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BERLIN — While the Rea-
administration continues
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few 8 Overwhelming. Just a
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iF tg ae declared their refusal
oi Ieipate in Star Wars re-
as in any form. Nuclear
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Ve Ing military superiority
Tthe USSR.
: a Lisbon over one million
hy € attended the three-day
Mit Press Festival, which
; my voted to the theme of
Peace. A crowd of over
Bic, People heard Portu-
— Ommunist Party lead-
4 ‘mphasize the positive
Mibutions to the peace pro-
Made by the Soviet
N, in particular the exten-
f the Soviet nuclear
Ons testing moratorium.
Greek Prime Minister An-
E Papandreou, speaking in
Saloniki, urged the U.S.,
< Jt and France to follow
Soviet example and stop
ar testing.
N Stockholm, Swedish
Pra Minister Ingvar Carls-
Wait €clared that the world is
‘i .,. "8 On President Reagan to
io, to stop nuclear testing.
Wt Official visit to Sweden,
5 St German Chancellor
oo Kohl said that he ex-
“ed the U.S. and the USSR

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- World opinion
| Strong for peace

to reach an agreement on nu-
clear testing.

e Italian foreign trade minis-
ter, Salvatore Formica, in a
statement said that the Star
Wars program serves only the
interests of the military-indus-
trial complex.

e In another development,
the German Democratic Re-
public and Czechoslovakia,
supported by Poland, pro-
posed to the West German
government the establishment
of a chemical weapons free
zone in Central Europe.

The socialist countries are
making efforts to contribute to
progress in arms control and
relaxing international tensions.
The world wants peace, but do
Reagan, Thatcher and Mul-
roney? —G.V.H.

New Tribune
correspondent

The Tribune is pleased to an-
nounce that Gerry Van Hou-
ten has taken up his assign-
ment as Tribune Berlin Cor-
respondent.

Van Houten, former research
director for the Communist
Party central office in Toron-
to, is in Berlin with his wife
Rita and their son Adrian.

’

Summit must yield
results: Gorbachev

Soviet leader Gorbachev last week questioned
the value of holding a summit with President Rea-
gan this fall if it were a meeting ‘‘for the sake of
nothing’. Contacts are useful, he said, not in
themselves but “‘for the results they achieve”’.

Responding September 8 to questions put by the
editor of the Czechoslovak newspaper, Rude Pra-
vo, Gorbachev noted that the USSR was in favor of
holding a summit ifit were “a summit that would be
marked by notable headway in the solving — even
if only one or two — of the substantial problems of
international security.

‘We expect that the meeting to be held shortly
by Eduard Shevardnadze with U.S. secretary of
state George Shultz will help to establish where we
stand now, will show if the Soviet-American dia-
logue stands chances of progress,” said the Soviet

leader.

“If one proceeds from the view that a (nuclear
testing) moratorium is unacceptable; if the ques-
tion of medium-range missiles in Europe is block-
ed: if strategic arms are to be upgraded, then what
is there to agree about? A summit meeting would
hardly be of any use in the atmosphere ofa feverish
arms race, of spiralling tension, of the abandon-
ment of existing treaties. It would be easy to use
such a summit to mislead people, to lull the public
with the pretense that things are going fine, while
continuing to pursue dangerous policies.”

Some circles in the West are actually trying to do
this by suggesting that preparations for a summit
are ‘‘in full swing’’, noted Gorbachev. **Those who
demonstrate false optimism and claim that every-
thing is ready for a summit possibly plan to shift the
blame for the results of their destructive policy
onto the USSR. The same goals are, probably,
pursued by the version that the Soviet side has
allegedly ‘given up’ on its efforts to deal with the
Reagan administration.

‘“‘But we attach too great a significance to the
time factor and are not going to sit idle for two anda
half years ... We will continue using every oppor-
tunity for fruitful dialogue, for advancement to-
ward arms limitation and reduction, for settlement
of regional conflicts, and for efficient international
co-operation in all key fields. In this respect our

/ i
“Halting nuclear explosions is an action, not a de-
claration,” Gorbachev notes in response to Wash-
ington’s charges of ‘Soviet propaganda’.

> oe EE
Above, Soviet and American scientists working to-

gether in Kazakhstan, check equipment for monitor-
ing nuclear blasts.

conscience is clear,” he said.

Gorbachev responded in detail to the Reagan
administration’s charge that the Soviet testing
moratorium is ‘‘merely propaganda’’. The Soviet
leader noted that, ‘‘the suspension of nuclear ex-
plosions by the Soviet Union is nor a declaration but
an action. A year without explosions is a political
and military reality. The trend of reason and com-
mon sense is already actually present in world
politics and may be developed and strengthened by
an agreement to mutually ban nuclear tests”.

INTERNATIONAL FOCUS Tom Morris

the Zionist
locaust

Reb life, it seems, has be-

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H| ty | Authorities, all one has
i] Purine invoke ‘national se-
Hy ed ‘‘public welfare’’
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eae Israeli security
| ales Captured two young
ino ~2@lans after a bus hijack-
immedi” men were taken
Mad lately to the side of the
and coldly beaten to
to They were then report-
| &unsh Ave died in hospital from
| ing as Wounds received dur-
€ attempt to free the bus
What ey one at the scene knew
the @Ppened. They had seen
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lon 8 led away. And it wasn’t
de. -cfore reports of the mur-
| 8an leaking out.
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af €nted some other story.
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“By 2 Shalom, chief of Shin
Festael's internal security
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agents who murdered the two
Palestinians. The problem?
The killings and cover-up were
obviously done under
Shalom’s direct orders. And if
Shalom, who else in top
government was involved?
The scandal ended last
month this way: On Aug. 6,
Israeli President Chaim Her-
zog pardoned Shalom and
three unidentified aides. Then

Unleashing the zionist holo-
caust against the Palestinian
people.

the country’s high court up-
held the pardons. Embolden-
ed, Herzog last week pardoned
seven more intelligence men
involved in the murders.

Herzog, Perez, Shalom &
Co. did what even Nixon
couldn’t do — they stone-
walled when everyone knew
they were guilty as hell. They
did what the Argentine gen-
erals and admirals failed to do
— pardon themselves retro-
actively for murders commit-
ted under their direct orders.

With this green light, it’s
open season on Palestinians
for Israeli zealots and fascists
— just like it was for nazis
against Jews in fascist Europe
four decades ago.

Murder in the dead of night
under official cover, a holo-
caust against the Palestinian
Arab people — what an insult
to those who died in a similar
way and whose memory
Zionist leaders like to invoke
when convenient.

Two cases,
two versions

A long leap in faith is needed

by readers following the West-
erm media’s coverage of the
cases of a Soviet official arrest-
ed by FBI agents in New York
and the U.S. News & World
Report Moscow cor-
respondent charged by Soviet
officials.

The Soviet was ‘‘caught”’
after meeting with his U.S.
“‘contact’’. TV footage showed
him being led away handcuffed
by U.S. agents. For details, we
heard the American version of
what took place.

The impression was clear:
one more KGB agent put out of
action by the quick work of
U.S. agents. Score one for the
good guys.

Then we see the American
“framed’’ by the KGB after
meeting with his Soviet
‘friend’. TV footage shows his
wife and son leaving the USSR
and his boss arriving from the
U.S. to gain his release.

The State Department
threatens, Secretary of State
Shultz warns, Ronald Reagan
appeals.

The impression, again, is
clear: “‘our guy”’ is a “pawn”
being used by an unfeeling,
unscrupulous Kremlin. **Their

guy’ got caught spying and
should take his medicine.

Sadly, many American
viewers, raised on Western
movies, will recognize the
heroes in the white hats and
villains wearing black. It sooth-
ingly reinforces their stereo-
type view of themselves vs. the
‘*Russians’’. Reagan, after all,
talks like that.

But in the real world, it
seems, “the Russians” don't
watch that many cowboy
movies and can still look after
their own security.

Never enough
for Reagan

Not content to starve and
blast the Nicaraguan revolu-
tion into submission; its
$100-million in contra aid,
blockades, raids, slanders not
being enough, Washington
now blocks even that trickle of
assistance given by private re-
lief groups.

Last week the State De-
partment denied permission
for~agricultural supplies, col-
lected by Oxfam, to be sent to
the besieged people.

America is ‘‘standing tall”
again. sete

et iad

PACIFIC TRIBUNE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1986 ¢ 9