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    Only US SeeksViet Peace: LBJ

    UN, OAU Urged ToEnd Nigerian War

    SIX should set a deadline fordiscussions among themselvescall Britain to the conferencein December.

    The French foreign mlnlster a1sosaid- Britain must accept the Mar~ket's common external tariff andcommon agricultural policy.

    LAGOS, Oct 24, (DPA).-Li-henan PreSIdent WiII18m Tubmanhas called on the UN and the Or-gaOlsatlOn of African UOlty(GAU) to persuade eastern NIger-Ian seceSSIOnist leader ColonelOdumekwu Ojukwu and hiasupporters to lay down their armsas requested by federal Nlgenanleader J akubu Gowon.

    In a message to Gowon Tub-man said he had sent identicaltelegram to U Thant and DlalloTeili suggesting that they trY bysome means of channels to CODt-act Ojukwu to this end •

    Tubman, who is one of six Af-rican leaders selected to 'come toNigena as an OAU Nigerian cri-sis 'mission member said he wasdeeply concerned 'about the re-sistance of secessionist forces inthe civil war now raging in NI-geria and the destruction of lifeand property.

    The LIberian President said heheard several appeals from Gow-an to Ojukwu to lay down annaand meet federal government re-presentatlv~s for consultationsbut these ca11s seemed to havebeen unheeded.

    Notmg that many lives werestill bemg lost in the presentconflict, Tubman saId:

    "It seems to me that a contin-uatIOn of thIS conflict might dragon for a long time and all Am-can, OAU and United Nations au-theontles could be culpable forremtssness by not el

    ho~tillties with Israel when heorilered the Jrilsslle attack on theD~troyer Eilat on Saturday.

    He compared the sinking of the~ilat to Pre~ident Nasser's ~ction.lor closing the Tiran Straits ex-actly five months ago.

    He declared: "Since the dest-ro/er was 14 miles (22 kID) fromthe coast there was no ot&er rea-stin for the attack except one-

    CAIRO SAYS 2nd ISRAELISHIP SUNK OFF PORT -SAID

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    A -uN" offtclllrspeaklng at the,auditorlum 01 'Kabul Uulverslty In this motning's commemorative functloD,....~. ". "'. _._-----

    .. "S6pr~~ieourt

    Council Meets..rbdl\

    KABUL, Octf :t4ho(eakhtar}-TheSupreme Admitiistrative,!\Councll ofIbe Judiciary formed under Article9 of the Orcllnance on Organisationand. FunctIOns of 'the Judiciary heldIts fIrst meeting yesterdays !Under thechtltrman.hlp of Cblef JtlsUce, Dr.Abdlll Hakim Ziayee .

    luternal procedures rules of theSupreme Court; the drafting of ord-inances and regulations required ofthe Supreme Couu fly tbe Ordina-nce on Organisation and Functions

    Anti Racists.WantSmith Go,vt. Out,

    . Interdepe~dence' Vital' Factor,~_J~/tli~'rie,~ ~,~tDat'Mes~ge,

    , - .., FollOWing Is tile lexl of U. Tha1tf~

    UN, dati m"saD'· \As we look at the world' ~und

    us today, we cannot but recogiljsethat tho promises' of the Cbarter, Inth~ field of economic and socl~ ad-,'ancement as mudi as 10 tlte lIeldof international' pOlAUcal N~t1on:.ships, are far from fulfilled.

    Two decades after the nations ofthe world ag;reed "to employ Ioter-national measures for the promotionof e,onomic and social advancementof all peQples", hunger, poverty anddisease -.un haunt more than two-tbJrl!". 'I,f man~nd, and the gap bet-ween the rich and the poor is widell'ing to th~ point 'lf despair.

    At the sam'e tilIle, tw.o decades

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    after pledgtDg uthat armed forcesshaD not b'C'lUsed, save in the com-mon interes~" 'nations have not onlybeen. unablo 10 abandon w~ sa ameans of protectIiIg or promotingself-interest bu~ ominouslY, \thi!Yseem, at urnes, '" be on the -bl'lnkof abahdoninll' their faith in theCharter,shd In the vallcllty or prac-tlcabillb-- nf lbe world em'IBaged byIt.

    For 'thls sorrowful and polenUallydisastrous state of ~aIn in theworld of today, perhapa the chieffactor responsible II what might be . FAO' Meetin9described 8S a state of ,mind or, ra.. l' itther.· a state' of moralltY,' . Opens In ome

    'As the natloils of lbe world haveaccumUlated.. over the past two de- Jcades since the Charter was pro-claimed, greater and greate< poten- ROME, Oct. 24, (DPA).-Me-tial for good as well as for evO, they thods and mechanisms f or eas-have not a;cqulred-the correspondlog jng the world dileJDIDa of :IQosense of obligation towarda others. little food for too many people

    It Is this moral Imbalance which are the core of a month of blgb-ts both responsible for, and is It- level sessions, which began hereself fed by, the ~mplementaUon-gap' Monday

    LONDON, Oct. 24, (Tass).- between the promises proclaimed 10 The major meeting is that ofThe movement against apartheid the Charter and the actual practices the conference of the ~ Food

    bas condemned Southern. Rhodesia of natlo.n>, large and small. and Agriculture Organisationracialista and crlti~lsed British go- (FAO) whose 114 members meet

    - t f nnI ""th th This Anniversary Day provides an In biennial session from Novem-veromen, Or co vance '''' e opportumty for a stock-taking, bothSouthern RhodeslaD ra;cialists and matenal and moral. It provides an ber 4 to 24 to chart the organisa- LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 24, (Reuter)inability to prevent the imlOn of 111 th l'in lions work programme and to set France Monday set near.lmposslble

    ci I· f t te th bli • opportunity for reea og e p - Its budget for the ne- twora a IS s a s- e repu c o. clples proclaimt:Q, twenty-twp years "., conditions lor the opening of nego-South Africa, R1iope/lia,aDd Por- ago ;aild for relasSesslng their value years. tlatlOns between Britain and thetugal. .- in the world today. FAO's council In its session Common Market on British member-

    Tbe resolulion adopted by the mo- The way of ille enloined by the last June agreed In priDciple to sblp in the communityvement saya thllt th~ British go- Cbarter Is no inore philosophical reCommend a budget level of French Foreign Minister Mauricevernment bears a serious respon- dream. ldeali, in the long- run, ba'", ~59.8 million for the 24-month Couve de Mun.lle '!iaid Britain must&ibillty for the fact that this 'rac- always turned out to be mankind's period. first abandon sterhng's internaUonalialist union led by the· repubU" most practical and precious posse.. The budget approved for 1966 role as a reserve currency as wellof South Africa now presents a slons. . was $49.9 mlJllon. as restore its balance of paymentsthreat to independeDt 'Africa lUld, In' a world bristling with moana of The conference on November and make Its economy .ound.above all, to Zambia. . msssive destrueUpn, .ucb Ideall bave 22 wlll eh,et a director-general. He also hinted to the Common

    The resolution urges the WIl- now becom~ the only alternative to ~ Dr. Blnjay Ranjan SeD from Market Councll of Ministers thatson government to take ·effective aelf_termlnation. India, who hBs headed the or- Brttaln sbould devnlue sterll!,g-just WASHINGTON, Oct 24, (DPAl-measures to end the racialist Let UI, therefore, on this day reo- gllnteation since its e'lection at as France devalued francs to The United States Is conllnuing itsregime In , Rqodesla and' IIqlrm the wisdom of th~ way of a special session of the confer,. prepare It.elf for entry Into the searcb for peace 10 VIetnam, "butensure that the go- llfe ,proclaimed in the United Na- ence in 195&, has been nominated newly....tabllsh~ Common Marlall we appear to be searchIng alone,"veJ'li1 credit ·and.!s aimed at'paving'the forts in Afghtinistan. AgI'I~ulture Beiglan Foreign Minister Ple~re Hoa Lac airfield 20 miles west ofRecirCiwS)anl1'~t&e'SVij$ii,'gqVerit~,"Way for all roUl}d 'development comes first, with education cIo- Harmel, supported by Dr. Jo,,"pb the North Vietnamese capital MOl>-merit,' !lii~steY~ -with tlte ':r.e88lie'r rather than ,tntluencing pub- (eonld. on paD/> 4) Luns bla Dutch counterpart, said the day

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    USSR LaunchesNew Satellite

    MOSCOWI\i Oct. 24, Q>PA)~The Soviet Union launChed an-other teleconununications SJltelli-te "Mo!niya One" on SundaY,uTass" news. agency reported.yesterday. ~ _ , _--'~ _ -

    It said the maiti ptiJPose' of the,Jaunehlnll was to emiuie - thebeaming of p/:Ogranuneil of theUSSR central television sYstem .

    . to f areas of the extreme DO~ fISiberia, the Far East, and centralAsia.

    The new Satellite would fonn alink in the chain of other "Mol-niya One" devices launChed earl-ier on orbits around the. earth.

    Apparatus of the sigDamDg andmeasuring complex and aJaO llYs-terns for the orientation, orbitcorr!'Cting and power suppliell ofthe Spihnil the data receiv-ed tQ.e a'pparatus, installed in the

    communications Sputnik, fUDC'-tions nonnally. .

    Aisian BroadcastMeeting Opens

    SINGAPORE, Qt. 24, (AFP).-Sgapore's Act~ erime MinisterDr. Tah Chin, ,'C!iYe :,ye~~rd8Yurged Asian broadcasters to n8J,".row the gap between, ml'11's mindsand" promote . world peace andgoodwill. .

    He was add~ing .the openingof the fourth general. asseJP.blyof the ,Asian B/:Oadcastlng Union,

    About 100 inembers.and dele-gates f/:Om 41. countfie;1 inclu-ding Mghanistiin are ~QkiJlS partin the week long deliberationswhich woUld mainly be centr-ed on the legal ant! adJlilnistrat-,Ive aspects of broadcasting.

    The l1cting prime ptInlster re-minded the di11ega~es that Inmany l\Slan countries the p/:Op.le~ of a.natlona~ ,b/:Oad~t~service were manifold due .to, theI"lculiar conditions prevaiUnll lheach coUl).try' and asked them toassist sinaUer nations to ptoYide

    - efficient and effective service. illthe people. • , • ,

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    Deputies Approv.e.-.MUiilcfpaUty·.":~J~;. """.' ,-:'-. f\,.. ,

    'KABUL. oc&. -'. 2C(B'llkhtilr)';4. ArUcl~ll 10'.~0· t1l!"ci.~~t~: l~,,: l~i:', , crnlne !"unlclpalltlea '(!Ire'~~:

    an~ •approrod 'flip i:ertslo . ~I"I~-:mentS'ln yeateraay', se8@lon' Of .:theWoles! .nrgah. : . , •••,"• Th~ eweti';; whleb la~~roin ea.m. \0 2 piID. 'faa.pr~aldea-. 0Y!'fby pro Abdul Z8her, Presldent,of

    the WoleBi Jirgah.

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    AD lfDPI'eefJdented ..II III ....price fit ShU PasalI4 vecetabJeaIL

    ShU PaaIul-4e best veget-able 00 available.

    roD eaD btQ' your 8hahpe..n"!rom an,y store Ia tbe toWD.

    Shah l'asaDd-Wty, healthy

    ALGIERS, Oct. 2i (AFP}-Jor-dan and Algeria are to continurrhelr cooperation in a jomt effortto wipe out the effects of Israeli ag-gression in th~ Middle East war,an Algerian government communi_que said Thursday nigbt.

    The communique foUowed 36hours of talks between king Hus~sein of Jordan and Algerian Presi-dent Houari Boumedienne. Theking flew to Spam Algiers Fridayfor a private visit.

    The government statement said th~joint effort would be aImed at "thetrimupb of right"'.

    JERUSALEM, Oct. 23 (AP}-Th~Israeli gOvernment Is 10 10 . aheadwith plans to lay a 4Z-lnCh oil pip-eline from the Red Sea pbrt ofEllat to Ashbod of Ih~ Mediterran-ean, it was learned Sunday.

    Th. cabinet decided Friday toreplace Ibe existins 16-mcb Eilst-Haifa line at a cost of morc than$70 million. Funds for the scbemeare provided for 10 the 1968-69,budget, a treasury spokesman said.

    The new line wjll increase annualcapacity from five to SO million tOnsand It IS understood the refinerywill be built at Ashbod.

    ADEN, Oct. 23 (Reut.r}-Bnt-ain's high comm1SS!oner 10 Aden,SIr Humpbrey Trevelyan, flew to

    This attractive and easy to use machine can also grindvegetables, dried fruits, potatoes and fish.

    Available in the market

    KANDAHAR, Oct. 23 (Bakbtar)-The Kandahar Fruit Companyexported 2,482.800 kg of fruit lastmonlb.

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    Momtaz transport company tankers are

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    M'omtaz Tra'nsport Company

    .Hippi. Meeting 'FridaYIOctober 27 at the MiUtary Clu6, airport road 3 p.m,For reservations call 21101 following the Hippf nightat the French Club, 8 p.m.'

    NATIONALWorld's best-known and largest seller of home applia-

    Ilces offers you an.

    ELCTRIC MEAT GRINDER

    re:a~y to work regularl y throughout the year.k~J-.~:,r,.,,,,,, j _ .. .~\'" ,

    Mo~taz transPQrt ~·ompany 'is ready toserve its customers "0 tran.port gosolitle' in.accordance w·ith inter,n ationa' stc;tndards.

    Transportation to any place i,. occepted

    on basis of agreement. C~ntoctTeJ: 24918

    The most mobilised firm to transPort gas9.inE

    Tanz JubelFun-humor-dance

    PIA Winter ScheduleEffective No,vember 1, 1967

    Days: Monday, Tuesday, ThursdClY;Saturday

    Arrival: 1050 hoursDeparture: 1140 hours

    Aircraft: F-27 (Fokker Friendship)

    27th 16.01 Election of THE "BEER QUEEN"Stimmung

    DANCE26th 20.30 GRAND OKTOBERFEST DANCE

    Koteletts

    with competitions in FINGERHAKENARMDRUECKEN...BEERDRINKEN Reibekuchen

    28th 16.00 '~KLATSCH" AND FASmON-SHOW Brathendel

    20.30 PREIS SKAT AND BINGO-afterwardsIWGH-FIDELITY...

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    29th 20.30 Start of the CHAMPION SHOT "KOE-NIGSSCHUSS" Knoedel

    "SCHUETZENFEST"20.30 Preliminary ELECTION OF TIlE "BEER-QUEEN"

    ...25th 16.00 Start of second round of SHOOTING

    Sauerbraten

    "SCHUETZENFEST"20.30 GERMAN FOLK SONG EVENING ANDDANCE

    presentfrom OCTOBER 24th to 29th, 1967 TIlE OPEN

    20.30 CHAMPION RIFLEMAN BALL-SCHUETZENBALL...

    rNTERNATIONAL CLUB AFGHANISTAN

    Oktoberfest - Week

    INTERNATIONAL CLUB .~ ocltober HUt (U:tt Co

    2:00 p.m.) " ."MEN'S LUNCHEON"

    MaIre )'011I"~.~:21500

    FOmUca sheets. Electric Iron.Bydraullc door closer. Wool. Perfect wick. Stov.e

    muJflers. GoOd Luck General Stores Afghan Market aDdRaj Kumar Tajar Mir Aim Market-Kabul

    !4th 12.30 Men's Luncheon16.00 Start of the SHOOTING COMPETITIONSauerkraut ' ,

    TrubelHefterkeit

    For all competitions:

    Beautiful prizes 40Mted by: LUFl'HANBA,A.W.I., HOC~, SIEMENS.

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    KAKE YOUR RESERVA'f.!0N NOW: Call 21500, Mrs.

    Zial, Mr. Kessel or Mr. Sawhney. IAPPLICATION FORMS FOR COMPETITIONS ,

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    Another Buddhist NunGOes Up .with FlamesSAIGON, Oct. 23, (BeuIieI')

    A 22-year-old BtMldhlsj; nllD,Hoe Lae, burned herself ill>death at a pagOOa here earlyStmday, a sppkevnan tor themWtani Buddhist la£Uon said.

    'Pollee took po sJon of theDUD'S d1arred body and five1ettel1l she wrote before hersuiclde, he added.

    Mllitant BuddhistIl havebeen protestin/r recenU;y at agovernmeDt ehatta' whiCh re-ce>gn!Rs a pro-government flu:-tIon as the legal. voice of theBuddhist church tn Vietnam.

    ;.,("ri.~~~-foIIiillSk1e8 in Dortlulm and cenlnlregions will be eJoudy with oc:-easloaa.l iIhowen. Yesterda;yNorth SalaD&' had 2 em. of SIIOW,Soqth 8alaDg 3 em. KabDl Iud 6IIlID raID, KarezmIr 3 mm, M-..re 8hartf 1 mm, and KUlldIlll 1nun. Tbe warmest _ wu KaD-dahai' with a Iilgh of 30 C, 86 P.NGnh'~ _ eoIdest with alow of -2 C, 28 F.

    The limDpentore in KabDl at9:30 a.m. w. 9 C, 48 P.

    y .....7'B~~:Kabat IS C 6 C

    6tF 43FHerat %5 cite

    77P 5'1FMazare Sharil 20 C 15 C

    88F 59PGham1 16 C 5 C

    61 F 4lFLogar 22 C 5 C

    12P UPGardez 11 C "C

    63F 39P

    Weather Forecast

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    KABUL, Ocl 23 (Bakhtar}-TheTurkIsh artists who came here lastweek to perform durmg HIS MaJes-ty's birthday celebratIons were givena receptIOn Saturday evening at theKabul f10tel by the InformatIon andCulture M IDlstry

    The head of the delegation Rosh-an Kam, and Gul Ahmad Fand,preSident of the cultural affaIrs de-partment spoke about the good re-latIOns b~tween Turkey and Afgha-nistan.

    Deputy InfdrmatIon and CultureMInISter Mohammad NaJim Aryapresented gifts of Afghan productsand handicrafts to members of theIroupe

    The group was seen off at theaIrport yesterday by Afghan artistsand Gul Ahmad Fand.

    Reception ThrownFor Turkish Artists

    VietnamCOl1t!nucd from pilgc (1)tional Mobillsation COIDItlltteeto End the War In Vietnam.

    Another despatch said WestBerlin police detained 49 dem-onstrators during clailhes whiChfollowed a big anti-VletlllllD warprotest march Saturday night,attended by some 10,000 people.

    A spokesman said that 12 pl>'!icemen hlld been injured inthe scuffles with the demonstra-tors during which they repeatedly used rubber truncheons._

    Traffic in the city centre cameto a complete standstill whenthe demonstrators staged alt-down strikes on the busy Kurfu-erstendamn avenue.

    Police also turned water hoseson the several thousand strongcrowds, but with little success.

    The protest march, in the af-ternoon, was biggest by the city'srebellious left-Wing student orga-nisations. They were joined byAmerican students and metnbersof West Berlin's party.

    In New York' some 150 peopleyesterday demonstrated in &""ryPark, Manhattan, in support ofUnited States troops In Vleinam;

    Their meeting was a continuationot a demonstration held in the ParkSaturday when hu'ndreds of moto-rists in the New York area drove indaylight with their beadllghts blaz-mg as a sign of solldarlty with thetroops

    Mayor J ahn Lindsay. in a briefappearance In the Park at noon, saidthere were deep divisions in the U.S.about long~range goals of U.S.foreign policy

    "But there is no division regardingthe hurt and blood in Vietnnm," bedeclared

    The cxpreSSlOns of support torAmencan servicemen were intendedas a counter demonstratIon to Sat.urday's bib anti-war rally In Was-hmgton

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    I.w.u:::i&~CINDIA:;==:=====~~t ~j,5, 7 aDd 9 p.m. Ruulan film.

    D.IlWl'l OF WIN1ERrAmi: CINEMA

    At 2:30, 5:30, 8 and to p.m.Itsllan-Freneh film dubbed 10 FarBiIL RITORNO DI RINGO

  • ..capItals WIth the approach ofthe WInter we may expect a

    consIderable mereage in the silleof these handmade sheepskincoats there

    The foreign exclillllge earnedfrom wese tWo Items has had so-me effect, even jf a minor olleoh briproving the '~Itlon ofAJgharu and bringmll d6wn thepoce of the-dliIIar l1ere

    How are we going to keepthe dollar rate doWi:l ,n the mar-kets here? This has alwaYi beena major problem since-the freemarket In' KabUl 'S tllilque TheHaJI seasoR IS n'caring In an-

    other two monthS tho_ds ofhaJls WIll go on PIlgrlniages toMecca This' wl11 affect the JiOsI-tlon of the foreIgn reserves

    We ought to have a second lookat the policy of allowmg freetraffIc of foreIgn exchange InAfghamstan it IS a good busml!Sllfor the brokers, and also a profIt-able one for those who seU mo-ney

    But we ought to study whetherIn the long run, as a dev"loplllllnatIOn, We can afford such aluxury when we need foreIgnexchange reserves for our de-velopmeQt projects

    The standby agreement wehave With the International Mo-'retary Fund IS one way of en-surmg a stable Afghan., butwhether we should go on WlththiS pohey IS another queStion

    We have reached a stage ofdevelopmept where we must re-\ lew some of the f.scal and eco-nomic POhCles mcludmg the onerelated to free marketIng TbeprIce of dollars In 20 years hasshot up from AI 30 to 83 Per-haps thiS fantastIc nse •• part-Ially due to haVIng no controlsystem

    don International Motol' Show-"hlch opened m London lastThursday

    Of the 72 makes of vehicleon show, oVer haU are fotelgnTransport MUnster Lerd Wat-kInson urged the government todo more to encourage car prod-uction-for example, by boostIhgItS 'rbad-bwlding programme"W~ are not prospenng UnIells

    our car Industty .s hitting newrecotds not only at home butas an Irreplaceable part of' BrI-taln's export drIve," he SBJd

    The BrIllsh-based motor Indlla-try-three of Its fIve leadingfirms are Ameflcjll1 contro1led-~xpects b'1Bhter d~s after ii~earlif lip economIC; squeeze and Ill,bour 'troubles ,

    The first day of the show\"'gaVeIt encouragement. With advanCeorders exceedlllll 20 Inillion ster-Img

    But overseas competltlon ISmore severe than ever ForeIgnmakes on display especially Inthe 9234- pnc" category, thr-eaten to make Inroads mto someof BrItain's Jradltlonal mlll'kets

    FIerce foreign competitIOn fa-ced BritIsh carmakers at thelfannual shop wmdow-the Lon

    British Cannakers Face Competition

    Last week another step was taken to flJl1her developAfghan karakul In order to facilitate tbe "Sorting of kara~kul, tile Afghan Karakul Institute will buIld a sortinghouse In the Industrial area of Kaliul next to the new we-mIses of the Kabnl Customs houses The bUlfdInJ whichwll1 cover an area of two and half acres will be eompletedby the middle of next year at a cost of Af 6,600,080. TheHeywad ConstructIon Company wili build the new sort-Ing house The new sorting house will have six rooms foradministration, 18 rooms for sorting and a big warehouse.The cost of the sorting house wll1 be met from the saviDgsaccount of the Afghan Institute of Karakul said AbdulGhaJ;our Raja the president of the InstItute In the pictureCommerce MInister Dr Noor All lays the foundation

    stone of the new sorting house

    World Tin OutputDeclining

    ProductIOn of tin In Thailandhas not expanded at the antlclpa-ted rate and m Malafpla •\t hasbeen well mamtamed.1Sut N.s tin-hkelY 10 merease, Stm1\ss andCo Ltrl say In thetr October re-view

    "And It now seems probable Ithat the expected growth mIn-IcloneSlan productIOn wl1l 1I0t takeplace Of lesser Importance thereIS httle hope of any mcrease Insupphes from N,gena or theCongo, rather the reverse Theres on other hand, some 'prospects

    of t o~e In Bolivian production"',akmg ell these changes mto

    Rccount It would be a fair assum.ptlon that total world output isnow runnmg at a rate of some5,000 tons les:j than was generallyanticIpated earlier In the year

    reasons for

    lnwrnationalTextile Trade UpThe mternotlOnal textile trade

    Increased by 8 per cent In 1966to 11,600 ml1116n, accordlllll toInternational Trade 1966 ClOth-Ing aM haberdashery Increasedby 16 per cent over 1965 to $2,900mIllIon, and yarns, manufacturedsoods and flmshed products wentup by 6 per cent, to $8,600 mil-hon

    Alone, jute did not take partIn this expansion

    Most alIve was the man-madef.bre sectIon, wh.ch affected cot-ton somewhat, but the'latter maybe makmg a bIg of a comeback,haVIng Increased .ts product.onfor the thIrd year runmng Thewool market also looked up, aftera poor perIod at the begmmngof the 1960's

    Both wool and cotton marketsuse an lncreasmg amount ofmlm-made fibres-more than aquarter of the productIOn thISyear

    Exports for Western Europe,North Amenca and Japan haveshown an Increase of one per centm textIles to 765 per cent of th~total, and of four per cent Inclothmg to 78 per cent, WIth th"exceptIon of UK whose exportsof textiles have dropped 2 5 percent Exports from developmgcountnes have gone up by 37per cent m Italy, and 27 per centm France for textiles, WIth res-pectIve mcreases m clothing of31 and 16 per cent

    (AFP)

    ASIA'S RICE REVOLUTION

    r;l;."'-, >Me;._'"~.....~~ "'''''s..~~ II

    constant suprevision ot teachers andtecbincal lldvlsoro and foUow .pec-ially prepared patterns

    Before graduatlng the studentsare gIven projects where they plan,deSIgn and wea'te indepen~enuY,said Wardak After Some practice onautomatic machines they can hand-le them I1ke experts

    At present there are 15 handloomswhich work hke electriC machines.but the scbool plans to Install someelectriC looms

    With the present equlpmenly thestudents weaVe various kinds ot: clo-thes furniture covers. table clbths,plam and pattern~d handkerchiefsskirts and overcoats The averageannual income from the sales of these woven products amounts to Af300000 saId Wardak

    The products afe displayed andsold durmg Jashan Orders for ta-ble cloths and material for draperles are afso acCepted

    There are 400 students enrolledIn the weaving deparlment and SOOhave 'already graduated

    tlOg botli tlie export and Import flgures ,.

    The Ina.ket background 10 thebeh'lVlOUr of UK exports Ill'; thi>dfi-st half of the year IS th~ Jbet~-hadbeen a SIgnifIcant slowdown' In ,IIieralt: of outp)!! grtlwth III several ofBr,rtam's pnnclpal export markets-notably Europe and North A"Ienca-and that une"lPloymcnl had beentendlJlg to rISe In a number of themduslrjallsed countries

    Indusrial prociilctlon tn the OECDarea this sprinS was no higher IlIanIC the summer of 1!l66 and die Jl'o-wth ~f trsde had alSo'slackened 'Asa result Botam's 'ioxpoCts 10 NorthAmenca and Western Europe dec-lined' during the first half-year

    The experience of the UDlted Kmgdom has been SimIlar to that ofmany 9ther mdestoaUscd countrieswhose exports have been flat or de-chnIng 10 recent montlis

    Imports alsd reaclied high levelsIn Ihe fJrst half of the year, partlyreOeclmg the lifting of the tempor-ary Import surcb~rge, and partlymcreased arrivals of fuels and food,dnnk and tobacco

    lmports of food and fuel oftenmove erratIcaUy Among surchar-geabie Imports, which rel11alnedhigh ID the second quarler. some partof tbe Increase IS aurlbutaole 10 aonce-for-an replenlshmeol o(..stocks

    The result of these movements 10bolh export~ aed )mports WBS 1halthe VISIble trade defictt averaged £10mIllIOns a month m the first quar-ter hnd £4S millions a month m

    (j;ohld on pa"B 4)

    Beneath the cacophony of poh- ~ Ph,hppmes and In CeylonI tical sloganeermg and tub- The problem the~ were set

    thumpIng that seems to over- was to fmd means of m.creaslDgwhelm manr &,an countrIes, po- the deplorably low y.elds of ricetentlally productive revolutIOn m AsIan countrIes which have

    IS gomg on Tips is the rice revo- not been able to mcrease praduc-lutlon whIch could transform the tlon despite generations of ex-hVlng conaltlons of the average penence In growmg the stapleAsian And smce food productIon food of their peopleIS the baSIC politIcal problem In The average Yield m India Ismost developmg countries a subs- about 1 5 tons, m Thailand abouttantIa! change m the prospect 1 6 tons and ,n the Philippmes f 2for nCe cult.vatlon IS bound tons per hectare TrOPiCal .rICeto be reflected m changes ID the productIOn m general has neverpatterns of POhtlCal relatlonsbi!'!' been able to exceed two tons perboth mternally and externally hectare As agamst this, nce far-for many As.an natIOns mers m temperate chmates, for

    The possible nce revolutlon'ls mstance, In Japan, Austraha andthe result of the Work of 'plant Italy have been able to averllltephYSIOlogIsts, genet'01sts, SOil between four to SIX tons perchemiSts and agronomISts working hectrem the seclUSion of their expen- This great d.fference wasmental paddy-plots and laborato- readll)' explamed by the fact

    >les, notably Los Banos In" tlie that most tropical rIce-productIOnwas done under condltlOn~ ofsubSIStence culttvatlOn while thetemperate zone offered better Ir-rIgatIon fertlloser, weedmg, pestcontrol and other SCIentific cul-lural prac!lces

    But when It was found thateven under the best condItionsavaIlable at tropIcal experImental statIons the Yields remamed,very low, It became clear thatthe answer to the problem pro-bably lay m changmg the quahty of the nce plant Itself sothat a hIgher yield was "bUIltmto" the plant

    Among tbe many causes ef-fectmg low yields were

    The tendency of the trad.tlonaltype of rice plant to grow thmand tall so that at fru.tlOn Itbecame lop-heavy and lodged mthe mud APart from the obviousloss of gram Involved, this pre-vented the matunng ears frommultiplying and made It difficultto harvest the crop partIcularlywhere mechamsed methods wereused

    Much of the tropical nce wasgrown In wet zones where lowclouds prevented the ",Iants fromdenVlng the benefit of sunlightwhich enables It to produce ItsmaXlm)lDl YIl!ld

    Water control, weedmg, andthe applocatlon of pllStlCldes andfertlhser were too often done 10-adequately or haphuardly

    By mterbreecding selected bre-eds of the japonf¢a ana indicavaret.es SCIentISts have beenlI~eto produce neW tYpes of nce plantwhich grow sturdy at the baseand short m the stem, thuspreventJng lodging and saVIng

    • '(Contd on palle 4)

    though at a slower rate than In Ihepenod before 1964

    The Government has, however,taken several stepS-lncludmg dec-ISlons which WIll lead to economIesoe defence spend,ng oV"f.sea&-wh-lch should resulf:ln appreCIable saYIngs over th,e next few years

    Thus the Issue o~ whIch attentionIS now focussed IS the trend of Bn-tam s basiC balance of trade 'TheGovernmenl has chosen to tacklethiS Issue. ID the short 10 mediumterm, by reslraJQlI;lg domestic econo-mic actlVlty

    This corree\S tht trading defICItIiy teduclpg the demand for unportsand by encouraging manufaclurerscompens~te fo, Ihe downlurn mtheir domestic markels by steppmgup exports

    C~rtalnly tbe policy has caused asetback to the level of busmess act-tVlty II! Britain Sonce the last b~lchof deflatlonary measures were taken In July 1966 the unemploymentrate bBS rISen from I 2 percent to24 p!'rcenl seasonally adjusted

    But from oow on the tempo ofdomo fOlllld are;; use It Is not enough to collecl fu- geilIDg fewer and fewer Fortunate-~ nlio and give them away for the ne- Iy, AfghanIstan, by Us natu,al and.

    edy, what is required IS a parteer' particular charactorlStlcs offers toshlJl whereby lho rIcher natIons csn traveller all meso thing. Why? Re-

    Peace can be ~stablished m theworld only when all UN membersespecially the big powers, respectihe Unlled Nations Charter andconSider mutual respect and peaceful co eXlstenCe~41s the key to soh'\.109 world problejns

    Iri conclusion lhe editoriaJ stressed ilial Afghaelslan has always beena fallblul member of the UnitedNations a fact which Is reflected inthe country s foreign polley

    ties cholera had been Wiped out inthe USSR and the number of typbus,smallpox and plague C8BCS had con-slderably decreascd These diseaseswere completely vanqUished in thethlrhes and malaria was wiped outIn 1960

    HospItals feir 2321000 beds nowoperate In cities and villages By theend of 1970 \here will be 110 hos-pital beda per every 10 000 peopleand the num~r at doctors will haveexceeded 693,000 (28 doctor. perevery 10 000 peopie)

    The N"'The real issue is not whetherthere should be pubUc debate inthe Unlted State. for, Indeed thereIS no way In which it can be avoid-ed the paper Ia1lI In an editorial

    Instead of injunctions against d1&-sent the chl/lenge for the adminis-tration is to shape a strategy torbringing the war to an honourableend a strategy that could unite thonabon In large part,II it added

    But the paper lamented that sucha strategy was u now nowhece to beseen .,

    It said "there must be a willing.ness to r~cb an accommodation thatreftects the mIUtary and poilUcalreallt¥>s in South Vietnam, ra1hertban persistence toward the I!nposslplo ,goal of Ualag arm. to dellrOYthe VIet Cong as an erganlsed poU-tical force

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    For ofber numbers fIrst dial ,""lc:bboanlnumber 230043, 24028, ~iI026

    We are sorry, however, to ~ triat"\Ii'~People's RepUblic of China III not a member ofthe United Nations The rights of the ChlDesepeople shonld be'~tOW!d In'lhe wOrld orpid-satlon and It should be accepted as the onlyrepresentative of China.

    Although peacekeepmg was one of theobJectives for whIch the United Nations wasfounded, as long as some of Its 1Demtim-'i:on-tinne not to pay their pe&el!keeplng -dues theUnited Nations Will not be able to poOce areaswhich require international peace enforcementnor continue Its peacekeeping operations Inareas where It Is already committed.

    In a wIder perspectIve the shortcomings ofthe world organisation stem from the lackof Interest m and dlsassoelatlon of certainmembers from a ~nmber of Its actlvities. Yetthe United Nations, whatever Its achievementsand failures, Is tbe oilly liIte'i'national organlsa-t.on which maoJdj(d rebes on to preserve worldpeace and secuntY

    l'nlted NatIons Day should serve as a re-minder to ail the member nations of theirl'eSponslblllties to this organisation and shouldenco\i'i'age them to review their rel!itions withthe wllrId body particularly In those areaswhere lhey havenot cooperated as fully as theymight Such yearty'reviews may In the longrun strengthen the United Nations

    ijelghbourlDg Arab countriesThe autcome of the emergency

    seSSion of the General AssemblywhIch deUberated on the MiddleEast criSiS has profoundly disap-pointed peacelovihg nations of theworld because the open Israel1 aggresslOn which resulted In the killmg of thousands of fimocent Arabsand the occupatIOn of territory almos~ twice- the size of Israel wasnot even condemned

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    Today s Islah carned an editorralon United NatIons pay Twenty..oneyears ago it said, repres~ntatives of51 nations gathered together m SanFrancisco and brought out the UnitedNations Charter In the hope thaturuversal adherence to i\ would ensure world peace and promote mternational cooperation

    This happend when the world badJUst come out of a deadly and de-vutQtlng war Tweoty'-()ne yearshave passed smce that day

    Dunng thIS perlod world peacewas threatened on several occasions.but catastrophes were aveJ:'ted 8S aresult of efforts of In{ members whoproved on eve.rY occasion that mternlltional problems and contro''l8r- The French Communist Part)' Isles could be solved better through Sunday newspaper L'Humclnuenegotiations Dtrnanche celebrated its 1 OOOth

    The editonal also referred to the Issue with a 12IJ..page edition onefforts of the United Nations spe Sundayc1ahsedi agencies In promoting health The first edition was published on

    education and culture in various October 3 1948 the day on WhIChmembefl counlnea. AgenCies like a government law came mto effectUNESCO UNICEF the World stoppmg 1he French dally newsHealth Organisation and the World pa~n tram pubUshmg 00 SundaysFood and Agricultural Organisation Sunday s issue mcluded a 64-pagehave rendered commendable &ervlce supplement on the 50th anniversaryto UN member countries ot the SOViet October revolution

    But the editonal emphasised, the With a personal message from Somost urgent need of the present day VIet. Commurust Party Secretaryworld IS the strengthening and con Leonid Brezhnevs04ldation of peace Big powers RhodeSia plans to complete berwhich signed the Umted Nations break With Drlhan by proclaunmgCharter 21 years ago Bnd promised the republic on the seconq annlver-that they would continue their ef sary of her unilateral declaration otforts to promote peace seem to have Independence nexJ November 11 tbelorgotten the spirit of the Cbarter Sunday TIm,s claimed

    They hove resorted to a contl- Commenting on the &ecUl twonuous arms race and the production hours ot surprise talks In Pretoriaof deadly nuclear weapons The SaturClay between South Africanworid today il dlvidei:l Into various Premier John Balthazar Vorster ondgroupings each following and en Rhodesian lender Ian Smith thedeavourlng to promote a different newspaper said South African decIdeology laratlons of 5OUdo.rity were ready

    ThiS grouping II even manlfe'8ted except for the signatureIn the United Nations IlIeU This South African Foreigc Ministerstate of affairs has weakened the Hllgard Muller and Rhodesian Minworld body to the point that tI finds Ister for Law and Order DesmondIt difficult 10 adopt J£~quitable and J Lardner Burke-a representative atJust decisions on mafbl' world issues the rIght wing in the Smith cabinetIt has also encouraged some of the -had taken part in the meetingaggressive elements to resort to which ended without omcial com-military action and to forcibly munlqueoccupy other people s territOries Thirty thousand doctors graduaw

    There are certalO countries which annually in the Soviet Union, Minis-openly support such aggre.sioa The ter of Health of the USSR, Borl.editorial then mentioned the June ' Petrovsky wrote In lzt1e,tfafive aggresSIOn of Israel against its He poirited out that by late twen-

  • ..capItals WIth the approach ofthe WInter we may expect a

    consIderable mereage in the silleof these handmade sheepskincoats there

    The foreign exclillllge earnedfrom wese tWo Items has had so-me effect, even jf a minor olleoh briproving the '~Itlon ofAJgharu and bringmll d6wn thepoce of the-dliIIar l1ere

    How are we going to keepthe dollar rate doWi:l ,n the mar-kets here? This has alwaYi beena major problem since-the freemarket In' KabUl 'S tllilque TheHaJI seasoR IS n'caring In an-

    other two monthS tho_ds ofhaJls WIll go on PIlgrlniages toMecca This' wl11 affect the JiOsI-tlon of the foreIgn reserves

    We ought to have a second lookat the policy of allowmg freetraffIc of foreIgn exchange InAfghamstan it IS a good busml!Sllfor the brokers, and also a profIt-able one for those who seU mo-ney

    But we ought to study whetherIn the long run, as a dev"loplllllnatIOn, We can afford such aluxury when we need foreIgnexchange reserves for our de-velopmeQt projects

    The standby agreement wehave With the International Mo-'retary Fund IS one way of en-surmg a stable Afghan., butwhether we should go on WlththiS pohey IS another queStion

    We have reached a stage ofdevelopmept where we must re-\ lew some of the f.scal and eco-nomic POhCles mcludmg the onerelated to free marketIng TbeprIce of dollars In 20 years hasshot up from AI 30 to 83 Per-haps thiS fantastIc nse •• part-Ially due to haVIng no controlsystem

    don International Motol' Show-"hlch opened m London lastThursday

    Of the 72 makes of vehicleon show, oVer haU are fotelgnTransport MUnster Lerd Wat-kInson urged the government todo more to encourage car prod-uction-for example, by boostIhgItS 'rbad-bwlding programme"W~ are not prospenng UnIells

    our car Industty .s hitting newrecotds not only at home butas an Irreplaceable part of' BrI-taln's export drIve," he SBJd

    The BrIllsh-based motor Indlla-try-three of Its fIve leadingfirms are Ameflcjll1 contro1led-~xpects b'1Bhter d~s after ii~earlif lip economIC; squeeze and Ill,bour 'troubles ,

    The first day of the show\"'gaVeIt encouragement. With advanCeorders exceedlllll 20 Inillion ster-Img

    But overseas competltlon ISmore severe than ever ForeIgnmakes on display especially Inthe 9234- pnc" category, thr-eaten to make Inroads mto someof BrItain's Jradltlonal mlll'kets

    FIerce foreign competitIOn fa-ced BritIsh carmakers at thelfannual shop wmdow-the Lon

    British Cannakers Face Competition

    Last week another step was taken to flJl1her developAfghan karakul In order to facilitate tbe "Sorting of kara~kul, tile Afghan Karakul Institute will buIld a sortinghouse In the Industrial area of Kaliul next to the new we-mIses of the Kabnl Customs houses The bUlfdInJ whichwll1 cover an area of two and half acres will be eompletedby the middle of next year at a cost of Af 6,600,080. TheHeywad ConstructIon Company wili build the new sort-Ing house The new sorting house will have six rooms foradministration, 18 rooms for sorting and a big warehouse.The cost of the sorting house wll1 be met from the saviDgsaccount of the Afghan Institute of Karakul said AbdulGhaJ;our Raja the president of the InstItute In the pictureCommerce MInister Dr Noor All lays the foundation

    stone of the new sorting house

    World Tin OutputDeclining

    ProductIOn of tin In Thailandhas not expanded at the antlclpa-ted rate and m Malafpla •\t hasbeen well mamtamed.1Sut N.s tin-hkelY 10 merease, Stm1\ss andCo Ltrl say In thetr October re-view

    "And It now seems probable Ithat the expected growth mIn-IcloneSlan productIOn wl1l 1I0t takeplace Of lesser Importance thereIS httle hope of any mcrease Insupphes from N,gena or theCongo, rather the reverse Theres on other hand, some 'prospects

    of t o~e In Bolivian production"',akmg ell these changes mto

    Rccount It would be a fair assum.ptlon that total world output isnow runnmg at a rate of some5,000 tons les:j than was generallyanticIpated earlier In the year

    reasons for

    lnwrnationalTextile Trade UpThe mternotlOnal textile trade

    Increased by 8 per cent In 1966to 11,600 ml1116n, accordlllll toInternational Trade 1966 ClOth-Ing aM haberdashery Increasedby 16 per cent over 1965 to $2,900mIllIon, and yarns, manufacturedsoods and flmshed products wentup by 6 per cent, to $8,600 mil-hon

    Alone, jute did not take partIn this expansion

    Most alIve was the man-madef.bre sectIon, wh.ch affected cot-ton somewhat, but the'latter maybe makmg a bIg of a comeback,haVIng Increased .ts product.onfor the thIrd year runmng Thewool market also looked up, aftera poor perIod at the begmmngof the 1960's

    Both wool and cotton marketsuse an lncreasmg amount ofmlm-made fibres-more than aquarter of the productIOn thISyear

    Exports for Western Europe,North Amenca and Japan haveshown an Increase of one per centm textIles to 765 per cent of th~total, and of four per cent Inclothmg to 78 per cent, WIth th"exceptIon of UK whose exportsof textiles have dropped 2 5 percent Exports from developmgcountnes have gone up by 37per cent m Italy, and 27 per centm France for textiles, WIth res-pectIve mcreases m clothing of31 and 16 per cent

    (AFP)

    ASIA'S RICE REVOLUTION

    r;l;."'-, >Me;._'"~.....~~ "'''''s..~~ II

    constant suprevision ot teachers andtecbincal lldvlsoro and foUow .pec-ially prepared patterns

    Before graduatlng the studentsare gIven projects where they plan,deSIgn and wea'te indepen~enuY,said Wardak After Some practice onautomatic machines they can hand-le them I1ke experts

    At present there are 15 handloomswhich work hke electriC machines.but the scbool plans to Install someelectriC looms

    With the present equlpmenly thestudents weaVe various kinds ot: clo-thes furniture covers. table clbths,plam and pattern~d handkerchiefsskirts and overcoats The averageannual income from the sales of these woven products amounts to Af300000 saId Wardak

    The products afe displayed andsold durmg Jashan Orders for ta-ble cloths and material for draperles are afso acCepted

    There are 400 students enrolledIn the weaving deparlment and SOOhave 'already graduated

    tlOg botli tlie export and Import flgures ,.

    The Ina.ket background 10 thebeh'lVlOUr of UK exports Ill'; thi>dfi-st half of the year IS th~ Jbet~-hadbeen a SIgnifIcant slowdown' In ,IIieralt: of outp)!! grtlwth III several ofBr,rtam's pnnclpal export markets-notably Europe and North A"Ienca-and that une"lPloymcnl had beentendlJlg to rISe In a number of themduslrjallsed countries

    Indusrial prociilctlon tn the OECDarea this sprinS was no higher IlIanIC the summer of 1!l66 and die Jl'o-wth ~f trsde had alSo'slackened 'Asa result Botam's 'ioxpoCts 10 NorthAmenca and Western Europe dec-lined' during the first half-year

    The experience of the UDlted Kmgdom has been SimIlar to that ofmany 9ther mdestoaUscd countrieswhose exports have been flat or de-chnIng 10 recent montlis

    Imports alsd reaclied high levelsIn Ihe fJrst half of the year, partlyreOeclmg the lifting of the tempor-ary Import surcb~rge, and partlymcreased arrivals of fuels and food,dnnk and tobacco

    lmports of food and fuel oftenmove erratIcaUy Among surchar-geabie Imports, which rel11alnedhigh ID the second quarler. some partof tbe Increase IS aurlbutaole 10 aonce-for-an replenlshmeol o(..stocks

    The result of these movements 10bolh export~ aed )mports WBS 1halthe VISIble trade defictt averaged £10mIllIOns a month m the first quar-ter hnd £4S millions a month m

    (j;ohld on pa"B 4)

    Beneath the cacophony of poh- ~ Ph,hppmes and In CeylonI tical sloganeermg and tub- The problem the~ were set

    thumpIng that seems to over- was to fmd means of m.creaslDgwhelm manr &,an countrIes, po- the deplorably low y.elds of ricetentlally productive revolutIOn m AsIan countrIes which have

    IS gomg on Tips is the rice revo- not been able to mcrease praduc-lutlon whIch could transform the tlon despite generations of ex-hVlng conaltlons of the average penence In growmg the stapleAsian And smce food productIon food of their peopleIS the baSIC politIcal problem In The average Yield m India Ismost developmg countries a subs- about 1 5 tons, m Thailand abouttantIa! change m the prospect 1 6 tons and ,n the Philippmes f 2for nCe cult.vatlon IS bound tons per hectare TrOPiCal .rICeto be reflected m changes ID the productIOn m general has neverpatterns of POhtlCal relatlonsbi!'!' been able to exceed two tons perboth mternally and externally hectare As agamst this, nce far-for many As.an natIOns mers m temperate chmates, for

    The possible nce revolutlon'ls mstance, In Japan, Austraha andthe result of the Work of 'plant Italy have been able to averllltephYSIOlogIsts, genet'01sts, SOil between four to SIX tons perchemiSts and agronomISts working hectrem the seclUSion of their expen- This great d.fference wasmental paddy-plots and laborato- readll)' explamed by the fact

    >les, notably Los Banos In" tlie that most tropical rIce-productIOnwas done under condltlOn~ ofsubSIStence culttvatlOn while thetemperate zone offered better Ir-rIgatIon fertlloser, weedmg, pestcontrol and other SCIentific cul-lural prac!lces

    But when It was found thateven under the best condItionsavaIlable at tropIcal experImental statIons the Yields remamed,very low, It became clear thatthe answer to the problem pro-bably lay m changmg the quahty of the nce plant Itself sothat a hIgher yield was "bUIltmto" the plant

    Among tbe many causes ef-fectmg low yields were

    The tendency of the trad.tlonaltype of rice plant to grow thmand tall so that at fru.tlOn Itbecame lop-heavy and lodged mthe mud APart from the obviousloss of gram Involved, this pre-vented the matunng ears frommultiplying and made It difficultto harvest the crop partIcularlywhere mechamsed methods wereused

    Much of the tropical nce wasgrown In wet zones where lowclouds prevented the ",Iants fromdenVlng the benefit of sunlightwhich enables It to produce ItsmaXlm)lDl YIl!ld

    Water control, weedmg, andthe applocatlon of pllStlCldes andfertlhser were too often done 10-adequately or haphuardly

    By mterbreecding selected bre-eds of the japonf¢a ana indicavaret.es SCIentISts have beenlI~eto produce neW tYpes of nce plantwhich grow sturdy at the baseand short m the stem, thuspreventJng lodging and saVIng

    • '(Contd on palle 4)

    though at a slower rate than In Ihepenod before 1964

    The Government has, however,taken several stepS-lncludmg dec-ISlons which WIll lead to economIesoe defence spend,ng oV"f.sea&-wh-lch should resulf:ln appreCIable saYIngs over th,e next few years

    Thus the Issue o~ whIch attentionIS now focussed IS the trend of Bn-tam s basiC balance of trade 'TheGovernmenl has chosen to tacklethiS Issue. ID the short 10 mediumterm, by reslraJQlI;lg domestic econo-mic actlVlty

    This corree\S tht trading defICItIiy teduclpg the demand for unportsand by encouraging manufaclurerscompens~te fo, Ihe downlurn mtheir domestic markels by steppmgup exports

    C~rtalnly tbe policy has caused asetback to the level of busmess act-tVlty II! Britain Sonce the last b~lchof deflatlonary measures were taken In July 1966 the unemploymentrate bBS rISen from I 2 percent to24 p!'rcenl seasonally adjusted

    But from oow on the tempo ofdomo fOlllld are;; use It Is not enough to collecl fu- geilIDg fewer and fewer Fortunate-~ nlio and give them away for the ne- Iy, AfghanIstan, by Us natu,al and.

    edy, what is required IS a parteer' particular charactorlStlcs offers toshlJl whereby lho rIcher natIons csn traveller all meso thing. Why? Re-

    Peace can be ~stablished m theworld only when all UN membersespecially the big powers, respectihe Unlled Nations Charter andconSider mutual respect and peaceful co eXlstenCe~41s the key to soh'\.109 world problejns

    Iri conclusion lhe editoriaJ stressed ilial Afghaelslan has always beena fallblul member of the UnitedNations a fact which Is reflected inthe country s foreign polley

    ties cholera had been Wiped out inthe USSR and the number of typbus,smallpox and plague C8BCS had con-slderably decreascd These diseaseswere completely vanqUished in thethlrhes and malaria was wiped outIn 1960

    HospItals feir 2321000 beds nowoperate In cities and villages By theend of 1970 \here will be 110 hos-pital beda per every 10 000 peopleand the num~r at doctors will haveexceeded 693,000 (28 doctor. perevery 10 000 peopie)

    The N"'The real issue is not whetherthere should be pubUc debate inthe Unlted State. for, Indeed thereIS no way In which it can be avoid-ed the paper Ia1lI In an editorial

    Instead of injunctions against d1&-sent the chl/lenge for the adminis-tration is to shape a strategy torbringing the war to an honourableend a strategy that could unite thonabon In large part,II it added

    But the paper lamented that sucha strategy was u now nowhece to beseen .,

    It said "there must be a willing.ness to r~cb an accommodation thatreftects the mIUtary and poilUcalreallt¥>s in South Vietnam, ra1hertban persistence toward the I!nposslplo ,goal of Ualag arm. to dellrOYthe VIet Cong as an erganlsed poU-tical force

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    We are sorry, however, to ~ triat"\Ii'~People's RepUblic of China III not a member ofthe United Nations The rights of the ChlDesepeople shonld be'~tOW!d In'lhe wOrld orpid-satlon and It should be accepted as the onlyrepresentative of China.

    Although peacekeepmg was one of theobJectives for whIch the United Nations wasfounded, as long as some of Its 1Demtim-'i:on-tinne not to pay their pe&el!keeplng -dues theUnited Nations Will not be able to poOce areaswhich require international peace enforcementnor continue Its peacekeeping operations Inareas where It Is already committed.

    In a wIder perspectIve the shortcomings ofthe world organisation stem from the lackof Interest m and dlsassoelatlon of certainmembers from a ~nmber of Its actlvities. Yetthe United Nations, whatever Its achievementsand failures, Is tbe oilly liIte'i'national organlsa-t.on which maoJdj(d rebes on to preserve worldpeace and secuntY

    l'nlted NatIons Day should serve as a re-minder to ail the member nations of theirl'eSponslblllties to this organisation and shouldenco\i'i'age them to review their rel!itions withthe wllrId body particularly In those areaswhere lhey havenot cooperated as fully as theymight Such yearty'reviews may In the longrun strengthen the United Nations

    ijelghbourlDg Arab countriesThe autcome of the emergency

    seSSion of the General AssemblywhIch deUberated on the MiddleEast criSiS has profoundly disap-pointed peacelovihg nations of theworld because the open Israel1 aggresslOn which resulted In the killmg of thousands of fimocent Arabsand the occupatIOn of territory almos~ twice- the size of Israel wasnot even condemned

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    Today s Islah carned an editorralon United NatIons pay Twenty..oneyears ago it said, repres~ntatives of51 nations gathered together m SanFrancisco and brought out the UnitedNations Charter In the hope thaturuversal adherence to i\ would ensure world peace and promote mternational cooperation

    This happend when the world badJUst come out of a deadly and de-vutQtlng war Tweoty'-()ne yearshave passed smce that day

    Dunng thIS perlod world peacewas threatened on several occasions.but catastrophes were aveJ:'ted 8S aresult of efforts of In{ members whoproved on eve.rY occasion that mternlltional problems and contro''l8r- The French Communist Part)' Isles could be solved better through Sunday newspaper L'Humclnuenegotiations Dtrnanche celebrated its 1 OOOth

    The editonal also referred to the Issue with a 12IJ..page edition onefforts of the United Nations spe Sundayc1ahsedi agencies In promoting health The first edition was published on

    education and culture in various October 3 1948 the day on WhIChmembefl counlnea. AgenCies like a government law came mto effectUNESCO UNICEF the World stoppmg 1he French dally newsHealth Organisation and the World pa~n tram pubUshmg 00 SundaysFood and Agricultural Organisation Sunday s issue mcluded a 64-pagehave rendered commendable &ervlce supplement on the 50th anniversaryto UN member countries ot the SOViet October revolution

    But the editonal emphasised, the With a personal message from Somost urgent need of the present day VIet. Commurust Party Secretaryworld IS the strengthening and con Leonid Brezhnevs04ldation of peace Big powers RhodeSia plans to complete berwhich signed the Umted Nations break With Drlhan by proclaunmgCharter 21 years ago Bnd promised the republic on the seconq annlver-that they would continue their ef sary of her unilateral declaration otforts to promote peace seem to have Independence nexJ November 11 tbelorgotten the spirit of the Cbarter Sunday TIm,s claimed

    They hove resorted to a contl- Commenting on the &ecUl twonuous arms race and the production hours ot surprise talks In Pretoriaof deadly nuclear weapons The SaturClay between South Africanworid today il dlvidei:l Into various Premier John Balthazar Vorster ondgroupings each following and en Rhodesian lender Ian Smith thedeavourlng to promote a different newspaper said South African decIdeology laratlons of 5OUdo.rity were ready

    ThiS grouping II even manlfe'8ted except for the signatureIn the United Nations IlIeU This South African Foreigc Ministerstate of affairs has weakened the Hllgard Muller and Rhodesian Minworld body to the point that tI finds Ister for Law and Order DesmondIt difficult 10 adopt J£~quitable and J Lardner Burke-a representative atJust decisions on mafbl' world issues the rIght wing in the Smith cabinetIt has also encouraged some of the -had taken part in the meetingaggressive elements to resort to which ended without omcial com-military action and to forcibly munlqueoccupy other people s territOries Thirty thousand doctors graduaw

    There are certalO countries which annually in the Soviet Union, Minis-openly support such aggre.sioa The ter of Health of the USSR, Borl.editorial then mentioned the June ' Petrovsky wrote In lzt1e,tfafive aggresSIOn of Israel against its He poirited out that by late twen-

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