downtown Vancouver. As well as giving coverage to the events during the Day Were asked by the CLC to remain on the job — the Paci Itself. Above, Neil Bryson and Kathy Ferguson carry the banner as m mg’ nite rd ib y of Protest October 14 — all those in the news media fic Tribune also demonstrated its support in the rally archers proceed down Georgia Street in —Sean Griffin photo Trident base challenged On environment grounds The United States defence department’s policy of invoking National security’? to trample Public opposition to new, costly Military projects suffered Something of a setback last week a a U.S. federal appeals court Tuled that the defence department Must prepare a more detailed €nVironmental impact sutdy for © area surrounding the Trident Submarine base currently under Construction at Bangor, ashington. In handing down the ruling, Judge Edward A. Tamm wrote: € view this as a flagrant at- ™Mpt to exempt from the man- ates of the National En- “ronmental Policy Act all such Military actions under the over- USed rubric of ‘national defence’.” Tamm was joined in his decision by the two other judges on the three judge panel, Judges Harold Leventhal and Frank Kaufman. Though the decision upheld a ruling by a lower court that con- struction at the base could con- tinue, it is significant in that it questioned the defence depart- ment’s right to flout federal and state laws in order to further its own interests. The case, brought against the defence department and the U.S. navy by a Bremerton, Washington citizens’ group, Concerned About Trident, had asked for a complete halt to all construction at the Bangor site on the basis that it would seriously harm the en- vironment of the area. One of the litigants in the suit, former COPE ELECTION DANCE _ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 — 9 p.m. Peretz school, 6184 Ash St. (behind Oakridge) Refreshments Admission $3.00 0.A.P., Students and Unemployed $2.50 . Tickets at the Door — ‘Nations “The United Nations and Change in Southern Africa’ Monday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m. hristmas Seal Auditorium 10th & Willow, Vancouver Spons. UNA and SAAC ee HEAR: CALISTUS NDLOVU African National Council (Rhodesia) Representative to the United chairman of the president’s council of economic advisers Walter Heller, said that the decision made two things very clear. The navy does have to conform to the en-' vironmental laws of the land, and has to file an environmental im- pact study and “must live by it,” he said. A spokesman for the anti-Trident Pacific Life Community of Seattle told the Tribune that ‘‘though this court case was fought on the basis of violations of the National En- vironmental Policy Act, many of the people in the Bremerton group feel very strongly that the base should not be built anywhere because of the danger it presents to world peace.” Despite the court’s ruling that a new environment impact study must be prepared within 120 days, work on the base is continuing under a federal permit issued only days before the appeals court decision was handed down. The PLC spokeswoman said that there was a ‘‘certain amount of suspicion” that the permit ap- _ plication was rushed through before the decision was issued to avoid complications had the case gone against the defence depart- —ment. A second opinion in support of Tamm’s ruling, handed down by Judge Leventhal questioned whether or not the navy had ever had any intention of complying with the environmental laws. He said that he ‘had grave doubts about whether the navy complied with NEPA when making its crucial decision’”’ as to where the base would be built. As the American courts were rejecting defence department arguments that environmental laws ‘‘could not possibly apply” to “strategic installations such as Trident”, the spokesman for the Vancouver Pacific Life Com- munity continued his 30 day in- ternational fast for peace in Washington, D.C. Jim Douglas began his fast on October 2 along with San Francisco PLC member Bob Schneider, and Sister Mary Albin of Toronto in an effort to force both Democratic presidential candidate Carter, and Republican candidate Ford to renounce their stated support for the ‘‘first use’ of nuclear weapons. Nobel economics Anger and disbelief from democratic peoples all around the world greeted the announcement last week by the Swedish Com- -mittee on the Nobel Prizes that it had awarded the 1976.Nobel prize ‘for economics to Professor Milton ‘Friedman of the University of Chicago. The prize carries with it a substantial cash award. Friedman is a_ principal economic advisor to the fascist military junta in Chile and was responsible for introducing the reactionary economic policies which have reduced the people of « that country to a state of misery. The Nobel award was presumably awarded on the basis of Friedman’s work in the field of monetary theory although many have seen the award as politically inspired, implying tacit approval of economic repression in Chile. More than a million Chileans are without work while the country suffers under one of the highest inflation rates anywhere in the world. “Tt is shocking that the Swedish committee should give the award to Friedman, particularly in view of the fact that the former Swedish ‘government, through its am- bassador to Chile, Harald Edelstam, was so outspoken in its denunciation of the fascist junta in Chile,’’ John Radosevic, secretary of the Canadians for Democracy in Chile said in an interview with the Tribune this week. He termed the award ‘‘a mockery of the Nobel prize’, emphasizing that the honoring of Friedman would give credence to the repressive economic policies of . the Pinchet regime. “Only a month ago—the an- niversary of the fascist coup— people all over the world demonstrated their opposition to the junta and condemned the military regime for the misery it , prize denounced has brought to the people of Chile,”’ Radosevic declared. “Now the Nobel Committee has honored one of the chief economic architects of that misery.”’ Elsewhere the award to Friedman came under attack as two Nobel Prize _ winners, American chemists David ‘Baltimore and S.E. Luria, who shared the prize in their field, voiced their opposition ina letter to the New York Times. The two termed the Friedman prize ‘‘an insult to the people of Chile and stated: ‘‘That the Swedish Committee should choose to honor Prof. Friedman at this time is an insult to the people of Chile burdened by the reactionary economic measures sponsored by Prof. Friedman and especially to those Chileans who arein exile as a result of the policies of the military government.”’ - What was seen as particularly shameful in the naming of Friedman as recipient of ‘the economics award was the an- nouncement two days later that there would be no Nobel peace prize in 1976. While the prize for economics is not an original Nobel prize and in fact was only in- troduced in 1968 by the Central Bank of Sweden, the peace prize dates back to the beginnings of the Nobel Foundation, created in 1905 out of the estate of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. No reason was given by the Committee for not issuing the peace prize. The announcement was made.in a terse, two-sentence statement. 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Door prizes and refreshments. Spons: Delta PT Club. For in- formation, 946-9902. NOVEMBER 6 - ANNIVERSARY BANQUET and Saturday, November 6th. Doors open 5:30 p.m., Supper at 6 p.m. at Pensioners Hall - 318 Keary St., New Westminster. Full course dinner, entertainment and speaker. Dance at 9 p.m. Refreshments by bar only. Price: $5.00 adults, $2.50 children, 12 and under. Spons. by North and South Fraser Regions, CRG: DANCE, BUSINESS PERSONALS MOVING? CLEANUP — Wanted articles for resale. All proceeds to P.T. Phone 526-5226. “THE GOODIE BIN.” HALLS FOR RENT UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE 805 East Pender St., Vancouver 4. Available. for banquets, wed- dings, meetings. Ph. 254-3436. WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL — Available for banquets,: meetings, etc. For rates: Ozzie, 325-4171 or 685-5836. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME — Now available for rentals. For reservations phone 254-3430. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 22, 1976—Page 11