i : 3 ) | 4 H H For $60,000 in '79 to keep the Tribune fighting As this edition of The Tribune arrives at the homes of our subscribers throughout British Columbia, we shall be embarking on a two and one half month campaign to raise more money than ever before in the 1979 Tribune financial drive. Our target is $60,000 — some $3,000 more } than the record figure attained last year. We, 1 need to raise $60,000 and more between April 1 } and June 23, the evening of our annual Victory } Banquet. . MC HSNITCr Comet It is an enormous sum of money, but every ' bit of it is needed. This money ‘is the difference between the annual costs of producing the _ Tribune each week, and the revenues that we receive through subscriptions, advertising and | paper sales. In fact, this paper could not survive if not for the added support of its readers and supporters } each year. That is why we have turned to our “readers each year for the last 44 years in our an- nual financial drive, and our readers have come through every time. _ The Tribune financial drive is an exciting time and this year again there will be dances, banquets, social gatherings, films, meetings and other events small and large. As in past years special honors will be given to those supporters who qualify as ‘‘press builders.’’ For each of the press builders, those who raise $50 or more, we will send a Tribune pocket diary for 1979-1980; for each of the “honor press builders’’, those who raise $150 or more, we will send along a specially made Tribune key chain. For a number of years, a very special group of people have led the press builders as members of the ‘‘400 Club’? — those in- dividuals who raised $400 or more in the drive. The club has been so successful that this year it has raised its sights and will be the ‘500 Club’’, for those who raise $500 or more. In the end, however, the success or failure of the financial drive — and the future of our paper — will rest with the 40 press clubs throughout B.C. and with our hundreds of _readers and supporters who will give us their ef- fort and donations, whatever their size. Why not send your donation now and help us _° get the drive off to a good start. $60,000 GREATER VANCOUVER SOUTH FRASER Aris 500 Delta 900 Bill Bennett 1,000 Fort Langley $50,000. Building Trades 2,500 Surrey 3,200 Burnaby 3,200 White Rock 850 Coquitlam 1,400 Fraser Ind. 500 EAST FRASER Kingsway 2,500 Fraser V 500 $40,000 Nilo Makela 1,100 janie a 1.200 Olgin 500 _ South Van 1,800 K $30,000 Van. East 5,000 is _— 150 Westminster 1,100 Doutitan 300 West Side 2,000 Nertet N. COASTIINTERIOR 2 VAN. ISLAND $20,000 Correspondence on Campbell River 950 Creston f Comox Valley 800 Powell River a Seana 1,200 Prince Rupert ae Bort Albers 120 foo Sointula ae Nicsaiia 120 YP Trail 650 : : MISCELLANEOUS TOTAL IN: SF, \ T TRisUNe } ‘King Joy Grocery — 5735 Joyce Rd. /K & K Grocery — 4213 Rupert St. 4 McGill Groceries — 2691 McGill | Salvino Grocery — 1410 Victoria Dr. 3} Templeton Market — 127 N. Templeton | A. M. Solidum Grocery — 4305 Main PACIFH You can buy The Tribune at these Vancouver stores: EAST SIDE A-1 Market — 4106 Rupert St. Grandview Cigar—1721 Commercial Dr. Harry's Market — 3013 Kingsway Heong Grocery — 3504 Franklin WEST SIDE Alma Market — 3643 W. 4 Ave. SOUTH VAN. Central Plants — 1410 E. 41 Ave. Des Stationary — 6131 Fraser St Jimmy's Mart — Victoria Dr. Lucky Dollar Mart — 6996 Victoria Dr. New Spice Land — 4532 Main Continued from pg. 1 charged: “‘The Chinese invaders are not only very war like,’’ Tran said, ‘‘but also very brutal and crafty. In the pro- cess of withdrawal, the invaders have been committing many more atrocious crimes, just like any fascist invaders in the past. Carry- ing out a ‘plunder all, destroy all, burn all’ policy, they have been fir- ing big shells on towns, destroying bridges, factories, mining equip- ment, homes, hospitals and schools. They have been massacring civilians including old people, women and children, and have raped women and abducted them to China. Whatever the Chinese troops can- not take with them, they destroy, Tran alleged, and wells have been poisoned and mines planted in DOWNTOWN fields and roadways. Co-op Bookstore — 353 W. Pender Chinese propaganda has attemp- ‘\ Universal News — 132 £ Hastings ted to present a picture of being — 3 welcomed by the Vietnamese, said JOIN US AT THE Mh - el TRIBUNE — NEW HORIZONS PRESS DANCE | SATURDAY, APR. 7, 8:00 P.M. : FISHERMEN’S HALL, featuring “La Tropical" Help us kick off The Tribune financial drive and wind up New Horizons‘! the ambassador. ‘‘How grotesque they were. How could the Viet- namese people welcome invaders to their country to trample on their homeland, to massacre them, to destroy their fields and houses. Making black white is always the language of invaders.”’ Tran also confirmed that China has massed ‘‘many regular army divisions’’ along the Laotian border and has ‘“‘carried out military exer- cises’’ against Laos. The invasion of Vietnam ‘‘was no Surprise or anything unexpected,’’. the ambassador claimed, because “since a long time ago, they (China) had been harbouring an ambition of turning China into the number one power in the world, and for the time being, to expand their in- fluence in South East Asia.’’ Throughout the Vietnam war with the U.S., Tran said, China ap- plied ‘‘a double faced policy.’ They made use of Vietnam’s banner of struggle against U.S. aggression to adorn their artificial revolu- tionary face,’’ he said, ‘‘but on the other hand they were plotting to monopolize the Vietnam question as a card to bargain with the U.S.” In 1972 when the Americans were intensifying the war against In- dochina, he recalled, Peking welcomed Nixon to China and sign- ed the Shanghai Joint Communi- que. In fact the communique was a tacit agreement between China and the U.S., Tran said, that China would pressure Vietnam to accept the existence of the U.S. puppet New Horizons ‘Film Festival Friday, March 30 8 p.m. _ Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood House 535 E. Broadway, Vancouver $2.50 admission includes: films on Vietnam, Leningrad, Spanish Civil War, Keeton, Dean and Lane will entertain _ at intermission. Wine and cheese served. Sponsored by Van. YCL Chinese invasion ‘was no surprise’ says ambassador regime in South Vietnam in ex- change for the American withdrawal from Taiwan and the normalization of relations between China and the U.S. ‘‘But the pressure of the Chinese rulers could not compel the Vietnamese people to give up their revolutionary goals,’’ he said. In 1975, the Chinese leadership received the news of the total libera- tion of Vietnam ‘‘with anger,’’ Tran reported, ‘‘because their tacit understanding with the U.S. had been brought to bankruptcy.”’ Afterwards, in mid-1978, the Chinese cut off all military and economic aid to Vietnam and brought pressure on other countries to cease economic aid to Vietnam. Simultaneously, Chinese agents at- tempted to provoke panic in the Hoa-community in Vietnam and the series of border provocations began which built up into the full scale in- vasion. When the invasion did come, the Chinese insisted it was only a ‘dimited border war,’’ the am- bassador recounted, ‘‘but with more than half a million troops mobilized, hundreds of aircraft, tanks and other military vehicles to launch attacks on many areas in all six border provinces of Vietnam, the world’s media realized it was a massive, large scale invasion.”’ In public statements March 6, March 15 and again March 21, Viet- nam has made it clear that it is will- ing to enter negotiations with the ‘Chinese, after the Chinese have ‘withdrawn all troops from the historically recognized border, Tran stated. The Vietnamese will not, however, enter into negotiations to legalize Chinese occupation of Viet- namese territory, he added. Hear Jean Vautour Exec. Sec’y. Canadian Peace Congress The Federal Election and Disarmament Buffet Supper Saturday, Apr. 7, 5 p.m. Board room, UFAWU Hall 138 East Cordova Adm. $3 138 East Cordova St., Van. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING COMING EVENTS MAR. 30 — Film Festival, Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood House, 535 E. Broadway, Van. Doors open at 8 p.m., first film at 9 p.m. Adm. $2.50, refreshments & snacks available. Proceeds to New Horizons fund drive. MARCH 31 — Come and enjoy yourself at Burquitlam YCL’s party, 8 p.m., 5285 Empire Dr., Burnaby. Snacks, refreshments, raffle draw. P; to New - Horizons. Admission $1. APR. 7 — Pacific Tribune — New Horizons Press Dance, with ‘‘la Tropicale’’, Sat., Apr. 7, 8 p.m., Fishermen’s Hall, 138 E. Cor- dova, Van. Tickets available at Tribune office or Co-op Books. APR. 8 — COPE International Concert, 7:30 p.m., Peretz School, 6184 Ash St., Van- couver. Singers, dancers from around the world. Adm: $2.50, $2.00 unemployed. All wel- come. WANTED Guitar under $60. Zeenat Palmer, 255-9404. SINGLE parent wants to rent 2 or 3 bdrm. house in* Vancouver area. for May 1, ph. Connie Fogal, 266-4043. SPRING CLEAN-UP? We are collecting odds & ends for garage sale on Apr. 21. If you have any useful articles you wish to donate, phone Alice, 874-1814. Proceeds to Tribune Fund Drive. si FOR RENT Fully furnished and appointed 3- bedroom family home in Grand- view. Responsible tenants only. Rent negotiable. Available June 1 to July 15. Dan or Fatima Palm- er, 255-9404. ROOF REPAIRS — Reasonable 254-5836 and 277-3352. s FOR SALE Complete, 13-vol. set, Collected Works of Joseph Stalin, $200 ‘or best offer. Proceeds to Tribune financial drive. Ph. Tribune office, 251-1186. HALLS FOR RENT WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL Available for banquets. meetings, etc. For rates: Ozzie; 325-4171 or 685-5836. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 30, 1979—Page 11