= T ass news agency has now published the first photos of the baby mammoth uncovered from the permafrost during bulldozing operations in the Frunze gold fields in Susumansky region in the north-eastern USSR. Incredibly preserved by the permafrost, the ancient animal has been sent to Magadan where Soviet scientist S. G. Zhelnin (above) ‘will be among several experts studying it. British scientist voices warning N-bomb ‘mutants’ feared A British scientist has warned at genetic mutations and birth efects could result if the U.S. ever detonates the neutron bomb. __ J. H. Edwards, a professor of ~human genetics at Birmingham aternity Hospital in Britain ©Mmphasized the dangerous __tadiation effect of the weapon and Voiced particular concern that any of those wounded in a neutron bomb blast could give birth later to children with birth defects. The wounded “would carry to the distant future cases of recessive disease,’ Edwards said. “There would also be a number of sterilized inhabitants around the lethal centre and a wider ring of those whose irradiation might be of such a degree as to justify widespread compulsory sterilization as a measure of public health.”’ Professor Edwards’ grim warnings have added impetus to COPE ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY 3570 Hull St. | Sunday, August 21 — 2 p.m. Fish Barbecue and Refreshments Admission $3.00 All Welcome (Bring your own lawnchairs) 2679 E. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. 253-1221 THE COMPLETE TRAVEL SERVICE We will professionally look after all your travel needs. We specialize in tickets, tours, passports, permits and reservations. Call us today— for prompt personalized service. the campaign of opposition to the neutron bomb both in Britain and elsewhere in the world. A leading Tory MP in Britain and a former cabinet minister, Reginald Mauldling, said in a letter to the London Times: “‘Is not the very concept of a weapon designed to destroy all that has life the ultimate insult that man can offer to the human race?”’ Another British commentator, Brian Hillierson, noted that the most sinister aspect of the neutron bomb was the fact that NATO officials wanted to include it in the armory of modern warfare. “Unlike conventional weapons that produce physical injury, neutron radiation affects prin- cipally thenervous system and can lead to widespread brain damage of anature beyond conception. The employment of such a weapon may kill in its hundreds but could well leave behind many thousands of neuropaths and psychopaths — a legacy of inconceivable enormity.”’ The Times itself commented: “Whatever military advantages it may have are outweighed by the added political tension its deployment is likely to bring into East-West relations.” In Hiroshima August 6, at ceremonies marking the an- niversary of the bombing, more than 70,000 people condemned the U.S. decision to produce and deploy the neutron bomb. “There are satanic weapons being produced today,’ H. Shirley Amerasinghe (Sri Lanka), president of the UN General Assembly, told the rally. ‘‘And the most recent obscenity is the neutron bomb, a weapon that will destroy human life but spare property.” In Memory of Malcolm Maitland 1912-1977 Ingrid Michelson, Kate Falk, Eino Ahola ‘Secret arsenal’ in South Africa The. face of South African apartheid has become yet more Sinister with the warning, voiced last week by Tass news agency, that the racist regime may soon be testing its first atom bomb. “The creation of a nuclear weapon in the South African Republic,’ Tass stated, ‘‘would have the most serious and far reaching repercussions for in- ternational peace and security.” Despite an arms ban on South Africa, South Africa has been known to be building up its nuclear potential. The U.S., France and West Germany have all assisted with military supplies and last year, Israel signed a scientific- technological agreement with South Africa to provide nuclear engineering aid in exchange for South African uranium ore. Workon the creation of a nuclear weapon in South Africa is now nearing completion, according to Tass, and preparations are being made for carrying out tests. The news agency declared that the Soviet Union is prepared to “contribute in any way’ to blocking the South African atom bomb and called for international efforts to that end. }- int The Tass warnings of impendin; nuclear :tests:.came. only..a. week after a U.S. specialist on South Africa revealed before. a U.S. House subcommittee that South Africa has been receiving arms secretly from the U.S. in violation of the UN arms embargo. Sean Gervasi, an American economist and a specialist on South Africa, told the U.S. House Sub- committee on Africa that the United States has been secretly arming South Africa enabling that country to build up its military arsenal to alarming proportions. Contrary to the claims made by most international sources which rank the country as a “modest” military power, South Africa has an “awesome military capability, Gervasi stated, and must be ranked with Japan, Iran and Egypt all of which are significant military powers with a dominant influence in important regions of the world.” It has been difficult to assess precisely South Africa’s military strength, he said simply because much of its arsenal has been of secret, U.S. origin. Gervasi, who has served as an assistant to Sean McBride, the UN commissioner for Namibia, doc- mumented his charges with ex- tensive material as to the type and amounts of military equipment provided, where it was delivered and how it was purchased. In addition to some 600 combat planes, most of which are of U.S. origin, the South African forces have brought into service some 200 Patton and Walker tanks, 700 armored personnel carriers of various types and 250 self- propelled guns in bores of 105 and 155 millimetres. All of the named U.S. equipment, including the aircraft, is believed to have been sold to South Africa “since the imposition of the arms embargo in 1963. In the case of the armored personnel carriers, deliveries are continuing. For the most part, the U.S. corporations did not deal directly with South Africa but rather licensed foreign manufacturers to manufacture the weapons. Ford Motor Company was one such company which licensed an Italian firm, Oto Melara, to produce the armored carrier. The licensing arrangement has enabled the racist South African regime to develop an enormous military arsenal while allowing the U.S. to pose as one of the countries complying with the embargo. 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