YOU CAN stop moaning about the exorbitant cost of The Reagan administration nas offered the government real bargain. We can now buy the US Trident D5 missiles at knockdown prices which start at £200-£300m in 1983-84 and will reach the modest sum of E800m by 1987-88, cutting our missile bill to a mere 8000m.
In order to take advantage of this super sales crestle montaver give up a tew luxuries. As Mrs hatcher dent housekeeper for BriIS PUSE of telling us, there is only CHIE must be spent wisely and well. Cost So missiles coming in at E85m apiece — a little more than the cost of three hospitals with 1000 beds each clearly we can't waste the Socialist Challenge 4 March 1982 money on extras like these.
When a Tornado aircraft costs E10m you canhardly expect the govern ment to lash that amount out on 833 houses.
Next time you have to fork out Christ knows how much for a train trip console yourself knowledge that instead of advanced the government wisely spice to mvest me teum on a nuclear hunter killer submarine.
JoBs Mr Murdoch's Sunday Times is very excited at Mr February offer and even thinks Mrs Thatcher could present it securing or even creeting jobs in Britain. With the redundancies Mr Murdoch planning among his staff he pro bably thinks a few new jobs would not go amiss.
Mind you, if D5 starts doing what it was made for, the last thing we need worry about is whether or not some British company is getting a piece of the action nuclear weapons Anyhow the benefits do not lie in job creation. Surely Mrs Thatcher has explained often that the JESH she wants is overstaffed industries That is why nutty schemes to build more hospitals schools, trains, buses and other such social luxuries They not only pamper people but because they are labour in. tensive they create more jobs USe 01 working for nearly three years to get all those peo ple on the dole, only to spoil it by setting them back to work again?
Cash different. The cash goes into capital in HERS VP industry profits are high and sophisticate technology replaces labour Britain is finally getting its priorities right more and more money for weapons. bigger profits for the arm's turers, and no fancy lux unes like welfare Reagan's health.
And if the nice reserve army of labour that has now been we can always go Reagan nonsense, knock down noOTCE
Indians by Sandinista eastern part of Nicaragua.
the denials of these claims by the Nicaraguan and Honduran authorities, and the UN Commission on refugees. Instead there have been further stories of an offensive begun Sandinistas to foil a plan by the Miskitos to secede.
Atlantic border with Honduras?
Part of the answer is simple Bands of exSomocista National Guards trained Florida - are operating from camps in Honduras.
They have carried out a string of murders. robberies kidnappings. one denies the existene of these merica.
North American connection is also clear. nEV. MEGINNE camp for Nicaraguan and Cuban extroops in the northThe bourgeois press has scarcely reported by the What is really happening on Nicaragua's coast? What is going on round the former leader Nicaragua's Miskito population and now in exile.
The Miskitos are the Indian groups the other two Sumos and HE IS Ramas hi English black, speaking descendants of slaves, make up the majority of the population of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Later, the English established sugar plantations and lumber camps in the area and, after their capture of Jamaica, brought in thousands black slaves to work. The COASTE ClEa Mosquitia, became British protectorate On the Pacific side.
and after a short time as part of the United rovince Central Amance it became ann dependent nation in 1828. In 1880, England withdrew the status of 'protectorate' tor the Mesoutia and the area became under Nicaragua with the right of self-government.
But, in the last years of the 19th century. as US mining banana interests grew in we dred. a declaration of the "Reincorporation of the Mosquitia was made 1 Fuch repressots 44 miles PEGUCIGALPA HONDURAS Pacific Ocean less ignored by the Managua government. Even the presence of the VET013 WAS limited. Somoza's interest in the area was concen trated on a propaganda campaign, encouraged by the US, to convince the coastal people that their greatest enemy was Cuba *War Games' were held in the area, supposedly I preparation for a Cuban attack. The culmination of all this was the launching of the Bav of Pias opera tion from Puerto Cabezas in 1961 I LEO San Rafaeidel?
Masachs political meant they were unwill ing to undergo the wait or the sacrifices necessary to turn things around This combined with some serious mistakes on the part of the Sandinistas, has created con siderable problems on the coast. Probably the bio gest mistake, now readily admitted by the Sandinistas, was in naming to the Council of Steadman Fagoth young Miskito leader Fagoth was representing the india enous orga was also identified as hav ing been an informer for Somoza's security force But as far as the local peoWIC COnCENTE was their leader and they protested his arrest.
Finally the govern ment freed him and withir a few days he had crossed over into Honduras He continued to innuence ine coastal people mostly unrougn ine racio station Radio 15 de septiembre operated ov the somocis ta counter-revolutionaries in Honduras Caribbean Sea north, only the bourgeois opposition paper, La Prensa, araves Yet the achievements of the Sandinistas in two years, given the tremendously limited resources are considerable Villages are receiving medical provision for the first time Over 12,000 adults learned to read and write in the re cent literacy campaign in the SOCE languages Miskito, nish The English Spanish San dinistas are completing the tirst road to link the country s two coasts municipalities
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POLAND & THE LEFT OLIVER MACDONALD IN RECENT weeks the international press has carried reports of alleged massacres of Miskito
the threat of counter- revolution