es ot aa ra ® World News Vietnam calls for regional dialogue HANOI — ‘‘Any solution of the Kampuchean issue must be based on the fact that withdrawal of Vietnamese troops is coupled with the elimination of the genocidal Pol Pot group and its followers,” said the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam last week. The SRV refuted charges by the ASEAN Foreign Ministers, Meeting in Bangkok that Vietnam was blocking a settlement of the Kampuchean question. It said China and Thailand are aiding Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge and charged Bejing with ‘‘intensified armed provocations’’ on Vietnam’s northern borders. The SRV repeated its call for dialogue with all states in the region toward a peaceful settlement based on respect for national sovereignty. Protest apartheid’s latest arrests TORONTO — Canadians Concerned about Southern Africa has called for protests to be directed to the apartheid regime over the most recent arrests of top leaders of the United Democratic Front on charges of treason. _ “These arrests, combined wit h massive police violence in past days, point out once again that so-called ‘reforms’ of the apart- heid system are a sham’’, CCSA charged. In addition to cables to the South African embassy, CCSA urges pressure be brought on Ottawa to make vigorous representations to Pretoria. Nazis facing U.S. extradition CLEVELAND — John Demjanjuk, living in the U-S. since the 1950s, was ordered Feb. 21 to face extradition proceedings March 12 for his part in the murder of thousands of prisoners at the Treblinka camp in Poland where 900,000 prisoners died. In Los Angeles, Andrija Artukovic, Jews and gypsies, was ordered Yugoslavia. wanted for the murder of Serbs, March 4 to be extradited to World-wide oil embargo urged against apartheid LUSAKA, Zambia — A call for a complete oil embargo against the apartheid regime in South Africa was issued here March 7 in a joint appeal by - Sam Nujoma, president of the Southwest African People’s Organization of Namibia (SWAPO) and Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress (South Africa). The appeal points out that in Dec. 1979 the United Nations General Assembly called for a world oil embargo against South Africa as part of the international campaign for sanctions against Pretoria. “Yet to this day’’, the appeal says, ‘Pretoria continues to meet its oil requirements with the assistance of governments, companies and in- dividuals who permit and facilitate the supply and transport of crude oil, the provision of finance, capital equipment and technology for South Africa’s own petroleum industry, and for prospect- ing and development of resources in Namibia and South Africa.” The appeal points out that the importance of oil for South Africa’s military capacity “‘cannot be overemphasized’’, that it is the ‘‘key factor in the racist regime’s illegal occupation of Namibia, in aggression against Angola and other neighboring states and in the terror and repression against the * people of Nambia and South Africa.” ‘*South Africa is vulnerable to an oil embargo” the appeal states and the two presidents urge every effort to pressure governments and companies in- volved in supplying Pretoria with oil to join the UN-declared boycott. * * * In its recent detailed study ‘Trafficking in Apartheid’’, the SACTU Solidarity Committee (Canada) points out that each year South Africa secretly imports 15 million tons of crude oil — requiring the delivery of a supertanker load of oil every five days. It says the Holland-based Shipping Research Bureau has done exhaustive investigations into the illegal oil trade with South Africa, identifying 209 ships which called at South Africa between mid- 1981 and the end of 1982, 57 of which delivered crude oil, and six of which were Canadian-owned vessels. ‘*Already the United Nations General Assem- bly, OPEC nations and even non-OPEC oil pro- ducers like Britain and Norway officiallly support the oil embargo”’, the SACTU study says. Yet, according to the Shipping Research Bureau 43 of the 57 tankers delivering curde oil to South Africa are owned or managed by Norwegian companies. * * * It was to address this situation that the ANC and SWAPO appeal was issued. “The South African regime will remain dependent on international sources and assistance for a significant part of its liquid fuel needs,”’ it says, and charges the apar- theid system with the ‘continued oppression, imprisonment, torture and slaughter”’ of the people of Namibia and South Africa. ‘Popular resistance continues to escalate,”’ it concludes. ‘“‘Now is the time for all men and women of goodwill to act decisevely in support of our struggles.” International Focus a Tom Morris D.O. and R.B. to the rescue! The ‘private sector’, we've been repeatedly told, is the Vehicle for all good things. ‘Free enterprise’, we hear, will ‘‘get the economy going again’; it will ‘‘create jobs” and perform other feats of skill and science. It will ‘‘free. initiative,” bring about a ‘‘moral revival” and cure such ills as ‘‘lack of confidence’. The Tories are Selling it with a flourish, imply- ing that until Mulroney appeared with his magic act, Canada had been languishing under decades of socialism. And now ‘‘the private sec- tor’? has been set a new and ORBEA Nicaraguan bridge after a cont ra attack. Despite U.S. support not breathtaking task — to ‘liberate’ Nicaragua. ‘“‘Rear, hatred of com- munism, spur Ontario busi- nessmen to join U.S. mer- cenaires, contras in battle against Sandinista govern- ment,”’’ a lengthy Toronto Star interview reports March 5. The paper spoke with “D.O.” and “his companion R.B.” who have joined the Alabama-based Civilian Mili- tary Aid, a group of mer- cenaries who have declared their private war against the Nicaraguan people. (Two CMA bozos died last autumn when their helicopter was shot down over Nicaragua.) “DO.” and ‘‘R.B.”’ are af- raid of ‘‘creeping commu- One inch of territory has been “liberated” by the mercenaries. nism’’ which is ‘‘already in- filtrating Mexico’’. No dummies these two. They get the plot — first Nica- ragua, slowly north through Mexico, then up Interstate 35 through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota. Interstates 94 and 29 then led directly to Emer- son, Manitoba. Get it? “The politicians won’t do anything,’’ laments CMA fuehrer Tom Posey to the press. ‘“‘You can’t fight com-- munism if your hands are tied. It’s up to the private sector to act’’. Christ, let’s hope D.O. and R.B. get there in time. World peace © makes him angry When Lubor Zink, the To- ronto Sun’s resident right wing columnist gets angry, he real- ly gets angry. What has grabbed Zink’s ire is a Communist Party appeal for an independent foreign pol- icy (Tribune, Feb. 24, 1985) in which the CPC argues that Canada is embarking on a dangerous course by Ottawa’s acceptance of Reagan policies and is imperiling this country’s security. The appeal points to New Zealand’s independent anti- » nuclear weapons’ stance, to Australia’s refusal to agree to the testing of the MX missile and to the position of some European NATO members opposing Star Wars as exam- ples of governments respond- ing to the anti-war sentiment of their people. It urges Cana- dians to press Ottawa to adopt ‘tan independent foreign policy that strengthens the security of our country and peace in the world.” Subversive stuff? Zink thinks so and accuses the CPC of ‘‘spreading the ‘New Zea- land disease’’’, which, accord- ing to Zink, is ‘‘a combination of Utopian pacifism, hypo- critical moral posturing and nuclear hysteria.” Zink had better hope the nu- clear bomb is selective and that his branding people concerned with the survival of this planet as hysterical will win him a place in some afterlife. If he feels that way, it’s his busi- ness, and we'll look forward to his first column from Right Wing Heaven. What is at issue, however, aren’t Zink’s fantasies. It’s the implication that a sovereign people, concerned with Cana- da’s world role, could dare argue that its government should represent their interests and shape our foreign policy to work for peace and under- standing between nations. PACIFIC TRIBUNE, MARCH 13, 1985 e 9 If that makes us subversive, we plead guilty. Will the real PM please rise? Trust. It’s a wonderful, word. - : ' And when Brian Mulroney pleads that Canadians should give Washington “‘the benefit of the doubt’’, we see what he means. The Mulroney-Reagan love affair has blossomed to such heights, the United States em- bassy in Ottawa is able to issue a press release telling us what our Prime Minister said two hours before he said anything. That’s trust. The PM was to meet with U.S. chief arms negotiator Paul Nitze on March 6. So cer- tain of Mulroney’s pro-U.S. feelings were U.S. embassy officials, their release was given to reporters even before Nitze arrived in the country. We were looking forward to Reagan’s visit to Ottawa later this month, but perhaps now the trip isn’t necessary. To save time and money, we should request copies of U.S. embassy releases today to see what Mulroney said on March 17, 1985 about Star Wars, acid rain and other issues. More trust. warm