By FILS DELISLE
Tribune Berlin Correspondent

BERLIN — In the wake of the

_ greatest peace demonstration in the his-

tory of West Germany, political obser-
vers are agreed that the peace move-

- ment has now brought a new political

Climate to the country.

The demonstration, organized by
two Evangelical Church initiatives,

workers from other countries who

_ joined the demonstration included re-

tired Italian general, Nino Pasti, famed
_U.S. singer and entertainer, Harry Be-

_. lafonte, the widow of the late Martin
_ Luther King, Coretta King and others.

Perry Friedman, the Canadian folk

_ singer who is now well-known in both

German states, was one of more than 20
speakers representing religious, lay,
political, cultural, ecological and other

viewpoints. At the end of the final mas-

_ brought over 750,000 people to Bonn on»
October 10 from various parts of the
country. The thousands of peace

sive demonstration he joined Belafonte

and King in singing ‘“‘We Shall Over-
come”’. '
The unprecedented gathering set off
waves that rolled across all of western
Europe, as reflected in press and media
commentaries in the various capitals.

~ Le Monde, in Paris, wrote that the

Bonn demonstration was ‘‘an histocic
event’’, adding: ‘‘the organizers have
shown the strength of their movement.
It can no longer be underestimated in
political headquarters.”’

The profound role of the peace
movement in the FRG, with its repudia-
tion of the NA TO plan for more nuclear
rockets in member states, its denun-
ciation of U.S. neutron bombs, and its

demand for east-west negotiations to -

ensure world peace, was indicated by
the manner in which it produced reac-
tions among both friends and enemies
in the FRG. The CDU-CSU opposition
at Bonn, for example, insisted on a ses-
sion of the federal parliament one day
before the demonstration in an attempt
to get parliament to denounce it. The

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usual anti-communist cries were heard
from CDU-CSU speakers, but they had
no effect on the peace partisans.

These came to Bonn the next day in
42 special trains and more than 3,000
chartered buses from all over the
country. For the day of the demon-
stration the population of Bonn was
doubled.

The German Communist Party’s
daily newspaper, Unzere Zeit, pointed
out the significance of the all-inclusive
gathering as follows: ‘‘The peace
movement is now on the offensive; its
enemies, the proponents of the NATO
rocket’s decision and of the intro-
duction (in Europe) of the neutron
bomb, have been placed on the defen-
sive ... that creates anew political cli-
mate, ‘an atmosphere conducive to an
all-inclusive. discussion of peace and
armaments policies. That opens the
road for new opportunities for the
further development of the actions of

the peace movement, for the continuing .

of the debate on these questions in the
established parties, in the SPD and the

ver 750,000 protesters
converged on Bonn in the
Federal Republic of Ger-
any to protest NATO plans

‘for Europe. The largest de-
_monstration in post-war
Germany, it featured several
foreign celebrities including

__U.S. singer Harry Belafonte,
Coretta King, widow of Mar-
_ tin Luther King Jr. and former
Italian NATO commander
Nino Pasti.
‘The scope and size of the
demonstration: has forced

European leaders to
acknowledge that the peace
tTmovement is now someth

fo political party can ignore.

West Germans rally against new rockets

FDP, in the trade unions and in the
churches.”’ .

Even leading bourgeois newspapers
in the FRG acknowledged that the
peace movement in the country was
now something that no political party or
leader could ignore. The power of the
movement was indicated, it was
pointed out, by the fact that the Bonn
demonstration attracted the support of
59 Social Democratic and 16 FDP
members of parliament.

William Borm, honorary president of
the government coalition party, FDP,
denounced the attempt to disrupt the
demonstration and the peace move-
ment with the weapon of anti-com-
munism. ‘‘Since 1919°’, he said,

~ “vulgar anti-communism has been an

effective political policy to bring people
into line’’. He declared that Europe is

- not ‘tan atomic colony of the USA, nor

is it the latter’s. tool in its world-wide
struggle for power against the Soviet
Union ... October 10 is not the end but
the beginning of the battle for peace,
freedom and the dignity of man.”’

By their record
shall ye know them

Here’s the exact Reuter’s
story coming out of Santo
Domingo: ‘U.S.
president George Bush,-in a
speech to the Dominican Re-
public’s parliament, urged the
population of Nicaragua Oct.
12 to rise up against what he
called Cuban oppression ...”’

To savour the full implica-
tion of this remark, you’ve re-
ally got to read it over a couple
of times. ;

Three nations involved in
one short introduction to
Bush’s more lengthy speech —
Dominican Republic,

Nicaragua and Cuba. Just a —

short review of the United
States’ posture toward these

nations (not to mention others
in the region) might help situate "

what Bush means when he
“used that rostrum to counsel

the Nicaraguans to ‘‘free.

themselves from Cuban. op-
pression or the most funda-
mental human liberties would
never be permitted there.”’
‘Dominican. Republic: It was

vice--

the U.S. marines which joined »

forces with right wing elements
of the army to crush the
legally-elected liberal (not
Marxist) government’ of Juan
Bosch in 1965. That was the
last open U.S. military inva-
sion in the Caribbean to topple
a government not to
Washington’s liking.

Nicaragua: The Somoza
family, butchers par ,excel-
lence, were propped up by the
U.S. for decades. Even during
the final days, when the San-
dinistas and the whole nation
was smashing the dictatorship,
when hundreds of patriots
were dying and cities laid
waste, Washington clung de-
sperately to Somoza. He
finally fled with the national
treasury to Miami.

Cuba: Beginning with U.S.

intervention and occupation of

Cuba after the Spanish-
American war in 1898, years of
humiliation amd exploitation of
Cuba by U.S. imperialism,
Cuba was always viewed by
Washington as a colony. Since
the 1959 revolution it has been
subjected to military economic
and political attack which con-
tinues to this day.

Bush’s advice rings hollow.
His country’s record in prom-
oting ‘‘fundemental human
liberties’ stinks in the nostrils
of Dominicans, Nicaraguans
and Cubans. They have tasted
the bitter fruit of U.S. justice
— just as Chile, Uruguay,
Haiti, El Salvador and other
nations are tasting it today.

Swine fever
and swine

The Cuban government has
charged the U.S. with conduct-
ing secret biological warfare
against its people, crops and
livestock. These charges,
made both by Fidel Castro and
by Cuban spokesmen at the
United Nations,. stem from
mysterious outbreaks on the is-
land, the latest being 1,815
cases of hemorrhagic con-

junctivitis, an eye disease not -

common to Cuba. ©

The Miami Herald, Sept. 1,
describes CIA covert actions
in reporting the publication of a
new book which charges the
U.S. did wage biological war-
fare against Cuba during the
Nixon years.

fever and

Written by a former CIA

agent, the book says secret
warfare has been going on for
20 years and included intro-
duction into Cuba of swine
atmospheric
changes.

Called’ ‘‘Cuba Project’’ the
campaign employs biological
warfare,
fraud. ‘“‘ The Cuba Project was
a long-range program of
clandestine: war, sudden mili-
tary adventures, sabotage and
political and economic subver-
sion,”’ the book ‘says.

“It began in 1959 during the
Eisenhower - administration,

‘reached a para-military level

under the Kennedy brothers,

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assassination and ~

U.S. germ warfare against Cuba?

slumbered under Lyndon
Johnson and was amply reac-
tivated under Richard Nixon.
Its vestiges continue to operate
at present.”

‘*The story of the Cuba Pro-
ject is the story of an important
U.S. war, undeclared by Con-
gress, unrecognized by
Washington and not reported
in the press.”

The Herald story doesn’t
speculate whether Reagan has
put the program back into ac-
tion. It certainly wouldn’t be
beyond Haig’s capacity, men-
tality- or desire. Remember,
these are the guys who brought
you the N-bomb.

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