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SANTIAGO, Chile — Confronting the deep crisis in
Chile provoked by the Pinochet dictatorship, the Manuel
Rodriguez Patriotic Front (MRPF) emerged one year ago
to confront the fascist regime by military means.

In the midst of renewed repression by the regime, the
MRPF has to date struck the tyranny with important
operations in support of the people’s protests; it has
gained wide prestige with a ‘‘Rodrigu‘sta’’ mood arising
among the people. The MRPF is comprised of thousands
of patriotic Chileans of various ideologies, including re-
tired and active members of the military.

Ina manifesto issued recently, the Front charged that
Pinochet’s so-called ‘‘dialogue’’ masked the only thing
he does well: ‘‘state of siege and more repression’’.

“The struggle will not end,’ said the MRPF, “until
freedom has been won, and the only possible dialogue is
one that aims to end Pinochet’s regime and his constitu-
tion. Conciliatory steps toward Pinochet will only pro-
long the dictatorship ... The most ‘civilized’ approach
today is to end the dictatorship using all forms of

Who pays the Pentagon?
WASHINGTON — Reagan has asked for
$313-billion for the military for 1986. That will cost
the average taxpayer $2,214. At $8 per hour a
Worker will work 36 days for the Pentagon.
Reagan’s arms build-up will cost $2-trillion over
the next five years. That’s $14,146 per taxpayer, |
€qual to 221 days’ pay.
_While asking $3.9-billion in 1986 for MX mis-
Siles, Reagan cut $3.8-billion from housing, $4.1-
billion from medicare. His overall proposed budget
asks for a $40-billion boost in weapons’ spending
and a $38-billion cut in social spending, including
Mass transit, jobs corps, postal subsidies, food
Stamps, farm and student loans and job training

CHILE: The repression continues.

forces and remove criminal elements as the basis for a
new national defence policy in which the people can
participate. This will assure soldiers’ respect for their

- civil and political rights. The armed forces call on Chi-
lean soldiers not to fire on the people and to join the
MRPF.

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Programs.

Australian anti-nukes

SYDNEY — A protester holds up a sign as two U.
Navy destroyers and 11 Australian ships left Sydney
harbor for joint maneuvers March 8. Australian

Peace activists are calling on their government to
back New Zealand’s recent anti-nuclear stand.

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struggle.”

Any plan to sign a Constitutional Pact, says the
MRPF, without agreement to end the 11 year-old regime
is unacceptable. A Pact is possible, it argues, if it in-
cludes: :

e Putting an end to the regime;

e Annulling Pinochet’s constitution;

e Proposing a Patriotic Government of National
Unity with provisional-character.

There will be no peace in Chile, says the Front, if these
steps are not taken. The Patriotic Government would
then have to work out the following demands:

e To break the financial grip of the ruling elite;

e Develop an independent economic policy free from
control by the International Monetary Fund and trans-
nationals;

e Implement land reform;

e Respect the Mapuche people’s rights to their land
and culture;

e Respect autonomy of the universities;

e Respect youth rights to jobs, education and culture;

e Adopt a non-aligned foreign policy;

e Build a participatory democracy for the people.

The Armed Forces
The ruling junta has involved the military in its viola-

tions of freedom. It is necessary to clean up the armed

Based on its estimation that there can be no dialogue
with Pinochet, the MRPF manifesto explains that “‘the
defeat of the regime is possible only by using all forms of
struggle, armed struggle included. It was for this reason
the MRPF was created — to provide the Chilean people
military leadership to obtain their victory.

It calls for the creating of MRPF militias throughout
the country, for the unity and coordination of armed
units and for the organization of permanent actions to
impel the Chilean military to review its role as the exe-
cutioner of the people.

‘‘People’s offensives and national protests have
shown the people can win victories,’’ the Front declares.
‘‘The uprising of the people from city and countryside
will build an impenetrable fortress against the dictator-
ship; national revolt will paralyze the country for an

‘extended period, dispersing the technical-military

capacity of the enemy and force its collapse.

‘This is not without sacrifice ... but each day of
Pinochet’s power means more poverty, more child mor-
tality, more crimes against the people.”

Manuel Rodriguez, the communique explains, was a
leader in Chile’s patriotic struggle against Spain. Under
the slogan, “‘Citizens, we still have the-motherland!”’, he
played a decisive role in his nation’s independence
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talks based on agreements

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‘Foreign Ministers and, sup-
Posedly, ratified by their
80vernments.
he joint statement of aims
Or Geneva worked out. in
January calls on both sides to
Work out effective agreements
aimed at preventing an arms
race in space and terminating it
on earth.”? U.S. Secretary of
State George Shultz, on return-
Ing to Washington, cabled

And so, amid high hopes
from an anxious’ world, the

-Geneva meeting. opened last _

week. Pe Sow haa
And what has the U.S. done
in just eight days as the talks
got underway? ies

e Under intense U.S.-
NATO pressure, the Belgian
government forced through the
decision March 19 to deploy 16
U.S. cruise missiles despite
overwhelming public opposi-
tion;

e At the ‘Shamrock Sum-
mit’’?, a pliant Tory govern-
ment on March 18, without

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through a $1.5-billion program -

to add another 21 MX inter-
continental missiles to its
arsenal.

This flurry of arms build-up
followed a process (between
January and March) of the
U.S. backing away from the
aims of the conference, espe-
cially by its full ratification of
the $26-billion Star Wars prog-
ram.

The Geneva talks, if they
survive the U.S. assault, will
be long and difficult.

‘A Nicaragua
that isn’t there’

Quoting Shakespeare, An-
thony Lewis in the New York
Times of March 10 writes:
‘Madness in great ones must
not unwatch’d go.”

Lewis was commenting on a ,

report by America Watch, a
human rights group, whose re-
port last week chronicled acts
of atrocities by the Reagan-
backed contras in Nicaragua.
Earlier, Reagan had said these

In a thoughtful article,
Lewis. - lists ;, Reagan’s

‘fixation’? to overcome. the .-

Vietnam syndrome, to .once
again exert U.S. military pow-
er. ‘‘Nicaragua is the chosen
place,’ he writes.

‘*As always, when ideology
is in the saddle, inconvenient
facts are pushed aside ... thus
we see an American president
inventing a Nicaragua that isn’t
there and supporting terrorism
in the name of freedom.”

Lewis reveals that a recent
Washington Post-ABC News
poll showed 70 per cent op-
posed (12 favored) the U.S.
overthrowing the Nicaraguan
government.

“The U.S. isn’t threatened
by Nicaragua,’ Lewis con-
cludes. ‘‘It is threatened, in its
deepest nature, by a policy that

allies | America with
terrorism.”
Said with a
straight face
Nineteen months after KAL

007 was downed over Soviet
Territory, the aftermath of the
tragedy keeps reappearing.

A number of relatives of the

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- on Geneva these aims.. ~~ integral component’ of Star’* are our brothers.” . court charging the aircraft was

on a spy mission when it was *
downed over Soviet territory”

in September; 1983.

Relevant to the proceedings ~
are U.S. Air Force tapes of -.
communications with the air-
liner which would help deter-
mine what the U.S. military
knew about the flight path of
the jet, thus shedding some
light on why ground control or
military monitoring didn’t -in-
form the pilot he was miles off
course.

This, naturally, would help
determine the key question: if
they knew, why didn’t they
warn the flight? Or, as more
and more people believe, they
knew exactly where KAL 007

"was and exactly what it was

doing over sensitive Soviet
bases.

Well, there are no tapes.

A Pentagon spokesman
revealed that all U.S. Air
Force tapes were erased hours
after the incident. And, he said
with a straight face, they were
“routinely erased for re-use.”

We know the U.S. military
budget for the next five years is
over $2-trillion. That’s a stack
of $1,000 dollar bills 134 miles
high. Cost saving of tape?
Even Nixon wouldn’t buy that.

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