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WANTS CHARGES SUBSTANTIATED

Douglas Harkness, former Conservative defence minister, called in the Commons Thurs- day for Justice Minister Car- din to substantiate his charges against members of the Die-

fenbaker cabinet er submit his resignation. Mr. Harkness talks to reporters ~ following Commons session in which.the opposition forced. a roll call concerning Mr. Harkness’ mot-

fon. Mr. Cardin told a press conference two members of the Diefenbaker government . had been involved with a one- time Communist woman spy. (CP Wirephoto)

WORLD SPOTLIGHT

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Observers Report Indonesians : — Gripped By National Madness

The Associated Press world spotlight this week gives an outline of the power struggle in Indonesia, tells of the civilians caught up in the .fighting in South Viet Nam and reports on the con- troversy surrounding the marriage plans of Holland’s crown princess. |

By WILLIAM- L.~-RYAN. . AP special correspondent For_five months, a story to etagger Western imaginations has been unfolding in Indonesia, a country of 105,000,000 whose fate ultimately could be’ at least as important to the West as that

of Viet Nam.

Resppnsible people who re cenly left. there say Indonesia is gripped by a sort of national madness and seems on the edge of _amajor“explosion. —~

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stveets. Soldiers with sten-gung time friend, Gen. Abdul Haris | Nasution, as defence minister. | buro Communist i

guard each government min- ister’s house. All streets leading 3

to President Sukarno

cost 5,000 rupiahs. Today & Ie 60,000- The black market in currency

seized and send out word for. general insurrection. And on Oct. 1, Njono’ was, informed the communists had taken the sta- | |tion, telecommunications head- | quarters and palace compounds and had’ kidnapped a number of

generals. :

But the coup missfired. Lt.- Col. Untung, in charge of the kidnapping, failed to capture

and kill Nasution, although the defence minjster's five-year-old | daughter was slain. Five other | generals were murdered.

Why the failure?. First, the coup evidently had been set off too soon. Second, according to a confession Attributed to Aidit, “support from the international Communist forces, imcluding China, pected."

The

army hit back hard.

On Sept. 9, a Communist cour. | 8 The Guardian ‘| nier from the youth organization | told Njono D-Day was next day. | * Radio Indonesia would be!

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Charlottetown, Fri., March 11, 1966. |

Candy Corner Opens | At Shopping Centre

The Island's first Candy Corn- Mr. Zafiras lived in'New York er featuring sweets ranging where he specialized in interior from chocolates to marmalades, decorating and advertising art. jellies and biscuits, has opened. The Candy. Corner, with a in the Royalty Mall Shopping store area of 12,000 square feet Center. features 2000 varieties of candy

The new business, importing from all over the world. Besides |various types of candy from all this the store also stocks jams, \parts of the world, is being man- taffies, jellies and drink xes. jaged by Nick Zafiras, a native, The store, oven from 9.30 a.m. | reece. _|— 6 p.m.; . Fridays from 9.3%

Mr. Zafiras, born in Greece i" a.m. — 9 a.m. and may possibly 1931, came to Canada in 1963 open on Sunday as well. A com-

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China called the army: opera- |20d settled in: Halifax where he |plete diabetic supply of all pro-

tions a “reign of white terror.’ | The commander of the Jakarta | military district suspended all PKI activities. |

Leaders were hunted down, in- | |cluding most top politburo mem- bers. Aidit's first deputy was re- ported executed Dec. 5.

Other sources said Aidit was captured and executed.

SAIGON (AP)—Bright flames spread quickly through the |thatched roof. The American | soldier pitched his torch onto a |part of the building not yet flames and backed off. ‘

It was a Viet Cong house, they said. As part of the war it was desroyed, along with neighbor- ing homes. Whatever the senti- ments of the villagers, the Viet, Cong had used their hamlet to | stage ambushes and attacks on | government troops.

A daily estimate {s made of Viet Cong killed and captured. Statistics are kept on the num- ber of American and Allied troops killed, wounded or miss- ing in action. No one can guess with ' Vietnamese civilians slain or rounded or the number of homes destroyed since the fighting began_.in earnest some five years ago.

Guesses run to well over 100,-

precision the number of {7

Communist doctors. Aidit told 000—civilian-dead. The number his politburo that the doctors of civilian war refugees in this felt Sukarno was so ill that | country of 13,000,000 far ex-

was assistant manager to one of ducts is carried.

a chain of candy corners for A staff member in the person

three years. of Lyn McCully of Moncton is Prior to moving into Canada employed at the Candy Corner.

Tax Conselling At Night E

Turns Out To Be Big Hit |

By MARILYN ARGUE jtawan's squeezed 178 calls into OTTAWA ‘(CP)—The income two hours. tax collector at times is like the Most questions, daytime or fat kid at school. evening, are about personal ex- |

He tries to make friends by emptions—student loans, tuition | making little jokes of offering to fees, daughters’ who got married help with homework, but all he half-way through the year. gets is hollow laughter and sus-" Officials hope the phone ser-| picion. jvice and the over-the-counter | “It makes you ery, almost,” counselling stations to be} an official of the national rev- opened in Brampton and Que- | enue department's taxation di-|bec City shopping centres will vision said here. [femmee the number of wrong re- But some of the officials Cee eee eae — for

s tax-collecting department | - '

are starting to smile through; The.. government refunded their tears at the success of an |$!4.000,000 last year to 350,000

experimental service begun in|happy people, many of whom

and Ottawa, and soon to be ex- returns and made mistakes in

pton Que jthe government's favor. her lis” “~ an | The others who made mis-

Taxpayers in these centres |takes in their own favor? Well, can call up their tax office on the tax fellows are more em-

their hearts to a sympathetic |them. expert. | “It's part of a long - range,

ancouver, Calgary, Edmonton |W¢re confused in making their |

certain nights and pour out |barrased, really, than mad at

jis wild. A dollar brings 20,000 to |either death or paralysis was

|40,000 rupiahs. The official rate is supposed to be 500 to $1. Wages cannot keep pace. Re- schools, hospitals and all state institutions to double staff. salar- jes as an emergency measure. Ttie people are bewildered Su- karno continues to be the father- figure of Indonesian revolution, and despite the coup attempt; he

Moslems, headed by the in- creasingly strong Nahadatul Ui- ama (NU) and Masjumi parties on one hand and pro-Com- munists on the > Indonesia | is predominantly Islamic.

karno, who has sacked his long-

ranks, once esti- mated at 3,000,000, have been

tion over the archipelago which skirts Southeast Asia and strad- dies vitally important world wa-

|many top leaders, either dead

slashed by five months of army ‘of Communists, including

in custody. But they are try-

k.

Official reports of military court trials, quoting Communist | defendants, give the public an | eerie picture of what went on before and after the Communist’ coup. From what was quoted |

publicly from official versions of |

S the proceedings, the public got

fn jeopardy and a showdown is |this story piece by piece: |

EXPOSE DEEP INTRIGUE White military trials -unveil-a-; picture of deep. intrigue involv- | ing Chinese Indonesian | Communists,

student which | charges that arms are being dis- |

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q munist coup attempt last~Octo- | ber: took 87,000" lives. Some re-— ports say this:figure is an un- | derstatement. One source says | many other tens of thousands of suspects have been detained.

Inflation seems beyond hope of control. Last June, a 20-pound sack of rice, the national staple, |

House Briefs

OTTAWA .(CP) Summer work employees are appointed from civil service commission eligible lists and no records exist to show whether they have close relatives working for the same department, four cabinet ministers: told Alexis Caron (L-Hull) in separate returns filed in the Commons.

OTTAWA (CP) — Imposition of mandatory safety provisions on vehicles’ made in Canada might raise constitutional prob- lems, Industry Miister Drury said in the Commons in reply to a question from Heward Graf- fety. .UPC—' Brome-Missisquoi).

OTTAWA: (CP)—The federal government received $1,385,837 from~pari-mutuel betting at -Ca- nadian race tracks in 1965, Agri- cultiire” “Minister ~Greéen~ said“ in answer to questions from Ro- | hert C. Coates (PC—Cumber. | land). Of this $849,599 came from thoroughbred racing.

OTTAWA (CP)—About $2,500,- 000 is expected to be spent ad- vertising Canada’s. centennial celebrations by the centennial commission and government

travel bureau, -State——Secretary-4—

Judy LaMarch said in a ‘written reply to a question

by R. G. L. Fairweather (PC— Royal).

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Dipa N. Aidit, chairman of | the Communist (PKI) central committee, travelled abroad last year with Sukarno. In Cairo, | Aidit made contact with French Communists, and in Peking with

near: Aidit that army of- ficers, thinking likewise, planned a coup to get rid of the Communists. The army would be first to know of Sukarno’s

ceeds the dead. Probably no modern war can

|compare with this in terms of

proportional civilian misery. The Vietnamese peasan t is

moved up the takeover time-| The government, U.S. . and table, originally set for 1970. their allies on one side, and the The | held 45 meetings |Communists on the‘other, rec- aS days. outlined Ognize that the Viet Nam war for taking power, saying he ex- jis not a matter of seizing hills pected help from the air force jor bridges, but an assault on and navy, opposition from the | the mind. Terror, persuasion, army. |Propaganda and violence may The Sept. 30 movement was figure in this assault. ; organized under Aidit's com-

mand, be supported by units

armed by the PKI from Com- munist

gust that the time was ripe, and, said Njono, ‘‘also decided

ito report matters to .President

Sukarno.” Evidently this meant reporting the party’s convicion that the army was planning a coup. fe

A politburo member named Sudisman was placed in charge

of financing ‘ operations: Njono}’

testified he did not know where the money came from, but whenever he wantd ‘it, Sudis- man always supplid it.

As testimony explained it, the idea was to set up a government | in which the PKI would have

New Subway -Questioned —

onto’s new $206,000,000 subway laid out as a big mistake?. Board of control hag debated whether a U - shaped line would have meant better devel-

_|opment. of downtown Toronto}

than the straight 10-mile west route.

Mayor Philip Givens said the straight line won because the

east- >

Toronto Transit Commission in 1958 convinced the Me litan Toronto council an interchange bringing trains southward down University Avenue would work properly. si

The Y = shaped interchange] gave some trouble when the new subway opened Feb. 25.

- VISIT SET FOR JUNE

Gaulle’s oficial visit to the So- viet Union will begin June 20,

plan to take away the hesitation |

PARIS (AP) — President de |.

Romanian Communists. When he returned to Jakarta last: summer, Aidit was accom- Chines

the decisive vojte> with Sukarno remaining as a figurehead until- |his death. t #Secret ‘instructions went out.

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