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Token Soviet pull- back expected

U.S. Defense Secretary Harold Brown says he expects the Soviet Union shortly will stage a “peace offensive” in Afghanistan by withdrawing a Russian military division before television cameras, then moving two. divisions back under the cover of night.

Brown's statements echoed those made Monday by national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who said: “It's very probably that before long the Soviet Union will engage in what might be called a peace offensive

removing a_ token

number of troops from Afghanistan.

“This would be designed to show the Soviet Union is reducing its presence in Afghanistan.”

Viadimir Pozner, Radio Moscow’ com- mentator who heard Brown’s comments in Moscow via satellite, disagreed with the defense secretary's statement and said the Soviet forces would withdraw “as soon as the government of Afghanistan no longer needs the military aid it aSked for.”

Gandhi takes hard line with Soviets

NEW DELHI, India (UPI) - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi stood her ‘ground against Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Tuesday, telling him the Russians

must get out of Afghanistan.

In an extended three- hour meeting at Mrs. Gandhi's) office, the prime minister reiterated India’s stand on the Soviet invasion of

Afghanistan and told the

visiting Gromyko that Russian troops would have to go, a Foreign

Ministry spokesman said. Gromyko- had ex-

pressed Moscow's friendship for India when he arrived in New Delhi for talks to explain the Russian invasion. of Afghanistan and perhaps to make an arms deal.

Gromyko refused to make specific proposals for a timetable for withdrawing the Soviet troops, which occupied the strategic Central Astan Nation in December.

The Indian spokesman told newsmen: “We conveyed our views in clear terms. The tension in the region should be ended early.”

U.S. students stage ‘death-in’

BERKELEY, Cahf. (UPI) - Students staged a “death-in,” chanted slogans and cheered anti- war activists at campus rallies across California in the first major protest

against renewed draft registration. The statewide

gatherings Monday were reminiscent of the Vietnam era protests of a decade ago, bul lacked much of the enthusiasm Many of the speakers.

however, elicited loud cheers from the crowds. Daniel Ellsberg told a rally at Berkeley: “I commit myself to en- courage, counsel, aid and abet those who stand in non-violent resistence” to the draft. Demonstrations place Monday at 15 Cahfornmia campuses from San Diego to Sacramento. but the biggest Berkeley

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When Crist was finally allowed to respond, first Ball and then Alderman Gordon

Rose withdrew from the chamber.

Lakes made a statement in council recapping’ the

commissioning of the Beak Report - which wamed of possibly catastrophic consequences from an accident at the Hooker Chemicals plant - and justified council's reasons for not making it public.

He went on to say that the

allegation in Crist’s letter that the issue was then hushed up (in 1978) was

totally incorrect.

“I would presume,” he said, “that a concerned alderman would read the report and then express his

concerns in council when the matter was on the agenda...

“I would also presume that an alderman would write a letter to the mayor, and deliver it to the Mayor, rather than to the local newspapers.”

Lakes concluded: “It 4s fair to challenge’ the judgement of any member of this council upon any issue. That is what each one of us accepts with election.

‘UNFAIR’

“It is totally unfair and unfounded, and I suggest irresponsible, to challenge the motives of one member of council (the mayor) such has been done in the letter published in the Citizen and featured in the North Shore News.

Crist makes no.

“The decisions concerning the Beak Report have been council decisions. I cannot accept the personal cniticism levied at the mayor because of the decision of council.”

Mayor Bell, on a point of privilege, told council that he had received a call from the North Shore News concerning Crist’s letter and had raised the matter with Crist who was told (by the mayor) that he thought it improper that he send letters to the editor without checking the facts.

He also reminded council that Crist had circulated a private memo to council “recommending that it (Beak Report) not be sen- sationalized™!

Bell said: “I have no mght to release such a _ report against the wishes of council.”

“Il feel that Alderman Crist’s attack upon me calls for an apology.”

Crist, in his response claimed that he was never allowed to see the report.

But this was denied by the mayor who pointed out that, in effect, he was ineligible in his earliest) in-camera meeting to be shown the document.

It was at this point that

Bali, closely followed by Rose, withdrew from the chamber.

Crist then made a speech, not directly related to the issue, during which he made no apology for his letter.

‘NON-FACTS'

Lakes commented that he objected to listening to “non- facts” and felt Crist was expressing personal views.

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“The Beak Report,” said Lakes, “does not déal with facts, but that, in effect, it 1s a scenario of what might happen.

In his recapping, Lakes

had said that the resolution»

10 retain Beak Consultants Limited was passed October 17, 1977.

“But the council did not have any copies of the report, or even discuss it, until August 1979.”

He said that the Van- couver Province published a story with extracts from the Beak Report September 28, 1978, and the North Shore Sunday News also published a story on the report Oc- tober 1, 1978.

Lakes said that council drafted a statement con- cerning the Beak Report which was delivered publicly at a council meeting in October, 1978.

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But he said council did not see any need io issue “alarmist or hysterical projections” of possible

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