World/Canada Members of the steering committee of the Canadian Peace Alliance, meet- ing in Vancouver last weekend, used the opportunity to hold a press con- ference in Vancouver's harbour Oct. 13 to protest the visit by U.S. nuclear- equipped aircraft carrier USS Constel- Greepeace (with microphone) and Frank Kennedy, president of End the Arms Race were among the speakers who addressed reporters aboard a boat in the harbour. The news confer- protest (bottom) against the war- ship’s visit mounted by Greenpeace and Save Our Seas, a coalition of groups. lation which was in the port from Oct | 12 to 14. At top right, David Kraft of U.S. warship visit protested ence also coincided with a 72-hour PHOTOS — BOB BRIERE BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Four miles out to sea from the coconut-lined white beaches of the west coast here is the watery grave of 76 passengers and crew from a bombed Cuban airliner. On Oct. 6, 1976, Cubana Airlines flight 455 was blown out of the sky by anti-Cuban terrorists. A day later, four men responsible, Cuban-born Orlando Bosch and Luis Pos- ada and Venezuelans Hernan Ricardo and Freddy Lugo were arrested in Caracas. After a series of trials, a judge in 1986 gave Ricardo and Lugo each 20-year sent- ences. Bosch was freed. Posada had escaped from detention a year earlier with the help of the Venezuelan secret police for whom he had previously worked. Now, 13 years after the bombing, Bosch has turned up in Miami and is being held by the U.S. Justice Department. Cuba wants him extradited to Havana, but U.S. Presi- dent George Bush, courting the anti-Cuban government vote in the recent Florida elec- tion to the House of Representatives, effec- tively vetoed such action. Republican Ilena Ros-Lentinen won the seat and, according to reports out of Miami by the North American correspondent for the Nation newspaper here in Barbados, she had defended Bosch’s actions as a. blow against communism. Bush’s son Jeb, who was Ros-Lentinen’s campaign manager, also praised Bosch on several occasions. Bosch has a long sordid record dating 8 e Pacific Tribune, October 23, 1989 U.S. sheltering Cuban terrorist Norman Faria back to the early days of the Cuban revolu- tion when he operated within several mur- derous outfits. In 1966, he openly said the CIA helped him sabotage an oil refinery in Havana, and between 1968 and 1980 Bosch’s gangs carried out several bombings at economic and diplomatic targets in Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Among them was the 1974 bombing of the Cuban mission in Montreal. At his Caracas trial, Bosch admitted he was a fascist. In Pinochet’s Chile in the mid-1970s he was involved in the assassina- tion of Allende’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Orlando Letelier, who was killed in Washington in 1976 along with companion Ronnie Moffitt: Bombs were the tools of their trade. Ted Went, a Barbadian aviation expert who sat on the official Barbados government inquiry into the Cubana flight 455 tragedy, told the Tribune two bombs had been left FROM THE CARIBBEAN on the plane by Ricardo and Lugo. One was concealed in a camera left on a seat in the middle of the aircraft, the other hidden in a tube of toothpaste in a rear washroom. In 1986, a drug informant squealed to U.S. federal agents in Miami that he had helped Bosch plan the bombing with CIA assistance. The testimony from Ricardo “Monkey” Morales was reported in the Miami News, which had gained access to FBI documents under the Freedom of Information Act. All signs point to the need for Bosch to be extradited to Cuba to answer for his crimes. There, the leading primate of the Cuban Catholic church recently urged the U.S, not to set Bosch free. “I think such a dangerous person, capable of doing what he has done, shouldn’t be free,” the secretary of the Cuban Bishop’s Conference, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, told the Reuters correspond- ent in Havana recently. World News Australian troops confront protesters WOOMERA, Australia — Police and army units broke up a second day of protest Sept. 30 at the high-security U.S.- Australia Nurrungar communications facility in the South Australian desert, bringing the total arrested to 426. Fifty soldiers were airlifted in when demonstrators’ smashed through the outer gate of the base which they charge is a vital link in a U.S. spy network, making Australia a prime target in the event of war. It was the first time troops have been used against a civilian protest. Short memories for U.S. senators WASHINGTON — When 65 U.S. senators signed a letter to Secretary of State Baker two weeks ago urging him to bar entry into the United States of PLO Chair Yasser Arafat, should he wish to address the UN, they apparently forgot last. year’s fiasco. The Reagan White House’s effort to bar Arafat resulted in the UN moving its session from New York to Geneva to hear Arafat’s peace proposals. Third World life expectancy rises UNITED NATIONS — The average life span has increased in the developing nations,...but: one-fifth of