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and other organizations, scientists and

artists, members of parliament and busi-

ness people to devote every effort to:
Thwart the dangerous NATO plans

for developing new U.S. missiles on the’

European continent;

Prevent a new round of the arms race
which may have catastrophic consequ-
ences for the whole of mankind;

Beat off the attacks on the Final Act
passed at Helsinki; prevent the wrecking
of the common cause of peaceful co-
operation between the socialist and
capitalist states of Europe;

Protect the structure of exchanges in
the sphere of science, culture, education
and sports that was built up in the 70s;

Work to make the mass media serve,

‘not those who pump enormous profits

out of war and the arms race, but the
cause of peace and rapprochement be-
tween the peoples of Europe.

In the struggle for these and any other
aims that promote the cause of peace,
communists ... have no wish to set up
their own initiatives in opposition to the
proposals made by other democratic
forces ... we have taken an interest in
the views on these problems expressed
by the social democratic parties and by
the Socialist International, at its recent
meetings ...

The Soviet Union has stated on many
occasions that it is in no way striving to
achieve military superiority. But neither
will it tolerate any military superiority
over the socialist countries. We are
deeply convinced that this stand is in the
interests of all nations.

The Soviet Union has no need
for war, whether nuclear or
conventional, big or small.

The Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, and the USSR (itself) stand for
peace — a stable, democratic and just
peace.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization

emerged as a defensive organization to’

counterbalance NATO six years after
the latter was established. (Its) proposals
and actions ... are all designed to pre-
serve and strengthen peace, to prevent a
nuclear conflict and any military conflicts
on the continent, and to curb the arms
race. On the other hand, every NATO

- decision is in effect designed to spur on

the arms race, provoke a confrontation,
evade a serious discussion on the initia-
tives of the Warsaw Treaty Organi-
zation, whip up anti-Soviet, anti-socialist
feeling and poison the international at-
mosphere.

We do not say: line up with the policy
of one military alliance against the other.
We put it differently: the choice is be-
tween a policy of détente or a policy of
anti-détente. There is no third alternative
for representatives of the working-class
movement, for genuine opponents of
war.

We simply want to warn against the
illusion that by equating NATO and the
Warsaw Treaty Organization one can
solve problems of war and peace in favor

of peace. The essence and nature of
these two organizations are diametrically
opposed. The peoples must not allow
themselves to be deceived, because

see this happens war becomes inevita-
e.

At the present time, especially
in the last few months, the
distortion of the aims and
motives of the Soviet Union has
again assumed incredible
proportions.

The myth about a ‘‘Soviet threat’? and
about ‘“‘expansionism’’ and Moscow’s
“hegemonistic aspirations” have been
elevated to the level of state policy. They
have become an integral part of the entire
aggressive strategy of imperialism.

The Soviet Union is prepared to limit
and ban any type of weapon on the basis
of maintaining reciprocity and not pre-
Judicing anyone’s security.

We propose that all the negotiations in
this field which were initiated at various
international forums and on a bilateral
basis but which have been adjourned or
postponed, should be resumed and con-
tinued.

One year ago, on May 13, 1979, Presi-
dent Carter used the following words: If
the USA, he said, after signing the
SALT-II treaty refused to ratify it, it

‘would be put in the role of ... a war-
monger who refused even to participate
i an equitable restraint on the- most
destructive weapons on earth.” The
peoples remember this statement and
they will indeed condemn as a war-
monger anyone who wrecks an agree-

ment which is of vital j portance t
mankind. os i

Our country calls for the
signing of a treaty among all
states renouncing the use of
force and, as a first step in this"
direction, signing an
appropriate agreement among
all the states that were
‘participants in the Helsinki
Conference.

It must be made known to the peoples
that the “Soviet war threat” simply does
not exist. The USSR harbors no plans
for, or intentions of, attacking either
west European or other countries. Quite
the reverse, the Soviet Union is prepared
to co-operate with all peace forces in the
historic struggle for peace, against the
war danger, and for saving Europe from
the disaster of war. :

The Appeal which we are to adopt at
this meeting is imbued with the need for a
broad unification of anti-war forces ...
Peace is our common heritage, and
we have always been and continue to be
prepared — without any preliminary
conditions and long-winded preparations
— to sit around a ‘‘peace table” with all
those who are willing to do the same.

‘Freedom games’
tainted with politics

When U.S. president Jimmy
Carter set out to save the pur-
ity of the Olympic movement
from the taint of politics he
promised that not only would
the United States athletes boy-
cott the 1980 Games in Mos-
cow, he would personally en-
sure that there would be a
series of alterrfative competi-
tions or ‘‘Freedom Games’’, as
he liked to call them,
scheduled.

The centrepieces of these
Games were to be two major
international track meets, exc-
lusively for athletes from those
countries whose governments
had cancelled their plane
reservations to Moscow for the
Olympics.

But, like everything else
connected with Carter's boy-
cott, some problems have
come up. It seems that the
governing body of track and
field in the United States, The
Athletic Congress-USA has
cancelled the two track meets
on the grounds that they have
become ‘‘overly politicized’’.

The decision to can the two
track meets is the latest in a
series of disasters which has
plagued Carter’s boycott cam-
paign. It began with a public
petitioning of the president by
the American Winter Olym-
pians who urged a dropping of
the boycott, and was accen-
tuated by the refusal of most
countries to go along with the
boycott call, and has now cul-
minated in the total collapse of
the “‘Freedom Games’’.

The only Canadians directly
affected by the scrapping of the
overly politicized ‘‘non politi-
cal’’ track meets are those
Canadians selected to the
non-Olympian Canadian
Olympic Team who were to
have taken part in the two
meets.

But, don’t worry. Our
government, equally con-
cerned with the purity of the
Olympic movement has
scraped together an extra
$1.5-million. This will send
Canadian athletes, at a cost of
$70 a day, to a series of Olym-

-INTERNATIONAL FOCUS ——__

“more tanks than the British

pic warm-up meets in Europe.
It would have cost us $25 a day
to send an athlete to the Olym-
pics.

So, the next time you’re cut
off UIC because of budget |.
overruns, or your favorite so- |.
cial service project is scrapped
due to fiscal restraints, re-.
member that we’re all doing
our little bit to help keep the
Olympics free from politics.

But it’s sure getting expen-
sive.

Clark in Iran,
love and tanks

Former U.S. Attorney Gen-
eral Ramsey Clark went to
Tehran as a participant in the
International Conference on
U.S. Intervention in Iran, and
much was made of his offer to
take the place of the 53 hos-
tages being held in the Ameri-
can embassy.

Upon his return home, U.S.
officials made even more of his
defiance of the government-
ordered travel ban to Iran, and
Jimmy Carter himself said that
he “‘was inclined to think that
he (Clark) should be prose-
cuted”’ for violating the ban.

But, while his speech to the
Conference was heavily laced
with ‘moralizing and pleas for
*‘love’’ Clark did have some-
thing to say about the U.S.
support for the former Shah’s
reign of terror.

Clark pointed out that bet-
ween 1972 and 1978 the Shah’s
government purchased more
than $19-billion worth of arms,
or in his words ‘material to kill
people and control their own.”

The Shah's -army, said —
Clark, was “‘‘staggeringly |
huge” and was equipped with —

Army, with more American
made jet aircraft, F-14s, F-16s,
F-18s, F-111s in possession or
on order than any nation on
earth except the U.S. itself’’.

Clark also addressed the
larger question of nuclear
disarmament with an appeal to
all nuclear powers to begin
“immediately dismantling nu-
clear arms’’, which he said
“‘must be done now.”’

Bomb intended for
Bishop CIA work

The June 19 abortive attempt
on the life of Grenada’s Prime
Minister Maurice Bishop, which
claimed the lives of two children
and wounded 23 others, was the
work of the U.S. Central Intelli-
gence Agency, Bishop has
Cc ;
In a speech broadcast on Radio
Free Grenada, Bishop said that
the attempt on his life, which was
accomplished by a remote con-
trolled bomb placed beneath a
platform he shared with the
Cuban Ambassador to Grenada,
was “‘a bestial act’’ and that it
“‘was part of the efforts aimed at
destroying the Grenadian revolu-
tion.”’

The 15-month old revolution of
the New Jewel Movement has
been the target of numerous pro-
vocations and attempts at de-
stabilization, most of which origi-

nated outside the country, includ-
ing at least two planned coups,
terrorist acts, and economic pres-
sures from the U.S. and other
countries.

The response to the latest effort
to destroy the revolution has in-
cluded massive meetings in sup-
port of the government of the
Caribbean island and various
messages of solidarity for the
Grenadian revolution from
around the world, including a
message from the Central Execu-
tive Committee of the Communist
Party of Canada.

The CPC message condemned
those responsible for the attack,
including U.S. imperialism, and
pledged the continued ‘“‘solidarity
and support’’ of ‘‘Canadian
Communists and all progressive
minded Canadians."’

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