+ not passed. I think that the more you > the more you want to learn.” Canada, fewer and fewer people have the tunity to take part in cultural and sports ae For example, only about 20% of the ation after high school are involyed in eek At the same time those that are ved find that often they cannot afford their €s. Many of our international athletes ores without jobs, or, unable to have > for training. Our minor sports are with- Per supervision. ; cultural opportunities are equally as li- , OSt areas have few facilities, and those ss are generally reserved for small groups €ssionals. Wayne, 28 and a member of Togtessive singing ensemble, ‘‘Bargain at Penrice,” explains his frustration this . We don’t want to be the best, or com- ial Successes, so I guess that’s the problem. © want to do is have fun and contribute t a oe toa Canadian culture, but it becomes ard. There is no government support for young people such a§ ourselves, and Onstantly in danger of losing our jobs if we a day off work to perform somewhere. +, Ve don’t even have a place to rehearse. a we practice in the back of a pizza t “Ist Countries. There, the right to cultural f tletic facilities is encouraged. In Cuba, t than 50% of the population is active in Son. cultural activities. In the German wuatic Republic the figure is 66%. Most Work have gymnasiums and sports and activities are undertaken under the di- of qualified instructors. be Soviet Union, young people numbering Tour.) million took part in the 6th Sum- 2 “Mament of Soviet Nations, and more tp million young people attend art interest ot Studios at clubs and palaces of cul- ;.2© such person is Alla, a librarian, who tra weekly poetry sessions at the Moscow § Railwaymen’s Club. Alla says, ‘‘What k Most important thing for anyone who P iat or her poems or prose to the literary k pany Of course, to hear a truthful and © Opinion of his or her work, to find an i SO for their contemporaries in the a facterent education, cultural and recrea- he hlties are sorely lacking for Canada’s ble ee ee, MES Sy : ee \i : AN ae a : _ Youth and the fight for peace, a stable future can only-be realized in a world where peace is guaranteed. audience, to meet with understanding and sup- port.’’ Along, with the other members of the club, Alla has an opportunity that most Cana- dian youth never receive. r In Canada young people have long been among the staunchest advocates of a peaceful world. In the thousands, young people de- manded an end to Canadian complicity in the Vietnam war, demanded that Canada withdraw from NATO and NORAD and that the military budget be cut. But still, the Canadian govern- ment spends more money on the military each year than on job creation, sports and cultural facilities combined. To Tony, a 22-year-old millworker it is both frightening and maddening. ‘‘T can’t understand how anyone can justify the type of money our government spends on bombs each year. With mass unemployment, poverty in our own country, our government still attempts to kid us into believing that another war might come about and that we need money for defence. Not with my tax dollars they won’t.”’ The youth of the socialist countries. are equally aware of the need to a peaceful world, but are able to pinpoint the reason for military insecurity — the agressive aims of imperialism. Roland, a student in, the German Democratic Republic points out that only the socialist coun- tries have consistently sought ways of securing world peace. ‘‘The socialist states also fully keep up their offer for a 15% reduction of armed forces and armaments of all involved states in Central Europe. The only response of NATO is the refusal of these proposals. ‘The Soviet Union, together with the other socialist states have been fighting for the prohib- ition of the use of military means in the solution of questions of confiict in international relations. ‘‘Can there be any other reasonable alterna- tives in our modern epoch apart from the efforts of the socialist states to supplement political detente with military detente?” CARTER SEEKS FUNDS FOR ‘DEATH RAY’ BOMB. WASHINGTON — Confronted by opposition in a Senate commit- tee to the death ray project, the Pentagon told Senators that the $10.2 billion request for the new bomb was being made on behalf of the President. The weapon officially called the neutron bomb, is known for its unique quality of being able to kill people while preserving property. By a narrow margin the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to include the bomb in the ‘defence’ fund bill. RIGHT WING SPLIT IN FASCIST URUGUAY MONTEVIDEO — A political split has pitted the country’s big ‘ranchers and landowners against the fascist military government. Evi- dence of the split has been growing since last week’s 16th Congress of Uruguay’s Rural Federation, which represents medium-size prop- rietors. The organization of big landowners, the Rural Association has joined the Federation in criticizing the government. KIM IL SUNG CONGRATULATES BREZHNEV ON PRESIDENCY PYONGYANG — President Kim II Sung of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sent a message of warm congratulations to President Leonid Brezhnev of the USSR, on Brezhnev’s recent elec- tion to the post of President. President Kim, who is also General Secretary of the Korean Workers’ Party said: ‘‘I am sending you ardent congratulations and wish you with all my heart great success in your important work directed against imperialism, in defence of peace, for the flourishing and development of the Soviet Union, in the name of socialism and Communism.” OAS OVERTURNS U.S. MOTION OF CENSURE The Organization of American States (OAS) for the first time in its history failed to approve a U.S.-sponsored resolution condemning socialist Cuba for alleged “‘human rights’’ violations. The U.S. was stunned by the action. : A 10-nation Caribbean group of countries refused to support the usual OAS resolution, which had been passed every year since 1972. Robert White, the U.S. delegate, seemed greatly upset by the action and told reporters he would try to corner Nicaragua and Bolivia, who were absent, to get them to vote for the ‘“‘human rights’’ resolution. TRIAL OF CUBAN PLANE BOMBERS RESUMES CARACAS, (PL). — The proceedings against the four people charged with blowing up a Cuban plane in which 73 people were killed _ reopened here after a protracted postponement due to maneuvers by ~ the Defence Counsel. Venezuelan photographer Freddy Lugo, who is charged with first degree murder, will be brought to testify before the 12th criminal Court of the First Instance. Lugo is the second of the four defendants who will go before the court. The first to do so was Cuban born counter-revolutionary Luis Posada. Hernan Ricardo and Orlando Bosch will testify after Lugo. The four were arrested here in October of last year after Ricardo and Lugo confessed to having placed the bomb that caused the plane to blow up in flight, killing all those aboard. FORCED STERILIZATION IN BOLIVIA MEXICO CITY, (PL). — In Bolivia Indian women are being force- fully sterilized, it was denounced here by Ema Obleas, widow of the nation’s former President Juan Jose Torres. Forced sterilization is being carried out on a large scale among the Quechuas and Aymaras who make up 70 percent of the nation’s population, she added. The Government of General Hugo Banzer, whom Ema Obleas de- ~ scribed as a ‘‘pupil of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’’, has con- ducted the country into such an acute economic crisis that 47 per cent of the children are malnourished and infant mortality is placed at 147 per thousand. : This, she said, is in line with a so-called MacNamara Plan (Mac- Namara is now president of the World Bank) by which attempts are also being made to transplant to Bolivia 30 thousand families of racist settlers from South Africa. WASHINGTON — The National Committee Against Repressive Legis- lation has sent a letter to President Carter urging him to use his power to free the Wilmington 10 and to prosecute the federal and state officials who framed them. The 10 civil rights activists were sent to prison in North Carolina on false testimony procured by state officials. Photo shows North Carolina prison where the activists are held. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 8, 1977—Page 5