| France: the arms race and Rainbow Warrior page 4 Wednesday, August 28, 1985 eas Vol. 48, No. 31 Newsstand Price 40° sanctions demand grows — Liars.) \ J Bae Ares . RR HMS mmo Srna SRA Using balloons to demonstrate visually the loss of jobs through Star Wars research, volunteers for End the Arms Race release 200 during rally in downtown Vancouver Aug. 23. Each balloon represented 1,000 jobs, for a total of 200,000 jobs that would be lost if Canada opted to participate in Star Wars rather than spending ‘an equivalent amount of money on transportation, education or housing. The noon-hour rally, which coincided with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's visit to Vancouver and the release of the report by the joint parliamentary committee, called on the PM to “‘create jobs and reject Star Wars.’ Rally story page 12, Selling Star Wars, page 6. ee sa BUA EE TLS RRS PRD SEA ES Coal: imports from U.S. — cost $7 billiona year”, = so Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s state- ment that the federal government would get tough with apartheid, South Africa’s racist system, is a testimony to the growing anti- apartheid movement abroad and in Canada — a movement that is encompass- ing virtually all facets of Canadian society. Mulroney’s pledge, announced during the visit of the Conservative government’s inner cabinet to Vancouver last week, seemed to be headed for the bin marked “discarded rhetoric” following remarks the next day by External Affairs Minister Joe Clark. Clark said Aug. 22 the government has no new measures, beyond the limited sanctions announced in July. But opponents to the white minority regime of South African president Pieter Botha have vowed their continued efforts to pressure Ottawa to adopt “full and com- prehensive” sanctions, and are mounting several demonstrations to drive the point home. Beginning on Saturday, at 7 to9p.m.,the _ Southern Africa Action Coalition is holding a series of pickets around liquor stores in Vancouver demanding the provincial gov- ernment remove South African wines and liquors from the shelves. And next week a South African ship due in at the Surrey Fraser docks will remain unloaded, while trade unionists and others stage a demonstration against trade with South Africa at the worksite. The anti-apartheid movement in Can- ada, for years laboring under relative obs- ACT NOW page 2 curity while other international issues demanded attention, has mushroomed with the upsurge of militant strikes and demon- strations in South Africa, and the Pretoria regime’s subsequent declaration of a state of emergency and its imposition of the military and police crackdown imposed to crush the insurgency. The developments have Canada’s trade unions and their federations — whose ~ power to boycott South African trade and goods is decisive for the struggle — not only adding their voices to the call for sanc- tions, but meeting to decide how to imple- ment those calls. Pressure from the trade union sector can be seen in B.C. Government Employees Union president John Shields’ call on BCGEU members to boycott South Afri- can wines and other products. He also hit Premier Bill Bennett's refusal to ban the sale of South African wines. ; “Recent events in South Africa have out- raged people in every corner of the world, and we do not expect our government to assist South Africa in the maintenance and pursuit of its policies of aparthied,” Shields said Aug. 21. The BCGEU president said the union was taking its call to the B.C. Federation of Labor for support, observing, “If we who are free do not protest and help those who | are not, then our own freedoms diminish accordingly.” Last Thursday’s demonstration against see OTTAWA page 4. t