Do words mean what they say? oy ee UG. Sides 2 ee ro 4 ES at WE j; 4 Wider baa eh / awc Oe ee: yy KILLED— 1. By late 1970, the number of South Vietnamese civilians killed had almost certainly passed 500,000. The Senate Sub- Committee on Refugees estimated that there had been over 1,000,000 casualties, of which 300,000 were fatal. But Edward S. Herman, in his “Atrocities in Vietnam,” calculates that the fig- ure far casualties is more like 2,000,000, with 1,000,000 deaths, while Telford Tyler, in “Nuremberg and Vietnam,” cites esti- mates by the American Friends Service Committee of 150,000 deaths annually, which would mean 900,000 from 1965 to 1970 alone. All sources agree that the vast majority of these casual- ties and deaths are due to U.S. firepower. DISPLACED— 2. The Senate Sub-Committee reports that 6,000,000 people have been displaced in South Vietnam since 1964, 500,000 of them in the first six months of 1970. Saigon has increased in population from 250,000 to 3,500,000 since 1961. A member of the Saigon assembly states that there are now 400,000 prosti- tutes in South Vietnam's cities. MAIMED — 3. There are now 105,000 civilian amputees in South Vietnam, 51,000 military amputees, 258,000 orphans, 131,000 war widows —a total of 545,000 war victims on the CORDS caseload (Source: U.S. Sen. Sub-Committee Report, Sept., 1970). 4. These figures indicate that at least 8,000,000 people in Vietnam (nearly half the population) have been killed, wound- ed, maimed, displaced or rendered a ward of the state since the start of the war. LAOS— 5. In Laos, since 1964 at least 200,000 people have been kill- ed and 700,000-800,000 displaced. Since thé population of Laos is only three million, then about one-third of the population has been either killed or displaced. (Source: Senate Sub-Committee Report of 1970). CAMBODIA— 6. In Cambodia, the figures for the killed and wounded are still sketchy, but they number in thousands already. The dis- placed have already reached 1,000,000. In addition, 400,000 ethnic Vietnamese have either fled or been displaced. (Source: Senate Sub-Committee Report of 1970). Meanwhile, the popu- lation of Phnom Penh, swollen with refugees, has increased from 700,000 to 1,500,000. POISON— 7. 13.5 million gallons of chemicals have been dropped on South Vietnam, affecting 5 million acres, or 12 per cent of the land. (Source: “Time” magazine, May 25, 1970). 8. By 1969, U.S. B-52s had left 3.5 million bomb-craters on the terrain of South Vietnam. (Source: Concerned Asian Schol- ars, “The Indochina Story”). 9. We have used over 9,000,000 tons of ammunition in Indo- china, or over 450 times more than the enemy (Source: Edward S. Herman, “Atrocities in Vietnam”). (People’s World) is Pacific Iribun Editor -MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bidg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, 8.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. 1699--Y Aa LIST ARIQAS Complicity most foul In its refusal of visas last week to five Vietnamese the Canadian govern- ment licked the boots of U.S. imperial- ism, wading in the blood of the peoples of Indochina. Otto Lang, Trudeau’s Minister of Immigration fawned on Nixon when he ruled these representatives of the Pro- visional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam were “in the class of prohibited persons.” There was truth, however, in his statement that his decision “does not reflect a change in Canadian policy.” For the present Canadian government has oe been guilty of servile com- plicity—tor the profits of monopoly— in the U.S. monstrous butchery in Viet- nam, in all Indochina. The refusal of visas to the Vietna- : mese at the moment when President Nixon is escalating U.S. aggression against all Indochina makes Canada’s complicity more cowardly, more dan- gerous than ever. Lang’s pretense at explanation was that the projected. Vietnamese testi- mony on US. war crimes would be beamed from Windsor to American TV viewers. But on countless occasions visitors to Canada have been seen and heard via TV and radio by Americans. Canada’s government continues to stooge for the United States in its bar- baric war in Southeast Asia. It should—in face of the ominous dangers to world peace involved in the present US. invasion of Laos—wipe its ands clean of complicity and add its voice, for the Canadian people, to the world demand for peace, for with- drawal of U.S. troops from Indochina. Unwanted disrupters All over the country demonstrations of unemployed and poor are striking back against poverty and unemploy- ment. Unfortunately, in Victoria, Toronto and Hamilton tiny ultra-left, anarchis- tic groups fastened onto demonstra- tions there and attempted to divert them into senseless eyeball confronta- tions with the police. The mass media, looking as usual for any pretext to divert attention from the real significance of those important demonstrations, played down their vital message for the Canadian people and played up instead the antics of the provocative elements. This is the only role those disrupters played, whatever their intentions. They objectively aid and abet the state and monopolies by their childish actions, and reflect unfavorably on the serious organizations onto whose cause they cynically graft themselves. Tin pan violence has no attraction for the working people and the poor, ve all victims of much more deadly f0k and violence every day of their Ii - Theirs is a serious movement aimed) solving the basic social grievail which make life almost unbearable In the course of these struggles, ¥ will inevitably draw significant less0 causing them to study more exactly nature of the system which breeds 5! poverty amid plenty. Sin They will be hindered, not helped,’ the leftist provocations, both in pursuit of their immediate aims and) coming to grips with more long-@ decisions. £E It is to the credit of these organl — tions that they dealt with the prov - cateurs with a minimum of dam@ However, it is clear that a relentle struggle is required in all the org# zations of the people to expose damaging nature of these elements) part of their struggle against m&™ is poly and its governments. Real power for chang? ; The slogan “Power to the Peol was advanced in last month’s Com” ence of the Poor People and in mili¥ demonstrations that followed it. In its rejection of the power of ! ‘Establishment, in its call for cha A from the present system, the slog" to be welcomed. “Ada But unless the idea of “power tore people” is linked with the main for ; for change in our society, it reM*Wo, ... words. 1D How to implement the desire f x changing this people-destroying sy* an; —that’s the guts of the matter. 28 Trudeau snaps his fingers at C i? da’s masses of unemployed. He coulllice eare less. The only language um s stood by people like him—and he rep & sents the coldest, cruelest of the) 5, the monopolists—will be the lang" der of mass action cle ie an anti-I apor poly alliance, led by Canada’s wo! Man class. That’s where the real ower change is coming from. That power that will change the system capitalism to socialism. ay) wy) Diefenbaker spews vent Whenever capitalism’s crisis de# and monopolists unload its costs 0 ‘working people, that’s when re ers swarm out of their holes. S % The latest but not the newest of is none other than John Diefenb@ With unemployment ravaging lives of a million Canadian worker their families, with their anger ing in mounting protests, this cian-pal of the bosses and of rea calls for an anti-communist witch * in government offices. It won’t do, Dief. The foul bre McCarthyism won’t check today’s ‘ering winds of change in our c0