WORLD Former NATO general and World Peace Council vice-president Nino Pasti holds a copy ofa U.S. National Security Council graph showing the superiority of NATO ground forces over those of the Warsaw Pact — one of the many documents he uses which are based exclusively on U.S. and NATO sources. Pasti barred from U.S. TORONTO — A former NATO gen- eral was here this week to hold discus- sions with civil libertarians in Washington D.C. over closed-circuit TV because he had been refused an entry visa by the U.S. State Department. Former Italian senator, and retired NATO _ general-turned-peace-activist, Nino Pasti told the Tribune that a speak- ing tour arranged for him by the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Organization and some peace groups had to be cancelled after the U.S. embassy in Rome denied him permission to enter the U.S. “Three years ago I was invited to’ make a speaking tour of the U.S. and I was a granted a visa to do so,” Pasti explained, “two years ago when I was again asked to speak in the U.S., the Reagan administration placed so many restrictions on me. I was notallowed to make public speeches, I was not allowed to move from New York, so I decided Nino Pasti’s dedicated struggle for peace, both as a member of the Italian senate and as the author of numerous well-researched books on peace, has brought him world-wide admiration and respect. He finds it ironic that the Reagan administration regards him as a threat. ‘All my research on nuclear weapons is drawn from official American docu- ments,” Pasti explains, ‘‘so it seems to me rather strange that the Reagan adminis- tration views the official American doc- uments as being ‘against the interests’ of the WiS-? Nino Pasti commented on how the vast majority of people in Europe and several of the governments are greatly opposed to the deployment of the Amer- ican missiles. “The people of Europe are absolutely unhappy with the Reagan military pol- icy,” he said. “they are also unhappy with the Reagan economic policy. That is why the peace movement is so large and ~ Salvador military massacres charge# By TOM FOLEY News reports have surfaced charging that U.S.-trained Salvadoran troops have car- ried out several massacres of unarmed pea- sants in that country’s civil war. The “‘revenge” massacre in July at Los Llanitos of at least 68 peasant men, women and children was carried out by the Atlacatl battalion and other U.S.-trained junta army “units according to Salvadoran peasants questioned in the past few days by U.S. reporters. On Sept. 9 it was learned that another massacre of at least 80 unarmed civilians occurred the previous week in northern Chalatenango province and most likely involved U.S.-trained troops as well. Arch- bishop Arturo Rivera y Damas said after mass on Sunday that he had instructed the church’s human rights office to investigate the latest massacre. The Catholic human rights office earlier had reported that 45,000 people have been killed in El Salvador since 1979, most of them having been killed by the junta’s army in the course of “‘punitive” operations like .the one that hit Los Llanitos in July. According to U.S. news media reports, members of the U.S.-trained Atlacatl battal- ion shouted to peasants in the area that they would “pay” for the battle around Cerron Grande dam, in which the Salvadoran patriotic forces, defending the dam, inflicted huge casualties on the junta’s forces. U.S. reporters visiting the Los Llanitos area recently were shown graves, human bones, burned pieces of wood and other evidence of the massacre. Survivors, includ- ing several children, burst into tears when questioned about what the junta’s troops did. It reminded reporters and others of similar scenes that took place after U.S. “clear and kill” (search and destroy) opera- tions during the Vietnam war. News of the Salvadoran junta’s massa- cres came as Daniel Ortega, coordinator of the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua, warned that the Reagan admin- istration is stepping up its illegal and unde- clared war against Nicaragua. Ortega said that 700 CIA “‘contras” have been killed by the Nicaraguan people’s forces in battles over the last two months alone. : The Sandinista leader said the CIA’s Sept. 1 rocket attack by helicopter on a small village in northern Nicaragua is evi- dence of an escalation of Reagan adminis- tration warfare aimed at disrupting the country’s scheduled November elections. Two U.S. mercenaries and a Nicaraguan mercenary were killed when their helicopter was shot down after firing rockets which been stepped up by the CIA-directed “0! tras” but also the CIA has resumed ! attacks by sea, using the Gulf of Fonseca: the most recent period, eight attacks on™ Pacific coast of Nicaragua have been mad by the “‘contras,” using high-speed Pirat® boats, the-defence ministry said. ie Air raids by U.S.-made planes and! d copters are also continuing, the minis# reported, The attacks have all come fro Honduran bases, most of them built wil funds appropriated by the U.S. congre Pentagon and CIA personnel plus regul U.S. Army troops are stationed on a vir ally permanent basis at these installation Honduras. Es The administration has been charged ™! using Israel, Argentina, Guatemal, Tal and Venezuela as financial suppor of its illegal operations and it is likely ™ others such as Chile and South Korea m be involved as well. The Washington-based council on He? spheric Affairs charged at the end of Aug! that the Reagan administration has Wo! | out a new plan, based on Regan’ } election, to invade Nicaragua. They charged that the beginning stages of plan are unfolding now. The council § the invasion date is slated for Feb. 15, at which time a massive air and naval b? bardment of Nicaragua will begin, follo¥ by a ground assault using U.S., Hondu Guatemalan and Salvadoran troops CIA mercenaries. Nuclear war concern grows WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cy Vance, former U.S. secretary of stal? and currently chairman of the of gant zation, Public Agenda, stressed at press conference here that people e the U.S. are increasingly frightened by the outbreak of nuclear war. Bc Vance released a poll taken by his organization showing that 89 pet 7 of the people in the U.S. are convil that there can be no winner 19 nuclear war. Some 83 per cent of the people interviewed said that they” not believe that a limited nucleat can be waged. el Vance said that the poll show that concern about ending the nu¢ ie arms race has increased among ~* - not to go. This year the State Depart- oat ment said my visa was denied because is growing. It is important we do not killed a man and three small girls who were people because of the nucleaf ie! my presence in the U.S. was against the _ forget the strength the peace movement working in the fields. buildup underway by the Reag?” interests of the U.S.” has.” The Nicaraguan defence ministry said administration. a Sept. 9 that not only ground assaults have — ts . — : Prime Minister Thatcher has refused to The request had been backed by several in South Africa as South Alricans.” Te i Thatcher refuses meeting with lawyer for anti-apartheid leaders in consulate meet with the lawyer for the six anti- apartheid leaders who sought refuge in the British consulate in Durban, South Africa. The six, leaders the National Indian Congress and the United Democratic Front, all of whom face detention orders from the Botha regime, took refuge in the consulate Sept. 13. Zakes Yacoob was in Britain with Mr. Marobe, national secretary of the United Democratic Front, to negotiate British aid in seeking asurances from the South Afri- can government that the six would not be re-arrested or further harassed by author- ities. In a telephone interview with the Trib- une, Yacoob said he had met with an offi- cial in the foreign office who “‘took note” - of his clients’ demands and his request for a ministerial level meeting with the government. - : prominent British personalities and organ- izations including Neil Kinnock, head of the Labor Party. In a letter to Kinnock, released to the British press Sept. 19, Thatcher refused the meeting, without elaboration. : The men had been picked up in a wave of arrests of UDF leaders just prior to the Aug. 22 voting for the Indian parliament. They were released on a technicality but when new arrest orders were issued they entered the British consulate. The UDF led the successful election boycott under the new South African constitution. Yousef Saloojee, African National Congress representative in Canada, emphasized that the UDF leaders were not seeking political asylum. “They have — no intention of leaving the country,” he said in an interview. “They want to remain ‘Community. move, said Saloojee, was to cal pf national attention to the scores of U the leaders still in detention and to ensure men would be free of further intimidat Mike Terry, head of the British ee Apartheid Movement said the situ@ 3s was at a “stalemate”. The men will sty “unwelcome guests” in the consulate ¥’ al a solution is reached. Consulate offic {0 have denied toilet facilities, and acce? the six by their family and friends. Britain has a strong and activ fe. apartheid lobby. Thatcher would fa ‘of serious backlash if diplomatic prot were denied the six men. _ a Yacoob and Marobe left Brita” Wednesday for Ireland to meet wit a president of the European Econ “a 8 e PACIFIC TRIBUNE, SEPTEMBER 26, 1984