Peace walk

While the United States govern-
ment talks of a ‘‘limited, pro-
tracted”’ nuclear war and plans to
Place Pershing II and Cruise
mussiles on European soil, and the

an government is set to sign

the Cruise testing agreement, 1983
1S shaping up to be a year of
People’s Struggle against the arms
Proliferation.

_ An even larger ‘‘Walk for
Peace” is anticipated this year, one
of the highlights of numerous
Peace activities planned by
Organizations in the Lower

land and around British Col-
umbia. Here are some of the
events:

Vancouver city council has
voted to officially communicate
the results of the Nov. 20 peace
referendum to the federal cabinet,
and will press B.C. senators for a
Meeting on citizens’ concern over

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tee of Progressive Electors revealed
ideological division among the
Night-wing councillors, who added
various amendments and split their
votes in opposition to the various
Motions.

AS a result, the first point of the
Sriginal motion, supported
without reservation by delegations
from seven major organizations
Who addressed council, was
amended to include the govern-
ments of the United Stated and the
USSR in addition to the Canadian
80vernment.

Six of the delegations specifically
Mentioned cancellation of the
agreement, due to be signed within

days, between the Canadian and-

the U.S. governments allowing the
testing of the Cruise missile over
Northern Alberta.
Collectively, the delegations
Tepresented a broad cross section of
dian society, They included
Dr. Tom Perry of the Physicians
for Social Responsibility, Rev. Ray

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the arms race. Similar petitions to
other municipal councils around
the province where referendums
passed will undoubtedly be plann-
ed.

That topic will be among several
discussed when the provincial ex-
ecutive of the B.C. Peace Council,
one of the province’s oldest peace
organizations, sits down in con-
ference Feb. 19 in the boardroom
of the United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union hall'in Vancouver.
Several upcoming peace events will
also be discussed, and plans for the
continuing ‘‘refuse the Cruise’
campaign will be mapped out.

East and west may get a chance
to meet this spring, with the possi-
ble visit and B.C. tour of a Soviet
Peace Council delegation. The ten-
tative time is late March or early
April.

The Physicians for Social

‘No Cruise testing,’

Tingley from the Fairview Baptist
Church, Carmela Allevato of the
100-organization-member End the
Arms Race, Hal Logan from
Operation Dismantle, Bert Ogden
from the B.C. Peace Council, Rev.
George Hermanson of the UBC
chapter of Educators for Nuclear
Disarmament and Alice Coppard
of the Voice of Women.

The Cruise test, Perry warned,
was a first-strike weapon “‘used to
start a nuclear war . . . the Cana-
dian government could help pre-
vent the catastrophe of nuclear an-
nihilation were it to put pressure on
the major powers to disarm and
were it to desist from proliferating

the arms race.’’ Allevato said the

Cruise was the first missile small
enough ‘‘to make arms verification
extremely difficult.

“There are only 10 days to go
before our government signs the
testing agreement — only 10 days

to mobilize public opinion,” she’.

warned.
Both Tingley and Hermanson

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highlights year of action

Responsibility, the Division of
Continuing Medical Education
and Science for Peace will co-host a
conference on ‘‘the prevention of
nuclear war’’ in the Instructional
Resources Centre at the University
of B.C., March 5 and 6. Dr..
Michael Pentz, head of the British
disarmament movement who
spoke at last year’s Peace Arch ral-
ly will be a key speaker.

On April 23, thousands are ex-
pected to turn out for the fourth
annual anti-nuclear march through
the streets of Vancouver. Last
year’s ‘‘Walk for Peace’? saw an
unprecedented 40,000 march to
make the event the largest peace
demonstration in B.C. history.

Thousands more are expected
this year, said Frank Kennedy,
secretary of the International
Longshoremen’s and Ware-
housemen’s Union and co-

chair of the End the Arms Race
committee planning the event.

The Coalition for World Disar-
mament has already booked the
Robson Square Centre in Van-
couver for its annual conference,
set for May 28 and 29. The coali-
tion hopes to expand its member-
ship to include organizations from
around the province, said
organizer Robert Lane.

People intrested in peace ac-
tivities overseas should contact the
B.C. Peace Council concerning
delegations to the World
Assembly for Peace and Life —

Against Nuclear War in Prague,
Czechoslovakia June 15 to 19.

The sixth assembly of the
World Council of Churches will
take place in Vancouver this year,

from July 24 to Aug. 10, and peace
will be a central theme.

delegations urge

spoke against the B.C.
government-sponsored seminar in
which Pentagon officials discussed
arms contracts with local
businessmen last Nov.

Such sentiments were lost on
Warnett Kennedy of the civic Non-
Partisan Association, the alderman
who alone voted against the
referendum motion last March.
Despite statements to the contrary
from delegations, Kennedy accus-
ed the peace proponents of ad-
vocating unilateral disarmament.
Wars, in Kennedy’s opinion, had
been prevented by the ‘‘balance of
terror’’ which prevailed as a result
of the arms buildup.

Fellow NPA alderman George
Puil also took a hard line, in con-
trast to his position last March
when he moved the motion for the
disarmament referendum. ‘‘I
believe the goal of world Com-
munism is world domination. We
have here an attempt by Russia to
achieve this goal through (our)
unilateral disarmament.”’

Such remarks prompted
COPE’s Harry Rankin to say:
“‘Suppose we take the first step in
disarmament by refusing to test the
Cruise here. Do you really think

we’d be vulnerable? Such a step
would be historical, and show
we’re sincere about disarmament.”

Yorke said recent initiatives —
the late premier Brezhnev’s pledge
that the USSR would not be the
first to use nuclear weapons, and
the Warsaw Pact’s peace proposals
— were serious and should be con-
sidered as such by the U.S. and
NATO forces.

Most aldermen voted for what
turned out to be five- motions
following amendments from
Puil and TEAM alderman May
Brown, Puil failed in his attempt to
replace the point calling on the
Canadian government to forgo any
new weapons agreements with a
motion urging the government to
pursue ‘‘the balanced steps’’
leading to disarmament. But
everyone except Kennedy voted for
the item as a separate motion.

And all but Kennedy voted for
Brown’s motion, which called on
Operation Dismantle to compile
the results of the disarmament
referendums held in cities across
Canada and send to results to the
United Nations in an effort to pro-
mote “‘a global referendum on
disarmament.”

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