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rc 7 to 8 day visit to Canada
on October 18. This is the word
which came from the Prime
Minister's office last weekend.
Kosygin is the highest ranking
Soviet leader to visit Canada in
the post-war years. His visit “
aimed at strengthening friendly
relations between the two

countries.

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civic works which would create
new jobs. oe

The major shortcoming 1n the
Bennett plan is that it will do
nothing for the 60,000 BEG:
workers who were reported out
of work in July. Nor will it do
anything for many workers who
are now being laid off as a result
of the U.S. surtax.

According to figures released
in Ottawa this week the Federal
government expects that the
surtax will add about 80 to 90,000
more jobless to the national total
which in July stood at 514,000.

Whatever good might be said
about the Bennett ‘Sobs’’ plan,
it’s obvious that it will not come
to grips with the hard core
problem of mass unemploy-
ment. It has all the earmarks of
an attempt by Bennett to give
the impression that he is
tackling the problem of
unemployment — while in

lity he is not.
the lack of any real plan by
Bennett to meet the grave
jobless crisis points up once
again the need for an immediate
session of the Legislature to
adopt new economic policies
which will put B.C. back to work.

October 2.

President Nixon is the man
who can and must do it — and
powerful public pressure must.
be mounted to force him to do so.
He cannot pass the buck on to
anyone else. He was saddled
with that responsibility when
the U.S. Senate on July 31 passed
a resolution giving him sole
power to decide whether or not
the test will go ahead.

Seldom has there been an issue
which has stirred such world-
wide protest as the Amchitka
test which is planned as the
largest ever conducted. It will
be 250 times more powerful than
the bomb which destroyed
Hiroshima. Its 5-megaton
strength is the equivalent of five
million tons of TNT.

The insanity of the U.S.-
planned action is illustrated by
the fact that this giant explosion
is to take place in an area of the
North Pacific which is one of the
worst earthquake zones in the
world. It has already suffered
many natural disasters. Now
they face a man-made one: and
if the test goes ahead it could be
a Nixon-made disaster.

The U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission has not been able
to give any assurance that either
an earthquake, tidal wave, or
radiation damage would not
result from the blast. A special
secret’ report on_ the
environmental consquences of
the blast has been kept from the
public despite a court action

ITKA TEST

Mass protest urged
to President Nixon

By MAURICE RUSH
Time is running out. Only about three weeks remain
for public opinion to compel President Richard Nixon to call
off the Cannikin test at Amchitka Island which is set for

launched by 33 U.S. congress-
men to force release of the
report. According to informed
sources the report was prepared
by seven government agencies,
five of whom were critical of
Operation Cannikin.

Despite all this, the U.S. is
pushing ahead with pre-
parations for the blast and
reports have it that the para-
phernalia has alréady been
assembled at the Aleutian Island
site ready for the criminal act to
be set off.

Apart from the danger to life,
limb and the environment from
the projected blast is its almost
certain harmful affects on inter-
national relations and world
peace. At a time when the world
is. crying for an easing of the
arms race; when strong moves
towards arms limitations and
relaxing of international ten-
sions are underway — this super
blast by the U.S. would be a war-
like act which cannot but poison
the world-wide political environ-
ment and set back the fight for
detente and peace.

The argument raised by some
top officials in the U.S. military
and government that the test is
needed to ensure ‘‘national
security’? is so much hogwash.
The world knows that there are
already enough nuclear weapons
in the U.S. arsenal to wipe out
mankind many times over. How

See NIXON, pg. 12

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President Richard Nixon,
White House,
Washington, D.C.

threat of nuclear war.

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I urge yau to cancel the Amchitka blast, all further
nuclear tests, and to lead the way in ending the

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