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Lower Mainland residents
joined with Canadians in other
Cities and people around the
world as about 1,200 people mar-
ched through downtown Van-
couver Mar. 27 to condemn the
U.S.-sponsored ‘‘sham’’ elec-
tions in El Salvador.

“‘Trudeau, MacGuigan,
change your stand! Make the
break with Duarte’s band!,’’
demonstrators chanted on their
Way to rally on the Robson
Square courthouse steps. The site

' was changed from Oppenheimer
Park when it was discovered ex-

MacGuigan would address a
United Nations . Association
Meeting in the theatre below.

- The protesters quickly approv-
ed a resolution demanding
Canada withdraw all support for
the elections which most Euro-
pean countries have condemned
as unrepresentative. The resolu-
tion also demanded the Canadian
government join other govern-
ments in recognizing the
Salvadoran liberation forces and
Support negotiated peace settle-
Ment as proposed by Mexico and
France,

ternal affairs minister Mark

‘*There’s one man who should
be here — but the dummy, he’s

downstairs,’” NDP MP Pauline

Jewett told the demonstrators.

‘‘But we all know that he takes
his orders from Washington in-
stead of coming here and taking
them from this rally,’’ charged
the NDP’s external affairs critic,
making the strongest remark
heard from parliamentiary critics
on MacGuigan’s consistent sup-
port of the Reagan administra-
tion’s unpopular global policies.

Jewett’s comments also reveal-
ed the absurd lengths to which
MacGuigan has gone in following
the U.S. policy on the El Salvador
elections. In a letter to NDP MP
Sid Parker — who had question-
ed the validity of elections in
which neither left nor centre par-
ties could participate for fear of
their lives — MacGuigan stated
that if those parties “really
wanted to participate’, they
could do so “‘by television from
Mexico.’”

“Can you believe that? Jewett
asked. ‘‘Yet that is what the exter-
nal affairs minister said.’’

**T feel you make a link with all

world peoples who are saying to

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day, ‘U.S. out of El Salvador’,’’
Armando Paredes, the Canadian
representative of the General
Association of University
Students in El Salvador, told the
rally. He cited parallel
demonstrations in Montreal,
Toronto, Winnipeg and
Washington, D.C.

Reverend Wes Maultsaid of
the Inter-Church Committee on
Human Rights in Latin America
attacked Canada’s ‘‘inap-
propriate’ foreign policy which
he said is based on a ‘‘misinter-
pretation of national struggles for
liberation.’’

‘‘We demand to know why
Canada abstained in the United
Nations’ vote calling for a
negotiated settlement in El
Salvador,”’ he said.

Leif Hansen, the seventh vice-
president of the B.C. Federation
of Labor charged that there could
be no democracy in a country
‘‘with a history of fake elections.

“‘What democracy is there for
the dead? What democracy was
there in the assassination of Ar-
chbishop Romero?,’’ asked

PAULINE JEWETT AT RALLY ..
partment echoing Washington.

Hansen, who said the candidates
represent parties ‘‘from the right
to the extreme right.”’

Canada can play an “ag-
gressive role’’ in ending American
aid the military junta of Napol-
eon Duarte, he said. ‘‘The B.C.
labor movement is speaking loud

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. charges external affairs de-

and clear and Mr. Trudeau and
Mr. MacGuigan had better
listen.”

Demonstrators subsequently
filed downstairs to the Robson
Square theatre to confront
MacGuigan on his government’s
El Salvador policy.

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remarks at UNSSOD I calling for
‘suffocation’? of the arms race and
a ban on weapons tésting. The
Minister received boos when he said
Increase armaments meant increas-
€d security for Canadians and that
Canada could not disarm
“unilaterally.”

“Disarmament comes second to
Security’? MacGuigan asserted as
he blamed the Soviet Union for the
arms race and praised the NATO
alliance which “‘has indeed kept the
World at peace.”’

In his remarks the external af-
fairs minister presented the cor-
Nerstone of the Reagan administra-
ons’ nuclear arms policy for
Europe. That policy, which
Presents the establishment of
Cruise and Pershing II missiles on
NATO members’ soil as a deterrent
to the USSR’s SS-20 medium range
Missiles, has been countered by
Peace organizations world-wide.

ey argue that the new American
Weaponry,a based on ‘“‘stealth’’.
technology which thwarts radar
detection, has, in fact, a ‘‘first-
Strike’’ capacity. It is designed to
Knock out enemy missiles in
their silos and, can deliver its

WAYNE BRADLEY (at mike), DR. TOM PERRY... ‘Keep cruise

missiles out of Canada.’
warhead with ‘Shouse address ac-
curacy.”

Such were the arguments of
speakers Cynthia Bunbury of the
Ad Hoc Committee to Stop the
Cruise Missile Tests, and Kathleen
Wallace-Deering of the church-
based Project Ploughshares. In
their comments and accompanying
briefs they presented figures show-
ing “relative parity’? between
NATO and Warsaw Pact forces
which favors NATO because of its
advanced first-strike technology.

Dr. Thomas Perry of the Van-

couver chapter of the Physicians
for Social Responsibility received a
standing ovation when he told
MacGuigan, ‘‘You don’t seem to
understand that people here are
angry because they’re afraid. Peo-
ple of all shades of political opinion
are concerned about Canada giving
up its peaceful role, which makes a
mockery of UNSSOD II: The
Cruise missile is an offensive
weapon,” he reiterated.

In responding, MacGuigan told
Perry, ‘“You’re right when you say
the Cruise isn’t a defensive

TRIBUNE PHOTO—DAN KEETON

Resign your post, MacGuigan told

weapon, and no one said that.”’

“*You did,’’ the audience roared
in virtual unison, reminding the
minister of his earlier remarks that
the new missiles were a ‘‘deterrent’’,

A standing ovation also went to
Vancouver alderman Harry
Rankin, who told the minister, ‘“‘I
believe you’re sincere in what you
say, and, if so, you don’t have the
understanding for the role of exter-
nal affairs minister, and should
resign.”

Wayne Bradley of the Comox
Valley Nuclear Responsibility
Society received cheers when he
called for Canada to adopt an in-
dependent foreign policy and
withdraw from NATO and Norad.

Bradley said people would “‘take
to the streets’’ to keep the Cruise
missile out of Canada. And regar-
ding those weapons already in
Canada at the Canadian Armed
Forces base in Comox, “‘I’d like
you to get those damn things out of
my back yard.”

When MacGuigan abruptly left
the stage at the end of the meeting,
he and his aides were jostled and
spit on by a handful of the
disrupters. The rest of the au-
dience, however, filed out
peacefully.

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CP meet
set for

Apr. 9-11

B.C.’s Communists will meet
on the three-day Easter week-
end to hammer out a plan for
organizational work and discuss
the Communist Party platform
in the anticipated provincial
election, at the party’s 24th pro-
vincial convention in Vancou-
ver.

One hundred and thirty dele-
gates from all major parts of the
province will gather at the Holi-
day Inn on West Broadway, ac-
cording to organizational secre-
tary Fred Wilson. Key speakers
will be provincial leader Mau-
rice Rush, who will outline the
party’s program on unemploy-
ment to open the convention
Fridaymorning, and central or-
ganizer John Bizzell, who has
been in B.C. on an organizing
tour. >.

Saturday and Sunday’s ses-
sions will concentrate on the
“‘organizational nitty-gritty of
the party and its works,”’ said
Wilson. The three main areas
to be addressed will be work in
industry, mass campaigning in-
cluding promotion of the Trib-
une, and ‘“‘revamping and up-

grading party life in clubs and
committees.’’

Delegates will also elect a new
provincial committee and
leader, Wilson said.

Communist party veterans
will be honored at a banquet
Saturday night to celebrate the
C.P.’s 60th anniversary, at the
Russian Hall, 600 Campbell
Ave. in Vancouver. The limited

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