Viikkosanomat, July 14, 1986

              Is Reagan
geffing senile?
President Reagan's advisers
and speechwriters cranked up
their machine once again on
the eve of a congressional vote
for $100-milli- on in contra aid
His request to address a Spe-cial
House session denied
as well as his request for free
time on the three major tele-vision
networks Reagan
bought time on CNN-T- V June
24 and made a remarkable
23-min- ute speech
He charged Soviet pilot s are
flying reconnaissance missions
in Nicaragua and asked
Americans: "Do we want to be
Reagan's historical view mixes
Somoza and Sandino
For the
preservotion
of life
Peace meeting of the committee "GDR
doctors for the Prevention of a Nuclear
War"
A peace meeting of the committee "GDR
Doctors for the Prevention of a Nuclear
War" was held in the GDR's northern
town of Neubrandenburg in mid-Apr- il Dis-cussio- ns
referred in particular to Albert
Schweitzer's famous words that peace de-pen- ds
on the philosophy of individuals and
nations and this even mcre so in modern
times Hundreds of doctors and medical
staff from the Neubrandenburg district to-geth- er
with prominent Committee members
expressed their protest over the threat of a
nuclear holocaust and an extension of the
arms race to outer space They underlined
their passionate peace commitment and
their firm determination to make a contri-butio- n
tovvards the safeguarding of peace
Committee chairman Professor Moritz
Mebel said medical science was concerned
vvith the search for new methods to pre-serv- e
life and health This sharply clashed
vvith US arms build-u- p policies and "Star
Wars" plans which put life in jeopardy
Referring to Albert Einstein's vvords that
the nuclear age lequired a new way of
thinking Professor Mebel pointed to the
peace proposals put forvvard by the Soviet
Union Of particular importance was the
threestage programme for peace submitted
by Mikhail Gorbachev This offered the his-tor- ic
chance of ridding mankind of nuclear
weapons before the end of the century
Professor Ralf Joachim President of the
GDR Space Research Society explained
the dangers inherent in the United States'
plans for the militarization of space em-phasizi- ng
that scientists had a special re-sponsibli- lity
to prevent the extension of the
arms race to space Rejecting SDI Profes-sor
Joachim made a strong plea for a
broad international cooperation to use
space technology for the benefit of man-kind
Professor Robert Knuth director of the
Space Research Institute of the GDR Aca-demy
of Sciences told the audience about
proposals and initiatives put forvvard by
the Soviet Union for concrete interna-tionall- y
coordinated measures aimed at
preventing the siting of vveapons in space
and guaranteeing the peaceful use of
outer space
Christine Wieynk Secretary of the GDR
Peace Council said the Neubrandenburg
meeting was a good contribution to the
UN-proclaim- ed Year of Peace Various
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the first elected leaders in his-to- ry
to put our borders at
risk?" Here the mystified
vievver might be excused for
wondering when Nicaraguaa
borders became US borders
Then consistent with his
previous grasp of history when
he likened thecontra thugs with
the US founding fathers
Reagan accused the Sandinista
government of "betraying the
memory of Sandino" On this
his viewer might wonder why
the US-back- ed regime of the
day murdered Sandino in 1933
and gave the country over to 40
years of Somoza repression
Reagan continued with his
history lesson a la Washington
by charging the government
vvith also betraying the goals of
the 1979 revolution "The
proud people of Nicaragua did
not rise up against Somoza —
to struggle fight and die — to
have Cubans Russians Bul-garia- ns
East Germans and
North Koreans (he missed Li-bya- ns
in this one) running
their prisons organizing their
army" etc etc
By now the viewer must be
completely baffled "Rise up
against Somoza"? "Brave
people"? Didn't the US sup- -
June
ali
US
policy
job
port the
Aren't
"our
The US Senate and House
well as CBS NBC and
must have seen
copy of s
They had the good
sense being used a
for such
A life
years almost
the day most
were in
chair in Sing Sing
one of vvho
key to the of Julius
and Ethel in the
States was disbarred
for theft and fraud
Roy Cohen in the 1950s
a boy a
vvhiz kid and one of
men
for the US
New York and frame
and
on
the
who were
jailed driven
peace activities in the GDR
the activities by peace forces throughout
the vvorld The peace movement and al-lian-ces
for disarmament and peace in
many countries had become an
factor of domestic policies were exert-in- g
a grovving influence internationally
seen
EDMONTON it'lJ) - Western
vouldn't endangered by a
and fire at a Washington
state rcactor similar to the
involved in the Soviet accident in the
Ukraine says the director of a Cana-dian
nuclear research fucility
Erich Voght a wtlh
TRIUMK at the oi British
said a similar accident m
state wouldn'l re-qui- re
the oi or
He said Wednesday thai both ci ties
are located about 00 kilometres
from vvhät he culled a troubled reactor
at Hanford in
"A of that proportion is
not pleasant to but the
reactor is well-remove- d Irom any major
population centres" Voght said
When a good friend walks beside us
On the road that we must keep
Our seem less heavy
And the hills are not steep
The miles pass swiftly
Taken in a stride
And alla the world seems
When a friend walks by your side
The Finnish Organization
of Canada Inc meeting in To-ronto
2 1 st of 1 986 passed
the resolution for
Peace and Security for ali Ca-nadia- ns
for peoples of this
planet:
We call for Canada 's withdrawal
from military alliances and
the establishment of inde-pend- et
foreign
That war production be
to peacetime production
vvith emphasis on creation
and production to unmet
needs
The of ali nuclear
Somoza dynasty?
former Somoza Na-tional
Guardsmen running to-da- y's
contras? Wasn't Somoza
guy"?
as
ABC-T- V an
advance Reagan'
speech
to decline as
platform stupidity
oftreachery
Thirty-thre- e
to his famous vic-ti- ms
executed the elec-tri- c
prison
the lawyers was
frame-u- p
Rosenberg
United
was
golden-haire- d legal
Senator
McCarthy's right-han- d
He worked Attor-ney- 's
office in Manhattan
helped
convict two innocent
Americans trumped-u- p
espionage charges
thousands perse-cute- d
and to de- -
encouraged
important
and
No dcmger
Cana-dian- s
be
meltdovvn
nuclear one
nuclear phvsicist
University
Columbia
Washington probahly
evacuation Vancouver
Calgary
salely
southcastern Washington
catastrophe
contemplatc
burdens
so
vveariest
joyous
brighter
following
an
Canadian
con-verte- d
satisfy
social
cessation
Among
Questions Answers concerning cessation
NtJcl@Qr W@op©ns
superiority?
Stockholm
catch
up?
moratorium
Resolution the
Government Canada
vveapons testing Ca-nadian
soil Canadian
waters including and
missiles
The declaration Canada
vveapons-fre- e
zone denial US vehicles
vvith access
air-spa- ce
partici-patio- n
testing biological and Che-mical
The
The pursuit multilateral
limitation veri-ficati- on
agreement
during the McCarthy hys-teria
only the Rosenbergs
were legally murdered by the
state are the first victims
of American fascism" Ethel
Rosenberg wrote two
young the day
she and her husband died
In the 33 years since the
Rosenbergs' execution
his fame He de-velop- ed
from witch
mob lawyer swindler
Now he's disbarred
Three decades too late
The day the Rosenbergs were
executed June 19 1953
thousands gathered
the vvorld unsuccessfui
plea for clemency
New York City
the
Is the idea behind the Soviet
moratorium to secure Soviet
According to pubiished by the
SIPRI Institute the United States
carried out by third more nuclear tests
than the Soviet Union since 1945 in fact
even more than nuclear povvers
taken together The figures are:
United
789 tests (504 per cent) USSR-5- 65
tests (36 per cent) France-1- 35
tests (85 per cent) Great Britain—
38 tests (24 per cent)
Had the Soviet Union not just
ended a test series and
The Soviet Union has not finished its
latest series but suspended series as
a sign of good will proclaiming its unilateral
pubiished by SIPRI
shovvs clearly that no for the
United States "to catch up"
on
or in air or
Cruise
other
of as a
totally nuclear
to
nuclear materials to
our land or waters
to
in the development
of
vvarfare
strict of the export of
of a
spair
"We
to
before
Cohen
played on
a hunter to
a to a
around
in an
evidence
one
ali
State- s-it
Evidence
is
to
related
control
control
Photo:
Leakage Rovv
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W®Wmbsm2
"top-secre- t"
Washington
information reveals
White
The rebirth of AI Haig
Ever since he told an unbe-lievin- g
world 'Tm in charge
when Reagan
was shot in 1981 Alexander
Haig' s stock dras-ticall- y
From that day when as US
Secretary of State pro-mot- ed
himself to the US
presidency for a few dizzying
seconds he suffered in-dign- ity
another
there the world-wid- e gig-gl- es
and guffaws which greeted
remark national tele-vision
Then came the Malvi-nasFalkla- nd
when
thought he "shuttle dip-lomac- y"
Kissinger only to
exposed as totally inept fol-low- ed
by his resignation a
short time later
Since then Haig has ap-pear- ed
several times in public
mainly on ABCs Nightline
where he peddles own Spe-cial
" solutions" to world prob-lem- s
Last week Alexander
announced he will seek the
Republican nomination for
president in 1988 It seems the
comedy hasn't ended
Tom Morris
and
of nuclear testing
other
Can there be a general ban
on nuclear explosions as long as
respect for the ban cannot be
verified?
This pretext put forvvard by the Reagan
administration no longer any credibil-it- y
Soviet Communist Party leader Mikhail
Gorbachev in his reply to the leaders of
the Six Nations clearly stated that the So-viet
Union accepts measures of veri-ficatio- n
national technical means inter-national
procedures as well as in-specti-ons
Washington argues that tests
are necessary to "observe the
degenerationprocess" nuclear
not for the United States to eapons Is that
the
there
of
and
The Canada's
and
vveapons
arms
arms and
her
children
was
need
end
were
over
strict
on-sit- e
This is not true The proper functioning
of such vveapons can be established by
modern procedures The truth is that
- Washington intends to tests new vveap-ons
for its "Star Wars" project vvould
start a new dimension of the arms race
— Moscow regards a general test as
a first concrete step towards ridding the
world of nuclear weapons before the
of the century in with the three-stag- e
programme submitted by Mikhail Gorba-cho- v
facts and logic speak for the
Soviet proposal: cessation of nuclear
tests would create an effeftive barrier
against the development of new even
dangerous weapons
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Another row over a leak
of information
has erupted in
The
that the House gave
the green light to Pen- -
here" Ronald
has sunk
Haig
one
after First
his
war Haig
was
be
his
Haig
has
of
true?
This
ban
end
line
The
The
and
more
the
tagon and the CIA to sup-pl- y
counterrevolutionary
gangs in Angola and Af-ghanis- tan
vvith such ad-vanc- ed
US weaponry as
the Stinger anti-aircr- aft
missile The Reagan Ad-ministration
is determined
to punish the culprit and
has even instituted a spe-cial
inquiry to identify
him The inquiry however
would seem to be unneces-sar- y
as the media have
been quick to disclose their
source: an official close to
the President deliberately
inspired the leak
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