ate United States Air Force,
Thi njunction with the puppet

| Wi
“ out about five million

{vith a Vietnamese vegetation
ape ae Substance Agent Or-
1] of abo gent Orange is composed
tide Ut 50% 2,4,5-T, a herbi-
| Ghemjontaining the most toxic

| Oxin 5 known to man — Di-

f pein causes birth defects
oy animals even in
Ot mn Tations “so low we can-
hp sure. them,” according to
toxic lane Courtney, chief of the
‘i eects branch of the Enr
The a Protection Agency.

Align ‘SS. Air Force has 2.3
at it allons, of this poison
Ting ; “nts to peddle if it can
Moon es apart from any
Bon fo It may have left in Sai-
a the Thieu regime’s use.
ts on, Teport, Sept. 25, 1974.)
yy, onal $17-million cost paid
a Drone ayers is dwarfed by
Brice able estimated — selling
id © $80-million, b it’

Rid thee” , because it’s
‘ber Te is a shortage (deli-
“tal Or otherwise) of commer-
in reicides,

| the oy has been identified as
Nop, eeMt that killed many
8nd scores of other ani-
197, 1 Missouri as early as
Tore Wo girls, says the same
decam, One six and the other 10,
to fe because of exposure
oq supe stance. The six-year-
“| dan €red.such severe kidney

a
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i Wit he Snot guilty, beat him
| “hfegs Confesses. If he will not
| ye an beat him to death”,
Epo. struction on the walls
ex om Stations in Saigon.
“Presse nds for anyone who
Comes €S anti-war feelings,
‘lato, Sut for national recon-
Do and accord and sup-
Avtae i Principles of the Paris
| rho rs nt, in short, everyone
| Ort), 8 NOt conceal his dislike
Policy y Popular, anti-nation-
SUS by Thieu’s ad-
| 0
| tom men 200,000 prisoners
ei ‘ ©. forces opposing the
. isons ny being kept in Saigon
| > Viola’ concentration camps
} Say “10n of Article 8 of the
ht th 8reement which says
Raseq a Should have been re-
} ‘tthe “ days after the signing
Hoy, 8teement,
| Politic a anxious for their
| wUthoniti future, the Saigon
tele '@s did not obey the Ar-
| we Ten stead lunched mas-
hts iy isals against all dissi-
etter Mi © areas under Thieu’s
s are F eae than 50,000 people
i: Months Imprisoned in the last
Ba,
“jtta R0torious war of tanks,
a the ‘ad infantry is going on
we Ree of Vietnam in Sai-
: bens tinuous armed provoc-

tion etnst the people’s Li-

Tmed forces. But there
0 '

“high aa War going on there
“ibe " New York Times de-

vale fro @ secret war, con-
af Bed 5, m the public, being
| 85 huge » court martials and
| “Bon Police force built up by

JUS. seeking buyer for
}2 million gallons poison

U regime in South Vietnam.

four weeks at St. Louis,

Children’s Hospital.

In the Missouri incident 35
horses died and “there were 12
abortions in the mares of young
colts. There were literally bushel

baskets full of . . . dead wild-

birds,” said Dr. P. E. Phillips, a
veterinian. Dioxin was identified

also in soil samples.
Apart. from what monstrous

‘horrors have been wrought by

this aspect of the United States
war crimes against the Vietnam-
ese people, the question arises:
What does the U.S. Air Force
expect to do with its $80-million
murder potion?
’ And what guarantees are there
from Ottawa that none of it will
find its way into Canada,. either
for use here, or in contaminated
produce or meat? :
Some newspaper readers have
been misled to believe that this
very profitable poison has been
banned. Evidence of: that would
be welcome. But the banning in
the USA of two pesticides, not
herbicides, aldrin and dieldrin
because of evidence that they
cause cancer should not be mis-
taken for the banning: of Dioxin.

Again, Canadian consumers .

will probably ask their MPs
what protection citizens of this
country have. The U.S. mono-
polies, their government, and
their good customers, the U.S.
military, evidently believe in
waste not, want not, even if it
means slipping a killer sub-
stance into the children’s milk.

istration who sanctioned the re-
lease of a mere two per cent of
all prisoners, cynically said that
“We do not have any political
prisoners now,” or persecution
for political convictions. But
those few representatives of the
international public who man-
aged to see the backstage activ-
ities of the Saigon administra-
tion became witness of ghastly
tortures, _ refined cruelty and
persecutions against the oppon-
ents of the regime.

“We have been thrown here
because we demanded peace”,

an inmate of one of the “tiger

cages” on the Conchon Island
told members of the U.S. con-
gress delegation.

Here is how Don Luce, an
American journalist in the dele-
gation, describes “tiger cages”:
Those were cells made of crude
rock, 2.7 metres long and 1.5
metres wide (about 9’ x 5’).
Steel bars did for a roof, and
prisoners were chained to it.

The Saigon butchers have re-
cently begun to introduce “bull
cages”. Patriots, put into chains
and tied, are now kept in aban-
doned enclosures. During the

seasons of rains water pours

down inside through the roof.

A report issued recently in-

Paris describes the conditions
of political prisoners in South
Vietnam on the basis of authen-
tic information and letters smug-
gled’ from prison cells and
through barbed wire. Nam, a
teacher, reports about students
in the advanced cell who could
not ‘move their swollen hands
after policemen drove needles
under their - fingernails, and
about peasants who were beaten
so savagely that they could not
rise to their feet.

With fraternal aid from GDR

The rebuil

Vinh, the old Vietnamese
provincial capital, for centuries
a centre of trade, communica-
tion and culture, was completely
destroyed during the U.S. war. of
aggression against the DRV. A
little over a year has elapsed,
not enough time to build a town
anew from the rubble, but the
first achievements are visible in
the DRV. Very much of the
direct consequences of the war
is being overcome. Production
and the life of the people are sta-
bilized step-by-step and there
are advances in the management
of the economy. Everywhere the
damages left in the wake of the
war are being removed, and
now, after thorough preparatory
work, the planned reconstruc-
tion of Vinh, the capital of
Nghe An province of the DRV is
taking place. .

Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister for Building Industry of
the Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam, Do Muoi, in May 1974 laid
the foundation stone for the first
four five-storey blocks of houses
in the Quang Trung, one of the
future main streets.

The new Vinh will embrace
a total area of 5,000 hectares. At
present, 1,600 hectares are en-
visaged for the new buildings, of
this 1,050 for residential and
public buildings as well as 450
for industrial projects. An ambi-
tious project, in which the whole
province is participating. Great
is the readiness and the enthu-
siasm above all among the young
people to help in the work.
They were trained here at the

Thieu’s accomplices stop at
nothing to push up the problem
of political prisoners. They re-
sort to frame-ups and eliminate
the “most dangerous” prisoners.

Some of the prisoners of the
Condao, Quangngai and Niant-
rang prisons are known to have
been killed or transferred to
other areas. Quite a few repre-
sentatives of the Third Political
Force are in the police bad
books. The shaky Saigon regime
is well aware of the fact that the
Third Force, as follows from the
Paris Agreement, is to play a
prominent ‘part in settling inner
political problems in South Viet-
nam.

Now that the puppet regime

is falling to pieces the widest

sections of the population in
South Vietnam realize full well
that a just, peaceful solution to
the country’s internal problems
can be found provided the Third
Force and all patriots and demo-
crats are guaranteed political
freedoms. ;

No wonder there is an unpre-
cedented growth in the activity
of all. the opposition forces in
the Saigon - controlled areas.
Many organizations, including
those of the Third Force, de-
mand that a government should
be formed in Saigon, which
could begin negotiations with
the Provisional Revolutionary
Government of the Republic of
South Vietnam to put the Paris
Agreement into effect. Hu

The release of political pri-
soners is one of the main de-
mands of the South Vietnamese
public. The need to immediately
solve this problem has been re-
peatedly stressed in the propo-
sals of the PRG of the RSV.

ding of Vinh

On a street bearing the name of the Vietnamese national hero
Quang-Trung, the reconstruction work of the provincial capital Vinh
in the DRV begins. Vietnamese skilled workers and thousands of
young people from the area have already started the work. Aiding
them are specialists from the GDR, who advise their Vietnamese
colleagues in the projecting work, planning, technology organization
and participate in the training of Vietnamese building workers.

same time as skilled workers
(bricklayers, carpenters, mecha-
nics).

Vinh will be built again —
under the direction of Vietnam-
ese; with Vietnamese skilled
workers, assisted by workers
from the GDR. This year 40
building experts from the GDR
are. working in Vinh. Their
number will increase to some
200 by 1978.

Otto Knauer, leader of the
group of GDR specialists in
Vinh, said in a talk with journal-
ists:

“We are concentrating on four
main objects: General building
plan; vocational training; organ-
ization fo carrying out of the
building work including delivery
of the corresponding machines
and equipment; rationalization
of the building production and
construction work with Vietna-
mese building materials.”

The cooperation with the Viet-
namese colleagues is excellent.
“You have done good prepara-
tory work,” Otto Knauer noted.
“The cement for the construc-
tion work is supplied by the
DRV. The production of bricks
has begun, there are adequate
stocks — approximately 12 mil-
lion bricks for 1974 — so that

we can start. Gravel, sand and
other materials are available. In
the quarries great efforts are be-
ing made to provide everything
we need.”

The Vietriamese working peo-
ple and the specialists from the.
GDR are tackling the problem of
having to solve many things
simultaneously. By the end of
the. year some 10,000 square
metres of housing accommoda-
tion are to be created, for 1975
a further 30,000 are planned.
Working discussions tackle all
problems together.

The effective solidarity the
GDR rendered during the war
years is now continuing in the
construction of Vinh. This is
one of the many solidarity ac-
tions contained in a joint GDR-
DRV agreement concluded in
1973.

Although the work in Vinh is
complicated, well-founded opti-
mism prevails among the Viet-
namese working people. An aged
building worker, Ho Onoc Viet,
told several journalists from the
GDR staying in Vinh: “We have
high regard for your specialists.
They have much _ experience,
many ideas and work with im-
mense devotion. In a word, they
are true internationalists.”

Canada's Vietnam record
continues as a disgrace

The book by veteran journal-
ist Charles Taylor, which he
titled, Snow Job, reveals a
shameful role played by the
Canadian government in the U.S.
war against Vietnam. Under-
standably Taylor has been given
a patronizing stab in the back in
reviews by those titans of hypo-
crisy Paul Martin and Mark
Gayn. Snow Job serves as a re-
minder that Canada has yet to
-mend its ways. . s

e The whole world knows
from eye-witness reports and
interviews that the Thieu regime
conducts imprisonment, torture
and murder as a systematic way

-of crippling political opposition.

e In defiance of the Paris
Agreement it holds 200,000 poli-
tical prisoners, as documented
by the Committee to Free South
Vietnamese Prisoners; and it
wars against people in areas li-

berated by the forces of the Pro-'
visional Revolutionary Govern-
ment.

@ Despite this, Canada re-
fuses to. live up to its commit-
ment to the Paris Agreement by
recognizing the PRG, and in-
stead fawns on the Saigon
butchers. The so-called ambas-
sador of the Thieu clique in Ot-
tawa has invited more Canadian

‘monopolies to take over in

South Vietnam without approval
of the PRG or the Third Force,
both recognized in the Paris
Agreement.

e A non-party group of Cana-
dian MPs was brushed off when
it urged former External Affairs
Minister Sharp to request inves-
tigation into prisoner maltreat-
ment in South Vietnam by the
International Red Cross or the
United Nations Human Rights
Commission.

The record is no credit to
Canada. :

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