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PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report CHILE: YES FASCISM-NO DENOUNCE THE RIGGED REFERENDUN APPORT THE PAL The all-out verbal war which broke out ten days ago between Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia) and Vietnam certainly reflects many months of sporadic border fighting between the two countries over the last year.

It is at the present time impossible to know whether it reflects more than this because of the extremely unreliable nature of the reports.

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HIGHWAYS 7 It is almost impossible to believe, for instance, the claim reportedly made by Kampuchean radio on January 6 that 30,000 Vietnamese (and some Soviet) soldiers had been killed or injured in one day's fighting.

Astounding

This would be astounding in view of the fact that the Vietnamese armed forces con• sist of an army of 615,000, plus 50,000 frontier security guards and an armed militia of 1,500,000 while the Kampuchean army is not much more than 80,000 strong and much less well rt General Zia-ul-Haq.

He might not however, be able to enjoy the leadership of the National Democratic Party (NDP: front for the illegal NAP) as a single organised formation.

Some prominent NAP leaders who were granted bail with him, have refused to leave prison until the martial law • authorities agree to reverse the consequences of the military operations carried out by Bhutto from Tea te moves towards :230 regroupments and splus affecting the PPP and other formations as various factions jockey for position.

Meanwhile General Zia has managed to secure diplomatic and economic aid from the western bloc and from "third equiped than the Vietnamese, who have Soviet and captured American arms including many aircraft.

Hard to believe

It is also hard to believe widespread reports of a full-scale Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea whose objective is to seize the capital PhnomPenh and install a puppet Such a move would contrast very sharply with the Vietnamese leadership's continued stress in its public statements on the urgent •Strung Treng od i ban Ive Cate Chi Minh City (Saigon) + MILES 150 need for a negotiated settlement.

Most of the fighting appears to have been in a region known as the Parrot's Beak, a part of Kamphuchea which juts into Vietnam and comes within sixty miles of Ho Chi Minh City.

The Kampuchean leadership has long made the nationalist complaint that Vietnam has over the last century confiscated rightfully Cambodian territory.

It has rejected plans by the Vietnamese leadership for an Indo-Chinese federation as "Vietnamese imperialism"

The latest war of words broke out when the Kampu- In briefTUNISIA The leaders of the UGTT (the state-sponsored union federation) have called off the phosphate unions' dispute even though the government has granted only some of its demands. But the atmosphere of dispute has now spread to agriculture with a 24-hour agricultural workers' strike.

MOZAMBIQUE

The government of Somara Machel has nationalised-with CO ensation-virtually all the LeTnational banks. in the country.

Fourteen leading CP members, including Edward Ochab First Secretary of the Party for a time in 1956 and later Head of State, have written • rushlie latter demandimo chean ambassador in Pek announced that Vietnam t invaded deep into Kami chean territory.

The Vietnamese leaders has admitted that it : occupied territory but tl it has said, was in self-defer against continued food ra by the Kampucheans.

The Vietnamese call negotiations on the dispi has been echoed by Mosc which has blamed the disp on provocation by Peking.

Hanoi began by present the dispute as one betw brother countries and cal on the present Kampuchi government to join an In Chinese federation of state But the Vietnamese newspaper later characteri the Khmer Rouge reactionaries'.

The Chinese bureauc has hinted that Vietnan territorial ambitions fanned by Moscow, bul has also called for m tiations.

It is only a few wr since delegations to Pel trom • Vietnam and Kai chea received dramatic different receptions.

New alliance Pol Pot, the Kampucl leader, was given e possible public honour the Chinese leaders, who ! arranged new • alli between the Kampuch and the military dictator in Burma.

Peking also tried to mote a closer relation between Kampuchea and new right-wing pro-Chi military dictatorship Thailand.

And Vietnam too has out its diplomats to capitalist support in region.

The Vietnamese for minister, Nguyen Duy Ti has made a hurried around the countries of reactionary imper sponsored ASEAN alliar Indonesia, Phillip Malaysia and Thailand.

Behind this dispute the desperate material n of the Indo-Chinese ma especially Kampuchea w is calculated to have on the most economically t ward countries in the wor The leaders of the KI Rouge from their imposed isolation entirely the internatior perspective which woul necessary to resolve 1 problems.

Build leadership Nor, despite their call a federation, can Vietnamese Stalinist bure racy tied up with the inte of the Stalinist bureauc of the USSR offer convincing proletarian i nationalist conception of socialist unity of Indo-C as part of the unity socialist state of the worl Both Vietnam and Kai chea must be defended b!

workers' movement ag any attempt by imperi:

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But it is only througt building of truly revolu ary leaderships in Kampu and Vietnam and a poli revolution to overtur bureaucracies that prodet internationalism anu material needs of the m -71