IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

MARS

Red Weekly No. 161, 29 July 1976 · p. 12 of the scan · 268 words

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page 12 of the scan

guess, for according to the Swedish based Peace Research Unit the eventual results of the contamination are impossible to gauge The only evidence to go on is in Vietnam, where the Americans quantity in their war against the liberation forces. In the southern area of Vietnam today, where the 'insecticide was sprayed from planes, one third of the old mangrove areas have been reduced to muddy wasteLa Roche have expressed regret about the leakage, but one reason for the scale of the disaster cous De mat me peonie ortne arci were completely unprepared because the company had informed nobody what was actually being manufactured in the plant.

Such behaviour is only to be expected from La Roche. They have said that the will pay $66,000 compensation to the 400 |BERICApeople wno nave now been forced trom Take another example from last week. concerning the American space craft which landed on Mars. The craft developed a fault which prevented it from scooping up soil But the scientists on the ground managed to austruct une crar to snake user and correc the fault.

Without doubt there will be little benefi from that achievement. But it shows the capacity which exists to solve the problems of the - capacity which Western capitalism dictates will be used on trips to Mars and on DUISOHOUS CASES In Italy last week a woman pointed to her dying sheep coe ane commented o reported: "He's sick, we're all sick.' Maybe so, but there none so sick as the system which produces the horrific lunacies displayed in Northern Italy and on Mars last WEEK

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