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new crisis developed last week in the difficult relations between the bureaucracies v ithin the Warsaw Pact.

Romanian leader Nicolae Ceasescu refused demands emanating trom the Kremin IoI an all- -11 round increase of military spending throughout the Warsaw Pact.

Last week Ceasescu made several speeches delending "national independence"

while rumours were growing of impending retaliation from Moscow.

Next week's Socialist Press will carry a full analysis of this important new development in the crisis of world Stalinism.

Franco's specially groomed successor King Juan Carlos has in the last fortnight been trying to show in Latin America that he is the equal of old hands like Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as a touring agent of imperialism.

Juan Carlos.

In Lima, Peru, he was protected from any contact with a new strike wave against the military dictatorship by an unprecedented military security operation.

•The regime was no doubt glad to get the troops and police back to protect itself when they packed Juan Carlos off to enjoy the hospitality of military dictator Videla in Argentina.

There Juan Carlos, who hopes, with Stalinist and reformist support, to be voted "constitutional monarch" in Spain's constitutional referendum on 6 December, issued a joint declaration with that butcher of the working class supporting "human rights" and condemning "terrorism".

Backed by Soviet and Cuban troops and advisors, city held by the Eritrean Popular Liberation Front.

Though the fall of the city took place only after a planned evacuation of liberation forces and supplies, the setback to the morale of EPLF guerrillas must be considerable.

Keren was first taken from Ethiopian government forces in July 1977, as Eritrean forces went in to the offensive and inflicted a series of defeats on the massively. larger, better equipped and Soviet backed army of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.

Guerrilla war

Now the city has been recaptured by the enemy, the Eritreans will undertake 8 prolonged guerrilla war waged from the mountains against the extended supply lines and isolatad outposts established by the Ethiopians.

The danger is stronger than ever that in their determination to liquidate the Eritrean

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As their nightmares take shape in a stark daylight form, 'the labour bureaucrats of West Germany are flying even faster into the open embraces of Wednesday December 1978

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the army of the Ethiopian dictatorship last week recap- tured Keren, the last major