“WORLD The proposal advanced by secretary general Gorbachev } for the elimination of interme- diate nuclear missiles in Eu- rope has electrified the world. It is not a new proposal having been made by the Soviet Union as far back as 1985. Later, at Reykjavik it was tied to Star Wars. Euro missiles are now un- is nothing which stands in the way of the elimination of these missiles except the political will of the U.S. administration and its NATO allies including Canada. President Reagan has said the United States will offer a draft treaty on medium range Missile reductions at the talks in Geneva. Unless the U.S. administra- tion and some of its allies place obstructions in the way the door could be opened to the elimination of medium range missiles from Europe over the hext period of time. Agreement on the Euro mis- siles could lead to other agreements on arms control. The press quotes secretary } general Gorbachev as saying | that an agreement banning me- dium-range nuclear missiles in Europe is the key to eliminat- ing all nuclear weapons and solving other East-West prob- } lems. *‘We would like’, he says, | “that the agreement on me- dium-range missiles would stimulate talks on strategic- | arms reduction ... to promote i the opening of talks on conven- | tional armaments and armed coupled from Star Wars. There. F CP: new chance for 3 arms control 2,000 with which the survival of humankind is linked. The Communist Party of Canada welcomes the new peace initiative taken by the Soviet Union and urges Cana- dians from all walks of life to ensure that nothing is allowed to stand in the way of this first step and all the others leading to a nuclear free world. At the same time the Com- munist Party condemns the decision of the Mulroney gov- ernment to renew U.S. Cruise Missile testing on Canadian soil for another five years. This stands in sharp contrast with prospects for nuclear arms reductions in Europe. Canada, by this decision, is being further tied to a U.S. first strike nuclear strategy which includes NORAD and other measures, all linked to U.S. Star Wars. To all intents and purposes Canada’s North is being taken over by U.S. imperialism, thereby undermining Canada’s sovereignty and independence and the security of her people. It is to be hoped that the op- position parties in Parliament backed by all peace loving Canadians will speak up in support of a independent for- eign policy for Canada by de- manding that the government revoke the agreement with the USA on Cruise Missile testing on Canadian soil. A._.new.. opportunity has opened up for nuclear arms control leading to a nuclear- free world. Canadians should grasp that opportunity with both hands and not permit ob- Four Israeli citizens who attended a November } meeting with PLO representatives have been | charged under a one-year-old Israeli ‘‘anti-terror- ist’’ law forbidding its citizens contact with mem- bers of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The four were part of a 21-member Israeli dele- | gation which met with a PLO group, including i some members of its. executive committee, in November in the Romanian port city of Constanta. | The Israeli delegation included Communists, | Mapam members and persons unaffiliated with any } organization. At the end of the one day meeting, the Israelis | read from a letter by.an Israeli family whose son | was killed in Lebanon which ended: “‘Let there be | no more fresh graves in the cemeteries of the Mid- } dle East...” The Palestinian side stressed the need for a peaceful solution te the Middle East problems and _hostile Arab world which hates Jews and refuses to pointed to a recent call by the PLO offering de- tailed proposals for an international conference under the aegis of the United Nations Security Council with the participation of all concerned par- ties — Israel; the USA, Arab states, Palestine Liberation Organization and the USSR. For years the Israeli propaganda machine and the western mass media has claimed Israel faces a help find a peaceful solution. This meeting proved once again what the forces for peace and democ- racy inside Israel have said for years: that the PLO is ready to seek a peaceful solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Charged under the same law along with the four $2 Israeli is a prominent Palestinian figure. His crime | is to have publicly stated that the PLO is the legit- imate representative of the Palestinian people. | forces, to speed up progress in | the elimination of chemical } Weapons’. } Agreement on all these } Measures would open the door |} to the achievement of a nu- |. Clear-free world by the year Smee } Continued from page 1 territory from Eastern Europe. Se weapons were deployed in the GDR and Czechoslovakia in Tesponse to deployment of Persh- INg-2 missiles in Western Europe. The USSR is also apparently Prepared to set aside the question Of the “‘independent’’ deterrents of Britain and France, although Viet officials say they do expect -10Se states to become involved the process of nuclear dis- ‘ament at some future stage. ic is offer represents a signi- So departure from previous Si Viet negotiating policy. Until Ow, the Soviet position has been ss tno single element should be “ ee from the arms control ge’’ and negotiated sepa- rately, g p inn vet spokesmen continue to eee that there is an indissoluble Ng-term linkage between all the structionists, cold warriors, the military industrial com- plex, to stand in the way of human survival. Central Executive committee Communist Party of Canada March 5, 1987 SI — Soviet initiative _ breaks impasse elements of the ‘‘package’’ — strategic nuclear weapons, MRBMs, space weapons and nu- clear testing — but say that they have decided to negotiate on MRBMs separately in hopes of breaking the current arms control stalemate and generating momen- tum that will carry on to other areas. : ‘American Secretary of State George Shultz said last October that he saw no reason why a sepa- rate accord on MRBMs couldn’t be signed,’’ Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh told a press con- ference here. pears “So, let’s see, > he said. “If there are “no reasons’ why not, then, we should not be able to conclude an agreement? We want to know if the U.S. administration is being frank ... WE expect a concrete and positive response to our proposal,”’ he said. The all-new improved model The media is excitedly talk- ing about a ‘‘new, take- charge’’ Ron Reagan. He has, they say, a hot, new handler in chief-of-staff Howard Baker. Nancy Reagan, they say, has” decided to take a firm hand in the finale of his presidency. He was trotted out to meet the press fora brief statement (no questions, no smiles) March 3, then quickly re- moved from any embarrass- ment. The same day photos of Reagan ‘‘in charge’’ were given to the media. They showed him sitting, surround- ed by his staff. He even had his eyes open. Berlin, 1936. Seoul, 1988. It should be some Olympics in South Korea in 1988. The world will trek to Seoul for the Summer Games and the spotlight will focus on athletes competing inside a ring of fas- cist police. There’s been nothing like it since the 1936 Berlin Games. Last weekend we had a preview when 30,000 riot po- lice attacked 8,000 students marking the anniversary of the murder of a colleague a year ago. They were gassed, club- bed and arrested to’ keep the dictatorship alive. Citius, Altius, Fortius. If Joe’s kids were missing. . . I watched Joe Clark on tele- vision bristle as hisses met his argument that Canadian policy toward apartheid is even- handed, reasoned and the best we can do. Clark appeared well fed and rested. His suit was clear and pressed and, to all appear- ances, he didn’t seem to have been abused. There were no bruises or whip marks on his face, and those who were at the meeting | didn’t report any smell of tear gas on him. He didn’t say in his speech that Maureen and he were wor- ried sick because the police have picked up their little girl on her way to school, but deny holding her. He didn’t tell the conference in Montreal last weekend he was tired of being a second class citizen in his own country, denied a vote PACIFIC TRIBUNE, MARCH 11, 1987 e 7 and his basic human rights be- cause of his skin color. Joe Clark didn’t urge the world community to act with dispatch, with urgency, to help him smash the genocidal re- gime oppressing himself, his children, his country. Clark, well fed, well-heeled, white, Tory-minded, comfort- able, felt none of this urgency. It isn’t his kids, his family or his problem. He deserved the hisses. He peddles hypocrisy. He has plenty of time. He has power- ful friends with powerful inter- ests. He, Mulroney and their Un- ited Nations apologist, Ste- phen Lewis deserve not only . hisses, but the contempt of all decent people.