Mugabe at UN | UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly debated on the promotion of a new international economic order | opened very symbolically here August 25 as Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe addressed the assembly as head of state of the UN’s newest and 153rd member; free Zimbabwe. Mugabe’s appearance before the UN cemented a new stage in world acceptance of the Zimbabwean government and he used the opportunity to thank the many member states which had supported the Zimbabwean struggle against the racist regime of Ian Smith. “Our victory is also the victory of the non-aligned movement as whole”, Mugabe declared and called for increased support to the fighting people of Namibia and South Africa. Managua snuffs terrorist gang MANAGUA — The Nicaraguan government has announced that a small band of counter revolutionaries has been wiped out, including the | death of the group’s ringleader, identified as Expectation Garcia. The final military clash was coordinated by the Sandinistas and resulted in the capture of 18 separate bands of counter revolutionaries. One million ignore U.S. draft BOSTON — More than one million young Americans have ignored the new U.S. draft registration law and failed to register for a new draft. This represents about 25% of the eligible four million 19- and 20-year old men ordered to register with draft boards, and contrasts with the ‘2% the Pentagon anticipated would defy the law. Those failing to register are technically liable to a fine of $10,000 and/or five years imprisonment. U.S. grain boycott fizzled say Japanese TOKYO — U.S. economic sanctions in trade relations with the Soviet Union, in particular the grain embargo, have fizzled, the Japanese Association for the promotion of International Trade has concluded. Its findings, published in the newspaper Sankei Shinbum, stated that the U.S. undertaking, rather than hurting the Soviet Union, had only worsened the position of U.S. farmers and had a negative effect on other countries which import cereals from the U.S., including Japan. eR a cl eR I ee ae ee ee Women’s petition for arms ban goes to UN The 2ist Triennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom adopted a number of resolutions calling for the elimination of ten- sions throughout the world, and the attainment of a lasting peace. The congress, held August 19-24 in Camden, New Jersey, decided to initiate a world-wide petition campaign calling for an end to arms race. The wording of the petition approved by dele- gates demands that nuclear wea- pons of mass destruction be ban- ned, calls for general and com- plete disarmament and the chan- nelling of funds currently ear- marked for military purposes into the solution of the problems of poverty. The petition will be submitted to the governments of all states and to the general assembly of the United Nations. In the debate prior to the ap- proval of the petition, many dele- gates pointed to U.S. President Carter’s ‘Directive 59° as being a particular threat to peace and re- jected the concept of a limited nu- clear war. |, By JOHN WEIR Tribune Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW — Soviet people are busy gathering the harvest and speeding up industrial pro- duction schedules. Together with country-wide discussion of home and foreign policies of the Party and government, numerous enterprises have undertaken to fulfill their production targets by November 7 in honor of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union slated for next February. Confidently pursuing their peaceful labors they are at the same time concerned and appre- hensive about international developments especially the bellicose words and actions emanating from Washington. Speaking in Alma Ata last week, Soviet leader Brezhnev stated that the ‘‘new nuclear strategy”’ announced by the U.S. administration is devised to make nuclear war look acceptable to . the public while talk about “‘li- mited’’ use of nuclear weapons expresses a policy highly danger- ous to the peoples of the world. It is also noted here that U.S. leaders claim for themselves the right to ‘‘a preemptive strike’’ which means to start war by pul- verizing Soviet cities with nuclear missiles. 3 Meanwhile warlike measures are piling up. Plans for military intervention in the Persian Gulf and Central America have been reported. Somalia is receiving mountains of U.S. arms and gives the American forces a naval base. Civil war inspired from abroad and assisted by Israeli military ac- tions aims at dismembering Lebanon. With U.S. and Chinese help Pakistan is preparing to test a nuclear device. Thailand threatens Kampuchea. A new ag- gressive alliance is being cooked up in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Two months have passed since the Soviet Union proposed to the Western powers to immediately Start negotiations on the question of medium-range missiles in Europe. The proposal received wide support in Western Europe and elsewhere, but Washington’s % (APN) Many political leaders in the Middle East and Africa have expressed alarm over the military deal reached between Washington and Somalia which will provide the Siad Barre regime with $125-million in military hardware in exchange for U.S. military bases there. The Somalian bases will com-. plete the southern flank of U.S. forces already stationed in Kenya and on the island of Diego Garcia for deployment against points in the Middle East and Africa which Washington claims threatens their ‘‘vital interests’’. These bases also pose a particular threat to Somalia's neighbors Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. Kenya’s plans to guard itself from Somalia’s encroachments with Washington’s help are ironic. Brzezinski and others: are basing their policy of establishing aggressive bridgeheads precisely on such calculations. On the one hand, they are strengthening the most expansionist forces and, on the other, are trying to play the role of a guarantor ensuring im- aginary security from the actions of these forces. For several years Israel has been acting according to this scheme, and Israel is the main element of the U.S. policy of de- stabilizing the situation in the Middle East. Tel, Aviv’s constant aggressive actions against Leba- non and other Arab countries are PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPT. 12, 1980—Page 6 ensured by huge military de- liveries continiously flowing from the Pentagon. At the same time, using these incessant acts of ag- gression, Washington is trying to impose on Israel’s neighbors its conditions under the guise of a guarantor of their sovereignty and independence. Arab countries know the true value of the Ameri- can foreign policy of the ‘‘false bottom.”’ That is why the military deal between Somalia and the USA has sparked off quite justifiable alarm in South Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia, Kenya and other coun- tries of the region. The presence of American commandos on the bases in Egypt, Oman, Somalia, Kenya and on the island of Diego Garcia and also the fact that at oe eS Peery 9 ETHIOPIA Gulf of Aden > reaction has been a silence that does not mean consent. : Dealing with the reports 2 | some Western newspapers the U.S. position.is caused by the Soviet assistance to Afghanistan, Tass news analyst Vladimil Serov points out that invention of pretexts is not new. When | SALT-II was to be ratified, the | myth of ‘‘a Soviet military bri in Cuba’’ was dreamed up. The story was soon exposed as a lie but the treaty is not yet ratified. | ‘The Washington leaders até not ruffied by the concern of the — West European public that the turning of the old world into 4 launching pad for new Americal missiles makes it the first target for retaliatory nuclear strikes, | Serov concludes. The Potomat they think is far from the Rhine and the Thames and the Nile are able to sit in serenity while a nu- clear holocaust rages in Europe: ~ These are dangerous and unten — able calculations. What is true for Western | Europe also holds for Canada. ——— Thousands fill Chile’s streets SANTIAGO — For the first time since the fascist coup in 1973 tens of thousands of Chileans took to the streets in a massive | show of opposition to the Pino- chet regime. Sparking the protests is the — proposed ‘‘new constitution’ which will give Pinochet power until 1989 and the right to name himself successor for eight more years. The new law, scheduled to be voted on Sept. 11, also bans — opposition parties, real trade unions, and other anti-regime groups and media. Former Chilean president Eduardo Frei, leader of the semi- legal Christian Democratic Party denounced the junta’s new law and demanded an immediate transitional government that © would restore democracy to the country. 3 The anti-junta forces include sections of the church and banned union leaders, intellectuals, stu- dents and political parties op- posed to the regime. SS RE ae re eee a cee any moment Israel may become 4 strong transshipment bridgehead for: these commandos are de- stabilizing the situation in the Horn of Africa as well as in the. Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The presence of the U.S. armed forces in these areas is al- ways fraught with the flareups of new adventures like the Vietnam War. Carter, Brzezinski. and Brown, the proponents of the strategy of a limited nuclear war, are increasingly banking on the power solution of problems in international politics in the inter- ests of American imperialism. The most far-sighted political leaders in the Middle East and in Africa understand this and are, quite naturally, alarmed.