== CS ERT ore d AE. All out October 22! October 22: let it go down in history as the biggest protest ever, demanding nuc- lear disarmament. This is the opportunity of people to change the course of nuclear history — and it must not fail. The price of failure would very probably be a nuclear - holocaust ending human existence. There are many important things in life ially on weekends. But this one weekend — October 22 — is going to in- fluence Canada’s government, which can influence other governments. Besides, Canada’s demonstrators on October 22 will be shoulder to shoulder with millions around the world demanding nuclear dis- armament and negotiations not deploy- ment! A single purpose will prevail on October New round A new round of hysteria, set off by the killing in Burma of 17 South Korean of- ficials, four of them cabinet ministers, takes over where the hysteria around Flight 007 left off. Acknowledging the tragedy of in- nocent victims being used on a spy mission as was the case with 007, and questioning - the political method used to deal with the custodians of the South Korean butcher regime, there is yet the matter of facts. In the case of the October 9 killing of the South Koreans, no facts or evidence as to _ whois responsible have become available at this date. This hasn’t prevented the U-S.- run regime in Seoul from whipping up a frenzy of hatred and incitement against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north. Hysterical mesmerism is evidently the major stock-in-trade of imperialism these days, as the organized, screaming mobs in Seoul bear out. Six weeks or so ago they were organized and screaming in Ottawa with a similar aim. It is not difficult to recall the hysteria about the Korean Air Lines plane. Reagan, evidently prior-briefed by the CIA and Pentagon, was off like a whippet, joined by - the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and other reactionary media to get imperial- _ism’s automatons marching, mouthing “uncivilized, barbarous, deliberate, murderers, savagery, perfidy.” The Globe and Mail was so proper it made a comparison between “the Soviet The ‘free’ press Reading reports’ of the conspiracy, -merger and monopoly trial of two giant newspaper corporations — Thomson Newspapers Ltd., and Southam Inc. —one can only ask: Good grief! Is this what we - depend upon for reliable information? Trial evidence shows manipulated clo- sures of newspapers, swallowed com- panies, and the secret bartering away of these sources of public information to en- hance financie| statements. The capitalist system’s vaunted freedom of the press means only freedom to make profit. As for relying on that paper at your door _or in the street box for factual information or a balanced expression of the interests of all segments of society, or making it the basis for objective judgements — forget it! PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 19, 1983—Page 4 22: Stop nuclear arms escalation, return to detente, and a high priority for Canada — refuse the Cruise! Every concerned Canadian, and that should be everyone who loves life, is called upon to find a way to be part of this vast message to the missile mongers — in the streets — and for the housebound, a tele- phone and letter campaign. It is time for the people of Canada to direct the government to align itself with the millions for nuclear disarmament — and to demand that NATO cease its pro- vocative escalation. Let us make October 22 the biggest anti-war manifestation Canada has known. It is up to each of us. Now we have the opportunity. Next year ...? of hysteria empire” and “the civilized, humane values we in the West cherish”! Could anything be more degrading to the victims of U.S. espionage? There was a load of provocative garbage about the USSR “knowing” it was a 747, “knowing” it was loaded with passengers, because looking at a chart on a wall in 200-watt light one sees a difference bet- ween a 747 and an R-135 U.S. spy plane. Then, on October 7, the Globe and Mail, possibly with relief, given all the holes in the original trump-up, admitted, page one: Soviets didn’t know jet was 747, U.S. ex- perts say. So, after five weeks of Reagan-led hys- teria, hate-peddling, provocation and boy- cotts eagerly lapped up by every stray dog of imperialism, U.S. intelligence sources decided they had to let Reagan down gently. : “U.S. intelligence experts,” to, quote David Shribman, New York Times Service, the Globe’s source, “say they have viewed all available evidence and found no indica- tion that Soviet air defence staff knew it was a commercial plane before the attack.” What about “deliberate murder” drum- med into our ears a.m. to p.m. for five weeks? What about malicious liars? “The informants say most U.S. intelli- gence specialists are confident, as a result of the review, that the SU-15 fighter that fired the rockets at the 747 on Sept. | was below and behind the airliner, rather than parallel to it, as high-level officials in Washington at first believed,” Shribman says. Believed on what evidence? Now the multiple killings of South Ko- rean diplomats, again awaiting facts and evidence. (And even then there’s the chance of another Reichstag fire set-up.) But the incitement to war in South Korea is at fever pitch, just as in 1950 when the USA’s John Foster Dulles visited Seoul and pulled the trigger on the DPRK, costing tens of thousands of lives. Next month Reagan is scheduled to visit Seoul. On this round Canadians may be less willing to swallow media hysteria. The Globes, Stars, Suns and Broadbents may see merit in waiting for realities instead of fables. Whatever the defenders of imperialism may do the people of Canada would be well advised not to be taken in by this second attempt in two months to brainwash them into a war hysteria. Yj AND CUT AT CRAP Flashbacks 25 years NUCLEAR FREEZE PROPOSAL NEW YORK — A pledge was given to the United Na- tions Oct. 10 that the Soviet Union would stop nuclear tests at once if Britain and the United States would accept an immediate end to tests “for all time.” Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin said the U.S. proposal that the UN should “sit back on its haunches and await the decisions in Geneva” could. not be accepted. Speaking after Cabot Lodge, he said the U.S. dele- gate’s speech had greatly dis- appointed him, failing as it did to submit “concrete prop- osals relating to the cessation of nuclear-weapon testing.” : Tribune, October 20, 1958 Economic crisis? What economic crisis? Good old ae Trustco Mortgage Co., London, Ont., had an after-tax profit ne $44,770,000 for the nine months ended Sept. 30. A year earlier” same period netted $26,001,000. “pledge of the NUC ina Jette! 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