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About 300 people packed the
auditorium of the University of
British Columbia’s Woodward
building to hear speakers call for an
end to the ‘‘madness’’ of the
Nuclear arms race at the Feb. 27

: A Canadian Perspective.”

Peace activists called for mutual
understanding to replace cold-war
Politics, and urged the Canadian
g0vernment to. work for world
Peace while establishing Canada as
4 nuclear-free zone. Others outlin-
ed the medical consequences of
‘nuclear war and stressed scientists’
Obligation to work for peace, at
the meeting called by the newly-

and Mutual Disarmament..

_ Speakers and audience par-
Ucipants also stressed personal in-
volvement — from. stuffing
envelopes to engagement in major
Tesearch projects — in peace
Organizations, many of which were
Tepresented by display tables in the
lobby.

On the theme, ‘Can we trust the
Russians? .”’ Seattle Pacific univer-
Sity professor Dr. Jessie Chiang
€mphasized the need for a mutual
nuclear arms race freeze, maintain-
Ing that there is ‘“‘relative parity”’

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between the military arsenals of the

U.S.A. and the USSR. Chiang, a

Member of the U.S. Union of Con-

cerned Educators, said the arms

question can be better understood

by seeing ‘“‘the Soviet point of
lew . ”

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DR. THOMAS PERRY . . . doc-
Cts couldn't handle casualties
of holocaust.

Symposium, ‘‘Ending the Arms
Race :

formed UBC Students for Peace —

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“The vast majority of the Soviet
military structure is defensive in
character,” said Chiang, citing the
USSR’s geographical position as
the reason for the size of its conven-
tional FOr eS sia Jee

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DR. WILLIAM NICHOLLS .. «all
humanity wants world peace.

“‘The myth of the Soviet threat
is manufactured by the manufac-
turers of weapons,’’ he said.

UBC political science professor
Dr. Michael Wallace agreed that it
is ‘‘nonsense”’ to believe that the
Soviet Union wants war. Unlike
U.S. secretary of state Alexander
Haig who has recently claimed that
anuclear exchangein Europe could
be ‘‘won,” “‘the Soviets haven’t
said a nuclear war is winnable since
1955,”’ he noted.

In addressing the theme,
“Canada’s role in the arms race,”’
Wallace said Canadian peace ac-
tivists should ‘‘be realistic — and
demand the impossible.’’ He said,
Canadians should demand their
government work for: ‘‘a com-
prehensive test ban treaty — right
now;’’ a missile test ban; an agree-
ment that both major world
powers renounce the “‘first-strike’’
use of nuclear weapons; more
nuclear-free zones; and an im-
mediate reduction by one-half of
the world’s nuclear weapons.

Dr. Thomas Perry of the Physi-
cians for Social Responsibility

© » outlined the effects a one-megaton
'§ 2 bomb would have on Vancouver.
% © About 400,000 persons would be

killed outright, another 300,000
would be so seriously burned that
most would die soon after, and

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there would be about 2,000
‘‘special burns’’ cases, about the
same number as can be accom-
modated by the entire special burns
facilities in North America, he said.

“Diseases would be absolutely
rampant because radiation would
reduce the body’s natural immuni-
ty,’’ said the UBC Pharmacology
professor whose organization has
been addressing the public on the
medical consequences of nuclear
war since the chapter here was
established in 1980.

Fall-out shelters, like those ad-
vocated in a recent federal govern-
ment publication on civil defence,
would be ‘“‘absolutely useless — the
heat from the blast would be so in-
tense, you’d be cooked,’’ he said.

Physicians from the USSR are
involved, Perry said, noting that
several Soviet doctors attended a
recent meeting of the International
Physicians for Prevention of
Nuclear War. Peace issues also
receive broad coverage in the Soviet

- press, he stated. »

Noted broadcaster and geneticist
Dr. David Suzuki said he was “‘ap-
palled” by the belief of U.S.
businessmen he recently met, that
their country must achieve military
superiority over the USSR in five
years. Warning of the dangers of
an ‘“‘accidental’’ nuclear war caus-
ed by malfunctioning computers,
he cited the absence of “‘any moral
background” in the education of

MARK VRUNKE .. . Operation
Dismantle seeks peace refer-
endums.

scientists, most of whom end up
working for private business or in
weapons research.

Other speakers included
Kathleen Wallace-Deering of Pro-
ject Plowshares, whose organiza-
tion is advocating that Canada be
declared a nuclear-free zone; UBC
religious studies head William
Nicholls; Simon Fraser University
physics professor Anthony S. Ar-
rott; Bert Ogden of the United
Fishermen and Allied Workers Un-
ion; and Mark Vrunke, Operation
Dismantle.

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