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| ‘Madness, hysteria, insanity’
in Carter’s billions for war

By WILLIAM ALLAN
OAKLA

ND — Congressman
Ronald V. Dellums (Dem. Ber-
keley) charged here, Feb. 2, that

the r Administration is

_ Whipping up ‘madness, hysteria,

msanity’’, which is hailed by
the right wing, because of
developments in Afghanistan.

_ He told 900 people attending
the 43rd anniversary meeting of
the veterans of the Abraham Lin-
coln Brigade who fought in Spain
for the Republic back in 1936 that
Carter is using the Afghanistan
situation as an excuse for boost-
ing the military budget.

He said that Carter has a prop-

- osed budget of $616-billion dollars

of which $158.7-billion is for the
military

“That’s obscene,” he said.
“You were described as pre-

- mature anti-fascists, when you

went to Spain to defend the
Spanish Republic against fascist
forces like Franco backed by Hi-
tler and Mussolini.
“You challenged the fascists;

- today we have to follow your

example. It is ourresponsibility to
challenge this hysteria, this mad-
ness, this rhetoric. Carter is pre-
pared and is exploiting this mad-
ness to manipulate a new cold
war. He now agrees with the mili-
tary, the right wing, that it was a
mistake not to develop the neut-
ron bomb, the B-1 bomber. If you
have nuclear weapons and bombs
they will be used by the US.,
that’s why in five years time the
military budget could be a trillion
dollars.”’

Dellums declared that in
Washington the President is tel-
ling Congress that he needs a
five-year military budget of a trill-
ion dollars in order to make the
Soviet Union pay the price.

“Let us warship!”

“Then why the hell is it. that
millions of people in this country
are bleeding from this military
budget,’’ Dellums asked. ‘“‘You
cannot have a military budget

with a limited budget for social
oa without the people feeling
its

- He said that President Carter
had already put Salt-II in hock be-
fore the Soviet Union entered Af-
ghanistan. —

“The Soviet Union did that to
protect her borders. Remember,
they lost 20 million people to the
nazis. Remember the conflict now

between them and China. So we
send our representatives to China
and tell them that we will give
them our technology to go with
their armies. We put in Europe
weapons that are within striking
distance of the Soviet Union, in
West Germany, so we take sides
with their enemies.

The Congressman appealled to
the Spanish war veterans that the
challenges to the ideals of peace
and freedom distorts what they
fought for in 1936. ‘‘We must be-

come the premature anti-nuclear

and anti-cold war fighters of the
1980's”’, he concluded.

Training Afghan saboteurs

Those who are fond of clamor-
ous propaganda campaigns con-
tinue to shout from the house tops
about a ‘‘Soviet interference’ in
Afghanistan’s affairs. If one
wants to understand who is really
meddling in the Afghan affairs, he
had better refer to facts, rather
than to lies.

Today we have once again wit-
nessed reality and got a clear
answer to the question who is
most shamelessly interfering in
the affairs of sovereign Afghanis-
tan and encroaching on the gains
of the April revolution.

Abdul Kadyr Azizi, a high-
ranking member of the Democra-
tic Republic of Afghanistan’s sec-
urity service, leads us to a stand
hung with machine-guns, rifles,
pistols, submachine guns, and
ammunition.

“‘All this has been captured by

our troops at different times and

in - different places,’’ he says.
“‘Our enemies got these weapons
also from different places — the
USA, Egypt, Pakistan, China.
This is shown by the trademarks.
And this (he points to the heaps of
leaflets, booklets and posters) is
an ideological weapon, propa-
ganda printed matter. The bandits
‘infiltrating the Afghan territory
scatter this rubbish in villages and
on Toads.”

_Abdul Kadyr Azizi indicates
circles on the map with the names

of the camps at which terrorists
and saboteurs are being trained.

-Such camps number over 30.

Some of them lie near the city of
Peshwar.

“I don’t think there is any need
to tell you about the tasks and
purposes of the camps for traing-
ing saboteurs and terrorists,”’
Azizi says. ‘*You had better talk
to them yourselves ...”’

Like Green Berets

There are three of them, three
strong young men. They have be-
trayed their country and deserted
to the enemy. Two of them have
yielded to false propaganda and
the third was recruited from
among convicts. Abdulla Goll is a
former student of Kabul Univer-
sity. Abdul Malek has not even
finished eight forms at a‘general
school, and Abdul Basir deserted
from the school of cadets.

_ They are sitting in front of us
with their heads hung. Of course,
repentance came late but still it
did come, and they have told
everything in detail to inter-
rogators and pleaded guilty. They
are now waiting for a trial.

“‘Who were your instructors at
the training camps?”’

We put this question to each of
them. The answers coincide —
Americans and Chinese were
among their instructors.

‘*What was the character of the
training?’’

It becomes clear that they were
drilled almost in accordance with

ETHIOPIA GIVES $200,000 TO PATRIOTIC FRONT CAMPAIGN
ADDIS ABABA — The government of Ethiopia has granted
$200,000 to the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front for its election campaign in
Zimbabwe. The decision to send economic assistance was taken in
accordance with a resolution adopted at the 34th ministerial meeting
session of the Organization of African Unity (O AU) being held in Addis
Abada. The resolutions calls on all OAU member states to give all-

round financial and material aid to the Patriotic Front to ensure it holds
an effective election campaign.

U.S. STILL PLANS TO INTERFERE GRENADA CHARGES

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — As the Island makes ready to mark the
first anniversary of its revolution on March 13, Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop has charged that the United States continues its plan to over-
throw the People’s Revolutionary Government.

An attempt was made recently to land mercenaries from two U.S.
ships, he said at a press conference.

Bishop said that although President Carter in his State of the Union
Message talked profusely of his firm allegiance to the defense of human
rights, democratization, economic development and non-interference
in the internal affairs of Latin American and the Caribbean, his remarks
serve to cover up the real aggressive plans the U.S. has for the area.

At the same time Bishop announced his country will receive some
$10-million in financial.aid from Algeria, Libya and Syria which will be
used mainly for the construction of a new, modem airport on the
outskirts of the capital. The facility will cost $45-million and will take
large commercial aircraft. —

AFGHANISFAN-PAKISTAN SOLIDARITY MESSAGE SENT

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The opposition Pakistan National Party
(PNP) has expressed its complete solidarity with Afghanistan. Shams
Boniri, member of the PNP Central Committee, made this known in a
letter of support to President Babrak Karmal of Afghanistan. Boniri is
also PNP secretary for the North West Frentier Province (capital:
Peshawar). Pakistan has been under extra-strict martial law since last
fall, when election were cancelled by military dictator Zia ul-Haq.

RAILWAY SERVICE GRADUALLY BEING RESTORED
PHNOM PENH, Kampuchea — a 300-kilometer section of railroad
between the capital and Battambang in western Kampuchea was re-
stored last week, the second line opened with the aid of Vietnamese
specialists since the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime 13 months ago.
Battambang province is a major rice growing area bordering on ‘Thai-
land.

FRENCH TRADE UNIONISTS GREET CHILEAN WORKERS

PARIS — The leadership of the General Labor’ Confederation of
France sent a message expressing solidarity with the Chilean people
against the fascist dictatorship of Pinochet.

The message was sent to the Chilean trade unions, which it said,
were making a contribution to the defense of the achievements of the
Chilean working class in the struggle for the restoration of democracy
in the country. 2

At a time when imperialist countries, including the government of
France, are expanding their economic and military aid to Pinochet, the
message said, the General Labor Confederation of France expresses
its solidarity with the working people and trade unions of Chile.

The message was sent on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the
French trade union confederation.

the program of the training of ere”,

Green Berets during the Vietnam
war.

A. Goll and A. Malek were
taught the skill of killing and plun-
dering at the Gulbahar-2 base
near Peshawar. A. Basir spent the
three months of the training
course at Korm,’also in Pakistani
territory. The first task of his

small terrorist group was to de- _

liver weapons — 30 rifles, 20
submachine guns, 200 hand gre-

. nades and 25,000 rounds — to Af-

ghanistan: Then, upon entrench-
ing themselves near the village of
Tezin, the bandits were to pre-
pare a big base camp and wait for
another group of saboteurs.

“What did your group speci-
fically engage in?”’ °

A. Basir says that it burnt
crops, made inroads against vil-
lages and cut power line wires in
the Sarobi area.

‘‘Who gave you last instruc-
tions?”’ 3

All the-three say that U.S. and
Chinese instructors examined
them.

This report by correspon-
dents of the Soviet newspaper
Izvestia, V. Kassis and K.
Rashidov, appeared in News
from. Ukraine, Na. 3, Jan.
1980.

Joining forces to protest the drafting of both men and women this
couple, each holding one of their children, take part in a New York rally
last week. :

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