Young Exit Shows U.s Weakness
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At the same time as the Nicaraguan governing Junta announced its new 'comprehensive' bill of rights it took swift steps to rid itself of the threat of independent working class action and expelled sixty Trotskyists' of the 'Simon Bolivar The desperate weakness of the United States intervention in the Middle East has become starkly clear in the wake of Andrew Young's resignation as US ambassador to the UN.
Efforts to get the Zionist regime to agree to a new United Nations resolution aimed at a settlement with the Arab bourgeois governments have failed.
President Carter's special envoy, Robert Strauss, failed to convince Begin to agree to any reference to the right of the Palestinians.
He even failed to convince Carter's poodle, Sadat.
Despite Young UN pressure to arrange a 'ceasefire' Begin has continued his genocidal attacks on South Lebanon. Every day last week the Zionist artillery, together with their fascist allies, have been pounding villages and now also the main towns in the area.
Numerous villagers and some Palestinian commandoes have been killed On Monday 20 August phosphorous and fragmentation bombs were seen by correspondents to set fire to pine forests and apple groves in the area.
The Zionists and their allies are adding a scorched earth policy to their genocidal attacks on South Lebanon and their continual threats of a new invasion.