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| repressive military apparatus.

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| spoken foe of the regime.

On Sept. 8, three days before the 13th anniversary of the bloody
military coup that murdered an elected president and destroyed
| democracy, Carrasco was taken from his home at 5 a.m. by three
_plainclothes police. His body was found the next day near a sub-
| urban cemetery with 10 bullet wounds to the head.
in the current state of siege all opposition media is banned, as
| are all public demonstrations unfavorable to the dictatorship.

|

: Another Chilean martyr

SANTIAGO — This is a recent photo of Chilean
| Carrasco, 43, international editor of the banned Chilean weekly
' newspaper Andiisis, during an earlier encounter with the country’s

Carrasco was also a former political exile, one of over a million
ple banned from his country by the Pinochet dictatorship. He
| was president of the National Union of Journalists and an out-

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journalist José

Non-Aligned conference
singles out peace struggle

HARARE, Zimbabwe (APN)
— ‘‘Never has humanity been so
close to self-destruction. In fact,
the choice today is not so much
between war and peace, as be-
tween life and death’’, says the
Harare Appeal adopted at the
Non-Aligned Movement summit
meeting earlier this month.

The statement mirrors the con-
ference during which African,
Asian and Latin American lead-
ers were increasingly aware of the
interdependence between the
most urgent issues of today and
stood ready to shoulder their
share of responsibility for the fate
of humankind.

This was seen in NAM’s ap-
proach to the defence of world
peace, ending the arms race and
to disarmament which is ‘‘the
issue of issues’, as Zimbabwe’s
Prime Minister Robert Mugabe,
new NAM chairperson, put it.

A clear desire of the non-
aligned states to play an active
role in world politics permeates
the political and economic docu-
ments adopted in Harare, as well
as the appeal and declaration.

India’s Prime Minister Rajiv
Ghandi told the press that non-
alignment meant not only dis-
sociation from big power posi-
tions, but recognition of the right
of each and every state to frankly
describe its approach to the prob-
lems facing the world and take
part in their solution.

Conference documents map-
ped out a wide program for dis-
armament and the maintenance
and: consolidation of peace and

international security. As well,
the non-aligned nations wel-
comed any initiatives by other
states promoting such goals.

The summit supported the
USSR plan to phase out nuclear
weapons and its moratorium on
nuclear testing. It strongly con-
demned imperialist . policies of
militarization and stepping up reg-
ional conflicts, as well as efforts
by the U.S. and some of its allies
to spread the arms race into
space.

The Harare declaration reiter-
ated the resolve of non-aligned
nations to continue their fight for
political, economic and social in-
dependence and against the grow-
ing threat of aggression and inter-
ference in their internal affairs,
and encroachments on their
sovereignty and security. They
reasserted their right to use their
natural resources as they see fit.

The conference condemned the
U.S. undeclared war against Nic-
aragua and the recent allocation
of $100-million for contra funding.
It also condemned U.S. inter-
ference in El Salvador and its
provocations against Cuba.

Attention was focussed on
southern Africa where, from this
capital of a frontline state, a call
was heard to rebuff the military
and economic aggressions of Pre-
toria and its imperialist bene-
factors. The conference also cal-
led for broad international actions
in support of the liberation strug-
gle waged by the peoples of South
Africa and Namibia and set up a

fund for aid to these struggles as
well as condemning continuing
economic, political and military
aid to the apartheid regime by the
U.S., Britain, several of their
NATO partners, and Israel.

It reiterated its view that
settlement of the Middle East
crisis hinges on a solution to the
Palestinian problem with recogni-
tion of the legitimate rights of the
Palestinian people and their right
to statehood. It said settlement
was impossible without Israeli
-withdrawal from occupied Arab
land and ending its aggression
against neighboring states. The
Harare declaration condemned
the “‘strategic alliance” between
the U.S. and Israel as open
encouragement of expansionist
zionist policies and the U.S. pol-
icy of aiding Israel’s militar-
ization, including drawing Tel
Aviv into Reagan’s Star Wars
program. It described U.S. at-
tacks on Libya as state terrorism
and demanded Washington com-
pensate its victim for damages as
well as stop provocative military
_manoeuvres off Libyan shores.

The economic declaration re-
stated the Non-Aligned Move-
ment’s call for a new world eco-
nomic order based on respect for
the sovereignty and equality of all
states in international economic,
monetary and commercial rela-
tions. It called for stronger co-
operation among developing na-
tions, including the emergence of
a common platform for inter-
national negotiations.

INTERNATIONAL FOCUS Tom Morris

Stephen Lewis,
once again

Wasting money isn’t some-
thing alien to the Reagan
administration which -has
| jacked up military spending to
| the skies. :
| Accountry that spends $2-bil-

! lion on dog food and $600-mil- .

lion for a jet plane for its presi-
dent and $26-billion for Star
| Wars can’t be all that concern-
| ed about waste.
;| But here’s the U.S. scream-
} ing about the United Nations
being “‘bloated”’ and wasteful.
Congress threatens to cut
| Washington’s 1986 UN fee
| from $210-million to $84-mil-
| lion and demands the UN cut
| its yearly spending from
| $840-million to $700-million.
And Canada’s Stephen
| Lewis (Ready, aye, ready)),
| says the budget slashing plan
| will be big on his agenda this
| year.
The fact is the U.S. has basi-
| cally decided to kill the United
|} Nations as an effective instru-
i) ment. Gone are the heady days
"| of U-S. control. New nations,
| independent and __anti-
imperialist, added to the
socialist states, make the UNa

dangerous place for American
licy.

over and over the U.S. (and
allies such as Canada) find
themselves swamped and iso-
lated by the overwhelming
preponderance of humanity at
the UN. Imperialism, colonial-
ism, neo-colonialism, apart-
heid, military juntas just aren’t
acceptable anymore.

A new world economic or-
der, new information order,
new relationships, disarma-
ment, peace — that’s what the
majority want. And that’s bad
for Reagan and imperialism.

So here comes the phoney
“economic austerity”’ drive —
in reality a move to blackmail
and bleed the UN rendering it
impotent.

And Canada’s Stephen
Lewis, true to form, the
Americans’ boy, is right in
there pitching.

Disgraced
at the UN

Canada was once more dis-
graced at the United Nations,
Sept. 20, by abstaining on a
General Assembly vote calling
for sanctions against apartheid
South Africa for its refusal to

end its illegal occupation of
Namibia.

On Ottawa’s orders, Cana-
da’s abstention joined that of
the U.S. and 22 others. The

resolution, however, passed
126-0.

And to add insult to injury,
Canadian UN delegate Charles
Svoboda insists the abstention

- does not mean a lessening of
Canada’s support for Nami-
bian independence. Svoboda is
talking nonsense: Canada’s
support couldn’t be any less.

This Canadian position is
truly disgraceful. Last year we
had Mulroney’s UN ambas-
sador Stephen Lewis fronting
for Reagan and arguing before
the world body that sanctions
against Pretoria will hurt
Blacks. No one yet has heard
Lewis change his reactionary
tune.

Then we heard Canada’s
so-called UN ambassador for
disarmament Doug Roche
argue disarmament if .neces-
sary, but not necessarily
disarmament.

Now we have Svoboda
explaining that non-support for
sanctions means support for
Namibian freedom.

The logic, to hear Svoboda

tell it, is that Canada, as a
member of the ‘‘contact
group” of five states which
drafted an independence plan
for Namibia, should remain
neutral. The fact that Pretoria
snubbed the UN plan and
stands in violation of repeated
calls to get out of Namibia,
seems to escape Svoboda and
friends. The fact that 126 states
responded to the SWAPO call
for sanctions against the apart-
heid regime, also escapes
Svoboda.

Disgracing Canada in the
eyes of the world is becoming
commonplace for Lewis,
Roche and now Svoboda.
These guys must get a knowing
wink from the Americans in
the canteens and hallways of
the UN.

Stemming the
‘Soviet invasion”

The United States last week
expelled 25 Soviet UN work-
ers, charging the USSR mis-
sion was too large. Reports in-
dicate it was the first phase in a
U.S. drive to cut the Soviet
mission down by.105 people
over the next 18 months.

The USSR argues the size is
in keeping with its workload
and also in keeping with the
UN headquarters agreement
the Americans accepted when
the United Nations was situat-
ed in New York. It calls the
U.S. action ‘‘a provocation,”
and UN secretary-general
Javier Perez de Cuellar pub-
licly questions the legality of
the expulsions.

Aside from the fact that it’s
the UN and not the U.S. which
decides on staff questions,
Washington’s long standing
claim that the Soviet UN staff
is too large just doesn’t wash
(except, perhaps, for Lewis
who has kept quiet).

Here’s some New York
Times figures on the number of
full time workers at the UN
Secretariat in New York:
Soviet Union 411 (less 25)
France 959
Thailand 624
Great Britain 618
Philippines 605
Ethiopia 535
Chile 458
United States 1,740

Hardly a Soviet invasion.
But one more move in the
overall U.S. destabilization
plan against the UN.

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