4 conservative estimate a : in Hiroshima when Truman's bomb was dropped. He saw 20 men in the same e wholly burned, their eye sockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run spilling out of their abdomens. and Nagasaki : remembered : in weeks in throughout Britain mament.
dangerous step being throughout Western Europe. NEWBURY TrOM me alone domids Hiroshima and Nagasaki support for the vigil. MANCHESTER ween Mancunian SCOTLAND tioning in Glasgow. Edinburgh Haddington. 041-942 1099 for further (in front of Art Galleries). YORKSHIRE Nagasaki Day assemble at 2pm car park, 40I feeder Easingwold Market up with the main rally. BIRMINGHAM • Nagasaki THE DEAD of Hiroshima will be the next actions organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarhad Vigils, petitions and meetings will newspapers also warn against the present trend sought towards nuclear escalation, the most tion of Cruise missiles into bases Iran from A 75-hour continuous vigil will be held directly outside the main gate of Greenham Common Roval All Force base outside Newbury, one. of the two proposed sites in Britain for the Cruise missiles. The vigil will run creation Wednesday August to llam Saturday 9 August These are the exact dates on whict were aropped on but the made the RDF, Over 30 MPs have pledged their A mass demonstration will take place on Saturdav assembling be Way and Booth rush Street (on Oxford Road) at 1:30pm. 1 ne march will move oll to arrive al Of a rally in St. Peters Square at 3pm.
A day of action will take place throughout Scotland on 9 August, involving mass leafletting and peti(Contact lan Davidson details.)
In Glasgow there will be a commemoration ceremony on Sunday 10 ground August at 2.30pmat the Cherry Trees march • will al neworl Greel marching to Clifford's Tower via York Minster for a rally at THE Soviet Union was about June, to invade the Persian Gulf, seize the oil, and place the West at its mercy. In case you Many doubt about this and magazines lo remove it by publishing maps. Those thick black arrows showing 'traditional' invasion routes into force Afghanistan and Soviet Central Asia were supposed to strike terror into our One of Carter's answers was the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF). Its response to the soviet action i had proclaimed unrest been under discussion before, claimed the 4 February issue of Newsweek, had Afghanistan 'definitively, a key element in US defence planning for The Rapid Deployment Force which was formally established supposed 150,000-strong crack outfit that can anywhere in the counter Soviet aggression the definition of 'Soviet aggression' is very flexible.
tually do anything... or even think about doing anything Lt Gen Paul Kelley, the marine power. who commands the RDF, made a valuable clarification when • ne•announcea on 1o june tnal tne force could 'be ordered to launch a pre armed emotive strike to seize threatened ment Force is all about before the Russians He told New York Times cor. respondent Richard sategy had pre-emptive strategy" evolved in the first one hundred day. Haus of the new deployment force? But Halloran raised a note of uncertain*Would ar American President defy precedent to make such a decibefore an attack?' •Perhaps Halloran has been lost in transcendental meditation while the 20th century was marching on, but I think the people of Vietnam, the Lebanon, Cuba, Haiti, and quite a few other their own destruction by launching a countries could come up with a quick answer to that one.
The RDF propaganda has been fakery from the start; it wasn't a prothe Sovie intervention. in It stal March, and it has nothing to do with label military forces that have long had no other purpose but rapid intervention in countries where the interests of US big business are threatened.
Even in its present form, the formation of the RDF long preceded the Soviet role in Afghanistan. On 1979 seven months before Soviet troops entered Aighanistan -the US Army announced it was drafting plans for a 'quick-strike force' Asked on 21 June if this was a 'concept or a concrete decision,' General Bernard Rogers replied 'The Armv intends to do this. Il purpose of the force at the time was not described in terms of Soviet ag oreccion was lie diswer lories dent Carter's desire for a specialised for conflicts" in the Third It was to be 'a "go-anywhere" force rather than specifically targeted on the Persian Gulf or any other area' In the preceding months, popular La rebellion in the army toppled a pro-Washington dictato in Afghanistan; the Iranian masses driven the Shah his peacock throne; and Pol Pot's leime in Kampuchea had been topAs General Rogers made his an nouncement, a mass insurrection was routing the dictatorship of Anastasio • Some crama had backed these tyrants against the people of their souteruness or decade And Carter administration officials could hardly hide their chagrin tha • States made it impossible to pour in US troops to keep the dictators ir That is what the public relations ballyhoo about Soviet aggression, in. cluding ine recaristening or tne un forces as a 'Rapid Deploy.
It is aimed at pounding the American people into accepting tion of the draft, and the inevitability of new and even more bloody Viet.
The immediate target isn't Moscow, , even though Washington is infuriated by the aid that the revolu tionary government Cuba and liberation forces in • Indochina, . Southern Africa. and elsewhere havi obtained from Moscow.
The Soviet Union also has lucien misses however US rulers are not anxious to assure nuclear conflict. It's the people of B Salvador, , Africa, and Latin America who are the intended victims of 'rapid ourselves who are trying to create a just society.
gression our the rie threatens well-being of American people, and the people of the rest of the world Socialist Challenge 7 August 1980 Page 7
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The people of El Salvador, Guatemala, Iran, and other countries in Asia, Africa are the intended victims of 'rapid deployment.
Iran, and
deployment' working people like