April 8, 1980

Ittawa[CUP]—

Two Chinese-Canadian
groups have registered
their dissatisfaction with
the recent CTV W5 apol-
ogy, although the producer
says the statement was
issued in good faith.

““We do not condider the
token gesture of CTV any-
where near a sincere and
honest response to the pub-
lic condemnation against
W5’s ‘Campus Giveaway’
show.”’ ©

With those words the
Montreal branch of the Ad
Hoc Committee Against
W5 served: notice that it
would continue its attack on
the television network for
airing a program on inter-
national students that has
been termed inaccurate and
racist.

And Dr. Donald Chu,
president of the Council of
Chinese Canadians in On-
tario(CClO) said CTV did
not address the objections
to the program and wants
an apology ‘‘more directed
to the issue’’.

Both groups were react-

Toronto[CUP]—

Many developing black
nations are turning to com-
munist countries for sup-
port but that does not mean
that they are communist in
ideology, according to
Timothy Jenkins,.a white
anti-apartheid activist from
South Africa.

Jenkins make the state-
ment at a recent speaking
engagement at the Univers-
ity of Guelph.

He said that the West
supports apartheid in South
Africa through its ~multi-
national corporate. invest-
ments which sustain the
racist government of South
Africa.

liberation movements are
forced into the communist
camp to garner support for
their struggles.

Jenkin said that ‘‘we’ll
take arms from anyone, but
that doesn’t make us com-
munists.’’ But he openly
acknowledged that the
brunt-of the weapons used
by his organization—the
ANC—the African National
Congress do indeed come
from the Soviet Union.

Jenkins was arrested in
March. './6, for belonging
to, and promoting the ANC,
a banned organization.

He was sentenced to 12
years in prison for: his

 

non-violent activities and

   

As a consequence, black ©

VV5 gets shaft

ing to a statement of regret,
aired by W5 on March 16,
which said the program
‘sincerely regrets any of-
fense that may have been
unintentionally given to the
Chinese-Canadian- com-
munity.’”

Chu said W5 host Helen
Hutchinson’s statement
was. ‘‘misdirected at the
statistics and the universi-
ties. The statement did not
apologize for calling us
foreign.’’

“CTV has tried to defuse
the importance of an apol-
ogy by not contacting us
before airing the mess-
age,’’ he said.

Siukeong Lee, Montreal
co-ordinator of the ad hoc
comittee, said the W5
statement was not a real

apology and did not satisfy

the group at all.

““After having clearly in-
sulted all Chinese-
Canadians, CTV now wants
to walk away by gently
regretting the offense that
may have been given, and
says it is unintentional,’’
Lee said in an _ official

had served 18 months of
the sentence before he
escaped with two other
white political prisoners in
December, 1979.

The ANC was banned by
theSouth Aftrican govern-
ment in 1960, in the climate
of fear that the Sharpeville

‘shooting of March 21, 1960,

fermented.

At Sharpville, the police
shot indiscriminately, with
automatic weapons, into an
unarmed African crowd of
peaceful demonstrators in-
cluding women and child-
ren.

According to official fig-
ures, 67 persons were killed
and 186 were wounded. Of
these victims, 155 were
shot in the back while
fleeing.

As a consequence the
ANC became an_ under-
ground organization whose
strategy became armed
struggle and violence.

Jenkins said that ‘‘for
blacks there is no legal or
constitutional way to fight
apartheid’’.

Blacks are not allowed to
vote in elections, nor are
they permitted to organize
any political parties.

Although North Ameri-
cans find it difficult to

. condone violence, he said

that ‘‘there are no legal
ways to change and so the
choice is submit or fight.’’

response to the statement.

“We say this is neither
honest nor fair. CTV must
face the issues, admit all

mistakes,. apologize and

compensate.’’ :
But Lionel -Lumb, W5
producer, said the state-

ment was ‘‘put out in good
faith’’.

Blacks turning Red

Jenkins became involved
with the ANC after soci-
ology courses in the uni-
versity lead him to the con-
clusion that South African
society was ‘‘unnatural’’,
because it didn’t adhere tc
sociological premises that
other societies follow.

Jenkins said that not all
of the ANC’s activities are
violent in nature.

They have also estab-
lished a school in Tanzania
for young black South
African refugees who fled
their country by the hun-
dreds after the Soweto up-
rising in 1976.

The school’ provides ed-
ucation, clothing and food
on a 600 acre site donated
by the Tanzanian govern-
ment.

He appealed for funds for
the school, which is seek-
ing $10 million by 1984.

~ ge po v

‘‘The statement was-

the front page of a news-
paper’’. ‘‘We didn’t bury
it,” he added. ‘‘We said it
right up front where we
have the majority of view-
ers.”’

“There is no room for
doubt. The statement ex-
pressed sincere regret,’’
Lumb said.

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Psychology

400 experiment

Those who sign up, inthe

social sciences lab in the 300
building, should have no

previous experience with
either self-hypnosis or
self- relaxation training.

Thanks for. your Cooperation.

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