Baltimore-i Értesítő - Amerikai Magyar Értesítő, 1980 (16. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-03-01 / 3. szám
12. oldal are now dying on the craggy, wind-whipped heights. The Russians are using gases to flush the fierce mountain men out of the caves and crevices, where they are holed up. From the available evidence, intelligence specialists have identified one gas as Soman. This colorless nerve gas has a pleasant, fruity odor but brings agonizing death within 15 minutes. It kills by being absorbed through the skin. The victims in their final minutes of life, according to a U.S. document, "display the following symptoms: difficulty in breathing; drooling and excessive sweating; nausea, vomiting, cramps and involuntary defecation and urination; twitching, jerking and staggering; headache, confusion, drowsiness, coma ana convulsion ... followed by cessation of breathing.” The Defense Intelligence Agency has also picked up references in Soviet communications which indicate the Russians may also be waging germ warfare against the Afghan tribesmen. No civilized nation has resorted to such an inhumane weapon since our colonial French and Indian wars when Indian tribes were deliberately given smallpox-infected blankets. Even Hitler decided against using nerve gases developed by his Nazi scientists in World War II. But after the Third Reich collapsed, the Soviets quietly moved an entire German nerve gaS production plant to Russia and employed former Nazi scientists to develop the dread stuff. Pentagon sources now estimate that the Russians not only possess an enormous chemical warfare arsenal but have assigned more than 100,000 specially trained chemical officers to Soviet military units. In the name of humanity, an international commission should be empowered at once to assess the evidence that the Soviets are waging secret chemical and biological warfare against the defenseless but defiant Afghans. _______ A J Russia feeds on a Big Lie The Olympics are part of the Big Lie — the Biggest Lie perhaps in the history of humankind. The lie is that Communist Russia is not the most evil government the world has ever known, more evil even than Hitler's Germany, if only because of the duration of its crimes. The evil is not that the International Olympic Committee is going ahead with the games in Moscow; the crime is that the contests were ever scheduled there in the first place. Since 1945 Russia has violated most of the Olympic professionalization rules and has used the games as an occasion for political propaganda. Still the Olympic Committee has bought the big lie that Russia is like any other government in the world. South Africa was thrown out of international competition because it is a racist regime. Russia dominates more non-white people than South Africa — twice as many. Black citizens in South Africa have more freedom than does anyone in the Soviet Union. To schedule the games in Moscow while throwing out South Africa is the Big Lie. When "liberals” and “black leaders” remain silent in the face of this monstrosity they were guilty of going along with the Big Lie — king before Afghanistan. The Russians are using nerve gas in Afghanistan and massacred 1,000 men in one village. “World public opinion,” so outraged by the My Lai massacre, remains silent. The latter was an isolated incident against government policy. Massacre in Afghanistan is official policy. To remain silent, as most of our leftists seem to be willing to do, is to succumb to the Big Lie. Some people I know discount the atrocities in Afghanistan. The Russians wouldn’t do something like that. The Big Lie makes them forget how often mass murder was official policy during the bloody history of Communist Russia. The Polish officers who were butchered in the Katyn forest have been quickly forgotten. To ship grain, sell technology, attend summit meetings and pretend that Russia belongs in the community of civilized nations is part of the Big Lie. Similarly, the argument, frequently heard from columnists, college professors and other intellectuals through the past 50 years, that the evils of Russia communism and American capitalism are roughly equal amounts to a monumental surrender to the Big Lie. Disarmament agreements, Helsinki pacts, cultural exchanges, athletic competitions and all other such legitimations of Russian tyranny are the Big Lie. The United States ought to have nothing to do with Russia, other than maintain military might bo as to be able to resist its eventual attacks (which is quite different from Mr. Carter’s alternation between appeasement and war- psychosis bluster for re-election purposes). To pretend that the Cold War could be over is the Big Lie. To involve Russia in the international community by doing business with it and to prop up its sick economy are both capitulations to the Big Lie. The life expectancy rate for men in Russia is declining; a quarter of the population may be alcoholics. The regime is tottering, weakened by senility and tyranny. Instead of letting it collapse (as I predict it will in the next decade) of its own dead weight, the United States has helped it stay in power. We have become victims of the Big Lie we ourselves have helped to propagate. Ever since Lincoln Steffans went to Russia in 1919 and announced that he had seen the future and it worked, a certain kind of American has been telling the Big Lie about Russia. One would like to think Afghanistan would put an end to the Lie. It won’t G A ___________ÉRTESÍTŐ___________ Kremlin is stirr ing up new trouble in Cuba While world outrage is focused on Afghini- stan, the troublemakers in the Kremlin are stirring up a new crisis in Cuba. Intelligence reports warn that the Soviets not only have doubled their combat force in Cuba, but they are lengthening and widening the runways at the Cienfuegos airport. It looks as if the runways are being modified to accommodate the Backfire bomber. 1980. március hó This supersonic Soviet bomber could strike any point in the United States from Cuban bases. By aiming at the nation’s underbelly, the Backfire would also enebunter little effective air defense. Russian fighter pilots, meanwhile, have been operating out of Cuban bases fof’ years. Disturbingly, they don’t appear to be in Cuba merely to train Cuban pilots. In a report classified "Secret Spoke,” the Defénse Intelligence Agency has noted: "There has been ’'ery little interplay between the Soviet and Cuban pilots, and the Soviet flight activity appears to be Independent of Cuban operations." Intelligence sources told my associate that 5,000 Russian combat troops are now based in Cuba — double the number that precipitated an international tempest last September and October. President Carter announced that the presence of a Soviet combat brigade 90 tniles from out shores was "unacceptable.” ' ‘The thing that concerns us, he declared, ‘‘is that it is a combat unit. The Soviets deny it has combat status. But H is a combat unit.” He threatened sternly to “take appropriate action.” But the Soviets called his bluff, and Carter backed down. “The brigade isáue is certainly no reason for a retreat to the cold war,” he Said lamely. His capitulation apparently helped to cause rather than to prevent a cold war. Intelligence sources claim the Kremlin decision to invade Afghanistan was made in late October after Cartel had conceded that the "unacceptable” combat brigade was now acceptable in Cuba. As the intelligence experts understand wuat happened inside the Kremlin, the Politburo concluded that if Carter wouldn’t challenge them in Cuba, he would not interfere with them in Afghanistan. The resulting events have brought a sudden chill to Soviét-Ámeri- can relations. Meanwhile, the number of Soviet infantrymen not only has multiplied but military, activity has increased alarmingly in Cuba. One ominous report claims that nuclear construction has started near Cienfuegos and that the Russian troops in Cuba previously had protected nuclear installations in East Germany. Another secret "Intelligence Appraisal” suggests that Soviet forces may have been sent to Cuba to release Cubans for duty as Soviet surrogates in Africa or "to signal the U.S. that the U.S.S.R. is an in-place Cuban ally, should Washington decide to lean on Havana.” But one thing is certain; the Soviets have made a mockery of the Monroe Doctrinp PSZICHIÁTERNÉL — Nem ismerem a problémáit, uram. Feküdjön fel ide és kezdje elmesélni elejétől fogva. — Jó. Szóval: kezdetben teremtettem az eget és a földet.
