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UN condemns Rhodesia

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The UN Security. Council has
approved a resolution declaring
any internal settlement of. the

Odesia question made under
the auspices of the present Smith
Tegime in Salisbury to be illegal
and unacceptable.

Britain, the U.S., France,
Canada and West Germany,
which tried in vain to obtain sup-
Port for a compromise text, cast
abstentions.

The ten other members voted’
for the resolution, which was ta-
bled in the names of the Third
-World states on the council.

- The resolution condemned ‘“‘all
attempts and manoeuvres by the
illegal regime aimed at the reten-
tion of power by a racist minority
and at preventing the achieve-
Ment of independence by Zim-
babwe.”’

‘It also stated the council’s view
that, with the assistance of
Secretary-General Kurt Wald-
heim, Britain should enter into
immediate consultations with the
Parties concerned in order to at-
tain the objectives of genuine de-
Colonization of Rhodesia.

lemenf as illegal

American UN ambassador Andrew Young and Bishop Muzorewa look-
ing for a way out of real liberation for Zimbabwe.

Waldheim was requested to re-
port by April 15 on “‘the results of
the implementation of this resolu-
tion.”” ;

It also praised Zambia and

other front-line African states for

their ‘‘support of the people of
Zimbabwe in their just and legiti-
mate struggle’ for freedom and
independence.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for
the Patriotic Front, whose leaders

Joshua Nkomo and Robert
Mugabe spoke in the. council last
week, described the vote as a
‘tremendous victory for the
forces of progress, peace and lib-
eration.

“I hope this resolution will
sober those that have been in-
volved in the internal sell-out to
abandon the treachery in order to

- give way for a genuine solution,”’

he added.

Radio-Canada broadcasts
lies about collaborator

In a press release Feb. 14,

. ,Canadian author Sydney Gordon,

now living in Berlin, GDR, tells of
an incident of false propaganda
occurring over Radio Canada’s
Ukrainian language broadcast to
the Soviet Ukraine on Aug. 27,
1977.

In that broadcast, says Gordon,
“The false information concern-

ed an inmate of a Soviet prison,

Svyatoslav Karavansky - (who
Was) praised as a ‘dissident’, and’

democrat and a fighter for Ukrai-
nian culture’.

Gordon wrote the CBC in
November, 1977 and provided the
Corporation with a lengthy out-
line of Karavansky’s crimes,
showing him not as a ‘“dissident’’,

but a traitor and collaborator with’

the nazis in World War Two. He
asked that the real story of
Karavansky be aired in future

- broadcasts to the USSR by Radio

Canada. The press release

Christians in GDR

work for world peace

By FILS DELISLE
Tribune Berlin Correspondent

BERLIN — The leaders of the
Evangelical Church in the GDR,
Tepresenting the country’s main

hristian body, have reaffirmed
their cordial relations with the

Tman socialist state and the
Need for both Christians and the
Socialist state to continue their
Collaboration in the interests of

€ people and a world at peace.

The restatement of the position

_ ‘of Christians in the GDR, and

Support for that position by the.
Communist leadership of the
Country, came at a meeting bet-
Ween church leaders and Erich

Onecker, general secretary of
the Socialist Unity Party and

hairman of the Council of State.

Considerable importance was
attached to. the Christian-
Ommunist exchange of views. It
Was pointed out that statements
by both sides indicated a stable
iC Onship between Christians
Te and the socialist state. They
also Provided an authoritative re-
futation of the ever-recurring
Propaganda in the West that seeks
fo distort and defame both Chris-
S$ and the socialist state.
Representing the Christians at

the meeting were Bishop Al-
brecht Schoenherr, Bishop
Werner Krusche, Kurt Domisch,
president of the Evangelical
Church leadership in the GDR,

. and others.

Honecker praised the church’s

contribution to the work for world
peace, to the improvement of so-
cial services in the GDR, and to
its efforts to help ‘‘ban racism and
neo-colonialism from the life of
mankind’’.
“ Bishop Schoenherr said ‘‘both
sides are concerned, on the basis
of their own principles, with the
responsibility for the same world
and for the same people. I must
emphasize that the Christian (in
the GDR) understands his exis-
tence as a citizen of the state not
only in the fact that he formally
respects the laws, but also, on the
basis of his faith, feels a sense of
co-responsibility both for the
whole structure as well as for the
individual and for the individual’s
relationship to that structure.”

He declared that the church in
the GDR had from the beginning
supported the goals of Helsinki
and expressed the hope that these
goals would be more and more
implemented after the Belgrade
Conference.

charges the CBC with ignoring
the facts presented to them by
Gordon and his request for a cor-
rection.

He is now making the facts pub-
lic, says Gordon in his press
statement, because “‘it is obvi-
ously not the function of Radio
Canada to foment discord be-
tween Canada and the USSR but
to promote understanding be-
tween our two peoples ...””

The key facts provided to the
CBC by Gordon about
Karavansky are:

— In 1941 he deserted from the

Soviet army in the midst of battle
and crossed over to the enemy,
. — After the nazi occupation of
Odessa, he worked with Ukrai-
nian fascists there and with nazi
forces, .

—He fled with Romanian
troops in 1944 and received spy
training. Parachuted into the Uk-
raine, he was captured by Soviet
intelligence, tried, and sentenced
to 25 years in jail,

— He was released in 1960 on
parole, given every opportunity
to rehabilitate himself. He pub-
lished and translated extensively,

— But when he resumed his
contacts with foreign sources and
underground anti-Soviet agents,
he was sent back to. prison to
serve out his sentence.

‘During my researches in
Kiev and other parts of the Uk-
raine,’’ Gordon wrote in his letter
to the CBC, “‘ for a forthcoming
book on détente, dissidents, Uk-
rainian underground and emigre
organizations, I found that com-
mentaries like the one in your Au-
gust program create anger and in-
dignation among Ukrainian citi-
zens ... just about every family
has agonizing memories of mur-
ders committed during the war by
the fascist powers and their local
agents like Karavansky.”’

Gordon offered the CBC
documentary proof ‘‘and other
evidence to establish what Soviet
courts - have proven and
Karavansky himself has ad-

mitted.”’

ITT EXECUTIVES CAUGHT LYING ABOUT CHILE ROLE

WASHINGTON — Two officials of the International Telephone
and Telegraph (ITT) have been charged by the U.S. Justice Depart-
ment with lying about the corporation’s role during the 1970 election of
Salvador Allende as Chile’s president. The two had testified in 1973
that ITT had not acted in any way to prevent the election of Allende
when, in fact, it was disclosed in 1975 that both the CIA and ITT had
funded Allende’s opponents.

The two executives charged with perjury and obstruction of justice
are Edward Gerrity, a senior vice-president of ITT and Robert Berrel-
lez, a former ITT Latin American official.

PANAMA-U.S. TREATY PASSED BY U.S. SENATE

WASHINGTON — The first of two treaties with Panama was
passed by the Senate March 16 by a 68-32 vote, two more’than the
two-thirds vote required. How much it cost the Carter Administration
in favors and other forms of aid is not known, but it is believed the cost
was high. Sixteen Republicans voted with 52 Democrats on what was
elevated into a major issue by the ultra-right.

Panamanian President Gen. Omar Torrijos warned that Panama
would accept no changes in the treaties which would mean “‘occupa-
tion in.perpetuity disguised as morality.’’ However, the final treaty
with terms of ratification, a device used to soften the impact, contains
provisions strengthening U.S. “‘rights’’ in the Panama Canal, including
first passage, use of military force if the Canal should be closed for
whatever reason, etc.:

CAMBODIA CONTINUES ATTACK ON VIETNAM

HANOI — Over 1,000 Cambodian Army troops continued their
assault March 17 on the Vietnamese port city of Ha Tien on the Gulf of
Thailand near the Cambodia-Vietnam border. The Vietnam News
Agency (VNA) called the attack ‘‘a serious escalation’ and warned “‘if
the Cambodian authorities continue this criminal military adventure
... they will bear the entire responsibility for the consequences of their
actions.”

Earlier news reports stated that Chinese ships were bringing in
weapons to supply the four Cambodian Army divisions operating in the
southern border region.

U.S. SUPPLIER OF ARMS TO SMITH REGIME
LUSAKA — The Zambian Daily Mail has blasted the U.S. and
NATO for their military aid to the Smith regime. The paper says the
U.S. and Britain give Smith 67% of his arms. Racist Rhodesia has also
got directly from the U.S. its DC-3 military transport planes and its

T-28 fighter-bombers.
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TOKYO — Korean residents In Japan demonstrating against “Team
Spirit ’78”, the largest joint Korean-American military exercise since
1952. The exercises, which started March 7, involved some 60,000 South
Korean and 30,000 U.S. troops. |

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