By TOM FOLEY A plan for joint North Atlantic Treaty Organization action to crush civil disturbances was re- vealed May 12 after it had been discussed the previous day at a secret session of the NATO council in London. In Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. and Soviet de- legations. were preparing for the May 14 full plenary session of the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT), which had resumed after a six-month break. The NATO plan for crushing civilian protests by joint military . force ‘‘is expected to have an exp- losive effect in some NATO capi- tals,’ according to Jim Anderson, United Press International (UPD correspondent in London. He said that the plan includes military operations to halt strikes, bloc- kages of ports and railroad lines, and the use of troops to enforce ‘‘mass displacement’’ of civilian populations. The UPI reported that West 1™ European Communist Parties felt that the NATO plan was aimed primarily at Left forces and or- - ganized labor. NATO sources in London told UPI that the NATO plan also deals with what they called “‘civil-military transition,” - that is, replacement of civilian by military rule and the suspension of constitutional and other laws. What was discussed May 11, An- derson .was told, were ‘‘guide- lines”’ to the 15 NATO govern- ments, including the U.S. and Canada, on ‘‘how to deal with political disturbances that have military implications.”’ What was most ominous about the NATO plan was that it was revealed a day after President Carter’s speech about ‘‘toughen- ing’’ NATO and shortly after the London economic summit. The seven advanced capitalist Above: Portuguese demonstrators. Below: British troops in Belfast. oo ae sk i & ee - nas . - eas! vie i eliaamallh Ss, rs i « i ‘ as eon countries — U.S., Great Britain, West Germany, Italy, France, Canada, Japan — issued a final summit communique in London admitting that the economic crisis was deepening and that un- employment, especially among young people, was one of the gravest problems; they offered no solution for it, however. There are 18-20 million unemployed in the capitalist countries today, the largest single number being in the U.S., which has more than all the ms sae Africa is in illegal military occupation of Namibia, a UN territory, | where SWAPO freedom fighters have been slowly gaining in the milit- oat ary struggle. pies Common Market countries com- bined. The ‘‘solution’’ to this capitalist problem may have been contained in Carter’s speech to the NATO Council and in the NATO “‘civil emergencies’’ plan. Carter ignored all Soviet peace and detente proposals, spoke of an alleged Warsaw Pact military buildup, and called for a toughened and strengthened NATO. — Abridged from Daily World Sudan leader KHARTOUM, Sudan: (APN) — If one is to believe President Jaafar Nemery of Sudan, inde- pendent Africa has a_ single enemy, the Soviet Union, which is trying to ‘‘impose its hegemony on it under the cover of progress and the struggle for eliminating colonialism’. As is known, Sudan started demonstrating its cool attitude toward Moscow when its leaders tried to pass ‘‘the intrigues of Soviet commissars’’ for the causes underlying the anti- government actions in 1971. This saved Khartoum the trouble of exposing the purely internal causes of those events. Lately, however, the coolness of the Sudanese leaders has grown into open militant anti- Sovietism. Khartoum has been further curtailing its business rela- tions with the USSR and the Sudanese leadership has claimed the role of a kind of anti-Soviet centre in the continent by urging “*moderate countries to unite for rebuffing the (Russian) threat’’. In fact, the outbreak of anti- Soviet hysteria in Sudan is to cover its sliding back to positions of collaborationism with the West’s imperialist circles in Afri- ca, in the basin of the Red Sea and in the Middle East. It is not accidental, for in- stance, that Sudan was not rep- resented at the 8th Conference of Foreign Ministers of Moslem Countries. The conference fo- cused on the problem of the Arab people of Palestine. The attitude to that problem is an indicator of the degree of progressiveness, or of subjugation to imperialist in- terests, in acountry’s foreign pol- icy. It is easy to see why Khar- toum preferred to avoid this test. Instead, it began vigorous ac- tivity in another region. The Al-Rai Al-amm of Kuwait said that Sudan intended to send its flyers and fighter-bombers to Zaire. The opening of a Sudanese military mission in Kinshasa has been reported. To the beat of the drums of anti-Soviet propaganda Khartoum, .by virtue of simple logic, has found itself tied with those who interfere in the internal affairs of Zaire and want to decide for the people how they should live in future. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 3, 1977—Page 6 Ship indulges in anti-Soviet hysteria All told, Nemery’s call to give African countries an opportunity of independently tackling their own problems without outside in- terference sounds hypocritical, to say the least. Khartoum is zealously picking up the tunes of imperialism in the area of the hor of Africa. Pro- fusely talking about ‘‘heaps”’ of Soviet weapons in Somalia’ and Ethiopia, the Sudanese leader- ship is whipping up tensions in relations with its neighbors and is acting as one of the initiators of | knocking together a Red Sea military bloc. Nemery himself has visited Europe with a long list of items he would like to procure, which, incidentially, go beyon wines and cheeses. : So, Sudanese anti-Sovietism is a mere derivative of Khartoum’s going over to the camp of the enemies of the unity, sovereign development and security of free Africa. The further Sudan is cur- tailing its business relations with the Soviet Union, the smalleris its chance of not becoming a tool in the hands of the imperialist forces. . the “‘International Year of Struggle Against Apartheid’. Taken on | Alamar housing development and other Havana sites. U.S.-BRITISH ‘SETTLEMENT PLAN’? REJECTED - MAPUTO, Mozambique — The Zimbabwean and Namibian libera- tion movements have rejected the U.S.-British plan for the alleged ‘*settlement”’ in their countries. Leaders of the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front and the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO), in the Mozambique capital of Maputo, publicly rejected the plan at the International Solidarity Conference currently being held in support of their peoples’ struggle. ZPF leader Robert Mugabe rejected any U.S. participation in a political settlement because of Washington’s past record of deception, lying and cheating. Sam Nujoma, SWAPO Presi- dent, told the Conference essentially the same thing. Racist South 1978 NAMED YEAR OF STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID UNITED NATIONS — A United Nations decision has made 1978 May 16, the decision by the UN Economic and Social Council is supported by the UN Special Committee on Apartheid. What apar- theid means has been spelled out by the UN, the U.S. National Council of Churches, the illegal South African Communist Party and African National Congress (ANC); it means: 1) 80% of all African workers earn wages below the official South African government’s poverty line (bare subsistence level); 2) African strikes, collective bargaining and ab- sence from work are prohibited by law; 3) Africans by law cannot hold positions above whites; 4) Africans advocating withdrawal of foreign investments are guilty of ‘‘terrorism’’ and can receive a death sen- tence. U.S. CRUISE SHIP FIRST TO VISIT CUBA IN 16 YEARS HAVANA — Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Earl ‘‘Fatha’’ Hines and other U.S. jazz greats were among the 380 Americans from the cruise © ship ‘‘Daphne’’ who were welcomed in Havana May 17. They were the - first such group in 16 years to arrive in socialist Cuba directly from a U.S. port (New Orleans). The group toured the Hemingway Museum, NEW HORSE RACING SEASON OPENS IN SOVIET UNION MOSCOW — The new season of racing opened at Moscow’s Hip- podrome May 15 and will run through to September. Thoroughbred racing alternates with harness events and run twice-weekly. Harness racing in Moscow started in 1834 when the Moscow Riding Society was founded. A congress of horse breeders from socialist countries is scheduled for the Soviet capital later this year. MEXICAN COMMUNISTS HOLD 18th CONGRESS MEXICO CITY (PL) — The 18th Congress of the Mexican Com- munist Party took place here May 23-25 at a time when the government is proposing a ‘‘political reform’’ which would grant the Communist Party fullelection rights. Another feature of the present situation is that leaders of the left wing opposition are studying a plan for unity andjoint | action. The Call for the 18th CPM Congress says the meeting will deal with the “‘party’s tactics in view of the crisis in the country and the work involved in its electoral registration’. LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN — HIGHEST JOBLESS RATE |. GENEVA — The unemployment rate among Latin American | women is the world’s highest stated a May report of the International | Labor Organization (ILO). It said about 88% of women of working age lack jobs. Half of the remaining 12% hold jobs in the service sector. The ILO report says that statistics do not exist for peasant women whose economic contribution is ignored everywhere in Latin America except Cuba. CANADA’S SPORTS MINISTER VISITS GDR BERLIN — Iona Campagnolo, Minister for Fitness and Amateur Sport expressed the hope that sports relations between Canada and the GDR would continue to develop at the conclusion of a fact-finding visit here this month. rig et 2 in, oh RD |, Be ‘ RAGAADABEDS es b= * DEARBORNE, Michigan — Two of more than 500 Arab-Americans who marched in solidarity with the Palestinian people here last week.