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By FILS DELISLE
Tribune Berlin Correspondent

BERLIN — The new right-wing coalition of Chancellor —
Helmut Kohl, formed by the Christian Democratic Union
(CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and Free Democratic
Party (FDP) has lost no time in declaring it will slash workers”
living standards and turn the Federal Republic of Germany
into a more subservient ally of Washington in its policy of
confrontation with the socialist world.

Even before the new Labor Minister, Blum, had been in
office a full day, he proposed halting all union-employer wage
negotiations until the autumn of 1983. In international affairs,
Chancellor Kohn declared that his government stood squarely
behind the U.S.-NATO decision to station 572 new nuclear

_ rockets in West Germany and other NATO countries next
year. The newspaper of the German Communist Party (DKP),

ime of airliner crash

By NORMAN FARIA : ae

HAVANA — “There it is’’, -

__ Said our guide, Gaston George, as_|

_ Our car pulled off the famous

| Monumental Highway onto the

| Side road.

| Ahead of us, nestled among the

| beautiful Cuban tropical foliage,

| lay the ‘‘Martyrs of Barbados

‘| School’, a sprawling four storied

'| athletic training college that is
Part of Cuba’s answer to the

| horrendous crime on Oct. 6, 1976

| lM which a Cubana airplane was
‘blown up shortly after takeoff
ftom Barbados airport. All 73 on uf
board, including 11 young 2)

|| Guayanese going to Cuba to study FL.

PHOTO — NORMAN FARIA

apt

Medicine, were killed.

_ As we entered the reception
area where we were welcomed by
the school’s vice-principal Fran-
Cisco Sanchez, we saw hanging
On a wall the photographs of all
the people killed on that fateful
day back in 1976,
Pausing before the photos and a

~ Wall plaque, we were told by San-
Chez that every year on Oct. 6, the _

Telatives of the deceased come to
the school and participate in ac-
Uvities that remind them of the
€xample of those who died.

We were next shown the water

Sports area where water polo

teams were busily at practice in
four of the school’s swimming
Pools.. When the students were

told that we were from Barbados,

they got out of the pools, lined up
and welcomed us with the slogan:

_ “When the history is written with
blood, the future will be defended

With sweat.”’ :
_ As we toured the school. which

lies about 42 kilometers outside
Havana, vice-principal Sanchez
pointed out that the Martyrs of
Barbados School is the largest in-
stitution of its kind in Cuba. He
said that the school, of which

there were nine of this kind in.

Cuba, is primarily designed to
prepare Cuban youth for such
events as the Central American
Games.

“There are other schools for
the training of those who will par-
ticipate in the Olympic Games,”
Sanchez said.

The 2,000 Cuban youth, who
are between the ages of nine to 19
years, live in dormitories and do
all the maintenance chores.

In addition to studying the
theory and practising all types
of sports, the students must take
academic subjects so that they
will get an all round education.

Water polo team at the school greets visiting delegation.

The Martyrs of Barbados
School in Cuba is part of an ex-
tensive sports program which has
made the Spanish speaking island
a respected participant in regional
and international sports meets.
For example, of the 283 gold
medals awarded during the recent
Central American and Caribbean
Games, Cuban athletes won 173
of them. In comparison, the
sports program of Venezuela, a
south American country with a
comparable population and vast
oil resources, was only able to ac-
count for 19 medals.

However, winning isn’t every-
thing in Cuba. As vice-principal
Sanchez explained: ‘‘While med-
als are of course important, sports
in Cuba is designed to promote
public health, encourage disci-
pline and develop friendship be-
tween Cuban sports people and
other peoples.”

Still continue

News from Lebanon indicates
round-up of thousands of
€stinian civilians by Lebanese
and Israeli forces is continuing.’
In a cable from its headquarters

In Helsinki, the World Peace

-Ouncil charges that since the ter-
Tible massacre at the Sabra and

tila refugee camps, Israeli
forces are again stepping up their
arrests and interrogations of

: estinians and have recently —
- Perpetrated other massacres at

EI-Hilwa and Ansar camps.
WPC points out that some

"15,000 Palestinians are today
being held under terrible condi- f
ns at Ansar. It also charges that |

the Lebanese army, largely of-

-ficered by Christian Phalangists,
has arrested thousands of Pales-

civilians over the past week
Under the pretext of identity
Checks and is transferring them to
*Staeli-controlled areas.

“The refusal of permission to
UNRWA (United Nations Relief
and Work Agency for Palestinian

fugees) to set up tent shelters

_ ON the site of bulldozed Sabra and —
Shatila camps for the estimated

200,000

homeless, can only be

Seen as part of a plan to expel the
Palestinians from Lebanon,”’ the
charges. |
% * *

_ Inaneffort to ride out the storm
Ver the crimes at Sabra and

q Round-up of Palestinians

‘iain.

The terror in Lebanon continues.

Shatila, the Begin government
has agreed to set up a three-
person commission to look into
Israeli complicity in the mas-
sacres. The commission, while
havi wer to subpoena wit-
ee Pill only be able to
recommend actions to the Begin
cabinet. _

In addition to intense world
pressures on Israel to investigate
its part in the killings, Begin’s
about-face on a public inquiry
also was prompted by an unpre-
cedented demonstration of Israeli
citizens who demonstrated

400,000-strong to force Begin to

s in Lebanon

take action.
* * *

A sharp comment on the reac-
tion of the Canadian Christian

community to the Phalangist
crime came from the Right Re-
verend Clarke MacDonald, mod-
erator of the United Church, who

‘said Canada’s Christians main-

tained ‘‘an almost total silence’’
about the massacre.

Criticizing ‘‘Israel’s compli-
city”’ in the crime, MacDonald
said Christians have to accept the
fact that 90% of those who perpet-
rated the killings were ‘‘baptized
in the name of Jesus Christ’.

Unsere Zeit, summed up the first few days of the new govern-
ment as follows: ‘‘Chancellor Kohl and members of his
government team have made it clear that a policy of stepping
up the drive for more (nuclear) rockets and welfare curbs will
be pursued at Bonn”’.

Loyal Friends

Kohl announced it was necessary to prove to Washington
that ‘‘We are loyal friends’’ of U.S. policy. At the same time,
“under the pressure of international political réality,”’ Unsere
Zeit writes, ‘‘the new Chancellor also said his government
would honor the treaties with the socialist countries. ‘‘We are
trustworthy partners of both the east and the west,’ were the
words he used.”’

With more than 1,800,000 already unemployed, and more
than 2,000,000 forecast by official quarters for next year, and
with a tidal wave of bankruptcies and large plants closing
down every week, West German industrialists have a great
stake in trade with the socialist countries. If West German
pipeline deliveries to the USSR were stopped, thousands of
workers would lose their jobs immediately. The FRG’s trade
with the GDR, again, is this year running at the rate of about
13-billion. How. Chancellor Kohl's words and deeds towards
the USSR, the GDR and the other socialist countries will work
out in practice, however, remains to be seen. But it is clear to
everyone that his government stands to the right of the former
SPD-FDP coalition of Helmut Schmidt.

The question still being asked by many people is: how is it
that the SPD-FDP coalition broke up and the FDP leadership
provided a right-wing parliamentary majority by switching its
support from the Social Democrats to the CDU-CSU? Herbert
Mies, chairman of the German Communist Party (DKP), pro-
vides this answer: While clouds of confusion are spread about
the issue, Mies said that West German big business, which
tuled capitalist Germany before Hitler, during Hitler and since
the War, has considerable experience in manipulating parties
and governments in its own interests.

During the 13 years of SPD-FDP coalition government, with
the FDP leadership acting as a watchdog for the monopolists in
the coalition, big business did not consider it necessary to take
any sharp measures against the coalition because the
‘‘German economic wonder’’ was moving along more or less
in accordance with the monopolies’ wishes. They were reap-
ing enormous profits and all was well. For some time now,
however, Mies points out; that has changed. West Germany
has been hard hit by the deep-going international capitalist
crisis. Now the monopolies have come to the conclusion the-
SPD-FDP coalition government no longer suits their needs.

Better Servants

While the FDP as a bourgeois party has been bending the
knee increasingly to big business, and the SPD has been ready
to make cuts in hard-won social services, nevertheless the
SPD, under pressure of its mass following, could not be
counted on to do what the Kohl government has already
announced it will do for big business. 3

What followed was bribing, blackmailing and pressuring of
the FDP leadership to break with the SPD and throw its weight
to a new CDU-CSU-FDP coalition which has taken the
government without having to submit to a general election.

Labor Minister Blum has substantiated this analysis by
declaring that the only way to fight unemployment now was to
guarantee higher profits for the employers. That the mass of
the people think otherwise is indicated by the fact that the
powerful trade unions, the GDB, have attacked Blum’s ideas
and are calling for a 50-billion marks emergency program for
public works to give employment to the jobless.

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