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ow that a high-ranking U.S. military tribunal has
= ended its long drawn out farce and found Lieut. William
Calley Jr. ‘‘guilty’’ of cold-blooded murder in the My Lai
massacre of 1968, one might observe, as Georgi Dimitrov did at
the Leipzig ‘“‘trial’’ in 1938 on the Nazi burning of the
Reichstag, that ‘“‘this poor Faust, (Calley) is here, but
Mephistopheles is-absent.”’

Lieut. William Calley was made to serve as an equally poor

demented ‘‘Faust’’; a ‘fall guy’’ for the hundreds of My Lais in .

which countless thousands of Vietnamese have been
murdered in cold blood by all the horror weapons of modern
warfare— in the hands of uniformed morons and drug addicts.

But ‘‘Mephistopheles,”’ in the role of high Pentagon military
brass, was absent, and Calley’s military judges and jury,
most of them combat officers from Vietnam and an earlier
Korea, were and are equally as guilty as Calley for the heinous
crimes he was charged.and convicted for.

Obiously Calley was and is an average American boy; not
possessed of a very high IQ; emotionally disturbed, easily
moved by a long period of anti-communist and racist indoc-
trination; not likely to know the difference between a
Communist and a lamp post: Just a run-of-the-mill specie of
retarded sub-human — the kind the Pentagon requires for the
job on hand in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, or where ever and
when everU.S. imperialism decides a people or a nation needs
‘‘saving”’ from Communism.

Under such tuition the Calleys speedily cease to be human
and rapidly become schizphrenics, ‘‘Psychos,” dope fiends,
killers — a U.S. version of the Eichmann specie. As with the
Hitler legions, to them “‘orders is orders’; to ‘‘kill every thing
that moves,”’ totally devoid of-all humanity or compassion. As
Lord Tennyson wrote nearly a century ago in his famed Charge
of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, ‘‘. . . theirs not to reason
why, theirs but to do— and die.”’

Unfortunately too many of the Pentagon’s trained killers live
... to kill and kill again. And in the military -industrial
complex of today, the greater the kill and ‘‘over-kill,”’ the
higher the war profit ratio.

_ This caricature of a Nuremberg will fool no one, and least of
all a growing section of the American people, plus a world
earnestly seeking peace and an end to wars between nations
and peoples. The Pentagon has lied its way out of some of the

most hideous aspects of its aggression in Indochina, The Calley

“trial” is but another phase of that monstrous chain of false -

hoods; the pretense of ‘‘humaneness’’ in its genocidal

aggression upon Vietnam. :

But the peace-loving American people, army draftees, GI’s
in Vietnam and in a score of countries across the world (where
they have no business to be) may well ask the question; why
not a real Nuremberg to charge and convict the real war
criminals, from Nixon to the Pentagon and right on down the
line? Of this ‘‘Murder Incorporated’? gangsterism parading
under the pseudonym of ‘“‘government,”’ the Calleys are merely
the dupes and pawns and poor doped ‘‘Fausts”’ of this military -
industrial-government conglomerate.

For them a real Nuremberg is long overdue — a military
banditry hailed before a People’s court to receive a swift and

stern justice. Even that would not atone for all its murder and

crimes against the Vietnamese people and the peoples of Asia,
Africa and Latin America, but-it would provide Mankind with
the assurance that peace,in place of legalized mass murder,
would restore a war-weary world to humanity — and sanity. It
could be that the Calley ‘‘trial’’ will yet provide the catalyst for
just such a Nuremberg.

A little over 25-years ago the Hitler ‘‘reich’’ which was to
“last for a thousand years,” didn’t last a decade, when the
world’s people finally awakened to the menace confronting
them.

For the Calleys this column holds no briefs nor maudlin
sympathy, neither as a “‘fall guy”’ for his superiors or a doped -
up homocide. He has thousands of equals in Vietnam and in the
U.S. itself. His sentence should have been ‘‘confined to a
mental institution’”’ until cured, with a tribunal rider that all

U.S. military forces get out of Vietnam NOW— and all top U.S.
war criminals be apprehended forthwith to stand trial for the
crimes of their Calleys. Then, and then only, will Justice have
atoned for some few their monstrous crimes in Vietnam.

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VANCOUVER LABOUR TEMPLE

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By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

The action of the federal govern -

ment last week in granting a
lease for 10 acres of waterfront
lots to the Four Seasons
promoters was an indecent and
despicable act, a _behind-the-
scenes deal by Ottawa, the Four
Seasons promoters and the NPA
majority on City Council against
the people of Vancouver.

The whole issue of what to do
about Four Seasons is still
unsettled because on April 27,
Council will decide whether or
not to have a plebiscite on the
project. Ottawa’s action (of
which mayor Campbell must
have known before he left on his
holiday for the Fiji Islands) was
a deliberate attempt to take the
decision-making process out of
the hands of the people of
Vancouver.

Ottawa’s hands in this whole
business have been dirty right
from the beginning. Vancouver
citizens have not forgotten that
a former federal cabinet minis-
ter was a leading member of the
first company that tried to grab
these publicly owned water lots
for private purposes, And
Vancouver city council has been
a willing accomplice in the
unsavory mess all along.

These ten acres of water lots
(the equivalent of about 60
building lots) are worth,
according to some estimates, as
much as $30 million. Yet Ottawa
is leasing them for a mere

$69,000 a year which is about one
third of one percent annually.
For Vancouver citizens to
believe that some Hanky -panky
isn’t going on here is to stretch
credulity to the breaking point..
Alderman Adam’s claim that
the Four Seasons development
will add $1.3 million annually to
the city treasury, which he says
we will lose if we don’t go
through with the deal, is a real
phoney. This Four Seasons
project doesn’t have to be at the
entrance to Stanley Park — it
could be anywhere in the down-
town area. In Toronto the Four

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Seasons development is right
the heart of the downtown 4
— not on the Toronto watel
front. Four Seasons can just ¢
easily locate elsewhere and th
city will still get the taxes. —

But an even more impor
factor is that it will cost the ¢
of Vancouver many millions’
dollars to build new traf
approaches at the entrance |
Stanley. Park to handle t
traffic congestion generate?”
this hotel-apartment comp!
We will in fact be subsidiZ!
Four Seasons for many ye@
come. ;

The Four Seasons project @
still be defeated. Vancouv
citizens can compel this Coum
to grant a plebiscite and ©
vote it down. Then we call
over this property and devel?
for the benefit of the people |
Vancouver as a part of Stam
Park.

The 27 groups which-prese?
briefs to Council protestiné
Four Seasons project § ‘
keep up an unrelenting press
between now and April P
every NPA alderman. Cov”
should feel the wrath and indie

tion of citizens whose Fi
right is being betrayed to fl

pockets of eastern prom? f
And on April 27 every citize?
wants a plebiscite should ©
to Council to press his dema”

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and concentrated, can still ©
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The rent farce at

By MABEL RICHARDS

Tuesday, April 6, A.M.: If you
are a renter, mark this day on
your calendar, for this is the day
city fathers decided that
landlords are free to gouge every
cent of profit out of you the
traffic will bear, and they will do
nothing to stop it.

I have just returned from a
most revealing session of. city
council. Disgusting, too, -but
that is nothing new. One does
not, of course, expect anything of
tangible benefit to the people to
come from NPA aldermen, but
stupidly one hopes for a spark of
decency from at least one
member of the TEAM con-
tingent. No way!

NPA aldermen have for years
protected real esate interests in
city hall. Today when alderman
Rankin’s motion to empower the
city’s rental board to negotiate
drastic rent increases came
before council for the second
time, the old aldermen reacted
quite according to style. TEAM
aldermen revealed their
position, however, to the naked
light of day on a question of
utmost importance to the major
section of the population, and
theysfailed miserably to
measure up. They are no whit
different in their outlook than
the NPA aldermen, despite the
frothings of a Fotheringham.

The galleries were filled with

_tenants, most of them from Wall
and-Redekop apartments. They
have put up a valient fight in
protest against 14 percent rent
hikes. Many are retired people
on fixed incomes. If any body of
renters need help — official help

= fpothis latest attack on ‘their,

standards they do

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What happened in city hall this
morning was a tragi-comedy
played out by ham actors who

kept a wary eye on the ‘“‘angels”’ ~

in the wings, i.e. the real estate
boys.

They tried red-baiting as part
of the act, but were booed down
by the galleries.

Alderman Ernie Broome told
renters that if they couldn’t
afford the rent in one apartment
they would have to move
somewhere else.

NPA’s Sweeney muddled up
his harangue with references to
Bill 33, and said flat-footedly
that Rankin’s motion would
serve no purpose.

Alderman Bird came out more
bluntly for the real estate boys.
They will go elsewhere to build
their apartments if they are not
allowed to make all the profits
they want.

But, he added piously, we must
do more at the government level
for housing for senior citizens,
forgetting the NPA have had
decades to act in this matter.

Somehow the mayor of
Calgary got dragged into the
harangues of these gentlemen.
He is alleged to have stated he
was glad Vancouver was getting
such bad publicity (presumably
from Mayor Campbell's anti-
hippie campaigns) because now
the mortgage companies were
throwing in their lot with
Calgary. This gave councillor
Wilson the cold chills. He
inferred that if such a measure
as rental negotiations with the
landlords were to become law,
not one cent of mortgage money
would ever again darken our
city!

Enter TEAM. Alderman

a ister » Hardwick in his usual ‘high-*
HRid omoe no i

city hall
school manner skirted the ‘
by talking about the 1a¢
housing. When he admits ®
as he did, that nothing 15
done to build shelter for
income section of the city
thirds of the pop
incidentally) — surely he
how vitally important it til
have some degree of pros
against the exhorbitant ;
being charged in this an cal
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maintained, is sheer
rent control. Why not “it r
food prices, childrens’ clo
taxes? Horrors, shudderé
friend of the people,
motion is the thin edge
wedge leading to socialis™
munism, or worse! we
Alderman Rankin ans
“I'll give you a simple
for simple people. We
empowered to contin ind
prices and childrens’ © act ©
we do have the power '%) d
rents. And if you Wal | sé
something about cuttin’
I'll be only too glad to 8°
with you; I can show 3
number of places wher
council can cut expenses * Fj
The vote was taken ash
aldermen, including th€
councillors, voted aga! jpoth
motion to take action 0? ier
tant rents; one alee
(Rankin) voted for it. Te
The payoff is this: a
Art Phillips, sitting im 1% 1
Campbell, invited the to
Redekop renters to come pa
he’d love to get the bie er
together. And Al evi?
Hardwick, who had ae
seconded Rankin §
“nodded approvingly - -* —