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Ollie Harrington and Bill Andrews, cartoonists for the U.S. Communist
Daily World, have consistently devoted their considerable talents to the
key issue of detente and world peace. Here they challenge the current
wave of anti-Soviet propaganda aimed at sabotaging the Helsinki
Accords. Tribune readers, now accustomed to their work, can see the
power of working class art in these three selections.

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TORONTO — Cuban cinema,
the production of the national film
institute of Cuba, has achieved
world-wide fame for its energetic,
imaginative and popular treat-
Ment of fictional and documen-
tary subjects. Both areas of Cu-
ba’s unique cinema will premiere
in Toronto in a festival of Cuban
films to be presented February
5, 7:30 p.m. and, February 6,
Starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Cinema
Lumiere, 290 College Street.

At the Saturday and Sunday
evening showings two feature
films will be presented. Saturday
€vening’s film:The Other Fran-
cisco, directed by Sergio Ginal, is
both an adaption ard a criticism
of a popular novel by \nselmo
Suarez Romero, depicting the
condition of slaves in Cuba during
the nineteenth century. On Sun-

day evening, Miners of Chile, di-
rected by Humberto Solas (whose
film Lucia was acclaimed at the
Festival of Festivals), narrates
the story of a miners’ strike in
northern Chile in 1907 which cul-
minated in what is now referred to
as the Iquique massacre.

The two
documentaries will be screened
Sunday afternoon. You Can
Speak Now, directed by Manuel
Octavio Gomez, is based on the
1967 trial of the men who caused a
fire which destroyed a reforesta-
tion area and killed eight people.
The inhabitants of the area,
workers and peasants, take part

-in the trial and try to evaluate the

various testimonies. I Am a Child
of America and to Her I Devote
Myself, by the well-known crea-
tive documentary director, San-

feature-length |

tiago Alvarez, utilizes the visit of
Fidel Castro to Chile as a starting
point for an analysis of the history
of colonization and the struggle
for liberation.

In addition, the festival. will
screen two shorts, Simparalé by
Humberto Solas, an exciting pre-
sentation of the History of Haiti in
dances and song, and Art of the
People. All films will be in Spanish
with English subtitles except
Simparalé, which has French
titles.

The program is sponsored by
the Development Education
Centre and DEC Films, Partisan,
Film League and the Cinema
Lumiere, courtesy of the
Cinemateca in Havana and the
Cinémathéque Québécoise in
Montreal.

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Ryan’s Fancy, three talented Irish musicians and singers who
have made Newfoundland their home, offer unique musical enter-
tainment on a new series telecast Friday nights at 7:30. The trio.
(left to right) Dermot O’Reilly, Denis Ryan and Fergus O’Byrne,
travel throughout the Atlantic provinces appearing with the
fishermen, miners, farmers and lumber workers of the Maritimes.

By B. FROLOV

Soviet archaeologists have un-
earthed interesting new.evidence of an-
cient cultural contacts between Asia
and America. The scholars from the
North-Eastern Complex Research In-
stitute in Magadan found traces of an-
cient Eskimo culture on Wrangel
Island.

It had been thought that this ice-
bound area in the Arctic had until the
1920’s, when the first settlers from

been inhabited. But after the hypo-
thesis about the existence of Beringia, a
land’ bridging Asia and America, was
accepted, Wrangel Island was generally

archaeologists have unearthed stone
axes, swivelled harpoons and other
tools on the island. They are thousands
of years old and are in many ways simi-
lar to implements used by Eskimos long
ago. Which means people must once

Dikov, D. Sc. (History), head of the
archaeology and ethnography laborat-
ca thinks, must have played a part in

Mainland Chukotka went there, never

thought to have been part of it. Now

have lived on Wrangel Island and, as N.. -

the cultural contacts between the an-
cient inhabitants of Asia and America.

The North-Asian archaeological ex-
pedition from the Siberian Branch of
the USSR Academy of Sciences, work-
ing under Academician A. Okladnikov,
found a whole Neolithic town on .an
island in the lower reaches of the Amur
near the Mariinskoye Village. The
analysis of the ashes from ancient bon-
fires dated it back 6,000 years.

One of the houses studied in detail
was large, 250 sq. meters in area and 3
meters deep, rather like an amphi-
theatre, with 1.5 meter inches dug into
the walls, probably used as beds S.
Krasheninnikov described similar
dwellings with the same niche-beds
used by the Kamchadals in the 18th
century, and I. Veniaminov described
such houses in the 19th century used by
the Aleuts.

This may set off a rather curious train

of thought. The most ancient stone |

spheres, dating 200-300,000 years back,
were found in the north of Africa.
There is a sphere in Irkutsk made of
mammoth tusk with a pattern of gird-

lingrings, which were found in an Upper
Paleolithic settlement. This dates back
20,000 years. And now on the Amur a
6,000-year-old sphere with spirals has
been found. Could the sphere motif
have migrated to America from this
borderpoint of Eurasia? The sphere
figures prominently in_ traditional
American Indian cultures. Spheres on a
rope were used as weapons, the bola,
which the Indians used for catching
wild mustangs, for example. The route
of the spiral pattern on the Amur sphere
is already well known — down the
Pacific coast to the extreme of North-
East Asia where it became entrenched
in the art of ancient Eskimos in Asia
and America.

The international conference on the
correlation of the ancient cultures of
Siberia and: adjacent territories of the
Pacific, held recently in Novosibirsk
with scholars from the USSR, the
USA, Canada, Japan and Hungary,
summed up the results of the research
into the problems of ancient contacts
between Asian and American cultures
— Moscow News

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 4, 1977—Page 7