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Canada’s Entebbee
or Waterloo?

It can’t be long before the
results of the Canadian actions
in Iran come home to roost.
There’s going to be an end to
the self-congratulations and

Some sober reassessing will
reveal that the use of our em-
bassy in Tehran to smuggle out
U.S. citizens on forged docu-

reprecussions.

_ From a media standpoint the
timing couldn’t be better for
the Tories whose election for-
_ tunes looked bleak. Clark ob-

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ments could have long-term —

viously waseadvised to take a
leaf out of Carter’s book and
‘get tough’’ with the USSR
and anyone else handy. He
threatens to send troops to the

- Persian Gulf to protect “‘our —

Vital interests’, age us
sporting ties (t erican
haven't: prevents Soviet ships
from docking, promises to
boost arms spending and now
uses Canada’s diplomatic ser-
vice as an arm of the U.S. State

Department.

Other recent U.S.-Canadian
‘‘cooperation’’ included stupid
spy charges against Soviet dip-
lomatic personnel last month
in Ottawa which was. under-
taken with FBI ‘‘assistance’’.
For this gracious Canadian aid
the Americans thanked us by
announcing they will float their

giant oil tankers past Canada’s
Pacific coast. ;

_ The latest coup, which is
clearly timed for votes, has
cost Canada its Tehran embas-
sy. Last time, Clark promised
to move an embassy to
Jerusalem, anather gambit that
backfired. The latest action in
Iran exposes Canada as a front
for U.S. policy and activity.
No more ‘‘neutral image’’ for
us.
The former Canadian am-
bassador to Tehran can mum-
ble all he wants about hoping
this insult to Iran won't alter
Canadian-Iranian relations.
The Iranians are angry and, in-
cidentally, so is the White
House because the public ad-
mission of what happened
there will obviously affect U.S.
efforts to deal with the new
government.

Clark’s vote-getting gambit
could well be costlier than he
and Flora MacDonald realize.

Canada wins the
gung-ho event

Tory Fitness and Amateur
Sport Minister Paproski has
pulled Canada out of its sports
exchange agreements with the
USSR under which 120 Cana-
dian and Soviet athletes were
to participate in 1980.

The agreement signed last
month would have sent Cana-
dian wrestlers, gymnasts, hoc-
key teams, divers and skaters
to the USSR. Soviet hockey
teams, figure skaters, swim-
mers, divers and judo teams
were to come here.

Paproski also sent a letter to
the Canadian Track and Field
Association pressuring it to not
Permit the Soviet track team to
take part in the Second Ed-
monton Journal International
Indoor Games on Feb. 16.

While all this hysteria comes
down here. the Americans ha-
ven’t been quite so gung-ho.
The U.S. boxing team left for
the USSR last week to partici-
pate in the 12th Annual USA-
USSR boxing meet in Moscow

_ and will also meet in Tbilisi and

Vilnus. The American free-
Style wrestling team is also in
the USSR. The Soviet track
team, which is personna non
grata in Edmonton, is expected
to visit Houston, Texas next
month for a scheduled meet.

All the news that
fits, fits ...

There’s probably no space
left in the newspapers or time
on TV because the anti-Soviet
Campaign is burning up the
newsrooms and airwaves. But ©

town on the Arkansas, Texas,

you can imagine what adjust-
ments would be made if 300
Soviet police, armed with au-
tomatic weapons, had attacked
a crowd killing two young
people and injuring several
more. And what juicy news
this would be if you could read
that the crowd was protesting
the murder by police the night
before of a 15-year old boy.

Three hundred police did at-
tack a crowd on Jan. 20 killing
two with gunfire and injuring
several others. And the crowd
of 150 were protesting the
police killing the previous night
of a 15-year old.

But it didn’t happen in Mos-
cow, nor in Prague, or Kabul,
or Ho Chi Minh City. Not even
in Belfast or Santiago, Chile.

The killings took place in
Idabel, Oklahoma last week, a

Oklahoma border right down
there in the Land of the Free.
But somehow, dammit, it es-
caped the sharp eye of CTV
and CBC. The Toronto Star
missed it and so did Canada’s
national institution, the Globe
and Mail. The Toronto Sun in
its unrelenting defence of
human rights let it slip by too.

They must all be busy with
other news.

China troop build-up threatens Mongolia

The newspaper Unen, in the Mongolian People’s Republic, (MPR);

published this article,

expressing concern over military and propa-

ganda activities of Maoist China, with which the country shares a
common border. An abridged text appears below.

Peking’s foreign policy ac-
tivities over the past 20-odd years
show most convincingly that the
Chinese leaders often ascribe to
other countries all the negative
things that they do or are going to
do themselves. This is manifest in
their approach to the most pres-

"sing issues of out time, in particu-.

lar to the -question of war and
peace.

Official representatives of Pek-
ing and its propaganda apparatus
apply all their forces to create
among people not versed in poli-
tics the impression that China is in
a state of siege and under threat of
an armed attack from countries
contiguous to it, socialist at that,
and this allegedly confronts the
Peking leaders with an imperative

-need at any cost to arm them-

selves to the teeth and even with

the help of the military-industrial

complexes of imperialist powers.
Pressure on Mongolia

To Judge from the desperate

anxiety displayed by Peking over

Soviet military units stationed in
_ the MPR, it appears that Mon-

golia, which has relatively small
economic and military’ might,
which has nearly all through its
history been subjected to annexa-
tionist claims and all kinds of
pressure on the part of Chinese
rulers, threatens one billion
strong China which has a huge
army equipped with nuclear mis-
sile weapons.

Peking knows well that
people’s Mongolia has never
threatened the sovereignty of
China, but, on the contrary, has
always been on the side of the
Chinese people and has made

what contribution it could to the
cause of struggle for their victory
in the national liberation
movement.

The imaginary threat from the
north serves as a smokescreen to

world war, openly engage in
sabre-rattling, encroaching on the
freedom and national independ-
ence of other peoples, and
threaten to ‘‘teach lessons’’ to
peace-loving states for resisting
the political domination of Chi-
na’s leaders. Such slogans as
‘*turning China into a single mili-
tary camp’’, ‘“‘every Chinese is
first of all a soldier’, or ‘‘each
generation must have its own
war’’ have served and serve now
as the principal political mottos.

cover up the aggressive and in-
cendiary policy of the Chinese
leadership aimed at stepping up
war preparations and at total mili-
tarization of the life of Chinese
society.-.2< 5

The leadership of the Commu-
nist Party of China has gone from
political and ideological con-
frontation with countries of the
socialist community to all-round
inter-state opposition . . . the pol-
icy of Peking today radically
contradicts the cause of peace,
international security and_ in-
terests of all peace-loving forces
on the earth. The ideological
Source is Maoism.
_ Through Maoism China has
now become the only country in
the world whose ruling circles
come out as apologists for-a new

And this how all this is being
implemented in practical deeds.

China’s Aggressive Strategy

Since the end of the 50s China
has gone over to an aggressive of-
fensive strategy. Since that time it
has been provoking almost inces-
santly from year to year various
military incidents and large-scale
aggressive actions against many
states. Out of 30 military conflicts
in Asia after the Second World
War, 19 arose through the fault of
China. Over the past 20 years
there has not been acase in which
Peking in one form or another
failed to interfere in the armed ac-
tions of pro-Peking splitters or

pro-western reactionary regimes"
_against the national liberation

movement and the legitimate
governments of a number of

Asian and African countries.

Now China, in numerical
Strength of armed forces, oc-
cupies first place in the world. In
the people’s militia, which makes
up part of the Chinese armed
forces, according to calculations
by Japanese military specialists,
there are approximately 200 mil-
lidn men.

' But these figures keep growing.
In 1977-1978 alone the numerical
Strength of the armed forces of
China increased by one million
men. They already have in their
arsenal more than 100 combat
missiles of medium range (1,200-
2,800 km), including ones with
nuclear warheads.

Since 1964 China has carried
out 24 nuclear weapons tests, has
Staged more than 150 experi-
mental missile launchings and is
engaged in intensive work to de-
velop intercontinental ballistic
missiles with a range of up to
12,000 km.

No wonder, the direct military
expenses of China have in the last
three years risen from $21,000-
Million to $36,000-million, with
30% of that sum being spent on
the implementation of the nuc-
lear-missile program.

Armies on Borders

The question naturally arises:
What is making China keep sucha
huge military machine? Is it
prompted by the task of defending
against the class enemies of the
Chinese people — the imperialist
aggressors? Not at all. On the
contrary, the Chinese leaders try
at all costs to preserve the U.S.
military presence in Asia and
Other parts of the world. They
advocate the consolidation of the
military-political alliance among
Washington, Tokyo and Seoul,
and officially promise not to de-

Stroy the military potential of .

Taiwan.
Everyone knows that during

the years of the ‘‘cultural revolu:
tion’ Peking carried out’ radical
changes in the location of the
basic forces of the Chinese army.
Now the largest army groupings
are concentrated in direct proxim-
ity to the MPR and the USSR.

The formation of a large army
grouping along the Chinese-Viet-
namese and Chinese-Laotian
frontiers was carried out by Pek-
ing at the expense of military units
located in the inner and south-
eastern regions of the country.

In these conditions the MPR
cannot but strengthen its defence
potential. It is the Maoist leader-
ship of Peking who have turned
the border between China and
the MPR, which existed as a bor-
der of peace and _ good-
neighborliness, into a border of
constant tension.

The pernicious policy of Pek-
ing, is fraught with a real threat to
all peoples and countries regard-
less of their social system and
whether close to or far from Chi-
na. History shows that any policy
claiming world domination ends
up as a boomerang for its makers.
The sabre-rattling policy will
bring the Peking rulers nothing
but still greater harm, with suffer-
ings for the Chinese people them-
selves, whose fundamental in-
terests require that they live in
peace and friendship with all
other peoples.

Nicaragua’s ‘Plan 80°

Nicaragua’s revolutionary
government announced Wednes-
day its ‘‘Plan 80.”

Planning Minister Henry Ruiz
said the government will try to
reduce inflation from 50% to 19%
in 1980, and increase the Central
American nation’s Gross Na-
tional Product by 22%.

The foreign debt for 1980 will
stand at $113 million, he said.

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