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COME TO READERS’ CONFERENCE

As announced in last week’s PT, our Annual
Spring Financial Drive will be getting underway
on April 1st. The objective of the drive is to
raise $18,000 during the next two months and so
guarantee the continued existence of our paper.

Coupled with the start of this vital cam-
paign will be a series of Readers’ Conferences,
designed to give all PT supporters an opportunity
of expressing themselves on the job the paper
is doing.

Most newspapers in the capitalist world
exist by means of fantastic sums of money col-
lected from advertisers. Mighty press empires
are built and, in the process, principles often
play second fiddle to influence; expedience
becomes more important than integrity.

Not so with a paper which fights for a
socialist future. By its very nature—because it
threatens the existence of the Establishment
and points the way to an improved social sys-
tem—it is denied access to all normal adver-
tising revenue.

All of our readers, we feel sure, have seen
the countless full page ads in the big daily
monopoly papers. Ads from the provincial gov-

_ ernment, its various departments (like Highways
and Recreation) and its crown corporations (like
B.C, Hydro and the Ferry Authority), And ads
from the federal government and its many
departments and agencies.

PT drive opens April 1

_ drive quotas, Soon, all will be doing this.

None of these has ever appeared on the
pages of the PT, We pay our taxes—both direct
and hidden—like everybody else. But when it
comes to spending those tax dollars they are
carefully allocated, not to those who oppose the
Establishment, but to those who support it.

That is why we are annually faced with an
operating deficit in the neighborhood of $18,000
—and some years, a good deal more,

And that is why we turn every year to the
one source we know will not fail us in our need
—the working men and women of B.C. whom this
paper has consistently tried to represent, for
over 30 years.

This past week Drive materials went out to
all our Press Clubs, quotas are being es-
tablished, personal pledges made and plans laid
to get the drive underway,

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Some clubs, recognizing that our needs
don’t always await the appointed calendar date,
have already begun mailing in funds on their

If you belong to a press club, please do all
you can to see that a quick start on the objective
is made. If you don’t belong to one, we urge
you to mail in your personal donation for the
cause and get your friends to do likewise,
Thank you,

Bacterial war
John Tanche, White Rock,

Train for torture

tion of lowering a man’s testicles
into a jeweller’s vise.

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writes: A few issues ago of The
Sun I read in a tiny article head-
ing “Plague Hits South Vietnam”
(Reuters), “States that bubonic
Plague has broken out in several
lowland provinces,”

I read this with foreboding; it
could very well be that the United
States military has turned now
to bacterial warfare in their des-
Peration to end the Vietnamese
' Conflict in their favor, since the
native population would have no
Means of controlling the disease.
But the American armed forces,
well ahead of time, would have
taken all necessary means of in-
Oculation since the ,five lines
State that: “A mass inoculation
campaign was now underway in
Coastal towns and cities to pre-

vent the outbreak from spread-
ing,”

The American Senate, andSen-
ator Bob Kennedy, are not alto-
gether in favor of Johnson’s war.
The ruling military and finance
Complex of the U.S.A, maythink
it is high time to finish it up
quickly with a mass extermina-
tion of millions of South Vietnam-
ese Liberating Forces,

If this is true, as ruthless as
this action may appear to the man
in the street, let us not forget
that south of Calgary, in Alberta,
there was a bacterial laboratory
Operating some years ago (and
Probably still at it) which in-
Cubated bacterias for warfare
Purposes, During the Korean war
the Americans were accused of
having used bacterial warfare
against the Chinese,

It would be well to be alerted,
and speed up the sending of means
to immunize the Vietnamese
beople of the Liberation Front
who after all comprise 80 per
Cent of the population of South

Vietnam, and most of the, land ~

territory,

Arthur Stratton, North Van-
couver, writes: I think that the
Canadian public «should. know
something of what the trainees
for the American Special Forces
are taught by their American
officers, I quote from an article
by ex Master Sergeant Donald
Duncan, in Ramport magazine for
February:

“Initially, training was aimed
at having U.S. teams organize
guerrilla teams in foreign coun-
tries. Emphasis was placed on
the fact that guerrillas can’t take
prisoners. We were continuously
told ‘You don’t have to kill them
yourself — let your indigenous
counterpart do that.’

“Countermeasures to Hostile
Interrogation, we were taught
NKVD (Soviet Security) methods
of torture to extract information,
It became obvious that the title
was only camouflage for teaching
us ‘other’ means of interrogation
when time did not permit more
sophisticated methods, for ex-
ample, the old cold hot-water
treatment, or the delicate opera-

U.S. WAR IN VIETNAM
Plans and realities

“When we asked directly, ifwe
were being told to use these meth-
ods the answer was, ‘We can’t
tell you that. The Mothers of
America wouldn’t approve,’ This
sarcastic hypocrisy was greeted
with laughter, Our own military

teaches these and even worse
things to American soldiers,

Then they condemn the Viet Cong
guerrillas for doing those very
things. I was later to witness
firsthand the practice of turning
over to ARVN (Army Republic

of Vietnam) for interrogationand |
the atrocities which ensued,

“Throughout our training there
was an exciting air of mystery,

Hints were continually being |

dropped that‘ at this very moment’
Special Forces men were in
various Latin American and
Asian countries on secret mis-

sions,”

Master Sergeant Donald W,.
Duncan ends up his article with
this dedication to his friends
who lost their lives:

“We can best immortalize our
fallen members by striving for
an enlightened future where man
has found another solution to his
problems rather than resorting to
the futility and stupidity of war.”

Duncan left the U.S. Army in
September, 1965 after 10 years

‘service, including six years inthe

Special Forces and 18 months on
active combat duty in Vietnam,

While in Vietnam he received
the South Vietnamese SilverStar,
the Combat Infantry Badge, the
Bronze Star, and the U.S, Army
Air Medal, He was nominated for
the American Silver Star and was
the first enlisted man in Vietnam
to be nominated for the Legion
of Merit. Both nominations are
‘still standing, Last March he
turned down’the offer of a field
‘commission to the rank of
captain,

Sukarno failed fo stop
militarisfs in Indonesia

The effort of President Sukarno
to halt the drive of the Indo-
nesian military chiefs failed last
week, as Lieut.-Gen. Subarto
seized full power, putting Su-
karno under what was practically
house arrest and jailing 16 mem-
bers of the Cabinet, including
First Deputy Premier Subandrio,

Sukarno had gambled his own
personal prestige Feb, 2, when
he reshuffled his 99-member
Cabinet, removing Gen, Abdul
Haris Nasution, head of the mili-
tary putschists, as Defense Min-

Shack to tour
Island centres

PT Financial Drive Manager
Jerry Shack will be visiting
Powell River and Island points
at the start of the Spring Drive
to participate in readers’ con-
ferences and help Press Clubs
get the drive underway, Shack’s
itinerary reads as follows:

Sat. & Sun., April 2 & 3 —
POWELL RIVER,

Mon, & Tues., April 4 &5 —
NANAIMO,

Wed, & Thurs., April 6 & 7 —
ALBERNIS,

Fri, & Sat., April 8 & 9 —
CUMBERLAND,

Sun,, April 10 — CAMPBELL
RIVER,

Mon, & Tues., April 11 &
12 — LAKE COWICHAN,

Wed, & Thurs,, April 18 &
14 — VICTORIA,

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ister, and putting in a number of
people who opposed the blood bath
let loose by the military chiefs,
He had also called on the nation to
halt its fratricidal war and unite
for achieving socialism,

But he failed because the lead-
ership of his supporters had
already been destroyed in an
2arlier seizure of power by Gen-
eral Nasution. At that time,
Nasution instigated the brutal
slaughter of 100,000 to 200,000
student leaders, trade unionists,
heads of peasant groups and Com-
munists,

There were few left to mo-
bilize the people in Sukarno’s
last effort. The unions and the
Communist party had been be-
headed, And among the students
the upper hand was held by sons
of the big landowners and mer-
chant class, whose sympathies
were with the generals,

However, the situation in In-
donesia is still unsettled, with
the economy in shambles, the
people confused, and generals
unprepared or unable to govern,

That Washington has been
deeply involved in the military
coup was indicated in a report
from Jakarta that the U.S, Em-
bassy in the Indonesian capital
had hastily burned all its docu-
ments the day Sukarno made his
last effort,

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