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Brandt sees a new era of peace

BONN — “We want to do our
best so that the horrors of the
past could not be repeated...,”
Willy Brandt, chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany
said in an interview with Soviet
radio and TV _ correspondents
following the signing of the his-
toric agreements between the
FRG and the USSR.

“T would like to tell TV view-
ers and radio listeners in the
Soviet Union,” he said, “that it
was a great pleasure for me to
take part in what was taking
place during the past few days
. .. in what is taking place these
years. I mean changes in our re-
lations. I know that it stands to
reason that this is no easy mat-
ter — after all the horrible
things that piled up in the past
between our countries and our
peoples.”

New Generation

He said that, “The fact that
we have to deal with new gene-
rations makes us duty-bound
because we, the elder genera-
tion, should continue to pass
over our experience. We are ren-
dered help because the younger
generation, not being burdened
by the past, is able to tackle
problems which confront us all.
In spite of the difference in our
social systems we must live in

conditions of peaceful coopera-

tion and build up our future
without fear and apprehension
and, if it is possible, without
calamities.”

Soviet Communist Party lead-
er Leonid Brezhnev struck a
similar note in an interview on
FRG television. He referred to
his meeting with Mr. Brandt in
Moscow in 1970, and the sign-
ing of a document “adopting a
solemn pledge not to resort to
force or the threat of force in
relation to each other . . .” He
Said that “the Soviet Union and
the FRG embarked on a new
path in their relations.

WASHINGTON (LNS) — The
Census Bureau reports that sala-
ries paid to working women are
steadily declining when com-
pared to those paid to men, in
1955 a woman working full
time was paid, on the average,
64% of what a man was paid.

_ By 1960, the figure had declined
to 61%. In 1965 it’ went down
to 60%.

Argentine

BUENOS AIRES—Responding
to pressures from the Commun-
ist Party and other progressive
organizations, Hector Campora,
the newly elected president of
Argentina is fulfilling his pre-
election campaign promises and
has taken action towards estab-
lishing diplomatic relations with
Cuba and the German Democra-
tic Republic.

Campora, who was inaugu-
rated May 25, became president
in an election that resulted in
the defeat of the dictatorial re-
gime and its attempts to “unite”
the nation under its control. But
before the election of the Justi-
cialist Party, represented by
Campora, a_ left-wing alliance
was formed called the Popular
Revolutionary Alliance.

Clear-cut Program

The Alliance, with the vigor-
ous backing given to it by the
Communist Party (on which a
1967 ban had not been lifted)
was able to force the presiden-
tial candidate Campora, to in-

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W. BRANDT, L. |. BREZHNEV

It Was Not Easy

“T shall tell you frankly,” the
Soviet leader said, ‘it was not
easy for the Soviet people, and,
therefore, also their leaders, to
open this new chapter in our re-
lations. Much too vivid yet
among millions of Soviet people
are recollections of the last war,
of the heavy sacrifices and
dreadful destruction which Hit-
ler’s aggression brought us.”
But he added: “We are able to
step over the past in- relations
with your country because we
do not want its return.”

Mr. Brezhnev pointed out that
the Soviet Union has a bond
with “our ally, the German De-
mocratic Republic, with ties of
very close, sincere and unselfish
friendship.

Positive Elements

“We approach our relations
with the Federal Republic of
Germany from positions of
goodwill and peaceableness,” he
said. “We know that it was not
simple either for Chancellor
Brandt’s government to arrive
at this treaty. The cold war has
its own inertia . . . supporters of
a dangerous confrontation of the
two worlds have not all dis-
appeared yet from the political
scene,”

He said, however, that,

Alberta has 27 AM radio sta-
tions and six FM stations. There
are nine television stations in
the province, having 52 satellite
redbroadcasting stations.

struggle at

clude many of the Alliance’s de-
mands in his own program.
Campora was forced to speak
out against the stranglehold of
foreign capital and for relations
with Cuba, the DRV, and the
Korean People’s Democratic Re-
public, in support of peaceful
coexistence and for a revision
of relations with the USA.

The constructive program of
the Communist Party in the
Popular Revolutionary Alliance
was instrumental in making the
programs of other.coalitions and
parties more clear cut and Left-
oriented.

Vigilance Urged

Following the elections in
which the Justicialists won and
the Popular Revolutionary Alli-
ance polled 900,000 votes, the
Communist Party has declared
that it will cooperate with the
new government in implement-
ing all the provisions of the Jus-
ticialist program which corres-
pond to the interests of the peo-
ple and the country. At the same

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY,, JUNE 8, 1973—-PAGE 10. .

“among the positive elements of
present-day European develop-
ment is, no doubt, also the gra-
dual improvement of the Fede-
ral Republic of Germany’s rela-
tions with its neighbors in the
east—Poland, the GDR, Czecho-
slovakia and other socialist
states in Europe.

“The Europe that has more
than once been the hotbed of
aggressive wars which brought
about colossal destruction and
the death of millions of people
must forever recede into the
past. We want its place to be
taken by a new continent — a
continent of peace; mutual con-
fidence and mutually advantage-
ous cooperation among all
states.”

In an interview with the So-
viet newspaper, Isvestia, Chan-
cellor Brandt lent weight to the
concept of peaceful co-existence
and to the value of the forth-

coming meeting on European .

security.

“Tt is necessary now,” he
said, “to work toward bringing
eabout, at long last, an era of a
lasting and stable peace in Eu-
rope. This also requires a politi-
cal accommodation which has
been started between states with
differing social systems.”

Fight to stop
U.S. bombing

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Nol for talks with Norodham
Sihanouk, exiled Cambodian
leader, who has so far refused
to talk with this “traitor” who
survives “only by the grace of
Washington.”

Screaming and scratching, the
United States of American
clings to the hope of an imperial
outpost in Indochina — what-
ever the cost in lives, the bet-
rayal of its word, the revulsion
of the world. .

Today, with many USS. elect-
ed representatives responding to
public opinion, the working
people in all countries have the
duty to raise the protest against
this U.S. crime to the number
one target of the world’s mil-
lions who strive for peace.

The people of the whole world
can — must — put an end to
the U.S. war in Cambodia.

new stage

time, it reserves the right to
criticize any inconsistencies in
carrying out the program.

The Communist Party is also
urging vigilance with regard to
attempts by extremist groups,
both military and civilian, to
stage a coup d’etat.

Broad sections of the popula-
tions which supported different
parties and alliances in the polls
are now rallying in opposition to
imperialism. And more favor-
able conditions have arisen for
unity which is particularly im-
portant because the elections
have not solved the problems
facing the country. But they
marked a stage in the struggle
and rallied the progressive for-
ces, who are now advocating ra-
dical reforms in Argentina.

In 1972, Denmark imported
flaxseed valued at $1.9 million,
at port of entry. Of the 13,515
metric tons brought into the
country, 11,888 tons came from
Canada.

THE ASCENT OF MAN *

Filmed in 27 countries, The Ascent of Man series made its
debut on the CBC-TV network on Tuesday, May 29 at 10 p.m:
“This South American Indian baby was encountered by scien-
tist Alfred Russell Wallace during the filming of one of the
episodes on the Rio Negro River in Brazil. The thirteen hour:
long programmes outline the history of science as a history
of man and are hosted by the noted mathematician, author
ee broadcaster, Dr. Jacob Bronowski. ]

Vancouver-QOdessa meets

benefit good relations

By JOSIF PIKAREVICH

ODESSA (APN) — During the
visit of -Thomas Campbell,
mayor of Vancouver, to Odessa
in September 1971, an agree-
ment on twin-cities was signed
between this major Soviet Black
Sea port (with a population of
over one million) and the city
on the western coast of Cana-
da. Ever since, the contacts
have been successfully develop-
ing between the twin-cities and
now a delegation of the Odessa
Soviet headed by Grigory Yev-
rash, vice-chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the city
Soviet, is leaving for Vancou-
ver.

“We hope,” said Grigory
Yevrash, “that our trip will pro-
mote further development of
contacts between our cities.
Besides, we are eager to see
how the inhabitants of Vancou-
ver solve the problems which,
as it turned out during the
mayor’s visit to Odessa, are
common to our port cities.
These are, for example, the
problems of air and sea pollu-
tion, combatting noise and re-
moving waste from the city.”

When in Odessa Thomas
Campbell expressed his delight
with the construction scope in
the ctiy as well as the operation
of public transport.

“We are ready,” said Grigory
Yevrash, “to share our exper-
ience in housing construction
and communal economy with
municipal functionaries of Van-'
couver, and hope that it will be
fruitful to them.”

At the same time the delega-
tion intends to make a number
of concrete proposals° such as
inviting Vancouver people to
participate in a festival of films
on sea to be held in Odessa this

summer. ye
there will be entries from
cities related with Odessa.

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mayor of Vancouver V§
during his stay in Odes
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