Articles by Harish Chandola

January 22, 1977 New Economic Zones RURAL people, whom the war drove into cities are now being helped to go back, because they have no jobs in the cities and agriculture alone can absorb them. But the war destroyed many villages and the people have no place to return. The government is therefore either reclaiming land laid waste by the war or breaking new land to settle them. These resettlement areas are called New Economic Zones.

in these include 1,200 T-62 tanks, about 3,000 armoured troop carriers, several hundred heavy and light guns, anti-aircraft batteries and aeroplane parts (including engines for MiG-21 and MiG-23).

October 30, 1976 THAILAND 'In the Name of God, King and Country' Harish Chandola AN official spokesman of the ruling military group in Thailand Colonel Karoon Kengradomying, said on October 20 that not only one but several groups were preparing to seize power from the elected government, and that the present group "happened to be the one which staged the coup first". This is indeed a very honest statement; for nobody has ever really believed that the military seized power because students in Thammasat University had insulted the monarchy by staging a play in which a student resembling the ai Crown Prince was 'hanged'.

CHINA A New Kind of Power Harish Chandola SOME 56,000 small and medium- sized hydro-electric power stations have been built in the countryside of China over the last 10 years. Hydroelectric power stations, so constructed in 1975 alone, equal the number put up over 17 years before the Cultural Revolution, By involving hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants in their construction, these power stations have considerably changed the life in the countryside. And, of course, by the electricity they have brought, they have enlivened the political and cultural life even in remote villages and outlying mountain areas. Furthermore, the power thus available has played an important part in the building up of socialist, large-scale, agriculture.

and Rotherham. Their organisers chose Birmingham and Stafford because at present, through conspiracy, connivance or inefficiency and lack of foresight, the Race Relations Board of British has given the fascist movement a martyr in the person of Robert Relf, now imprisoned in Stafford for refusing to take down a sign outside his house which advertised the house for sale to 'whites only'. Fifty-one year old Relf was first put into Birmingham prison for an indefinite term, not for the advertisement itself, an act which carries no legal penalty, but for contempt of the court which ordered its removal.