Quebec Peace Council at United Nations

UNITED NATIONS — In a
speech to the UN Special Com-
mittee Against Apartheid, Ed-

-ouard Sloan, chairman of the Con-

seil Québécois de la Paix, ex-
pressed the pride of his organiza-
tion that their work against apart-
heid had brought them the speak-
ing invitation.

“*T must tell you how much lam
moved and honored by your in-
vitation ... In the name of the
executive and board members of
the CQP, I bring you warm greet-
ings from Quebec.”’

Mr. Sloan was at the UN Sept.
17 to inform the Special Com-

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tion of disarmament is strongly
tied to national liberation.

“We will continue to press the
issue of South African apartheid
through a series of meetings, con-

order to get through to the Cana-
dian government,”’ he said.

“This fall Canada is likely to
become a member of the UN
Security Council, and its role at
the UN will increase. Thus the
role of public opinion in Canada
will become more important, and
Canadians have the responsibility
of making themselves heard to the
government.

ferences and demonstrations in -

MY, LAI RECONSTRUCTS

At the top of the long list of crimes by American imperialists 9
throughout the world stand the massacres of entire Vietnam- —
ese villages. One that remains engraved on the memory of the

world for its outright savagery is the massacre at My Lai.

Carrying out their orders to the letter, U.S. troops descended
in a dozen helicopters and razed the place to the ground. If a
few survived it was only because their bodies lay protected by .
the many dead ontopofthem. —

mittee of the anti-apartheid cam-
paigns his organization has
carried out, and to promise con-

‘*Through the pressure of pub-
lic opinion’, Sloan continued,

tinued work against all racism,
and apartheid in particular.

The CQP has organized anti-
apartheid demonstrations, press
conferences and meetings in
Montreal, and was responsible

_ for a campaign against a South

African government “‘hospi-
tality center’ set up during the
Olynipic Games. The CQP
mounted a campaign including
telegrams, lobbying, demonstra-
tions, leafieting, distribution of

Edouard Sloan, chairman of the
Conseil Québécois de la Paix.

UN material, press conferences
and’ a one-day seminar and
received wide media coverage.
In an interview with the
Tribune after his presentation to
the UN Special Committee, Mr.
Sloan said his organization’s
future plans include concentra-
tion on the campaign for signa-
tures to the Stockholm Appeal to
End the Arms Race, as the ques-

Brezhnev-Schmidt to meet

on Soviet-FRG relations

CPSU General Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev will travel to
West Germany for discussions
with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt,

it was learned last week. The .

talks will take place amid high
speculation as to the future of

- Soviet-FRG relations because of

the vigorous debate over them in
the current FRG election cam-
paign. The election is to take
place October 3.

Since the Moscow treaty of

sometimes created to whip up
anti-Soviet sentiments for the
sake of meeting time-serving,
transient election interests. West
Germans undoubtedly know that
too much laborious effort -has
been made for achieving détente
to sacrifice it for political specula-
tions,”’ he said.

1970 political and economic rela- |
tions between the two countries |

have grown to the extent that the
FRG has become the Soviet
Union’s major international
trading partner. Economic rela-
tions include Soviet gas sales to
Bavaria, large-scale sale of
machine tools to FRG plants and
the sale of isotopes to FRG
chemical laboratories. Going the

World-wide condemnation and
horror have been expressed at the
murder, by agents of the fascist

“‘the CQP wants to make our gov-
ernment take a strong stand
against apartheid in its new role as
a Security Council member.”’

At the UN, Sloan described the
philosophy and work of the CQP:
“We campaign for justice, for
equality, in support of the right of
peoples to decide their own
future, for a New International
Economic Order, for the Charter
of Economic Rights and Duties of
States, and against racism, apart-
heid and the harmful influence of
the multi-national corporations.

‘*We support the campaigns for
peace, world disarmament and
détente, in particular, the New
Stockholm Appeal.

‘*We shall continue to ‘support
the work of the UN to put an end
to war and injustice.

“°We wish you every success in
your endeavors and hope to be
able to work ever more closely
with you.

“Canada must continue and
accentuate its role at the UN ina
positive direction, for the cause of
humanity.”’

gime of his homeland, he was
stripped of his citizenship only ten
days before his murder.

The one American casualty was that of a GI who shot himself

through the foot in order not to take part in the massacre.

New scenes from My Lai today make a vivid contrast from
those of 1968, when the horrible crime was committed. On the
, ashes of the old village, the Vietnamese people are at work §

building new homes for the survivors of that nightmare.

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) Chilean junta, of the Chilean am- Orlando Letelier’s colleagues,
other way, the USSR imports passador to the United States and supporters of democratic
pipes for gas pipelines, lorries for. during the Allende years. Chile around the world, have ADDRESS
the Baikal-Amur Railway and = 41,140 Letelier was killed Condemned the Chilean regime
high pressure polyethylene. Sept. 21 when a bomb ripped for this crime. In Canada, a repre- CITY ZONE PROV.

Soviet commentators have
noted that the present trend to-
ward increased relations could re-
sult in a doubling of trade over the
next few years.

The new areas of co-operation
most likely to be pressed for are
those of all-European importance
such as power engineering, en-
vironmental protection and
transportation. It is reasonable to
expect as well that questions of
disarmament and arms limitations
will be subjects for discussion at
the summit.

‘Moscow does not close its

eyes to unsolved problems and
difficulties,’’ Soviet political an-

_alyst Spartak Beglov commented

on the announcement of the
summit. ‘‘But there are real diffi-
culties which are surmountable

_and artificial difficulties which are

through his car just near the
Chilean embassy in Washington.
Ronni Moffitt, a colleague of Le-
telier, was also killed in the blast,
and her husband Michael was in-
jured.

The explosion occurred in
Sheridan Circle, only yards from
the embassy where Letelier
served from 1971-73. He had also
been foreign minister and defense
minister under the Allende gov-
ernment, and was a leading
member of the Socialist Party of
Chile.

Letelier, imprisoned by the
junta after the 1973 coup, went to
‘the U.S. upon his release where
he was working at the Institute for
Policy Studies. Due to his consis-
tent criticism and successful
campaigns against the fascist re-

‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 1, 1976—Page 6

sentative of the Toronto Com-
mittee for Solidarity with Demo-
cratic Chile called the bombing ‘‘a
ruthless act of one of the bloodiest
regimes in history.’’ The repre-
sentative added: ‘‘The murder of
this Chilean patriot has brought
forward, yet again, the horror of
the fascist junta for the whole
world to see. We condemn this
. brutality outright, and express
our deepest sympathies to the
family of Mr. Letelier.’’
Another statement comes from
the Soviet Committee for Soli-
darity with Chilean Democrats,
which condemned the crime and
urged ‘‘all the peoples of the
world to intensify the fight against
the fascist junta, and to
strengthen and expand the
movement of solidarity with the
patriots and democrats of Chile.”’

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