Whose hero
Was John Wayne?

President Carter signed a bill
| authorizing a gold medal be
Struck for actor John Wayne
Who died June 11. Carter de-
| | Scribed Wayne as ‘‘a symbol of
}| | the American ideals of integri-
‘| | ty, courage and patriotism.”
This prompted a reply from
|| | Lester Cole in the U.S. Daily
| | World. Cole is a founding
Member of the Screen Writers’
uild and was one of the
‘| Hollywood Ten who was
nded and imprisoned by
|| | the House Un-American Ac-
| | tivities Committee in the
)} | 1950s.

He traces Wayne’s history
| | back to the Thirties when he
a | helped found the racist, right-
| | Wing ‘‘Motion Picture Alliance
for the Preservation of Ameri-
,| | an Ideals’’ whose stated aim
-| | Was to rid Hollywood of com-
| Munist ‘‘subversion’’.
/}|,Cole’s article shows
"| Wayne's friendship and close
| Wes with neo-fascists of his

N By SPARTAK BEGLOV,
©Vosti Political Commentator

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v€en Leonid Brezhnev and
'mmy Carter here has made it
Possible to view world politics
ithe Soviet-American relations
| Jough the prism of time and im-
: prtant changes inthe worldand in
) fh. broad context of the role of
3} © two major powers. At such
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lations.

. Given all the differences and
| gj ee features of their two So-
wilt pees, the two countries
| the Shape their foreign policies in
Bu; ent direction only if they
| ie themselves by the exclu-
Of nuclear war and develop

day, with individuals who led
the fight to smash the honest
unions of that time and, finally,
Wayne’s collaboration with
the witch-hunting Un-
American Activities Commit-
tee. ‘‘They encouraged stool-
pigeons with promises of
work, they brought despair to
hundreds and suicide to a
‘few ...’’ writes Cole.
“Carter might have known
Wayne through the macho

pieces in movie magazines
turned out by his publicity
flacks, through his ‘true grit’
movies, and his rabidly pro-
Vietnam war efforts. But to
thoughtful, peace-loving union
men and women, John Wayne

peaceful relations on the basis of
sovereignty, equality and mutual

‘benefit.

Not only the Soviet people and
the Americans, but all other na-
tions have an interest in this
course. Goodwill and a sense of
reason are of paramount impor-
tance for following this policy. _

There would have been no §&|

détente without these two factors.
Brezhnev stressed in his speech
June 16 that this course has
powerful allies — the millions of
citizens of the two countries and
all nations.

This course has opponents,
however. Détente would have
made swifter progress and pro-
duced better results if their ac-
tivities did not deform inter-
national relations. Those who
oppose the normalisation of re-
lations between the USSR and the
USA are trying to prevent the
public from seeing facts as they
are. This explains their technique
— to concentrate attention on
transitory issues, to provoke ten-
sions where there is no reason for

will never be a symbol of
‘American ideals, integrity,
courage and patriotism’ ”’, he
concludes.

Amen.

Justice — South
African style

Five Black men were re-
cently attacked by eight whites
in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
They were hung by their
wrists, beaten with hose pipes
and whips and given electric
shock greatment. One of the
men, Jankie Matobako, died
from the torture.

The eight whites, including a
police Detective Sergeant,
were charged with the crime
and appeared in court. Two
were found guilty — not of
murder, but of assault. The
policeman was given four
years in jail, the other fined
$11,700 and six other acquit-
ted,“

This is a country Canada has
diplomatic ties with. Canadian
banks. and corporations have

them and to misinterpret and fal-
sify the intentions of the other
side.

Brezhnev cited two examples
during the Vienna talks: The first
concerns the ‘Soviet threat”
myth, the second the “hand of
Moscow”’ tale. These two myths
are based on continuous propa-
ganda to intimidate and mislead

people.

Triby ey FILS DELISLE

B Une Berlin Correspondent

| Weep ALIN — The GDR this past
Orde Conferred the Karl Marx
| Se on On Meir Vilner, General
| Bay of the Communist
| large pe israel. At the same time a
tlin audience welcomed
| the Bae ‘and song ensemble of
| tion €stine Liberation Organi-
“ace ‘0 a series of guest appear-
. Were. in this country. Both events
"Stop. aS an expression of the
eee Spint of internationalism
I the Oe Of the firm support for all
| ios working for indepen-
Migr freedom and peace in the
Mdle East,

Karl M Or d :
8 arx Order was pre
ee to Vilner by Erich Hon-

» State C il Chai
an ouncil Chairman
. General Secretary of the
Sion oft nity Party on the occa-
“Sf Vilner’s 60th Birthday. In

the presentation ceremony, Hon-
ecker praised Vilner for his
courageous work in the interests
of the working people of Israel,
for the achieving ofa lasting peace
in the Mid East, and for his efforts
on behalf of the international
communist movement.

In his acceptance remarks, Vil-
ner warned that the Begin-Sadat
agreement was a conspiracy
hatched under the patronage of
U.S. imperialism and aimed
against the progressive states and
national liberation movements in
the Mid East, in the Persian Gulf
region and in Africa.

The separate agreement, he
declared, did not bring peace any
closer. On the contrary, it in-
creased the danger of new blood-
letting and military conflicts.

Honecker assured. Vilner of the

~ Israeli CP leader honored

fullest support of the people of the
GDR for the: valiant struggle of
the Israeli Communist Party, for
the liberation of the occupied ter-
ritories, for the implementing of
the right to self-determination of
the Palestinian people, including
the creation of an independent
Palestinian state, and the
guaranteeing of the existence and
security of all states in the area.
Both leaders agreed that their two
parties would work for the
strengthening of the international
communist movement.

The appearance of the dance

and song ensemble of the PLO at

the People’s Palace turned into a
demonstration of support for the
aspirations of the Palestinian
people for liberation and the es-
tablishment of their own state on
the West Bank, terntory now oc-
cupied by Israeli troops.

extensive holdings and reap
high profits from South African
labor. Ottawa refuses to join in
world-wide calls for sanctions
and boycotts against the apar-
theid regime, peddling the line
that this country’s ties with
Pretoria ‘“*help’’ the South Af-
rican people.

The appeal for boycotts and
sanctions was renewed last
week by the South African
Trade Union Congress in a
memo to the current session of
the International Labor Or-
ganization in Geneva.

SACTU urged an end to
all foreign investments in
South Africa. **The plight of
Black workers remains into-
lerable,"’ the memo stated.
‘The so-called ‘liberalization’
started by the regime who, ina
bid to deceive world opinion,
say they want to ‘soften apart-
heid’ for African workers in
some industries is a farce.”

The union, banned in its own
country, expressed its
gratitude for the solidarity
shown by. international trade

U.S. President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev applaud after signing SALT Il treaty June 18.

History shows the United
States has been the initiator of
every round of the arms race be-
ginning with the development of
the A-bomb. Showing legitimate
concern for its security, the
Soviet Union, nevertheless, al-
ways displayed initiative in and

made practical proposals towards

disarmament. Seventy proposals
in this field, as well as other
peace-promoting initiatives, have
been tabled by the USSR at the
United Nations.

The strange thing is that the
greater the contribution the
Soviet Union makes to the
development of relations of peace
among states and the more perse-
veringly it promotes its practical
proposals for arms control and
reducing the threat of another
war, the more insistently myths
are spread about Soviet policy.

During the SALT II talks in
Vienna on world developments,
Brezhnev, undoubtedly vividly
demonstrated to Carter how strik-
ingly the real picture of the world
differed from what the authors of
the anti-Soviet myths say.

Détente is taking place in a liv-
ing, complex and changing world
rather than in vacuum. It was only
a few years ago that some nations,
such as Angola and Mozambique,
became masters of their destinies.
This was paralleled by other pro-
cesses in world politics, among
them détente.

union bodies, especially the
World Federation of Trade
Unions.
Cuba’s homage to
Nicaragua’s struggle

The Cuban team par-
ticipating in the Panamerican
Games in Puerto Rico will de-
dicate their triumphs to the
heroic struggle of. the Nicara-
guan people against the
dictatorship of Anastasio
Somoza, stated two-time
Olympic champion Alberto
Juantorena.

‘In Nicaragua, the struggle
is decisive. We trust the sister
people of Nicaragua will defeat
the Somoza tyranny. Our per-
formance in the Games will be
a homage to the people of
Nicaragua’’, said Juantorena.

The Cuban sprinter, Olym-
pic champion of the 400 and
800 meters, emphasized that
the athletes of his country have
amoral duty to their people to
surpass the 135 medals they
won in the last Panamerican
Games held in Mexico in 1975.

But certain Western circles
would not draw parallels. They
imagine everywhere sinister lines
converging on Moscow. All this is
nothing but an attempt to present
social processes and the struggle
of nations for independence and
social progress as ‘‘the intrigues
and schemes of Moscow.”

The Soviet people take pride
that they always ally themselves
with the liberation movements.
Herein lies the strength of ideol-
ogy and policy born of the
greatest revolution of this cen-
tury.

At the same time we should
stress another inviolable principle
of Soviet policy — the USSR op-
poses intervention in the internal
affairs of other countries. This
explains, as Brezhnev em-
phasized, the fallacy of attempts
to make the Soviet Union respon-
sible for objective historical
developments, let alone using this
as a pretext for poisoning bilateral
relations.

The USSR regards the success-
ful completion of the arduous
SALT II negotiations as the re-
ciprocal striving of the U.S. ad-
ministration and all realistic
Amenicans to ensure a firmer
basis for bilateral relations. To
surrender the initiative to the
enemies of détente would mean to
betray the expectations of the two
nations and hundreds of millions
of people throughout the world.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 29, 1979— Page 7

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