By FRED WEIR
“Everybody’s going to make it if there are enough
to go around .. . Dig a whole, cover it with a couple
Of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top. It’s the
dirt that does it.”
—T.K. Jones, U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defence,
< January 1982

One of the most terrifying aspects of the new arms race
has been the emergence of the doctrine of ‘‘winnable”’
nuclear war. Increasingly, the Reagan administration in
the U.S. has been advancing this idea in order to justify
Its introduction of a whole new generation of “‘smart”’
and superaccurate nuclear weapons.
The days of mutual assured destruction (MAD), in
Which nuclear war was viewed as global suicide, appear
to be forgotten in Washington. Reagan officials now

Objectives, and have even begun to urge the U.S. popula-

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Speak glibly of ‘‘surgical’’ strikes, and ‘‘counterforce”’ _

plans which it asserts will help the U.S. ride out a nuclear
war with relatively little damage. Foremost of these is a
plan for the “‘crisis relocation”’ of one hundred and fifty
million Americans from the 400 prime target areas to
supposedly less vulnerable places in the countryside.

FEMA officials insist that mass evacuation will suc-
ceed, despite their own studies which show that it would
take at least a week to clear a city the size of New York,
assuming conditions of public calm and order. By con-
trast, it takes a strategic missile approximately 30 min-
utes from launch to reach its target.

Among FEMA’s other proposals is a scheme to
“educate” tens of millions of Americans in the rudi-
ments of nuclear survival, including teaching them to dig
their own, individual shelters in the heat of an atomic
attack.

Another FEMA project, which borders on the absurd,
involves the U.S. Post Office printing up millions of
postage-free “‘Emergency Change of Address Cards’’ to

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Another FEMA project, which borders on the absurd, envolves the U.S. Post
Office printing up millions of postage-free “Emergency Change of Address
Cards” to be used “‘by displaced survivors of an attack to notify the Postal
Service of their emergency mailing address.”

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tion to prepare for a ‘‘protracted’’ nuclear war with the
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Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger recently told
Congress that “the United States nuclear capabilities
Must prevail even under conditions of a prolonged war.”
In line with this new policy, the Reagan administration
adopted a seven-year $4.2-billion civil defence pro-
ram which, it claims will permit an 80% survival rate for
American civilians in a nuclear holocaust and enable the
-S. economy to bounce back “‘within a relatively few
years”, -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FE-
1A) is the body which is overseeing this massive new
Civil defence effort. FEMA has drawn up a wide array of

be used ‘‘by-displaced survivors of an attack to notify the
Postal Service of their emergency mailing addresses.”’

Perhaps the most practical post-war contingency plan
of the Reagan administration has been to stockpile
opium and morphine for the survivors: supplies in
government warehouses are being increased from 70,000
pounds to 130,000 pounds.

Overwhelming scientific and medical opinion that nu-
clear war would be an absolute catastrophe for human-
kind notwithstanding, Reagan officials in charge of civil
defence continue to exude false optimism. ‘“‘Everyone
agrees that a nuclear war could be an unparalleled disas-
ter’ says a recent FEMA pamphlet, “‘but it need not be
an unmitigated disaster’.

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The true purpose behind Reagan’s civil defence pro-
gram is to desensitize the American population to the
very real dangers of nuclear war. The government hopes
to blunt opposition to its new first-strike arsenal and
war-fighting strategy by convincing the public that even
if these policies should lead to a nuclear exchange with
the Soviet Union, it will be a minor inconvenience only,
and nothing to be feared. —

The independent Centre for Defence Information in |

Washington describes the Reagan civil defence effort as
“the natural complement’’ to the administration’s
“‘winnable’’ nuclear war posture.

It is the intention of the U.S. Government, CDI con-
cludes, that ‘‘each citizen will be made a nuclear soldier,
rather than a nuclear hostage. They will not be frightened
of nuclear war because, when the time comes, they will
be told how to survive it. Sold to the American people as
something prudent, responsible and humanitarian, the
Reagan administration’s civil defence plans are in fact an
effort to mobilize the society and make nuclear troops
out of the citizenry. Civil defence is now considered a
weapon and an integral part of U.S. nuclear strategy.”

The seizure of the Polish embassy in
Berne, Switzerland, by a gang of right-
Wing Polish terrorists marks one more
Step in the unfolding of a counter-revolu-
tionary plot directed against socialist Po-

by the USA and NATO. The ulti-
_ Mate aim of this plot was to tear Poland
| OUt of the socialist camp and the Warsaw
. For what purpose? In order to con-
Vert Poland into a nuclear missile base on

Alfred Dewhurst

Marxism-Leninism Today

A mad counter-revolutionary plot

to feed its own people, especially when
called upon to supply workers to man the
expansion of industrial expansion. Sec-
ond, the powerful influence of the Vati-
can in that mainly peasant country only
just moving into its.industrial revolution.
Third, the decision of the party and
government to mount an accelerated
industrialization program relying upon
the capitalist world for financing and

the very border of the Soviet Union. This
Soviet Union could never allow to
ppen.
* * *

On the basis of the evidence at hand,
€xamined in the light of the penchant of
8ggressive imperialist circles in the USA
and NATO toward political intrigue and
Subversion against other nations. and
Peoples, especially socialist countries
and those countries taking a non-capital-
Ist path, cannot be shrugged off as just

‘Stupid meddling.
_ The immediate evidence shows a clear
| linkage between the right-wing Polish

terrorists, the -counter-revolutionary—-

_ KOR organization, the underground ac-
tivity of Solidarity, the U.S. Administra-
tion and the NATO brass. This linkage
Can be clearly seen in the similar de-
Mands made of the Polish Government
by these fellow-conspirators in blatant
of Poland’s constitutional law

and sovereignty.
_These demands encompass the imme-
te end of martial law, the release of all
Political internees, including the leaders
ofthe counter-revolutionary KOR organ-
lation, and the liquidation of the intern-
Ment camps. These demands add up to

granting full freedom to this cabal to
carry on their criminal counter-revolu-
tionary activities against the Polish
socialist state.

* * *

It is obvious that the purpose of the
embassy caper coming, as it did, on the
very heels of Solidarity’s anti-state
activities marking the second anniver-
sary of that organization, was to
dramatize the counter-revolutionary aim
of KOR and the underground Solidarity
leadership. It was possible to realize this
objective, thanks to the eager coopera-
tion of the media in the capitalist coun-
tries,-which-has consistently supported
the efforts of the Solidarity leadership
and KOR to take Poland back onto the

italist road.

mas this respect it is useful to refer back
to a Globe and Mail editorial of Sep-
tember 30, 1980. Titled “‘A crack in the
facade’’, it carried a substantial quote
from a statement made by Jacek Kuron,
founder of the so-called ‘‘Polish Work-
ers’ Defence Committee’”’ (KOR), now
interned for “undertaking preparations
aimed at overthrowing the political sys-
tem (in Poland) by force.” .

We reproduce here that quote made in

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1977: “‘I think,’’ said Kuron, ‘‘the pos-
sibilities for reforms are promising. At
the same time I think it is necessary to
maintain a totalitarian facade. Our
(KOR) program must be to create a
pluralist (our emphasis, A.D.) society
beneath the totalitarian facade without
disturbing it, to create unofficial social
institutions representative of the
people’s aspirations.’’ In other words to
turn Polish society back to the capitalist
road.
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The foregoing is all part and parcel of

the U.S.-NATO plot against socialist Po-

-land and her people, set-in: motion by

former U.S. National Security Advisor
Zbigniew Brzezinski with the blessing of
the Vatican. The immediate goal was to
subvert democracy and socialism in Po-
land in order to prepare the Polish people
for counter-revolution and the restora-
tion of capitalism in that land with the
covert and overt support of the USA and
NATO.

This master plan for counter-rev-
olution aimed on taking full advantage of
the following circumstances. First, that
Poland is historically a poor country with
a backward agricultural economy unable

markets to sustain a program of mainly
manufactured consumer products.
* * *

As a result of falling victim to this
U.S.-NATO plot the then party and gov-
ernment leadership of Poland led that
country into a capitalist net, bringing it to
the brink of bankruptcy as a result of
heavy interest payments to western
banks, and low prices for goods sold to
capitalist brokers. The resultant eco-
nomic squeeze had to be borne by the
working population by food and other
shortages and high prices. Consequent-
ly, great discontent was created among
the people, which counter-revolutionary
elements within the country were able to
direct against the then government, party
and, unfortunately, against socialism as
well.

Fortunately, the new party and
government leadership, with the frater-
nal assistance of the Soviet Union and
other socialist countries is, in this very
difficult situation, steadily restoring
order in the country and confidence of
the Polish working class in socialism. Po-
land is socialist and will so remain as an
integral part of the world socialist
system.

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