- Sane “

——

he Watergate Roster

eek before Thanksgiv-

ee Ss style) will go down in
eS ry as the time when Dick
piste ruishing off in all direc-
vee to find friends and influ-
tions men in high places, parti-
4 in the House of Repre-
cular’y where impeachment

Besos.
ee eedings are still moving
P

are also the week when the

has had his ability to
ee cut down with 80%
a eroval from the ee accord-
allup Poll.
I to ick ai breakfasting
d supping with one and all,
fee Watergate Committee heard
testimony from the heads of a
2 ber of .companies that gave
Saeeal contributions to the pre-
Paeats 1972 election campaign.
what was interesting was. not
that they thought they would get
favors from doing so, but a pat-
ae of near extortion seemed
= be the case.
Guide to Watergate
preakfasts aren’t tele-

soon for this Washington
a cher, at least, there’ was

ading a new paper-

: re’
time for International Pub-

pack from

lishers, called Watergate: Crime
in the Suites, On sale in Canada
for only $2.40, this short book-
let by Michael Myergon is
packed full of juicy Watergate-
type facts.

One of the most fascinating
things in the book is called, The
Roster: The Watergate 110. It is
an alphabetical listing of those
who have come to public light
in. and through the Watergate
arrests. As the author says
“We can see the convergence in
the backgrounds of the person-
alities sketched here of ties to
big corporations and  goyern-
ment offices (Securities and Ex-
change Commission, _Depart-
ments of Justice, State, Agri-
culture,. Treasury, Commerce,
Defense, the White House and
National Security Council) with
police. and intelligence ageneies
(local Red Squads, CJA, FBI,
AEC, NSA).” :

It starts with Robert H. Ab-.

planalp, owner of the aerosol
spray valve, worth over -$100
million, who owns the island in
the Bahamas which serves as
Nixon’s retreat. Incidently when
the justice department was go-

Unity provides impetus to
- Africa liberation struggle

<.q’s liberation struggle
a oaght to the fore on the
Be ie day of the World Con-
cath of Peace Forces in Mos-
om in a message from the
£2 etary-general of the Organ-
gation of African Unity, read
by Peter Onu, deputy secretary
of OAU.
We feel that there can be no
ce in Africa and in the world
ile thirty million Africans
Seder from colonialism, racial
discrimination and apartheid.
“We in Africa are fighting the
forces of colonalism, apartheid
and exploitation. When people
are denied their basic rights,
they can only fight for them.
The oppressors of Africa have
driven us to war, and Africa has
responded with its struggle for
liberation.

“We know that our cause is
just. In our struggle we have al-
ready achieved considerable
success: We are advancing
throughout Zimbabwe, Angola,
Namibia, Mozambique and Gui-
nea-Bissau.

At the United Nations, inde-
pendence movements have been
recognized and are represented
there. As observers we take
part in many discussions and
are represented there.

“The establishment of the Or-
ganization of African Unity has
facilitated our successes which
have been achieved chiefly
through the support Africa has
received from the progressive
movement, the socialist world

‘and first and foremost the Sov-

iet Union, and liberation move-
ments of other parts of the
world.”

Canada's Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce, Alas-
tair Gillespie (left) seals agreement in Moscow, with head
of the Soviet delegation, Leonid Yefremov, first vice-chair-
man of the Committee for Science and Technology. The Pro-
tocol they signed October 19, completed the work of ‘the
third session of the Canada-USSR Mixed Commission, in
‘which 33 prominent Canadian businessmen took. part. The
next meeting is in Ottawa early in 1975. The signed protocol
embodies a mutual study of the two countries’ technological
levels with a view to enhanced trade. One of the possibilities
is Canadian participation in development of Udokan copper
deposits in Eastern Siberia, after 1976.

ing to investigate his company
for its pricing policy they were
told to lay off from the top.

The Roster ends with Ronald
L. Ziegler, until’ recently press
secretary to Dick. He started
his career driving the Jungle
Cruise Boat for Disneyland and
the story-book world he lives in
may be one of the reasons that
“his press conferences have
been compared to the ‘Five
O'Clock Follies,’ a daily Saigon
ritual of lies and ° pretensions
put. on by the military for the
press corps.” ;

Between these two . “not-
ables” there are the burglers
and the corporation presidents,
the upholders of law and order
who ordered illegal acts, the
front men and the back room
boys, the money men and the
lawyers —the men who were
running things for and with
Dick, ;

As Meyerson points out, one
of the things some of them did
was ,prepare “an ‘enemies list’
of real and imagined tormenters
of Richard Nixon.” One on this
list, a New York newspaperman,
is quoted as saying, “Of such
people as those who compiled
them, and the man they served
so zealously, who would not be
an enemy?” 2

For good Washington watch-
ing this is a handy reference
book. There are even a couple
of blank pages at the end on
which to add new names as
they come out in the episodes
to come.

Basson

‘WINNIE MANDELA

These three physicists (whose photograph appears above) have

discovered a new nuclear particle after Nelson Mandela, commander
in chief of Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military wing of the African Na-
tional Congress who is serving a life sentence on Robben Isiand,
and his wife Winnie, who is’at present out on bail pending an
appeal against a sentence of one year for breaking her banning
order. They are from the left: Mr. John Baruch, Dr. Walter Kelerman
and Dr. Gordon Brooke of Leeds University. Nelson is honorary. vice-
president of the Leeds University Student’s Union.

Inside South Africa

The struggle continues

/ By V. KOROVIKOV

Ten years ago, in October
1963, the UN General Assembly
adopted Resolution No. 1881 de-
manding that the South African
government stop the persecution
of opponents of radicalism and
apartheid and free political pri-°
soners. However, the demands
of-the world public have been
ignored by the South African
authorities,- who continue till
this day to deal brutally with
all differently-minded people.

For instance, six opponents of
apartheid from different race
groups were recently given pri-
son sentences ranging from five
to fifteen years. The shooting of
gold-miners near Johannesburg
last month showed once more
that the present South African
authorities are ready to commit

* any crimes in order to retain the

misanthropic regime, which pro-
vides the multi-national mono-
polies with fabulous profits and
the privileged white . minority
with an easy life.

Police-terror, fascist laws, the
deprivation of non-white citiz-
ens of political rights — these
are typical features of life in
South Africa . . . But the fight
against apartheid goes on even
in such extremely difficult con-

_ ditions. This year has been par-

ticular noteworthy in this res-
pect. The African working class
has conducted mass _ strikes
which are unprecedented in the
history of South Africa and
which have rocked the country.
The students and democratic
intellectuals have intensified
their. struggle. Christian Ber-
nard, the world-famous surgeon,
has come out openly against ra-
cialism in the country.

‘International support for the
anti-apartheid fighters is grow-
ing. The UN Special Committee
on Apartheid recently urged a
more intensive campaign of so-
lidarity with the political prison-
ers in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela, Walter Sislu,
Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada,
Abram Fischer and many other
heroic sons of South Africa have
already spent ten years in the
racialists’ dungeons. Several
hundred political prisoners are
detained in a convict prison on
rocky Robben Island out in the

ocean not far from Cape Town.

This barren bit of land in the
ocean has become the main poli-
tical prison of South Africa,
where the racialists are trying
to bury alive leaders of the
South African liberation move-
ment who have been grabbed by
the secret political police.

Exhausting work (the inmates
are forced to break up and
chisel boulders in the local quar-
ry), isolation from the outside
world, torture, wretched meals.
—all this is being used by the
jailers to break the will of the
island prisoners.

A whole system of punish-

_ment has been introduced on

Robben Island. The. slightest
violation of prison rules means
detainment in a punishment cell,
a beating-up, and no food. For
instance, 30 inmates were kept
in tiny solitary cells for three
months merely for the reason
that they had signed a petition
to: the prison authorities which
contained quite reasonable and
legal requests. One of the most
widespread forms of punishment
is keeping an inmate in a pun-
ishment cell without food.

This whole range of torture is
applied by the police precisely to
the political prisoners. Long
periods of solitary confinement
and electric-shock torture are
most widespread methods of
punishing the arrested men.
Other savage means are used,
t00S*:

The Gestapo “inheritance”
has been revived in South Af-
rican prisons. A group of UN ex-
perts, who specially dealt with
these matters, arrived at the

_conclusion that the methods

used by the secret political pol-
ice when questioning imprisoned
and arrested people were very
much like, if not identically the
same as, those used by the Ges-
tapo in the period of Hitler’s
nazi regime in Germany.

And yet, in spite of this hor-
rible prison life, the inmates of
Robben Island- have not ‘been
broken. Mandela, Sisulu, and
Mbeki, who have’been sentenced
for. life at. Robben Island, and
other leaders of the liberation
movement are staunchly bearing
up to all this torture and agony.
A spirit of unity and militant
comradeship prevails among the
political prisoners. They have
repeatedly held hunger strikes
against the brutalities of their
jailers, and support one another
in every possible way in trying
moments. The more experienced
and educated men help their
comrades to pass through the
“prison universities.”

The Robben Island inmates
are confident of the inevitable
downfall of the system of racial-
ism and apartheid, and await
their hour of freedom. The duty
of the world public is to bring
nearer this’ hour.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1973—-PAGE 9