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motherland be more prosperous and thriving exclamation", "Long Live the communist party of romania exclamation" and "Long Live the romanian people exclamation"

at eight a.m., army general ion ionita, minister of armed forces of romania, reviewed units of the romanian armed forces. then he mounted the rostrum and reported to nicolae ceausescu, general secretary of the r.c.p., president of the state council and supreme commander of the armed forces. the band struck up the national anthem of romania and a 21-gun salute was fired.

then the military parade began. a guard of honour

· composed of cadets marched in the van. after them were infantry units, mountain operation units, frontier units, naval units, national public security units, artillery units, tank units and rocket units. they are ready at all times to respond to the call of the party and government in defence of the fruits of revolution and the socialist motherland.

jet fighters of the romanian air force flew over the square in formation, columns of patriotic detachments and youth military training corps valiantly marched in step through the square, singing revolutionary marches. they are armed forces of the people composed of young and middle-aged men and women of various professions. they regularly undergo military training in their spare time and are ready to defend,together with the regular army, the independence and sovereignty of the motherland. when they passed through the square, they drew repeated warm applause and cheers.

a mass procession followed the military parade. the working people of the capital passed through the square singing and dancing, they carried charts and models showing the achievements which their enterprises or collectives have made or are going to make in production and construction.

the marchers also carried a streamer inscribed with: "fraternal salute to the working people of the people's republic of china exclamation Long live the friendship between the people of romania and china exclamation" and streamers inscribed with slogans saluting the people of albania, korea, viet nam and other countries.

the procession concluded triumphantly amidst the singing of "the internationale".

on the same day, military parades and mass processions were also held in various county seats in the country. end item

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1971

northwest china geological team Locates drinking

water for mountainous region

yinchuan, august 23 Chsinhua) a geological team on the arid Loess highlands in the southern part of the ningsia hui autonomous region has located drinking water for the local people of hui and han nationalities. this resulted from repeated investigations and surveys. the people no longer

have to depend, as they did for centuries, on rain water for themselves and their herds. Local people praise the team as "sent by chairman mao

the 15 workers and technicians came to this arid mountainous Loess area in 1960. it had limited amounts of underground water, nearly all of which was highly saline and bitter. before liberation the labouring people often crossed mountains to bring in water from dozens of kilometres away. the water shortage in some places was so acute that the people had to flee with their livestock.

in new china mao tsetung thought illuminates the mountainous area. the poor and lower-middle peasants got organized and by dint of their collective strength they dug pits and built dams to retain rain water and fought hard against drought. but the amount of drinkable water found underground was still insufficient to serve the people and enable them to expand farming and stockbreeding.

the people were overjoyed at the arrival of the team. the poor and lower-middle peasants told them about the difficulties arising from the shortage of water and asked them to Locate some. this spurred the workers and technicians who transmitted the requests of the Local people to higher Levels on many occasions. but, under the influence of the renegade, hidden traitor and scab liu shao-chi's counter- revolutionary revisionist line, some bourgeois technical authorities of the geological department, proceeding from the idealist theory of knowledge, arbitrarily declared it "impossible to find underground drinking water in a big sea of undrinkable water". even when the local geological group found a well in kuyuan county that yielded potable water, they compelled the workers to pull out the steel casing- pipe and blocked up the drilled hole under the pretext of "preventing surface water from pouring in to confuse underground water Layers".

during the great proletarian cultural revolution members of the geological team angrily denounced the crimes of liu shao-chi and the bourgeois technical authorities who ignored the suffering of the masses. the team members conscientiously studied chairman mao's three constantly read articles and "on practice" and "on contradiction". they criticized liu shao-chi's counter-revolutionary revisionist