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USA: WAR OVER SOVIET ARMS SENT TO NICARAGUA
  U.S. officials imply that the U.S. would go to war to
prevent the Sandinista government of Nicaragua from
receiving Soviet MiGs, which are advanced military aircraft.
(Detroit News, 11/18/84, p. 7C) The U.S. raised a furor by
claiming that MiG-21s were aboard a Soviet ship unloading in
Nicaragua. Apparently, Nicaragua either did not unpack the
MiG-21 jet fighters from the Soviet ship or there were not
any on board. The Sandinistas wisely put off the delivery of
the MiGs to the future and defended their right to buy them
for defense purposes. In the language of diplomacy the U.S.
said it would "not tolerate" a Sandinista purchase of MiGs.
U.S. officials said that air strikes or a naval quarantine
are possible. (New York Times, 11/8/84, 1)
  The U.S. officials have called Nicaragua "another Cuba."
Former president John F. Kennedy led the "Bay of Pigs"
invasion to reestablish U.S. neocolonial rule in Cuba. The
Cubans crushed the U.S. invasion and protected their
revolution; although, the Cuban government chose to trade
U.S. dependence for dependence on the Soviet Union.
  The Sandinistas are preparing for another Bay of Pigs
style U.S. operation. Government workers are instructed to
fight guerrilla action against U.S. occupiers at night.
Meanwhile, the Sandinistas are exposing U.S. plans to the
world in an effort to rally public opinion internationally.
U.S. officials have been repeatedly forced into denying
plans for invading Nicaragua. When the U.S. finally does
start more hostilities, the people will remember these lying
denials.
  In the meantime, the U.S. imperialists have attempted to
build public opinion for war against Nicaragua. The U.S.
Defense Secretary Weinberger has painted Nicaragua as a
military threat to the U.S.: "the Soviets are supplying a
great deal of heavy offensive arms to Nicaragua" and "the
U.S. is prepared for a great number of contingencies that
may have to be taken." (Detroit News, 11/18/84, 7C) In other
words, Nicaragua better get into line in the U.S. bloc;
continued involvement with the Soviet bloc will mean war. In
order to intimidate Nicaragua the U.S. has sent planes over
Nicaragua to break the sound barrier at least four days in a
row. The U.S. also sent fast ships and planes to harass the
Soviet freighter that docked in Nicaragua. (NYT, 11/8/84, 4)
The U.S. violates Nicaraguan airspace at will and then says
that MiG-21 jet fighters are unnecessary offensive weapons.
  In efforts to prepare public opinion for war, high level
State Department officials have admitted "a tough policy of
intimidation and harassment" according to the Detroit Free
Press. (11/13/84, 1) Part of that intimidation includes war
games in Honduras which the State Department admits are to
keep Nicaragua guessing about U.S. military actions.
  Blatant war maneuvers and naked terrorism go together. One
front page screamed "Reports Say CIA Manual Was Legal."
President Reagan lied desperately saying that there was
"nothing in that manual that talked about assassination at
all." (Detroit Free Press, 11/11/84, 1) Yes, Mr. Reagan, the
word "assassination" does not appear because the CIA is
aware of the "law" that says the word "assassinate" can not
be promoted by the CIA. Now with this new "law," your men
use the word "neutralize" instead. As the U.S. escalates
WWIII across the globe, the government will more and more
openly reveal itself for what it is. The trappings of a
"Constitution," of "legality" and "democracy" will serve as
an increasingly poor cloak of state terrorism. When the
proletariat awakens to this and when there is an opportunity
to do so, the people of the U.S. may rise to revolution and
cast aside this excuse for "democracy." (For details on the
CIA manual of terror against Nicaragua, see MIM NOTES no. 3)

CHILE ROUNDS UP THOUSANDS FOR SLAUGHTER
  Faced with increasing protest against its rule, the
Chilean junta rounded up thousands of suspected leftists and
detained them in a soccer stadium. At least 2,000 were
detained from one settlement alone called Silva Henriquez.
Church officials collected the names of 440 people arrested.
Another 227 people were detained in La Victoria. Chile's
government did not say what would happen to the people. (New
York Times, 11/17/84, 4) In 1973, Chile's military led a
coup against the elected socialist President Salvador
Allende Gossens. The bloodbath that followed also largely
took place in a stadium. That bloodbath is the background of
the movie "Missing."
  The flame of resistance in Chile lives and can not be
repressed.

FDR SUPPORTS ELECTIONS
  The political representative of most guerrillas in El
Salvador favors participation in elections in cooperation
with the murderous Salvadoran junta. Social Democrat
Guillermo Ungo, head of the Democratic Revolutionary Front
(FDR), said "we do not want the lion's share of power." "We
need elections as soon as possible." (New York Times,
11/17/84, 1)
  Ungo, who is fraternally aligned to the reformist
Socialist International, probably means what he says because
his friends in the Labor Party of Israel and the Socialist
Party of France have gained power through the ballot. The
pro-Soviet Salvadoran Communist Party also favors laying
down arms.
  The reformist FDR coalition is very similar ideologically
to the coalition that put Allende in power in Chile.
Unfortunately, the social democrats and reformist pro-Soviet
"communists" do not seem to have learned that it is
impossible to "compromise" with butchers--butchers who
killed over 40,000 people in El Salvador so far.

GUERRILLA GROUP FORMS FOR ARMED STRUGGLE IN SALVADOR
  On November 1st, a Marxist group called the Roberto
Sibrian Popular Revolutionary Movement formed. The group
apparently favors "popular revolutionary war" and "totally
rejects" the FDR's talks with the U.S.-dominated junta.
Previously a group called the Workers' Revolutionary
Movement formed with similar objections to the FDR. MIM
NOTES is unaware of the ideology of either of these groups
except that both have been called Marxist. (Detroit Free
Press, 11/2/84, p. 7A)

NONE OF THE ABOVE WINS CRUSHING LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR
PRESIDENT
  Despite months of propaganda from the press predicting
record turnouts on election day and despite record voter
registration of 125 million people, voter turnout for the
president eked out a bare 90 million votes--52.9% of those
eligible. This figure is a mere three tenths of one percent
higher than the figure for 1980--the lowest turnout since
1960.
  Apparently, the efforts of Jesse Jackson and others
succeeded in corralling a higher percentage of Black voters
than usual. 90% voted for Mondale. The District of Columbia
lead the turnout increase at 5.8%. (New York Times, 11/8/84,
16, 17)
  None of the above carried every state with an average of
47.1% of the vote. The candidate was said to benefit from
the boredom produced by the two candidates who split the
bourgeois and middle class vote.

PEACE CORPS PUSHES CORPORATE CREDENTIALS
  In a letter to professors across the country, Loret M.
Ruppe, director of the Peace Corps boasted of the career
development possible through the Peace Corps. "Many
multinational corporations and Federal Agencies make a point
of hiring returned Peace Corps Volunteers." Not surprising
since they hired them in the first place.

WORKER JAILED IN CHINA FOR OPPOSING BOSS
  A woman who put up a wall poster about her boss received a
one year sentence in the People's Republic of China. She
lives in Shenyang, a city in Manchuria. Her crime falls
under the rubric of infraction of labor discipline.
  In China from 1966 to 1976, Mao Zedong, China's founder
and the world's greatest contemporary Marxist-Leninist,
workers regularly put up wall posters criticizing their
bosses. Indeed, official committees of workers and others
watched over and supervised their bosses in the factories.
Through this kind of worker control, the Cultural Revolution
attempted to insure that no one dominated the workers and
that the workers learned to run plants themselves.
  Since 1976 a state capitalist counterrevolution overthrew
socialism in China. The new ruling class uses prisons and
jails to keep workers in line.
  However, such repression always encounters resistance.
"Reports in the official press acknowledge that there have
been work stoppages, sit-ins and heated confrontations
between workers and factory managers." (Jim Mann, "Why
China's Factory Workers Are Unhappy," San Francisco
Chronicle, 10/31/84, p. C6)
  Much of the protest concerns recent "reforms" that drive
China further back into primeval capitalism. It seems that
the state capitalist class is having a hard time maintaining
welfare capitalism and is moving toward free market
capitalism. In one instance, the recent "reforms" attempted
to cut fringe benefits and to dock pay for failure to
achieve quotas. Workers went on strike; marched to the so-
called Communist Party headquarters and petitioned against
the reforms. The workers won, but two months later the
"reforms" went through anyway. (Ibid.)
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