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|    Newspaper of the Maoist Internationalist Movement     |
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[published sometime between 1/13 and 1/29/86]
   
   UNDERWRITING, SELLING DEATH
   Military aid from the U.S. to 113 countries has amounted 
to $120 billion since 1953. Half has been in grants. Of 
course, even grants are really handouts from the U.S. 
Government to American armsmakers. (Japan Times, 12/30/85, p. 
7)
   
   MARCOS AND AQUINO, NOT MUCH CHOICE
   Philippines presidential candidate Corazon Aquino favors 
the retention of U.S. military bases at least until 1991 and 
possibly after that. (Mainichi Daily News, 12/31/85, p. 2) 
Aquino is opposing dictator Ferdinand Marcos in elections 
promised for February 7th.
   Aquino's candidacy is much promoted in the American press. 
Corazon's husband Benigno was the United States' hope of 
providing a U.S. lackey with a fresh face. He was training at 
the Harvard Kennedy School of Government before he returned 
to the Philippines only to be assassinated by those not ready 
to be replaced.
   While it is clear that Marcos is a dictator of the most 
petty sort, Aquino represents bourgeois democratic opposition 
at best and good ole' American interests at worst. In an 
opportunist move, Marcos' court system ordered the seizure of 
Aquino's 15,000 hectare sugar plantation on 12/2/85. The move 
was an effort to demonstrate that Aquino is a landlord, not a 
candidate of the people. Hypocritically, the court ordered 
the land be divided "for distribution to qualified 
Filipinos." (Japan Times, 12/31/85, p. 4)
   
   MAINLAND CHINESE STUDENTS MARCH AGAINST NEW COLONIALISM
   In Chengdu, protests targeting the current regime's 
servility to Western imperialism are being labelled as 
criminal in nature. (Mainichi News, 12/31/85, p. 7) In Peking 
(Beijing) students attacked China's relationship to 
imperialism through protests against Japan, which China 
liberated itself from in WWII. Deng has named China's foreign 
trade policy "the open door policy" in reference to an 
American policy of the 1800s which insisted on American 
rights to exploit China along with the European colonists of 
the day who controlled China's ports.
   
   PERU SLIPPING FROM U.S. CAMP
   December 27th, 1985, Peru seized New York-based Belco 
Petroleum. Also, since the inauguration of Alan Garcia in 
July, Peru has stopped loan payments to the U.S. and stepped 
up tax demands from American companies operating in Peru.
   At the same time, Peru fell to the charge d'affaires 
diplomacy level with its handling of the Cuban exodus that 
started at the Peruvian embassy in Havanna in 1980. 
Washington is also threatening Peru's preferential tariff, 
aid and international loans, and commercial air traffic has 
been suspended since May 1984. New aid projects were 
suspended in September.
   Garcia appears to be getting a better deal from the 
Soviets lately. The Soviets allow payment for military goods 
and debts in goods. Not surprisingly, Garcia conveniently 
found it possible to denounce U.S. nuclear policy from Moscow 
during a visit there.
   Although Peru has the largest Soviet arsenal in Latin 
America, it is also the largest recipient of U.S. aid in 
South America and 36% of its exports go to the U.S.. (Japan 
Times, 12/31/85, p. 8) The contention between the superpowers 
in Peru is far from over.
   
   MIM NOTES SCREWS UP; BELIEVES WALL STREET JOURNAL
   The last issue of MIM NOTES implied that 1,750 is the 
lower figure for estimates of dead at the Union Carbide 
disaster at Bhopal. This figure comes from the Wall Street 
Journal, which does not include deaths caused by various 
complications of the disaster.
   Other bourgeois sources cite death figures that start at 
2,000 or 2,250 and up. Of course, the final answer can only 
come through an investigation by the people of India.
   Meanwhile, Union Carbide's latest efforts to weasel out of 
responsibility include the claim that its subsidiary in India 
is responsible, not the American headquarters. Such a move is 
designed to prevent the legal battle from being fought in the 
United States where all of Union Carbide's $10 billion in 
assets could be awarded, as opposed to the subsidiary's 
assets of $100 million.
   Carbide's claims are desperate maneuvers. First, U.S. 
Carbide owns 50.9% of India Carbide.
   Secondly, Edward Munoz, former president of Carbide's 
agricultural chemicals division testified that it was U.S. 
Carbide that ordered India Carbide to use large tanks to 
store the gas that leaked Dec.2-3, 1984. India Carbide wanted 
to use smaller tanks to limit the possibility of leaks.
   Finally, Carbide's own documents show that after an 
accident prior to the 1984 leak, U.S. Carbide took command. 
"No design changes have been made without the concurrence of 
general engineering or Institute plant engineering [W. VA]." 
(Anchorage Daily News, 1/3/86, p. c-6)
   Union Carbide tried to take advantage of American racism 
by claiming that the Indian government and subsidiary workers 
had lower standards than the American Carbide plant 
regulations. A Carbide engineer easily contradicted that 
claim through an affidavit that said that he followed every 
instruction of U.S. Carbide in design regulations. (Ibid.)
   It is time to recognize a small part of the American 
corporate blood debt to Third World peoples. The assets of 
Union Carbide belong to the thousands killed and hundreds of 
thousands injured at Bhopal and other corporate playgrounds.
   
   DENG XIAOPING "MAN OF THE YEAR" AND "SUCCESS OF THE YEAR"
   Time magazine named China's state capitalist ruler "Man of 
the Year" for the second time. Time rightfully considered 
Deng's role in the capitalist social revolution more 
important than any of the roles played by people in the 
leading stories of 1985--Gorbachev and Reagan at the phony 
arms control summit in Geneva for instance.
   Deng "makes a Horatio Alger hero look like a piker," says 
Harrison Salisbury for Success magazine. "ÔAlthough we are a 
magazine that celebrates capitalism,' states Success Editor-
in-Chief Scott DeGarmo, 'we've chosen the world's leading 
Communist because his perseverance, courage and promotion of 
free enterprise make him a universal role model.'" (Ann Arbor 
News, 1/13/86)