11.00KIN6 woaK JIB? ouT Of FOR A l.fARN FASCINATING SKILLS! TRY .nJYENilE ZINQUENCT 1J4KePART IN FRIEND.�II-,Y�'DM�f-�f"� • NEI6BDUflHOODHousE/A l.fARf\1 1Jt=-{1AA GET OVT OF THE ,. THIS ISSUE: The History of tbe Brisbane Music Scene. A LSD: Superman, Petty, comix, SCIENCE FICTION and the FUT URE. - 1 In a time a_(universal deceit. telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Qelbtllail1? Worlb GEORGE ORWELl For a society based on Human Need not Greed 10,0_,DIE TORTURE INCREASES IN FAMINE At least 10,000 people are latest reports from the UN AMNESTY believed to have died yest· Food and Agriculture erday in the famine which organization in Rome, a The incidence iof torture throughout the World had has gripped sixty nations total of 460 million people ��•••• increased over the last few years, a spokesperson for of the world. "It is the are now "actually starv­ Amnesty International said yesterday. worst disaster since yester· ing". During that period military juntas and martial law had_ day," said a U.N. spokes· An estimated third of been imposed on countries like Chile, The Phillipines. man last night. humanity is now m with Argentina and South Korea. According to the chronic hunger. AUSTRALIAN URANIUM The organization's Palace. annual report painted a His killers drove off in cars yesterday with official number plates, Worst disaster since depressing picture of syst­ unh indered by the squads of FOR PHILLIPINES ematic violation of human However many thousands died in yesterday's police who ringed the mass public The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, rights throughout famine, one fact emerged last night. It need never have the demonstration in the central has announced the signing of an agreement to supply World. square. happened. Experts meeting at the World Food th e Phillipines withuranium. Trade Union organisers are that there is no physical New trends were Conference in Rome agreed being routinely murdered and Theuranium is for a reactor in the Bataan Province. em erging in repression. shortage of food in the world at the moment. tortured. meeting put it, The practiceof labelling· In one week, Pedro Quevado As one observer at the Rome "This The construction of homeless or have been deprived a union ofOclal with the Coca is a crisis of price and distribution. People are starving of their food source. This is dissidents as "psychiatric­ the reactor has already Cola workers was brutally murd­ are poor. There is grain available for typical of the type of industrializ· ally ill" was spreading in only because they disrupted the lives of peop­ ered and the general secretary of at ion being foistered on the Third export in the U.S. and Canada and several other rich· Eastern Europe. the C.N.T. narrowly escaped le living. in the Bataan World by the multinationals with the poorer nations cannot afford to buy the In Latin America and Africa death when his car was machine nations but Province. the aid of local elites." governments were authorizing gunned. grain at commercial prices." Rlcelands have been flooded "Wben President Marcos Impos­ terrorist actions. a U.N. meeting in Cocoyoc, Mexico, grazing land taken, and Dab ed martial law on tbe Phllliplnes At Kidnapping, torture, and spawning grounds destroyed. seven years ago, be claimed that participants were also blaming "a traditional market killing bad been developed Into a the country's poverty meant that that makes resources avaDable to those who can buy The localfish catch has been systematic method of represalng INSIDE 5 the need for this "development" reduced to )' of the usual opposition. them rather than those who need them." outweighed the need for normal amount. Pa ra miUtary groups were "There need be no shortage," said the final 80-/, democratic freedoms." Fishing used to provide operating as Death Squads In THE MESS AGE a small release from the "now the people are poorer. communique, "it requires only of local income. Argentina, Brazil, ChUe, Guata­ Tbe elect riel ty from the This type of development does COLIN THE surplus of the rich to meet the entire Asian Shortfall." mala, and Ethiopia. re 01' llJ to wb Manila not satisfy human needs; its sole OFFI CROCODILE 1 to nttat In South Africa there had CE and tbe aeab) Betaan Free I "' th.' been more cases of "death in Fao Director General, Trade Zone. Thl• II a tax &ee "The PhiWplnea has been BANK CARDY police custody". haven for multinationals, with no caught In a c.)'Cle of exploitation, SUPERMAN LEAVE EVERY Aredke Boerma, said yest­ In Singapore, Malaysia, pollutlo� controls, no free trade rebelllon and repression. erday in Rome. "The Indonesia, and the Phillipines, THE GREAT people have beeh: &!Tested. unions, and verych eap labour. MACHINE market playing freely will st thepractice had developed of OF THING TO US· Multinational companies ores such as the admini ration detaining political prisioners- for BABYLON always feed the rich. You here produce Amco jeans and massive doses of 'truth years before their triaL PETTY Multinationals ca nnot expect trade to Slazenger golf bags for export to that has made vegetables,are comnmon11ia(�e. THE ROAD TO arr ive at a fair distribution the West. The Bataan project wtll cost The spokesperson SYDNEY of goods in the world. about S1.1bUUon. Westinghouse that there was a real d REPRESSION SUBMERINOES "lust leave every­ Tr ade is to make money." sold It to tbe PhiUiplnes after the nu clear proliferation. There Governments were using thing to us!" an inaugural It was not only at the super 'questionable payment' of civil war in the Phillipines Incidents of terrorism to justify meeting of the recently power level that the wealthy $3Sm1Uionto Mr Dlslnl, a distant many feared that Marcos massive rep ression of civil Ub­ seemed to be taking precedence relative of tbe PresIdent. determined to develop a formed Friends of the erties. over the needy. In a country where 8million capacity. S685m Multinationals was told In one incident in Argentina, In the Sahel. where drought children suffer severe malnutrit· Mr Anthony said his today. a military pa trol shot dead a and famine have claimed an ion, the government is spending, rnent had received Trade Union speaker at an David Rockerfeller, estimated 100.000 lives in 12 on this one reactor, three times that there was no danger "illegal" strike; all strikes are spent on chairman of the Chase months , thousands of acres of the what it spent on agriculture in nu clearprolifferation. banned in Argentina. • most fertile land, owned by 1975. Perhaps referring to the Manhatten bank adressed Afterwards the army issued a foreig agribusiness companies, One critic of the government of the Opposition, he the meeting. t_� communique that stated that the anns m are betng used to grow cash crops stated: "As a result of this "president Marcos is good Heads of government�, legal forces had to act "to for export, while people are dying pro ject, thousands have become waste disposal." ance experts gua rantee freedom of employ· fin and other multi. of weakness and famine often national leaders applauded rnent" last 24 only fields away. warmly as he declared, "Justgive In areas of South America, profits. We'll TORTURE us our get those carnations were grown for the THIRD WORLD UNEMPLOYED voters back to work." North American market In Oelds hours General Vldela, a spokes· Unrestricted by Big Labour next to starving peasanta. man for the junta that has ruled The bill for yesterday's or Big Government, the Freee The Third World was a net 'DESPARATE' the Argentine since 1976, said; . mllitary spending is now Enterprise system would solve all exporter of protein to the deveJ. "A terrorist Isn't jDit someone expected to top problems and even irrigate the oped world. Observers were quick with a bomb or a gun but 568S Sahara Desert. to point out last night that Unemployment in the Southern Hemisphere million. is someone who spreads Ideas that In the meantime, tt was Europe is now importing over one . flickering between 25 o/o and 30o/o with an estimated are contrary to Western and As reports of the huge tmperahve that wages should be. third of Africa's protein rich 200million people in Africa, Asia, and South Christian values." spending poured iu, the frozen or held down, he declared. peanut crop. America out of work. Meanwhile a meeting of the "Daily World" staff did Profits should be allowed to rise ----------­ Catholic bishops of South so private industry co Amer· 1 · that uld A fraction of Swiss economist, Paul some calculations c=+ large the 1ca has condemned the increasing invest and create more jobs. IL Y 0 estroyed Barioch. said this week that Annual cost for making 'real Go spending labour force, according to use ofrepression vernment should bel Th city "unemployment in the 15-24 age Impact' on the development e of Hr·id'A••""' They declar�: "The polltlc. I t. an International Labor cu group is running at wice the crisis. (World Bank Estimate) "We must all tighten ou in Australla was al system of the continent bas r Organization spokesman, national average in most devel­ S1Sblllion ela and pull togetberl"hesaid. ated two days been Influenced by doctrines of b now lack a source of oping countries.'' Annual cost for Investment In ' national security which by Earlier the meeting had ava 1 anch e 0f To make matters worse, an m· come both relt'able and giving ;0 . land and water needed for poor rd neo·conservative intelle absolute lm�ortance the hea ct.