FIGHTBACK ORGANIZES AGAINST BAKKE RULING Be ace Da, ele a, SAN FRANCISCO — Demonstrators march in protest against a U.S. Supreme Court decision which rolls the clock back and elimi- nates quotas for minority groups. Civil rights and other organi- zations have called the decision “an effort to erase gains won over the past 25 years”. The Communist press writes that the Bakke decision cannot be 4 7 “— + “Foe pro-conservative drive. “It is a blow to the centuries long battle of minorities and women against racism and male supremacy,” says the Los Angeles People’s World editorially. in a major statement July 8, the Communist Party USA called the decision “a craftily calculated blow against the struggle for economic, political and social equality and Black-white unity.” It called for a broad and united response to bring about a reversal of the ruling. viewed as an isolated incident but .. . is part of a wide dnti-labor, - ‘Human Rights’ in Long Kesh ‘LONDON — At the same time British Prime Minister Callaghan was telling the Commons that British-Soviet relations were be- ing placed ‘‘in a very severe test”’ because of the trials of Shcharansky and others and Foreign Secretary David Owen was talking about ‘‘human rights’’ violations, a British govern- ment-appointed -prison-visiting board reported on the ill treat- ment of prisoners in Northern Ire- land’s Long Kesh concentration camp. The board revealed over 300 prisoners in the camp are “‘on the blanket’”” — refusing to wear prison clothes and supplied with only one blanket to wear — de- manding the restoration of special category political prisoner status granted in 1972. Dr. Donald Deeney said the de- cision by the British direct rule authorities to have all facilities withdrawn from the prisoners en- gaged in the protest was “‘a breach of the law.”’ They are refused exercise facilities and recreational rights — with the result, he said, that some of them have now spent two years “looking at a blank wall. ‘I have recommended to some of the prisoners,’’ he added, ‘‘to try taking a case to court.”’ The difficulty here is that the protesting prisoners refuse to recognize the authority of the courts in Northern Ireland. CIA ‘MISLED’ CONGRESS ABOUT ANGOLA INVOLVEMENT; STUDY FINDS WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee, after 4 year-long study, has concluded that William Colby and Henry Kis singer misled (lied to?) Congress about the extent of CIA involvemet! | in the 1975 civil war in Angola. Evidence shows that more than $1-m lion was allocated by the agency to recruit mercenaries and that 2? | undetermined number of CIA men helped train military units inside | Angola. Kissinger in 1975 was U.S. Secretary of State and Colby CIA director. TEXAS COURT UPHOLDS RACE HATRED BY TELEPHONE AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court July 11 upheld a lower court decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought against Southerwestern Bell Telephone for permitting racist phone messages by the American Na# Party. The. messages offer a $5,000 reward for ‘‘every non-whilé carcass killed while attacking a white person’’ and say the Naz encourage ‘‘mass executions of non-whites.”’ ANOTHER PRISONER DIES IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE HANDS PORT ELIZABETH — Lungile Tabalaza, a 20 year-old-Black died after plunging five floors from police headquarters. He was the fou Black prisoner to die in this manner in the samé building. Last ye! | Steve Biko, who was murdered by security police, was kept chained 08 the sixth floor of this building. As in the other cases, police claiM™ Tabalaza ‘‘committed suicide’’. A police general has been appointed investigate. ‘ REFUSE PAUL ROBESON STAR ON ‘WALK OF FAME’ HOLLYWOOD — The Chamber of Commerce here July 13 refuse | to award a posthumous star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame to wot famous singer and actor Paul Robeson. Robeson, who was blacklis inthe U.S. throughout much of his career, has been honored aroull 4 the world for his activities for peace and brotherhood. The GDR namé a street in his honor last spring and his name is known by millions. Be died in January, 1976. ; BIKINI ISLANDERS EVACUATED FROM HOMES BIKINI ATOLL — Twenty-four years after H-bomb tests wel conducted by the U.S. on the island of Bikini, high levels of radioact’ ity is forcing Islanders to leave their home. Charges have arisen people were being used as guinea-pigs by the military. Yemen = struggle against conspiracy By B. TAFESSE The strategic Red Sea region is increasingly becoming the central focus for imperialist destabiliza- tion activities of progressive re- gimes. At the same time, the im- perialists are arming to the teeth the reactionary governments of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran. The build up of armaments by these governments and their ag- gressiveness against Ethiopia and the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen is menacing the peace of the region and the very pro- gressive social development tak- ing place in both Ethiopia and . Democratic Yemen. Imperialism and Arab reaction are determined to crush the rev- olutions in Ethiopia, Yemen, and by extension the Palestinian struggle and the progressive pro- cess in Libya.’ The current developments in Democratic Yemen must be seen in this con- text in order to have a clearer pic- ture of who is fighting for what . and who is behind whom. Saudi Arabia Poses Danger At the heart of the crisis in North Yemen which also precipi- tated the reactionary coup in Democratic (South) Yemen by the now dead former President Salem Robaya Ali is the design of the Saudi feudalists to over- throw the revolution in Dem-_ ocratic Yemen led by the interna- tionalist revolutionary Abdel Fatah Ismail, General Secretary of the National Liberation Front of Yemen which is in power. Saudi Arabia has strong in- fluence in the tribal and commer- cial communities of North Yemen. Moreover the Saudi gov- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 11, 1978—Page 6 ernment was from the beginning opposed to the unity of the two Yemens for fear this unity would create unrest and social upheaval in Saudi Arabia and the other medieval states of the region. In this regard it is understood that the Saudis are even intent on dividing up North Yemen and es- tablishing a puppet Yemeni **kingdom’’ in the north of the country where the Yemeni tribal and religious leaders are under the constant supervision of the Saudis: Historically the south of North Yemen gravitates towards Democratic Yemen and its pro- gressive influence. __ In October 1977 Saudi Arabia managed the physical elimination of the progress-oriented former President of North Yemen, Ib- rahim al-Hamdi, on the eve of his visit to Democratic Yemen where he was to sign a mutual non-ag- gression and defence pact and agreements geared toward the gradual unification of the two Yemens. : President Hamdi is noted for the progress he instituted in North Yemen and particularly his efforts ' at neutralizing the strong tribal and religious chiefs who were more loyal to Saudi Arabia than to his government in which they saw a threat to their feudal powers. Hamdi’s Nasserité socialism was a mixture of nationalism and awareness that what Yemen needed was social modernization. One of his important efforts in this regard was to bring into power Shafei (Islamic sect and social forces in the south of North Yemen) intellectuals who were ‘relations previously excluded from the government by the conservative Zaidi sect from the north which constitutes the main force of the traditionalists and the pro-Saudi Arabia merchant capitalists. Af- ter Hamdi’s assassination, his successor Lt. Colonel Ahmed Ghashmi ended all of the reforms, brought feudalists into power, kicked out Shafei personnel and turned more and more to Saudi Arabia. Thus developed the circum- stances which led to his elimina- tion last month and the sequential semi-civil war tension in North Yemen between the followers of Hamdi and those who follow Saudi Arabia’s directions. Arab League Pressure In these circumstances it is not surprising that. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, and 13 other members of the Arab League would call an emergency meeting in Cairo and tried to blame Ghashmi’s death on Democratic Yemen, when in fact it is well known that the Saudi’s though conscious of Ghashmi’s loyalty to them, were unhappy about the social tension Ghashmi had set in and were known to have sought out their allies in North Yemen to make movements. The Arab League was quick to “‘freeze’’ diplomatic and political with Democratic Yemen. And this despite the tenacious efforts of Democratic Yemen’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Saleh Mutea to go and explain to the Saudis the fact that Democratic Yemen had no- thing to do with Ghashmi’s death. The Saudi’s, and by extension the other Arab League members, were unwilling to hear the reports of Foreign Minister Mutea. It is becoming increasingly clear that Democratic Yemen is being vic- timized by the Arab League for its strong solidarity with the PLO and against Sadat’s capitulationism, for its powerful and internationalist solidarity with revolutionary Ethiopia, and for its dedication to real socialism and opposition to imperialism, Arab reaction and Iran’s aggres- sive expansionism and militarism. A look at a regional map of the Red Sea area shows very clearly the danger the Saudi Arabian feudal-military government poses to the security of People’s Yemen and its sovereign existence. Anti-Imperialist Front It is essential that the Yemeni and Ethiopian revolutionaries forge a strong anti-imperialist front and prepare themselves for a long-term struggle against the destabilizing conspiracies of U..S imperialism and Arab reaction. For Ethiopian revolutionaries this is a very crucial hour which demands the utmost. solidarity -with the People’s Democratic Yemen, its National Liberation Front, and its leader Abdel Fatah Ismael. The Yemeni internationalists have proved their internationalist solidarity with the Ethiopian rev- ohition consistently by Shedding their blood for its victorious march. Arab reaction, Iran, and U.S. imperialism are trying to crush the Yemeni revolution. The Saudi and Iranian govern- ments have amassed their troops to the north and east of Demo- * cratic Yemen. Ethiopian revoll” tionaries look at any attae against Democratic Yemen,, U® der whatever pretext, as an attac® on the Ethiopian revolution 4 the territorial integrity % Ethiopia. The offensive now 0° ing waged by the reactionaries against Democratic Yemen 4° mands that Ethiopia, Algen® PLO, Libya, and other progre™ sive Arabs come to terms with # reality of the imperialist danget ” that part of the world and oF ganize a solidarity action in 9% fence of Democratic Yemen the advance of the peoples caus® This is amoment when the wit proposal of Fidel Castro almo two years ago for Ethiop! Democratic Yemen, and Soma to organize an’ anti-imperialls front must be taken up again g Ethiopia, Yemen, and the othé revolutionary forces. Imperialism and Arab reactio™ unable to buy for petro-dollars Ethiopian and Yemeni revoll- tions, are poised to crush them and lead them along the road ° Egypt and Somalia. The people’ of Ethiopia and Yemen determined fighters who # standing firm in a totally hostile Tegion. They need strong supP° from all progressive forces inter nationally to successfully w! 5 stand and triumph over the for® of NATO and Arab reaction. j The hour of solidarity with Democratic Yemen is now. Itsd@_. fence and security is the task of progressives who see in You the historical process along WHI" all the peoples must march in der to: be free and socialist.