People of Moscow
march against war

These Muscovites are the target of the Cruise and Persh-
ing-2. 800,000 of them took to the streets Oct. 1 and called for
continued negotiations at Geneva, not deployment which
NATO plans this winter. The new Pershing can reach their city
in six minutes, the Cruise which Ottawa wants to test can
devastate it. :

U.S.-backed Zia regime

faces mounting opposition

During a recent visit to Canada,
the Tribune spoke with Abdulla
Malik, Pakistani writer and jour-
nalist about the growing resistance
in his country to the military re-
gime of General Zia which seized
power in 1977. Abdulla Malik, a
long-time anti-imperialist fighter,
is the author of several books, in-
cluding one on the Cuban revolu-
tion. His writing and work on be-
half of the Pakistani people has
often placed him against the coun-
try’s ruling circles resulting in his
being jailed several times, the first
in 1945 and most recently in 1981.

The role played by Pakistan
against the Afghanistan .revolu-
tion was initiated at the beginning
by the United States, Malik
explained. The U.S. promised the
military regime aid, including
military aid which has been and is
today an important ingredient in
keeping the regime in power.

Only the military and one
fundamentalist party support the
backing of Afghan counter-
revolutionary forces. The major-
ity of the people want friendly re-
lations with their neighbor. The
major political party, the People’s
Party, in the country has called
for the recognition of the Babrak
Karmel government in Afghan-
istan. Despite the urgings of the
government-controlled media,
the people of our country have
not supported an anti-Afghan-
istan, anti-Soviet policy, Malik
stressed.

Restore Democracy

The movement to end martial
law and bring the country back to
a democratic form of government
has grown greatly since the 1977

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berger earlier this month.
military take-over, Malik reports.

“Today a strong mass move-
ment, ‘Movement for Restoration
of Democracy’ (MRD) has risen
as the main force against military
dictatorship. Nine political par-
ties have joined together and,
with the support of other groups,
are united around four main
aims: an end to martial law, for
democratic elections, a national
government and a return to the
1973 constitution.”

Labor unions, youth, women’s
organizations the intellectual
community and other broad
people’s groups back MRD and
its aims, Malik said. ‘‘Despite

military repression,” he con-

tinued, ‘“‘large public protests,
meetings and rallies are taking
place throughout the country.”

The military and funda-
mentalist supporters are isolated
from the people, he charged, but
maintain power through force.
Some 10,000 people are today in
jail; meetings are attacked by sol-
diers and people killed. Military
courts have replaced the judicial

Seeing eye to eye. Dictator Zia chats with U.S. Defence Secretary Wein-

system and floggings are com-
mon.
Pressure Growing

Added to military rule, the
standard of life of the Pakistani
people continues to drop, Malik
said. Inflation aud unemployment
characterize the country’s eco-
nomic picture and mass emigra-
tion, especially to the Gilf states is
a feature of the crisis.

‘*Pressure is growing on the re-
gime. Martial law cannot last,”’
Malik emphasized. ‘“‘The widest
unity for a return to democracy
must be achieved,’ he said.

In a broader sense, Malik said
that victory in Afghanistan over
the U.S.-backed counter-revolu-
tion will have a great impact in the
region. ‘‘It will open the
floodgates for social change in the
Indian sub continent’.

Abdulla Malik called on Cana-
dians to do their utmost to sup-
port the people’s struggle in his
country to restore democracy
which, when achieved, will be a
vital contribution to peace and
stability in today’s world.

International Focus

Tom Morris

Pee

It’s 23:59
and counting...

Imagine the problem facing
U.S. military planners: they
have 9,000 nuclear warheads
aimed at the USSR. Six
thousand are in Western
Europe already. The French
and British have hundreds
More, also aimed eastward.

Get a map of the USSR.
Now try and find 9,000
‘targets’? to aim at. Add the
572 new Cruise and Pershing-
2s they plan to deploy in De-
Cember. Find 572 more tar-
gets...

Ridiculous? Rockets will fall
On rockets. They say two of the

_U.S.’s 21 missile-carrying
Submarines can destroy every
City in the USSR.

Isn’t that enough?

Former U.S. Defence Sec-
retary Robert McNamara
thinks so. In an interview last
Week in West Germany, he
Said deployment of the Cruise
and Pershings is unnecessary.
McNamara argued that 3,000
Of the 6,000 warheads already
deployed were plenty. He said

re is no way of limiting a
Nuclear war once one starts —
Everyone will die.

Someone likened the world

to two men in a dark basement

Waist deep in gasoline threaten-

ing to strike a match. Some
‘‘deterrent’”’. Someone else
likened the arms race to two
automobiles racing headlong at
one another. They reasoned
that the only way to avoid
mutual destruction was for the
cars to stop, then reverse, then
talk it over.

Not a bad analogy for a nu-
clear weapons’ freeze, then
disarmament through negotia-
tions. But you’ve got to stop
before you can reverse.

McNariaia’s right. Adding
the Cruise and Pershings to the
6,000 warheads already de-
ployed is like stepping on the
accelerator. The head-on crash
will kill communists, anti-
communists and non-political
alike. It will wipe out civili-

zation. It will even kill Ronald
Reagan.

It’s 23:59 on the nuclear
clock.

Speak up for peace.

McEachen surely
deserves better

One press reporter dubbed it
‘“‘The George and Allan
Show’’.

It was a cozy affair in
Halifax — U.S. Secretary of
State George Shultz beamed at
External Affairs Minister Allan
McEachen. McEachen
beamed back. After all, the
two old friends had studied
economics together years ago.

Shultz raised a glass and
toasted Canada which, he ex-
tolled, had again shown its
friendship to the United States
by agreeing to test the Cruise.

McEachen responded by
pledging ongoing friendship
and our mutual commitment in
“the search for peace.” A
large tear must have rolled
down the face of anyone fortu-
nate enough to witness the
scene.

McEachen, after all, earned
his pat on the head from
Shultz. He has held firm
against his own people to
please an old friend. The U.S.
embassy (across the street

from Parliament Hill) surely
must have conveyed to

A. Kissinger — the man who

And who better than Henry

0 ina a PRS

corey

Washington the valiant service
McEachen performed. They
saw with their own eyes as
thousands rallied on the Hill
against Cruise testing.

U.S. officials certainly took
note of Canadian opinion polls
opposing testing and watched
as McEachen fought off angry
questions in the House.

Washington should coin a
medal for non-nationals who
carry out U.S. policy with such
steadfastness and loyalty.
McEachen deserves. better
than a simple toast and a smile.

What about a personal tour
of the first city destroyed by a
Cruise?

A dirty little
politician reborn

When Ronald Reagan
named Henry Kissinger to
head a commission to “‘study
American policy in Central
America’’ it signalled a serious
problem for his administration
—the U.S. public isn’t sold on
gunboat diplomacy.

Somehow, Reagan reasons,
Americans must be made to get
over their ‘‘post Vietnam”’ jit-
ters and permit Washington to
go full out in the region.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 26, 1983—Page 9

brought you Vietnam; the man
who brought you Pinochet in
Chile and the bombing of
Cambodia; the ‘‘shuttle-
diplomat who, as all can see,
brought “‘peace’’ to the Middle
East?

Kissinger’s tour last week of
Central American states rein-
forces the charge that his
commission is designed not to
investigate U.S. policy, but to
sell it.

At the airport in San Sal-
vador Kissinger told the killer
regime it was a bulwark against
totalitarianism. After talks
with the Sandinista leaders in
Nicaragua, Kissinger issued a
threat of more U.S. force —
even though fires started by
CIA-backed sabotage were
raging in the country as he
spoke.

He’s a dirty little politician
dressed up in statesman’s
garb, an image bestowed on
him by a loving media. His
book, The White House Years,
is an unrepentant litany of de-
ceit, maneuvering and power-
grabbing.

Kissinger is obviously
happy to be back in the lime-
light droning on about
‘America’s purpose’. The lo-
cation has changed, but the
message is the same.

Sains

At RT