Emergency meet hits invasion,

wams of new U.S. interventions

MEXICO CITY — One hundred and thirty-four dele-
| ates met here Nov. 2-4 in an ‘‘Emergency Session for
Peace, the Defence of Grenada, Central America and the
Caribbean’’ called by the World Peace Council.
___ The meeting took place days after the U.S. invasion of
Grenada and a special resolution was adopted condemn-
ing the U.S. action and calling for the immediate with-
drawal of American troops and for Grenadian
_ SOVereignty and independence.
The delegates from Europe, North America, Central
and South America heard World Peace Council presi-
dent Romesh Chandra describe the interconnection be-

| tween the struggle for independence, social and national

liberation and the struggle for world peace.

Another resolution on the situation in Central
America and the Caribbean described the danger of
_ Intervention in Nicaragua by the Reagan administration
in the wake of Grenada and the U.S. role in propping up
military regimes in the region and its backing of terrorist
bands against the Nicaraguan revolution. It expressed
Solidarity with the people of El Salvador, Honduras,
- Guatemala and with the people and government of

Nicaragua in their struggle for social justice.

John Morgan, president of the Canadian Peace Con-

gress outlined Canada’s role as a NATO partner and of
Canadian people’s fight to prevent Cruise testing on
Our soil. :

Speaking of the strength of the world movement for
Peace and for social and national liberation, Morgan told
the conference: ‘‘on a jewel of an island there was a

_ Movement called New Jewel. That beautiful, shiney
Jewel has temporarily been ripped from the hands of

Tenada. But it is a magic jewel; it grows wherever
Men and women struggle for peace and justice. It shines
Upon every honest hand raised in defence of children, the

Poor, the sick, the aged, the oppressed, the disen-
franchized. It shines now in Nicaragua, Cuba, Angola,
Ethiopia. It shines upon the hands of all our valiant
brothers and sisters in the Caribbean, Central America,
Africa, Asia, North America — upon the hands of all
€verywhere raised against nuclear war!’’ The fol-
lowing 10-point plan for withdrawal of U.S. forces from
Grenada and to prevent new direct interventions against
Nicaragua, Central America and the Caribbean was
adopted:

1. Messages and delegations be sent to the White
House: and U.S. embassies;

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2. Widest possible mobilization of demonstrations
and other actions;

3. Organization of debates and discussions involving
legal experts to examine the judicial aspects of the U.S.
invasion;

4. Urge action by governments and parliaments for
the cessation of U.S. intervention in Grenada; and to
urge the U.S. government to respect the principle of
non-intervention and self-determination for all peoples;

5. Encourage full participation in the defence of the
territorial integrity of all Central American and Carib-
bean states, to point out that aggression against one
nation today means aggression against others tomorrow;

6. Urge international bodies (e.g.: the United Na-
tions) to promote the broadest solidarity in the region
against U.S. intervention;

7. Request a high-level delegation formed by various
democratic governments visit areas where imperialist
actions are underway and to provide an objective and
impartial report;

8. Support specific and concrete solidarity requests
by the Central American and Caribbean peoples;

Members of the People’s Progressive Party in Guyana
protest the invasion of Grenada at the U.S. embassy in
Georgetown.

9. Initiate a campaign for the physical safety of the
Grenadian fighters and to reject all efforts by the so-
called multi-national forces to prosecute the Grenadian
patriots; to expose the complete absence of judicial
status of the occupying forces;

10. To urge international bodies not recognize the
illegal government in Grenada.

The resolutions were sent to all governments in the
region and to the White House.

HELSINKI — The World Peace Congress has is-

the Far East and has called for increased actions
toward the achievement of nuclear disarmament in
the area.

The visit by President Reagan to South Korea and
Japan must be seen as a part of the overall U.S.
strategy of creating and consolidating a NATO-type
tripartite military alliance between the USA, Japan
and South Korea in the Pacific. The incessant support
by the Pentagon for the re-arming of Japan, the pro-
vocative military exercises of the U.S. and South
Korean forces, titled Team Spirit ’83, involving some
70,000 U.S. personnel, the basing in South Korea of
U.S. nuclear weapons, including neutron weapons,
and the intended deployment of Cruise missiles in
South Korea and Japan, clearly indicate the extension
of the arms race by the U.S. into the Pacific. Such
developments pose an immediate threat to the

Reagan’s Far East war alliance

sued a warning over the military build-up underway in .

independent nations in the Far East which can create
a new spiral of arms race in that area.

The historic peace demonstrations which took
place in Europe and North America during the U.N.
Disarmament Week expressed the widespread oppos-
ition of people not only to the deployment of new U.S.
missiles in West Europe but against nuclear weapons
in General and against the nuclear arms race.

Peoples of the world are expressing their alarm over
the threats to peace caused by military invasion by the
Reagan administration taking place in different parts
of the world. The peace movement inside Japan has
also denounced the military build-up taking place in
their region.

The World Peace Council adds its voice to this
protest and alerts all peace organizations to the seri-
ous threat to world peace posed by the U.S. military
build-up in the Pacific.

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International Focus

Tom Morris

Trying to
Bllowes truth

Tribune Caribbean cor-
respondent Norman Faria,
whose reports from that im-
portant region have been ap-
preciated by readers for many
years, called our office from
Barbados last week.

Norman lives in Bridgetown
and has filed stories for the
Tribune from a wide range of
countries in the region — Gre-
nada, Cuba, Antigua, St. Vin-
Cent, Dominica — as well as
from Barbados. His reports are
an invaluable source of in-
formation about the Carib-
bean, about the struggles there
for liberation, for peace and for
€conomic and social justice.
Faria’s stories tell the truth,
ive facts and on-the-spot in-
formation. That’s perhaps
why the Barbados police
entered his home last week,
detained Faria and confiscated
Many articles during their
two-hour search.

The Adams government,
apparently not content with
turning the country into the
Main staging base for the U.S.
assault against Grenada, not
Content with playing the role of
Reagan's puppet against his
Neighbors, now feels the need
to ‘silence journalists who re-
Port the facts.

We also learned that other

journalists who write critically
of the U.S. role in the Carib-
bean, of its “big stick’’ policy,
are also being harassed in Tom
Adams’ Barbados.

Many Canadians ‘‘met
Adams for the first time during
the Grenada crisis when he ap-
peared on the CBC National
News. We listened to his
‘reasons’ for backing the in-
vasion. We heard him use
words like ‘‘freedom’’ and
‘‘democracy’’ with ease and
eloquence. Many people use
those words. But Tom
Adams’ police raids against
honest journalists in Barbados,
describe far more eloquently
than any words what he really
means by freedom and
democracy.

still apartheid
Apartheid South Africa has
done it again. This time the ra-
cist regime, in an effort to win
support among the country’s
two non-white minority com-
munities (‘‘colored”’ ‘ and
‘“‘Asian’’) engaged in a
smoke-and-mirrors vote to
change the country’s constitu-
tion.
The Nov. 2 referendum, in
which only whites voted,
adopted a three-chamber
‘‘parliament’’ which will offer
the illusion of shared power.
Here’s how it works:

ee ”

he ‘ORITY

The white House of Assem-
bly will have 178 members,
the ‘‘colored’’ House of
Representatives, 85 members
and the ‘‘Asian’’ House of
Delegates 45 members. The
new “‘parliament”’ will be con-
trolled by a white president
chosen by a white-controlled
electoral college.

South Africa has 4.5 million
whites, 2.7 million ‘‘coloreds”’
and 900,000 ‘‘Asians’’. Each
citizen is categorized in that
country and, based on racial
origin, has his or her fate de-
cided for life. Whites, of
course, who do the categoriz-
ing, are on top of the country’s
social ladder — Blacks at the
bottom. So, you may ask, isn’t
the new triple parliament at
least a step forward from the
previous ‘‘whites only’’ one?
The answer is a resounding

“*no’’. In the first place, as the

system is designed, whites still
hold power completely.

But, more importantly, the

new ‘‘parliament’’ was intro-
duced by the ruling all-white
National Party for one reason
only — to continue to deny the

island’s tourist operators are
being quoted in the U.S. press
saying the airport is vital to the
Grenadian economy.

Time magazine, which gave
Reagan’s panic speech full
coverage, now reports that
Point Salinas ‘“‘was not built

vote to South Africa’s majority with the protective structures
— 21 million Black citizens, and support facilities found at
still completely and totally de- military airports.”’

nied all civil and human rights Of course, both Washington

in their own land.
This is the regime Ronald

Last spring Ronald Reagan,
standing in front of aerial
photos of the airstrip at Point
Salinas, Grenada, asked his
TV audience a question: ““‘Why
do they need a 10,000-foot
runway? They don’t even have
an airforce.”’

No amount of patient expla-
nation by Grenada that the air-

‘port was vital to tourism

(which accounted for 40% of
the country’s foreign ex-
change) could convince the
White House. Even facts of-
fered by foreign firms with con-
tracts at Point Salinas fell on
deaf ears.

Now that the U.S. is in.

charge on that unfortunate is-
land Point Salinas takes on a
different character. Today the

TRIBUNE PHOTO —N. FARIA

and Time knew all along what
the airport was to be used for.

.Reagan called “‘ America’s best In fact, the only military use it

friend in Africa’’. has been put to has not been by

Greasing the skids Soviets or Cubans — but by
giant U.S. warplanes.

for invasion . Point Salinas, like the

“‘safety of U.S. students’, was
nothing but rhetoric to grease
the skids for the Marines. And
the ‘‘rescue’’ operation, it will
be shown is another word for
occupation.