‘Remember Hiroshima’

The Peace Action League, representing a number of peace groups in
Vancouver, will sponsor a “Remember Hiroshima” commemoration
rally at the Court House Square on Friday, August 9 from 5 to 9 p.m.

Featured speaker will be Dr. David Suzuki who speaks at 7:30 p.m.
There will be a display of photographs of the effects of the first nuclear
bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the U.S. which resulted in 200,000 deaths.
Japanese music will also be featured.

In a leaflet being circulated inviting the public to attend the com-
memoration, the Peace Action League points out that in 1974 there are
“enough nuclear weapons stored to kill the world’s inhabitants several

times over.”’

-GDR making great strides

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government chose the latter, and
developed one of the most ex-
tensive and best educational
systems in the world.

If coffee and spirits are ex-
pensive, the profit to the state is
used to subsidize rents. Synthetic
fibres and clothing are also ex-
pensive, because production
capacity is still insufficient,
despite heavy investment. On the
other hand, the GDR enjoys an
international reputation in the field
of public health and to them, such
things come first.

Dresden County, with 2 million
people, accounts for 12 per cent of
the GDR’s gross industrial output.
It has achieved a prominent
position in electronics, scientific
apparatus, processing machinery,
steel, metallurgy construction and
printing and binding. One fifth of
all the country’s textiles are
produced in this county.

In the city of Dresden, a leading
member of the SED’s county
committee told us that the workers
of Dresden and Karl Marx City
have made and will continue to
make outstanding gains. In the
context of the over-all national aim
to solve the housing problem by
1990, the target is 50,000 new flats
in Dresden.

The 750-year-old city of Dresden
suffered terribly when on the night
of February 13, 1945 the American
and British air forces destroyed
the city centre as the Red Army
was moving up to liberate the city.
In the space of 15 square
kilometres, 80,000 flats were
destroyed and 35,000 people killed.
The war had already been decided
and the city was of no strategic
value. Many priceless historical
buildings and monuments were
destroyed. Today, little of that
damage is visible. The famous
Zwinger palace and art gallery
have been restored, with the city’s
inhabitants contributing $20
million toward the restoration of
the Zwinger.

With the help of the Soviet Union,
a nuclear research institute has
been located in Dresden.

To give you an example of the
strength of the SED, there are
190,000 -members in Dresden
County, out of a total population of
2 million. Seventy-five to 80 per
cent are workers. Every seventh
person over 17 years of age is a
member. In Dresden city, there
are 50,000 members.

Here in Dresden, as in every
other place we visited, we were
told that without the help of the
Soviet Union, the German
Democratic Republic could not
have become a highly in-
dustrialized nation with a secure
future.

(Watch next week for the second
article by Jack Phillips on the
GDR.)

A demand that Canada take all
possible action to support the
legally elected government of
President Makarios was made by
the Canadian Peace Congress in a
wire to Prime Minister Trudeau.

This action came as rapidly
moving events. brought about a
Turkish invasion of Cyprus;
resignation of coupe leader Nikos
Sampson as president and his
handing over of the presidency to
Glafkos Clerides; a UN cease fire
agreed upon; and a shake-up in
Greece with the military junta
turning over power to right wing

former premier Constantine
Karamanis.
These rapidly moving

developments followed in the wake
of the attempt by the Greek
military junta to overthrow the
Makarios government and impose
a military junta on Cyprus. A
statement released by the Soviet
government on July 19 pointed the
finger at NATO for being behind
the-Cyprus coup.

The statement said: ‘‘There is
every reason to consider as ac-
curate the opinion spreading
through the world that the coup
d’etat in Cyprus was actually
planned by certain NATO circles
which could not put up with the
independent existence of the
Republic of Cyprus that adhered to
an independent foreign policy, the
policy of non-alignment.

“The government of the USSR
considers that all states which hold
dear the peace and freedom of
nations must raise their voice in
defence of the legitimate govern-
ment of the Republic of Cyprus
headed by President Makarios,
and for the immediate cessation of
the foreign military intervention in
the domestic affairs of Cyprus.”

Indications are that the United
States and NATO are- looking
towards reorganizing the govern-
ment on Cyprus to prevent the
return of Makarios. Stories’ are
circulating that Greece and
Turkey as well as the U.S. may try
to partition the Island under some
loose federal set-up and bring
Cyprus into the NATO military set-
up.

Cyprus, an eastern Medi-
terranean island has a crucial
geographical position. If the U.S.
and NATO could gain access to air
and naval bases on Cyprus, they
could dominate this strategic area

Mexico ends Chile relations

LIMA — The Mexican govern-
ment will not sell sulphur to the
Chilean fascist junta, and it will not
send an ambassador to that South
American country now under
direct military fascist rule.

This was stated by Mexican
President Luis Echeverria last
weekend during his arrival in the
Peruvian capital to meet with
government officials.

Echeverria is on a tour of five
Latin American nations, where he
is to meet with the heads of states.
The countries to be visited are
Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil
and Venezuela.

During his trip President

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1974-PAGE 8

Echeverria will also take up the
need to end the U.S.-imposed
blockade against Cuba. His trip
began July 10.

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has been urging the provincial
mediator to continue pressuring
Cominco to make an offer for early
retirement. They have indicated
that they are willing to sit down
with Cominco at any time and
settle the contract. -

At Tribune press time no further
progress had been made and

steelworkers were digging in for a’

long fight. As Marv McLean put it,
“"..We won’t go back to our
membership until Cominco puts
something on the table besides its
fist. They have been too long up on
that hill, and it’s time they came
down from the boardroom and into
the real world.”

‘of the world. The U.S. imperialist
position has steadily crumbled
under the blows of the anti-
iimperalist forces: the $5 billion-
plus oil investment of the US.
monopolies in the Arab world are
endangered.

The U.S. and NATO have con-
sidered the 1959 Zurich agreement
which guaranteed a neutral and
independent Cyprus as a thorn in
their side. Since independence in
1960, Archbishop Makarios, as‘
President of the Republic of
Cyprus has followed a policy which
stressed the country’s neutrality
and independence and has stood in
the way. of U.S. and NATO im-
perialist aims in that strategic part
of the world.

Attempts to oust Makarios

’ Almost
motorists

without exception,
along Vancouver’s

Grandview Highway last week had.

their heads bent so that they could
get a closer look at the toilet and
washbasin adorning Robert
Kennedy’s fruit stand.

When the story behind the
strange sight unfolded itself it was
found out that Kennedy displayed
the old junk toilet and basin as an
afront to city health inspector
Gerald Bonham, who insisted on
enforcing the city by-law that
wherever food is handled, toilet
and washing facilities must be
provided. Kennedy was also amiss
in failing to acquire a permit from
the city to sell his fruit.

Suddenly police arrived on the
scene, seized Kennedy’s_ truck
(some money has gone missing),
arrested, manhandled and hand-
cuffed Kennedy, and then kept in a
jail cell for 20 hours without bail,
finally to release him and charge
him with assaulting an officer and
disturbing the peace.

Alderman Harry -Rankin has
blasted city officials for applying
double standards to Kennedy.
Rankin said that although Kennedy
may have technically broken the
law, “right was on his side’”’. He

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majority of the people of Cypr
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imperialists and their
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pointed out that although ye
chain stores, Safeway, IGA,
Super Valu, sell fruit and f0®
do not have public toile”
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washing facilities until they yi
all the chain stores in the {
install the same.” ’ ip |
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continued, “‘is the speed wilt alls
the city acted. It is takiN& 1 oy
for the city to enforce nd
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an ‘inquiry into the SOUrt 0g
pressure to take such ot {fe
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“Kennedy deserves our sure
his independent and ¢0¥
stand.”

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