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Ex-CIA agent at Tools meet

The Coalition for Aid to Nicaragua will launch its new Tools for Peace campaign at a public meeting featur- ing ex-Central Intelligence Agency analyst David McMichael, the man whose revelations exposed the U.S. ‘administration’s fabricated reports of arms shipments from Nicaragua to El Salvador.

The meeting is set for today, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m. at First United Church, 620 East Hastings in Vancouver.

McMichael, a former U.S. marine, was hired on contract by the CIA in March, 1981 in an attempt to dig up evidence of Nicaraguan arms ship- ments to the liberation forces in El Salvador after the claims made in the U.S. administration’s February, 1981 “white paper’ began to fall apart under public scrutiny. Many of the documents used in the paper were later found to be forgeries.

McMichael was in Central Amer- ica for two years working under the CIA contract with a security clear- ance sufficiently high to give him access to even top secret classified material. But he could find no evi- dence whatsoever of arms shipments to the FSLN in El Salvdor — and reported that information back to his superiors.

It was only later, however, that he revealed his findings publicly after he became convinced that Reagan was ' misusing intelligence information to

prepare the way for an imminent

invasion of Nicaragua. McMichael’s

revelations were a significant blow to. “the US. strategy: pot

The meeting with McMichael will kick off the latest campaign for Tools for Peace which was originally begun in 1981 when several B.C. fishermen, following a visit to Nicaragua, organ- ized a $25,000 shipment of fishing gear. Since then, several more ship- loads of equipment have been sent including a $1 million shipment last year, organized when Tools for Peace became a country-wide campaign.

Those attending the Sept. 26 meet- ing are asked to bring any equipment donations with them, including office equipment, musical instruments, tools, photo and other equipment.

Distributors’ porn review board rejected by CCW

By SUSAN LOCKHART Members of the B.C. Chapter of the Congress of Canadian Women decided Sept. 16 to boycott a proposed review board set up by local distributors to monitor the distribution of pornographic magazines.

The decision to refuse a nomination to the three-member board, which is ulti- mately selected by the publishers, came after members questioned the proposed board’s impartiality, and pointed out that existing laws under the Criminal Code could, if applied, control pornography.

Criticizing what one member called “the bureaucratic fumbling of responsibility for control of pornography,” the annual gen- eral meeting of the CCW also decided to urge other women’s, as well as church and community groups, to reject the process.

The review board idea was first floated by B.C. businessman Jim Pattison after several organizations and individuals complained last spring that one of his companies, Main- land Magazine, was in the business of dis- tributing hard-core porn to local stores.

They brought their complaints to Van- couver city council, which voted to establish new regulations for the display of porno- graphic magazines allowed into corner grocery stores, and to enforce an existing bylaw limiting hard-core material to 12 “adult” bookstores.

_ The congress agreed, after hearing a report from CCW member and Vancouver city alderman Libby Davies, that the organ- ization invite groups to approach city coun- cil and urge the bylaw be strengthened.

In other business, a series of motions inspired by:a panel discussion, ‘‘The drive to

the right: how it affects women: what can |

we do to fight back,” targeted the erosion of services to women and children through several provincial and federal “restraint” measures.

Resolutions were passed opposing cruise missile testing, calling for a nuclear- weapons free Canada, and supporting the “Yes” campaign in the cruise test referen- dum in Vancouver Nov. 17. Additionally, the meeting voted to recommend the national CCW produce an analysis on the Status of women in 1985, (which ends the United Nations Decade for Women) and to submit a brief on the economic impacts of the Socred government’s cutbacks on women and children to the Solidarity Coali- tion’s commission.

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The congress also agreed to participate again in this year’s ‘‘Tools for Peace” cam- paign in aid of Nicaragua, and to concen- trate on finding items for the women’s hospital in Managua. Last year the B.C. congress raised $10,000 worth of goods for

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The meeting elected a new executive, including Anna Holbech (president), Susan Dahlin (vice-president), Sandra Brice (sec- retary) and Lydia Legebokoff (treasurer).

For more information about the CCW’s contribution to the Tools for Peace cam- paign, phone Anna Holbech, 294-6775, or Susan Lockhart, 254-9797.

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