and who is responsible for briefing foreign journalists who visit the country.
The commander of the army in Dhofar is a Brigadier Charles Huxiable. The head of the civil development programme in the at province, the prime aim of which is to extend government control into the mountains, is of Marlin Kobb Special Air Services officer who served in Oman, The Front was forced onto the defensive by the massive intervention of Iranian troops in 1973-1975 and has had to abandon the positions it once helid in the Dbofar mosntains. As one official explained it: It i now not a war of Uberation or even a guerilla war. I 6 a campaign of resistance. There ane sporadic actions from time to time, and this is a form of resistance to the Iranian occupation. But it is not a consistent campaign.
Between 300 and 500 lighters withdrew across the border in 19i3r and ure are about 800 refugee families Jiving in canips and schools organised by the Front. In the Peoples Primary School and the 9 June Intermediate School there are 900 BuDs. and the Front also runs the Fatima installation named afler the old air base who was killed in a clash with government forces at Sadh, in castern Dhofar, in 1973.
The Front also has a 45minute radio prograntime from Aden every evening. One night 1 listened ibere was a talk on how the sultan is giving money Yemeni a 50-bed woman guerilla The strike.
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Government month's notice to go on TUNISLA has seen nothing like the disturbances of the last lew weeks since its independenco Trom France in 1956.
Last week's general strike called by the leaders of Tuni sin's labour union was the first of its kind, endiog in confrontations between demonstrators and riot police, later reinforced Officially 42 people died and 325 were injured, but hospital sources say that not less than 130 Jost their Lives. Even the French colonisers never manThis was tbe culmination of a period of unrest which started towards the end of last sear. After an agreement berween the Government and the GIT (General Union of Tunisian Workers) on a five-year wage freeze, the union broke off its alliance with the regime when the latter tried to put up prices.
sectors miners, transport, Icktiles) was followed by demon. jail. powered "Else security forces which tried to force them back to work. So the troops intervened and left the workers no chance to claim their rights.
These events led to major changes in the Governmeat of Hedi Nouira, first legal heir to the auling - 74-year-old dent-for-life, Habib Bou guiba. The relatively moderate Interior Minister, Tahar Belk hoja, was dismissed because he was in favour of dialogue with the workers as opposed to the hard line followed by the Prime Minister, the powerful head of the party. Mohamed Sayah, SUCCICC Minister, Abdullab Farhat. Seven other ILTETCISTEMMACO STELESILE The decision to follow a bard line against the workers forced the UGTT to become more active. Previously the Govern ment's influcnce was such tha the UGTT leadership would condemn almost any BUTCH taken by the workers. Things are a little different now, with a number of UGTT leaders still suffering an uncxpected spell in
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