UDK World News
By United Press International
Czech students will strike
PRAGUE (UPI) — Students at Charles University announced yesterday they would strike "within the next few days" to demand the return of a free press in Czechoslovakia. It was partly for this case their fellow student, Jan Palach, burned himself to death early this year.
As the students met to plan details of the strike, workers and teachers joined the students and journalists in objections to the reimposition April 2 of full censorship and official reprimands of 16 journalists.
Censorship was reimposed at insistence of the Soviet Union following anti-Russian
demonstrations that grew out of a celebration of a Czechoslovak victory over a Russian team in an ice hockey game. There also had been threats of a Soviet military clampdown if the anti-Russian demonstrations continued.
Students at the philosophy faculty where Palach studied met today to map out a plan to occupy the university. They said no date had been set for the strike because they were trying to coordinate plans with other departments and universities but that it most likely would be "within the next few days."
One resolution from workers
and teachers was posted at Charles University. Crowds stood in the sunshine to read that teachers of the philosophy faculty and workers of three factories near Prague joined in condemning the vandalism of riots against the Soviets March 28 but protesting the restrictions which resulted.
A new example of censorship came yesterday when the latest issue of the magazine Reporter went back to the publishers instead of going to the distributors.
The Communist party presidium imposed pre-publication censorship April
Greece to begin liberalization
ATHENS - Premier George Papadopoulos announced sweeping liberalization measures yesterday nearly two years after seizing power in Greece through a military coup.
Papadopoulos denied that the move was the result of talks between his deputy premier and President Nixon. Usually reliable Athens sources said earlier this week Nixon promised to review favorably an economic and military aid program to Greece if normal political conditions are restored in the country.
Measures announced by Papadopoulos included the restoration of three of 10
articles of the constitution that were suspended by the present regime. They concern the inviolability of homes, the right of assembly and the right of association.
Speaking at a press conference in the Senate hall, Papadopoulos said all junior civil servants dismissed by the regime since 1967 for political reasons will return automatically to their jobs. Those who are charged with anti-national activities will have their case examined by existing civil service boards.
All persons deported to prison islands will have their cases reviewed by judicial boards which will be entitled to release
them, shorten their period of deportation or keep them detained. There are about 1,800 alleged communists held at prison camps in two Aegean islands.
The premier also announced the formation of special committees to draw up "fundamental laws leading to the full and smooth application of various constitutional provisions.
"In my interest and your interest, I hope these laws will be ready as soon as possible." Papadopoulos told newsmen. He indicated, however, that it will take at least six months for some of them to be drafted.
Mideast fight continues
Jordanian and Israeli forces yesterday fought two artillery and mortar duels across the Jordan River cease-fire line. It was the sixth straight day of clashes between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors.
The continued fighting between the Israelis and Jordanians and Egyptians added shelling of its port city of Elath from Jordan earlier in the day.
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new urgency to diplomatic efforts abroad to find a solution to the Middle East crisis.
In a surprise announcement, adding emphasis to the Big Four powers search for peace, UN Secretary General Thant announced a halt, at least temporarily, in the operations of his own special peace mission in the Middle East.
The most serious incident took place Tuesday when Israeli jet planes bombed the Red Sea port of Aqaba in reprisal for the The Efatah Arab commandos
claimed they launched the Russian-made rockets which hit Elath and wounded 11 Israeli civilians.
Five persons were reported killed and several injured in the Israeli raid on Aqaba, which lies barely three miles from Elath.
The clashes were the fifth and sixth along the Israeli-Jordanian border since Saturday. The Suez Canal, where Israel and Egypt fought with artillery, tank guns, mortars and machineguns last Friday and again Tuesday was reported quiet during the day.
1 at Soviet insistence and, since there was some resistance to it by journalists, the presidium announced a new crackdown on the press Tuesday.
The presidium ordered confiscation of the latest issues of Reporter and another magazine, Listy, which said it will simply suspend publication. The presidium ordered
reprimands against 16 editors and writers for newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
The Czechoslovak presidium met and issued a statement over Prague television Tuesday night saying the situation remained serious because anti-Soviet and anti-Socialist forces were still at work.
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