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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1980.
TWO MORE WALK-OUTS Full report on
BY RUSSIA AT U.N.
Protest against seating of Nationalist delegate BOYCOTT OF 16 ORGANS
Lake Success, March 27. Russia walked out of two more United Nations bodies today-the Human Rights Commission and the Transport and Communi- cations Commission.
Russia now boycotts 16 specialised organs of the United Nations in protest
against the attendance of Chinese Notiona list delegates.
In the Human Rights Commission the Nationalist delegate was appointed
a Vice-Chairman after the Soviet member left the room. Observers had hoped
to hear (motion could not be voted. She
a reply from the Soviet delegate, was supported by 12 votes to two
M. Tsarapkin, to the recent plen of Mr. Trygve Lle, United Nations Secretary-General, for a special Security Council meeting with the heads of Governments or their foreign Secretaries sitting on the Council
East-West to compose differences.
Yugoslavia and
Union.
the Soviet
Satollitas join
Later, in the Transport Com. mission the vote in favour was 11 to fourthe Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czecha. slovakia. In this case the dele- Poland and Czecho- gates of slovakia joined the Russian da. legate in walking out. M. Tarapkin told the Human
The first reaction was that the Soviet Union had given unmis- takufile <viience that it would nol return to the Council until the Chinese issue had been settled with the exclusion of the Nation-Rights Commission that the rights
alist delegates.
CBSCS
the
of the iluman Rights Commission declared that the Soviet
and
of China as
a member of the United Nations has been usurped here by a few representatives of who do the Kuomintang group not represent either China or the Chinese people.
Problems of
atom-planes remain
Washington, March 27. Qualified officials indicated today that many baffling technical problems remain to be solved before atomic
craft. engines can be used in air-
Australian Gov't
HK Court forces armistice action wanted
Washington, March 27.
A full report on a Hong Kong Court's rolease to the Chinese Communiets of 71 American-bullt transport planes was called for today by 2 Senate Appropriations Bub Committes.
Members of the Committee came out of a closed meeting with State Department offi. clals and said that they were not satisfied with the State Department's report on,
DABO.
the
A British court in Hong
Kong had ruled that the Chi- noso
ess Communists werd the legal owners of the planes, then operated by the Chinean Nationallats.
One Bonator said: "Wo do not think the State Depart- ment has bean aggressive enough in trying to keep these plance out of Communist hands. We want to know why we are giving Britain B-29 to strengthen anti-Communist forces in Europe at the same time that Britain is preparing turn over transport planes to the Chinese Communists." Mr. Livingston Merchant, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, was reported to have told the Committee that the State De- "partment had taken up the mattor with Britain and had registered, the U.8. Govern- ment's interest.-Reuter.
to
New treaty
many bating with Egypt
proposed
The Atomic Energy Commis- slon. Air Force and National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics are co-operating in an extensive powered planes. But none research programme will early future.
on
WDB
In each of today's walk-outs came after resolutions moved by Soviet delegates calling for the exclusion of the Chinese
"In the interests of the United Nationalist delegates had been
Nations this tense situation must ruled out of order and after the e liquidated without delay. In Chair's ruling had been sustained. order to achieve this it is neces
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (United sary that the Kuomintang repre- States) presided over the meeting sentatives be excludied from all ing, to predict success in the treaty with
organs of the United Nations and that the real representallves of the Chinese Republie be given the opportunity of taking places."
After Mrs. Roosevelt's ruling 1. Developing a lightweight that the Sovict' motion was shield to protect aircraft crews of order, M. Tenrapkin observed, from the deadly radiations of the "Our problem is to clarify the atomic engine. This problem will atmosphere and to set up a work-
be tackled when the ABC com- ing climate here.
The
country pletes its materials testing reactor represented by Mrs. Roosevelt due for construction near Arco, might perhaps not consider it ad-Idaho, next year. vantageous to clarify the atmos- phere and to dispel doubt."
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While details of the research are top secret it was known that their two of the biggest difficulties
are:
outt
After the vote, M. Tuarapkin faunched an attack
on alleged
against strikes
Melbourne, March 27, Australia's Conservativo Government, armed with now powers of immediate arrest ́against disordor and Communism, forced a two-month armistice today in the national strike wave. Trade union leaders, at inter-State emergency talks here on the critical opening day of the Government's strong-arm anti-strike campaign ordered. a two-month standstill of all action for enforcing local wage increases.
The Communist-led Watersida Workers' Federation
sont back to work 2,000 Bribano strikers ****, facing possible arrest under the new omor- goncy law--and decided to arbitrato the port's long-standing labour stoppagas............
But it warned the Government that I would not be "Intimi-
dated by threats of the loss of hard-won rights and by threats of gooling if we continue to exercise the 'long-established trade union right to strike."
The trade union chlefs, dis- cussing the Government's decl- sion to invoke the far-reaching powers of tho Crimes Act. ordered the strikes standstill ponding a special union congress here on May 18,
the
congress
To consider wages. Mr. A. E. Monk.. President of the Australian Council of Trade Untons, said that would consider basic wages, the Federal Government's threatened legislation to control trade union affairs and its latest threat to implement the Crimes Act-in In- dustrial disputes.
The Act, Invoked by the Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, on Thursday, gives the Government the right of imme- diate arrest, to ban meetings and to impose the death penalty for
treason,
and
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Teheran, March 27. The new premier of Persia, All Mansur Olmolk, today denied that he was pro-Rus- sinn and said he wished to maintain the friendlicet und closest relations with the United States.
"I
most surprised and hurt to And I have been called pro-Russian," he said in an In terview. "I am first a Persian and as such I must serve Persia's interest first,"
London, March 27, Mr. Somerset de Chair, Con- atom-servative, today urged the Gov- ernment to negotiate a new
The 60-year-old Prime Minister charged that Egypt based on
certain persons mutual respect for the sovereign sential services will face
From today all strikers in es- were attempting to undermine his prison relations with the United States, rights of each power and re-sentences of up to one year cognising their strategic inter- Australian-born,
if | but said, "I am sure the Amerl- deporta cans mean what they say by their dependence.
tion, it foreign-born, under 'ils repeated declarations that they do He suggested in the House of rulings.
not wish to interfere with the Commons that the Government Mr. Menzies said that it would
internal affairs of other countries. should tako advantage of the be utsed ogainst Communists I wish to maintain the friendliest Wald Party's return to power to pending the passing of special and closest relations with Ameri- revise the 1938 Treaty concluded legislation to outlaw that Partyca, which I hope will extend when the Ward Party was last in in Australia,
necessary aid to Iran in its own power,
interests." The Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr. Ernest Davies, replied that recent visit to Catro the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, found the leaders of the 29 newly-appointed Egyptian Gov.
"in full accord with the-Reuter. ernment British Government the neces- early settlement of sity for an the cutstanding differences be- tween the two countries.
2. Finding some way to con- vert heat in the atomic engine to propulsive power without the need for 庭 cumbersome stear boilor which is hardly suitable for the aircraft.
Andrew Karlinisky, engineer United States aid to the Nation-attached to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, been set for allat Government and referred said a date kas
atomic-powered to the bombing of thousands of test flying on women and children from Tai plane capable of circling the globe wan by
cli- Kuomintang at supersonle speed. He did not que In American plance".
Indicate when is the date. Later, M. Tsarapkin
told re-
The AEC declined to comment
Karlinisky's porters that the Soviet Govern- on
speech but to 1 ment was ready to co-operate in officials called attention the United Nations when a legal recent Los Angeles address by situation was created in which the Dr. Lawrenca Hafstad, AEC direc- Communist Government of China tor-of-the-reactor-ticvelopment and leading authority on atomic port.
Who
ould take could
Asked hen he exlivets to be Communist
representatives Lake ut Success, he replied, "Ask the United States Government"
The Nationalist delegate elected as Vice-Chairman of the Human Rights Commission Dr. P. c. Chang.
10-
was
Mrs. Roosevelt, who has been Chairman since the Commission's inception in 1948, was unanimous ly re-elected.
"Hafstad said, "Developing any kind of aircraft reactor will be
extremely diffleult", and intimated
that it is too early to tell when It will be feasible-if ever.
The government policy, he said, is to continue intensive research "for the next two or three years by which time it might be hoped that data might become available to permit re-evaluation and more decisive conclusion.
In o
"We are in friendly touch with
the new Government but have not reached the stage of formal inter-change," he said.
Mr. de Chair suggested that an effort should be made to convince the Egyptians that if it were possible for Britain to absorb an American bomber base in East Anglia without feeling that
at it had been an infringement of possible for Eppt to regard & national sovereignty, it should be British base in
as being in no sense an infringe- ment of Egyptian sovereignty.
Mr. Davies replied that this was a very wide question which could not be answered in the form of a question and
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Speaking in the Transport Dr. Hafstad also remarked yet aware of the very real imme- Commission, the Soviet delegate, that "pessimists in general are diate difficulties or they are bet- M. Nicolal Kilmov, said that the those best informed about the ting heavily on now ideas and new had re-progress of aircraft reactor re-developments arising during the vealed murderers of the Chinese popula- tlon" by their bombing raids from Talwan in American planes and should be "in the dock" rather than sitting at a table of the United Nations-Reuter.
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It followed the proclamation of "a slate of serious Industrial dis- turbance" by the Governor- General after a series of "rolling strikes one starting as another ends in the Brisbane docks and the New South Wales coalfields.
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He said the first task of his would be an- nounced in a few days, would be Cabinet, which speedy implementation of reforms under the nation's seven-year plan.
The Premier, who is chairman of the seven-year plan com- mittee, said reform In Iran was long overdue, He added: "I the seven-year plan is Implc- mented, in the proper manner, London, March 27. Iranians will not be left needy, The Foreign
sick or hungry.". Under-Secre- tary, Mr. Ernest Davies, denied assertions in the House of Commons today that British views were not given sufficient consideration on the Far East ern Commission,
He said also that his Ministers would Include four new men, but all would be experienced men aware of the country's needs.— United Press.
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