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Prevent a new round of the arms race which may have catastrophic consequ- ences for the whole of mankind;

Beat off the attacks on the Final Act passed at Helsinki; prevent the wrecking of the common cause of peaceful co- operation between the socialist and capitalist states of Europe;

Protect the structure of exchanges in the sphere of science, culture, education and sports that was built up in the 70s;

Work to make the mass media serve,

‘not those who pump enormous profits

out of war and the arms race, but the cause of peace and rapprochement be- tween the peoples of Europe.

In the struggle for these and any other aims that promote the cause of peace, communists ... have no wish to set up their own initiatives in opposition to the proposals made by other democratic forces ... we have taken an interest in the views on these problems expressed by the social democratic parties and by the Socialist International, at its recent meetings ...

The Soviet Union has stated on many occasions that it is in no way striving to achieve military superiority. But neither will it tolerate any military superiority over the socialist countries. We are deeply convinced that this stand is in the interests of all nations.

The Soviet Union has no need for war, whether nuclear or conventional, big or small.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the USSR (itself) stand for peace — a stable, democratic and just peace.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization

emerged as a defensive organization to’

counterbalance NATO six years after the latter was established. (Its) proposals and actions ... are all designed to pre- serve and strengthen peace, to prevent a nuclear conflict and any military conflicts on the continent, and to curb the arms race. On the other hand, every NATO

- decision is in effect designed to spur on

the arms race, provoke a confrontation, evade a serious discussion on the initia- tives of the Warsaw Treaty Organi- zation, whip up anti-Soviet, anti-socialist feeling and poison the international at- mosphere.

We do not say: line up with the policy of one military alliance against the other. We put it differently: the choice is be- tween a policy of détente or a policy of anti-détente. There is no third alternative for representatives of the working-class movement, for genuine opponents of war.

We simply want to warn against the illusion that by equating NATO and the Warsaw Treaty Organization one can solve problems of war and peace in favor

of peace. The essence and nature of these two organizations are diametrically opposed. The peoples must not allow themselves to be deceived, because

see this happens war becomes inevita- e.

At the present time, especially in the last few months, the distortion of the aims and motives of the Soviet Union has again assumed incredible proportions.

The myth about a ‘‘Soviet threat’? and about ‘“‘expansionism’’ and Moscow’s “hegemonistic aspirations” have been elevated to the level of state policy. They have become an integral part of the entire aggressive strategy of imperialism.

The Soviet Union is prepared to limit and ban any type of weapon on the basis of maintaining reciprocity and not pre- Judicing anyone’s security.

We propose that all the negotiations in this field which were initiated at various international forums and on a bilateral basis but which have been adjourned or postponed, should be resumed and con- tinued.

One year ago, on May 13, 1979, Presi- dent Carter used the following words: If the USA, he said, after signing the SALT-II treaty refused to ratify it, it

‘would be put in the role of ... a war- monger who refused even to participate i an equitable restraint on the- most destructive weapons on earth.” The peoples remember this statement and they will indeed condemn as a war- monger anyone who wrecks an agree-

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Our country calls for the signing of a treaty among all states renouncing the use of force and, as a first step in this" direction, signing an appropriate agreement among all the states that were ‘participants in the Helsinki Conference.

It must be made known to the peoples that the “Soviet war threat” simply does not exist. The USSR harbors no plans for, or intentions of, attacking either west European or other countries. Quite the reverse, the Soviet Union is prepared to co-operate with all peace forces in the historic struggle for peace, against the war danger, and for saving Europe from the disaster of war. :

The Appeal which we are to adopt at this meeting is imbued with the need for a broad unification of anti-war forces ... Peace is our common heritage, and we have always been and continue to be prepared — without any preliminary conditions and long-winded preparations — to sit around a ‘‘peace table” with all those who are willing to do the same.

‘Freedom games’ tainted with politics

When U.S. president Jimmy Carter set out to save the pur- ity of the Olympic movement from the taint of politics he promised that not only would the United States athletes boy- cott the 1980 Games in Mos- cow, he would personally en- sure that there would be a series of alterrfative competi- tions or ‘‘Freedom Games’’, as he liked to call them, scheduled.

The centrepieces of these Games were to be two major international track meets, exc- lusively for athletes from those countries whose governments had cancelled their plane reservations to Moscow for the Olympics.

But, like everything else connected with Carter's boy- cott, some problems have come up. It seems that the governing body of track and field in the United States, The Athletic Congress-USA has cancelled the two track meets on the grounds that they have become ‘‘overly politicized’’.

The decision to can the two track meets is the latest in a series of disasters which has plagued Carter’s boycott cam- paign. It began with a public petitioning of the president by the American Winter Olym- pians who urged a dropping of the boycott, and was accen- tuated by the refusal of most countries to go along with the boycott call, and has now cul- minated in the total collapse of the “‘Freedom Games’’.

The only Canadians directly affected by the scrapping of the overly politicized ‘‘non politi- cal’’ track meets are those Canadians selected to the non-Olympian Canadian Olympic Team who were to have taken part in the two meets.

But, don’t worry. Our government, equally con- cerned with the purity of the Olympic movement has scraped together an extra $1.5-million. This will send Canadian athletes, at a cost of $70 a day, to a series of Olym-

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pic warm-up meets in Europe. It would have cost us $25 a day to send an athlete to the Olym- pics.

So, the next time you’re cut off UIC because of budget |. overruns, or your favorite so- |. cial service project is scrapped due to fiscal restraints, re-. member that we’re all doing our little bit to help keep the Olympics free from politics.

But it’s sure getting expen- sive.

Clark in Iran, love and tanks

Former U.S. Attorney Gen- eral Ramsey Clark went to Tehran as a participant in the International Conference on U.S. Intervention in Iran, and much was made of his offer to take the place of the 53 hos- tages being held in the Ameri- can embassy.

Upon his return home, U.S. officials made even more of his defiance of the government- ordered travel ban to Iran, and Jimmy Carter himself said that he “‘was inclined to think that he (Clark) should be prose- cuted”’ for violating the ban.

But, while his speech to the Conference was heavily laced with ‘moralizing and pleas for *‘love’’ Clark did have some- thing to say about the U.S. support for the former Shah’s reign of terror.

Clark pointed out that bet- ween 1972 and 1978 the Shah’s government purchased more than $19-billion worth of arms, or in his words ‘material to kill people and control their own.”

The Shah's -army, said — Clark, was “‘‘staggeringly | huge” and was equipped with —

Army, with more American made jet aircraft, F-14s, F-16s, F-18s, F-111s in possession or on order than any nation on earth except the U.S. itself’’.

Clark also addressed the larger question of nuclear disarmament with an appeal to all nuclear powers to begin “immediately dismantling nu- clear arms’’, which he said “‘must be done now.”’

Bomb intended for Bishop CIA work

The June 19 abortive attempt on the life of Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, which claimed the lives of two children and wounded 23 others, was the work of the U.S. Central Intelli- gence Agency, Bishop has Cc ; In a speech broadcast on Radio Free Grenada, Bishop said that the attempt on his life, which was accomplished by a remote con- trolled bomb placed beneath a platform he shared with the Cuban Ambassador to Grenada, was “‘a bestial act’’ and that it “‘was part of the efforts aimed at destroying the Grenadian revolu- tion.”’

The 15-month old revolution of the New Jewel Movement has been the target of numerous pro- vocations and attempts at de- stabilization, most of which origi-

nated outside the country, includ- ing at least two planned coups, terrorist acts, and economic pres- sures from the U.S. and other countries.

The response to the latest effort to destroy the revolution has in- cluded massive meetings in sup- port of the government of the Caribbean island and various messages of solidarity for the Grenadian revolution from around the world, including a message from the Central Execu- tive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada.

The CPC message condemned those responsible for the attack, including U.S. imperialism, and pledged the continued ‘“‘solidarity and support’’ of ‘‘Canadian Communists and all progressive minded Canadians."’

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