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BUREAU REPORTS
bazards of sucb a program. The
greater oumber of
plan~
will
increase the risk of leaks ánd
malfunctions and wiU also raise
EURODIF añd EURENCO.
Even after these are produclng
(1980
at tbe earliest, acoording
to experlS here), Europe
will
still have to import the raw ura–
nium - primarily from tbird
world countries anxious to dem–
onstrate their power as sup-
South African
TradeWith Europe
Soars
JOHANNESBURO:
A
suong
surge
in
Soutb African business
with West Oermany has
rock–
eted South Africao uade with
the Europeañ Economic Com–
munity
10
record levels. Sixty
perecnt of South Africa's total
world uade is now conducted
wit~ th~
EEC.
As
:\o
imponer of
EEC goods, South Africa has
taken a lead over Canada, Aus–
tralia, and Japan.
.
Soutb African expórts to tbe
nine Commoo Market couotrics
zoomed from
$1.96
billion
10
$2.53
billion berween
1973
and
1974,
while imports rose eveo .
more drarnati"'',lly fróm
$2.09
billion-to
$3.31
billion.
1974
also saw a remarkable
slíin
in South Africa's trade
away from Britain - tradition–
aUy
South Africa's major souree
of importS -:- '!Jld f_!?:waril .Wesl
Germany. In
!973,
West Oer–
mao expons to South Africa
stood in the, region of
$293'
mil–
lion, but lept io
$518
tÍlil.lioo in
1974.
this continuing treod
pulS West Oermany ahead of
Britain as an .Xponer to Soutb
Africa by
$132
millioo.
Tbe anti-Soutb African
stance adopted by
B~'s
La–
bour govemmcnt
has
$eemingly
played into the hands of
Brit~
ain's competitors in world uade.
As
Britain, by design as wcll ,as ·
ocgligeoce, severs tbe lifelines
of ber cconomic survival, the
continental European econornic
powers are hastily cashiog in on
the situation. In a receot devel–
opment.,
a
Frén~h
delegatiQD
Uganda
Chief
Will
tbe serioils problem of the
dis·
beaded by Mr. Norbert Segard, posa! ofmassive volumes ofnu–
France's Externa! Trade Minis- clear waste:
ter, arrived in South Africa for
Tbere is
al.so
concern over the
lhe express purpose of suengtb- qucstion
of
faulty technology.
ening ties berween France and Westingbouse's Pressurized
South Africa.
Water ReaciOf - currently re-
pliers.
'
Clearty, Europe's industry,
ai–
ready reeüng from tbe blows of
worldwide reccssioo,
has
11<1
saJe
enl!rgy
supply.·
Aiso, Western Europe is fully spons_ible for
40$
of Europe's
aware tbat despite tbe recent nuclear producúon - bas come
opening of the Suez, the suate- under
lite
by critics, after sev–
gic Cape Sea Route could stül eral operaúng and engineering
play a significailt role in chan- problems bave come to light in
The biggest tbrcat is lhe.úme–
lag tbat even tbis ambitious
program olfers:
10
years. Who
cán
guarantee stablc acccss to
Middle East oil in lhe
neling vital Middle East oil to. tbe United States.
tbe European continent.
As
Even if tliese difficulties are
Britain fad.os. out of this St;>here overcomc, the E.uropean nu- mea,ntime?
of !nfluénce, the
maintenanc~
clear program,
as
massive
as
it
-
Henry
Stur~ke
and development
M
coopera-
-is,
would still leave tbe Conti-
tion between ·Westem Europe nent in a precarious situation.
and South Africa-
ín
both eco- · Optimistic estimates indicate
nomic and military spheres -
that such
a
crasb program -
if
would therefore appear to be
a
combined witb reduced con–
mutuaUy advantageous irievita- sumption - could provide only
bility.
17.5%
ofiOtal energy needs.
Al-
U.S.Lags
in~lding
- SydneyHu//
though coal, geotbermal eoergy,
WASHINOTON: In a reecnt
and otber sourecs
will
make a address before the oatiooal coo–
Europe's
contribution, Community plan- .ventioo of tbe Navy League,
ners foreeast that
oil
will
stül President Ford waroed U.S.
supply40%ofWestem Europe's mariúme leaders ofthegrowing
Nuclear Program:
.
power_ oecds in
1985.
Most ?f strength ofthc Soviet oavy. not–
·li
t•ttle
.... [
t
t
th~~
'\'iU
bavc-to be
importtdo!l,._
[¡lg
~al
tbe .n.umber
~f~hips,in
00 1
J
'100
a e
r!gardles& Of l.he
l'tSUJt
'Of
CUT·
thc
lTS.
08yY
bad beco redu'ced
BRUSSELS: To end ilS oear–
total de¡)endence on imponed
oil, tbe Europeao Economic
Community
is
about
10
embark
oo a multi-billion dollar nuclear
developQlent program.
Presently,
.SO
to 60 reactors
are in operation in Western Eu–
rope, providing less than
2%
of
tbe Conúncnt's eoergy needs. lf
present proposals are imple–
mented, the numbet of reactors
would
quadrupl~
in the next
decade. Oermany, France, and
Britain alooe would bave over
SO
nuclear reactors eacb.
Eovironroental groups, .h!)W·
ever, are, concemed about the
reot _North Sea explorations. by halfsince
1968.
~d
lllcreased energy demand
"Today, our 1\eet of SO! ahips
wül '!!ean that the same
amount
is the smallest since
1939,
two
of oil oeeded today will stiU be years before Pearl l{arbor. And
needed then!
it
is
still shrinking," Mr. Ford
And, ironically, nuclear observed.
planlS
al.so
need
a
fuel -
ura-
Tbc Presiden! was echoing
nium -; and Westem Europe fears recently expressed by
depeods beavily oo foreign Reprcsentative Charles
E.,
Bcn·
sourecs
for ber supply. Europe nett. Q>airrnan of tbe Seapower
is seositive about this depen- Subcomñúttee of tbe House
dence, as borne out by ber ner- Armed ·Services Comrnittee.
vous reactioo in April to
a
Bennett, releasi.ng tbe sub–
tcmporary U.S. suspension of committee's report on extensivo
delivery. The U.S. and tbe
S'o-
bearing.s beld last year, recom·
viet Union sbare
a
virtual mo- mended that Congress immedi–
nopoly oo uranium enrichmcnt. ately enact a five-year naval
Europe is worlciog hard to de· sbipbuilding program to catch
velop two processes of ber owo, up wjth the Soviet Union. He
Erect Morunent to Hitler
Berlín , tbe Radio Uganda
broadcast added. Radio
Uganda quoted Geueral Amin
as saying
)ha
t. ahboug(t some
penple felt Adolf Hitler was
bad, be was a great man aod
a
real conqueror wbose name
would oever be forgotten.
Chinese
wam
Europe_,
.toStrengthen
OwnDefense
LONDÓN, April
23,
Reuter:
Ugaodan Presidcnt Idi
Amín
today reiterated bis belief tbat
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was
a
great mao and sai.d be would
erect
a
monumeot to
him
oo
a
spot wbere Bri'úsh and Oerman
t.roops fought in the First World
War.
Radio Uganda, monitored
here, sa.id General
Amín
told
Mrs. Rulh Hills, tbe Oennan–
bom estranged wife of Briúsb
teacher Denis
Hills,
wbo is un-
WEEX. ENDING
JUNE
7,
1975
•der arrest
oo
espionage cbarges,
tbal be bad received
a
warm
welcome wbeo be visited West
Oermany in Pebruary
1972.
General
Amín
met Mrs.
HiiJs
today to prcseot ber with a
. certilicate of permaneot rcsi–
deoce.
Tbe Ugaodan presideot
praised the Oermans, particu–
larly Hitler, for tbeir bravery,
but said he had beco disap–
pointed not to see Hitl_er's por·
trait or a monumcnt 10
him
in
An
bistorical spot in Kjzegi
province would be oamed after
the late dictator and a monu·
meot to
him
would be erected,
the Ugandan leader. added.
Britísh and Oerman troops
fougbt in the provinec during
tbe F irst World War. Uganda
bad beco a Oerman colony
be-
fore tbe war. O
·
PEKING, April
22,
Reuter:
The Chincse think
a
ocw world
war could brellc out in Westem
Europe because
coun~ci
there
are weak and neglect their dc–
fense, 'sources ciQSe to
a
visiting
Belgian <le!egation said: The
sources -were
givi~g
an aocouot
of
talks
berweeo Chinese offi–
clals and the Belgian Prime
Minister,
Leo
T10demaos, who
is
on a ten-day visit.
Mr.
T10demaos told reporten
stated that "a viable, bealthy
system of
s~ipyards
- both na–
val and prívate - is necessary to
our national security," adding,
however, that "our shipbuilding
program is experienclng serious
difficulties."
The repón noted tbat tbe key
cause of tbe uouble has been
the inability of sbipyards 10
plan for tbe- future because of
"tbe
laclt
of a clearcut, long·
range, national program.
h
m
1969
the United States bad
a navy of about
1,000
sbips.
Tbat oumber is now dowo 10
500.
The
~ubcommittce
repon
said the Soviets passed tbe
United States in the number of
nuclear submarines in 1971,
and in the oUDiber of surface
eombatanlS in
1973.
Since tbe Cuban missile
crisis, the Soviet Union
has
gone on a virtual shipbuilding
spree, sending new combatanu
down tbe
ways
at a rate of
90
per year.
m
conuast. as one
U,S. naval autbority poinlS out.
tbere are "only
67
ncwships uo–
der consuuction in the U.S. for
delivery in the next
ftve
years."
The
$30.5,
billion shipbuilding
prograrn, suggested to tbe sub–
comínittee by the Navy
caUs
for
consuuction of
35
_to
40
ships in
each
of
tlie
ti
ve years.
The merchaot marine sector
of shipbuilding
;S
also having
difficultics. Acoordlng to
Fair–
play
lnter1JJ1/iona~
the autbor–
itative British shipping weeldy,
the U.'S. merálantlleet. seventh
in the world, was the only ooe
of the 10p 24 national lleets
whiál bad less
10onage
under–
way in
1974
than in
1973.
The
percentage of U.S. overseas
trade carried in U.S. llag ships
has steadily declined over tbe
past ,quarter ecntury ·from
57.6
percent in
1947
to only
5.0
per–
cent in
1970.
-
Dexter F11uikner
today tbat bis excbanges bad
ecntered on Westem European
unity and defense. He added
that be
had
also discussed Tai–
wan.
China's relations witb
Amcrica and Russia. aod the
energy
crisis
with tbe Cbinese
side,
1ed
by viec-premier Chi
Teog·kuei. Sources close to bis
delegation elaborated on thcse
remarks, saying how the Chi·
ncse bad waroed of the
risk
of
war in Europe.
The Belgian sources also said
tbat Peking favored NATO as a
counter to SOviet expansjonism,
but tbought it ought not 10 dc–
peod
011
the U
.S.
for defense. O
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