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Tribune Berlin Correspondent
BERLIN — _ Fraudulent
heroes, lies, conspiracies and
_ Pf0vocations have been the cast
Of characters and the stage-
Settings of the latest series of
_ anticommunist and anti-detente
‘deceptions in North America and
- Europe.
In recent weeks these have
€n used in the first place against
€ Soviet Union and the German
Mocratic Republic, but with
the whole socialist world remain-
img as- the permanent target.
Though the Soviet-USA agree-
ment on SALT-2 showed continu-
ing trends to detente, objective
Uropean observers also warned
of Continuing intrigues against
Coexistence.
nat Exchange with U.S.

One example is the circus still
being Stage around the five Soviet
Counterrevolutionaries who were
flown to the USA in exchange for
two Soviet diplomats imprisoned
by the USA. They were all hailed
as “fighters for human rights”’ in

_-North America. Yet the simple
demonstrable truth is that they
_ Were without exception people
who oppose detente, worked for
and propagated the destruction of
the Soviet Union as a socialist
structure and as a multi-national
State, plus the fact that they the
represent a united front of
Zionists with racist Ukrainians
whose friends and patrons were
“mass murderers of Soviet Jews
during World War Two.
Anti-GDR Front
On the anti-GDR front, the
_ campaign of lies has come primar-
ily from West Germany. The un-
opposed president of the FRG is
slated, to be old-nazi Karl
‘Carstens a few days after this ap-
pears in print. But all the FRG
media commentators, and the
_Politcal parties who support or are
not opposing this old nazi as pres-
ident, are making quite a rumble
about freedom and human rights
in the GDR.
Their great concern is, not that
an old nazi will be the FRG’s pres-

___ Latest cast of characters
in the anti-communist circus

ident, whitewashed by West
German courts, or that old and
new nazis are stepping up their
activities in the FRG under mas-
sive police protection, but that
several writers in the GDR, cur-
rent favorites of the West’s anti-
GDR forces, are being held ac-
countable for their violations of
GDR law.
Robert Havemann

First of these is the notorious
Robert Havemann. Two years
ago.he was found guilty of various
anti-GDR activities and placed
under house arrest. He has now
been released from house arrest.
But charges have been laid
against him for violating GDR
currency laws. Over a period of
years he engaged in underground
contacts with West German rep-
resentatives who arranged publi-
cation of anti-GDR diatribes by
him in anti-communist West
German and other newspapers
and magazines. Now he will have
to show in court what happened
to the Western currency he re-
ceived through underground
channels for these articles.

Dissolve Party

In the West, the strategy of the
anti-communists is to describe
Havemann as the ‘‘purest’’ com-
munist of all. This is seen as obvi-
ous bunk the moment one reads
any of his writings. During the
reign of Chancellor Adenauer in
the FRG, for example, he wrote in
the Hamburg Der Spiegel that the
then illegal German Communist
Party should be dissolved and
that a new party should be set up
with a program that Adenauer,
the ultra anti-communist, would
approve.

The second hero of the week
for the anti-GDR brigade is the
writer Stefan Heym. Regrettably,
Heym has offered himself to the

anti-communists and anti-GDR_

people as a sarificial lamb.
Though nobody here accepts his
own estimate of his litérary im-
portance, he is nevertheless the
only one with some claim to a
modest measure of fame in the
small group of writers here who

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‘Great Debate’ carried by tele-

like to enjoy the benefits of

socialist progress in the GDR but

whose hearts are in the West.
Change in Position

Here is has to be noted that
Heym has praised the achieve-
ments of the GDR, has depre-
cated progress made the next
week, shown an impossible arro-
gance even towards many of his
well-wishers, Come into and then
withdrawn from the country’s
literary and cultural life again and
again.

He now says that charges have
been laid against him also for vio-
lating GDR currency regulations.
That is easy to understand. He
has published anew Novel, called
‘“‘Collins’’ in West Germany. He
will obviously -be asked to show
why he did not conform with the
law and register the novel with the
appropriate government bureau .
here; why he published it abroad
without prior clearance here, and
what has happened to the West-
ern currency he has earned ab-
road and apparently not declared
here.

Novel Trash

The novel, incidentally, is de-
scribed by leftwing critics in the .
FRG as a monument of trash,
laughable sex, political pollution
and anti-GDR defamations. A re-

Children from a Brooklyn N.Y. school line up with balloons to form a
path for children from the U.N. International School as they practice
yesterday for the Children’s World Peace Run. It will be a 34,000-mile,
round-the-world, torch relay that will begin in August, 1980. Japanese
girl in front, holding torch is Eri Noguchi, 12.

MAURICE BISHOP EXPOSES DESTABILIZATION PLANS
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — Premier Maurice Bishop has de-

vealing sidelight on Heym is the nounced a destabilization plan against the new government which, he
fact that he deliberately calledina says, is a pyramid, at the base of which is a press campaign while at the
correspondent of West German. centre are planned sabotage acts. Bishop stated he had received the

television for an interview in information from a person with contacts in the CIA and U.S. State .
which he defended his actions and Department.

TURKEY DECLARED SUPPORT FOR SALT-2 AGREEMENT
ANKARA — Turkey’s Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit declared sup-

violently attacked the GDR.
Since the interview was arranged
and carried out in ‘‘a conspirato-

rial manner’’, as pointed out by port for the speediest conclusion of the Soviet-American agreement
Neues Deutschland, and sincethe SALT-2. Speaking at a press conference here he stressed that the

West German correspondent did continued arms race heightens the threat of a nuclear war. Ecevit had

not inform the Foreign Ministry’s just concluded talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren

press office of his intention to in- Christopher.
Ecevit praised the Soviet Union’s efforts to curb the arms race. A

terview Heym, the correspondent

had his journalistic privileges SALT-2 agreement will benefit all of humanity, the Turkish leader

withdrawn and was expelled from said.

the country. The curious thing is
that Heym, who has often said, ‘‘I
take my duties as a GDR citizen

TWENTY-FIVE KILLED AS POLICE FIRE ON CROWD
SAN SALVADOR — Three hundred people held a mass in the

very seriously,’ knew that his Metropolitan Cathedral here for the 25 who died May 9 when police
conspiratorial meeting with the opened fire on a group of demonstrators. Members of the Popular
West German correspondent was Revolutionary Bloc, who had occupied the cathedral for five days, are

a breach of GDR regulations.

demanding the release of five Iabor leaders jailed by the regime.

By ALFRED DEWHURST

Vision and radio into millions of homes
across the country is not likely to get an
Oscar as an outstanding political per-
formance. In fact, it is more likely to go
down in history as a non-issue debate.

For what the viewer or listener got can

only be described as shadow boxing.

Now a country-wide discussion,
-Sparked by the media, on ‘‘who won’’ is
under way. Was it Trudeau, Clark or
Broadbent? From where we sit the
question ‘“‘who lost’’ would be more to.
the point. And we submit that the loser
is the electorate. :

* * *

We listened to the debate hoping to
hear something new on how these three
leaders would address themselves to
the principle issues facing the country.
Unfortunately, there was nothing new.

There was no serious examination of:

the principle issues. Ed Broadbent
skirted around some of them but balked
at grasping the nettle. Trudeau cun-

_ ningly covered them up in the interests

_of the corporate elite. Clark got lost ina
Be vonry fog in Tory never-never

Why did the debate turn out to be a
non-debate? Simply because on the
basic issues of the economy and living

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

standards, national unity and the con-
stitution, foreign policy and interna-
tional. relations there were no-funda-
mental differences existing between the
three leaders participating in the de-
bate. The only areas of differences be-
tween them were of a tactical nature.
Namely, how to win votes while avoid-
ing coming to grips with the question of
real change in policy and direction.
* * *

Trudeau defended his present
policies which we are all familiar with
and need no further elaboration here.
Except to remind ourselves that his
policies are designed to serve the profit
interests, both at home and abroad, of
the multi-national corporations and
monopoly in general. If returned, his
government would give us more of the
same. ;

Clark chided Trudeau with not doing

enough along the above lines. He is

against any meddling by the govern-
ment in the economy and would retum
the running of the economy — lock,
stock and barrel — to private interests.
He would take a hard line toward
Quebec and the French Canadian na-

tion, and on international affairs.
* * *

Broadbent devoted himself mainly to
the economy. and ‘‘Canadianism’’. He
elaborated an economic strategy based
on Canadianizing the economy, while
avoiding the question of nationalization
of the main levers of the economy. In
other words, his ‘‘Canadianization’’ of
the economy would be done by assist-
ing Canadian based multi-nationals and
Canadian monopoly interests to be-
come the owners of Canadian re-
sources, manufacture and commerce.
This is nothing but crass bourgeois
nationalism with the vital interests of
the working class and all working
people subordinated to the profit ‘in-
terests of Canadian corporations and

monopolists. Broadbent should know ,

better. He should know that it is only

~ through nationalization that the Cana-

dian economy can be Canadianized.
* * *

Broadbent and Trudeau took identi-
cal positions on the question of Cana-
dian unity and the constitution. In his
remarks, Broadbent never mentioned
the existence of the French Candian

nation. On the other hand, Trudeau
acknowledged its existence in a
sociological sense but denied its polliti-
cal essence. Clark denied the exis-
tence of a French Canadian nation.
None of the participants, including the
newsmen who put the questions, men-
tioned the vital issue of peace or war
which stands at the very heart of foreign
policy. No stand was taken on nuclear
weapons, the arms race, disarmament
or the extension and consolidation of

détente. ;
* * *

The ‘‘Great Debate’’ became a non-
debate because of the exclusion of the
Communist Party. If the Communist
Party leader Bill Kashtan had been a

participant then the other participants
would have been compelled to examine

Canadian and world reality from a class .

point of view. The question of real

change and not the illusion of change

_ have been projected into the de-
te.

It is from this point of view that we
conclude that the electorate came out
the loser in the debate. For they were
deprived of hearing and considering a
‘truly alternate policy that puts the vital
interests of Canada and her working
people first — not monopoly profits,
whether such be foreign of Canadian.

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