The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1984 (7. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1984-03-01 / 2. szám

BI-MONTHLY B 20435 V THE GUARDIAN OF LI B E RTY (NEMZETŐR) Vo'- 2 MARCH—APRIL, 1984 "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" Article 18 Universal Declaration of Human Rights XXVIII STARVATION! W ith thousands of people dying of starvation or already dead, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has told the inter­national community that its promises of food aid for Africa still fall far short of what is urgently needed. A recent FAO report said that a significant proportion of the populations of 24 African coun­tries was threatened with starvation as a result of prolonged drought and other causes, natural and man-made. In about 12 of the nations there was a total of well over 1,200,000 refugees. They were dmong the people in greatest danger. By early April the FAO had received promises of food aid for Africa from 30 countries, a number of which had deliv­ered a total of a little over a million tonnes of cereals by mid-March. The biggest donations so far have been from the West European countries (both individually and jointly through the European Economic Community), the United States, Canada, Japan and UN agencies. An absentee from this list of principal doners is the USSR, one of the two super powers. However, economic studies, published recently in the Indian and West European Press, show that Moscow’s Third World policy is not geared to providing substantial amounts of emergency aid or indeed of giving any other sort of economic assistance on a large scale, except to a few client States. In 1982, about 95 per cent of the USSR's net disbursements of economic aid to developing countries went to Cuba, Vietnam and Mongolia, all three of which are members of the Soviet-led Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon). Cuba received more than 4.000 million dollars, Vietnam more than 950 million dollars and Mongolia nearly 600 million dollars. The only other re­cipients of large amounts of Russian economic aid were the Babrak Karmai regime in Afghanistan, Cambodia (Kam­puchea), Laos, Southern Yemen, Nicara­gua, Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique. Moscow, is evidently more interested in selling armaments to devloping countries than in providing economic assistance. According to a recent NATO study quoted by West European newspapers, Soviet-bloc arms sales to non-communist developing countries have trebled since the mid-1970s. The study estimates that the bloc delivered arms worth nearly 6.000 million dollars to these nations in 1982 but provided them with only 606 million dollars in economic assistance. Arms sales to the Third World are be­lieved to be the USSR's second largest earner of hard currency, despite a signi­ficant number of these weapons being obsolescent. CONTENTS: How Communists Cheer and Boo...2 Critic of Invasion in Psycho-Prison2 Husák‘s Nationalism Threatens Minorities 3 Kremlin Projectionist in Mental Hospita4 Scientists Try to Aid Orlov5 Practical Joke Played on Censors6 A Super Power's Farming Failure7 AFGHANISTAN: "Invaders Tortured Me' 8 GRENADA: Picking up the Pieces9 Muslim's Sentence Kept Secret TO Gulag Goods to Third WorldN Templeton Prize to Keston Director 12 MORE MISSILES IN ASIA The number of SS-20 intermediate­­range nuclear missiles deployed in Asian areas of the USR is being in­creased from 135 to 153 and the number of missile bases from 15 to 17, accord­ing to „Japanese Government sources" quoted by Tokyo newspapers on March 30. These missiles, each with three in­­depently targetable warheads, are pointed at China. However, they have a range of 5,000 kilometres, making them capable of striking almost all Asian countries.

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