eames memati a SaaS RRR amar for eR Yc By JIM STANFORD AeNDON — The movement rican military bases iti meat Britain — both conven- T Teceiy on Buclear-armed — has | ®ainst A, | Tripoyj | Be took off from four U.S.- c air bases in England, aa aS S$ active support for | tons a aS shocked many Bri- | Calls for Sparked wide-ranging | bases f the removal of all U.S. thee the country. | beldin taneous protests were Count “zens of cities around the Ton 2 S0llowed by a big Lon- | 15099 g.ronstration of some Bhized papal 19, which was or- Sear Dj y the Campaign for Nu- P The Ra mament (CND). Monstra owing day, more de- bases : tions were held at U.S. | bases }_ "Several parts of the U.K. The biggest, of some 2,000 people, was held at Lakenheath base in East Anglia, where many of the F-11’s are based, where protesters blocked the gates to the base for some two-and-a-half hours, preventing American traf- ; fic from entering or leaving. Simi- lar civil disobedience took place at other demonstrations. In total, over 500 people were arrested in the week’s activities. Public opinion is strongly op- posed to the raid, with a full two- third of Britons opposing Thatcher’s decision to allow the Americans to use U.K.-based weaponry for the raid, and a mere four per cent believing that the raid will do anything to stop terrorism. :; Thatcher and other leading To- ries have defended the action, with Thatcher saying in the House of Commons that it was fa Hy é iad x ts for Libya attack. tow wide majority in UK opposed Thatcher’s granting bases to .S. bases in Britain ‘inconceivable’ that Great Bri- tain could have turned down the American request for assistance. This has sparked further outcry, with a large segment of public opinion genuinely shocked at the ~ extent to which the U.S. military presence here has undermined U.K. sovereignty. Moreover, the threat of repris- als against British citizens, and the fear of attacks on U.S. bases here, has made many realize that British support for the American actions has placed them in the front-lines of international con- flict. Until now, most Britons supported the American presence on grounds of economic benefit and security, but the raid on Libya has seriously undercut the strength of this sentiment. The attack has also led to stronger calls from the peace and labor movements for the closure of all U.S. bases here, not just those that store nuclear weapons. Left-wing Welsh Labor MP Anne Clwyd even broke with Labor Party policy and told the Laken- heath demonstration that a future Labor government would close all U.S. bases; recently-adopted Labor policy so far only opposes American nuclear weapons here. CND has taken a leading role in the protests over the Libyan ad- venture. Chairperson Paul Johns says the episode has shown that the peace movement cannot focus exclusively. on questions of nu- clear weapons, but rather that all militarism must be opposed. The rapid mobilization of the peace movement’s rank-and-file here last week shows that his attitude is shared by most campaigners. World News Chile soldiers fire on students Soldiers opened fire, Aprill 22, on student protesters in Temuco, Chile, who were demonstrating against a visit there by dictator Augusto Pinochet. Witnesses said 90 demonstrators were arrested. A woman student was seriously injured by a tear-gas canister that hit her in the face, and a man was wounded in the leg by a police bullet. : ; ‘Police fired tear gas at about 250 student demonstrators who were shouting anti-government slogans,” stated a local reporter who asked not to be identified. ‘* Then three army trucks drove up, soldiers got down and began firing submachine guns into the air. It was the third time in one week that Pinochet’s 12-year-old military regime deployed army troops to attack student demon- strations. A wave of demonstrations paralyzed Chile’s main universities one week earlier and more than 800 students were arrested on the campuses. Last month, anti-government actions were organized by women’s groups. This month students are protesting and next month workers will demonstrate in coordi- nated efforts to overthrow Pinochet. Afghanistan victory over CIA Afghan forces last week captured one of the CIA’s biggest base, three kilometers from the Pakistani border, contained doz- ens of arms depots, food and supply storehouses and fortified positions. Gen: Abdel Ghafur, the Afghan commander, conducted foreign reporters on a tour of the base complex, which was captured after heavy fighting. The Jawara base was described as the main CIA base for counter-revolutionary gangs operating in large areas of Afghanistan including the Panjshir valley. Huge stocks of arms and ammunition were shown with U.S., British, West German and Chinese markings. — INTERNATIONAL FOCUS Tom Morris| Under his for when “‘the communists try Training camps exist across gaging and defeating the Europe, to the MX _ inter- 1| ¥ ty nose to take over America.” the country, private preserves Soviets. continental ‘missile, the B-1 Th The fact is that smackcentre under various covers where Next December B-52 bomb- _ bomber, the three variants of } p © U.S. Commander-in- in the bosom of America are . members undergo so-called ers will be fitted with air Cruise missiles, accelerated launched Cruise missiles and the White House has agreed to proceed with a new Midget- nuclear testing, an updated 600-ship navy, increased militarization of space, includ- ‘survival’? courses which in reality are commando training camps coupled with fascist right-wing, fanatical outfits like the WPP, assorted Cuban exile groups, other para-military Chi hi s tells the world he'll send a anywhere, anytime, ‘St Stect Americans against en”. They've already organizations who back ideological indoctrination. man missile. ing Star Wars — the United and to the Shores of Tripoli | Nicaraguan contras with guns There’s enough © hatred Since taking office in 1980 States under Reagan possesses an awesome, attack-minded military machine. smoldering away to sustain and cash — and layers like the Red Dawn, Rambo and Ronald KKK and nazis — all beating Reagan has initiated an unpre- cedented military build-up at them €agan is itching to send Zuma (0 the Halls of Monte- east Baty, the same anti-communist drum _— Reagan. the expense of both his domes- And with it comes a re- ae about checking out and all militarily-inclined. ae Gee _, tic economy and international "ewed jingoism and belliger- c, North Carolina? Back home in the isn't stability. The world isa much ance, a_political-economic- Urns out that U.S. a bad place for Reagan to start more dangerous place than be- _‘ military offensive based on ex- i. i rooting out terrorism. fore. treme right-wing thinking. i arj . pecs from Camp Lejeune Splin JOined a Ku Klux Klan There couldn’t be a more vol- All down the line, from the t : * : 3 : awe Bs BRE ts Atime-bomb new families of rockets in atile mixtureinthe nuclearage. 1} Part » have been training F ee HY} use”, “embers in weapons’ quietly ticking i As our attention rivets on the power plant accident in the USSR, just having spent the past couple of weeks ponder- ing the implications of the Libya raid, another, even more ~, and ¢s : . Military Pie them with Monte EWS, published last 4.0}, pea the Raleigh News and j Statemen is based on sworn Patri €nts by former White j With K Party members filed sinister time bomb is ticking infor anwatch in 1984. Other quietly away. Hl mas ation shows that On May 20 a new Trident submarine carrying 24 missiles will put to sea adding to the U.S. navy’s strike capacity — one which now boasts 14 at- tack carriers. Navy secretary 7) 8 ‘nes and troops from Fort MT bY noi.’ also been identified | Tiog ICe attending White Pat- Member) meetings. WPP : rs on ; : : | Patamiit eee in extensive If Reagan is looking for ter- ; | | form : ltary training, testified rorists he should begin at John Leaman has made it clear Members, to prepare home. he wants a navy capable of en- PACIFIC TRIBUNE, MAY 7, 1986 e 9