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Gl: “Was it light or moderate for them?”

Political groups gird
for Quebec election

By DAVE DENT

Almost all of Quebec’s multi-
Plying political groupings are
Preparing for an election this
Spring, «June at the latest,”
is the general opinion, Organ-
izers for the Union Nationale say
April because the government
will want to hold the election

before it has to present the
budget, :

The Quebec Liberal Federa-
tion (le FLQ) has told its con-
Stituency organizations to have
Candidates nominated by Feb.
28. It is rumored that Leon
Balcer, ex-leader of the Que-
bee Conservatives, will be among
them,

Another strong possibility is
Lucien Saulnier, Suaulnier, the
right-hand man. of Montreal's
Mayor Drapeau, is likely to run
for the governing Liberals al-
though he is known to have been
approached by the opposition
Union Nationale.

4
_ On the left, the Communist
Party (PCQ) has said it will
Probably run between five and
_ Seven candidates,

In addition, the party is calling
for an alliance with allother Left
Sroups, Some such alliance
Seems probable, A_ full plen-
ary meeting of the Comite de
Coordination de la Gauche Que-
becoise (Coordinating Committee
Of the Quebec Left) is scheduled
Shortly, Quebee’s largest sep-
aratist organization, the Ras-
Semblement pour l’Independance
Nationale (RIN), is among those
invited,

mes Laberge, president of
i Quebec Federation of Labor,
: his speech to that organ-
pe ons convention, recognized
me need for a united left in the
Provincial arena, The conven-
a itself adopted a motion an-
“lpating the formation of a
 Working-class political party in
Quebec,

4 Of particular interest was a
Sean by Emile Boudreau, one
the delegates, in which he pro-
ae an electoral alliance in-
uding the four major groups —
ae CNTU, UGEQ and CFU —
also the various left wing
Political organizations.

The Parti Socialiste du Quebec

- (PSQ) will also put up candi-
dates,

+ Robert Cliche, Quebec NDP
fader, confirmed on Dec, 10

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that his party will not take ‘part.
Cliche has said that the party
was bound by its 1965 convention
not to run in the 1966 provincial
elections,

The Mouvement de Libera-
tion Populaire (MLP), the polit-
ical movement attached to
Marxist-independentist monthly
Parti Pris, has not yet decided
whether it will play a role in
the campaign.

The PCQ, PSQ, and MLP are
members of the left Coordinating
Committee, The NDP has so far

only accepted observer status.

Among the non-Socialist in-
dependentists, the RIN has so far
nominated eight candidates, three
of them in Montreal, Two of
the Montreal candidates are
Marcel Chaput, the party’s one
time leader who left it over the
issue of electoralism and then re-
turned again, and Fernand Bou-
dreau, a stevedore who was once
the secretary of the political
study and action committee of the

Montreal Labor Council.

On the right, Dr. Jutras’ Re-
groupment National, a right-wing
break-away from the RIN, has
candidates running.

Recently Real Caouette, leader
of the Ralliement des Creditistes,
called for a right wing coalition
including Jutras. This would be
the first time the Ralliement has
contested a provincial election,

Gilles Caouette, the son of
the Creditiste leader, attended
a banquet organized by nazi-type
leader Adrien Arcanda few weeks
before his father’s declaration,
Arcand’s group, which dates from
the Thirties, is starkly opposed
to independence, Jutras is a
separatist. Caouette believes in
some kind of special status for

Quebec, Caouette is opposed to
the war in Vietnam; Arcand is
in favor,

Caouette said that the Union
Nationale, the party of Maurice
Duplessis, would be excluded
from such an alliance as long as
Daniel Johnson is its leader, He
was angered because the Union
Nationale had supported certain
NDP candidates: in the federal
election, and because Johnson has
said that socialism “may” be the
best way for Quebec,

Altogether, five major group-
ings are likely to run in the
election, but only the Liberals
and-the Union Nationale are likely
to field full slates,

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LATIN AMERICAN SCENE:

Ultra-Right clamps down
on democracy in Peru...

HAVANA — Lima, capital of
Peru, is witnessing the develop-
ment of a McCarthyite campaign,
The Peruvian ultra-right, mainly
APRA of Victor Haya dela Torre
and the Qdrista Union (UNO)
of the ex-dictator Manuel Odria,
political enemy of the “reformer”
president Fernando Belaunde
Terry, taking advantage of the
pressures generated by the guer-
rilla liberation struggles, has
begun a series of manoeuvres
in which the government itself
is taking part.

In parliament, APRA and UNO
have approved representative
measures intended to affect not
only the armed groups but other
sectors which do not happen to
suit their interests,

In addition to the issue of
redeemable bonds paying seven
percent interest for the purpose
of raising funds for anti- guerrilla
operations, is a measure which
includes the death penalty and the
setting-up of a dual chamber
investigating body.

It is significant that among the
first called upon to join this com-
mittee presided over by the APRA
senator Juan LaRosa Taboada
Zapata, are high government
functionaries,

This committee announced the

purging of the Ministry of Fdu-

cation on the charge that it is
«full of communists,”

These successors of “Torque-
mada and McCarthy have found
an ally in the Cardinal of Peru,
bishop Juan Landazuri, who in a
speech at Huancayo before the
National Eucharistic Congress
declared that “the death penalty
against atheistic communism is
justified in the defense of con-
stitutionalism.”

This declaration was con-
demned by the Catholic priest
Salomon Bolo Hidalgo from the
prison of San Quintin, where he
has been confined for his support
of the guerrilla fight for libera-
tion,

Bolo has accused Landazuri of
being at the service of the Peru-
vian oligarchy and North Amer-
ican imperialism,

The Ultra-Right is not lim-
iting itself to legislative activi-
ties. It is fomenting campaigns
to divide the armed forces which
supported Belaunde during the
presidential elections, which
paves the way for a possible
Ultra-Right military coup,

For their part, the armed
forces pay more attention to the
military attache of the U.S. Em-
passy than they do to the Pres-
idential orders.

Within the government, two
factions, one headed by the vice-
President Edgardo Seoane and
the other by the president of

the Christian Democratic Party,

Hector Cornejo Chavez, are con-
tending for supremacy,

The army meanwhile is busy
‘carrying out repressive activi-
ties, Hundreds of persons are
being arrested in urban centers,
and vast zones in the country-
side are being bombed and

odil, USSR

‘My guitar seems to be falling apart.”

machine-gunned, with heavy loss
of lives among civilians,

Large numbers of peasants

suspected of having collaborated |

with guerrillas have been sum-
marily shot, after being tortured,
with no pretense of any trial.

. . . While
U.S. plots,

SANTIAGO, Chile — The Chil-

In departments such as Cuzco,
Piura, Junin, Huancavelica and
Ayacucho, the civilian authorities
have been brushed aside by army
officers who are being advised
by “North American experts in
anti-guerrilla aCtivities,” :

—U.S. Worker

Chile hits

ean Chamber of Deputies last

week unanimously approved a
318-page report charging inter-
ference with Chile’s sovereignty
by the U.S, Department of De-
fence and other U.S, agencies,

Chief target of the report. was
the so-called *Camelot Plan,”
which as previously reported on
the pages of the PT, is a pro-
ject sponsored by the U.S, De-
fence Dept, to collect data on
Chile*s politics and economics

to help head off any people’s
movement,
The Chamber’s _ resolution

calls on the Chilean government

The
What the Best-Dressed
Ambassador Will Wear

Chiesgo Sun-Times

-warfare in Ethiopia,

schemes

to denounce -U,S. intervention,
before the UN and the Organiza-
tion of American States,

The document revealing the
activities of Project Camelot in
Chile came to light last June.

On Aug, 25 Senator Wayne
Morse charged on the Senate
floor that “there may be as many
as 40 or 50 military sponsored
research projects in foreign
countries, any one of which could
seriously damage our relations
with these countries if they were
to become public.”

Morse disclosed that hand-
books have already been pre-
pared for counter revolutionary
Japan,
Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Guinea,
Brazil, Cyprus, Liberia, Egypt,
Indonesia, Korea, Panama, Cuba,
Germany and Venezuela,

Morse’s charges followed a
statement by Senator J,W, Ful-
bright, chairman of the U.S,
Senate’s Foreign Relations Com-
mittee, that Camelot type pro-
jects are underway in Colombia,
Peru and Venezuela,

Fulbright said Project Camelot
had been set up at the Special
Operations Research Office of
American University in Wash-
ington, by the Department of the
Army,

January 7, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11