= ail

PO WAS < just: over
visiting friends and old haunts.

“owas
‘shipload’ of Sikhs who got caught

o Cirits,

It's wonderful what i change! in

perspective dacs. for your sense cof: °
the issues.

When deft Canada, the medic:
stil ine ca flap cabour the:

sneaking ashore.
An unrepentant!
led by the >

pack of old
Machiavelfian

2 Alan Machachen, wis holding up,

the drug patent bill in. the-Senate:

And Jolin Turner was: still being»

"crucified as usual,

“this
report: the ‘John: Turner. case to"
> Amnesty International. Let thes

_ : poor guy go!”

'Worst case of caucus imerruptus:

_ Sve ever seen,

Lord, sehen is that guy going to:

‘finally be. put out.of his: misery?

Isn*t there.a law against torture.in |
AB -
-country? Someone should |

~ One closes one’s eyes, stuffs the
earplugs in: place, and nods. out,

‘urying”: not. to. think /of: the. sever

miles of. air between you and the
ground?:

Ten:; hours: and a long typically ¢:
‘British’ Queue .at, customs later, it):
“avas as though, | had stepped into
“another world.

The headlines on the newsstands.

--in’ Gatwick: .Airport blazed | with:

drama about the. American. war-/-

“ships “escorting reflagged~. Kuwaiti:
. tankers

* Hormuz.
» been happening out in the channel.’

through :. the Strait” of |;
It might'as. well’ have

OF course, the British. press. is
always excited about something. If
apocaly pse isn’t around. the corner,

it’s:a slow news day. :
The»

‘dispatching. ‘of a’ small

French; flotiffa, to. the Guilt “of

_Oman was'a very .big item. There:

was.’ much: Napoleonic
rom Paris.”

‘The. big. bxcitenieat: : came, .
hough, : when®,Maggie “Thatcher:

ranting,

belatedly: gave: in to American.re-
‘quests for help guarding the West's
oil pipeline to the Persian, Gulf and

dispatched a trio of minesweepers:

» They would: take, months ‘to:'get”
“there, even: longer than:it. was ‘ta

ing “the :Yanks”.to . get

“minesweeping capability happ

in the: midst . of the: minefield

‘in the U.K.

“1wO

~ Gold Ww an. :

Bob Hunter

@ sir ictly personal o

hanging out, for a week,

took like hiurzes.: :
Ie was'6o bad that even ran was

> Offering to help them out,
there were only,

About Canada,
cminor thems? the
refugee-sunning ship,
ing soughtvall aver

“guspected
the -
southern Fngtind the whole time,
her captain,

about.

and reat} yall aboitt it, but

are already: regarded

The other ‘‘Canadian"’ item wa

“really. a royalty plecescA columnist
dared to: speculate. about “Prince.

Charles’ chance of making it 10 the
throne.

The idea. of a. decidedly wel,
sometimes mystical prince with a:
wildcat ‘wife that-he can’t control :
eventually. wearing the crown does -

not thrill every monarchist to’ the
marrow, especially. since ~once-

randy Andy and wholesome Fergie:

have. mastered the’: royal - wave:

Look how splendidly ‘they did‘in ©

Canada, with all those mosquitoes
and animal lovers! ::

It seéms: that there! were only’ a
inheritors of “the: 4

few first-born
crown who- actually succeeded: in
wearing the thing. For the most
part, complications set in, you.see.

“Well, anyway, these. were:.the
issues® in: Britain’"Also,: with; the

«announcement. that the Tory’ gOv-
increase’. its .:
. funding for the, exploitation: of .
space, there was ‘much hand-wring-
ing ‘about: the ‘almost’ insurmouns 7
table lead which ‘the Russians have?’
“gained‘ in terms of: being! able to.

ernment . would not

haul stuff into ‘orbit.

‘H's not-an’easy thing, 10, put your

finger on; but the way a country’s
media‘. portrays’ the
shapes: and .is “shaped: by .the, gut
feelings: of the. masses: :The “mo

=ment:you reach London; “you: real-

“size you. have left:the glori la

Walvis, bee)
North
Atlantic: ‘by the pride: off “the, Cana ie
dian navy ewas tied up fo a dock in :

with an empty holdy,
wondering what” all ahe fuss, WAS.

The ‘Canadian navy could have:
“picked up. any. British ‘newspaper °
inex
ps ticably Kept up the search, CHS: 3
: ing: much’ amusement “among: the!
Brits and much shaking of heads *,
among : Canuck -expatriates, who. |
s.fessé inter-:
wo esting: han Australians, but. ‘until *
“now not actually inferior.

world" both

“Honor (he. west-caast, of Canadit

far behind and slanded pracdcalls

an the front tine ofthe stillalaciad:

evokidte 5
cpressures at work: which are just

cohyarelen 7

The diganee from Vans

Toronto is the samecas the distance

Som Londont the bartletields of
fr is onty the |

Hie Jane diag wat,
distance: from ‘Vancouver = to
Calgary: between’ Piccadilly Cireus
and the Heelia Wall.

‘The European repion is so anal,
so densely packed wah history. s0-
that ONE Aciises SOOTHES

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Thank gpodness., tes jase cae t

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