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knows he cannot rely even on the political support of a single one of the Common Market states for a military intervention in the Persian Gulf.
The US ruling class are over a barrel in another area. No fewer than five official committees are now 'investigating' the Central Intellingence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Kissinger himself is threatened by the revelations of former CIA : chief Richard Helms - now on more-or-less permanent leave 'from his post as US Ambassador in Iran to answer questions in Washington.
Helms' most important evidence concerns Kissinger's part - under the Nixon administration - in CIA backing for the fascist coup in Chile.
As for the FBI, Congressional questioning has so far only scratched the surface of its spying and sabotage against the labour move Isent and left-wing in the US it•self.
On February 9th the Argen tinian regime unleashed the army in a massive campaign against guerrilla forces in the outlying provinces of Tucuman, Salta and Chaco.
Special 'shock-troops' are being used, known for their brutality and trained in 'counter-insurgency' methods.
One of the main targets is the 'People's Revolutionary Army' (ERP - a former "trotskyist' tendency which split from the Mandel faction of the revisionist 'Unified Secretariat').
But other guerrilla detachments, totalling between two and three thousand are also under attack.
The Army's aim is not only to destroy the guerrillas but to "pacify' the thousands of poverty-stricken peasants in the rural areas
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PRESS, Thursday, by Alan Clir