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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!

Profiteer of the week |

PACIFIC

50 years

REPEAL
SECTION 98

TORONTO — Over the
signature of its secretary,
Sula, the _ National
Unemployment Committeé
representing 273,854 work:
ers, has endorsed the Can@
dian Labor Defence League
resolution for repeal of S& |
tion 98 and release of all cla®
war prisoners. The resolutio?
has been sent to Premie!
Bennett: “We will do all W®
can to assist you in your ae
paign for repeal of Section ©
in the release of all class W
prisoners, realizing the 1”
portance for the worki?
class movement in gene!
and the working class move
ment in general,” is ¢

received by the Labor De
fence League today.

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