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| Republican right wing

horror show launched
The right wing takeover of
the Republican Party, which
Met in Detroit, has been so
complete that even its sup-
’ porters are frightened.
Who could have believed a

_ tired old movie actor could be

_ pressed into service of the
GOP as a presidential candi-
date with a damn good chance
of winning in November. It’s
Reagan's show says the media.
That’s what we're led to be-
lieve.

But the conservative victory
has been carefully engineered
by America’s extreme right.
Reagan is still playing a role.

The Joe Louis Arena re-
sounded all week with clarion

calls. The main theme was war
preparations, strength, con-
frontation, ‘‘no more retreat’’
— all wrapped in the flag, the
Republic and honor. The dele-
gate responded to the crassest
jJingoism with gusto. It was
America’s Nuremberg rally.

When Barry Goldwater told
CBS news that ‘‘ America isn’t
going to be pushed around any
more: by any half-assed na-
tions’’, he was translating poli-
tical language into street talk.
The program of more
weapons, no SALT-II, social
spending, cutbacks, restora-
tion of capital punishment, no
ERA, is what Reagan and the
Republicans are selling.

Let’s hope the American
voter isn’t buying.

What will Thatcher
think of next?

How many temper-tantrums
have you seen to match this
one?

British Prime Minister
Thatcher ordered the embassy
in Moscow to bum 30 Olympic
tickets purchased earlier to en-
sure they are not resold or
given away. The embassy staff
has also been told to stay away
from the Games and have no
contact with British athletes
who defied a government boy-
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_ There's statesmanship fo
you. .

And from the people who
gave you William Buckley

The Toronto Globe & Mail
has its ‘‘Morning Smile’’ and
the Toronto Sun has columnist
Lubor J. Zink. His daily offer-
ing of junk lifted to new heights
July 11 in a piece titled ‘““CBC’s
Marxist troika’”’ in which Zink
fired his guns at the Corpora-
tion for providing radio time
for “communist propagan-
dists’’.

Evidently, to Zink’s horror,
CBC radio interviewed Austra-
lian journalist Wilfred Burchett
last month. Many Tribune
readers heard Burchett in
person during his lecture tour
on Vietnam and Kampuchea.
Others read accounts of his ex-

tensive travels in Southeast -

Asia and his most recent visit
‘in this paper.
“A zealous pusher of Com-
munist causes ... a KGB
agent,’’ hollers Zink.
Anyone who has heard Bur-
chett or read his materials over
the past 30 years is struck by
his depth of knowledge about
Asia. When he speaks of Kam-
puchea, Burchett does so not

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Reagan ... a real actor

only based on may visits over
the years and through several
governments, but also from
having lived in Phnom Penh
with his family for four years.
But there’s no point in listing
Burchett’s credentials. And
less point in comparing them
with Zink’s.
In the best traditions of
smear journalism, Zink attacks
another journalist whose sta-
ture and class he could never

reach. Yet he goes about his

work filling his daily space in
the Toronto Sun each day with
dirty little inuendos and

charges stocking up the fires of —

hate.
Come to think of it, the Sun
and Zink deserve one another.

The China card plays
the Pakistan card

So harsh is the military dic-
tatorship of Pakistani dictator
General Mohammad Zia-ul-
Hag that the United States re-
fused to sell weapons to it.
That changed recently when
the White House, suddenly
forgetting its ‘‘human rights”
chant, decided the Zia regime
was just what it needed in the
area bordering on Afghanistan.

General Zia recently con-

cluded a visit to China and, on ©

his return had this to say about

China-Pakistan relations: ‘“‘I’

had detailed talks with Chinese
leaders. There were two

rounds of talks with Vice-

Premier Deng Zaio Ping and
one with Chairman Hua Kuo
Fang.

“During these talks there
was complete understanding
between China and Pakistan
on all global issues ... China
has been providing us moral,
political and military aid for
quite some time ... Premier

Feng praised Pakistan for en- -

hancing internal unity and
making steady efforts to
strengthen its national de-
fences in the face of grave mili-
tary threat ...”’

There was much more
mutual back-patting between
Feng and Zia. The military aid
supplied by China to Pakistan
finds its way to Afghan bandit
groups. This has been a long-
standing charge by Afghanis-
tan, denied by Zia. The
‘‘praise’’ Premier Feng offers
Zia ‘‘for enhancing internal un-
ity’’ is also noteworthy. Pakis-
tan has been under marshall
law for months, political par-
ties banned and military rule
firmly in control.

Women’s advances examined

COPENHAGEN — About
1,500 women from 100 countries

are in the Danish capital from July

14-30 at a United Nations spon-

sored conference to assertain the
advances made by the. world’s
women during the first half of the
International Decade for Women.

The opening address to the

conference accuse most govern-

ments of paying only lip service in

implementing the UN charter

calling for women’s complete

equality in employment, educa-
tion and health. Progress on these

issues has been minimal and in
some cases regressed the opening

document states. Women make
up 50% of the world’s population
yet earn only 10% of its income
and own 1% of its property.

The role of the multi-national
corporations were singled out by
many speakers, particularly those

from the developing world who
fingered them as the main obsta-
cle in the advancement of women
in their countries.

The women spoke of domestic

industries forced out of business

by foreign encroachment, the ex-

port of speciality foods while

large sections of their population _
suffer from malnutrition and pres-

sure on local governments by

corporations to eliminate or re-

strict trade union rights.

Many of the controversial to-

pics on the 11-point agenda have
already hit the floor. When Jihan
Sadat, wife of Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat approached the
speaker’s platform what ap-
peared to be half the delegates .
walked out in protest. The effect
of Israeli occupation of Arab terri-
tories on Palestinian women con-

tinues to be a pressing issue in the
discussions.

Three of the conference docu-
ments deal with the effects of
apartheid on women in Southern
Africa. The documents charge
the system with assuring a con-
stant supply of cheap labor by
employing the apartheid-policies
of migrant labor, passbook laws
and the creation of Bantustans or
reserves where non-employed
Blacks must live.

Canada has a 13-member dele-
gation at the conference, which is
attended by governmental repre-
sentatives only. The Canadian
delegation is headed by Employ-
ment and Immigration Minister
Lloyd Axworthy. Non-govern-
mental organizations are also pre-
sent in Cophenhagen in a forum
which is running concurrently to
the conference.

KWANGJU — A city of resistance with a tradition of patriotism
and democracy was turned into a city of bloodshed as 17,000
troops smashed into the occupied streets last May which had
been held by thousands of workers and students during a 10-day
popular uprising against the fascist dictatorship in South Korea.
As tanks crushed the resistance the reign of terror began. More
than 2,000 people were butchered and 10,000 wounded from May
18 to 27 alone. Arrests and round-ups of many thousands more
took place and the toll continues to grow. During the crisis, the U.S.
moved troops and ships into ready positions to back the military
regime of Chon Du Hwan and reiterated its determination to stand

by its military agreements with South Korea.

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