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THE GUARDIAN Saturday June 1 1968 11 by NEST A ROBERTS' has THE peasant in me always been persuaded standstill. The laundry around worst is the post and the dustbin the corner is a bit short on the perpetual absence of the modern equipment. Theie is a one and the perpetual piesence stove with a diadem of fiat irons of the other. No business letters HAVE THERE been any best things? There have been three. One came from the elderly Archbishop of Paris (Mgr.

Francois Marty, whose Ascension Day message to be meditated on in all parishes condemned violence but went on to declare up their paper sacks with sur- too, and biscuits, and spaghetti, prising accuracy. Politics," said and oil, though corn oil before my own this morning. I do not olive. Not being a hoarder has understand politics. What worries little to do with civic virtues.

It me is les ordures fthe rubbish, is as chancy a business as hair They are my responsibility." colour or blood groups. You are born either a daughter of Jacob or a daughter of Esau, and that's is bliss. No personal letters propped up around it, and thiee ail, -muii one nas ine that. Besides, what can you that God was not a conservative chauvenistic feelings that at hoard when your consumption of and that he was on the side of Governor Reagan no longer a favourite son From ALISTAIR COOKE, San Francisco, May 31 For another two days Californians will continue to register mild amazement at the roving armies of Kennedy and McCarthy and the horde of war correspondents from many lands that troops along behind them. Not since Mr Khrushchev's famous foray into the West almost a decade ago have the foreign press lords expressed home we manage these things sugar is hardly one lump a social justice that members of a mechanised society are so many sorcerer apprentices.

lave on the fourth floor without a lift and the day may come when legs or lungs or hearts give up though it is surprising how they all thrive on four flights five times daily but at least a power cut will not leave you suspended for hours between heaven and earth, in close confinement with one or more persons who, though necessarily your nearest, are far from being your dearest. Pumps in the yard and family women Hold mem up to their cheeks when they change them to continue their leisurely, immaculate ironing, and so I have clean sheets. The baker Is the most reassuring of all. His oven extends beyond his shop under the street and, since it is fired by wood, all the electricity undertakings in France could switch off without affecting him. If his existing stock of wood runs out, his two stout sons, assisted by the baker's devils who occasionally erupt into the shop, naked except brings the feeling that all your friends are dead, or, worse, that they have given you up for as good as, and will forget to resurrect you when the postman knocks once more.

The dustbins fill and fester and overflow, and the sick-sweet smell of decay lingers in the narrow streets of Old Paris. Try not to accumulate more household waste than you can help, says official advice. That means for one thing not eating artichokes because even a single good-sized one leaves you with the beginnings of a compost heap, but the problem goes beyond artichokes. The piles mount inexorably. month, and you don care tor potatoes, and you prefer to eat your spaghetti at the neighbouring Italian restaurant "Rice," said a French colleague, whose practical sense was sharpened in a concentration camp, and, when you said you didn't eat much of it You might be glad to.

Rice and Viande Gnsons." Viande Grisons is that sun-cured meat you And in the Alps, which is eaten in delicious wafers. True, it is indestructable and concentrated and ever-lasting. With that, and the rice, you could stand a siege if you put down the window boxes to mustard and cress The other two came from the students. In the small hours one day this week a group in the Latin Quarter was having a passionate argument about newspapers. The bourgeois press should be censored because it was misleading the public, said one of its members.

Why asked another, slightly older. Freedom means that the extreme Right is able to make its views known just as you are. The public must judge." The whole body of revolting students provided the third example when they demonstrated against the edict forbid better. England my England (well, Britain, my .) long since the women, from the senior number of the Women's Institute to the youngest Brownie would have paraded in fatigue order with their dustpans and brushes. The vicar would have organised a parish bonfire to combust all that was combustible.

The tins. well-washed, please," would have been collected by what are no longer called Wolf Cubs, and who needed them to make Christmas toys for children in a refugee camp in Uttar Pradesh. 3- j- THE HOARDERS came on the scene early. I have neither seen nor heard of any speculations on the scale of that of the one-holers at the bottom of the garden behind the gooseberry tor white caps, sandals, the bushes both nave aisaavanxages. snortest of svm shorts, and a particularly in winter, but noth- dusting of flour, will go and chop mg much can go wrong with down some trees in the Luxem- There are paper sacks to be had at the Maine but, inevitably.

either, wnereas now now Dourg wardens. Beyond that 1 one striking electricity worker visualise a slow mule-train loaded has only to put a finger on a with sacks of flour which two old switch for the spin-drier, and the men have browned by rubbing stereo, and the fridge, and the two millstones together from corn not enough. The emergency lorry, which in our district is manned by a splendid Goliath who looks like a porter from sucn an araeni, oner, obsession with the Golden State. But by Wednesday at the latest, the foraging expeditions will move on and the Californians will return to preoccupations which in fact, already greatly outweigh their passing concern with the Democratic Presidential nominee. against the scurvy.

But with the ding the return to trance of the outlay for welfare (the dole) and the needy; that he has proposed dangerous economies in college funds and cut back the whole education budget And, that he is spending too much time running (or ostentatiously not running for President. A constant visitor here can sympathise with any California Governor in the turbulent 1960s. This State abounds in all the problems and complexities of modern government everywhere and with lots ot new problems that will afflict the other States. coffeeigrinder and the bath water reaped with a sickle by some Les Halles doing a bit on the pansies doing so well, the last their leader, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, all to so at once. The primitives other old men far away in the o- -rt was unthinkable, and to carve a German national.

"We are all mu yy-J t-vu j-i. wuinan wiiu, uurmg uie Algerian woman who, during the Algerian Viande Grisons you practically foreigners proclaimed their tluuZ-t? ti-i-iS -1 is not preceded, like the plague crisis, was seen by Alexander the bidet drips because and the bread it impregnable, cart, by cries of Bring out your Werth to load a taxi with sugar banners. "We are all German If, 35 years ago, there had been- the same solidarity, how would the history books no longer the plumber is a self-employed man who carries all lus gear in his little bag and he came when the rest of the world was at a need an adze, which I have not got. So instead I bought records of the late Beethoven Quartets. Logically of course that counts as hnarding too produces is incomparable.

te THE REST of us are up to date and therefore vulnerable The aeaa out tne impression is much the same. Householders rush out with their sordid bundles, elderly concierges lob ana anve away, Dur again mere has been a run on sugar. There were' certain shops where not a grain was left Potatoes went. It is their own Governor and his administration that monopO' read today ana other countries, later on. it use tne natives xaiK.

a year ago. Ronald Reaean was a Presi- is also the eround of News in brief US flies 1 arms dential dark horse of the most the restless, the ambitious, and dazzling hue. On Tuesday, he the derelicts of America. One will be the only name on the thousand two hundred new Cali- Republican ballot, for he allowed fornians come and settle here himself to be put up as a every day and a large bunch of favourite son" Presidential them very soon goes on to wel- candidate, and inviolable cour- fare and seeks free medical care, tesy of American politics decrees By an honoured tradition of that no national Presidential California politics, the people hopeful of the same party shall hold in their hands three weapons come into the State to dispute whereby they can express their the good judgment of the party's displeasure at their Government bigwigs. anj its governore.

They are So Nixon is not on the ballot, known as" the referendum, initia- and short of a massive revolt of tive and recall. A referendum citizens scribbling in the names must be held on any law that is of Nixon and BockefeUer, Keagan vetoed 'by the Governor or will have, by Tuesday midnight, appealed to the State courts. The all the 5S California delegates to "initiative" is the right to put the Republican national con- on the ballot any proposals, how- vention ever ingenious or. crazy, that something less than 10 per cent indictment of the voters want to put on. It may not be his finest hour There are professional petition but it may well be his last For seekers, and one of them once State Department officials said "for $500,000 I will yesterday acknowledged that the United States has begun an airlift of military equipment to Jordan, thus ending the suspension of arms shipments, which has been In force since last year's war.

Officials said that the arms for Jordan were part of a package deal reached in March and were unrelated to any immediate military situation. US cargo aircraft have been arriving in Amman at the rate one or two a day, mostly laden with ammunition, spare parts and other light military equipment. Heavier equipment, including tanks, will be sent by sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Anti-boycott line weir Governor grows apace. Today, the authoritative California poll compares the popular view of him 11 months apart Last June, 41 per cent thought he was doing a good job as Governor and 33 per cent thought him "fair." Today only 30 per cent think he is good and 66 per cent say he is "poor" or Hanoi and US rise to small talk From HELLA PICK Paris, May 31 Almost forgotten in the heat of the French, crisis, the Vietnam peace negotiators held another meeting here today.

It was their sixth and although the Vietnamese insisted that there had been no progress, a milestone in the tortuous talks was reached today. For the first time there was a brief recess from the speech making and the two delegations together repaired to the bar a nonalcoholic bar to be sure, but nevertheless a place for a little informal chat, with the two chief protagonists, Mr Harriman and Mr Xuan Thuy. exchanging small talk. It was Mr Harriman who had suggested the recess, and it was clearly part of his attempt to reach a human level, to get away from the set strait jacket speeches and into secret negotiation. Today's speeches contained their usual fill of mutual attack, with the Americans telling the North Vietnamese they were the cause of all.

the trouble by invading the South and Hanoi telling the United States that America was not only an aggressor, but perfidious and treacherous their two favourite adjectives just now to boot. More Saigon fighting Saigon, May 31 Vietcong and South Vietnamese forces still fought in Saigon today, the seventh day of guarantee to get on the ballot a- measure to execute the governor by Christmas." It has not quite come to that but Governor Reagan is now being threatened with the third weapon: "recall." Ten per cent of the voters are enough to put on the November ballot the question of whether or not the Governor deserves to stay in office. A simple majority would force his resignation, The backers of this move say that they have a million signatures to put the Governor's "recall" on the November ballot. They need another 280,000 by the end of July. If they get them then the voters win decide whether to keep or fire the Governor.

Whether it succeeds or fails, this is the kind of publicity that could dirr once for all the vision of Ronald Reagan as the first film-star President tair. His standing is as bad as that of former Governor Pat Brown as he entered his last year of office. These figures are not mere reflections of a worn-out infatuation. The two Californians in three who now disapprove of him do so on precise grounds. The indictment reads that, coming in on a promise of general economy, he raised taxes instead of reducing them that he has cut the budget for mental health; that he has raised the already burdensome California Stat income tax that-he has reduced A tank from the French Army 2nd Armoured Brigade passing through the village of Nogent-sur-Seine yesterday as armoured vehicles began to converge on Paris.

The South African Government's attitude to Rhodesia had not been affected by the UN mandatory sanctions resolution, said Dr Muller, the Foreign Minister. The Government did not believe in boycotts, rarti-cularly in Southern Africa, he added. African sentenced John Irungu Wachira, an African, was imprisoned for 14 years in Nairobi for his part in a panga raid on the home of a British woman, Mrs Yvonne Bulling, in which property worth 900 was stolen. He was also ordered to receive- 24 strokes of corporal punishment. Tremor in Sicily Money-and medicines-running short From HELLA PICK, Paris, May 31 M.

Pompidou's- new Government, and especially M. Couve money to keep her home open for her adopted children. de Murville, the new Minister of Finance, face vast economic Much of the hardship is problems and will need a great genuine but some of it is sheer deal of finesse to obtain the kind of cooperation between Government, industry, and trade unions which the situa The striking haulage workers bring fresh milk and vegetables and fish, believing, soundly enough, that there is no point in maddening the housewife especially the strikers' wives. Just because so many of the housewives are indeed the strikers' wives, there are fewer and fewer buyers in the food shops money is running very short in working-class districts, and food prices if anything are falling. In some areas the unions are even beginning free distribution of potatoes to help the needy.

An earthquake shock sent thousands fleeing from the town of Sciacca, Sicily. No damage or casualties were reported. The tremor was felt throughout Western Sicily. People have bought up every tin and plastic pan available and stored petrol in them and some have filled their baths. One firm said, "At least one can put one's clothes into the bath as well and have them dry Cleaned on the spot." The mystery of it is that there have not been more explosions and fires with all this fuel being caTted around.

Of course, the petrol shortage is not just a joke. Apart from a few long distance coaches and the Vietcong offensive. Up to two companies of Vietcong penetrated into Cholon from the other Chinese quarter of Phu Lam. Officials said that a Vietcong prisoner had said that he was ordered to stay in Saigon until June 5. There would then be a five-day lull followed by another 10-day offensive.

Keuter. French masochism. That petrol business, for example. There has been less and less of the precious fuel as the weeks went by and getting petrol has become a national mania. Judging by the number of cars still on the road they have not done so badly and there were a number of traffic jams out of Paris today to reassure anyone who might fear tha'.

strikebound France might have to forgo its traditional WMtsun holiday away from home. McCarthy a stranger in Negro stronghold From DAVID GRAY, Los Angeles, May 31 One-fifth of the voters in members "of the Malcolm- California are either Negro, Foundation. He defended him- Mexican-American, or Oriental, se" tot against the charge, and thprp is a lsrirp Tpwich aoh he keeps hearing ien Se Ml SM McCarthy, who has the civil rights. "My record is curiously unfashionable better than anyone else's. I have theory that when you speak been supporting civil rights for to one group of voters you 20 years without any hope of speak to them all, compro- gSljjKC 6- are only mised a little yesterday and my home first made a direct appeal to staJo0f Npp-m rminirm nnrt thPTi a Inntr Then he spoke about Black Negro opinion ana tnen a long power "There has been Irish speech a crowded Jewish power nut shopping area.

there has never been a. group in It was not one of his most America which has more reason successful days the post-Oregon than the" Negroes to organise fatigue was showing but then itself. The question becomes one only Sammy Davis Junior could how you organise and what hava carriorf nut that nrnorammo rOU do. But there is nOthine tion requires. The real bill of the strikes of the past three weeks can obviously only be estimated once they are over, and though the feeling grew today that settlement may be within sight, for the time being it is still the shortages and blockages caused Electricity, gas, and water some Army trucks taxing people Peaceful aim in Rhodesia United Nations (NY), May 31 about Pans, there is no public supplies have been maintained transport and those who are still more or less steadily "ven by the strike, that pre-occupy the people.

working are walking long distances and gratefully thumb lifts from the luckv few. All avail- Doctors no longer find all the To get more petrol Frenchmen are prepared to go to almost any able bicycles have been bought medicines they need newspapers are running short of news-' print and have their journalists up. Some erown-ups are ndine lengths they follow petrol Lord Caradon, Britain's chief delegate here, today rejected arguments that the latest Security Council resolution on thstnDuting ana selling papers in the Pans streets because the distributors are striking hotel managers are desperate not only because tourists are scarce but because they cannot een deal with the laundry requirements with any kind of ease He began un-American- about it, nothing though the industries are on strike. The workers are running the plants themselves. The Post Office workers have seen no reason to be helpful to the housewives nd their stoppage so far has been total No letters have been distributed, no telegrams taken or received no telephones work except the automatic ones and outside the cities these are few and far between.

It is the end of the month. Normally there are a great many bills to pay. Now the bills have not arrived, and they cannot be paid. Hire purchase payments will soon be overdue. Accidents cannot be reported to insurance companies.

contrary to-the traditions of the tankers making their way to a pump and cause the biggest traffic jams of them all they stand in queues at petrol stations for three or four hours at a time they assault garage assistants who will not serve them enough they even pick the locks of other people's car tanks to steal their precious contents. Some car owners actually syphon out the petrol tanks at night to prevent the thieves from finding anything, and pour it it back again next time they need the car. about on children's cycles. Though there are stocks of bikes in factories, there are no lorries to take them to the shops. Almost all available transistor radios have gone from the shops everybody wants to listen to the news.

They listen as they walk They put them by their plates as they eat even in the most elegant restaurant; nobody objects if a few radios blot out the conversation. Cigarettes are becoming an under-the-counter rarity. Food in general is plentiful. of those they have. at Watts the scene of the city's worst rioting in 1965 in the Will Rogers Park, which is only three blocks from where tho battle was at its worst.

Thirteen per cent of the Haute couture is threatened country. Justice We all have a sense of what America is about and we talk with disaster for lack of cus tomers, and Josephine Baker, un Rhodesia contained a licence for African freedom fighters to commit violence. The Council urged member States to render moral and material aid to the people of Rhodesia in their struggle to achieve their freedom." It was referred to in the Commons by Sir Alec Douglas-Home as providing an opening for the use of force. But' Lord Caradon said the British Government had all along opposed recourse to violence, and he quoted a statement to this effect by Mr Harold Wilson on March 21. He (Lord Caradon) had said all along that our aim is to secure a just settlement by peaceful means." Reuter.

able to continue her Olympia show because all theatres are also strike-bound, has failed in her last attempt to earn enough suburb's population of 225,000 every day about justice and are out of work three quarters equality. But in 1368, I think, of all males over 16 have been we prepared to make a sig- arrested, mostly on minor charges "5 and without conviction; two ja Pf" thirds of them drop out of high wfr.p'L hpfr oradnatirm equality and justice, we shaU British student's treatment by riot police prove that we desire these tilings BY OUR FOREIGN STAFF An English sociology student be kept open and prisoners be allowed to go for drinks of water. Some of the worst injured Ex-President Chamoun Gunman tries to kill ex-President Beirut, May 31 who returned from France taken over by lice this week claimed yesterday (CRS). "The scene inside was that he had been arrested rather unnerving. It was a large and hpaten tin hv thp Frfnfh rom.

and a youth of about 18 ana oeaxen up Dy xne urencn cmstiiitr hotn By all the rules of the game, not just for white Americans but Watts is Kennedy country. When f0r Americans of all colours. We Bobby went there two months shall demonstrate to the world ago, soon after he had decided that what we have been talking to-run, the crowd was so huge about for 200 years is still some- and emotional that he must have thing that we truly believe in been absolutely confident he had and something that we are per- mad: the right decision. Since mitted to make a reality." then he has upset some black was only leaders here his choice of speed, Wnicn received ury real campaign officials and, in parti- attention. It is an odd thing cular, there general resent- tte senator simply does not seem ment because there are no to be able to speak to a Negro Negroes or Mexican Americans audience.

Kennedy, because of among his 12 coordinators. the name and the past, strikes the McCarthy was flanked by three right emotional chords at once. were taken out. The doctor left after 10 minutes and the door not ponce r-ans last week- by the CRS, using fists, boots, was then closed. After about end and held for 24 hours and truncheons, in one corner, half an hour they were all taken United supporter stabbed Oporto, May -31 Mr Roy Whitworth, aged 43, a textile engineer from Manchester, was taken to hospital with four stab wounds in the chest and stomach after celebrat amoTiP nprmlp whom hp had Tnere was a 10t 01 snouting ana oy Dus tne Hospital Beaujon among people wnom ne naa Bcreaming both from boy whlch Mr MacI.

beiMives Armoured cars took up posi ing beside him, pulling out tufts of his hair. He was about 17. There must have been about eighty foreigners in the pen, a lot Americans Mr Mack was taken out at about 5 p.m and released early the next morning. After being interrogated by the Paris police, whom he describes extremely pleasant. No charges, were brought against him, he says, nor even against those who he knew had been throwing missiles at the police on the barricades.

He denied to the 'riot police that he had- fought during the riots and says the only attempt they made to find out if he had was to aek him to show his hands, grubby, although they had been washed during the evening. tions in the main streets here seen DrUtauy beaten, spend- and the officers Another youth police training centre There, ing 12 hours in an open air was standing bleeding quietly, with about six hundred others, he today and a dusk-to-dawn cur few was imposed after an unsuccessful assassina tion attempt against Mr Camille Chamoun, a former was put in a barbed-wire compound about fifty yards square. As he went in, I saw one youth in only his underpants, socks, and half a shirt. He was bleeding from the groin and from about a dozen other places his body was covered in welts. Members of the CRS were stand ing Manchester United's victory yesterday.

Police said there had been a quarrel in his home at Santo liirso, Portugal. Today he was said to be in critical condition. Reuter. President of the Lebanon. FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF Mr Ohamoun, who is 68, was getting out of his ear in front of the office of his party the National Liberal Party when he barbed wire pen in the rain.

and a large amount of blood was Mr Andrew Mack, a second spattered on the walls and the year sociology student at the floor- University of Essex, says that on By this time the officer who the evening of Friday, May 24, had brought me in had dis- he joined in the large procession appeared. I asked why I had through the city. After being been brought in. There was no caught in a gas attack and feel- reply but I was then unched in tag very sick, he left the demon- the stomach and kicked in the stration and started back to his groin for about two minutes, lodgings just to the south of the Compared with others, I got off Latin Quarter. very lightly." About 100 yards from tire Sor- Matted with blood bonne, he was cornered by some rot police and took refuge in a Mr Mack says he was then put companion's fiat Two hours in a cell with about thirty other later, at about 2 a he started people, packed tightly A lot on his way home again, was had been badly beaten They had assured by an officer of the hair matted with blood, split hps, Paris police that it was safe to eyes closed, and one or two had m.

i i Jtnnn mf brnkpn finppra" For thp next tooi Kt intn a nlntnnn of broken finGers." For the next was shot. He was slightly wounaeo. in tne tace ana arm. Nabil Mustafa Akhari, aged 19, from Tripoli, was arrested as a suspect. Keuter.

By CECIL THORNBERRY An account of the burial oi a former Greek Deputy, Mr 11 in the morning until 7 at night. Then Katy, Tsarouchas's daughter, at one stage seized the visiting coroner, demanding that the family be told how the George Tsarouchas, reaching dently on his way to Athens for London confirms the report a Patriotic Front meeting. It is alleged that the police first published in the dragged him from the car and Guardian on Mav 14 that begjn beating him. He died Nigerian peace talks collapse at Kampala Kampala, May 31 father had died She invoked the oath which as a doctor he had The Vip dipd aftPT hpinir hpntpn hu from a blow on the back of the sworn to tell the truth. lie Qiea dlier ueing uedieil oy nistol The follow- mrnr wnnlrt nnJv renl coroner would only reply THANKSGIVING SERVICES THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA invite all friends and weli-wishers to Thanksgiving Services on Sunday, June 2, 1968 at St.

Melfitus Church, Tollington Park, Finsbury Park, N.4 (5 p.m.) and at St. Marks Anglican Church. Hamilton Terrace. St. John's Wood, N.W.8 4 p.m.) Collections at the services will be in aid of refugees, widows, orphans, the maimed and other victims of the Nigeria-Biafra war.

Signed Special Representative, Government of the Republic of Biafra, 30 Collingham Gardens, London, S.W.5- the Talks to end Nigeria's civil war collapsed here today with Federal Nigeria and Biafra blaming each riot 'police round the next hour and a half, he says, a stream corner of people were brought m. men and women, some young, some Systematic beating middle-aged. Everyone who "1 showed my passport, and came in after me was given 1 Miraeu savage beatings. Through the said I wanted to go back to my glass waU of ceU we could apartment. The men seemed see about 20 yards of passage disposed to let me through, but and some were beaten all the then an officer came up and said way down it.

Some who he understood I was American back as they were put into the I said 1 was British and was cell were pulled out again and immediately smashed in the beaten mouth" At about 3 30 a.m., Mr Mack He was then taken to the says, a doctor arrived, advised police commissariat of the Fourth the police to be more gentle and Arrondissement, which had been ordered that the door of the cell the Greek police and not as Ing day his wife was summoned waa officially stated of a heart to Salonika police headquarters. tf.ai. She was told that he had died dudLK- and his body was at the Tsarouchas was arrested south 'mortuary, of Salonika on May 8. In his car Tsarouchas had been in hid- with him were Costas Meletis, inS for a year. His family asked t0 be allowed to take the body Vassilis Mastoras and Meletis's home Not only but th other for the breakdown.

Asphalia (security police) will tell you." At 7 in the evening Tsarouchas was buried still without the coffin having been opened. As it was lowered into the grave Katy threw herself in after it. Tearing it open, she saw her father's face swollen and bruised. His head was covered with blood, his clothes with mud, and his hands were manacled. Sir Louis Mbanefo said that his delegation was returning to Biafra.

On the Federal side, Chief Enahoro declared We Hducee. iNuunii nas since oeen heard of these three or of opening of the coffin in which his body had been placed, were forbidden. Police and family surrounded the closed coffin from aren't leaving for the time being in the hope that something may another former Deputy, Mr Alex Papalexiou. Tsarouchas was evi- happen. Renter..