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(Note:<\/strong> This tape was transcribed by Sarabeth Trujillo. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Jones:<\/strong> \u2013Good Thursday news. Remember tonight, at 7:30 unless there\u2019s a shortage in the food line, there\u2019s always been exception to that fact, we hope the kitchen will be able to organize appropriately so that food will be on time. If not, then you will not be penalized, but 7:30 begins the teaching of this\u2013 Russian language, as we\u2019re engaged in language study. Thereafter, there will be some review of some important matters of decision and some high points of the news. It is a Peoples Rally occasion, actually, possibly, because of circumstances in the past test. I wish all the tests that have failed, some fine people that have<\/em> failed, we want to get them help so they can get through, so will you please, teacher-graders, read them off but then pass the test to me for review.<\/p>\n

The celebration here in Addis Ababa of the anniversary of the fall of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, that many throughout the Caribbean capitalist world thought of the Messiah returned, was the occasion for joint discussions between numerous representatives of socialist, communist countries and national liberation movements, especially<\/em> concerning the situation in Southern Africa in the neo-fascist regime that\u2019s upheld entirely by US multinationals and our tax dollars to our sorrow.<\/p>\n

I would advise that you listen, because the test will be more severe this time. To shut me out will be only to hurt yourself and require five extra classes.<\/p>\n

Among those conferring were Cuban president Fidel Castro, and Zimbabwe \u2013 or what the white men call Rhodesian leaders \u2013 Joshua Nkomo, nationalist head, Robert Mugabe, Marxist-Leninist. The latter two sat side-by-side at this last week\u2019s opening here of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Conference. In a radio broadcast, Mugabe, Marxist-Leninist, said he and Nkomo, nationalist, were in agreement that no useful purpose would come from any meeting with Rhodesian white government head, Ian Smith. He said the Patriotic Front, the only representative government, the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front that represents 97% of their people, and the leaders agree in the Patriotic Front that the only way to his \u2013 Smith\u2019s \u2013 overthrow is through armed struggle, with its intensification as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Beirut: The leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization held an extraordinary meeting this weekend last in the wake of the Carter-Sadat-Begin [U.S. President Jimmy Carter; Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; and Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister] agreement reached the previous days at Camp David, Maryland. The meeting was attempted [attended] by all factions of the PLO, including representatives of the Rejection Front, who have boycotted most recent executive council meetings. The meetings call for a general strike by Palestinians inside and outside the Israeli fascist-occupied territories, South Lebanon, the West Bank that they conquered from Jorgan\u2013 Jordan, and the Gaza Strip that they took from Egypt to indicate the rejection of the Camp David sellout agreements, held by Carter near Washington. Gathered on the eve of the special meeting of progressive Arab forces, were Libya, Democratic Yemen, (Pause) Syria, Algeria, and \u2013 scheduled for a following day in Damascus \u2013 Syria, Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestine Liberation Front, (Pause) and the steadfadne\u2013 steadfastist front conference will bear great responsibility and faces its decisive test in the eyes of the Palestine masses. As you are probably now aware, Saudi Arabia, one of the richest nations in the world, richest only second to the Soviet Union, and, uh, then follows the Shah [Pahlavi Reva, Shah of Iran]. So it will be (Pause) notable<\/em> that the United States has lost much in this sellout<\/em> to Zionist forces. It seems the presence of so many Jewish people who have been deceived by Zionism has caused the United States foreign policy to take a turn to madness, much to our sorrow.<\/p>\n

Washington: Saying the Camp David conference had sold the Palestinians completely down the river, Senator James Abourzek, A-B-O-U-R-Z-E-K, Democrat, South Dakota, said yesterday in a speech on the floor of the Senate, the dreaded hour has finally arrived. The separate peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which President Sadat swore would not come from him, and for which Israel has hoped for so long a time, has come. Now, with the inclusion of Carter, said Senator Abourzek, a brave\u2013 most brave senator probably left in the United States, he\u2019s gone under much reprisals too, smears in the press, and intimidation by government agencies such as IRS, he said what Carter, what\u2013 now with the inclusion of Carter, what was reprehensible last year has become a great victory. The continue denial of self-determination for the Palestinians has given a sheen and a gloss designed to cover what it really is, an Israeli fascist occupation under a different name, said Senator Abourzek. Bravo to such courage.<\/p>\n

The nationwide dockworkers, Sydney, Australia. Their\u2013 The dockworkers strike in Australia went into its third day. Losses from the strike are estimated at over 20 million, as it has begun again. The strike began when 55 maintenance workers at the container terminals in Melbourne of Seatrain, the USA firm, went on strike for higher wages. USA monopoly capitalism, as you know, controls 66% of the wealth, most of the wealth of all the capitalist nations, nearly all of Can\u2013 all of Canada belongs to US multinational neo-fascist (Pause) cor\u2013 corporations backed up the military industrial complex of USA of finance monopoly capitalism and the might of the garrison state of USA imperialism and its in\u2013 military industrial complex. In retaliation, management laid off 2600 dock workers with permission of the conservative government of Premier [Prime Minister] Malcolm Fraser. Dockworkers then went on nationwide strike, joined by oil refinery workers.<\/p>\n

Nairobi: Seventeen officers of the Somali army have been shot before firing squads because of the opposition to the policy of dictator Mohammed Siad \u2013 S-I-A-D \u2013 Barre \u2013 B-A-R-R-E, it was announced yesterday over Somali radio, Mogadishu \u2013 M-O-G-A-D-I-S-H-U \u2013 without trial. That is Somalia, backed by US capitalism and the erroneous and completely stupid foreign policy of mainland China. Thirty other officers received prison sentences of a maximum\u2013 They must\u2013 they must serve minimum rather, of 20 to 30 years at hard labor.<\/p>\n

Lisbon: An estimated 600,000 Portuguese gathered yesterday for three days of the annual festival of the communist party newspaper, Avante,<\/em> A-V-A-N-T-E. The paper called it the most beautiful and fraternal, most varied and largest festival ever held in Portugal. As you know, Portugal has been mending severely due to IMF \u2013 International Monetary Fund \u2013 pressure. The event featured cultural activities on four separate stages, involving one\u2013 410 are\u2013 har\u2013 artists, 170 from other countries, including Basset Charlie Aiden [phonetic] of the United States. In a speech before a rally of 250,000, PCP General-Secretary \u00c1lvaro Cunhal, speaking on the eve of the fall of the government of Socialist leader M\u00e1rio Soares, brave socialist that he was, once again appealed to socialists to form an alliance with the communist and all other elements of the left to restore socialism to Portugal.<\/p>\n

Paris: Close to one million people gathered two weeks\u2013 two weekends\u2013 this weekend and the weekend last \u2013 for the annual festival of the French Communist Party\u2019s newspaper, L\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/em> \u2013 L\u2019H-U-M-A-N-I-T-\u00c9. Representatives of 65 other communist parties, progressive organizations, and national liberation movements participated in the events at the international city, set up on the northern outskirts of Paris. During the course of the\u2013 the L\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/em>, 8,047 people joined the Communist Party, and 7,473 signed up with the Young Comm\u2013 Communist League, as communism is definitely on the upsurge throughout the European nations. The paper got 7,103 new subscriptions, the French communist party newspaper that is, L\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Paris again: Tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets here under the banner, of halt the massacres in Iran. Solidarity with the Iranian people. The demonstration represented the unity of an action of left and progressive forces in France. Some 16 mass organizations and parties issuing the call, including the French communist, socialist, and left radical parties. All three major trade union organizations and youth organizations, the government France is in\u2013 is an accomplice by its silence. All agreed this to be the case. The socialist, communist, and left radical parties, the government of France is an accomplice by silence, said they, the appeal signed by 16 organizations, said it\u2019s nothing but a sellout, and a silence of consent of oppression in Iran\u2013 Iran. Same in United States, only there was no demonstrations. That\u2019s what\u2019s so hopeless about the United States. Though there are thousands of Iranians living in United States, there were very little demonstrations against the many murders that\u2019ve been\u2013 been conducted recently by the Shah of Iran.<\/p>\n

Kuwait, according to the news service of United Emirates \u2013 E-M-I-R-A-T-E-S \u2013 Yasser \u2013 A\u2013 Y-A-S-S-E-R \u2013 Arafat \u2013 A-R-A-F-A-T \u2013 chairman of the Executive Committee for the Palestine Liberation Organization, said here recently that the efforts of mediation between the Republic of Yemen and the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of Yemen, a pro-Soviet ally, had been successful, and that both sides had agreed to meet shortly to discuss differences that have arisen between the two countries. We\u2019re glad for peace wherever it can be found. The world is desperately in need of peace. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Continuing with the news. (Pause) Radio Moscow: Ethiopia and the Soviet Union have reaffirmed their agreements to develop cooperation between their two countries, as they draw closer and closer in the strongest of alliances.<\/p>\n

Members of the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States have arrived in the capital of the dictatorship of Nicaragua, under Somoza [Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua] who was placed in power by the U.S. Marines many years ago, to begin an inquiry into the human rights violations by the Somoza military regime. The dictator\u2019s\u2013 dictator\u2019s troops killed at least 10,000 people during the suppression of the popular uprising. More than 25,000 men, women have left the country, and many, many, many more are missing. The ones that did escape missed the reprisals. As you know, jus\u2013 just yesterday, hundreds were blown out of the water by US-provided planes and artillery hardware. Should make all of us feel guilty, that anyone guilty, who thinks about going back to United States. So sick of the vomitous of it, and as I said, the office will take care of the matter from now on. The presidents of Venezuela [Carlos Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez] and Colombia [Julio C\u00e9sar Turbay Ayala] have called on the United Nations to investigate the violations of human rights in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n

Vietnam declared another protest against China\u2019s violation of her borders by Chinese servicemen and ships. A spokesman for Vietnam\u2019s Foreign Minister handed over a note to the Chinese embassy in Hanoi. The note listed all cases in violation since the beginning of last month. A similar protest was filed on September 15. It pointed out that Chinese servicemen had repeatedly crossed over into the Vietnamese reunified socialist territory \u2013 it\u2019s an ally of the Soviet Union \u2013 and fired<\/em> at Vietnamese vessels, destroying fishing tackle. The countries of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance will help Vietnam to continue building the project on which China declined technical assistance. The decision is being adopted by the council\u2019s executives, and their communiqu\u00e9 says that Vietnam will also be assisted in completing the restoration of the railway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which was formerly Saigon under the imperialist control of USA.<\/p>\n

At Ethiopia\u2019s request, the session worked out the guidelines for cooperation of West African countries. It also discussed ways of helping Angola in its agricultural development.<\/p>\n

Since October of last year, the number of factory and other workers in the Soviet Union has increased by 2,300,000 and now exceeds 107 million. There is no en\u2013 unemployment in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Constitution guarantees everyone a job. These figures of an\u2013 employment have been released in Moskva \u2013 Moscow \u2013 in connection with the first anniversary of the new Soviet Constitution, which we all must be listening to, as Gerry [Geraldine Bailey] will be reading to us this day. This coming Saturday will be the celebration of the first anniversary of the new Soviet Constitution. We should write up a petition here and send it in to the embassy, showing our deep and abiding loyalty to the USSR for being the avant garde of liberation all throughout Africa and the world. The constitution guarantees each person the right to work. There will be an economic plan drawn up to ensure production prospers\u2013 prosperity with the new workforce. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Doctors at the Moscow surgery center have restored, after several hours of being separated, the hand of a patient who lost four fingers in an accident. The operation lasted twelve hours, the surgical teams changing every two hours. This enabled the surgical team to better concentrate on complex jobs of suturing the tiniest blood vessels and nerves. There have been five cases of Moscow sur\u2013 surgeons now restoring hands in recent months. Microsurgery of vessels is now\u2013 new\u2013 now repeatedly developing branch, a completely new branch of medicine. Only in the Soviet Union does it take place, with centers in Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev in the Soviet Union. Similar centers are being opened in other cities. All medical care, including surgery of any advanced nature, even cosmetic surgery, is free to all in the Soviet Union. Would not anyone want that kind of assurance, would one\u2013 not anyone give their life to see their children and their loved ones live under that kind of security?<\/p>\n

The Soviet Union has launched a space cargo ship, which will take food, equipment, and fuel to the cosmonauts who have been working abroad\u2013 aboard the satellite space station for 112 days.<\/p>\n

Leonid Brezhnev has started\u2013 has stated that a good harvest has been won in many parts of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

SWAPO, South West African People\u2019s Organization, will step up the armed struggle, according to Marxist-Leninist doctrine for the true independence of Namibia, having discounted the United Nations resolution, as did Czechoslovakia and USSR voting against it, because it did not grant them the independence that any people with pride would require. The new South African Prime Minister [Pieter Willem Botha] has declared that his country refuses to carry though the United Nations plan for Namibia, and intends to hold elections in December under South Africa\u2019s control. Radio Moscow\u2019s observers said in comment, the refusal to go by the settlement plans proposed by the United Nations Security Council showed that the South African ruling circles \u2013 fascist circles upheld by US imperialism \u2013 want to preserve their rule in Namibia with the help of strength, all the USA capitalists. The last few months have made it obvious that South West African People\u2019s Organization, SWAPO, will win if general free elections are held in Namibia. In its persistent struggle for Namibia\u2019s genuine independence, SWAPO has won itself a high repute in the country. It has left other puppet parties backed by South Africa with no chance for a political future. It is common knowledge that the Western powers largely depend upon South Africa for imports of strategically important minerals, and thus USA is willing to turn its head and not speak at all of human rights, in the hypocrisy of Carter, because they need the minerals of Union of South Africa that is brought by the sweat of s\u2013 black slaves and Indian slaves from that regime, apartheid regime, which means as it\u2013 just as it sounds, apartness. With its dubicle\u2013 dubious statements, the new South African administration would like to bring pressure on the imperialist Western powers, headed by USA, and force them into maneuvered\u2013 maneuvering\u2013 maneuvers aimed at setting up the puppet state in Namibia. The racists have already done something in this direction. The intentions of Western foreign ministers to pay a visit to Pretoria, the capital of the fascist regime of Union of South Africa, once again, following the new Prime Minister\u2019s statement, (Pause) is a case in point.<\/p>\n

Events in Namibia and around it indicate that the time is right for taking the most decisive action against the South African racists. That was exactly the point made the Foreign Minister of Cameroon, C-A-M-E-R-R-O\u2013 C-A-M-E-R-O-O-N, I think. The point made by the Foreign Minister of the Cameroon at the current session of the United Nations General Assembly. He stressed his statement that the United Nations Security Council must<\/em> supply\u2013 apply Article 7 of United Nations charter to South Africa. The limiting the introductions of compulsory international factions, the Soviet Union\u2019s stand on the Namibian issue is consistent and clear-out\u2013 clear-cut. The Soviet Union insists on South Africa\u2019s immediate withdrawal from Namibia. It fully backs the demands b\u2013 put forward by SWAPO, South West African People\u2019s Organization. The organization presses for the withdrawal of all<\/em> the occupation forces from Namibian territory, Union of South Africa backed by US imperialism, liberation of all political prisoners, and the holding of free elections under United Nations supervision without US intervention. When the conditions are met, the road will be cleared to general solution of the Namibian problem.<\/p>\n

The Mongolian capital was the site of the regular meeting of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance. This international economic organization is comprised of its member organizations of the socialist community, Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, the modern East German communist nation, Cuba, Mongolia, Romania, the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam. The participants were representatives of each country\u2019s head of state. The meeting was held in the\u2013 in an air of friendship, understanding, and the closest unity that has ever been noted in this great conclave. (Pause)<\/p>\n

The price of gold reached a world record l\u2013 record level today, as the US dollar continues its decline in value against major currencies. On the London bullion market, the gold price reached a level of $223 an ounce. On the foreign exchange market, the dollar fell to new lower points against the German mark, the Dutch skelder [guilder], and the Belgian franc. The West German bank intervened to support the dollar.<\/p>\n

Heavy artillery batteries have con\u2013 been continuing in Beirut, once the most beautiful capital outside of any capital in the world, with exchange of fire in many parts of the city, due to the fascist Israeli-backed Zionist aggressors Christian militia. The Christian fascist militiamen are encircling in East Beirut, and Syrian troops who are pro-Soviet, the Arab peacekeeping forces are surrounded in other areas. Both sides seemed determined to fight it out. The shelling continues in the already-badly damaged area, and the people are without water and power. It is a frightful sight to see this once most modern and beautiful city of the world just simply brought into ruins.<\/p>\n

The funeral of Pope John Paul [I] has taken place in St. Peter\u2019s Square in Rome. One hundred thousand people were in attendance. The usual mourning was not noted. He was only 24 years\u2013 24 days, the representative of Christ on Earth. Seems that God is having difficulty keeping his popes alive these days.<\/p>\n

President Sadat \u2013 or dictator Sadat \u2013 of Egypt has appointed a new commander-in-chief of the armed forces and Minister of Defense [Boutros Boutros-Ghali]. The general was formerly in charge of the government\u2019s intelligent [intelligence] department.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia has issued a warning to the new Somalian act of aggression towards it. And the USSR and Cuba has backed that warning also. There are reports that Ethiopia intends to attack Somalia, although the Ethiopian government has clearly refuted these allegations.<\/p>\n

Mexico and Panama have condemned the crimes of the Somoza regime and USA for backing that regime, since the invasion by the U.S. Marines that put Somoza in power. U.S. Marines put him in power in Nicaragua. The Mexican foreign minister [Santiago Roel Garc\u00eda], addressing the United Nations General Assembly, accused dictator Somoza of pursuing a policy of absolute genocide of his own people. Panama\u2019s foreign minister called on the United Nations to seek the necessary steps to put an end to the killings in Nicaragua. Said if it\u2019s not stopped, he will kill his entire population to remain in power over nothing but rubble. He said the situation in that country jeopardized peace in Latin America. He pointed out that this government has information that reactionary circles in United States and elsewhere on the continent are preparing a new conflict between Honduras and [El] Salvador so as to direct\u2013 divert attention from the events in Nicaragua. Panama has been taking an increasingly brave stand against the imperialism, Washington-style.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/em> foreign edition has said that the CIA and FBI and other US se\u2013 secret services are conducting a total surveillance of America. Special police divisions were set up to increase surveillance. The main task of these divisions is to keep tabs on progressive-minded people. Their work is primarily aimed against anti-war and civil rights organizations and minority groups who are calling for an end to racial demon\u2013 dis\u2013 discrimination. Complete ecolec\u2013 electronic uh\u2013 surveillance has been brought about. Needless to say, this does not even begin to tell the kind of recriminations, persecutions, and harassment that are done to people like ourselves who call themselves what they are openly: socialist Marxists-Leninists.<\/p>\n

Carter has lifted the embargo on arms, despite his promise to do otherwise \u2013 all of his election promises have been broken \u2013 he lifted the em\u2013 embargo today to Turkey, fascist Turkey, who has been known for its aggressive and bellicose actions for years, just right under the Soviet Union on the Black Sea. The embargo was enforced three years ago, following the dispatch of Turkish troops in aggression to Cyprus. The resumption of American military aid to Turkey has caused grave concern [to] Greece and Cyprus, and could cause a tremendous strained relation. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Just as a point of view of the opposition, a proposed visit to Guyana, President Carlos Anders\u2013 Andr\u00e9s \u2013 A-N-D-R-\u00c9-S \u2013 P\u00e9rez, who\u2019ll be used by the regime to raise hopes of more loans from our oil rich neighbor. This is the consensus of a number of knowledgeable persons who have been watching the antics of our bankrupt regime. Friendly, however, his source say, very versed in Venezuelan constitutional and political norms, have declared that the P\u00e9rez visit will merely be friendly. Indeed it will only improve relations with that country. The reason for this is Sen\u2013 Se\u00f1or P\u00e9rez, P-\u00c9-R-E-Z, president of Venezuela \u2013 is very much on the way out from the presidency. Elections take place in a few weeks, and P\u00e9rez can take no initiative regarding economic aid or border negotiations. We are in a border dispute, as you know, that must be resolved by 1980. Loan: However, it was during P\u00e9rez\u2019 administration that Venezuela made a loan in 1974 to the Republic of Guyana during severe financial stress. The regime has been\u2013 had been hoping that now that the country is further in the slough of debts, Venezuela would have helped again, but like Trinidad and Tobago, which had at the time made a loan, there\u2019s been no response to feelers. It is believed that the reason for this non-response is the inability of Guyana to repay as was a\u2013 as was agreed upon. Observers believe that it was certainly a wonderful greeting and gesture to Guyana to have received a loan from P\u00e9rez, whose Party Action Democratic\u2013 (pause) Party Action Democratic \u2013 (pause) Uh, as I was saying, that this Party Action Democratic has never been on the best terms with this country, our beloved Guyana under our<\/em> party, the avant garde PNC, the Peo\u2013 People\u2019s National Congress, and our Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.<\/p>\n

Uprising: It was action democratic with Leon\u2013 Leone L-E-O-N-E [Ra\u00fal Leoni]as president that aided those who brought about the Ruper\u2013 Rupununi Uprising. There was also a naci\u00f3n<\/em> democratic government which proclaimed a decree remaining\u2013 regarding Guyana\u2019s rights to certain maritime limits. As for the protocol of the Port of Spain, it has never been ratified by the Venezuelan con\u2013 congress, due mainly to members of Acci\u00f3n <\/em>A-C-C-I-O-N Democratic. It was Coper, C-O-P-E-R, administration of Rafael Calderia C-A-L-D-E-R-I-A, which worked out the Port-of-Spain accord. Definite, however, there is of information, that on a visit to Venezuela, Burnham was offered some 900 million dollars to arrive in a definite way a settlement of the border dispute. The Burnham administration agreed, but put no action on the proposal. It is believed that if the visit materializes, President P\u00e9rez of the\u2013 of Venezuela, our neighbor, just ten miles east, (unintelligible word) make statements about non-alignment, the need for mutual assistance, among them, and a new international economic order. Indeed, it needs to be said with some commendation, I would think, to our beloved Prime Minister Burnham, that he did not<\/em> sell out his country or a portion of his land for 900 million dollars. He has stood steadfast on the demand for all of Guyana to remain as it is, and not to give up any<\/em> of the land to either Venezuela, Surinam, and there are no claims on it by Brazil. It\u2019s hard to say just exactly how it will go. There has been a new treaty signed of cooperation with Surinam, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, but nonetheless, I\u2019m giving you an opposition point of view, the most vicious type of opposition point of view.<\/p>\n

Thus end the comment of the news. I think that pretty well carries the essence of the news. I can\u2019t think of anything else that would be so much uh, (pause) important to hear. There might be one thing that I would add. Uh\u2013 a book review.<\/p>\n

Bonn, West Germany, which prides itself on being Hitler\u2019s inheritor of the Third Reich. Bonn, West Germany, Pretoria strike nuke deal. Nuclear Axis: Collusion between West Germany and South Africa<\/em>, by (struggles to spell lead author\u2019s name of Zdenek Cervenka) and Barbara Rogers, Vermillion Publishing Company, 1978, 600 pages, $12.95. On the morning of September 24, 1975, Donald Soul (phonetic), South Africa\u2019s ambassador\u2013 fascist South Africa\u2019s ambassador to West Germany, also a neo-fascist regime, made a chance discovery that deeply shocked him and his racist government. Some nine cases of Soul\u2019s embassy files were missing, an entire carload. Among them were cables, letters, and dispatches detailing a secret agreement providing for the sale of West German nuclear technology to the Pretoria fascist regime \u2013 which is upheld only<\/em> by US tax dollars that you and I help pay, to put blood on our hands, so the multinationals continue to pay, as well as our tax dollars \u2013 which will enable it to manufacture atomic bombs. These secret papers that were brought to light showed that West Germany was helping Union of South Africa and indirect way, USA, because USA has much investment in the corporations of neo-fascist West Germany. Within hours, South African Prime Minister John Vorster and General [Hendrik Johan] van den Bergh \u2013 B-E-R-G-H \u2013 the Pretoria\u2013 Pretoria, the capital of fascist South Africa\u2019s Bureau of State Security, learned of one of the most serious security breaches in the South Africa\u2019s history. Just how serious became clear the following day, when a brown envelope arrived in the mail at the embassy in Bonn, West Germany. In it was a gloosy\u2013 glossy brochure entitled, \u201cThe Nuclear Conspiracy,\u201d published by the African National Congress, ANC. The African National Congress, by the way, is enfiltered all<\/em> through the Union of South Africa and has successfully carried out many acts of sabotage against the fascist regime. There\u2019s not a city, no matter how comfortable or rich in white power, that has not been reached by the\u2013 the very power that\u2019s growing by leaps and bounds as the African National Congress, which has their central base in Angola. Published by the A\u2013 ANC, it contains reprints of the key documents exposing the secret and the illegal deal between fascist West Germany and South Africa, that\u2019s also fascist. In The Nuclear Axis<\/em>, (unintelligible word) fully expos\u00e9 of the deal, the authors include no fewer than 42 pages of these top secret letters and telex exchanges which are a damning indictment of West Germany\u2019s (unintelligible word, sounds like \u201cboots\u201d) of national and international agreements on the non-proliferation of nuclear know-how. Most damning of all is the exposure of Bonn\u2019s crucial role in helping South Africa produce nuclear weapons by the most sophisticated and cheapest techniques, at the same time evading the bans on West Germany\u2019s developing its own nuclear know-how. The authors do not fully explain how the documents fell into ANC hands, and believe me, they are brave and fighting and deeply entrenched people, the African National Congress in Union of South Africa\u2019s fascist dictatorship, working hard for its deliverance. Their best guess is that it happened in April 1975, when the South African Embassy was moved from Cologne, West Germany, to Bonn, neo-fascist West Ger\u2013 Germ\u2013 Germany. Bad Godesberg, G-O-D-E-S-B-E-R-G. Due to temporary inadequate space at the new embassy, numerous crates were left in an unguarded depot. At the heart of the matter was a secret agreement between\u2013 signed in August 1973 between Steag S-T-E-A-G, Steinkohlen S-T-E-I-N-K-O-H-L-E-N, Elektri\u2013 Elektrizitat, L-E-K-T-R-I-Z-I-T-A-T, ah\u2013 well, I won\u2019t spell\u2013 I\u2019ll just spell it, A-K-T-I-O-N C-E-C-E-L-L-S-C-H-A-F-T, of Essen, E-S-S-E-N, which is a USA-monopoly corporation, which held the monopoly on the jet-nozzled uranium enrichment process needed to make bomb-grade uranium, and Ucor, U-C-O-R, Uranium Enrichment Corporation, of (unintelligible name) South Africa. Steag and Ucor rights to manufacture the jet-nozzle system, this was a climax to years of secret negotiations and top-level business between the neo-fascist Bonn government of West Germany and Pretoria, the Union of South Africa fascist regime, and Essen and (same unintelligible name).<\/p>\n

The jet-nozzle agreement was actually signed behind the back of the West German government, but received Bonn\u2019s unofficial blessing two months later. Just like USA, the governments hardly control anything anymore, it\u2019s the garrison state, the military-industrial complex, the monopoly capitalists who control everything. The story of what happened as revealed in the epo\u2013 expropriated documents in a\u2013 is a classic example of how governments apply the blind eye to violations of national and international obligations, appeared dead and buried. Supporting the illegal Steag-Ucor S-T-E-A-G dash U-C-O-R deal, were ten members of Chancellor Willy Brandt\u2019s B-R-A-N-D-T-T\u2013 B-R-A-N-D-T-\u2019S government, including present Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, present Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher \u2013 G-E-N-S-E\u2013 G-E-N-S-C-H-E-R \u2013 and eight other cabinet ministers. Opposing it were Doctor (pause) Gerhard Eppler \u2013 E-P-P-L-E-R \u2013 Minister for Developing Aid, and Werner Maihoser \u2013 M-A-I-H-O-S-E-R \u2013 minister without portfolio. (pause) So you can just imagine supporting the illegal Steag-Ucor deal were Brandt and Schmidt who is the present prime\u2013 prime minister, present foreign minister and prime minister and chancellor. At an October 1973 cabinet meeting, in which the deal was first discussed, Chancellor Willy Brandt, who supported it, appeared to oppose the idea by suggesting that a decision be postponed for a week. At the meeting it was announced that Steag \u2013 S-T-E-A-G \u2013 had asked for the proposal to be withdrawn. It appeared, as Minister Eppler expressed it, that the matter was dead and buried. But this was far from the case. It was Eppler<\/em> who was dead and dru\u2013 and buried, politically, because of his opposition to the project and<\/em> the technology transfer. (Aside) My God. To think that a capitalist country would put nuclear bombs in the hands of such a vicious nation as the Union of South Africa.<\/p>\n

(Back to reading) Yes, and the technology transfer went through on the sly. In an October 1977 interview with the London Sunday Times<\/em>, Dr. Eppler explained how it was done. I learned by pure\u2013 He said he learned by pure<\/em> chance that the whole affair had not ended at all, but had been keep\u2013 (slow and deliberate) kept going despite the absence of governmental sanction. It had been evidently continued on the lower level of secretaries of State, with the two State Secretaries, Dr. Hans-Hilger Haunschild\u2013 H-A-U-N-S, and then Child \u2013 in the Ministry for Scientific Research, and Dr. Detlev Rohwedder \u2013 R-O-H-W-E-D-D-E-R \u2013 in the Economics Ministry, as the driving force behind it. Normally in the ministry, the sa\u2013 the state secretary does not do anything without the green light from the ministry himself. I do not know whether in this case the secretaries of state plotted to get the matter through themselves, claiming they did not need to be submitted to the cabinet, or whether they got a private nudge from their ministers to go ahead with it below cabinet level. What I fail to understand, because it is contrary to the official procedure of the West German government and the sanity of the world to risk nuclear war, for certain if Union of South Africa actually got their hands on nuclear weapons, the USA has placed neutron bombs there but not put them in the hands of the Union of South African fascist government. But it is\u2013 how something that had reached cabinet level and was left undecided can then be continued at state secretary level, on a low level and be grant, he continued.<\/p>\n

Eppler was forced out of office in 1974 after a six-month campaign against him by West Germany\u2019s ultra-fascist element. The end result was that South Africa, fascist nation as it is, acquired the jet-nozzle separation process and built a plant with West German techno\u2013 technological and financial help. The plant was the capa\u2013 has the capacity to produce one hundred big nuclear weapons a year. In addition, West Germany contributed to the development of South African delivery systems for the bombs. That\u2019s why Africa\u2019s for an all-out push to free<\/em> Union of South Africa before they have time to build these bombs. And that\u2019s why all freedom-loving, peace-loving people must stand<\/em> up for the liberation of South Africa, by armed struggle, (deliberate) by any means necessary, before they get a hundred big nuclear weapons, because it would be trouble for Africa, another continent destroyed.<\/p>\n

The Nuclear Axis<\/em> also describes in detail how the enrichment process was passed on to Brazil, Israel and Iran. The impeccably-documented book exposes a monstrous conspiracy against peace in general and the African people in particular, and the odious role of neo-fascist West Germany, USA\u2019s NATO ally, Social Democratic government to endure\u2013 to ensure the survival of the universally-despised racist regime, the fascist regime of South Africa. The authors note incidentally that from 1974\u2013 1974 onward, West Germany overtook all<\/em> other Western powers to become South Africa\u2019s biggest trading partner with a volume of trade totaling more than\u2013 over one point twen\u2013 twenty-four billion dollars. That\u2019s one thousand million and uh, another 24 million. That\u2019s how big\u2013 amount of money you\u2019re talking about going from USA multinationals and her lackeys to the fascist regime of South Africa.<\/p>\n

Remember there are more work observers today, which\u2019ve been added just today. They\u2019ll be taking close sight for the next Peoples Rally in every department. There\u2019re a considerable number of new observers. Keep that in mind. We will now have to have meetings every night until we get our move to greater, and more broad opportunities. [We] Certainly won\u2019t have to worry about crowding there, the kind of thing that they\u2019re talking about giving us, the acreage extended to us. You can have all the room in the world for yourself, for hunting, for education, for free medicine and whatever. It\u2019s a glo\u2013 glorious and great challenge. So let us work hard. That was one request they made, that we study the constitution well, their language (moves microphone) and to work hard, work very<\/em> hard here, extra hours, to build this project to the very, very best<\/em> we can. Please put in the suggestion box any way you have for making money or saving money.<\/p>\n

I do love you very, very much. I know the hostility that comes towards me for having to be the driving force<\/em> for your freedom, but I\u2019m offering you a freedom that no people had, to (unintelligible) injustice of the world, most people did not happen to be born in a socialist country with such tremendous freedoms, with such tremendous opportunities, where practically everything is free. So let us be grateful for a leader, find some gratitude in your heart for a leader that pushes himself night and day for your best. Try<\/em> hard. Try<\/em> hard to think of some reasons to be grateful, instead of always in your states of apprehension and hostility.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all seeds to back to your capitalist days, and there would be no peace for you there. Remember, if you were to return, your arm would be twisted, just as we found out now for sure, Debbie Blakey\u2019s was. You would not be able to do what you wanted to do. You would become a victim of the conspiracy that we have now exposed, and which is as high up as Washington, D.C. and throughout newspapers and governmental agencies, from State to the\u2013 every federal agency of the United States. Don\u2019t mess with that kind of a backward look. The USA is crazy. Madness has broken loose. Racial riots, Ku Klux Klan marching in Cicero, Illinois, and in Detroit. This is a hell that I could not begin to go into all the racist incidents. A 16-year-old knifed to death in a public street, and no one stops it, right on a main street, right in the Chicago area. This is just one case after another. I could go on with the legacy of the impoverished and the brutality of the colonial attitude that it\u2013 even the United States is clearly<\/em> persisting against the Indians. There\u2019ve been all sorts of incidents at Wounded Knee, more Indians shot down, many more Indians wounded, people in jail sentences for life<\/em>, when they were\u2013 should\u2019ve gotten only a year to ten. You don\u2019t realize\u2013 You have no sense at all when you think about going back to Babylon.<\/p>\n

Much love. I wish you could know my love. Somehow I wish I could communicate my love to you, but time will show you. Perhaps it\u2019ll be too late, but time will show you. Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Jones: <\/strong>Please find ways of sharing your blackboards. I\u2019ve got a lot of education to do. I\u2019m sure you want to leave all the alternative or the option open of the promise. We\u2019ve had a number of places offered to us. We want to keep every option open. Are you sorry<\/em> to have to require more learning than usual, but it is required that when Gerry Bailey gets on that you listen to the constitution, that you pick up on the news, and that you\u2019ll be sure that you are aware of the avant-garde of liberation\u2019s orientation, what it\u2019s doing in the world for liberation, of our visiting guests, those\u2013 of our visiting guests, their country. It\u2019s important that you know, because all black people have a debt to that, as our beloved Guyana has been strong to stand behind the liberation of Angola, even when they were threatened by Kissinger, our prime minister stood bravely and said he would rather die on his feet than beg on his knees. We have much to do. Nothing will be done without the decision of the entire community, but one thing is absolutely sure: We have to work this project as never before. I\u2019ve not slept for several days and nights. Will you please cooperate? There are more<\/em> observers today, and believe me, there will be names taken \u2013 plenty<\/em> of them \u2013 because we have increased our observer staff by at least<\/em> double, and you will\u2013 It won\u2019t be somebody just walking that you think you know. It\u2019ll be someone you don\u2019t<\/em> know. So please take cog\u2013 cognizance of your work. I don\u2019t want to hear any more snide remarks about us having to do things and of being put under pressure, or the heavy structure, and being treated something like automatons. I don\u2019t want any more of these snide remarks. You can\u2019t afford it. I can understand it, but I have to be the source of responsibility and leadership. And you can say anything you want to in the suggestion box to me. What I particularly<\/em> need is ways of making money and saving<\/em> money. You can say anything, but you must<\/em> not make any cracks in front of other people that reflects on the office, because they will<\/em> be dealt with summarily. Please remember that.<\/p>\n

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Jones: <\/strong>(slow and emphatic) Attention, attention. I\u2019m asking for the closest scrutiny of my food by Joyce Touchette \u2013 she may be too busy \u2013 or delegate it to Rose Shelton or Eva Pugh, uh, to Mary Tschetter, it doesn\u2019t matter, any one of those individuals who can watch from beginning to end. I was attempted to be poisoned last evening. I am accustomed to hostility, but I am also the benefactor of 1200 people here, and I will not sit back and allow this kind of thing. A great deal of sickness came from it. It was clearly poisoned food. And it caused another one of the nurses to get sick also. But I had the good<\/em> feeling to stop taking it, and got very sick as it was. So I am demanding that my food be watched under the closest of scrutiny, or I will eat nothing<\/em> except that which I can peel \u2013 in oranges and bananas \u2013 and then I will pick them myself. And I am<\/em> very serious about this. (Pause) I\u2019ve gone through this nonsense of my (unintelligible), and I am working against that. The person already is feeling the results of that. And you\u2019ll feel the results of your attempt to yield to such credulity. It has no place in Marxist-Leninism. So mark my word, for the sake of the children and the seniors, you will not<\/em> succeed in poisoning me. I thank you.<\/p>\n

Male:<\/strong> Dad?<\/p>\n

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Jones: <\/strong>Please keep the closest of inventory. The piggen\u2013 piggen\u2013 the piggery, chicken area, the warehouse, wherever it might be, insecticides, the bond, the clinic, watch any<\/em> kind of medication, keep your eyes on your medication at all times until they\u2019re locked. I demand that for the sake of the welfare of this people. There\u2019s no one that has such love for their people as I, who would give so much. But that is always the case. Someone will try to kill the thing that loves<\/em> them, because they don\u2019t want to love in return. So keep the closest guard in inventory, I urge you now \u2013 and administrators will follow through with it \u2013 to keep the closest count on. This was sprinkled all<\/em> through my food. And I am deplored by it, and I shall find<\/em> it. And I shall take the pictures out one by one, and I\u2019m going to begin the process that I told you about, and I\u2019ll have an end to this. You better quit trying to poison me, because I will be here to see you die by normal means. You\u2019ll just die. Death process will take over, and it\u2019ll be you<\/em> that will be put six foot under, by your own<\/em> thoughts, minds, and attitudes, by touching the anointed. So keep it in your mind, in your heart. Don\u2019t make me have to prove my point. I\u2019m a loving liberator, but I\u2019m also quite capable of protecting this family. Much love.<\/p>\n

Male:<\/strong> Dad?<\/p>\n

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Woman:<\/strong> (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones: <\/strong>(Voice slows, more lethargic) Attention, attention, attention. I want everyone to be aware of the fact that I want this situation brought to a head in reference to the food matter and the office. That must be brought to the head. I\u2019m calling on the chief coordinator of the kitchen to resolve the problem. I would like all<\/em> pictures of the people (unintelligible), so we can get those<\/em> sorted out, if you know what I mean. So we can take care of the\u2013 the needs of the people. We want to have, as we have always had, equality, justice, and absolute peace and mercy amongst us. Joyce Touchette, Joyce Touchette, would you come to the radio room please?<\/p>\n

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Jones: <\/strong>Attention, attention, attention. The medical department and all the community owe Penny Kerns a very special thank you. She has worked out her insurance and got claims that were long overdue us, into the thousands of dollars. We give that commendation, and we want all<\/em> the medical department to cooperate with her closely<\/em>, because she has a lot more claims that are ours if she can find if she gets the absolute of cooperation, which the office is requiring. Thank you and much love.<\/p>\n

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Jones: <\/strong>(unintelligible beginning) I would like to give a word of recommendation out of the many hundreds of superfluous things that pass through (unintelligible under static) the suggestion box, that are hand to hand to me, I thought we would do\u2013 be much better to build two bins or bins, one for rice and one for flour. It would cost a little more than the (unintelligible word) siding it would take to build a loft in the pavilion. The pavilion has no walls so a lot of weight at the (unintelligible word) might cause it to fall in on us. Organizing it, please, in the name of heaven (unintelligible under static), get this taken care of. I cannot stand the\u2013 the (unintelligible word) that we\u2019re going to have. Thank you very much. Much love. Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Jones: <\/strong>(Voice slows with lethargy) Attention, attention, attention. In addition to Russian classes beginning promptly on the pavilion, 7:30, and encouragement to the kitchen, have the food well<\/em> ready and prepared so that people can get out and be<\/em> there, but no snide remarks if it\u2019s not done. Bring complaints to the official Peoples Forum. I\u2019m tired of any snide and\u2013 and remarks, or any gossip. It will be dealt with publicly, no matter where it comes from. We will then follow with a brief movie, (unintelligible name), which is bad enough, on what\u2019s happening to blacks e\u2013 and Indians in England. It\u2019s a very sorrowful sight. And we will study it with some interest, so we can become aware<\/em>. Some people can become aware through the spoken word, and the blackboard which I want to be used and to be built rapidly as pos\u2013 possible so it\u2013 there will be no burden on Comrade [Tom] Grubbs. Then there are those (unintelligible word) television media. It\u2019s a (unintelligible word) uh, introduction. It\u2019s CBS, it\u2019s biased, but you can see the horror<\/em> of what blacks and Indians face in England. If you don\u2019t do some written exam, please bring them off as soon as possible (unintelligible under static), give to me the names of those who did not have luck on this last test. And good people, some of the finest noblest workers, fail, but we\u2019ve got to bring up the knowledge level. It\u2019s not punishment, it\u2019s a benefit, so we can get\u2013 we\u2019re being offered (unintelligible under static), we\u2019re being offered something that sounds like a gold<\/em> mine, and they want us to be purely communist and purely aware of all<\/em> the news, current news, and what\u2019s happening, particularly affecting the Soviet Union and the enemies of the Soviet Union, and to know the constitution, so that I\u2019ll be listening to at great length, and then, if you\u2019ve got time for some Soviet history in the schools, that<\/em> oughta be gotten in where possible. We let the Guyanese in, we also recognize, we want to get Guyanese history. But when we have guests, we like for them to see our knowledge we have, languages, we have learned all<\/em> languages. Chinese, we\u2019ve learned Swahili, we\u2019ve learned Spanish, Portuguese. We\u2019ve learned mostly languages\u2013 French. And I cannot mention all of them. So please, (unintelligible), that will be the procedure. If not, (unintelligible under static) it will be the study of the excellent, though biased commentary about Britain\u2013 Britain\u2019s blacks and East Indians.<\/p>\n

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