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Tribun

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1967

10c

VOL. 28, NC. 1 HORIZON PUBLICATIONS

U THANT’S PLEA TO THE U.S.

‘Stop the bombing’

By MAURICE RUSH.

U Thant has called on the

United States to uncondition-
ally stop its bombing of North
Vietnam. This action by the in
U.N. General-Secretary come
last Saturday as disclosures of
U.S. bombing of civilians in
North Vietnam shocked the
world.
: The storm was touched off
In a series of articles written
from Hanoi by New York
Times managing editor Harri-
Son E. Salisbury in which he
debunked earlier U.S. claims
that only militory targets were
being hit in North Vietnam.

as homes, schools, kindergar-
tens and hospitals. The PT last
January carried a front page pic-
ture showing the destruction of a
hospital at Uong Bi,

having seen heavy civilian dam-
age in many centres including
the textile city of Nam Dinh,

from the central market and
downtown, The building housing
the International Control Com-
mission is only a few blocks
Salisbury’s articles, appearing away.
the. New York Times and
other papers around the world,
has confirmed that U.S, bombing
is taking a heavy toll of civilian
life and property. It has put the
words of President Johnson and
the American leaders in dis-
repute,

Judging from Salisbury’s ar-
ticles, the damage inflicted since
last year has grown greatly,
When we were in Hanoi last De-
cember the closest U.S, bomb-
ings were about thirty milesfrom
the city, where one good size
town had been completely oblit-
erated, Now the U.S, bombers
have drawn the circle tighter
and are bombing inside the city.

We took many walks around that
area which is entirely aresiden-
tial area with some larger build-
ings housing a children’s Pioneer
day school and other public build-
ings. I cannot recall a single
target for blocks around that
could in any way be described
Salisbury reported on the heavy as a military objective.
damage to the textile mill and
workers’ apartments at Nam
Dinh, as the Communist Party
delegation did last January, As
a member of the delegation I
wrote in the PT about the des-
truction we saw in this and other
centres,

Recently a delegation of four
U.S, women left Hanoi after ob-
serving the destruction caused
by the pre-Christmas raids on
the city, One of them said:
“Iam ashamed of what my coun-
try is doing in North Vietnam,”

Salisbury reports in one dis-
patch that bombs fell within 200
yards of the Thon Gnhat Hotel,
(formerly the Metropole), The
Canadian delegation stayed di-
rectly across from this hotel
while in Hanoi and we can testify
that this is almost in the centre
of Hanoi, only a few minutes walk

Salisbury did not discover any-
thing new, One year agoa delega-
tion from the Canadian Com-
Munist Party returned from
North Vietnam and reported

RABBI FEINBERG, of Toronto,
who is presently in Hanoi on a
fact-finding mission.

At that time we reported the
indiscriminate bombing of civil-
~ ian industrial targets, as well —

This week four religious lead-
ers from Canada, the U.S,, Bri-
See BOMBINGS, pg. 2

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‘Our sbiectva is to kill’
SLAUGHTER
OF THE
INNOCENTS

By RAE MURPHY

(First of a Series)
“(NREDIBILITY gap is a
new phrase that has been
struck to describe the

rar
ett?
- Ss eae

phrases give an aura of de-
tachment that anaesthetizes the
mind so that human beings
with loves, hates and aspira-
tions on one side of the world

present American government’s
relations with the press and
with the people of the country.
In less sophisticated times, in
perhaps a less sophisticated na-
tion, the expression would be
that President Johnson is a liar.

“Credibility gap” sounds
somewhat more objective, more
scientific, a little bit nicer, and
the hard edge is taken from
what is actually meant.

In a sense this expression is
typical of a new jargon that
has developed out of the war
in Vietnam—a jargon that ob-
scures more than it edifies,
a jargon that seeks to sterilize
the bloody slaughter of inno-
cent people.

High sounding scientific

Oil storage tanks burning after
a U.S. raid. pear Hanoi. Note the
residential area in the immediate
vicinity.

can accept the butchery of
other humans with the same
aspirations and values which
link the common man_ the
world over.

Thus the U.S. Chemical and
Engineering News can report
on the large increase of the use
of napalm and -calmly state
that a new “improved” napalm
jelly developed by the United
Technology Centre in Redwood
City, California, called “napalm-
B” is now in production.

Twenty-five million pounds
of this substance are dropped
on Vietnam every month, and
the Chemical and Engineering
News says the following about
“improvements” in the new na-
palm: “The U.S. combat forces
in Vietnam are. finding that the
older formula leave much to be
desired, particularly in adhe-
sion.”

It appears that the new sub-

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