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Pipmaiwat i Ca

Friday, September 11, 1981

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30°

Vol. 43, No. 33

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THE SHAKEDOWWN (==)

PLA ee EASTSIDE

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South Africa gets
thrown out of UN

for raid on Angola

The racist South African’s re-

| gime’s brazen aggression against
Angola has resulted in the ejec-

tion of the South African delega-

tion to the United Nations general
} ay for the third time since
4.

The UN action was an over-
whelming world condemnation
of the invasion of Angola in
which 11,000 South African sol-

| diers occupied Angolan territory
| Upto 60miles from the Namibian

border. More than 10 Angolan
towns were occupied and ravaged

| by the invaders.

At the emergency session of the

| UN general assembly Sept. 4, 117
| countries voted to reject the

South African credentials. Only
22 countries, including Canada
and the U.S., voted to seat the

| South Africans.

Earlier, Sept. 1, the Reagan ad’

| ministration totally isolated the

U.S. from world opinion by veto-
ing an UN security council resolu-

} tion condemning South Africa

for its aggression against Angola.

countries in Asia, Africa and
Latin America. Cuba is the cur-
rent chair of the movement. The
resolution condemned “‘the racist
regime for its premeditated, un-

provoked. and persistent.armed

invasion of Angola.”’ It demand-
ed immediate and unconditional
withdrawal of the South African
invasion force, financial repara-
tions from South Africa to An-
gola, and the sending of a special
five-person investigation team to
Angola to assess the damage.

In addition to the Non-Aligned
sponsorship of the resolution, the
50-member Organization of Afri-

can Unity (OAU) met with U.S. _

secretary of state Alexander Haig
in Washington and made a spe-
cial appeal for the U.S. not to
veto the resolution.

The U.S. veto has been seen as
the Reagan administration’s open
endorsement of apartheid and a
green light signal to Pretoria to
mount aggression against Black
African states which support the

The South African Action Coalition has called a meeting to pro-
test South Africa's invasion of Angola, Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., Uni-
tarian Church, 49th Ave. and Oak, Vancouver. NDP external af-

| fairs critic Pauline Jewett will speak.

The vote in the security council

» Was 13 to one, with Britain ab-

Staining. However the U.S. then

| vetoed the resolution on the pre-

text that it did not also condemn
Cuba and the Soviet Union for
giving arms and material aid to
SWAPO, the Namibian libera-
tion movement recognized by the
UN as the sole and legitimate rep-
Seas of the Namibian peo-
ple.

The resolution condemning
South Africa was introduced by
the Non-Aligned Movement, rep-

resenting most of the developing _' en

liberation movement in South
Africa.

South Africa halted its forward
advance inside Angola last week
after a firm warning from Cuba
that if the invasion force met the
line of defence where Cuban sol-
diers are stationed at the request
of the Angolan government, the
Cuban armed forces would be put
into action to defend Angola.
However the invaders still occupy
large tracts of Angolan territory
near the border.

Last weekend South African

war planes | attacked an Se =

JOHNSTON MAKATINI. .
opponents of apartheid.’

truck convoy transporting jour-

nalists from Western Europe to .

the border area to inspect villages
and towns which had been burn-
éd out by the South Africans.
South Africa’s invasion of An-
gola follows other raids against
Mozambique and Zambia since
the election of the Reagan admin-
istration, and mirrors anew wave
of repression inside the country
against the African National
Congress (ANC), the major liber-
ation movement which through
its military arm, Umkhonto we
Sizwe, has launched armed strug-
gle against the regime. :
ANC representative at the UN,
Johnston Makatini, charged
Aug. 25 that the Aug. 19 South
African -Supreme Court death
sentences against three ANC
members accused of high treason

is an attempt “‘to establish a prec-

. Botha regime seeking to ‘execute all

edent, enabling it (the govern-
ment) to execute all opponents of
apartheid.”

Makatini stressed that the situ-
ation in South Africa is ‘‘rapidly
deteriorating and extremely ex-
plosive.”’

In Vancouver, the South Afri-
can Action Coalition last week
joined in condemning the inva-
sion and called on the Canadian
government to join with the ma-
jority of countries in pushing for
meaningful economic sanctions
against South Africa. Canada is
one of five western countries at-
tempting to ‘‘negotiate’”’ an end
to South Africa’s illegal occupa-
tion of Namibia, but the invasion
of Angola signals South Africa’s
determination to stay, SAAC
said. “It is time our Canadian
representative woke up to this

fact, 4s “he added. _

TRIBUNE PHOTO ~ SEAN GRIFFIN

‘Get to work,’ Alberni tells Mac Blo

Port Alberni city council voted
unanimously Tuesday to call on
forest giant MacMillar-Bloedel to
put its workers back on the job and
move quickly to settle two smaller
outstanding disputes.

The council’s action came as
most of the Alberni Valley contin-
ued to slip into an economic slump
with the major corporate employer
dragging its feet at resuming pro-
duction at two sawmills and the
major plywood mill, Alberni Ply-
woods.

“Recognizing that the forest in-
dustry agreement has been signed
and the strikes are over in all but
two small unions and all camps and
mills are ready to resume produc-
tion except Alberni Pulp,” t the
council resolution said, ‘‘the coun-
cil of the city of Port Alberni, in the
interests of the whole community
and on behalf of thousands of citi-
zens who depend on the industry
for their livelihood, calls on Mac-
Millan-Bloedel to:

@ Make every effort to resolve
the two disputes still unresolved;

@ Reopen all camps and mills
which can be operated without de-
lay.”

IWA Local 1-85 third vice-presi-
dent Henry Nedergaard appeared
before council to ask for support of
the back-to-work motion.

The resolution, proposed by
long time labor alderman George
McKnight, was initially opposed by
alderman John Andrews who ar-
gued that M-B did not have an op-
portunity to present its side, but
nevertheless was backed unani-
mously in the final vote by the
seven-member council, including
mayor Jim Robertson.

It emphasized that M-B “‘has al-
ways claimed to hold the interests
of the community high in its priori-
ties” and noted particularly that
the forest company “‘receives its
rights to forest management li-

_ censes and other timber rights upon
this premise.

“The community is now suffer-
ing,’ it said, ‘‘and it isnow time for
M-Bto demonstrate this concern in
a practical way by doing here what
it has already done in other areas
where it has operations — by reop-
ening camps and mills so that nor-

See M-B page 8

Raiding won " win fight for autonomy

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