Bl mailbox >< | ———— They wouldn't debate peace. Dear Editor: For many voters, the main thing they want to know about the -election is where the candidates stand in regard to peace issues. We. had hoped to arrange a meeting in West Vancouver Reader says Doug is no sweetheart! Dear Editor: I have just read Doug Col- lins abusive and asinine col- umn ‘No Sweetheart, Iona’ in which he unfairly attacks Third World refugees, the Anti-nuclear movement and our French Canadians to hmention a few. Does he think we should allow 80% of the world’s population to live in dire poverty? Does he consider French an unworthy language for Canadians? Does he believe the global race to stockpile more and mere deadly weapons a culmination of Man’s. great wisdom? No doubt he does. What I wonder is if you, sir, and your advertisers hold similar views. For yourself, perhaps you think such a controversial writer is a reasonable ploy to attract readers. I suggest your readers show their displeasure by complaining to your advertisers and boycotting their products un- til Doug Collins column is removed. I know I will. Brian K. Evans North Vancouver P.S. If you truly are the ‘Voice of North and West Vancouver’, | expect to see this in print. Variable Speed e Easy to Install combustibles - Pedestal base 4 FIREPLACE HEAT EXTRAC and its Credentials * 39° Glass Viewing * Ash tray Cleanout *248q ft. 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The two ‘‘main’’ par-_ ties, although polite and éx- pressing interest, indicated that it was too late now to fit in this kind of engagement -- three weeks and three days before polling day. The Liberals stuck to their posi- tion, on no date or half-date was their candidate available. The PCs gave an inch: their candidate would try to fit in if the others could do it. In the end that didn’t work out either because there was a rally for Mr. Mulroney on the day agreed to. So we are on our own. We will have to find oppor- tunities as best we can to ask our candidates what they are prepared to do, if we elect them, to prevent nuclear war and to work towards peace. Enid Price West Vancouver Citizens for Peace. Canada can help halt nukes Dear Editor: I’m fed up with constantly hearing that Canada cannot move unilaterally in a ge- nuine push for world peace. All the attempts to achieve multilateral, balanced, verifiable disarmament have failed. These pussy-footing peace efforts are getting us nowhere. The longer the NDP lacks Dear Editor: As a retired teacher of ex- ceptional children | followed the advice of the N.D.P. government in the early 70’s to take a university course if unemployed for two years and we would be assured of a job. Many special class teachers were in that category as classes were shut down due to finances. 1 took two sub- jects, getting six units closer to a master’s degree but at each interview was told 1 was too expensive. Integrity is certainly not an attribute of the N.D.P. In the early C.C.F. Saskat- chewan days my late brother Fireside Heating would like you fo meet the top 2 candidates 2“ corner from negotiations drag on the greater become the arsenals of over-kill, and the closer we come to nuclear anihilation or globai bankruptcy. Nobody knows which will come first. What’s the matter with unilateral disarmament? Carl Sagan pointed out on TV last June that either one of the integrity was a surgeon there in their early medicare program. Native Indians lined up at 7 a.m. to dusk for help but doctors didn’t see much pay- ment beyhend a ham, etc. Patients owed him $60,000, never collected, so he joined the army because his children needed shoes. Farmers could only sell their grain on a quota which left no money for the doctors bills. As P.P.L.1. surgeon in Korea the service was so rough on him that he died shortly after his return at age 57. Mrs. Mary Kucin North Vancouver nuclear superpowers could make a massive cut in ar- maments, unilaterally, without impairing its ability to completely destroy most of humanity. But if, in spite of this fact, neither side will make the first move to reduce its arms, why can’t either one of them at least declare a unilateral freeze on produc- tion of new weapons? 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