Soviet peace leaders here May Vancouverites will have an op- pes tity to hear directly from Plesentatives of the Soviet peace ont when a four-member “gation of the Soviet Peace thi Mmission visits Vancouver later C S month as part of a cross- aada tour. ae B.C. Peace Council, which in host the delegation in this pro- meat, 12S scheduled a public ae for Monday, May 16, 8 Bhi: in the Sheraton Plaza 500 : el, at 12th Avenue and Cambie = In Vancouver. A press con- ie will be held earlier in the pate peace committee represen- , Wes will arrive in Vancouver Unday afternoon, May 15and will leave for Edmonton early Wednes- day, May 18. The delegation is made up of Dr. A. P. Romadonov, a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, director of the Kiev Scientific- Research Institute of Neurosurgery, a deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet and a member of the Soviet Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (delegation leader); R. A. Papilov, secretary of the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions and deputy chairman of the Moscow Peace Committee; V. F. Dvinin, editor of the committee for broad- casting and television in the USSR; A. K. Khodareva, head of the in- ternational department of the _DISA Soviet Peace Committee. Also travelling with the group is their in- terpreter, D. A. Agrachev. Gordon Flowers, executive director of the Canadian Peace Congress which is organizing the tour, said that it would give Cana- dians ‘“‘an opportunity to hear about the peace movement in the Soviet Union ask questions and get answers. “Tt could not come at a better time when so many are asking questions about the peace move- ment in the Soviet Union, the newest proposals put forward by the Warsaw Pact nations, the issue of Soviet SS-20s and the stalled negotiations on intermediate range nuclear forces and strategic arms reduction in Geneva,”’ he said. RMAFRAENT : A delegation of five from the eight-million Soviet Peace Com- mittee also spoke to Canadian au- diences in November, 1980 — the first time that the committee had ever toured Canada. But with the Canadian peace movement now numbering in the hundreds of thousands — and with federal government poised to sign a cruise testing agreement, fuelling a new round in the arms race — the Soviets’ current visit is of major significance. “This year, 1983, is a crucial time to prevent nuclear war,’’ said Flowers, ‘‘If the peace forces are not able to end the stalled U.S.-Soviet negotiations we are heading to incalculable danger for humanity.”’ Author will open disarmament meet Dr, John Somerville, RANKIN & © Real Estate and Conveyancing ® Divorce and Family Law Barristers & Solicitors 4th Floor, 195 Alexander St., Vancouver, B.C. 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The San Diego professor, who has also authored Listening to the End of the World, is slated to speak at an admission-free session at 8 p.m. Friday, May 27 at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver. That engagement is open to the general public. For the regular con- ference, which runs May 28 and 29 at the Robson Square Media Cen- tre, registration — preferably in ad- vance of Saturday morning — is re- quired. The cost is $8, or $5 for seniors and students. Conferences of the coalition, which consists of numerous lower mainland peace groups, involve seminars followed by a_ final plenary session. This year’s seminars include ‘‘Canada and the global arms race,’’ led by Educators for Peace members Luis Sobrino and Michael Wallace, faculty members at the University of B.C. Fellow educator Lois Boyce will speak at the ‘‘teaching and learning for nuclear disarmament’’ seminar, while labor leader Frank Kennedy, president of End the Arms Race, and economist Emil Bjarnason of the Trade Union Research. Bureau’ will speak on labor’s contribution to peace . For further information phone the coalition at 731-5626. [Peace diary remembered, Under the dedication “Children need peace,’’ the Soviet Union is com- memorating the 40th anniver- sary of the death of Tanya Savicheva whose diary, kept up by her during the long Nazi siege of Leningrad, has become a powerful monument to peace. “The Savichevs died. Every one of them. Only Tanya is left.’’ That was the last entryin her diary in 1942. Later, along with a number of other children, she was evacuated to a children’s home but she died there, unable to recover from the starvation and exhaustion suffered during the siege. The members of the Savicheva family who had re- mained in Leningrad did in- deed die but; unbeknownst to Tanya, an older brother, Mikhail, and a sister, Nina, both of whom were working elsewhere, survived. In 1945, Nina returned to the family home in Leningrad and found there a distant relative who had gathered up their belongings — including the old notebook which Tanya had used for the diary. + In the photo at left, Nina walks past the stone pages of the diary, placed along the historic ‘‘road to life’? which linked Leningrad with the rest of the Soviet-held territory during the Nazi blockade. At right, Mikhail poses with school children during a peace poster competition organized © 4 Classified Advertising in Tanya’s memory. COMING EVENTS COMING EVENTS MAY 8 — Annual Mother’s Day pancake breakfast and horseshoe tournament at Bev and Kostyn’s, 12715—66th Ave. Surrey. From 10 a.m. For directions, 594-0539. All you can eat for $5; children % price. Proceeds to Tribune. 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