tion, talks with Michael Cummins, c

Helmut Angula (left), the chief representative in the Caribbean for the South West Africa People’s Organisa-
np ie - hairman of the Barbados based Southern Africa Liberation Committee.

SWAPO has charged Canada with being a major supplier of arms to Southern Africa.

Canada major supplier

of arms to South Africa

Special to the Tribune

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados —
According to Helmut Angula, the
chief representative in the Carib-
bean for the South West Africa
People’s Organization (SWAPO),
most of the light arms used by the
South African occupation forces
in the African country of Namibia
come from Canada and the
United States.

Angula said that the bulk of the
armaments used by the occupa-
tion forces in his country are not
manufactured in South Africa but

were acquired in defiance of UN
Security Resolutions which call
on member states to help break
the racist State’s hold on the Afri-
can country.

Ottawa is supposedly an av-
owed supporter of the November,
1977 UN Security Council resolu-
tion which appealed for an arms
embargo on South Africa.

Angula, who was speaking in
Barbados last month while on a
visit with a delegation from the
United Nations Council on
Namibia, revealed that SWAPO’s
military wing, the People’s Liber-

Guyanese labor leader

assassinated by

The murder, late last month, of
Dr. Walter Rodney, leader of the
Working Peoples’ Alliance of
Guyana was a loss to not only the
“WPA but also a loss to the
Guyanese nation and the whole
Caribbean’, the Peoples’ Pro-
gressive Party of Guyana said ina
statement deploring the murder of
the young historian.

Odney’s murder, which the

_ PPP linked to a whole series of

Teactionary, anti-democratic ac-
tivities over the years in Guyana,
has sparked a series of protests
and condemnation from around
the world. .

_The PPP, led by former Prime
Minister Cheddi Jagan, said that
the Rodney murder was designed
to “‘step up the violence which
has been rapidly developing as a

form of intimidation’? which has

as its aim the ‘‘silencing of all op-
position’’- and spreading. fear

_ among the people of Guyana.

' While independent political
organizations, the PPP and WPA
have been drawn closer together
over the past few years and have
cooperated on a whole number of
fronts to-win new policies from
the government of Forbes Bur-
nham, which the PPP said has
maintained itself in power by
“electoral fraud and postpone-
ment of elections’’.

The Caribbean community of

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Before his assassination: Dr. Wal-
ter Rodney with one of his
daughters.

Canada reacted to Rodney’s
murder with a series of demon-
strations and memorial meetings,
including a picket of the U.S.
consulate in Toronto and a meet-
ing-in Edmonton which heard
from 12 organizations including
the Communist Party.

ation Army of Namibia (PLAN),
had captured rifles which had
markings proving that the guns
had come into the country as re-
cently as this year..

The UN General Assembly has
been concerned with the question
of Namibia since the institution’s
first session in 1946.

It was in that year that the As-
sembly recommended that South
Africa relinquish its administra-
tion on the colony and place it
under the international trustee-
ship system established by the
UN Charter.

Two decades later, in the face

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of South Africa’s continued re-_

fusal to fulfill its international
obligations, the Assembly termi-
nated South Africa’s mandate
over the territory and assumed di-
rect responsibility for it. 3

Prior to the First World War,
Namibia was.a colony of Imperial
Germany. Subsequently, the re-
sponsibility for administering
Germany’s colonies was placed
under a League of Nations Man-

_ date.

The Mandate was given to Bn-
tain and assumed by South Africa
which undertook to ‘‘administer’’
the territory on behalf of the
League.

Namibia (also known as South
West Africa) is bordered by An-
gola in the north, South Africa in

the south, Botswana and Zambia -

in the east and northeast and by
the Atlantic Ocean in the west.
The country has a population es-
timated at one and a half million
and posseses rich deposits of
uranium, diamonds, copper, lead,
zinc and other minerals.
SWAPO was formed on April
19, 1960 and is recognized by the
UN as being the legitimate and

authentic representative of the

Namibian people.

SWAPO pledges to unite all the
Namibian people, particularly the
working class, the peasantry and
progressive intellecutals into a
vanguard party capable of safe-
guarding national independence
and of building a classless, non-
exploitative society based on the
ideals and principles of scientific
socialism.

- INTERNATIONAL FOCUS

OK Comrades
scrape that paint off

We got our first taste this

week of the type of press
coverage the Moscow Olym-
pics can expect to receive
when a copyrighted story from
the New York Times service
found it’s way into Canada’s
‘national’ newspaper.
- According to the Times
story, the city of Moscow is
busily preparing to receive
hundreds of thousands of
foreign athletes, tourists and
media, and is doing its best to
spruce itself up.

Anywhere else in the world
this would be laudable, but ap-
parently in Moscow, it’s sim-
ply a dastardly plot designed to

- pull the wool over the eyes of

western visitors. Among other
nefarious schemes, Musco-
vites have repainted major
buildings, repaired and re-
placed sidewalks and streets
which needed work, built new
sports and tourist facilities,

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Sprucing up for the Games.

planted new lawns and fioral
areas, and put new buses into
service. ;

So complete has the over-
haul been and so deceptive,
says the New York Times, that
it was compelled to warn vis-
itors to the city that unless you
knew better ‘‘a visitor during
the Olympics might marvel at
the gleaming Soviet capital.”

But the mind boggles at
what’s going to happen as soon
as Games are over. The clear
implication from the Times
story is that it’s all temporary,
and surface deep. Does that
mean that as soon as the last
western tourist crosses over
the city limits Muscovites will
be busy as Soviet beavers
scraping off the new paint and
ripping up those unsightly new
lawns and floral arrangements?

Aw, c’mon fellas, give us a
break.

Canadian athletes
to Moscow

Still on the Olympics,
Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau
has decided to excuse himself
from the official opening cere-
monies in Moscow. As mayor
of the host city for the last
Games, Drapeau is tra-
ditionally called upon to hand”
over the official Olympic Flag
(which we presume has been
hanging in his office these past
four years as a reminder of the

_$1-billion debt) during the

opening ceremonies.
But, in the true spirit of
anti-Sovietism, Drapeau has

initiated his own personal boy-
cott of the Games.

Not wishing to totally dis-
rupt the opening ceremonies
though, Drapeau, always with
questionable taste, will be
sending two young athletes to
take his place. The two,
Stephane Prefontaine and
Sandra Henderson will be re-
membered from the last pic-
ture as the final torchbearers

during the opening festivities.

If there’s a lesson to be
learned, it’s that athletes from
this country will have a much
better chance of getting to the
Olympics if they specialize in
one of the rarer events, such as
torch bearing, or flag handing
over, rather than the sprints or
hurdles.

Northern Ireland’s
real terrorists

The neutrality of Northern
Treland’s peace forces has long
been a laughing matter, if it
were not for the tragic con-
sequences associated with
their actions.

Together with the British
security forces the Northern
Irish cops have regularly
harassed, intimidated, im-
prisoned, tortured those seek-
ing a re-unification of Ireland,
free from the colonial domina-
tion of the British Crown.

Like the courts in the south-
em U.S., British and Northern
Irish authorities have generally
turned a blind eye to the out-
rageous actions of their ‘guar-
dians of law and order’ and the
result, for the cops, has gener-
ally been a James: Bondian::
‘license to kill’. And they have.

But, with international at-
tention focussing in more and
more on the denial of civil and
political liberties in Northern
Ireland, and pressures mount-
ing upon the British govern-
ment to end its colonial role on

‘ the island, even the authorities

have had to take some form of
action.

This all comes to mind as a
result of the conviction, in Bel-
fast, of five Northern Ireland
policemen on charges of terror-
ism, including the kidnapping
of a Roman Catholic priest and
the bombing of a bar. One of
the five, a 29 year constable is
already serving a life sentence
for murdering a shopkeeper.

It makes you wonder just
who the actual ‘terrorists’ are.

Take note Flora

Iceland, the tiny northem
republic which provided the
portal to the innermost reaches
of the Earth in Jules Verne’s
noval ‘Journey to the Centre of
the Earth’, has yet another first
to its credit.

Voters in the world’s oldest
constitutional republic have
just made Vigdis Finnbogadot-
tir the first popularly elected
woman head of state, when
they selected her over three
male rivals in last week’s pres-
idential elections.

Unlike .some other promi-
nent female politicians, includ-
ing Canada’s own Red Neck
Tory, Flora MacDonald,
Finnbogadottir is a staunch

supporter of progressive

causes, and largely based her
election campaign on the de-
mand that Iceland end its
membership in NATO.

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