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U.S. KNEW ABOUT NAPALM USE IN EL SALVADOR

  SALVADORAN REGIME USES NAPALM FROM ISRAEL WITH U.S. OK
  According to the New York Times, the U.S. government
admitted that the government of El Salvador used napalm
against the Salvadoran people. Napalm is a chemical weapon
of Vietnam era infamy. Its use by the Salvadoran junta
indicates its anti-people nature.
  The Salvadoran regime implies that it has stopped using
napalm. Apparently, the U.S. provided the Salvadorans with
aircraft which are used to drop conventional bombs. The
regime claims to be bombing the guerrillas in the Salvadoran
civil war.
  The U.S. Congress became aware of the napalm use last year
but did not inform the American public except in a section
in a report buried in the Congressional Record. The so-
called democratic government of the U.S. denied the American
public important information on which to judge U.S. foreign
policy, especially U.S. military aid to El Salvador. The
recent admission of napalm use by the Salvadoran regime came
six days before the admission that the CIA has fomented
terrorism and crime in Nicaragua (see MN3).
  The use of the weapon by a regime that killed 35,000 non-
combatant civilians between Oct. 1979 and May 1982 is not
surprising. The significance of the New York Times story is
that it is part of the attempt by the U.S. government to
make the American people used to U.S. terror and war in
foreign countries.

FOUR CIA SPIES DIE IN EL SALVADOR
  Four Americans died in a plane crash in El Salvador. They
were spying on the activities of guerillas opposed to the
Salvadoran regime. The plane crashed in heavy rain. (New
York Times, 10/20/84)

IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARIES QUESTION SANDINISTA SUPPORT FOR
KHOMEINI
  Supporters of Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries in Iran
trying to overthrow the reactionary Khomeini regime and
imperialism and liberate Kurdistan questioned Daniel Ortega,
a Sandinista leader and coordinator of the Nicaraguan
government. In his trip to Iran, Ortega said, "'We thank
Ayatollah Khomeini, the great leader of the Islamic
revolution and also President Khomeini, your Iranian
government and people who have stood with us in such a
severe condition.... Nicaragua acknowledges its duty to
defend the Islamic Republic's positions in international
gatherings'" (Iranian Student Association throughout the
U.S., Iran in Resistance, July-Aug. 1984, p. 13.)

U.S. PUSHES ARMS RACE INTO SPACE
  The U.S. rejected the idea of a moratorium on testing
space weapons. In a jingoist appeal to "national security,"
Secretary of State George Schultz referred to the new space
weapons as part of "our defensive and deterrent forces."
  Some of the weapons being tested for space are intended to
destroy Soviet missiles before they reach the U.S.. In the
SALT I agreement limiting such weapons, it was agreed that
such weapons constitute a danger because they even undermine
the original figleaf justification of deterrence. If one
side fired weapons, the militarist rationale was that the
other side would too and both would suffer nuclear
destruction. Clearly, even by this rationale for the arms
race, the new weapons are offensive weapons because they
give the aggressor a chance to shoot without being hit back.
(The Detroit News, 10/1/84)

U.S. ARRESTS NINE REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISTS IN NEW YORK
  The U.S. arrested nine freedom fighters trying to
establish a Black nation in the South--a New Afrikan
Republic. The arrests came at a time when the U.S. has taken
to "pre-emptive" action against those it accuses of being
terrorists. New and vague laws give the state a "legal"
excuse for harassing all revolutionaries it dubs
"terrorist"--often with no evidence. (New York Times,
10/19/84)

U.S. BANKS SQUEEZED
  Despite high interest rates in recent years, the force of
competition in the U.S. economy has put the largest U.S.
banks in bad shape. Recently, the U.S. Government bailed out
the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company
with $4.5 billion. On October 3rd, the eighth largest bank
in the country reported a loss of $70 million in the 3rd
quarter. Both banks attracted government attention because
the failure of either would start a snowball process of loan
defaults. (NYT 10/4/84)
  Indeed, with the lifting of interest ceilings for
depositors, banks have had to compete on vicious terms.
However, no capitalist economy can carry on such competition
for long without a monopoly winner, massive bankruptcies or
government intervention. In fact, the difference between a
monopoly bank and a federal takeover of all the banks is
nil. Who regulates whom also becomes a farcical question.
Neither side has a choice in the bargain. The banks can not
do without the government and the government can not do
without the banks. That is why Karl Marx called the state an
"executive committee of the bourgeoisie." The U.S.
Government must intervene in the interests of the capitalist
class as a whole or face a huge economic Depression and
revolution.
  Part of that intervention by the U.S. Government is the
search for profitable businesses for U.S. banks to do
business with, especially to make loans to. That is why the
U.S. Government is compelled to make the Third World safe
for U.S. business. It lends military aid (good business for
U.S. military industries and banks) to regimes willing to
squeeze profits out of their workers by force. South Africa
is only one big example.
  Despite the U.S. Government's securing of business in the
Third World for the American economy, the American economy
is still in trouble. The weakness of American banks only
compels the state to look for new sources of profits for
American business. The biggest untapped source is the Soviet
bloc. The U.S. Government is preparing for WWIII with the
Soviet bloc to open up the Soviet bloc to the claws of U.S.
business. The Soviet government has already taken over its
banks, but it also works for profit, so it is also
imperialist. The search for profit must end. Those with no
interest in WWIII and the cutthroat practices of business
must takeover production. That is the only way to eliminate
the causes of the current WWIII.
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