ANTI-NEUTRON BOMB MESSAGE AT CARTER’S CHURCH WASHINGTON — Five persons were arrested Oct. 16 as, one by one they rose and read a message against the neutron bomb at a church service attended by president Carter and his family. As one was prevented from continuing, another person would take up until ar- rested. The president, who has just sent defense secretary Brown to Europe to convince NATO countries to accept the N-bomb, described the protesters as ‘‘fine young people.”’

BOLIVIANS DEMAND BREAK WITH CHILEAN JUNTA

LA PAZ — Important sectors of Bolivian public opinion are.

demanding the country severe diplomatic relations with Chile. They cite the bad state of negotiations with Chile over an outlet to the Pacific Ocean — Bolivia lost its sea coast territory to Chile in the 19th Century War of the Pacific.

The La Paz Catholic daily ‘‘Presencia’’ said the Bolivian regime had re-established relation with the Chilean junta ‘‘precisely at the time when the Pinochet regime was universally isolated and repudiated because of its social crimes.’

NUN CITES ATROCITIES BY SMITH TROOPS

PITTSBURG — Sister Janice McLaughlin, the nun jailed by Ian Smith’s racist regime and then deported, charged here that atrocities attributed by the U.S. media to the Zimbabwe liberation forces were in fact the work of Rhodesian troops. Speaking to a public meeting here she told of case histories where liberation fighters were blamed by Smith for actions carried out by his troops.

CANADA SHIPPING ARMS TO IAN SMITH?

OTTAWA — At a public meeting in Carleton University, Joshua Nkomo a leader of the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front, stated that he had documentary evidence that arms are being shipped from Canada to white Rhodesian forces. The weapons he says are being shipped from St. Johns through other countries to Rhodesia. The RCMP and the External Affairs Minister Donald Jamieson claim to have no informa- tion of Mr. Nkomo’s charges.

ANTI-RACISM MARCH DRAWS 5,000 LONDON — Black people and white people marched side by side in London’s East End in a protest march against the menace of racism. Over 5,000 people attended the march under the slogan ‘United Against Racism’’. The march was organized by the Hackney Cam- paign Against Racism. FIDEL CASTRO VISITING JAMAICA ._ KINGSTON — Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba is visiting Jamaica at the invitation of Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley. The invita- tion was in exchange for a visit Manley made to Cuba in 1975. Manley described Castro as “‘one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, who isa hero to the people of the Third World ... ’’ . Castro was guest of honor at Jamaica’s National Heroes Day.

CANADIANS ATTEND ENVIRONMENT MEET IN USSR

TBILISI, Georgia — A Canadian delegation is taking part in the Conference on Environmental Education here Oct. 14-26. The confer- ence is convened by UNESCO and organized with the support of the UN Environment Program (UNEP).

Canada’s delegation. includes:

Yvon Beaulne, Chairman of the Delegation, Ambassador and Per- manent Delegate of Canada to UNESCO; Gilbert Clements, Minister of the Environment, PEI; Harry Fisher, Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Education, Ontario; John Hurnard, Executive Direc- tor, Development Division, Department of Education, Sask.; Prof. Michel Maldague, Interdisciplinary Program in Planning and Regional Development, Laval University; Prof. George Francis, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo; Fred Dawes, Special Advisor (Human Settlements), Canadian International Development Agency; Guy Choquette, Advisor to the Delegation, Counsellor and Consul, Embassy of Canada, USSR.

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‘ Canada cannot remain silent about N-bomb

TORONTO — The fight for peace centred prominently in the report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Noting that ‘‘there can be no winners in an arms race,’ the committee members bitterly condemned the American decision to produce the Neutron Bomb. The report noted that ‘‘underneath the escalation of the U.S. arms race and the creation of a new weapons system, exemplified in the neutron bomb, is an effort by U.S. imperialism to achieve military superiority and supremacy for it and NATO. It is part of the dangerous U.S. imperialist strategy of trying to achieve world hegemony.

‘*The aim here is to change the balance of power in the world, undermine the principles of equality of security with the USSR which was the basis of detente and revert to cold war confrontation with all its dangers,’’ the report stated.

**Canada, as a member of NATO cannot remain silent about the fact that an effort is being made to add the neutron bomb to the arsenal of NATO.” The way to call attention to this situation is by “strengthening of the peace movement everywhere ... and reach out to the trade union movement, the NDP, the churches, the youth movement, the women, all Canadians who are concerned about the maintenance of peace and Canada’s security.

‘The strong peace and anti-imperialist sentiment in Canada. must be seen and heard. Indeed, the neutron bomb threat can become an additional impetus to widen support for the Stockholm

Sinaia Appeal petition.”’ ae

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Canadian aid supports political repression, torture in Indonesia

Political detention by the In- donesian government is one of the most serious violations of human rights on earth. The present mili-

tary regime admits to holding

37,000 political prisoners, some for as long as 12 years. Amnesty International places the figure closer to 70,000.

What is certain is that since the military began its brutal repres- sion in 1965 hundreds of thousands of Indonesians have

been murdered, tortured, and jailed. In 1976 Indonesia’ s chief of police said that over the past 12 years 500,000 have been killed and 250,000 arrested.

‘*Tapols’’ (an Indonesian con- traction for tahanan politik or political prisoner) are placed into four categories in the camps which also designates their legal position. The highest (category ‘*A’’) alleges direct involvement: with the 1965 attempt to over- throw the regime while the lowest

USSR SUPREME SOVIET OPENS

Leonid Brezhnev addresses a joint sitting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities in Moscow.

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(category ‘‘X’’) are suspects not Officially catalogued.

‘According to its first Bulletin “TAPOL’’, financial aid to Indonesia both di- rectly through bilateral assistance

‘programs, and indirectly through

multilateral grants and loans. ‘Canada’s bilateral assistance to Indonesia has steadily grown from the $4-million loan in 1971, which marked the highlight of Trudeau’s trip to Jakarta in 1971, to $21-million in 1973-74 ... but Canada’s previous efforts were dwarfed when Trudeau and (prime minister) Suharto signed a $200-million aid deal in Ottawa on July 3 of last year. This is one of the largest foreign assistance pro- grams ever undertaken by

Canada. ‘*‘Names like Alcan,

‘MacMillan-Bloedel, Bata Shoes; International Nickel, Sherrit- Gordon, Swann Wooster, Acres

Canada extends —

International, Bow Valley Indus-_

tries, and Staetler-Hunter and AV’ iation Planning Services are al-

ready well entrenched in In donesia.”

Canadians interested in receiV- |

ing further information about

Canada’s involvement can write:

Tapol Canada, PO Box 715, Peterborough, Ontario.

Violence, economic crisis face FRG, while GDR moves forward

By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN — The past week has brought into sharp contrast the convulsions and terrors of life in the capitalist FRG ‘and the well- ordered, planned and forward- moving society-in the socialist GDR.

For many weeks now the people of the FRG have been liv- ing out a nightmare marked by terrorism, killings, kidnappings, the holding of innocent people as hostages, the bloody trail left by children of bourgeois families who are in mad, desperate and often armed revolt against their ownelders and their own society.

The people of the GDR, on the other hand, have been working as usual, increasing production and labor-productivity and their own well-being.

In the FRG, observers were admittedly disturbed by the rate of moral and social disintegration, the mushrooming of old and new naziism, the spread of open anti-Semitism, the offensive of the right-wing in general, the old- style nazi attacks on the writers and intellectuals by the CDU- CSU parties, and by the ineffec- tual and at times harmful postures taken by the SPD leadership and the SPD-Liberal government.

In the GDR, however, neo- naziism and racism stopped at the Western border. Millions of tourists and visitors can come here from the West, but fascist and racist ideas, long weeded out and destroyed, are not allowed to find their way back in again.

There are still over a million totally and partially unemployed in the FRG, with no sign of. improvement on the horizon. In the GDR there was not only con- tinuing full employment and an

actual shortage of labor, but also”

fulfillment of the current Five-Year Plan. That means that industrial production services were rising at the rate of about 6% per year, that the people will con- tinue to have more money and more things to buy.

_ In the FRG, the head of the Employers Association, Hans Martin Schleyer, was finally kill- ed by terrorists who had kidnap- ped him and murdered his body- guards six weeks ago. The Lufth- ansa airplane, with 86 West Ger- man passengers, which had been

‘hijacked by other terrorists, was

set free by a West German com- mando assault at an airport in Somalia. Some passengers were injured, and the pilot was shot by the terrorists.

Three terrorists leaders serving prison terms in an FRG jail died from shooting and hanging, al- legedly suicides. A fourth was al- leged to have tried to stab herself but remains alive. Terrorism of a bloody and virulent type, obser- vers believe, is now an endemic illness of West German capitalist society.

In the GDR, on the other hand, there was law and order, a socialist society without convul- sions or crises or bloodshed.

The undeniable expansion of neo-naziism, reaction and anti- Semitism in the FRG has drawn bitter. criticism from com- mentators and various political spokesmen in other countries.

The GDR, by contrast, has been deepening its friendship with a long list of socialist and capitalist countries. This past week, for example, the president of the Congo People’s Republic paid a state visit to the GDR. Dur- ing the past year such state visits have been made here by the lead- ers of almost all the socialist coun- tries, and by the representatives

of countries like Finland, Swe- den, and others. At the same time GDR leaders have visited and signed pacts of friendship and trade with a number of African countries, including, last week, Algeria. Every week brings new contacts, new political and trade

relations with more foreign coun: ~

tries.

Because of this very visible contrast between developments in the two Germanys, attempts are being made by West German media and government institu- tions to make it appear there is revolt or disaffection in the GDR also. Thus the FRG’s right-wing press and TV seized upon a fracas started. in the city centre by 4 group of rowdies and blew it up into a scare story about revolt in the streets, with two policemen supposedly stabbed to death and the death of a young woman. The story was circulated by Reuter’s agency five days after the event. It was immediately denied by the GDR’s Foreign Ministry as an in- vention. The Reuter’s cor- respondent could provide no proof or witnesses for his claims. But West German media gener- ally use anything without proof if- it is aimed against the GDR.

There is certainly a tiny core of rowdies in Berlin. They represent no one. The proof of that was the series of demonstrations here this week on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Soviet Rev- olution. Tens of thousands of young people and members of the Young Pioneers from all parts 0 the Republic are participating in 600 meetings and demonstra- tions. Berlin is filled with theif laughter, their singing, theif cheering, their flags and smiling faces. They are the answer to the sick but. routine lies of Reuter’s and the West German media.

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