Simone Signoret and Samy Ben Youb in ‘Madame Rosa’.

‘Madame Rosa’ offered
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WINNER OF the Oscar this
year as the best foreign. film,
\ Madame Rosa seems a fair
choice, although Cacoyannis’s
Iphigenia was a strong com-
Petitor.

The remarkable _per-
formances of Simone Signoret
and a 14-year-old Arab boy,

my Ben Youb, as “Momo”
Save this emotionally charged

lm from becoming a_sen-
imental tearjerker. Their
Performances and the writer-

€ctor’s gift for comic con-
tradictions and socially satiric
absurbities quickly alter scenes
of mawkish potential into their

ADAME ROSA. Starring Simone
Seyorat! Samy. Ben Youb. Written
and directed by Moshe Mizrahi. In
French with English subtitles. At the
Varsity Theatre, Vancouver, Aug. 19
only, 7:30 p.m.

Momo, so how some of her
charges suddenly disappear
from their ‘“home’’ with her;
how Moishe, for example, a
prominent 10-year-old, without
explanation drops from the film
seems not to concern either the
principal characters or the
writer-director. Why none of the
children, of school age, ever
went to school is another im-
portant detail ignored.

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Madame Pinas = safes character relationships among
ailing former prostitute keeps _ the principals sacrifices
alive by taking in as boarders dramatic construction, many
the fatherless children of many scenes are memorable. The
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=) Canadian eyewitness in Chile

Repressive rule unchanged

Alison Acker, a professor at
Ontario’s Ryerson Polytechnic
Institute and the secretary of the
Toronto Committee for Solidarity
with Democratic Chile, spent five
weeks in Chile during June and
July. This is her report.

Repression in Chile still con-
tinues, whatever the junta may say
about moves towards democracy.
Here is just one example.

I met a peasant, Carlos Garces
Munoz, 42, in the office of the
Ranquil peasant organization in
Santiago one day in June. Seven
days later, he was found by the side
of the railroad track near his home
in the south, his head bashed in and
both arms broken above the elbow,
without any other signs of exterior
damage — an obvious victim of
torture. He no longer had with him
the few, perfectly legal union
pamphlets he was taking home.

Even the pro-Pinochet
newspapers declared that his
death cquld not have been the
result of a train accident.

His union is pressing for an in-
vestigation, but I was told such
“accidents” are the new style of
repression. They are very con-
venient and do not bring in-
ternational outcries, like the 2,500
disappeared prisoners, whose fate
is now being examined by the
United Nations’ Commission of
Human Rights.

I was in Chile as a tourist during
the hunger strike by the relatives
of the disappeared prisoners. The
women strikers are the most
important element in the growing

Chilean resistance, because they
have conquered their fear. They
have nothing more to lose, and are
prepared to resume the strike

immediately in the UN Group_

cannot get satisfactory answers
from Pinochet to the question:
“Done estan — Where are the
Chileans who disappeared after
their arrest?”

Many Chileans are, in general,
too conscious of the repression to
undertake much resistance work.
And the worst repression of all is
economic. How can you fight back
if you have five dependents, a
salary of only $7 a week, and bread
costs 50 cents a loaf? If you lose
that job, there is no social in-
surance, no unemployment pay, no
hospital insurance, no welfare,
nothing.

During a five week visit to
Santiago and to ten other Chilean
towns, I saw why the parks are so
clean. Former factory workers and
former professional men clean
them for $7 a week, in a country
where food and clothing prices are
almost equal those in Canada
today. In Santiago, there is a new
metro — half empty because the
workers cannot afford to use it.
There are nightclubs where drinks
cost $6, but I found ward after ward
of children sick with malnutrition,
bronchitis, even meningitis, in the
day nurseries where slum
children go for their only chance of
a square meal, even if there is
meat only once a week. At home,
their parents live on tea and bread,
in slums without water or sewers
and only a paraffin stove against
temperatures that were below zero

Opposition to Carter
policies seen in loan

Continued from pg. 1

economic aid and more than $1
million food aid.

But the U.S. never lived up to its
pledge, and since that time
president Carter has declared that
the U.S. owes Vietnam nothing.

However, last week’s World
Bank loan reflected the divisions
within the various international
capitalist agencies over .the issue
of support to Vietnam and _ in-
dicated the breadth of opposition to
the hostile policies of the Carter
administration.

Just last May, a consortium of
nine major Japanese banks, led by
the Bank of Tokyo, granted a $16
million loan to Vietnam but were
forced to advance the money in
West German Deutschmarks
because of the U.S. government’s
refusal to grant official recognition
to the SRV.

Carter’s policy has also en-
countered opposition from im-
portant sections of the U.S. cor-
porate community. Last June, a
delegation representing 390 U.S.
corporations visited Vietnam and
cmmented on the favorable
possibilities for trade ties.

Michael Emmons, president of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in
Hong Kong, who led the delegation,
said on his return, ‘‘The only thing
preventing us from trading is the
Carter Administration’s embargo.

“Tt seems to us that the only effect
of the trade embargo is to deny
U.S. companies the opportunity to

compete with companies from
Japan and Europe,”’ he said.
Several countries in Europe
including Britain, France, Italy
and the Federal Republic of
Germany, have made important
trade agreements with Vietnam
and in April, Bonn’s largest oil
company, Deminex, signed a
major offshore oil exploration
agreement with the SRV.

when I was there. Some houses
have only plastic at the windows
and a curtain instead of a door.

While living conditions in the
Santiago slums are depressing
enough, the unemployment
situation is even worse in the
mining towns and in the coun-
tryside. In Petorca, a gold-mining
town, unemployment is now 75
percent. All over the country, the
smaller mines of gold, copper or
nitrate have closed down for lack
of government assistance. The
bigger mines are for sale. Even
Chuquicamata the largest open
copper mine in the world, is
rumored to be going to the
Japanese. Rows of factories are
closed, as the economy switches to
the import of consumer products
and the export of mineral
resources by the multinational
companies that now own so much
of Chile.

For the future, the Chilean junta
has another plan. Plan Kelly,
designed to offer more help to the
large employers by making it
easier for them to dismiss workers
without cause, and allowing them
to pay less than minimum wage to
workers under 23, or over 65. To
fight this, all Chilean unions are
trying to group forces in a united
struggle. Facing them is the
deliberate policy of worker
repression that tortured and killed
Carlos Garces.

Chile is a country where 700,000
out of a population of ten million
have been finger-printed, and
where people estimate there is one
informer for every 20 citizens.

“Do people outside the country
believe Pinochet when he says
Chile has restored human rights?”

_ people asked me. ‘“‘Do they realize

what it is like, never to be able to
speak your mind, to attend a
meeting, to vote, to say ‘no?’ We’ve
had nearly five years of this and we
are very tired.”

Tired or not, Chileans fight on as
best they can as the economy slides
downhill and repression continues.
Pinochet’s attempts to dress up the
junta’s image for overseas _in-
vestors and tourists fool very few.
In five weeks in Chile, I did not
meet a single other Western tourist
except one American couple off a
cruise, in Santiago for the day.

“Such a nice, clean city,” they
remarked. I tried to tell them the
price of clean cities in Chilean
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