8 - Friday, May 23, 1986 - North Shore News

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Doug Collins

° get this straight ©

HAVE I been sniffing glue, or am I the only sane guy left?

In Ottawa, Brian Baloney says
he’s: outraged because South
Africa has had the audacity to at-
tack communist guerrilla bases in
Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zam-
bia. His court jester, Joe Wimp,
announces the recall of the Cana-
dian ambassador. Like demented
sheep, the idiotic Opposition

} bleats for an end to ali business
with that Republic.

‘In. Washington, Ronald Reagan
and Co. say the South African ac-
tion is a terrible thing.

In London, Maggie Thatcher
deplores it

“Do my ears deceive me? ‘Do my
eyes tell me lies? .

i | Wasn’t it only.a couple of
weeks ago that Reagan struck at
Libya? Wasn't. Maggie a co-
conspirator in allowing American
‘planes to take off for that jaunt
i from her sceptred isle?

tds

Didn't we cheer? I did. Didn't
Reagan say he would strike ter-
rorism whenever possible? ,

Striking at terrorism seems to
be OK when Libya or some Arab
state is the target. When the South
Africans hit their murderous Op-
ponents, it’s different.

Striking at terrorism is also OK
for the Israelis. Especially for the
Israelis, who are champion ter-
rorists themselves.

When an Israeli diplomat is
shot in London, they invade
Lebanon, killing 20,000 people.

With no provocation, - they
destroy a nuclear power plant in
Syria. Still OK. They raid Tunisia.
They even bomb an American
ship, the USS Liberty — killing 34
sailors and wounding 171 — and
although the attack was no acci-.
dent it is hushed up pronto.

fs someone trying to kid

someone?
xk k
A final word (I think) on the

paying of Canadian veterans’
allowances to immigrants who did

+ Not serve in the Canadian forces.

In Wednesday's paper,
Veterans Affairs Minister George
Hees said that few people have
ever objected to these handouts.

That’s because they didn’t :

know about them, George old
boy. Since bringing this to public
attention, I have been inundated
with letters on the subject. You've
had quite a few, too.

Mr. Hees “does have some
doubts about the wisdom of let-
ting recipients take the allowances

back to their countries of origin.

But he says only 1,600 have done
that.

Yacht. club granted licence.

. THE. BURRARD Yacht “Club has:

been’ granted a.’ new: two-year

~ licence-to-use agreement by the Ci-
_ty of North Vancouver.

- Couincil’ voted:‘Tuesday to grant ~
: “the club. a:new-agreement for: the

>-feet of waterfront. at

f Bewicke Avenue. ~The

‘area’

is used: solely: for:
breakwater...

The yearly. licence | fee; up slight :

ly. from 1985, is $111.30."

City land ‘agent. Derwyn Owen , i

told ° council; that, the. agreement

Was, Subject to approval by. the Na-

tional Harbours’ Board

Do 1,600 wrongs make a right?
And how about our being daft
enough to pay a Greek this money
(up to $1130.a month) for having
spent 30 days in a Greek infantry

depot?

x ke &

Mr. Duncan Grousch of West
Van served overseas in the Cana-
dian forces from 1940 to 1944,
And he is displeased at our han-
ding out dough to foreign vets for
no good reason.

Mr. Grosch, then a_ major,
writes that he had a knee shattered
by machine-gun bullets on D-Day
at Juno Beach, while leading the
first assault with ‘A’ Company of
the Regina Rifles.

A few weeks ago, Veterans Af-
fairs turned down his request for
$26:92 for bandages and tape

necessary for the knee. A Vet Af- |

fairs lady called Linda told him he...
was not entitled to it.
Mr. Grosch is evidently no.

scrounger. For 40 years, he says, -

he paid out thousands of dollars~
of his own for bandages for the
still-suppurating part. In 1984,
though, he began charging the .
department. But his claims are
now being rejected and he’s look- .
ing for some more beaches to
storm — especially after hearing
about Greek training depots. ‘
Over to you, George.

xk ke

Don't you love our Tory-True-’

To-Trudeau immigration system? |

Having lied, conned and.
phoneyed their way into the coun- «:
try,
migrants from India, Bangladesh, ~

Jamaica, Sri Lanka and Portugal, * "

are to be allowed to stay. But *
what else do you expect from a...
government in which a wimp par-. °.

son called Walter McLean: runs. °

immigration?’ Oh well, now we
can get ready for the next 22, 000.
Or 52,000. rn

a a

Memo to me: "Oscar : Peterson’,
the piano player’ is not. dead,
which is what I said he. was. Sorry ©. §
about that, Oscar: And thank :
you, readers.” 4 :

“1341. Welch ‘Streat.

an =e —_ (METRON ‘SUPPLIES LTD.

“North Vancouver,.8.C.

nearly 22,000 illegal im: .[.