Nase Novine, December 01, 1982

              .1-4- NASE NOVINE, October 27,-198-
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We're concerned with soaring
unemployment, swift decline
in our high living standards.
But right now the greater part
of our Earth suffers even more
tragically. One billion people,
including 200,000,000 children,
face death by starvation.
Never, ever in history, have
so many had so little to eat.
Do others a favor and show
them these shocking facts.
Soviet scientists have shown that our planet could today
feed 12 billion people. Only 4 billion inhabit Earth. And a
quarter of them are starving.
Take India. From the level of famine, science raised India's
grain production so greatly that they can export wheat. Yet
millions starve!
They can't afford to buy food that is harvested.
Most people you talk to believe that after crude colonial
oppression was ended, in countries like India, then the people
overcame their worst evils. Not so. Poverty and hunger is
increasing in the Third World.
We all know that "trans-nation- al monopolies" have set up
big industries in the Less Developed Countries. What few of
us realize is that this new industrialization includes radically
new agri-industrie- s.
Big Business, from the West, is today less concerned with
"traditional" Third World crops (sugar, coffee, cocoa,
bananas, rubber, etc.) and is making incredible profit from
grain, vegetables, fruit, beef.
The people who grow this food do not eat it. We in rich West
get it piled up in our super-market- s.
Today Mexico exports a tremendous crop of choice
strawberries entirely to USA and Canada. Mexican kids never
heard of strawberries and cream on cereals.
9 We now enjoy marvellous vegetables, all winter, because
agri-industr- ies grow enormous quantities, in warm sunny cli-mates,
with very cheap labor to do the work.
In Western Europe, a fleet of huge transport planes flies
in choice vegetables from African countries like Senegal;
prices are reasonable, but far too high for African families to
pay.
o Agri-indust- ry has revolutionized beef-growin- g in Latin
America (based on excellent climate and almost slave-chea- p
labor) so Canada and USA are getting meat cheaper than our
farmers can produce it.
o Gigantic "American Foods Share Co." is expanding
super-mark- et food production so fast, in Ghana, Egypt,
Kenya, Zambia and Uganda, that its director boasts confi-dently:
"Africa is going to become the world's biggest pro-ducer
of vegetables, not only for Europe but also for
America."
This is capitalist science working for profits.
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On the one hand, trans-nation- al monopolies
are introducing the very latest agricultural
techniques, which (when used in warm countries)
could feed the whole world. But on the other hand,
it's far more profitable to feed people only in
advanced countries, where most can buy high-price- d
foods.
The French analyst Susan George says: "Third
World is progressively taking over the job offeed-ing
already well-nourish- ed Americans."
Actually the motive here is not ordinary farm-foo- d
profits but super profits.
Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary, Orville
Freeman, now President of Business Interna
tional, is frank.
He reveals that leading companies in Third World farm
business return profits of 30 percent yearly.
How so? Because, for example, costs of growing straw-berries
in Mexico are one-hal- f the cost in Florida; for to-matoes,
production cost is one-thir- d.
Farm labor fornext-to-nothin- g. USA farmers in Hawaii get
19 times more pay than those in Philippines'
Cowboys in Texas get 15 times more pay than beef handlers
across the line in Mexico.
No wonder the "International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development" (a front for Washington monopolists) put up
3 1,1 00, 000, 000 cash to "aid" Latin Americans in expanding
their meat production.
'I he effect of this i.s cruel to the point oj sinagerv.
Traditional food crops, which poor people could buy, such
as beans, are being steadily replaced, by super-profitab- le
crops exported to well-fe- d western nations. Thus in Philip-pines
already 55-out-of--
100 farm acres grow crops for sale
abroad, not for feeding the people at home.
But as we all know, even "abroad" (Canada, USA) there
are hungry people. Indeed, the UNO, surveying only ad-vanced
capitalist countries, finds (1981) at least 28 million
people, living in the midst of "abundance", suffer grave
malnutrition. In USA itself, 30 million poor always feel hun-gry.
Starvation is fast becoming a contradiction that lays bare
the fatal flaws in our capitalist system. Everybody could have
enough to eat; but only those who can pay top price can enjoy
plenty of food, in Free Enterprise.
Lenin predicted this with amazing foresight.
"In the 'border regions' of Capitalism . . . just emerging
from pre-capital- ist conditions, the growth of poverty — not
only 'social' but also the most horrible physical poverty, to
starvation and death — assumes a mass scale."
Not long ago the famous revolutionary hymn, The Inter-national,
was considered by many to be "old fashioned".
Even some on the Left thought it should be re-writt- en. But
now, more bitterly than back in the days when it was com-posed,
this defiant challenge to Capitalism stirs the hearts of
hundreds of millions. Their dream is to survive, somehow, in
the hope of someday being able to fall asleep at night, and
awaken in the morning, untortured by hunger . . .
(PreStampano iz 6asopisa "Northern
Neighbor")
A Deserved Deportation
The Justice Department announced last week
that it had forced the deportation of Valerian Trifa,
a Romanian Orthodox archbishop who, as a Nazi
sympathizer in World War II, incited bloody anti-Sernit- ic riots in his homeland. His forced removal
from the United States is an important step in re-solving
deportation proceedings the government
has pending on more than 200 war criminals whose
continued presence in this country constitutes an
insult to their victims and the American system.
A few of these fugitives from international jus- tice are Germans, most are Central and Eastern
Europeans who cooperated with the Nazis in their
persecution of Jews and other religious and ethnic
minorities; all lied about their pasts so as to obtain
entry to the United States and, in many cases,
American citizenship.
Those other war criminals— some the perpetra-tors
of acts even more terrible than Trifa's— re-main
safely in the United States. Among the most
notorious of these is Andrija Artulcovic, an 81-year-- old Yugoslav now living in Southern Califor-tva- .
Artukovic, a Croatian, served as minister of
justice, religion and the interior in the short-live- d Nai puppet regime of Ante Pavelic. While occu-pying
these posts, he signed a series of "racial de-crees"
modeled after those of Nazi Germany and
presided over a network of local concentration
camps in which three-quarte- rs of a million Serbs,
А' ЂШШ
Albert Helmut
Rauca
Ovo je nacisticki ratni zlocinac
Albert Helmut Rauca koga Zap.
Njemacka optuzuje da je odgovo-ra- n
za ubijstvo 11.584 osobe u
gradu Kaunas (Kovno), u Lithuni-ji- .
Kanadske vlasti su uhapsile
Raucu i sud je poceo da azmatra
njegov slucaj. Njegovi advokati
priznaju da je Rauca kriv za
zlocinstvo u Lithuniji, all kazu da
po novoj kanadskoj povelji o
ijudskim pravima ne moze biti
deportiran, jer je kanadski drzav-Ijani- n.
Rauca je u Kanadu dosao poslije
rata. Zivio je u Huntsville, gdje je
imao i biznis, a u posljednje
vrijeme u Willowdale (predgrade
Toronta). Kazu da ce u sludaju
ako sud donese odluku da se
deportira, njegovi advokati apeli-ra- ti
na apelacioni sud Ontaria, a
potom i Vrhovni sud Kanade — to
ce trajati godinama.
U Kanadi ima nekoliko stotina
ratnih zlo6inaca i oni su dosad
lijepo zivjeli...
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Jews and Gypsies were savagely murdered.
In 1948, Artukovic, using a set of documents
falsely obtained from the American Embassy in
lDautebrl,inh, eemsuicgcreastesdfultloy thbeeaUt nbiatecdk Santataetst.emFpivtetoyedaer-s
port him to Yugoslavia by claiming he would be
subject to political persecution. In 1977, however,
tthhoesUe .Sw. himo mhaigdratthieomn sceoldveeswacsomammeinttdeedd atcotsproefveran-t
cial, religious or ethnic persecution from using such a defense. As a result, Artukovic again has
been ordered to leave the country, a decision he
currently is appealing in federal court.
To some, the zeal with which the Justice De-partment
is now pursuing these fugitives may
seem excessive. After all, their crimes were com- mitted long ago in places obscure to most Ameri-cans;
all of them are old, many— like Trifa and Ar-tukovic—
are infirm. But what is the alternative?
These people, who entered the United States under
false pretenses, were accomplices to one of histo-ry's
most heinous crimes. Their presence here is a
continuing affront to the deeply held American
conviction that this nation must always remain a haven for the persecuted and oppressed. It would
be savage irony indeed, if this country were know-ingly
allowed to become a refuge for agents of
those dark Old World passions from which so
many of our ancestors fled.
(PreStampano iz lista Los Angeles Times, n.oktobra 1982 )