ANTI-NEUTRON BOMB MESSAGE AT CARTER’S CHURCH
WASHINGTON — Five persons were arrested Oct. 16 as, one by
one they rose and read a message against the neutron bomb at a church
service attended by president Carter and his family. As one was
prevented from continuing, another person would take up until ar-
rested. The president, who has just sent defense secretary Brown to
Europe to convince NATO countries to accept the N-bomb, described
the protesters as ‘‘fine young people.”’

BOLIVIANS DEMAND BREAK WITH CHILEAN JUNTA

LA PAZ — Important sectors of Bolivian public opinion are.

demanding the country severe diplomatic relations with Chile. They
cite the bad state of negotiations with Chile over an outlet to the Pacific
Ocean — Bolivia lost its sea coast territory to Chile in the 19th Century
War of the Pacific.

The La Paz Catholic daily ‘‘Presencia’’ said the Bolivian regime had
re-established relation with the Chilean junta ‘‘precisely at the time
when the Pinochet regime was universally isolated and repudiated
because of its social crimes.’

NUN CITES ATROCITIES BY SMITH TROOPS

PITTSBURG — Sister Janice McLaughlin, the nun jailed by Ian
Smith’s racist regime and then deported, charged here that atrocities
attributed by the U.S. media to the Zimbabwe liberation forces were in
fact the work of Rhodesian troops. Speaking to a public meeting here
she told of case histories where liberation fighters were blamed by
Smith for actions carried out by his troops.

CANADA SHIPPING ARMS TO IAN SMITH?

OTTAWA — At a public meeting in Carleton University, Joshua
Nkomo a leader of the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front, stated that he had
documentary evidence that arms are being shipped from Canada to
white Rhodesian forces. The weapons he says are being shipped from
St. Johns through other countries to Rhodesia. The RCMP and the
External Affairs Minister Donald Jamieson claim to have no informa-
tion of Mr. Nkomo’s charges.

ANTI-RACISM MARCH DRAWS 5,000
LONDON — Black people and white people marched side by side in
London’s East End in a protest march against the menace of racism.
Over 5,000 people attended the march under the slogan ‘United
Against Racism’’. The march was organized by the Hackney Cam-
paign Against Racism.
FIDEL CASTRO VISITING JAMAICA ._
KINGSTON — Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba is visiting Jamaica at
the invitation of Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley. The invita-
tion was in exchange for a visit Manley made to Cuba in 1975. Manley
described Castro as “‘one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth
century, who isa hero to the people of the Third World ... ’’ . Castro
was guest of honor at Jamaica’s National Heroes Day.

CANADIANS ATTEND ENVIRONMENT MEET IN USSR

TBILISI, Georgia — A Canadian delegation is taking part in the
Conference on Environmental Education here Oct. 14-26. The confer-
ence is convened by UNESCO and organized with the support of the
UN Environment Program (UNEP).

Canada’s delegation. includes:

Yvon Beaulne, Chairman of the Delegation, Ambassador and Per-
manent Delegate of Canada to UNESCO; Gilbert Clements, Minister
of the Environment, PEI; Harry Fisher, Assistant Deputy Minister,
Department of Education, Ontario; John Hurnard, Executive Direc-
tor, Development Division, Department of Education, Sask.; Prof.
Michel Maldague, Interdisciplinary Program in Planning and Regional
Development, Laval University; Prof. George Francis, Faculty of
Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo; Fred Dawes, Special
Advisor (Human Settlements), Canadian International Development
Agency; Guy Choquette, Advisor to the Delegation, Counsellor and
Consul, Embassy of Canada, USSR.

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‘ Canada cannot remain
silent about N-bomb

TORONTO — The fight for peace centred prominently in the
report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Noting that ‘‘there can be no winners in an arms race,’ the
committee members bitterly condemned the American decision to
produce the Neutron Bomb. The report noted that ‘‘underneath
the escalation of the U.S. arms race and the creation of a new
weapons system, exemplified in the neutron bomb, is an effort by
U.S. imperialism to achieve military superiority and supremacy for
it and NATO. It is part of the dangerous U.S. imperialist strategy of
trying to achieve world hegemony.

‘*The aim here is to change the balance of power in the world,
undermine the principles of equality of security with the USSR
which was the basis of detente and revert to cold war confrontation
with all its dangers,’’ the report stated.

**Canada, as a member of NATO cannot remain silent about the
fact that an effort is being made to add the neutron bomb to the
arsenal of NATO.” The way to call attention to this situation is by
“strengthening of the peace movement everywhere ... and reach
out to the trade union movement, the NDP, the churches, the youth
movement, the women, all Canadians who are concerned about the
maintenance of peace and Canada’s security.

‘The strong peace and anti-imperialist sentiment in Canada.
must be seen and heard. Indeed, the neutron bomb threat can
become an additional impetus to widen support for the Stockholm

Sinaia Appeal petition.”’ ae

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 28, 1977—Page 8

Canadian aid supports political
repression, torture in Indonesia

Political detention by the In-
donesian government is one of the
most serious violations of human
rights on earth. The present mili-

tary regime admits to holding

37,000 political prisoners, some
for as long as 12 years. Amnesty
International places the figure
closer to 70,000.

What is certain is that since the
military began its brutal repres-
sion in 1965 hundreds of
thousands of Indonesians have

been murdered, tortured, and
jailed. In 1976 Indonesia’ s chief of
police said that over the past 12
years 500,000 have been killed
and 250,000 arrested.

‘*Tapols’’ (an Indonesian con-
traction for tahanan politik or
political prisoner) are placed into
four categories in the camps
which also designates their legal
position. The highest (category
‘*A’’) alleges direct involvement:
with the 1965 attempt to over-
throw the regime while the lowest

USSR SUPREME SOVIET OPENS

Leonid Brezhnev addresses a joint sitting of the Soviet of the
Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities in Moscow.

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(category ‘‘X’’) are suspects not
Officially catalogued.

‘According to its first Bulletin
“TAPOL’’,
financial aid to Indonesia both di-
rectly through bilateral assistance

‘programs, and indirectly through

multilateral grants and loans.
‘Canada’s bilateral assistance
to Indonesia has steadily grown
from the $4-million loan in 1971,
which marked the highlight of
Trudeau’s trip to Jakarta in 1971,
to $21-million in 1973-74 ... but
Canada’s previous efforts were
dwarfed when Trudeau and
(prime minister) Suharto signed a
$200-million aid deal in Ottawa on
July 3 of last year. This is one of
the largest foreign assistance pro-
grams ever undertaken by

Canada.
‘*‘Names like Alcan,

‘MacMillan-Bloedel, Bata Shoes;
International Nickel, Sherrit-
Gordon, Swann Wooster, Acres

Canada extends —

International, Bow Valley Indus-_

tries, and Staetler-Hunter and AV’
iation Planning Services are al-

ready well entrenched in In
donesia.”

Canadians interested in receiV- |

ing further information about

Canada’s involvement can write:

Tapol Canada, PO Box 715,
Peterborough, Ontario.

Violence, economic crisis face
FRG, while GDR moves forward

By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN — The past week has
brought into sharp contrast the
convulsions and terrors of life in
the capitalist FRG ‘and the well-
ordered, planned and forward-
moving society-in the socialist
GDR.

For many weeks now the
people of the FRG have been liv-
ing out a nightmare marked by
terrorism, killings, kidnappings,
the holding of innocent people as
hostages, the bloody trail left by
children of bourgeois families
who are in mad, desperate and
often armed revolt against their
ownelders and their own society.

The people of the GDR, on the
other hand, have been working as
usual, increasing production and
labor-productivity and their own
well-being.

In the FRG, observers were
admittedly disturbed by the rate
of moral and social disintegration,
the mushrooming of old and new
naziism, the spread of open
anti-Semitism, the offensive of
the right-wing in general, the old-
style nazi attacks on the writers
and intellectuals by the CDU-
CSU parties, and by the ineffec-
tual and at times harmful postures
taken by the SPD leadership and
the SPD-Liberal government.

In the GDR, however, neo-
naziism and racism stopped at the
Western border. Millions of
tourists and visitors can come
here from the West, but fascist
and racist ideas, long weeded out
and destroyed, are not allowed to
find their way back in again.

There are still over a million
totally and partially unemployed
in the FRG, with no sign of.
improvement on the horizon. In
the GDR there was not only con-
tinuing full employment and an

actual shortage of labor, but also”

fulfillment of the current
Five-Year Plan. That means that
industrial production services
were rising at the rate of about 6%
per year, that the people will con-
tinue to have more money and
more things to buy.

_ In the FRG, the head of the
Employers Association, Hans
Martin Schleyer, was finally kill-
ed by terrorists who had kidnap-
ped him and murdered his body-
guards six weeks ago. The Lufth-
ansa airplane, with 86 West Ger-
man passengers, which had been

‘hijacked by other terrorists, was

set free by a West German com-
mando assault at an airport in
Somalia. Some passengers were
injured, and the pilot was shot by
the terrorists.

Three terrorists leaders serving
prison terms in an FRG jail died
from shooting and hanging, al-
legedly suicides. A fourth was al-
leged to have tried to stab herself
but remains alive. Terrorism of a
bloody and virulent type, obser-
vers believe, is now an endemic
illness of West German capitalist
society.

In the GDR, on the other hand,
there was law and order, a
socialist society without convul-
sions or crises or bloodshed.

The undeniable expansion of
neo-naziism, reaction and anti-
Semitism in the FRG has drawn
bitter. criticism from com-
mentators and various political
spokesmen in other countries.

The GDR, by contrast, has
been deepening its friendship with
a long list of socialist and
capitalist countries. This past
week, for example, the president
of the Congo People’s Republic
paid a state visit to the GDR. Dur-
ing the past year such state visits
have been made here by the lead-
ers of almost all the socialist coun-
tries, and by the representatives

of countries like Finland, Swe-
den, and others. At the same time
GDR leaders have visited and
signed pacts of friendship and
trade with a number of African
countries, including, last week,
Algeria. Every week brings new
contacts, new political and trade

relations with more foreign coun: ~

tries.

Because of this very visible
contrast between developments
in the two Germanys, attempts
are being made by West German
media and government institu-
tions to make it appear there is
revolt or disaffection in the GDR
also. Thus the FRG’s right-wing
press and TV seized upon a fracas
started. in the city centre by 4
group of rowdies and blew it up
into a scare story about revolt in
the streets, with two policemen
supposedly stabbed to death and
the death of a young woman. The
story was circulated by Reuter’s
agency five days after the event.
It was immediately denied by the
GDR’s Foreign Ministry as an in-
vention. The Reuter’s cor-
respondent could provide no
proof or witnesses for his claims.
But West German media gener-
ally use anything without proof if-
it is aimed against the GDR.

There is certainly a tiny core of
rowdies in Berlin. They represent
no one. The proof of that was the
series of demonstrations here this
week on the occasion of the 60th
Anniversary of the Soviet Rev-
olution. Tens of thousands of
young people and members of the
Young Pioneers from all parts 0
the Republic are participating in
600 meetings and demonstra-
tions. Berlin is filled with theif
laughter, their singing, theif
cheering, their flags and smiling
faces. They are the answer to the
sick but. routine lies of Reuter’s
and the West German media.

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