«~ Saas World News Pe ¢ 4c Ye rn POPE JOHN PAUL RECOVERING ROME — The Pope, shot five times by a gunman as he rode through St. Peter’s Square May 13, is recovering in hospital following five hours of emergency surgery. A 23 year-old man has been arrested. Two others were wounded in the shooting spree. The assailant has been linked to a Turkish right-wing organization and admitted to police he murdered the editor of a Turkish daily paper in 1979. SECOND IRA HUNGER STRIKER DIES BELFAST — Francis Huges, 25, has died following 59 days without food in the Maze Prison only one week after the death of Bobby Sands. Five thousand people waited for Huges’ body as his coffin, draped with the Irish tricolor, was carried by hand the last. mile to Bellaghy. Both men died in their struggle to win political prisoner status for the 450 IRA members jailed.- Two other hunger strikers, Raymond McCreesh and Patrick O’Hara, both 24, are weakening as they reach their 53rd day without food. Joe McDonnell, another prisoner, began his fast last weekend to replace Bobby Sands. FRANCE VOTES SOCIALIST AFTER 23 YEARS PARIS — Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand was elected president of France May 10 ending 23 years of centre-right government. Mitterrand took 51.7% against former president Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s 48.3%. France’s powerful Com- . munist Party threw its support behind Mitterrand in the second round. Mitter- rand’s program includes nationalizing the country’s remaining private banks and 11 major industries; creation of 1.5 million new jobs and an immediate 25% hike in » the minimum wage. Mitterrand, however, faces a centre-right majority in the National Assembly and is expected to call a general election in June to win a working majority. ISRAEL CONTINUES TROOP BUILDUP BEIRUT, Lebanon (WAFA) — Israel has moved another armoured brigade into position in south Lebanon bringing the number to three in the past week. Four - artillery batteries were also moved northward. Observers see this concentration of Israeli forces on the Lebanese border as a preview to an extremely wide-scale operation. PLO Chairman Yaser Arafat met with the military-council of the Palestine Liberation Organization to review the massive Israeli troop concentrations and escalating Israeli attacks in south Leba- - non. USSR PROTESTS AIRCRAFT BOARDING WASHINGTON — The USSR has sharply protested to the U. S. following the boarding of an Aeroflot jet at Washington’s Dulles airport by FBI agents May 13. ‘The regularly-scheduled flight was delayed three hours as agents removed the crew and seized part of the cargo. The Soviet crew reported that instrument panels were opened i in their absence and navigation ger tampered wath thus placing the plane in danger. CANADIAN KLANSMEN CHARGED IN U.S. NEW ORLEANS — Two Canadian KKK members have been charged along with eight Americans in a plot to overthrow the government of Dominica. The group were caught with firearms and other gear as they attempted to leave the U.S. Action urged to find missing moran! As part of a world-wide campaign to discover the whereabouts of two Paraguayans who disappeared while in Argentina, the Communist Party of Canada has written to the Argentine government and UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim expressing concern and urging action be taken to find them. * * * “‘We are greatly concerned with the disappearance of Antonio Maidana- first secretary of the Communist Party of Paraguay.and of Emilio Roa one of the leaders of the Paraguayan building trades union. We have been advised tht they | have both been kidnapped by the special services of Argentina. We ask your inter- - cession in these cases with a view to ascertaining what actually occured. In this day and age it is difficult to under- stand how two adults could disappear from the face of the earth without the _ knowledge of the authorities: ‘‘We ask for an official statement by _ your Government on this matter.”’ The letter to Waldheim stated: “‘We are greatly disturbed by the dis- appearance ‘of two outstanding — . Paraguyan citizens, one of them the sec- retary of the Cémmunist Party of Paraguay, the other a leader of the build- — ing trades. union in Paraguay. Antonio ~ Maidana and Emilio Roa to our knowl- — edge were seized by the secret police of Argentina while in Buenos-Aires. Re- | -quests by their relatives as to their whereabouts have elicited no ‘response — from the authorities. Is it possible for two people to disappear from the face of the earth and no one know what happened to them? Is it possible to remain silent when such an event takes place? ‘‘We ask for your intercession in this case using your good offices and those of the UN Human Rights Commission as well as other international bodies, to in- quire as to their whereabouts from the Argentina authorities. “We have communicated with the. President of Argentina and with other bodies on this matter. ‘*We hope that you will be able to act. on this matter.” ‘York. tiree 800 were fetin tee DC ; area. They marched 10 abreast past © ee INTERNATIONAL FOCUS _ By TOM MORRIS | i ¥ | Canada’s dangerous sels indicates they have won membership ~- over the biggest hawks in NATO c P NATO to back unilateral _ NATO officials, meeting in Brussells, have given the Un- ited States a boost by agreeing they would join the U.S. in operating outside NATO ter- ritory. “What they are doing is. ex- panding the scope of NATO— an already bloated alliance — to take under their domain areas of the world in which the so-called ‘North Atlantic’ Treaty Organization will func- tion . What they’re really saying is that they will assist the new U.S. Rapid Deployment Force if and when it should move. And where.they mean is the Persian’Gulf. This latest step is highly dangerous. Washington’s: re- cent shift toward militarization and confrontation is dangerous ” enough in itself. Haig, Reagan and Weinberger have moved U.S. foreign policy ten giant steps backward in a very short The latest news from Brus- - American military actions anywhere. This country is a NATO member. The implications for -the future of blind support for the high-riding U.S. military are chilling. Does the new line mean Canada will charge into the Gulf behind the U.S. — or anywhere else? Sure, the Brussells public relations people try to smooth over this new policy. by using the term ‘“‘consultation’’, but that does nothing to change. things.. Reagan’s foreign policy line, publicly, is to reserve the right ‘to. move anywhere the U.S. feels its ‘‘vital interests”’ are threatened. — Put ‘‘consultations’” next to that and it comes out garbage. Ottawa is getting sucked into a serious potential mess. The need for an independent Cana- dian foreign policy has never been greater by which this country could play a positive role for peace and world stabil- ity. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 22, 1981—Page 8 When you see NATO ca- reen and flex its muscles as itis - doing, you get an insight into why it has rejected.three for- mal Soviet proposals to dis- band both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Seaga’s ‘deliverance’ rips off Jamaica a ne of the first things Jamai- ca’s new right-wing prime minister did when,elected last fall was to return the island to the tender embrace of the - International Monetary Fund. The former Manley government had extracted Jamaica from the IMF’s grip, begun to control prices and in; stitute sorely needed social services. But the right’s vic- tory, won after a process of violence and economic de- stabilization, changed all that. Under the newly-negotiated IMF terms, private profit comes first. Wages and social services come last. Prime Minister Seaga’s ‘‘deliver- ance’’ has resulted in mass firing of workers, huge price increases on basic foodstuffs and soaring rents. ; The process of economic colonialism and open attacks on hard-won gains for the people is under way with a vengeance. One area Seaga has moved against swiftly has been Jamai- ca’s news agencies. Entire staffs have been removed and © ~ replaced with his backers. In some cases independent journalists have set up their Own groups.: U.S. no paradise Cubans discover One year after their much publicized trip, passengers on the so-called ‘‘Freedom flotilla’ from Cuba have made. a shocking discovery: the U.S. is no paradise. Most of the 125,000 _eX- -Cubans receive food stamps; 45,000 live below the poverty line. Their suicide rate is seven times the national average and 4,000 sit in federal prisons. ‘FREEDOM FLOTILLA’ One year later hopes dashed as Cubans discover the reality of the land of milk and honey. | t