1500 people márcheds last Saturday in London on the anniversary of the Shabra-Chatila massacre. Demonstrations in solidarity with the B52 in flight — Goldsboro just survived former US Defence Secretary, now a leading Bank, revealed last week 1961 bomber accidentally dropped 24-megaton muclear bombs. The accident happened bomber was crashing Goldsboro, North Carolina.
of the bombs broke barminated conarea with plutonium radiation, but the other went through six of the seven arming mechanisms and nearly exploded. If it had done so it would have producTHERE was uproar last week in France in the wake of the electoral victory of the right wing opposition in a by-election. Dreux is a town with a large immigrant population the first round of the elections the extreme right Front National — a more or less explicitly fascist organisation YUL per cent of the vote.
On the second round the Gaullist-Giscardian opposition made an electoral pact with the EN to ensure a right wing. vicLOrY SOCRISIS The is a land mark in rrench politics because it demonstrates the which disillusionment with the Borge visits France THOMAS Borge, the Vicaraguan Interior Minister visited France last week for discussions with the French government. Borge asked the French government belp stop agression against French prime Mauroy pledged ed a nuclear explosion 1800 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
McNamara also revealed that in 1967 the Soviet Union and the US came close to war over misunder: standings naval manoeuvres the Mediterranean.
Namara has concluded that nuclear weanons are 'useless'. He says he exressed this view to bott Presidents Kennedy anc Johnson, and got an informal assurance from both to use nuclear only if the USSR did so first.
Socialist-Communist feeding the right wing. But it also mal as a walcisica In tne history of Gaullism with its war litt 'antifascist' The alliance with the FN brought bitter denunciations some leading right wing politicians. Some cynics that President Mitterrand was rather enwhole tung The disaffection of some more right wing politicians would provide him with potenministerial material Marines Already there are 2000 US marines waiting offshore on aircraft carriers. Reagan has given the US commander in the region the authority to call up air strikes without asking Washington's approval first.
Ever since the Vietnam war, the right wing in the
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