By WILLIAM ALLAN

A Windsor woman, long ac-
tive in union affairs, has turned
her organizing ability to help
anti-war American youngsters
coming across the border here
from Detroit, and heading for all
parts of Canada because they
don’t want to be drafted to fight
U.S. imperialism’s wars like in
Vietnam.

Mrs. Jean Dearing, told this
reporter she plans to open a job
placement service in downtown
Windsor this month for them.

The mother of two married
sons, Mrs. Dearing said she had
been giving shelter in her three-
bedroom home in Windsor since
Dec. 1, 1969'to a number of U.S.
youth who fled the draft.

“If I can save the life of one
American boy, I feel I have done
something worthwhile,” she said.
_ She said her guests usually
stay a day or two before moving
further into Canada. Mrs. Dear-
ing, who lives on $55 a week
alimony payments, said she had
received pledges from Windsor
residents to make available 100
beds.

Besides giving the American
anti-war youth food and shelter,
she provides advice on applying

She said she was selected as

Windsor’s anti-draft counsellor

by the Toronto Anti-Draft Pro-
gram.

Mrs. Dearing, a past president
of the United Auto Workers Lo-
cal 444 Women’s Auxiliary, said
the counselling service will have
a staff of four persons.

Asked if she was getting much
static from Windsorites, she re-
plied, “Some, who think they will
be losing jobs to the Americans.
So I tell them, ‘If you don’t want
American boys getting jobs here,
help the Canadian government
demand the U.S. get out of Viet-
nam and bring back all those
Canadians who cross-the Detroit
River every day into the States
to work. There are 270,000 Cana-
dians living in the Detroit area.”

Mrs. Dearing said she does not
discuss with the U.S. youth com-
ing to her for aid whether they
should do this or that about the
draft. “When they come to me,”
she said, “they’ve already con-
sidered all the options.” This
quiet union woman organizer
said she had been interviewed
for three hours by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, for
one hour by Channel-50 of De-
troit, by Channel 4, by the United

for landed immigration status. * Press and other news media.

Unity of 3 Arab states
for Mid-East progress

By TOM FOLEY

The United Arab Republic has
argued with other Arab states
for the last two years that a
political solution of the Mideast
conflict is possible. But Cairo
has been caught in a kind of
cross-fire. Constant Israeli
attacks on the Arabs and the
absolute refusal of the Israeli
government to even consider
withdrawal from Arab lands
made the U.A.R. position seem
somewhat unrealistic. Added ‘to
this were the sharp attacks by
the Saudis on the “weak and
moderate” Egyptians.

Now, after the Rabat summit
meeting the Arab world can see
that the countries which are
taking the most concrete prac-
tical and realistic steps to halt
Israeli aggression are the U.A.R.,
Libya and the Sudan. All three
countries are directed by revo-
lutionary regimes, which are
anti-imperialist and are friendly
to the socialist camp.

All three are engaged i in trans-
forming Arab society, in improv-
ing the life of the ordinary Arab
worker and peasant and in re-
ducing the power of feudal and
pro-imperialist social elements.
Public awareness of these facts,
plus the fact:that acceptance of
the Nov. 22, 1967 U.N. resolution
implies Arab recognition of the
State of Israel; will have a very
important impact on Arab public
opinion.

It might be said that the Rabat
summit showed how the lines are
drawn in the Mid-East, and that
the most important line is the
one separating pro-imperialist
from anti-imperialist forces. But
from the Mid-East viewpoint, the
most important thing about this
is that it is clearer than ever be-
fore that this line does not follow
national or religious boundaries
=there are both Arabs and Is-
raelis on both sides of it. The
positive effects. of. this, a pe
clear view, on the. Arab world in

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particular, can hardly be stressed
too much.

The final positive result of the
Rabat meeting is the Dec. 25 - 27
gét-together of the U.A.R.’s Nas-
ser, Gen Ga’far el-Numeiry of
the Sudan, and Colonel Muam-
mar al-Qadhdhafi of Libya: in
Tripoli, the Libya capital. This
meeting produced an agreement
to set up a loose “working al-
liance” against imperialism,
which unites the most progres-
sive Arab. states in Northeastern
Africa. This is the real “Arab
unity” which was needed all
along and which may, in the near
future, change the whole nature
of Middle Eastern politics.

The U.A.R.-Sudan-Libya alli-
ance is a natural one, not only
because- the states share com-
mon borders.-The U.A.R. is the
most industrially-advanced coun-
try in the Mid-East, with.a large
urban industrial working class
and many engineers, technicians,
scientists, and academically-
trained cadres. The U.A.R. could
provide the industrial and cultur-
al resources for a rapid develop-
ment of the other two countries.

The Sudan controls the Nile—
the life-blood of the U.A.R. Su-
danese agriculture is highly
developed and it is second only
to the U.A.R. in cotton growing.
The two countries share a vital
common interest in developing
and planning the use of the Nile
for irrigation and power. The
Sudan has a’ small, but well-or-
ganized working class, largely
under the leadership of the Com-
munist Party.

Libya is a huge country with
tremendous oil resources but
only 1.5 million people. Libya’s
oil funds, shared with the U.A.R.
and the Sudan, could speed up
their economic development no
end. At the same time, it could
be expected that the U.A.R. and
Sudanese working classes might
provide a steadying influence on

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Challenge facing science

Unsolved problems of the 1970;

By JAMES MARSH

As man soared into space in
the past decade, his concern
grew at the condition of the
planet that he had learned to
leave for the first time.

President Kennedy pledged in
1961 in the shock of the Gaga-
rin flight (still my man of the
decade), that an American would
be first on the moon.

This political calculation, also
aimed at expunging the Bay of
Pigs fiasco, paid off last July.
But in the light of the Pinkville
massacre and the continued war
against the Vietnam people, the

sweets of victory tasted like gall °

and wormwood in the mouths of
many Americans.

TREMENDOUS ADVANCES

“Give Peace a Chance,” be-
came their theme song rather
than “Fly Me to the Moon.”

That is not to knock the tre-
mendous technological triumph
of landing not one but four
Americans on the moon before
the end of 1969.

The massive technology of the
space program both by the Ame-
ricans and the Soviet Union do-
minated the decade and it has
become fashionable to decry its
results.

But global TV communica-
tions, world weather forecasting
and the surveying of the earth’s
resources, including those that
seem jeopardized, are only part
of the results of space explora-
tion now taken for granted.

LIGHT OF HISTORY

In the cold light of history, it
will probably not matter whe-
ther man landed on the moon
last year, next or even at the
end of the decade opening up.

Indeed there may have been
greater glory and dignity by
waiting, as the Soviet Union has
done, for machines to explore

By TOM HILL

On my way to Moscow, I stop-
ped only a few hours in Lenin-
grad as I had previously seen
the main places in the centre of
the city that had been restoréd
from the ruins left by Hitler’s
armies that besieged the city.
Many quarters were -being re-
built in 1963, and now they
stood as new.

Two women friends came to
meet me, the daughters of Kivari
who went to the Karelian auto-
nomous republic from Finland,
Ontario, in 1932. Miriam was
very satisfied with the new
apartment she and her husband
recently to replace
their previous one room and
kitchenette. Now they had two
rooms and kitchen for which
they. were paying only 5 percent
of their wages, which also paid
for heat, light and laundry ac-
commodation.

I mention the above because
the “Canadan Uutiset” recently
published a U.S. visitor’s write-
up, which showed quite clearly
that the writer had not consid-
ered such facts! Also when he
complained about not being able
to get tomatoes outside the good
restaurants, where they were
expensive. The fact was that he
had not gone out of that central
section of the city. Also he did
. hot understand the fact that So-

the hostile climate outside the
earth’s atmosphere first.

When it came to it, there was
only one runner in the moon
race, and the Americans looked
like the burly man in, the film
who runs to charge an’ ‘unlocked
door and falls flat on his face.

Not that space exploration has
fallen flat, but the steam has
gone out of the U.S. Space Agen-
cy and the scientists complain
bitterly that the research results
are small compared with the
prestige.

Pollution has replaced space

as the public issue that excites ©

Americans at home most.

POLLUTION MENACE

Now massive protests to pro-
tect the environment have been
launched, private power station
builders find it difficult to find
sites, while all the time smog,
car fumes, noise, water-borne
pollution increase.

The danger is that as techno-
logy enables greater and gran-
der projects to be constructed,
man’s social organization to de-
cide what and how to build them
reveals itself as more and more
inadequate.

Yet living standards could im-
prove, doubling in 10 years and
again every decade after that.
These figures are based on the
still comparatively modest pro-
duction figures of the socialist
countries, which, given peace,
could be further increased.

GREAT DISCOVERIES

The biological revolution has
been the most far-reaching part
of the scientific revolution in the
past ten years. At the beginning
of the decade the dim shapes of
living cell structures were only
just being mapped, but now we
can find our way round every
one of the thousands of atoms
that make up the convoluted

to advertise as no competition

exists. Nor had he gone to see ~

the large gardens and fruit and
vegetable hothouses. Actually,

. tomatoes were not selling for a

rouble a pound, but for kopeks.

On Sept. | the Institute of Mar-
xism-Leninism organized a semi-
nar session in Moscow to cele-
brate the 50th anniversary of the
Communist Party of the United
States: On the same evening I
attended a birthday party orga-
nized by American visitors for
W. M. Patterson, who was in
Moscow at the time.

I was sent for rest and treat-
ments in the Pushkino Sana-
torium near Moscow. I got
acquainted with a delegations
of partisans .from Laos, nine of
them came for one week’s rest.
One night in the sanatorium
cinema films were shown from
Vietnam and glimpses of Laos
partisan activities, followed by
a reception in the restaurant. I
took a:‘movie of it and also of
the group’s departure. I also
filmed receptions for Iraqui and
Congo groups.

In Pushkino alongside Soviet
people there were also groups
from Somaliland, France,
Greece, Rumania, Czechoslova-
kia, Bulgaria and the German
Democratic Republic. The latter
one day took us to Moscow, 35
kilometers away, and took us
with them to their embassy for

_ to 8,600,000. Transportation &

. Three

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protein molecules and: those
deoxyribonucleic acid that cal
the genetic code from gené
tion to generation jin_ liv
things.

The gene of a toad has
isolated, and speculation 1
about genetic engineering]
good or for evil.

While the implications of
new molecular biology are 2!
now being grasped, the #
fruits of biology on a_ biff
scale are being gathered. :

Millions of women now © °
trol their fertility. But the may
world worry is not that of bodstr
ing fertility but the task of fély
ing the millions that we have
preparing for those on the wan

CHALLENGE OF 1970'S °

In the short term, the devel 1
ment of high-yielding wheat # :
rice strains may have staved ¢
death for millions, but the qué
tion arises of what shall we
with the breathing space
has been won for some. |

There can be no doubt of 4
challenge of the 1970’s, for
to control his own product
and reproduction so as to bile
the possibility of plenty, esp
cially for those who have €
little. -~

Improvement of the envirdm
ment in industrial. countries 4
part and parcel of this probléAt
of man’s control over his Mn
sources by scientific and techim
logical methods that are in Mite
grasp. ‘

We cannot dream of comple BC
triumph in the coming decaé
but unless we make massive p/m
gress in solving the problems "ac
herited from the ’60s we all far
a grim future, where misuse “ti
man’s scientific ability may per
duce a denial of his true statulde
instead of its fulfilment. 2

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G.D.R. celebration. Festivi 4
concluded with. a lunched)
during which a film was show
about the 20 years of buildif
socialism.

Later I made another trip #
Moscow to buy a film project f
which there cost $74.00, co
pared with monopoly price he
in Canada, which is double thé
— $168.00 and $194.00. ;

Along the highway I notic®
dozens of gardens and veg
table farms. Also hundreds
new large apartment building

The population of Mos
had been 6,500,000 during -
1963 visit, now it had nceaal

accommodate the __ increasé
population in new _ housill
areas had grown into a problef
surrounding highway;
were built to take the auto ale
truck traffic from the cil
streets. Similar extensions ha
been made of the undergrou®
Metro (subway) to the sul
rounding municipalities, whi
had been joined to Moscow. —

Railway tracks have been
moved from. two stations #
Moscow and with three more ?
be removed it now means ti
building of one more bridg
over Moscow river.

A large field has been adde
to the. international airport aré
and there is now roa ig
planes of any size to Ja id -ad