SS ee a ‘TNino 6. Marchers ‘refuse Cruise’ Thousands marched and demonstrated in peace rallies across Canada Oct. 30to protest the planned testing of the Cruise Missile in Canadian territory, bringing a fitting close to United Nations Disarmament Week. In Ottawa 15,000 marched found Parliament Hill, form- Ing a line so long that the first | Marchers met those who were Just starting the five-kilometre "tek. They shouted the now- familiar Slogan, ‘“‘refuse the ”” and sang Give Peace A Ce as they filed past the U.S. embassy and the offices of Litton Systems, the firm which Manufactures the first-strike Weapon’s guidance system in ‘Oronto, The march, organized by a Coalition of unions, churches, Political parties and student Organizations, centred around € federal government’s agree- Ment to allow the U.S. military 10 test its Cruise missile in nor- thern Alberta, and the Million government subsidy to Litton systems. Marchers heard speeches from NDP external affairs critic Pauline Jewett and MP Douglas Anguish, who read a proclama- 10n against the Cruise testing Signed by 31 NDP MPs. In Winnipeg, the crowd of 5,000 who converged on the Manitoba legislative building Included provincial urban af- ting, “‘a step further down the Toad to nuclear war.” About 600 people rallied in Edmonton, to hear organizer an Mercer call on the provin- lal government to take a stand t the Cruise test project at the Primrose Lake Air kiero Range about 200 Ometres from the city. urther south in Lethbridge, Stganizers were ‘happily’ sur- prised when about 300 people med out for a rally in the Hormally staid’ city in Alber- ta’s Tanching district. h Onstrators in Toronto fard retired NATO com- Mander and Italian senator Pasti call for more neobular opinion to stop this Uclear madness,” in a rally at ing fairs ministr Eugene Kostrya, } Who termed the proposed! the Ontario legislature follow- | DISARMAMENT BRS: PAULING RALLY CROWD ... . veteran U.S. peace activist draws audience from four generations. TRIBUNE PHOTO — DAN KEETON ‘We can halt war’ —Pauling “I believe we have a duty to pre- vent nuclear war — and I believe it can be done.” A standing ovation from an overflow audience greeted these words from eminent mathemati- cian, chemist and long-time peace activist Dr. Linus Pauling at the Hotel Vancouver ballroom Oct. 28. An estimated 700 people clap- ped, cheered and laughed throughout the speech of the 81-year old, two-time winner of the - Nobel Peace Prize whose warmth and wit has captivated listeners for over three decades of struggle against the arms race. Every seat was filled, and dozens of high school age youths filled the floor in front of the stage. About 300 had to be turned away at the door at the event, the highlight of United Nations Disarmament Week in Vancouver. In his wide-ranging speech that touched on the history of the bomb, the effects of a nuclear war and even evolution, Pauling receiv- ed cheers when he repeatedly stress- ed a positive role for people in the anti nuclear-weapons struggle. ‘‘When I wrote No More War 25 years ago, I said that it was im- perative that the USSR and the United States get down to negotiating treaties to reduce the stockpile of nuclear weapons. I still believe that, but I also believe that people have to take the initiative to stop the arms race,” he said. Pauling said the total megaton- nage of the world’s nuclear weapons. — an ‘“‘insane’’ 60,000 megatons — probably hasn’t changed in the past two and one- half decades. But weapons have grown: more sophisticated, and q fetch through the weapons systems more com- > oes plicated ‘increasing the possibility at UN. Was a featured speaker that a technological or tivities ; ament Week ac-] p.ychological error may occur, and Couve In Toronto and Van-} pjunge the world into a war with ——. catastrophic consequences.” ay LO Divorce and Family Law RANKIN & COMPANY Barristers & Solicitors 4th Floor, 195 Alexander St., Vancouver, B.C. V6A 1N8 682-2781 Offers a broad range of legal services including: . Personal Injury and Insurance Claims © Real Estate and Conveyancing @ Labour Law @ Criminal Law @ Estates and Wills Missiles outfitted with 20-megaton warheads — six times the total explosive power used in all the second world war, including the first atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — were the prevalent nuclear weapon of the fifties, said Pauling. In 1969 the United States military created the smaller, but more accurate MIRVs: ‘‘Someone had the bright idea that you can produce smaller rockets with a warhead suited to the target — say a one-or two-megaton warhead thatyou cam aim at Soviet citiesand © ~ program a computer to deliver that particular warhead there.”’ That development created a new direction in the arms race, a deadly spiral that has led to the sophisticated Cruise and Pershing II missiles of today. But the new weapons, although smaller, are “more dangerous, because the nature of the weaponry has chang- ed,’’ Pauling warned. Despite the claims the U.S. military has made ever since the arms race began in the early fifties, - of a ‘‘missile gap’’ in which the Soviets are said to lead in nuclear weaponry, such claims are false, Pauling asserted. “President (John F.) Kennedy asked (then defence secretary) Robert MacNamara in 1963 to go and check on how big the missile gap was. He came back and reported that there wasn’t any missile gap. ‘I think this is very reasonable. We have maintained about a five year head start, we keep on produc- ing and the Soviet Union follows us . . Of course, our policy in the U.S. is to have nuclear superiority, and Soviet policy has been to try and keep that superiority from becoming too great.’’ The Soviets have a history of making proposals for arms reduc- tions or limitations that are routinely rejected, said Pauling. 1 PRE-CHRISTMAS ¢ | CLEARANCE SALES," NOV. 8-13 ; People’s Co-op Bookstore 353 W. Pender St., Van. 685-5836 ‘*So where are we at? I think it’s clear that my country, the United States of America, has been taking the leading militaristic positions all of this time,”’ he charged. Turning to the present, the peace movement veteran aimed barbs at the ‘‘absolute nonsense’’ in the Reagan administration’s talk of a winable, ‘‘limited’’ — or even pro- tracted — nuclear war. And he warned against the cold- war statements the U.S. president has been making about the peace movement. “President Reagan said Oct: 11 that the nuclear freeze people were controlled by a foreign power. I don’t think you need a foreign power behind you in order to not want to be incinerated in a nuclear war. We have to be on the lookout for statements like that,’’ he said to thunderous applause. A long-time foe of militarists, Pauling was subjected to political persecution during the McCarthy era, and his passport was revoked. Recalling those days with humor, he related an incident that occured following a speech he gave on nuclear fission to the Rotary Club shortly after the first atomic bomb was exploded. “The next day there was an FBI man in my Office, asking me where I got the information on how much plutonium there was in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. I told him that I figured it out,”’ said the mathematician. A frequent visitor to Canada throughout the years, Pauling call- ed on Canadians to fight against the testing of the Cruise missile, for the sake of the world. “I believe it is possible for Cana- dians to stop the testing of the Cruise missile in Canada, and get Canada and everyone else to refuse to cooperate with the militarists who are taking a path that is certain to lead the world to mass destruc- tion,”’ he said. ONE WEEK +