A4 - Sunday, November 20, 1983 - North Shore News the world outside... None will go ~Andstein VICTORIA - It’s unlikely any of the planned civil service lay-offs will be possible before the end of this year, but is likely the provincial government will do some high- powered hiring. Cliff Andstein, the B.C. Government Employees Union negotiator, said Thursday that province- wide ratification votes on the contract settlement between the government and the union will not be completed until Dec. 2. If approved, it is not likely the contract will be signed before Dec. 7 and the provisions of the agreement call for lay-off notice of 20 working days. Meanwhile, Premier Bill Bennett said the government will be filling key vacancies in top spots to help the government carry on with its restraint policies. Vacancies that have re- mained unfilled — _ in- cluding four deputy minister positions with an- nual salaries of $65,000 and a number of senior Management spots where salaries range from $35,000 to $45,000 a year — will be filled, the Premier said. Governor hits rules VANCOUVER - West Coast salmon fishermen are reacting angrily to sug- gestions of Alaska gover- nor Bill Sheffield that he will attempt to get the U.S. government to ban imports of Pacific salmon from Canada. Sheffield made the comments 10 days before the reopening of talks aimed at reaching a salmon treaty between Canada and the U.S. and in hight of continued con- troversy over which coun- try’s fishermen can catch what. At issue as far as the Alaskan governor 1s con- cerned are the Stikine and Taku Rivers which begin in Canada but flow through Alaska. This year, the Canadian government allowed a big- ger catch on both rivers. That led to charges from Sheffield and Alaskan fishermen that the increas- ed B.C. catch was harm- ing salmon stocks in the area. Sheffield was in- strumental in having a treaty reached earlier by negotiators for the Cana- dian and American government scuttled because he wanted a better deal with Alaskan fishermen Doctors still top earners OULTTAWA The 198) taxation slalistics are out and once again doctors are alt the top of the carn ings list Pigures released this week by Revenue ( anada show that self employed doctors and physi ians are the top tncome carness in the country with average “salanics’’ of $66,722 a year Dentists are mot. far behind at SOO LID while bre Ome average foe lawyers and notaries 4s $53,121 At the bottom) of the fist, again, are self employed entertainers and artists, with an average annual income of $9,975 Tradition upheld in was also terms of ttre “rrohest’ areas Markham, Ontario, a Toronto suburb, showing with an average annual income of $21.41) for each of tts 72 000 people At the bot tom oof the list of the cop fOO cities os © Pree couatirne Oueber at ii sia PLO claims break out TRIPOLI The battles comtinue to betbanoe weet forces hoyal to PLO) leader Sassart Avatar making Chere bast gasp defence of Tripoli: while beeneh peace keeping Croopes find themoectves re reasiingty vin volved tn fighting Keports carly Pridas sand othat Avatars Plo fighters thad managed i: break out of the city of Decprcode anevcd pounstry toa bo tty Syrian based Palestinians that have thea backed ap lao the sea Meanwhile beet h Soldiers ato Beariut otek Prorat cate under fire bara a diay afters there Plo day pets pouimded oa satis behind The Preah Vachs Vett awertal aat ND prccoprhe be aad and toycere than FOO ri paresd acceding ten UE octrative ve prordacc Club Books. With photographs by Strictly personal by Bob Hunter Ruins spell progress I HAVE JUST FINISHED digesting a photo essay- with-text called Dead Tech, A Guide To The Archaeology Of Tomorrow, published by Sierra Manfred Hamm, an introduction by Robert Jungk and text by Rolf Steinberg, it is a visual treat, very haunting. It shows the ruins of the Maginot Line and the wreck- age of the fortifications at Verdun and along Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. It gives us a graphic portrayal of the graveyard of steam loco- motives at England’s Barry Docks. We see Britain’s last great aircraft carriers tied up to crumbling docks; the sunken and decaying harbours and piers of Brighton and New York; the mouldering re- mains of the great factories of the Ruhr; American auto- mobile junkheaps; the largest aircraft cemetery in the world at Tucson, Anzona, where the USAF piles up its obso- lete warplanes for eventual cannibalizing; the already astonishingly ancient-looking remnants of Cape Canaveral; and, finally, the dead hulks of the world’s abandoned nuclear power stations. The photography is breath- taking. There is something familiar-like a nightmare we all shared — about the mist- softened ruins of empty gun cupolas standing in the tall grass along the Maginot Line, perhaps the ultimate symbol of the fragility of all visions of security. 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The section of Dead Tech dealing with steam loco- motives is particularly poig- nant for Canadians since rail- ways have always had a special meaning in a vast land. The acres of doomed trains piled up in Barry, South Wales, representing some 40,000 dead trains, speak to a condition which might be called reverse cul- ture shock. Was it that long ago that the eerie whistle of a steam locomotive was the most evocative sound you could hear in the night? I had no idea, | must ad- mit, that the Americans, liv- ing up to. their national emblem as eagles, had gathered in one place some 15,000 aircraft, from the Fly- ing Fortresses of the Second World War to the helicopter gunships of Vietnam. Visual- ly, all those eviscerated metal birds lying in the Arizona dust are a testament to what? That’s the question the authors try to answer. Accor- ding to Robert Jungk, ‘‘dead technology stands for some- thing that frightens all of us.’" We are victims, he claims, of a neurosis he calls the ‘‘ruins complex .”’ CAPILANO [ TRAILER PARK Under Lions Gate Bridge offers @ reasonable wintes rates (starting Ot 1} @ winter storage lor HOV» (saaper vised) @ propane for K Vos 987-4722 He writes, dramatically, but | think falsely: ‘‘The cor- pses of dead technology offer us predated evidence of the future; they are omens to warn us of the final collapse.’’ As a photo essay, Dead Tech is wonderful, powerful and highly artistic. As a thought-provoker, however, it fails because it blunders in- to the trough of easy apoca- lyptic nihilism. Jeez, | know that bag. I was into it myself for years. In fact, 1 LOVE ruins. Especially modern industrial ruins. They tell me something that isn’t necessarily a terri- ble omen. They tell me that the world is changing at a dizzying rate. What’s automatically bad about that? 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