November 11, 1976
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' Many lives have been sacrificed, and when it comes to confronting these UNINDICTED marry more are soon expected to be: all problems and iniustices. (For an action ZAPPED, NOT ZTPPED ' CO.CONSPIRATORS universities have been ordered shut ãf the Peace Bloõkade's lwlN,ll/4/761 ¡ l.f you're wondering down and_searched, and much alleged si¿e ahd na'ture to occur rn your þart of Jan Barry . Lance Belv¡lle Maris Cakars' what hap- Susan Cakars' . | . Lynne Shatzkin Coffin* evidence has been "disçovered, " Éow- the world would be quite somethins J erry Coffin pened to your October 28 issue of but Ann Davidon . DianaDavies . Ruth Dear I ever, we are still determined to struesle for it to happen here-it's nothing of q WIN you're not alone! lt sçems thq -" sh"ort Ra¡ph Dicia. Br¡an Doherty William Douthardr for ourjust cause to the end. Their soectacularf) Karen Durbin' r ChuckFager o Seth Foldy Xll¡No. Ísearch ^ im Forest r ! Libby Hawk' November 11,1s76lVol. 38 Post Off ice in Philadelphia, where and destroy" mission onthe I personally appreciate articles on J l¡¡¡y Cara Joan Cj|rrltl Neill-laworth o Ed Hedemann. CraceHedemann WIN is mailed, managedto mis- campus grounds clearly indicate their nonviolent alternatives-what's being ¡ . Hendrik HertzberS' Marty J ezer' Becky Johnson 4. An Airport . Harvey Wasserman place most of the copies for four or desperate efforts to destroy the student- done to challenge the system, etc. Thãre NahcyJohnson ¡ Paul Johnson o Alison Karpel "\t'sNot ." / and people movement born out of October places can Craig Karoel ¡ John Kyper r Eliot Linzer' AmyWainer f ive days. Postal off icials said are othei where one read the ¡ ' 14, 1973-an vprising to overthrow the horrible that are happening Jackson Mac Low DavidMcReynolds' things were in disarray because'of tñings in our MaryMayo . DávidMorris ¡ MarkMorris' 12. Leonard Peltier's FightforJttstice EricDavin Iast fascist dictator regime. The United societies really impoitant ¡ / the approaching holiday and-it seems JimPeck r TadRichards l8al Roodenko' season States is now desperately trying to that we emphasize what's being done FredRosen . NancyRosen o EdSanders 14. Joint Parenting / Jeffry Calper o ¡ and the added burden caused by tighten its vicious grip on the freedom- rather than what needs to be done-too Wendy Schwartz' Martha Thomasés Art Wáskow Beverly Woodward 16. Socialists and Pacif ists Set to Meet David McReynolds the United Parcel Service strikeon ,loving people of Thaihnd. A militaty much depression leads to inertiat Hooe / of Wl N Editorial Board the East Coast. Perhaps it is their coup is thelast measure to safeguard the that all if goingwell in WIN Land. 'Member 17'. Changes _BRIANLORD.POWER subtle way of lobbying for the next US interest in Thailand. 19. Reviews Carol Lopate, Paula Rayman But they will never succeed as long as Auckland, NewZealand WIN is published every Thursday excefiþr the first / postal rate increase. 'week in January, the last week in March, the second the people are strongly determined to .You week ¡n May, the last two weeks in August, the f irst two Cover: lssaku Tomura, anti-Narita Airport activist. Photo by Amy should've received that is- fight to the end for their democratic weeks in September and the last week iri December by sue by now; most of were W.l.N. Magazine, lnc. with the support of the War Wainer. them ar- rightsandnationalindependence. This " riving with or right after the so-called " National Administrative Resisters LeaSue. Subscriptions are $11.00 per year. Second class postage paid at New York, NY 10001 and 503 Atlantic Ave. I sth Fl. STAFF November Reform Council' backed by the United additional writers are 4 issue. lf , by chance, máiling offices.. lndividual Brooklyn, NY 11217 r the October 2B issue never made it States mustbe overthrown by any means responsibleforopiníons expressed and accuracy of facts PegAverill '(uthann Evanoff necessary." given. Sorry-manuscripts cannot be returned unless Telephone : (212) 624-8337, Susan o Murray Rosenblith to your door, drop us a postcard; ac@mpanied by a self-addres:"0, r,"rË;11,ËiTî'üBi Pines 624-8s9s we'll try to get another one out to We would appreciate if you would Special thanks to Stuart Katz you right publish this statement to reach to all the away. -WlN American people who love peace and democracy. _TIIETINIONOF DEMOCRATICTHAIS New York, IYY With each passing daythe news is getting harder and hardertofind. Pick -up yoùr average daily newspaper and to Ietters find anything of substantial matter NEWS ITEM- a certificate you've got to sift. of suicide has been issued f The few exceptions to be found are Thanks for the articles on Thailand in the only found after a major expeditiqn into in the death saturday of a October 21 issue. They enabled the the remote unknowns ofthis ðorpbrate niagara county deputy sher Peace and Service Committee of Bucks world. Cotporate woild? Yes; ftomthe iff trainee, whbse body wa Quartetly Meeting of the Religious largest to the small localsl One might s. found atop his mother's Society of Friends to.write a letter con- suspect the larger papers, but it's grave. he, 22, is believed demning the coup to our representative, actually the smaller local papers that We appreciate to have shot himself th the articles by Don Luce, who is a membetof the House Interna- are, more often thair not¡ underthe um- in Harvey Wasserman and the one by LNS tional Relations Committee. \{e also brella ofone corporation or another. One chest with a shotgun. fell which were published in WIN sent copies ofthe lettet all over. example familiar to me includes over 40 ow deputies said he had be lt0/2t/761. newspapers, several commercial en 'deeply troubled' becau Recently, we received a letter from our n"",,¡ffi,rllÏ printers, over 20 radio stations, several friends who are in Thailand and now face se he accidentally killed television stations and an outdoor ad- a yound vietnamese girl du the modern well-armed ttoops of the vertiiing company (billboards) that junta with their empty hands. It said: ring a combat operation in completèly cover several statés. The . vietnam. his mother had di " . we are now under the new disguise corporate name is not well known and it of "the National Administrative Reform is one of the smaller in this country. ed while he was serving in Council (NARC)." Why am I takingthe timetowrite all vietnam and he had been un As a semi-colonial and semi-feudal this? It comes out of a realization gained able' to attend he funeral country, Thailand has been economically upon trying to find daily business infor- . he joined the marines in exploited, politically controlled and cul- mation, about local military industry, in noveffibdr 1969 and was hono turally dominated by the United States my hometown newspaper-I1ve far for at least 26 yearq. With the loyal better luck in the small press and in the rably dischafged last nove cooperation ofthe Thai ruling class, the national alternatives like WIN. royalist, the militarist and capitalist In addition to offering some of the best Hassett cliques, the present NARC dictatorial 'i'news" coverage of events taking place lThis poem-Steve first appeared regime came into existence at the ex- nationally and i-nternationally, thè folks in Demilitarized Zones at WIN (the pense ofhundreds ofpeople whó were I really enjoy receiving WIN.. To us in working many fiire writers published by either lynched,. garrotted, or burned in this part ofthe world contact and know- should not go without mention, eitherl) East River Anthology, 1976.1 public. .. and overthree thousandwho ledge ofwhat's happening in other offer a solid doseoftruth, honesty, and jailed. Photo by Prue Creenblatt Eere The military coup staged in places is really important, especially as "out-frontness.' " fhe early hours of October 6 has com- there is no nonviolence "movement" in Simply, keep it up \{IN staffers, pletely destroyed our sincere hope for. thiB country. While we are a number of 'free'lance writers, and readers; I'd be peace and democracy. Theirradical right yeats behind the States in terms ofthe lost without vou all. soldiers, police and sqppression groups problems we face we also.tend to have :_BLAIITIE METCAf,F were armed in US-supplied weapons. rather limited experience and resources ÞatoAlø'CA 2WlN Nov.11,1976 Nov. 11, 1976 WIN 3, IT'S NOT AN AIRPORT. The Struggle in Sanrtzuka On J une 22, 1966, the government off icially an- HARVEY WASSERMAN AND AMY WAINER nounCed it had given up on Te¡pisato and would build the airport at Sanrizuka. Six days later, 1500 I n 1965, the J apaneSe government deci ded to build met in a rainstorm and an- a new internationãl airPort. Sanrizuka falmers herebywarn the Like everything elpe at the time, the decision was nou¡nced theiropposition. "We try to enforce heavilytainted bythe war in Vietnam. Undertheir government ," ihey said, "that if they into a (AMPO), US apan for a this construction on us they will be driven security pact the uses J grave." military base. ln the sixties, American bombers corner and will be forced to dig theirown b'y farmers from and troop charterS were raining f ire on Vietnam, Two days later, they were ioined was ex- and needed all the runway spacethey could get. Shibayama, where noise f rom the ietport aTokyo sub- Partly due to American war Llse, and partly due to pected to make the fields sound like way tube. Calling themselves the Hantai Domei J apan's unprecedented economic exp'ansion, the f irst lnternational Airport at Haneda, a few kilometers (Opposition League), the farmers spent the the apan south of Tokyo, became badly overcrowded.