The Michigan Daily--Friday, June 30, 1978-Page 7 Vietnam to trade in COMECON . e 104, 'MW i i ,,.,,,q. iF .... ! BUCHAREST, Romania (AP)!- Vietnam formally joined the Soviet- led COMECON trading alliance yesterday, a further Vietnamese shift toward Moscow that is expected to widen the split between Hanoi and Peking. Vietnam was admitted as the 10th full member of COMECON - the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance - at the end of a three-day meeting of the government chiefs of council nations. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin called Vietnam's admission a "great event" that would aid in the develop- ment of the entire "socialist com- munity." Relations between Vietnam and China, its giant Communist neighbor to the north, have deteriorated shar- ply in recent months because of alleged mistreatment of Chinese residents in Vietnam and China's support for Cambodia in the Viet- namese-Cambodian border conflict. PEKING, WHICH also has denoun- ced Vietnam's close alliance with Moscow, recently withdrew substan- tial economic aid from Hanoi. During the Indochina War, won by the Communists in 1975, Hanoi tried to maintain a neutral position between China and the Soviets and received aid from both feuding Communist powers. Vietnamese Deputy Premier Le Than Nghi had applied Wednesday for full COMECON membership for his nation, which previously had only ob- server status. East European sources at the meeting said the application was unexpected. Besides the Soviet Union, the other COMECON members are Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Mongolia and Ruba. THE ORGANIZATION, similar to Western Europe's Common Market, is devoted to improving trade relations and other economic ties among its members, and has carried out such joint projects as the building of an oil pipeline and an electricity network, and formation of a steel trust. East European sources here said COMECON could help Vietnam's war- battered and underdeveloped economy. But Western observers say Vietnam, like Mongolia and Cuba, may prove to be a burden on the more industrially developed East European countries. In a related development yester- day, in the Philippine capital of Manila, the Asian Development Bank, over U.S. objections, restored finan- cing to a power project in Vietnam that was suspended shortly before the American-backed Saigon government fell in 1975. IN HONG KONG, meanwhile, a delegation of U.S. businessmen who ended a trip to Vietnam earlier this week said the Hanoi government is eager to begin trade with the United States if Washington lifts the current economic embargo against Vietnam. The Vietnamese believe that American technology and experience in Southeast Asia could help their national reconstruction better and faster than trade with Europeans, the businessmen said. Vietnam-Can BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)-Vietnam, denying its forces had launched a large-scale invasion of Camboidia, said yesterday that Cambodian troops had made new forays across the border in the past few days and several hundred were killed in fighting with Vietnames defenders. Western and other spurces continue to maintain, however, that Hanoi's troops were engaged in step- ped-up military activity inside Cambodia as well. A Vocie of Vietnam broadcast monitored here said the Cambodians, "committing crimes against rtbodia conflict escalating the Vietnames people," had penetrated as far as six tivity in Cambodia, although there were differing miles into southern Vietnam in the latest attacks assessments about the scale of reported fighting and still held areas by Tay Ninh, An Giang and Kien between the one-time Communist allies. Diplomatic Giang provinces. betwees he oet e 7omun-t a igio. BESIDES INFLICTING heavy losses, the broad- sources here doubted the 70,000-to-80,000 figure. cast said, the Vietnames troops took many U.S. INTELLIGENCE sources in Washington had prisoners and caputred a large number of weapons. said Wednesday that artilery-warplane-backed The official radio broadcast said Western and Vietnames troops pushed up to 37 miles into Cam- Asian news reports of an invasion of 70,000 to 80,000 boida. The analysts said they believed the Viet- Vietnames troops were "fabricated." names operations were aimed at wiping out base But sources in Washington and Bangkok said camps used by Cambodian soliders to infiltrate Vietnam recently had increased its military ac- Vietnam. Bombing linked to Mondale visit JERUSALEM (AP) - A powerful Mondale is scheduled to arrive in Tel exploded there, killing 12 Israelis and explosion ripped through a crowded Aviv at 2 p.m. local time (8 a.m. EDT) wounding more than 50. open-air market in the Jewish section of Friday for a four-day visit. He is to Yesterday's blast was the 14th of the Jerusalem yesterday, just one day meet with Prime Minister Menachem year in Jerusalem, raising the toll for before the scheduled arrival in Israel of Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe 1978 to 11 dead and more than 120 woun- Vice President Walter Mondale. Two Dayan to review political problems in- ded. The worst incidents of the year oc- persons were killed and 47 wounded, of- volved in resuming Israeli-Egyptian curred Feb. 15, when an explosion ficials said. peace talks. aboard a bus killed two and wounded 48, The Palestine Liberation Organiza- and June 2, when another bus bombing tion (PLO) claimed responsibility for killed six and wounded 20. the mid-morning blast that blew apart a vegetable stand at the Mahane Yehuda market as Israelis were doing their pre- Sabbath shopping. A small concrete building was destroyed and several adjacent stores and sidewalk carts were damaged. "AN UNDERGROUND squad acting inside occupied Palestine planted the heavy explosive, charge in the Mahane .01 Yehuda vegetable market in Jerusalem . Wednesday morning," a PLO - ,!"/ F spokesman said in Beirut. He said the Monda IDAY squad "returned safely to its base in- The market is located in West / 2-5 side occupied territory despite the Jerusalem near the busy Jaffa Road %!' enemy a security dragnets. thoroughfare and less than a mile from I5C HO The PLO spokesman said the attack the walls of Jerusalem's Old City. The, "emphasizes the PLO's determination market is usually busiest on Thursdays to escalate the armed struggle against as Jewish residents stock up for the our Zionist enemy from within." Sabbath beginningat sundown Friday. JERUSAnEM MAYOR Teddy Mahane Yehuda was the scene of Tuesday Kollek, who visited the market after the another bloody terrorist attack nearly , 8 Half Pri explosion, said he thought the terrorist 10 years ago. On Nov. 22, 1968, a parked attack was linked to Mondale's visit. car packed with powerful explosives 7 baobab 123 W. WASHINGTON STREET ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48108 Folk Art' & Design mon. - sun.