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Abdel Samad, member of the LCP

Ina joint statement issued last

Week in Moscow, the Lebanese

Communist Party and the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Union
declared that the current Lebanese
“risis “‘can and must be settled
without the interference of outside
forces,

“It can be settled by the
Cbanese themselves on a
Peaceful, democratic basis that

_ Would ensure the independence,

Sovereignty and territorial in-

legrity of the country,’ the

Statement said. :

The Moscow meeting was at-
fended by Andrei Kirilenko and
Nis Ponomarev, members of the
Political bureau of the CPSU,
logether with Nicolas Chaoui, LCP
secretary, and Nadim

Political bureau. The meeting was
ee as the crisis deepened in
anon following the fall of the

Zaatar camp and right wing

reprisals
Patriots.
The

against Lebanese

Lebanese Communist

leaders outlined the events leading

€ present crisis and the efforts
the Communist Party and

_ Progressive forces to bring an end

{0 the bloodshed: and achieve a

Political ‘settlement. ‘‘Of great

™Mportance in this respect,” they

Slated, ‘would be withdrawal of

2ytian troops from Lebanese
ij ““rritory,”’

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The joint statement emphasized
at the tragic events in Lebanon
ve been the result of subversion

°Y imperialism and reaction.” It

f © condemned ‘‘the pirate ac-
‘ns of the Israeli militarists in
Ckading’ the Lebanese coast.”
Israel established a naval
: Ckade of the Lebanese coast
te weeks ago but only admitted
Officially August 13 when Radio
Srael declared that the blockade
aS aimed at preventing Lebanese

National-patriotic forces from

Setting supplies.
At the same time, the U.S. Sixth
, cet stationed off the coast of
anon, staged landing exercises
Cape Malea in southern Greece,
Move that has had ominous

Over sak
tones for the Lebanese crisis.

NICOLAS CHAOUI

The actions by Israel and the
U.S. underscored the urgent call by
the two Communist Parties ‘“‘to
mobilize anti-imperialist forces
everywhere in order to thwart the

ICP, CPSU take common | of wing
stand on Lebano

n crisis

plans of imperialism and reaction
in Lebanon.”

The Lebanese Communist Party
also expressed ‘‘sincere gratitude
to the CPSU for its invariable

‘solidarity with the just cause of the

Arab peoples, for its firm support
of the progressive, patriotic forces
of Lebanon and the Palestinian
resistance movement and for its
efforts to bring the armed clashes
to an end.”

In another statement issued
from Moscow, Mohammed AI-
Shayer, head of the Palestine
Liberation Organization mission in
the USSR, appealed for world
solidarity with the Palestinians
fighting in Lebanon.

“The developments of the past
few days,” he stressed, ‘‘leave no
doubt as to the intentions of the
forces of imperialist reaction to
attempt to suppress the spirit of
resistance of the Arab people of
Palestine and to set up conditions
favoring the partition of
Palestine.”’

SAAC presses wine
boycott to Victoria

The Southern Africa Action
Coalition has received con-
firmation from the Socred caucus
in Victoria that it will be allowed to
present its case for the removal of
South African wines from B.C.
liquor stores. The previous NDP
government had ordered South
African wines removed from
government liquor stores following
a’ lengthy campaign waged by
SAAC in 1974, a decision which-was
promptly reversed by the Socreds
shortly after their election victory
in December of last year.

At the time of the Socred decision
to lift the B.C. boycott of South

- African wines and liquors, SAAC

immediately announced its in-
tention to protest the move as rep-
resenting tacit support for South
African racism and apartheid.
Protests came from other quarters
as well, including Anglican bishop

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Richard Wood who denounced the
decision as ‘‘morally indefensible”
and “‘shameful.”’ :

Wood was expelled from
Namibia by the South African
authorities who continue to
exercise illegal control over that
territory, for his opposition to
white supremist rule in southern
Africa.

Though no date has been set for
the SAAC presentation to the
government caucus, Patricia
Jordan, chairperson of the caucus
informed the group that it would be
permitted to appear as soon after
the opening of the fall session as
possible.

One of the points SAAC is ex-
pected to make in its presentation
to the government is the fact that
just as the Socreds ordered new
stocks of South African liquor, the
Saskatchewan government moved
to ban the sale of South African
wines as a protest against racism
and apartheid. Campaigns similar
to the SAAC campaign are
currently under way in both
Manitoba and Ontario, two
provinces which continue to sell
the South African products.

Note labor
picnic date

Readers are asked to note that
the date for the Vancouver Island
Labor Picnic is Sunday, September
5 at the Parksville Community

_ Centre in Parksville. The Tribune

mistakenly reported the date as
September 6.

All the events for Western
Canada’s largest: labor picnic
remain the same, however, with
labor speakers, entertainment
headlined by Bargain at Half the
Price and several contests, the
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Y:
MIKE |.

It seems that every second
September the professional hockey
establishment, stricken by a bout
of nationalism, sets out to meet the
“communist menace” head on in a
series of hockey games.

Four years ago Team Canada
72, made up of the select of the
National Hockey League safely
preserved our national honor with
a resounding 4-3-1 defeat of the
Soviet national team, courtesy of a
goal by Paul Henderson with 13
seconds left in the final period of
the last game in Moscow. Hen-
derson was elevated to sainthood,
but was quickly demoted when he
had the temerity to try and cash in
on his new found holiness by asking
his lord and master, Harold
Ballard, for a raise.

Two years later, a revamped
Team Canada, this time made up
of players from the World Hockey
Association, a league of a calibre
which ranks somewhat below the
Spuzzum Junior High School team
in the eyes of the NHL, took on and
lost to a much improved Soviet
team. But, though decisively losing
the series, the Canadian sports
establishment was undeterred.
“After all,”’ they said, ‘‘they were
just playing our second rate
league. Just wait until... .”

On September 2 we’ll have a
chance to see just how correct
these prophecies are when the first
Canada Cup hockey tournament
opens in Ottawa. In the first truly
open competition of its kind, six
countries — Canada, the Soviet
Union, the United States, Sweden,
Czechoslovakia and Finland — will
each enter a national team, made
up of any combination of amateurs
and professionals it wishes —
much like the procedure used for
the World Cup competition in
soccer. The only requirement is
that the teams be made up of
citizens from each country, no
matter where they may play
hockey.

For the Swedes and Finns, this
means that many of their top
players who left the Scandinavian
countries for the promise of big
money in the North American
professional market will be eligible
for competition. For the
Americans and Canadians, it
means that for the first time they
will be at liberty to select their
teams from either of the
professional leagues. And for the
socialist athletes of the Soviet
Union and Czechoslovakia, it
means that for the first time they
will be able to compete with what
will unquestionably be the best that
any of the other four countries can
supply at this time, without any
chance of excuses from the
professionals.

If you remember, the previous
two encounters between Team
Canada and the Soviet nationals as

rere treet erences

well as last year’s series between
the two Soviet teams and eight
NHL teams, were liberally laced
with anti-Soviet smear campaigns
of all sorts. There were all the
usual ludicrous claims that Team
Canada’s dressing rooms were
being bugged, that players were
being harassed on the streets,
claims, which while totally un-
founded, were eagerly lapped up
by the mass media.

We were witnesses to the almost
traditional anti-Soviet demon-
strations staged by the so-called
“‘freedom”’ fringe groups who
somehow never fail to get behind
police lines brandishing their
placards.

Probably most humiliating of all
to the Canadian hockey fan, we had
to put up with the boorish behavior
of our home-grown hockey
establishment which ranged from
Harold Ballard’s incredible offer to
“buy’’ Vladimir Tretiak for $1
million to Bobby Clarke’s two-
handed chop to Valeri
Kharlmanov’s ankle which put the
Soviet star out of the final game in
the 1972 series.

But somehow the calibre of the
hockey being played managed to
rise to the top of the whole circus,
and those three series of games
probably rank with the most ex-
citing events in Canadian sports
history.

Now we are about to have
another chance — though I’m not
so sure that we deserve it based on
past record — to prove that the
game of hockey can be played and
enjoyed for what it is without
falling back into the cold war
mentality which made the Pen-
ticton V’s such a big hit in the late
1950’s.

It will be interesting, in light of
the fact that the Olympics have
just ended in Montreal, to see if
Canadian spectators have learned
anything in the rudiments of good
behavior and courtesy toward
athletes from other countries,
particularly socialist countries.

Hopefully, for the sake of Canada
as host, we won’t encounter the
same type of deceit and hypocrisy
which encouraged anti-Soviet
demonstrations, and attempts to
lure socialist athletes into defec-
tion, as we witnessed during the
Olympics. And, again hopefully,
we won’t run into the examples of
gross misconduct and violence
with intent to maim which all too
often characterized the play of the
Canadians in the three previous
encounters with the Soviets.

With all of the world watching,
let Canada prove this time that our
athletes and spectators have
finally pushed the cold war from
their minds and this time let the
full potential of the tournament
shine through.

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