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Workers are showing that they have no faith in the policy of one-day strikes organised by the main reformist and Stalinist union leaders. Rank and file pressure has led to the continuation of strikes against the pay policy in the more militant sections of the public sector, especially the electric power industry.

NETHERLANDS

79-year old millionaire art collector and mass murderer Pieter Menten was last week sentenced to 15 years in jail for taking part in a mass execution of Jews in 1941. The massacre was in Podhorodge (then in Poland, now in the USSR) and the Dutch court has mainly used evidence provided by the Soviet government in its case against Menten.

ETHIOPIA

•Eritrean guerrilla fighters are reported to have entered : parts of the key Red Sea port i of Massawa and have inteni sified the seige of the Eritrean capital, Asmara. The_West Somali Liberation Front. lost control of Harrar which they. claimed to have captured. But it is still clear that in both wars the Ethiopian dictatorship is hanging on to very little.

TUNISIA

The Prime Minister has announced a new campaign of repression in the official trade union against "proponents of the class struggle, the dictatorship of the proletariat or the permanent revoluhad". Such irated, he said, apparatus of the trade unions which have recently launched a strike wave against the Bourgiba regime.

The kidnapping of his son by "EOKA-B terrorists" has been a political godsend to President Spyros Kyprianou. He got his son back unharmed; he got several days of public sympathy; but most important he got the withdrawal from the February Presidential elections of his only rival Glavcos Clerides, who has been politically associated with the far-right EOKA-B. It couldn't have been better if he had staged it West Germany's most recent spy scandal seems by far the most significant. to the workers. (Each worker is now on average owed about £700 by the company which has been refusing to pay