IAN ADAMS . unprecedented lawsuit.

. defence fund launched for novelist facing

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Writers back Adams

TORONTO — Organizations including the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Canadian Pub- lishers’ Association have launched a defence fund to help cover the le- gal expenses of Ian Adams, author of the novel, S: Portrait of a Spy.

Adams is being sued by Leslie James Bennett, a retired RCMP in- telligence officer, who claims that the double agent S, described in the book, is modelled on himself, and that the description is damaging to his personal reputation. :

‘As organizations representing over 3,000 writers and publishers,”’ says a statement given to the press on July 24, ‘‘we feel this case raises issues of grave concern.”

The concerned organizations point out:

“There are several unusual fac- tors in this case. S: Portrait of a

Spy, sold over 12,000 copies in less”

thantwo months. But when the suit for libel was filed, the book was ef- fectively removed from the market. Though no injunction was issued, the publisher discontinued active promotion of the book, did not

order a reprint, and negotiations for subsidiary rights collapsed. S: Portrait of a Spy, seized the public’s interest; yet it has languish- ed in warehouses for two years.

‘In the course of legal proceed- ings, Ian adams has been ordered to reveal his sources in researching the background to his novel. He is the only Canadian novelist ever to be so ordered.

“In general, and without refer- ence to the Adams case, we cannot see that any social interest is served by compelling a novelist to reveal the names of persons he has talked to in the course of researching the background of a novel.

“‘We also note that in the same proceedings in which Adams has been ordered to reveal his sources, Bennett, who is suing Adams, has successfully cited the Official Sec- rets Act in refusing to answer the defence lawyers’ questions.”

The writers’ and publishers’ or- ganizations state that they ‘“‘are profoundly disturbed by the pro- position that a writer be required to

reveal sources, inhibiting and ef- fectively prohibiting writers in the future from drawing upon their knowledge and life experiences to create, works which comment on the political, social and economic conditions of our society.

‘We fear this will lead to the worst sort of censorship: self-cen- sorship, in all the media, whereby writers will themselves refrain from writing about certain subjects or from the expression of opinions. This fear is not merely a profes- sional concern. We believe that such repression of cultural expres- sion is a threat to all Canadians.”’

The Ian Adams Defence Fund has been established ‘‘to show the sincerity of our concern, as well as our support of Mr. Adams in this difficult situation,” the fund spon- sors state. ‘‘After two years of liti- gation,’’ they point out, ‘‘Mr. Adams’ legal costs are already con- siderable. We invite the public to send donations to the Ian Adams Defence Fund, in care of The Writers’ Union of Canada, 24 Ryerson Ave., Toronto MST 2P3.

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together with the enormous in- creases in military expenditures which it entails; ‘‘shows a deter- mination, despite words to the con- trary, to scuttle the SALT process, including the acceptance of mili- tary parity with the USSR, and to go for military superiority.”” Perhaps the most immediate re- sult for the American people is the . massive increase in the military budget to finance new weapons and the construction of those wea- pons now on the board such as the MX missile system, the Cruise mis- sile and the submarine-based Tri- dent system. : The U.S. magazine Business Week clearly indicated the elation of the business world with an article Aug. 11, entitled: “‘The new de- fence posture: Missiles, missiles, missiles.” The article said: ‘Is such a mis- sile-oriented, high technology Pen-

tagon environment, the nation’s-

missile manufacturers and their electronics, propulsion and war-

head subcontractors will be big ~

beneficiaries.”’ ‘Tronically, U.S. secretary of

pledged

Over $55,000 in pledges and donations has been raised for the special fund for the rebuilding of the Tim Buck-Norman Bethune Centre from British Columbia — an im- pressive $15,000 over the $40,000 we announced less than a month ago. 3

Special mention must go to the Federation of Russian Canadians in Vancouver, which donated $5,000, and to Victoria supporters for their $3000 contribution. A full list of pledges and donations will be published in September.

As rebuilding begins, the commit- tee has renewed its» appeal for funds. Send your personal donation or make a pledge for the future by contacting Betty Griffin, c/o 408 -193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver,

LALLA TIO,

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DIRECTIVE 60.

state Edmund Muskie told the Steelworkers convention Aug. 7 that the ‘‘cost of a new arms race would be staggering.

“*We would have to cut back sig- nificantly on vital human services.

_ And more importantly, we would

increase the risk of a nuclear night- mare,”’ he said.

The speech, made just two days after the disclosure of Directive 59, made no reference to the new Car- ter strategy but indicated diverg-

ence with the provocative positions:

of Brown and national security ad- visor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Earlier, on Aug. 4, four mem- bers of the U.S. Senate, headed by George McGovern introduced a resolution calling for an immediate debate on SALT II before the No- vember presidential election as ‘‘a

}]. last chance to prevent the next.

round of escalation of the arms race.”’ The U.S. nuclear *strategy was

also in sharp contrast to the stand ~

taken by Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev at the Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which opened Aug. 11 in Geneva. Inhis address, Brezhnev reiterat- ed the long standing policy of the USSR that it would never use nuc- lear weapons against those coun- tries which do not have them. “Attaching much importance to strengthening the guarantees of se- curity for non-nuclear states, I want to emphasize once again that the Soviet Union will never use nuc- lear weapons against those coun- tries which have renounced the

production and acquisition of such -

weapons and do not have them on their territory, he said.

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Brezhnev also called for the im- plementation of the treaty’s provi- sions for taking effective measures to stop the nuclear arms race and achieve disarmament, measures which he said “‘are particularly necessary in the present conditions.”

He was referring to Article VI of

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Signatories include Canada, the U.S., the USSR and Britain. China and France have not signed, how- ever, nor have Israel, South Africa and Pakistan all of which are thought to be working on nuclear weapons development.

Two years ago in the UN Special Session on Disarmament, Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko also called for a mutual pledge be- tween the U.S. and the USSR that , ‘neither would be the/firstto use nuclear weapons, a pledge that has been repeated several times since.

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