EL SALVADOR: A report by the Latin American Bureau evidence of SITE SALESTE CHEETE BITIN BO CHEE since the fraudulent election of General Carlos Romero as Pressdent in February. Repres can Confederation of Priests as evidence of the m sacre of 1,000 people in February BRAZIL: Police arrested a total of 38 people alleged to he bons after a new wave of unrest in Brazil's universities.
BOLIVIA: An underground rightist group, apparently with me suppor or the gacnones. has threatened to track down and murder all drug traffickers. prostitutes.... and gays.
INDONESEA: An Indonesian political prisoner has sauceled out a letter giving details window-dressing by the authorities during a recent visit by be Inernational Committee o Ce Red Cross. Many prisoner were moved to detention camps for fear that they would tell the delegation the truth anout proson conditions THAILAND: combined 10,000 Thai and Malaysian troops has been SOULD country in search of a force of Despite torbardment most all the guerillas secre to have cacaped mouse with their pursuers.
sizike! evil servants Gibraltar, the colony seems ser tor a clash nerween the Gorcrument and the local branch of the rransport workers union. To tape constag to 'with British corkers in The publie soccor slow, SOUTH AFRICA: British Per(Gover_nent-controlled board members include postal union) has found a large coal deposit in the Eastern Transvaal. Mining is expected to starr in 1981. hard-line, terrorist image, they Carter.
truth, as RICHARD CARVER explains.
In reality. the only setlement on the horizon are the Israeli ones on the occupied West Bank.
right after his return from Wash ington, provoking gasps of borror from the international press, which had been churning pacans of praise to his "moderabon The substance of the supposed breakthrough in Washington is ence, broken by the 1973 war, will now reconvene in October. Begin announced that would be no preconditions or attendance ar the conferenoe ans estinian representatives, though not, he was at pains to stress, Organisation In fact Begin's position conously leaked plan he presented to Carter was only a reiteration of the Zionise state's intention to hang on to all the occupied territories.
HOMELAND The significant point, most commentators soled clane with ted meet te along with this, sake of all this nonsense about a But the natprious Massachuset homeland" spooch in March made SAUCECHI There has to he •a bomeland provided for the Palestinian nof Not, you'll notice, the That the distinction is he Tormer Isracli Foreign Mini must have somewhere permanent to live (he, like Carter, suggests Jordno): Mart what Israel bas been saying all along.
ZIONIST In other words, Carter obvipusly has never said Palestinian nation should return scupied by the Zionist stare but nor lid he take the PLO Menachem Begin's public relations staff has been working overtime. Determined to shake off the Israell Prime Minister's used his recent visit lo Washington as a mutual congratulation session with Jimmy And they carefully cultivated the impression that a Middle East settlement is nigh. Nothing could be further from the (mel air deviched betweer demanded by the situation, the underlying, direc ton of both Us and Israch policy out is clear. The Zionists will accep no Palestinian stare and demand the retention. in one way or another, of the territories occu pied after the 1967 and 1973 wars.
there GUARANTEE to the continued existence as its politi economic, and policeman in the region.
Nevertheless, the ambiguity of Carter's Massachussets was calculated.
BILE IS SO TETED ODICATE was directed above all at the mos conservative of the Arab sares, softening them up for the peace iniciative' ant consideration at the moment, selling them arms in exchange fo vil revenue, The apparely dramatic caro was that around when Bewin visited Wash inson and old Carer har tactfully senc his scate on Eassuris. ast capirals this week and has nance a now arms dal with opportunity to CENTE BARGAINING to the plan settlement if Syria, The Syrian regime. Which previously had no bargaining counter against ls rael, las Baining control over the Pale backed by the US — mine Tesistance The PLOS cease fire last weekend strengthcoded Syria's band. reflection the PLO's refusal to incervene in the aflairs of the Arab bourgeois that the states, as once again they throw at present the Lebanese masses against the rightists and cheir Syrian peoLLLUIS that does.
La Palestinian resistance diplomatic bids to compromise PIPE-DREAM to guarantee conse to an agreement military specch It initiated quite an importSocretar? af the Middl Geneva enthusiasticalls agreement to It is a of the bankrupicy of of the 30,000-strong march The Super But one thing is certain — and this is where the Syrian and US will come to grief. The PLO, by its very nature, will no accept any dea! which fails to establish some sort of Palestinian state. The Zionists, of course can countehance no settlement So once again US Imperial isn's plans will break up against which can only continue to fight, des pite its leadership's desperare Washingion understands all Lus, We rewise tbat a Geneva conference which fails can be worse than no conference, sai ministration. But they are banking on the faint hope that Begi MISCHAY OBEELLEASAIE Thereafter their policy is based pipe dream Another Administration offi that while we see both sides as conseructive, they don't yer sec of the German porfice on how they dealt with anti-noclear marches [above].
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question of cannabis al importance, yet it is a serious one as long as nearly 1,000 people are imprisoned in Britain cach year and thousands more haras sed and fined for 'crimes" related to a drug about which the only conclusive proof is that it is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
Endless reports that marjuana is harmless, linked to the fact that the Government makes little fuss over the 3,000 people killed every year in industry, give the lie to the claim that cannabis is probibited to safeguard the nation's health. Why then is cannahis illegal, and why was it made so Parliament never investigated the effects OCTADS USE WICT I WAS HESE HERUS illegal in 1925. They were following expert Geneva Conference in 1924, The 'experts' in question were the Favorian Covernmen: (a British protectorate), the South African Indian Government (a British colony)!
At the Geneva Conference, cannabis was blamed for all the ills of the Thind Warld countries. The illicit use of hashish is the principal cause of most of the cases of insanity in Egypt, Cannabis reduces man to the level of the brute and deprives him of health, reason, self-control and bonour" Cannabis was regarded as dangerous as opium. No-one bothered to verify this: it was too convenient to have a drug on which to blame the problems of colonisation. The ossihility, for example, of lack of foo but it was dismissed. At Geneva Britain and France of cannabis use among "the natives". The so did the French in the Congo. But when i came to white men the different — musn't let lack of self-control and honour spread to Europe, 'ORIENTAL SEAMEN' Britain was most concerned about cannabis use 'among Oriental seamen visiting her porta. A passage from an American medical journal sums up the British attitude: The dominant race and most CHICE COLlATE BETTOCD. races and nations addicted to bemp and opium have deteriorated both mentally and physically:
In the 1960', When the drag laws were revised to introduce police powers to stop undercurrents. The drug laws were expandrd as bant or the batte nainst the "peratissive society", against any alternative culture or lifestyle. The ideology self-control, family life and so on was under attack and drug use was seen as central to SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE: SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 4 Augual 1977 must be one of the most overused scapegoats of the century.
On the subject of cannabis and health, When cannahis was first prohibited it was hecause, if unable to get opiates, addicts would tura to cannabi. Now it's the exact CHIE against the legalisation of cannabis is that it leads to opiates! So long as cancabis is linked with physically addictive drugs. no-one is concerned about details Every major Western survey on cannabis and heroin use has found no causal Link. Nevertheless, Misuse of Drugs during Bill in 1970, Hom ine depare on in Secretary Reginald Mauding understand that more than 90 percent of cannabis." No doube 100 per cens Start 00 SCOOTER COCHEL ALCOHOL The dishonesty of the claim that public health i at OLES DI prohibicion is nowhere more obvious than it the sbsolute toluss of Wester cowrn ments to make comparisons between cannabis and the legal, socially accepted drugs 100,000 British tobacco smokers die every ycar, and there are 2,000 alcobol-related deaths. There is mot a single known case of someone dying as a result of cannabis use! All the claimed results of cannabis addiction' could quite legitimarely be attribured to alcoholism.
The law prohibiting the use of cannabis has no basis other than the suppression of behaviour which does not it it with dominant bonus. But does it matter if there are laws against scriain forms of pleasure sockingi. First, an important fumetion in upholding the dominant insolOLL Krause OT tne whole myth or the impartial legal system justice of British law, most people believe thar what is illegal is bad. There are many laws against ality for example — which are maincained ideology of Western capicalism.
Secondly, It matters thar these laws are used, In July 1967 the Govertment un expectedly introduced wide powers authori sing the palice to sap and search people for drugs. The Home Office Minister ranted an ahout the halF workd" young Californian hippies as revealed in che serie of Evening Standard arlicks and concluded * think you will be as concerned as 1am that such a phenomenon should not arise here. Although governments bave always THEON HECTIC CHISEE BA LISTE these • powers are nimed specifically apprehending the user. The Daily Mail in 1970 claimed the police have learned how to go for the pushers without bullvina innocent citizens or overloading the courts with minor offenders". However, in 1969 there were 6,800 convictions for unlawful
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