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held a two-day conference on disarmament,
while the British Columbian chapter of
Ysicians for Social Responsibility’s
recently concluded annual meeting gave the
Peace walk top billing.
€ Unitarian Church in Vancouver
Concluded their week of activities around
r% Peace question with an all-day meeting
Pr. ap poring film showings, poster-
and son i
Peace at gs to learn for the massive
ay to come is the “Disarmament
A a conference happening all day Apr.
ee € day following the peace walk. Spon-
ed by the Trident Action Group and
ie Against Nuclear Technology, it
SER ace at the Langara Campus of Van-
ioe Community College, and is held to
ah Ine the motives behind the arms race,
tding to EAR spokesmen.
cover Island, members of the
lapel bu alley Peace Committee are selling
Sonic ae to Taise money for the trans-
ae area residents who plan to attend
sell for a S peace walk. The badges, which
Shee? contain a humorous depiction of
*f giving the boot to a missile.
ti bee several local peace organiza-
ave taken advantage of the Cable 10

New pamphlet
for trade unionists,
Community activists

throughout B.C.

$1 each
available at
People’s Co-op Bookstore
1391 Commercial Drive
and
Communist Party of Canada
102, 2747 E. Hastings St.

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TV facilities to make productions promot-
ing peace and the annual walk.

This includes the taping of a public forum
in Maple Ridge, a program produced in
Richmond, and a one-hour special pro-
duced for cable by the Vancouver Peace
Assembly,

The Vancouver program included film
clips from last year’s peace walk, the film
“What About the Russians?” and a round-
table discussion involving Allevato, Physi-
cians for Social Responsibility member Dr.
Tom Perry and assembly president Bea
Ferneyhough. Already shown once, it’s
scheduled again on May 3 at 10 a.m.

The B.C. Teachers Federation has
thrown its considerable resources behind
the peace walk, distribtuing some 15,000
posters and handbills advertising the event,
say EAR spokesmen.

The United Church has also been busy,
with members of the Marpole church host-
ing film showings and planning an evening
poster-making session.

Religious groupings from several faiths
will hold an interfaith service at the Kisilano
show boat, located at Kitsilano Beach Park,
the assembly point for the walk, on the
morning of Apr. 28.

Pate Orgs tbl read at Crome Peoataony,

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FIGHT BACK SATURDAY MAY 5 .
MAY DAY 1984

MARCH: 12 noon, 14th & Commercial
(Clark Park).
RALLY: 2 p.m. Grandview Park (Brittania)

SPEAKERS e MUSIC
CULTURAL PROGRAM

Sponsored by.
Vancouver Trade Union May Day Committee .

ROME — Thomas K. Siemer, who
helped develop the cruise missile, has

weapon,” and has urged that Italy not
base the cruise on its territory. :

In an open letter to Paese Sera, an Ital-
ian newspaper, Siemer addressed himself
to Italian President Alessandro Pertini
and Pope John Paul II.

the missile department of the Rockwell
International Company,” Siemer’s letter
says, “I have contributed energetically to
the development and improvement of the
cruise missile project beginning with the
first missile in the series, the Condor. That
is why I can state. with certainty that the
cruise missile undoubtedly is an offensive
Weapon, a first-strike weeapon, which is
quite useless unless it is going to be used in
a surprise attack. It was developed with
the express purpose to hit a Soviet missile
while it is still in its silo and has the proper
accuracy to achieve that end.

“Hitting an enemy missile in its silo is
already synonymous with the first strike.
Indeed, it is an absurdity that anyone
should want to hit an empty silo after an
enemy missile has been launched from it.
When cruise missiles are deployed in Italy,
the nuclear concept will be dramatically
revised: from the mutual deterrence con-
cept, which has been followed during 38
years, a move will be made to a first-strike
strategy and counter-strategy.

ONEMIRTO VED aD)
‘Stop the deployment,’
urges cruise designer

warned that the missile is a “first strike

“During the 23 years of my career with

“heavy propaganda efforts by the British

of the cruise missiles on British soil while

PLOY

“The Russians are already deploying
missiles equivalent to ‘Pershing IIs’ in close
proximity to the United States as a counter-
measure. This means that in a few months
the computers of both sides will be set to
launch automatically at the slightest alarm
signal. There will then be no time to verify
whether an alarm has been real or just an
error. There will then be no possibility for
man to interfere in decision making.

“For the first time in history a machine
rather than man will make the decision to
kill people. All life on earth will perish as a
result.

“That is why I address you, political
and spiritual leaders of Italy. I ask you to
reject the arguments invoked by the Italian
government and the U.S. administration
to justify the deployment of cruise missiles
in Italy,” he Said.

’ In Britain, the presence of the cruise
missiles already deployed continues to be a
subject of majority opposition” despite

government to win support for the
deployment.

A poll taken in Britain at the end of
March revealed that 51 per cent of the
population “strongly oppose” installation

only 35 per cent support the presence of
the first strike weapons.

The poll results once again belied the
Thatcher government’s claim that it was
carrying out the “mandate of the people” in
agreeing to U:S. demands for deployment.

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COMING EVENTS

APR. 27 — Brigadista Slides & Cotton Pickers
Memories. 8 p.m., 5285 Empire Dr., Burnaby.

Fund faiser for CCW to send delegate to UN ‘

Conference On Attaining Peace For Nicaragua.
$2 admission. Snacks & refreshments.

APR. 28 — Benefit Boogie for the Tenants
Rights Action Centre, with Communique.
ibe Hall, 805 E. Pender, 8:30 p.m. Adm..

MAY 5 — Annual May Day Chicken Feed,
21972 Cliff Place, Maple Ridge. For directions:
467-2888. 4 p.m. on. Adults: $6, Children: $3.
Proceeds to Tribune. ;

"MAY 5 — Set this date aside for the annual

Van East May Day Supper, right after the
march and rally. Details to come.

MAY 12 — Tribune Salmon Bar-B-Q, Delta.
Watch for further details.

MAY 13 — Mothers’ Day Garden’ Party.
Lunch and refreshments. Songs by Tom
Hawken and friends. Admission: $5. Children
welcome. Starts at 1 p.m. 3283 Fleming St.
(one block West of Knight at 17th). Sponsored
by Vancouver Peace Assembly.

MAY 13 — Annual Mothers’ Day pancake
breakfast and horsehoe tournament at Gido-
ra’s, 12715-66th Ave., Surrey. From.10 a.m.
on. For directions ph. 594-0539. All you can eat
for $5; chidren half price. Proceeds to Tribune.

JUN. 2 — Annual Tribune Halibut Bar-B-Q.
Watch for details.

MAY 6-27 — BASIC’s Il — Lecture Series.
Theoretical aspects of the Solidarity fightback.
Lecturers include: Dave Fairey, Fred Wilson,
Ben Swankey & George Hewison. Advance
registration only. $10 ($5 unemployed). For
more info. contact Miguel, 254-9836. Spon-
sored by Gr. Van. Ctte., CPC.

MAY 12 — Film-Pub Night. “A Time to Rise”.
Adm. $1.50; unemployed are free. Movie, food,
drink, wassail. 8 p.m., 1906 10th Ave., New
Westminster. Sponsored by Burnaby Club CPC.

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ELECTRICAL, plumbing, appliance repairs.
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