‘Retraction insufficient’ — OPC

The Quebec Press Council has
agreed with the position of the
Communist Party of Canada con-
cerning the inadequacy of a
correction appearing in the
French publication Perspectives.

Earlier this year, Perspectives
carried an article in which it stated
that former Communist Party
leader, Tim Buck, was an RCMP
agent. This brought a letter to
Perspectives from Party leader
William Kashtan, Jan. 30, protest-
ing the ‘grave a libelous attack”’
on the name of Tim Buck.

Perspectives replied, Feb. 7,
Saying their journalist had made a
mistake, that Buck was never an
RCMP agent and that it regretted
that “‘such a gross error was
made"’. The journal then prom-
ised to make such a correction in
its Feb. 24 issue.

The item appeared, but it was.

substantially different from the
wording in Perspectives’ letter to
Kashtan. This, in turn, prompted
the Communist Party to complain
to the Quebec Press Council
which looked into the matter.

Its findings are contained in a
letter to the Party the main por-
tion of which we publish here:

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The Council is of the opinion
that although the present problem
touches directly on the editorial
discretion and freedom of the
news media, that latter cannot be

exercised in an absolute manner:

without taking into account the
demands imposed on them of the
responsibility and duty of
adequately informing the public.
This duty applies to. all news
people concerned about their
duty to inform the public and con-
scious of the fact that these de-
mands guarantee their credibility
before the public.

Taking into account that
Perspectives’ correction was lit-
erally buried in public announce-
ments and that the phrase of the
corrected text ‘‘there has obvi-
ously been an error of the per-
son”’ leads one to believe that if
Tim Buck was not a member of
the RCMP, ‘than it was possible
that some other leader of this
party was, the Council believes

that your newspaper did not give
justice to the Communist Party of
Canada and this in spite of the fact
that, as you recognized in your
letter of February 7 to Mr.
Kashtan, the journalist had erred

and that you regretted that sucha -

gross error was made.

Furthermore, notwithstanding
the fact that Perspectives has de-
monstrated a certain willingness

to correct these facts, the Council
believes that the retraction was
insufficient and unsatisfying since
the essence and consequences of
the message, even corrected,
risks a prejudicial confusion in the
minds of the reader concerning
the Communist Party of Canada.

The Council is of the opinion
that a clear and precise correction

in conformity with the harm —

caused by the article in question
or the publication of the letter br-
inging into focus of the complaints
would have advantageously
answered the public’s right to
news as well as the ethics of a
press interested in its respon-
sibilities of public informer .. .

TURKISH INVASION OCCURRED 5 YEARS AGO

10-point agreement on Cyprus

_ Five years ago, on June 20,
1974, the armies of Turkey in-
vaded Cyprus and partitioned the
island, creating flood of refugees
and homeless people, as the milit-
ary effectively sealed off Greek
and Turkish Cypriots into sepa-
rate areas. The invasion followed
an attempted coup by the fascist
junta of the day in Greece, in
which efforts were made to mur-
der the then president, Arch-
bishop Makarios. .
Five years later, despite United
Nations resolutions calling for the
withdrawal of all foreign troops
from Cyprus, and cooperative
intervention in talks between
leaders of the two Cypriot com-
munities by the UN secretary-
general, the army of, Turkey, a
NATO member, remains. And
NATO continued to ogle Cyprus
as a permanent aircraft carrier,
adjacent to the Middle East. In
fact, as pointed out by E.
Papaioannou, leader of AKEL,
the Progressive Party of Working
People: ‘‘American military air-
craft are already operating from
the British air base at Akrotir and
persistent reports speak of
gradual take-over of the British
bases in Cyprus by the American
imperalists.””
On the anniversary of the inva-
sion, which brought Turkish
“‘settlers’’ in its wake, and has

damaged the economy of the is-
land, protests are taking place in
many countries, demonstrations

of solidarity with the people of ©

Cyprus. es.

The brightest factor in the pre-
sent situation is a 10-point agree-
ment reached May 18-20, in talks
between Cypriot Prime Minister
Spyros Kyprianou and spokes-
man for the Turkish community,
Rauf Denktash, with Kurt Wal-
dheim’s assistance. Further dis-
cussion on the points has been
taking place since mid-June.

The 10 points of agreement in-
clude:

1. The sides agree to resume
intercommunal talks on June 15.

2. Basis for negotiations to be
conditions set out in Feb. 1977,
and the relative UN resolutions
on the Cyprus problem.

3. Human rights and funda-
mental freedoms of all citizens of
the republic must be respected.

4. Negotiations to cover ter-
ritorial and constitutional as-
pects,

5. Supremacy will be given by
the negotiators to a search for an
agreement on the city of Famag-
husta, under the observation of
the UN, at the same time as
beginning of territorial and consti-
tutional aspects of a package
agreement. When agreement is
reached on Famaghusta (Varos-

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gardless of the results of discus-
sion on other aspects of the Cyp-
rus problem.

6. Agreed that the sides avoid
every action that would endanger
the result of the talks, and special
attention would be given by the
two sides to practical measures
for creating goodwill, mutual
trust, and resettlement in normal
conditions.

7. De-militarization is the aim,
and matters connected with this
will be discussed.

8. Independence, sovereignty,
territorial integrity and the non-
alignment of the republic must
have the necessary guarantees
against union partly or fully with

‘any other country, and against

any kind of partition.

9. Intercommunal talks will
take place in a continuous and
substantive way, avoiding any de-
lay.
10. Intercommunal talks will
take place in Nicosia.

While these points are the basis
for, it is to be hoped, fruitful talks
and results, AKEL points out the
unrelenting need to press for:

e Withdrawal of all Turkish
and foreign troops.

e The retum of all refugees to
their homes and property under
conditions of safety.

e Missing person who are still
captive to be set free. (One of the
initiatives of the UN secretary-
general, agreed to by both sides,
was formation of a committee on
missing persons.)

The current series of meetings

was to be condu-ted three times a -

week.

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Integration — cooperation
or economic absorption?

By JOHN WEIR -

Tribune Moscow Correspondent

MOSCOW — Canadians have
good reason to wince at the word
“‘integration.’’ Our experience
with the United States-Canada in-
tegration, also known as con-
tinentalism, has. brought neither
stability nor advance to our
economy. It has further under-
mined Canadian independence.

But there is another type of in--

tegration and the countries par-
ticipating in it cannot praise it
highly enough. This is socialist in-
tegration through the Council for
Mutual Economic Assistance
embracing Bulgaria, Cuba,
Czechoslovakia, the German
Democratic Republic, Hungary,
Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the
Soviet Union and Vietnam.

Summing up the results of 30
years of this cooperation, the re-
cent 33rd Session of the CMEA,
attended by government heads of
the member countries, noted that
during those 30 years their share
of the-world industrial output rose
from. 18 to 33%, and national in-
come from 15 to 25% of the world
total.

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corded in all partner countries, in
some the rate being higher than

that of the Soviet Union which is :

the largest and most powerful of
them.

It.is noteworthy that in addition
to the CMEA member countries
and Yugoslavia which collabo-
rates with the CMEA, present at
the session were guest delega-
tions from Afghanistan, Angola,
Ethiopia, Finland, Iraq, Laos,

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