examined is the idea that Europe, will coherent defence system, could make a space between the superpowers. This mean we substitute autobeat alliance backed by French for nuclea weapons Well, what do we say on the doorstep? First, we nuclear oul Cast We argue unilateral nuclear disarmament to break the international deadlock.
We point out how big the existing convenuold arms budget is, compared to other countries and to our Gross National Product. Then we talk about reductions, our real international status, the arms race Let's fight for socialism and peace on the doorsteDs. 10I native ways of fighting wal. shadow spokesperson for overseas development and cooperation) LAST FRIDAY United Nations Security Council met to consider a protest from Nicaragua that six US-made A-37 territory Honleaving four people dead eight wounded.
This was within 24 hours of US Secretary of State George Schultz at tacking Nicaragua's left wing government dismissing its claims that Washington has mended the invasion of accusing it of harassing the Miskito Indians alle oues one whether next year's elec tions would be open and free.
The Schultz claims the Honduran planes are not coincidenThey y are per antiparcel the •alleliste packaged in the Kissinger Keport The Kissinger Commission warns the Soviet threat in Central America.
In our counter-report Kissinger's Kingdom? following our December visit to Central America Donald Anderson and I find no evidence for claims that the Soviet Union is signiticantiv in. volved in the region.
The Kissinger Commission claims that the standpoint of the Soviet would be a strategic coup of major proportions to impose on the United slales landward defences •.. il licy succecace i coing so they would have outmanoeuvred global scale'. This is alarHullst lalilasy Nicaragua is ated by a vast land mass scoal from the US border. As Neil Kinnock put it in the preface report: 'the claim that Nicaragua incalcus the United States is about as imthe pressive as a report of an impending assault : of an ant on an elephant'.
Obsessed by claims of Soviet-Cuban destabilisation, the United States refuses to recognise the problems of Central America are North-South not East-West.
Seeing the Nicaraguans as Centra American Bolsheviks politically illiterate. It as absurd as seeing the Mitterand government ir as Marxist-Leninist because it includes some Communist ministers.
Model What does challenge the United States Nicaragua's model of an autonomous revolution, with its po ten blend of radica Christianity indigenous Marxism of jecting both East Euro Cuban ocal economic models. Nicaragua has pioneere a new economic model, based on redistribution to meet essential human well lICCus. 1ldy because has achieved SO much quickly, with such small resources in the fields of economic retorm. health literacy that the United States considers itself threatened in the the United States, abetted by the In. 0] ternational Monetary Fund which has been destabilising the Centra America region. It is the united States, backing the which ha been the main supplier of It is the United States which should pressured to withdraw its forces as a precondition of demilitarisation democracy and development in the region.