_ | How Time Magazine

| won the Olympics

Say you had been living on
: the moon the past two weeks
and miraculously received the
: March 3 issue of Time
r Magazine. You missed the
-| Winter Olympics on TV and
are pleased to discover Time
has devoted 7 pages to the
events, including 12 photos. .

It’s a major article, 100 col-

Time's easy, flowing style. At

“We still wave Old Glory down
on Main Street...”

-— INTERNATIONAL FOCUS

umn inches. You begin to read

the end your conclusion is ob-
vious: The Unjted States came
first, Sweden second and there
was a third place tie between
Austria and Leichtenstein.

There are five passing refer-
ences to ‘‘East Germany”’ the
overall Games winner. The
USSR, aside from a short sen-
tence informing you that
Tikhonov won an_e un-
precedented fourth gold med-
al, appears almost exclusively
in connection with U.S.
athletes.

If you were illiterate and just
looked at the photos, you’d
find 6 of the 12 were of U.S.
athletes, one of Old Glory, four

_ of West European skiers and

one of the “‘East German’”’
bobsled run. And, even if you
became suspicious because
there’s a sentence telling you
‘““The East Germans and

_ Soviets, as usual, scooped up
medals by the fistful’’, and that

’ the GDR won nine golds and
USSR 10 compared to the
USA’s 6, there’s no overall
medal or point information
anywhere in the story. t.
There’s no mention of the
nordic events, though they ac-
count for 13 of the 38 events,
(the USA didn’t do much

there) and the hockey cover-

age talks only about the U.S.

win.
Here’s the breakdown of the
100 inches: 25 are introductory
and color material; 49 inches
on the U.S. athletes; 26 on Al-
pine skiing where West Euro-
peans did well. In the 11” on
figure skating, the slant is on
U.S. performance and here
other nations: appear because
they won all the golds.

In short, after reading
Time’s account of the 13th
Winter Games, you're still liv-
ing on the moon.

It depends whose
treaties you mean

The USA and a few other
NATO countries have studi-
ously ignored the fact that the
USSR responded to a call from
Afghanistan and sent its troops
there under a Soviet-Afghan
Treaty signed between two
sovereign states in Dec. 1978.
One would think that such
legal treaties were unknown to
them.

The United States, architect
of God knows how many bilat-
eral treaties and the moving
force behind several multi-
lateral pacts such as NATO,

SEATO, CENTO, etc., man-
age, however, to use treaties
whenever it suits their needs.

Forgetting all about their re-
vulsion toward Pakistani dic-
tator Mohammed Zia ul-Haq
and the U.S. arms boycott to
his regime, Washington has
dragged out a 1959 Executive
agreement of the Eisenhower
era under which it now pledges
‘to come to Pakistan’s defence.
This has allowed the U.S. to
renew weapons sales to Zia, a
promise made during the re-
cent visit of National Security
Adviser Brzezinski to Pakis-
tan.
Very convenient.

Sadat’s sell-out
now formalized

A wreath was laid on the
grave of former president
Gamel Abdel Nasser in pro-
test. On it was a message from
the opposition Union Progres-
sive Party of Egypt: ‘‘From
our party to your memory on
this sad day of the exchange of
ambassadors between Egypt
and Israel.”

The Sudanese press associa-
tion sent a cable to Egyptian
president Sadat: ‘‘We feel
shame and disgrace, and bow

our heads in bitterness and re-
morse ...”’

A general strike was called
by Palestinian Arabs in the
Israeli-occupied Gaza and
West Bank when Israeli am-
bassador to Egypt presented
his credentials Feb. 26, of-
ficially sealing Sadat’s sellout.

At stake, of course, is the
fact of Palestinians whose land
‘has been stolen. The Camp
David agreements,-engineered
by the White House, aided by
Sadat’s treachery have left the
Palestinians homeless and
under Israeli military rule.

The exchange of ambas-
sadors between Israel and
Egypt, far. from promising
peace to the Middle East, sig-
nals greater danger. Ignoring
the key issue, Palestinian
rights, means continued and
heightened instability. The.
involvement of the United
States in the region, not as
honest broker but as arms
merchant considerably adds to
the tension.

Peace? The day Sadat ac-
cepted Israel's ambassadorial
credentials with a friendly hug,
the United States announced
its agreement to sell Egypt 40
F-16 jet fighters and 250 M-60
battle tanks.

Se Rek® See Re ees

By SPARTAK BEGLOV

MOSCOW (APN) — The
Soviet Union will be prepared to
withdrawing its troops from
nistan as soon as the inter-
FE vention from outside, in whatever
I} form, aimed against that coun-
E try’s government and people is
) stopped. Let the USA and the
‘i countries neighboring on Af-
| chanistan guarantee that, and
‘| Soviet military assistance will be-
| come unnecessary. ~s
This is one of the key points ina
| speech by Soviet leader Leonid
) Brezhnev on Feb. 22. A consider-
| able part of the speech is devoted
}to the analysis of present-day
| international events, including
| the exposure of the real motives
|} behind the unprecedented anti-
‘+ Soviet ballyhoo which has been
} orchestrated by Washington and
| which, as the Soviet leader put it,
1} beats all the records of the past.
| There was no and there is no
= «‘intervention’’ of any kind on the
| part of the Russians in Afghanis-

‘tan, Brezhnev stressed. The
USSR acted on the basis of the
~ Soviet-Afghan Treaty of Friend-
_ ship. Three successive Afghan
_ governments addressed Moscow
| with urgent requests for assis-
| tance for defence against the in-
i vasion of the counter-revolution-
+ ary forces from outside.
» American leaders know better
+] than anyone else that the U-S.,
re along with the Chinese and
», others, have been directing the

start

in actual, not the imaginary, inter-
, vention against Afghanistan from
a Pakistan’s territory. This has re-
, sulted in @ serious threat to the
. Afghan revolution, as well as to
~ the security of the USSR’s south-
, em border.

jj The Soviet leadership is well
Fs aware Of. the real causes of the
to hysterical campaign of lies about

_ Afghan people’, the ‘Russian
, threat to Pakistan and Iran’’ and
so on. This is needed not only to
enable some specific person to
win the presidential elections on
the crest of this wave, but also to

provide Washington with a pre-
text for stepping up its expansion
in Asia and for setting up a net-
work of military bases in the In-
dian Ocean, in the countries of the
Middle East, South-West. Asia
and in the African countries in
order to subdue these countries
and syphon out their natural
wealth without hindrance. ~

How does it fit the international
situation as a whole and how can
one explain the open defiance to
the cause of détente, to all the
positive trends which took shape
in the world in the 1970s? Accord-
ing to the analysis made by
Brezhnev, present-day develop-
ments can be characterized as a
switch-over to a counteroffensive
of the imperialist forces against
détente and peoples’ rights.

This was not at all unexpected
to those who know the true nature
of imperialism. From the moment
when the idea of new, genuinely
equal relations between the
peoples, the idea of peaceful co-
existence and of respect for the
choice made by the peoples in the
struggle against the vestiges of
colonialism and backwardness
began to gain ground, one had to
expect fierce political struggle.
While détente meets the interests
of the peoples, while responsible
and _realistically-minded _politi-
cians understand its necessity,
while the peoples freeing them-
selves from colonialism strive to
cast off the old fetters and, in
doing so, do not want to get bound
by new fetters of dependence on
imperialism, the schemes and in-
terests of the anti-détente forces
are diametrically opposite to it.’

These are major forces which

work directly or indirectly in the

capitalist countries to prepare a
war the military, the
monopolieis linked with them,
their people in the state machin-
ery, and the so-called ‘“‘opinion
makers’’ of the western mass
media monopolists.

Their reaction to the success of
the European Conference in Hel-
sinki and to the triumph of the

- Brezhnev outlines source of
. renewed anti-Soviet campaign

revolutionary forces in Angola
and Ethiopia has been the delayed
SALT-II talks, the encourage-
ment of the Sadat government,
the frozen talks toward disarma-
ment and so on. Brezhnev once
again characterized the decision
to deploy in Western Europe new
American missiles aimed at the
USSR and its allies as ‘‘provoca-
tive”.

After that the USA turned its
eyes toward Asia and the Middle
East. The world witnessed and is
witnessing now everything it has
undertaken in a bid to take re-
venge for the success of the
people’s revolution in Iran, and
the escalation of the intrigues
against revolutionary Afghanis-
tan.
What choice can people make
in the face of this dangerous gam-
ble of the new proponents of the
“policy from the position of
strength’? The answer to this
question given by Brezhnev is
based on the experience of the
past few decades. It is not easy to

destroy the foundation of détente.
The main task is to keep con-
solidating it in every way.

This faith in the viability of the
realistic program to ensure peace
in our epoch — the program
underlying the successive con-
sistent foreign policy platforms of
the Communist Party -of the
Soviet Union — is based on a
number of factors.

The first is the unity of the
socialist countries in their strug-
gle for détente and reduction of
the threat of nuclear oe war.
Our strength and possibilities are

immense, Brezhnev stressed. We
and our allies shall always be able
to defend ourselves and rebuff
any attacks. —

Another factor is the interest of
the peoples which have cast off
the colonial yoke for lasting peace
and in truly equal international re-
lations. The Soviet Union does
not desire their wealth and does
not seek to set up military bases
there. To always side with
peoples upholding their freedom
and independence is the mission
of the world’s first socialist state,
stemming from its very nature.

India CP chairman resigns

NEW DELHI — The Com-

munist Party of India decided at.

its national council meeting, Jan.
30-Feb. 3, to accept the resigna-
tion of its chairman, S.A. Dange,
and adopted a resolution of its
executive explaining the action.

**The central executive com-
mittee of the CPI is of the opinion
that the note issued by Comrade
S.A. Dange on the eve of the re-
cent Lok Savha {lower house)
elections,’’ that is, the all-India
election which restored Indira
Gandhi to power, ‘‘as well as
some of his public statements be-
fore and after these elections, as
well as just prior to the Kerala
(state) assembly elections, con-
stitute an open challenge to the
accepted program and policy of
our party,” the resolution said. |

‘While Comrade Dange is cer-

tainly entitled to hold his views
and to argue them inside the party
in conformity with the provisions
of the party constitution, it was
impermissible for a leader of
Comrade Dange’s seniority and
standing to air his differences pub-

licly and to announce his resigna-

tion from chairmanship of the

. party as well as from the member-

ship of the central executive
committee and the central sec-
retariat,’’ states the resolution.
It continues: ‘‘The central
executive committee is of the
opinion that Comrade Dange’s
public outbursts at the very mo-
ment when the party was engaged
in a bitter electoral battle, have
done great harm to the party by
confusing and dividing the party
ranks, compromising its political
credibility in the eyes of the mas-

ses and questioning the unity of
the left forces.

“In view of the above,’’ says
the resolution, ‘‘the central
executive committee recom-
mends to the national council that
Comrade Dange’s resignation
from the chairmanship of the
party and from the membership of
the central executive committee
and the central secretariat be ac-

_ cepted.

“The national council of the
Communist Party of India en-

“dorses the above resolution of the

central executive committee con-
cerning Comrade S.A. Dange and
accepts the resignation of Com-
rade S.A. Dange as recom-
mended by the central executive
committee,’’ the national council
resolution concludes.

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