ngs Ny = vg : . “7 eS 4 World News “Peace demo at UN June 12 UNITED NATIONS — An international peace demonstra- tion of massive proportions is being planned for June 12 here to correspond with the UN second Special Session on Disarma- ‘ment. Organizers report that delegations are expected from Many countries and Japan will send up to 1,000 people bearing _ apetition for disarmament signed by 30 million Japanese peace supporters. Coordinators for the protest come from a broad group of Organizations including the Mobilization for Survival; the American Friends Service Committee; Women’s Inter- national League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF); Operation _ PUSH; the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee; the Communist Party USA; the United Church of Christ, U.S. Peace Council and the Methodist Church. Salvador “vote” no solution SAN SALVADOR — U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Deanne Hinton told the press that the March 28 elections will not end the violence in that country. Hinton’s comments were made following threats by the Nationalist Republican Alliance to step up the war should they lose the vote. The NRA, repr’.senting the extreme right wing, vowed to keep fighting ‘the communist threat” even if the present regime wins the election. This position, plus the fact that all left and centre _ groups are boycotting the election prompted Hinton’s fore- Cast. Israel still tops says Reagan WASHINGTON — In an effort to placate Israel, President Reagan assured that country ina letter Feb. 16 that the U.S. is . committed to ensuring Israel’s military superiority over its Arab neighbors. Reagan’s letter was sent following a furor over reported _U.S. plans to sell new weapons to Jordan. The reports fol- lowed a visit to Jordan by U.S. Defence Secretary Wein- berger, but have been denied both by Reagan’s letter and publicly by Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Union leader tortured says report CAPE TOWN — The death of South African trade union leader Neil Aggett Feb. 5 while in police custody was as a direct result of abuse and torture, charged opposition spokes- - person Helen Suzman in South Africa's parliament last week. Suzman read eyewitness reports of police torture conducted on Aggett including beatings and forced exercise. Held for more than 70 days since his arrest, Aggett was found hanged in his cell. Crowds at his funeral were the largest yet and included flags and slogans of the banned African National Congress. Aggett was white. i 7-point Mideast peace plan By ERIC TREVETT ADEN (NWNS) — A World Peace Council conference held in here in the capital of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, last week made a 7-point call for action against imperialism’s war threat to the Middle East. Known as the Aden Declara- tion, and agreed unanimously by the 150 delegates from 56 coun- tries present, the document states that: ‘“‘The dangerously deteriorating situation in the Mid- dle East requires intensified effort by all peace forces. We demand an immediate halt to the im- perialist military build-up and an early and durable solution to the Middle East problem. ‘‘We call for mass actions to dismantle imperialist bases in the Middle East and remove all forms of U.S. military presence in the region. We stand against all ef- forts to establish U.S.-sponsored military aHiances in the Middle East. We reject the big lie of a ‘Soviet threat’ to the Middle East and proclaim that the real danger to peace and security of the peoples of the region derives from the U.S.-Israeli strategic cooper- ation. ‘*We demand that the decision to participate in the multi-national force in Sinai, taken by some West European and other coun- tries should be withdrawn. **We urge peace forces all over the world to strengthen their soli- darity with the Palestinian and other Arab peoples. ‘*We call on all Arab peoples to unite on a common platform and concentrate their efforts in order to foil the imperialist-designs of the Reagan administration in the Middle East. _ ‘We demand that the world community impose sanctions against Israeli aggressors. ‘‘We call on-all concerned to undertake a collective effort to bring about peace, justice and se- curity for all the peoples of the Middle East, to contribute to the lessening of the war danger in the . world.”’ Opening the conference was People’s Yemen President Ali - Nasr Muhamed, to whom World Peace Council President Romesh Chandra presented the Council's highest award, the Joliot-Curie medal. Eric Trevett was the sole British delegate at the conference, rep- resenting the broadly-based British Peace Assembly. birthday. Feb. 14. cartoons. ~ we Say: Happy Birthday, Ollie! Ollie Harrington — U.S. peoples’ artist Tribune readers have been enjoying for many years the political art of U.S. cartoon- ist Ollie Harrington who marked his 70th Harrington’s cartoons have appeared in the U.S. Daily World since its founding in 1968. He is internationally respected and winner of the 1977 gold medal for political On behalf of his many followers in Canada, ee damn planet, but we prepared to give you a very special price if you order 5,000." Surinam: broad based coalition formed BRIDGE TOWN, Barbados — the resignation, Feb. What is probably certain at present is that there will be am of Surinamese president Henk Chin-A-Sen and the Setting up of a four-man military authority in the former Mag colony points to the state of flux nature of politics re, Since the February 25, 1980 military coup, which : peeent to power a young (none over 40) group of army > cers, there have been at least three “‘barracks -re- Olts * in the South American country which got its Political independence from the Netherlands in 1975. ow, in the most recent developments, it is under- Stood that following disagreements on matters of policy, President and other civilian ministers in the govern- Ment were asked by the officers to hand in their resig- Nations, ; Despite the shake-ups over the last two years, the Mi cers, who have run the country through a National u itary Council (NMC) since the coup, have remained Mited on general policies. . 5 The military men, all former members of the Urinamese military trade union BOMIKA, had their 4nds full in with the economy and bringing together the "acially divided country of. 300,000. After 300 years of tch colonial rule, this multiracial nation of Blacks, ast Indians, Indonesians, Chinese and Europeans had Witnessed the fleeing from unemployment and high Prices of over 160,000 of their people to Holland. The last two years have clearly been a time of growing‘ S. In one of its moves to involve the democratic Smmunity in the workings of the government, the of- ficers allowed for the participation in administrative pos- From the | Caribbean Norman Faria itions of a number of civilians, the most notable being the President Chen A Sen, a medical doctor. Last Dec.-18, the Military Council continued its explo- ration into political avenues for the expression of the people's will by setting up the Progressive Revolution- ary Front. The Front, a broad based coalition, has as its _ main aims to bring an end to imperialist rule in Surinam, to destroy racist institutions and in general to create a society free from exploitation. Significantly, one of the Front’s principles is the expression of solidarity with oppressed peoples in the region and around the world. So far there has been no news from the Surinamese capital, Paramaribo, on whether the Front will be main- tained. : Chin A Sen’s resignation also poses the question: who . will take over the position of the presidency. The name of Lt. Col. Deysi Bouterse, the head of the armed forces, has been mentioned but all indications suggest that, given the symbolic and ceremonial traits that charac- terized the position of Presidency in Surinamese politics, he will not take up the position. Bouterse now sits on the four man Military Authority set up the same day as Chin A Sen’s resignation. no major shift in the administration’s political direction. Interestingly, the majority of the officers appear com- mitted to some form of socialist transformation, al- though no defined tenents or ideology have as yet emerged. : Last July, for example, Commander Bouterse, accompanied by Foreign Minister Harvey Naarendorp, travelled to neighboring Grenada to attend a regional meeting of the Socialist International, the body under which most of the leading social democratic parties, like Canada’s New Democratic Party, are grouped. Said Bouterse at the time: ‘‘Our trip to Grenada has been a great success, especially because of the contacts we established with progressive forces in the region.” Following this historic visit, Grenada’s Foreign Min- . ister Unison Whiteman, also paid an official visit to Surinam to deepen the fraternal relations between the two countries. —e “7 Caribbean = . South America SURINAM PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEB. 26, 1982—Page 9 ere tie = Ff ig Sago itis ish hae 3 cence tone 2 anata ema