Israel Arab/Israeli war in October of that year.
afoot.
in the event of Israel launching a nuclear strike.
nuclear weapons were judged unnecessary.
was set up 22 years ago.
South of Ireland. HOW CLOSE the Middle East — and possibly the rest of the world - came to hearing the four minute warning siren in 1973 has been revealed in a new book just published in the The book describes how the Israeli defence minister Moshe Dayan and prime minister Golda Meir authorised nuclear warheads to be placed on 13 rockets during the Israel was initially in danger of losing the war, and so the nuclear rockets were placed on their launching pads. 'This exercise was spotted by a US reconnaissance military aircraft. In no time at all, US president Nixon was on the hot line to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhner telling him what was Brezhner's response was to dispatch several nuclear warheads of his own to Egypt to allow the Arabs to retaliate The disaster was prevented by Israel's success in stopping the Syrian army's offensive on the Golan Heights. The UNEMPLOYMENT in the Common Market reached 6.7 million at the end of July, the highest figure since the EEC The figure for those out of work rose by 29.5 per cent on a year-to-year basis in Britain, 18.3 per cent in Denmark, 17.6 per cent in the Netherlands, and 15.6 per cent in the THE ruling junta in El Salvador took ariother massive lurch IT reads like something from the American Wild West the sacred burial sites of the native population, mineral exploitation powerful company backed to the hilt by the government.
But it States in the 19th century, it is Australia today.
The natives involved are the Aboriginal people who have struggled to their land since the first white settlements in Austrialia 200 week took their cause to the United Nations where Jim chairperson of the Australian own body the Aboriginal Conference told a UN sub-commission on human rights:
By Geoffrey Sheridan WHEN did you last see a film that was financed by a group of British trade unions?
The never have, yet 38 Australian unions put up half the cash for Dirt Cheap, a superb 90-minute film that is likely to play a major part in building resistance to uranium mining in Australia supporting land rights.
Bonanza Two filming of Dirt Cheap began, a fierce debate raged in Australia over the impications of mining uranium in Northern Territory.
meant Oenpelli people, who had lived in the area for some years. concluded: 'Aboriginal opposition should not be allowed to prevail.' severes The centre seized for recent conflict by Perth, Western The is not the United Yungngora people, are Petroleum, preserve The have been Aborginals side interference.
Hagen, But advisory Noonkanbah National that you when the uprooting the 40,000 Australia facing its crisis 'In a climate of despair the police. Aboriginal people now turn to you to assist in their strug gle for equality and freedom.
the most the is Noonkan- heroeo bah, over 1,000 miles north of Malcolm Australia.
Aboriginals there, the being protection confronted by a United States Amax to Noonkanbah. and its ruthless search for oil and diamonds.
Yungngora people Australia
only gained pastoral rights to their land in 1976, and the running their affairs independently of out- drill.
an attempt recently the ground ted machinery. was invaded by the Amax oil The giant, and already sacred sites have been descrated under the protection of the Australian In native Amax has the full backing of both the right-wing West Australian government and national government Fraser. In mid.
August the regional govern ment provided para-militar to scab labour transporting an oil drilling rig Trade unions in Western.
have vigorously backed the Aboriginal's campaign by placing bans on the of equipment to have also set up barcades is members stop scab labour, and they have boycorexploitation the Aboriginals are now suffering is a familiar story.
past centuries the Australians were massacred to allow the expansion of primary industries -sheep, cattle and wheat Now many Aboriginals face a living death on whitecontrolted missions and cattle stallulls. Children in the arid Australian interior are among the most undernourished in the world. Medical, educational, and housing facilities are grossly inadequate.
The Noonkanbah struggle is part of a recent upsurge in Aboriginal demands to control their own lives, the key to which is land rights.
A campaign of intemma tional support is presently under way with a number of African nations threatening to boycott the 1982 Com monwealth Games, due to be held in Brisbane, as a show of their support