— page 12 — ne ON SS || FER EB, — AR, eee age, TIE 0 FP: ce LO SD ete ee See. Bi Se SO St eee ee eee» Oe Oe NOS oi = ~ Rr: ier, atta, Cae, J - et arte} Aiccsen Gein eee TRIBUN! “EL PUEBLO UNIDO” . . . “the people united,” will never be defeated, the popular Chilean resist- ance song rang through Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre Oct. 25 as the renowned Chilean folk > group Quilapayun performed before 1,400 at the solidarity concert sponsored by Canadians for Democracy in Chile. Review, page 11. The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ranger will be met by demonstrators when it pulls into Vancouver | harbor today. The carrier has a nuclear capability and was used extensively during the Vietnam war as a base for U.S. bombing attacks against North Vietnam. The Greenpeace Foundation, United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union and the B.C. Peace Council all issued statements this week stating that the warship is unwelcome in Canadian waters, par- ticularly during UN Disarmament Week. Green} called for demonstrators to greet the ship at 10 a.m. Friday. Its president Patrick Moore said that one protest ship and several zod- iacs (inflatable boats) would be part of the demon- stration. Moore urged the Canadian government — to “tell Washington that this attack carrier is not wanted in Canadian waters, particularly in a week ‘dedicated by the UN to disarmament.” B.C. Peace Council vice-president Bert Ogden said that the “U.S. government is displaying cal- J j U.S. warship unwelcome lous disregard for UN Disarmament Week by moving a nuclear equipped warship into Canadian waters.’’ He said it is one more exampel of the ar- rogance of and adventurism of the U.S. military. The Peace Council wired prime minister Trudeau to cancel the intended visit. United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union secretary George Hewison termed the visit of the Ranger ‘‘an insult to the Canadian people and gross disrespect for the United Nations which is trying desperately to end the arms race. ““With memories of the murder of the Vietna- mese people by the Ranger and its death dealing war planes still fresh in our memory, we condemn this act of the U.S. military as provocative and an attempt to intimidate the Canadian people,”’ he said in a statement. Hewison also wired Trudeau and urged he send the Ranger out of Canadian waters because its nuc- lear capability makes it a target in any possible nuc- lear exchange. E PHOTO—FRED WILSON Throughout western Europe people are reacting with anger and alarm to U.S. plans to station medium range nuclear missiles in their countries and begin stockpil- ing neutron bombs. Whatever credibility U.S. assertions about their defensive purpose may have had President Reagan himself has destroyed with his statement that he* ‘could see where you could have the exchange of tactical weapons in a without it bringing either on&of the major powers to pushing the button.” Over the past two weeks, people of virtually every west European country have rejected this concept ‘ of their future with demonstrations unprecedented in the past decade. In Bonn an estimated 300,000 demonstrated, in Brussels another 300,000 in London, 250,000. In Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Oslo, hundreds of thousands more mar- ched, all with the same demand that Washington shelve its plans for escalating the arms race and proceed with negotiations for arms control and reduction. Jolted by the reaction to his | statement, Reagan tried to reassure the world’s peoples that the U.S. was not in fact contemplating ‘imited nuclear war,’’ but his reassurance lacked any accompa- nying proposals for ending the arms race that Washington has in- itiated. In fact, what he had said was no more than other U.S. spokesmen have been saying in different ways ever since the Reagan administra- tion launched its ‘‘guns before but- ter’? program, most notably by defence secretary Caspar Weinberger who described the newest nuclear missile systems as “our best hope of winning’? — again the implicit contemplation of waging nuclear war once the U.S. attains its goal of achieving military superiority. : The hollowness of Reagan’s has- ty reassurance was bared by his silence on the repeated peace in- itiatives advanced by the Soviet Union. The. Soviet Union, through | foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, has sent to the UN a formal request that the general assembly. adopt a | RT| eae Bowen Island joins protest On the world map Bowen Island and its self-contained community on the harbor ap- proaches to Vancouver does not loom large. But in the struggle for nuclear disarmament and peace its people identify themselves with the hundreds of thousands marching in cities around the world. Some 60 of them carrying their placards took part in a peace walk organized by Bowen Anti-Nuclear Group on Oct. 25. It was a casual, friendly affair. At the com- munity school they listened to Mollie Bou- cher of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. Then they ‘Peace marches rock Europe planted an eight-foot cherry tree to com- memorate those who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dogs, babies, children enthusiastically planting tulips, all gave the affair an atmos- phere of hope, one that the coming genera- tion will remember as part of the struggle to ensure their right to a future. declaration that states and their leaders first resorting to the use of nuclear arms be branded guilty of committing a grave crime against humanity. Commenting on Reagan’s state- ment and his claim that Soviet leaders among themselves consider nuclear war possible and winnable, Brezhnev said he would ‘‘leave to Reagan’s conscience his remark that he supposedly knows that Soviet leaders are talking about among themselves.” In fact, he said, ‘‘the thoughts and efforts of the Soviet leader- ship, just as of the Soviet people as a whole, are directed at preventing nuclear. war altogether by eliminating the very danger of its outbreak.”’ Describing as ‘‘dangerous madness’’ any idea that victory can be won in nuclear war, he added: ‘T shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerg- inga victor from it. No matter what the attacker possesses, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he choses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will follow in- eluctably.”’ Declaring it ‘‘would be good if the president of the U.S., too, would make a clear and unam- biguous statement rejecting the very idea of nuclear attack as a criminal one,’’ he invited the U.S. to support the Soviet declaration at the UN. In Britain, Labor party general secretary John Hayward expressed the revulsion aroused throughout western europe by Reagan’s remarks, declaring, ‘‘We shall not tolerate being turned into pawns by the dangerous fantasies of the American president.” Reagan’s statement, he said, would have the effect of strengthening the Labor party’s determination to oppose stationing of U.S. missiles in Britain. And in the U.S., former vice- president Walter Mondale express- ed dismay at the Reagan ad- ministration’s foreign policy, declaring that it “has put us in the astounding position of appearing that it is we, not the Soviet Union, that is unwilling to talk’’ about the arms race. ;