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wealth in this area. I could to do with Solidarnosc science column! • STRONGLY believe that the pacifist line taken by the paper is a wrong one, although 1 am glad that you have some support ior the Falkland Islanders. My position is one of support for their right of self-determination on the Islands.

Their community has now existed for 150 years and if they so wish to preserve this they should be aided not abandoned. When it comes down to it, the lett position is identical to that of the British ruling class, i.e. Argentine control over islands.

The only reason why Thatcher is sending the armed forces in to protect the rights of 1,800 people is not because she has a passion for isolated groups around the world or that the British way of life is threatened but because the junta has plans to develop the huge oilfields around the Falklands with the USSR and not Britain or the USA.

Thatcher would not care i Argentina, regime and all. had control over the Islands so long : as British capitalists have a stake in exploiting the enormous THE USE of cannabis, both as a medicine and for enjoyment probably goes as far back in prehistory as does the use of alcohol.

Only in the last S0 years however, has it been made illegal. Most importantly is the US, though the rest of SLEE WELL OF COURSE, THAT WAS ALL PRE-BEMB SCIENCE YOU KNOW!

APRIL 19 was the centenary of the death of Darwin, one of the greatest scientists of all time. (Marx wanted to dedicate Capital' to kim). And we missed it!

That's one reason why ae need more volunteers to write articles for the not help laughing when the left suggested that it was basically a question of prestige. If that is a scientific analysis, then try again. Capitalists are forever looking for new markets and resources and will use force to ensure this.

The Falkland Islanders will be pushed aside once Britain and the Argentine rulers agree on joint exploitation (probably with a leaseback agreement): The Tories have used the vulnerability of the Islanders to win world support for economic and military action against Argentina, and the left has played into their hands by demanding the withdrawal of the task force.

The result has been an added perk for the Tories of having national opinion in favour of their action and so allowing them to ride on an unjustified wave of popularity. We shouldn't avoid supporting the rights of the Falkland Islanders just because Thatcher claims to support those rights.

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Should we have nothing the West was to follow. And the US has also been putting pressure on its client states, or those dependent on it to some extent, to follow suit, e.g. Mexico.

The US government has science column (we know that at least one SO reader has some knowledge of evolutionary theory).

We will get something written on Darwin soon. but remember that the Science Column depends on you as well! because of verbal support given by Thatcher and Reagan?

The Falkland Islanders would probably accept Argentine sovereignty if their way of life could be guaranteed.

We should demand that the Falkland Islanders have full control over their lives and the Islands, both if they wish to become independent and if they wish to negotiate with Britain and There is no parallel between the six counties of Ireland and the Falklands; to make one is absurd.

Ireland had native population when invaded by Britain, the Falklands had none. It has only been a point of , rivalry between European colonisers and settlers. No-one has mentioned about the Argentinians driving out . native Indians from their lands at the time the USA and Britain drove out Spanishspeaking settlers from the Falk lands.

Fraternally, RICHARD MOORE London itself undertake, the spraying of cannabis crops with the weedkiller paraquat (they wouldn't do in California!).

The spraying was suspended because of fears for the health of people who smoked paraquat treated Les SOME GOOD news and some bad news. The good news is that the damage to the ozone layer of our atmoenhora from chlorofluro VILI VILUVIU carbons (CFCs) is much less than previously feared. The bad news is that even this damage could result in a large increase in skin cancers.

CFCs are what makes spray cans spray. They are gases, so when they are let out into the atmosphere, they mix with the rest of the air and eventually some CFCs reach the stratosphere or upper atmosphere. Here it breaks down, producing chlorine. which then starts to destroy the fleet's action, to asserting the authority and strength of British militarism.

To support the fleet on the basis of the Falklanders' rights would be like supporting saturation policing in London on the basis that it might protect some people from violent crime.

We want safe streets -..... IAN ATULIN ...F hut run sumin fre the Inharr an overall class assessment.

Our call for withdrawal We are against imperialist seems less concerned with the health of Mexican farm workers or with the effects on the environment.

Paraquat is a persistent herbicide. It lingers in the soil, preventing plants from growing for some time. And the effects on tropical soils at five to nine per 2000.

In other words, a rise of between 30 and 135% in skin cancers is likely in the US alone, and all because some capitalists didn't want to jeopardise their profits by asking a chemist for the effects of releasing CFCs into our atmosphere!

[Info: New Scientist]

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