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April 29 finds out financial drive in good stead. With
$17,500 turned in our hopes have risen that we can achieve

The anniversary issue published last week is the best
example of what this financial drive means to our paper.
The reaction that we have received from readers clearly
indicated the desire to see more issues like the last. A
arger, more colorful and more exciting paper is being
asked for, and is our objective as well.

But the anniversary edition cost more than $1,200 to
Produce. That is the reality for a labor newspaper. In fact
the only guarantee we have of operating for the full year,
Meeting rising costs and continuing to grow and expand, is
the $40,000 that we have asked our readers for in this year’s

By the response to date we are sure that we will raise the

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YCL DELEGATION VISITS
Cuba —island of freedom

landing of Christopher Columbus
in 1492. There were 400 years of
Spanish colonialism, colonialism of
the most vicious type which suc-
ceeded in completely annihilating
the native Cuban population, the
Canayees. It was 400 hundred
years of the most overt economic
rape of a country and was finally
ended in 1898 with the victory of the
Cuban patriots in the war of in-
dependence from Spain.

But the freedom that these
patriots paid so dearly for was not
forthcoming. American capital,
looking for new areas of economic

- domination.saw Cuba as ideal to

their needs.

And so began 60 years of im-
perialist repression of the Cuban
people.

Those 60 years of Cuba’s history
are full of struggle, ending in the

1975 FINANCIAL DRIVE QUOTAS

VANCOUVER SOUTH FRASER
‘i Bennett 1250 153 Fort Langley 650 250
adway 1150 1220 sure 1500 988
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Timber Ind 400 143 Campbell River 550 36
South Van 750 941 © Comox Valley 450 172
Van East ; 2700 2294 Duncan 200
Victory Square 2000 1069 Nanaimo 1000 585
Amor de Cosmos 250 Port Alberni 650 70
Victoria 900 =: 106
NORTH FRASER
urmaby 1500 427
Coquitlam 750 117 MISC.
ad Ind 450 201 “A” Club 500 87
®wWestminster 750 222 “B” Club 500
chmond 600 158 Correspondence 350 187
E Creston 150
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a Valley 450 205 North Van 2000 1455
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an 650 5 Prince Rupert 300
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Penticton Ath ea [te
Vernon 600 112 TOTAL $17,516

Remember

the
Victory

Banquet
June 14

Renfrew Community
Centre

Tickets go on sale May 15

final victory of the revolutionary
forces in 1959.

The 460 years of repression has
left Cuba with scores of martyrs;
Jose Marti, Camilio Cienfuegos,
Che Guevera to name but a few;
and it is to their memory, as well
as to the future that the last 16
years of Cuba’s history has been
devoted.

Prior to the victory of the Cuban
Revolution, Cuba was famous
throughout the world as the
playground of the rich. It was a
country of the most debilitating
poverty, a country which had an

illiteracy rate of 73%, and was-a.

haven for prostitutes, gamblers
and racketeers of all sorts.

But no longer. The first goals of
the revolution were to completely
remove the burden of these social
ills from the Cuban people.

An army of 100,000 young people
was recruited from the cities and
went into the countryside with the
goal of wiping out illiteracy. They
stayed for six to eight months,
living with and working alongside
the people they were teaching.
Today less than 3% of the
population is illiterate.

Sixteen years ago, costs -of all
education, from primary school to
university, was carried completely
by the students and their families.
Today, the Cuban people see
education as a social respon-
sibility, and all costs, including
tuition, books, clothing, meals and
transportation are borne com-
pletely by the state.

Over 70% of the rural population
is living in new apartment
buildings constructed since 1959,
discarding the small thatched-
roofed huts that was once the main
accommodation of the rural
people. New villages, complete
with all the services available in
the larger centres are dotting the
farming areas. Again this is since
1959.

The crime that made Cuba in-
famous throughout the world is
today virtually non-existent.

The number of women working
has increased 400% since 1959.

These are the results of Cuba’s
last 16 years.

Today’s Cuba, born in
revolution, and growing by
struggle, is just now beginning to
realize its potential, the potential
that only a socialist state can
achieve. That is the story of 16
years, a story that we in Canada
can learn from.

money we need. This even though there is truth in the often
heard comment that the first half is the easiest. From here
on it will be tougher — but we have not yet heard from
hundreds of people who we are counting on to donate to the

drive.

The box below tells the story of what needs to be done.
Some clubs have already surpassed their target while
others have as yet barely started. We will need about $8,000
over and above the sum of club quotas to reach our ob-
jective. Each and every club must reach and surpass its

goal.

We appeal to our supporters: Do not let the tempo of the
drive lag. We still need to raise $22,500. That means that
close to a $1,000 a day must come in. ;

Send your donation today. See your friends and other
supporters of our paper and ensure that they too contribute
toward a better Pacific Tribune.

‘REFUGEES’

U.S. created refugees
as Viet war strategy

America’s 20-year war in
Vietnam is ending as it began —
with massive population
displacements, encouraged by U.S.
policy.

American aircraft today fly
ammunition into Saigon, and fly
out babies: the CIA’s Col. G.
Lansdale was doing the same thing
in Hanoi exactly 20 years ago.
Unwary children were hustled on
to planes just before they took off
to ensure that their relatives
followed on the next one. Before
evacuating refugees, stampeded
into Haiphong by U.S. rumor
campaigns, ships of the American
“mercy flotilla’? cached arms in
the Tonkin Delta.

The American effort to convert
South Vietnam from the ‘‘tem-
porary regrouping zone’”’
established by the 1954 Geneva
accord into “‘this valiant partner of
the free world,’ as John Foster
Dulles described the Saigon
regime the U.S. established, has
always rested on the deliberate
production of refugees.

Ever since the late Dr. Thomas
‘Dooley provided the CIA cover
story for the 1974 Operation
Exodus in his best selling Deliver
Us From Evil, it has been U.S.
policy to deprive the guerrilla fish
of their water, by driving
populations into vast urban shanty
towns, or into “strategic hamlets”’
which were barely disguised

concentration camps. S

“Refugees make solid citizens,”

one ISAID manifesto explained. As
the firepower war began, General
William Westmoreland described
the social and political rationale of
his search-and-destroy operations:
“T expect a tremendous increase in
the number of refugees.”’

The strategy was defined in CIA
jargon by Ambassador Robert
Komer, who had _ over-all
responsibility for the Phoenix
Program of counter-terror, which
killed 40,000 Vietnamese. “If w>
can attrite the population base of
the Vietcong,” he said, “‘it’ll ac-
celerate the process of degrading
the VC.”

Eight million South Vietnamese
and half of the three million people
of Laos were made refugees, often
dozens of times. The Nixon-
Kissinger Cambodia invasion
created two million refugees in
three months.

Depopulating the countryside,
not military progress, provided the
U.S. statistics that the population
of Vietnam was increasingly
“friendly’’ and secure.

America, according to the
Harvard counter-insurgency ex-
pert, and long time colleague of Dr.
Kissinger, Prof. Samuel Hun-
tington, had discovered “‘the an-
swer to wars of national

liberation.’’ It consisted of
: See U.S. POLICY pg. 12

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