specie

sonancionear

SHINGTON — The Pen-
eg has announced that fur-

ee withdrawals of the U.S. air
force contingent from Thailand

“been stopped for various
etary. diplomatic and politi-

The Department of Defence
did not say anything more spe-
cific, but jef: readers and poli-
tical pundits to guess. One rea-
son for the curtailment, obvious
to most observers, is: that in
spite of official assurances to
the contrary, the U.S. is not
willing to diminish its military

resence in South East Asia.
P s. military installations in

aA since the signing of
Thailand, Peace Agreements,
eorganized, and in
expanded.

r factor of equal
can be traced to political
events in Thailand itself. After
two days of popular demonstra-
tions against the military gov-
ernment of the country, a new
‘prime minister, Sanya Tham-
former rector of Thai-

7. Jargest university, was
Peointed ap lead the country.
To Taiwan
The former premier, Thanom
Kittikachorn, his deputy pre-
mier and a colonel were forced
to leave the country, given safe
conduct, and landed in Taipel,
home of Chiang Kai-shek.
Sanya promised: a new con-
i six months,

‘tution within —
Eth general elections to follow

soon after. 5

Under ex-premier Kittika-
chorn, Thailand had been a centre
of U.S. subversion and military
aggression in South East Asia.
What the new prime minister

masak,

will do is not yet known. So it is

i wonder that the United
Pies has kept its air force and

- Inilitary installations in place.

And still another circum-
stance. According to the press,
the Pentagon’s decision links up
with the policy of the Peking
leaders in South East Asia. Far
from objecting to the location
of American armed forces in
this area, the PRC leaders, who

until recently were so lavish
with pseudo-revolutionary phras-
es, openly come out for the pre-
servation of the U.S. military
potential in Asia, alleging that
this promotes the “stabilization
of the situation” and even the
relaxation of international ten-
sion.
Collective Security

It’s not accidental that the
Washington Post directly links
up the suspension of the with-
drawal of U.S. troops from
Thailand with the announced
visit to Peking of Henry Kis-
singer, the U.S. secretary of
state.

MOSCOW (APN) — On Octo-
ber 15, at the invitation of the
Soviet Union’s All-Union Soci-
ety of Neuropathologists and
Psychiatrists, participants in the
international symposium “As-
pects of Schizophrenia” visited
Moscow’s Central Research In-
stitute of Foreign Psychiatry
name after Professor V. P. Serb-
sky.

The foreign scientists were
received by Academician A. V.
Snezhnevsky, director of the
Institute. of Psychiatry of the
USSR Academy of Medical
Sciences, and by doctor of medi-
cine Professor G. V. Morozov,

U.S. fighters taking off from one of the many bases in Thailand.

US. forces stay in Thatand

Peking’s stand contradicts
the fundamental interests of the
peoples of South East Asia, ‘for
whom the preservation of the
U.S. military potential in Thai-
land is actually a threat of new
interference in their affairs.

Life has shown that foreign
interference by no means _ pro-
motes the the cause of peace
and national liberation in South
East Asia. A real way to a last-
ing peace is not “balancing”
with the help of foreign troops,
but . collective security which
would exclude armed ‘conflicts
and imperialist aggression on
the Asian continent.

director of the Central Research
Institute of Forensic Psychiatry.

The Western scientists were
told of the Soviet legislation
which regulates the holding of
forensic psychiatric examina-
tions, the practice of conducting
examinations, and the work of
the Institute. The guests were
acquainted with the case histo-
ries of several patients who had
undergone forensic psychiatric
examination. Besides, in their
presence, a forensic-psychiatric
examination was carried out of
a patient who is now under
observation, after which Soviet
scientists answered questions of
their Western colleagues.

The RCMP ain't Rose Marie

An Unauthorized History of the
RCMP, by Lorne and Caroline
Brown, (James Lewis & Sa-

muel, $1.95).

People in the labor movement
have a gut reaction to the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police which
is fully confirmed by the facts
as brought out in this short
book. The anti-labor bias of the
RCMP is as documented as one
‘could expect in a_ situation
where records of the RCMP are
zealously kept behind closed
doors. There is no outfit in
Canada that so carefully ensures
that nobody will find out the
real facts of what they are do-
ing as the RCMP. So within the
jimits of available knowledge,
the Browns have done a con-
siderable service in putting to-
gether this information.

Even more than the facts of
the anti-labor bias of the RCMP,
there is some excellent material
on the racism of the RCMP,
directed both against the Indian
peoples and against non-Anglo
Saxons.

Also of considerable intertst
in this book is the discussion
of some of the “philosophical”
positions of the RCMP’s top of-
ficers. This makes it abundantly
clear that ‘it is not a case of
acting upon orders that deter-

mines the role and direction of
this police force, but that there
are, built into the force itself,

concepts and ideas which ensure
that it will continue to be the
racist, anti-labor, anti-progres-
sive instrument that it has been
up to date.

This is a useful book to read
even for those to whom there
are no myths about the RCMP,
its creation and its function. It,
for the first time, documents
those facts which completely
disprove the image of the musi-
-al ride or Rose Marie.

As the authors point out, “As
long as the RCMP are portrayed
as an almost sacred institution
which can do no wrong, adverse
criticism of them will be inter-
preted by many people as an un-
patriotic, even seditious act.”

The problem, as the Browns
suggest is how to limit the pow-
er of the. RCMP, indeed to end
their existence by the assump-
tion by all provinces of respon-
sibility for their own police
forces. While provincial police
would not necessarily be any
better there would not be at
least such a vast amount of
power centralized in one “arrog-
ant, secretive and militaristic
organization.” As the Browns
say, “People cannot be remind-
ed too often that all police
forces are at best a necessary
evil and that the RCMP may not
even be necessary.” (P.C.)

United opposition runs
in Colombian elections.

BOGOTA — With more than
200 delegates present from all
parts of Colombia, the National

Union of the Opposition (UNO)
officially proclaimed Senator
Hernando Echeverri Mejia their
presidential candidate for the
1974 elections. Voting for the
Senate, House of Representa-
tives, provincial assemblies and
municipal councils will also take
place at the same time.

The Convention was attended
by delegations of the Broad
Colombian Movement (MAC),
Revolutionary Independent
Workers Movement (MOIR), the
Communist Party of Colombia
and other sectors of the demo-
cratic opposition which consti-
tute the National Union.

Also attending the opening of
the convention were 1,300 invit-
ed guests, who heard the open-
ing speakers from all the groups
elaborate on the UNO program,
the main points being the strug-
gle against imperialism, the na-
tionalization of oil, the defense

of Colombia’s natural resources
and the national liberation strug-
gle, democratic agrarian reform,
the winning of democratic
rights, freedom for political
prisoners, anda general increase
in wages and salaries.

Echeverri is a senator of
MAC, which split apart from the
Peronist-like ANAPO movement
in a conflict between left and
right.

At the closing on September
23, more than 10,000 people
jammed a Bogota stadium to
hear Echeverri and other UNO
speakers. The audience carried
banners bearing pictures of
Echeverri, Salvador Allende and
Ho Chi Minh. Among the speak-
ers were Gilberto Vieira, general
secretary, Communist Party of
Colombia, and Francisco Mos-
quera, general secretary of
MOIR.

Many of the speakers gave
over a major portion of their re-
marks to solidarity with the
people of Chile, and tribute to
Salvador Allende.

GDR to rebuild entire
North Vietnamese city

By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN ,— The Government,
the Workers’ Party and the peo-
ple of North. Vietnam will con-
tinue to do everything in their
power to deepen the friendship
and collaboration with the
USSR, th2 German Democratic
Republic and the other socialist
countries in the future as in the
past.

That was the emphatic declar-
ation of North Vietnamese
Prime Minister Pham Van Dong
here a week ago as head of the
North Vietnamese Government
and Party delegation visiting the
GDR at the invitation of GDR
Government,

The visit was climaxed by 2
series of agreements which cov-
ered economic relations, techni-
cal-scientific exchanges and ma-
terial aid by the GDR, including
outright financial gifts by the
people of the GDR. One of most
Gramatic projects agreed upon
was rebuilding of the North
Vietriamese City of Vinh by the
GDR with five years.

‘These agreements, GDR min-
insters’ council Chairman Horst
Sinderman said at signing cere-
monies, “are based on principles
of socialist internationalism, fra-

oS

The

GDR will help to rebuild the city of Vinh within five years.

ternity, friendship and coopera-
tion.”

Pham Van Dong replied: “We
are Communists and will always
remain Communists. We too
will stand firmly at your side
forever and, together with you,
at side of Soviet Union and oth-
er socialist countries.”

Powerful Inspiration

He said he and his colleagues
had been “deeply moved” by
their visit and “by the deep sym-
pathy of Comrade Erich Ho-
necker and other comrades of
Government and Party leader-
ship.” Such experiences, he
continued, ‘“‘strengthen our ide-
ological weapon, the weapon
of Marxism - Leninism; they
strengthen the idea of prole-
tarian internationalism.”

Praising achievements of
GDR, Pham Van Dong declared:
“Today our Party and Govern-
ment delegation want to pledge
to Comrade Honecker and all
the comrades that our Party will
do everything in its power in
order to deepen friendship be-
tween us. That friendship is a
great and powerful. inspiration
for us. We will do everything to
deepen it, and to guard our
friendship with the Soviet Union
like the apple of our eye.”

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