—— piesa ce oe i a a Guns still going to SA, group says 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. —=INTERNATIONAL FOCUS 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. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPT. 26, 1980—Page 6