WORLD.
Nuclear war ‘certain death’

international gathering says

TORONTO — A ‘Canadian physicist who re-
cently attended a meeting of European rep-
resentatives of the Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe, says that the choice for
Eyrope lies between ‘‘certain death’’ in a nuclear -
conflict, or intensive ideological struggle. He left

no doubt which, in his pin: was the better ~

choice.

Derek Paul; a professor at the University of To-
ronto, and a member of the Pugwash group of
Scientists, established by the late Cyrus Eaton, was
invited to the Moscow meeting, as were other
North American scientists, because of Canada’s
and USA’s participation in signing the Helsinki
Final Act at the 1975 ay and Cooperation
meeting,

At the Toronto meeting, sponsored by Unita-
rians for Peace, ‘April 5, Dr. Paul said that the
Moscow symposium was arranged to discuss two
of President Brezhnev’s proposals passed by the
recent 26th Congress of the Soviet came oS Par-
bs These were:

‘**That a moratorium should Bs set on the
deployment in Europe of new medium-range nu-
clear-missile weapons of the NA TO countries and
the Soviet Union, that is, to freeze the existing
quantitative and qualitative level of these wea-
pons, naturally including the U.S. forward-based
nuclear weapons in this region.””

e “The USSR is prepared to negotiate limita-
tion of weapons of all types — but limitation and
reduction of strategic armaments is a paramount
problem. For our part, we are prepared to continue
the relevant negotiations with the United States
without delay, preserving all the positive elements
that have so far been achieved in this area.”’

In a brief review of nuclear arms agreements,
Paul acknowledged that it was not until 1973 that
the USA signed a treaty agreeing to the principle of
parity in the development and stockpiling of nu-
clear weapons. This parity was deliberately upset
by the USA when it introduced the new strategic
missiles into Europe via NATO.

Moratorium Favored

He added that it was particularly the Cruise mis-
sile which has upset the USSR and Europe. It has a

range of 1,000 km and an accuracy of 100 metres
and, yet, can be concealed in the back of a truck. It
defies detection because it is designed to fly below
radar levels.

Among the west European representatives, Paul —
emphasized, it was the West Germans who were

_ most vocal about a dangerous nuclear imbalance in
Europe. However, there was unanimity favoring a
moratorium as a necessary first step toward limit-
ing and reducing such nuclear weapons in Europe.

The Moscow symposium ended, he reported,
with the consensus that there is a strong probability
of a summit meeting between the USA and the
USSR, and expressed the hope that such ameeting
could produce agreement on a moratorium in
Europe of new medium-range nuclear-missile
weapons of the NATO countries and the Soviet
Union.

In the course of his remarks the Toronto profes-
sor described the present.as a ‘“‘time of fear’, and

_ listed what he considered primary factors which he

saw as “‘life threatening.”’ Our *‘job is one of trying
to sustain life,’’ he said.

Among the ‘‘factors’”’ he mentioned the USA-
USSR confrontation with weapons of mass

destruction, and the severe economic conditions of

the developing countries. The ‘‘difficulty of third
world development’’ would be solved if the
USSR-USA confrontation could be brought under
control, he asserted.

In naming current world ‘‘trouble spots’’ among
his life-threatening’ factors, Paul appeared. to
draw on current U.S. propaganda, mentioning
Afghanistan, the Middle East and Poland. In de-
scribing the Warsaw Pact countries as living in a
balance of terror, a description he failed to explain,
he appeared again to be accepting the Pentagon’s
estimation. He believed, however, that these dan-
gers would be mitigated by combined military and
political détente in Europe.

Personally, the Canadian physicist felt that such
détente would not be enough, that an intensive
ideological struggle would develop and become an

- ongoing part of life.

On a more immediate note, he expressed the_

opinion that the Canadian Government had failed
to follow a policy of peace in external affairs, and
that there was much work to be done there.

Special to the Tribune

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — Against a back-
drop of the resurgence and rise of neo-Nazi right
wing groups like the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S. and
Canada and the National Front in Britain has come
the call for an increase in the effectiveness of or-
ganizations facing up to the attacks of these
groups.

In a report prepared for presentation at ‘‘Con-
ference on International Peace, Security and Sol-
idarity in the Caribbean’ held here March, 11-12,
Canadian civil rights lawyer Charles Roach said
that to try and fight racist groups like the Klan onan
J individual basis is like ‘‘stomping on a shadow’’.

‘*The reality is that big business, government
policy and the liberal media (in North America)
implicitly give encouragement to Klan organizing
by saying that the Klan has a right to disseminate
racial hate. The direct fight must be with those who
claim that racists have the right to speak, who put
freedom of speech as a human right higher than
equal liberty,”’ said_Trinidad-born Roach who is
head of the Canadian branch of the National Con-
ference of Black Lawyers. This conference or-
ganized the Grenada parley. __

“The Klan can only thrive when it has the im-
plicit blessings of the rulers of our country — busi-
ness, politicians, police and the news media. These.
power holders must be held responsible in spite of
the lip service they pay to minorities,’” Roach ad-
Roach’s paper came at a time when the fascist-

stepped up its campaign against the Black and East
Indian population in that country.
The Canadian lawyer's speech at the conference

Organize to fight racism — Roach

ment.’

like National Front organization in Britain has:

also follows increased KKK activity in the U.S.
and Canada where it now has offices.

_‘*By blaming Blacks and other non-whites for
economic woes, the Klan serves the purpose of
taking the heat off big business and government ;
who are the real culprits. Klan propaganda seeks to
convince working-class whites they should wipe
out Blacks and other ancial minorities,’> Roach
said.

The Toronto-based mer pointed out that
from a global standpoint, the prime issues in the
struggle against racism are apartheid, genocide of
indigenous peoples, Palestinian human rights and
the unfair world economic order which keeps the
so-called ‘‘third world’’ nations in prostrated
under-development.

Said Roach, “‘ These injustices keep hundreds of’
millions illiterate, in starvation with poor health
and high infant mortality while their own countries’

natural resources are plundered by transnational |

corporations. In North America the chief com-
plaints of countless victims of racism are lack of
employment, oguannns and police harass-

Roach suggested that the KKK works hand-in-
hand with law enforcement officers and their acts.

of terror are encouraged by. the secure feeling that

the police and the justice system will be on their
side if it comes to a showdown with their most
steadfast enemies: Blacks, Communists and Jews.

_ Inoutlining a program for dealing with the Klan |
- and other groups ‘like the National Front, Roach

recommended that pressure be put on public offi-
cials to take a stand against racism and apartheid.
He also said that those. who incite racial hatred
should.have no right to speak and the media who
gave them a platform should be picketed.

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' is quite remarkable, as is the camera work which combines hel

through the laboratory they turn over a can of some vaporous

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 17, 1981—Page 10

\ in this comical farce.

Films

- The last laugh |

_ THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN. Screenplay by Jane e|
Wagner, suggested by the novel, “The Shrinking Man,” by ;
Richard Matheson. Directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Lily |
Tomlin, Charles cen Ned Beatty, Richard A. Baker. At local
theaters.

Lily Tomlin is an deboiniplishsed clown, a genuine comic and a}
truly talented actress. How socially perceptive and, as a result, |
how principled, naive, or cynical she is in the application of het
beliefs to her choice of material, is, in the case of this film,
dubious.

For here we have a social-science-fiction satirical fantasy that
has great meaning for every U.S. moviegoer. The sophisticated |
viewer can see with what calculated intent the filmmakers havé
made their point then suddenly wiped it out with farcical, comic
irrelevancies.

The technical tricks are so ingenious in this film that it is
impossible, in moments of its genuine pathos, and feelings 0
deep anguish, to mislead the politically uninitiated from genuilé |
horror into hilarity.

The problem is that the ‘‘horror’’ is the social reality, the

laughter the misdirection of the audience’s feelings and percep
tion.
_ Tomlin plays a devoted, middleclass, happy mother of tw
children, wife of a successful, ambitious advertising manager of?
large firm dealing in beauty products for women: salves, lotion’
and sprays. His boss is a typically ambitious corporation head,
who would, and does, stop at nothing to make an extra million &
two.

Tomlin dutifully tries out all of the new products, one of which
contains a chemical which, when sprayed and inhaled, causes the
user to shrink. (The characters on screen at this point don’t knoW
this, but we are made aware.) Then, having indicted big business
thus, there is.an immediate switch to a pair of scientists who are

“‘really”’ responsible, not for monetary reasons, but to somehow
gain victory in the world over enemies by spraying and shrinking
them to the size of mice.

At this point all the questions arise which make clear the
fakery. Were that the motive, and the real story, why not try it oul
on an animal? Or a human, a potential “‘enemy’’? But that is
forgotten, and we are now all but reduced to Tomlin’s shrunket!
state, the cruel exploitation of this freak (much laughter).

The fun is watching how cleverly the film technicians havé
constructed sets for the action. To make Tomlin diminish, thé} —
settings and furniture are constantly made larger, and the illusios}

with her children, who are soon quite larger than she, and het
husband, on whose hand she rests in Apparent comfort, albeil)
unhappiness.
Finally she is put in a cage in the laboratory of the crud
scientists but there fortunately she meets Sidney, a gorilla,
he turns out to have more humanity — and intelligence — that
those who have encaged him. t
Diminished woman and oversized gorilla escape just as poof
Lily is about to be exploited as a side show freak. In the chasé

material, and Lo! Behind! Lily walks into the family home het
normal self, joyously greeted by her family. To our astonishment
the boss becomes contrite and gives himself over to the oe :

saying he is:guilty. When they, surprised, ask, “‘For what?’’ Hé

| Says with Nixonian humility, ‘“‘ Trust me. I’m guilty

Inarecent TV interview, Tomlin said she intended the film to
be a social indictment of commercial use of toxic chemicals.
Somebody put something over on somebody — certainly on thé
majority of the audience, and perhaps even on Lily Tomlin.
— Lester Colé

Lily Tomlin in the Incredible Stinking Woman.. message missed |