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Double Cross Johnson Can Hold out Against This Type of Pressure Is Anybody’S Guess, His Policy Will Be Coloured by the Forthcoming Elections in the States Double Cross Johnson can hold out against this type of pressure is anybody’s guess, his policy will be coloured by the forthcoming elections in the States. Mr. Jacob Javits, Republican Senator from New York, has put forward a programme for elections in South Vietnam which accepts (PONFUSION REIGNS jn South choices—get to hell out of the place, the fact that communists and ■ Vietnam whilst wee vultures take sole charge, find another pup­ neutralists could be elected. Isn’t circle over the body °3tHis war torn MAY 28 1966 Vol 27 No 17 pet, or continue to back Ky. None this where we came in? Wasn’t country. I of these choices is easy, the drop­ this one of the original proposals Ky, the S. Vietnam premier, and ping of Ky Would probably be the of the Geneva Agreement? his Catholic supporters on the one most expedient. Taking sole charge A very interesting report appeared hand, the Americans and the Bud­ or backing Ky would have them in P.N, 20.5.66 by Bill Wingell on dhists on the other, all attempting fighting the very people they have the May Day demonstrations in to gain or regain the reins of power. come to protect. Saigon, which demanded an end to OPPOSE FRENCH The Americans are doing their Withdrawing support from Ky the war in Vietnam. The Vietnam utmost not to 'getinvolved in the means a lot of backstage work, a Labour Federation sponsored the civil war within the civil war, but potential leader must have certain march and their President, Le Van it is only their presence which keeps qualifications, support of the Catho­ Thot, read a letter in English ad­ Ky in office. lics and Buddhists and a declared dressed to American workers noting It was only a mattelof weeks ago intention to continue the fight that the weapons which were NUCLEAR when the Buddhists ii|Hu6 and Da against the Viet Cong. If such a destroying Vietnam . are made TESTS! Nang forced Ky to accept the idea of leader could meet the demands of by your hands, our own friends* elections. Obviouslyhad other the Buddhists in terms of a type of hands’. Thot and other leaders have rpHE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has explosion contains mainly Strontium 90 plans in mind when he acceded to civilian government then the war been arrested. officially announced its impending winch has a half life of 28, years, it the demands,■ and | last Saturday, could go on. After all it is an The important point is that indus­ series of nuclear Weapon tests in the comes down in rainfall and is absorbed 14.5.66, he exposed his hand. By ideal training ground for troops and trial workers and peasants have be­ Pacific, The Times of May 18 contains by plants and animals and eventually flying troops into Da Nang he hoped the experimenting of new weapons. come vocal in their opposition to the following statement: human beings; it causes leukaemia, bone to crush the rebelliojionce and for The nut-cases in the American the war. It is also reported that a FRANCE WARNS SHIPPING OF cancer and cancer of the blood; Caesium all, thus avoiding the holding of Government are prepared to dive number of unions were preparing to NUCLEAR TESTS 37, half life 30 years which causes elections. According " to reports, in head first. Senator John Stennis, strike if the Ky regime returned no France has formally given notice to various types of cancer and mutations in shipping and aircraft of her intention the germ plasm of the reproductive even the American ||had no prior head of the Senate Preparedness answer to their demands. of carrying out nuclear tests on Mururoa, organs which have deleterious effects knowledge of this double-cross. De­ Committee, stated ‘it may be neces­ Industrial workers in America an island 750 miles southeast of Tahiti. mainly for future generations; Carbon liberate stabbing in the back is per­ sary to take other steps to sharpen could stop the war in Vietnam No date is given for the tests, generally 14 produced in large quantities in so; missible during war provided you the war to save American lives. It tomorrow, Le Van Thot made the expected in the next month or two, but a called clean bombs has a half life 5,600 don’t get caught foriall to see. On will also require an end to the point, ‘Whether the war ended soon specific warning is to be given a few years—the most important effect is geneti- this occasion it is jthe Americans political and policy restrictions thator late would depend to a great ex­ days before they are due to be carried cal, and will appear in future generations. who have been exposed, their pup­ have prevented us from waging wartent on your (the American workers) out, for the moment France has simply (The Times of May 18 also contained pet leader agreeingJto elections in with maximum military effectiveness support and struggle’. Appealing to defined the danger area. This consists a short report to the effect that radio­ active dust from China has reached the front of the world and at the same (my italics). We must strike both politicians won’t help — ‘direct essentially of a circle around Mururoa the source of Viet Cong and North and an arc stretching out to the east from atmosphere of Rome, trebling its radio­ time attempting a dduble-cross. action’ will. the island. The circle is given as having active content-—this is from the Chinese The Americans now have four Vietnamese supplies.’ How long Bill Christopher. a radius of 120 sea miles for ships and bomb test about eight days previously.) 200 sea miles for aircraft but the arc is Statements by scientists on the forth­ the same for both shipping and aircraft coming tests are either lacking or have TIATANY YEARS AGO*the Communist announced that, ‘Any Catholic not sup­ with an angle of 52 degrees and a radius not been reported, but in the five or six A-■ Party cornered thKnarket on the porting the aims of the revolutionists is of 400 sea miles. years prior to the Test Ban Treaty of AnnuaUUnion SquarJvfay Day Rally. living in a state of mortal sin*. This is THE DANGER FROM FALL-OUT JFora ^ y |u l^ ., this ,3ear there were ■ the sort of thing which iconoclasts might The French Government has tried to In January “1958 there was a petition dangerous intTmatioBf^oF co-existence: find-iconoclastic-- Although fully cogni­ signed by 9,000 leading scientists from it appeared that af full spectrum of the M u y J t a y zant of the CP chicanery before the quell opposition by assurances that the scientists in control of the tests will more than 40 countries, including 36 left might be permitted to participate. rally, and -not at all happy about it, time them to synchronise with weather Nobel Prizewinners and 35 Fellows of the However the preliminary arrangements Cornell did an excellent job. On the conditions that will ensure that fall-out (British) Royal Society, supporting the rapidly degenerated into the usual other hand another of the honest will fail in uninhabited parts of the demand for an international agreement machinations and the Communist'mono­ speakers, Staughton Lynd, didn’t know Pacific. Australian and New Zealand to stop nuclear tests. In August 1958 poly was preserved. The rally was anything at all of the preliminary the UN Scientific Committee’s report scheduled for Saturday, April 30, and in Union manoeuvring. Later when he was in­ journalists were shown a computer in Mururoa which can forecast wind compiled by official representatives of 15 its announced leitmotif was International formed he commented that he wished direction. countries stated: Solidarity for Peace and Freedom. In he had known of it beforehand. His ‘The committee concludes that all steps that the New York Workshop in Non­ speech acknowledged that the Hay market designed to minimise radiation will act violence agrees wholeheartedly with these Martyrs were anarchists, whereas the to the benefit of human health. Such concepts, it was felt! that this might well official demonstration leaflet described PICKETING steps include the avoidance of unneces­ be an appropriate occasion for a Poetry them as ‘the leaders of the general strike*. sary exposure resulting from medical, Square Reading at the Soviet Mission to the Shades of Orwell. 9.30 am— 12.30 pm industrial and other procedure on the one United Nations to protest the imprison­ Meanwhile several of' us were giving hand and the cessation of the contamina­ ment of Andrei Sinyavski and Yuli Daniel. National Renaissance Party—another out leaflets inviting people to attend the JUNE 18 tion of the environment on the other.* Hence WIN planned to convene after triple misnomer. These worthies were Poetry Protest at the Soviet Mission. Ours FRENCH TOURIST OFFICE In September, 1958, the third interna­ the rally, walk some 50 blocks from marching in full uniform: gray shirts, was far and away the most unpopular tional Pugwash scientific conference at­ Union Square to the Mission, and tell black armbands cum lightning bolt, Sam leaflet in the Square as the crumpled tended by scientists of outstanding them where it’s at. Browne belts, black breeches, and jack- copies scattered all over the area could But such assurances carry little weight achievement including 20 from the USA, My own May Day Rally began rather boots. Lest someone misinterpret their attest. I picked up one copy from the with scientists and people who remember 10 from the USSR and seven from inauspiciously with a cab driver who position they were chanting, ‘Back to ground and gave it back to the func­ similar assurances by the American Britain issued the following statement had never heard of Union Square.
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