It was chains in the nation’s
Capital for two consecutive Sun-
days, but not the chains of human
Sea
On Mothers Day last Sunday an
€stimated 2,500-strong crowd of
Mainly women formed a human
chain around the Parliament
dings’ Centre Block in an anti
Nuclear war protest.
© week earlier, close to 6,000
poe joined hands to form a
Wo km human chain linking the
etry of defence building with a
a Unemployment Insurance of-
and shouted ‘‘jobs, not
See i
Bice, rsiedy, a0 a uy Day
_ The Mothers Day “‘chain’’ sym-
lized the human bonds which
Would be broken in the event of a
Nuclear holocaust, and was also a
satay of support to the Women’s
face Camp in Greenham Com-
Mon, England, future site of cruise
Missile deployment.
a week earlier, the RCMP
: Tevoked a permit for the ac-
10n, but the 2,500 women and
Men, braving cold temperatures
Re a hail storm, rushed past
CMP guards to form the chain.
any of the women, some of
Whom had travelled from
Kingston, Montreal, Sherbrooke,
Que., and Toronto, pushed babies
M strollers or carried their children
On their backs.

Speaker Sheila Cook of.

gston read a declaration calling
On the Trudeau government to live

= DISARMAMENT
‘Chains of peace’ mark
May 1 and Mothers’ Day

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Some of the 4,000 people who formed a human chain from the UI

Sa

to national defence buildings in Ottawa on May Day.

up to the prime minister’s words
calling for the “suffocation’’ of the
arms race, and to declare Canada a
nuclear-weapons free zone.

Ottawa mayor Marion Dewar,
an noted peace advocate, welcom-
ed the May Day event organized by
a local group called Peaceworkers
and endorsed by the Ottawa and
District Labor Council.

At a rally featuring musicians
and speakers, national New
Democratic Party Leader Ed
Broadbent said Canada needs
“jobs, not welfare. And yet billions
are being spent on weaponry, not
jobs.

“We are being asked by the U.S.
to escalate the arms race by testing
a weapon which can be hidden. We
Canadians are on the spot. We
must say, as countless have been
saying, ‘No to the cruise’,” said

Broadbent.

Broadbent’s speech was marred
somewhat by copious references to
‘“freedom’’ enjoyed by workers in
the western countries, a point
unintentionally contradicted by
numerous speakers.

Clair Mattar, president of the
Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom at the Univer-
sity of Ottawa, noted that
“thousands of women in this coun-
try are living below the poverty line
while millions and millions are be-
ing spent on defence.”

“Do we live in a democracy,”
asked Father Barry McGregory of
the Canadian Conference of
Catholic Bishops, ‘‘when the

‘ government spends money on guns
and yet people have to fight for
jobs, education and social
services?”

- Gov't must refuse cruise

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According to even a U.S.
e artment of Defence report in
78, the existing arsenals in
‘Urope of Poseidon, Polaris and
* €tshing I missiles in Europe were
©Onsidered an adequate deterrent
against the SS-20, which were then
: Spout to be deployed to replace ex-
‘sting, outdated SS-4s and SS-5s.
197 e NATO review in June,
: 9, again stated that the SS-20
as a “non dramatic” develop-
Ment in nuclear weapons.
: Moreover, both the Stockholm
ho Research Institute and the
wetnational Institute of Strategic
ecules have affirmed that if the
fst were to accept Soviet leader
. Uri Andropov’s offer to put a ceil-
ie on European missiles at 150, or
0 warheads, it would establish a
vilance with existing NATO
Fe pons without deployment of
€ cruise and Pershing II missiles.
For Trudeau as for other NATO
mevernments advocating deploy-
“vent, the SS-20 may provide a
Pretext but it is not the reason. The
fal reason is to be found in the ut-
R ances of such officials in the
Ween administration as Caspar
: einberger who have openly ad-
aoe U.S. military superiority,
d have refused to reciprocate the
Viet pledge not to be the first to
Use nuclear weapons. oe
. In speaking of ‘‘defending
eacves against the Soviet
ote 20s,”’ Trudeau has also forgot-
N some compelling facts of
nogtaphy: regardless of how
& any SS-20s would be launched,
Ot one has the range to strike the
Saree American continent. The
€tshing IT, on the other hand, can
. Moscow in seven minutes
™M anywhere in Europe. It is a

true first strike weapon.

He has also forgotten or ignored
the available opinions of scientists,
again including even those in the
NATO review in 1979. The sites of
deployed SS-20 can be verified by
existing methods. But the cruise, if
it is deployed in Europe, “would
make (arms) control impossible,”’
the review stated..

Those documents affirm what
thousands of people in Europe
already know: it is the cruise and
Pershing II weapons which if

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deployed would precipitate a
dangerous new leap in the arms
race. It is the cruise and the Per-
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weapons developments threatening
the nuclear balance — and peace.
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