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"Vietnam" Now Aborning in Africa

By VVAW

Though it is obvious the cancer of "Imperialism" is about to be excised by the courageous surgeons of Indochina, and the bodies of those third world nations will indeed regain their health. It is at the same time obvious that the disease has not been brought under control, and is still seeking to destroy the bodies of other third world nations.

Committee leaders of the U.S. Senate have investigated and subsequently declared that the department of State and Defense have conspired to mount a military buildup on the continent of Africa virtually identical to the buildup in Indo-China during the last decade.

This buildup is guarded by secrecy and supported by economic, political, and military commitments virtually identical to those existing between the U.S. and South Vietnam 10 years ago.

As a matter of fact, war planes and other arms of conventional warfare supplied by the U.S. Government - and under the guidance and supervision of U.S. military "advisors" - have for more than a year been used to bomb, kill, and destroy (wage war) in areas in and around Ethiopia in East Africa.

Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Stuart Symington, Chairman of the Subcommittee on U.S. Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad, have been unsuccessful in their efforts to persuade the Nixon dictatorship to provide the American people and the Congress a truthful, full and complete disclosure of the nature and extent of U.S. economic, political, and military commitments and present involvement in the current fighting on both sides of the Red Sea.

Senators Fulbright and Symington clearly established in Hearings before the Symington Subcommittee, June 1,1970, that the buildup of thousands of U.S. troops and other U.S. presence (CIA) in Ethiopia, and the areas of East Africa, is not justified by any peaceful and constructive purpose; merely another thrust of U.S. Imperialism.

The fact that East Africa is to be the next chapter of unconscionable racist and colonialist history of this country was underscored by the recent tour of Africa by the grand buffoon Spiro T. Agnew, the only known purpose to be his vain by flagrant attempt to create dissention and confusion between courageous African leaders seeking to help their people, and Black Americans struggling to do the same under increasingly heavy repression.