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PACIFIC

TRIBUNE

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Israeli left gains
inmunicipal vote

By HANS LEBRECHT

TEL AVIV — The latest
municipal elections in Israel have
further strengthened the
Democratic Front for Peace and
Equality (DFPE). The Front ran
candidates in 43 of the nearly 150
towns and villages in which the
mayors are elected by direct vote
and the council members are
elected by proportional
representation. The Communist
Party of Israel belongs to the

DFPE.
> Fourteen of the Front’s can-
‘ didates won as mayors, with big
majority votes. In four more
towns, Front candidates have a
good chance of winning in second-
round elections (in the first round,
no candidate got an absolute
majority there). In the last
municipal elections, the CPI and
its DFPE allies won nine mayor’s
posts. :

In the latest elections, the Front
doubled its municipal council seats
in numerous towns and villages. In
Haifa, for the first time in the last
21 years, a Communist was elected
to the city council.

The election results pleased Uzi
David Burshtein,- spokesman for
the Front and member of the
Political Bureau of the Communist

Party of Israel. He noted that
among those mayors re-elected in
the first round was the Mayor of
Nazareth, Tawfiq Zayad, member
of the CPI Central Committee and.
member of the Israeli Knesset
(parliament). Zayad got nearly
two-thirds of the total votes. In the
17-member Nazareth city council,
the 11 Front members were once
again elected. In Nazareth reac-
tion made a concentrated attack on
the Communists and their allies,
and the Israeli central government
put all kinds of obstacles in the way
of the Communists and the Front.
So the success in Nazareth is
especially valued.

There were no basic changes in
the elections in regard to the
ruling, right extremist Likud
coalition bloc and the Labor Party.
What changes there’ were
strengthened the Labor Party. In
Jerusalem, the labor Party got 57
percent of the vote, while Likud got
only 13 percent, far below its ex-
pectations. The clerical parties
took significant losses. (The Front
did not take part in the Jerusalem
vote which illegally included the
occupied Arab part of the city.
Less than 10 percent of the Arab
population of Jerusalem par-
ticipated in the election.)

PORTSMOUTH, Dominica —
Rosie Douglas,.an. activist. in the
Black movement here has written
a letter Oct. 27 to prime minister
Trudeau asking for action to
permit him to appear before the
McDonald Commission which is
looking into illegal activities by the
RCMP.

Douglas was deported from
Canada in 1976 after a four-year
legal battle. following his par-
ticipation in a sit-in at Sir George

1969.

In his recent letter, Douglas
refers Trudeau to a letter sent him
by the prime minister April 16 on

pearing before the McDonald
Commission and says, “The
Commission has yet to indicate
anything to me on the matter.”
“Tt is imperative,” continues
Douglas, ‘“‘that you refrain from

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mission. The spirit of democracy
must prevail. It is in this light and
only in this light that the victims of
slander, brutality, imprisonment
and deportation, like myself, can
restore resepct for their human
rights consistent with Canadian
and international conventions. . .”

HORTENSIA ALLENDE... ad-
dress Madrid conference.

800 attend
Chile meet

Hortensia Allende, widow of
murdered Chilean president
Salvador Allende, was one of the
several Chilean leaders including
Communist Party general
secretary Luis Corvalan and Isabel
Letelier who addressed the historic
Madrid Conference in Solidarity
with Chile which pledged to con-
tinue the struggle to bring down the
fascist junta.

More than 800 delegates from 100
countries attended the conference
held November 9-12 in the Spanish
capital which had itself been under
fascist dictatorship for nearly 40
years. 3

The city commenorated the
event with the opening of the
Salvador Allende Museum which
houses several sculptures and
paintings dedicated to the people of
Chile.

The conference concluded with
an Act of Madrid, adopted by a
standing ovation at the closing
session. it calls for continuing work
to win the release of information
about the 2,500 disappeared
prisoners, for defence of the right
of one million’ exiled Chileans to
live in their native land and for the
conclusion of justice in the Letelier
assassination case.

The Act also calls on the UN to
continue pressing the junta on
human rights. (More on the con-
ference and Canadian par-
ticipation next week.)

Help celebrate

JACK PHILLIPS
65th Birthday

Sat. Dec. 9, 8 p.m.
Ukrainian Hall
805 E. Pender

Dancing Food and Refreshments

$5— $4 Pens., unemployed.

CLASSIFIED

COMING EVENTS

DEC. 1—Solidarity Cafe, Friday,
Dec. 1 — 8 p.m., Ukrainian Hall.
Entertainment, food and
refreshments. $1 admission.

DEC. 2— Saturday, December 2, 8
p.m.: Film ‘On the Line” and
social will be held at 535 E.
Broadway. Admission $2. Snacks
and refreshments. Sponsored by
Kingsway club.

DEC. 9 — Celebrate Jack Phillips
65th Birthday, (see display ad
page 10).

DEC. 15 — Reserve this Friday
evening for the VANCOUVER
EAST CHRISTMAS BASH; a
party with all the trimmings; at
the Ukrainian Hall, all proceeds
to the Vancouver East Com-
munist Party federal election
fund.

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