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One word from the Us President, and everyone does exactly what they like.

Seldom could this have been more true than in this agonising single-term administration of peanut king Jimmy Carter.

While Carter himself has launched a desperate electionearing drive designed to prop up his claim for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination next: year, his arch-rival Senator Kennedy was deftly leaking the news that his momma Rose Kennedy had at last given him the OK to run for the Presidency.

Spat out In the House of Representatires, too, Carter's frantic enorgy programme was being dowly chewed over and spat out by Congressmen who have loaded down the authorisation for Presidential petrol rationing with so many amendments that it is now regarded as unworkable".

In the Senate, Carter $88 billion synthetic-fue gramme was slashed to a $20 billion budget.

Profits tax

But this may prove to be a heavily-disguised reprieve if the Senate endorses a move to exempt all newly discovered US oil production and Alaskan oil from Carter's proposed "windfall profits" tax.

Meanwhile the rise in US wholesale prices reached an annual rate of 14%-led by food prices which are rising at a staggering 17.3% per year. Carter has responded by calling in representatives of the US food monopolies for a White House "carpeting". their shoes. They must be shaking But US workers cani ifford merely to spectate -arter's political demise: th Carter interests can only be defended in the struggle to break the unions from their ties to the US capitalist parties, and for the building of a Labour Party based on a programme of social -ist policies to defend jobs and wages.

were published-but posters advertising the slates of the Islamic Republican Party were published inside the polling booths!

Suffrage was notionally universal for adults-but no registers of electors were available and in many areas no polling booths were to be found.

It was the scrutineersTHE WRETCHED state of Equatorial Guinea has . poor passed from the rule of one dictator to another.

One of the smallest and poorest states in Africa, Equatorial Guinea had been ruled by President Francisco Nacias Nguema since independence from Spanish colonialism in 1968.

But his bloodthirsty and parasitic tyranny was displaced last weekend by a military coup which brought to power his nephew (and former Vice-Minis ter of Defence) Lt. Col. Theodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

While the Daily Telegraph has shrieked its routine wild claims about Cuban troops, the Spanish government has been at pains to deny the obvious-that the Francoist regime had actively sponsored the coup in order to extend its strategy of developing a new economic and political form of imperialist exploitation of the African masses.

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