n033  1153  05 Apr 82
AM-SPLIT
Rift Develops Among Groups Opposing NATO's Missile-Basing Plan
By JOHN VINOCUR
c.1982 N.Y. Times News Service
     BONN, West Germany - A major rift concerning possible Communist
influence developed Monday among groups opposing NATO's plan for
deploying new nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
     One of the leading component organizations charged that the West
German Communist Party, which is allied to Moscow, dominated and
manipulated a meeting here Sunday in which representatives of 37
groups, describing themselves as elements of the ''peace movement.''
planned a major demonstration against President Reagan when he visits
Bonn for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit meeting June 10.
     The accusation was made by the Greens, an ecological party that has
become increasingly active in left-wing politics in West Germany,
winning seats in several state parliaments in the last two years. The
Greens have acknowledged that members of their party cooperate with
the Communists on certain local issues, but described the meeting
here as scandalous.
     The Greens' charges were remarkable because they gave public
substantiation for the first time from inside the anti-nuclear
movement to statements from some West German politicians that the
West German Communist Party, at the direction of the Soviet Union,
has attempted to co-opt public sentiment against nuclear weapons.
     Ulrich Tost, a member of the Greens' Federal Council, told a
reporter, ''The Communists dominated the meeting completely. It took
place under seemingly democratic rules, but that was a joke. We could
barely get a word in.''
     Petra Kelly, another federal council member, said there was a
massive group at the meeting, attended by 800 people, who were there
''only to help a certain bloc'' - a reference to the Soviet Union.
     Soviet nuclear missiles were completely excluded as a cause of
tension in the resolutions produced by the delegates, which blamed
the United States for nearly all the world's troubles.
     The Greens said at a news conference that they continue to plan to
participate in the demonstration here when Reagan arrives, but that
they were considering under what circumstances and how they could
differentiate themselves from the goals agreed upon by the 37 groups
on Sunday.
     The Greens were the second major group in the anti-nuclear movement
to have expressed concern about participation. The church-led
organization, Action for Reconciliation, which organized an
anti-nuclear demonstration here last fall attended by about 250,000
people, has so far kept clear of involvement. Estimates for the
possible size of the June 10 demonstration have ranged between
100,000 and 500,000 people.
     ''Mr. Reagan can come to Bonn completely relaxed now,'' Mrs. Kelly
was quoted as saying after the meeting on Sunday. ''This peace
movement has shown itself incapable of discussion.'' If the movement
were split, she said Monday, it would be the fault of the West German
Communist Party.
     When she was asked why the Greens had been unable to combat the
Communists at the organizational meeting, Mrs. Kelly replied, ''It is
not our style to work in this centralized fashion.''
     At the meeting Sunday, the delegates passed a resolution describing
the goal of the NATO summit conference as ''support of the Reagan
administration's attempt to achieve worldwide hegemony.''
     The goals of the Greens, Mrs. Kelly said, were ''a non-aligned
peace movement'' that called for a Europe without nuclear weapons and
the dissolution of the power blocs, East and West.
     Sunday's meeting rejected separate resolutions calling on the peace
movement to use only non-violent methods in demonstrations,
condemning Soviet interference in Poland and Soviet intervention in
Afghanistan, and expressing support for Poland's Solidarity labor
union. It adopted, however, by a large majority, a motion condemning
American action in Central America, the Middle East, southern Africa
and other regions. At the same time, it said it would welcome
political solutions to problems in Pich
would involve the lifting of martial law and the withdrawal of Soviet
troops - positions that do not clash with those of the governments of
Eastern Europe.
     The NATO summit was dismissed as ''a challenge to all people who
support peace and concrete disarmament plans.''
     All attempts by the Greens to express support for the small
anti-nuclear movement in East Germany were rejected. Among the groups
represented at the meeting, in addition to the Greens and the West
German Communist Party, were the Federal Association of Environmental
Citizens' Inititives, the German Student Federation, the Evangelical
(Protestant) Student Committee, the Federation of Christian Youth
Groups, and the German Peace Society, an organization described by
the government's Office for the Protection of the Constitution as
being under Communist influence.
    
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