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Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

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Jones:<\/strong> Attention, attention, attention. News of the day. Testing this evening. Preparations should be ha\u2013made for testing this evening. Some have let down in the course of the relaxation with guests present. Some did not. We will ascertain that\u2013 the difference, those who pass all aspects of a test will\u2019ve shown who carried on their responsibilities, others carried on responsibilities in other ways, so we\u2019ll make exceptions for some in future tests and meetings and classes<\/em>. It is shameful that some people did not have the good judgment to avoid physical hostilities. On one day alone, four incidents. That makes it difficult. You only hurt yourself by that. It\u2019s my desire to make meetings less, testings less, so that people can stand on their own merit<\/em>, their own conscience<\/em>, but obviously, people do not yet know how to live<\/em> socialism without a great deal of structure.\u00a0 Any future\u2013 any<\/em> future violations \u2013 we will discuss this tonight \u2013 any future such violations will be develop\u2013 dealt with in the most severe fashion. It is gross and grotesque that you want to impose more structure. It\u2019s not only tires you but your leader, just because you can\u2019t behave when your teacher\u2019s out of the way or out of sight, you can\u2019t behave. This is dreadful. Peoples Rally will begin promptly at 7:30. Be sure you\u2019re listening to the news now.<\/p>\n

Just some comments on Julius Nyerere, Tanzania, who has been receiving both Soviet and Chinese support. He said when the USSR sent its troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968, Tanzania was one of the many countries which protested. It is expected that we should not protest\u2013 It is expected that we should not<\/em> protest, however, when Western powers send their troops into an African country. These so-called rescue operations almost always seem to result in the death of thousands of innocent people and the rescue of a government puppet regime of the imperialist, but that is apparently not regarded in Europe as interference in African affairs or USA either. There should be no mistake. Whatever the official agenda, the Paris and Brussels meetings will ever discuss, the freedom of Africa should<\/em> be primary. They are discussing the continued uh, domination\u2013 Rather than how to liberate Africa, they are discussing the continued<\/em> domination of Africa and the continued use of Africa by US imperialism and her lackeys. They are intended to be taken together a second Berlin conference. The real agenda inside and outside the formal sessions of all of the capitalist meetings will be concerned with two things and two things only: it will be concerned with neo-colonialism in Africa for economic purposes, because USA and Europe capitalist nations cannot maintain their standard of living without exploiting our economics\u2013 our economic resources. The real control of Africa and African states is obvious that US and her imperialist Western allies are intent on total control of our real personal total lives. It will be concerned also always, he warns his African comrades, with the use of Africa in the East-West conflict. They will be led\u2013 that is, the imperialist under USA will be led by the Americans. These two purposes will be coordinated so that they are mutually supported, and the apportionment<\/em> of the expected benefits and<\/em> cost will be worked out.<\/p>\n

But the cost may also be higher than the participants anticipate. Tanzania is not the only nationalist country in Africa. There are other nationalists everywhere. Sooner or later, and as long as necessary, Africa will<\/em> fight against US neo-colonialism and her ally and her puppets, as it has fought against colonialism, and it eventually will win. That we guarantee you, was Julius Nyeyere\u2019s primary statement.<\/p>\n

Continue with the news. From Radio Moscow. In Crimea, President Brezin\u2013 Brezinsky [Leonid Brezhnev] receives Armand Hammer, head of Occidental Oil. Apparently in new moves, the Soviets are trying to wedge a\u2013 put a wedge between some business elements of USA of a larger nature, uh, and its government and its military-industrial complex in general. They have formed a joint effort, President Brezhnev announced, that Armand Hammer, head of the Occidental Oil and the Soviet Union (covers microphone) are going into a joint venture in the USSR soby\u2013 sobi\u2013 Siberian region to complete equality and non-interference\u2013 with complete equality and non<\/em>-interference to produce the resources of that land, and share with equanimity. Well, this is an interesting approach on the parts of the Soviets and, of course, no grave danger to them, in that they have such a large standing army, strongly\u2013 strongly loyal to the Politburo, the ruling assembly of the Communist nation.<\/p>\n

Geneva Conference against Racism in its final session supported a final draft on African resolution that calls for an immediate end of all<\/em> racial discrimination, and USA is named amongst those who have offended the poli\u2013 policies of racial fraternal relations. Also it has called for sanctions against Israel, a racist state, by the resolution\u2019s own decision, and it has also called for the liberation of South Africa and Rhodesia. The Geneva Conference on Racism will convene again on 1983, but will have committee resolutions for guide\u2013 for guideline purposes as to their resolutions every year.<\/p>\n

In uh, Namibia. Complaints has been made that the regime of the South African fascist apartheid state that has been held up by US aid\u2013 military aid directly, has ruthlessly<\/em> exploited Namibia. SWAPO, according to Radio Moscow and or\u2013 also BBC, is gaining support widely. The Southwest African People\u2019s Organization is gaining wide<\/em> support across the non-aligned world and all of Africa.<\/p>\n

The president of Moma\u2013 Mozambique [Samora Machel] opposes military occupation of Indian Ocean, accuses USA to be attempting to move her military presence into the Indian Ocean in spite of pledges that that would remain a zone of peace. Like this is between the USSR and the Soviet U\u2013 U\u2013 USSR and United States, our whole region is a zone of peace. USA denies that they have moved any military per\u2013 uh, fleet there for any in\u2013 long range military purpose, that they are en route to Southeast Asia that is in great trouble these days.<\/p>\n

Imperialists need Africa, said president of Mozambique, and he said, do not count on any kind of negotiations, the so-called Anglo-US peace plan. The president of Mozambique, the Marxist republic that has also received aid from China and<\/em> the USSR and Cuba, been beleaguered by the planes provided by USA attacking them from Union of South Africa, and planes provided by USA attacking them from Rhodesia<\/em>. He said it is foolhardy<\/em> to depend upon the imperialist discussions and negotiations. All freedom-loving people must<\/em> oppose by<\/em> force those exploiting Western powers \u2013 that means USA and her NATO allies \u2013 that are trying to continue to drain Africa.<\/p>\n

Kenya. The transitional government makes a strong pledge to\u2013 of neutrality and non-alignment. This is a breakthrough in the sense that Kenya has been pretty much in the Western world\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n

Pravda says that Japan and Chinese treaty of peace and friendship is certainly good for nations to have such treaties of peace and friendship, but it is openly anti-Soviet. China lays claims to a number of territories in Asia and southeast Asia in the treaty, according to\u00a0 the Soviet Union. And USSR says it will not remain passive in view of it. It has to take preparations to see that the wi\u2013 the will and intent of that treaty is not carried out be\u2013 because it supports the chauvinism and expansionism of China. It also gave another warning to Japan that in case of nuclear war, which seems ominously hanging over all of our heads, Japan will have to be listed as an enemy of the Soviet people for signing the treaty. You remember Japan and\u2013 and<\/em> China had been willing to relax that part of their treaty, but USA insisted on certain features being in the treaty, and so Japan and China complied. China is of course undoubtedly trying to use all these frictions to bring about breaks in alliances with USA and<\/em> for that part the Soviet Union, maybe, to bring about the nuclear war that she feels certain will come, which is one of the basis\u2013 It is the foundation<\/em> of her Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Angola. When threatened by another excursion\u2013 intrusion by South African troops into her border and which were driven out within two hours, went on the air and said she will resist any exploiter. She praised the Soviet Union and Cuba for past assistance, and \u2013 of all things \u2013 Mobutu [Sese Seko] of Zaire pledged military assistance to Angola against any future enemies. Zaire\u2019s one of the most uh, fantastic developments probably in the past many, many, many months, in that it is a right wing leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, and he has joined into the strongest alliances with Angola.<\/p>\n

Today, the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front had a field day. They wiped out one unit of the secret police of the white mercenaries trained in USA, many of them just uni\u2013 u\u2013 uniformed US officers being paid by our tax dollars which causes guilt to the bottom of our souls. Well (unintelligible word) 29 of those secret police were killed today in one raid. Ninety soldiers were killed also by the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front\u00a0 in an attack on the eastern reg\u2013 region. In one of the largest concentration camps upheld again, the guilt it causes in our minds is indescribable, a\u2013 a concentration camp as fierce as anything in Nazi Germany, but the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front freed all of the hundreds<\/em> of prisoners that were in this concentration camp on the east\u2013 e\u2013 in the eastern region of Zimbabwe, or what the white man prefers to call, Rhodesia.<\/p>\n

Students are teaching the revolution in Ethiopia. Highly skilled and trained by Marxist-Leninist lecturers from the Soviet Union, the students are spending their holidays all through the country, in farmlands, every little nook, crook and valley, teaching the principles of Marxist-Leninist principle, strengthening national unity in Ethiopia. All are carrying on a victory and restoration concept which will give education and food and equality of economic need\u2013 Meeting all the economic needs by 1980 is their goal.<\/p>\n

An art festival has been called in the capital of Ethiopia, where all students at every age level will participate in a national art festival to encourage the arts and music. One way of communicating, in Ethiopia\u2019s mind, their socialist revolution.<\/p>\n

One person has been killed and perhaps more, said Radio Moscow, in the terrible tragic accident of a Titan II missile inside the USA in Kansas, near Wichita, Kansas. A cloud one mile long had to be\u2013 is\u2013 a yellowish cloud has floated as far\u2013 far as 55 miles from the disaster. Several more are laying in a critical condition. One was killed immediately when the Titan II missile leaked. This is not the first, said Radio Moscow, of USA, as even The New York Times<\/em>, which Moscow quotes, said in 1965, 53 were killed alone in an accidental fire, as you know, when the president [Lyndon B. Johnson] was saying that no accidents could ever occur in the same kind of a Titan II missile. The Titan II missile warhead carries 24 megatons, enough to destroy, well, properly placed, a third of the stize\u2013 size of the state of Texas, all<\/em> of Northern California, if it was high enough. The Soviets suppor\u2013 supposedly have laser defense means of stopping many of USA\u2019s missiles that would be directed against them. Fortunately, said BBC and<\/em> Radio Moscow and the Voice of America, this Titan missile II was not armed, it did not have a warhead yet placed in it. Obviously, there was some danger of great deal more<\/em>, perhaps it being sent off, I do not know, or the bomb exploding\u2013 exploding in the silo, but it said\u2013 both<\/em> Radio BBC, Radio Moscow and Voice of America said fortunately<\/em> \u2013 almost their words paraphrased each other \u2013 fortunately the warhead, the 24-megaton warhead that will go 6000 miles in just a matter of a few minutes to its target, and which it would destroy, as I said, areas as large as a third<\/em> of the state of Texas, but fortunately<\/em>, all the broadcasters said, the warhead, which was due to be placed in tomorrow, had not been placed in the\u2013 the nose of the missile. It would\u2013 was requiring for as moment, there with\u2013 the evacuation of an entire city of Wichita, Kansas, but the clouds steered away. The yellow haze cloud was lethal to the degree that 50 miles\u2013 55 miles from the disaster, it killed all of the livestock. That\u2019s how dreadful was the leak from this unarmed<\/em> missile.<\/p>\n

Soviet cosmonauts continue for many weeks now in outer space on their platform where they\u2019ve been supposedly developing heat sensory defense device that could hone in on factories and cut out the industrial might of USA in case of nuclear World War III. They are continuing, said Radio Moscow, to study every part of the land area, the fo\u2013 the topistry, the forest, the seas and the oceans. They\u2019re very open about the fact that they\u2019re studying all of ear\u2013 world surfaces.<\/p>\n

South Africa makes raids on Namibia border all the time, says Radio Moscow. SWAPO and Zambia uh, are in close alliance. Zambia has given\u2013 Zambia\u2019s also receiving military and economic assistance from China and the Soviet Union again. Zambia has given support to all of the SWAPO leaders. Zambia opposes the UN resolution al\u2013 as did also the uh, s\u2013 nations of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, because they feel that it will only impose a Western-oriented regime, too moderate for the people\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n

Reactions of Vorster [Johannes Vorster, prime minister of Republic of South Africa] and President Kaunda[Kenneth David Kaunda, president of Zambia] seem to want though (clear throat) to get a settlement to the situation by December 31. Both agree on that. Strangely, a new kind of situation is developing, a new turn of events that always shows how capitalists will sell out capitalists. Anyway, Za\u00ad\u2013 Zambia will continue to give support, said President Kwanda, to SWAPO, the liberation forces of Namibia, South West African People\u2019s Organization, until a free\u2013 full\u2013 fully-free government is established, as was promised by all nations concerned and all parties involved, by the end of this year. (covers microphone)<\/p>\n

Smith\u2013 Ian Smith of Rhodesia has given a hint that he would attend an all-party conference of Zimbabwe. Faced with a new policy of South Africa, he has little else he can do. It\u2019s opposed by Bishop [Abel] Muzorewa. Bishop Muzorewa insists that the negotiations should be through Britain. Typical Uncle Tom talk, because he now<\/em> sees that Smith may be going to make some kind of a deal with the\u00a0 Zimbabwean Patriotic Front, particularly in view of several military losses, as I just described earlier, that have taken place by Smith\u2019s mercenaries provided by USA and our tax dollars, who are actually, many of the thousands of them, are US soldiers<\/em> in the guise of being volunteers mercenaries \u2013 which means killers for hire \u2013 by the Rhodesian pirate government. Muzorewa beginning to see the handwriting on the wall<\/em>, that the three Uncle Tom leaders may be so\u2013 being sold out by Smith<\/em>, particularly in view of the new<\/em> developments\u00a0 in South Africa. South Africa is\u2013 is reportedly, according to BBC and Moscow, conducting a saw-off type of USA deal. They choose this to be the tactics of USA, wherein they\u2019ll sell out one capitalist and sell out one government, like USA sold out Taiwan, which they nurtured and built up, to get a deal with China. They want to see Namibia launched as a moderate government, that is, the Union of south Africa and Vorster\u2019s regime, and they want an all-party conference with the Patriotic Front. (unintelligible word) in a private session with a BBC foreign correspondents, we do<\/em> not want a house of card government in Rhodesia. We want a stable<\/em> government, and that will require a government that includes the Patriotic Front of the nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, the Marxist-Lenin\u2013 the Marxist-Leninist leader. They see a charade there now, said Vorster, who was a past ally of [Adolf] Hitler in World War II. A real Nazi. But he is coming to terms with reality, it seems. White Rhodesians, said BBC, feel that South African whites support them, but in fact<\/em>, there is no support. It is a myth. They are being sold out, the white Rhodesians, by the white government \u2013 the white racist government \u2013 of South Africa, for to\u2013 for the right\u2013 they\u2019re being sold out for the right of the South Africans to pull off in their own uh, way into their white citadel and hope that if they are cordial and ke\u2013 maintain economic ties and give assistance to the African nations, that they will be left alone with their own racist regime, withdrawn off into a white citadel in the southern tip of Africa. They\u2019ve decided to sacrifice<\/em>, said Radio BBC, the Rho\u2013 the Rhodesian whites. It\u2019s absolutely clear as a governmental policy of the racist regime that has been upheld by US military aid for years, they have decided \u2013 white racists in South Africa have decided \u2013 to sacrifice the white Rhodesians, and that will mean that many of the white Rhodesians will have to pack up and leave, but they naturally, when it gets down to it, capitalists always look after their own posterior when it\u2019s a real tough sledding. So it\u2019s tough sledding. And Union of South African whites are just sacrificing their so-called white brothers and sisters in Rhodesia. They know that the white Rhode\u2013 white Rhodesian<\/em> government\u2019s illegal, they know their<\/em> government\u2019s illegal. But they\u2019re making these compromises, and aiding left causes<\/em> even, hoping that they will be given the allow\u2013 the uh, toleration to carry on in their position of uh, leadership domination in South Africa.<\/p>\n

USA, according to Radio Moscow, is deeply consternated. It does not understand its own contradictions. Said USA should be more aware of capitalist. Capitalist sell out capitalist every day.<\/p>\n

The Spanish government has reversed its policy on fishing, due to the brave uh, holdout of the Basques, who you saw so uh, bravely perform in the film For Whom the Be\u2013 uh, For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em>. The Basque had totally ignored the fishing policy. The government had been reserving fishing within 200 miles limits of their coastal regions for the big corporations, but they\u2019ve had to reverse their decision because the Basques have just ignored it anyway, who are the great fishermen of Spain.<\/p>\n

Nicaragua. BBC said it is clear that a business\u2013 the business element, the centrists, the moderates, and all shades of the left and Marxist-Leninist have formed a unified front, and Somoza\u2019s [President Anastasio Somoza Debayle] imperialist government upheld by USA is only a matter of weeks at best. His life cannot last, says BBC. They\u2019re all too well-organized against him. You know the tremendous breakthrough that they had there uh, in Nicaragua. The group of Sandinistas, the liberation front, it\u2019s a left coalition of socialist, communist, took over the national parliament, holding at the top 5000 as hostages, including family members of the Somozan dictatorship that has been held up by US capitalism for 44 years in a tyrannical hold on the people. Well, when the first demand was met \u2013 80-some political prisoners were fled\u2013 uh, they were fl\u2013 flown out, Somoza bowed to his deman\u2013 the demands of the 20 uh, members of Sandinista that were in the uh\u2013 that were holding the National Palace or the parliament. They let out 80<\/em> political prisoners from the jails and concentration camps in Nicaragua yesterday and flew them to safety in Mexico and Venezuela, which is moving in a leftward direction, by the way, both those governments. And finally, all<\/em> 21 of the guerillas \u2013 the remarkable activists that used the best of Marxist armed struggle concepts \u2013 left the National Palace and were flown safety\u2013 safely to Panama, where some remo\u2013 re\u2013 have chosen to remain. Panama is moving more left every day also, and uh, the Panamanian government has given them sanctuary. And flying with<\/em> the 21 members of the Sandinistas were 60 more political prisoners, bringing to a total of 140 of the most st\u2013 the staunchest uh, political opposition to the dread Nicaragua regime. USA continues to say that it was a Cuban effort because USA has no sense of human dignity. They say we know<\/em> it was a Cuban effort, because the Somozan regime with our aid had already wiped out all of the guerillas and activists in Nicaragua. A great deal of hue and cry about Nicaragua becoming a second Cuba, but it has not affected Panama in giving sanctuary to these brave people, and it\u2019s quite a strong stand for the Panamanian nation to give the guerillas \u2014 particularly the guerillas \u2013 uh, sanctuary, because they killed seven police and military of Nicaragua\u2019s uh, so-called puppet regime of USA capitalism.<\/p>\n

Senegal, one of the few puppet regimes of US capitalism, is in peril. Its economics is in a state of disaster, says BBC. It is not expected to be able to w\u2013 withstand the inflation that continues.<\/p>\n

Eritrean nationalists are badly divided, says the BBC, in their efforts to gain independence from Ethiopia, and they\u2019re being backed by USA and her imperialist lackeys, but they\u2019re not able to get their act together, said BBC, because th\u2013 there are Marxist elements in the Mu\u2013 Muslims, uh, Eritrean nationalist force, and there are wi\u2013 extreme right wing. This extreme right wing dominates, but there\u2019s also centrist and there\u2019s just not a national unity in Eritrea\u2019s efforts for succession [secession] uh, and independence from Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

Brazilian elections will take place in uh\u2013 by the\u2013 the fall of this year. The electoral college uh, is uh, stacked with supporters of the peasant uh, regime, General Geise\u2013 Geise\u2013 [Ernesto] Geisel\u2019s regime, but the op\u2013 opposition is growing<\/em>, and it up\u2013 the opposition is a general also<\/em>. He is however standing as a democrat, a\u2013 a social liberal. Opposition is in itself uh, a\u2013 originally a creation of the Brazilian military, to give the appearances<\/em> of more democracy. A\u2013 But they did not expect the opposition to gain such grassroots support, which it has throughout Brazil. General [Jo\u00e3o] Figueiredo was handpicked by General Geisel, or Geisel (pronounced with long \u201ci\u201d)\u2013 I think Geisel is the way it is pronounced \u2013 to be a successor\u2013 successor, but still, the other general has a good chance, says BBC. The opposition party would not compete if they did not feel they had a chance, because in la\u2013 the last elections when they were put up for appearances only, the opposition protested by not even competing, and the opposition uh, Liberal Democrats are conducting a real<\/em> heavy campaign throughout Brazil. Brazil is the rich nation to our south who has no dispute with Guyana, never had any claims to Guyana\u2019s borders, and recently, as you know, Guyana and<\/em> Surinam and Venezuela and Peru and uh\u2013 they all signed a petea\u2013 a\u2013 a treaty of friendship and economic cooperation, thus lessening any danger that Guyana would be attacked from any country, because USA could not do it without the assistance of Brazil or Venezuela or Surinam. Anyway, BBC\u2019s overall consensus is that there is a moving uh, to more democratic and liberal position by the government. Even in\u2013 if the opposition does not succeed, it will force more liberal and uh, more moderate stands by the Brazilian government.<\/p>\n

A hundred and eleven cara\u2013 cardinals are sealed into the Vatican (pause) Palace. They are reasonably confident who they want, according to most Vatican experts. A consensus is already been heard and reported by one uh, cardinal to a friend that wasn\u2019t to get out because all to be conducted in secrecy but it does, as all people seem to have trouble keeping the\u2013 the truth<\/em> of liberation that could be misused by the enemies from other people, so do the capitalists have the same difficulty.<\/p>\n

By the way, you are<\/em> to rehearse those questions and know those questions for guests. We\u2019ll be having more<\/em> guests, and you better<\/em> answer every question just right. Make sure you are studying to be prepared to answer just right.<\/p>\n

The consensus of the 111 cardinals in the College of Cardinals that will pick uh, a pope is this: that they will want the reforms of Vatican II carried on, and that more decentralization of the church, giving more power to the local church. They\u2019re looking for a man to be the pope who has more buoyancy and optimism than that of\u2013 of Pope Paul [VI], but yet the moderate traditions\u2013 will carry out the moderate traditions of Pope Paul. Church not yet ready for a black face, said one leading Catholic ho\u2013 member of the hierarchy, but they want (stumbles over words) They\u2013 they would\u2013 would accept one, the cardinals would, if they had an absolutely outstanding one. Of course, that according to the Catholic hierarchy, there are no black people that would be outstanding at this time. There\u2019re none available yet. So that\u2019s the way of saying that they will not be selecting a pope who is a pope of color from a Third World nation. They said likely the pope will be Italian, and the propaganda of the Catholic church of the Vatican public relations is, that only an Italian can continue to carry on the reforms of the church and cause the church to become more involved in social concerns and to take a braver stand towards world peace. There\u2019s an element of truth in that, but again, it\u2019s the logic for doing things as usual and maintaining the old guard Italian leadership over the Roman Catholics, which represents 700 million of the world\u2019s population, though they have dropped to only 553 million active, due to the fact that Pope Paul opposed any birth control methods.<\/p>\n

China and Vietnam at this very moment are having a severe border clash. Each are accusing the\u2013 the other of killing members of their army. It\u2019s all over these ethnic Chinese. China wanted them at first, but apparently they have agreed in principle, though not o\u2013 openly, that these Chinese ethnics are undivi\u2013 undesirable. Vietnam said they had been involved in corrupt business practices, they were the old traditional capitalists. China first wanted<\/em> them, but now they don\u2019t, so a few thousand of these immigrants out of Vietnam and supposedly to be allowed in<\/em> China are not being allowed, and they\u2019re kept in between their two borders and there\u2019s a hell of a lot of tension going on there, to such a degree that the Soviet Union is sending a part of its fleet to the region, and also \u2013 as you know, as I said earlier \u2013 USA when being denounced by president [of] Mozambique that they were going to be doing military maneuvers in the Indian Ocean, their response was no, it was just our fleet was in the Mediterranean, and it was the easiest and shortest way to get to the troubled Southeast Asia region.<\/p>\n

A Boeing airliner has just been hijacked somewhere in Europe. No further news on that.<\/p>\n

The Portugal Unity government that has tried to destabilize socialism does not look uh, very hopeful of uh, withstanding the pressures. The government may collapse, forcing new elections. It has been one sad ca\u2013 case where International Monetary Fund has weakened the socialist perspective, but IMF has not been able to do so in Mozambique and Tanzania and fortunately Zambia.<\/p>\n

Now our little bit of aid ha\u2013 that has been received here has certainly has not weakened the strong socialist Marxist content of the news, as you\u2019ll see in the library. We have uh, newspapers available for<\/em> you from the uh, PNC, the Peoples National Congress, which is our ruling party, under Forbes Burnham, our prime minister. You can look at those periodicals and read the Marxist content. They carry a number of articles on Marxist-Leninism, articles praising the Soviet Union, China, the Democratic Peoples Republic in North Korea, as they are, and Guyana should be, a non-aligned nation. They would have<\/em> to be, to survive and to build.<\/p>\n

As you know, a total of 140-some political prisoners have been released. Twenty-one hostages in Nicaragua. They received less than their demands, but they left with one half million dollars\u2013 that was accord\u2013 according to Nicaragua. According to other reports, they got their full ten million dollars. But the point is that 20 people were able to hold the National Palace, the entire<\/em> parliament, and doing it the right time of day to carry out the bravest and most pure<\/em> case for armed struggle against a recalitrant [recalcitrant] uh, oppressor or tyrant. It is a movement success, one of the few acts that have been successful, because most people, when they do these acts, they weaken like the group did in Chicago. They never get one of their demands, and then the system can say, I told you so. But not in Nicaragua. All<\/em> the left the world over are heralding the victory of Nicaragua, as 140 \u2013 some of the most strong<\/em> political opposition against the fascist regime of Nicaragua, the Somoza family that has been upheld by US capitalism for 44 years \u2013 have pulled off this feat. They held 5000 hostages and left with a few hostages until they reached Panama City and safety, where Panama gave them sanctuary. In spite of US charges that it\u2019s a Cuban effort, and that uh\u2013 that uh, Nicaragua will become a Cuban\u2013 another Cuba in Central America, when Somoza falls, it seems to be falling on deaf ears by Mexico, Venezuela and Panama. Mexico and Venezuela gave the first people political asylum that the guerilla members of Sandinista liberated and sent out, and Panama has given sanctuary to all<\/em> the guerillas, in spite of the fact that they had to kill several people taking over the palace\u2013 National Palace, but they were tran\u2013 conducting armed struggle<\/em>. They had a purpose, and they were shooting at police, not innocent civilians.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Carter will be a one-term president, says Voice of America. (Pause) There was a poll taken by Voice of America, or Mutual Broadcasting Company, of several small communities \u2013 farm communities \u2013 and then one industrial community. Each of the polls showed that more than 75% are not for Carter serving a second term.<\/p>\n

It was the feeling of Dr. [Carlton] Goodlett when he was here too, that he\u2019s too weak, that he has allowed himself to be used, that he does not have the strength of character to stand up for his ideals out of fear of assassination\u2013 and of course, that\u2019s a real, real thing, we much study often Don Freed\u2019s assessment. Uh\u2013 I would think if any of you doubted that USA was hellhole, that USA was no place to live, you should now know the truth after hearing him. He\u2019s moving here<\/em>, by the way, he wants us to help him get a position in the university, and that\u2019s so his child can reside here in our commune, in our beautiful socialist cooperative. He sees the end of USA, and he wants to move to Guyana. But he wants to go back to help our cause to make a public announcement and try to crack into the conspiracy, and he knows a means of doing so, and we\u2019re going to give him our full support, a\u2013 a way of getting into the conspiracy and find out all of the elements of US fascism and the genocidal murderers that are involved in it.<\/p>\n

Detroit increasing their prices on the General Motors cars \u2013 Chevrolets and so forth \u2013 up to 4.7%, pricing them even more so than that, they said, out of the reach of middle class people with the high cost of living and the continued spiraling inflation and the plummeting fall of the US dollar. But increase their prices they did, even though the president of the United States asked them not to.<\/p>\n

Senate. A cow\u2013 coalition, for the first time we\u2019ve seen in US politics, of liberals and conservatives, are blocking the natural gas bill of Carter\u2019s which would\u2019ve deregulated gas con\u2013 uh, prices, allowing the big monopolies to make fat profits. The right is doing it for one wing, uh\u2013 reason, and the left for another. Both are mightily opposing it, and there\u2019s a chance that it will be defeated in the first coalition of left, liberals, so-called \u2013 we really have no left in USA, or we would\u2019ve remained and fought there \u2013 but liberals\u2013 a first coalition of liberals and conservatives. It only means that if big business were ever really blocked, however, that the military would take to the streets and put people in concentration camps<\/a>. When people begin to question\u2013 even last night, Don Freed, Dr. Freed said, who\u2019s the author of so many books proving that murder, assassination by conspiracy of Robert F. Kennedy and uh, the Ro\u2013 Rush to Judgment<\/em> [by Mark Lane] and uh, the inquest about the Rosenbergs [Ethel and Julius Rosenberg], he said [the movie] Z<\/em> is just exactly like what will happen in USA, and all of you should know Z<\/em> for testing.<\/p>\n

Now we are having a great difficulty in England. All people in the plutonium industry, several plants, have been found \u2013 one out of seven \u2013 have more than the danger level of the by-product of plutonium. It has a half-life of 500 million years, in their h\u2013 in their bodies.\u00a0 It may mean that they will have to shut down the plutonium plants. Three women in a laundry at a plutonium plant also received a high, if not lethal, dosage of plutonium. Uh\u2013 Someone has revealed in the left, the government had been trying to enshroud the whole business in secrecy and maintain a lid on it. But it has been revealed that one out of seven in England engaged in the plutonium industry, in the building of nuclear bombs, have too<\/em> much\u2013 a lethal amount, more than a deadly amount, in their body. They will not be able to live, in other words. One out of seven of the workers will be doomed to death, sooner or later, by some form of radiation disease or another. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Improved conditions for detained people no longer than 48 hours. Mostly Irish are detained under a new law of detention, ano\u2013 another police state measure being taken by England, and USA is taking more and more every day, it\u2019s a way of\u2013 for police to gain information. People can be held for 48 hours without any reason, and have been put, according to the left and the Soviet Union, they have been put through torturing, cruel, brutal treatment \u2013 brutal means of torture to get information \u2013 and most of the people that are detained are the Irish because they are fighting for their independence, and their revolutionary movement is the IRA, the\u2013 the Irish Republican Army. (Pause)<\/p>\n

The USSR should not take for granted, said the British foreign secretary [Lord David Owen], that uh, England in any way will be unable to help with NATO to resist any of her designs on Europe, just because England is having so much division now with one segment of its population, the Irish.<\/p>\n

Chinese are countervailing powers, The Express<\/em> says. She just\u2013 she distrusts uh, the\u2013 the Soviet military machine, uh\u2013 The British are becoming as rightwing as the US\u2013 S\u2013 the USA. We said, uh\u2013 said the British government spokesman. We should go as far as possible with China to break the power of communist hold over the world. But actually<\/em>, their so-called alliance with China is doing nothing but h\u2013 aid China<\/em>. China\u2019s getting military aid now from all of the NATO countries, so it may be just a ruse. Uh\u2013 I can see little they\u2019re getting from China, but China\u2019s sure getting a-plenty from NATO and USA.<\/p>\n

Fifty thousand troops of NATO are conducting defensive maneuvers, which even some of the West Germany press\u2013 the rightwing part of West Germany claims are insightful, to have this many troops, of five NATO nations \u2013 US and four other of these imperialist lackey allies \u2013 are doing a defensive maneuver along the Soviet border\u2013 of the Warsaw Pact nations border.<\/p>\n

National Guard in Puerto Rico has been had uh, to be strengthened, doubled in its strength because of unrest in Puerto Rico. The left is growing, and is decidedly against remaining a territory of the United States, and they do not<\/em> want to become a state, said the BBC.<\/p>\n

As you know, President Carter vetoed the defense bill. Weakened priorities, he said, the priorities he had voted for were in Europe. He believes that Europe is the place that USA\u2019s going to have to show its military strength, because there\u2019s a new Cold War era that USA has built up to get the American public\u2019s mind off of their high cost of living and their own economy and social system crumbling around them. But he had voted against the nuclear carrier, and uh, Senator Stennis [John Stennis (D-Mississippi)] wanted it because some big fat businessman that were close to him were getting a big deal on it, and for the first time, Carter and Stennis have crossed each other. We know<\/em> Senator Stennis well. This could be ominous for Carter, because Senator Stennis is the one that started the conspiracy against us without a shadow of a doubt.<\/p>\n

Carter. The Senate approved his bill for overhaul of the Civil Service Commission.\u00a0 Only one dissenting vote. Will make Civil Service system more efficient and\u2013 but it\u2019ll make it also easier for the civil service to hire\u2013 uh, to fire people. Formerly, there had been some restrictions in the more liberal era after neo-McCarthyism, that civil service people could not be uh, fired based on politics or so-called charges that they were involved with political uh, forces of the civil rights or civil justice or civil uh, social activists or left arena, that uh, they would not be able to lose their jobs<\/em>, that they had guaranteed seniority, but the guaranteed seniority had been removed, and so now it will make it easy for the Civil Service Commission\u2013 for the president to hire<\/em> who he wants<\/em> to, they won\u2019t have to go through the process of civil service testing, it\u2019s made civil service\u00a0 again a political tool, a tool of whatever uh, government, capitalist government may be in power, and will make easy hi\u2013 firing of any member of civil service. This will affect a few million people in the USA.<\/p>\n

A toxic propellant gas that uh, is uh, uh, nitrogen and uh, other mixtures that they have not yet revealed, Radio Moscow, BBC or Voice of America, is still traveling one mile long in areas at high\u2013 it said a high level now, and they think it is going out\u2013 it will go out into the At\u2013 uh, Atlantic Ocean, and will not fall into any area and will be weakened before it gets there, but it already has killed as far south as 55\u2013 far east and south from its nuclear silo, 55 miles.<\/p>\n

The Senators may line up against the compromise natural gas bill. Eighteen Senators, as I told you, right and left, coalition, right and liberal, have their own bill.<\/p>\n

In Canada, they want to deregulate natural gas in Ja\u2013 in January, in spite of much opposition from the Ca\u2013 Canadian population for this interference in their own affairs. It seems that uh, US doesn\u2019t mind that.<\/p>\n

The Soviet Union is taking a very strong position against the uh, (Pause) uh, government of Yugoslavia. President [Josip Broz] Tito will not be forgiven uh, so BBC says \u2013Moscow makes no references to this \u2013 for giving such a friendly welcome to Chairman Hua\u2013 to Chairman Hua [Kuo-fenj] of uh, China. President Tito got a great deal of ill will in the USSR from it, according to BBC. Yugoslavia has claimed that Macedonia is a separate state, but Bulgaria, another ally of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, said it is merely an extension of Bulgaria. Yugoslavia claims Macedon\u2013 donia is an autonomous<\/em> nation, a Yugoslavian position that China is clearly backing now. China now backs Yugoslavia and Rumania, said BBC, and is taking a position against Albania, which is moving more towards Moscow again. Albania has always been a purist Stalinist state, but their leader of Albania [Haxhi Lleshi] had enough principles that he toos\u2013 wi\u2013 withstood China\u2019s misapplication of the Doctrine of Three Worlds, and China cut all aid off from the little nation of Albania. According to BBC, Albania\u2019s now moving much in the direction of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

The Tito\u2013 Titan II missile site is still cleared of all technicians. One dead and six others li\u2013 lingering between life and death. It was a nitrogen and other form of propellant gas that turned this haze into a deadly cloud one mile long that caused a hundred people in its wake in a small village to be vacated, they had to be\u2013 they had to flee in the middle of the night, but fortunately, it drifted away from Wichita and is now, as I said, in the upper\u2013 going up in the upper atmosphere. Where will it fall, or, are they really telling the truth? Will US citizens, all the way from Kansas to New York before it goes to the Atlantic Ocean, suffer permanent damage from it? Probably so. We would never be told one way or the other.<\/p>\n

There\u2019re 18 such silos, 150 feet deep, in and around Wichita. They\u2013 This is the worst accident, of course, since 1965, when the same kind of Titan uh, exploded, and 53 died from radiation and fire uh, damage. They\u2013 Some of them were just turned into a living, uh, flame torch in Arkansas at that horrible accident. These\u2013 some hundred and uh, eight\u2013 eighteen silos, 150 feet deep, each carries, as I said, a 24-megaton warhead that will travel slightly over 6000 miles to some target in the Soviet Union, unless intercepted by los\u2013 uh, US\u2013 uh, SSR\u2019s laser beams. Fortunately, as we said, for the world, and\u2013 said Voice of America, BBC and Radio Moscow, it had not yet been equipped\u2013 just short of 18 hours, if it\u2013 the accident had happened 18 hours later, there would\u2019ve been a warhead in the missile. Apparently, then, all of these stations, both capitalist and socialist, are saying that if it had been equipped with a bomb, the bomb would\u2019ve exploded in some way, and radiation strewn off over Kansas and who\u2013 goodness knows how much of the United States and how many people and animals would\u2019ve died.<\/p>\n

Red Army attempting the bomb\u2013 the bombing of several US bases in West Germany, USA charges on the Voice of America moments ago. That\u2019s members of the Red Brigade or the Meier\u2013 uh, the\u2013 the uh, Baader-Meier\u2013 Meiderhof [Baader-Meinhof] gang, as the capitalists prefer to refer to them.<\/p>\n

The radiation terror of England. The English population is aroused more than it has by\u2013 been by anything since the bombings of World War II, by the fact that all<\/em> people working in plutonium\u2013related industries \u2013 uh, one out of seven of\u2013 of them \u2013 have found that they have above that level of plutonium in their body in which they can live with, that it sooner or later will cause them one disease or another that will kill them. So Altimaster, one of the biggest defense systems, is shut down. The uh\u2013 The establishment won\u2019t be closed all the time, says the British government, but many of the populists of Britain are rallying<\/em> in demonstrations for the complete<\/em> closing of this major plutonium plant.<\/p>\n

Ford\u2013 Ford Motors has 50,000\u2013 57,000 workers at Ford, an increase of thirty s\u2013 per cent. Workers will not accept a five percent increase. There\u2019s a danger of a strike, and that\u2019s why Ford is saying that they\u2019re having to raise the prices also on their<\/em> cars. GM, as you know, just raised theirs 4.7%. And so Ford is probably getting ready in the face of a strike to do the same.<\/p>\n

Continuing at the cru\u2013 clusion of the news, now to the end of it. The guerillas are being celebrated in Panama, and as they left Nicaragua, thousands pressed through to greet them. Thousands of Nicaraguans, hailing them as heroes, in spite of Nicaragua\u2019s army and secret police, could not keep back the thousands that\u2013 uh, it was in the tens<\/em> of thousands, according to the BBC, that gathered around the main airport of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, as the brave liberators of the Sandinistan Liberation Front left with the remaining 60 political prisoners, as 80 had been, as I told you, flern\u2013 flown earlier to freedom in Mexico and Venezuela. (Pause) Nicaragua took with them as safety that nothing would be done to blow up their plane, the leading member of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, who had been a rightwing uh, supporter of General Somoza. They freed him in Panama. They were wise. Nothing like a rightwing Catholic religious leader, or any other rightwing religious leader. Religion goes right hand in hand with oppression. It is the opiate. All<\/em> religion, all<\/em> mysticism, all<\/em> astrology, anything with\u2013 having to do with credulity is pure muckity-muck, pure uh\u2013 (Pause) purely opiate. It purely puts people to sleep. It is used by the slavemasters to intensify their slave hold over the minds of the working class.<\/p>\n

By the way, Don Freed said that he had never believed anything<\/em> having to do with healing, but what he\u2019d seen I\u2013 me do, he know\u2013 he knew was real. He wants to write a book later about that, when he settles in Guyana, to be able to make money, because he said there\u2019s such an appetite for these things, he said no one else ever produced anything, he said I\u2019m the only one that produced anything in that arena of healing at all. So he could see that, only been here a few days. So others here should be able to talk about the reality and give thanks for it. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Tito has been condemned, as I said, by uh, so-called by uh, BBC and Voice of America, they call it that way. And the Yugoslavian newspapers, who are greatly controlled by President Tito, for complying with China\u2019s anti-Soviet campaign, as BBC calls it\u2013 calls it. I heard nothing<\/em> of it on Radio Moscow, I must say, for qualification. This may be pure uh, muckum, uh, it may be just uh, the humbug of capitalist propaganda. It said that the transitional government (Pause) Oh\u2013 This isn\u2019t\u2013 a bit of new news. The newspapers, said the BBC, uh, Yugoslavian newspapers are calling uh\u2013 are stating, two of them, at least, are stating that the breakdown in Yugoslavian and China relationships was caused by the Soviets, but again, it\u2019s strange, if that\u2019s the case, that I hear nothing of it from Radio Moscow.<\/p>\n

(Stumbles over words) Transitional government required by the Anglo-USA plan for Namibia is not satisfactory, according to all the Organization of African Unity states. They want a liberation for Namibia with no strings attached, just like Zambia and Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union are requiring.<\/p>\n

This seems to be the end of the business of the news. One thousand\u2013 No, no, no, no. Tens of thousands of miners demonstrate in Lima, Peru, demanding the removal of Peruvian troops in the mines. Peru seems unable to cope with its mightily-strong left movement, as well as Colombia. In Peru and Colombia, we\u2019ve had something that encourages the heart of all liberation forces. In Peru and Colombia, you have a complete<\/em> coalition of the l\u2013 the le\u2013 the left. Maoist, pro-Soviet, Trotskyites, Social Democrats, and the same in Colombia. This is the kind of thing that is required to liberate the masses. We need unity amongst those who champion uh, liberation and Marxist solutions, socialist solutions, for the working class.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much for your attentiveness, and much love, and remember, be prepared for testing. Study this\u2013 we\u2019ll replay this news now. Study it very closely and be promptly in your seats at 7:30 for Peoples Rally. Socialist classes will be tomorrow. Thank you. I love you.<\/p>\n

End of tape.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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