THE FALKLANDS gravy train is well under way. The first reports are coming in of the scale of the contracts available to make the islands fit for prolonged British military occupation.
the contracts up for grabs could be well over £200 million.
The biggest single contract is to build a new airport costing between £100 million and £200 million and a number of the big construction companies (Costain, slide. Wimpey, Laing and Mowlen) have already flown experts out to start preparing tenders.
Smaller contracts include repairing the roads in Port Stanlev fic they now have to handle (£2.5m), a new jetty for the harbour (f6m), out the road between Port Stanley and its airfield.
A PROPOSAL to set up a home defence force has been proposed by a motley crew of generals and admirals. A home defence force of about 700,000 is proposed to defend Britain against invasion!
God knows who would possibly want to invade us. Perhaps the generals think it would be useful for internal security? Pretty unlikely usually begin to reflect the strains in society very rapidly.
The cost of this brainchild? £120m to set up and £60m a year to run. A snip!
LETTING the cat out of the bag dept. tempung to prove inal ine civi nacical programme did not produce materials for British bombs, Josh Moore.
slip that had •rutollull lu Javail. Since nuclear weapons are illegal under the Japanese constitution, we Japanese anti-nuclear campaigners will be very interested to hear of this ...
STILL ON the topic of parliament, Norman Tebbit confirmed that the government has been studying the feasability of including a military element The total value Taylor Woodrow, - wrecked by the heavy military trafand a f3m contract to sort - such forces While atUndersecretary tor Energy sold weapons grade expect that for International Women's Day.
labour movement, the Scottish TUC. Three thousand women joined Scotland's biggest ever demonstration "Peace' mass protest outside the Faslane nuclear submarine base near Helensburgh on 6 March. The feeling of solidarity showed the strength that feminism brings to the disarmament movement. support came from the Scottish anti-missiles movement and the including the Women's Adivsory Committee of 'Women for Peace' want to build on this to defend the Greenham Common women, to oppose Trident and gain support for the women's strike day of action in Glasgow on 24th May. Contact Women for Peace: Tel. 041-221 1177. (Sat after lpm).
behind closed doors last week, This was the first 'Women for Broad OXFORD ABINGDON campaign document?
dent programme and to refuse to allow missiles in this country.
This was the very least we could expect after the vote for Composite 51 al the Conference.
this will fulfil the Labour Party's concommitment unilateral nuclear disarmament. It will not give us e clear commitment non-nuclear defence policy The conference clearly voted nuclear weapons, both existing and new To argue that we should keep Polaris, as the draft suggests, in order to give us a place in disarmament negotiations is totally contrary to the vote al the conference where our party voted to abandon nuclear weapons not bargain with them We cannot have it both ways. This is a contradiction that will be exploited by er throughout opposition speaker the country and many Labour Party candidates will not prepared comprolnise WHAT SHOULD we make of the proposed policy on disarmament put forward in the NEC's draft Labour Party members up and down the country will welcome the clear commitment to cancel the Triwould depend on 'agree ment with other countries' and in 'co-operation with our the draft document suggests That would weaken the commitment beyond It would appear to be an attempt to sabotage the policy of the fought for and wor at Blackpool.
The close down the bases has to be a unilateral act for it Is Fact IN . OUr terest.
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