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week delivered an 'energetic protest' to the right-wing Thai government in Bangkok. This followed an exchange of tire across the River Mekong, which forms the frontier between Laos and northern Thailand. Plans for the withdrawal of US forces from Thailand were recently 'postponed' once again.
AN INTERESTING sidelight on developments appears in the 20th January edition of NATURE magazine. InSCIENTIA SINICA v.XIX No 5 ( a Chinese scientific journal) the article: "Devote every effort to running successfully Socialist Research Institutes of Science" contains a correction slip, pointing out that "the arch unrepentant capitalist roader in the Party Teng Hiao-ping" should read just "Teng Hsizo-ping".
EGYPT
PRESIDENT SADAT, blaming last month's mass protests against his government on 'communists and Nasserites, has responded with a huge wave of repression. Thousands have been arrested. And a new law has been enacted (and confirmed through a mock referendum) which punishes with hard labour for lite crimes such premeditated striking, organising any political group other than the three parties officially sponsored by the state, agitation and impeding the authority of the government.
HOLLAND
THE STRIKES WHICH BEGAN last week against the employers' plans to abandon the 7-year-old limited agreement to tie wages automatically to the price level are beginning to have some effect.
Employers have already made the concession to keep the limited sliding scale, but only as long as inflation does not exceed 6%. It is not yet clear whether the union leaders will accept this inadequate concession. But the strikes continue for now as other demands - for a real wage increase and measures to expand employment are discussed.
WEST GERMANY
THE SECOND ROUND OF this year's wage talks is heading for deadlock. Unions representing 2 million public service workers have rejected an offer of a 5% increase. Last month, metal workers settled for an agreement worth over 8%.
ARGENTINA
ALTHOUGH THE VIDELA dictatorship is claiming more successes against the 'left' Peronist guerrillas, the Montoneros, it is
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