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Special to the Tribune

Following revelations by the
anti-apartheid movement that the
U.S.-Canadian munitions com-
pany Space Research Corpora-
tion (SRC) was violating the Un-
ited Nations arms embargo
against South Africa, yet another
firm is reported to have made
similar shipments. This time it is a
West German operation.

The Anti Apartheid Bewegung
(Anti Apartheid Movement) in
the Federal Republic of Germany
(FRG) is now pushing for action
on the Rheinmetall company of
Desseldorf. The move comes
after reports in ‘‘Der Speigal’’ had
linked Rheinmetall and other
West German firms with ship-
ments of an artillery system to
South Africa.

According to the Bewegung,
Rheinmetall ‘tin cooperation with

companies in the USA, Canada, .

the Netherlands and Belgium and
the respective governments (had)
supplied to the apartheid regime
the NATO artillery system FH-70
and GC-45.”’

The solidarity organization said
that the system uses a 155-mm
howitzer which can lob shells, in-
cluding a nuclear device, as far as
32 kilometres. Other West Ger-
man firms listed by Bewegung as
having broken the November
1977 UN Resolution prohibiting
the sales of arms to Pretoria in-
clude: Otto Junker, Lammers-
dorf; Dynamit Nobel, Troisdorf;
Suddeutsche' Baubeschlage,
Munich; and Globus-Reederei,
Hamburg.

In March, 1979 a criminal
charge was brought against the
last named firm by Bewegung for
violating the West German Act
for the Control of War Weapons.
Apparently, it was Globus which
was involved with the South
African-owned ship the Tugela-

land, a vessel which in 1978 was
identified by the then co-leader of
the Patriotic Front in Zimbabwe,
Joshua Nkomo, as having taken
munitions to South Africa via An-
tigua. The anti-apartheid
movement believes firmer action
is now required because the com-
panies appear to be unaffected by
the charges brought against them
by the U.S., Canadian and West
German governments — not sur-
prisingly, says the movement,
because of government collusion
with the munitions firms.

While SRC founder Gerald Bull
and former company President
Rodgers Gregory were handed
down one year sentences and
each fined $45,000 in a Vermont
courtroom last June, the firm was
itself ordered in August to pay a
Quebec court $55,000 after plead-

‘ing guilty to making arms ship-

ments to South Africa. Solidarity
organizations have termed these
fines and jail sentences “totally
inadequate’.

The West German support
group revealed that two officials,
Menzel and Meyer-Raven, of the
Federal Bureau for Defence,
Technology and Supplies at Kob-
lenz, FRG, had met with SRC
representatives at a secret con-
ference in June in Ottawa to dis-
cuss further developments of the
FH-70 artillery system. Rhein-
metal executives were also pre-
sent at the conference.

Among the demands being
made of the West German gov-
ernment by the Bewegung is that
the investigation being carried out
by the Ministry of Justice in
Northrhine-Westphalia in Dus-
seldorf into the activities of the
West German firms to be made
public. The Bonn government has
also been urged to terminate all its
military and nuclear cooperation
with South Africa.

Somoza executed 3
Nicaraguan butcher Anastazio Somoza, who fled his country
following the successful revolution last year was killed Sept. 17
while riding in his limosine in Asuncion, Paraguay. Somoza, who -
fled to Miami, then to the Bahamas, finally accepted asylum from
his long-time friend and fellow dictator Stroessner. Somoza’s
death was met by street dancing in Nicaragua. Photo gives idea of
_feaction to his last presidential campaign. == is |

World Bank ‘aid’
for juntas only

The World Bank and the
International Monetary
Fund, organizations which
theoretically were set up to
aid developing nations,
have long been accused of
helping the capitalist states
who run them at the ex-
pense of intended bene-
ficiaries.

mm a new report on such

aid”’, it appears, for exam-
ake that the United States
reaps $2.50 for every $1. it

“‘contributes”’ to the World
Bank and which is invested
abroad.

And this ‘‘aid”’ is far from
disinterested, nor does it
help the poor of the coun-
tries, targetted. In Brazil,
for example, the World
Bank-loaned $2,961-million
between 1964-77 to a mili-
tary regime. From 1962-64
under a democratic
government Brazil received
nothing.

Fascist. Chile between
1973-77 got ($126-million in
WB aid. The Popular Unity

get, a cent. Bolivia is the
same: 1952-70 under a popu-
lar regime the World Bank
had nothing to give. Be-
tween 1970 and 1977 when
the military ruled, the WB
gave $195-million.

This is Toronto,
not Gdansk

When Polish workers
struck the Baltic shipyards
last summer you would

the media the act was equal
to the Second Coming.
Editorial writers chumed
out stories about the ‘‘right
to strike’, ‘‘free trade
unions”’ and the ‘‘power of
working people’? — sub-
jects not usually so highly
touted by them. |

This transformation can
be quite simply understood.
Polish shipyard workers
first of all live 4,000 miles
from here. Their wage de-
mands don’t come from the
coffers of Thomson or
Southam. The over $1-bil-
lion in lost production didn’t
affect the Globe & Mail,
Vancouver Sun or any other
chain newspapers.

In its eulogy to Polish
workers, the Globe & Mail
didn’t speak about the ‘‘in-
convenience”’ to the Polish
public caused by the strike.
It most certainly didn’t raise
demands on the Polish
government to take a hard
line and use legal machinery
to end the work stoppages.
It wrote instead about the
‘‘justice’’ of people acting to
redress grievances.
~ Well, that was last month.
And that was Poland.

This month federal
government clerks in
Canada who are among the
lowest paid people around
and who have been working
without a contract for al-
most a year, went on strike
shutting down several key
mail complexes. Letter car-
riers and drivers are re-
fusing to cross picket lines
and mail service has been
severely restricted.

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government (1971-73) didn’t z

have thought from reading

“Aid” to Haiti's government isn’t reaching this child.

The Globe & Mail for this
work stoppage must have
hired different editorial
writers than those who pen-
ned so glowingly about
Polish strikes. Here’s what
the Globe says when Cana-
dians strike:

“Tf the government can-
not summon up the resolve
to declare the postal service
to be far too important to be
left ‘within the range of
strikes by anyone, then per-
haps it can address itself to
the more modest objective
of designing a system whose
collapse is not so easily
triggered ... Must mail car-
riers be permitted to make
every other union’s fight
their fight?

“Their claim that their
‘conscience’ will not let
them cross a picket line has
a hollow ring. What hap-
pens to their conscience
when they contemplate the
innocent victims of a regu-
larly paralyzed Post Office
— among whom we find
80,000 Metro Toronto un-
employed whose insurance
cheques are tied up in the
mails, ...?”

We won’t comment about
the Globe’s suddén concern
for the unemployed. Its fire
on this usually aims at UIC
‘rip-offs’, not at the causes
of massive, chronic un-
employment.

They loved it when the ~

posties were legislated back
to work two years ago, their
offices raided by Mounties
and their leader jailed. Now
here’s a chance to shoot
again — at solidarity picket
lines, at government

employees — at strikes in |

general. That’s the real
Globe & Mail.

But this is Toronto, not
Gdansk. And this is the Pub-
lic Service Alliance of
Canada, not the Inter-
Factory Strike Committee.

You’re in good hands
with the CIA

What ever“happened to
chivalry? Where has fair
play gone?

A Trenton, N.J. woman

: ass

is sueing the United States
for $1-million because the
CIA training she received
was inadequate. As a result,
she says, she was caught
spying in Cuba in 1968 and
spent nine years in a Cuban
jail until her release in 1977.

It seems she was a Cuban
defector who was recruited,
trained and sent back by the
CIA to spy on her husband
who worked for the Cuban
government. As she tried to
send a message to the U.S.
from a Havana park, she
was grabbed by Cuban
counter-intelligence agents.

Now that’s terrible. The
lady claims had her training
been better she could have
evaded detection and pris-
on. And to boot, the CIA
paid her the handsome sum
of $250. a month while she
took the heat.

Is there shame: at CIA
headquarters? Do they feel

- embarassed? Is Uncle Sam

sorry? No. the U.S. Attor-
ney’s office says it will seek
to have the suit dismissed.

Surely anyone who would
spy on their partner for $250
deserves better.

**Most concerned?”
mumbles MacGuigan

Former South Korean
opposition leader Kim Dae-
jung has been sentenced to
death by a military court.
He has been under arrest
since the uprisings last
summer, one more in a
series of actions against him
for his outspoken. opposi-
tion to the. dictatorship
there.

World reaction has been a
swift condemnation of the
sentence. The world, that
is, except the U.S. and
Canada. The Human Rights
Committee of the U.S. State
Department (they have one)
hasn’t reacted publicly to
this outrage. :

External Affairs Minister
Mark MacGuigan said he is”
‘‘most concerned’’ but.has
done nothing else.

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