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Socialist win in Spain __ MADRID — The Spanish Socialist Workers Party won a landslide _ Metory taking 201 of the Cortes’ (parliament) 350 seats. The neo- ~ Franco right-wing Alianza Popular finished second with 106 seats to

become the official opposition. The Communist Party dropped from 20 ‘Seats in the outgoing Cortes to five. One of the pledges made by the new vernment was to review Spain’s membership in NATO.

4S. plot against Nicaragua

__ WASHINGTON — The United States has been caught in an exten- € plot to destabilize the revolutionary government in Nicaragua by

the territory of neighboring Honduras. Directed by U.S. ambas- T to Honduras, John Negroponte, the plot involved using soldiers Of former dictator Somoza in military operations against Nicaragua. f © U.S. magazine, Newsweek, which broke the story, said there y Were 50 CIA personnel in Honduras plus other “‘retired”’ military and intelligence officers.

Soviet-Chinese friendship marked

MOSCOW — The cabinet of the People’s Republic of China sent a If Message of thanks to the Soviet government for its congratulations on i the 33rd anniversary of the PRC. The Chinese message expressed hope : for the development of friendship between the two countries and

Hand in hand for world peace

STOCKHOLM — They stretched for seven kilometres, hand in hand across the Swedish capital

forming a human bridge of peace between the Soviet and American embassies.

the Rpoviet people in the spirit of respect and friendship for the Chinese ple.

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: athe 25th anniversary of the Soviet-Chinese Friendship Society was Celebrated Oct. 27 in Moscow. Attending the celebrations was PRC

Mbassador Yang Shouzheng, who conveyed a message of greetings M the Society’s counterpart in China, the Chinese-Soviet Friend-

_ Ship Society. . Tgei Gerasimov, the noted Soviet film director, a vice-president of Society, pointed out its great role in the internationalist education

IMF loans $1.1-billion to apartheid

WASHINGTON — Despite an appeal from the United Nations to

toria $1.1-billion.

"spect the world body's sanctions against the South African racist _ gime, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to loan

146-member IMF body, whose votes are determined by their

rength, voted 78-68 for the loan, but the 68 opposed only ntrolled 19.24% of the voting strength.

Among those voting for the loan were the United States, Canada and

@Ny western European nations. Most Latin American nations tained. The loan went through despite a letter sent to U:S. Treasury

Cretary Donald Regan by 35 leading U.S. political leaders who

€d that U.S. support will be seen in the Third World as support for

There were 50,000, Oct. 24th, urging disarmament and cooperation to prevent nuclear war. At exactly 13:43 the call comes to synchronize watches, seven minutes later 100,000 hands reach skyward in unison.

Then a delegation of three approaches the U.S. embassy with a message. Two are escorted to the door by police. An orchestra plays “We Shall Overcome’”’. At the door a hand reaches out, the document is taken. Not a word is spoken. =

Seven kilometres away another group approaches the Soviet embassy. An orchestra plays the Choral from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Soviet ambassador Boris Pankin leads a delegation to greet the

group who represent three generations of peace fighters. Holger Erikson, 76, says, “We are here to build

a bridge of peace between the world’s peoples...”

Ambassador Pankin extends his hand, ‘This is our handshake for peace.” He picks up two-year-old

Moa Magnusson in his arms and invites the delegation into the embassy.

Tom Morris

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_| Intemational Focus

| Allan MacEachen’s He ignored the fact that mil- .. ions in the United States were i | atrogant debut sen tee Nov. 2 on the nuclear

LIKt a little boy who has

- amused himself breaking one

toy, Allan MacEachen now _ -“S'a new one to play with. Having reduced the Cana-

“Nn economy to shreds with om arrogance and.stupidity as

Mance Minister, MacEachen

me has the plum portfolio of

Xternal Affairs which puts = man in the centre of the _~Tulse issue — hardly a toy.

freeze issue.

The new External Affairs Minister is a dangerous man, a man who understands nothing about people, a person who lives in the rarified atmosphere of government backrooms di- vorced from real life. -

To bring Canada directly into the nuclear club by per- mitting the Reagan administra-

{) Odin if 40° irae amis Coe its killes weapons in i Rediately to cheeyone shat Gone is treachery inviting ‘i ‘ . ringing i gance i t . : his new job, es an Where the hell did we find ! | Parliament last week the — thismandarin who doesn't give anada-U_.§ treaty will pro- 2 damn if the people want : to signi regardless of Peace, disarmament and a nu- / What the pecie say. clear weapons-free country = p ee Said this one day before amd say so by the ae z s Sands across the coun What gives | hed against the cine MacEachen the right to decide \ ests. He spoke after Regina unilaterally to sentence Voted 70% for disarmament Canada to possible nuclear

: ao 4 week before millions in 10 Were to vote on the

issue Nov. 8. cit; € spit in the faces of the WZens of Meadow Lake, askatchewan, who voted <Bainst the Cruise being tested

Ver their heads.

death by tying us to Reagan’s maniacs who publicly prepare for a first strike nuclear war? Any civilized society would hardly suffer lightly anyone who ignores the will of the ple on a life-or-death ques- tion. Evidence that the Cruise

will destabilize the balance of nuclear weapons is every- where to be found. Testing it here, building its guidance sys- tem here makes this country a belligerent, not peacemaker. MacEachen should be kicked out and put in an

‘Unemployment Insurance line

he helped create. Putting him in charge of External Affairs is like having Dracula guard a

_blood bank.

Catholic Church and nuclear war

A committee of the National .

Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. has issued a pastoral letter, ““The Chal- lenge of Peace’’ to the coun- try’s 51 million Catholics tak- ing direct aim at Reagan’s nu- clear policy.

Published Oct. 22, the letter raises moral arguments against the U.S.-NATO first strike strategy in Europe saying, ‘‘we do not perceive any situation in which the deliberate initiation of nuclear warfare, on how- ever restricted a scale, can be morally justified.”

The bishops also tackle

Reagan on the freeze issue and-

call for ‘‘immediate, bilateral, verifiable agreements to halt the testing, production and deployment of new strategic systems.””

They are appalled by the current Pentagon strategy of targetting cities in Europe and write, ‘‘Under no circum- stances may nuclear weapons or other instruments of mass slaughter be used for the pur- poses of destroying population centers.”

The bishops’ position im- mediately felt the wrath of Reagan and Defence Secretary

‘Weinberger because it asks

Catholic Americans to take a stand against what their government is doing and plan- ning. The battle has been joined on the crucial issue of our time.

And, in case’ Alan MacEachen misses the point, his indecent passion to test the Cruise in Alberta also comes under the category of ‘immoral’ and ‘indefensible.’

The people just

‘won't disappear

The decimation of Palesti- nian culture, history, social,

political and educationa! in- Stitutions is a key element of Israeli policy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. - Dismantling the infrastruc- ture of Palestinian life, seizure

of lands and water sources is a

prerequisite for annexation in those territories. It’s a con- sistent policy, carried out over many years and accelerated as the Israeli settlements pro- grams push ahead and their “autonomy plan’’ is forced down the throats of the Pales- tinian people.

The latest outrage took place Oct. 26 with the deportation of Dr. Munzer Salah, president Nablus Al-Najah university who refused to sign an Israeli occupation document declar- ing the PLO to be a terrorist group. Signing is now a re- quired act for university per- sonnel and 15 other professors at Nablus university have been

deported since September for

refusing.

But in their futile effort to scatter the Palestinian people to the winds, the Israelis face the same problem Hitler-faced in occupied Europe — the people just won't disappear.

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