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Investment .in these areas willcontinue at 65 per ""nt of the 196566 levels.

~ess developed countries are scarq:ly ~rrecled.

A.I the end of 1966, direct investment by U.S. business abroad totalled ~54.562 million including516,200 million in western Europe.

Johnson has scnt special mi~si.onsto various countries to seek theircooperation in the overall plan. Eugene ROSIOW, under"Secretary ofslate for political affairs, flew to.Japan and Australia and under-se_cretary Nicholas Kalzenbacb toI',ondon, Honn, Rome Brusselsthc 'Hague, Bern~ and P~ris, '. '

One aim of the Presid'cnt's plansis fO keep down foreign. exchangetosh, of maintaining U,S. troqps inEurope but the number of U.S.treaps will not be affected.

CAIRO, Jan. 3 (DPA}-YemeniPremier and, commander.in-chief:lIassan el-Amry said Monday ·tberepublican regime would survive."as long as the Yemeni people sur'vive,"

PARIS, Jan. 3, (Reuterl.-John.son IS mea~:ures were g,enerallywelcomed in President de Gaulle's government citcles as well asin private banking and financialquarters.

But one senior official said:"Only an early end to the Viet.nam war would really' cure theUnited St.tes' present ills~.

The new measures are seen asgoing some. way 'towards me.etjng General de Gaeulle's demand, at his last press conference ·inNovember. that the United Statesshould put nn cnd to the "abuse"of using the baiance of paymentsdeficit to. take over control ofEuropean industrial.and businessconcerns.

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NICOSIA, Jan. 3. (AFP).The Greek government has sus-pended the withdrawal of Greektroops from Cyprus. the GreekCypriot newspaper Synagermosreported:

The troop withdrawal was de·cided following agreement on theCyprus problem recently bet·ween Greece and Turkey·. Thenewspaper said that so far onlYabout 4.000 of the 12.000 Greektroop.s on the island had left.

Another Greek Cypriot paper,the authoritative .Kypros, urg"ed a return to the 1960 constitu··tion (set up when Cyprus becameindepehdent) as ·"the only wayout of the deadlock following the El·Amry was speaking at celebra'.formation by the'TurkishCypriot lions marking ·~.Popular Resistanceleadership of a separate Turkish Uay" in the Yemeni capital of San-Cypriot administrative cabinet in an, . .Turkish Cypriot sectors". He said that the enemie< of the

This is the. first such proposal Yemeni republic ,!,ere "in their lastfrom the Creek Cypriot side sin. throes, while We remain slrong. Noce President Makarios tried uni~ o'U~,~ter what conspiracie.s we face."laterally .to . revise the Cyprus H.. said: "Our enemies out~ide

constitution four Y~ars a~o.,. His _&OU inside must know that we areaction precipitated the Cypriot determined to light and wili pro'crisi.s. . tect our gains."

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SWEEPING STEPS TAKEN TO PROTECT $WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (Reuter) payments deficit. for 1968.

-Sweeping measures to protect the Announcing lhe steps in San An-dcIlar and slice. the widening defi- tonia, Texas Johnson estimatedcit in U.S. balance of payments went the 1967 deficit. a\ $3,500 .to $4,000into operation Monday with a tna- million. against 51357 million injor impact on Western Europe. 1966.. The new meaures announced by The President's moves made whileU.S, President. Johnson will Halt. most Americans were enj6ying theU,S. investment in western Europe. ~ew Year's Day boliday aod stockratticularly in Common Market co- marketes were closed surpris'ed evenuntries. government officials by its timing

and nature.Reduce lending abroad and Steps to boost exports were expe- .Cul defe,!ce and foreign aid spen- cled later this month, but .off!-

dmg. ' . cial:. said tbe monetary turmoil fol-It also calls for Americans to lowing sterling's devaluation and

stay at home. the overseas gold rusb of the pastThe measu~ are designed to two months forced the president to

cut some $3.000 million.. frOID the speed. up his new programme. and-------adopt more' drastic meausres.

President Johnson said the objectof his plans was to stem the flowof dollars overseas and preserveconfidence in U.S. currency at homeano abroad. He pledged that thedollar would not be devalued.

The whole of continental WesternEurope, excludirta. Greece ano Finland, 'was declared off~limits {orduect new American investment byJohnson.

Between 1950 and 1966 U.S. inve·str'nent in this area qU,aqruplcd.

Britain, Canada> Australia, Ja_pan, oil-pc<;>ducins countries andothers heavily depen'dent on U.S.capatal were put in a special category.

a two·fifths cut on July I.The western industrialised count

ries expect the Kennedy ,Round cutsto open up new trading opportunities and stiffen international competition ·in 'world markets.

Industrial countries will also gcn~

crally meet a, persi~tent demandfrom the world's poorer nations by'implementing the (ull Kennedy RounG cuts immediately instead ofSpaci118 these reductions oVClr fiveyears,

These products include bananas.lemops, oranges, cocoa, coffee, tea,rice.wool, jute, salmon and tropicalwood.

Trade concessions on these Dndolher items vary considerably fromone industrial'"- couotry to another.

This has left the less developedcountries deeply dissatisfied withthe results of the Kennedy Round,since meir economies continue torel) far more on production andf;xport of primary products thanmanufactured goods.

as it did for Washkanslry-fromim accident victim, aut' it camefrom an unexpected so~rce, anatu.ral death.

The donor.' suffering from aserious brain . disease, startedsinking fast· abou' breakfast'tl.meTuesd~y morning. and the &urgi.cal team. fundam~ntally the·.sam~. as that. which operated onthe first . transplant case, Louis·Washkllnsky. were mustered fromall parts of 'Cape ·Town to joindoctors who had .been standingby in .the Groote Schuur Hospi-.tal building.

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.!L'\.BUL, Jan..3. (Bakhlar).HI" Majesty tbe King Said Eidprayers Sunday morning in,themosgue at A.rge Sh~!Ji. palaceand prayed for the' prosperity ofthe Afghan nation and unity ofthe Islamic world.

Their. Royal Highness princeAhmad Sbah. ltfarshal. Shah WaliKhan Ghazi, Sardar Abdul Walimembers. .of t'he Roy.l Family'Prime MlDlSt\!r Nmr Ahmad Ete:madl andChief Justice Dr. AbdulHakIm Z,ayee attended the ser'f!ces. "Also present were ' Wolesij'rgah Presideol Abdul 20~er. Meshrano Jirgah President,en .. Abdul Haw Dawi. CourtMinIster Ali Mohammad. cabinetmem bel'S, generals of the ROYalArmy, and Kabul Governor Dr'~ohnmmad Aliram. .

.. The services were conducted byt1,fez Abdul Basir.

After the prayers His Majesty~ccepted Eid congratulations~TO~ th.e Prime Minister, chiefJu~tlce, presidents of the two houses of Parliament, members of thecabinet and high ranking milita.f! and civil officials who came to· ,ulkhana Palace.· They also signed album 'offerIng their felicitations On the oc.caSlOn to Her Majesty,

Eid prayers were said all overAfghanistan Sunday at 10 amat g~and mosques where Fridayprayers are s3id

Prime Ministe~ Etemadi Sun.day evening broadcast over RadioAfghanistan a message to the nation. He said:

On the oc~asion of the Eid FitI'.00 behalf of myself cabinet memobers, and civil and 'military officIals. I offer congriltulations toHIS Majesty the King. Her MaJesty the Queen, the royal familyand the noble Afghan Nation.

Likewise I offer congratul~tions on this blessed occasion 'toPashtoonist.ani brethren, and toall Moslem nations of the worldand wish for their prosperity andsuccess under the mercy of God.

Islam points out to us our reoligious obligations and responsibilitIes' for selfless services. .Its teachings on understanding contem_porary realities brotherhood unity of thought and action in anatmosphere of friendship .and sincerity and closeness of heart will'lead us. to success in this world

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GENEVA, jan. 3 (Reuter)-TheUnited State.s and seventl other major western trading nations yesterd<ly' cut import tariffs on a wide range of manufactured and agricultural produc.ts,

The reductions are the first of five2.nDual cuts agreed here last Juneby 46 countries in the KennedyRound trade negotiations theworld's biggest tariff-cutting 'pact.

· The compromise agreemen~, reathed after four years, of tough bargaining, calls for liberalisation oftrade in agricultural goods and slashmg import duties On a large number of industriat items by an over_all. average of 35 per cent.

Countries joining the United States in m8;king the first one~fiftb cutindude Canada, Australia. New Zenlan.d, Austria and Switzerland.

A secC!nd group ot' countries in·ciuding Britain, the European Common Market nations, Japan and theScandinavian countries, wIll' beginto put the agreemelJt into effect with

just under a month ago.A 'meJOber o~. the Groote Schu

ur surgical team said preparations for the transplant began be·fore dawn Tuesdy mQrning asthe coloured man began sinkingfast.

He eventually . died' at 0843(0643 GMT). and the team immediatelY began the delicate taskof liflng his heart from \tis bodYand. placing it inside Dr: !3lai••.berg: .

Blood dono~s were called. inMonday to donate blood for the"bank" .needed to sustain Dr.Blaiberg through the long operation... The Groote Schuur heart trans·plant team had been waitin~ throu!dJ the weekend for a SUItable

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The agency said Trlnh reiterated the four·point stand ofNorth Vietnam and the politicalprogramme of the South .vietnamNational Liberation Front-political arm of the Viet Cong-asthe basis for a settlement of theVietnam issue.

The four points include witharawal of U.S. troops from the Southas well as a halt to the bombing of the North.

In his speech. Trinh also accused the U.S. of scheming to bringthe Vietnam issue before theUnited Nations Security Coun·cil .

He added: "It is necessary topoint out that the UN has no rightto discuss the Vietnam question.

"Whatever resolution On Vietnam 'is adopted by the UN se·curity Council is null and void'\he said.

CLARI,FICATION~BBI'NG SOUGHTBY WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. Jar.. 3 (Reuter)- The State Department said yesterday it was secpng clarification ofa new North Vietnamese statementexpressing 'l'illingncss to hold talksif the United Stales unconditionallyended its bombing of Ihe North.Deparim~nt spokesman carl Ba

rtch told a press conference theslatement by North Vietnamese For.eign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh.broadcast by Hanoi Radio yesterday. was under closc' scrutiny here.

HE' declined to characterise thestatement in any way or say whetherWashington thought it representedan iinpos:-tant advance from Hanoi'spxeviously stated position that talks."could" take place if the United.States halted irs bombing and otbe[acts of war against North Vietnam.

But all indications were that theJchnson adm'inistration was intrigu~'ed by Hanoi's phraseology and washoping that some more precise tigb"tcould 'be thrown on the meaning ofthe statement within the next fewdays..

Bartcb refused to say how clarification was being sought. but stated"tbat if part of the studying process.

Observers said .they presumedcontacts would be mi;lde throughlturd party countries with diploma·tic links to North Vietnam.

"We will explore every possiblelead," the spokesman saidin affirming U.S. readiness tooverlook no oppovtunity that mightlead· to peace talks.

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Cape Town Dentist Receives New HeartCAPE TOWN, Jan. 3. (Reuter)

Surgeons at Groote SGhuur' Hospital yesterday performed theIrsecond he.art transplant-insert·ing the heart of ~ dead colouredman i.nto the body of a 58-year·old white denti$t.

· Tile operation was' performed'on .Dr. Philip Bhliberg;

The coloured man. aged 24.·died 'about' 15 minutes before theQperation begijn.· ...The operation on Dr. Blaiberg.

· .who !)ad been critically ill with aheart ailment and had, bee.n given ·onry .a shom .time to live, began just before 0900 local tl!"e(0700 .GMT) yesterday.

The surgicai team wqs againled by Prof. Christian Barnard,who performed the world's firstheart transplant in the· hospital

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:; ~'l\j':~_J:'~;~~'Y'1 near ~ountrymen: ." , . " .'1 ::.fi~0Iq;\~i . t co~gra~ulate yo~ an? the. entire' world ·.M?slem corrimunity~~I.I:i'\lf.0n. the occasIOn of Eld Fltr' and wish fQr happmess and' pros-';~'M~#P p!'ity?f all. . . . . .... ' ..:.t~it·'r;: ThIS blessed Erd commg after' a month of prayer has a special',,; ,'l. . value for all Moslems. Fasting exempHfies the complete sub-',~: ;.,.; mission to. the..'Almighty's will, and is effective in strengthening. ,i the human WIll and character.

. \ In fulfilling this obligation and in understanding its mean-ing we merit the happiness that comes in the days of Eid.

'.... '. 'j, It is "my wish that in these joyful days in accordance with" '(t~ the teachings of Shari'at . you strengthen your bonds of friend

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,~, '~"Vice Premier Says North WillTalk If U.S. Ends Bombing

hf~ .;.\ '. l} LUSAKA; Jan. 3 (AfP}-2om-f'- bian President Kenneth \ Kaundaiii:..·. Monday declared it would' be "a

~J~:~-'I,' ,.logical step" for an .~nd CenrM;'.1-.r~ .'. ..;. teal African defense' pac~ to be es·(~j:;11~' "" tablisbed in face . threa,ts from·~J..;' ...;:.. neighbouring whitl>'ruled countries:

. ;'" . He said Sou!ll Afnca was a pow'erful country, Rhodesia was l!eco'

,. .• mlng . entrench«! and Mozambique,~.., '-lInd ""goJa. 'were being direclly or

· 1\. 1Ildll'ectly backed by !lie North At·, .,~ lantic Treaty Organisation.

.. '.'These are not idle forces-'-they:' are a pretty mighty bloc. U

H.. warned that. unless Africsnleaders were prepared' to pool theirresourceS ioto a unified command.lhe)' migh\ fjl\d tbQi!'..future develop-.ment bampered.

HONG KONG, Jan. 3, (Reuter).-North Vietnam said yesterdayit would talk with the UnitedStates uon relevant questions"after the Americans had uncondi·tionally ended the bombing andall other acts of war against it.

The statement was made in a~.j speach by North Yietnamese Vice.J Premier Nguyen Day Trinh at

"''iJ,~' an offil:::ial reception in Hanoi for.ii: a visiting Mongolian delegation"" J and reported Monday by the

;,1 Nonh Vietnamese news agency.Referring to the Vietnam sit

uation. Trinh said:, . "The U.s: government has un·

• , ceasingly claimed that it wants1. .',.' if;l; .to talk with Hanoi but has recei"",.. " 1, ved np response.J .'. "1"~,'I "If the U.S. government truly? ~; ,Jj~l. wants to talk, it must, as was~~.'".-: .,:4 :;\ made clear in our statement on;'~'!i*~\' t: January 28. 1967, first. of all stop~"~~~~,·r unconditionally the bombing 9,nd{.1::iJ<""I;·~· other acts of war against the:..il'· .:: ." Democratic' Republic of Viet.. \,~ ~t ." . ~""' •. nam.. '. ::~. He added: "After the U,S. has''or?'' .;i;kr ~nded unconditionally the bomb·,,,..- ~e:a' mg and all other acts of war ag" ::.;;'jf:'·'· iaost the DRV. the DRV will holdI . ~.; I ~ . talks with the U.S. on relevantI ~ . " .

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· ,. North Vietnam's previous stand~ ;t"':, that there could be talks after the

I; . unconditional. cessation of U.S.bombj!1g and all other acts ofwar.

SAIGON, Jan. 3.-A massiveViet Cong assault agsinst anAmerican base camp shatteredthe U.S.·South Vietnam side'sNew Year six hours before it was

. 'I to have ended Monday morning.

..;? Twenty-three United States in·fl"'t!'yman were killed and 153

" '/.-wounded defending. a 25th divis.' \06 1,}fon camp near Dau Tieng, 60!J/~. ': miles northwest of he~e.. from··t~·~ierce attack by an estlmated

I , ~., J;egiment of Viet Congo'. ' . The defenders claimed count.' '.' h,lg 348 Viet CQng dead and tak,

..,..• ing . five prisoners and 101 arms.I Viet Cong penetrate(i the defence

perimeter at several points.Amrican gunners fired anti

personnel shells at near point.,.. . blank .range at human waves of

1~1l· .. Viet Congo Several volleys of.~~ <1'~~\"~ .the shells spewed out tens of

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At lho!i;e sub An~rctlc Islan:s~here there are permanent stahI! 1 ho d h onss pe f at the touns s WIIJsee some of the work on which SCI('nllsts arc engaged Whde travellmthrough Ihe Ross Sea they Will hav:Ihe opportunity of studytng the habits of seals Whales. pengulDs aod

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am Bounly Antipodes CampdesCampbell and SCOU Islands ... reachm, Jlhe rose sea aod the Jce shelfon anuary 19

le>lvJOg McMurdo sound on Jan~:r+ 23 rhe Magsa Dan Will call

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~ue bock al Lyllelton on Fe5ruary

Tounsts from ten COUnlrles butrnostly Amencan Will be put ashore on the great IOternatlOnal cOnunent of An arctJca early nexl yearfrom the cruise ship Magga Dan on~hc fust of two scheduled triPS tothl: frozen so.uth

Somc women are booked to makeIhe sea Journey from New Zealandto what IS regarded as the world SI..J stronghold of men

The loumts Will fly from SanFranCISco to New Zealand wherethe} Will Jam the Magga Dan schedu led to leave Lyttelton on thef rSI tnp on January 8

The cost of the three week Journcy from New Zealand to Antarc'Ilea .nd b.ck WIll range from 6 195UOlled Slates dollars for a 2 bearth,abm 10 4495 Um ed' States dollarsror • 4-bc.rlb c~blD

Larse Enc Lmdblad of New Yorkprmclpal of Lmdblad Travel IncNew York which IS assOCiated wuh.lIe New Zealand sblppmg hneHolm and Co In orgaOlsatJOn thecruISeS Wlll lead the tnps

The Magga D.n bUllt for ,cenavigatIOn has already made sey..eraI expeditIons to the AntardlcChartered from a DanIsh firm fthe two tounst tflPS she Will ~~under Captaon E A McDonald aformer task commander of all UnHeelI Stales navy ships engaged InPO ar operatIOns

swmgmg London by Itahan d,rector MIChelangelo Anton omwh,ch won thIS year s best fIlmaward at the Cannes Festival

FrellJ'h dIrector Claude Lelouch s A Man and a Womanwas third Two BrItish fIlms tIedfor fourth pOSltlon-Jo<eph Losey s ACCIdent and Fred ZlOnem~n s AcademY-Award wmnlOgA Man for all Seasons Othersta"kmg part m the poll were acrt= Ingrid Bergman beatmkpoet Allan Gmsberg and formerchIld fIlm slar Shirley TemoleBlack

Favourite

Go to any 1111ver smith shop 1nAfgh8Dlstan and while you orderor bUll Jewelry he WIll try to sellyou coins

But I1sk hIm to give you acomplete zet of coins )n clrculatlon durmg the reIgn of a gIvenruler, or try to fmd this from hImand he II be at loss

NumIsmatists were glad whenearly thIS year HakIm HamIdI brought out a catalog of 100dern coloS of Af;:hanlstan cover109 a penod of 10 years But Ihlswas m Dan

In order Ihe book to beof use to non-Dan speaker anEnghsh edItion of Ibe book hasbeen made available

The book Contams all COInsgold SIlver bronze and alIo~minted dunng Ihe reigns of AmlrAbdul Rahman Khan (1880-1900)Mohammad • N .der Shah 1929 '1933, and H,s Majesty Mohammad Zaher Shah (1933)

HamidI also gIves backgroundmfor.matJon on the condItIOns under wh,cb the coms mcluded mthe catalog were mmted

Since most coms are dated In<HeJn Kamarl calender a chart

has been prOVIded comparingHeJ" Kaman WIth the HeJn

~Shamsl and GeorgIan calenders_from 187& to 1967....•

JANUARY 3, 1968

Movie Becomeslcadmg rolesIt aroused conslder.ble adver

se crItiCIsm for ItS vlOlenl holdup seene when It first appeared mScptember but after often heated debate 10 the press severalleadmg critIcs reversed theIr mItJOlly hostile relews

Astrology has also found ItSway mto the Lonely Hearts sectIOn of newspaper advertIsementsA recent one read Ucorplo man,moon In Taurus artist 25 wantsto meet girl "

It 's even begmnmg to mfluence show bu~::)ncss A film runIDg 10 New York IS entItledScorpIo R,smg and an off Broadway play IS called Soec.al toSaglltarlusThen there IS the song about

the current age of Aquanus 10Ihe ftrst h,ople flok rock operachair now runnmg to packedhouses 10 New York.

Among those choosmg the fIlmwere veteran actress GlonaSw.nspn compose" A.aron Copland pl.ywnght Bruce J.yFnedman anel Pop smger CassMama EllIOt of the Mamas and

Pap)s "The second most popular mm

was Blow Up the study of

The Zodlae fever IS fast spreadmg out of h,pp,eland and further afIeld The 1.lest thmg forNew York parties IS to mVlteonly people of the same ZodIacslgn or two compatible Signs

On a recent weekena ScroplOs(those born between October 24and November 22) were hosts totheIr Odl'C neIghbours the SagIttanans (November 23 December 21)

18 beSieged most evemngs by longhalred nov!t:-es eager to learn about the mtrlCaCleS of how the 12 ~

signs or houses relate to each of &her and which celestlal bodies or J;lords rule IhemShe explalUs to them that the

world Is lU the age of Aquarqusruled by Uranus which IS III the[lfth year of Its seven year voyage through the constellallOn ofVirgo ,ThiS combmatlOn of forces from AquariUS W1th Its rebell10US nun conform 109 charactenstiCS and Virgo With ItS conformmg practIcal VibratIOns IS rnamfest '"he explams m the current teenage-h,pp,e confhct Wlththe older generatIOn

One of New York's bIggestdeparlment stores hilS launcheda range of astrological fashlOnsfeom blkiDls to bangles decoraledWIth the 12 sIgns of the ZodIac

Hot on their heels h.ve coml!astrologIcal record albums )Yllhsuch titles >ff; The Zod,.e Cesm,cSounds composed arranged andconducted by Marl Garson (Can

Ih eel) With words bv Jacques_ W,lson (Leo) and Monkees Pia!,ces Aquanus Capncorn and

• It. Tones Ltd..'~Wb~'~e\1 •~.'~~ ( ~~~M~!$ Vt)

tI'~,

Revival OlAstrology, NewHappening In Hippi~~land

Contoo¥6l1SialAmerIcan ar.ts personalitIes cho

se Ihe controvl\rSlal US fIlmBonme and Clyde as thel1' favourI te film of 1967 1D a poll pubhshed here

F,fteen personalltles from allbran~hes of arts and a fIlm Criticstook part 1D the wll pubhshed10 the New York, Tlmell;

Nine of them named Bonmeand Glyde whIch depIcts the explotts of armed robber Clyde Barrow and hJgacker BOl)me P.rker 10 the U S midwest durlOgthe 1930's

Tne fllin was <;ll1'ccted by WIlllam Penn and Stars Warren Beatty and Fay DunawllY 10 the

1 he sudden revlBl of serlOus Interest m the 4000 year old sCIence one of man s oldest IS part ofthe present search by youngAmerIcans for greater mdJvldua1,ly and cQlD~ldes WIth wldesprearl fascmatlon WIth Indian myst Clsm

Astrologlcol Iheones h.ve beenbrought to a Wide public by thetrend settmg underground pressof the h,pole ....d campus commUOIties from coast to coast Nowan mcreaSlOg number of youngpeople are f10ckmg to astrologersto hear how the movements andmagnetic forces of the stars pIanets sun and moon are supposedto mfluence human affaus anddetermme the course of events

Astrologer Celeste moved recently from Southern Cahformato hve m the heart of New York'ssprawling famIly of f1bwer chIldren on the Manhattan ~ower e.st. .slde ....

Soon after her' arrllu,: $e predIeted ID theIr newsPllller theEast V,lla!!e Other that one ofthem would dIe Within the weekTwo d.ys let'r Ja-nes Leory HuJchmson known to the hipPies asG, oovey was found battered todeath WIth IllS gIrl fnend m ah,ppleland basement

SlUee tben Celeste bas assumed Guru (learned teacher) status becoming the uncrowned queen of the Zodiac Her tmy fiat

Where Alexander passel! so trade loll owed Vel even before

hIS Greeks setlled m the shadowsof h.gh snows there h.d bcencomplex cullural threads

What resulled IS still all too httie apprecIated The achIevementsof ancient Bactfla have fascmated many generatIOns and fromthe south the art of Gandh.r.has come to exci te our tune

Yet names hke Kaplsa BamIan Radda and Mundlgak stillrlOg strangely on the ear

The key to what happened 10

ancIent Afghamstan hes 10 tradeand the passage of peoples TheAchamemds Herodotus tells usmoved Egyptians to Bactrla eraHsmen and merchants followed Inthe wake of Alexander and PerSian and Chmese mfluences waseven strong

Today Afgh.mst.n YIelds uptwo completely d.stlOct klOds ofobject Thmgs from dIfferent cuilures brought to Ihe regIOn bywaY of trade of whIch lovelyGreek COIOS IOcluded In the Royal Academy exhibitIOn are example aT'd Wl'lrks of art produced

Above all tough It IS Alexanderwho stands out as the smgle personahty who left hiS slamp mostclearly upon the regIOn

M.ny of the towns or Baetr..on the flch northenJ slopes ofthe Hmdukush owed theIr ongmto the 4th century b c and fromthen until the Arab mvaSlOns ofthe 7th century ad rehglOns andpeople mmgled

Calligrapher;poct Ebrahim \Khalll wbo is now publishing an anthology of his works bas1JlCluded many illuminated pages -sueh as thisoo~one hy hlDISCU, III hls books

Today the Kabul Museum hassent many of ItS chOIcest objectsto London Recently lUtelhgenlexcavatIOn has revealed much andpatient research unravel\mg theculture of a regIOn where lUfluences from Cbma and IndIa metand mmgled With those from PersIa and the West

What was ach.eved by the heIrsof the easternmost conquests ofAlex.nder remams one of them.rvels of hlst,Jry-mdeed theGreek kmgdoms of Bactna areamong the most tantahsmgly gtamourus of ancient cultures

Now enough of the treasuresto suggest how much manmadebeauty Ihere IS m Afghamst.ncan until the end of January beseen In London

Art· Ex~ibitiQn Ushers In.1,NewStage "In' Mghan-UK Ties..

ITlie , ixlUbitlOn 01 lInCltnt artfrom AfgHanl$tan which opened tnLoildon earlllJ' last month Is altrac~lng lIlany VlJltors and lalld610rypleBS review. Tile fOUoWIIIK artIClecamed by tM DwLy Telegraph onDecember 9 was wntttl\. by 7erenceMu1l41y

I,caily.Classical seventy mmgled with

Buddhist art whIle in the art ofBagram, just south o! the confluence of the rIvers Ghorband andPanjsher and almost certainly theslte of Kaplsa, the ancient capItalof Kushans garnered fiches fromboth East and West

A new stage 10 Ailglo.Msbiio-- - Her....a storeroom probably, parirelations IS marked by ~e:l~.of ,a, pslace .liDS been excavatedCouncIl's exhIbItIon of ariclenti art , In it were found many RonillD ,from AfghaDlstan which 1iaa:.iJllSt -.-obJects, mcludmg bronzes SIlveropened -m the DIploma Gallltides'Lt,Work',,'illass, plaater casts· fandulat the lloyal Academy vessels"of prophery ~nd 1l!1abaster , I

And the same stote also con-GeneratIons of Englishm~n 100.1 tained Chmese lacquerwork and

keMnorth-,and west to Afghan-~Ind1Bn plaquesIstan from Quetta and, the garrison towns and forts of the Nor IS such eVIdence of tradeNorthwest Fro'lltler Tbey were m the ancIent world 11m/led tomann109 one of the hlStoncal one site That IS should be attrac,frontiers of the EmpIre ted to a regIOn where one Greek

kmg was a BuddhIst and another a follower of VIshnu andwhere m the most awe-mspltmglandscape on earth centres of so- n:abul 'Museum Director Ahmad Ali Mota:medl Is Interviewed after tbe openingphlstlcatlon flourIshed, IS not sur exhibition by,Farouq Acheqzal of Radio Algha nlstan now training In tbe BBe.

Prl$'Yadein-A New,Exper.imentBy Indian Fil~el!!a~~~~tSdlrector

The 1ndlan cmema IS not Ja~k- lal vellture As If thIS w.s not109 m the spmt of expeflm~nt~ burden enough, he also produced Ir New York s h,PP'es have anytlOn True a great majorIty d ~ 11. wrote the screen play on the. !Wall Street shares the chances300 odd feature f11ms pro uce baSIS of a stOry by hIS actress are Ihat they WIll not be sellmgevery ye.r In Ind.a conulaform

Bt~ w.fe Nargls and played the so Ihem until Febru.ry 1968

• sel box ofhce form u lItary role In It In Ramch.n The reason IS SlOple Clestethere emerges now and t~nt a dra he found a cameraman who 1S their astrolonger predicts thatdirector who abandons the t e~ not only an accomplIShed techniC share prIces Will soar thentraCk and strikes a new t res "n bUI who w.llmgly accepted The POSSlb,hty of the flower

approach} ill subJect mat er or the on the spot ImprpvlsatlOns ch1ldren havmg shares IS sometechmque or both when the 6ItuatlOn demanded It what remote because 10 their ru

Suml Dult a young actor tum The camera work IS throughout Ie book wordly we.lth IS out Buted director cert8mly blazes t ~ Imagmatlve and Introduces a asllologly IS most de(mltely 10

new lrall In h1S expernnen a good deal of Visual vanety even Condemned by the church andfilm Yadem whIch has FVlon though the director uses Just one Ollt of favour for the past 400the Grand PriX at the ASian ~m set a well appOinted Indian years astrology IS today makingFest.val held al Frankfurt In c home a slrong comeback here-thankstober be the I th tor of a marnage al momly 10 the h'PPles lis nollne

The world cmema ars t IS e S y h rucks because ty as a CIrcus Sideshow compm1prmt of many a successful ex most gone on t P I d I lcte WIth crystal ball or as am

J not long ago or a senes of tnvla mCl en spenment apan f d e little tIme blguously worded 10 your starsploduced a moVIe Without dlalo The husband In s V ry 1 newspaper col~ns IS fast fadgue FIlms made In France and to sort out hiS domesttc tant

g es mg Astrologers are regammgtrends- d s upset by mInor Irrtta tonsllaly have set m.ny an I h h Borne d their former scholarly

neo reahsm npw wave and new - the Wife s nbe-ence w en f e statust comes back home or dlssatls ac

cmema ven e d b hlIOn at a meal c00ke Y erThe Pohsh school of hIm mak The inCidents are lOslgmhcant

109 has a dlstlOctlve stamp of In themselves but over the years1ts own Ingmar Bergman s fllms they assume the dunenslOn of aIn Sweden are a class by them cllS1S -and the husband IS compelelves Nearer home In IndIO led to pause and look back As he

SatyaJlt Ray has acqUired mter- broods over ,t It dawns on h,mnat10nal recognltlOn Now Ya th;lt I~D CrI<::.IS h<:ts no crux and/lem adds a new chapler by be It IS the seemmgly sm.ll thmgscommg the world s first one ac In life which have preclpated Ittor movie ThiS leads him to the reahsatlOn

A feature film WIth Just one that the home IS a scared placeactor m It IS a difficult proposl and he must fmd tIme to pay hotlon In the best of clfcumstan mage to Itces and doubts were raised when YadelO IS thus a orobmg lOtoSumI Dutt s project was fIrst a man s mmd when It 1S 1n ViQ

announced It WIll be a d,sas lent fIls or emol.on The c.merater someone sald How can you IS most of the tIme focusset ~npresent a story through one cha h,m as he broods over the w ~ eracter? Wbat about the drama\1c aff." bUI the film al<o m~ esconfhct? etrect,ve use of props In tbe oUii

Fven his friends saId that Su se .nd <ketches and shadoWS andnu ':>utt was far too ambitious a nch assortment of VOIces anSuml was until then unknown as sounds whIch Suggest the p~e-a talented and larmg young aC sence of other persons-the WI etor wbo unll <e some other rna chIldren and friends On the screImee Idols did not bes.tale 10 en of course It 's Just one madtake up unglamorous roles BUI he we see-Ihe husband b pkaye Ihad never Ined hIS hand .. at wllh reehng and skIll y umhrectlOn n t t

rII,

Soverclgn 10 hiS dally dealingswllh the press and always With thenecessary degree of charm and WIt,'"\on Hase hus represented. the Fedclal Government s polIcies underIhrcc chancellors He Will be suceeeded by the head of the planwngorf,ee 10 tbe ForeIgn MInIstry Gun ~Iher D,ehl Once. JournalISt hunsrlr he WIll cerlamly eontinu. hISpredecessor s good press policy DIehl who helped build up lbe government 8 Press and InformationOflice In the early 1950 s has already received a good many laurelsIn advanl:e for hiS new office

(lochen Bess)

..n favour of freemg von Hase

KleslOger asked tbe press chiefwho IS also the government speaker'Lo change hIS profeSSional plan~once before ThiS was one year agowilen von Hase asked the new Cbancellor to flOd a new pOSICIon forhIm Then.s now, he placed hIS per~onal conslderatlODs behmd hiS loyaJl} towards the state and government

,) ,., \ 1 _MaI!yWi},.th.Hljij1l'~ Smaapore and~'RIa~rnilid',ilj,ab80rlin\g ihe}former~a'ilPn f South-East ASlat.(~A) of'wbtcH MalaySIa, 'the • plil1iPJ!ID";'1~lId' 1IhaUan,dw.....,melJ1lie'ra: The _ ll):)uPIOB IStechnical .nd ~conolDJc. ~od anyCOImal lecunlY arr80Jlemenl (WhICb,whether tt said so or 001; would<:beoirected agllinst China) Is not likely,as bolb Malays," .nd Singapore«em to take the reallatlc hbe thatIf they w.nl mllllary &ecunty l1ga- I

JUst the ChlOese, It comes from thegr(.at powers

The states present al Maoila JD

OClober 1966 were fIve member ~of

the Phlhpplnes, Thailand .od theSEATO-Australia, New Zealaod,UOlted States South Vieloam (aprotocol terntory under SEATO)..South Korea wh.en w.s JU effect.t war With ChID' when ChmesePeople s Voluntee(s mteryened m Ihe"-orean war JU 1950 The statcmentof alm$ Issued by the conference cdmplemented that known as tho Honolulu Decl.rallOn whlcb was Is.sue" Jointly by Soutb VIetnam andIhe Umted Slates .fter a meetingbetween Presldenl Johnson, General Th,eu and Marshal Ky on Fehruary 7 and 8 1966

The suggcstlon has been m.de(hal a new defence alhance mightemerge from the Mantia conference But PreSident Marcos of thePhllipp,"es h.s expltc.tly dlsavo\\ed any mterest 10 the formationof U new secunty alliance for theregIOn and PreSident Johnson",hlle emphaslBang the need for unIly among the ASians has none theless seemed to favour unlty on a broader baSIS than that found at theMamla meetmgs

All the countnes face mtemal oproslllOn when It comes to 1DcreasIn,g their commitment to the Vietnam war and PreSident Johnson sspeCial envoys had a stiff assignment 10 July on Journeys round thenations aWcd 10 the VIetnam warsohcllIng additional combat troopsBut one fact remiuns clear fivecountries are actually fighting 10

South Vietnam With the AmerICansand South Vietnamese

(FWF)

C1nclcd IOtO a mild bUlldmg boomThe government has raIsed $448

olliiton In two lonns On the localmarket Since October It says the~ ost of IJvmg bas climbed less thonfour per \.:cnl 10 the past year butunofftclBl estImates are 10 15 pertent

RhodeSia manages to balance lishudget only by dlSowrtmg the country s overseas debt and borrowmgRhodeSia s savlOgs to m~t the costuf sanctions RhodeSian currencyclrculntes ot face value even In ne,shbonng Zambia

Black. RhodeSians were hit sooner and harder than whites whenthe- economy -slowed Lack of growth meant tack of new Jobs In acuuntry where some 80000 Africanschool dropouts entered the labourma.rket last year

Aboul h.lf of employed blacksare non RhodeslBns from ~alawl

Lambm Mozambique and BOrS'CYaIltl Many nol listed as Jobless are"orklng only iwo or three days aweek

RhodeSIa s 230,000 whites are outnumbered 19 lolA boomIng economy IS need~ to allracl white Imnll!lrants

Minerabproduellon 1B being stepped up Angola-Amenean erop, theJohanncsburg based mmlD8 combine,has annouacod pl.ns to raISe $8 mil 'hOIl In RhodeSia to finance a newo .lc1e mme

Informed sources s.y RhodesIa'~I1. all lbe a.beslos aod cOPper itSOld before Its break wIth Bntamabout • lb,rd of lb. chrome are .ndh.lf the "on ore

all " r.Uoned bUI there IS. noshorlage Fuel come. from Soulb!'.frlca by ra" aad truck

Government offlclols seem conYJDccd that the worst IS over uThefirst two years weco the ,hardesttl •

sa,d one It s clear &aWOS now n

'" _, (Af)

Government

•

Maolla .od drew up an importanlSlatement of their auns

Where.. the neW Manila grouplnl.' IS ao\ an alli.nce m name .1IS la effecl superseding the oldMaolla grouplDg of 1954, lbe Soulb-East AsIa Trealy Org'Dlsalton(SEATO)---a mllit.ry allt.oce selup by the United Stat<os and seyenaJhes wllb the a.m of eootalO108Communism The two groupr sharesome member eounlrles SEATO s:Aslsn members are Paklstan

tThai

land and ihe Pblllppmes SEATOalso lOelude. AustraU•• New Zealund, lbl: United Stales France andBrltam

Cambodm, Laos and South Vietnam Were offered protechon under nprotocol of the M.nll. (SEATO)tr€aty, and oro known os "protocolstates" ...Frnnce now belIeves the albancc IS JTrcIevoo: ond unnecessaryPakIStan is dISappOInted WIth it because there was no assistance forI'okistan dunng lb. war WIth lndiauver Kashmir and American mvo..Ivement m V,eln.m and Bntish asslstance to MalaySia take place Inbplte of raihet than hecause 01 thee'lstence of SEATO ConsequentlySEATO bas losl mucb of Its meanIng

There have been many Ideas forregional co-operatton In South EastASia of an economiC, more thanp"'htlcal or secunty nature TheASIan and Pac.flc CounCIl (ASPACjwas set up In June 1966 and mcluoes South Korea South VietnamFormosa (falwan) the Ph,lipplnesand Thall.nd plus Jap.n M.l,yslBAustraha and New Zealand

II began With hlghsoundlOg almsconcerned With protechon agamst,"filtration or aggression but by the!i;ummer of 1967 II was eVident that..orne of the partll:lpanls would liketo forget the orguOJsauon s anu-CornmuOlst orlgms And some hoped10 give It real economic Significance

The settlOR up on August 7 of theASSOCiation of South East ASianNatoons (ASEAN) renecls the newIndonesian government S Interest in

regIonal co operation and new Bttttud£ towards ChlOa and MalaYSiaf hiS grouping consists of fndones18

f l.ull positionIt was no secret Ihat the govern

ment press chief striveddfter five stormy years10 the front row of the puhtlcnlstage HIS announced move to theDefence M mlstry therefore came asn surprise Only a short whIle agoIhe board of the German W.ye"hlch transmits programme~ abroad.hao elected him the statIOn s newGlrector

Von Hase by no means concealedIhe fact that he welcomed lbe {orthcomlOg farewel to hl$ exhaustmgpresent pOSitIOn for both health andpersonal reasons HIS fIve daughten, see him more frequently On televlslon than they do ID personJ urthermore he stated hiS willingftes..o; to return to the CIVil servicenUer completmg bls term as dlrector

These plans fOiled because ot hiSown ablbty more or less The Chan, ellor beheved thot he could notdo wllhout the partiCipatIOn 9f anan of hiS ablhty and personally 10

te" cned at the German Wave

,,

S462 n\llhOn In tbe year before lt~

declarallon Nov 11 1965 SaneI uns cut export earnmgs to about3294 million last year CL:onomlsls('!Ihmllie In J967 RhodeSia may earnas much os $j22 million from exporls

US Imports from RhodcS13 droPPI'd from $ II million JO 1965 toS9 7 mlilton m 1966 and 10 $4 7million 10 the flest seven monthsor 1967

Am.::raft, motor vehicles and 01101 (' ordmarlly the biggest U S exports to RhodeSlt1

Sanctions have cnppled the onceblommg rob:lcco Industry U N Sec.elary General II Thant says RbQoodeSlBn tobacco ha~ Virtually dlsappe.ored from the world markets

Tobaceo planting quotas .... ere cutfrnm 118 mIllion kIlos ID 1965 1091 million kilos lasl year the Rho'Pdeslan Tobacco AssoclalJon saidA further reduct JOn to 60 mllhonkilo' IS scheduled for the 1967 6gfollowlOg SeaSQII

Tobacco farmers have been loyalto the government which UJ turnSubSldises growers ahd provldeomore litan $15 millton thIs year tohplp some 5 000 while farmers toswllch to other crops

Wheal IS receIving speCIal emphIIsis Rhodesl. hopes to be self surft(.u~nt m wheat flVtl ye~rs Inter Sa_I sbury. hangers al the a>rporlur~ filled WIth le.f and f,ye newmotal storag_ sheds are fdled Withtobacco Informed sources estimatemore. lb.n 220 mlllioo pounds (l00milllQ/l kilos) la stocl< pded

Rhoileslan oplimlsts say the counlry will be beller otr when the

• Clooomy IS 00 longer dominated bya slOgle crop

Slricl exchange conlrols preventmoney from {loWlOg out of Rhodesla aod as a result Ibe country basexlremely hIgh liquidlly Real estateIS fCganjed as a good local IOveslmeol and some money IS being fu

IS likepamtfrom

Major Turnover In BonnThe shutnmg of leadmg offlclBls

IQ the Bonn government has nOWoecn completed The successor toI\.Jaus Schutz, new mayor of WestIlerhn and untol recently Slales Secrelary m the Foreign Office Will

be the former W German ambas("ador to India Georg FerdlDandDuokwltz Oera Lemmer, a ncphewof the lormer Mlwster Ernst Lemmber and hunsclf a former M misterIn the Slate Government of Norththine Westphalia, Will enter_ the MID",try for Refugees and ExpelleesACfarls State Secrctary Professo["lKarl Carstens who has long belonged to tbe government top adVisoryteam, Will leave the Federal Defence MlOlstry for Ihe Chancellor s OffJce The question remained open'Who wdl take o"Ver Carstens pos11Ion as Defence MInister Schrodc( sfight hand ? After some inSistence,

(hancellor KleslOgcr has now succceded 10 mpVlOg State SecretaryKarl Gunther von Hose up untilnow Director of the Press nnd Information Office of the Federal

Government to take over thiS dlf

ThIs month further Australjanand New Zealand reinforcements.mYe 1D Soulb Vlelnam to Inc"",",,the Austi"ah!lD forces there from6,~00 10 8,000 meo, and the NewZealanders from 370 to 540 TIl....Increases were announced flQ October 17 On November 25 the Australi.n Seoale elections were won bythe Liberal PartY of the Prime MiaIster, Mr Harold Holt, the electiooswere a test Of support for Holl's'v leloam policy

South Korea now has 45,000 troops m SOllth Vietnam and IS tolidd 15,000 reserviSts 10 this number, and the PhiUpplDo contributiooof .n engmeera' tasle force sent mOctober 1966, aow' num~rs 2,200meo

In July 1967 Thailand had a suPllort force of 2,500 men m SouthV.etoam 00 september 21, 2,200voluoteers of the Queen's Cobra Reg,ment artlved In South VIetnam 101010 lb~ olber Th.1 forces, whichaheady Included 50 ptlots aod 300crewmen of a Iransport ship andpatrol bo.t

On NOlrerllhet 10 .1 was annouocod thaI lbe Uolted Stales wouldprOVIde Th.,land WIth Hawl< surfoee tD.alr miSSiles and other ultran adem military equipment In retum Thailand IS sendlOg 10 000IIgbl IJifantry troops to fIght In Soulb Vielnam

ThiS IS the extent of the direct contnbutJOn of counlnes other thanIhe UntIed St.tes and South VIetnam 'Iself to lbe flghUng ID V,etD8m Indtrectly however ThaIlandhas long been myolved S.x largeair bases have been bmlt or expanded by the UDlted St.tes 10 Th.,lund In January 1967 there were35 000 American troops 10 Thailandof whom 8000 were engagcd m construction work On March 9 Itwas offlcmlIy confirmed thnt Thaibased American planes were bomb109 tragets In North Vietnam and ItIS now probable that more than50 per cent of such raids slart fromThailand There IS no formal treatybetween these contnbutmg cQl,lnt..ncs but they met at a summit eonr<rence On OClober 24-25 1966 ID

Rhodesian Economy In Clear Sailing NowTho e~onomy of RhodeSIa

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There IS u growmg Suspicionabout the machinery despIte thelact RhodeSI' has sailed lbroughtINq years of economIc sancl10ns"Itb few viSible scars

Britain eschews mlhtary force 10

Icturn lbe terrttory to lbe fold IIIS confident that sanctions eventunlIy will lopple lb. reglm<! of PrimeM100ster lao Smilb, and It plans tot ghteD the oconOl;lllC screws Commonwealth Secretary George ThornSOil s81d after vIsltmg Rhodeslll laSImonth Rhodesia. once had one 0{the most dynamiC cconomles m theworld lind now that dynamism JSf.dlOg

A drive to close loopholes whlchpc;rnllt sanctlons bustlng by overseW!. buslOcssmen IS expected Black.ACncan lenders are anxIous to hclpZambia decrease lis dependence onRllodeSla publlclses firms aod IDdl.,iouals who help RhodeSIa eludesanctJom and extend the od ernbar ..go lrom Belrs to Lourexco Marques10 Mozamblque

Evern more than BritaIn landlocked Rho,4eSla musl export toprosper Exports earned aboub 3&per cent of Rl>odesIB s reyenue before II declared Itself mdependeot'1obacco was the matn foreIgn ext.:honge earner

In practice Rhode$lans bay. beenmockIng lite.. .dyersanes tn blackAfnca and London Cavalr, smake.. $almon, French WlOes .nd pre.serves labeled I'By Appolnlmenh '0Her Majesty The Queen' .re aYaliable .llbough stocks are nol aslarae or yarle<I as before lbe declar·ahon of mdependence

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Noyember 22 1967 whose maInPOlOt calla for the wllbdr.wal ofbraeh troops from Israeli OC;CUpl~d areas l Pogodma wrote 10Pravda

Commentmg on reports about the IlIu.pecuon tour by Israeh ForeignMlOlSter Ababa Ebm and chIef ofthe general SlAft I Rabm of trOops pOSItIons 10 OCCUp1ed Arablands Pogodina says that Israel.leaders nre thus trying to demonstrale that the Security Counolls resolwon on the Withdrawal of th~

hI neb agressor troops dQc!i.. not ex1St Such IS the worth of Tel AVlV S

assurances of Ita desue for peaceand respect of UN deCiSionsthe author wrote

In PogodlOll s opInIon Israehrulers would not dare of course~Isplay such unceremOnlus fort:etlulness If not for the strong support they haye and that .Iso nolonll mor.1 suppor

Nmteen SIXty Seven was theworst year for Japanese cmemahouses the paper Mmntcld wrote1 he number of cinema goers dWIDcled to reach mllholl' 50 millionless than In 1966

The p.per wrole that U S ItalIUn films and films from other westcrn countrtes continue appeormgon the screens In Japan Thesef fros are, With fBrc exceptionswestcras c.nme films or else sexridden fIlms or melodram.s

The p.per helleves tha\ the number of film aoers sharply decreascd because the Japanese this yearfalled Jo mak....ny worthwhIle fIlm.

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Notth Vietnam, targets will lead to negotla·tlons on the basI!.of the 1954 Geneva agreements.

Althougb.,the"sccurity Council bas adopteda belated com~inise resolution on the Mid·die East and lJN'representatlve Gnnar JarringIS explorln, t .thfrposslblllties of impll\mentlngthe resolutloJl;!lsrae1 has made Its IIlIeDttODBknown that she will not abJde even by the veryfirst recommendation of tbe Security -Gonnollwhlcb urges tbe wltbdrawal of Israell40rcesfrom occupied Arab territory. Under.such!l.clrcumstances one cannot be too optlml!tlll',abontthe outeome of UN mediation I In tbe.'.MlddieEast •

The expanslOll1sb of Tel-Aviv. am verJ;~' ar·rogantlY setting the scene for creatln&','l\JiMherblood bath In the Middle,;East, for OIe.,.Arabworld bas no alternative but to resort tct meansother than diplomatic to el1mlDate the eonsequences of Israeh aggression

It .s hoped that tbose powers whose voicescarry Influence In Tel·Aviv will make Israelsee sense so as to avoid anotber catastrJlphe~nd nonnallse tbe situation In tbe area, whichamong other tblngs has seriously hamperedworld trade as a result of the closure of theSuez Canal

So much for hot spots. What about the prospects for Intematlonal cooporatlon? .. The

most significant event In this connection wUltake place In February when the seeond.eon-,ference on trade and development wlll open InrNew Deihl

The developing nations bave already worked I

out a charter which will be submitted to tbe!conference It .s hoped tbat aid-giving agenciesand developed nations will find It both posslbletas well as des.rable to respond positively totillS charter so that the gap between tbe haveland the bave not nations may be narrowed

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Amencan mvaslon of Cambodiawould outwelght mlhtary advantages

The newspaper said the Pentagon was puttmg pressure on the)White House 10 favour of thefight of pursuit agamst Viet Congtroaps IOtO Cambodia ".

It ncl.ded But If It IS nor ex.cluded that nn extension of militaryoperahons to CambodlRn territorycould prOVIde certalo mlhtary advnntages to (United States) GeneralWestmoreland s troops these advantages would fisk bemg largelyeclJpsed by,. the resuhmg pohtlca)druwbacks Prince Sihanouk s government would have to devote largeflnanciol means to defence and\\C1uld thus be weakened

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what may policy the White Housec. mnot Ignore that Its long tcrmIOterest hes 10 allowing the main(cnance of 1\ neutral ana- peacefulr«:glme which could oQe day serveos model 10 solve me Vietnam confllct To ,"vade Cambodia wouldbe [l new step III the escalatIonwhat would have to be done thenIf one day American Intelhgencediscovered that HanOI was usmg the(hmese sancluary for Its MIGaircraft? It 15 understandable thatfneed With these prospects Presldent Johnsoo viSIbly hesllat<os tot.l<e the plunae

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The world enters 1968 with no brighterprospects for peace or greater hopes for lessen·Ing world tensions than It did at the beginningof the year It left behind. In addition toescalating the Vletoam war the world witnessed during the last year the creation of additional hot spots and tension resulting from thepremedlated attack of Israel upon Its neighbouring Arab countries

The sltuataon In Cyprus deteriorated to thepoint of near collision between Turkey andGreece CIvil war broke out In Nigeria and noImprovement occurred In the racial and discriminatory pohClcs of Rhodesia and South Affica

Although actavltles arc abroad m a casualsort of way to brmg about a peaceful settlement of the Vletoam war one cannot be toohopeful that 1968 will go down In history asIhe turning point of thc V Ictnamese erl"sPope Paul has offercd to medIate In the Vletnamese confhct but there Is no sIgn as yet thathIS medltlOn ofter will be accepted by all partIes concerncd or that such mediataon couldlead to peacc

There have been moves within the UnitedStates congress to take the Vietnamese Issue tothe United NatIOns but t'lC proposals are ser10usly not being pursued partly because theNorth Vietnamese reactaon toward them hasbeen crItIcal 1968 IS the United States presldentlal election year The Vietnam warwhich Is bemg increasingly opposed Is hkelyto' be the malor Intern'\tlonal Issue In thecampaIgn

But even If there IS a change of admlnlstratlOn I\mencan pohcy IS not likely tl> changcto the extent whIch could Immediately paydIVIdends m Vietnam However, the worldhopes that a spmt of compromIse will prevailon both SIdes so that a bombmg halt on the,

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Today Islah comments on the resronslbthly of Cluzcns In conlnbutmg to tbe development of education

Slnce the construcUob of a largebUildIng lS nol an easy undertakingand It reqUires the cooperatlOn onserveral (ronLS by peoples of vanOUS

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eryooe take active part In It be IIIn educauoD agriculture, constru\;tlon or any other held of endeavourNatlOnfbulldlOg 15 the common dutyof all members of the society

Contnbutmg the country s eHortsIn nahon bulldmg IS an obhgatlOnIn order to receive the benefits",hllh liVing 10 a soucty brmgs

lL IS not nC(iessary to list tbe:.:Id' anlages since every DC knowshll" dJffllull It would I c to do evII ymg hlll1self 111 arch. to SDlIsfyII h ~ needs

I IS only n lhlm! that the mdlvU 111 m return {or the protel,;lOn,Iudl the SOl,;lcty glVl S hlln assun I:S 501,;181 responsibilitIes ThiS\... nd of )OlOmg of h mds by all ofthe CItizens IS mostly needed In thedevelopment of educatIOn say~ thet:dltonal

The ec.htonnl quotes educollonI mlstcr Dr All Ahmad IJopal s spe(\.h at the lOaufJuratJOn of the WInler l.:OUrses for teachers Pop"1 said(he great responslblltty for educa

[illS children IS not only the dUly01 a department or a ministry It IS

lhe l:ommon dUly of all of usOur country says the edltonnl

l.:ompletes some of Its projects Withhelp commg from outSide the counIry Some of these projects arc evenIn Ihe fIeld of education

fhe constltutton proVides for nndth'r-tD,ltself IS a result of the Willul the nation 10 progress and to achclve prospenty, free educn,on forall Afghan chIldren

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 4(Reuter)--Presidcnt Jobnson Tuesdal signed witboul comment the lowest (orelgn assislance bill in the20·year history of U.S. aid to poorcountnes,

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nncial year will run al $2,295 million a one tbird reduc..tion in fundsrC'ques'ed by President Johnson.

Shortly before sigmos Ibis b,liPresident Johoson also signed .8

b.ll appropriatmg $9,200 millloa iDCrderal aid to domestic educationover this year and next.

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Pakistan. Turkey, SouthKorea, and countries 10 Africa aremost hkely to be affected by lhe reduction voted by the US. CongressIn the economic development loans,suurces said,

Military assistance funds werewb(llled down to $400 milhon forthe year. Turkey. Formosa and Greece are expected to feel the mainimpact.

TIRIN, J.n. 4, (Bakhtar).-Theroad between Kandahar and Ti-.. j., ('urtre of Urozgan whichwaH blocked by recent rains bas"'p.en reopened, Telephone linesdnwned by /loads are also beingrepaired

'hAI3UL. J~n. ,4, (Bakhtarl.,.Iders and dlgmlal es of BaJoI.lalal zo, Momand. Charmeng, Et.nonkh~l, Ser.l h.~.'T1:lI. ~apo,

3h1nwar, Khanzadagln. Tlra, ApI Jdl, Workz81 alid Balo Zamka'I tnbes from northern mdependent Pashtoonistan, and Wa<;lr1~ d Masoud, Dnuln ·'nd Beltanofrom cenlral independent Pashl Jom:stan have sent thetr congratulations and best wlshc s to TheirMaje.tles the King and Queen,the Roval Family. Pnme Ministor N~"r Ahmad Etemadl andtho people of Afg~an..tan.

They hav~ wishcd AfghanistanC")1 t nued pr\If~:ress under the gui~

d lnce of fl.s MOJcstv n-d hqveevpressed their nppreciotlons· forAf ,han".tan', erfMt, Jor P"ht'lOnlstanl self-determination.

MAZARE SHAR1F Jan 4(lIakhtarA fourth electric die.sel generator W1S put irto operatIOn by Balkh electric comp9"IV Tuesday Governor Omar Keshawarz said this gener~t lr which"'oo,ts the electric suppl' for thecity by 263 kw will help selvet""e electriCity c;hort~ge.

. JALAlAPAD, Jan. 4, (Bo'-ht_r) -The. Nangarhar Development Authorllv has bei(un soiling'TIIII<, eggs Jlnd chickens from itsIlvf',:tock farm

The ':luth"ntv has 0pc""d a,hop. In Jahlabad cIty to popularise better breeds of chlcker"ls inthe province.

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The paper said a phased programroe for Britain's entry had beenprepared by the West German Forclgn OffIce and envisaged lDCreaSJDSly-closer rel;ltions between Britain,the ScandinaVian countries, and the(ommon Market.

Over a period of years thiS wouldllad to the admission of BrItalD 10

to the EEe.Brandl lold the paper lhat the

Question of BnfalO's enlry, "imporlan' for Ipe whole of Europe," had~1111 not been finally resolved andtbe procedure (or her admiSSion wasCl1nIJnuing

Il is believed here that Brandtbac been roused by the reproachesof the British press indlcalmg thatBrltam can no longer count on tbe~upport of West Germany 10 herhid for admission.

He said no dateline had been fiXed for the vislt of Bnlish Foreign IM mister George Brown to WestGermany but added: "He'ls always\'E'lcome in Bonn." I

MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (Tass)--Thefirst SovIet weather satellite "Cos~

mos-J84," launched on October 25,/967. has compleled ,ts flrsl 1000revolutIOns,

The Sputnik IS part of an experl'nenlal syslem of the Soviet cos·:1lJC weather service Meteor intended to proVide a global-scale studyof Ihe earth's atmosphere from analtItude of about 600 kilometres.•

PARIS. Jan 4. (AFP) -Pre·;,dent de Gaulle may vis·t Afgamstan, Pakistan, India andIndonesia 'n the latter half ofthe year. qualified observers saidlast night

There IS no confirm3tion fromthe preSident's office, ho~ever,

Newsmen were told there were nofIrm plans for such n tnp andthat speculation on the subjectwas pu re guesswork

The hardest fact available isth 3t Gen. de Gaulle himself,when he receIved accredited journalists for the New Year Tuesday, saId he might perhaps ma·ke a seCbD~ trip abroad in September

Tbe flrSI wlll beID)nla thiS spring.

By visitlDg Afghanistan andPakistan, Gen. de Gaulle would

be returning visits made toPrance by H,s Majesty theK.mg aDd the president of Pak5tJn.

He has received invitations tov,s,t I~dia and Indonesia.

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TOKYO, Jan. 4, (AFP}.-Pri- way mtended to touch of any\De Minister Eisaku Satp said contraction of international trade.yesterday .that Japan will coope- that they would have but btUerate with the United States In effect on Japan's trade posit.on,the defence 01 the dollar. and that U.S. aid to developmg

,Sato told this to Walt Rostow, countnes would not be affelted.U.S.. undersecretary of state, vi- The Japanese sources said thesiting here to explaIn the mea-' ePrime minister stated that hesures announced by Pr,esident perfectly understOOd PresidentJohnson last weekend to ri'\ht the Johnsoa's efforts. and plom sedU.S. balance 01 payments. that Japan would support this

The two men conferred for se- prinCIpleveral hours yeserday in Sato's villa- The sources said Rostow wasat Kamakura, near Tokyo. expected to indicate in detal] to.

Informed sources said Rostow day, durlDg meetlDgs with theparticularly emphaSIsed that the mlDlsters of fmance and tradeAmerican measures were in no and mdustry, what the Unitea

States expects of Japan,The Amencan offlcial was

scheduled to hold a press Can fen~llCe after these m ,~~ 1 gs be[ore leaving for Austr hn.

Despite the offICial reassuringtone Rostow has taken here. hiSVISIt has noticea.bly dampenedthe SPlflts of Japanese eC'on'1m cc rrles

Up until now these Circles hadforeseen a Simple slow:inWTl to

the economic development rate,wHIch was too fast last ve~r

But following Pres de-t Johnson's announcements, pred ct or'sfor the t1~W year have reC'-"rn'"more dIfficult.

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HUMBURG, Jan. 4 (AFP}-Porelgr. M.lpisler Willy Brandl WillnE'X( week present a plan to theWest lOerman cabinet for Bntain'sentry '10 the Common Market, accordlO8 to an intervJew 10 yesterday'sDie Well.

1B;riln~t To Pres·ent New PlanFo~ :Britain's Entry Into EEC

Redmont said he waIted forseveral months an interviewWIth members of the NorLh VIetnamese miSSion In Paris.

The interview took place In

French and Redmont was toldhe had recorded.

Rcdmont added' The NorthVietnamese diplomat dId not usethe formulation that a bombinghalt ,must be permanent, onlytha~ It be unconditional".

The diplomat said pea.ce talkswould have to be based on theGeneva agreemnts and he addedthat such talks and peace wouldcome in very near future because hIS country hss been fightingand suffermg for many yea.rs~,sa,d Redmont.

Court :RestrainsSneak Heart

I P.hotographerCAPE TOWN, Jan. 4, (AFP).

1 he Cape town Supreme Court IS

sued a temporary interdict against aFhotograpj}er wbo aUegedly poseda'i a medical student in the operalion tbeatre at Groote Schuur, Hopital during Dr. Philip Blalberg'sheart transplant operation, beforebeing thrown oUt by Dr. M.C.Botab, oae of the beart transplaDIteam.

Tbe application against the pho.tographer, DOD McKenzie, wasmade 'by Ihe National Broadcas·ting Cor-poralioa of New York, oneof the two large Amencan tclevIlHon companies who have beenlIming various aspects of the heartIransplaDls.

The court was told tha.t there wasrt>ason to believe that McKenziebad photographs of tbe operation,which be mtended sellmg. .

mon"t, "He said that after the cessation

of bombing and other acts of war.against North Vietnam, HanoIwill open conversations with theU.S. on problems interesting .thetwo parties.

Redmont said tbe Norlh Vjet·namese diplomat m.de it clear hew.as referring to the United States' operatfot"'s against NorthVietnam and not its inolvement'0 South Vietnam.

"He said he d'd not speak forthe Nationai Liberation Front ofSouth Vietnam", declared Red-mont. '

Wbep Redmoat asked blm ifp,ace negoliallona would befnll tful or prolonged. the NorthVIetnamese offIcial rephed'

"We are ready. our position isc1par W.e hav~ made it publICand offlclaL It 18 not unofficial or,and of[lclal, It is no unofficial orsemi-offiCial. We "lre on the rel.ord. The next step is up to Prefldent Johnson ll

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MOSCOW Jan. 4 (AFP}-Sour'ees here Wednesday confirmed thatthe visit which Soviet CommunistParty Chief Leonid Brezhnev was tohave made to the Middle East earll this moolb has been postponed.

Tbe sources said it was unlikelyno\\ that Brezhnev would be going before tbe eDd of tbe montb orearly February. He was 10 bave leftfor Catro withia the next few daysand was expected 'to visit Damas~

cus and Baghdad as weU.The UAR goveroment bas

been officially informed of the pos-Iponement. ,

Observers here said Ihal despitereports iD the Middle East Ihat thedelay was due to a forthcomingplenary sessi911 of the Soviet ~ommllnist Partyts Central Co.mmlltee,Ihe reaSon was more likely to bepreparations for the consl,1l1alive me..cling of CommuDlst parties scheduled to take place In Budapest in Febfuary.

The Budapest meeting itself ispart of the preparations for theworld Communist party conferenceon commun;st unity.

The invitation to ,Brezhnev to Vlsit ESypt was tendered I?st Nove~·ber when Deputy Egypt..n Presl·dem All Sabri Visited Moscow.Brezhnev accepted ond "agreed to,.sit tbe UnIted Arab Republic atthe beginning of 1968," accordmgto official statements at the time.

CAfRO, Jan. 4, (AFP).-Yemeni Re-.,pu\lcaa Interior Mmister AbdallahBarakat Wednesday' d~nied reportsthat Royalists bave seized al-Rabiba 'all port near Sanaa. Cairo radiosaid, quoting Ihe >,Iiddle Easl newsagency.

Col. Barakat said planes were l~ndins normally at the airport servmgthe Republican capital and tbat aurrouading bills bad been cleared ofRoyalist forces.

The Royalists were fleeing theSanaa region in 4isorder, leavingbehind severai hundr<:d dead, Bara~at said.-----

At three points during the ceremony and the press conference.Thieu VOIced opposition to theIdea of any coalition governmehtin South Vietnam In whIch theNational Liberation Front theVIet Cong's political arm, wouldtake part.

'3RD HEART TRANSPLANT.D.OING W'E,LLCAPE TOvJN, Jan: 4, (AFP).- Th~n he added: ."Pl,,;ase give op<:ralion On Dr. Blalberg. and

The condition of Philip Blaiberg my regards to my WIfe. the one performed on Loul~ Wa-was described . as !load by the For the hospital it has been 'In shkansky last December 3.Groote Schuur lioSPltal here ab· anxious day with police guardirie So hr Mrs. Blalberg has notout ~~ hours after the 58-year-ol~ all the entrimces to keep out been allowed to see her husbandden~lst had becom,! tbe world s newsmen and hospital st.if ex- although a room h38 been prepathird heart transpl~t patIent. ercising much greater discretion red ~or her alongSIde her hus·

An earlier blilletlQ from the over the .progress of their patient b]nd sward.hospital this mOrI)lDg saId that· tbal was the case with the ope- Clive Haupt had been the firstthe pa.tlent's cOllditlqn waa very rallon on LoUIS .Washkansky. SUItable donor for Tuesd.y ope-good, and that. he had spoken Chriellan Barnard told the ration on. Dr. Blalb~rg who hashis fIrst words smce the operatIon South African press yeaterday been cntlc~llY III With a corona-yestp.rday.. . that no possibility of a third he3ft ry tbromobsls.. After beIDg gl~ea beavy seda- transplant being performed at Haupt, a 24-year-old factory

tlOn to shIeld hIm. from the ef- the hospital within the n7ar fu- WOI-ker of mIxed blo d died Tues·fects of post ~perauve shock, Dr. ture. But Prof. B'rnard gave no d y mornlt'g after being strickenBlalberg regamed full conscl~us- reason for this statement. w,th a bra'n hemNrhage whIlene.. yesterdp and told hospl111 He added that there was no dif· on a New Year's Day beacb par-staff mamtamlng an anxious vi- ference whatsoever between the ty near heregil at his beside: "I'm tbirsty". .

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NE~ YORK, Jan. 4. (AFP).-,A spokesman for the. North Viet·namese government reportedlyconfirmed in a radio interviewhere yesterday tbat HanoI wasready to begin peace 'legotiations as soon as U.S. bombingand "acts of war" against NorthVietnam stopped. I

Hanoi made no other conditions to the opening of negotiatIOns said the spokesl1jan in theinerview In Paris '-by a correspondent of the New York Times.

SAIGON, Jan. 4, (AFP).-South Vietnamese President Nguyen Th,eu said he had studIedNorth VIetnamese Foreign Minister Trinh's statement and

that be found "nothing new init" He added that South VIetnamcould not accept an unconditionalhalt to the bombing of the North.

But he said: "If Hanoi wantsseriously to do somethmg it caneIther make sn official statement or give a specific explanatIOn ~f the statement made by thedeputy prime minister".

He said the statement"made dUring a reception is notart official statement",

"I think the Vietnamese government, like the American government, is wa1tmg f~r some~thing clearer, and above \all, forsomething new".

"I have studied the statement: ,;.and I see nothing new In It \Thieu said. .

The president was speakmg atan important press ~ conferen~eheld following ,a ceremony . Inwhich he presented mlhtaryawards to South Vie~namese soldiers and bonuses to former VIetCong and North Vietnamese armymen who had rallied to the gov-,ernment,

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• ADEN Jan'. 4 (AFP}-A special sons detained but observers of the'. 'lb' ved it referred to members of the

~(.~~~t~ac~~~ :~U"::rs~:s'Xt~~e~? . Front for lbe Liberation of Occub sout~ YemeD'S ruling National r-ied South Yemen (FLOSY) arre·L1b'eratioD Front (NLF'), it was ann- "led durinS and after the CIVil war

here last November.o~:\r~;e~~~i~;al weekly AI-Tha- AI.Thawri said accuged personswri (The RevolutioDist) said the who ~ad escaped would be triedcourt that would try all sultaDs, ID tbelr abseDce.colonial 8too~ and saboteurs, wo- -No reliable Information was avai-uld consist of throe members, oae lable on the number of FLOSYeach from the armed forces, thp pnsoners but informed 'observersNLF and tbe Ministry of Justice. ~elleved tbey could lolal several

No official comment was aval- hundred.lable 00 wbal w... meaDt by"· per- 'Only a relatively small numbe.

&ore expected to be brought to trial.Jnterior Minister Mohammad All

Haltbam yesterday denounced "allfeuds and civil wars" between tribes. He said the government wasdetermined to punish severely anyIndividual or tribe guilty of feud·ins.

Observers interpreted this as awarning Bgainst inCipient danger raIhel than a8 an indication that disturbances have already begun.

II is in line with presidenl Shaabl'e repeated threats to use an "ironfist" to deal with "counlcr~revolu

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10 a aigned article in tbe currenteditioD of Life magaziae the YOUDgmoparcb-in-exUe aUeged some ofthe recent actions of the junta, thepromised plebiscile and the .amnes-ly for some political priS.ooers stemmed from bis attempt.

"I trie4 IQ figbt, al\d I lost. r fo-ush! because 1 believed, thai by do· UK AIRCRAFT \. DROPSing so,.1 c\luld more quickly aad 1000 WORKERSeffectiveJy bring the rel\lID of demo, .

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The KiDs said hia allempted coUP' . lose their jobs because of the gov-failed beca':!S" ~oo}'s loyal to. him ernment's defence cuta alld its nO-

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May God accept the offermgof the Afghan natIOn and give usstrength to work for lhe great·ness of Islam and the honour of (the country

Accordmg to the Fore,gn M,·nlstry information departmentHis Majesty the Kmg sent congratulatory telegram to Moslemheads of states on the oCCaSlOn ofof Eld Fitr HIS Majesty alsocongratulated heads of f'nendlynatIOns on the New Year.

SImilar telegram were sen t toheads of IslamiC governments onthe OCCaSIOn of Eid and on theNew Year of fnendly natIOns bythe Prime Minister.

To mark festIval H,s Majestyalso pardoned a number of prisoners around the country

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PARIS, ·JaD. 3 (Reuter}-The Soviet Union has superseded . ~orld<ha!DPIOD~ Enslanil as Europe'. top.Soocc::er natiotl. '

The RussiaDs were yeslerday ra-ted leading European soccer coun!rY ;'. ifor 1967 in a raDkiDgs list publish-'ed by Ibe magazi'oe France-Fool-ball and based 00 results througboutIhe year. . ,

naly aDd Hungary arc rated joiDtsecopd. EnglaDd, wbo took fint , 'pllll:e iD 1966 after winaing the ~!world cup, slipped to fourtb posi.·. '. !lion. I ....

Picking. Europe·s .Io,p team iD IlP.Y ';but world cup year is somewbat··,arbitrary, but the FraDce-Foolballlist is generally regarded as the mosiauthoritative.

In compiling the Jisl, 118 matcb· ;es were taken into account, 66 ofthem in the European internationaltbampions6ip.

The Soviet Unioll, 10 addItion toqualifyiag for tbe quarter fiaals ofthe European champIonship scored\'Ictories over Scotland, France andChile, among others, and drew awayto England.

The magazme commented. "Ourtor country for 1967 was not asf'as), to choose as In 1966. Englandthat year were clearly number one,not only bf:cause o[ then world title bUI because they were unbeatenIn 17 rnatches-a remarkable andrarc explOIt almost rivalling theperformances of Hungary In the1950's

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tnbu te to Hungary for offeringits hospitality.

"We have no doubt tbat thismeeting will ac.complisll usefuland very necessary work and t.i"ke pr.aclical measures to preparethe way :. for tbe internationalconference. '

"This w.ill respond fully to thedemands and deSires of most fraternal parties",

Brezhncv said 1967 had notbcen a bad year for tbe socialistcountries. Thanks to fruitful, polItical and economic cooperation'based on internationalism andfraternal aid. they had taken abig step forward along the pathof economic and social 'progress._

"The,r level of economic development is deflOitely o:vertakinglhat of the capItalist world", theSOVlet lcader declared.

"From 1951 to -1967 the Come~

('on countries have increas~d theirlevel of development in mnny capitalist countrIes".

Home Briefs

AMMAN. Jan 3, (Reuter).-A military spokesman claimedhere that three ciVIlIans were kil~led and SiX others, mcludmg achild, were wounded 10 an attack on a refugee camp Monday.

He said that flrmg was directed at the camp from the Israeh·held west bank af the Jordan nver:

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KALAT. Jan 3, (Bakhtar).Surveys to plovlde the new cityof Kalat WIth dnnkmg waterbegan 135t week They are beingC'onducted by a team of Japaneseexperts and will be completednC'xl week

J/Ordon, IsraelClash; TensionRises In Gaza

HERAT, Jan. 3, (Bakhtar).Herat Governor Mohammad Sedlq. Saturday Inspected the drinkmg network and an electric generator 10 Islam Qala, 96 !un.west of Herat and laId the Joundation of a trafhc control centre In thiS b'order town where anew park IS bemg laid out.

The spokesman s aId bombs fellIn the refugee camp of the Wa·dmJl-Yabls on the east bank,some 25 km north of the DamYla bridge. Jordanian troops returned the ftre

[n Gaza, tension has mountedsharply as the Israeh army hunt·fld natIOnalists responSJble for asudden upsurge of vlOlence,

An Israe), half·track was blowntip bv a mme-the third such mmeIncldent sIDce the start of the VIO-lence last Thursday .

At the same time percussIOngrenades were thro~n at a Cinema quoue. Into a glassware shop,and at a pnvate house followmg<111 earlIer inCIdent se~eral daysi:lgn. when a grenade was lobbed,.nlo a crowd market place

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In a new year interview publlshed In the Budapest daily Nelis·7,lbadsag and reported by theHungarian news agency MTI, theSoviet leader .said:

"Only an end to the aggres"s,on, withdrawal of the aggressorrrom Vietnam, and realisation ofthe national aspiriations of theVletnamese people can serve asa basis for solving the VIetnamproblem.

"The first step In th,s directIOn'5 an unconditional halt in thebombing of the Democratic Repubbc of Vietnam"

Reviewing the general mternational 'situation, Brezhnev saidthat during 1967 the socialistcountries had not becn engagedonly in peaceful work

TheY had also continued to helpthe Vietnamese people In theIrefforts to put an end to "the cru~1

aggression of Amencan ImpenaInsm"

"ThiS struggle \\ hlch IS bemg["lIowed sympathetically by thewhole of progressIve humanity.IS bemg waged with success. Br-('znpv deQlared

Tm nmg to the commg Budapest confel ence. at which representatives of 18 communist parIics will lay the groundwork fora full-scale internatIOnal commumst assembly, Brezhnev paId

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