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By FILS DELISLE Tribune Berlin Correspondent

BERLIN — The new right-wing coalition of Chancellor — Helmut Kohl, formed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) has lost no time in declaring it will slash workers” living standards and turn the Federal Republic of Germany into a more subservient ally of Washington in its policy of confrontation with the socialist world.

Even before the new Labor Minister, Blum, had been in office a full day, he proposed halting all union-employer wage negotiations until the autumn of 1983. In international affairs, Chancellor Kohn declared that his government stood squarely behind the U.S.-NATO decision to station 572 new nuclear

_ rockets in West Germany and other NATO countries next year. The newspaper of the German Communist Party (DKP),

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By NORMAN FARIA : ae

HAVANA — “There it is’’, -

__ Said our guide, Gaston George, as_|

_ Our car pulled off the famous

| Monumental Highway onto the

| Side road.

| Ahead of us, nestled among the

| beautiful Cuban tropical foliage,

| lay the ‘‘Martyrs of Barbados

‘| School’, a sprawling four storied

'| athletic training college that is Part of Cuba’s answer to the

| horrendous crime on Oct. 6, 1976

| lM which a Cubana airplane was ‘blown up shortly after takeoff ftom Barbados airport. All 73 on uf board, including 11 young 2)

|| Guayanese going to Cuba to study FL.

PHOTO — NORMAN FARIA

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Medicine, were killed.

_ As we entered the reception area where we were welcomed by the school’s vice-principal Fran- Cisco Sanchez, we saw hanging On a wall the photographs of all the people killed on that fateful day back in 1976, Pausing before the photos and a

~ Wall plaque, we were told by San- Chez that every year on Oct. 6, the _

Telatives of the deceased come to the school and participate in ac- Uvities that remind them of the €xample of those who died.

We were next shown the water

Sports area where water polo

teams were busily at practice in four of the school’s swimming Pools.. When the students were

told that we were from Barbados,

they got out of the pools, lined up and welcomed us with the slogan:

_ “When the history is written with blood, the future will be defended

With sweat.”’ : _ As we toured the school. which

lies about 42 kilometers outside Havana, vice-principal Sanchez pointed out that the Martyrs of Barbados School is the largest in- stitution of its kind in Cuba. He said that the school, of which

there were nine of this kind in.

Cuba, is primarily designed to prepare Cuban youth for such events as the Central American Games.

“There are other schools for the training of those who will par- ticipate in the Olympic Games,” Sanchez said.

The 2,000 Cuban youth, who are between the ages of nine to 19 years, live in dormitories and do all the maintenance chores.

In addition to studying the theory and practising all types of sports, the students must take academic subjects so that they will get an all round education.

Water polo team at the school greets visiting delegation.

The Martyrs of Barbados School in Cuba is part of an ex- tensive sports program which has made the Spanish speaking island a respected participant in regional and international sports meets. For example, of the 283 gold medals awarded during the recent Central American and Caribbean Games, Cuban athletes won 173 of them. In comparison, the sports program of Venezuela, a south American country with a comparable population and vast oil resources, was only able to ac- count for 19 medals.

However, winning isn’t every- thing in Cuba. As vice-principal Sanchez explained: ‘‘While med- als are of course important, sports in Cuba is designed to promote public health, encourage disci- pline and develop friendship be- tween Cuban sports people and other peoples.”

Still continue

News from Lebanon indicates round-up of thousands of €stinian civilians by Lebanese and Israeli forces is continuing.’ In a cable from its headquarters

In Helsinki, the World Peace

-Ouncil charges that since the ter- Tible massacre at the Sabra and

tila refugee camps, Israeli forces are again stepping up their arrests and interrogations of

: estinians and have recently — - Perpetrated other massacres at

EI-Hilwa and Ansar camps. WPC points out that some

"15,000 Palestinians are today being held under terrible condi- f ns at Ansar. It also charges that |

the Lebanese army, largely of-

-ficered by Christian Phalangists, has arrested thousands of Pales-

civilians over the past week Under the pretext of identity Checks and is transferring them to *Staeli-controlled areas.

“The refusal of permission to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian

fugees) to set up tent shelters

_ ON the site of bulldozed Sabra and — Shatila camps for the estimated

200,000

homeless, can only be

Seen as part of a plan to expel the Palestinians from Lebanon,”’ the charges. | % * *

_ Inaneffort to ride out the storm Ver the crimes at Sabra and

q Round-up of Palestinians

‘iain.

The terror in Lebanon continues.

Shatila, the Begin government has agreed to set up a three- person commission to look into Israeli complicity in the mas- sacres. The commission, while havi wer to subpoena wit- ee Pill only be able to recommend actions to the Begin cabinet. _

In addition to intense world pressures on Israel to investigate its part in the killings, Begin’s about-face on a public inquiry also was prompted by an unpre- cedented demonstration of Israeli citizens who demonstrated

400,000-strong to force Begin to

s in Lebanon

take action. * * *

A sharp comment on the reac- tion of the Canadian Christian

community to the Phalangist crime came from the Right Re- verend Clarke MacDonald, mod- erator of the United Church, who

‘said Canada’s Christians main-

tained ‘‘an almost total silence’’ about the massacre.

Criticizing ‘‘Israel’s compli- city”’ in the crime, MacDonald said Christians have to accept the fact that 90% of those who perpet- rated the killings were ‘‘baptized in the name of Jesus Christ’.

Unsere Zeit, summed up the first few days of the new govern- ment as follows: ‘‘Chancellor Kohl and members of his government team have made it clear that a policy of stepping up the drive for more (nuclear) rockets and welfare curbs will be pursued at Bonn”’.

Loyal Friends

Kohl announced it was necessary to prove to Washington that ‘‘We are loyal friends’’ of U.S. policy. At the same time, “under the pressure of international political réality,”’ Unsere Zeit writes, ‘‘the new Chancellor also said his government would honor the treaties with the socialist countries. ‘‘We are trustworthy partners of both the east and the west,’ were the words he used.”’

With more than 1,800,000 already unemployed, and more than 2,000,000 forecast by official quarters for next year, and with a tidal wave of bankruptcies and large plants closing down every week, West German industrialists have a great stake in trade with the socialist countries. If West German pipeline deliveries to the USSR were stopped, thousands of workers would lose their jobs immediately. The FRG’s trade with the GDR, again, is this year running at the rate of about 13-billion. How. Chancellor Kohl's words and deeds towards the USSR, the GDR and the other socialist countries will work out in practice, however, remains to be seen. But it is clear to everyone that his government stands to the right of the former SPD-FDP coalition of Helmut Schmidt.

The question still being asked by many people is: how is it that the SPD-FDP coalition broke up and the FDP leadership provided a right-wing parliamentary majority by switching its support from the Social Democrats to the CDU-CSU? Herbert Mies, chairman of the German Communist Party (DKP), pro- vides this answer: While clouds of confusion are spread about the issue, Mies said that West German big business, which tuled capitalist Germany before Hitler, during Hitler and since the War, has considerable experience in manipulating parties and governments in its own interests.

During the 13 years of SPD-FDP coalition government, with the FDP leadership acting as a watchdog for the monopolists in the coalition, big business did not consider it necessary to take any sharp measures against the coalition because the ‘‘German economic wonder’’ was moving along more or less in accordance with the monopolies’ wishes. They were reap- ing enormous profits and all was well. For some time now, however, Mies points out; that has changed. West Germany has been hard hit by the deep-going international capitalist crisis. Now the monopolies have come to the conclusion the- SPD-FDP coalition government no longer suits their needs.

Better Servants

While the FDP as a bourgeois party has been bending the knee increasingly to big business, and the SPD has been ready to make cuts in hard-won social services, nevertheless the SPD, under pressure of its mass following, could not be counted on to do what the Kohl government has already announced it will do for big business. 3

What followed was bribing, blackmailing and pressuring of the FDP leadership to break with the SPD and throw its weight to a new CDU-CSU-FDP coalition which has taken the government without having to submit to a general election.

Labor Minister Blum has substantiated this analysis by declaring that the only way to fight unemployment now was to guarantee higher profits for the employers. That the mass of the people think otherwise is indicated by the fact that the powerful trade unions, the GDB, have attacked Blum’s ideas and are calling for a 50-billion marks emergency program for public works to give employment to the jobless.

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