UDK World News
By United Press International
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Labor protests De Gaulle move
PARIS Nine million Frenchmen protested against Gen. Charles de Gaulle and his efforts to save the French franc this week, and French gold buyers were betting they could make it stick.
Trade union leaders, egged by groups of young anarchists, said they were ready for a repetition of last May's test of strength which almost brought the De Gaulle government down.
The day before the general strike which sent nine million
Frenchmen off their jobs and thousands surging through Paris streets toward the Place de la Bastille protesting refusal of an across-the-board 6 per cent wage increase, gold prices advanced for the fifth straight day. For De Gaulle it posted his third major crisis within less than a year.
The De Gaulle statement that angered workers the most was his charge that the strikes were called by the same groups who tried to overthrow his government last spring with
Israelis and Arabs clash at Jordan River truce line
JERUSALEM Israeli security forces yesterday clashed with Arab demonstrators in occupied Jordan, and Israeli and Jordanian troops battled across the Jordan river truce line with mortars and machine guns. The Suez canal cease-fire line was reported quiet during the day but Egyptian and Israeli spokesmen predicted more fighting.
The clash followed a front-line inspection Tuesday by Jordan's King Hussein.
Israeli military officials in Jerusalem disclosed that Israel had constructed strong fortifications along the eastern bank of the canal to discourage any Egyptian attempt to recapture the Sinai peninsula.
Israelis open fire
The clash across the Jordan River was reported by a military spokesman in Amman. He said Israeli positions opened fire on Jordanian positions at Khirbet Al-Kattar in the North Jordan
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Valley and firing continued for 15 minutes. The spokesman said one Israeli soldier was wounded but Jordanian forces suffered no casualties.
UPI correspondent Eliav Simon reported that Israeli troops enforced a curfew on Nablus in the occupied west bank of Jordan following a morning of angry demonstrations by hundreds of Arab youths and adults.
Arabs march
The Arabs marched through the streets of the city behind Palestine Liberation Front banners, hurling stones at Israeli police and setting a number of small fires before occupation authorities imposed the curfew and troops in jeeps moved in.
Witnesses said at least five Arab youths were injured in clashes with police and several others were arrested.
Anti-Israeli demonstrations also flared in other towns on the west bank of the Jordan, and in Gaza demonstrators hurled stones at vehicles and threw up barriers on main roads. Police removed the barricades and made several arrests.
student riots and labor turmoil.
Soviet Union accuses Mao
educative vices and labor criminal.
He did not use the words Communist plot Tuesday night but government leaders, including De Gaulle, blamed the disorders of last spring on a Communist plot at the time.
MOSCOW - The Soviet Union accused Mao Tse-tung yesterday of plotting to destroy the Chinese Communist party later this year in a scheme designed to set up a dictatorship and make China a third power between capitalist and socialist systems.
The charges were made by the most authoritative publications of both the Soviet Communist party and the government, the monthly magazine, Kommunist, and the daily newspaper, Izvestia.
against devaluation, and world bankers believed he had the present strength to back him up.
De Gaule met yesterday with his cabinet to assess the situation.
Small shopkeepers across the nation also shuttered their windows for five hours earlier this month protesting high taxes.
The destruction of the Chinese Communist Party, according to both, is to be achieved at the forthcoming ninth congress of the Chinese party sometime this year. Mao is hand-picking the delegates, the Soviet publications said.
De Gaulle, as he had in November, remained adamant
The congress, said Izvestia, will consist of "Mao's bodyguards and frightened, morally broken Communists whom Mao no longer considers dangerous."
He had $4 billion in reserves, plus other untapped resources placed at his disposal by world bankers during the November crisis.
Kommunist went to press before the frontier incident of March 2 with China in which 31 Russians were killed, and thus did not mention the clash.
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