THE PAPER GRENADE (PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN DESERTERS COMMITTEE IN STOCKHOLM)

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• Publication Date: July 9, 1969

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Attached herewith is ai.copy of The Paper Grenade,
a newsletter published by ttiVAmerican Deserters Committee
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. :Lest week in Denmark wo event happened that mny help change the
�poseibilitles for desertern in that country. a deserter, Ted ,
Price, left hie unit in Germany and crosesd the Danish border. �
(He didn't come by way of the underground.) at the border, he:, '
uls slopped and questioned by the Danish police. Me told them
he was A deserter and was seeking political apylUm. The pigs
' pretended that they didn't know whA he was talking about and
took him to police headquhters. The underground which is never
too far out of reach,got In contact with Ted at this time. Tod
quickly told them how he had been mishandled by the police. How-
ever, before anything could he done, the deserter was turned over :.e.
to the German police ond than hack to his unit in Germany. Deck .%. i.
in his unit,.he was not put under heavy security since he could ...:-.!�' %.
not be charged with deaertion. To show the determination of the -,'.;:".4Th
underground, within the next couple of days Ted found himself at --..,....i
the aDC in Paris. Then the underground informed our support : 1 .
groups and 3 M3B8 campaign resulted in the Danish press. In this '1
campaign the Danish police were expotiadolvenollaborating with
the WE; military. ae evidence the unGcrotnhd offered to bring
iTed up from raris for a court investigation on May 24th. TniA,..
: o'.141.4..,the-Dafri-oh-v*erment-pren more nervous: 'Theban .1 in-
:vent now finds itaelf in 3 corner and must soon deetide if deser-
ters should receive asylum in Denmark, or at least tree passage
:througa Denmark with no rick of being turned bqoktp-M American au- '
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4 ;strugzae o ,4* deek!-tionorovemeht... Tnia.is one Of.thlase time
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, . Well kBrOffnya, inc �-the .j,�,t iss�le.).:41.-* ttte: PG, th* Swedieh
went bas-4)tre-6 t: ndinzolaut�-'mor.e. of its "vCiun tory camp" shit t+..,_ �
bon been tryin , to sen6 /dye O't t to ";!...13;t16 Siberia" so thsy,,r-an N":"---1
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Today a new deserter went down to the Social Bureau ard hc..was
ven_nzoue,h food money till Monday, until the bureaucracy.firn t'It
if the labor aepartment is going to invite him to the camp. The
bureaucrats said that thl.s camp was what tee desertere paid they---i:--e.,
. wanted. Well, the Caftp-tian-z-t-sx-Tot:y what we've 'been 'asking for.
-.It s more like what'we've just left, the MILITaRV: � i
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1What we have been asking for la a' JOB TR4INING PROGRaM whers'it 64
lchn le-Jrz, Swedish at the Gime time th,t we 1.E:trn a sk113 , e 3401 .
'cours receive political asylum.' What we've be-en la iii-..� .'
ass aV...pilea of BullehiL.tempta at pacifying up apd.brsaking - :.
up our c4m � munity. .;
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The uMC4010 Orein a mampaiq ar,airist the .limp. nrat; by getting �
people to.---�, a petition 112.10tst the camp, by going to the press .
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ahrp-oy ."'o /-4g a working Gr71:tsP- - The, Frimip Of tM9 ADC.-- .I!
ThelFrilild 0 the .DC ar es.6dish people whd assist us with job' ...:.
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and '-thisifig problems, p9nfrowithOtions with the bureaucracy, 'and :,...
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elsIWork witn our other. Swedish support groups. '
. No nnter. where,you armw dm school, or. a job, or on your Own, you
wiff nets6e'safe from going to the camp unless 116 work together,
Very soon deponstrations and speaking tours will begin, :
' so come around and start Wbrking to help yourself and your bro.-, �
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tilatko-OnolOr.: the ra. :soon. ooi -6r1i.'return-
-0- %mirk at thiliO,01-en Strut coffeehouse outside it. floo(.)
1.1�.. What's the relationship between black and vialte GIs? Di you
s31 with racism when orgonizing white GIs? �
eve: yeah, 0 lot of white GIs got a lot of racial hang-ups and
stuff, but when you start rapping with them, you oan see what ma-
in= 13. You car really see 1% 'cause the same dude is fucking with
everybody. a lot. of racist shit gets wiped out, by just talking to _
soya about the role thnt recta= plays in the structure. lot of
coos can dig that beoause they're together in the army. �
Guy: Once you get into that rank tting, they develop� that rao-
1st thing more openly agoinst black gill.. "Well, I'll put five of
you black guys on th2t detail�if you don't like it you can go see
the CO." The Cm's -supposed to help you but he's a racist also. It
you come into the army and you're black minded, or if you're not
going to take any of that white hatred, you're going to go to the
stock3do for being black, nothing moro. Phony charges like not
Betting n haircut, being 15 .mOnutes late for a formation, stuff
like that.
Dave: o lot of GIs start being conscious and they think about it.
Say you get tucked with and you start thinking about why there is
thot race hatred and then you see who!s injecting it into the thing
is the officera.
Guy: like when thcy had riot control, they were saying black peo-
ple thi3 and block people that. This ls a lieutenant racist from
alobama and at the end of the statsmant he says everybody go out
and vote for Wallace. Either you just sit there and take it or you
get op ono' walk out. ?
NLN: Whot about the Gia attitudes on black urban revolts, the
Panthers, SNOT, black caucuses in unions?
Dovo: o lot of whits guya get the some reaction as beck in the
State3. You know, paranoia and stuff. But we got some of these hors
"Huey Newton Speaks to the Novement" and had them passed around.
Goys really dug reading it. You know, they dug what he was saying
about the black liberation movement.
You know, when they had riot control, they always say, well the
aroy'a got the good Negroes--and they say Negroes too--and the ba4
Hooroes arP out in the streets. "You've got to watch out for them,"
tnoy ov to us. They, try to play on th:t race paranoia thing.
Guy: You go in the ghetto and shoot your brother. That's their
philoo-opOy.
HLN:.How did the Ft. Hood revolt--the refusal of GIs to come to
Chicago this eonzer�get organized?
Guy: You go into the army thinkino you're going to get away from
the discrinonation at home. In the arry you cope with it in a deep-
er deoreL; you get stronger: and you're willing to fight the system.
That's tno way .our thing C3=6 about. We knew that they wanted us to _
go into the ghetto, and fight black people. ond there'll be similar
things cooing this Sommer, black GIs and white GIs saying we're not
geingointo the cities to fight our own people.
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KLN: What's the attitude of most of the guys about the "Viet Cong",
at least after they've cocci back?
Dove: as fighters...they're the best. But the political content
of the fight�the army trios to hide that. They manipulate the news.
Woen goys go over to the Na=, they expect women to be throwing
flowers at you. You know, the groat liberator role. But they don't
know wnere it's at and they get over there and a lot of them hate
the Vietnamese% They hate the Viet Cong but they respect the Viet
Cong because they get their asses kicked by them every day. Guys
know tney're dedicated soldiers.
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Bt the you it'; tetmunistaggresslon.
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H.LNahatelbethe-GIethink-abOat the role-Of-the U.S. army? , ,-.7:.'
tavaa'TIferiageta thing they say every time something fUoks.Up .; -- 1
n-the, world; they say they ahould hey� put t'ioldiir.In charge.
W&-dcin't hear about strIkes.and the national guard. At the.pres� � � �
ent time, white guys don't associate the- armymith busting into_. � .
their naighnOrhood. a lop of people don't think aboul the army toe . �'- �
much: they think they're getting over edth'it. The army's got �
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powerful tool: no matter hew bad the blook is, the army's worse. ! '
While you're in the army you build up this feeling that everything'.
beautiful hack there:
Guys boaine back from Nam espe'cially, they know what the war is ; ' -.. a i
all about. They might not want to say It, 'cause they're defensiv' ete:a L-". ' 1
aaoot it, but when they -get back home, they get pretty aleillus� 1
ioned about what is going on back there. all the time you're in .-1-.;-.: -,
the army , they're always giving you �lasses on the. benefits Of ......7'.
investing, you know. Thof reach the stock market to. you bort cap�
Italian is geed and all: Guys, when theyAyat back and find out
that it ain't nice like' it was on leave, they're going to be piss� . .
ed off. That's what we'd do. When Wewould rap with,guys.ond try 0
to get them to associate their struggle with others and thinking
that they'll be going back home and spreading the ideas to their 1 ,
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friends-- seen or a larger scalel'yob knowi spreading out to the .1 .:.
work3ne cans& as a wholei � . , � 0 '-,
! Mai: Wnat do you think the role of,tho guys who've been in the ,':': -,
army, pnrtitularly guys whe've been to Vietnam, wil. be building _�!.:..
a revolutionary movement in america? . . . . 4
Guy: Well, I think the ermy is turning out a lot of revolutione'i' :
minds .
arise. Irea sense, they made me one. Instead of cloSing people's [ -
up, they're pushing them to the peak of.deflanoe. 'Cause i
the army you can't get away from it, and they can do just about .
anything they went. to. you. . .
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in the structure brought out in the open. Dudes can see the basic t '
Dave: In the army, there are all these here contradiction& with�
' thing: you got rich men and you got poor men. and all the contr&--:, t.
diction& become polarized, so to speak; They're not glossed over.J ._
You can aee that the motherfucker's doing better who went to col� '
leao or got a bar on his shoulder. Guys know where.it'a et, and a.
some ef�ue hnve learned how to deal with these problems, and take .
care of them. We're going back to Texas to work, butefter that . ' ...'.:
we're going back to the block and tell them whore iJt's at. and
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that's what we're trying to do at Ft. Hood--to oho* dudes Zhet.itiv
can be done, that we ca' solve our problems.
Beeoming a revolutionary and overthrowing the structure and set�
ting up a people's government. That's what we see our role as--
getting past the anger and getting into a constructive thing, see� _
ins what can be done. The more gays we pea oh, the better we're.golii.a, .
ing to be for a revolutionary movement. Guys are oozing back pad.
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PAPER GRENaDE.) �
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�. all-kiwi', that then is a war being waged in Vietnam. Vs can
read nbout it in the newsPapero or hetur paople make speeches about
Iti is t grim realityHOf our day. What is not so Well hymen
to iheirhy and how of thelftetnam war. A capsule look of some of
tho hietery of the war will help to elects up some of. this Ink.
of knowledge and also prrhspo explain � little mere about-the .
ted St.tes And its foreign policy. . .
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23 FEBI:UaY 1945�Pre3ident Franklin D. P000evelt said "For two
whole 7eata I have been terribly rorried about Indochina(Vietanat'
Lace and Cambodia)." Vietnam, o lending exporter of rice,.anti.-
sal rubber and coal, had been a profitable French colony for the
better part of a century. Hew that WW II WAS almost over, the
Poosevelt Administration decided ii.'enae the French out and take' '
Viutnam for theneelvea.
. Gen. Stillwell's commomd in Chihnswas given direct orders from
IJeshiagton to abandon thoee French unite that were fighting the
Japenese in Vietnam. Most of Lhose French soldiers died in the
jungles, es their radio ple::.s for supplies and air cover went unan...
steered, Inate-.d, Washington hooked up with a veteran commueipt
guerrila-10 Chi kinhi In return fcr rodioo and guns, the guns-
rillne oupplied intelligence and smuggling downed US airmen_ out of
Vietnem.
2 SITTEilBat 1945,--With the Japanese surrender, thelftetnomese took.
over their own country for the first time in n century. President"
Ho Chi hinh rend their "Declarstion of Independence" to cheering
thoussnde in Henei, sod his government becrme the recognized goy..
ernment of all Vietnam. �
25 Dtca.z.zii l95--The US government's piano to take over Vietnam
got n rude surprise no the .01 "BacUliomc Nevem:at" broke out in the
Phillipincs. I:Intend of garrisoninc the Pacific for 20 years '
with millions of GI's, the Truman AdiAinistration was forced by GI's
to send them bsck home.
23 MOVEMDEP 1946--Evcn thoueh the French had recognized Ho's govern-
ment in March, they hnd been gradually building up troops in South..
enet Asia to take Vietnam br.ck. On this dote they opened hoetili.-
ties by sholliee Uaiphong, killing over 6,000 eiviliana.
1950�The war ems going badly for tho French. Althcugn they held
CniGcn, 4,1noi and all the other cities, the communiet guerrilla
movenelf(the Viet )4inh) held the countryside end most of the
people. 180,000 French troops were olowly losing. In4esperation,
the French government turned to Washington. On August 10th the first
-VS arm; shipment to the French arrived, and a HAAG misiion was sot
up. �
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NOVEtaa 1952.-Alith'the war going even worse, the French had been
fort:.:1 ":7t1:, ey:n 'jar, heroilly on US aid. By thie month America
had supplied tbe French in Viet= with 222 aircraft, 235 ships,
2975 vehiclmand 200 shiploads of supplies. ..The French wore �
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still losing t,adly.
6 OCTOBER 1955--The new Eisenhower Administration decided to got i�
invelved even deeper in Vietnam. On this date Secretary of State
! John Foster Dulles called his plan to send over OI!s the "brightesi,
achievement of the year."
NOWABER 1955�The Vietnamese began the siege of Dienhiemphu, the '
s-ernek French Stronghold. Thoucandc of French troops made Dienbien.. .
pLu into an ftero�ter-estrial fort", hoping to lure the Viet
riinh into a major open battle, where superior Western firepower 1.
' would cut them to pieces. 4-
; 3 APPIL 1954--.The trap had backfired. French troops in Dienlione.
pin were cut off, as the Viet Minh. brought enough artillery and
rnekcts out of the jungle to slowly griud the French down. A- .
lnrmed, on this dnte See. of State Dulles hold a secret meeting .1.
with Congrossionnl leader., asking thoir support for the use of :!.,
Americon troops and nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Bo vas turned
. down, although a rising young politician named Sen. John F. Non.. A
nody called for GIel to be sent to Vietnam: "If necessary the
i:United :Anton will take the ultimate... It is war."
,.4 An.711, 1954--Thc weekly magezine U.S. News & World Repor told
- the public why Vietnam was such an important item to our leaders:
"One of the worien richest dretis is open to the winner in
. . tim, rubber, rice, key strategic raw mntorialo aro
I wh:t thc war io really about! The US boos it as a place to hold
� 1 at any cost,"
I. 21 APRIL 1954--In an off-the-record speech thnt got into the.
. front peeve, Vice-President Richard Nixon revealed the pinns that
he, not. of Unto Dulles, And the Joint Chiefs had been pushing:
"It is hoped that the United Stntec cnn avoid direct involvement ;
in Inochine. 'But if there is no other recourse, tho Adminiotra-
tion will hnve to face up to it and acne. troops." .
That blew it! After Norm, the American people had had enough
of warn in Asir.. A storm of anger and criticism hit the govern-
end President Eisenhower promised that no troops or nuclear
.wcaponc, would be sent to Vietnam.
!7 Mt? 1954--Dienbienphu wan overrun, and thouaands of elite /tench .
'Airborne and Foreign Legion troopc were killed or enptered. Even !,
:though the US Government urged them to keep on fighting, the French ,
were ready-to throw-in thy towel. �
21 JuLY 1954--Peace came temporarily to Vietnam when the Geneve
'Declaration wan cignad by France, the Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam (Ro's Government), China, 2ucsia, England, Laos, Cambodia and
the French-puppot Base Dal government in Saigon. The ireaty called
for splitting Vietnam in halt at tho 17th parallel, with the, Viet �
Ninh getting the North and the French thc South. Within two years
an election was suP?osod to be held which would reunify Vietnam
into one country with an elected government.
17 NOVEMBER 1954--US GE!' Lawton J. Collins laid down the law, in- '-
forming tho APVN Generals that Uncle San would cut thee: off unless
thcy support Ngo Diem, the new President of South Vietnam. The .
French were pulling Out, and Diem was America's fair-haired boy. .
Unable to get public support for sendinE troops, the Eisenhower
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.Adminstration docided.to pay, supply and train the ARVN: The hope
.was that the ARVN would be able to defeat the FNL without US troops.
thoUeand US military adviocrs were sent in to shape up Diem's
,treops. �
1955- RVN was now in the hands of the Diem family, a clan of crasy
'fanatics. One brother was President, another was Archbishop, and the''
sinter was in charge of the black market and selling suppliesto the'
VNL. Between them they started stripping Vietnam bare.
This was the year that the reunification election was supposed
to tnkc pinac. President Diem just ignored it, because in any fret,
choice the FNL would win. As Preaident Eisenhower said: "I have
never talked or correaponded'with a :.erson knowledgenble in lade-.
chines� affairs who 'did not agree that...possibly BO% of the pop-
ulation would have voted for the FM. Ho Chi Minh as their loader.
San. Richard Russell (D-Ga) Chairman of the Benet* Armed
Services Committee said: "I belly.: that most of South Vietnam would
vote for North Vietnam's president Ho Chi Minh, if p plebiscite vas
hold.
1961: The fighting had broken out again. President Diem's army
and secret police were taking a beating from tho guerrillas ( tho
Viet Minh is now celled the Wntional Liberation Front). President .
John F. Kennedy had learned from Nixon's big-mouth mistake in 1954..
JFK decided to get US troops to Nam on the sly, withot telling tho.
American people what was guing on. In the fall, 15,000 USimilitary
advisers were sent, and,US military spending in Ram wont up to IX .
1.5 million dollars per day.
30 Jan 1963- CINCPAC Admiral Harry Felt said: 'South Viotameso .
should achieve victory in three years."
5 March 1963. US GEN Paul Parkins expressed his "firm belief that
victory is in sight." This is the YJnr Of the Big Dull." ,
13 Feb 1963 The US State Department publicly suggestd that if
President Diem gave his people n little More freedom they might
give the war more support. In the officni, Saigon newspaper, Times .
Of Vietnam, the government replies by chaPging Secretary Of State. �
Rusk with "indirectly evicting the NLF". This was'also the month ' �
that US troops got the first go-ahcad to launch offensive operetions �
against the NLF. .
1 Nov 1963 Pacific Stare & Stripes runs p front ppgc hoadlint'crying
"VIP VICTROY NEAR." On this same day president Diem.ip overthrown
and then murdered by his, own ARVN generals. Tho takeover hls the '
blessings of the US Embassy, since Diem's government had become tor. '
hopeless even for Washington to itomnch.,In rdpid.succession..thirtoon.
diffornt Saigon governments take office and tho forced out, as the '
Vietnamese Generals battle for power. The war continuosipto go down -'
hill. � .
4' Nov 1964 Lyndon ,ehnston wins a fantastic victory at the peals
agninsi Sen. Berry Goldwater. President Johnston and the Democreta.
mocked Goldwater as n kook because he wanted to bomb North:Victnan "
and step up the war. During the canpaign, President Johnston promises �
that :le will not sone, 'American boys 10,000. miles ,o doe-job Asian
boys should be doing." This is just 'another in the long chain of hies..
1965. This is the year that the war completely collapsed. ARVN dmitions
hit 30% as the NLF were on th, edge of taking over the entire country.
Looking back, Son. Russell of the hrmcd Services Committee icommented, �
"/ do not belive the South Victamese forces would have lasted another
month becnsso they were on the verge of disintegration': President
Johnston orders the number of troops in Vietnam raised to 125,000 and
the intensive bombing of North Vietnam began.
3 JAN 1968. MACV-15014shes a pamphlci explaining that tho war is almost
won--it is titled: 71967: YEAR OF PROGRESS."
4 JAN 1968. The NLF launch their famous TET Offensive,,. MU units fight
it out 300 yards away from Pentagon East, as every city in Vietnam La
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1468 7Irea3.dvnt-IJohai*ah-,,,ahnkoa up.'-by-,the power of the
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-itrOOP escalation had finellY:peaked at 5251000 wen. .
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Nietmaa-Aiutfie longeit'-.var the U.S has ever fought, and probably
thd4Oitusc2mWasi fair-a6',We nre'toncerncd. 30,000 ben Wive already .
di-c4,46,,n-few corporations could get in on the defoice contract gravy
andOtherts coula,eo cut in On the nhturn1 wealth of Southeast Asia.' ;
The war is ncisistake" ng c lot of politicians, Professors and � �
_businesimen ascribe it. Every President since Roosevelt has had h-
hand�.in.jts Makimg. Thc corporations and the brtss arc gung-ho tor,
long as thc profits rind promotions continue. And they've ;
all been telling us for yers that victroy is right around the �
corner.
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DESERTER USA- Gbtehorg
Our film Deserter USA opened in Obteborg on May 5tk with
very good resuls. I was in Obte'44rg for thd past week sort -��,*
promoting the film and turning ora: the pef>ple ti the work - j:!:: -
of the A. A press showing of the film was held on Monday �
-morning for all the local newspapers. After the film was -
,lhown a press conl'erance was held where the press asked t*.
questions about the film, political asylum and of. ct,urie'�. �
the AS camp in Uppsala. The questir.n that really' Iltruck
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Tie the funniest abr.ut the Yilm was. "Did all these ;things
really hs7pen to ye,u at first? So t14s shows just hcm
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the Sweds knew si,out what we all. gr through when we tome. �
Also I was told by a elderly Swedish man that it eows.
that we st.7e reelly Ailing something creative and constructive
in hie Country, end that before he saw the film he Ihoughi
we were just here doing nothing and living off the spesrn-
mcmt. He also added that: "every Swede should seecith:,s film."
As far as oress COveraire: nf 'thp film. mll tha np na - VA VO
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re56.-^f-'4n6-1Aft sr taii0, Party in Tonmark.C-4 following ie
'et' tistciry 6T the aft Utialist Party and al *account of the ,
09_116rssi end related everts.
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a, Laft."'Sotlitlist: Party (Venster Socialiaterne) was formea one ..._ _
ind. a half years ago after &split with the Socialist Popular Party. 1. %
tte'Bodieliat Popular Party , tore A during the 70i . n the Bomb 6 1-
414741-iielieMOi# recognited as reformist and so obsolete by tho Danish -11?....; ';', �
Left Wing. -The LefA Socialist Party is composed of BUT (socialiit'. .'.." .,,
outh,1students4workersoMarmist-Leninists.anarchists and even a- .:
all pacifist element. Originally thirbid 4 ;Amber& innNirlimen% *Y,
itoevex, after the Czechoelevakian crisis two of the membera left...:7T.:7,,ti,
the party because the party condemned the Russians ter invading. .-i ::.::,
'emachoslavakia...With two members left :n the paeiment, the pertyw;�,...,:4 7...
4ow recognizes that the work is to be done in the streets mot by.
rubbing elbows with the establiehment in the parliment. The. parli-* 4:...:..
Anent does help to provide a voice in the Danish sociaty and at Uwe � '
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Mime time provides the party with some funds to function on. ,
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On the letrof Kay oe attended e polit:oal rally at a parkin CoPen4,1
haaan. There weremany,political billboards. and much literature '
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was passed Out ahoui"party activities.There were also.groups peop-
le sitting around on the grass playing instruments and singing. -
The program began about four o'clock with the singing af the
6Internationaln. Next the people there were entertained by a oouple
of rock hands. It was really great!to see. workers ,heads 'parents, .
childeran and students all dancing to the. same music. Then Cams the:"
more political part of the program. An activist in the party intro-
ducted the two Black Panthers who spoke about developing a aolidazlty:.:.y
between all the oppressed peoples of the world. They furzter'de- ,
mends& the realise of Huey Newton,end to-Ite repression of the 11.v:
Black panther party-lelhe-alates and urged Ao join the de26betrale.. I .
ion in front of the imeridah-eMbaasy.,-After-the speechea were over,.
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thousands of people, almost everynne in the park , began to march !
on the Embassy.
The demonstration was takim.Tlabe similtatneously with ones in :
San Francisco and around the states. he pigs tried to hela the
demonstraters across thestreet from the embassy ,but the 4emooLl'.:', .
straters to the front of the embassy. Severe1 more speeches -were �.
given by Panthers and Danish activsts.-which broughtoriea.froi e
the crowd auai. as " free Huey Newton,.Denmark ot;t pf:-NATO ad
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ngi.fdloussion-abOuet!�:;the -IktructUrs'.. or ... t �,-,,,i
fiTi-ral. COimit tee.' .. ,..IM- an l'electiOn--��:Wak,b-ilti-fof the asisbers
t.the.''.Ceii Oral Commit tile. It:: had been. 'de dido&t,ii-st- theqantatel'ttee
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old.-��:.:have 25 membere- and have at .least �sine':froth--each Of-.tha.ten� *:.titti el. . _..
�ibns�t.enmark. .iny minority -.grOUP that -feitit wain' t being iiiii.lee
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roperlY...repreeented could claim ten percent of the seats (2 state) 1 .,..
e,..ffire the voting began, but would not be able to Tote in the
l'antiOn."- No -61nority group � did this. Everyone was satisfied with � � ,
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. --:� largo.
he-election - and all- faction weI-e represented.- IblOr�O than half of �:' '4.,,...,. s
hose elected were very active in practical work in thier local � : i �*�,....".
roUps. It was the ,al of the congress to have a -large number of � Vg.,�---� 1 ___..
otiviste on the Central Committee.!
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�-Sunday ,the final day of the dongresar such things as member- 7 �
hip fees and the distribution �04. funds were diCussed,as well as ��� .:
iii4 -party' s international policy: The congress expressed it's �.:-. .� � 1........ :
Oliderity with the leftist movements a].]. over the world . They ��'.� r� '' � lio decided that all of'the meetings Of the 'Central Committee
ould be open to every member.: - . � �
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� fter the congress we went to sea' someonS who helps deserters
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set. from Germany to Swedan. We dicussed problems and the.. � ..
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possibility of having a new deserter oozing from �Germanyasking for �� �
-political asylum in Denmark. � I . .: � .1%
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The trip was informative and serves se:more groundwork in opening � I. _ -..
'another country for deserters. -Rod Huth and John MoLoughlin �
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ON TliE GO
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Last Thursday I returned from a tour of Europe,checking out the,, ;4 -� .
poesibilities for d:serters and establishing contact and solid- -..
arity with other anti-imperialist groups around Europ6.Usin3 my i%,p4..�:
Swedish .iliens passport for all but two countries,I experianoed � ,
such things as:lorder crossings, work and residence .,ermits,
:housing,joos,education,political activity,contacte and most-of all.
eafety from the long arm of the AM military and its 41,:iTC puppets..
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Slone the trip took two months of intensive travelini �and research, .
it would be almost impossible to cover my experiances accuratly �
in just one issue of the PG. I will therfor be writing an article
in each issue of the PG coverling my trip in detail ad that it
will serve (I hope) not only as good reading, but alio as a guide.
for those of planning a vacation this summer or for thosetof you
thinking of permanent residence elsewhere. I even, have maps, 'time-,
.ables and prices from place to place.(If your wondering, I was a
-Travel agent before entering the .irmy.) If you find it necessary � �
to split right away or for any detail not covered in my articles,
you can contact mea.t the office.
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RLI'Mf.M: You are no longer an iimerican-in Nixon's dImerioe",, 'I. ��:�,��
- You are a Xan'in 'Your World , . . .. :.'"--
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