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Sum,1 S...C..0.. · I..,, ~ Nlrtl.._ C'-14C..mpbell ·AJiul(""" GuwSu., (.,~1'ordN"): TUBE ~"'-nonhw~;~---:0~~-=~· Ditnr.Chntt~ N~ to-np..n~ ~~---·~ 8..-.dom, ~- • - OCT. 29 JACK JONES NOV. 28 LINX NOV. 13 RICK WAKEMAN DEC. 3 THIN LIZZY NOV. 22 STRANGLERS DEC. 4 OZZY OSBOURNE NOV. 25 POINTER SISTERS DEC. 19 DURAN DURAN NOV. 27 RALPH McTELL I DEC. 20 UB 40 2 The Student 22nd October NE Cook Blasts The Bomb Last week, Robin Cook, limited nuclear war lays great standing. Hence, a picture o f a stress on the advantage of first man in a ditch with his jacket the unconventional MP strike. pulled over his head. for Edinburgh Central, While he did not approve Contrast this approach with spoke at the University Russian action, e.g. 1n Afghanis­ Cook's view. Cook sees unilateral tan. Cook in no way portrayed disarmament, leading eventually about the danger of America as Britain's bosom buddy. to a nuclear-free Europe, able to nuclear war. Mary Braid America was condemned for her put pressure on the two super reports exclusively for lack of consultation with her allies powers to negotiate, as the most over cruc ial decisions like the practical and sane way forward. Student. scrapping of the SALT II negotia­ Considering the growing anti­ Robin Cook spoke of the tions and the production of the nuclear feeling in Europe and the growing mass support for nuclear neutron bomb. These are influence Britain could have on the disarmament in Europe -;- a fact American unilateral decisions rest of Europe if she disarmed this one can't really dispute - but his without multilateral approval and position seems to have lost the words were ironic when directed yet they manage to escape the idealistic, impractical stigma long ·at an audience of 50 in DHT criticism Britain would receive if associated w ith it. Lecture Hall C last Friday. she were to unilaterally disarm. Party politics, m the main, Cook's cleverly constructed and A mental pict ure was formed of played a relatively small part in Mr convincing argument centred Russia and America 1n conflict Cook's speech but this did not round, and at the same time with Europe in between, perhaps prevent that eminent hyoung exposed, the complete lunacy of providing an area for a limited SWSO member Julian Gunn­ the arms race . A nuclear nuclear war to be staged. Cunninghame from making an holocaust, he maintained, was Attention was drawn to the Civil appearance. Was he at the correct even more imminent today due to Defence pamphlet "Protect and meeting? Young Mr Gunn­ Photo by Rod Taylor the breakdown of detente and the Survive" and not surprisingly Cunninghame·s attack on the development of new military evoked most laughter. This Labour Party was only flimsily strategy concerning a limited imformative pamphlet, costing a connected with the issue at hand nuclear war. The possession of mere 50p, gives admive on how to and epitomised the type of nuclear weapons no longer acts as survive a nuclear attack, complete contribution(?) CND could well do Island Risks a deterrent when the strategy of with illustrations to aid our under- without. Desert Gruinard, a tiny, unin­ suggested so fa r to remove the spores and they all read like And This Week in London ... habited Scottish island, something out of a sci-fi book - has suddenly become cutting off the top soil to a depth of front-page news. Kay several feet and dumping it in the Anyone who will be Victoria Embankment to Hyde Association offices. Atlantic, permanently changing Park via Trafalgar Square and In an exclusive interview with Goodall explains why. the acidity content of the earth, or underoccupied this week­ Piccadilly will be followed by a Student earlier this week. even encasing the island in " People's Festival" in the park, an Students' Assoc IatIon Senior end could take part in Up until a fortnight ago you concrete! They would cost around event which will combine all kinds President Mark Kennedy exhorted: what might turn out to be, could have been forgiven for £10 million. Meanwhile anthrax of speech and music in a grand " I would urge as many students as papal visits excepted, the thinking Gruniard was just another thrives. It could be carried by an extravaganza, a physical and possible to support this demon­ earthworm which is eaten by a greatest demonstration of cultural convergence of the stration. The only way we can hope proof-reader's joke about a well­ kn own newspaper, and the crow and given free passage to the nation's politically articulate. to reverse the lunatic proliferation popular feeling in Britain epidemic potential of this tiny little mainland. That easy. And aren't As their contribution to the anti­ In nuclear weapons Is by as many there a few question marks around in our lifetime. war effort, Edinburgh University ordinary people as possible Scotllsh island is probably one of the UK's best-kept non-secrets. any band of disaffected protesters The Campaign for Nuclear Students' Association have, along joining the protest. This is the only Apart from a few cursory stop­ having simple access (in a crofter's Disarmament are holding a with the University CND group. way we can force our rulers to back gap features in the Sunday boat) to the test-site of W.W.ll's national rally in the centre of organised buses leaving from down and spend money on things glossies, when some hack failed to biological arsenal? London on Saturday. This will be outside Appleton Tower at 10.30 people need and not weapons of meet his editorial deadline, more than a run-of-the-mill pm on Friday. Tickets cost £10 and mass destruction." Gruinard Island has been strictly political demo. The march from are available from the Students' overlooked since it was first contaminated in the '40s, until an anonymous team of potesters calling themselves " Dark Harvest" 'I tremble, not with fear, but removed 300 lbs of the anthrax­ saturated soil and started sending packets to " appropriate points". Basically , the island is contaminated (for anything from with shame' 100-1 ,000 years. depending on who you want to believe) with an extremely nasty and persistent He then gave some details of the After an erratic head count, the "I tremble, not with fear, disease called anthrax, which but with shame to think policies which that money helps to motion passed by 90-35. with a implement: police powers of fairly high level of abstainers, or attacks the skin, lungs and that the 20th century the indefinite arrest of both suspects 'Social Democrats' as they are now intestines, is difficult to diagnose, so-called civilised West and witnesses; the perpetual called at debates. and can only be vaccinated against can . support slavery in uprooting of thousands of blacks effectively over a period of seven to unviable, artificial 'homeland's· months, making it a perfect another form through and many other policies designed candidate for biological warfare - Average Students apartheid in South to ensure that black people are RACAL Offer the reason why Gruinard Island Africa". kept apart from whites and are Ar'i agreement was announced (only 600 yards from the Scottish A recent survey has established denied the vote. last week between Racal Micro­ mainland) is saturated to a depth that Mr and Ms Average Student electronics Systems Limited and of several feet with it. The project are Guardian-reading, BBC­ the University's Department of was initiated ostensibly to combat listening bookworms with a dislike Thus spoke the Nigerian HiQh Electrical Engineering will allow Nazi war gases ·(anthrax was a of commercial radio, ITV and the Commissioner to Britain at researchers at British Universities million times more lethal than oa,/y Siar. A survey by Endsleigh Monday's Teviot Row debate on to design the-ir own silicon chips World War Two Allied gas agents) . Insurance Services, a commercial sanctions against South Africa. m Ver}' short time-sc'ales. 1 he In 1941 sheep were brought over company which buys its NUS This controversial issue produced Edinburgh Department, one of to the island in maximum secrecy: endorsement with a £40,000 incisive speeches, not just from only two central silicon micro­ within a week they were dead. With annual donation, revealed that the four distinguished speakers up fabrication facilities in Britain, will only 3-4 pints used, anthrax had 40% of st udents read the front, but also from the packed co-ordinate the use of RACAL definite potential. It was (and is) Guardian, 21% the Telegraph, and hall. technology throughout British also highly active. In 1942 a 20% The Times. with. the popular Both the opponents of the universities and polytechnics. dailies trailing behind. BBC carcass floated over to the motion. Teddy Taylor, MP and mainland at high tide and infected television and radio is far more industrialist Michael Ivens were popular with students than its large numbers of livestock.