Friday, March 11, 1983

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| Women in U.S. TV:
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Action, education stressed f

British disarmament expert Dr. Michael Pentz add

It was one of the largest, if not the largest,
conference in B.C.’s history, and it

_ "as aimed primarily at the middle class.

sntween 700 and 800 professionals,
ed nts, trade unionists and others provid-
esa Overwhelming turnout at a weekend
POsium called to rally professionals in

€ fight against the nuclear arms race.

h ts chief aim was to educate medical and
PS professionals and scientists, on the
behind the arms race. But the ‘‘preven-

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CLC urged to figh

tion of nuclear war’’ seminar, sponsored by
the Physicians for Social Responsibility, the
B.C. chapter of Science for Peace and the
division of Continuing Medical Education at
the University of B.C. also reached members
of the general public with some of the most
authoritative documents and opinion ever
presented to B.C.’s burgeoning peace move-
ment. ee

“Participants packed the 600-seat main lec-
ture theatre at UBC’s Instructional
Resources Centre, while an overflow au-

resses overflow audience at University of B.C. lecture theatre Saturday.

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dience listened via closed-circuit television as
British disarmament leader Dr. Michael
Pentz cited the cruise and other new U.S.
weapons systems as the major destabilizers
in the world arms balance.

They also gave arousing applause to UBC
political science professor Dr. Michael
Wallace, who urged Canada to “‘bite the
bullet’? and withdraw from all weapons
agreements with the United States, and to
make Canada a nuclear-weapons-free zone.

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as 800 pack peace meet |

The danger of escalated U.S. military
intervention in El Salvador, reminiscent
of that which led to the war in Vietnam,
has grown ominously following U.S.
president Reagan’s demand for further
military aid to the right wing regime.

On’ March i;“Reagan“summoried 20

top congressional leaders to the White |

House to announce his intention to seek
$60 million in increased military funding
and to increase substantially the numbers
of military advisors in El Salvador.

Ominously, Reagan’s proposal includ-
ed putting the military advisors’ “‘non-
combat status under review.”

The threat of stepped-up intervention
came in direct response to the visit of the
Pope to Central America and his call in
San Salvador for discussion toward
reconciliation, a statement which gave
sanction to Salvadorean Catholic calls
for negotiations.

The Pope’s message heightened the

| crisis in the Reagan administration’s

policy over El Salvador since both
Reagan and secretary of state Schultz

| haverejected any form of discussions bet- .
| ween the right wing regime and the

Farabundo Marti Liberation Movement
(FMLN) and the Revolutionary
Democratic Front (FDR) on the future of
the country.

But representatives of both the FMLN
and the FDR have stated that they are
prepared to hold such negotiations. On
the eve of the Pope’s visit, FMLN leader
Ana Guadelupe Martinez and FDR
chairman Guillermo Ungo reiterated
their ‘‘willingness for a dialogue to
negotiate with all sectors involved in the

| Salvadorean conflict.”

The two also called for an end to U.S.
interference, charging that the “‘deep
economic, social and political crisis in El

| Salvador as well as the prolongation of

the civil war now raging in that country is
due entirely to the increasing interference

i of the Reagan administration in the inter-

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