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cafe, and university education are

_all free; why four times as many

engineers graduate from Soviet

-universities each year as from

american universities; why re-
tirement with full economic sec-
urity and dignity is at age 60 for
men and 55 for women, while
Americans can no longer afford to

retire even at age 70; why paid
yearly vacations for Soviet work-
ers are lengthier than those for
American workers; why Aerofiot
is the largest airline in the world,
with the lowest passenger fares in
the. world; why the USSR con-
sumer price index decreases from
year to year while wages alone go
up; why Soviet youth are heal-

events.

German Democratic Republic
Soviet Union .
United States
Norway
Austria
Finland
Sweden
Switzerland
Federal German Republic
Netherlands
Liechtenstein
Italy
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Britain

_ Japan
France
Hungary
Bulgaria
Poland
Yugoslavia

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on a 10-5-4-3-2-1 scoring system for the first six finishers after 38

Gold Silver Bronze Points
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6 4 2 115
1 3 6 75\
3 2 2 68
1 <5 3 57
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1 1 3 40
0 2 3 33
1 2 1 31
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0 2 0 20
0 1 1 13
0 -0 Al 13
1 0 0 12
0 1 0 10%,
0 0 1 10
0 1 0 5
0 0 1 5
0 0 0 5
0 0 1 3

Regina urged te supp

REGINA — The Regina City
Council decided to receive and
file a brief presented to it recently
opposing its consideration of a
proposal to interfere in the hold-

of the Olympic Games in
Moscow this summer.

The brief, from the Regina
Peace Council, urged City Coun-
cil to ‘‘support our athletes’ right
to participate in the Olympic
Games in Moscow.

It pointed out that Mayor.

Schneider had been quoted in the
Regina Leader-Post as saying a
resolution would come before the
Council calling for a boycott of
the Olympics or a change in
where they are held. ‘‘We do not
believe that. such a resolution

would reflect the opinions or best
interests of the majority of Cana-
dian Olympic athletes,” the brief
stated, “it would not reflect the
opinions of the Canadian Olympic
committee, and would not serve
to enhance and promote the Spirit
of international good will and
peaceful competition, which so
urgently needs bolstering during
this period of intense crisis.”’

Injures Relationships
‘A boycott, transfer or cancel-
lation of the Moscow Olympics
for the purpose of whipping up a
war psychosis, the campaign
which permeates the media,”’ the

brief argued, “‘would no doubt

destroy the Olympics as we know
them for some time to come and

thier and involve themselves
more in sports than their Ameri-
can counterparts; why fewer
Russians than Americans are for-
cibly confined in prisons and men-
tal institutions; why Soviet steel
and oil and wheat production al-
ready surpasses that of the U.S.;
why zero unemployment and a
labor shortage allow every Soviet
worker to select from among
many always-available jobs; and
why slums in the USSR would
have to be looked for with a mag-
nifying glass!
Who is the Enemy?

A disporoportionately large
percentage of U.S. Olympic
competitors are Black and poor;

when they return from Moscow to

American reality, to the decay,
poverty, and hopelessness of
American cities, how are you go-
ing to keep them from talking to
the neighbors and the press? If the
entire portrait of the Soviet Union
proves to be a lie, how are you
going to keep most Americans,
who learn of a different Russia,
from wondering what other fairy
tales their heads have been filled
with? Having become aware of
alternative ‘economic pos-
sibilities, how are you going to

ort games

would further contribute to a
deterioration in world relation-
ships.”

The Peace Council brief
pointed out that interference in
the 1980 Summer Games can only
“‘cool Canada’s relations with the
Soviet Union. We are. sure that
cattlemen and farmers, who de-
pend on trade .. . do not want that
to happen. es

**Furthermore, Canadian com-

petitors who receive all too little
‘Support from governments and
city councils will lose the oppor-
tunity’ which in many cases
comes only once in a lifetime.
““We stand squarely behind giving
them (the athletes) a full opportun-
ity to take part in a full inter-
national competition.”

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10C president Lord Killanin discusses summer Olympic preparations

with |. Novikov, chairman of the 1980 organizing committee.

convince them to contain their
rage as the new depression
deepens and as oil companies,
war companies, and other high
thieves grab ever-increasing
super-profits and attach strings to
ever-increasing numbers of
politicians?

Far safer to keep the kids and
the tourists home, even if you
have to threaten to revoke their
passports if they dare try to go see
Russia for themselves! Far safer
to protect and preserve intact the
cartoon image of the Soviet

Union so carefully disseminated ©

by the American information
media — the media totally owned
by and totally controlled by
comfortable capitalists. Capitalist
economies are going through a
much-needed gear-up for war; the
last thing capitalists now want is
Olympic-scale direct meeting and
communication between Ameri-
can human beings and Russian
human beings, demystifing ‘‘The
Enemy” (the looming and in-
human and ominous image of Fhe
Enemy thrives on ignorance; the
mass get-together at Moscow will
dispel ignorance, altering the
image of Russia and Russians in
the minds of many Americans,
turning many away from precon-
ceived animosity; hence war
psychology will’ become difficult
to propagate, war taxes will be-
come difficult to collect, and war-
industry profits will become dif-
ficult to justify — especially in
hard times). _

Moves by the U.S. to sabotage

the 22nd Olympiad and to limit

_Soviet-American contact got dili-

gently under way in 1974 — the
year Moscow was warded the
games over U.S. objection —and
these moves have since become
more and more blatant. Doing its
part, Pan Am, the U.S.’s only air-
line regularly carrying passengers
into the Soviet Union, unilaterally
cancelled and ended all its flights
to the USSR just before the onset
of heavy Olympics-preparatory
traffic, on October 29, 1978.

To go or not to go to Moscow:
Afghanistan, when facts are
looked at, provides no reason
whatever to put up barricades.
The reverse: does our planet need
still more separation of peoples
and still more tension? What bet-
ter time than right. now for youth

from varying backgrounds to get

together to pursue challenges all
have in common and in process to
grow toward appreciation and
tolerance of one another? — pre-
cisely the Olympic ideal, that the
powers in the U.S. so abhor.

A judge should seek out the full
story from both sides before ren-
dering a righteous judgment.
Isn’t each of us supposed to be a
judge? Who is trying to prevent us
from seeing the evidence? The
prospect of our exposure to
first-hand information at Moscow
wornies and frightens some, lest
our judgment not come down on
the side of capitalism and war.
Too bad. While we still have
some freedom of movement:
boycott, no way!

The cold war virus

We live in the age of the virus. We
have unnamed viruses that are blamed
for every Sort of illness doctors are un-
able to diagnose. We also have
named-fiu and common cold viruses.
We also have a cold war virus which is
the deadliest of them all. The diseases it
carries are three-fold: world war, de-
pressed living and social standards, and
fascist-type reaction.

* * * i:

There is no mystery about the paren-
tage of the cold war virus. It is man-
made. It is cultured. by those reactio-
nary circles that stand in stark naked
opposition to social progress no matter

where. These circles include the top.

banking fraternity allied with the giant
industrial corporations, the sprawling
multi-nationals, the faceless man-
ipulators of cold war politics and the

- governments that do their bidding.

‘War is the game and maximum profit
the aim of the imperialist creators of the
cold war Virus. The chief carrier of cold
war virus is the corporate-controlled
media who spread far and wide a false

_ image of the selected enemy — the ©
~ Soviet Union, the world’s first socialist

state. The corporate media’s main task
is to create a mass war psychosis in the
form of anti-Soviet hysteria.

* * *
This hysteria is, in the first place,

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

directed against the workers in the
capitalist sector of the world. This is so
whether they toil by hand or by brain.
Inasmuch as cold war hysteria origi-
wnates from the seat of power in the
USA, Americans are its first victims.
They are the targets of a barrage of
national chauvinist propaganda of mas-
sive proportions which spills over into
Canada. Even the Olympic Winter
Games were utilized for this purpose.
__ This wave of chauvinist propaganda
is not confined to the reactionary
spokesmen of imperialism. It is echoed
by right-wing leaders of the AFL-CIO
who use official publications to fan
anti-Soviet hysteria throughout the
trade union movement in the USA and
Canada. It is echoed also by reactio-
nary circles in the academic and scien-
tific fields. So spreads the deadly cold
war virus amongst the working people
of our continent.
* * *

Cold war virus is nurtured on the
false premise that the Soviet system is
evil and must be fought. And, ipso fac-
to, communist parties and communists
are likewise evil because they share a

common philosophy with socialism as
practiced in the Soviet Union and other
socialist countries. Thus, say the cold
warriors these alleged evils should be
exorcised from the work places, the
seats of learning, the trade unions, the
professions and all social and political
institutions of the land. A universal
blacklist shall be our way of life.

As the scenario unfolds the war
psychosis is widened to embrace politi-
cal and economic discrimination, police
intimidation and harassment, fear
based on job and social insecurity and
the informer, hostility toward one’s
workmates, neighbors and relatives.
This too is a sickness caused by cold

war virus. This sickness was evident in _

the early thirties, the latter half of the
forties and the early fifties. It can hap-
pen again if the cold war virus is not
Overcome in good time.

* *

However, the origin of the cold war
virus is known. And the diseases it
causes are known. Consequently, the
cure is likewise known. This particu-

lar virus has been: beaten back each -

time it attacked. It was beaten back
through the united struggle of all those’
people who cherished world peace,

democracy, independence and freedom .

from hunger, exploitation, oppression
and domination.

Such united effort turned back the
fascist offensive that spawned the Sec-
ond World War. It turned back the
McCarthy witch-hunt in the United
States and the anti-communist witch-
hunters in Canada. It defeated U.S. im-
perialist aggression against Vietnam
and, above all, such unity has pre-
vented world war from breaking out for
the past 35 years.

* * co
Now, once again reactionary im-
perialist forces in the USA and other
NATO countries are conspiring to

“overcome the crisis of their doomed

system by militaristic means on the in->
ternational front, and by economic and
social suppression at home. It is up to
us — all who cherish peace, democra-

. cy, freedom and social progress — to

join hands with our brethern the world
over to put a stop to these deadly
machinations.

Let us throw our united strength into
the struggle to preserve peace, défente,
curb the arms race and step up produc-
tion for peace and not for war.

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