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No :
elt Vietnam's Minister of
- Pham Ngoc Thach,

carried out in error of the nature
of Quynh Lap sanatorium.

In the sweltering, moist air
under a ceiling fan, he mopped
his head and asked: “Who could
imagine such barbarity — bomb-
ing a leper hospital?

- “At first I didn’t believe it. I
asked for a re-check. But the re-
ply came that they had bombed
— and still were bombing — the
hospital.”

Just 11 years ago the Demo-
cratic Republic of Vietnam: took
over from the French an incid-
ence of one case of leprosy per
1,000 of population.

Within four years they had set
about building this leprosy san-
atorium—until Saturday’s bomb-
ing one of the best extant. It is
situated on the sea coast, far
from other habitation, and has
2,600 beds.

“It is an utter crime that these
unhappy patients should be
killed and have their hopes of
cure dashed or jeopardised by
these monstrous people,” said

THE U.S. BLITZ
F QUYNH LAP
EPER HOSPITAL

He said that the hospital is
being rebuilt where it stands.
“We have no other way at pres-
ent, and we have shelters,” he
said.

This is the sixth North Viet-
nam hospital to .be bombed by
the Americans. Others were:
Dong Hoi, Vinh Linh, Hulong
Khe, Ngia Dan and Quang Trach.

All these hospital have been ~

newly built because the French
paid scant attention to the

health of the “natives.”

As a result of this latest Am-
erican atrocity, Vietnam health
workers have issued an appeal
to scientists, medical workers,
trade unionists and people every-
where, “to. condemn these sav-
age crimes, and stay the Amer-
icans’ bloody hands.”

YOUNG PEOPLE from Britain
and Czechoslovakia will share
the facilities at an international
youth camp iu Sicily next year,
under an agreement recently ar-

MOSCOW

Before leaving for home on
June 11, Canadian Minister of
Northern Affairs Arthur Laing
told reporters here that his dele-
gation’s 14-day stay in the So-
viet Union was “extremely be-

The delegation visited Mos-
cow, Leningrad, Irkutsk, Bratsk,
Yakutsk and Norilsk.

“Norilsk, lying on the 69th
parallel, is a very modern city
with five, six, seven and even

e
ity th at there was no pos-

at the U.S. raid was Dr. Pham.

rived at in Prague.

BUENOS AIRES

: Nguyen ‘Toi, a machine gunner of a militia unit in Bao Ninh
village is pictured here with a 14-year-old student, Truong Huong.
During a recent American air raid the youngster supplied the gunner
with ammunition to keep up firing at diving enemy planes, and was
cited by the government for his part in the operation.

Laing impressed by Soviet North, —
favors pact to exchange specialists

“We have nothing like that in

the Canadian North. ©

help each other.”

nine-storey houses,” said Laing. and students.

| Johnson — the man who throttled truth

oe has been the first casu-
Alty of the hottening cold war.

Hone axiom has been drama-

i y demonstrated within re-
nt months in South Vietnam,

Fr Dominican Republic, and
€r areas of conflict.

peg aent Johnson’s treatment
th € press has become one of
‘ € key factors in promoting the
Mage of an America running
ae and scared in the face of un-
Py noe truths, many of them
Seed unpalatable to those

€xible advisers behind the
Ohnson throne.

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ars article consists of excerpts
en from a much longer article
i Raymond Varela in the June
Te of The Independent Busi-
sman, a Toronto publication.
‘Sees

Rae officials now seek to
of t propaganda not as a weapon
in ruth but as a means of cover-
up their many and varied
pees in areas where fratri-

al wars are being waged.

5 pe that President Johnson: in-

Nsely dislikes criticism of his
iteministration is hardly a news
_-*€m in an age when electronic

Magic allows the political pun-,

oe observe for himself the re-
ae of “Uncle Cornpone” to
Uggestions that perhaps (just

(whatever it is) leaves some-
thing to be desired.

“1 hold in my hand the names
of 205 known Communists hold-
ing positions of trust in the State
Department,” rasped the late
Senator Joseph McCarthy in his
infamous Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, speech in 1950.

And ‘15 years later, President
Johnson metaphorically holds in
his hands the names of 58 known
Communists alleged to be be-
hind the Dominican revolt.

Immediately after this “reve-
lation” the Washington propa-
ganda machine started to churn
out oceans of copy, all of it de-
signed to show that if the gal-
lant marines had not invaded
the sovereign state known for
record purposes as the “Domini-
can .Republic,” another Castro-
caan Republic,” another Castro-
like operation would have been
mounted. : ;

Then the gallant marines
turned their guns on the people
they went in to support, and the
American forces have joined
sides with those they first had
named as Communists and
they’ve played musical chairs to
the tune of marine machine
guns seyeral times since...

Those who oppose Johnson’s

military forays are flatly dis- .

missed as “Men of Munic. * who
would sell their souls in nego-
tiation rather than do the Amer-

,

ican thing, which is to revert. to

Teddy Roosevelt’s “big stick”
diplomacy.
Not all the hawks hold official

positions. The most arrogant are”

those who thunder from the side-

‘lines, as Goldwater did in Paris,

when he drooled about the Al-
mighty giving America an op-
portunity to provoke China pro-
per into the kind of action that
would beg for U.S. intervention.

The fiction that U.S. forces
had been sent on a Holy War
was pressed home via radio,
television, news releases, and
hastily-called press conferences.
The gist of the message was
(and is) that with spectacular
foresight the United States per-
ceived a Communist take-over

in the Dominican Republic and
took immediate steps to fore-
stall it.

Nothing could be farther from
the truth, but of course, we are
not dealing with the commodity

. of truth when we attempt to

fathom the Strangelove minds at
work in the White House.

What we are witnessing is
the total disintegration of truth.

For many years now the whole
of Latin America has been a
seething cauldron. of unrest
where vulgar, ostentatious afflu-
ence has been allowed to exist
cheek-by-jowl with the most sor-
did kind of poverty.

Even if Lenin and Marx had
never been born, the climate for
social change would have ar-
rived at this point in history.
This vast area has been bub-
bling with unrest, dissatisfaction
and impending revolution for
decades. The Have-Nots are
awakening from their centuries-
old slumber only to find that the
Haves are being supported in
their schemes of oppression by
the most powerful military na-
tion on earth — the United
States...

For a man who quotes the
Good Book so often it is sur-
prising that President Johnson
has not come face to face with
Isaiah 59:14 — “Truth is fallen
in the streets and equity cannot
enter.”

— his foreign policy

July 9, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

“It is quite obvious,” he con-
tinued, “that Canada and the
‘USSR have many common prob-
lems: vast territories of perma-
frost, the‘construction of build-
ings and communications in
these areas, extraction of the
minerals. I am sure that we must

Laing favored conclusion of
an agreement on exchange of
specialists, engineers, scientists