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~ mens EEE Operation Dismantle gets little support at public meet by Carol Dimock The world's arsenal of nuclear weapons has destructive power equal to four tons of TNT per person on earth. There are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 20 to 20 times. There is more destructive power than food on this earth. These are some of the chilling facts learned by those who attended the public meeting on nuclear disarmament in St. John's United Church in Elmvale on Sept. 21st. Milton Little and Ms. Janet MacDougall, from the _ steering committee of the Toronto Branch of Operation Dismantleé, explained "the mess we're in, how we got there, and how we're going to get out of it." Today's "peaceniks"' are very different from of the 1960's, Little says. ofthe 1960's, Little says. They come from. all levels of society and all age groups, and are not protesting against society in general but against the horror of a nuclear holocaust. "We have no chance of surviving a nuclear war,' says McDougall, "either personally or as a nation. "We have elected the people who got us into this mess", says Little, "there is rotten leadership on _ both sides. We have to take our share of the blame, for letting the govern- ments get away with it. "But we're waking up - people are going to protest and complain, and we can stop it", says Little. Some people claim that a balance of IN THE NEWS Don Stuart, a Barrie jewellery designer and Teaching Master at Georgian College, is the recipient of a gold award as the ~result of the 1982 Canadian Jewellery Awards Competition. Stuart's entry was a circular brooch designed to be used as a cloak or kilt pin: Hand crafted in sterling silver with inlays of brown coral, copper ore, walrus ivory, silver ore, ebony, tropical yellow wood, cocobola and opal, the brooch placed first. [PLAY & WIN LIONS CLUB TV BINGO Channel 12 | : Every Tuesday 7:00 p.m. nuclear arms is a deterrent to war. Operation Dismantle explains deterrence as the ability to destroy an enemy totally, and thus scare him so much he won't attack. When both sides have this ability, it's called mutual assured destruction, or MAD. Either side could throw away 50 per cent or even 80 per cent of their nuclear bombs today, and still have enough left over to destroy the whole world several times over. Despite this, the USA and the USSR make new nuclear bombs equal to 150 Hiroshimas every CHINON CE-4S Remarkable Versatility! The increcible CHINON CE-4S 35mm SLR the perfect image recording instrument for the enthusiast who takes photography seriously! Designed for a "fast action' world the CE-4s features a "super fast" 1/2000 second top shutter speed. It's extra-bright full information viewfinder has been engineered to contain all valuable information such as F stop and a full array of LED shutter speeds. : Smooth Handling Ultra Compact! 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The world spends $600 billion a year on arms, when it would take only $25 or $30 billicn a year to feed, clothe, house, educate and_ give medical care to the world's needy people (up to subsistence levels). nee idea spt. . a universal referendum on disarmament, originated in 1977 by Operation Dismantle, was to give the people of the world and not just their governments a vote in the arms race. ' OV ear municipalities 1 0-0 across Canada, and over 30 in Ontario, have agreed to hold a referendum on disarmament in their upcoming municipal elections. Little says that pressure on the level of government closest to the people, the most accessible level, may get quickest results. The next step would be a Canada-wide vote, and then a world-wide referendum through the UN. Operation Dismantle suggests that Canada could propose the world vote in the United Nations. 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