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Vol. 9, No. 37 © 1971 Intercontinental Press October 25, 1971 50c And the War Goes On Since Richard Nixon became president of the United States, more tha111 2,700,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Indochina, more than the combined total of all bombs dropped during the second world war and the Korean war. The Nixon administration admits more than sixty bombing raids on North Vietnam during 7971. ... More than 1,000 tons of bombs per day are being dropped on Laos. Large parts of the Laotian and Cambodian countryside have been covered with "wide-area antipersonnel rpines," which do not explode until their trip wires are disturbed. Another Pen tagon favorite, the cluster bomb unit, sprays out 250,000 steel pellets . ... Most of the Plain of Jars is considered a "free fire zone," where any type of ordnance may be used delib erately or simply jettisoned by planes overhead. An anal ysis by the Asian Development Banlc predicts that there will still be between 110,000 and 200,000 U.S. ground troops in Vietnam at the end of 1972 . ... The U.S. Army is increasing its procurement of ammunition by more than one-third in the year ending June 30, 1972 . ... Nixon spent an estimated $15,000,000,000 on the war in fiscal year 1971 . ... The figure for fiscal 1972 may run as high as $74,000,000,000. In This Issue Death Sentence for 18 Turkish Youths TURKEY 898 Death Sentence for Eighteen Youths On October 9, two days before the ANTIWAR arrival in Turkey of U.S. Vice Pres Jon Rothschild 899 Antiwar Campaign Opens With Rallies in 16 Cities ident Spiro Agnew, a military court INDOCHINA WAR in Ankara sentenced eighteen alleged 900 The Fraud of Nixon's "Vietnamization" Policy members of the Turkish People's Lib 901 Nixon's Score: 2,700,000 Tons of Bombs on Indochina eration Army to death. The eighteen SOVIET UNION were accused of kidnapping four U.S. 902 Sakharov Defends the Right of Emigration airmen last March (they were held JAPAN for four days, then released), engag 902 Tokyo Airport Protesters Appeal for Aid ing in terrorist activity against the po ZAMBIA lice, and attacking banks, all with 903 Zambia Charges South African Aggression the aim of overthrowing the govern CANADA ment. 904 Protest Against Alaska Nuclear Test Besides those condemned to death, GREAT BRITAIN the only woman in the group received 904 Rising Unrest in Prisons a five-year jail term and two years 909 Labour Party Deals Stab in Back to Irish in of travel restriction. Two others re Concentration Camps ceived the same sentence, for "com T.J. 0' Flaherty 91 0 Labour Party Shifts to the Left plicity." Three persons were acquitted. IRAN According to the October 1 0-11 Le Allen Myers 905 The Shah Throws a Small Party for His Friends Monde, most of the accused were stu ARGENTINA dents. Their average age was twenty 906 A Woman Appeals for the Life of Luis Enrique Pujals four. NORTH KOREA The trial was one of several. In 906 Yahya Khan Backed by Kim II Sung? Istanbul twenty-seven young people DOMINICAN REPUBLIC are standing trial for allegedly kid J. V. Hanley 907 "La Banda" Slays Five More in Santo Domingo napping and killing Israeli diplomat U,S.A. Efraim Elrom last May. (See Inter 908 Florida's Hypocrisy in Abortion Case continental Press, September 13, p. PHILIPPINES 766.) 912 Demonstrators Gunned Down Near Manila In Ankara, twenty members of the REVIEWS outlawed Workers party, including the 911 Calley and His Protector party's chairwoman Behice Boran, 912 How Did Hitler Triumph? are accused of hatching "Communist plots" to overthrow the regime, inciting DOCUMENTS youth to violence, and supporting the 913 Pacheco-the Beginning of the End struggle of the Kurdish national mi 915 For a Workers' Slate in Uruguay's "Frente Amplio" nority for self-determination. 916 Tupamaros Clarify Stand on Election In Istanbul eighty-three others, 917 Conditions in the Prison Camps of Ceylon among them life-Senator lrfan Solma zer, are accused of creating a secret PHOTOS organization to destroy the regime. 907 Bodies of two students murdered by "La Banda" Agnew stopped in Turkey for two days on his way to the shah's fes tivities commemorating 2,500 years Intercontinental Press, P.O. 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Antiwar Campaign Opens With Rallies in 16 Cities By Jon Rothschild The fall antiwar offensive in the Elaine Morrison, SMC high-school ninety men at the base have signed United States began October 13 with coordinator for Brooklyn, New York, a petition to Senator Edward Ken demonstrations in more than six announced at the conference that high nedy saying that the patrols were sui teen cities and on hundreds of college school students will also participate cide missions. and high-school campuses. in the November 3 strike. The largest rally occurred in New The SMC, which has been a lead The October 13 Washington Post York City's garment center, a mid ing force in organizing student par reported that more than 1,000 of the town concentration of light industry ticipation in previous antiwar actions, 4,500-man crew of the aircraft car and offices. More than 3,000 people, now claims 30,000 members in hun rier Coral Sea, docked at the Ala many of them workers in the area, dreds of colleges, high schools, and meda Naval Air Station, have signed attended an afternoon demonstration junior high schools. a petition asking Congress to halt that had been endorsed by twenty Support for November 6 has con the sailing of the ship for Vietnam five trade unions, the National Peace tinued to mount. Among the most re on November 12. Action Coalition (NPAC), an!f the cent endorsers is the 18,000-member "The ship will not go back," said People's Coalition for Peace and Jus Michigan Federation of Teachers. Its Seaman Larry Harris, twenty, at a tice (PCPJ). administrative board voted October news conference held by the sailors. Among the speakers were Emil Ma 9 to build a statewide contingent of "If petition doesn't work, we have zey, secretary-treasurer of the United teachers in the Detroit demonstration. other means." The spokesman for SOS Automobile Workers, and New York (Save Our Ship) did not elaborate. Mayor John Lindsay. The theme of The Berkeley Board of Education Navy Chief of Information Rear Ad the rally, which was widely covered has endorsed the November 6 pro miral William Thompson said in in the capitalist press, was "End the test, and the City Council voted to Washington that the Navy has no War! End the Freeze!" allow employees to take the da.y off plans to change the scheduled rede (without pay) to participate in it. ployment of the vessel. In addition to the New York dem The number of trade-union leaders In Saigon a group of G Is affiliated onstration, actions took place in Bos supporting the demonstrations ex to the Vietnam Veterans Against the ton, San Francisco, Berkeley, Phila ceeded 150 as of October 13. War in Vietnam, the group that or delphia, Detroit, Chicago, Washing In most cities, contingents of vari ganized the dramatic protests in Wash ton, D. C., Seattle, Denver, Cleveland, ous constituencies have been estab ington last April, have collected more Los Angeles, San Antonio and Austin lished- trade unions, women, high than 500 signatures, from all branch (Texas), Providence (Rhode Island), school students, Blacks, Latinos, etc.