OBSERVER Vol. 24 No. 9 May 6, 1981
Front Page Military Industrial Conflict Quote From Major General Smedley Butler, Commander, U.S. Marine Corps, 1935 Editor’s Note Mother Russia CPS Demilitarization: The New Raw Deal Page 2 The Major Reagan Cuts (In Millions) Coalition For A New Foreign And Military Policy U.S. Intervention Abroad U.S. Congress, Committee on Foreign Affairs; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, 1970 Page 3 Central America Alice Knapp Cartoon CPS Page 4 Ireland Prisoner Status Bobby Sands And The Hunger Strike Tom Kelly Bobby Sands Jeanne LeGouis Tom Kelly Page 5 Africa Why Retain Clark Amendment? (From The Washington Office on Africa) “Coalition Close-up” Coalition For A New Foreign And Military Policy Ronnie Sends 100 Green Berets To Liberia Page 6 Europe NATO Raises Nuclear Ante Guardian Mid East PLO ECT Robert Nedelkoff Space U.S. Empire Strikes Back Jonathan Bennett Page 7 MX Missile In Defense Of Unborn Submarines Jed Schwartz Page 8 Military Epidemic In Schools “I Would Feel Comfortable In Going To War Tomorrow” Anne Lintner Page 9 Political Cartoon Stein Yes Virginia, We Did Win The Viet Nam War Anne Lintner Page 10 FBI Given OK To Spy Ground Zero Club What Would You Do In The Event Of A Nuclear War? Page 11 Advertisements Page 12 Militaris ILITARIS
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"I spent thirty-three ye~rs and four months in active m~li~ary se~vice~ .. And during that period I· spent most of my time being a hfgh-class muscle man for Big Busi,ness, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism ... Thus I helped make Mexico and especiaJ,.ly Tampico safe for American oil int-erests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I belped in th~ raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The rebord of racketeering is 16ng. I helped pu~ify Nicara9ua fo~ -the .international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the. Americ.an suqar inter_es_ts in 1916. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that the Standard Oil Company went its way unmolest_ed ... I.was rewarded with honors, medals and promotions. Looking back on it now I feel I migh_t have given Al ,Capone a few .hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. I operated on thiee continents." - Major General Smedley Butler, Commander~ U.S. Marine Corps, 1935
EDITOR'S NOTE
Militarism is_important- Don't_ kid yourself; it means your life! That's why ther~ i_§n't m}.Iqh time to was~e; we have got to get'a hol~ of the "' situation. We have put togetper this special issue of -the Observer to bring to your attention a matter
of grave importance1 In.ili-t::a~;i_sm _- be~se you h.:tve got to. act now before· it's too _late. Write to your Congressman, State Representative or to the Pentagon directly, today and with a clear, well hacked up argument and deman.d that we triple the size of the defense and security hu?gets. We need. more guns for the needy - the real needy, the military. It's not enough to just sit bad\ and watch it happen, get involved. You can promote miiitarisn everywhere you go. Don't just -see this as a nation al_ issue. It's not. It's global. Only with an· ~dequate military presence evew.here wilLthe __ world be safe and peaceful. This is being initiated_by the United States but they need your_support. Only then will we be able to battle the many problems in_ the World. Just. think if there was military security every where, not just a few cops on the street, at the airport etc., but well defined security regiments everywhe;re. · The advantages are inume:rable. No street crime due to complete coverage of all areas, aiso no graffiti, vandalism, or rapet no social dissent due to complete surveillance (deviants cou.ld be spotted and reformed, -the righ:t way; before they could make any trouble); no porno ~ J.}, 0 T II £ R H I' S S I A . graphy, or unhealthy criticism or ideas due to a strict and complete censorship of all publications, DEMILITARIZATION: and what•s more if the military ran_ all transport ation, communication, medical facilities,· construct THE REAL NEMI DEAL ion, and industry, things would be run right. And Lately, the American press has _been sat at the same time with. c~lete hacking of a global urated with the dogma of the Administration's military upemployment would be stoRped ~u~ to an "supply side" economic policy, which Reagan increase in weapon productions, :reserves, and a refered to during his campaig~ as the second military workforce. coming of the Roosevelt era. A cruel irony Everyone knows the reputation of the military. has surfaced as a reality for many Americans A group that knows how to work and live together. who are seeing their dreams of a better ed It would solve all social problems like apathy, ucation, a meaningful job, and access to unrest and confusion if we all were part of the medical services melt before their eyes in same force. We think you should take·a _closer an all out and unsuccessful "fight against l~ok at the military. · It's the only;• 'wai, to ~. inflation." What is even more incomprehen better world; a wqr~d united against a common ' sible, however, is the simultaneous strenth enem-Y~- And that enemy is ail those that oppc)se ening oi th~ m~litary. the state. And cifter. the opposition is conquered' That the control of inflation is a high pri . . ' . ,. . on earth, we .can face our real foe~, the ones we ority item for national economic policy re must be prepared for with all .the weapons _and more, ceives little disagreement. However, we must the al-~ens. e not be deluded into believing that there is .) _(cont. pa. 9) (]PAGE 2 the observer may 6, 1981 - THE MAJOR REAGAN CUTS · (in mi;llions) source: coalition for a new foreign and military policy April 8, 1981 . 6 additional F-14 Navy fighter Food Stamps .•...... •...•...... ••.... $1,828 planes (30 iri all) ••..•••••••••••.••• $260 Child Nutrition ...••...••...•...•...• $1,657 5 additional F-18 Navy fighter . Aid to Families with olanes (63 in ~11) .....••..•...•..•.• $215 Dependent Children ....••••...... •..•. $520 60 additional A-10 Air Force Medicaid •.••.•...•. • ..•.....••••..•... $1,237 attack aircraft (60 in all) ..••••..•• $552 Women, Infants and 12 additional F-15 Air Force · Children (WIC) Nutrition .•...... $300 fighter pl~nes (42 in all) •••..•..... $457 Subsidized Housing and Rent 24 additional F-16 Air Force - Contributions •.••••.•..••...... • ~.$4,916 fighter planes (120 in all) ••...•...• $416 2 E-3A AWACS Advanced Warning International Development Aid ..•.•• ~.$1,854 Extended Unemployment and Control System aircraft •...•.•.•. $275 Insurance Benefits •.•..••.•••.•••••.• $700 12 AV-8B Marine Vertical/ Trade Adjustment Assistance .•.•...•.• $1,150 Short Take-Off, Landing planes •.•••.. $657 Student Assistance •.•.•...... •.••... $1,016 8 KC-lOA cargo aircraft ••....•.••.•••.. $480 Vocational Education ...... •...... •. $236 151 additional XM-1 tanks (720 in all}.$870 CETA ...... •.•....•...... •. $4 , 6 4 4 136 additional Infantry/Cavalry Urban Mass Transit Grants Fighting Vehicles (600 in all) .....•• $250 and Operating Subsidies .•....•..•... ·.$1,053 ~ 234 additional Patriot air Energy Conservation .•.•. ~ ...... •.. ~ ... $677 defense missile units (364 in all) •.. $352 Solar Energy and Conservation Bank ....• $132 795 Roland air defense · Amtrak Subsidv ..•..•....•..•...... $431 missile units ....•...... •....•.....• $499 38 additional DIVAD division Northeast Cor~idor Rail Improvements •.. $288 air defense guns (50 in all) ...•....• $282 Park Land Acquis~tion and · Long-lead nuclear components . Conservation ...•...... •...... •. $566 for a Nimitz class aircraft carrler •• $657 National Consumer Co-op Bank ...... •..•. $136 Reactivation of Oriskany aircraft National Institutes of Health ...... •. $197 carrier ($146m. in FY 1981) •...•.••. $372 National Endowment for the Reactivation of battleships 11 New Hurnanities .••••.•...•••...... •..•. $165 Jersey" and "Iowan ($92 m. 1n '81} ..• $250 Public Broadcasting .••...... •••.•.. $43 1 additional CG-47 AEGIS cruiser (3 in all) ...... •..•..•••. $810 2 additional FFG-7 guided THE MAJOR REAGAN MILITARY AODITIONS missile frigates (3 in all) ...... $473 1 additional SSN-688 Los Angeles class attack submarine (2 in all) .•.• $650 Long-Range Combat Aircraft, 6 additional T-AKRX fast loqtstic Research and Development ....•.•.... $2,456 ship conversions (8 in all) •.•..•...• $466
U.S. INTERVENTION ABROAD Source: u.s. Congress, Committee on Forei~n Affairs; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, 1970 1898-Cuba: To protect U.S. interests. Archangel. To defeat Bolsheviks. 1899-1907-Philippipes: To suppress revol- 1919-Honduras: To protect U.S. interests. ution for national independance. _ 1920-22-China, Guatemala, Pa~ama, Costa Rica, 1900-China: Military force to protect Amer Turkey ican embassy, remained until 1934. _ . 1901-Colombia: (In Panama, state of Colombla) 1920-22-China,Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Protect American property, secure transit Turkey: To protect U.S. interests. lines. · 1924-Honduras: To protect lives during elec 1903-Honduras: Protect American Consulate tions. and steamship property during revolt. 1924-25-China: To protect U.S. interests. 1903-Dominican Republic: Protect American 1925~Honduras: Further election hostilities. interests during revolt. 1925-Panama: Strikes and rioting. 1903-Syr.ia: Prote.ct American interests. 192~-33-Nicaragua: Further activity against 1903-1914-Panama: ~nsure success of revolt Sandinista revolt. against Colombia, protect American liv~s. 1933-Cuba: During Batista revolt, provided 1904-Dominican Republic: Protect U.S. ~nter naval coveraqe apd support, no troops. ests during revolution. 1941-45-Europe: World War II .. 1904-5-Korea (twice), Marrocco, Panama: To 1950-53-Korea: To protect U.S. interests. protect u.s. interests. 1958-Lebanon: To protect u.s. interests. 1909-Cuba: To restore order, establ£sh favorable government following revolt. 1962-Cuba: Naval blockade. 1907-19il-Honduras (twice), Niqaragua: · To 1962-75-Laos: To install favorable reqime. prevent building qf canal by Japan. . 196A-72-Viet Nam: Declared conflict. 1911-China: Approaching stages of Nat~on 1965-Dominican Republic: To overthrow gov alist revolution. ernment of Juan Bosch, install army.· 1912-Honduras: To prevent seizure> o£ U.S. 1970-Cambodia: u.s. troops ordered in to owned railroad by Hondura!l __ government. ·Cambodia to aid "Vietnamization". 1912-China: To protect U.S. interests ~urinq In addition to thepe cited by the U.S. revolution. Congress there are others atrributable to 1913-1941-China: 5700 troops, 44 gunboats covert intervention, fully documented in in Chinese waters, to protect u.s. interests. u.s. Congressional hear~ngs: 1912-1925-Nicaragua: To promote stability of_ 1953-Iran: To overthrow elected government favored government, suppress revolutionary and install the Snah. forces led by General Sandinista. · 1954-Guaternala: To reverse land reform pro 1913-1914-Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic: gram, overthrow elected government and revolutions, U.S. forces held capitol cities. install right wing mil~tary group headed by 1914-1917-Mexico: revolution, protection of Castillo Armas. U.S. interests. 1961-Cuba: Bay of Pigs invasion. 1915-1934-Haiti: To maintain order. · 1964-Brazil: To overthrow elected government 1916-1925-Dominican Republic: To maintain and install General Branco. order. 1965-Indonesia: To overthrow elected govern 1917-1918-Europe: World War I. ment of Sukarno, replaced with Gen. Sunarto. 1917-1922-Cuba: To protect u.s. interests 1967-Greece: To overthrow elected government, during insurrection. install junta. 1918-1920-Panama, Mexico: To protect U.S. 1967-Chile: To overthrow elected government interests. of Allende, replaced with military junta 1918-1920-Russia: 7000 troops,Vladivostok; headed by General Pinochet. • .5000 troops join Allied intervention at the. observer may 6, 1981 PAGE · 3 fl CENTRAL AMERICA .En route to Nicaragua, I am for the time being in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, just in' Alice Kriapp time for some very interesting pol itical developments. Costa Rioa ·has been for the p~st few years a,n, "tmder experiencing economic difficulties sta)lding of! which are really only recently be the ecamornic ginning to be felt by the popul structure fJ:IOD\ ation. Witness; only two or three which any
months ago the official colones ,..i.-political. dollars exchange rate was around movement must 8~50 colones to the US $1, while necessarily develope. the current rate is officially With a deteriorating 15 colones to the $1. This is a economic situation, devaluation of close to 50%, a the citizenry here, as major. problem for a country en is usually -the case in ~irely dependent on the import - socfeti~s with a relatively of foreign manufactured goods to high standardl of living, is keep the economy rolling along, easily swayed into embracing as Costa Rica's main economic mistaken ~ositions on the nature activity (th~t portio~ of the eco · of its ills. Blame it on the ~omy that brings in, those valuabie communists. that the US purports to support There were two bombings in again in the name of democracy, us $'s for ~oreign exchange the city last week, the first has no power whatsoever other purpos~s] is in the agricultural time in years that Costa Rica had than to exist as a US-interest coffee and bananas. sector, mainly a direct contact with a terrorist pawn. b) the country is in no Rica's The devaluation of Costa incident. Popular sent-iment, ~ay divided into political has, of course, brought currency heralded by the .conservative press, camps of "left" and "right", in inflation-- with it a surge attributed the incident to the with an unfortunate civilian as the cost of importing goods infiltratiQn of leftwing terr population caught·in the middle. doubles, the prices of goods orist-elements from politically There exists only the ·military internally go up accordingly. it represents unstable r~gions nearby. It is and the oligarchy It's a lit~le more complicated~ one side, and the people not unt~l you begin talking to on that; let me backtrack than social scientists, and other united· in opposition to this for a moment to point out the , This includes stu concerneq in~ividuals at the tyranny. reason for the devaluation of University, that you begin he~~ing dents, teachers, peasants, and the national currency. The problem a differnt perspective on the a whole spectrum of political is one of World Prices in the incidents--namely that the bomb organizations, of which the International Market scheme of ings were right-wing, pro-us marxist element is a small min bananas are a ~hings. Coffee and ploy to foster just such a reac ority. US involvement on the commodities, so. nobody' s vital tion amongst the citizenry, per side of the military will only for whom the those countries haps even the work of the CIA. lead to a greater slaughter of ~xport of these items is the (I have long wondered why pevple the El Salvadoria{l peoples. The primary economic activity, have are so quick to scoff at theor- US press is lying to its read no control of"market prices ies that t1e CIA activity to ership, not to mention what (unlike the fortunate oil-pro politically destabilizing incidents comes out of the state department ducing countries). It should around the world. Such activity and the lips of our illustrious come as no surprise, therefore, has been more than adequately new president who not once but are going that these countries documented for years, particular twice declared that Cuba was in to suffer economically when a ly in relation to Central and the Mediterranean Ocean. It worth lb. of coffee is suddenly .South America. Again one need can only be in the interest of as much the following yea.r. half only open one's eyes to American the American people to understand the problem One might assume foreign policy in the region, past the reality of the "state of the simply might be taken care of by and present, to see our dismal world" today. This does not mean production. (oh, foolish doubling record toward fostering "human the mere identification-of world besides the vir mortal!), but rights" and "democracy" in the problems such as poverty, starvation, impossibility of such a tual region.} At any rate, there OG and political repression·, but must take demand into feat, one ctrrred today a "Silent Ma:r:ch", the understanding of the under- consideration. Now the plant several thousand strong, along lying causes of these problems. owners in a position to ation the Avenida Central tQ show Well, enough said. I'd, how such things ~s their manipulat~ solidarity versus terrorism ever, like to leave you with some profits are obviously going to in the country. thing I dug up from the Oct. 29, pass this loss on down to their ]979 issue of TIME magazine. From EL SALVADOR: I cann0t ,employees. _However, they_are the front editorial page lauding ,stress enough the -imprtance sensible enough not to simply the work of this reporter, Sider, of striving to understand the halve wages, which though_keep who pulled together a special re reality of the political situ ing currency stable would prob port on the Pentagon in this issue: find them with a revolution ation in El Salvador, a countrY ably "There's a ·certain affinity .on their hands. So~ they k~ep in which 10,000 people, mostly in that reporters and military wages stab+e, but those wages civilians, have been killed violence, most of which folks have for one another," in _effect come to b~ worth half political military/ as much. Voila, inflation, is attributable to the Sider observes. "I guess any complex which underdeveloped country-style. oligarchical power body who wears a uniform or who economic For me, personally, arriving holds political and carries a pen and pad his whole in the country. I at io~ded with American doll~rs, control professional life is a Peter tended a presentation by three which are worth about 15% more Pan by trade, we want to keep professionals, off the street than the official El Salvadorian our toys and adventures. It in exile, on the _rate they're so much in demand, currently makes for an understanding in their country. The things are peachy, though this situation r~.lationship." important points made were consolation to Jose most "Though his mid-1950's Anuy is.small no Costa Rican. a) that there is absolutely stint as a public information ·question that the country is specialist provided little in Well, ~ ~t~rteq qut b~ ~en controlled by the "fourteen fam _ the way of battleground adven _tioning t~at interesting pol ilies", an oligarchica::t. dict ture, his 16 months as a TIME itical currents were deVeloping atorship, no less tyrannical war correspondent in Viet Nam \ in Costa Rica, and here I have and brutal than the recently did. says Sider, who was wounded been outlining basic economics. ' ended Somoza dictator~hlp, in the neck near the Laotian bor-· It is important to understand which controls the military. der: 'It was the thrilling Hem- that one c~n never understand The so-called "moderate junta" .ingway life at last: Danger, ex any political current without citement and mud." e supported by the Irish People. Yet Sands was elected to the British IRELAND Government, ~hile in jail • .The shame that should result PRISONER STATUS from the British actions certainly should be shared by the American BOBBY SANDS AND Gover~ent. The best way to illus trate this, is to mention the U.S. THE HUNGER STRIKE policy towards Irish Immigrants: .. · · Tom Kelly No person suspecte~ of belonging The fools, the fools, they have to the I.R.A. is to be admitted into· 1eft us our Fenians dead; and while the United States. President Reagan rrela~d holds these graves, Ire made his position clear hy inviting iand unfree shall never be at the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the peace! Padraic Pearse LOyalist te~rorist 9r.o~ t0 his in auguration. When Marga,ret says After eight hundred years 1 of mis about the I.R.A. leader Bohby Sands: rule in Ireland, the British Crown still "A crime is a crime is a crime"J does-not realize 'that the Irishpeople Regan's attitude says: ••A crime is will never submit themselves to English a crime is a crime ••• but yet ••• " control of Irish destinies. Th~t only As for the American Press, the by the extermination of the Gael, not news that is fit to print is that only in Erin; but also in America or BOBBY SANDS Bobby Sands died for the right to any other land of exile, will the crown wear his own olothes. In my view, rule in peace over any par~ of rreland. Jeanne LeGouis Tom Kelly martyrdom does not go that fa~. As That no matter how many Irishmen die or "Murder and botnhing and ter we all know at Bard from Rapheal flee Ireland, as long as one remains. rorism are cr~esr they are not acts Cancel Miranda's testtmony, being th~y will fight and eventually drive the of politics. These people will a political prisonner is no fun. Saxon into the sea. This has been the never be granted political ste:tus. It is my belief that if all history of British tyrrany in Ireland. Never". · · the people of the r.R.A. who fill In every generation the Irish people Margaret Thatcher's comment the British jails were granted the have rebelled against the foreigner, on her refusal to grant ~ohhy Sands political prisonner status, Britatn only to be defeated and to suffer harsher and his comrades political st~tus, might appear as an oppressive, im retaliation by the British government. leads one to question the natu~e of perialistic country. Moreover, an Yet they know that with each defeat they his detention. Her very statement, other crucial determinant f0r Bobby are Sand's one step nearer to f~eedom, and denying his political role and re~ · sacrifice was to force Bri they battle on! ferring to it as a criminal one in tains to admit that a political An example of this battle occurs stead, raises important questions: stru~gle for independence is occur today in a British concentration camp What does it take to be a political ring in Northern Ireland. This means called Long Kesh (the maze). A man prisoner? Is it necessary to be a lot to the British Government, named Bobby Sands~ an avowed freedom a Native American to apply? ·should since, if it admits to this fact, it fighter of the Irish Republican Army Bobby Sands have ·pled insanity for would be forced to abide hy the who recently was elected a member. of . his defepse, since he was, accord Geneva Convention which guarantees Parliament, lies near death from a hun ing to Thatcber, not committing the rights of prisonners of·war, ger strike which he and a few of his political acts against the British · and which Britain has signed. This comradea nave been carrying out for 56 govermnent? of course, would collide with the days at the time of this writing. The ttme for anger and poli reports about the actual treatment Each day the newspapers report that he tical action (or whatever they given to I.R.A. prisonners, which gets closer and close~ to death, and as choose to call it} has come. One Amnesty International refers to as· he slowly dies, all of Ulster comes now realizes how littleof a chance torture, in some instances. • closer to an explosion. Many people in Bobby was ever given: First con Murder and bombing and terror this country are confused by the situ victed for a bank-robbery, then fov ism altogether, may well be acts of ation and ask "Why?" The answer to this illegal possession of arms, an~, politics. They are acts of rebel ·question is both very simple and very , finally for the simple fact of be~ lion against an oppressive regime. complicated. ing an I .R._A. member. He .spent one ~s for the status o~ political pri Not unlike the hunger strike of third of his life in jail. sonners, I know that in America it the Long Kewn· inmates a few months back, But as he was elected to Par doesn't take murder plus bombing to the main objective of Sand's hunger liament, his hunger strike ••came in become one. If Margaret wants to strike is the granting of a special cat handy" for the British gover~ent. avoid such shame in the future, she egory or prisoner-of-war status to the This might explain Margaret's un should ask sly old Ronnie how he inmates. Oriqinally Britain agreed to willingness to negociate the demands. deals with political prisonners; the demands during the first hunger Indeed, according tG her, the I.R.A. and if she wants Peace, she will strike. However, as soon as it ended, is a Terrorist group which is no~ have to free Ireland. the British government, being true to its. character, reneged on its promise. No matter what the British innocent of any crfme at all, ex~t~ Giving the captives special category government miEht say in public, cept, in the eyes of the Crown, for status would mean nothing more than al- there are several undeniable resons bei~g Irish. It is rather ironic _lowing them to associate treely with why the prisoners in Long Kesh and how the innocent are in jail and each other, not forcing them to do prison ~ elsewhere in Britain are special those who are the criminals are . labor or to wear prison clothes. You (i.e. not common) prisoners·. First, free to rule. may ask, "Why doesn't Britain concede in ]965 there were only 300 prison~ Third, all of these po+itical to the demands and sav~ a man's life?" ers in Northern Ire~and r in ]969 · it prisoners in the North of Ireland , This i~ the complicated part~ jumped· to ] 000 due to the t•special were sentenced by special courts, For the past ten years the ~-~·~· has Powers Act" passed by the British without juries and with very qu~ been waging a war of liperation against government in that year. By ]980 stionable evidence. Most of these ' t~e English in Northern Ireland, and only there were 3000. p~isoners. This courts were, . in fact, military against the English government. (The--- rise in the number of prisoners qpurts, and the prisoners, 'if they propagailqa of England ,makes this war a could not possibly he attributed to were tried at all', were judged by • sectarian battle.) Yet, t~ Britrsh will a rise in the "cOIMfton cril:ne" rate, military offi.cers. Thus, these pri nbt admit this. Margaret Thatcher, Prime but rather from an unstable politi soners have become military prison~ Minister of England, just recently claimed cal situation. Therefore, these ers or prisoners of war. · This makes that the I.R.A. is nothing more ~ than a prisone·rs must I:>.e Pol.itical Pri-· them special prisoners since they band of "common criminals." t (If the I.R.A. soners. did not stand trial i9 a co~on "crimes" were nothing more than "common" Secon4, many of these pol~ti court for a "common crime.·~ forEngland, it does riot say much for Brit cal prisoners were tortured by Bri Last but not least, these poli ish rlemocracy!) Yet, the Briti~h gOvern tish Sp~~ial Forces (an equivalent tical prisoners were judged guilty ment has pumped over lOO million pounds of our Green Ber~ts). into giving under the laws of a foreign govern since i970_into the suppor~ of an army incriminating confessions. Thi3 ment forced upon them in an att~pt whose main objective is to crush these· use·of torture has alre~~y he~n . to :;mbj_ugate the natives; · a foreign "common criminals." 11 years later they proven, not only by Amnesty· !nter~ government who has usurped the right still have not succeeded. The reasoning na.tional, but also by the World of the Irish people to rule them-· behind the British denial of ·r.R.A. goals Court and the European court ..... Most selves. Therefore, these ''prison- is far too long to write of these Political Prisoners are about _here. cont. on page 10 the observer may 6, 1981 source: "Coalition Close-up" complaints tnat it is facing South African aggression coalition for a new foreign is true, despite South African denials." It would be AFRICA and military · policy April, 1981 impossible for the United States to intervene in Angola to aid UNITA without collaboratin~ with South Africa WHY RETAIN ClARK AMENDME-NT? in doing so. Supporting UNITA will therefore put at (From T~e washington Office on Africa} risk positive u.s. ·rel~tions with all the rest of Africa, particularly with Nigeria, America's second largest During the Angolan civil war in 1975-76~ the con source of oil.· gress overwhelmingly aqopted the "Clark Amendment" 3) Repealing the Clark Amendment could have seri cutting off funds for CIA covert operations and re ous negative rePercussions for the three-year-old ne quiring explicit Congressional ·approval for any future ·gotiations that the United States and four other western U.S. support for military or paramilitary activity in nations have been pursuing in Namibia. Angola has Angola. There were strong secUrity and foreign policy been the most impbrtant frontline state in these talks, reasons for taking this action. Senator Percy pointed and has played a major constructive role in what pro out at the time that there was "no national will" for gress has been made. In the summer of i979 the late the United States to make an all-out effort in Angola. Angolan President Augostinp Neto came forward with a ·senator cranston asserted that Congress would not new proposal for a demilitarized zone along the An pass a "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution opening the way to golan/Namibian border which broke a deadlocK in the · a Vietnam-type disaster ' in Angola." Senator Pell la discussions on how to implement and monitor the cease mented that America•s relations with all of Africa fire between the forces. SWAPO has agreed to partici nave been severely damaged by "guilt by association" pate in United Nations-supervised elections in Namibia, with South Africa•s invading troops in Angola. but So~th Africa has refused to go along with the plan. These reasons for refraining from intervent.ion Lifting the ban on CIA. activity in Angola is certain in the civil strife in Angola are as. compelling today to create a chill in relations with the f~ntline as they were in 1975. Lifting the Clark Amendment is states and SWAPO, dashing the hopes of a · negotiated not merely an abstract issue of Congressional restraint settlement and extending the violence and destruction on the Executive Branch 1 s control over the CIA. There of the Namibian war. is every indication that the Reagan administration will 4) Intervening in Angola would isolate the Uni intervene in Angola if the Congressional ban is lifted. ted States from our NATO allies and damage the position President Reagan, stated in a May 6, 1980 interview of American companies operating successfully in Angola. wit.h the Wall Street Journal that he favors providing· All of our European allies have recognized the Angolan weapons to UNITA. Secretary of State Haig, too, be goverll2:!lent and many of them are seeking to expand lieves that the united States should not have stopped private investment and trade. For example, the French its support for UNITA in 1975. A vote on the Clark Foreign Minister visited Angola in January 1981 to ex -- Amendment will be the only opportunity for the Con pand commer~ial ties between the two countries. gress to prevent what could become a major foreign American companies operating in Angola are con~ policy blunder. cerned that u.s. support for UNITA will damage their The Congress should continue t6 prevent u.s. inter good working relations with the MPLA government and vention in Angola for the following reasons: place them at a disadvantage with European companies. 1) UNITA is not a viable party deserving of Unit Melvin Hill, President of Gulf Oil, testified before ed States military backing. If the u.s. intervenes on the House Subcommittee on Africa in September 1980 UNITA's behalf, it will be pulled into a quagmire from that the Angolan government has been "responsive and which it will be difficult to escape -- backing a group supportive as a business partner" and has not inter which can only destabilize the coutry, not gain ·control fered ~n the production or exploitation of Gulf's over it. Angolan support for Jonas Savmibi's UNITA share of the 48,300 barrels of oil being produced daily movement has declined sharply during the last year. in Cabinda. Respecteq British expert on ~Angola Basil Davidson re 5) Renewing CIA operations in Angola will not de ported last April that UNITA 1 s clalli-to eontrol one crease the influence of Cuba or the Soviet Union in half of . the country is grossly exaggeJ:,"ated: "Their Angola; it will have the opposite effect. The Angolan •control' in cold facts applies to mountainous pockets government requested assistance from CUban troops in of two provinces out of sixteen, and even there they 1975 after South Africa1invaded the co~ntry, as was were hard-pressed." Evidence of UNITA's dwindling pop confirmed by CIA sources at the time. MPLA Secretary ular support came from a London Times report of Juiy Lucio Lara told t~ !'!!!. ~ ~ of;' J~n~ary 23, 1981, 26, 1980: "HUndreds of thousands of former UNIT}\ sup "The problem of the Cubans is the problem of South porters are returning from the bush to areas of govern-. Africa. • .Every day they kill pur peo~le. We experi ment control. They ar·e emaciated, diseased and in enced an invasion and we still suffer. We do not feel rags. It is ciear UNITA can no longer provide basic safe." Angolan Foreign Minister Paulo Jorge has stated supplies for them." explicitly: "When the threat from South Africa dis A recent startling revelation of UNITA's depend appears -~ and we believe it will with the independence ence on brutal South African military backing helps of Namibia -- bhen we won't need the Cuban presence to explain its decline in popular support. A brltish here." ' former. mercenary who had fought with a secret South Angola has also been hesitant to enter into econ African group in Angola called "32 Battalion" told the omic and military agreements witp the Soviet Union. Manchester Gaurdian of Januacy 29, i981: "While Angola has turned down Soviet requests to use its ports Battalion 32 was taking s~vate, two representatives of as Soviet naval bases, and Angola has refused to join UNITA were waiting at th~ tactical headquarters down COMECON, the econOmic group including the Soviet Union the road -- one white intelligence officer and one and Eastern Europe. Angola has made numerous diplo black soldier. When the battle was over, they came up matic overtures to the United States; rejecting them to . claim the t0Wl'l for UN ITA. The point is that UNITA will force Angola into closer relations with Cuba and hangs around in the South~east where their tribe is the Soviet Union. • · and they can proha~~y defend tnemselves, but they oa,n • t go out and take somewhere like Savate. we do it for them because it improves their bargaining position." "Bat:tal~on 32's regular job is to ·go into. the Angolan RONNIE SENDS 100 GREEN bush and ••• clea~ a designated area .••We just beat · them, cut them, burn them. As soon -as we're finished with them, w~ kill them." BERETS TO LIBERIA 2) Lifting the ban on CIA activity in Angola would identify the United States with the apartheid . April 12, 1981 marked the one year anni South African government, badly damaging relations with versary of Liberia's military coup. As a independent Africa. In 1975 South Africa openly in gift President Reqan sent Liberia 100 Green vaded Angola in support of the ,UNITA movement, and re Berets of the Army's Special Forces for a mained inside the country for six months. The CIA month of joint manuevers and a basic infan shared intelligence with South Africa and collaborated try training program. The troops arrived in with South Africa in its invasion. This open u.s. Monrovia, Liberias capital city, in time for identification with South Africa was very damaging to a paratrooping display and a show of the flaq · u.s. relations ~ith Africa, and was one of the main to mark the celebration of the seizu~e of -· re~sons the Congress adopted the Clark Amendment.- power by Master Seraeant Doe. The Special In the last year, South Africa has significantly Forces are a "mobile training team" invited . expanded.its military activity in Angola. o; June 13, by Master Sergeant Doe to· ieplace a handful· 1980 South African Prime Minister Botha left more than of Cuban advisors that he plans to expel. 200 dead. Jonathon S~eel reported in the February 10, The Cubans were invited in by his interior 1981 Washington Post after visiting Angola that "there minister during the last year. can be no more doubt that the broad thrust of Ango~a~s cont. on pg. 6 6 the observer may 6, 1981! is up for re-election shortly. Polis taken p7ior to the most recent incidents indicated that h~s. Likud bloc would probably lose were an election EUROPE held now, qnd that Shimon Peres of the La~or Party, and some independents--preferably Ezer Wel.zman, who ranks with our former President (Carter) and NATO RAISES NUCLEAR ANTE Helmut Schmidt as the three most intemligent pol Gua.rdia!l iticians around today--would for a new government. History shows that people in wartime The governments of leading Western Euro elections generally prefer that an incumbent pre pean natrons nave apparently decided to con sident ofr prime minister stay in office. Esp-. front their respective disarmament movements ecially if victory is in sight byut not yet ob rather than challenge U.S. plans for a nuclear tained. Johnson proved this . rule in 1964. He was build up by NATO. bluffing, of course. Lincoln, in Q864, wasn't. That was the general.assessment of peace Of course, with its top-notch forces, Israel would activists here following last week's meeting probably stomp the Syrians in case of an all-out in Bonn of fhe 13 Western de£ense ministers war. But by election time it probably wouldn't who· comprise NATO's Nuclear Planning Group. In be in Damascus just yet. Changing. the man at an April 8 statement, the military strategists . the top would i'mply dissatisfaction and encour- ananimously reaffirmed the December 1979 deci a~e the enemy. So Begin would be re-elected. sion to station 572 U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe at the end of ·1983. ·The ministers also reiterated thei~ sup-. port for talks with the Soviet Union on wea pons levers in Europe, but there was no public SPACE disapproval of US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberaer's refusal to set any firm d~te for beginnin~ such n~gotiat~ons. . U.S. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Instead, the Nuclear Planning G~oup ex pressly stated that the convening of any con By Jonathan Bennett feren.ce on Euromissiles was now conti~ent .upon (Guardian)-The possible military applications Soviet behavior toward Poland. Should. the USSR fo the space shuttle are·so tantalizing that intervene· to crush the Solidarity labor move "NASA is goina to be trampled to death by the ment there, the West would not even con.sider Defense Department on shuttle use," according arms discussions with Moscow, the ministers de to James Van Allen, one of the original quid clared. ing forces of u.s. space exploration. "Why Weinberg left ' no doubt .about Washington's not be honest about it and call (the space stance upon his arrival in Bonn April 7. The shuttle) a military program?" Reqan Administration, he said, views a massive Nor are predictions of the military's military build-up by the West as taking prece dominance ·mere flights of future fancy. Mil dence over any talks in the near future on arms itary space developments include: control. The Penta~on boss then told his col *The Air Force is building a $450 million leagues in the Nuclear · Planning Group that they Space Operations Center and a military-only had better take the same p9si tion. • shuttle base at Vandenberg Air Force base in California. The facilities are not technical ly necessary, since the duplicate the "civil ian11 Cape Canaveral operations. *The Defense Department started bookin~ space on the shuttle a year after the program began in 19.72, more than three years before MID EAST the first concrete expression of private com mercial interest in the venture. PLO 'ETC *The Defense Department is asking for $500 million for shuttle research and develop BY ROBERT NEDELKOFF ment in fiscal 1982, after having already pre vailed to enlarge the cargo bay of the civil The . irnmediate Mideast problem is the ian shuttle to accommodate military payloads. Lebanese situation . Palestinian refugees *More than a third of the flights sche in camps wanted to live on their old land . and duled for the next five years are for secret, military govern themselves ~ Toward this end, some of purposes. At the same time, the Of- · 'their number, the PLO, presented their case to fice of Management and Budget has trimmed the sympathetic Third World nation. That was the NASA budg~t and eliminated several of the "public 11 thing. The other business was ter shuttles's civilian missions. rorism. The Israeli government retaliated by One reason for not calling the 2huttle a ·bombina the Palestinian sett1e~ents ~n Lebanqn. military proqram is a 19~1 UN treaty barring - The unruly Palestinians made the ri~ht weapons of mas destruction from outer space. wing Christian Lebanese angry_. . S.ince they'd The u.s. will not violate the letter of the arrived, the Palestinian birth rate nad sta·rted treaty if it avoids putting atomic warheads in to 'make Muslims outnumber Chri~tians in Lebanon . . orbit. · There is little doubt, however, that Since the Christians traditionally. governed, · some of the military missions will violate the · t:tley didn't care for this. Civil War resulte¢1 treaty's spirit, since they will test the fea iri 1974 and 1975. It was bloqdy~. Tal Zataar, sibility of putting the weapons in space and a Palestinian outpost besiegeq _anq conquered using them if necessary. • by.~hristians, became the PLo•s answer to the Al~o. ~he fight was resolv~d only when Sy~ia , LIBERIA cont. from pg. 5 ~tepped . in with a peacekeeping. force, .which held . In the early hours of April 12 last year the two sides at bay: . the Palestinians in .their Doe led a small group of enlisted national . . camps, and the Christian Lebanese in an Israeli- guardsmen . in a raid on the pl;'esidential _pal- s\Ipported senii-·autol)omous .st·ate. in the s.outh. . . . ace, where Pre$ident William Toll;>ert, a· 66- . ·The Chr1stians didn it. care much for ·. th~ . year old Baptist minister, was assasinated • . ieft-:WJ~g ~us~im Syrians: they . went_. on SOJ?~ ~.ai<;is , •.. , , The next day, 27 other seni,or government ·of-·. TP,e .. Syrians got \lpset ~ The Israelis, : in the,ir . ', , ·, ·. ficiaTs were rounded up ..and ' executed without · ·:,re9tilar atta~ks on Pale;st.ini<,in positions,·, J:li:i: . · trial. : Master Sergeant Doe anncrunced 'that . . :. ' ~om~ syriari; . ~q~ip' m~. nt. ' ~ ' ( As · .~. co~s~ DEMILITARIZATION ccont'd from pg. 1) , but one route to its solution. Inflation is blamed upon many things hy many people, but unfortunately, most retreat from pointing the finger at the single most inflationary factor in our economy, the enor mous and unproductive Military Industrial Complex, and the staggering deficits that have accompanied it. · According to Robert McNamara, the rise of the American military is the story of the ·most phenomenal assemblage of "raw power" and technology in the history of mankind. But f?r him it was purely a management challenge. S1nce 1951, the U.S. has spent $2 trillion, over 10% of the Gross National Prodtict for that period, on direct expansion. Considering t~e.many service industries _dependent on the . m1~1tary c0mp~ex (and hence its appropri atlons) the f1gure is probably closer to 20%. f?'l ~· For Fiscal Yea~ '81, the Reagqn administra- THE LEBANE§E C~RI§TIAN .i{ )~ tion intends to devote over 25 % of the Ml1..1TrA PRAY§ FOR MACl-JINE GUN~; Tt-\E v£W~ WANT 1 entire Federal Budg~t.to the Department PLANE.~ AND TANK~; THE. l'&LAMlC REVOLUT\ON of Defense. · · WANt& §PARE PART§; Tt-IE \Rl~H CATr\OL..ICf> BEG These expenditures represent the massive devotion FoR CONCEALABLE. WEAPON~; THE BR\TI€>H of the nation"s resourees t~ the! military economy PROTS:~TANT~ VfOULD tJK£ R\OT CONTROL GEAR; whose produce offers little economic rewar~. Whereas THE AMERICAN fUNDAM£NTAl-l~T§ R£M1ND YoU TO investment into innovations- such as tel~phones, autos K£EP THEM AHEAD of Ru~&IA IN MlLlTARY and co~putors make a dramatic contribution to the E>P£NDING. THAT.,~ ALL Ta-t£ PRAYER~ FoR PEACE. advancement and growth of the domestic ec'onomy, massive missle procurement prograxns have only a spot effect creating jobs 5or the short.run while the equipment becomes antiquated and deteriorates unused. The jobs cre~ted unfortunately are short term, - · usually highly _ speci~lised, YES lirnit~d and VIRGINIA well , paying. Consequently we continue to experience massive levels of unemployment at, the peak of the economy's properity. Furthermore, .WFDIO the drain WIN on the THE wo~ld's natural and human resources limits their availability thus, oontinually .driving up the <;:e>st of living for the civilian. The tremendou~. need of the military's procurement programs for the world's energy ~nd VIETNAM WAR mineral . deposits. has been a primary contributor ~ to ·Anne Lintner the ~ecent balance of payments crisis· Further It has become common knowledge that it exacerbating the the domes~ic · inflation problem. was the anti-war move~ent that finally made is the export of military expenditures abroad. The Viet Nam too expensive for the United States authoritative Center for Defense Jnformatioft (CDI) to pursue. Popular dissent towards the actions notes that "about 70% ::-of the military budgetis of this "democratic" governing state inhibited spent on the defense of our allies and proiects the ability of our.leaders to justify their overseas. Many of these same observations have lead actions. They turned instead to a more subtle many to conclude w~th Clayton Fritc~y of the form of global intervention, removed from the Washington Post that "It is a. pipe ~:t'~am tc:!l keep public eye. This was accomplished on one hand, on tal~ing about licking inflati0n and balancing through a masking of direct intervention by the budget as long as military spending continues the use of Multilateral Banking and Develop unbridled". Yet it is precisely the military mental institutions, Multinational investment budget that is hiUng expande~ "to bring inflation and the maintenance of puppet regimes; and on .under contrc:!ll". the other, by the use of the media to rehash For the past 30 years it has been the civilian the national vision of the "virt'ues "of u.s. economy which has ha~ to play ~econd fi~~le to the foreign involvement. With a double-edaed tax gouging demands of the Military. That under the sword, 'the Unite.d States government launched · tremendous burden of the military, the rest of . p~ograms of massive· transfusions of armaments· _ America's inst ,itutions ~ have had to labor tomeet to "supportive" third ~orld minor powers, and their costs in this ";gra of Prosperity''is undeniable. a complex system of loans designed to create When Cities, Colleges and Health care institutions dependent junkies out of the developing world. become unable to maintain their physical plant At the.same time, the U.S. government created and provid~ the level of services they were d.esigned a buzz word out of "Human Rights .. and cried for while NASA constructs a returnable space craft "violation" against other countries not with and aesigns for the· deployment._of. MX missiles are - in the U.S. sphere of influence, while remain ing serious17:( considered, ~he ··.:visciousness of the cuts partially blind to our alies, among them, in the Welfare Budget is dramatically·witnessed. some of the worse violators history has ever ~ · seen. only the d~voti"n ":f! 1\fi\epi~~' a: · ~alth ~n~i n~tu~~l Our gov,ernment and our coro~rate econo mic system an~ human ~e~~rces to the maintenenoeef those a~e structured,as such. that they are so completely institutions which eont~ibute to wellb~ing and without a code of conduct that includes Lmprovement of the human eonditi~n will bring .human rights, all the while in sisting that real prosperity to the ~e~ican sooietv. we, the people, have achieved The trade off that favors military expenditures freedom and liberty. Well, we aren't buying I ' fv~· expenditU~6S On SOCial programS iS the Satne it. The contra dictions in the policies trade off that favors economic o.ri~ds for stability of ouL qovernment are becoming more appa~ent with each-day. and natural economic growth that insures prosperit~• Pro- . tes_ts anq demonstrations are being mobili'zed with increasing frequency. The orqanized ' Church (excluding .. the likes of the· Moral _M~jority) is voicing -its : disapproval. Bard College managed to bus 80 - students to Wash ington D.C. to the largest protest aaainst U.S. invol veme.nt in El . Salvader yet·. . If there is one lesson to learned from Viet Nam, It i's ·that we, the People,st.opped the intervention and won the war , and we c-an do it again. • page- 10· · the observer may 6, 1981 symbolic value, adding Reagan's action 11 is c:ro inq to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community in a lmi.g time." Miller FBI GIVEN OK TO SPY hailed . the pardons as "a very fine thing for ' ' the present FBI" . because they will encourage (Guardian)- President Reagan's unconditional acrents to "do their job 100%". • pardon of FBI officials W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, has bean widely viewed by civil libertarians and activists as a qreen (cont'd from pg. 8) light for en~ouraging intelligence age~cies R. D. F. armies have so much advanced military equip the constututional right~ of u.s. to abuse an area just by citizens. ment, we can't stabilize the flag.'" , President Reagan, announced. April 15 that showing "Beyond the Viet Nam .Syndrome" ' he was pardoning Felt and Miller, who had been -From Radical America Spring 1980 · found guilty last fall of authourzing FBI I aqents to break into tpe homes of friends and Keepinq in mind the sophistication of to relatives of members of the Weather Under -day's guerilla opposition, the existence of ground in 1972-73. The two had not even re- the Rapid _Deployment Force takes on a new ; quested a pardon. meaning. As can be seen in the case of El In announcing his pardon, Reagan said Sal vader, revolutionary "flare-.ups" cannot . they acted "out of their good-faith belief be quelled just by.boosting a junta. Nor that their actions were necessary to pre~erve could we chase the Russians out of Afghan the security of the country" when "America was istan with the thought of our-muscle. The at war." Reagan justified his move by refer RDF is viewed by the Pentagon as having two rirtg to President Jimmy Carter's 1977 pardon possibilities: l)It can serve for a quick ·_., for nearly 4000 draft resisters: "America was strike "trip wire" to hold the front doors generous e~ough to those who refused to serve open to a larger u.s. military commitment; their country in the Vietnam War. We can .be. 2)It c.an serve as a first strike force with no less generous to two men who acted on hiqh a "pre-emptive" policy of beating the Soviets principle. to end the terrorism that was to the draw and jumping the gun with immie threateninq our nation." . diate troop deoloyrnent at the first sign of Reagan's pardons apparently were desi~n possible Soviet incursion. In any case, the to boost the morale of the intelliqence a~en development of the Rapid Deployment Force cies and to signal that post-Vietnam and Water sets us well on our way down the road to a ~ate restrictiohs on the agencies had -been "peace-time., conscription and the revital lifted. On this point; both the pardoned FBI ization of the not-so-cold war with the officials and civil libertarians and ~ctivists Soviet. Union. • aoree. - On learning of the pardons, and elated -Anne Lintner elt responded that they had a 11 tremendous" Eire (cont'd f~om pg. 4) ers" have not broken any la't'l created and ac cepted by a free and totally independent Irish nation. To sum this all up, these prisoners are political prisoners and, as prisoners of war, they are justified to demand and recieve all of the rights provided Ior under the Geneva Convention. YOU DO WHAT WOULD The government in London knows these IN THE.EVENT OF reasons only too well. Yet they will not concede these rights to the pri'soners. Mar A NUCLEAR WAR? gret Thatcher will ailow Bobby Sands to die and they (the British Government} will be responsible for renewal of the flagellation in Northern Ireland and for the deaths of hundreds 'of innocent by-standers. This will occur because the oppressor government and thought, but imagine 1 It's not a pleasant all of England S lackeys have not realized at work in the morning, or relaxing yourself after eight hundred years, that an Irish he~o dinner. If the radio is on, the tone after is strongest when he becomes a martyr. An~ System will of the Emergency Broadcasting When Bobby Sands joins the ranks of other with instruc suddenly interrupt the music Irish martyrs, such as Father Murphy and more information. tions about where to obtain Wolfe Tone i'n 1798, Padraic Pearse and James been launched you Once the missiles have Connolly in 1916, he sill shake the mighty will have perhaps 30 minutes to live. What throne of Eng~and. In his death, he will will you feel. • • think ..• . do.. . . ? give new life "to the cause of rrish liberty.• In the aftermath of a nuclear. attack on New York, it is said that the living will envy the dead. Therefore, why not be among the dead? Faced with the alternative of re ~,;,;,,.{J maining. alive amidst piles of bleeding rubble and screaming people, the members of the ry .· ~=re tew~~ is}fi~; d;t" . Ground Zero Club want to be among the first . .. . to be vaporized. What about the Club's activities? First, DESIGNEits ~. -~~GOIDSMITHS since everything takes practice, the Ground specializing in: Zero Club will sponsor Reverse Civil De£ense pro Drills. At a given signal, members will • DIAMOND SEmNG ceed quickly and flamboyantly to Ground Zero, there to participate in the joy and innocence • REMOUNTING 1 of armageddon street theatre. • REPAIR WORK In addition to the drills, there will be • ANTIQUE RESTORATION 11 ~ dances and social events (called MX' ers") • Perhaps some members wili wish to spread in formation about nuclear war and its con All 1-\brk:.llOiw»n ~iaa sequences. 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