THE WORLD

Peace fight mounts as Cruise and Pershings arrive

By FILS DELISLE

siles issue and voted overwhelmingly to oppose it, re-

Bonn accepts new NATO missiles

Tribune Berlin Correspondent
BERLIN — The fight against more deployment of
U.S. nuclear missiles and in defence of peace has en-
tered a new stage now that the U.S. has begun to station
Pershing-2 and Cruise missiles in Britain, Italy, West
Germany and elsewhere.
Those in the West who support the NATO plan to set

“UpU.S. nuclear missiles about eight minutes from Soviet

Cities have hailed the decision of West Germany’s
Parliament (286 to 226) approving deployment of
first-strike, offensive weapons on West German terri-
tory. Leaders of the peace movement, however, have

_ declared that the decision of the Bundestag Nov. 22 was

Only a pyrthic victory.
_ Inthe debate deputies warned the government major-
ity that it was ignoring the desires of the people, and that
the fight against the nuclear missiles would go on in new
Conditions and with new methods. Insofar.as the social-
Ist countries threatened by the new, missiles are con-
cerned, they are countering by corresponding action to
Set up nuclear missiles in the GDR and Czechoslovakia.

West German, U.S. and NATO leaders have sought to
Convince their people that the new first-strike missiles
Would force the USSR to knuckle under to U.S. and
NATO superiority. The Warsaw Pact countries have
again and again‘warned they will match every U.S.-
NATO move to achieve military superiority. That is
already taking place, making it clear to Europeans that
the first-strike missile program has already failed in its
Primary objective.

For Canadians, this side of the question has very
Practical importance. Canada is a NATO member and
Shares responsibility, along with other NATO members,
Or the threatening deployment of new missiles in
Europe that can reach Soviet cities in the time needed to

il an egg.

Moscow in no way threatens Canada, the USA or any
other country. It has declared it will not be the first to use
Nuclear weapons. It has consistently worked for co-

€xistence between countries with different social sys- >

tems. The U.S. government, however, threatens to in-
vade other countries, as in Grenada. It claims the right to
Strike first with nuclear weapons. It has openly re-

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) “We want jobs, not missiles,” say these Bonn marchers.

nounced coexistence and claims the right to change the
system of socialism in the USSR and the other Warsaw
Pact states. :

In West Germany, the people have in their over-
whelming majority shown that they do not want to live in
such a trap made by others. They do not want to have
missiles that can hit the USSR in a matter of minutes or
to be threatened by such missiles themselves.

On the day the issue was debated they demonstrated
against deployment and for peace in the tens of
thousands in Bonn and other cities in the FRG. And in
the Bundestag itself, in response to the clearly expressed
will of the West German majority, the Social Democratic
Party (SDP), the Greens and even a supporter of the
government denounced the missiles program as a fraud,
a betrayal of peace and of the will of the majority.

The fact that the SDP, at a special conference last
week, dramatically changed course on the NATO mis-

flected the power of the peace movement in the FRG and
Western Europe. :

The atmosphere in Bonn and the Bundestag itself dur-
ing the two days of debate was menacing. Tens of
thousands of people gathered a kilometre from the
parliament buildings on the first day to demonstrate
against deployment. They were attacked, beaten, slug-
ged and dragged away by the greatest policy force ever
assembled in the West German capital. Even in the
Bundestag chamber, deputies were confronted by armed
border defence troops who were withdrawn only after
protests by Social Democratic members.

The second day saw similar scenes: thousands of
peaceful demonstrators harassed and beaten mercilessly
by armies of police. Five hundred were arrested and 70
injured. In the Bundestag, the Greens’ spokesman
Schilly charged the Kohl government ‘“‘had subjugated
itself to the USA’’. The missile program, he said, ‘“‘was a
catastrophe’’ for the FRG. Former Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt, who wanted the Social Democrats to stick to
support of the NATO missiles, nevertheless condemned
the Bonn government and Washington for having made
no effort to reach an accord with the Soviet Union. He
said, despite his support for the NATO program, “‘he
had never doubted the Soviet Union’s desire for peace”’.

Willi Brandt SPD Chairman and President of the
Socialist International, denounced ‘‘the spiralling of
armaments’’, opposed the Bonn’s course towards a
‘new confrontation with the Soviet Union’’, sharply
criticized U.S. policy for not seeking East-West under-
standing and called for a renewal of the process of de-
tente. Hans Apel, former Defence Minister, charged that
Bonn and Washington had shown that they wanted no
agreement with the USSR at the Geneva arms talks.

Horst Ehmke, a member of the SPD executive, ac-
cused the government of ‘‘deliberate misinformation”’
regarding the British and French missiles. These would
number 1,000 by 1990, he said. But Bonn, he declared,
had turned the FRG into a vassal of the USA.

The precise strategy to be pursued by the peace forces
in the FRG and the other NATO countries on the contin-
ent has yet to be worked out in detail. But that the peace
movement will remain and grow is certain.

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International Focus

- Tom Morris

Standing up
for one’s beliefs

In the 1950s and 1960s they
numbered in the hundreds,
braving scorn and abuse be-
Cause they publicly marched
for peace.

Today hundreds of
thousands in Canada and the
U.S. fill the streets represent-
ing millions of their fellow citi-
Zens. The peace movement
today is multi-faced —
Marches, sit-ins, teach-ins,

film evenings, involve con-
Cerned people from every walk
of life, every generation and all
Political views.

Each individual feels the

Holding flowers and her admit-
tance slip to the Hennepin
County jail, Erica Bouza pre-
Pares to begin her 10-day
Sentence.

issue personally, each has a
story to tell, each is making
their own statement about the
future.

Erica Bouza of Minneapolis
began her 10-day jail term
Nov. 17 forjoining hundreds of
others blocking the entrance to
the Honeywell Corporation
headquarters in protest of the
firm’s role in armaments pro-
duction.

It was Ms Bouza’s second
arrest for anti-nuclear protest
and a jail term is mandatory.
What makes her story special
and her contribution to peace
more vivid is that her husband
is Minneapolis Police Chief
Tony Bouza.

Here is a woman of consci-
ence.

have resumed...
Grenada today: Governor-
General Paul peas who
cravenly signed the invasion
Sabet aboard the USS
Guam, stands beside five
members of his nine-member
“Advisory Council” backed

by U.S. military power.
‘‘Marijuana sales resumed

_..and the Rotary Club heldits .

first luncheon,”’ reports Time
magazine.
‘““Grenadians and the
American invaders both seem
to be getting cranky”, the

put up by the army are being ©

magazine continues. Inter-
rogations of some 2,200 per-
sons are finishing up. Prisoners
were kept behind barbed wire.
‘‘Some were obliged to crawl
inside 8-ft. by 8-ft. wooden
crates and spend 24 hours
there.”’

“The rain came in at night
and I was drenched,”’ reported
former PRG Justice Minister
Kendrick Radix, who was ar-
rested by Marines for “‘spread-
ing bad will among the
people’.

Army jeeps of the U.S.
‘Army Psychological Opera-
tions Group blare out “‘Help
send the Cubans back to
Havana where they belong’’,
and anti-communist posters

8-ft square cages, barbed wire, called “freedom”.

ripped down. The U.S. army
also runs the Island’s only
radio station.

Pure military occupation
may have succeeded, but now
the problems for the occupiers
and their lackey Governor-
General begin. ‘‘Many Marx-
ist-inspired social projects
were welcomed by
Grenadians,”’ reports Time.
‘*They include medical clinics,
adult education courses,
scholarships, housing assis-
tance, an uncompleted new
sports stadium and the Point
Salinas airport.”

Isn’t that something? Time
might have added that Gren-
adians also welcomed agri-
cultural reform, cooperatives,
day care services, and their

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participation in mass people -
organizations which gave
every citizen a say in national
policy.

Now there’s the U.S. army
with some Jamaican thugs.
Now there’s the despicable
Paul Scoon. Now there’s
marijuana sales and Rotary
Club luncheons. Now there’s
military round-ups, the CIA,
and ‘‘GIs wandering the
beaches in swimming trunks
carrying Mlé6s’’.

_A sad picture. But troubles
for the U.S. in Grenada are just
beginning.

Guided missiles

for racists

Reagan is embarrassed be-
cause ‘‘components for a
highly advanced computer
capable of guiding missile sys-
tems’ have wound up in Swe-
den. The U.S. says the Soviets
were smuggling them and that
they were intended for South
Africa.

Such items, say U.S. of-
ficials, are banned for export to
the USSR. But, it seems, they
are okay in the hands of the
racist gang in Pretoria. Just
who would be the target of
South African guided missiles,
we're not told. Is it Namibia?
Perhaps Angola or Mozam-
bique —.or Soweto?

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