WORLD NEWS

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alvaro Vasquez, a member of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Colombia was freed from a prison
October 25 after seven months of detention. Vasquez was one of
hundreds of Colombians arbitrarily detained by the government since
October of 1978. Following his release, Vasquez pledged to continue
fighting for the release of all other political prisoners in Colombian

RESIGNATIONS PROTEST ISRAELI DEPORTATION
JERUSALEM — Despite the resignations of 23 mayors in towns on
the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials
remain determined to deport the mayor of Nablus, the West Bank’s
largest town, following his statements warning that violence was in-
__ evitable as long as Israel continues to occupy the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. In addition to the 23 mayors who resigned in support of Bassam
Shakaa, shopkeepers in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus and other West

COLOMBIAN CP LEADER FREED

Bank towns went on strike.

ECONOMIC, POLITICAL WARFARE AGAINST IRAN

WASHINGTON — Unable to use military force to free the 100
American citizens being held by Iranian students at the U.S. embassy
in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter has retaliated against Iranians
in the U.S. In two separate actions heightening the tensions around the
seizure, Carter has ordered all Iranian students in the U.S. to report to
immigration officials, and has frozen more than $5 billion of Iranian
assets deposited in U.S. Banks. Officials here indicate that the White
House is considering further economic warfare including the cut off of
food exports to Iran. The Iranian students are demanding that the
deposed Shah of Iran be returned from the U.S. to stand trial for the

crimes of his government. _

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AMBASSADOR WOUNDED IN EMBASSY ATTACK
LISBON — Middle East analysts are unsure as to who is responsible
for a November 13 attack on the Israeli embassy here which left
Israel's ambassador to Portugal, Ephraim Eldar wounded. The Pales-
tinian Liberation Organization has denied any involvement and some
analysts speculate that the attack could be the work of extremist
Zionist organizations seeking to turn public opinion against the Palesti-

people. ;
es Yassar Arafat had just concluded meetings with the
Portuguese government only days before the attack, and announced
Portuguese support for the PLO.
- SILENCE BROKEN ON A-BOMB NEAR MISS
~LONDON — Only now, more than 20 years after a 1956 crash of a
United States Air Force B-47 bomber are the people of England learn-

ing how close they came to nuclear disaster.

The crash of the bombér engulfed in fire a storage shed containing

_ three US nuclear bombs, any one of which could have been detonated
had the fire touched off the more than 8,000 pounds of TNT each
bombed contained. The details of the crash were never made public
due to fact that the British government had never acknowledged the
__. presence of American nuclear weapons at the RAF base in East Anglia.

KILMARNOCK, Scotland — More than 1,500 workers of the
_ Canadian multi-national Massey Ferguson are facing the loss of their
_ jobs as M-F threatens to close down its combine and hay bailer man-

M-F DUMPS SCOTTISH WORKERS

PHILADELPHIA — With several national and local organizations
represented, the United States Peace Council was formed here
November 10. The several hundred participants in the two day found-
ing convention adopted a plan of action focussing on disarmament, a
withdrawal of U.S. military forces.from other parts of the world, and

_ U.S. PEACE COUNCIL BORN

: _ Support for National Liberation movements.

Canadians must be involved
in effort to free South Africa

The newly appointed deputy
representative of the African Na-
tional Congress (South Africa) to
the United Nations urged Cana-
dians to pressure Canadian
multi-nationals who *‘continue to
exploit the Black people of South
Africa to withdraw their invest-
ments there’’ and to intensify
their boycott of South African
products while at the same time
increasing their material aid to the
liberation forces. :

Twenty-five-year-old David
Ndaba spoke to the Tribune just
prior to a Canada-wide confer-
ence on Canadian Complicity in
South Africa; set for Toronto,
Nov. 17-18 under the co-sponsor-
ship of Canadians Concerned
About Southern Africa and a
number of Toronto-based organi-
zations. Ndaba will be one of the
featured speakers during the
two-day meet along with rep-
resentatives of the Patriotic Front
of Zimbabwe, the Organization of
African Unity, the African Asian
Peoples’ Solidarity Organization,
and a number of other prominent
Canadian organizations.

In a wide ranging interview.
which touched upon his own per-
sonal involvement in the anti-
apartheid struggle in South Africa
to the current situation in Zim-
babwe, he said that one of the
focal points of the two-day con-
ference would be making Cana-
dians aware of the ‘‘involvement
of Canadian corporations in sup-
porting the unpopular, reaction-
ary, racist white regime in South
Africa’’ and impressing upon the
Canadian public the ‘‘necessity of
isolating the white regime.”

He said that South Africa today
was more isolated ‘‘economical-
ly, socially and culturally than
ever before’’ but that there were

still countries, Canada included,
which supported the apartheid
regime.

“Economic sanctions against
South Africa are just, and they are
very necessary at this stage in
order to support the liberation
struggles,’ he asserted. ‘The
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South Africa, not to help the
people, but to make super profits
from the life, blood and sweat of
the South African workers.”’
; Boycott of Banks

He said that one of the most
effective actions which the aver-
age Canadian could take in sup-
porting the economic isolation of
South Africa was boycotting ’'th-
ose banks which have links with
South Africa, and boycotting the
products of those Canadian com-
panies which are producing their
products with raw materials ex-
tracted from South Africa.’’

But this action itself is not all
that is required, Ndaba said.
“‘Thousands and thousands of 7,
students are running away from |,
South Africa, from Rhodesia and |,
from Namibia as a result of the —
terror and violence being un- ~
leashed by the racist regime in
South Africa’’ and these refugees
are in desperate need of medical ~
supplies, food, clothing and —
school supplies. ‘‘It is necessary
for all Canadians to contribute
material aid, to contribute food
and medical supplies in order to
maintain these thousands of
people.”’

Ndaba said that as a result of
the increasing isolation of South
Africa, the government has re-
cently unleastied ‘‘another prop-
aganda campaign telling the world
it is now doing away with apar
theid’’ including the extension o
trade union rights to all workers.
This is a monumental hoax, he
said, as when you look into the
situation, while the government |
says it is moving, it ‘‘is actually
standing still.”

He pointed out that thousands
of Black workers have just been
declared ‘‘illegal’’ or registered
contract workers. ‘‘As a contract
workers you cannot belong to a
trade union, you cannot go on
strike, you are not entitled to have
any housing in the urban areas,
you are not entitled to stay with
your family, and you cannot be-
come involved in any public or-
ganization.

‘And the so-called Black un
ions can only register on the con-
dition they do not involve them-
selves in political demands; and
for the Black South African”
worker it is impossible to separate
economic demands from political
demands.

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GDR backs Ethiopia’s struggle

By FILS DELISLE
BERLIN — A delegation of
party and government leaders of
the German Democratic Republic
has pledged Ethiopia continuing
support in the African country’s
battle against imperialist inter-
vention and for its program of
building a new socialist Ethiopia.
The GDR delegation, which

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pongsaom port, as part of the aid from socialist countries. .

was given an enthusiastic wel-
come by an estimated million
people on its arrival in Addis
Ababa, was headed by Erich
Honecker, chairman of the
GDR’s State Council and general
secretary of the Socialist Unity
Party. :

Honecker told his Ethiopian
hosts: ‘‘The German Democratic
Republic and socialist Ethiopia
stand side by side in the camp of

independence and of socialist
progress. We are one with you in
the active support of the justified
struggle of the peoples in southern
Africa. Through the continuing
suppression of the peoples of
Zimbabwe and Namibia, the
imperialist circles and the racists
have created a dangerous area of
conflict.

_ “The problems of southern Af-
rica can be permanently solved
only when: the peoples of Zim-
babwe and Namibia, under the
leadership of the Patriotic Front
and of the South West Africa
Peoples’ Organization (SWAPO),
and the people of South Africa
under the leadership of the Afri-
can National Congress (ANC)
take their destiny into their own
hands and implement their right
to self-determination; and when

y the misanthropic apartheid re-
< gime is set aside.”’

Mengistu Haille Mariam presi-
dent of Ethiopia’s Provisional
Military Administrative Council

‘declared: “‘The people of the

the forces of peace, of freedom, of -

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paid tribute to the aid his country |
had received from the GDR and —

German Democratic Republic be- |
long to the selfless friends who —
unflinchingly stood by the Ethio-
pian masses in those difficult dayS
when the masses had to stand up
against the challenge of reaction- —
ary and imperialist enemies in
past five years.”’ a
Mengistu Haile Mariam said jj
the preparations for the setting UP |
ofa Marxist-Leninist party to! ‘7
Ethiopia were going forward, a
added: ‘‘The friendly relations |
which have developed betwee® |
our two countries and peoples — i]
since 1974, when the Ethiopia? |
masses set forth on the road ©
socialist development, are based a
on a new and stable foundatio®, |
namely, jointly shared principles, qa
the ideology of proletarian inte’ |
nationalism and commonly held |
historical goals.”’ ee
The Ethiopian leader declared
that “‘the fighting peoples of ae

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spect for the GDR”, The GD™
had carried on a bitter strug. pe
root out fascism, under which #
people had endured so much }
fering. ‘‘Its unceasing efforts Bey,
guarantee equality, justice, Pe
and socialism have made it into

living model, in the eyes eer
suppressed peoples of the WOT”
or genuine struggle.” &