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Imperialist grab in Zaire
in Zaire’s copper and cobalt from the
danger of liberation from the foreign
stranglehold.

With liberation leaving only pockets of
imperialist exploitation in Africa, and
with the USA still stinging from. Korea
and Vietnam, the most reactionary
forces in Washington want France and
Belgium to do their dirty work to retain
imperialism’s grasp on wealthy parts of
Africa, with the help of criminals like
Mobutu. A stagnating economy at home
demands cheap raw materials at some-

PRESIDENT OF MEXICO ATTENDS CMEA MEETING

MOSCOW — President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico arrived here
May 18 and attended an executive council meeting of the Council for
Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). In his speech, president Por-
tillo urged strengthening ties between CMEA and Mexico, broadening
and deepening existing relations “‘at all levels, in every direction’’.

The USA’s low profile in imperialism’s
military invasion of mineral-rich Shaba
province of Zaire should mislead no one.

Several NATO powers, Britain, Fr-
ance, Belgium and the USA met secretly
to plot joint strategy, according to Pre-
mier Leo Tindemans of Belgium. From
this there followed the Belgian-French
troop drop in Zaire, while France hosted
a meeting with a number of “friendly”
African heads of state at Versailles and
Paris.

The pretext for Belgian paratroops

OSPAAAL SOLIDARITY WITH PARAGUAYAN PATRIOTS _

HAVANA — The Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of
Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL), in Havana, Cuba, issued
a solidarity statement on the occasion of Paraguay’s 167th anniversary
of independence from Spain. OSPAAAL said the cruel dictatorship of .
president Alfredo Stroessner stays in power only because it is backed
by U.S. imperialism. Paraguay today is a hiding place for war crimi-
nals, who are used by Stroessner in his attempts to wipe out the
opposition and to exterminate the Native American (Indian) popu-

lation.

CHICAGO — Some 400 people attended a dinner “‘Tribute to the
Wilmington 10" here May 13 sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. The dinner
marked the fifth anniversary of the organization and was a rededication
to the struggle for the freedom of the Wilmington 10 and all political

- TRIBUTE TO THE WILMINGTON TEN HELD

prisoners in the U.S.

U.S. COURT RULES NAZI MARCH CAN PROCEED

SKOKIE, Illinois — An appeals court has upheld a lower court’s
ruling that a ban on a Nazi march through the streets of this Chicago
suburb is unconstitutional. The Nazis plan to march through the sub-
urb where more than half the population is Jewish, including some

7,000 survivors of Nazi concentration camps.

and French Foreign Legion elements
entering Zdire was to rescue European
whites in the city of Kolwezi which had
been occupied by national liberation
forces. Apparently the announced 73
U.S. citizens were quietly airlifted out on
May 17. Belgian forces variously esti-
mated at 1,200 and 1,700 evidently
“evacuated ” all Belgian nationalsin south-
ern Zaire and departed.

That left the French, not rescuing

Europeans, but conducting search and ,

destroy missions against the liberation
forces, while Mobutu was wined and
dined in Paris. ;

Washington announced on May 18
that within the week it would provide
several million dollars worth of military
supplies to the regime of Mobutu, ac-
complice in the murder of Congolese
Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in
1961.

France’s two-day summit with African
leaders, ended with a western power play
to have Black African troops from sev-
eral nations protect western investment

body else’s expense, and markets for
U-S. arms,

All of this, as we have seen is accom-
panied by vile propaganda against the
USSR and Cuba, then showing of bodies
on TV. Only white bodies are counted,
but even so Belgian officers charge the
French with murdering a number of
them. Belgian “refugees” say Mobutu’s
Zairean troops carried out massacres:
And no one has yet mentioned mef-
cenaries, although one report admitted
some whites were killed: when they were
“thought” to be mercenaries. Well, liber-
ation forces in Africa may well have 4
nose for mercenaries, they've met
enough of this scum.

Finally there is the moral question of 2 —

country belonging to its people, not to4
puppet of the imperialist powers. The
liberation of the African continent will

proceed despite anything the imperialist |

powers can do.
Solidarity with the liberation forces! .

An end to imperialist exploitation of the |
- African continent!

Scrap pipeline sell-out

Last September we were treated to the
spectacle of Prime Minister Trudeau
and President Carter standing “together
on the.small platform in the White
House press room, calling each other
Pierre and Jimmy,” as the capitalist press
told it. They had signed the Alaska —
northern Canada gas pipeline sell-out.

“Major benefits” were to accrue, they
proclaimed. 3

That set off expansive assurances by
the likes of Labor Minister John Munro

warded a host of loyal henchmen with
plum jobs, the well-known “Americal.
ambassador to Canada,” Mitchell Sharpe

was made director-general of pipelines. —

Rest assured that will do nothing good
for the Canadian people and everything
for U.S. monopoly.

Now, on May 18, the mass media re"

vealed there is “no pipeline boom” 12

jobs, and those of Canada’s million”

and-a-half unemployed who journeyé
west found no welcome and no jobs.

CASSINGA, Angola — Nineteen-year-old Helui Kaukungwa was the
victim of vicious tortures.at the hands of South African troops when they
invaded southern Angola May 4. The troops attacked this village some
150 miles north of the Angolan-Namibian border and killed some 600

who, with an eye to his Hamilton riding,

, “People should not be stampeding 10
saw jobs galore in the steel plants.

Alberta, British Columbia and the—

Namibian refugees.

Donald Montgomery, secretary-
treasurer of the Canadian Labor Con-
gress suggested opponents of the all-out
pipeline crusade were contributors to
“environmentally induced unemploy-
ment.”

Meanwhile the demands of Native
peoples that their claims be considered
before the pipeline, received an un-
courteous nod.

This paper, and the Communist Party
were among those who opposed the un-
studied, uninvestigated building of a
pipeline, whose Alaskan contents in the
foreseeable future would go 100% south
of the border, and demanded attention
to Native claims to land, environmental

and traditional protection. But the ser-

vants of the U.S. monopolies both in
Canadian board rooms and in the Cana-

Yukon with false hopes of obtaining |

employment,” Kent Jesperson, vice’

president in charge of services for Footh-

_ills Pipe Lines (Yukon) Ltd.; said, May

17. Well, but there will be jobs in 1980
and 1981, we are told.

But there is more irony, a threat by thé —

U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Com _
mission that if the pipeline is likely t
exceed cost estimates, the USA will not
take part. So what was all the fanfare an?
the “Jimmy and Pierre” about? .

The pipeline deal was a Liberal-and
Conservative-backed sell-out from the
start; now the squeeze is on to load more»
costs on to Canadian taxpayers to service |
the USA. .

The concept of Canada as anothe!
“Panama Canal” service corridor fot

U.S. corporations must'be rejected. This
deal should be cancelled and completé
studies done for an integrated Canadja?
energy plan to serve all of Canada.

\

OKLAHOMA CITY — More than 5,000 people lined here last week to
apply for 2,000 jobs at the GM Assembly Division, some staying inline as
long as 12 hours. The GM plant is currently under construction and
scheduled to begin production early next year.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—June 2, 1978—Page =

dian Government pressed ahead with
Washington’s interests.
Most recently when Trudeau re-