courts, generally October '84 are particularly dangerous.
The original charges brought by the Department of Public Prosecution were criminal trespass and criminal damage.
These charges would have been dealt with at a magistrates COllE. The Calne ••eralo. alu maintenance workers said that there was no damage to speak of, and no basis for charges.
They have an undertaking to the NUM I that they would defend the COUE Li An in spection and report by an NUM I safety engineer was refused by the prosecu• tion.
These charges have now been shelved. Charges ot unlawtu assemblv are being brought instead, and ATTEMPTS TO BREAK the strike through the by imprisoning rank and file leaders and branding miners as criminals, are being the case has been referred to the Crown Court.
The new charges carry heavy prisons sentences conviction made on the basis of CITcumstantial evidence. The way investigations are go. ing indicate that the police are trying to isolate : rank and file leaders within the NUM and from the rest of the Lauc HUvC ment That these charges can be made, with virtually no protest the labour movement, shows the effect of the scabbing done leaders OI the movement in the fight to defend miners against the courts.
Doclalsts wil neco lc lake up the defence of miner courts, and ensure that the labour movement rallies to their defence.
Star Wars — the lynchpin of the United States plan for fighting an offensive nuclear war, designed to protect US missiles systems not population centres REAGAN has presented his 'Star Wars' space weapons programme as preparing a defensive system for the United States against nuclear attack. But the truth is that Star Wars is the lynch pin of the United States plans for fighting an offensive nuclear war. STUART OZER looks at the reality of the most dangerous weapons since the Second World War.
THE REAGAN administration's •Star Wars' scheme may be on the table at the coming nuclear arms talks, but there's no indication it is Although Washington Moscow have agreed to discuss 'preventing an arms race in space', US officials continue to maintain that the so-called strategic defence initiative (SDI) is not a 'bargaining chip'.
A few days after his Geneva meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz, Soviet Minister Andrei Gromyko warned that any progress on strategic weapons at the new talks had to be linked to a ban on Star Wars research.
In response, Defence Caspar Weinberger stated the US would not let the talks 'derail' Walks. that weapons (ASATs) testing would continue. A White House official asserted that it was 'premature' to negotiate about what is purely a 'research' programmine The dangers, uncertainties and expense inherent in space systems have been demonstrated by critics ever President Reagan's melodramatic speech proposing it in March 1983. Reagan described Star Wars develop the technology to protect US population centres against a massive Soviet nuclear attack and to make nuclear weapons obsolete. Socialist Action 22 February 1985 development US-Soviet negotiable.
Foreign limiting Secretary flatly that anti-satillite weapons effectively since original not as a meaningful defence against a full-scale incoming attack.
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stepped up. The charges against the 103 miners who occupied the coal and ore cranes at Port Talbot in