BIS ARMAMENT

Mass rallies in Europe
target U.S. deployment.

of cruise, Pershing-2

When thousands of Canadians march
against the arms race and cruise testing in
demonstrations across the country Oct. 22,
their actions will be echoed around the
world.

That echo will be most powerful in
Europe as peace movements across the con-
tinent draw international attention on the
most dangerous new escalation of the arms
race — the NATO plans to deploy Pershing
Il and cruise missiles in Europe by the end of
the year.

Demonstrations are scheduled for virtual-
ly every country on the continent but it is in
those countries where deployment will first
take place — in particular, Britain, and West
Germany — where the peace movements
have concentrated their efforts.

In many cases, protest actions against
deployment have already begun — and that
protest will reach a crescendo on Oct. 22.

No country has more reflected the pro-
found opposition to the NATO deployment
decision than West Germany which, if the
deployment decision is not reversed, will be
forced to accept the first Pershing II missiles
beginning in December.

It is there that the ‘long, hot autumn’”’ of
protest by the peace movement has already
begun and despite media efforts to
downplay or ignore it, has already
demonstrated the overwhelming public op-
position to any new missiles on German soil.

On Oct. 5, an estimated two million
workers took part in a country-wide five-
minute work stoppage organized by the
Deutscher Gerwerkshafts Bund (DGB), the
West German labor federation. Called
“Five Minutes To 12,”’ to symbolize the im-
minence of U.S. missile deployment, the
massive job action saw workers down tools
for five minutes before noon.

Eight days later on Oct. 13, in the port city
of Bremerhaven, the first of ten days of in-
tense action against the U.S. missile deploy-

ment began with a blockade by more than
5,000 demonstrators, who were attempting
to stop shipments going to U.S. bases in
West Germany. Bremerhaven is the main
port of entry for material destined to the
260,000 U.S. troops stationed in the country
— troops who will be in control of the Per-
shing II missiles if they are deployed.

In the West German capital of Bonn, each
day of the week preceding Oct. 22 — the
“Autumn Week of Action’? — has been
targeted as a day of action for a certain
groups including women, workers, elected
representatives, school children and others.

On their day, Oct. 20, school children will
be addressng hundreds of cards to German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, reiterating the
slogan that has united hundreds of
thousands of people across the country:
“Keine neuen Atomraketen fur unser land”’
(no new nuclear rockets for our country).

On Friday, Oct. 21, thousands of
demonstrators will begin a blockade of the
Wiley Barracks, the U.S. base at Neu Ulm,
the first site slated for deployment of the
Pershing IIs. The blockade will be maintain-
ed in shifts throughout the night.

The following day, demonstrators in Neu
Ulm and in Stuttgart, 100 km distant, will
begin linking arms to form a human chain
between the two cities. The chain will link the
Stuttgart offices of EUCOM, the central
command post for troops stationed in
Europe with the Wiley Barracks to sym-
bolize the threat posed by the U.S. missiles.

In Hamburg Oct. 21, peace organizations
will blockade the defence training academy
where elite troops for NATO, West Ger-
many and other western countries are train-
ed.
Oct. 22 will bring all the protest actions
together in mass demonstrations and rallies
in Bonn, Hamburg, Neu Ulm and Stuttgart.
Over a million people are expected to take
part in those rallies alone.

MARSHAL — da Costa GOMES

Former President of the Republic of Portugal United Kingdom

GENERAL (ret.) Nino PAST!

Senator of the Republic of Italy Federal Republic of Germany

—_——

RAL (ret.) Johan CHRISTIE
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Europeans cry

“NO!”

American first-strike weapons on
the doorstep of the Soviet Union
are the most appropriate fuse for
touching off a nuclear world war.

Americans, we beseech you:
Do not deploy

Pershing II and Cruise Missiles in Europe!
For the sake of humankind—
Don’t do it!

CAmel ie sae , L 2
RAL (ret.) MichaelN. HARBOTTLE GENERAL (ret.
Michiel Hermann MEYENFELOT
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NERAL (ret.) Ginter VOLLMER GENERAL (ret.) CAEN

GENERAL (ret!) Georgios KOUMANAKOS ADMIRAL (ret) Antoine SANGUINETT!  GEWERAL (r BASTIAN
Greece France Federal
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GENERAL (ret.) Michalis TOMBOPOUL! ss
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APPEAL

issued and sign-
ed by 11 former
NATO generals.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE— OCTOBER 19, 1983—Page 10

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A mass rally is also scheduled for West
Berlin Oct. 22 which will begin with a
blockade of the Andrews Base.

In Britain, the national attention will be
focussed on a mass rally in London Oct. 22.

Organized by the broadly-based Cam-
paign for Nuclear Disarmament, the
demonstration is expected, according to one
CND spokesman, to be ‘‘the largest
demonstration ever in central London.’’

The march will begin in two huge con-
tingents which will merge as they enter Hyde
Park for a 90-minute rally against deploy-
ment of cruise missiles in Britain. Speakers
include CND president Monsignor Bruce
Kent, and chairperson Joan Ruddock as well
as Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock,-a
leading Liberal MP, Italian MP Luciana
Castellino and many others.

The same day, the Greater London Coun-
cil is sponsoring a peace exhibition in Jubilee
Gardens to highlight disarmament week.

Even before the major Oct. 22
demonstrations, Christian denominations
throughout London will hold a march and
rally Oct. 18.

As in West Germany the action by the
government in pushing ahead with missile
deployment despite massive opposition has
brought a heightened determination from
the peace movement to try to stop deploy-
ment and so head off another round of the
arms race.

In the face of prime minister Margaret
Thatcher’s belligerent rhetoric, ‘“‘our move-
ment is continuing to grow,’’ CND national
executive member Aldon James Boyd-
Newton told the Tribune. ‘‘In fact her ac-
tions have made us even more determined.”

Referring to various press reports which
have downplayed the impact of the peace
movement in general and that of CND in
particular, he said that ‘‘people have been
trying to write us off as amovement without
any reason for doing so.

“But even the British press has begun to
realize that we are a powerful movement
which has very great support.”

Also in Britain, a week later, peace ac-
tivists will converge on Greenham Common
where the first ground-launched cruise milles
are to be deployed. The U.S. base, some 70
km distant from London, was the scene of a
women’s peace camp which for months
focussed international attention on the plan-
ned missile deployment.

Demonstrators also plan a demonstrati0!
in support of the peace camp at Comiso, !!
Sicily, the site of another planned cru
missile deployment, on Oct. 22.

Demonstrations in Madrid, Stockholit
Rome, Vienna and Paris as well as sev!
cities in Japan, will also coincide wil!
worldwide actions on Oct. 22, the o
day of UN Disarmament Week.

Oct. 23 has been set as the date for ama®
demonstration against cruise and Persil!
II missiles in Brussels and for a human cha!
in Paris: —

On Oct. 29, in addition to the action
Greenham. Common, there will b
demonstrations in Copenhagen and }" |
Hague. Oct. 17-24 will be Peace Week!
Norway.

Across the United States from Oct. 21
peace activists will be mounting a variety®
events for disarmament, from peace wae
to rallies to blockades in centres from
England to California.

A major demonstration and _ rally ie
Romulus, New York Oct. 22 will be follo®
ed with a blockade and civil disobedienc®®
the Seneca Army Base Oct. 24. :

The peace movement has also targ@,
several military contractors as well as VU"
bases for action in this round of di
ment events.

On Oct. 22 demonstrators will conv®?,
on Burroughs and General Motors —
Detroit, both of which have massive
tracts with the Pentagon.

The following day, Oct. 23, there Wi
demonstrations against the Defence M
ing Agency in St. Louis, Michigan as W&
a march and rally at the Charles >",
Draper Laboratories in Cambridge
Massachsetts which had $140 milliot
military contracts last year including d ne
ing systems for the Trident, MX and C1
missiles. ay
Interestingly enough, Cambridge YO,
are to decide next month on a new cil¥ Ast
called the Nuclear-Free Cambridge “19
which, if it is passed, would make it illegal
conduct the nuclear weapons researc)”
being carried out at Draper Labs. aa

Literally dozens of other actions ar
being planned in centres around the V°