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University of Cincinnati students demand divestment in Nov. 24 protest.

SOCIALIST ACTION DECEMBER 1987 The Untold Story of the U.S. 'Secret War"

Speeches Dy Daniel Sheehan and Daniel Ortega:

Assault on Nicaragua: The Untold Story of the U.S. 'Secret War, Speeches by Daniel Sheehan and Daniel Ortega, with an essay by Jeff Mackler and Nat Weinstein. Edited with an introduction by Rod Holt. Walnut Publishing Co., Inc., 115 pages, $4.95. (Order from Walnut Publishing Co., 3435 Army St., Suite 308, S.F., CA 94110; include $.97 for postage and tax.)

This book contains the facts of the most audacious legal action ever undertaken. The Christic Institute filed a civil lawsuit in marched on April 25? What do you see as the tasks ahead for the antiwar movement?

Daniel Ortega: We've had the opportunity to welcome various delegations of North American trade unionists to Nicaragua. These unionists have shown a deep concern about our situation and a strong desire to help overcome the tensions that currently exist between the United States and Nicaragua.

The U.S. trade-union movement, because of its size and strength, can play a very important role in influencing policy. By engaging in protest actions and by expressing their views, trade unionists can October 1986 claiming some $20 million in damages. The suit named 29 people as defendants. They include such household names as Albert Hakim, Adolfo Calero, Maj. Gen. Theodore Shackley, Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, and Thomas Clines.

Daniel Sheehan's famous speech, "The Secret Team," delivered in Los Angeles on Feb. 1, 1987, is now in print here for the first time. Also included is an extended discussion with Daniel Sheehan and Sarah Nelson, executive director of the Christic Institute, on Sept. 4, 1987.

Malcolm Davis help change the policy of the U.S. government. In this sense, organizing and promoting coalitions and united actions for peace in Central America can be very valuable.

Working for peace in Central America is consistent with the moral and ethical principles of working people in the United States.

Because of the policies of the U.S. government, working people in Nicaragua are being killed. Workers in Nicaragua don't have the possibility of developing their potential. They are unable to make gains— or even to work productively-because they States, the United Auto Workers union has This book also contains the address to the United Nations General Assembly by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Oct. 9, 1987, as well as a brief exclusive interview with Ortega [see below] conducted during Ortega's stay in New York.

The final essay in this book, by Jeff Mackler and Nat Weinstein, co-national secretaries of Socialist Action, exposes the bipartisan character of the U.S. war against Nicaragua and provides a strategic orientation for building a broad, independent, mass antiwar movement in this country. I are forced to defend themselves against military aggression and terrorist activities.

A basic spirit of solidarity therefore leads the North American workers to mobilize to demand an end to the U.S. war on Nicaragua.

But there's another aspect to this question which relates to the self-interests of North American workers. If this war is prolonged—and if the United States decides to intervene militarily with its own troops-those who will be killed in Nicaragua will be the young workers, or the sons of the older workers.

They will be the ones to get killed in Nicaragua in an unjust war, much in the same way young North American workers were the ones to die in Vietnam.

So our task is to prevent the shedding of more blood in Nicaragua. Our task is to prevent the shedding of the blood of North American youth.

The labor movement in the United States has a great responsibility to act promptly, energetically, and in unity to put a halt to the war policies of the U.S. government. This would be the greatest contribution that working people in the United States could make to peace in Central America-and to peace in the United States as well. The people of the United States cannot be at peace so long as their own government carries out war policies against Nicaragua which could lead the American youth to be killed in Central America.

be dropped should be sent immediately to the Embassy of South Africa, 3051 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008. Send copies to NUMSA at P.O. Box 9451, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.

ill O'Kain Socialist Actior Earth Co., and was supported by the United Black Association. Eleventhhour attempts by the university administration and the College Republicans to stop the rally proved unsuccessful.

Summing up the day's activities, Leah Smith, co-chairperson of the AIC, said: "While in the middle of fighting to break the chains that bind U.C. to apartheid, we also find ourselves in the middle of a free-speech fight. Regardless, we will be vocal, and we will be heard. We will not let this movement fizzle out after this rally."

The AIC has demanded that the university give an accounting of its divestment in three months.

-BILL O'KAIN

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