WORLD —

Letter from Nicaragua’s consul general

. ‘Reagan is responsible for’
4 State-sponsored terrorism’

tion of Nicaragua’s air space and

the urgency of the points made in

Gg letter have prompted the Tribune

feature it on our international

Pages;

ate continuous sonic booms by
*S. SR-71 spy planes that cause

rue among the population of

break

\aragua as they repeatedly
the sound barrier over a

geet of cities in the nation,
Bs leave no doubt in anyone’s
Nd that the real and criminal

Fee eons of the Reagan admin-

Tation are to terrorize the

People of Nicaragua.
. «€rhaps these are the first prac-

tical

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demonstrations of what
Cretary of State George Shultz
When, in support of the
terrorist bill, he said that
- Military actions would invar-
y kill innocent civilians.

thaps this is another example
Ow the CIA forces that pre-

vO.

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Contras fighting acainst the San-

€d the terrorist manual for the

dinista Government work hand in
hand with U.S. spy planes in a
coordinated effort to overthrow
the Government of Nicaragua.

Perhaps this is an indication of
how President Reagan intends to
implement the foreign policy as-
pects of his new electoral man-
date.

It is a fact that if any other na-
tion in the world were to engage in
this sort of state-sponsored terror-
ism, the Government and the
people of the United States would
be the first to scream bloody mur-
der and they would be justified in
doing exactly that. The standard,
however, does not seem to apply
to Nicaragua when the U.S.
Government unleashes actions of
this nature against a Government
and a people that have neither
threatened the United States or
any of its neighbours in Central
America.

In any case, the U.S. Govern-
ment is in clear and criminal viola-

of international law and common
decency. Both the Reagan admin-
istration and the American people
who gave President Reagan his
current mandate, must and will be
held responsible and accountable
by the world community for these
terrorist actions against the civi-

lian population of Nicaragua.

State-sponsored terrorism, par-
ticularly coming from the most
powerful nation in the world and
aimed at one of the most defense-
less people on this earth, can and
must never be justified on political
or ideological reasons of any kind.
State-sponsored terrorism must
be denounced for what it is: a
cowardly action that history. has
always condemned in the past and
will equally condemn in the fu-

ture.

Pastor Valle-Garay,
Consul General,
Republic of Nicaragua

‘USAF SR-71A spy plane over
Nicaragua: intimidation and inter-

ference.

nuclear war’’.

and fascist regimes.”

national disputes.

World protest called
against ‘Euromissiles’

HELSINKI — The World Peace Council has called for the
widest international action during the week of Dec. 5-12 to
mark the fifth anniversary of NATO’s decision to install U.S.
first-strike missiles in Western Europe. This 1979 policy,
widely publicized as ‘‘two track’, resulted in the installation °
of Cruise and Pershing-2 rockets in Western Europe in 1983, a
decision ‘‘which has catapulted the world perilously closer to

The WPC describes the Dec. 5-12 mobilization as an ocas-
sion for the world’s people to make their voices heard in
opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration:
“policies of military superiority, deployment of new and
dangerous first strike missiles, planning of a so-called ‘limited
nuclear war’. militarization of space, of aggression and inter-
vention, CIA-inspired assassinations and of propping up racist

_ The WPC has called for actions at U.S. embassies, con-
sulates, military bases and installments around the globe.
Through such a worldwide response, Washington will be
asked to heed “‘the universal demands of the majority of the
world’s people and governments for nuclear freeze, arms re-
ductions, banning of space warfare and testing, renunciation
of first use, establishment of nuclear weapons-free zones and
to adhere to the UN call for the peaceful settlement of inter-

—...

7

International Focus

Tom Morris

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CIA booklet

ON etiquette
Reagan has given. the final
Word about the CIA manual
Controversy in a statement is-
Sued last week from his

ifornia ranch.
= Though there may have been
apses in judgement’, we're

told, there were no violations

80Vernment

of U.S. laws which forbid U.S. °

es from taking part in or
Unselling assassinations of
Oreign government officials.
we manual, prepared by the
* and issued to contras, ad-
Ises them to ‘‘neutralize’’
‘ ase aguan officials. It further
ey aes the mercenaries to
ldnap all Nicaraguan
Tatiana officials and
ot kmail ordinary citizens
© joining the rebellion.”
© 2) Ronald Reagan, Master
Meson umicator, this complex
plained, means, as he ex-
say Fe to reporters: “You just
hee the fellow who’s sitting
hen In the office, ‘You're not
€ office anymore’.”’
Ow about that?
s Ws IS interpretation, Reagan
Bie Corresponds to CIA
ee William Casey’s, who
ngress the manual’s
eee Is to make the contras
oe orthcoming in ‘‘face-to-
©mmunication’”’. -

All that fuss, and it turns out
to be a book on etiquette. —

‘‘Race-to-face communica-
tion’? is what ered! a
Reagan get from this text:
‘‘professional criminals will be
hired” to provoke shootings

_ “selective violence”’ will
“neutralize” Sandinista of-
ficials ... mob riots will be
provoked and “shock troops
armed with knives, razors,
chains, clubs and. bludgeons

Cover of CIA manual: Murder
called “Face-to-face com-
munication”.

will march behind the inno-
cent, gullible participants.”’

Hundreds of manuals have
been taken from dead and cap-
tured contras by Nicaraguan
defence forces.

Well, let’s take Reagan at his
word. All we need is one U.S.
volunteer to walk into the Oval
Office next Monday morning
and say, ‘‘Mr. President,
you’re not in the office any-
more.” ;

Failing a positive response,
our volunteer will then imple-
ment the other recommenda-
tions in the 89-page manual.

Can there

be any doubt?

Stephen Lewis! Where's
Stephen?

Somewhere in the corridors
of the United Nations in New
York City, Canada’s new UN
ambassador is, as the saying

-goes, girding his loins for bat-
tle. He’s already given his
maiden speech which, as the
press (at least the Canadian
‘press) reports, was well re-
ceived. :
Recalling Lewis’ fiery bat-
tles against the Tory dragon in
Ontario and his sometimes
pithy television comments,
Canadians eagerly await’ his

plunge into the international
fray. :

Here’s his chance.

Fifteen thousand mercenary
soldiers, armed, led and
financed by a foreign power are
fighting an undeclared war
against a sovereign state — a
state which Lewis’ govern-
ment recognizes. ;

That foreign power last
week stepped up its attacks. It
openly threatened to intervene
should the victim insist on de-
fending itself — a right every
state has under the United Na-
tions Charter.

The foreign power has
mined the victim’s harbors. It
is carrying out daily military

spy overflights and threatens a —

naval blockade (an act of war)
should the victim resist.

The victim is accused by the-
aggressor of purchasing (im-
agine!) radar to guard its bor-
ders and patrol boats to secure
its coast line. It is further ac-
cused of purchasing anti-air-
craft weapons to defend its
skies.

There’s much more: the vic-
tim, unrepentant, insists it has
a sovereign right to run its own
affairs, including, if you
please, its own elections with-
out outside interference. It at-
tacks illiteracy, accepts foreign

aid (including from Canada) to
develop its health services and
agriculture.

And now it has announced it ©
will take its case to the United
Nations. The victim will use
this world forum to catalogue
attacks against it and will ask ©
for international assistance to
have these attacks stopped.

Recalling the fine words of
Stephen Lewis in his maiden
speech, words about justice,
humanity, freedom and equal-
ity, can there be any doubt
what our UN ambassador’s re-
sponse will be?

A British Lord
would know

Two Red Army soldiers cap-
tured by Afghan terrorists and
turned into drug addicts found
themselves in Britain last June.
This week they ‘‘undefected”’
and went home to the USSR.

‘Friends’’ of the two, in-
cluding a Tory peer, Lord
Bethell, say the two were
tricked by Soviet officials:
Menial jobs,~ homesickness,
lack of English which was their
lot in Merrie England were dis-
counted as reasons.

But, then, Lord Bethell
doesn’t have such problems.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 21, 1984 ¢ 9

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