* ee “* Pads We ‘have received from Pera a Letter. signed. by ‘six. ‘wives. of ae revolutiohists imprisoned after their husbands. joined. the guerrilla, movement: Carmen Galvéz:de Gadea, Mercedes. de- Fernandez Gasco, | 4. Guillermina Vidal, Jacqueline. Bluau de Lobaton, Carmen. de Velando. and Nelly Arias. Imprisoned for about five months, these six women defiounce the "policy .of:taking hostages" of .which-.they have béen made victims. -Accused of having plotted against the secuk-, ity ‘of -the- ‘state; no° precise charge has been. todged. against them. Five of “the women ‘have children. ce!
These political prisoners add ‘that, Mrs. ‘Carmela de la‘ Puente could not sign the letter because :she-has .been confined.in a Peruvian “clinic where she. again went on a: hunger strike. Her _ husband , ‘Luis de -1la-Puenté, was ‘kilted. last, October. during..a skirmish with the regilax army.: Secretary. general - ofthe. MIR | (Movement of the Revolutionary Left). he was leading a guerrilla. struggle . in the Cuzco region.
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- ‘The Lima “press reported ‘that six guerrilla fighters were: killed December 15 by the Peruvian armed forces <- Amone’ the six aa was Gui iiermo Lobaton, leader of one of bhe guerrilla fronts.
bike Duis. de, la’ ‘Puente. ‘Uceda, whose death atl ‘the hands’ of described. ‘as. a. itrotskyist. ” “Actually, he is ‘one oe “thie main® A leaders -- like de la Puente -- of the MIR (Movément: of the Revelutionary.'Left:) which.has worked in a friendly way with the Trotskyists led by: Hugo.-Blanco but, eaten has impottant differences | with tha Protsky iat movement , particu arty. . over” bactics.
ell informed. “sources, in “perd: Have "“adtited: “the report: about Lobaton' s death and say “that he is “continuing “the guerrilla’ ae struggle. With the death.of de la Puente, Lobaton is now considered to be -one of, the. most’ influential’ leaders of the MIR
DISSEMINATION OF NUCLEAR ARMS IN SPAIN
. One -of the proclaimed aims of the Johnson administration, as of the preceding administrations ‘since the time of Harry. Truman, is to block the further dissemination.of nuclear arms. The. Pentagon. has a surfeit of them. Enough, according to scientists who have gone into the problem, to wipe out mankind 50 to 75 times over.
The White House can't do anything about the Soviet stockpile, which was accumulated without permission from Washington. Great Britain has a few.of the devices and de Gaulle is busily. accumulating his own force de frappe. But no more powers ought to have then, Johnson maintains (except Canada which has been given a supply and West Germany which has been made into a nuclear warehouse). Johnson is particularly irked about China following the Soviet example and going into nuclear production without. permission from the’ Pentagon.: He would like a rollback there; and so Washington has stepped.-up -the propaganda about no more