Pie Ne ee ee. Sy Se AFGHAN YOUTH INVITE YO FROM 40 COUNTRIES KABUL —- The Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan has issued an invitation to some 40 youth organizations of the world to visit the country. Gholam Mohammad Muhsem-Zade, head of the BYOA Foreign Affairs department told the press, ‘“‘Reactionary forces have launched a propaganda campaign against our revolution and the aid extended to it by the USSR. We invite everyone who wants to know the truth to visit our country. We will be happy to accord the fullest hospitality to anyone who comes with an open mind.”’ IN ORDER To ProlecT AMERICAN INTERESTS IN THE PERSIAN Gil) WE Sei) REINSTATE Fie DRAFT ReGiSIRATION;SO IF THE NEED ARISES We CAN QuicKLY Mobilize OUR TROOPS THE SoviETs MusT KNoW We WiLL NEVER EXXON OUR ghesfous:BiLiTiES To THE WEST GERMANY SHIELDING NAZI WAR CRIMINALS PRAGUE — Authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany are shielding nazi war criminals responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Czechoslovakia, according to a recent report by the Czecho- slovak Commission for the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals. A Commission spokesman said a memorandum was sent to the FRG government containing names and evidence against 430 persons now living in the FRG asking that criminal proceedings be instituted. The Commission revealed the FRG had refused to comply with the request for “‘the most surprising reasons’’ including one case where they stated the defendant ‘‘looked pale and tired ...”’ ARRESTS AND MILITARY FORCE MARK MAY DAY IN CHILE SANTIAGO — Some 50 persons have been arrested in Chile for taking part in May Day marches, banned by the fascist regime. Even the auxiliary Bishop of Santiago, Enrique Alvear, and four priests were held by security forces when attempting to join a May Day event within aunion building. Nearly 400 arrests took place in the two days preced- ing May | as the junta cordoned off entire areas of the capital. SCABS GET MONEY, MERIT CERTIFICATES IN GUYANA _ GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Scabs who worked in the bauxite industry during last year’s general strike have been awarded letters and cheques from the Burnham government. The letters to the scabs were headed, ‘‘Rebate to Patriotic Workers’’. This outstripped previous ‘Certificates of Merit’’ awarded scabs by the regime following a 135, day strike by the country’s sugar workers. re THOUSANDS BATTLE POLICE IN SOUTH KOREA SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of students have been battling police and troops demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Shin Hyun-Hwak and the country’s chief of intelligence. The country has been under martial law since the assasination of president Park last year. PROTEST NATO MOVES IN EUROPE HANOVER, FRG — Some 50,000 people marched in Hanover, Munich and Mannheim May. 10 to protest Carter’s foreign policy and the NATO decision to deploy new rockets in West Germany and other West European states. AFGHANISTAN GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR TALKS _ KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghanistan government has called for bilateral talks between itself Iran and Pakistan aimed at promoting friendly relations and cooperation. It also laid out the conditions upon which Soviet troops could begin withdrawing which included guaran- tees that armed attacks and other interference in Afghanistan’s internal affairs cease. MUSKIE CRACKS THE WHIP AT NATO MEETING BRUSSELS — Secretary of State Muskie attacked the decision of the French Olympic Committee which refused to go along with Car- ter’s boycott call. Speaking at a special meeting of NATO defence chiefs, Muskie also urged stricter compliance with Washington’s sanc- tions against Iran. WEST GERMANY VOTES TO BOYCOTT SUMMER GAMES BONN — The West German Olympic Committee voted 59-40 to boycott the Moscow Summer Games despite advance speculation the boycott would be supported 2 to 1. The West German NOC’s decision could also mean cutting sporting ties with the German Democratic Republic which had earlier told the FRG a boycott of Moscow would have serious effects on sports relations. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 24, 1980—Page 6 “ EE EET By SUSAN GRABEK HAVANA — ‘‘The enemy had to be shown that it cannot play with the people. The enemy had to be shown that it cannot play with the revolution. It had to be shown that it cannot get away with offending a people, with threatening it’’, Fidel Castro said May Day to overa million Cubans gathered in Havana’s Revolution Square. Warning of the threat of a mili- tary invasion of Cuba by the Un-: ited States, or of acomplete naval. blockade of the country, the Cuban leader announced the cre- ation, once again, of the territorial militias. ‘‘If the imperialists dare put their claws into Cuba’, he said, ‘‘they’ll find they don’t have to face the Armed Forces alone, but a peoples war.”’ A MILITANT SPIRIT Proof of this is everywhere. A militant spirit, reminiscent of the first years of the revolution, has swept the entire population. Handwritten signs mingle with printed: banners and posters sh- outing out their ‘‘Cuba must be respected”’ from windows and the sides: of buildings — hospitals, schools, offices, homes, factories — all over the country. Spon- taneous and_ enthusiastic demonstrations of dozens, and even hundreds of people, de- manding that all the anti-social types and criminals leave the country, have become a normal sight at any hour of the day or night. But what is even more impres- sive about this massive response by the people in support of the Susan Grabek is a Canadian s studying history at the University 2 a of Havana. : SOP cree WE emt » “ow oy | we. « sre ma ta sc pcm on government and the revolution is that it comes not in the flush of victory, but after 21 years of revolution — years that have not been easy. Cuba has had to over- come the difficulties and mistakes inherent to any new process when there is a radical change in the social, economic and political structures of a country. country. Just two decades ago, it was virtually a monoproducer of sugar. Efforts to branch out in dif- ferent areas, to industrialize, and to mechanize the sugar harvest, along with the construction of do- zens of new schools, hospitals, etc., have eaten up most of the country’s resources over the past years. U.S. SABOTAGE This, however, is not all. Be- cause, for its 21 years, the Cuban Revolution has had to confront sustained — and vicious — efforts by the United States to crush it. The ClIA-sponsored, financed and organized mercenary inva- sion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 is but one example. The aggression has included economic sabotage, the enticement, in the early years, of Cuba’s few professionals to leave the country, attempts to as- sassinate leaders, the bombing of Cuban diplomatic offices abroad and the killing of Cuban. diplo- matic personnel, slander cam- paigns in the press — to name just some. And all this amid two de- cades of a brutal U.S.-imposed economic blockade of the country — which even includes food and medicine — and which is still in effect today. This, of course, has had its toll on the ability to supply the popu- lation with all the consumer goods desired. After 21 years, there is still rationing of most items, al- It is also an underdeveloped -° farther from the truth. The res MILLIONS TO MARCH : eS ae pe ye > aI ; though increasingly, especially ®a the past year or so — as a com scious policy of the governmetr — more goods are beco : available off the ration card. {St The imperialists’ estimatil®v that these difficulties had led “gy widespread anti-government sett timent and dissatisfaction 1 the country could not have a have been just the opposite: confronting all of imperialism plots, threats and aggressiony Cuban people have attail exceptional political cons¢! ness. They make no mis about who the enemy is. And they have grown ef mously in organization discipline. This was made crys clear on April 19, when ové million people marched past Peruvian embassy in Havana 13 solid hours, expressing repudiation of the anti-SOChy types and criminals who flocked there, and their support the Cuban Government positie in this matter. In fact, one 4% half million people — one out every seven Cubans — took Pali; directly or indirectly, in a ‘“M: of the Combative People”’- CAMPAIGN GROWS _‘S' With Cuba’s growing presi a internationally, the Sandinls*ts victory in Nicaragua, and the ¥Ny surge in the revolutionary m0" \¢ ments in Central America anda Caribbean, the U.S. has been™) a ing desperately to discredit Cuban revolution. This oN paign picked up force at the “Ne of the Sixth Summit Confere ae le T I of the Non-Aligned Counlve Movement, which Cuba ho rc: last September. 4“ At that time, Washingt © raised a hue and cry about © presence of Soviet military PN i.