+ not passed. I think that the more you
> the more you want to learn.”

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tunity to take part in cultural and sports
ae For example, only about 20% of the
ation after high school are involyed in
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, OSt areas have few facilities, and those
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€ssionals. Wayne, 28 and a member of
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Penrice,” explains his frustration this
. We don’t want to be the best, or com-
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ard. There is no government support for

young people such a§ ourselves, and

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we a day off work to perform somewhere.
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“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
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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.

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