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1 1 iiiMiiiiiin liian— Returning from the very successful WBA Convention held recently in Winnipeg our
IV district committee has launched into more energetic and enthusiastic work One of the
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AtiCRTOt ways we ha ve planned to bring forward the programme of the WBA and to acquaint others
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HCIhDiOS Wt 'OS about the work of our organization is to hold a special event This special event will be in the
formatoi a Family Dinner for our members theirchildren grandchildren otherrelatives and
members of the progressive organizations in our vicinity We especially wish to invite young
COMIC-STRI- P MURDER MANUAL families to this celebration
Easy to grasp with a smid-geo- n
of humour and something
rocomWino a ctnrv linp" that
is the recipe for a comic strip
and also for a sixteen-pag- e
manual whose purpose is to
spur on the "contras" in hid-in- g
in Nicaragua A funny
yavning little man turns up
for work at 1030 am to sit
by a mountain of undone work
and tvviddle his thumbs Sure-l- y
the message is clear? Why
"kili" yourself for the repub-lic'- s
good Better engage in
some quiet sabotage Harass
the boss with threatening tele-pho- ne
calls sow panic with
false fire alarm calls etc
Daub slogans on walls Slit
tyres and petrol tanks — even
with the left hand as is shown
on the cartoon If you don't
know how to make bombs at
home then study one of the
5000 copies of the manual
which suggests thirty-eig- ht
easy ways to inflict damage
upon the young republic
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The CIA not only provides
vvith ter-rorisi
"manuals" a few pages
f ro m which appeared in the Brit-ish
Observer bul ilself gives
"classes" in murder This photo-grap- h
reproduced from the
Italian magazine Panorama shows
"contras" undergoing special
training at a base in Florida US
Where was this comic-stn- p
manual produced? Citing vvell-mform- ed
sources Associated
Ali efforts made in the
Geneva-base- d Conference on
Disarmament (CD) to proceed
vith on nuclear
weapons and the prevention of
nuclear war continue to be
blocked by the United States
at times supported by some of
its NATO allies This is
by using procedu-ra- l
questions vvhich limit the
discussions to generalities or
establish very narrovv mandates
for vorking groups The US has
made it clear that it does not
favor establishing working
groups or mandating them to
negotiate towards tlie conclu-sio- n
of treaties This is in spite
of the fact that a number of
draft conventions have been
introduced mainly by the
Socialist countries and by
Sweden The majority of the
members of the CD place the
for failure to
move beyond general delibera-tion-s
to real squa-rel- y
on the US
VVPC DELEGATION TO CD
The over-al- l characterization of
the lack of progress in the CD
became apparent to the World Peace
Council delegation headed by Presi
dent Romesh Chandra which mei
various CD members June 25-- 27
The CD members vvhom the
WPC delegation met included Ambas-sado- r
Rjkhi Jaipal of India Secre-tary
General of the Conference on
Disarmament Under-Secretar- y Gene-ral
of the United Nations and
personal representative for the Confe-rence
of the UN Secretary General:
Nobel Laureate Ambassador Garcia
Robles of Mexico Ambassador Louis
Fields of the United States Ambassa-dor
Victor Israelyan of the Soviet
Union Ambassador Francois de la
Gorce of Frace Ambassador Marie
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counterrevolutionaries
Our family day will be held on SUNDA Y DECEMBER 1 6th at2PMat the Ukrainian Cultural
Centre 805 East Pender St There will be a special programme of entertainment guest
speaker and a traditional holiday dinner The afternoon is being planned so that it will be
enjoyable for the entire family both young and old The price for this afternoon is being kept
to a minimum to encourage whole families to attend to encourage every WBA memberto
attend to ensure that this afternoon will be popularized so that the attendance will be at
capacity The price foradults willbe $500 and for children under 12 years $250 There will
be a complete holiday dinner and many extras However we need to know by December
2nd how many people will be attending We will ask the co-operati- on of WBABranch
secretaries to let ali their members know about this event Tickets must be purchased in
advance For further information please call 253-303- 2 224-612- 7
We hope to have a good turn outforourfirst HOLIDAY AFTERNOON --
FULL OF FUN AND GOOD FOOD Please come!
N NIECHODA DISTRICT CHAIRMAN
Press points a finger at the
CIA
Note that the "contras" heed
what their patrons say The
folloving tragic statistics were
recently made public in Mana-gua
Some twenty Nicaraguan
doctors and nurses and two
foreign doctors have perished
forty health centres have been
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WHO PREVENTS MULTI-LATERA- L
negotiations
accomplished
responsibility
negotiations
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ENTERTAINMENT
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Michel Alessi of Italy at that time
head of the Western Group Ambas-sador
Julio Cesar Carasales of
Argentina Ambassador Ryukichi
Imai of Japan Ambassador Milos
Vojvoda of Czechoslovakia Ambassa-dor
Marcel Depasse of Belgium
Ambassador Konstantin Tellalov of
Bulgaria and others The delegation
also met Minister Councillor Miodrag
Mihaijlovic of Yugoslavia at that
time head of the Non-Aligne- d and
Neutral Countries Group and repre-sentativ- es
of the delegations from
India Australia and others
The WPC delegation in addition
to President Chandra included
Martha Buschmann of the Federal
Republic of Germany co-chairpers- on
of the WPC Disarmament Commis-sion
Mr Doudou Issa Niasse
member of parliament from Senegal
Dr Adam Rotfeld of Poland Karen
Talbot VVPC Secretary and Dr
Karoly Lauko WPC representative to
the UN in Geneva
Time and again the WPC
delegation was told that the role of
public opinion and the contnbutions
of the peace movements and
non-government- al organizations are
critical to help bring about meaning-fu- l
multi-latera- l negotiations in the
CD
There is a widespread feeling
that the US wants to give the
impression that it now wants to
negotiate There is great concern that
a misleading picture is being created
of talks going on when in reality
they are not Therefore the public
needs to demand real negotiations
and reject the kind of smokescreen
that is being spread
In the CD there is no movemenl
whatsoever on the most crucial
questions of nuclear vveapons and the
prevention of nuclear war
The US opposes negotiations on
these issues stating that the danger of
nuclear war is being exaggerated
They prefer to keep matters on the
level of an "exchange of ideas"
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destroyed many chemisfs
shops have been looted and
many ambulances set fire to
Ali to deny first aid to people
caught in an ambush or blown
up by a home-mad- e bomb
manufactured naturally in
line vvith the comic-stri- p manual
V KSENIN
ONS?
On a related question the US
and some of its allies challenge the
importance of the USSR commit-men- t
not to be the first to use
nuclear weapons Therefore the
Soviet Union also supported the
proposal of the Mexican delegation
to elaborate an international multi-later- al
treaty on no-fir- st use by ali
five nuclear vveapons powers But
there has been no progress on this
point either
A Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty had nearly been concluded in
1979 but the US decided it did not
want such a treaty Since that time
the CD has attempted to arrive at a
CTBT but vvith no real success
Although a working group on the
CTBT was finally established in 1982
it had been given a very restricted
mandate - to taik only about
verification
This situation has prevailed for
tvvo years The majority of nations
feel it is nov" time to stop general
discussions and to begin negotiations
The UN General Assembly has
repeatedly called for an end to the
obstruction and for real negotiations
tovvards a CTBT
A space vveapons treaty is a great
prriority and is is the desire of ali
nations (the US vvas the only nation
to vote against a UN resolution
calling for a space vveapon ban) In
the CD the US is opposing any
serious negotiation on this issue even
though there is a draft treaty
banning space vveapons submitted by
the Soviet Union Ali discussions are
on procedural matters only
The only issue upon vvhich there
is piogress tovvards vvhat could be
called the closest thing to negotia-tions
is on chemical vveapons The
US after years of opposing negotia-tions
on a text submitted a draft
treaty on chemical vveapons Matters
vvere greatly delayed as the CD
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members avvaited the US draft vvhich
arrived almost at the end of the
spring session The draft vvas
submitted in obvious compliance
vvith a US Congressional requirement
It took one month to re-establ- ish a
group and to decide on the mandate
Of 18- - articles in the draft 10
articles plus three annexes vvere
devoted to questions of verification
A key aspect of the verification
stipulations is a call for so called
"open inspection" of governmenl
ovvned chemical facilities This vvas
clearly designed to be unacceptable
to the Socialist countries vvhere ali
chemical plants are government-ovvne- d
vvhereas in the US most are
privately ovvned This is in spite of
the fact that even US Vice President
Bush vvho presented the draft treaty
acknovvledged that the Soviet Union
had agreed to permanent on-sit- e
inspection Furthermore this US
draft failed to produce enthusiasm
on the part of the vast majority of
countries in the CD including some
Western as vvell as most neutral and
non-aligne- d countries for the same
reasons
Although an ad hoe group on a
comprehensive program on disarma-ment
exists under the chairmanship
of Ambassador Garcia Robles there
is absolutely no movement on this
most important question vvhich had
been decided by consensus in the
Final Document of the first special
session on disarmament of the UN
General Assembly
The WPC delegation concluded
that there is a great need to vvidely
publicise the situation in the CD
The influence of the peace move-ments
and public opinion can help
bring about serious negotiations for
the rapid conclusion qf agreements
vvhich can avert the grovving danger
of nuclear vvar Talbot
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