| UN’s WALDHEIM COMMENTS ON Soviet efforts for peace | ations | With . United Nations secretary- 8eneral Kurt Waldheim, in the USSR at the invitation of the viet government, made the fol- Owing comments to the press While flying from Moscow to the iberian city of Irkutsk last week: Q: Soviet president Brezhnev fecently re-emphasized that the ‘Sanger of war can best be warded Off by energetic and immediate actions for peace. How do you view this comment in the context Of the forthcoming UN general assembly session? _4: The maintenance of peace at International security will bé ; he foreground of the debates in the forthcoming 32nd Session of es poneral Assembly of the Un- ations: It will not only have © deal with the current tension 4nd conflict situations in different res of the world, but also with © burning problems of dis- armament. The Soviet Union has Made a number of concrete pro- FeealSin this regard which will be €alt with by the General Assem- She hope that progress will be ie € in this regard as well as in 8ard to the efforts to solve the Tegional conflicts in the world. No Stability in There is still a considerable gap the living conditions between € industrialized countries and st developing nations. A new €mational economic order is Crefore necessary to overcome €se inequities. There can be no Political Stability in the world as M8 as we have not achieved ®conomic and: social justice. 5 : How. do you regard the OVviet contribution to many years Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko (left) meets with United Nations secretary-general Kurt Waldheim during the latter’s visit to the USSR last week. of UN activities? A: The Soviet Union, a found- ing member of the United Nations and Permanent Member of the Security Council, has taken numerous initiatives to contribute to the solution of world problems. I refer here especially to efforts in the field of disarmament, decol- onization, social development and the settlement of regional conflicts. Middle East Q: There are attempts to re- move the Soviet Union from the process of a Middle East settle- ment. Is a just, peaceful solution of Middle East problems possible without the participation of the USSR? A: The Soviet Union is a co- chairman of the Geneva Peace Conference on the Middle East. In this capacity she has to play a crucial role in any future Middle East settlement. It is therefore in the interest of a peaceful solution of the Middle East problem that the Soviet Union is fully involved in any efforts to find a just and lasting solution for this most im- portant problem. : Q: The last time you visited the Soviet Union was five years ago. What changes, in your view, have taken place here since then? A: During my stay in Moscow I noticed the impressive expansion of this beautiful city and the dynamism of its population. I am looking forward with great antici- pation to my visit to other parts of the country, which will offer me a further insight in the progress which ‘the Soviet People have achieved over the last years. John Gollan, 66, the 1956-75 general secretary of the Com- munist Party of Britain, died at his London home on Sept. 5, the CPB announced. Gollan had been re- ceiving treatment for lung cancer. Before he succeeded Harry Pollitt as general secretary, Gol- lan was general secretary of the Young Communist League; Scot- tish secretary; assistant general secretary; national party or- ganizer; assistant editor of Bri- tain’s Daily Worker, the party paper. In 1975, he retired and was succeeded as general secretary by Gordon McLennan, who now holds that post. Gollan left school at 13 to be- come an apprentice painter. In the 1926 British general strike he sold strike papers. He joined the Communist Party in 1927. In 1931 he was arrested and served ‘six months in prison for ‘‘sedition’’ and incitement to mutiny.” He was the author of several books, and was chairman of the commission that prepared the ‘1958 CPB program, ‘‘The British Road to Socialism.” ‘La Pasionaria’ recovering from surgery MADRID — Dolores Ibarruri, “‘La Pasionaria,”’ 81, the Presi- dent of the Spanish Communist Party, is recovering from a surgi- cal operation Sept. 6 in which a pacemaker was implanted in her chest to correct a heart condition. Those who visited Ms. Ibarruri said her condition was improving. John Gollan, of British CP, dies at 66 former head JOHN GOLLAN On behalf of the Communist Party of Canada, William Kashtan, general secretary, senta message of condolence to the CPGB and to the Gollan family. HALIFAX LABOR ENDORSES PEACE APPEAL HALIFAX — The Halifax- Dartmouth District Labor Council, Sept. 14, unanimously endorsed the 2nd Stockholm Appeal. . Many. delegates, including Nova Scotia Federation of Labor secretary J.K. Bell, and Halifax Peace Council presi- dent W.J. Wilson, Local 713 Un- ited Transportation Union, rose to support the resolution. Bell said the move was important in the light of the development of the Neutron Bomb. Tribune correspondent in the Ukraine Life in a rural village By JOHN WEIR Tribune Moscow Correspondent The Mountain stream Duba. Tas through the village of Splase, ava. Children love to — In the clear cool water. abit Make it their special lag, - Boys go outside the vil- thiaa © fish for trout. The Carpa- smile Mountains look down and of the tis a very beautiful corner € earth, yet for several gener- sé peoble were driven from it eo work and food all Canada, world, hundreds in A We had allowed ourselves only Meant 2” in Tsenyava, which the Sh a talk with the chairman of inspe €vchenko Collective Farm, oe ct the cow barns and other inf. wt 2dditions, pick up as much ation as time allowed, eat a fas Ptuous dinner as collective Rozh guests at nearby , Ryativ, spend a few hours old friends and relatives. It Canes quick tour but pleasant be- € eae signs of prosperity on le. Vasil Dzhurin has headed the 25 Vchenko Collective Farm for €ars. When it started it had six S of horses and eight cows. trac It has 600 milk cows, 60 Ors, 74 trucks and other traction automobiles, and b Eavo million roubles in its : Ccount. The farm was Ben the Badge of Honor for its ‘performance in the 9th Five-Year Plan. In addition to dairy and meat (at 14 days they give their bull calves to a neighboring collective farm, which fattens them up and then sells them to government agen- cies for meat; the two farms share the proceeds, which gives the Shevchenko Farm an income of half a million roubles), they grow wheat and flax. The farm also boasts subsidiary industries: a joiner’s shop, a tailor shop that sews two million roubles’ worth of clothes annually, a tile factory, a flax processing mill, a metal workshop, one preparing cattle fodder, etc. There are 75 persons from the village currently studying at higher educational institutions, 17 of them on farm stipends. The farm building team is at work on a dwelling house with 16 apartments, will soon start on a 500,000 rouble new House of Cul- ture. The old club rooms are still in good shape, but needs are growing; the village now has a drama circle, orchestra, mens chorus with 105 voices and wo- men’s choir with 86, other circles. Movies, dances, celebrations of all sorts need more space. Together with two neighboring smaller villages they have 105 school teachers, two doctors (one 4 dentist) although a clinic and hospital are only a couple of kilometers away at Rozhnyativ. Their concern for culture can be seen from the fact that the Shevchenko Farm has a special vice-chairman in charge of that area of work. The sum of 105,000 roubles has been allotted. for instruments, costumes, books for the two public libraries, and also museum exhibits. The museum (yes, a village museum) is something. Housed in a fine building, it has exhibits of life in this area thousands of years ago, dug up by archeologists, of the centuries ‘under foreign rule, then of the new life starting in 1939 but interrupted by the bloody fascist occupation. There are exhibits of Tsenyava people who migrated to Canada, pictures and quotations from some who re- turned or those who have visited their native village. Much of what Tsenyava has achieved is due to the Shev- chenko Collective Farm chair- man, Vasil Dzhurin. A talented organizer, he has been decorated for his work and was elected to the All-Soviet Council of Collec- tive Farmers. A good leader is of great importance, of course, but the work is done by the whole collective, the 1,400 men and women, half of them young, who creators of its achievements. It wasn’t easy to say “Do < pobachenya’’ (Adieu) and leave 8 in the star-studded night for our | headquarters in Ivano-§ Frankovsk. z TOP PHOTO: V. Dzhurin, chairman of the collective farm shows his guests around the village museum. Bottom: Dzhurin beside some newly-built farm buildings. iain | ut PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 23, 1977—Page 9