocket last NovemberIS necessary to push the Apllo raftout of carth orb I nd on ts wayt the moon

A stUdy of why two of the t vcsccond stage eng nes shut down p emalu ely showed I was pass blthai WIrCs carry ng cutoff command!'!(0 englnes number two and hrcc.:were nterchanged the reporl sa d

If th s proves to be the casehu nan error l:ould be largely rel)poos ble for the second '\t gc n alflct n

INSTITUTE

S(\LEKabuJ Florlst announces (33

II~ cent) Price ~ductJons on~e buds carnations and other

I flnwers for thIs week KabulFlorist Share Nau Tel 22800

APRIL 13 1968

Scene

(FWF)

GOETHE

lay n ru ns With amade homeless b)reports from off c

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70 People DieAs Cyclone HitsEast Pakistan

US Political

DACCA Aprtl 13 (Reuler)-Sevenly people d.ed and 700 wereInjured when a cyclone npped otothree townsblps 10 the populous Fandpur d stTlct of F;ast Pak stan Tbuesday mgbt according to reportsreachmg here

The townsh.psthousand peoplethe cyclone Ihelals said

The offiCIals saId the casualty flgurfs were likely to nse wben fullerreports were received from the battcred areas

They added that communtcat onsWIth tbe arca rema ned paraly.)cdlate FrIday evemng

The cyclone was thc second to h tEast Pak stan wltb n two wceks OnApnl J the Noakbalt dlstnet was struck and 34 people d ed

(Continued I,oft page 2)take n the face of the latest attempt to ach eve deescalat on nVietnam

What lessons arc to be drawnfrom ts receptlon n Hano Senator Kennedy w II now have tuforego attacks on administratIOnpol c es but prOVide some suggestlOns of h s own about whatshould be done

Th s could change the natureof hIS campa gn and perhaps ofhiS suppo, t PreSident Johnson sw thdrawal has lJrought othercand.dates face to face w.th the)ealJtIes of Amelita s SituatIonand the lesults can already beseen m Nixon s discomf tUle overthe pre emot on of h s muchadvert.sed solutIOn for VIetnam

Lyndon Johnson has n faetsaid to hiS rivals and CTltles AllI.ght then See what yuu woulddo ThIS w.1l br ng a more reaI shc note to the electIOn campalgn and may make .t mqre ofan e'XelClse In national renee

tlOn and leiS of a mutual slangng match than thad thl eaten

ed to beBut rpuch w.1l sl.1l dcpcnd un

the course of events 1-10 \ e\(: rthmgs gO for Amer ca OVCI thenext fe\\ months there s now noscapegoat n Doht cal termsTherc IS only a man vho hasmade a d gmfied appeal 10 nat.onal umty and who cannot eas,Iy be blamed If that appeal goesunheard

presentsa concert by

Belina and Siegfried BehrendWell JtJtown by records, broadcast teleVISionsInternational Folk-Songs, Chansons and Guitar­

music, on Monday, April 15, 1968, 8 P m at the auditor­ium ot rJta(lij) Atghamstan

mJ[ets available at the Goethe-Institute, Kabul,Share Wlu,

AlfijlisSlon Free

water cannonIn a second 1n~ldent students

stoned the nearby Rlas theAmeflCal\ sponsored radIO sta

tlon demandmg an end to U Scontrol of It PolIce moved themaway after sevelal wmdows weresmashed

In Bonn student demonstrators d.d not enter the churchesbut they dlstflbuted their handb.lIs at church doors after theservI<;e I

In Aa~hen almost all the churches as well as the e.ty hall andthe Ja.1 were covered WIth slogans such as Springer murdererand Jesus-Martm Luther Kmg-Dutschke

In dusseldorf other sloganssa.d The capltahsts shot Outsehke and Dutschke Sprmger S vlchm

West German ChancellorKurt Georg K.eslnger broke ofThIS easter holiday n Baden Wurttembel g and returned to BonnOmcIOls saId he wante\:! to keepIn close touch WIth the sltuat.onthe react ons 10 the assassinatIonn tempts and nutably the studcnt demonstrations

Police have dentlfied th.swould be Issassm as Josef Bachman 23 a oa "'tCI Invest gatons they saId d sclosed that hehated Commun sts and llked todraw portraIts nf Adolf HItler

Bachman polIcc sa d told anhterrogator I read about Martin Luther Kmg and thought Ishould do the same I d d notI ke Dutschke Thought I e was aComm nlst an I I ant I tu I IIlum

Bachman was over vhdm('d n" gun batt It \ th Dol ce yesterday He hes In the same hasp ta IIS Dutschke-sufTel mg flom seVel a1 In]ur es and loss of 'IoodPol ('~ sail:) he came from Peinen Lowel Saxony to look for thf'

student leader nd d••gged h mfrom h s b cycle a West BerI n street befO! c shoot ng h m

(Continued From Pa~ I)VNCTAD

I

FRG Leftist Students ~d~rI

Shot, 6500 Demoll~trate,

It refused comment on whether

-Balhst.cs tests matched thebullet w.th a rlne found nearthe sCene

-Ftrearms dealers n B I mmgham Alabama had been questloned about sales of RemmgtonnIles

WASHINGTON Apr I 13 (Reuter) - The State DepartmentsaId yesterday It was preparedto authorIse opemng of a dlrectalf serv ce betw~en the UnitedStates and the SovIet Umon assoon as problems had been cleared away

MEMPHIS Tennessee Apnl13 (AP) - The Federal Bureauof InvestlgattOn mamtamed sllence Thursday m the face ofquerIes rumors reports aboutthe gun and the bullet wh chkilled Dr Martm Luthe. KmgJr here a week ago

SAN JOSE Cahforma Apnl13 (Reuter) - EIght Austral anairmen escaped unharmed whenthl:lr new Amencan bUIlt patrolbomber crashed and burned toa shell 10 a fiery landmg today

The four m.lbon dollar alreraft one of the ten ordered bythe Royal Austraban A.rforcewas a total wreck according towmg commander R.N Law commander of an AustralJan tramlog squadron at Moffett fIeld naval atrbase near het e

UNITED NATIONS New YorkApnl 13 (Reuter) Delegatesof frve nat ons weI e Thursdaynamed to study conditIOns III thePefSlan Gulf terrItory of Omanand make a Iepbrt to the Spec alCommittee on Colomal sm

Dr Adnan Raouf lhe IraqIIepresentatlve saId that Omanand the nearby true al stateswere Arab tet r tones md thatthe peopl", had a r ght tu selldetermma~whlChwas nahenable and u l'Iuestlonable

LONDON A r I 13 (Reuter)­The SovIet tanker KomsomoletsUkramy arnved m the Fa, Eastport of Vladlvostock yesterdayafter bemg detamed for morethan a month n the Chmese POI tof Wharnpoa Moscow radIO I eported

WEST BERLIN AprIl 13 (Reuter) -West Germany s revolu

honary student leader Rudl Dutschkc regamed conSCIQ J'iness hereyesterday after a four hour operahon to remove a bullet fromhrs brain

Dl,ltschke chief theorellc.an ofthe far left soclahst West Gerll)an students League and a fIeryw.ld-eyed prophet of permanentrevolution was wounded m adaylIght attack out,nde the League s headquarters near WestBerlm S busy Kurfuerstendamm

West Berlin govern109 MayorKlaus Schuetz broke hIS Easte.holiday to return here yester

day after pohce battled 3500 students who stormed a rlghtwmgpubhshlng house and set 20 vehtcles ablaze

Thousan\:!s of leftwlng studentsfought p.tched battles With pollce here yesterdaY-secon\:! day ofvtolence sparked by the attempted asa85matlon of led RudlDutschke

Pohce sa.d at least 6500 tookpart m demonstratIOns aunedmamly at c.ty authonltes 1mmed.ate target was the city halln John F Kennedy square

About 1000 entered the squarebut they never reached the e.v cbUIlding The demonstratorswere d.spersed afler batthng forabout an hour "11th pohce usmg

st.1I no target date had been setfor mplementat.on Dr Preb.schpam ted out

But m general governmentshad shown a lack of foreSIghton several questIons he went onThere was no JustlfieatJon mj\r.kets open to Pflmary and o,W!irproducts from developmg ~,tnnes ~ "l-

Dn Preblsch urged that g:reater use be made of the perma~

nent machmery of UNCTADwh.ch was created by the General Assembly 10 1963 But he adm.tted that th.s machinery was'n Itself cumbersome and needed re adJustment

He was also cfltJcal of theflgld attltudes taken up by

both r.ch and poor natIohs jIl

advance of the New Delhi CO)1ference whtch !lad made negol,iatJOn alinos~~i'riposs.ble untIl

the last few days of the twomonth meetJnl{

The agenda of the conferencehad beel,l too heavy thel;'! l1lldbeen too much renelltlon andfor the bmlted results achIevedthe meetmg could not be Justlfied he saId

THE KABUL TIMES

World News In Brief

Departures

Arrivals

WASHlNGTON Apfll 13 (Reuter) -VIce PreSident Hubert HHumph.n~y apnears almost certam to declare h.mself a cand.date fat the preSIdencY wlthmthe next few weeks polt t.cal observers saId Yesterday

DETROIT Aprtl 13 IReuter)­ThIrteen raCe horses burned todeath late last n.ght when hredesll oyed a stable at the HazelPark ra~e track here

BAGHDAD Aprtl 13 (AP)-IraqI Gu dance MinIster DIMalik AI Hassan claImed ontelev.s.on here that whereverwe turned the United States wash dden bebmd <very lender offerfor explOltmg thIS country s large sulphu. depOSIts

After SIX months consIderatIOnIraq has decJded to explOIt theSulphur tself w.th assIStanceh am Poland Al Hassan saId

LONDON Apnl 13 (Reuter)­Bntaln s fOreIgn trade defiCItlumped from 30 m.lhon sterlinglast month to 103 milhan sterlmgt was announced here Thursday

The defiCIt arrIved at aftertakmg aCcoUtlt of mVlslble exports such as shiPP ng msulance

WASHINGTON Apnl 13 (Reuter) The curfew I,"posed on

Washmgton a week ago at thestart of notmg was hfted yesterday by Mayol Walter E Wa~hmgton

ISTANBUL Aprtl 13 (Reuter)-A Soviet crUiser was one ofthree Sov.et warshIps whIch pas­sed through the Bosphour~ fromthe Black Sea yesterday andwent on to the Mediterranean

Th.s made 17 SovIet shIps passlOg through to the Medlterranean n the past ten days

An e'Ib' member learn of Ihe Helmand Valley AuthOrity the Agrtculture Bank and the Planmng Mlmstry left here yesterday for Tehranunder USAID programme to studytbe agrIcultural credit system there

The group w.1I VlS.t Turkey alsofor the same purpose

A ~dlcal team from the Sov.etUOIon arnved here last week todehver a SCrtes of conferences

Ghulam Farouq Amm and Mobammad Qas.m MOjad.dl off.e.als ofthe Public Works MlOlStry left herefor India yesterday to study archite­cture under Indian government 5cholarshlps

Oand.e Zaheb an off.clal of themed.cal college of Nangarhar leftfor IndIa yesterday 10 studymedlcme under the an Indian goveroment scholarsblp

TOKYO Apfll 13 (Reuter)­ThaI PrIme Mm.ster FIeld Marshal Thanom Kittlkachorn and

h s WIfe w II pay an offiCIal VISIt to Japan from May 14 to 20the ForeIgn Mnnstry announcedhe e yesterday

WASHINGTON Apnl 13 (Reuter) Pres.dent Johnson Willconfer WIth South Korean Pres.dent Chung Hee Park In Honolulu next Wednesday the WhIteHouse announced yesterday

PARIS Apnl 13 (Reuter) -French company yesterday anpounced they had captured a $25 millIon order to buIld a chernIcal factory near Moscow

The factory WIll produce enough vaccme to Imm~nlse allSOVIet cattle agam.t foot andmouth d.sease----

KABUL, AprIl 13 (Bakhtar)­An Mlban press delegation who­

se members eOAlJlflse of Mohammad Shafl Rahsuzar Ibe edItor ofAnts Sayed Kbll1i1 the edltor;JIlcb.ef of the Kabul Tunes and M8bmoud Fara"" adVIsor to the Bathtar News Agency left Kabul forTurkey yesterday at the Invltlillon ofthe Turk.sh government

The Aflban ~m durlOg.ts .taythere WIll v.Slt cultural and presslnshtutes

SAN FRANCISCO Apnl 13(Reuter) - A protestant blsh,I'PThursday proposed.a meetmg ofthe world s ChflstIan leaders mRome pres.ded over by thePope to create A IleW forcecapable of faclOg up to tip! problems d.vldlng whItes and nonwhltes

•TOKYO Aprd 13 (Reutel) -

The third annual conference ofthe ASIa and PaCifiC CounCIl(ASPAC) Will be held m Canber

I ra for three days starting fromJuly 30 Japanese newspapersreported yesterday

ASPAC 'S a major regIOnalconsulatwe forum fOI foreIgnmJntster of nine natJOns-Austraha New ZealaJld the Philippmes TaIwan South KoreaSouth VIetnam Malayas.a ThaIland and J aDan

Boat

Into

Waters

Intrudes

Malaysian

Philippine

Because of apparent confUSIOnamong control offiCials the exaCl number of Preston penaltypomts was not known at thtsstage

He was belIeved to have several less than Jogmder who had93 penalty pomts followed by

Saunders (112) and Soderllrom(1241

The tflumph 2000 Of HowardLawrence Brown and Gerry Hegarty and the Peugeot 404 drven by two Kenyans MIke Armstrong and Derek Pavely hadboth concedea 127 pomts

'The i'\11roon Datsun dr v"n byI J CleW JOG rdo:>r S !lgh a!'li

Bev :SmJth was only minutesbehind Preston as the leadingcars ploughed through muddyroads toward. Na.robl to camplete the fIrst half of the rallylast nIght

The surprise of the day wasthe success of two unknown localdnvers John Saunders andHugh Peatllng who edged theIrDatsun H 130 IOta thIrd place

Heavy ram floods and treachelOUS rcad condttJons betweetlUganda and Western Kenya }jave(aken a heavy toll

By nIghtfall 21 of the 92 enII ants had retn ed neludmgPa t Moss Carlsson w fe of formel Swed sh rally champ.onEnk Carlsson and 51ster of StIrI ng Moss

MAN I LA April 13 (Reuter) -PreSident Ferdinand Marcos has dlreeled Pblhppme Fore gn SecretaryNarc so Ramos to alen the country s miss on at the UnIted NatJonsWith a vtew to poSSlbly bnnglDg acase of alleged Malays an mtruSlOnmto PblhpPlOe terntonal waters before Ihe General Assembly

PresidentIal palace sources saidTbursday that the Ph.lippIne ambassador to Ibe UN Salvador P Lopez had been told to set 10 mabOD the

mechan cs for reporting the aileged mtruslOn to the <.Jeneral Asse-­mbly

Moss Carlsson and co dnverElzabeth NYstrom of Swedenwere forced 0 wathdr v nearKampala the Uganda capItalafter a barr er of stones placedon thc road by hool gans hadshattered the suspens on of the rRenault GI 16

Earlter yesterday I ap:m Takash Wakabayash and CsaoMasuda also n a Datsun weren 21s1 place despIte a stone thr

ow ng nCldant near KampalaMasuda was cut on the shaul

dcr by a ock thrown by a groupof small ch Idren and the w ndscreen of h,S Datsun P 150 shattered Wakabayashi was unhurt

No stoone throwmg mvtdentswh ch marred last year s rallyhave been reported In Kenya'\\ here authontles are takmgstr ct measures to prevent It

Safar headquarters reportedthat pol Ce deta ned three peoplewho appeared to be about tothrow rocks at oassmg cars

At Nakua Western Kenya thelead ng two cars arnved wellahead of the rest of the fIeldwho were strung out over hundI eds of miles along the mountanous course

kIlometres) of roads In Kenya IUgal\da and Tanzama

Local dr vers VIC Preston and IBob Gernsh took over the leadyesterday on the second dayfrom Swed.sh Aces Bengt Soderstrom and Gunna. Palm the.rFord Lotus CortIna Team mateswho dropped to fOl,lrth place after bemg delayed by floods

In second and third posttll)ns lateyesterday afternoon were twoDat~uns entered by the NlssanJb C:J r,'1 l;]

The Ph.IIpPInes has asked MalaySIB for full details about a reportthat a MalaYSian naval patrol boatbad seized a FiliplOO motor launchlast Saturday wh.le JO PhilipPinetemtonal waters off tbe SOlu Islands

The launch Born Free has already been released by Malaysta TheMalaYSian navy saId II had been selZCd wh.le fishing Without a bcence10 Malays18D terntonal waters

A prelim.nary report submittedto PresIdent Marcos who IS in BagUIO City 10 the northern Ph.lipplOesfor the Ellster holiday from constabulary cbjef BrIgad.er General Manuel Yen mdlcated that the Malays.an patrol boat P-40 had IntrudedIOta Phlllppme waters

The soulhern Philippme Sulu ISlands oIT whIch the Born Freewas reportedly seized he midwaybetween the ma'n Island of th'l PhiItpp ne archllepallO and MalaysIanSabah

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IBad Weather Takes HeavyTolll In (1,830 Kms Safari

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"~hX' eather"" Forecast

Skels In the northern western,northeastern and centeral partsof the country will be couldyand m the eastern and southernregtons clear This afternoonKabul WIll be cloudy WIthchance of ram

Yesterday the wannest areaswere Kandahar and Farah Withhighs of 27C 80 5F and thecoldest area North Salang WItha low of -6C 21F

Today s temparature In Kabulat 12 00 noon was 15C 59FWmd speed recorded m Kabulwas 8 knots per hourKabul 15 C

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-1 C30 F21 C70 F16 C61 F19 C66F

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Warsaw For Talks( Coni oued from Page I )

mmumcall n4 Walsa has been the s te

for over 10 years no of contactsbetween the Un ted States andthe People s Repubhc of Chma

In Wash ngton the WhIte HoU~e spokesman sa d that contactsv.. th North Vetnam were cant numg to determ ne the locat onfor prehmmary peace talks

He declined to dISCUSS the cantent of the 'onllnu ng dIalogue

th HanOIChrtstlan sa.d both s des had

suggested s tes they cons.deredsuttable and that the subjectwas In the process of negot atlon

1n L.ncoln Nebl aska SenatorEugene McCarthy Thul sday condemned the adm nJstrattOn s obJect ons to the s tes suggestedby HanOI for peace talks and sa.dhe was no longer sure the UShad changed m tact cs

Sen McCarthy who s seek ngthe democrat c pres dent al nom nat on sa d Pres dent Johnsonhas had stated he \\ as ready tomeet NO! th Vietnamese representar ves at any place any time

Ghazm

VisitLaos

VIENTIANE ApTiI 13 (Reuter)-1 he Internalon31 Control CoronISSIOO (It ( I v U V'i t southern Laoa spukcl'.o to I r the ( HId an ~el

gat 01 I ht.: <. on 1 s on sa d herl.:Thurscl ~

The ICC s a three na tlOP Doa,.~et up by the 1962 Geneva agreement on Laos to ensure Implementat on of accords on Laol an neuteallty The Commission consIsts ofdelegations from India (Chairman)Canada and Poland

The CanadJ8n spokesman saidthat the CanadIan and IndIan repre­sCDfa~c Will take part to the VISit.,.hlCtl IS helpg organised al tbe cquest of the Laotian government

It IS st II not known t ere whetherthe Pollsh representative w 11 Jamthe other l\'Irtb members on the Ir pLast February the proposed ICCViSit to the southern proVInC al capltal of Saravane was called off afterPoland rcfu~d to take part

The CanadIan spokesman sa d Iwas hoped that the ICC w II V.SltSaravane the southern prav nClalcap tal of Atlopcu and the straleg ceovernment outpost 31 Lao Ngam

All three have been bcs cged byNor h V elnamesc forces over perod of n on!hs and spor d c Illy at

tacked Lao Ngam an mporlanloutpost n the defence of tbe twoprovincial cap tals was br eny overrun las! n nth before be og recaptured by gmernment forces

NAIROBI AprIl 13 (Reuter)­J apanese Dat~uns challengedBrtt sh Ford Lotus Cart nas forsupremacy 10 the East Afr.canSafari the world s toughest rnator rallY ovel 3000 mIles (4830

ARIANA CINEMAAt 2 5 7! and 91 pm Arner

can movieLAUREL HARDY S dubbed nFarsIPARK CINEMA

At 2! 51 8 and 9 p rn Ameflcanc nemascope moveThe LAST CHALLENGE w thGlenn Ford and Angle D ek sondubbed m Farsl

1-

14, 1968APRIL

Actor AwardFilms portraylOg America s raCial

conflict 3Wept the board Wednesday night m the Oscar awards

The annual award l?resentationsby the Academy of Mouon Pictureswere opened by Gregory Peck whorecalled tbat the ceremonIes hadbeen postponed for three days because of tbe funeral of Dr MartmLuther Kong

Peck called on the audience to contnbule funds to the CIVIl rightsleader's Southern Christian Leadersblp Conference

Mike NIchols who was nominated last year for bls dueclIon ofWho s Afraid of Vlrglnls WJolfe?was awarded the Oscar for the bestachievement an direction for theGraduate

The award for the best supportIng actor went to George Kennedyfor hiS performance to Cool HandLuke, 10 which he played OIle oftough chain sang ThIS was bothhll~ first nommatlon and hiS firstOScar

For Katbenoe I{epburo, at presem fllmmg In France It was herIOtb nomanatlon and second OscarHer first ..,as 35 years 8g0 for Moramg Glory

MISS Hepburn starred 0ppo511ethe late Speacer Tracy on Guesswho s Commg to DIODer which de­als WIth tbe problem5 faced by artch easlem couple when their daughter faUs m love w,th a Nearo

The Oscar for the best forelgalansuage film 01 tbe year wont tothe trallle-comtc Czechoslovak fIlmClosely Walched Trams

Best film went to In the Heat (Ifthe NIgbt which portrays Ibe LOnfhct betwccn a northern educatedNegro detective (Sidney POlher) fromPhIladelphia and the while supremICISt police chief of a deep southtown (Rod' Steiger)

Rod Steiger

Gets Best

In accept log his award, SteigerpHld tribute to lltii!fer f4r bis helpIn reveahog to him In rehearsalsthe natu", of race prO)lldlcc and ended hIS httle speech of thanks wllbtbe CIVIl [Ights slosan W. ShaU Overcome

Th.. was her f~ nommahon, andshe also earned the dlStinotion ofbemg the first person 10' shed t1larsIn thiS emotlon·packed ~ve:mDg

The Frencb film about an AJuencan platoon flshling 10 South VICtnam. the Anderson Platoon, wasawarded the Oscar .n tho f..tu....le.nglb documentary catesory Its producer, PIerre SchoeDdorffo<, .aldhe was proud to share the awardwllh the men he foUowed thro\lllhthe swamps and forests of Vle!ttam.and parllcularly With Its Negro Ieader Lieutenant Joe B Anderson

KatherlDe Hepburn won the Oscar for ber performance as abc 010tber of a gut who marries a Negro(Sidney Pother) 10 Ouess wbo's ComlDg to DlnJ11!t

Best actor was Rod Steiger, tbesum oIiDwlugj! bJuldlJ>oU>hlpa fa tsouthern cop of [n the Heat of theNlgbt

Tbe !tIm oct m Czecboslovakladunog tiR German Sccood WorldWar occupauon, IS aboul life ID atiny railway station past which Ge­rman ammuwhODS trams pass

Estelle Parsons. who played anunWllbng aceomphCCl 10 nWDI:rouscrimes JD BODDie and Clyde, woothl> Oscar for tbe best suppor~osactress

•-Ix

POSitions of animals all roundthe nude hgure of Ishtar 10 theattitude of the putma theronI the lady 01 tile wild beasts)

All these nchlY decorated branzes together With the horse'selabolate capartsons and the decora ted chariots must have added a very colourful tone to thealready a.xuberant character ofthe ritual of a royal bunal

The bronzes aSSOCIated Withthe chal'ots PI eserved the.. bronze standards 10 Sl tu and (01the first time we are now ableto ,dentlfy the exact chal acter ofthese flower shaped banners orstandards which we see In Ortenta I I e-presentatlOns These nodoubt were also used to deco,ate a chanot solely durmg thefunerary ceremony

Among the nch tomb gIft,whIch have been placed m thedromos o[ the tomb we may mentlOn also a superb bronze caul­dron standmg on an Iron trJpod

The cauldron 's decorated allround wltb eIght protomes of

gr Iffins and four protomes ofblrd men or sDhmxes Such

cauldrons bave been found mOlympia Delphi and Etrunabut are very rare ID the Eastthough theIr ulltmete OrientalorlglD IS undoubted

The SalamIS cauldron WIth ItS12 orotomes stands out as oneof the most ImpreSSIve In th1S senes It contamed more than 60clay luglets encl uuted WIth asubstance whIch after chem,calanalysIS proved to be tID a de·v,ce which has also recently beendetected on Mycenaean potterywhIch was used to gJve clayvases a metalltc look

The dromos "f Tomb 79 hasalso produced a large number ofIvory oblects of unrivalled beautY' such as were never founri 10CYPI us before

We ltnow how greatly Ivoryobjects especiallY farnlturewere nporeclaled In the ancientwOlld and how much they wereadmIred by Hamel

Ivory futnlture must have beensome sort of a measure for peapIe s wealth- who he uoon bedsof IVOI v Such IVOry furmturemust have been made In one ormore dtehers In PhoeniCia andexported to the courts of theNeal East

Of the IVOIY oblects from thedramas of Tomb 97 partIcularmen lion should be made of athlone of wood dressed all overw'th thin IVOIY panels dowelledon tlie wood

The total heIght of the throneIS 90 cm and ItS curved backrestIS decOl ated at the onslde WIth19 bands of Ivory

Tbey are alternately plaIn andcovered WIth a gu.lloche pe.tel n 10 two vertical rows recallmg In thlS respect the HomerIC.:descllpllon of Penelope s tbroneWith Its sOlral decoratlOn

At the lower part of the backrest near the seat there are twohonzon tal friezes of anthemJaapphed on a plain plaque 11 P

upper part of the back·rest ha~a broad IVOry plaque g,lded Witha very thm sheet 01 gold 0(1whleh one may sttll see embossedscale patterns We know thatthrones decorated With IVOry andgold were known also the Mycenaeans as they are often men·tloned 111 the tablets of the Palaces of Pylas

Thele must have been otherp,•.ces of IVai y furniture 10 the dt'omos, of which only fragmentssu,Vlve These mcluded a bed, vfwhIch large bauds of IVory andune leg surVived

The leg termmates m the shaPe cf alton s hoof With hollowglass for the cla..~glass fOI tbe claws Gilded IV.l! yflowel sand hlue glass encrustalions alsn fOI med Dart of the decaratIan. of the bed

There were other panels of IV01 v orobably belongmg to furmture or formIng mdependent

(Co"'lnlled 0" pag'4)

One 01 the Ivory panels found In 3D arcbalc tomb In Cyprus

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BeUII3 and' SIegfried Bebrend

Unique Ivories From Cyprus

dImensions ) am also oonVmced Ihatsound. senous sch6larsh p and roInancc ~an mIx ouccesSlI1l1y whenIhe sub)"ct IS appropl1atc

()ertamly AfllHaOlstsn has hadmore than Its share of 10nlanllclzersand less thah Its share oC S<'holarsamons Its chroniclers

But Adamec could have made hISbook more rcodable and exc tlOgfor a broader pubhc, N (hout dptractms from Its olstllTgulShed scholar­ship, If Inherently fa,c natlO~ ep sode. such as the story of Ihe Nledcmmyer expechtlon WIth Its tragl'"i.:v'"mlc and cloak and cJa~~pr aspectshad been used to conlrtbute a fullmeasure of spIce to th~ f('lrmo.h!ledaccount of rbe mlsston .. onp;'n travel and negotiatIOns WIth the Amlf

The book " well nnnulaled IOdexed and the: documentarv appendlce:s are espeGlally vahJable In viewof tbe pl1Uclty of referel1 e mat~fIIds

a'!. Afsbanlstan

it alao lias a h01lted hilt usefulbiohosraphy WIth ti,e sulpmlOS ammiSSIon of Niedermayer " e.dy 9o0kUnter der Glutsonne Irans .nd ChrIstopher Sykes Important bIographyof the German agent Was.inJUss

The French Scholar Salomon ence about the detail constl ucRemach wrttlng about the ar t,on ol the vehiclechaeoloSlcaL dls£overJes In Cyp 1 he metalllc parts hOWeV€lrus.-m31nly descnbIng the work SUt vlved In Situ These wcludedof MonSIeur Ohnefalsch-Rlchter Lwo magnificent lynch p10s de-wrote In hiS ChrOOlQue d Or c.:orated at Lhelr lower part Withuml for 1891 a la,ge brenze head of a spb,nx

About 55 metres south of the whlcn IS surmounted at the upMonument of Samt Catherine per part by thc bronze figure o[(an arch31c tomb excavated by a fully armed warnorthe Cyprus Deparment of An The latter was hollow andtlqUItl,eS In 1965) there IS another ~erved also as a IattIe The warsubterranean chamber which 1101 wealS a clested helmet astili waits to be excavated scaled CUll ass decorated w,th 10

ThIS chamber lYing wlthm the la,d blue glass " d 'S aimedhmlls of the royal reClopohs of WI th a long SWOI d b.nr g fromSalamIs w,th a monohth at Its a belt across hIS ches'roof still VISIble above ground 1 he total iength of the' lynchhad long been looted but we ac pms IS 56 cm and they may wellcepted the challenge of Salomon be among the largest ever f,,· nuRelnach 57 years afterwards 1n ObVIOusly they were mtended ror1966 and eo<cavated 10 front of the funelalY ceremony and notItS chamber ThIS IS Tomb 79 JP [or everyday useour register The hearse preserved on Ils

We uncovered the monumen fOUl COl ners foll' bronze head~tal facade of the chamber and of hons and one 10 front In thethe large dramas 10 front of It m,ddle all mserted 10 wocdc nmeasuring about 13 metres In beams wl.lcb decayedw,dth and 20 metres In length As They are natulahstIcaBy lenIn the other royal tombs of tho> deled and the,r size (about 15same area of the necropohs we cm h,gh) and good state of preround that the sad !tllmg of the servatlon makes '''em partl<uldramas which had never been ally ImoreSSlve ..touched hy the looters preserved I,':qually ,mpresSlve were thean extraordlnalY wealth of ob blOnzes whlcb formed the gealJects of the SIX horses of the above ve

Stratigraphic observatIon as hlcles These had heen pIled upcertatned that the tomb was us In a corner near the facade ofed tWIce at the very end of the the chambet at the t,me 01 theeighth century BC w,thm a very sccond bunalshort period as we shall see be I hey mcluded magn,ficentlow b,eastplates With a "ch cmbos

Durmg the first bunal penod sed decontlOn of sphinxes gnfwhIch was the richest two cha hns and "ther monsters as wellnots were saenflced 10 honour as golis and heroes of 01 lentalof the .read one was a lour mythology [lOnt bands I,chlyhorse charlot and the other a decorated With aDlmal and huhearse on WhICh the body was man tigut es embossed on theirtransported to the tomb The en tire surface such as the wlng­skeletons of the horses assoctated ed God EI couchant lions wmWIth these vehIcles had already ged sloar d,scs etc bllnkelS deheen d,sturbed when at the tIme corated w,th dmmal figures lorof the second bunal shortly after Instance spblnxes striding ovelthe first these were wheeled aw slaves m the well known Egyptay to make room for the two ve Ian (ash Ion of the VictOriOUS kInghIdes of the .econd bUllal Ske striding over hIS enemIes whIleletons of horses used In the lat some othels wele decorated Withter were found 10 SItu lions attack1l1g bulls

The four horse chanot was of Four side oendant ornamentswood wblCh decaYed but left for horses have heen found t" altS JmpreSSlOns 10 the SOil and o( them decorated \\ Ith crescentby careful excavat10n we have and diSC ornaments and thebeen able to rescue all the eVld other two w,th ~ompllcated com

By_Leon It PoulladaFulbrlg,bt Reselird1 FeJlowThote IS an ,nlJ'oduclory cbllPter

on the relsn of Amlr Abdtlr Rah·man (tS8()'1901) wltb 1\ lJOod summary of the Iron Aml~'s'f;erce aUe.mpt to bUIld a natIon: strengthe"central aUlhorlty, cootslh tribal rebelllOn and .1 the.satliC' 11m. keepthe RUSSian, all'lt tfle Bl'ltlah AI bay

Tbe hoart Of tbe bbok, bowever.consisis o~ 'tbe chaptets ciealina WIththe rel8fl of'hlS son, AmI[ H.blbullah (1901.19191•

Th.... II an excellent and authonlalive aecourt! of tile Dane l'tflsslOnto Kabul wbil:lr led to the Anglo.Afghan treaty 'Of 1m Of even gre.ater Interest and Importanct.' IS thedocumented account of the secretTurco-G1Orman M,SSIon l.d by N,e·dermayer wmcb was supposed tobring Afghanistan mto >Vorld WarI on the aide of tli. Central powe..

An Afpan allack: on IIrlti~h. Ind... WIth' 6cmran- and' rbr~ sh sup­port could ilave had serrou. If notdIsastrous effecls on- amod efforts10 tho M Iddl. East and even 10 Europe Gennan arrogance InternalJe.ldusres ami Torkisll' hlonderms,hampered lbe mISsion whl IJ ncvertheless enjoyed- great populartly andsupport amorrg many Afabaus mdudmg Ihe Influenhal ''warparty ledby Na.rullah. tbe Am" s brother

In the end it was (he Amlr. sound and cool Judgment dnd hIS shr.ewd dIplomacy wblcb kept AfshanIstan neuba! and served (hE (ountry s best rnterest9'

Fmal chapters deal With the firstparI of tho reign of Am.nulloh whosucceeded hi. falher H,blbullahwhen the latter was US5a5lil118ted un~r mystenoos clrcumilances m19/9

The book ends With a SlJ...cmc~ aecount of the Third ALllidQ WarWIth the Bnltsb (1919) and a well documented account of the 1~t9 arm.stlcc and tbc 1921 An~lo Afghantreaties

Ralher tban attempt I vapid andOISgllnS crlllclSm of th,. altogetheradmIrable work, I ,bould h~e tosuggest somo directions ~r; whll:b slud,cs of Ib.. kind coull! be mademore valuable

DetaIled scholarly Lllpll\matlc hiStones Will expand the (r"utters orknowledge more effectlvelv If theyventure beyond the realm o( whathappened IOta the mare IhffJ:ult butmflnltely more rewarmng I'\egIDnof why and how It hllPpened

Even more valuable ",auld be theexposlhon of such countrv case hiS­tories In terms of broader politicaltheory and In draWing from rartlcular cases the lessons appJ 'able 10broader Issaes of global or re810palmtematJonal politics /

The Adlnec book would bove gomed much by the addlhun of such

It after the Andaluslan And·res Segovle was saId to be WIth·out competttlOn for 5 decenmurns hav10g no model and nosuccessor, he has now a successor equal In rank

Both have reached the h.gh·est degree of freedom frOm thetechmcal matter The self tanghtpe~son SegovIa excels BehrenJWIth clarifIcation and WIsdom ofage Behrend however WIDS theheerts of hIS ltsteners by hISelementary lOY In musIc andspontaneIty

Behna GraCIle nearly smallWIth hel long haIr wmgIDg likeblack fire She could onglOateft om a picture of ChagalJ or apoem Bebna was born In Polandthen left her home counltY andwent to Pans Ip Pans she toohad ber first disk recorded

Her I epertolre reaches fromhthurglcal songs vIa Polish. andRUSSIan Folksongs YolJ<UJrefrom all over the world unto themodern chanson (Whatever Be·Ima IS smgmg, she IS always SJn­glng Cbagall) Belma has a VOl'ce full of warmth. ImpressIon andenergy whIch touches the ltste·ners Irreslstably w,th LtS charme

Bellna. greatest success thenhas been a long play dIsk WithSIegfried Behrend 24 songs andone gUItar' 10 17 languages ThISdisk IS one of the best sellers 10

EuropeBehcend chose from hIS llCh

folklorIstic fund when recordmgth,S BtSk wtth Belma In Berhncne sommer nt8ht from 26th to27th July 1963

It IS the resjllt of a coopel a~lon[or whIch all thought chanceswere needsd The folklore- IStaken from the musical conSClousness and IS hfely aa else.wlseonly by anonymous folksmg.ers

It bas not Ibe delUSIve (lluerof effectful IDstrumentation wltbwhIch It IS s0.P'~tlmes drappedand pushed "ito the dubIOUS fa·otlights of the song- festi'Vals

In tha hoallSe-dark IImhre ofBehna's VOice IS SWinging Bas·tern style to whIch the concertgUItar player Is addIDg tbe ele­ment~ of tile oeeidental musIctIllidUliDn It 18 '8\ ltI1ISSage o~ lost.unlost folldore wlticl:l almost be·tter outllJU!s our cultlU:a1 lilsto'rlaal pOIDt 0(\ VIeW' than the 1m.presswe lie.timQmes of the lesshght muses

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Aft~r years of neglect by Amen·Clin scholars,- AfgbaOlsllJn has onlyrecently begun to receIve the allenhqn "' deserves SenoUB studIes byD,~pree, Wilber, Flelcher, OregofJanand a few otbers are beSlOlng to fllithe ptIIYloua VOId '

Adamec hIlS now' Jomed thIS ..Iect I~UP WIth a mellO_lously resear·ched study of ap~o;amately two decades Df Afghan dlplomahe Jtistory­a penod of apeclal Interest becauseIt encompaBaell lIie cruCIal years ofTurco-German pressure on Afshan·IStan durmg World War I

Students of IndlRn and Centr~1

Asmn affa"s who sometimes lahourunder the ml8llpprehenslon thaI thcan und....t.od the history and pohtICS of theIr cbosen flellis WIthoutknowlOg anythIDS .bout AfghanIS'tan WIU do well to study thIS bookcarefully

[n broader perspective, howeverthIS type of study IS of greal mteresland Importance to IIlI 8DCI.I aClensts beoause AfghanIstan IS one ofthe few countries In ASIB never sub)ected to the transformmg and 'mod·ernISln8 Influences of European ~ol·

onlsationOn the other hand Ih. nahon-bul'

IdmS aspecls 01 Its polttltal developrnent were subjected to uDlque pres­Sures compounded of JOtemal trIbalcoofllct and external mterference hyRUSSia and Bntam dunng the century and a balf ID whlcb tbese twoempires wrestled for supremacy IIICentral ASIa usmg AfghanIstan asa buffer

The AdAmec book IS hke a laserbeam concentrating a reveahng lighton a small but-Important segment ofIhP. Afghan problem illlsed mostlyon government archival dOcumelltfiifrom Indian Bnhsh and Germansources It utilises much new andhitherto unpublished matenal toc1anfy events heretofore obscure orrhlSTcported

For example the notl<tOIhat AmIr HabIbullah wa:t aBnllSb dupe who failed hIS lellowMushms 10 Turkey and India bynot aUackmg weakened Indian defcnses durlOg \Vorld War [, must nowbe completely reappraised In thelight of documentary eVidence ass-­cmbled by Adamec whIch rev....l.Habltiullah as 8 statesman. patrIOtand shrewd diplomat defendmg tbolong raoge lD'erests of hIS counll yby outmaneuvrlDg both the German·Turkish and the British miSSions mKabul

A .,good measure of the corredlvevalue of thIS book has been lis C'x­cellcnt reception by emwent Afgbanscbolars such as Rlshtya dnd Farhadi who have remarked on ItS In

tegnty and Its value In ,,-orrectmgtbe. murky record of the Hablbullahperiod

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FRGIGUITARIST TO PLAYHERE I MONDAY EVENING

The Geothe Instltute has atreat for musIC lovers agaIn nextweek Berlm and SIegfried Belrend are here and tomorrow evenmg at 8 they Will gIve aconcert of IDternatlOnal folksongs and gUItar mUSIC The con~

cert WIll be gIven m the and,tortum of Rad,o AfghanIstan

SIegfried Behrend was bornm Berlm m 1933 and startedWith hiS music studles for com·ductmg and WIth plano and compOslng SCIenCe 10 1949 Whenstudymg old tabulatures he recognlsed that more mUSIC was composed lor lutes and gUItarsthan for any other InstrumentFor 10 months he was mtenSJvely engaged WIth the gUItar andthen he gave ius fitst concert

Behrend who achIeved sensa,tionaI success In 1958 WIth hiS co­ncerts played repeatedly en allmusIc metropols all over theworld He travelled as ambassa·dar of the German mUSIcal cuj,.ture With the ala of the ForeIgnOffice and the Geothe InstItute

In 1963 the FRG TeleVISIOnstarted to bnng a sertes record.ed by Truck Branss w,th Stegfried Behrend abq,ut the hlstoIy of the gUItar' follOWing wblcha disk wa~ Iecorded SlegflledBehrend collected Crt tiCS dUriMthree world trIOs accq,rdmg towhich he IS Dlaced IDtO the firstrow of SOlOIStS of our tune

Behrend plays the gUitar WIthsuch mastery and tone Improve.ment as Casals the VIoloncello orArrau the plano

Mr Behrend 's a brtillant andexeltIng mUSICIan He uses thevarIOUS timbres of hJS 10strument as mtelltgently that eventhe mDst mflex,ble pIece of mu,SIC Will become a masterpIece'The New York Herald Tribunewrote

Behrend played tbe publtcassaulted the playhouse' the

Kansas CI ty Times CItedDebussy was saId to have saId

the gUItar IS the hnest mstru.. ment unfortunately vel y dIfficult

to Dlay with"There seem to be no dlfficul

ties fOI Behrend, Such superlatlves of whIch he rapIdly earnedmore and more. suon as bestQUltar plsyer of the world" orthe "~aganml of the gUlta." haveoften been dIscredIted and tpken ann.. to hIm but the Crltl.revIewers hndress even the Spa­msh ones-pretty wall agree ID

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•Today,' he .dded" "Ilie novellPelbods of threeodimenSlonal fore­stry arc arauslnl Interest aOlOngstngneulturlS's and forestees tbrousbOUl the world Tbe maIO advantasesof Ihe system ace that thla ,type ofculture., once established. glYes ahIgh retum wllh no .expenSlvefield operatIons or outlay on machanery. and It can be IDtroduced In

places where orthOdox farmlOS WOuld he ImpOSSIble

The palllamentary electIOnsare held every fIve years Inthe 1963 elections the ChristianDemocrats gamed 260 seats m the630 member chamber of deputIes commun.sts 166 soclahsts 87liberals 39 SOCIal demoCTats 33neo faSCIsts 27. monarchIsts eIghtrepublicans StX and others four

leftwlng VOice In parhamentThe commumsts are calhng fOl

a state WIth no prIVIleged Ideology or re!lgton

They won t to reduce chu rch In

fluence m Italy, where cathohC'lsm IS a state religIon and Itsban on dIvorce IS recognIsed byCivil courts

MOre, reoeatly otber foiatofUmlOgPt'oil'C1ll"ba••"beiDuwlia.....llm cen·tra. IJ/1d: ....""'~,,/n:illbbdoslaMalil'l't aiJd<J:J,h,., ''1iblIoc ote'nsi.. OlIp,JdBetJI'lit'co~, wllhlarger scale plantiriga have confIrmedand even amphfled lhl\ posslblhltes01 thIS concept,!' DouaJass salli.

The low cost of the syste~ makesIt parllC,ularly adapt.ble for develoP1n8 countrru •

Labour needs are very low... larBe amounts of £aplta~ are unnecessary certamly one of tile greal advantages of forest farmlJ'18 IS Its s,mpl.iclty of oP!'ratino, pr.olllded tbegeneral pnnclpl"" are follbwed andproper Itthillcal methoda are apphcd Such toslts as ploghlng, harrow109 seedang and other mechamcalcultivations are not reqUired norIS there any need to purchuse combme harvesters, artifiCial ferIIlt",rs and all the hundred-and·oneItems of apparatus essentIal to thearable faICmer

The questIon of the vote didnot come under that committeebut polIt,cal observers behevethat pressure WIll be hrought onthe govel nment to allow 18 yeaIolds to vote m the next generalelectIOn

Some members of the rulingLabour Panty were upset that alowerIng of the vottng age wasnot Included ID the blli SlOce ItIS offiCIal party Dohcy

The new freedoms wtll lomother establlsbed teenagers

Ilghts- to nde a motorbike andconsent to sex at 16, and huydnnks In a tavern drIve a carand gO to pnson at 18

Footnote Piliho Lalley 23year old pcp smaer 90n of theJudge who recommended thechanges commented last nIghtA trIUmph for youth "

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S,gn.,.. PIetro Nennl the artlculate Vice premier 10 the coahlion government IS leadmg theSOCialists and SOCIal DemocratsIn tbelr lfirst general electIOns

togetlter smCe they uDlted In

1966

sunk below glOund to absorb tremars

The new skyscraper for lnstanee has thr,e basement Ievels WIth Darkmg space for 500Cars

The 1"'8t of the SUICIdes cameIn January when a workman engaged on the conatruotlon leap.ed to bls deatb because of unrequired 10vCJ

A few daYs ago a second warkman WIth a histol;'Y of nervousdIsorders also lumped Between14000 and 15000 people COll'nt SUIclde 10 J aoan every Year

The Kasuml managers are however relYlOg on non-openmgwmdows In theIr at~ondltion.e~ bulldong to deter the desperata and the lonely

About 12,000 people will workIn the bUIlding and the manython.ands more wIn vialt therevolVIng re.taurant on the 35thfloor and, the observatIOn roomon the 36th

study

Douslass noted that In Ihe middle.Iges. VIlSI herds of pigs and olhelfarm animals 10 westctn Euronewe", fed almOit entirely from theacorns walnuts, chestnuts Bnd bee.;bsceds produced by the great foreststhat tben covered most of Ihc land.

African tribes have for Jons beenaware of the meflls of severa) tn·d,senous trees. wblch yIeld croPIand heans and seeds of HISh vltlUeas lOoder for oatlle JO tbe dry "erlods when grazmg IS scarceDouglass saId

He. sa,d Ih.t when food praductlOn became speclahsed durlOS theIndustflal revolutIOn, forestry, whichhad preViously been an Intesral anduseful part of the ASrlCrollural sch·erne, was Virtually relopled to therole of f"wood and Timber S~ppl

Icr ThiS he explained eventuallyled to the destrnct,on of the oncevasl forests of tbe sabara the mIddleand near and north Africa

dImenSIonal forestry offers some.thmg of real value to humanity. lindmay well sel 10 mollOn proluundSOCial and economIc changes

Doualass said an expenmcnlaltree-dlmenslonaJ forestry Scheme wasstarted near MesSlO8 In the transvaal 10 1956 67 to develop enough hasbeen learned to show tbat It IS thoroughly effiCient In operation andIf energetIcalJy extended will rcvolutJOOlsc the agncultural life ol theregion he wrote

By Erneslo Mendozagrowth rate l~n the EuropeanEconomic Community

More Italtan families than everbefore oWn cars teleVISIon setsrefngerators and washmg mach Ines Th1S new prospenty IS undermlmng the tradItional appealof the communIst party secondbIggest 10 Italy

But student dem()nstrahonsfor uD1~erSlty mor;m and warkers strikes In major Cities showsome d1SE!ncbantment

ForeIgn MinISter AmlOtore Fanfam recently startled hIS Cbnstlan Democrat colleagues by pub­"ely critlclsmg the g<Wernmentfor aUegedly 10slOg touch Withtbe people

The governmen t s decls,on follows a reDort last summer by acomm,~e under Justice Lateywhich recommended a HWltchfrom 21 to IS

Communist leadet' LUigI Longo, 68, a taCiturn wartime guelnUa chIeftam, has ma<lI!ted co'mmuDlst strategy to adapt to thE'changmg times Apparently despaIring of overtaklDg the ChnslIan Democrats, the commUnIt <;:

aim now IS to strengthen the

By John LarkInsush VIllage of Gretna Green,where nearly 500 couples under21 were married last year

But even ,I Gretna Green los-es Its populanty WIth Englishand Welsh Youngsters It WIllstill remain a drawcard for couples from the cQntIDent

Young Germans-210 couples­topped tbe list of nationalists Intbe matrimony queues there lastyear

Apart from g,vIDg freedom tomarry the new law ",,11 perm,t18'year-olds to buy a house andto enter IOto hire purchase agleements

screen off the emperar sand llvmg room

The Tokyo 'rower gave lts answer ealller this Year when It op.ened: to the pubhc a second smal­ler observation platform at the750 ft level

The DIet memhers who calledthen new situation 1 pohttcs Inthe fishbowl have so far onlyrumbled angnly

Also upset IS the companywblch runs tbe 1,1001princIpal obseJ vatlon platform IS375 ft up the Eiffer-like .tructmreo or abbut 70 ft below the newKasuml bUlldongs 36th f1001 oh­servatlOn level

The Kasum. skYscra~r IS allarchiteclural breakthrough onJapan, where- earJhquakes and sog8)lsub-soli In Tokyo have kept bnlldlngsto a nme'storey hmt! for years

But Japanese archItects and!engIneers have learned how togaon heIght wltb steel frameseau If, mvestlgatlOD alents bere

36 Million Italians To Vote On May 19

Tokyo's New Skyscaper:Tallest In 6rient

New British Law Threatens·Gretna Green

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Ahout 36 mllhon Haltans voteon May 19 In general electlOrJ6that could rock church state re­latIons for the next five years

One solullOn 10 1he world foodproblem may he 10 a return to Aa,,·caltural tecbnlques abaudoaed dur109 the I~th century Irtdustflol revo·lutlon, a BrtlJsh asrononltst suSsests

By brlOglDS exIra supplies "fcheap and nourtShmg foodstuffswltblO Ihe reach of all peoples andby openmg up tbe undeveloped re­g10ns of the world for profltSiblesettlement and exploltallon thre~

II IS no exasaeratlon, Doualasswrote. • to say that the re·lntroduotlon of thiS teehrnque on a masSivescale can prOVide the ~luhon to amajor part of the eartb's food andliVing space problems

ExceUeat cereal substItutes canbe grown on trees,. ullhsmg POIJf

land, at tow cost, and With a mim­mum of trouble and no expensivemachinery In places where arthodox methods of agriculture are 1mpractIcable

Prrme Minister Aida Mora sChnstlan Democrats 10 powersmce Worl<i War II apDear tohe as strongly entrenched asever and he hopes to mamtaIntbe centre left coahtlOn Butthe futule may be more troubledfor the ChrIStian Democrats themselves whose close links w,tbthe Catholic churen have comeundel mcreasmg fIre

Tbcse hnks have been attacked by the communIsts as well asby the soclahsts m the coalition

Admmlstratlve and educatlonal Ieforms divorce and churchmfluence m pubhc life. domlDate the electoral campaIgn

A bIg asset for the government IS Italy's recovery froman economIc receSSIon In 196~64

Last Year natIonal 1Ocome J"Ose by 59 per cent the hlgbest

The massive emanCipation ofthe country's youth. lowering theage of malorlty lrom 21 was an·nounced hy the governnoent ye~

terday But It could be some timebefore the complex legIslationcomes mto effect

The law could do away Withmany 01 the dramas of .Younglove In wh,ch young people scurry across the bOI der. to the Scot·

Wntmg In the current ISSue of"The Impact of SclOnce on Society••a UNESCO pubhcauon. J SholtoDouglass suggests a relum to "threedimelWOoal fo[atry" whleb, bo says.

'IS curretrtly. prodllC1rll- excelltnb resuits to southern and eastern Afri­ca

Three dlmenOlonal forestry conSl·sIs of deVeloping poor hlnd, now unftt for mfensive cultivation, to growfood...Jiddina 1....,s that provIde foodfor flYeitoct w)llcb, m turn, becomefood for men

It wIll mean most to Enghshand Welsh teenagers-theIr can'temporarIes across the border InlD Scotland are free of most res~

trlctJons They can even marryat 16 Without oarents' consent

A 36 storey skyscraDer WItha View IOta Tokyo s Impereal Palaceand a SUICide record so far of twowas formally declared ooen In

central Tokyo FridayThe skyscrapel IS 450 ft hlgb

,md was bUIlt at a cost of IS.OOOmllhon yen (about 20 mllhonsterling) by the MitSUI RealEstate Co Ltd whIch claIms Itas the tallest bUlldmg m the or·lent

The new budding has 29 ele·vators ~unnIDg. at three sPeedsthe fastest of whIch. speCIal ex·press can make the trIp fromsbreet level to th~ top 10 30 se·conds

From thele with good bmoclaurs, It IS pOSSIble to look IOtathe Imperial Palace parliament,

,ana tl)e OIflCllll reSIdence of theP~lme Mlnl~ter J!;1li8ku Sato

"You can OQunt the buttons ontheIr shtrts" one Japanese newspaper reported

The lmpenal gardeners havealready begun olantlng trees to

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THE KABUL 'l1IMES

l'houghtForTh. whee! ,ho, Ofllleaks th. IOlld.

development of PakIstan s nailonaleconomy are displayed In many flelds V Kondrashov the KarachIcorrespondent of IZvlstta s~s 10 thenewspaper Fnday Hts JI'ipalCn surveys the development of eCODomlCcontacts between the two countnes

The correspondent says that thebulk of Soviet made equipment ISused In the construction of mdustrial enterpnses, the buddmg ofdams and dykes and to meet otherrequirements due to the developmentof Pakistan s national economv

Sblps flyU1S tbe Sovlel f1as Koadrashov sa,s are: now constant gue. ~s15 m Pakistan s prInCipal prols. Bntam's two and a half mllll~Karacbl and ,Ohlttasoug TIley carry 1m 18-year aids are gettIDg thefrom- the Sov,et UnIon tractors Bul· right, to carry WIthout askIDgdozers road makIng machmery pJg thelr parents but not to vote1T0n vanous mecbaDisms equipmentecl SOViet machmery durable anddependable an explOitation, IS JO

great demand It IS not Without reason that Soviet PaklstaDl trade hasIncreased more lhan ten fold SlOce1~57

The SovIet Umon reciprocates bybuymg Jute nee and athe PaklstaDlstaple exports By the way Kondrashov remarks flnlsbed or semIflOlshed mdustnal products beSidesraw materals account for an mcreaslOg share In Pakistani exports tothe SovIet Union and other SOCial1St countnes

The A (IonIa CmUlt'ullon reportedFriday that a car Similar to the onebelieved to have been dnven by theassaSSin of Dr Martin Luther Kinghas been Impounded by federal bureauof mveshgatlon agents here

The newspaper said the car. awblte late'model Muslang wllb AI.abama hcense plates was first notlced by Atlanta reSidents last Fn.day mornIng the day after Dr KIngwas murdered- In Meml?hlS, Tennessee

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are heeomlng less .aDd less fllvourallle, the hestremedy Is to find new markets for the ptlmaryprodncts of the countries 01 EeAFE In theregiOn- II!leIf Thill will ensure strengthening Ofties among the nations of this regloa On theIone- baDd. and the Ilnd/ng o£ substitutes formarkets lost In Europe and elsewhere, Olt' theother

Oue way 10 promote trade and commercialbes among the countries of this region Is toabolish trade barriers U a preferential systemof trade IS adopted among the ECAFE nations.m utuaJ flnanelaJ advantage wID be assW'Cd.

Now that the future of aid giving Is shrouded. and delWlts In balance of payments arethreatening some of the aid giving nations, therole of ECAFE beeomes aJl the more slgnifl·cant The more the developing nations ofECAFE lose their markets and chances of recelvlng aid from the developed nations outsidethe ECAFE region, the more there IS the needto be self·dependent

Some Important proJects of ECAFE wInalso be rev~wed In the fortbcomlng meetingThe AsiaJI Highway, wldch has already provedhlgldy sign/flcant 10 the development of com­mUDlcation and transport In Asia. and the pro­Jected Trans Asian Railway line are two ofthe maJor proJects

We are sure the AsIan highway WIth Itsanellllall)' network of facllitlCll will meet Its~.Uon deadline But, the Trans Asian Rail­way Ilfte is still a dream We hope the IdeaWIll be earefully studIed and the ways to 1m·plement It accelerated.

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News coverage of CIVil dl~tl ub:!nces can create false ImpreSSIOnsWashmgton POSI staff writer PhilipGeyelm mdlcated Thursda~

Geyehn prefaced hiS commenb byquoting the complamt vf the preSIdent s commiss flO on urban d sorders on news overage ')f the 1967disorders

We have found a sIgn f·c tn 1mbalance what actuaU;: hap..'enedand what the newspaper radiO andteleVISion coverage of II~ts told ushappened We found that tbe d,sorders as senOus as they were lessdestructive less Widespread and lessa black white confrontation thanmost people believed'!" ..

Geyelm told of covenng a fue al<in Ice plant 10 a predomlOately Ne­gro dlstnct of Washmgton durmgthe recene disorders WJth a crowd ofabout 100 standmg by tnterestedonly '" watcblng the towenng blaze

1 hey were women and childrenold men and young and If there wasraCial hostility seething wlthlO tbemIt d,d nol sbow to the bandful ofwhl,1e newspapermen as they threaded their way through the (Wowdhe wro e It was nOl a lacld thIDg

Then he reported a teleVISioncamera came on the scene and suddenly there was a flurry of fistshakmg and anti white cnes

As the actIon for the benefit ofthe teleVISIOn camera stepped up,police moved In SWiftly and withOUI Infllcttng Injury effiCiently d1~

perscd the crOWd, Before t~e arrivalof the cameramen rhere had beenJoking and laughing on both Sidespeyehn said

The writer called It a a piece ofthreater inspired produced and dlrecled by Ihe almIghty eye (the teleVlSlon camera) The pomt IS that 10

get II "ght you bad 10 gel tllere earIy and see It all

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The 24tb 5e9SIon of the United Na$loll5 !!l»­nomic CommissIon for Asia and tbe Far East(ECAFE) whlcb will open In Canberra, Aus­tralia, next Wednesday IS likely to be of 1mmense Importance Tbe econortJie impaet of tbepossible end/Dg of hostilities In Vietnam Isone of tbose mllJor factors wblch worries someof Ibe Southeast Asian countries which will beparticularly aM Immedlateh all'eeted

The general ell'ect of the second UnitedNations Conference on Trade and Developmenton the pattern of eeononllc gl'owth IS anotbermaJor sublect before the member nations 01ECAFE UNCTAD n unfortu.ately failed toprOVIde a speCIal formula to promole and expand trade and economic tIes between tbe developed and developIng eounlries Most of theECAFE members are developl.g naUons withtheIr ma'" oblective beIng slronger economies. Amere debating of Ihe UNCTAD resulis al the Canberra meetlOg IS no remedy The ECAFE members would do well to deVIse the.. own slrategyfor econonue development

Connected with the economIc retrogressionIS the continued declme ,n the prices of prlmary commodIties 10 the regIon Some of theconntnes of tbe ECAFE regIOn themsselves ofler good markets for the primary products ofthe less developed countries of ECAFE

For msta....e. AI~aDlstan. whIch is a member of tbe FlOAP.E ...... kankul pelts and carpets and dry fruits for export whIch conld beexported- wltb success to the Australian mar

ketsAs tbe condttlons for mternabonal trade

Yesterday Heywad edltonallyl:omments on the actiVities of AIFatah organlsahon m Arab OCCUpled areas espeCially west of the Jordan fiver

The Arab parhsans says the edlIOnal are hlttang hard at oeeupatlonlsts ThiS IS reflected 10 the recent succesSive Israeh attacks acrossthe fiver With the announced objeclive of wlpmg out shelters and lnstaIlatlons of AI Fatah partIsans

II would be hard to Imagme anend to Arab nanonahsts actiVItiesinSide the Arab occupied areas WithIn Israel Itself as long as Israel refuses to vacate captured terrttOrles<tays the edItOrial

In fact Israel must expect a stcp-­ping up of these activIties With thepassmg of 1:lme No amount of repnsals agamst them or agamst ArabCities towns and Villages could killthe determmatlon of the Arabs toI egam their captured terntorles

rbe best thins to be done, JO tbeIIHereSI of peace and for an earlyend to Ihe Middle East Impasse ISIbat Israel abIde by world publiCopmlOn nghtousness and Justiceand stop defYing IOternalional lawand Ualled Nauons resolution condudes the edltonal

Yesterday s Ant, 10 an edltonalcomments on Afghanistan s textileIndustry

rextlle producllon has been a Virtual of the Afghan Textile (ompanyIn the country for a long time sayshe editOrial

rhe company has enjoyed everyLooperatlon from the pubhc and thegovernment durlOg these yeaTS yet1t Is not 10 a posltton to produceenough to meet the need of the enlire nahan

The settmg up of other textilemills managed by other compamestod even the state IS a healthy stepfor both the consumers and the lextile IOdustry liself

Until DOW there has been noI.:ompany of the Size of the Afghanlexlile In lhe ffcld and so the performance of the company could notbe clearly Judged The campany Itself deCides what to produce ho","much to produce and at what lateto sell

To make the textJle andustry morel.:Ompetl ve the ed1tonal goes on thegovernment helped some other pnvate companies such as Omed tex­tiles to mcrease production Canstrucrton of three more lOdependent=

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14, 1968APRIL

Actor AwardFilms portraylOg America s raCial

conflict 3Wept the board Wednesday night m the Oscar awards

The annual award l?resentationsby the Academy of Mouon Pictureswere opened by Gregory Peck whorecalled tbat the ceremonIes hadbeen postponed for three days because of tbe funeral of Dr MartmLuther Kong

Peck called on the audience to contnbule funds to the CIVIl rightsleader's Southern Christian Leadersblp Conference

Mike NIchols who was nominated last year for bls dueclIon ofWho s Afraid of Vlrglnls WJolfe?was awarded the Oscar for the bestachievement an direction for theGraduate

The award for the best supportIng actor went to George Kennedyfor hiS performance to Cool HandLuke, 10 which he played OIle oftough chain sang ThIS was bothhll~ first nommatlon and hiS firstOScar

For Katbenoe I{epburo, at presem fllmmg In France It was herIOtb nomanatlon and second OscarHer first ..,as 35 years 8g0 for Moramg Glory

MISS Hepburn starred 0ppo511ethe late Speacer Tracy on Guesswho s Commg to DIODer which de­als WIth tbe problem5 faced by artch easlem couple when their daughter faUs m love w,th a Nearo

The Oscar for the best forelgalansuage film 01 tbe year wont tothe trallle-comtc Czechoslovak fIlmClosely Walched Trams

Best film went to In the Heat (Ifthe NIgbt which portrays Ibe LOnfhct betwccn a northern educatedNegro detective (Sidney POlher) fromPhIladelphia and the while supremICISt police chief of a deep southtown (Rod' Steiger)

Rod Steiger

Gets Best

In accept log his award, SteigerpHld tribute to lltii!fer f4r bis helpIn reveahog to him In rehearsalsthe natu", of race prO)lldlcc and ended hIS httle speech of thanks wllbtbe CIVIl [Ights slosan W. ShaU Overcome

Th.. was her f~ nommahon, andshe also earned the dlStinotion ofbemg the first person 10' shed t1larsIn thiS emotlon·packed ~ve:mDg

The Frencb film about an AJuencan platoon flshling 10 South VICtnam. the Anderson Platoon, wasawarded the Oscar .n tho f..tu....le.nglb documentary catesory Its producer, PIerre SchoeDdorffo<, .aldhe was proud to share the awardwllh the men he foUowed thro\lllhthe swamps and forests of Vle!ttam.and parllcularly With Its Negro Ieader Lieutenant Joe B Anderson

KatherlDe Hepburn won the Oscar for ber performance as abc 010tber of a gut who marries a Negro(Sidney Pother) 10 Ouess wbo's ComlDg to DlnJ11!t

Best actor was Rod Steiger, tbesum oIiDwlugj! bJuldlJ>oU>hlpa fa tsouthern cop of [n the Heat of theNlgbt

Tbe !tIm oct m Czecboslovakladunog tiR German Sccood WorldWar occupauon, IS aboul life ID atiny railway station past which Ge­rman ammuwhODS trams pass

Estelle Parsons. who played anunWllbng aceomphCCl 10 nWDI:rouscrimes JD BODDie and Clyde, woothl> Oscar for tbe best suppor~osactress

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POSitions of animals all roundthe nude hgure of Ishtar 10 theattitude of the putma theronI the lady 01 tile wild beasts)

All these nchlY decorated branzes together With the horse'selabolate capartsons and the decora ted chariots must have added a very colourful tone to thealready a.xuberant character ofthe ritual of a royal bunal

The bronzes aSSOCIated Withthe chal'ots PI eserved the.. bronze standards 10 Sl tu and (01the first time we are now ableto ,dentlfy the exact chal acter ofthese flower shaped banners orstandards which we see In Ortenta I I e-presentatlOns These nodoubt were also used to deco,ate a chanot solely durmg thefunerary ceremony

Among the nch tomb gIft,whIch have been placed m thedromos o[ the tomb we may mentlOn also a superb bronze caul­dron standmg on an Iron trJpod

The cauldron 's decorated allround wltb eIght protomes of

gr Iffins and four protomes ofblrd men or sDhmxes Such

cauldrons bave been found mOlympia Delphi and Etrunabut are very rare ID the Eastthough theIr ulltmete OrientalorlglD IS undoubted

The SalamIS cauldron WIth ItS12 orotomes stands out as oneof the most ImpreSSIve In th1S senes It contamed more than 60clay luglets encl uuted WIth asubstance whIch after chem,calanalysIS proved to be tID a de·v,ce which has also recently beendetected on Mycenaean potterywhIch was used to gJve clayvases a metalltc look

The dromos "f Tomb 79 hasalso produced a large number ofIvory oblects of unrivalled beautY' such as were never founri 10CYPI us before

We ltnow how greatly Ivoryobjects especiallY farnlturewere nporeclaled In the ancientwOlld and how much they wereadmIred by Hamel

Ivory futnlture must have beensome sort of a measure for peapIe s wealth- who he uoon bedsof IVOI v Such IVOry furmturemust have been made In one ormore dtehers In PhoeniCia andexported to the courts of theNeal East

Of the IVOIY oblects from thedramas of Tomb 97 partIcularmen lion should be made of athlone of wood dressed all overw'th thin IVOIY panels dowelledon tlie wood

The total heIght of the throneIS 90 cm and ItS curved backrestIS decOl ated at the onslde WIth19 bands of Ivory

Tbey are alternately plaIn andcovered WIth a gu.lloche pe.tel n 10 two vertical rows recallmg In thlS respect the HomerIC.:descllpllon of Penelope s tbroneWith Its sOlral decoratlOn

At the lower part of the backrest near the seat there are twohonzon tal friezes of anthemJaapphed on a plain plaque 11 P

upper part of the back·rest ha~a broad IVOry plaque g,lded Witha very thm sheet 01 gold 0(1whleh one may sttll see embossedscale patterns We know thatthrones decorated With IVOry andgold were known also the Mycenaeans as they are often men·tloned 111 the tablets of the Palaces of Pylas

Thele must have been otherp,•.ces of IVai y furniture 10 the dt'omos, of which only fragmentssu,Vlve These mcluded a bed, vfwhIch large bauds of IVory andune leg surVived

The leg termmates m the shaPe cf alton s hoof With hollowglass for the cla..~glass fOI tbe claws Gilded IV.l! yflowel sand hlue glass encrustalions alsn fOI med Dart of the decaratIan. of the bed

There were other panels of IV01 v orobably belongmg to furmture or formIng mdependent

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One 01 the Ivory panels found In 3D arcbalc tomb In Cyprus

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dImensions ) am also oonVmced Ihatsound. senous sch6larsh p and roInancc ~an mIx ouccesSlI1l1y whenIhe sub)"ct IS appropl1atc

()ertamly AfllHaOlstsn has hadmore than Its share of 10nlanllclzersand less thah Its share oC S<'holarsamons Its chroniclers

But Adamec could have made hISbook more rcodable and exc tlOgfor a broader pubhc, N (hout dptractms from Its olstllTgulShed scholar­ship, If Inherently fa,c natlO~ ep sode. such as the story of Ihe Nledcmmyer expechtlon WIth Its tragl'"i.:v'"mlc and cloak and cJa~~pr aspectshad been used to conlrtbute a fullmeasure of spIce to th~ f('lrmo.h!ledaccount of rbe mlsston .. onp;'n travel and negotiatIOns WIth the Amlf

The book " well nnnulaled IOdexed and the: documentarv appendlce:s are espeGlally vahJable In viewof tbe pl1Uclty of referel1 e mat~fIIds

a'!. Afsbanlstan

it alao lias a h01lted hilt usefulbiohosraphy WIth ti,e sulpmlOS ammiSSIon of Niedermayer " e.dy 9o0kUnter der Glutsonne Irans .nd ChrIstopher Sykes Important bIographyof the German agent Was.inJUss

The French Scholar Salomon ence about the detail constl ucRemach wrttlng about the ar t,on ol the vehiclechaeoloSlcaL dls£overJes In Cyp 1 he metalllc parts hOWeV€lrus.-m31nly descnbIng the work SUt vlved In Situ These wcludedof MonSIeur Ohnefalsch-Rlchter Lwo magnificent lynch p10s de-wrote In hiS ChrOOlQue d Or c.:orated at Lhelr lower part Withuml for 1891 a la,ge brenze head of a spb,nx

About 55 metres south of the whlcn IS surmounted at the upMonument of Samt Catherine per part by thc bronze figure o[(an arch31c tomb excavated by a fully armed warnorthe Cyprus Deparment of An The latter was hollow andtlqUItl,eS In 1965) there IS another ~erved also as a IattIe The warsubterranean chamber which 1101 wealS a clested helmet astili waits to be excavated scaled CUll ass decorated w,th 10

ThIS chamber lYing wlthm the la,d blue glass " d 'S aimedhmlls of the royal reClopohs of WI th a long SWOI d b.nr g fromSalamIs w,th a monohth at Its a belt across hIS ches'roof still VISIble above ground 1 he total iength of the' lynchhad long been looted but we ac pms IS 56 cm and they may wellcepted the challenge of Salomon be among the largest ever f,,· nuRelnach 57 years afterwards 1n ObVIOusly they were mtended ror1966 and eo<cavated 10 front of the funelalY ceremony and notItS chamber ThIS IS Tomb 79 JP [or everyday useour register The hearse preserved on Ils

We uncovered the monumen fOUl COl ners foll' bronze head~tal facade of the chamber and of hons and one 10 front In thethe large dramas 10 front of It m,ddle all mserted 10 wocdc nmeasuring about 13 metres In beams wl.lcb decayedw,dth and 20 metres In length As They are natulahstIcaBy lenIn the other royal tombs of tho> deled and the,r size (about 15same area of the necropohs we cm h,gh) and good state of preround that the sad !tllmg of the servatlon makes '''em partl<uldramas which had never been ally ImoreSSlve ..touched hy the looters preserved I,':qually ,mpresSlve were thean extraordlnalY wealth of ob blOnzes whlcb formed the gealJects of the SIX horses of the above ve

Stratigraphic observatIon as hlcles These had heen pIled upcertatned that the tomb was us In a corner near the facade ofed tWIce at the very end of the the chambet at the t,me 01 theeighth century BC w,thm a very sccond bunalshort period as we shall see be I hey mcluded magn,ficentlow b,eastplates With a "ch cmbos

Durmg the first bunal penod sed decontlOn of sphinxes gnfwhIch was the richest two cha hns and "ther monsters as wellnots were saenflced 10 honour as golis and heroes of 01 lentalof the .read one was a lour mythology [lOnt bands I,chlyhorse charlot and the other a decorated With aDlmal and huhearse on WhICh the body was man tigut es embossed on theirtransported to the tomb The en tire surface such as the wlng­skeletons of the horses assoctated ed God EI couchant lions wmWIth these vehIcles had already ged sloar d,scs etc bllnkelS deheen d,sturbed when at the tIme corated w,th dmmal figures lorof the second bunal shortly after Instance spblnxes striding ovelthe first these were wheeled aw slaves m the well known Egyptay to make room for the two ve Ian (ash Ion of the VictOriOUS kInghIdes of the .econd bUllal Ske striding over hIS enemIes whIleletons of horses used In the lat some othels wele decorated Withter were found 10 SItu lions attack1l1g bulls

The four horse chanot was of Four side oendant ornamentswood wblCh decaYed but left for horses have heen found t" altS JmpreSSlOns 10 the SOil and o( them decorated \\ Ith crescentby careful excavat10n we have and diSC ornaments and thebeen able to rescue all the eVld other two w,th ~ompllcated com

By_Leon It PoulladaFulbrlg,bt Reselird1 FeJlowThote IS an ,nlJ'oduclory cbllPter

on the relsn of Amlr Abdtlr Rah·man (tS8()'1901) wltb 1\ lJOod summary of the Iron Aml~'s'f;erce aUe.mpt to bUIld a natIon: strengthe"central aUlhorlty, cootslh tribal rebelllOn and .1 the.satliC' 11m. keepthe RUSSian, all'lt tfle Bl'ltlah AI bay

Tbe hoart Of tbe bbok, bowever.consisis o~ 'tbe chaptets ciealina WIththe rel8fl of'hlS son, AmI[ H.blbullah (1901.19191•

Th.... II an excellent and authonlalive aecourt! of tile Dane l'tflsslOnto Kabul wbil:lr led to the Anglo.Afghan treaty 'Of 1m Of even gre.ater Interest and Importanct.' IS thedocumented account of the secretTurco-G1Orman M,SSIon l.d by N,e·dermayer wmcb was supposed tobring Afghanistan mto >Vorld WarI on the aide of tli. Central powe..

An Afpan allack: on IIrlti~h. Ind... WIth' 6cmran- and' rbr~ sh sup­port could ilave had serrou. If notdIsastrous effecls on- amod efforts10 tho M Iddl. East and even 10 Europe Gennan arrogance InternalJe.ldusres ami Torkisll' hlonderms,hampered lbe mISsion whl IJ ncvertheless enjoyed- great populartly andsupport amorrg many Afabaus mdudmg Ihe Influenhal ''warparty ledby Na.rullah. tbe Am" s brother

In the end it was (he Amlr. sound and cool Judgment dnd hIS shr.ewd dIplomacy wblcb kept AfshanIstan neuba! and served (hE (ountry s best rnterest9'

Fmal chapters deal With the firstparI of tho reign of Am.nulloh whosucceeded hi. falher H,blbullahwhen the latter was US5a5lil118ted un~r mystenoos clrcumilances m19/9

The book ends With a SlJ...cmc~ aecount of the Third ALllidQ WarWIth the Bnltsb (1919) and a well documented account of the 1~t9 arm.stlcc and tbc 1921 An~lo Afghantreaties

Ralher tban attempt I vapid andOISgllnS crlllclSm of th,. altogetheradmIrable work, I ,bould h~e tosuggest somo directions ~r; whll:b slud,cs of Ib.. kind coull! be mademore valuable

DetaIled scholarly Lllpll\matlc hiStones Will expand the (r"utters orknowledge more effectlvelv If theyventure beyond the realm o( whathappened IOta the mare IhffJ:ult butmflnltely more rewarmng I'\egIDnof why and how It hllPpened

Even more valuable ",auld be theexposlhon of such countrv case hiS­tories In terms of broader politicaltheory and In draWing from rartlcular cases the lessons appJ 'able 10broader Issaes of global or re810palmtematJonal politics /

The Adlnec book would bove gomed much by the addlhun of such

It after the Andaluslan And·res Segovle was saId to be WIth·out competttlOn for 5 decenmurns hav10g no model and nosuccessor, he has now a successor equal In rank

Both have reached the h.gh·est degree of freedom frOm thetechmcal matter The self tanghtpe~son SegovIa excels BehrenJWIth clarifIcation and WIsdom ofage Behrend however WIDS theheerts of hIS ltsteners by hISelementary lOY In musIc andspontaneIty

Behna GraCIle nearly smallWIth hel long haIr wmgIDg likeblack fire She could onglOateft om a picture of ChagalJ or apoem Bebna was born In Polandthen left her home counltY andwent to Pans Ip Pans she toohad ber first disk recorded

Her I epertolre reaches fromhthurglcal songs vIa Polish. andRUSSIan Folksongs YolJ<UJrefrom all over the world unto themodern chanson (Whatever Be·Ima IS smgmg, she IS always SJn­glng Cbagall) Belma has a VOl'ce full of warmth. ImpressIon andenergy whIch touches the ltste·ners Irreslstably w,th LtS charme

Bellna. greatest success thenhas been a long play dIsk WithSIegfried Behrend 24 songs andone gUItar' 10 17 languages ThISdisk IS one of the best sellers 10

EuropeBehcend chose from hIS llCh

folklorIstic fund when recordmgth,S BtSk wtth Belma In Berhncne sommer nt8ht from 26th to27th July 1963

It IS the resjllt of a coopel a~lon[or whIch all thought chanceswere needsd The folklore- IStaken from the musical conSClousness and IS hfely aa else.wlseonly by anonymous folksmg.ers

It bas not Ibe delUSIve (lluerof effectful IDstrumentation wltbwhIch It IS s0.P'~tlmes drappedand pushed "ito the dubIOUS fa·otlights of the song- festi'Vals

In tha hoallSe-dark IImhre ofBehna's VOice IS SWinging Bas·tern style to whIch the concertgUItar player Is addIDg tbe ele­ment~ of tile oeeidental musIctIllidUliDn It 18 '8\ ltI1ISSage o~ lost.unlost folldore wlticl:l almost be·tter outllJU!s our cultlU:a1 lilsto'rlaal pOIDt 0(\ VIeW' than the 1m.presswe lie.timQmes of the lesshght muses

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Aft~r years of neglect by Amen·Clin scholars,- AfgbaOlsllJn has onlyrecently begun to receIve the allenhqn "' deserves SenoUB studIes byD,~pree, Wilber, Flelcher, OregofJanand a few otbers are beSlOlng to fllithe ptIIYloua VOId '

Adamec hIlS now' Jomed thIS ..Iect I~UP WIth a mellO_lously resear·ched study of ap~o;amately two decades Df Afghan dlplomahe Jtistory­a penod of apeclal Interest becauseIt encompaBaell lIie cruCIal years ofTurco-German pressure on Afshan·IStan durmg World War I

Students of IndlRn and Centr~1

Asmn affa"s who sometimes lahourunder the ml8llpprehenslon thaI thcan und....t.od the history and pohtICS of theIr cbosen flellis WIthoutknowlOg anythIDS .bout AfghanIS'tan WIU do well to study thIS bookcarefully

[n broader perspective, howeverthIS type of study IS of greal mteresland Importance to IIlI 8DCI.I aClensts beoause AfghanIstan IS one ofthe few countries In ASIB never sub)ected to the transformmg and 'mod·ernISln8 Influences of European ~ol·

onlsationOn the other hand Ih. nahon-bul'

IdmS aspecls 01 Its polttltal developrnent were subjected to uDlque pres­Sures compounded of JOtemal trIbalcoofllct and external mterference hyRUSSia and Bntam dunng the century and a balf ID whlcb tbese twoempires wrestled for supremacy IIICentral ASIa usmg AfghanIstan asa buffer

The AdAmec book IS hke a laserbeam concentrating a reveahng lighton a small but-Important segment ofIhP. Afghan problem illlsed mostlyon government archival dOcumelltfiifrom Indian Bnhsh and Germansources It utilises much new andhitherto unpublished matenal toc1anfy events heretofore obscure orrhlSTcported

For example the notl<tOIhat AmIr HabIbullah wa:t aBnllSb dupe who failed hIS lellowMushms 10 Turkey and India bynot aUackmg weakened Indian defcnses durlOg \Vorld War [, must nowbe completely reappraised In thelight of documentary eVidence ass-­cmbled by Adamec whIch rev....l.Habltiullah as 8 statesman. patrIOtand shrewd diplomat defendmg tbolong raoge lD'erests of hIS counll yby outmaneuvrlDg both the German·Turkish and the British miSSions mKabul

A .,good measure of the corredlvevalue of thIS book has been lis C'x­cellcnt reception by emwent Afgbanscbolars such as Rlshtya dnd Farhadi who have remarked on ItS In

tegnty and Its value In ,,-orrectmgtbe. murky record of the Hablbullahperiod

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FRGIGUITARIST TO PLAYHERE I MONDAY EVENING

The Geothe Instltute has atreat for musIC lovers agaIn nextweek Berlm and SIegfried Belrend are here and tomorrow evenmg at 8 they Will gIve aconcert of IDternatlOnal folksongs and gUItar mUSIC The con~

cert WIll be gIven m the and,tortum of Rad,o AfghanIstan

SIegfried Behrend was bornm Berlm m 1933 and startedWith hiS music studles for com·ductmg and WIth plano and compOslng SCIenCe 10 1949 Whenstudymg old tabulatures he recognlsed that more mUSIC was composed lor lutes and gUItarsthan for any other InstrumentFor 10 months he was mtenSJvely engaged WIth the gUItar andthen he gave ius fitst concert

Behrend who achIeved sensa,tionaI success In 1958 WIth hiS co­ncerts played repeatedly en allmusIc metropols all over theworld He travelled as ambassa·dar of the German mUSIcal cuj,.ture With the ala of the ForeIgnOffice and the Geothe InstItute

In 1963 the FRG TeleVISIOnstarted to bnng a sertes record.ed by Truck Branss w,th Stegfried Behrend abq,ut the hlstoIy of the gUItar' follOWing wblcha disk wa~ Iecorded SlegflledBehrend collected Crt tiCS dUriMthree world trIOs accq,rdmg towhich he IS Dlaced IDtO the firstrow of SOlOIStS of our tune

Behrend plays the gUitar WIthsuch mastery and tone Improve.ment as Casals the VIoloncello orArrau the plano

Mr Behrend 's a brtillant andexeltIng mUSICIan He uses thevarIOUS timbres of hJS 10strument as mtelltgently that eventhe mDst mflex,ble pIece of mu,SIC Will become a masterpIece'The New York Herald Tribunewrote

Behrend played tbe publtcassaulted the playhouse' the

Kansas CI ty Times CItedDebussy was saId to have saId

the gUItar IS the hnest mstru.. ment unfortunately vel y dIfficult

to Dlay with"There seem to be no dlfficul

ties fOI Behrend, Such superlatlves of whIch he rapIdly earnedmore and more. suon as bestQUltar plsyer of the world" orthe "~aganml of the gUlta." haveoften been dIscredIted and tpken ann.. to hIm but the Crltl.revIewers hndress even the Spa­msh ones-pretty wall agree ID

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•Today,' he .dded" "Ilie novellPelbods of threeodimenSlonal fore­stry arc arauslnl Interest aOlOngstngneulturlS's and forestees tbrousbOUl the world Tbe maIO advantasesof Ihe system ace that thla ,type ofculture., once established. glYes ahIgh retum wllh no .expenSlvefield operatIons or outlay on machanery. and It can be IDtroduced In

places where orthOdox farmlOS WOuld he ImpOSSIble

The palllamentary electIOnsare held every fIve years Inthe 1963 elections the ChristianDemocrats gamed 260 seats m the630 member chamber of deputIes commun.sts 166 soclahsts 87liberals 39 SOCIal demoCTats 33neo faSCIsts 27. monarchIsts eIghtrepublicans StX and others four

leftwlng VOice In parhamentThe commumsts are calhng fOl

a state WIth no prIVIleged Ideology or re!lgton

They won t to reduce chu rch In

fluence m Italy, where cathohC'lsm IS a state religIon and Itsban on dIvorce IS recognIsed byCivil courts

MOre, reoeatly otber foiatofUmlOgPt'oil'C1ll"ba••"beiDuwlia.....llm cen·tra. IJ/1d: ....""'~,,/n:illbbdoslaMalil'l't aiJd<J:J,h,., ''1iblIoc ote'nsi.. OlIp,JdBetJI'lit'co~, wllhlarger scale plantiriga have confIrmedand even amphfled lhl\ posslblhltes01 thIS concept,!' DouaJass salli.

The low cost of the syste~ makesIt parllC,ularly adapt.ble for develoP1n8 countrru •

Labour needs are very low... larBe amounts of £aplta~ are unnecessary certamly one of tile greal advantages of forest farmlJ'18 IS Its s,mpl.iclty of oP!'ratino, pr.olllded tbegeneral pnnclpl"" are follbwed andproper Itthillcal methoda are apphcd Such toslts as ploghlng, harrow109 seedang and other mechamcalcultivations are not reqUired norIS there any need to purchuse combme harvesters, artifiCial ferIIlt",rs and all the hundred-and·oneItems of apparatus essentIal to thearable faICmer

The questIon of the vote didnot come under that committeebut polIt,cal observers behevethat pressure WIll be hrought onthe govel nment to allow 18 yeaIolds to vote m the next generalelectIOn

Some members of the rulingLabour Panty were upset that alowerIng of the vottng age wasnot Included ID the blli SlOce ItIS offiCIal party Dohcy

The new freedoms wtll lomother establlsbed teenagers

Ilghts- to nde a motorbike andconsent to sex at 16, and huydnnks In a tavern drIve a carand gO to pnson at 18

Footnote Piliho Lalley 23year old pcp smaer 90n of theJudge who recommended thechanges commented last nIghtA trIUmph for youth "

(REUTER)

S,gn.,.. PIetro Nennl the artlculate Vice premier 10 the coahlion government IS leadmg theSOCialists and SOCIal DemocratsIn tbelr lfirst general electIOns

togetlter smCe they uDlted In

1966

sunk below glOund to absorb tremars

The new skyscraper for lnstanee has thr,e basement Ievels WIth Darkmg space for 500Cars

The 1"'8t of the SUICIdes cameIn January when a workman engaged on the conatruotlon leap.ed to bls deatb because of unrequired 10vCJ

A few daYs ago a second warkman WIth a histol;'Y of nervousdIsorders also lumped Between14000 and 15000 people COll'nt SUIclde 10 J aoan every Year

The Kasuml managers are however relYlOg on non-openmgwmdows In theIr at~ondltion.e~ bulldong to deter the desperata and the lonely

About 12,000 people will workIn the bUIlding and the manython.ands more wIn vialt therevolVIng re.taurant on the 35thfloor and, the observatIOn roomon the 36th

study

Douslass noted that In Ihe middle.Iges. VIlSI herds of pigs and olhelfarm animals 10 westctn Euronewe", fed almOit entirely from theacorns walnuts, chestnuts Bnd bee.;bsceds produced by the great foreststhat tben covered most of Ihc land.

African tribes have for Jons beenaware of the meflls of severa) tn·d,senous trees. wblch yIeld croPIand heans and seeds of HISh vltlUeas lOoder for oatlle JO tbe dry "erlods when grazmg IS scarceDouglass saId

He. sa,d Ih.t when food praductlOn became speclahsed durlOS theIndustflal revolutIOn, forestry, whichhad preViously been an Intesral anduseful part of the ASrlCrollural sch·erne, was Virtually relopled to therole of f"wood and Timber S~ppl

Icr ThiS he explained eventuallyled to the destrnct,on of the oncevasl forests of tbe sabara the mIddleand near and north Africa

dImenSIonal forestry offers some.thmg of real value to humanity. lindmay well sel 10 mollOn proluundSOCial and economIc changes

Doualass said an expenmcnlaltree-dlmenslonaJ forestry Scheme wasstarted near MesSlO8 In the transvaal 10 1956 67 to develop enough hasbeen learned to show tbat It IS thoroughly effiCient In operation andIf energetIcalJy extended will rcvolutJOOlsc the agncultural life ol theregion he wrote

By Erneslo Mendozagrowth rate l~n the EuropeanEconomic Community

More Italtan families than everbefore oWn cars teleVISIon setsrefngerators and washmg mach Ines Th1S new prospenty IS undermlmng the tradItional appealof the communIst party secondbIggest 10 Italy

But student dem()nstrahonsfor uD1~erSlty mor;m and warkers strikes In major Cities showsome d1SE!ncbantment

ForeIgn MinISter AmlOtore Fanfam recently startled hIS Cbnstlan Democrat colleagues by pub­"ely critlclsmg the g<Wernmentfor aUegedly 10slOg touch Withtbe people

The governmen t s decls,on follows a reDort last summer by acomm,~e under Justice Lateywhich recommended a HWltchfrom 21 to IS

Communist leadet' LUigI Longo, 68, a taCiturn wartime guelnUa chIeftam, has ma<lI!ted co'mmuDlst strategy to adapt to thE'changmg times Apparently despaIring of overtaklDg the ChnslIan Democrats, the commUnIt <;:

aim now IS to strengthen the

By John LarkInsush VIllage of Gretna Green,where nearly 500 couples under21 were married last year

But even ,I Gretna Green los-es Its populanty WIth Englishand Welsh Youngsters It WIllstill remain a drawcard for couples from the cQntIDent

Young Germans-210 couples­topped tbe list of nationalists Intbe matrimony queues there lastyear

Apart from g,vIDg freedom tomarry the new law ",,11 perm,t18'year-olds to buy a house andto enter IOto hire purchase agleements

screen off the emperar sand llvmg room

The Tokyo 'rower gave lts answer ealller this Year when It op.ened: to the pubhc a second smal­ler observation platform at the750 ft level

The DIet memhers who calledthen new situation 1 pohttcs Inthe fishbowl have so far onlyrumbled angnly

Also upset IS the companywblch runs tbe 1,1001princIpal obseJ vatlon platform IS375 ft up the Eiffer-like .tructmreo or abbut 70 ft below the newKasuml bUlldongs 36th f1001 oh­servatlOn level

The Kasum. skYscra~r IS allarchiteclural breakthrough onJapan, where- earJhquakes and sog8)lsub-soli In Tokyo have kept bnlldlngsto a nme'storey hmt! for years

But Japanese archItects and!engIneers have learned how togaon heIght wltb steel frameseau If, mvestlgatlOD alents bere

36 Million Italians To Vote On May 19

Tokyo's New Skyscaper:Tallest In 6rient

New British Law Threatens·Gretna Green

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Ahout 36 mllhon Haltans voteon May 19 In general electlOrJ6that could rock church state re­latIons for the next five years

One solullOn 10 1he world foodproblem may he 10 a return to Aa,,·caltural tecbnlques abaudoaed dur109 the I~th century Irtdustflol revo·lutlon, a BrtlJsh asrononltst suSsests

By brlOglDS exIra supplies "fcheap and nourtShmg foodstuffswltblO Ihe reach of all peoples andby openmg up tbe undeveloped re­g10ns of the world for profltSiblesettlement and exploltallon thre~

II IS no exasaeratlon, Doualasswrote. • to say that the re·lntroduotlon of thiS teehrnque on a masSivescale can prOVide the ~luhon to amajor part of the eartb's food andliVing space problems

ExceUeat cereal substItutes canbe grown on trees,. ullhsmg POIJf

land, at tow cost, and With a mim­mum of trouble and no expensivemachinery In places where arthodox methods of agriculture are 1mpractIcable

Prrme Minister Aida Mora sChnstlan Democrats 10 powersmce Worl<i War II apDear tohe as strongly entrenched asever and he hopes to mamtaIntbe centre left coahtlOn Butthe futule may be more troubledfor the ChrIStian Democrats themselves whose close links w,tbthe Catholic churen have comeundel mcreasmg fIre

Tbcse hnks have been attacked by the communIsts as well asby the soclahsts m the coalition

Admmlstratlve and educatlonal Ieforms divorce and churchmfluence m pubhc life. domlDate the electoral campaIgn

A bIg asset for the government IS Italy's recovery froman economIc receSSIon In 196~64

Last Year natIonal 1Ocome J"Ose by 59 per cent the hlgbest

The massive emanCipation ofthe country's youth. lowering theage of malorlty lrom 21 was an·nounced hy the governnoent ye~

terday But It could be some timebefore the complex legIslationcomes mto effect

The law could do away Withmany 01 the dramas of .Younglove In wh,ch young people scurry across the bOI der. to the Scot·

Wntmg In the current ISSue of"The Impact of SclOnce on Society••a UNESCO pubhcauon. J SholtoDouglass suggests a relum to "threedimelWOoal fo[atry" whleb, bo says.

'IS curretrtly. prodllC1rll- excelltnb resuits to southern and eastern Afri­ca

Three dlmenOlonal forestry conSl·sIs of deVeloping poor hlnd, now unftt for mfensive cultivation, to growfood...Jiddina 1....,s that provIde foodfor flYeitoct w)llcb, m turn, becomefood for men

It wIll mean most to Enghshand Welsh teenagers-theIr can'temporarIes across the border InlD Scotland are free of most res~

trlctJons They can even marryat 16 Without oarents' consent

A 36 storey skyscraDer WItha View IOta Tokyo s Impereal Palaceand a SUICide record so far of twowas formally declared ooen In

central Tokyo FridayThe skyscrapel IS 450 ft hlgb

,md was bUIlt at a cost of IS.OOOmllhon yen (about 20 mllhonsterling) by the MitSUI RealEstate Co Ltd whIch claIms Itas the tallest bUlldmg m the or·lent

The new budding has 29 ele·vators ~unnIDg. at three sPeedsthe fastest of whIch. speCIal ex·press can make the trIp fromsbreet level to th~ top 10 30 se·conds

From thele with good bmoclaurs, It IS pOSSIble to look IOtathe Imperial Palace parliament,

,ana tl)e OIflCllll reSIdence of theP~lme Mlnl~ter J!;1li8ku Sato

"You can OQunt the buttons ontheIr shtrts" one Japanese newspaper reported

The lmpenal gardeners havealready begun olantlng trees to

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development of PakIstan s nailonaleconomy are displayed In many flelds V Kondrashov the KarachIcorrespondent of IZvlstta s~s 10 thenewspaper Fnday Hts JI'ipalCn surveys the development of eCODomlCcontacts between the two countnes

The correspondent says that thebulk of Soviet made equipment ISused In the construction of mdustrial enterpnses, the buddmg ofdams and dykes and to meet otherrequirements due to the developmentof Pakistan s national economv

Sblps flyU1S tbe Sovlel f1as Koadrashov sa,s are: now constant gue. ~s15 m Pakistan s prInCipal prols. Bntam's two and a half mllll~Karacbl and ,Ohlttasoug TIley carry 1m 18-year aids are gettIDg thefrom- the Sov,et UnIon tractors Bul· right, to carry WIthout askIDgdozers road makIng machmery pJg thelr parents but not to vote1T0n vanous mecbaDisms equipmentecl SOViet machmery durable anddependable an explOitation, IS JO

great demand It IS not Without reason that Soviet PaklstaDl trade hasIncreased more lhan ten fold SlOce1~57

The SovIet Umon reciprocates bybuymg Jute nee and athe PaklstaDlstaple exports By the way Kondrashov remarks flnlsbed or semIflOlshed mdustnal products beSidesraw materals account for an mcreaslOg share In Pakistani exports tothe SovIet Union and other SOCial1St countnes

The A (IonIa CmUlt'ullon reportedFriday that a car Similar to the onebelieved to have been dnven by theassaSSin of Dr Martin Luther Kinghas been Impounded by federal bureauof mveshgatlon agents here

The newspaper said the car. awblte late'model Muslang wllb AI.abama hcense plates was first notlced by Atlanta reSidents last Fn.day mornIng the day after Dr KIngwas murdered- In Meml?hlS, Tennessee

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Oue way 10 promote trade and commercialbes among the countries of this region Is toabolish trade barriers U a preferential systemof trade IS adopted among the ECAFE nations.m utuaJ flnanelaJ advantage wID be assW'Cd.

Now that the future of aid giving Is shrouded. and delWlts In balance of payments arethreatening some of the aid giving nations, therole of ECAFE beeomes aJl the more slgnifl·cant The more the developing nations ofECAFE lose their markets and chances of recelvlng aid from the developed nations outsidethe ECAFE region, the more there IS the needto be self·dependent

Some Important proJects of ECAFE wInalso be rev~wed In the fortbcomlng meetingThe AsiaJI Highway, wldch has already provedhlgldy sign/flcant 10 the development of com­mUDlcation and transport In Asia. and the pro­Jected Trans Asian Railway line are two ofthe maJor proJects

We are sure the AsIan highway WIth Itsanellllall)' network of facllitlCll will meet Its~.Uon deadline But, the Trans Asian Rail­way Ilfte is still a dream We hope the IdeaWIll be earefully studIed and the ways to 1m·plement It accelerated.

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News coverage of CIVil dl~tl ub:!nces can create false ImpreSSIOnsWashmgton POSI staff writer PhilipGeyelm mdlcated Thursda~

Geyehn prefaced hiS commenb byquoting the complamt vf the preSIdent s commiss flO on urban d sorders on news overage ')f the 1967disorders

We have found a sIgn f·c tn 1mbalance what actuaU;: hap..'enedand what the newspaper radiO andteleVISion coverage of II~ts told ushappened We found that tbe d,sorders as senOus as they were lessdestructive less Widespread and lessa black white confrontation thanmost people believed'!" ..

Geyelm told of covenng a fue al<in Ice plant 10 a predomlOately Ne­gro dlstnct of Washmgton durmgthe recene disorders WJth a crowd ofabout 100 standmg by tnterestedonly '" watcblng the towenng blaze

1 hey were women and childrenold men and young and If there wasraCial hostility seething wlthlO tbemIt d,d nol sbow to the bandful ofwhl,1e newspapermen as they threaded their way through the (Wowdhe wro e It was nOl a lacld thIDg

Then he reported a teleVISioncamera came on the scene and suddenly there was a flurry of fistshakmg and anti white cnes

As the actIon for the benefit ofthe teleVISIOn camera stepped up,police moved In SWiftly and withOUI Infllcttng Injury effiCiently d1~

perscd the crOWd, Before t~e arrivalof the cameramen rhere had beenJoking and laughing on both Sidespeyehn said

The writer called It a a piece ofthreater inspired produced and dlrecled by Ihe almIghty eye (the teleVlSlon camera) The pomt IS that 10

get II "ght you bad 10 gel tllere earIy and see It all

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The 24tb 5e9SIon of the United Na$loll5 !!l»­nomic CommissIon for Asia and tbe Far East(ECAFE) whlcb will open In Canberra, Aus­tralia, next Wednesday IS likely to be of 1mmense Importance Tbe econortJie impaet of tbepossible end/Dg of hostilities In Vietnam Isone of tbose mllJor factors wblch worries someof Ibe Southeast Asian countries which will beparticularly aM Immedlateh all'eeted

The general ell'ect of the second UnitedNations Conference on Trade and Developmenton the pattern of eeononllc gl'owth IS anotbermaJor sublect before the member nations 01ECAFE UNCTAD n unfortu.ately failed toprOVIde a speCIal formula to promole and expand trade and economic tIes between tbe developed and developIng eounlries Most of theECAFE members are developl.g naUons withtheIr ma'" oblective beIng slronger economies. Amere debating of Ihe UNCTAD resulis al the Canberra meetlOg IS no remedy The ECAFE members would do well to deVIse the.. own slrategyfor econonue development

Connected with the economIc retrogressionIS the continued declme ,n the prices of prlmary commodIties 10 the regIon Some of theconntnes of tbe ECAFE regIOn themsselves ofler good markets for the primary products ofthe less developed countries of ECAFE

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ketsAs tbe condttlons for mternabonal trade

Yesterday Heywad edltonallyl:omments on the actiVities of AIFatah organlsahon m Arab OCCUpled areas espeCially west of the Jordan fiver

The Arab parhsans says the edlIOnal are hlttang hard at oeeupatlonlsts ThiS IS reflected 10 the recent succesSive Israeh attacks acrossthe fiver With the announced objeclive of wlpmg out shelters and lnstaIlatlons of AI Fatah partIsans

II would be hard to Imagme anend to Arab nanonahsts actiVItiesinSide the Arab occupied areas WithIn Israel Itself as long as Israel refuses to vacate captured terrttOrles<tays the edItOrial

In fact Israel must expect a stcp-­ping up of these activIties With thepassmg of 1:lme No amount of repnsals agamst them or agamst ArabCities towns and Villages could killthe determmatlon of the Arabs toI egam their captured terntorles

rbe best thins to be done, JO tbeIIHereSI of peace and for an earlyend to Ihe Middle East Impasse ISIbat Israel abIde by world publiCopmlOn nghtousness and Justiceand stop defYing IOternalional lawand Ualled Nauons resolution condudes the edltonal

Yesterday s Ant, 10 an edltonalcomments on Afghanistan s textileIndustry

rextlle producllon has been a Virtual of the Afghan Textile (ompanyIn the country for a long time sayshe editOrial

rhe company has enjoyed everyLooperatlon from the pubhc and thegovernment durlOg these yeaTS yet1t Is not 10 a posltton to produceenough to meet the need of the enlire nahan

The settmg up of other textilemills managed by other compamestod even the state IS a healthy stepfor both the consumers and the lextile IOdustry liself

Until DOW there has been noI.:ompany of the Size of the Afghanlexlile In lhe ffcld and so the performance of the company could notbe clearly Judged The campany Itself deCides what to produce ho","much to produce and at what lateto sell

To make the textJle andustry morel.:Ompetl ve the ed1tonal goes on thegovernment helped some other pnvate companies such as Omed tex­tiles to mcrease production Canstrucrton of three more lOdependent=

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USSR Tests

Design ForSpacecraft

ECAFE

MOSCOW AprIl 15 (Reuter}-­Tbe Soviet Umon Sunday launcheda new space satellite Into an a1mostcJrcular orbit around the earth andsaid It was esttng elemen1s of the de91gn for a spacecraft

The offiCial news agency Tass saidthe new Sputmk number 212 In theCosmos senes begun JD 1962 carTies SCientIfic eqUipment for the conUnuatlon of space exploration andtesting of new systems and elementsof tbe deSign of spacecraft

Spulnlks are norrmally descnbed~ mply as cont nwng space studlea."

Observers noted that the orbi t ofCosmos 212 was close to the IIIfated Soyuz I spaceship wblch crashed afler a One day flight on April24 last year killing cosmonant Viad mer Komarov

The new sputmk IS flymg 145mIles (239 km) above Ihe earlh alIts farthest pOint and 130 mlleo;;(210 km) at lIs nearest Soyuz I hadan apogee of 132 m les (224 km)and a per gee of 120 miles (200 km)

Cosmos 186 launched on October27 last ye.r wh.ch I nked up wIthCosmos 188 on October 30 m theworld s first automatic space d( ckng also had a SimIlar orbit

Some observers Immediately speculaled Ihal Cosmos 212 mlghl be onsome spec: al miSSion as dramatic aslast October s linkup

Others cautioned however thatadvance prcdu:t1on of the pro~ramme of Soviet space 'Shots was nOImally risky Last weekend whenLuna 14 was launched many ob;otrvers here predicted It would tJy 0

und Ihe moo" and bacle to earthBuc tbe space shot went Into 0rbH

round the moon Instead

esman said the refugee a passenger on the VoeIkerfreundschaftwas spotted by two West Germannaval patrol boats shortly aftermIdnIght danghng at the end ofa rooe from a Itghted porthole

1 he Nalade saIled towards theVoelkel freundschaft as It saw~,m cV 00 Into the sea near theFehmarn I,ghtsh,p and collidedlightly w th the Imer The NaJade damaged Its anchor andbuckled ItS bow the spokesmansaid

The Voelker(reundschaft homeward bound With 499 passengers fr om a holiday cruIse toCuba Ilowed momently be hrecontInUing at f.. l1 speed

Meeting

Starts

WednesdaYICANBERRA AprIl 15 (Reu

ter) -Ten mInIsters and deputyminIsters Will be among theoverseas delegates to the 24thconference of the UnIted NatIOnsEconomic CommISSion for Asiaand the Far East (ECAFE) whichopens hele on Wednesday

DelegatIon heads will IncludeFrench MinIster for ForeIgn Affairs M Plel re CharpentierIndoneSian Foreign MInisterAdam Malik and New ZealandDeputy Prime Minister and MInlster for Trade J R Marshal

From the MalaYSian area Willbe Ihc MalaYSian Minister forCommel ce and IndustI y Dr LImSwe<; Aun and Singapore s Mlnlstet fOI Law and NatIOnal Devclopment E W Barker

Other ministers attendmg In

clude DI Abdul Wahab Halderdeputy mInIster of plannIng fromAfghaOlstan

The USSR delegation WIll beled by Anatoly S Ch,stayakovhead of the department of InternaUonal economic orgamsahonsIn the mInistry of foreign aff8lTS

Brttam s delegation Will beheaded by M Belcher undersecretal y of the mmlstry of ov

erseas development and fromthe UnIted States Will come Arthur E Goldschnudt the US representative on the United Nalions EconomIc and SoCial CounclI

The ECAFE meeting WIll contlnue unlll Apnl 30

FOR SHEERDELIGHT

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DUTSCHKE'S

CONDITION

IMPROVING

of hatred wltbout whlcb the assassmatIOn attempt agaInst Dutschke would not have occurred

The Springer newspaper Weltam Sonntag yesterday accusedthe ringleaders of the studentdemonstrabons of uslOg the Dutschke assault as a pretext for VIOI~nce Just as tbe NaZIS used theRelchstag ~lfe of 1933 to se'zeabsolute power

WEST BERLIN April 15 (Reuter)-A doctor s bullettn Issued Sunday at the West.end uOlverslty chnlcsaid militant student Jeader redRudl DU1schke shot In an assasSInatron atlempt on Thursday Wasfurther ImprOVing

" sa d DUlschkc 28 had no hIghtemperature h s c rculat on was satlsfactory and he was able to comply WI h doctor s orders to moveh s arms lind legs

rh 5 nd caled the bullet penetra(ng IllS brain had not caused anyparalys ng errects Fnends and rclaI ves are expected to ViSit him today

H s would be assass n 23 year oldJosef Bachmann IS also mprov ngn he same hospllal from bullet wo

unds suffered when shoot ng t oulW Ih polIce before be ng overpowered

BUl Balhmann had losl a 101 ofblood and was too weak yet to allow police to qucsllOn him dec orssaId

FRG Torpedo ,Boat CollidesWilth East Germani Liner

GLUECKSBURG West Germany April 15 (Reuter) -AWest German naval torpedo boatcollldod With an East German crU!Se loner on the Balttc early Saturday while plckong up a manwho Jumped from the East German vessel a naval spokesmansaid hele Satulday

The East German news agency ADN said the 680 ton WestGerman NaJade dehberately rammed the 12442 ton Imer Voelkel freundschaCt m an act ofPII acy

bombers to Ihe general area 6f theirdescmatlon

1 here on hilltops miles fromIhe flgbtlng Ihc US placed meshesof \tIre thac acted as radar rcflecors and electroOic beacons that emlHed conhnuous Signals Gaugmg(he distance to Ihelr targets fromIhese spots the 8 52 s were able 10bomb wuh uncanny accuracy ThebIg bombers In facl were able towalk their sticks of bombs to WIh n 100 yards of the petlmeter rthf' mann.c bastion"

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FRG Student DemonstrationsGo On Unabated For 4th Day

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WEST BERLIN April 15 (Reuter) -At least 37 peoDle werearrested when truncheon SWin

glng pohce clashed With about5000 demonstrators 10 the citycentre here Sunday on the fourthday of VIOlence followmg theshootmg of leftwmg student Ieader Rual Dutschke

Lmes of pohce charged mtothe mllhon crowds on the fashlonable Kurfuerstendamm hi tbng at anyone not glvmg wayImmediately The demonstrato soverturned wooden carnages U-i

ed for constructJOn workers a..,water cannon swung Into actIOn

The three-hour battle left nJured on both Sides but casualt:;figures were not Immediately av

Iallable An eyeWItness said onepohceman was carll-::.d off afterbemg hit by a stone

The students fought back atpoliCe With wooden sticks andbare fists They also hurled slones fIrecrackers bages of coloured powder eggs and fr Ull

But pollee reacted more sternly than dUring the demonstratlons of the p, eVlOUs three day,

They are really brutal todavone student said as he dashed

for cover behtnd a news standThe demonstrators ret! eat~

slowly as hundreds of police many of them on horseback an:!water cannOn pushed them do\\ nthe Kurfuerstendamm

They chanted Rudl DutschklRudl Dutschke and SprmgerMurder SprInger Murder a reierence to the Spr nger newspap~r

empire which they claim whipped up antI student sentImentIn Berlin leading to the attempton Dutschke

Meanwhile doctors said todaythat Dutschke 28 was recovertng well from abram lfiJury andwas taken off the danger hst

West German J llstlce MInlstelGustav Hememann last night appealed on teleVISion for tolerancefrom the older generahan andcalled on young people to reframfrom VIolence

The young people too have 0

right to have thelf Wishes andsuggestIons heard and taken serlOusly But v)Olence 1S a baSICwrong and stupid IOta the bargam

A mam target for \.he studentsremams the Sprmger publish109house biggest 10 West Germanyand Its four mtlhon c1rculahonBlld Zeltung They have accused the Spnnger group 01 newspapers of whlpDmg up a clImate

KABUL April 15 1Bakhtar)Tbe Ministry of Agllculture andIrrtgallon has deCIded 10 gIvespeCial awalds to those farmers\\ ho raiSe the hIghest cuttenyield In thelt DlantatlOns fenfarmers from each of the cott Jfl

glOwmg Plovrnces of KunduzBalkh JozJan Herat BaghlilnFarYab Badghls and Samanganwould be a warded

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Discusses

Draft Law On

Viet Ground lFightingI Aft ...l 3 D l L II The spokesman at the Najade sncreases er· ay u base hele said the extent of the

Ph damage lo the lwo vessels washeld by he commun sis near u not yet knowl bUl that both were

Bal able lo continue Without assistAmer can Jets struck at targets tn anceNorth and Sou1h Vlelnam aga n Sa He could not say why the manturday mcludmg more ra ds by gl had Jumped overboard but beheant Slra ofortresses on the U Shau ved he was m satisfactory ce).1valley n the northwest dlt 011 abo ltd the NaJade

ThiS IS regarded by the Amen ADN said the colliSion was thecans as one of the mam mfihral on J csul t of a serrous attack onroutes (0 Soulh through Laos and peaceful shlPpmg by Gel man warbombmg ra ds have been sharply shipsstepped up there Since the relief or It said the foreIgn ministryKhe Sanh base , spokcsman had strongly protest

Takmg part m yesterday s raids cd against th s act of Piracy by-{or the second day runn ng-were the West navytbe controverSial sWing Wng F I J Ia ThiS was seen '" Bonn as theJet figh er bombers wh ch have re East German gavel nment slatJOIned the war Reet after a fortn ght est propaganda move smce stepof test fl ghrs followmg two mystery pmg mto the turmoil of Wes"crashes Germany s student unrest

OffiCIals In Bonn say the Ea.tGermans at e lrYlng to cash In

on the VIOlent left wing studentdemunstl allons '" German Citiesto heighten anll government feelIng

Ali eady East Germany hasstated that West Germa", minosters can no longer travel through East German land 10 WeslBerlin

The Wesl German navy spok

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Marri:age, DivorceKABUL Apnl 15 (Bakht.r)

The Senate In Its meeting Yesterday apDomted a 15 memb~rcommittee to study the views ofone of the Senators on some ofthe DrOVlSlons of tbe draft lawen marriage The draft law ISm Its third reading by the C"nmlttee of the Whole House •

Senator Abdul Hadi Daw. thepreSIdent of the Senate IS lhechairman of the special commIttee whIch IS)O report back tothe Senate on Its dehberalfon-

The committee "(lII dISCUSSthose prOVlSlons of the draft lawwhich are related to the tel msor marnage and dIvorce

Some of the committees of theSenate also met yesterday Inthe Law and Legislative Commlttee of the House the draftlaw On munlclpahtIes preparecJby the House of RepresentatIve,was discussed Senator Mohammad Hashim MOladldl preSIded

The Agricultural CommitteepreSided over by Senator AbdUlWakll dIscussed matters relatedto agncul ture

KABUL Apnl 15 (Bakhtar)A telegram expressing symp,thyto those affected by the rect ntoyelone m Fandpur of PakIstanhas been sent by the Afghan RedCrescent Society to the Paklst~nRed Crescent SocIety

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der Malor General Yukubu Gowon also accused TanzanIa ofprovldmg Blafrans With armsand guerrilla trammg

The Tanzaman foreign mmlstry yesterday refused to accept astrong formal protest from theN,geflan H,gh CommiSSIoner mDar es Salaam SOli WIlhamsat Its recogmtlOO of BlaIra

Wllhams told Reuter an attempt had been made to dehverthe protest to Chedlel Mgonlawho made the reCOgnlt16n an

nouncernent SaturdayTh~ high commiSSIOner said he

planned to fly to NaIrobi laterSunday to consult With hiS colleague there Leslte Harnmanabout Withdrawal of the NigerianmISSIOn from Dar es Salaam

AFP adds The ten memberNlgenan hIgh commiSSion m

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SAIGON Apnl 15 (AFP}--VlclCong troops tWice attackcd Amercan mfantry men 77 kms n~rth westof SaIgon dunng the n ght as ground fighting ncreased In cempo andferocity after a three day lull

Units of the 25th mfan ry diviS10n were attacked In a mgbt defenslve poSlllOn by Vlet Cong wreesusmg small arms automatic weapons and rocket grenade flre

They were qUIckly repulsed as thearmy called m arltllery and behcopter gunships but then attacked agam and only finally Withdrew af'leran hour 5 fierce fighting

Two U S soll:hers were killed and19 wou"ded

The U S troops were takmg partn the 100 battahon operation laun

ched In the eleven provmces aroundSaigon lasl week by US and allIedcroops

At the same time 57 US troopswere last mght reported to havebeen kIlled m a new l4-day old operaUon announced yes erday ma.rn;ng along the coastal plane from

Quang Tn city 10 the former Impenal capJtal of Hue

Saturday 20 U S mar nes werekilled when Ihcy .1Iacked a vlll.ge

u.S. UsecJ Electronic Sensors, BeaconsHelp Break Khe Sanh Siege: Newsweek,

NEW YORK April 15 (Reuted The army s Llmlled War Labo-Newsweek and Time Mag,zlne ratory al Aberdeen Maryland basyeslerday bOlh repor ed that tbe been developmg such sensors wblchUS used a secret electronic system can PICK up croop nOise tremors cato permIt accurate bombmg of com used by movement or even odoursmUDIst troopS beslegmg the Amen Time magazme 1n ItS cover storycan marine base at Khe Sanh (hiS week s~ud Ihat Kbe Sanb s ba

Newsweek' m an I em 10 Its- Per rren landscape presented problemsISCOpe secllon said The 8 52 s for the 8 52s' radar syslem whichand Ihe arltllery bombardmenlS were UsuaUy takes a fIX on prommentable to zero In accurately on com ground features To solve thatmunlSt troop. around Kbe Sllnll be Ihe M811aZIDe added the U S emcause tiny eleclrolllc sensors bad played a recently developed syslembeen scaUered thro~gb the hIlls called Sky Spot USlOg a powerfulsurrounding the lona beleaguered Co ground, control centre on South Viertress tnam s coast Sky Spot directed the

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malar general Park ChoongKook

Smith and Park represent,lespectlvely tbe UN command andNorth Korea On the Mlhtary Arrnlstlce CommIsSIon -J

Smith called for a loult lOvestlgatlOn of the North Korean attack but the North Korean sleledId not respond Immediately thespokesman saId

The ambush Sunday occurreeonly two days aftel 15 NOIthKorean guards attacked four UNCommand personnel on routlnt:.duty In the PanmunJom conferenCe site he said

N J othel details were ava Iable on the Friday InCident Butoffic als said there were no s~r

us nlUrles among the U~

command personnel attacked1 he Sunday mCldent narked

an end to an uneasy ~alm ale 19the Korean front that has preval1ed Since January 21

LAGOS REACTS BITTERLYTOl TANZANIAN MOVE

LAGOS April 15 (Reuter)­NIgena reacted sharply to TanZan18 s -recognition or secession

1St Blafra With the ImmedIateannouncement of steps to Withdraw Its diplomatiC mISSion fromDar-es-Salaam

A Nigerian federal government statement released Saturday night called Tanzama s move a hostl" act by a country Ithas Sincerely treated as a ff!end

Tanzama Saturday declaredIt regarded Blafra-the breakaway eastern regJOn of NIgerla­as an Independent sovereJgn entlty and thus became the firststate to recogmse the Blafran reglme

Eastern N,gena under Lleutenant Colonel Odumegwu Olukwuseceded from Nlgerla last May30 and as Blafra IS engaged mbItter and bloody CIVil strife

With the federal governmentThe Tanzaman deCISion was

announced by Chedlel MgonlaMInister of State for Foreign AflaIrS at a hastily summoned

press conference at State Housethe offiCIal reSidence of PreSidentJulIus Nyerere

Saturday mght s NIgerian reply said the TanzanIan movewas contrary to the terms ofthe charter of the OrganIsatIonfor Afflcan Umty (OAU) and ItSpnnclple of respect for the terlltonal Integnty of membercountnes

The statement Issued fromthe headquarters of federal lea

Meanwhile the White House,emawed silent about the progress In the diplomatic contac sWith North Vietnam m SPIte ofthe latest charge by the HanOIforeIgn mInIstry accusmg theUnIted States of dehbrately deIaywg start of the talks

OffiCials accompanymg the presIdent on b,s Easter hohdayweekend also declmed commentOn Secretary General U Thant sappeal to path Washington andHanOI to come qUIckly to an agreement on the site for talks 'norder to aVOId the maSSive destruction of hfe and property tha tIS gomg on

In sPIte of the fact that It ISnow two weeks sinCe PreSIdentJohnson declared a UnIlateral

• halt to most of the bombing ofNorth VIetnam offiCials remamed hopeful that agreement on thevenue would be reached withina reasonable tune

But they continued to emph~(Continued I rorl page 4)

___"""'"" ~,;.o""!-...........ooIln~__.... KA_BUL, 1'I!0NDAY, APRIL 15, 1968

•FOUR UN SOLDIERSKILLED IN AMBUSHl~nt Marks End Of Calm

In Korea Truce LineSEOUL ~prll 15 (AP) -Four Umted NatIOns command sol

dlers mcludllig two AmerIcans were kIlled and two other ArneIlcan soldIers wounded Sunday mght when thetr truck was ambushed by North Koreans 600 metres south of the PanmunJomarmIstIce conference area a com mand spokesman announcedtoday

The ambush occurred at about11 pm (1400 GMT) Sunday whlIe the truck from the 2nd U Smfantry diVISIOn was makmg aloutme trlD from the UN Command advance camp to Panmunlorn he said

The ambush was dIscovered bya second UN Command veh.clecal rymg an Ameflcan sergeantand two other men about 10 mlIIUtes after the attack he saId

They had heard about 200 roulids of automatic weapons {Irpand two explOSIOns and hastened to the scene the spokesmansaId

The other two fatal casualt es\\ ere South Korean army soldiersattached to the US military hesaid

A qu ck reaction force from lhL:2nd diVISion was Immediately dspatched and a sweep was madebut no North Korean casualtieswere found he saId

ThIS brought the Amencan casualtles to 4 killed and 14 wounded smCe the January 21 alleged raid of Seoul to attempt onthe 11 fe of PreSident ParkChung Hee

"'he ambush site was well nSIde the Korean demllltansedzone the spokesman said

The U S Command called theambush a flagrant vlolatoon 01the Korean armistice agreementand Immediately protested 'n anote sent by US rear adnuralJohn V SmIth to North Korean

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New Membe,s 01Lowe, HouseCommitteesApp,o.,ec/

KABUL ApTiI 15 (Bakhtal J ­

I he names of the newly electedmembers of the Fmanclal andBudgetary Affalts the Inteln3

honal RelatIons the Agfleul'ural and Cattle RaISing the PublIc Health the Public Works andCommumcatlOn Affans and theNatIOnal Defence and tbe Socl,l1l1lprovemen s Committees of theHpuse of Representahves wereapproved by the general meetng of the House yesterday

The committee apPOinted tyIhe House about a fortmght ago Ito diSCUSS the unIversIty admrsSlon Ploblems WIth the EducaI on Mmlstry offiCials also subnutted ItS report to the House\\ hlch was discussed by the seneral meetIng yestel day mornm...

It was dec,ded to contmue thediscussIOn of the report 111 today smeeting Dr Abdul Zaher the

presldenl of the house preSltled

UK Urges U.S. To AvoidDelay In Fixing Talks Site

LONDON Aprol 15 (AP) -Bn Warsaw as a site for prehmmala n IS urgmg Ihe Unlled Slat"S ry talks would g,ve the Umted10 aVOid further delay m flxmg States a chance to name Its ehoa sIte for prehmmary peace talks Ice of a site for subsequent talksWIth North Vietnam diplomatiC Brotlsh offiCials were reportedsources saJd Monday concetned that unless agreement I

They said the BroUsh VIeW Cn a site for prehmmal'y talksmade known In Washmgton I'; IS reached soon the talks mavIhat Amencan acceptance of not be held at all

ERSO-ll Arrives In

U.S. For LaunchingREDONO BEACH CahfornIa

Apnl 15 (Reuter) - ESRO IIthe II nation European Satelhtehas al qved here m preparabonfor Its launching On May 15

The spacecraft was bUilt mEngland by Hawker SIddeley Dynamlcs for the European SpaceResearch Orgamsation (ESRO)

After undergOing balance tesV ts It Will be shipped to the wes

tern test range at Vandenbergair force base for l~unchlng bythe US NatIOnal Aeronauticsand Space AdmmlstratIOn(NASA)

The unmanned ESRO II Willmeasure solar and cosmic radlalion as part of a SCIentifiC re~ea

rch programme An earlier ESRosatellite launched on May 29last year failed to go IOta orbIt

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TANZANIA

RECOGNISES

BIAFRAGENEVA Apnl 14 (DPA I

Tanzan a yeslerday recogmserlB a fra as an ndependen t soverclgn entIty the BlaIra:l government confirmed 10 Aba yesterday accol d ng to the Genev~

based B afl an overseas pre..,s SPrv ce

The announcement was madeeall er yeslerday In Dar ( s Salaam by I anzaman Foreign Mnlster Mted el MgonJa

mg and strenghtcnmg commercial relatIOns between the 'Wi} countries Ina,ccordancc Wlth dcc1arotlOn nt.Rd~

and detlS,ons reached by the ~CTAD II •

It was also announced that Prime.Mm'ster Nour Ahmad Etemadl hasmVlled Indl~ Prltne Mlmst~r IndiraGandhi 10 vis" Afghamstan

Also lasl week Afghamstan marked tbe mternat.onal health day InfunctIOns held In man\ institutions111 Kabul

The lenth day of holy Muharran,a day wblch IS bemg marked throughout islamiC world \0 mark Ih<martyrdom of Ihe grands J, of HolyProphet Mohammad was marked mAfghanlSlan laSI week

In Kabul a cQJJdolence meetmgheld m Chendawal was allendedamong olhers by Thelt Royal Highnesses Pnnce Mohammad Nadir andMarshal Shah Wah Khan Ghul

The Depuly Prime Moo "er of PianOlng returned from a meeting o[the board of governors of the AOl:lanDevelopment 8ank lasI week Hesaid on arrival that a delegatIOnfor ASian Development Bank IS expeeted to ViSit Afghamstan ID thenext three weeks to .::atudy AfghanistinS requests for aSSI'ihmce In agnculll ral and transportrlfJon projects

Tanzania was the first countryIn the world to recogmse BlaCraN1gena s former eastern t'e~uo 1which ceceded on May 30 1967

It IS "'gaged In war With thefederal N,genan forces wh ehhold the caoltal Enugu

Blafra IS chiefly Inhablten bythe Ibo tribes who lost 301)()0 perpIe m lhe JulY 1966 masacres

DETROIT Apfll 14 (Reuter)-General Motors said FridayItS Ameflcan dealers sold 122854cars m the first 10 days of Apr Icompared With 112756 In the "ame penod last year

Cyprus Ivories(Conltnued from page 3)

decorative units carved In relleror I n openwork The fOI mer Ineluded two panels conSisting ofs nallel plaques ont: decora"edWith antlthe~ c sphinxes slondmg on elthel Side of a fluw~rmotif weanng gJl(led aplOns nntlthe othel decmated WIth figmesof the god Heh WIth glIded trou

, sers seated n front of a branchof a palm 1I ee rrom whIch hdn~sthe symbol ankh

The style of the <arvIng IS rgyphaOis ng PhoemClan recall Ill-;

I n many respect s the Jvones fromthe palace of Nlmrud OtherIVOI Y panels cal ved In rellerare decorated With flower ml)tlfs "hlch are mlald Wlto I Illeglass

There are tY. 0 plaques carvedIn ooenwork One repi esenlr.:; acomposite flower meant to beseen from both Sides decor 1t<>jWith InlaId ~ue glass and th ngold on the clolsons wh ch canta ned the glass The most exqUlslte however of all the IVOfles from thIS tomb I" the sec II d

plaque With a wmged sphinXweaTlng the two Clowns of Egyptdecorated Wllh blue and brownpasle \\ Ilhln gIlded elOison.

Both sIdes, f the plaque ,rl'cal ved III a style which equaJ~If not surpasses the best of theNlmrutil IVOIICS found by PrOleSCI Mallo" an and recorded InThe lllustrilled London News

We have descnbed only a smaltpail 01 the wealth whIch the ,h ,mas 01 thiS PI eVlOusly looted tomb has produced

These flch tomb gifts togethelWIth the monumental archItecture of the tomb Itself are charartellSlic of the Dower and fabtllous "ealth of the kmgs of SalamlS m the archaIC period Someof the b, onzes and IVOnes illreodydescribed OJay pass down asworks of art of maJor ImpOI tance IllustratIng the kmd of models whIch InsDlted Gre'ilk OrIntahsmg- and art faSCinatedHomer and hIS con temporanes __

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ounccment made by 1he AfghanMIOIsiry of Foreign Affurs <:aldthat the Yugoslav governa len \\<111keep the government of Afgh Ull'Stanmformed 'In the further contae sand developmcnts In the mailer

In Tokyo PreSident fIla hImselftold u press conference that manycountries have adopted a Jtllnt vewaccording t'\ which Il IS nCliC~!'Iarv toconvene a new summit co lfcro I,;e ofnonnlglncd countnes

H,s MaJesly the King who IS mItaly for medIcal check up completed hiS med cal consulta lon$ lastweek In Rome Rnd went 1o I It n.:ncefor rest

In other news of the week II '\lISreported Ih.t Ihe Afghan and IndIRnMinisters of Commerce have madea comprehensive review of economicrelatIons betwcen the two counlnesThe lillks held after Ih< complellonof the Second United NatIOns (onference for Trade and Oevelopmenr Were held In an atmosphere ofC'lItreme cordiality and underst,.nd109 a JOlOt press statemcnl I"'iuedby Dr Noor AI Ihc Afghan (ammerce Minister who t1o.::aded the counlry S delegatIOn 10 UNCTAD andDeOlsh Smgh the IndIan (omrnerceM10lstcr said

Thc lwo mm sters c:xc..hanged v f:WOn the poSSIble means for diverSify

East German Move

Afghan W~. In Re..,iew:

8M ANSWERS TITO'S LETTER

ACCIDENT

rhc Yugoslav PresIdent _Marshnl Tllo for some time now has b<'entrymg to prepare the grounds forholdrng another summit c .nfer"'nceof nonalgmed nations

AI thiS Juncture of mternlUlonallffalrs when distrust and tension

pr('v lils and the economic situatIOnof Ihe world gcnerally and of thedevelop ng countTles spec13lly IS deter oratmg the convemng of such il

meeting WIll undoub cdly contTJbutetowrads !;olvmg some of these problems It may usher a ncw era ofgood Will and understanding as thefirst nonalglned conference '" Bill

d ng d d In 1955

WOODLAND HILLS CallfO! nI Apr I 14 lAP) Actor prod

(et Tommy No nan 46 who (starred With such cmema greatsas Marilyn Monroe and 'am~~

Mason was reported In a con 1Satulday at motion p cture Ct untry hOSPItal

Elgh monlhs ago a malign liltbl aln tumm was removed. bvsUlge1y

11 wa!; announced In the course ofI sl week that HIS MaJcsty has answered to a Icller of PreSIdent 1 toon nonaligned conference The letler was submItted to the PreSident ofIhe Yugosl..v Federal A,,<mbly.all Ihe absence of Tlto who wns onan offiCial ViSit to Japan In Ihe letler Afghanistan has agreed ID prlOclpIe With convpnmg of such a confercnlC

In Afg1,anlslan s note t has be('nsl tted that loday s world SituatIonrcq rcs thorough study and unllerI lk ng of preparation fu the lICC

css of such a conferen e 1 he ann

Mr. Sidky(Coni'" lC~d from page I)

In 1940 he d> posted 111 R II10 A[ghamstilll He wOlke j ht' t

up to 1944 \Vh 11 he was apuc Poled as \he ed,tol of dally An"

In 1948 he ecame membe, 01lhe UN mformatlOn centre InNew VOl k lip WQ:-. tran..,'erlC Ias UN thIef lOformatloll <.ltflcel" inKabul 111 1959 lie was n"ell thesame pest r...t W (Tulnea in1961 \I hcre hc SErver! up to lah5pI lOr to hIS tal, '01 eb Ir~c ,f theInformatIOn allJ (ulture ~1" strY

((onllnued from page 1)Meanwhile thousands of ,10

dents demonstrators battled police and beSieged newspaper c.Hct's In seven cilies In German Fedel al Republic Saturday to p cvent t\l.U m 11 on cop es of tt emass c leulallon Bid Zeltung IE'lch ng newsstands

In I n ghl of unparallell'd volenc£:, stemming flom the a5:sHs nat n attempt 01 student Jeadel led Rudl Dutschke ou l

Ce used t~1 gas water cannoo.,.and 11 uncheons to keep mob., atbay n Hambul g FrankfulI andEssl ngen

In West BerItn whete Out..chke \.\ as In hasp tal cntlcadyIII WI h three bullct woundssludents fought pitched battle\\Ith polIce In John F KenndySqual e and then SWItched th, rfJ( t JOg to tne Dublishmg hou'ieof Axel SprJOger the natl Jll s

biggest newspaper ownerThe students accuse the Sprm

ger press-and particularlY thefour mtlllon Circulation dally

Bild Ze tung of fostenng theclimate of pol tical !Otolerence

wh ch led to 1 hursdav s al t I ,by Dutschke s would be aSsas, nnamed by oollce as 23 yea' oldJosef Bachmann

1 h~ concerted studen t actl 1

w th barrICades and f re ag::l b

the Spr nger group was call~rl bythe extreme leCtwtng Soc a' ,:>1Gern,an Students League of\Vh ch Dutschke s ;1 leader

fhe demonstrators used Imost anythtog to hand to bart Icade the eXIsts of printingworlts

In Esshngen they nnged thebuildmgs With cals and replacedthem With fresh vehIcles as fastas pohce dragged them awayIn Essen they dragged m railwayhnes to block eXits

PolIce fought hand to har.dWith students m Hamburg andwhen water canqon were tUI ne:lon them the demon~lrators Ietahated With bncks and hUlledflaming torches across polIce b3rrlers The entrance to the Sprmger presses were evenlu.l Iycleared after seven hours

In Frankfurt poloee waded mWith batonsfflaglmg m a bId todisperse yelling crowds but Ihehulk of the 1300000 FI ankf",rtedition of Bild Zeltung was hlocked In the Spnnger offices Halfa dozen other newspapers IJn 1

ted n the same works also IVIIed to get copies ou t

Ambulances rushed the ml I

ed nclud ng prmters to hosptal but as to other c tIes IheconfuslOn prevented an accuratetally of the number hurt a darrested

Hanovel mayor Otto Bal chlmade a personal appeal to demonstrators to remove balrlcadtsbut he was shouted down by Sllden ts who clam bel ed On to b.. rJ leTS wavmg red flags and 5 ng ng the International

In Bemerhaven demonstralors lore down the American fl3".at the entrance to US millta vheadquarters after trYing 10storm the bUilding

Trouble flared yesterday whenthe Americans refused to acceptan antI Vietnam war I esolutIonfrom some 500 peace marcher

West German Chancellor Ku tGeorg Klesmger last flight ''''' arned thaI If VIOlent demonstraho lSover the attempted assassmatlonof student leader Rudl Dutschke contmued he would ordeltoughel meaSUl es to maintainder

(ConI n"eel from page l) In an interview With the WestI hc dnver of Ihe bus No ~:J Germany rad,o he sa,d t1}e au

of Kabul SaIfullah h83-been ar than lies had so far exercised reJesled But the driver of the Me stratnt to prevent unnecessarl"cdrs Mohammad Asghar die I suffenng01 Lh, ,pot The West German Bundesllg

I he conditIon of Mohammad Saturday ordered a speCial paIsa me 01 the Inlured IS stated I amentary hearmg On the BCIby the NadiI': Shah hospital hul lin shooting of Dutschlie acoletlO to be satisfactory but the the wave of VIolent leltwmg de

theI two JIlJuled are stilt In monstratlons that followedSellOUS conchtlons Bundestag PreSIdent Eugene

When a reIlQrter caUed oll'the Gel stenmaler scheduled the SPcdls~ster stncken faml!:r th~ only l-clal heanng of the mterlOr COOlsurViving mell1b~rj ~·tlie J3 3.ear .lmttee for next Wednesdayold glr! ",hI' hli.d t~a1Jl:: in fer There were predIctions that theeyes saJd ~he'f!lcldent;'has£'os outbreak of Easter Violence nell the doors of!ttDl1' house Ij IS eluding burning of newspaper 11desolate ~ she cQ"l1d no~ con~n ucks and mterruptlon 01 church

, lk 7..< '" services would hasten passage ofue.amg - ~ G dThose ,vbil have IlJei:l; <are ~ West ecmany s pr'0J;lose emer

ghar 16 Wie dlivet) and 9. Stu gency powers lawdent In the ninth grade iOf tst°!llal high school", Mit,,", Mob!tmmad Hussain 18, a shoP""keep1\r'Mrs S,ddlq 25 a,; HouseWife Hrs:Nesa 35 a houseWIfe, Miss TOjirpalkal 12 a'l1llldeii't In the 4fpIIrade of ~~PJl Hera)!fl ~~?l'M1SS LSIIUlmI ~MisS lidIfl1:t<:l'!:'"

~~ ~hose 1!!,ltlf~ li~e Miss. Fau.15~oharrlmlfd'Tsil and (Jnll,.Y~~;Suhalla

World News In BriefSTOCKHOLM J\pr I 14 (AFP

-1 he US embassy here Saturday said Ambassador W,lham WHeath recalled fOI consultatal s In Washmglon on MarcJ1) after a notable detenoratlOn01 Swedlsh Amencan relationsv.. III return to hiS post m sevel <\1days

Heath s recall followed a NaVe<.1 dt: mOllsLra t ms n Sweden ...gCJ n~l the V ptnam ''''' 81

Home-Briefs

Eight officials of the HelmandAr,;handab Valley Autborlty leftKabul Friday to study agrlcultural credit melhods In Iran andTurke, under a grant from theII S Agency for Internat;onalDc, elollmcnt ({TSAlD) TheyWill ohserve the operational methOlls or agrIcultural eredlt programmcs at the Bank of Iran InTehran at the Kuzestan projectIIc.r Tehran and at the Agrleulttlral Bank of Turkey at Ankara

SINGAPORE Apnl)4 (Reulet) -P 1m£, M n1ster Lee KuanYl \\ S t ul g Peopel s ActlOnParLy I PAP) wa.s yesterdaYassurcn (f ]I l ther f ve yearh~1 m I PO\\ cr <Jetet Il won genet at c: \c( tin

r ISBON Apr I 14 lAP) TheI ~It guest: armY killed 94 na\ mal 51 Iebeb and captul ed 20n Pc I tugueSt. Afllean ten tory

)1 i\1( zamblqu(' dur ng the lastmonth of ~I.all.:h a mlhtalY commun que said Saturday

The PH tuguese army has beenlin lve I In atl guen ilia \\ al fareh..:lc slllCC 1961

1 EH RAN It an April 14IAP1 V,s,ling Kink Hassan ofM( ClJ(L:O VIewed lrans dazzhngcrown le\lels Saturday at theBank Melli treasun before endmg hiS day s actLvlty With ab:lll quet he gave ror It s hC5tSthe Shah anc! Empl ess F ar~h

In a speech at a palace banqquet FI day ntght KIng Hassancalled for IslamiC untty Moslemdlsun Iy and splits among the Alabs wete the main leason [OJth~ loss of tern tOiles to the Israelis he said

Kwg Hassan IS scheduled toaddress a lOInt seSSIOn of thehouses of parhament today ,

SYDNEY Apnl 14 (Reuter) ~Ausl raila s POSlbOIl as part ofSoutheast ASIa was emphaSisedby the Execut,ve Secretary ofthe ECOljomlc Commission fo(As,a and the Far East U Nyunwhen he al rived here yesterd,,::,

U Nyun Will a~end EC~~g

annual seSSIOn to be helca:-;nberra fro Apnl 1730 ';,

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SAIGON Apl'il' 14 (R~u ~*'U.s Ambassador E1lswo'~~Ulf;.ker returned here Ye:'~l!,i:ter oonsultatlOns WJtIl1P.rest<JentJohnson at Camp QaviQ. ~

PHAGLJE ApI 1 14 (APIBul~H an P eml~r and pal tvh el I od 11 Zh vkov \\ 1 heo, a

P tI t\ uld gavel nment delegat 11 expecleu herc later th s11 nt.h tu s,...,n a ne\\ fI lendsh Ppl(l \ Ith Czech slo I( -l thef Ie gn m 11 t ) announced SatUlda)

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\ eslerda, tbe wannest areasWHe Kandahar and Faral. with11I,;h, of 27C 80 5F and the(oldest area North Salang witha low 01 -6C 21F

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