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North Korea - Kim Il Sung's Stalinist government has dropped its long standing demand for the withdrawal of US forces from South Korea and wants to negotiate an all-Korea federation with the reactionary government of the South without any pre-conditions. The elderly Kim has turned North Korea into a kind of 'Stalinist monarchy' by having his son designated his successor as head of state and of the Communist Party.

Bolivia - The announcement of a new era of 'liberalisațion' by military dictator Hugo Banzer was followed within a few days by a wave of new arrests of members of left wing parties including the Communist Party, the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) and the Workers Revolutionary Party (POR).

China - The Chinese bureaucracy is ready to open negotiations with the United States to settle the US claims for property worth abour 200 million dollars expropriated at the time of the revolution in 1949. There are also 76 million dollars of Chinese assest frozen' in the US.

Iran - Documentation presented to the Amnesty International seminar on Iran held, despite the Shah's protest, in Holland, shows that there are between 25,000 and 100,000 political prisoners in Iran.

Since 1972 there have been over 300 jadical executions. Hundreds more people have been killed by the police while resisting arrest' -the press reported 69 killed in this way between January and October 1976.

Chile - In an interview published in the French paper Le Monde a spokesman of the Christian Democratic party says that the party military sich is in poltics the wants to share 1n good and "will not return to the barracks"

If the military demand in the transition period that the Communist Party stays illegal then we shall have to talk to the Communists'. . 'Between you and me' , the spokesman said, 'they think just as we do' He was right: CP leader Luis Corvalan has recently stressed two things: the need for an alliance with the Christian Democrats and the importance of searching out the "democratic" sections of the officer corps of the army.

Zimbabwe - In announcing proposed relaxations of the Land Apportionment Act and other aspects of racial discrimination, lan Smith's racist regime is attempting to get what he calls an "internal settlement": some way of involving part of the black leadership (possibly Bishop Muzorewa) in a compromise with racism which might stem the growing support of the black population of Zimbabwe for the liberation struggle.