French Pacific bases
Sir, — French naval expansion into the South Pacific demonstrates, not the fallacy of a regional nuclear-free zone, as Nick LeeFrampton asserts (May 7), but its urgent, imperative necessity. This show of military force by French imperialism is obviously intended to silence, by intimidation, demands for Kanak independence in New Caledonia. Those South Pacific nations which stili welcome United States nuclear warships to their ports would be well advised urgently to reconsider their policies. United States imperialism is even more aggressive than its junior French partner. South Pacific nations must raise before the United Nations General Assembly not only France’s stationing of an expanded nuclear military force in the region, but its continued arrogant exploding of nuclear bombs on Mururoa atoll. The South Pacific peoples must impress on the most visible, aggressive nuclear presences in the South Pacific, the United States and France, that they are totally unwelcome here. — Yours, etc.,
M. CREEL. May 11, 1985.
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