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ANC Gears up Election Campaign in S. Africa • «uoinnLuiw.uu • d c l u i u m Drou • OHINMUA^.UU • r(WR/C ruu • lUfcLANU KrlbO • NfcW ZEALAND $2.50 • SWEDEN Kr12 • UK £1.00 • U.S. $1.50 IN S ID E ^ffE fW S Ê & Ê ? . Leon Trotsky on THE MILITANT education and culture A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE I VOL. 58 NO. 2 January 17. 1994 Clinton ANC gears up election retreats from threats campaign in S. Africa to N. Korea BY BRIAN WILLIAMS With passage of an interim constitution BY BRIAN WILLIAMS by South Africa’s apartheid parliament De­ The U.S. government has retreated for cember 22, the election campaign for a new now from its aggressive campaign of nu­ constituent assembly moved into high gear. clear blackmail and threats of economic The country’s first-ever democratic nonra­ sanctions or even military strikes against cial vote is to occur April 27. A victory for North Korea. Backing away from its de­ the African National Congress (ANC) elec­ mand for virtual unlimited inspections of tion slate will mark the end of decades of North Korea’s nuclear facilities, Washing­ white-minority rule. ton announced January 4 that it will now “ We start 1994 with vigor, for it is our accept Pyongyang’s offer of one full inspec­ year of freedom,” stated ANC president Nel­ tion of seven atomic sites. son Mandela in his Christmas and New Clinton administration officials said this Year’s message to the nation. “ A ll demo­ tentative agreement might lead to cancel­ crats who want peace and justice must work ing U.S. annual joint military exercises together to isolate the minority in our coun­ with South Korean forces scheduled for try who try to foster racial hatred and vio­ March. lence. They must not be given the slightest “ It’s one of these cases where the Admini­ chance to undermine the democratic future stration was huffing and puffing and backed that we have worked so hard for.” down,” an unnamed government official In a year-end interview with journalists, told the New York Times. “ There’s nothing as reported in the Johannesburg Sowetan, wrong with trying to come out of this with­ Mandela elaborated further on the opportu­ out starting a war.” nities and challenges that lie ahead. He For months Washington has been threatening to impose an economic block­ hailed the establishment of the Transitional ANC-organized People’s Forum in South Africa. The ANC is calling public meetings Executive Council (TEC), which w ill “ make and organizing voter education in preparation for the country’s first nonracial election. ade or carry out possible military strikes sure that the Independent Electoral Com­ if the government of the Democratic Peo­ mission w ill take control of the elections ple’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) didn’t from the regime, and place it in the hands won close to a million votes during the cratic peace force will be able to put the fire agree to demands for frequent nuclear in­ of the people themselves.” In addition, the [whites-only] referendum last year. They out.” spections. U.S. president B ill Clinton South African Broadcasting Corporation “ is have a substantial following in the civil The ANC leader has been campaigning stated a month ago that North Korea now going to be developed into an inde­ service, police, army, and they also man key at public meetings in numerous cities would never be allowed to possess nu- pendent body and not a propaganda tool for installations such as energy and fuel and where serious discussion and debate has Continued on Page 12 any party or government.” could therefore paralyze any government. unfolded on a number of political and so­ The ANC leader said the threat of civil ‘To acknowledge those facts does not cial issues. Mandela, for example, re­ war by the right-wingers should not be un­ mean the peace forces are not powerful or sponded to a variety of questions raised at derestimated. “ During the last general elec­ unable to control the situation,” continued a recent forum in Natal province. A repre­ Wall Street tions the white vote was split between the Mandela. “ The right-wing could cause a lot sentative from the Muslim community of Conservative Party and the National Party,” of damage. However, we believe that what­ Greytown asked why the ANC has not in- faces dilemma Mandela pointed out. “ But the right-wingers ever damage they could cause, the demo­ Continued on Page 3 over Russia BY BRIAN WILLIAMS U.S. gov’t tries to control damage from As 1993 came to a close, editors of big- business newspapers and magazines in the United States and around the world seem to revelations on radiation experiments agree that reestablishing capitalism in Russia, their professed goal, is not in sight. At the BY HARRY RING Researchers from Harvard same time, a discussion is unfolding among For 12 years until the early University and the Massachusetts bourgeois opinion molders on how best to 1970s, more than 100 state prison Institute of Technology con­ impose a market economy in that country. inmates in Washington and Ore­ ducted the tests. They were A December 27 editorial in Business Week gon had their testicles exposed to funded in part by the Atomic En­ calls for slowing down the pace of “reform,” a high levels of radiation. ergy Commission and by Quaker code word for the austerity measures that have In the Boston area, between Oats. (If the experiments proved been slashing the living standard of Russian 1946 and 1956, at least 49 men­ successful, would the cereal working people. “ It’s time for doctrinaire gov­ tally retarded teenagers were fed maker have used it as a commer­ ernment reformers . and their Western ad­ radioactive food. cial?) visers to ease up and recognize that many Rus­ These are among the gruesome In the Washington/Oregon sians voted for the extremists as a protest revelations stemming from a gov­ prison experiment, the inmates against ‘shock therapy.’ ” says Business Week. ernment damage control opera­ were subjected to high doses of The Business Week editors, like many tion relating to the countless se­ radiation to determine if such ex­ other capitalist commentators, are shocked cret experiments designed to ad­ posure would inhibit the develop­ by the strong showing of rightist politician vance its capability to wage nu­ ment of sperm. Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the December 12 clear war. parliamentary elections in Russia. His Lib­ The government now admits The fraud of ‘consent’ eral Democratic Party won 24 percent of the that up to 800 people were used The victims received small nationwide vote. as human guinea pigs in radiation payments and were required to “ Instead of simply cutting loose newly pri­ experiments without informed sign “ consent” forms. But an En­ vatized companies, the government should consent. ergy Department spokesman now help shore up select companies with govern­ And unknown thousands of concedes the consent forms were ment aid,” continues Business Week. “ Instead people were subjected to radia­ a fraud since they didn’t really of letting new businesses develop in a hap­ tion fallout from secret bomb explain the risk involved of devel­ hazard free-for-all, the government must tests. oping testicular cancer. dedicate itself to rooting out corruption.” In the Boston-area experiment, Dr. Alvin Paulsen, a retired A news article in the same issue entitled, the teenagers were fed a heavy University of Washington medi­ “ ‘The reforms have lost,’ ” pinpointed the diet of cereal laced with radioac­ cal professor who helped conduct imperialist powers’ unsolvable dilemma. tive forms of iron and calcium. the experiment, defended the pro­ “ Russia and the West have to find a path to The apparent purpose was to de­ ject. reform that doesn’t put people’s backs to the Atomic blast at Nevada Test Site in 1957. Thousands were ex­ termine if large amounts of cereal He said it would have been wall,” it concludes. posed to the fallout Facts are coming out about other radiation would slow the digestion of those unethical to do the experiments The New York Times calls for capitalist experiments carried out on people without informed consent. minerals. Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 12 London uses conviction of boys to whip up anticrime frenzy— page 13 IN BRIEF. PLO, Tel Aviv debate accord people and destroyed about 200 dwellings Tel Aviv and the Palestine Liberation Or­ in the Port-au-Prince slum. An estimated ganization (PLO) concluded the latest round 1,500 people were left homeless. The fire of talks December 29 to decide how to im­ began a few hours after two officials of the plement the accord they signed last Septem­ rightist group were killed. ber. Negotiators said they will resume talks in early January to try to resolve the remain­ Honduran m ilitary opens files ing problems. The two sides reportedly A Honduran military spokesman said it agree on sharing responsibility for control­ will open its secret files on the murder and ling access to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, disappearance of close to 500 political activ­ but disagree over Tel Aviv’s claim to veto ists in the 1980s and allow judges to ques­ power over “problematic visitors.” tion the officers blamed for these acts. The Negotiators also differ on the size of the announcement was made December 30, one area around the West Bank town of Jericho day after a government human rights com­ that will be under Palestinian control. PLO mission report accused Argentine military officials demand jurisdiction over an area advisers and right-wing Nicaraguan contras roughly 77 to 116 square miles.
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