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The Soviet anti-neutron propaganda campaign took off last week full-throttle. How does it work? Here’s a sampling from just two days’ issues of the Communist Daily World. Aug. 14, front-page banner: “n-bomb condemned world-wide.” Inside we find that: Kurt Waldheim expressed “profound regrets” at news that America was putting the neutron warhead into production; Michael Foot (British Labor Party leader) found it “worst decision since Reagan has taken office”; Bella Abzug says it “could lead to the destruction of civilization”; Sen. Nino Pasti of Italy calls it “pure insanity”; Lionel Bowen (Australian Labor Party) finds it “new menace to world peace.” Aug. 15 frontpage banner: “outrage builds against n-bomb.” Page 7, under International Notes, these headlines: “FRG Figure Hits N-Bomb”—Egon Bahr of the Willy Brandt wing of the Social Democratic Party sounding off; “Mexico against N-Bomb”; “N-Bomb Rejected by Turks”; “Austrian [Foreign Minister Willibald Pahr] Cites New Perils.” Same day: World Council of Churches, meeting this year in Hungary, is alarmed to its last cassock. … A major anti-Reagan demonstration, “Solidarity,” initiated by AFL-CIO, backed by NAACP, Urban League, etc., supported by Trotskyists (Militant), Communists (World), already scheduled for Sept. 19 in Washington, is fast being turned into anti-neutron extravaganza.

Around the world, meanwhile, the peaceloving Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is replacing its tent camps in Afghanistan with permanent military bases, including new airstrips in area bordering China’s Xinjiang province, according to reports in India Times. . . . A North Korean military detachment has arrived in Salisbury, Zimbabwe to train Robert Mugabe’s new army. . . .

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The Soviet anti-neutron propaganda campaign took off last week full-throttle. How does it work? Here’s a sampling from just two days’ issues of the Communist Daily World. Aug. 14, front-page banner: “n-bomb condemned world-wide.” Inside we find that: Kurt Waldheim expressed “profound regrets” at news that America was putting the neutron warhead into production; Michael Foot (British Labor Party leader) found it “worst decision since Reagan has taken office”; Bella Abzug says it “could lead to the destruction of civilization”; Sen. Nino Pasti of Italy calls it “pure insanity”; Lionel Bowen (Australian Labor Party) finds it “new menace to world peace.” Aug. 15 frontpage banner: “outrage builds against n-bomb.” Page 7, under International Notes, these headlines: “FRG Figure Hits N-Bomb”—Egon Bahr of the Willy Brandt wing of the Social Democratic Party sounding off; “Mexico against N-Bomb”; “N-Bomb Rejected by Turks”; “Austrian [Foreign Minister Willibald Pahr] Cites New Perils.” Same day: World Council of Churches, meeting this year in Hungary, is alarmed to its last cassock. … A major anti-Reagan demonstration, “Solidarity,” initiated by AFL-CIO, backed by NAACP, Urban League, etc., supported by Trotskyists (Militant), Communists (World), already scheduled for Sept. 19 in Washington, is fast being turned into anti-neutron extravaganza.

Around the world, meanwhile, the peaceloving Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is replacing its tent camps in Afghanistan with permanent military bases, including new airstrips in area bordering China’s Xinjiang province, according to reports in India Times. . . . A North Korean military detachment has arrived in Salisbury, Zimbabwe to train Robert Mugabe’s new army. . . .