AS THE PEACE MOVEMENT has grown concern to present a credible alternative defence policy has also grown.
Last week Defence without the Bomb was published by the Alternative Defence Commission, which proposes 'de-coupling' NATO from the US nuclear deterrent making NATO a non-nuclear defence alliance based on conventional weaponary.
The coming 'Nuclear Free Defence' (Heretic Books) collects numerous individual contributions around the same theme. How can Britain be defended without the bomb?
Paul Lawson The problem with the 'alternative defence' ineorists is tal tney starl to give ground to CND's 1o gel involyed in the discussion about allcliativ. defence' means making an assumption about who we have to defend ourselves against. The argument in Defence Without Bomb starts 'common sense' accepted Tories, the SDP and the Labour rgnl willg WC have to defend ourselves against the 'Rus'sian' threat. Warriors Once that is acceptea, and it is admitted Soviet Union does have a big nuclear arsenal, plans for 'non-nuclear defence' start to look threadbare. What's wrong is the assumption that we have to have 'collective against the alleged Russian threat.
The idea the Soviet leadership is planning to invade and occupv Western Europe is a myth the cold war warriors. ty of Soviet domination of Europe ques tion, and its having probiems Willi its the last thing the • Soviet Union is going to do is invade Western Europe. The USSR would gain nothing the case for?
DEPO-PROVERA is a contraceptive drug that is injected whose ef:lects last Ior luree months.
Upjohn, the US manulacluer. 1wve appealed against last by such a crazy action.
The practical proposals produced bi the Alternative Defence ComNISSION ulobiall an dominated by the United States and based on the first use of nuclear weapons. An attempt 'de-couple' Tne American nuclear 'deterrent' would be bitleny opposea nor just. by the United States, but the establishments in al Western countries.
ment for 'the defence of freedom' analist Soviet aggression. Is an agThe Soviet Union is surround. ed by US military bases trom Norway to Turkey Pakistan to Japan. Turkey, one of the most repressive countries in the world. is a member of NATO.
On March 1947 President Truman came out with the "Truman doctrine' in which the United Moscow States would aid 'free peoples who are resisting. subjugation by armed meant the of the "tree the 'advance of communism'. rrom then on, tionary or national liberawere labelled tools of Moscow' The United States and Britain helped to put down left movements in Greece allu l'urkev. The 'Moscow aggression' theory was used during the Korean war, and again in 1953 when the CIA helped overthrow the Mossadegh government Iran Truman doctrine was up- nack the Shah. The dated in the 'Eisenhower doctrine' in 1957, in which pledged to help any right wing which needed help against 'armed aggression'.
This resulted in the invasion of the Lebanon in 1958. and was followed bi the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 and the invasion the Dominican Republic in 1965. The NATO alliance aimed at the containment progressive year's decisions by the Health Minister, Kenneth Clarke, not license the drag for long term use.
Women injected with Depo-Provera have suffered prolonged heavy bleeding and other and revolutionary social movements.
The agressive tions alliance can be seen side effects including delayed return to fertiliweight gain public hearing presently being conducted has reveáled some very asturbing These have been made public dy pellionels will are for the licensed use of drug (Groups opposing the license are not allowed to speak at the hearing!)
A lot of research on the drug as usual been conducted in third Conclusions on the drugs effects on endometrial made Thailand villagers, but it was admitted that as only 12 women were exposed to the drug, these were inconclusive.
The drug has been used as a short-term conHarry S Truman architect of US post-war cold war politics.
in Gerpost war Illally period. When Germany was divided into US, French, British and Soviet occupation zones, the Soviet traceptive in Britain. At the London Hospital in the east end it was revealed in 1977, only 22 per cent of women given the were told about it discussed by their doctor.
Many of these women were Bengalis.
A junior doctor at the hospital said: 'It's no use explaining about beagle dogs reference cancer tests) she's an il. literate peasant from the bush' FIGURES on the colour of assailants for 'muggoffences aroused criticisms of racism when they were released last year by Scotland Yard The Met said they proposed the reunification of Germany as a neutral state.
But the Western powers were determined to wouldn't be givell in Inel public announcement of the figures this year. lected, however, for robbery and other thefts.
Although many •colOne of Britain's counter-insurgent gangsters.
keep part of Germany as a bulwark against the 'red menace In 1948 the British, US French LUlIC were merged the construction of the West German state set in train. Ine laea foreign aggression - and the only people interested in overthrowing a socialist Britain would be our pre sent allies could only rely on working people.
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